\ Che Dallas Bost, ESTABLISHED 1889 TELEPHONE DALLAS 300 A LIBERAL, INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PULISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING AT THE DALLAS POST PLANT LEHMAN AVENUE, DALLAS, PA. TR ' BY THE DALLAS POST INC. : ‘ EBIOWARD RISLEY... ih as nba Sah: BS els General Manager ~~ HOWELL REES ....... Eee od ha ka Th baa Reese enh ... Managing Editor ~~ TRUMAN STEWART ..... AEN eee Aa 3 : Mechanical Superintendent ~ ,. . The Dallas Post is on sale at the local news stands. Subscription price b mail $2.00 payable in advance. Single copies five cents each. \ A Entered as second-class matter at the Dallas Post-office. ee. Members American Press Association; Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers ‘Association; Circulation Audit Bureau; Wilkes-Barre-Wyoming Valley Cham- ~ ber of Commerce. ' WE 00 OUR PART EB 2 THE DALLAS POST is a youthful weekly rural-suburban newspaper, ~ @wned, edited and operated by young men interested in the development of the (great rural-suburban region of Luzerne County and in the attainment of the Mighest ideals of journalism. Thirty-one surrounding communities contribute weekly articles to THE POST and have an interest in its editorial policies. THE POST is truly “more than a newspaper, it is a community institution.” Congress shall make no law * * abridging the freedom of speech, or of ~ Press.—From the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Pia Subscription, $2.00 Per Year (Payable in Advance) : : = : > = reacry 3 Ee THE DALLAS POST PROGRAM 174 : THE DALLAS POST Will lend its support and offers the use of its .eolumns to all projects which will help this community and the great rural- y Pban territory which it serves to attain the following major improve “ments: I iy 1. Construction of more sidewalks for the prote Kingston township and Dallas. : 2. A free library located in the Dallas reaion. ‘3. Bettar- and adequate street lighting in Trucksville, Shavertown, Fern- brook and Dallas. 3 : 4. Sanitary sewage disposal system for Dallas. : iv. B. Closer co-operation between Dallas borough and surrounding town- ‘ships. } = : ~ © @. Consolidated high scheols and better co-operation between those that mo ; ly for fi otection. + 7. Adequate water supply for fire pr , I Liwhes as wig, Too eration of a Back Mountain Club made up of business men and : home owners interested in the development of a community consciousness in Dallns, Trucksvills, Shavertown and Fernbrook.. law’ BA panera sais 8A ‘modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and connec ng : Sullivan: Trail at Tunkhannock... tii ~ SFA Hibs is 00 100 1984 "49. The elimination of petty politics from all School Boards in the region sovered by THE DALLAS POST. ; oat | mt gieimt ands ction of pedestrians in Sd 3 WE GAVE THEM THEIR OPPORTUNITY In a special article last week The Post described briefly some of the acti- : rt i oi shrewd gentlemen who benefited so. magnificently iby. the Civil War that their fortunes became the greatest single factor o power in the pation. |. . 3 : 5 . 23 ing, th ibilities of any violations. of ethics on the part of Messrs. Vm on: Carnegie, and Rockefeller there is considerable ‘food for thought in the fact that one group can extract wealth from conditions that spread tragedy am” ‘another group. ° ; dad Oy ~ 3t was willing to pay exorbitant prices. In war, governments are like that. In the system of rugged individualism which America was founding the opportu- nities went to the strongest and these men apparently had that needed power. It is certain that they cannot be censured because they had the courage ~to_gamble or the will to push their schemes to a successful conclusion. Their .sagacity in sensing the opportunity is more to be admired than criticized. Yet, the whole picture, with mounting fortunes on one side and dying soldiers on the other, is filled with injustice and bitterness. .Upon whose shoulders does the ~ blame rest? ; © Was it the fault of the government for giving these men the opportunity _to capitalize on the nation’s tragedy? Could war have been averted then or, to consider another era, could it have been evaded in 1917? Those two ques- (4ions must hang unanswered indefinitely because any answer must rest on theory. There is, however, a likely explanation. oc Undoubtedly there were vicious private influences which had a part in J exciting war, just as armament manufacturers, as exposed recently in na- “gional magazines, encourage markets for their products today, but the major “share of the blame must rest with the hate and jealousy the people of the North and the South allowed themselves to feel. ~The activities of the robber barons were merely by-products of war—any war. No war can be fought without graft and profiteering. The power to avert war lies finally with the people who fight and pay. We, individually and as a nation, are the first to blame. ? Re, GOVERNMENT BEHIND HOME-BUILDING “The Back Mountain Section has a tremendous opportunity to benefit from the next major activity of government-—an attempt to stimulate heavy. indus- _ tries by unloosing capital for homebuilding and repairing through Federal ~ guarantees of mortgages. oy © “Experts estimate that it is possible to unloose credit to the tune of $1,500,- 000,000 or more in this manner. That money will go to painters, carpenters, “masons, plumbers, contractors. It will buy cement, steel, paint, lumber, yoofing, electric fixtures. It will pass through a hundred great industries, creating jobs and opportunities as it goes. - Dallas and other local home- owning communities have a right to their share. : If building is greately accelerated, prices for everything involved are go- “ing to rise. They are going to leave depression. levels behind and return to the normal average—that, in fact, is one of the cardinal aims. Those who can afford to repair and build now have an opportunity that may never be re- peated in their lifetime. THREE-HUNDRED-FIFTEEN THOUSAND PEOPLE KILLED Between now and 1940, 190,000 people will be killed in automobile ac- ~ cidents. ov The total of fatalities,for the entire decade that began with 1930 will be - 315,000, and the injury record will touch 10,000,000. 8 The number injured will be fifty times the number of A. E. F. soldiers ~ wounded non-fatally in action. : _ That is what it is estimated will occur if the automobile accident record during the next six years follows the experience of the past four. There is one way in which this ghastly forecast can be proven wrong. ~ That is by an aggressive campaign on the part of responsible motorists to modernize and strengthen traffic laws, eliminate cars which are defective in _ brakes, lights, steering and other essential parts, and to pass legislation which enforces adequate examination for drivers. So long as the reckless, the in- competent and the irresponsible rule the highways, as they do now, the lives ~ and property of all other motorists are in constant danger. : CATCHING UP WITH EUROPE We hear a great deal about overtaxed European countries and have al- ‘ways considered ourselves, gy comparison, fortunate. At the moment, about ~ one dollar out of every five we earn goes to government, the same ratio that prevails in Germany. England is the highest taxed country. There govern- ~ ment takes one dollar out of every four of the national income. A few weeks ago English taxes were reduced. Ours rise steadily. We pay taxes at al- most every turn. .Unless their is a stronger public interest we'll soon be far rope in the matter of taxes. ; | Washington rere I supplies in 6nd it uceded them so quickly 4 / Letter Much has been said about the advis- ability of reducing taxes, but pointing a need and accomplishing the result seem to be vastly different. There's Automobile Club is sponsoring a peti- tion to reduce gasoline taxes and motor vehicle registration fees. Taxes are preventing people from driving their cars, from buying new machines, argues the club. Reduce the taxes, put cars on the road, revenue in the treas- jury, and business in the automobile factories, it advises. The club has been obtaining signa- tures for its petition at gasoline fil- ling stations, the logical place ‘since every motorist stops for supplies soon- er or later. Indications now are, ac- cording: to recent reports that more than the legally sufficient number of signatures has been obtained. Officialdom, however, doesn’t like the idea. Road commissioners have no- tified filling station proprietors to “pull in those petition blanks or lose govern- ment business.” A recent news item from the capitol at Lansing said oil company representatives would be cal- led to a conference with state officials and told plainly that unless the petition was withdrawn from circulation .they would be prohibited from bidding for state business. The governor said he wouldn’t attend, but warned that if these taxes are reduced the taxpayers might expect substitute levies, Shades of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, past and present! What is this country coming to when elected officials tell those who elected them to office they cannot have tax reduction? What is officialdom coming ‘to that it assumes the authority to tell business whether it shall accomodate its cus- tomers? If the situation in Michigan is any indication office holders are not in the mood for tax reduction. Evidently they will insist that the taxpayers shall pay and pay and pay. And upon what then will the taxpayers insist? Well, it looks as if regardless of whatever they decide to insist upon they'd bet- ter get started or officialdom will be telling them they can’t even decide to i insist! Now let us hope that the boast on bank windows and printed on station- ery and advertising to the effect that "this bank is under Government su- pervision” will mean a little mere in the future than it has in the past. It will help if the loeal directors of banks wll be vigilant in watching out for the safety of the trusts imposed in them. The sordid record of finance in the nast 15 months shows that there were 1,417 National banks that were not al- lowed to re-open after the bank holi- day of March, 1933. Late official re- unlicensed May 1, and that 156 had plans for re-organization approved by the Comptroller of the Currency and that 29 had apparently failed. A great ymany of the banks reopened were in- cluded in mergers, consolidations and other new arrangements. ® . ® The thermometer has recently been hitting around 100 degrees in Wash- ington, which is a sure sign that Con- gress will wind up the session as fast a possible, Old Sol must be obeyed. ® s ® If you want to start a debate any time among the Government's business experts in Washington ask them what is the oldest continuous.commerce on the continent, There are pleaty of American business houses more than 100 years old but: it is certain that there are older continuous businesses than that though not under the same firm name. Experts are now beginning to agree that either the commercial fisheries or the fur business is the oldest continu- ous business, with . tobacco a second because exports of that product began soon after Jamestown was established, and it now looks as if the commercial fisheries are. beginning.to crowd out the fur business for first honors as North. America’s oldest continuous commerce, Washington's experts themselves are now inclining to give. the honor to the commercial fisheries as Canadian his- torians and savants have been digging up facts. on the 400th anniversary of the discovery of Canada, to be observ- ed this Summer. It is proven that the fisheries off historic Gaspe peninsula in Eastern Quebec were operated by Europeans long before Jacques Cartier landed there in 1534, Poets’ Corner “ LO Vv E ” "Twas her first love and she felt | thrilled, {Her heart beat so loudly it could not be stilled. Early in the 'morning her were of him, And all through the day she was filled with vigor and vim. thoughts “A penny for your thoughts”, the foiks would often say. But she would simply smile and turn the other way. She was young, yet her love was such, That thrilled she was at his slightest touch. They’d often meet and take a walk, And they'd enjoy a pleasant talk. Sometimes they'd sit and they'd hold hands, "Twas then they made the plans. grandest Love to all is a wonderful thing Joy, or sorrow it may bring. We often soar to heights above. Our heart’s so light when we're in love. MRS. JOHN GIRVAN 9 = ithe case in Michigan for instance. The | ports show that 185 banks were still! : : THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1934. - Hancock, and Adams, to say nothing of | | By PERCY CROSBY Copyright, : Back o’ the Flats b w X LISTEN, OFFICER! | WONDER IF You'd MING F (USED THE ~ PHONE WHEN You GET Turoveu? ” » Sift ings « We have heard from sources fairly reliable that a new concrete highway is to be built from Tunkhannock to Lutes’ Corners this summer. This sec- tion of the highway from Tunkhannock to Dallas will receive federal aid. Those with political influence who seem to be in on the know say that the road corners will be completed next year and will be built of concrete, provided the federal government will make it a federal aid road. If the State should decide to build the section of road from the county line to Lutes’ Corners this year it will be built of water- bound macadam instead of concrete. That all sounds good but. we've heard similar stories for the past twenty vears. We'll wait till we see the con- crete being boured before we'll begin to believe that such a construction job is possible. —O0— There is one business that appears to thrive in good times and in bad times. That is the milk. business. Among those who are making a real success of it in this section and who have established business places that are a credit 10 the community are the Elstons with their Shady Side Dairy at Kunkle; Nesbitt Garringer with the Dallas Dairy; Harry Harter with: his Trucksville dairy and there are still many others that we haven't enumera- ted. Trucksville Dairy is being enlarged with the addition of considerable floor space in a new brick structure. The grounds have been enlarged and im- proved with landscaping. Nesbitt Gar- ringer is just completing the installa- tion of complete new equipment in the plant of the Dallas Dairy and the new offices and tiled interiors. Con- tinual improvements are being made at the Shady Side Dairy which is housed in a rustic stone building on well-landscaped grounds at Kunkle. The attractiveness, cleanliness and general appearance of any one of these three plants deserves the congratula- tions of the community. —_—Q— A few days ago a Wilkes-Barre fruit merchant hailed us with the following query, “Say who's that fellow at Dal- las that always beats me in the morn- ing to the produce market.” And then in the morning, he’s ahead of me. If I go earlier in the rwmorning, about four o’clock, he’s still ahead of me. ‘Who is he?” We took a chance and an- swered, “I'll bet it's C. A. Frantz”. And sure enough that is who it was. Maghe that explains why Mr. Frantz’s store has gained a widespread repu- tation in this community for the ory that Mr. Frantz has been making those early morning trips for more than twenty years. In fact we be- tomobile truck for store delivery . {this section. Am I right Mr. Frantz? —— a year since we have that there has been as much construc- tive interest in the borough schools as there has heen during the year just closed. Students have been enthusias- tic and filled with school spirit. Par- ents have felt that their children were making progress in their studies and there has been no controversy be- tween the head of the school faculty and crochety citizens. Such a condition speaks louder than any words of the ability of the man who now heads the borough schools. ‘We miss our old friends Frank Mor- from the Luzerne county line to Lutes’ whole building has been improved with | he added, “If I go there at five o'clock ! quality of its fruits and produce. And | the writer knows from his own mem- | lieve that Mr. Frantz had the first au- | ‘We don’t believe there has ever been | been in Dallas | | ris and George R. Wright. Both were | munity and we know that there are highly intelligent ‘men who could talk 'many who knew them longer and bet- sanely on current affairs. Their Hoehiter than we who, like us, miss them, were closely associated. with this com- |toe. ‘ AMERTCY ANIMALS! * ITTLE = AMERICA, ANTARC- TICA, May 29 (via Mackay Ra- dio)—I think it is about time 1 gave vou a report on our live stock. You «now, we have a varied assortment of domestic animals here leading the strangest life that house pets were ever called upon to lead, And they are thriving on it. The pen- guins. seals, whales and skua gulls nave all-had the sense to depart for , parts unknown, probably the west eoast of South America and various other warmer places.. No Anarctic : — winters for them! Yesterday a few of us had an elab- orate ceremony in the cowshed. We weighed the bull! . You may remem- ber that one of doesn’t know whether it was a aog or a dog driver that bit him. Abqut half the men are wearing full beards. The rest of us are shaving regularly. 1 shave every day with one of Commander Noville’s elec- tric razors so 1 don’t need warm water, The rest of the shavers haye a terrible time getting in the cook’s way to melt snow for their shaving. We are in great need of a barber. Cutting each other’s hair produces some startling and comical results. We are in need of exercise now that our outside work is nearly over and the storms, darkness and cold prevent us from wandering much out in the open. We are putting up a punching bag and a couple of sets of parallel bars. We also will do some walking and skiing when the weather permits. The doctor is watching our diet very closely. | our three full i LT 7 ; blooded Guernsey| We are finding it difficult to keep Fi] cows, Klondike, |ourselves and our clothes clean. The popular pastime is stealing hot water from Al Carbone, our Cam- bridge, Mass., cook, but even when we've stolen it we have to be very careful using it for fear of sudden chills. There ie a difference of as much as thirty-five degrees in tem- perature between the lower and up- per bunks in our sleeping quarters.! The warm air rising creates a situa-' tion in which the man in the upper bunk is perspiring, with his cloth- ing all thrown open, while the man below is bundled up, freezing. When we wash our clothes we haven't room to hang them up in the bunk houses. They freeze instantly when hung in the other buildings and it is_almost impossible to dry them. Speaking of weather, we are hav- ing plenty of it here—storms, bliz- | zards and cold such as I have never = | imagined. But where Admiral Byrd is, it is even worse. The lowest tem- perature we’ve had has been 60 de- grees below zero. The Admiral has already reported 72 below, and the winter is just commencing! I'd like to see a parade of mem- bers of our club. It would take hours to pass, 21,000 of them. If you’d like to join and receive mem- bership card, big South Polar map, for marking flights, tractor and dog team trips, all without cost or obli- gation, send your name, address and three cent stamp to me at our American headquarters. Address Arthur Abele, Jr., president, Little * America Aviation and Exploration Club, Hotel Lexington, 48th Street had a bull calf on the way through the Ross Sea ice and that we chris- _ tened him Ice berg. Well, let me tell you that ice- berg now weighs 350 pounds! His official chaperon is Edgar Cox, of Arcade, N. Y., who, in addition to being our carpenter, is also our cowherd, or cowboy, or shepherd, or whatever the title is for a man who plays nursemaid to a flock of cows. Twice a day Cox milks Klon- dike and her two sisters, Foremost Southern Girl and Deerfoot, so we have oodles and oodles of fine milk with our meals and in our cooking. He regulates the temperature of our cowbarn under the snows, cur- ries the cattle daily, feeds them, beds them down and even sleeps in the barn. He has for other sleep- ing companions our two cats, Snow- 1 shoes, who has six toes on each foot, and Cyclone, and one of the | Esquimo dogs. We now have 119 | LeRoy Clark of Cambridge, Mass., Our Commissary Boss dogs and seven pups, all in good condition. Each dog gets two half- pound portions of seal meat a day. The pups, which average 22 pounds each in weight, get kitchen scraps of seal meat and other things. Capt. Innes-Taylor’s dog drivers are a terrible looking crew. They are fully bearded and, dressed in fur parkas and fur .mukluks (boots), they look like wild bears or worse. I was told this morning that they have been ordered to shave because Capt. Innes-Taylor was bitten yesterday in one of the dark tunnels and he declares he and Lexington Avenue, New York, N. Y. Todd
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