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A LIBERAL, INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING
AT THE DALLAS POST PLANT
LEHMAN AVENUE, DALLAS, PA,
BY THE DALLAS POST INC.
HOWARD RISLEY
i General Manager
- HOWELL REES
Managing Editor
Mechanical Superintendent
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THE DALLAS POST 1s a youthful weekly rural-suburban newspaper,
owned, 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
highest 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.
Subscription, $2.60 Per Year (Payable in Advance)
THE DALLAS POST PROGRAM
THE DALLAS POST will tend its support and offers the use of its
eolumns to all projects which will help this community and the great rura-
Suburban territory which it serves to attain the following major improve-
ments:
1 Construction of more sidewalks for the protection of pedestrians in
Kingston township and Dallas. :
2. A free library located in the Dallas region.
; 3. Better and adequate street lighting in
Fernbrook and Dallas.
4. Sanitary sewage disposal system for Dallas.
5. Closer co-operation between Dallas borough and surrounding townships.
7. Adequate waten supply for fire protection.
6. Consolidated high schools and better co-operation betwen those that
now exist.
8. The formatien of a Back Mountain Club made up of business men and
home owners interested in the development of a community consciousness in
Dallas, Trucksville, Shavertown and Fernbrook.
3 9. A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and connecting the
Sullivan Trail at Tunkhannock.
10. The elimination. of petty politics from all School Boards in the region
covered by THE DALLAS POST.
Trucksville. Shavertown,
In 1910, there were a million and a half full-time em-
ployees on the public payrolls. In 1930, there were almost
three million—part of whom were re-
quired of course by our increase of popu-
lation and by the added functions under-
taken by the government. Today, there
are from seven to eight million.
Back in 1917, there was considerable agitation over the
fact that “every fourteen persons, sixteen years of age or
older, and gainfully employed, carry a public official on
their backs.” Today, according to the estimate of Senator
Harry F. Byrd, every six of us—and whether we be infants
or adults, employed or not—carry on our backs somebody
who lives on public money.
But even that wouldn't be so bad if we knew that
every person carried was a competent, capable public offi-
cial whose presence on our backs meant the the welfare of
‘the State and ourselves. We know of course, that this isn’t
the truth and that most public officials are simply holding
their jobs because they belong to the party in power and not
because by character, experience or education, they are fit-
ted to handle affairs of State competently. So well known
is this to all of us that it has become a national maxim that
“politics is dirty”.
© With the advent of the New Year and a change of ad-
ministration at Harrisburg we will have an opportunity for
the first time in the past forty years to see who those public
officials are who hold their jobs because of political pull.
With them out of office during the Democratic house clean-
ing will go many competent men and women whose worth to
the State is not measured by party loyalty alone. And into
office in their wake will go many incompetents whose sole
worth will be measured by their ability to deliver the votes
at election and keep the Democrats in power.
+ It is this sort of political squat tag that makes most of
us resent the burden of the man upon our backs. We can
look for no more competent appointments from the Demo-
crats than we could expect from the Republicans.
- With all his idealism and with all of his pretty speeches
about the welfare of the common man, President Roosevelt
has still kept standing with one foot in the dirty mud
puddle of politics; Jim Farley standing on his toes to keep
them there. :
No we can’t expect any more from the Democrats than
we got from the Republicans except that now Democrats
will be working on the roads in place of Republicans—and
we say work advisedly.
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THE
MAN ON
OUR BACKS
Save the bittersweet. This appeal applies to all those
who so thoughtlessly remove these vines for decorative pur-
poses. Climbing bittersweet is a twining shrubby vine
found rather commonly in this section of
Pennsylvania. It grows in open woods,
along the edge of wood lots and along
farm fence rows that have been allowed
to grow up to briars and shrubs. Its
orange scarlet berries are beautiful in autumn and winter.
Little wonder that many people like to adorn their homes
and fireplaces with this brilliant shrub.
Bittersweet is equally attractive to game and other
birds as food. Grouse, wild turkey and quail, in particular,
are fond of it. The fact that birds have a difficult time dur-
ing winter months to secure sufficient natural food coupled
with the nature of the bittersweet berries to persist for a
Jong time makes them especially desirable as food for game
as well as song birds. Wild life in any community will in-
crease up to the amount of its available food supply.
: So we say to you who appreciate the beauty of the bit-
tersweet for decorative purposes and who love the cheery
songs of birds, “Save the Bittersweet”. There’s not half as
much fun in seeing it on the mantle in a vase as there is sat»
isfaction in knowing that if left as it grows it will furnish
food for a hungry bird when the well-filled vine is discover-
ed by some bird this winter above snow covered ground.
‘SAVE THE
BITTER
SWEET
I DAL) AS POST, DALLAS, PA
ROADSIDE
MARKETING
By T. J. Delohery
DIRECT MARKETS ARE
POSSIBLE ANYWHERE
Freer years given to studying
the methods of hundreds of farm-
ers and farm women who are retail-
ing and wholesaling farm products
has convinced me that there are but
few farms on which some sort of
produce which consumers or retailers
will buy cannot be grown or processed.
Moreover, I have found that the loca-
tion of the farm is no drawback.
Jim Smith of Farmington, Ark,
which is little more than a post office,
thought ‘Fruit growing a poor job be-
cause of low prices; but his bride-
wife, who came from Texas, told him
that dried apples shipped to communi-
ties which produced no fruit would
pay well. A partnership was ar-
ranged, Mrs, Smith to do the selling.
Relatives and friends in other states
were contacted and advertising was
placed in various small town papers.
Before long it was necessary to hire
several people to help prepare the
fruit and get it off to customers and
agents who were attracted by the ad-
vertising.
“Rye wasn’t much in demand and
the price was down,” said A. G. Hult-
quist of Wisconsin, “so I brought
what I had to the mill and had it
ground into flour. Put up in neat,
white 50-pound sacks, on which I
painted ‘Rye Flour,” I had no trouble
getting retailers to pay me twice as
much as the whole grain would have
brought.”
Ray Garrett. of Franklin county,
Ohio, sold his dressed calves to a
country buyer until he got hold of an
eastern newspaper. Turning to the
market section his eye caught quota-
tions on veal. His calves, worth 10
cents in Ohio, were bringing 26 cents
a pound in New York. He connected
with a commission firm and started
shipping. By asking questions of his
market representative he received in-
formation which helped him prepare
his calves so he got the high dollar.
Hats don’t grow on bushes, but Mrs.
L. Spiller of Cobden, Ill, has kept
herself in Easter hats and other
clothes with money she derives from
the sale of lilacs to a Chicago florist.
Like many families in small towns,
Wiley Hariston of Warren, Ark., kept
a cow. What milk, cream and butter
wasn’t needed at home, was sold to
neighbors. The income was about $10
a month. Mrs. Hariston became so
proficient as a butter maker that she
was awarded the championship of Ar-
kansas, Tennessee and Mississippi in
a tri-state contest. So, when Haris-
ton quit clerking in the general store
to go on a patch of land he hag
bought, the butter from the milk pro-
duced by their several cows was sold
direct to people in town. Then they
began to ask for milk, and Hariston
added more cattle, going into pure-
breds. Business grew; so did the
herd, and neighbors reasoning that his
cattle were good producers began to
buy his calves.
Mrs. Mary L. Ballew mever plants
much garden truck during the regular
Finds Profit in Dried Apples.
season. She plants so as to have
her crops before or after her small
home town market is supplied. Thus
she is able to get the higher prices
which prevail when things are not
plentiful.
While freight rates are supposed to
be the main difference between mar-
kets, George Pullen of Berrien Springs,
Mich., found he could get a 50 per
cent higher price if he trucked his
grapes to South Bend, 25 miles away,
instead of hauling them to Benton
Harbor which is only 11 miles distant.
The “Best Farmer Salesman Be-
tween ‘Los and the Lake’ ” is the repu-
tation Norman Shurtliff of Overton,
Nev., has won with the dollar boxes
of fresh vegetables which he sends
out by mail, and from the truck loads
of fruit, vegetables and honey he ped-
dles through mining towns. Upward
of 8,000 of the “Family Assortment”
packages have been sent out in one
year. These boxes contain several
heads of lettuce, bunches of radishes,
green onions, spinach or beet greens,
asparagus, carrots, garden cress or
parsley, with a decorative touch in
the form of a rose or a bunch of sweet
The mailing season starts late
peas.
in February and continues through
May, and most of the packages go
within two mailing zones. Each box
contains a slip titled “Our Pdticy”
which says “Like that of any modern,
successful business, our policy 18 that
no deal is complete until our client |
is fully satisfied, and sure of having |
recelved his money’s worth and more.
We guarantee everything we ship.
Your money refunded if not satisfied.”
©. 1933 Western Newspaper "Tron.
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