41. en wonder if others get as big a
Me out of their home-town paper as
/Any transplanted towner in the
ps who does not subseribe for the
weekly or daily is missing
1eading treat.”
O. O. Mcintyre,
a grand
More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution
From nis hut on the. bottom c of the
world, over 1600 feet of water, 2,300
miles from the nearest human iui |
tion, and surrounded by ice forty feet
‘thick for
Ab
to
page.
hundreds of miles, Capt.
ele, Jr., sends his weekly dispatch
The Post. Read it on the editorial
of several hundred studénts.
Commencement
Marks End Of
"School Terms
Dallas Borough To Graduate
19 Seniors At Program
Tonight.
SPLENDID PROGRAMS
Schools throinont this section this
week turned their attention to the gala
affairs which marked the graduation
Dallas
Borough commencement will be held
tonight. The last commencement pro-
gram will be that held at Kingston
" Township next Wednesday night.
Smith Speaker.
Attorney Roscoe Smith will be the
principal speaker at the exercises of
‘Dallas High School to be held tonight.
Rey. Francis Freeman, pastor of Dal-
las M. E. Church, will deliver the in-
vocation and benediction and John E.
Roberts, member of the school board,
will present the diplomas.
The program, as announced by Cal-
vin McHose, supervising principal, fol-
lows: = Salutatory address, Dorothy
Moore; Valedictory Address, Eva Culp,
, piano selections, Miss Lillian Rood;
“solo, Mrs. Sarah Senigo Sanfordj
President's Farewell, Samuel Brace. A
male quartet will sing.
Class Day exercises were held last
evening, with mearly all members of
the Senior Class taking part. A large
crowd was present to enjoy the splen-
did program.
Kingston Township
Kingston Township, which
elaborate commencement schedule this
year, will hold -its sraduation exercis-
es on Wednesday, June: 6. The town:
‘ship began its program with school ex-
hibits and demonstrations of the w ork
of pupils several weeks ago. There has
been a busy and enjoyable program
during the last several weeks,
The Junior Prom will be held in the
high school auditorium tonight. Class
night will be held on Wednesday, June
9, -
Al Janico's eight piece orchestra will
furnish the music for the Prom. given
by the Junior Class in the honor of
the graduating ‘Senior Class. Admit-
tance will be-by written invitation
only. Tt is expected that three hun-
dred guests will be present. The even-
ing will start with a grand march soon
after 8:00 o'clock after which ington
Township's voung
into,an exening of iQ
been eagerly BD
will long be rem@mbered.
The
00 p.
of
in whic
Monday,
and
class night
m. follows:
Welcome,
sponse, Senior Cle
Seniors, Deloris Craig’
son; Class History,
Florence Gemmell,
Doris Leek; Vocal
Seniors: Class Prop Vv.
Eaton, Beatrice Williams; Pre
tions, Ruth Perkins, Ward Yorks;
Oration, James Campbell, president of
the Senior Class; Response,. Walter
Schuler president of the Junior Class;
Class Song, Senior Class. words writ-
ten by Beatrice Williams. Tast Will
and Testament, Nelson Lewis, Karl
Wioolbert; Song of Farewell, Senior
Class.
Members of the 1934 Kingston Town-
ship class are: Esther Martha Bennett,
Dolores Vivian Craig, Evelyn Leona
Culver. Isabell Culp, Mildred Jewell
Cyphers, Barbara S. Downer, Hannah
Roberta Eaton, Margaret Mary Ford,
Doris Virginia Fuller, Emily Margaret
Gay, Dorothy Mae Harter Helen Mil-
dred Gary, Florence Carolyn Gemmell,
Marie Louise Hay, Marie Jane Hoover,
Della Rose Nafus, F. Altheda Dangdon_
Mollie Jean Johnson, Doris Emily Leek,
A. Doris Nelson, Pauline Mae Neyhart,
Mary Kathryn Omney, Nancy Jane
O'Konsky, Eleanore Ruth Parsons,
Ruth Lewis Perkins, Mary Edith
Smith, Esther Mae Schooley, Marian
E. ‘Schooley, Geraldine A. Staub, Thel-
ma Helen Thompson, A Olive Ruth
‘Webb, Beatrice Lacey Williams.
program;
D r- Chain
Junior Class; Re-
Biography of
Thelma Thomp-
sth
Ba rb ara
le tion,
Song
18
Bennett,
Downer,
Twelve
Roberta
ta -
Se
Key
Brace, James Luther
Campbell, James Douglas (Crossley,
¥dmund Charles Gabel, John Russell
Holmes, Nelson Wendell Lewis, Frank-
lin Dallas Parker ' Warren H. Reed,
Douglas William Riddell, Glen Ells-
worth Smith, Hilburt IL. Stark, Karl
Frederick Stock, Ord Franklin Trum-
bower, Olin Clinton: Webb, Russell Al-
lan Williams, Ward Stephen Yorks,
Karl Leonard Woolbert.
The annual alumni banquet of King-
ston Township Alumni Association will
be held on Friday, June 8, at Irem
Temple Country Club, with Rev. Fred
M. Sellers. pastor of Shavertown M.
E. Church ,as the speaker. It will be
the first time the affair has been held
at the country club and a large crowd
is expected to attend.
Clyde Edwin
Prom Tonight
Dallas Township, which climaxed its
Comrmencement program with gradua-
tion exercises at Himmler Theatre on
Tuesday night, will hold its Junior-
Senior prom at Ferabrook Park on Fri-
day, June 1.
FE. B. Dorsett was the speaker at the
commencement program. On Sunday
Rev. Mr. York delivered a Baccal-
aureate sermon at the Kunkle M. E.
Church. (Class night exercises were,
held on Monday night. One of the
chief events of the graduation program
was the picnic held last Friday at the
Martz Farm.
Lehman Program.
Lehman held its commencement ex-
ercises last Friday night in the school
building. Attorney “J. Gordon Mason
was the speaker. The elasg night ex-
ercises were held on Thursday night.
has an |.
. THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1934
line. at the end of the gruelling
record made by Louis Meyer in
out the race without relief.
racer was never
a total of $2
'ap prizes.
Wild Biil Cummings flashes across the finish
Day race at Indianapolis Speedway to smash the
Cummings, a home-town boy,
Hig little 4-cylinder
worse than fourth and he came
from behind in thelast seventy-five miles to win
0,000 in prizes for his triumph and for
Spurt That Won 500-Mile Record Breaking Grind At Indisuapali
500-mile. Memorial six minutes, five
miles an hour.
Cwnmings, wh
rides a motorcycle
1933. :
drove through-
dramatic finish,
' The race was
;hree smash-ups w
He covered the 500 miles in four hours. forty-
seconds, an average of 104.865
car thrilled 135,000 spectators with hs thrilling,
no deaths, or serious injuries although there were
1
}
o runs a small night club and
when he isn't driving a racing
unusual because it resulted in
ith spinor injuries.
Country Club on Thursday, July 12.
program. Wilkes-Barre Rotary Club s
on-the-delaware.
The local committee which is making®
DALLASROTARY TO BE HOST TO 309
FROM 51ST DISTRICT HERE J ULY 12
Rotarians To Have “Golf Day” Day” At Irem Country Club
Greater Dallas Rotary Club will entertain at least 300 Rotarianf from’ | the
forty-one clubs in the 51st District at an all-day program at Irem. Temple
It will be the second annual out-door
tarted the plan last year at Buckwood-
plans' for the affair has as thembers W.
H. A. McIntyre, Ted Pine, steward at
the country club: Warren Taylor, L. K.
Kingsley, Bért Stroh, James Besecker,
and Harold Wagner.
in the evening.
nis, swimming,
amuse the guests dtu
luncheon will be
There will be golf, ten-
mushball, ‘and’ quoits
ing
the day. A
guet dinner at I Pp
Repre from. each of the
[forty-one the district are ex-
Ipected. The atea from which the rep-
resentatives ¢ is bounded on the
East by the laware River “on the
West by Williamsport, on the South by
Sunbury and oh the North by Sayre.
A number
will be am
ians will
tails will
At the
ednesday
a
of prominent
ong the guests. Only Rotar-
be in. attendance. Full de-
be ahnounced later. v
> of Dallas Rotary last
3 enant Plummer
of the nnsylvania State Police gave!
an interesting talk on the methods em-
ployed by the troopers in combating
crime and apprehending criminals.
Highway Forces
Push Grading On
Ww
But Continue To Neglect!
-Dallas Road
While many State highways are be-
ing neglected,
famous Tunkhannock - Dallas road,
Pennsylvania's 48,500 miles of second-
Slax township roads, about 90 per |
nt. of them dirt surface, are in the]
at of a syste: matle Sreomne such |
as most of them have never prev iously |
experienced. The I is being per-
formed by. the Pennsylvania Depart-
ment of Highways under the responsi-
bility placed upon this department by
the - Legislature to perform mainten-
ance work on these roads for the next
two years.
Secretary Sam Lewis said that com-
mendation of the manner in which the
job is being done already has reached
him from all parts of the State. Rural
mail carriers school bus drivers and
operators of trucks or tnilk routes are
among the constant users of rural
roads most emphatic in their endorse-
ment. They are péporting the roads in
better conditionsfor travel than ever
before, |
pd
Lehman Scholastic
Baseball Champions
Trucksville Second; Dallas
Township Third Among
Local Schools
school
is chompion of the
Scholastic League,
five scheduled
Lehman high pasehall team
Back Mountain
having woa all its
games, Trucksville "is
in second place with four victories,
one defeat, and Dallas Township is
third with three victories and one loss.
A tie between Dallas Borough and
Laketon was broken in a game on
Tuesday afternoon. = Préviously..both
teams had one victory and three de-
feats. By yesterday's game Dallas
moved to fourth place and Laketon
dropped one ‘game behind,
>cupied the cellar posi-
with nig yvietories to its credit.
Beaumont 9¢
tion,
Tentatively, the plans call for a busy
schedule of events from 9 a. m. to late’
to |
served at noon a ban- |
Rotarians |,
Much Traveled Tunkhannock|
America Pays Memorial Day Honor To
Vets - - Cold Cash To Empire - Builders
including the now in- |
150 Funmakers
With Huge Circus
1800 World Famous Men and
| Women Arenic Stars on
1934 Program.
| Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey
dined Circus, The Greatest Show
1, naking its grand ‘and 2iori-
lous 1934 tour of the continent and de-
finitely scheduled to exhibit in Wilkes-
Barre, Pa., Friday, June 8, has ras-/i
sembled from the four corners of the |
and points in between — the!
est aggregation of clowns in all
amusement history, ]
One hundred and fifty. internation-
ally-f. famo; 1s funmakers cavort a nd |
capor about the seven rings and stag
les and the huge hippodrome track SEE
(year in the most stupendous
| presentation ever offered.
| Clowns have always been an import-
{ant part of the circus and the amuse-
{ment world was amazed and delighted
{rien an even hundred of them were
{brought together for the first time by
Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey.
{ But when 150 of the funniest clowns
(rmaginable were ‘placed on the same |
|
Tow nship Roads program in a simultaneous display this | Klismovich, William ‘Stone,
{spring, the enthusiasm of circus-goers
knew no bounds.
| (Continued on Page 3.)
Glory C Of Two Armies Fades, But Influence Of Vanderbilt,
Gould, Mellon, Carnegie And Rockefeller
Still Rules Industry
an enemy whose passion was no less
represents the nation’s appreciation.
In ironlc contrast to the humble
places where they lie are the massive
tonbs which hold the remains of those
other young men of '61 who, spurning
[the gory paths to glory, stayed home
to engage in the less hazardous but
more remunerative business of selling
supplies to the government.
Their wild, greedy, sometimes coura-
geous, sometimes lawless battles on
the fronts of commerce and “iffdustry
were as much a part of the middle
eighties as were Gettysburg and Appo-
matox. Seen through the perspective
of history, their’ deeds fill a bitter
chapter in the story of the Civil War.
Their attitude toward the soldiers
which America honored on, Wednesday
is expressed meatly in a ‘telegram
Judge Thomas Mellon of Pittsburgh
sent to one of his elder sons in Wis-
consin who was considering enlistment
with the Union Forces. The Judge,
ancestor of the suave Andrew, wrote:
“I had hoped my boy was going to
make a smart, intelligent businessman’
and was not. such a goose as to be
seduced , from ‘duty by the declama-
tions of buncombed speeches. It is
only greenhorns who enlist. You ean |
earn nothing in the army . Here |
there is no credit attached to going.
All how stay if they can and go if
they must. Those who are able to pay
circus (Edw ard
(Written Exclusively for The Post)
The young men who marched from Dallas and vicinity in ’61 to fight
Wednesday their half- forgotten graves were marked by the tiny pennant which
DROUGHT, SEVERE
IN WEST, iS MILD
IN PENNSYLVANIA
In Western counties the drought
condition which has prevailed re-
cently became severe this week but ,
in no part of Eastern Pennsylvaaia
have crops actually suffered, al-
though more rains would have im-
proved conditions,
Moderate rains which were fair-
ly general throughout this section
this week moistened the top soil
enough to start a better growth of
all crops. The improvement would
have been greater had it not been
for the temperature deficiency dur-
ing the early part of the week.
Big Class Takes
First Communion
One of the largest classes in the his-
tory of the church received First Com- |
munion last Sunday at St. Therese’s
Catholic Church, at Shavertown. The
sfpildren, savith the “girls © dressed in|
white and wearing white veils, ranged |
in agé from b to: 8 years.
The class which rambered 33,
instructed by Sisters of Meicy of
| Misericordia Colice and mass was
celebrated ‘by Rev. J. J. O'Leaty. rec-
itor of the church, who also celebrated
the first communion,
Persons receiving communion were
Rohent Barnd, William Barnd, Edward
aggers, Joseph Derzak, Dennis Judge,
of Trucksville; Charles Metzger,
Metzgar. Raymond Jones,
Merilyn Cawley, Winifred Cawley,
Alice Dobinick, Shirley Fischer, Mar-
garet Farrell, Betty Jane Pittinger, and
Mary Ann Youngblood of Shavertown;
William Blessing. Paul-Germann, Wil-
liam, Wallo, Catherine Morris, Irene
Morrig, Marie Polachek, Clarissa. Wag-
ner and Dolores Schray, of Dallas; Ro-
bert Kern, Albert Klismovich Algert
Myron
‘Williams, Bertha Kern and Elizabeth
‘Sabo of Alderson; Ellen Schultz of
Noxen.
were
al}
bitter than our own are dead and on
Reverently, a nation paid tribute
to martial glory on Wednesday.
The Post can add little to the
overwhelming honor already
shown. In the hope that it can
throw light on another angle of
war, “martial stupidity”, The
Post presents this—its Memori-
al Day Story.
for substitutions do so; and no dis-
credit attaches. In time you ‘will
come to understand and believe that a
man may he a patriot without risking
his own life or sacrificing his health.
There are plenty of other lives less
valuable or others ready to serve for
the love of servicing.” &
Mr. Mellon's attitude was similar to
that of the others who came out of the
Civil War with the foundations for
America’s greatest fortunes.
Commodore Vanderbilt for example,
and Jay Cooke—the first untutored
and unable to spell correctly, the sec-
ond a pious promoter from a froatier
village, made a good part of their tre-
mendous fortunes selling and leasing
ships to the government. The; govern-
paid $900: a day for the use of the ves-
sels,
Vanderbilt bought an ancient lake
steamship for $10,000, aware that it
was to be used to carry hundreds of!
{will end on June 11.
Dallas Church
~ Launches Effort
To Raise $5,000
First Reports To Be Made
Monday Night At
Supper
DRIVE ENDS JUNE 11
Captains of the teams which have
volunteered for service in the cam-
paign being conducted by Dallas M. E.
Church to raise money to meet its bud-
get will make their first report at a
supper-conference to be held in the
church on Monday night at 6:30. The
men and women began their annual
solicitation on Tuesday and early re-
ports indicate an encouraging response
on the part of church members.
At the first meeting this week, Rev.
Francis Freeman, pastor, divided the
workers into four territorial groups as
follows: North Section, L. W. Le-
Grand, Mrs. S. B. Davies, Mrs. John
Yaple, P. D. Clark. James Ayre. South
Section: John C. Durbin, Grant Shaner,
Mrs. William J. Uiemeyer, A. H. Van
Nortwick, Mrs. A. H. Van Nortwick, |
David Brace. Mrs. David Brace. East
Section: B. B. Lewis, Mrs. B. B. Lewis,
Floyd Bogert, Mrs. Floyd Bogert, Miss
Margaret Vietch, Mrs. William Cairl...
West Section: Mr. and Mrs: H. S.
Doll, Mrs. A. Donald Frantz. Mr .and
Mrs. W. H Baker, Mr and Mrs, Robert
Allen, Mrs. Rachel Westover, Mrs.
Clarence Labar.
The budget of the church is $5,000.
The drive began on May 28, and
There has always
been a whgle-hearted response to the
annual campaign of the church and it
is expected that the effort this year
will be highly successful. Bo
/ Married Here 4
Mis. A#fha Benninger of Dimock and
Edward Travis Bush of South Mont-
rose were married on Tuesday, ‘May 29.
No. 22
Misericordia To
Give Degrees To
Day At College On
Thursday.
Sixty members of the Senior class
of College Misericordia will receive.
diplomas and degrees at the annual
Tuesday night. To accomodate the
large crowds expected to attend, ar-
rangements have been made to conduct
the exercises in St. Nicholas’s high
school auditorium _ South ‘Washington |
Street, Wilkes- Barre. :
Bishop Thomas C. O'Reilly of Scran-
ton Diocese will confer the degrees and
honors.
present the candidates and Rev. John
Carroll, S. T. L., will invest them in
hoods. Rev. Ferdinand H. Schoberg,-S.
J.. of Fordham University, New York
City, will deliver the commencement
address.
Parents and friends of the ders
classmen may attend the exercises
since the hall is large enough to hold
a few hundred persons more than sthe
invited guests.
Mass Sunday.
A baccalaureate mass was celebrated
on Sunday morning in St. Mary's
Church at Wilkes-Barre, with Rev,
Peter Edward Quinn, a recently or-
dained brother of one of the gracyntes;
as celebrant.
Rev. Francis G. McNulty of Sorans
ton delivered the address. He scored
the fallacy of culture ‘without religion,
or morality without God. He urged
the graduates to be “vessels of honor”
and to make practical the theoretical
lessons they have received. ,
Two hundred of the students from i
the local college filed into the church
Bois processional. The
tdecorated in gold meteor,
blue, the college colors, }
Field Day. 4
Einhireds of persons were at the
college yesterday for the program of
outdoor sports. which were a part of
the gay Field Day program. Majority
of those in attendance were from
schools of the Sisters of Morey of the
church was
by Rev. W. H. Stang at his home at [Scranton diocese.
Shaver TOW as
Two Haren In Crash
On Main Lake Road
eT In Early
Morning Collision Near
Hillside.
Velicy Men
|
Wilson: Jones, 21, of S81 “Sferritt
Street, Plains, and Thomas Levin. 19,
of Wilkes-Barre, suffered head and
face lecerations in a collision about
12:30. yesterday morning on the Har-
vey’s Lake highway at Hillside, a
short distance east of the , Lehman
road intersection, ;
Mr. Jones had parked his machine
on the main road, policemen said, and
the car was rarmmed by the automobile
operated by Levin. Both machines
were pointed Eastward. After the ac-
cident both drivers were treated by
physicians. .
soldiers to New Orleans, x Congres-
sional investigation followed and it
was related that-the timbers on the
ship were rotten they were unable to
hold a mnail.- Luckily, the ship never
encountered a storm and all soldiers
arrived safely. The Congressional |
charges against Vanderbilt were for-
gotten so well that, at the end of the
war, Vanderbilt was awarded a medal
from Congress in approval of his loyal
services.
Much of the profiteering and graft
was forgottén in the excitement and
confusion but no less an authority than
General Grant vouched for the shoddy
blankets, the doctored horses, the use-
Iss rifles, the sickening beer, and the
spoiled food which were sold to the
government by the men who were
coaxing fortunes from the = country’s
tragedy.
In his history “The Robber Barons”
Matthew Josephson writes; “In Cleve-
land the young merchant Rockefeller
prospered under the sun of rising
prices for provisions; his income early
in the war increased to $17,000 a year.
In Chicago, Philip Armour, who had
returned from California to open a
slaughtering business, sent forth salt
pork and dressed beef to the Union
armies and for export; in Philadelphia
the butcher, Peter Widener did a rush-
ing trade in war provisions. even Wil-
liam, the slow-witted son of Cornelius
Vanderbilt, from his farm on Staten
Island sold hay for the cavalry troops
quartered near by; while the eldest son
of Judge Thomas Méllon, the Pitts-
burgh banker, pleaded with his father
to have money for speculation, Peo-
ple were making millions in wheat, he
reported from Wisconsin. “They are
‘continually growing riciher and don’t
care when the war closes’.”
It was Armour says Josephson, who
ay
Inter scholastic
archery, baseball, and volley ball,
and races of all kinds were the, chief
athletic attractions, St Mary’s and St,
[Gabriel's orchestra’ of Hazleton Pgs
nished music for dancing -in the au-
ditorium. The celebration ended with
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament -
outdoors,
Irem Golf Links Have
Crowds. of unprecedented size were
at Irem Country. Club. on Wednesday,
Memorial Day, to observe the holiday :
and enjoy the splendid weather, “T
biggest holiday since 1929” officials
commented. ~ al
Farm Activity Is =
: Best In4 Years
Krause Describes Farmers
Battle Against Farm i:
Pests =
William Krause, local farm SuDIy:
dealer, will unload a mixed carload of
berry and tomato baskets next week. -
activity among farmers this season
than at any time during the past four
local farming conditions
watched them during the past fifteen
years and been in close ‘touch with
farmers of the region.
One real difficulty the farmer in
facing this year, says Mr. Krause is
the tremendous increase in insects and
farm pests. The great number of
tent caterpillers is one very evident
present season will be afd is one of
the worst in years for aphids and
other harmful insects. As evidence
that the farmer is taking every pre ax
caution to save his growing things
Mr. Krause says that his sales of
Black Leaf “40” alone this spring
have exceeded $1,000. This is even
more interesting when it ig understood
that Black Leaf “40” is just one of
dozens of insect killers which are used
by farmers.
Aside from the difficulty encounters
ed from destructive pests, eastern
farmers have every reason to look for-
ward to good prices and good crops
this fall. Sales of farm machinery as
reported generally throughout the east
any time during the past four years.
EXPECT LOCUSTS TO
MISS THIS SECTION
IN PATH THRU STATE
| 4
The seventeen-year locusts wiii =
appear in certain parts of Penn-
sylvania New York, and Ohio dur-
ing June but it is not expected
that their path will touch Luzerne
County, State entomologists report:
Officially known as Brood VII, >=
the locusts headed this way were
last observed during 1917. Luzerne
County need have no fear about
1935 either, but in 1936 Brood X,
one of the largest of the known
consummated one of the most famous
(Continued on Page 3.)
broods is expected ‘to cover the :
eastern half of the State, E
BACCALAUREATE MASS
Rev. Dr. William Walsh will
and navy
- Record-Breaking Day
Mr. Krause reports that there is more
example of the increase in farm pests.
Agricultural experts report that the
Sixty On Tuesday
Hundred Attend Gay Field
jcommencement exercises to be held on \
for-the mass, to the music of a De-
games, tennis, Yooks
years, and “Billy” ought to know what .
Lie is talking about when it comes to
as he has
and by Mr. Kraus are greater than at fi