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THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA.
' FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1934.
Dallas Post,
ESTABLISHED 1889 /
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BY THE DALLAS POST INC.
HOWARD RISLEY ©. oh nism ons General Manager
HOWELL REES: i Ros Ts Managing Editor
FRUMAZN STEWART (..... 0.0 nh oo Mechanical Superintendent
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THE DALLAS POST PROGRAM
THE DALLAS POST will lend its support and offers the use of itu
columns to all projects. which will help this’ community and the great rural-
suburban territory which Sig serves to attain the following major “improve-
ments: : : :
ash “1. Construction of more sidewalks for the protection of pedestrians in
- Kingston township and Dallas. - \
2. R free library located in the Dallas region.
~ 3. Better and adequate street lighting in Trucksville. Shavertown,
rnbrook and Dallas. :
4. Sanitary sewaae disposal system for Dallas.
~~ 5. Closer co-operation between Dallas borouah and surrounding townships.
7.6, Consolidated high schools and better co-operation between those that
now exist. 2 2 aE :
7. Adequate waten supply for fire protection. Sh —
8. The formation of a Bick Mountain Club made up of business men and
ome owners interested in the develobment of a community consciousness in
Dallas, Trucksville, Shavertown and Fernbrook.
9. A modern concrete highway leading Mrom Dallas and connecting the
ullivan Trail at Tunkhannock. x
10. The elimination| of nettv politics hom all School Boards in the region
covered by THE DALLAS POST. :
So many editorials presenting arguments in favor of
. ~ the reconstruction of the Dallas-Tunk-
a : hannock highway have appeared in this
BRIEF column in the last four or five years that
"EDITORIAL we suspect most of our readers groan
RH when they see another. \
This one, then, shall be brief. If you want the State
Department of Highways to pave that highway do this: Sign
your name to a petition and take a petition out to get other
_entatives at Harrisburg and Washington, support the civic
clubs which are sponsoring the current movement, join
Wyoming Valley Motor Club and support its efforts to have
he road paved, talk about the road wherever you go.’
You can have the new highway if you really want it,
_ because you are, when all is said and done, the boss.
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The hand of politics, not too well veiled, is beginning to
‘appear in many supposedly dispassionate surveys of the
business situation. It is an ancient axiom
that any smart statistician can produce
figures that will prove almost any-
thing—it is equally axiomatic that you
ro can color the true facts concerning busi-
ness by either overstatement or under-statement withou
actually telling an untruth. : :
Republican sympathizers are seeking to make the pub-
lic believe that business is bad and is getting worse. Demo-
cratic backers are trying to persuade it that business is re-
covering, that definite improvement is taking place all the
time. The truth, as is often the case, lies between these ex-
trems of opinion. Business is still suffering from the sum-
mer decline, but in some fields production is above what the
normal seasonal expectancy would have led us to expect.
Prices for many commodities seem fairly steady—those of
agriculture, due to drought, well up, and rising. Basic heavy
industries—notably steel and lumber, are at very low ebbs,
however. .
Main fly in the ointment is still labor trouble.
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POLITICS IN
BUSINESS
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* “Man proposes—God disposes,” says the old proverb.
It proves a fact that has the Department of Agriculture and
high Government officials giddy and dismayed.
Main Administration program for the farmer has been
MAN crop and acreage reduction. Working on
PROPOSES . the theory that unless drastic action were
GOD ~ - taken, the American market would be
DISPOSES glutted with agricultural surpluses for
ade many years to come, thus keeping prices
at bankrupt levels, steps were taken to kill pigs, plow under
wheat and cotton, and otherwise attempt to adjust demand
“and supply.
Everything went along well—until the power of God
_ appeared, in the form of the worst drought in generations.
The wheat and cotton crops of whole states were literally
burned to dust—eattle died of thirst and starvation—high
~ winds whirled away seed and top-soil, making a desert of
what had been the finest and richest farm land in the coun-
try. .
In Dallas we had little idea of what the result of this
would be. We read the headlines, felt pity for the farmers
whose year’s income had vanished, agreed that the Govern-
ment should administer relief. What we did not realize was
‘that the drought, following upon the man-made campaign
~ to destroy produce, had turned the crop surplus into a crop
deficit. And that means but one thing; Soaring food prices
0 the consumer. , Private crop experts say that it will take
five or six years to make up for the crops we have lost.
Every one of these experts is of the belief that during the
years past. La
President Roosevelt, Secretary Wallace and others
“have said that all the power of government will be used to
prevent profiteering, that the consumer will be protected.
But no law exists which can keep farmers from hanging on-
to what crops they have left in the hope of higher prices—
no power has yet been called into play that can prevent spe-
ulation all along the line, from the farm to the grocery
~ weekly articles to THE POST and have an interest in its editorial policies.
signatures, write letters to this newspaper, to your repres-|
incapacitated.)
coming winter food prices will be higher than for many |,
store.
Howe About:
Our Tndignation
Simple Writing
Nostalgia
©, Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
By ED HOWE
JUDGE in Philadelphia lately de-
clared from the bench that ban:
dits* are bums .and parasites who
should be exterminated like rats, as
they are not worth the expense of
keeping them ‘in penitentiaries. He
even went so far as to say that If
“members of ‘the American” Legion
should engage in revolver practice,
they would not find the judges in our
courts loath to assist them.”
Everywhere the indignation against
racketeers and politicians is ferocious.
but the pitiful fact is, nothing is be-
ing done.
expense to decent taxpayers.
Irvin Edman recently wrote of “the
instinets that masquerade as ‘faiths,
and the lusts that parade as ideals.”
To me this is not only very
good writing, but indicates sense. Ed
man also wrote:
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complexity of modern scientific fur-
mula, it is the sae old sky with the
‘same things beneath it. I believe in
the common world of things as they
are about us, the things I touch,”see,
taste, smell, hear; in the world that
worldings feast and want in.”
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I plead for the use of simpler words |
by writers, and -simple forms of ex-
pression. There is a writer named
Immanuel Kant, admittedly a man of
unusual intelligence, yet his sentences
are so involved that his name has be-
come an epithet: people say a long
and involved statement is kant, mean-
ing it is poor argument and poor
sense.
People of his own time named their |
dogs Immanuel Kant. Had the man
been content to write more simply,
his good ideas would have accom-
plished more good.
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I arraign the ugly and unnecessary
word nostalgia. If means home-sick-
ness, a more expressive and better-
looking word. Our dictionary contains
many other instances of annoyance
and waste of time. I believe I can
name from memory a hundred words
often used and which I do not quickly
know the meaning of in reading, al-
though I have looked them up many
times. I know the meaning of nos-
talgia now, having just referred to the
dictionary, but the next time I en-
counter it, I shall be annoyed again &
my reading.
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I know a young soldier who served,
during the late war, only two months
in a military camp near his home.
He told me at the time he never had
more to eat, less to do, or enjoyed
himself more. And while he was off
soldiering,-his wages at home went on.
Now, this soldier is as fanatical and
unreasonable about the soldiers’ bonus
as some predchers were about pro-
hibition.
(Let me add in parenthesis intended
only for dunces that in ‘denouncing
this fellow, I intend no lack of respect
for .those former service men who ac-
tually engaged in battles, and were
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“I went to India,” says a traveler,
“with the idea that the British bedey-
iled the country, but when I got there
realized that the real parasites are
not the British, but fourteen million
sacred cows, which not only destroy
meager crops, but eat food needed by
the women and children.The people
are unbelievably ignorant, dirty and
poor. It would be a crime against hu-
manity and against India’s own future
for England to withdraw, and let In-
dia’s three hundred and sixty million
people develop into a political and
moral breeding gromind for world ret-
rogression. ‘Its land is naturally very
poor; in addition, wornout, and this
handicap has been added to by the
people widely accepting a religion
worse than constant war during a pe-
riod of constant famine and slavery.”
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The women have various organiza-
tions intended to improve the condi- |
tion of their sex; a very commendable
work, if well attended to. . . . I
often wonder they do not induce the
managers of telephone companies to
conduct schools to teach women man-
ners and efficiency. I have never known
a telephone girl not above the average
in these respects; and they are un-
trained girls taught in schools conduct-
ed by the heads of telephone compa-
nies. :
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It seems to me (speaking again of
the panic) that every man’s other trou-
bles have increased, and that tires go
flat more frequently on every road in
1934 than in 1929, or any other of the
Good Old Days.
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Old Cornelius Vanderbilt, first of the
family to amount. to anything, used to
say he was as big a rogue as anybody,
but practiced honesty because of the
profit in it. “I've associated with
thieves ‘all my life,” he said, in old
age, “but never knew one to get along
half as well as an honest man.” , , .
The strongest argument .for honesty
is that it pays; don’t let any of the
professional sentimentalists make a
fool of you with the story that morality
is a noble thing you should suffer
martyrdom for,
Even this fierce judge did
the same old thing: sent the bandits
to the penitentiary, to probably he
pardoned after a few years moré of
“In these matters
(the doctrines of the relativists, the
patter of the new physics) 1 think it
is important to be simple; in all the
REAPING THE HURRICANE
Farm News |
By Dr. John M. Evvard” |
Formerly Professor Animal Husbandry |
“ lowa State College |
Reduced production is necessitated |
{in order not to “swamp” the demand |
markets, domestic and foreign. That
iis, 50 as not to flood them with a super
tabundance of supplies, thus cutting the |
|price below the profit making levels,
{casting them down, deeply so, into the
“debit” or loss side.
The dairy industry has, since 1326,
bgen developing its volume, as mea-
sured by the number of the producing
cows within the U. S. A. boundaries,
at a rather market rate of one consid-
ers the ability and willingness of the
various consumers to pay a decent
price per pound, or quart, of dairy
products. In 1926, we had within our
{boundaries approximately 22.3 millions
milking cows; in 1931, 23.6 millions; in
1932, 24.5 millions; and in 1933, 25.2
millions. Gosh. On those same vears,
(from 1926 to 1933, consumer income
fhad gone down, down, down, or from
18.4 billions in 1926 to only 8 billions |
in 1938, or less than 44 per cent as|
much in 1933 as compared to 1926. The |
current year of 1934 has shown some
“pick-up” in consumer purchasing po- |
wer, but not’in proportion to the dairy |
lcow increase—which means that that |
{increase means more pounds of milk, |
butter and cheese, in the face of lesser |
available and willing dollars to buy |
them. 5 |
And what is that answer? Super ef- |
ficient production of the average hun-|
dredweight of milk, pint of cream, or]
pound of butter and cheesesat the low- |
est possible cost. And that means
economically balanced rations fed to
selected cows, after the culls have been |
given a glad adieu. Economically and |
efficiently fed pastures, forage and |
roughages balanced with cost reducing |
protein, mineral and vitamin supple- |
ments is the big answer.
And, of course, in connection with
the super economy feeding program |
there is to be considered the question |
of most economical housing. Compe
tition, under the reign of uncontrolled
production, behooves every progressive |
dairyman to cull out all of his inferior |
cows and then to feed and manage |
most efficiently those remaining in the |
herd. There is no other profitable way |
“out” or “through” under present con- |
ditions which involve uncontroiled and |
wild, unbridled, rampant production.
Poets’ Corner
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“LOVE THY NEIGHBOR”
{"Tis strange sometimes how neighbors
get along, .
They're always doing something that
is wrong. |
If you try to do what’s right, |
They whisper when you're out of sight.
If the things they said were true, |
Then no damage they would do.
But they tell such awful lies,
And still their listeners are not wise,
Love thy neighbor all you can
Perhaps you'll upset their cowardly
plan,
And if you treat them always Kind
They'll grow ashamed some day you'll
find.
—Mrs. John A. Girvan
Plan to Film “Anthony Ad-
verse”’—Headline. Must remem-
ber to take a week off and see
that picture.
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> A California man used only 13
words to will $10,000 to his wife.
But many a man has to use
10,000 words to get 13 cents from
“the little woman.
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Roosevelt Fights Food Profit-
eers—Headline. Hope he gets
_.|perienced 902 big wars, in 185 of which ; 2% a
{France was involved, while Britain had | the Pavilion of Brighton, where he ar-
(176, Russia 151 and Austria 131,
Big Wars Total 902 | George IV Was Tea Expert
the world has ex- | Ge€orge IV was a connoisseur of tea
and tea pots. He collected tea pots for
Since: 500 B. C.
ranged them - in
decorations.
great pyramids! for
after that fellow who outfumbles
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FALSE REPORTS OF ILLNESS!
Here’s the tractor that saved Admiral Byrd.
LITTLE AMERICA, ANTARCTI |very disappointing. The tractor
CA, August 20 (via Mackay Ra | made less than a mile an hour, The
dio): — Concerning the reports|camp was quiet. Everybody was
which I understand have been wide | glum and irritable. Bernard Skin-
ly circulated in the United States |ner and I re-fueled the reserve trac-
that there is an epidemic of dysen-|tor which was standing by for a
tery or other illness among the 56 | possible emergency call
of us here at Little America, | can- The tractor party missed one ra-
say only one thing—it isn’t true. |; sonequle, which increased the
In my story last week | empha | ion pack here terrifically. But
sized the fact that everybody here |, o.o making good time and after
1s in good health and spirits—every | 5 poyrg had passed the 50 mile
single man. There Is not a case of |, 5 which | wrote about a couple
illness in camp and we are in no of weeks ago. At 67 miles they
need of generously offered outside passed the abandoned Cleveland
medical attention. The Admiral, |, i, which we intend to rescue
however, is very weak. And Who|, io for the exploration journeys
oily $ be after boing ane =e later on. i
under the snow
he, half months and being poi.| At midnight Friday we received
soned by fumes from a kerosene |the Welcoine and relieving mo
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stove? He has carried on like a true Thal ne out Dam esa
sportsman, aud has lived; up to the alive but not well. Apparently he
highen, tendulons of Polareiley had undergone considerable suffer-
tion, Seientine recor ing. He was weak and unkempt and
tes ;
Bem Ne Ri very thin. This thinness, of course,
rea . our science department who” 2 due to malnutrition induced by
Tod the trattor expadition which |BiE Dt being able to prepare his
resoned Admiral Burd. Our leader food during the worst period of his
; 3 in health and illness. The members of the tractor
is already improving in party were completely worn out and
we all feel that it will be only a .
i immediately turned in after letting
I Dage. pie us know the good news. Except for
amazing explorations we have plan. | S0™€ trouble with the SeneTmo.
for October. November and. De: Pete Demas reported that the little
ned for x French Citroen tractor, the Tydol
> gasoline, Veedol motor oil, Primus
The Drop for at Tora gasoline stove and the other equip-
2nd sHpcess ghomp ment had functioned perfectly and
Bolling Advance Base by tractor
had enabled them to complete their
were carried on quietly and grimly. journey snd save the life of our
This.time, however, the equipment Yeadler
t cut to an-absolute :
lo be cartied was out From now on 1 shall have a lot
minimum and the load of gasoline 2
was increased to more than 300 gal-|0f most interesting happenings to
relate to you. In the meantime,
lons. This, together with two
’ ly for those brave | don’t worry about our health, It is
TAORI}S 100% SUUPIY Sor perfect. And the Admiral, we feel,
men, Dr. Poulter, Pete Demas and
Amory Waite, Jr., were the major |Will regain his strength in jig time.
The club secretary reports to me
items of the load.
Instead of an hourly radio sched- {by radio -that the club now has
ule it was arranged to communicate | 24,000 members. If you would like
to join, entirely without cost, and
every four hours in order to elimi-
nate the delays called for by a receive a membership card and a
more frequent schedule. Tuesday |big free working map of Antarctica,
morning, at 2:30 they left. The de- |simply send a clearly self-addressed,
parture was unostentatious, no pho- | stamped envelope to me at our
tographing and no flag-waving or |American headquarters as follows:
cheering; merely a tense “Good-bye, | ——Arthur Abele, Jr, President,
good luck!” After the departure the | Little America Aviation and Ex-
ploration Club, Hotel Lexington,
expedition executives gathered in
the radio room every four hours for |48th Street and Lexington Avenue,
New York, N. Y.
the reports. The first 48 hours were
us on the dinner check.
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