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~ eolumns to all projects which will help this community and the great rural-
suburban territory which it serves to attain the following major improve
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+ 1. Construction af mors sidewalks for the protection of pedestrians in
Kingston township and Dallas. {a (4 Lislingp | (1a be bh? 0”
2, A free library located in the Dallas reaion.
1% 8 Better and adequate street lighting in Trucksville,
brook and Dallas, : 2 S
: 4. Sanitary sewage disposal system for Dallas: :
6. Closer co-operation between Dallas borough and surrounding town-
ohips. :
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‘mow exist.
~~ 7. Adequate water supply for fire protection.
8. The formation of a Back Mountain Club made up of business men and
home owners interested in the development of a community consciousness in
Dallns, Trucksville, Shavertown and Fernbrook.
. ® A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and connectng the
Sullivan Trail at Tunkhannock. ;
19. The elimination of petty politics from all School Boards in the region
eovered by THE DALLAS POST. : :
: ai THE REDSKINS ARE COMING!
A short time ago the Chicago Tribune printed a cartoon that hit the pre-
dicament of the average American neatly on the head. It pictures “John R.
Taxpayer” and family, attired in frontier dress, hiding in and under a covered
~ wagon, surrounded by an attacking “Trig of Taxeaters,” who have come out
of the “American Tax Wilderness.” The unfortunate “John Taxpayer” 1s
saying in response to frightened appeals from his wife and children, “There
“are so many of ‘em I don’t know where. to start shootin’.” :
Every citizen in that position now. The tax-Indians, of course, won't do
him physical harm—but they are highly cannibalistic so far as his pocketbook,
his savings, and his property are concerned.
~~ They are destroying jobs by draining the springs from which payrolls
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high scheols and better co-operation between those that
flow. :
They are capturing homes and farms—because their owners, in these days
of reduced income and inceased taxes—can't pay the levies against them.
Its hard all right, to know where to start shooting—but unless that start
is made, through the united effort of the millions of both workers and employ-
ers of the country, the Indians are going to have an easy time at the massacre.
The cure lies in opposition to extravagance and to legislation which goes out-
» the prover sphere of government, at the taxpayers expense, and opposi-
tion to officials who propose or foster such practices. A genuine movement
‘along these lines should be started. And every citizen who has a job, owns a
piece of property, or has a few dollars invested, belongs in it.
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PRIVATE BUSINESS GETS A BREAK
The next major step in the Administration’s recovery program is scheduled
to be an attempt to bolster up heavy industries—those producing steel, cement,
~ Jumber and similar products which are principally bought by other industries
rather than by the ultimate consumer. There has been business improvement
during the last few months, but almost all of it has occured within consumer
: industries. - Heavy industry is still in the doldrums—and that is serious be-
cause these industries normally employ the most workers, and the great bulk
of unemployment that still exists can be traced to their lethargy. Practically
“every business leader, irrespective of what kind of a company he belongs to,
has sung the same theme-song: We'll never get far so long as heavy industry
remains in a state of coma. :
~ The government's answer fo industry’s request, according to the U. S.
News, will have three phases. First will be a program of Federal aid in financ-
ing home building and repairing . It is hoped that this will liberate $1,500,
000,000 of private capital which is now more or less non-productive.
3 Second, the government will loan directly to industry through the federal
reserve banks and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, so that basically
~ sound concerns need no longer look vainly around for working capital.
Third, the liability provisions of the securities act—one of the most fought
about bits of legislation the Administration has passed—will be softened. The
act is so stringent in its present form that it has practically brought an end to
the issuance of even the most legitimate securities. !
It is believed that this program can be followed at a comparatively small
cost to the government. In the matter of home financing, the government will
- simply guarantee a portion of the loans—from 10 to 20 per cent. The experts
say that is enough to loosen a vast amount of dammed-up credit. Also, it
will make possible long-time financing, with amortization over as many as 20
years, eliminating the type of mortgage which matures every three years or so
‘and must be refinanced at a substantial cost to the borrower.
~~ Funds can easily be made available for the loans to industry. Senator
Glass 1s now sponsoring a law which would permit the federal reserve banks
to make loans that regular bankng channels are unable to handle under the
present set-up. -
‘Generally speaking, the reaction to this program is very favorable, inas-
much as it lays all the stress on stimulating private business, and does not in-
‘volve any great extension of government activity.
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i A NEW PROBLEM FOR AGRICULTURE
Main agricultural problem is surpluses. Solution was the crop-curtail-
ment plan, whereby the government signs agreements with warmers stipulating
‘how much of every kind of product they can produce. In return, the govern-
‘ment pays them for the land taken out of cultivation.
Now a greater power than legislation has taken a hand—and shown the
nation what crop curtailment in the grand manner is. = The power is nature.
The crop is wheat.
The middle west is literally a desert. There hasn't been so disastrous a
spring in 40 years, and great agricultural states are dry as the Sahara. The
drought is trimming almost twe million bushels of wheat a day from the of-
ficial May 1st crop estimate.
The drought was accompained by a dust storm that picked up billions of
pounds of top-soil, with its planted grain, and carried it away, to fall along
‘the Atlantic Seaboard as well as the Middle western cities. Some of it fell
on the dome of the capital at Washington. Some fell in Wall Street. Twelve
‘million pounds fell in metropolitan Chicago—four pounds for every man, wo-
man and child in the city.
Federal farm officials are considering allowing farmers to plant acres that
‘were retired—have advanced the date for signing wheat production control
contracts. In many areas hit by drought it will be impossible to raise any crops
‘at all this year, and government benefit payments will be the only source of
ncome the farmers will have. Even abundant rainfall could not save the
rops, so great has been the damage.
As a result, the agricultural administration has a new and grave problem
‘on its hands—how to carry stricken farmers through a barren year.
Congress shall make no law * * abridging the freedom of speech, or of |.
| By Earl E. Bird
While I write this I am expending a
certain number of units of energy. As
you read, it you’ exhaust a specific
number of calories, also. Were both of
us placed in separate, insulated boxes
attached to delicate instruments the
energy we are burning might be mea-
{sured accurately and detracted from
‘the balance which, as living organisms,
we have due us before all our energy
is exhausted and we die, :
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Suppose. then, knowing that we had
;umpsteen thousands of calories to
{burn before death, we kept accurate
records of our day-by-day basal meta-
bolism, or the rate by which we ex-
haust our energy. In a few months,
(as we watched our rightful supply be-
ing used up, we'd learn to write this
column or read it in the way that used
up the least
amount of energy,
wouldn't we? Rd
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This interesting theory is a part of
Walter Pitkin’s book “More Power To
You,” which, with his other: recent
volume, ‘Life Begins at Forty”, is one
of .the most practical treatises on suc-
cessful living it has ever been our
pleasure to skim through. Pitkin leads
voa fairly far into scientific depths
but always with a clear, gripping style
that makes his theories as fascinating
as the best ‘mystery story. Perhaps it
is because Pitkin, far from being the
pedagogue that his degrees intimate,
has had a fairly colorful ang’ varied
life himself that you find in his book
so many practical suggestions that ap-
ply “directly to yourself.
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Energy, says Pitkin, is a fuel accord-
ing to body weight, usable at many
rates, and—once used—never to be re-
called. You can, if you desire and
study your own actions and habits
double your efficiency with training.
——
Pitkin exposes several hundreds of
ways of wasting energy, I suppose, and
many of them, presented here without
benefit of the background and au-
thority which Pitkin’s sources present,
seem insignificant. It is not enough,
{for example, to know that the best
work is performed when the tempera-
ture is about 68 degrees Fahrenheit,
the humidity is at 50 degrees, and the
circulation of air is at the rate of
‘about 45 cubic feet of fresh air per
minute. But those facts are important
enough to great industries that they
obey them religiously and thus save
millions’ of energy units every day for
their workers.
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Other Pitkin theories are easier to
understand without much study to
prove their worth, for example his the-
ory which says “push the workers even
a little faster than their natural jog
and they bungle the job.” If you want
to prove this draw seven squares aside
each other on a piece of paper.
have someone keep time with a watch
and call off each second as it passes.
With a pencil star. making dots in the
first square as rapidly as you can.
, When the time-keeper signals the end
of the first second move rapidly to the
second square, and at the end of that
second to the third square, etc., until
seven seconds have passed. Then
count the dots in each square. You
will find that you began well, with
about seven dots in the first square,
but in the -subsequent seconds vou
slowed down until at last you had only
one or two dots to your credit. Now
experiment until you find your natural
pace. Then add the total dots when
vou maintain that natural pace, paus-
ing perhaps for a slight rest between
the minimum effort.
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There is a point of officiency in every
machine, including the human body.
Pushed beyond that point waste be-
gins. Useless quick movements of the
hands, grabbing, running up stairs two
at a time, and a hundred other daily
actions of ours waste more time than
we gain, > .
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The man or woman who knows how
to store up that energy, who knows
how to tap that store, who knows haw
to stop the flow at will, and who knows
how to pattern the flow to efficient re-
sults is, to a great extent, master of
his or her destiny.
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Each person falls into one of the
nine classifications Mr. Pitkin describ-
es. Each person reacts to the accel-
eratoors and retarders which speed or
slow energy, respectively. Low body
weights, great stature, superiority in
food assimilation, high motor response,
a normal thyroid, and youth all accel-
erate. There are ways, too, to accel-
erete your energy voluntarily. If for
example, you eat some malt sugar be-
fore a big job that job will leave vou
less tired, because malt sugar is turn-
ed into blood sugar faster than any
other edible and so contributes to the
store of. energy you must draw from.
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Mr. Pitkin stresses that the greatest
individual benefit comes not so much
from ‘a general study of “basal meta-
bolism” as from an accurate and in-
dividual record of how certain things
react on you. Take coffee, for exam-
ple. Certain kinds of coffee will sti-
mulate you, have no effect on another
person, and make a third mildly ill
By experimenting you will find the ac-
celerators which give you vigor and
energy.
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Most of all Mr. Pitkin ‘asks for plan-
ning. If for example you are satis-
fied that Mr. Pitkin is right when he
says that cigarettes and alcohol’ are
wasters of energy and should be left
for the hours of relaxation in the even-
ing you must plan your life along that
pattern. If you believe him when he
says that you swing from an optimistic
mood into a despondent mood about
every seven weeks you must learn to
plan your work so you will be sche-
duling your biggest tasks while you are
in the clouds and leaving only minor
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your moves. You will find that by
studying your pace you have become
efficient—you have, in other words,
secured the maximum results from.
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Mrs. N. H. Learn
Called By Death
Mrs. N. H. Learn of Lehman died
last Saturday afternoon at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Ira DeWitt, Wyoming.
Mrs. Learn was born in 1865 at Orange.
Survivors include the following broth-
ers and sisters: Mrs. N. Harris, Dallas;
Mrs. Ira DeWitt, Wyoming; Mrs. N.
Ross, Orange; S. L. Phillips, Wyom-
ing, and C. W. Phillips, Orange. The
funeral was held at the home in Leh-
man on Monday afternoon at 2 with
Rev. Lynn Brown officiating. Inter-
ment was in lehman cemetery.
The Editor
The Dallas Post
Dallas, Penna.
Dear Sir:—
The Regional Committee of Region
III wishes me to thank you for your
generous space and excellent articles
during our recent Girl Scout Confer-
ence. Your accuracy and completeness
are most valuable to our organization.
Girl Scouting ip Wyoming Valley will
benefit exceedingly. We thank you
very much for your courtesy.
Very truly yours.
Elizabeth D. Reis, Secretary.
Poets’ Corner
“GIVE THE OLD ONE A CHANCE”
If wives were like auto’s wouldn't it be
strange?
Every year some husbands for a new
model would arrange.
If this year’s model was lacking in
speed,
Next year he’d choose a faster one in-
deed.
He'd trade the old one on a new,
And lots of other things he'd do.
He'd never stop to test a brake
He'd have to hurry, for goodness sake.
He'd choose a model that looked
snappy,
And to his friends he’d shout “I'm
happy”.
This model sure will win a race,
Now with the crowd I'll take my place.
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"Tis true some wives may need ad-
justing, :
They’ve been neglected so long their
minds are rusting. :
car,
They're so afraid its beauty they will
mar.
They'll buy a polish to ‘make it shine
Then stand and admire it and say
“that’s fine”
If some wives got the treatment some
men give their car,
For their pleasure these men need not
go far, z
If the cars not performing as it should,
Spend the last dollar some men would.
My advice, before you buy a model new
See with the old one what you can do,
Mrs. John A. Girvan.
problems for the days when you will
be in the depths.
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Perhaps the greatest benefit from
such studies as Mr . Pitkin has re-
ported come to the worker. He de-
mands that the job be adjusted to the
worker not the worker to the job. If,
for example the danger in a certain
job makes it possible only for strong,
quick, healthy men to be employed,
change things. Eliminate the danger
s0 eny man intelligent enough and wil-
ling to work can find employinent.
Most men are very careful with their |
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CONTACT WITH THE WORLD!
{LITTLE AMERICA, ANTARC-
‘PICA, May 21 (via Mackay Ra-
iio) Every day 1 realize more and
more what a wonderful scientific
age we are living in. Here we are,
56 of us, living on a sheet of snow
and ice with 1600 feet of water un-
jer us in total darkness, 2310 miles
from the nearest human habitation.
and so surrounded with ice, some
of it 30 and 40 feet thick for hun-
dreds of miles, that all the com-
bined navies and icebreakers in the
world could not reach us. And yet
we have electric light and many
ohn N. Dyer, of Haverhill, M.
Our Radio Engineer
other luxuries and through the mir-
acle of radio, we know pretty well
what is going on in the rest ot tfie
world. Three small incidents during
the past few weeks, involving Com-
mander Noville, with whom 1 live
In a little hut we built on the way
down, made me ponder these things.
In one of the news broadcasts we
are receiving we learned that his
favorite baseball team, the New
York Yankees, were about to open
their season, which gave George a
chance to radio his good wishes for
a successful season full of home
runs, to Col. Ruppert, owner of the
team, and Babe Ruth and Lou Geh-
rig. This message, we understand,
was delivered to the team just be-
fore the first game and while it
didn’t make them win it, we are
happy to know they have won al-
most every game since and are way
out in front. Learning that his old
friend, Hal Skelly, was about to
open in a new play, Commander No-
ville sent him a message of good
will on opening night and was tick-
led to get word that the play,
“Come What May,” proved a sub-
stantial success. He told me he
hopes it runs until we get back and
can see it. Some run! We expect
to get back to Broadway in about
August, 1935. Not all of our contacts
with the world are so pleasant. We
also hear considerable grief. Yester-
day, Commander Noville got a sad
tale of woe from a pal of his in New
York, asking for a loan of $25,
which he promptly arranged by ra-
dio. Not such a geod idea, that. |
Contrary to the general belief,
Little America is built on a blanket’
of about 40 feet of snow, not ice,
although there are many feet of ice
under the snow. This fact gives us|
a great scare every little while.
We'll be sitting at dinner, or around
‘the table working, and all of a sud-
den the house will give a lurch and
shivér, making us hold our breath
and wonder what is going to hap-
pen to us. Nothing has yet and,
we're hoping—. These are called
temblors and are exactly like mod-
erate earthquake shocks, and,
frankly, we don’t like them even a
little bit. They tell us they are due
to the settling of the snow and that
Little America is temporarily out.
of danger. We absorb these assur-
ances but back in our minds there
lurks the thought that these shocks
may be caused by some disturbance
under the ice. And we wonder what
is going to happen to our Antarctic
village—and us—next October when
our hundreds-cf-miles-wide ice foun-
ration staris to melt.
Our tunnels, where we store our
food, are beginning to smell like a
butcher's ice box. They are full of
chopped up seals. We got about half
of the 500 seals we had to kill in
before darkness prevented us from
working on the bay ice any longer.
Now we have plenty to last us for
the winter. The rest are lying out
there on the ice. We'll dig them out
of the snow when daylight returns
in August. We needn’t worry about
wild “animals taking them away.
There are no such animals down
here. Spring must be well under
way up where you live by now. I'd
like to see a few flowers and some
birds. Well, when the weather gets
too hot to please you, think of us
in Little America—in the dark and
35 to 50 below zero.
We're about to publish a new lot
of beautiful big 20% x 27% inch
working maps of Antarctica to send
to new members of the club. If you
haven't joined yet, now is the time.
No dues or other expenses. Mem-
bership card, map, and everything
else free. Simply send self-address-
ed, stamped envelope, or, if you are
a teacher, scout master, Legion
Commander, or head of any group
interested in aviation, exploration
and adventure, and wish to enroll
the entire organization, send names
and home addresses and a 3 cent
stamp for each of your members
to Arthur Abele, Jr. president, Lit-
tle America Aviation and Explora-
tion Club, Hotel Lexington, 48th
Street and Lexington Avenue, New
York, N. ¥.
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