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,PA,, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1934
The Dallas Post,
ESTABLISHED 1889
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3 THE DALLAS POST is a youthful weekly rural-suburban Rewspaper.
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great rural-suburban region of Luzerne County and in the attainment of the
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THE DALLAS POST PROGRAM ot
THE DALLAS POST Will lend its support and offers he use of its
#olumns to all projects which will help this community and the great rural-
‘suburban territory which it serves to attain the following major improve
x Construction of more sidewalks for the protection of pedestrians in
Kingston township and Dallas.
2. A free library located in the Dallas reaion.
3. Bettar and adequate street lighting in Trucksville, Shavertown, Fern-
~ 4. Sanilary sewage disposal system for Dallas.
5. Closer co- spsration, between Dallas borough and surrounding town-
7. ate water sunply for fire protection. 3
8. The formation of a Back Mountain Club made up of business men and
ome owners interested in the development of a community consciousness in
~Dailus, Trucksville, Shavertown and Fernbrook. §
~~ 8. A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and somméstng the
Soler Trail at Tunkhannock.
49. The elimination of petty politics from all School Boards in the region:
“bove ed by THE DALLAS POST.
; The matter of parking on Main Street and Lake Street
is one that deserves the whole-hearted cooperation of Bor
ugh Council and the police department.
Atn no time should there be pi on both sides of
vay ond ‘to that on Main. Street. Residences in that
ction have placed “No Parking” signs in front of private
veways, but to no avail. Parking still continues with
nage to private property.
“Not infrequently parkers run their automobiles up on
‘private sidewalks and leave them there while attending the
movies. In many places curbing has been destroyed at a
considerable expense to property owners.
For the first time in years Dallas authorities have the
portunity to improve this parking situation. With the
‘removal of the old Raub Hotel property by James Oliver
‘ample perking space is 1 now made available for a very low
_ restricted areas they can park them on 2 Mr. Oliver’ s car lot,
ate a small cost.
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We commend local lice for their efforts © reduce
: ‘hazards to life along Main Street by the institution of a
speed trap and the arrest of speeders. But out-of-town
: vers are not the only violators of the motor laws in
: out-of-town motorists disciplined. »
If we expect to have the laws obeyed we will likewise
ave to refrain from attempting to prevent the working of
speed traps.
On the other hand, if the police expect to win and hold
the support of the community in their latest campaign they
will have to convince us all that the speed trap is on the
el. i
~ We can’t see much sense in a speed trap that is set on
the open stretches late at night when the speed with which
‘motorist drives makes little difference to any of us.
~ We can see plenty of merit in a speed trap set in the
eart of the business section where pedestrian traffic is|d
eavy, at an hour when an automobile speed of 35 to 40
miles an hour is especially hazardous to life and limb.
A speed trap set anywhere else in the borough at any
other time smacks too much of abuse of police authority,
rather than an honest desire to prevent accidents and death.
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‘The one glaring mistake in the Roosevelt Advhinistrs:
ion that makes us see red, despite Dr. Wirt’s accusations,
is this man Farley. Such a person might be excusable in any
ther administration, but in a supposedly aggressive admin-
istration he is a complete throwback. \
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This man John Dillinger has proved one thing to every-
ody; that the right man, with the right goods, can still get
‘money from the banks. There are a lot of us who believed
he bankers when they said they had no money. (Of course
we wanted to borrow it, not steal it.) As we see it the only
difference between Dillinger and the Wall Street Sharks is
Dillinger carries a gun. Bankers, being mostly dumb,
still identify Dillinger because of a gun, but their men-
Dear Sir:
In these days oF gigantic approprias
tions amounting to many millions for
public works, some of which are of
which there will be no revenue returns
Managing Editor | 107 Years, if ever, it is beyond compre-
hension that certain highways. are dis-
regarded.
Route 92 is of such a nature that if
some of the public works monies were
combined with the regular appropria-
| tions, devoted to _maintainence, this
route could be permanently surfaced
and in so doing could assimilate the
majority of unemployed of our section;
and in years to come the original in-
vestment would be repaid by motorist
tax. :
The officials of the Highway Depart-
ment cite the necessity of Federal aid
on such a project.
The Public Works Administration
has disposed of $3,300,000,000 in various
ways in the last year. $500,000,000
was used for road building, the rest
went to various other deals. Surely if
so much money is available to materia-
lize the-dreams of some theorists, it
should be possible to divert some of it
into lasting and beneficial projects.
A great deal of the criticism of the
aimless of public expenditure
would be hushed, if, instead of suppyl-
ing artificial and useless work for the
unemployed, the energy of the jobless
and the taxes of the people were de-
voted to” paving such routes as 92.
The land owner is carrying this bur-
den of taxation and is supinely watch-
ing it being diverted into sterile pro-
jects which benefit only those em-
ployed and in many instances those
employed are now property owners.
When the majority of these projects
are finished the men employed on them
are simply so 'many months older, the
pay is barely enough for subsistence,
they must immediately be cared for in
some other way and in time to come
the money for that purpose may not
be ran so readily, =
~ We have suffered long with our po-
litical mouthpieces, they should have
gained some wisdom through their ex-
perience as the public's representa.
tives; undoubtedly they have done so
¢but,are either unable to cope with the
situation or are lacadaistical.
“The laborer is worthy of his hire”,
expect to be ousted and surrender the
tools to the other fellow.
Therefore, I suggest that we relegate
some of our representatives to private
life and give othere an oportunity to
serve. 3
Robert MacDougall
= Lo es Lv. Beaumont, Pa.
My Dear Editor:
My subject is “youth”, particularly
‘hose of the farm, and the occasion is
“National Youth Week,” which in-
~ludes the week from April 28 to "May
3.
I have heen told—and I do believe it
—that the youth of today are much
hrighter, much more alert, than were
you and I when we were their age, In
riew of this fact, or rather, in view of
this information that appears to be &
fact, I believe that this is an especially
opportune moment to test the youth on
their brightness and alertness.
Tn this test I am particularly inter-
ested in the response from the youth
of the farm. Life on a farm offers
more practical business training to a
boy or girl than any form of urban
life, Every farmer is a producer and |
his children can hardly escape learn-
|ine a great many things about practi-
cal business affairs from him as he
Teertons his daily duties on the farm.
Farm youth every day see the products
being raised and cared for; they see
what must be done to prepare these
products for the market; they see how
they are taken to the market; they
learn the relationship between the laws
of supply and demand, and they learn
what this relationship means to the
products.
Briefly, the farm youth almost are
forced to learn the fundamental prin-
-ipals of the farming business. And
these fundamental principals are ap-
plicable to all other forms of business.
But here is what 1 am especially in-
terested in learning: Are ‘these farm
youth bright enough, alert enough to
see and understand the mistakes their
fathers 'may have made in their busi-
ness undertakings? That some farmers
have made mistakes in the past is
substantiated by figures and facts I
have before me. Probably their two
most outstanding mistakes are these.
1. They have not learned how to use
credit properly; they either have bor-
rowed too much or too little; and 2.
They never have provided themselves
with adequate credit facilities;
ig provided for them by the Farm
Credit Administration of Baltimore.
If the farm youth are to contribute
anything to the success of the farm-
ings industry they must know and un-
derstand something about these two
important factors. And their best way
of accomplishing these ends -is for
them to acquaint themsélves with the
new farm credit facilities that recently
have been established under the Farm
Credit- Administration of Baltimore.
The Farm Credit Administration of
Baltimore makes available a complete
system for farmers in Pennsylvania,
Delawre, Maryland, Virginia and West:
Virginia, It is a permanent organiza-
tion, run on a business basis. It is an
organization, that, to twist its name
around,
DIL.”
Now, Mr. Editor, you and I can judge
how many of the farm youth of these
states are as bright and alert as is
claimed by counting the number of
those who write and ask for the pam-
phlets describing agricultural financ-
ing through the Farm Credit Admin
istration of Baltimore, - Write to the
Information Agent, Room 1118, Balti-
more Trust Building, Baltimore, Md.
Very truly yours
John G. Byer, Information Agent.
Farm Credit Administration of Balti-
more.
Vote George Marsden For
] processes are still pretty slow when it comes to detecting
Wall Street brother.
Representative
6th Legislative District
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EYE VIEW
By Earl E. Bird
There is a vast industry growing in
this country which seldom “is brought
to the attention of the average person.
{t is the industry which plans, de-
velops, and spreads publicity and
propaganda.
Quite frequently the publicity, such
1s that released by “counsels of public
relations” is harmless. Sometimes it is
oaded with selfish motives and unfair
ropagzanda and then it assumes its
most evil form. The recognition of that
for mls one of the ‘major requirements
for a good newspaper editor.
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Three quarters of the daily mail re- !
ceived by The Post is from organiza-
tions which devote all their time to
the preparation ef publicity material
which they seek to have presented to
the readers of this newspaper under
the guise of news, This morning there
were at least six articles. from politi-
cal candidates, four or five communi-
cations from various government
agencies, two publicity stories; from
Chevrolet, some material from the
Dairymen’s League, and a miscellan-
eous assortment of recipes, cartoons,
columns, and stunts—practically all of
which followed the usual route to the
waste basket. :
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Wave after wave of publicity .en-
gulfs every newspaper in this country
—Trepresenting millions of dollars spent
each year to “sell” newspaper readers,
in this allegedly “subtle” fashion, cer-
tain products, certain causes. For ex-
ample, The Post has received for some
vears, absolutely free, an editorial ser-
vice which was consigned to the waste |
basket because it very evidently had
the interests of private utilities, in-
surance, and big industries at heart.
The Post had no particular quarrel
with these industries but it resented
the watseful and round-about way they
attempted to sneak into its columns.
A few days ago the rman who founded
that editorial bureau died and in the
accounts of his death it was reported
that half his income or $40,000 was re-
ceived from public utilities. And news-
paper editors, hard-pressed to keep
the wolf from the door, were using the |
publicity free.
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Another proof of how important
your opinion is comes to The Post
several times weekly in the form of
clip sheets from committees sponsors
ing better relations with Germany. The
stories tell of Germany's new Zeppelin,
the ‘story of progress” in a new Berlin
exposition, Germany's preparations for
the 1936 Olympics, the decrease in
taxes, the increase in business—every-
thing that might make you feel a bit
more kind toward the Nazis. The clip
sheets will come in® regularly. Then
one day you will read, of a Congres. |
sional investigation, and there will be
one less piece of mail coming to The
Post. {
Some of that which rides in on the |
daily crest is actually “news”, especial- |
ly if it has a local significance. But |
the majority of the envelopes carry ma- |
terial so void of interest and so poorly |
written that they would fail to pass |
even -the most inexperienced editorial
judgment. All these represent on of}
the greatest wastes of paper, ink, and |
brain power (which might be devoted |
ito more worthy schemes) in the his-
tory of the world.
Da
readers against this
tidal wave of prejudice and ‘adver-
tising disguised as news” is only one
of the jobs of the newspaper editor,
who knows that advertising must ap-
pear as advertising and not he allow-
ed to run over into the factual news
reports.
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SEALS!
LITTLE AMERICA,
CA, April 24,
Radio). We are like an army, dig-
ging in and getting everything
ready for the big battle to ceme.
The long Antarctic night bas de
scended upon us and all day and
night we are in a deep gray shad:
ow. Sometimes, when the sky is
overcast or a storm ig raging, we
are in inky blackness. Most of the
time, however, it is a thick, heavy
gray which lets us see a dozen OT;
so feet away. Some days and nights
we have moonlight and that helps
a lot. This absence of daylight is
80 new to me that it gives me the
willies but the
old-timers tell me
I'll get used to it.
We'll make up for
it next summer
when we have
sunlight for
months, 24 - hours
a day. The sun i8
due to pay us its
next visit August
» +» 22 and will we
Commander give it a cheer!
Hjalmar Gjertsen 1 don’t like to
Expedition see seals killed
Commodore but down here it
ig very necessary, to preserve
health for us and our dogs. We have
500 seals, all frozen, some in our
storehouses, the rest out on the ice
several miles away—in Nature's
biggest icebox. You know, we have
two kinds of seals down °here, the
Crab-eaters and the Weddell seals,
and two kinds of penguins, the lit-
tle Adelie and the Emperors. ‘I'he
Crab-Eater seals weigh about 200
pounds when fully grown and are
courageous fighters, with sharp
teeth, although they can’t open
their mouths very wide when gob-
gling crustaceans and small fish.
They are a neutral gray and travel
over the ice like serpents. They
are arrogant, active, interesting and
delicious to eat, although their flesh,
under the coating of fat or blubber,
is very black, like all the birds and
animals down: here, including
whales, “on account of the richness
of their blood. They make a funny,
indescribable noise, half grunt, half
moo like a cow.
The Weddell seals are much big-
ger, weighing 25 to 35 pounds when
born, growing 50 pounds a week for
the first two or three weeks, then
more slowly until they reach around
500 pounds. They have no teeth but
find no difficulty eating crabs and
other crustaceans and fish by crush-
ANTARCT!- |along, very different from the Crab
(via Mackay | Eaters. They are dark brown or
black with bright gray spots, hair
instead of fur, and make the darn
dest noise I ever heard—a cross be-
tween the trill of a canary and a
faint moo. None of the seals down
here bark like the northern seals.
The Weddell seals can open their
mouths prodigiously-—150 degrees.
And are they lazy! A few days be
fore the sun and the seals (and all
other creatures: including
whales) disappeared, I ran at two
seals on the bay ice, to scare them.
You know the animals down here
have no fear of humans, because
they haven’t been hunted with guns
—only clubs. Well, the Crab-Eater
snaked over the ice and popped in-
to the water of an open lead. The
Weddell opened one eye, looked at
me scornfully, and closed it again.
I've talked with the tractor crews
and the dog team men who set up
our southern bases for the explora-
tions we're going to start next
spring—in October. Both groups
rible time doing it. Captain Innes-
Taylor, William Paine, Finn Ronne
land Dick Black, with their dog
teams, established a big food and
supply base for us 180 miles south
of here. You might mark that ‘trip
on your club maps, using the proper
legend for the dog teams—to Lati-
tude 81.2 South Longitude 160.50
West.
- We've got a big thrill coming
later this month—if we're not beset
by too many storms and blizzards,
The scientists have told us there
will be a lot of vivid meteor show-
ers and they have built an observas
tory. So now we are all waiting to
observe this show' to be put on by
about it.
Have you and your friends joins
ed our club yet? Why don’t you get
your school teachers to enroll their
entire classes, as 142 other teachers
have done? The club is open to ev-
erybody interested in aviation, ex=
ploration and adventure and there
are no expenses whatever to mems
pers. Simply send stamped, clearly
self-addressed envelope, or, in case
of school teachers, the names and
home addresses of self and pupils,
with stamp for each, to A. C. Abels,
Jr., President, Little America Aviae
tion & Exploration Club, Hotel Lex-
ington, 48th Street and Lexington
Avenue, New York City and our big
free working map of the South Pole
region and membership card will
be sent immediately.
ing them. They travel by wiggling
the™
did a marvelous job and had a hor- .
the heavenly bodies. I'll tell you all .
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