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THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1937
More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution
The DallasPost
* Established 1889
A LIBERAL, INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY
FripAY MORNING AT THE DALLAS PosT PLANT, LEHMAN
AVENUE, DALLAS, PA., By THE DaLLAs Post, INC.
General Manager
Managing Editor
5. A centralized police force.
between those that now exist.
8. Construction of more sidewalks.
THE POST'S CIVIC PROGRAM
1. A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and connect-
ing with the Sullivan Trail at Tunkhannock.
2. A greater development of community consciousness among
residents of Dallas, Trucksville, Shavertown and Fernbrook. ;
3. A free library located in the Dallas Region.
4. Sanitary sewage disposal systems for local towns. 2 i
6. A consolidated high school eventually, and better co-operation
7. Complete elimination of politics from local school affairs.
POST SCRIPTS
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estate which wiped out those abuses.
No, the crying need is not to prevent
newspapers from printing So much
news. It is, rather, for a greater energy
on the part of newspapers to reach
into every phase of human existence to
report the things that effect people
“and help them to live better lives.
~~ Censorship—whether it is tried by
‘a dictator, a public official or a group
of professional men—only damages the
censor in the end
God help the world on the day the
newspapers have to accede to every
demand to squash a story. .God help
the world on the day the searching
“white light of publicity ceases to play
upon the people who hold our wel-
fare and our lives in their hands.
When you see an automobile whiz
by bearing Pennsylvania license tags
~ 1JNO1, the numbers are just that to
“a patrolman, they are a pair of “ones”
to an “automobile poker” player, but
‘to the employees of the Bureau of
~ Motor Vehicles this jumble of letters
and numerals signifies tag number
- 3,672,101.
To Secretary of Revenue John B.
Kelly, Pennsylvania motor vehicle li-
cense tags 1JNO1 represents the high
water mark of registration of passen-
“ger motor vehicles in 1936.
_ One reason why Pennsylvania uses
such a complex system of figures and
letters is to save space. For instance,
the plates numbered INJO1l were
twelve inches long and weighed one
pound. Had the State used a set
pumbered 1,672,101, instead, each plate
would have been almost half a yard
long and the set would have weighed
a pound and a half.
- It would have cost thirteen cents to
‘mail 1,672,101, and it would have tak-
en more steel, etc.
Mr. Kelly says the Bureau is pre-
pared to issue a total of 2,699,999
rivate passenger car licenses within
the severe limitations of a maximum
of five units per license plate.
# The plates fall intc three. groups:
Straight numerical numbers from 10,-
000 up to 99,999, numbers containing
single letters, and numbers contain-
ing double letters. If you want a
numerical plate, you must present
yourself to the office of the Bureau
of Motor Vehicles at Harrisburg and
IY for your plates across the coun-
T,
.
If you want to sit down sometime
and figure out the numerical rank of
your own license plate you can do it
this way. When the Bureau reaches
its 99,999th plate, it begins using the
~~ Jetter A so that it won’t be forced
into six numbers.
of A100 is equivalent to 100,000 plus
100 or 100,100. When the series reach-
es A9939X, equivalent to 109,999, the
; top is reached again and the letter
B is placed in the first position. After
~ B9999 (119,999) comes C. This pro-
cess is continued, using the succes-
sive letters of the alphabet, with the
exception of I, 0, Q, T, W and X,
‘which are not used on private pas-
- senger car plates.
one letter to the next adds 10,000 to
the numerical value of the license
number.
Then, after Z is passed, the process
ond position and subsequently in the
third, fourth and fifth position. The
top number in this group is 9999Z and
now the letter Z has attained a nu-
merical value of 1,090,000. Thus, the
‘number 9999Z is equivalent to 1,090,-
000, plus 9,999 or 1,099,999.
~~ The system next passes (are you
still with us?) to the double-letter
~ group which treats double letters the
same as single letters in the preced-
ing group. The group starts with AA
4n first position with a numerical val-
“me of 1,100,000 and ends with the
plate number 999ZZ, equivalent nu-
merically to 2,699,999. Get it?
Now, with all this clearly ‘in your
‘mind, you can tell all your friends how
‘to read their license plates.
Good night, kiddies.
re ete
C. W. HOFFMAN
Born In Germany, Fernbrook Baker
~ Once Was Employed On Cunard
Lines, Had Full Career :
Charles Williatn Hoffman, 55, Fern-
brook, well known German baker, died
Wednesday morning, ending a busy
¥
2 youth, and made thirty-eight trips
from England to New York, eight
from England to Africa, and two trips
from England to Australia.
He came to this country about 28
years ago amd had worked at many
leading bakeries. From 1920 to 1934
he conducted his own bakery in Shav-
ertown. Failing health compelled him
~ to retire two years ago.
He is survived by his wife and the
following children: Mata, Charles W.,
> Jr, and Mary Ann, all at home;
brothers and sisters, Ernest and
Frantz Hoxman, Mrs. Meta Enz and
Mrs. Elizabeth Konrad, all of Ger-
“many. >
2 Funeral services will be held Satur
day at 2, from St. Paul's Lutheran
‘Church, Shavertown, with Rev, G. El-
son Ruff and Rev. W. A. E. Schewe
ciating. Interment will be in Ever-
Cemetery, Shavertown,
is repeated, using the alphabet in sec-
The license number.
Each shift from |
"day is whether or not George VI will :
“Skillful With Tongue and Pen”
It was in the prelude to “Tales of a Wayside Inn”
that Henry Longfellow referred to the preacher who
was “skilful alike with tongue and pen”. He might
almost have been referring to Rev. G. Elson Ruff,
who is about to leave this community for a larger
charge at Schuylkill Haven.
For Rev. Mr. Ruff, besides possessing all of those
qualifications which make a good Lutheran minister,
is also a newspaperman of some ability. It is probably
not known generally that he has worked beside
crack reporters on major assignments, contributing
articles which were noteworthy for their keen analy-
sis and fresh slant.
Because he is popular and because his work at
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church has paralleled that con-
gregation’s growth, his parishioners regret his leav-
ing. They know, though, that he has refused other
offers before, and they know, too, that he has earned
the right to the broader cpportunities for service
which will come with his new charge. And so they
are willing to see him go, with the feeling that they
will share with him to some extent his successes in
his new field.
The character of Rev. Mr. Ruff's work so far
assures an even greater success as his career pro-
gresses. Unquestionably, he will be heard from in the
future.
No farewell to G. Elson Ruff would be complete
without some reference to the fine spirit of his con-
gregation, a spirit which, he would be the first to
admit, has helped him greatly in his work here.
Rev. Mr. Ruff carries with him the best wishes of
hundreds of folk from this section who have a deep
respect for his ideals and his accomplishments.
Who Pays For Strikes?
The great majority of American workers attend to
their own affairs, strive for the fullest possible pay
envelope and are happy to live in a country in which
they have helped to develop the highest living stand-
-ard in the world. But ‘occasionally groups of Amer-
ican workmen are persuaded to go on strike.
What happens then? Who pays for strikes?
First of all, the investors pay. They may lose divid-
ends; their plant may lose contracts to a competitor;
their investment is jeapordized. But usually, the
investor has other sources of income and manages
to get along reasonably well.
Secondly, the community where a strike occurs
pays. The earning power of those who make up
the community is reduced and therefore consuming
power is cut down. The grocer, the butcher, the
baker, the doctor, the motion picture manager, gas
stations and every other form of local business suf-
fers in a strike.
Thirdly, relatives of the strikers pay. Often they
have to pull in their belts another notch to help the
fellows who are running short. And then the wives
EDITORIALS
and children of the strikers pay—not only in reduced
food and clothing and opportunity but they pay the
heavy mental costs of worry and fear. They fear
prolonged poverty. They worry over debts. They
fear the physical consequences of violence so often
resorted to by strikers.
And, finally, the strikers themselves pay the heavi-
est bill of all. They Jose time. Pay envelopes vanish.
Hatreds are engendered and often the job itself is
lost. Time lost in a strike may not be made up in a
year’s work.
It is a fair question to ask: “Is a strike worth the
price?” Or isn’t peaceful discussion of employes and
employer the better way?
After listening to a news reel audience howl at the
way John L. Lewis wiggles his over-hanging eye-
brows we know one mannerism he will have to correct
if he expects to be a candidate for President in 1940.
Ignace Jan Paderewski
‘Do you remember the day when you came to
my office in Washington to ask the Navy's aid
for the Polish soldiers in Liberia? You were
an exiled patriot without a country. One year
later you and I were in Paris, you the head
of a new old nation. May you live long to
appreciate to the full the love and respect of
your fellow democrats in every part of the
world.
Your old friend
Franklin- D. Roosevelt”
In 1928, Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed this
greeting to Ignace Jan Paderewski on the tenth an-
niversary of the Independence of Poland. It is more
than the tribute of American statesman to the great
Polish patriot whose grandeur of concept and per-
suasive diplomacy made him as outstanding a figure
in the political history of the World War as his musi-
cal genius established him as the pre-eminent pianist
of his epoch. It is the warm, understanding salute of
one lover of humanity to another.
Today the situation is once more reversed—Pader-
ewski has retired to Switzerland. Roosevelt heads a
nation. This month, the eighteenth anniversary of
Paderewski’s appointment as first Premier of United
Poland, friends and the public are again. paying
homage to that great personality, Ignace Jan Pader-
ewski, pianist and public servant.
Because the men and women of his race contributed
much to the development of this section, The Post
is glad to add its editorial voice to the praise.
The president’s statement that the Supreme Court
should keep in step with the excutive and legislative
branches of the government raises perplexing pro-
blems. The trouble with having the Supreme Court
follow the election returns is that the public changes
its mind so often.
Results Of Speed Study
Women drive faster than men in summer but slower
in winter.
This is one of the interesting conclusions reached!
in a study of vehicle speeds on Connecticut high- | the
ways reported this week by Wyoming Valley Motor |
Club.
“Women drivers formed a much larger percentage |
of the total during the summer months than in the
colder weather.” Norman Johnstone, secretary of the
club, says: “The report showed that during the w-
Mrs. Eudora Lamoreaux : ah
Is Called By Death .
F \
Mrs. Eudora Lamoreaux Besteder, ;
widow of Everett Besteder, who was
for years an employe of the Conyngaam
Estate at Hillside, died last Saturday ; -
night/at her home, Main Street, Truck- SE
ville ie
The funer was held Monday from
with services in charge of
Rev. H. M. Savacool, pastor of Truck-
jsville M. E. Church. Interment was in
‘Fern Knoll Cemetery, Dallas.
| Surviving are two daughters, Miss
Pauline Besteder, at home, and Mrs.
| William White of White's Ferry; three
| sisters, Mrs. Henry Johnson, Luzerne;
| Mrs, Eugene Davenport, Plymouth, and
ter months less than ten per cent of the cars were Mrs. W. D. Morgan, Fernbrook; a
operated by women, but during the summer more than Prother, Ira Lamoreaux, Chase, and a
seventeen per cent were driven by women.
“It was found that during the summer women | grandchildren
| sister-in-law, Mrs. Frank Lamoreaux,
| Trucksville. There are also three
and several nieces and
drivers maintained an average speed of 39.8 miles nepsews suriving.
per hour, or six-tenths of a mile per hour faster than | postmaster’s Daughter
men. During the winter, the men’s average speed,
was 43 m. p. h. compared with the women’s average |
of 41.9.
“Other conclusions drawn from the special speedy |
study included: Drivers with passengers drive more
slowly than those who are traveling alone; out-of |
-state cars show higher average speed than domestic
vehicles; fast drivers generally have a worse accident | ie
record than slow drivers; speeds decline gradually Noxen Helps FDR
during the day and fall off sharply after nightfall.”
Monuments To Neglect
The warden of Alcatraz prison said in a recent birthday to raise funds to fight infan-
Helps In Flood Zone
| Mrs. Lewis Kelly, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George Kirkendall of Dal-
las, is in the Cincinnati flood zone
and, according to word received by
Mr. and Mrs. Kirkendall this week,
is working with the Red Cross relief
forces. S x:
Lor
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Fight Paralysis
Co-operating in the nation-wide ob- =
| servance of President Roosevelt's EL
address that the finest prisons we can build are only tile paralysis, citizens of Noxen will
monuments to neglected youth.
Imagine the career of some hardened criminal.’
| have a series of money-making events.
|A tea and card party and a moving
picture show have already been held.
There was probably a day in his life when some little On Saturday night there will be a
thing could turn him either to the crooked path or
the straight way.
or newspaper, or to see what was doing on the play-
ground, or to go down town and hunt up the street |
gang.
Perhaps the parents had failed to provide any
book that was both good and integesting.
joy ride, perhaps. They did so, they enjoyed a hilar-
ious evening, and no one discovered them.
The next time they took a car they sold it for
money.
the monument of neglected youth.
It is cheaper to give youth what it needs than to
allow it to take what it thinks it wants.
member that here in Dallas.
Too many girls, it is said, want to go on the stage.
Their chances for getting enough to eat are better
if they merely go on the kitchen floor.
They say that only second-termers
can afford to make wise-cracks in the
White House. The President’s recent
jibe at “the ambassador from Maine”
has the nation already holding its sides
because of what he’s likely to say the
next time executive business concerns
the Virgin islands.
oo
Mrs. Alan Cambell (Dorothy Parker)
is herself responsible for the news that
RIVES
MATTHEWS
long favored by her mother-in-law,
Queen Mary.
Sagi l
A relative (by divorce) of the royal
family is going to law because a wo-
man said he was paid to give Wally up.
Mr. Simpson apparently wants to prove
that the woman always pays.
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By this time our new envoys to
Russia, Joseph R. and Marjorie Close
she’s anticipating a- blessed event.
Hutton Davies (General Foods) have
Here’s a wager the forty-year-old poet-
ess won't chant: “The Campbells are
coming, tra la, tra lal!”
—C—
Her flower-sending friends will fill
her room with gypsophila (the Victor-
ian gardener's word for baby’s breath)
and her book-sending friends can be
a beaver.
grow a beard. So far, there are no
authoritative reports establishing the
present king has what it takes to sprout
Mrs.
HITTING BOTH WAYS
Next thing you know, in this age of
streamlining, we are likely to hear that
Stanley Baldwin has advised
Queen Elizabeth to adopt the hat styles
arrived at their diplomatic outpost with
all their luggage, which included, you
may remember, a two-year supply of
frozen cream, twenty-five electric re-
frigerators, a whole flock of bath tubs,
barrels of mineral water, and sacks of
rock salt for making ice-cream.
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counted upon to exhaust the present
edition of “Life Begins at Forty’.
nO
When Elaine Barrie obtains her di-
vorce from John Barrymore, she should
call herself Mrs. Finnegan (Off Again-
On Again) Barrymore. A calla for
Caliban!
Sr,
Now that Trotsky is staying with
Diego ‘de Riviera, it’s about time the
orthodox ‘Marxists give John D. Rock-
erfeller, Jr., his devilish due for refus-
ing to display the Mexicans murals.
At least the oil ‘tycoon seems to know
his proletarian art.
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Princess Juliana of Holland lost no
time on her honeymoon breaking her
consort in. Newshawks in Poland re-
reported that she was teaching Prince
Bernard to ski. Next comes jumping
through hoops, and learning to sit“np%s<
straight in a gilded coach.
pin on
When the royal Dutch lovers’ quar-
rel, Bernard can be expected to say:
“That’s a lot of Orange pulp-”” Where-
upon Juliana can make a crack at his
family with “I'll take none of your
Lippe!” ; :
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In England, if we are to believe the
cables, one of the burning issues of the _
I am sorry that Stalin was too busy
to meet them when they arrived. I
wanted him’ to don ‘a pith helmet, in-
sect netting and shorts and greet them
in the Soviet snow with: “Dr. Living-
stone, I believe?”
in,
Speaking of Russia, I know of no
one who yet commented on the fact
that the Treasury Department chose to
publish last year's income of $15,000
a-year-and-up men during the ‘week in
which ‘good Russians celebrate their
Christmas. Sinister, isn’t it?
—o__.
Well, the old Roosevelt weather-
luck ‘didn’t hold out last week. From
all accounts, it rained cats and dogs
all around Capitol Hill, which may be
an omen of what the President may ex-
pect from that quarter from now on.
—
Seems to me, FDR better join: the
SPC. A.
—0L.
At any rate, coincident with the sec-
ond term’s advent came a note of cheer
from t h e Merrill Woodenware Co. o f
Merrill, Wisconsin. Their tooth pick
business is booming, which may not
mean a‘chicken in every pot (the G. O.
P. campaign promise in 1928) but it
does mean tarter in every tooth. That's
sumpin’ these days.
Perhaps he was hesitating at tile paralysis epidemic,
some moment, whether to go home and read a book [funds last year.
Perhaps had been ill several weeks.
no one had planned SO that a boy could find a real
game on the playground. So the youth drifted down Survived by eleven children:
to the gang. Someone suggested taking a car for a
From there the path led on to prison, to!
Let us re-
ance in Turner & Straley’'s Hall
Noen, which once suffered an infan-
also raised
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MRS. VERA BAER
| Mrs. Vera Baer, 65, wife of W. U.
| Baer, died on Sunday night at her
home, Center /Hill Road, Dallas, She
Besides her husband, Mrs. Baer is
Mrs.
Aubrey Randall and Harry Baer, King-
ston; Mrs. Thomas Sutton, Laketon- »
Mrs. Everett-Wilson, Fernbrook; Mrs. ;
| Reed Barber, Mrs. Walter Barber, Xx
| Miners Mills; John Baer, Hunlock
Creek; Viola, Myrtle, Mable and Russ-
ell Baer, all at home; two sisters, Mrs.
| Budd Mills, Union Center, N. Y., and
| Mrs. Lynn Burd, Pond Hill. There are
also nine grandchildren surviving.
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CONRAD C. HILBERT
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Conrad C. Hilbert, 86, Beaumont,
died Wednesday at the home of his
|dauchter, Mrs. Maude Scovell, 116 W.
| Pettebone Street, Forty Fort. He
‘was one of the oldest residents of
Wiyoming County and had been living
with his daughter While being treated
at a hospital.
Mr. Hilbert was born in Beaumont,
July 25, 1850, and had lived there
all his life, playing a leading part in
community affairs. He is survibed by
two daughters, Mrs. Scovell, Forty
Fort, and Mrs. Ruth Mowry, Beau-
mont; five sons, Charles, Eugene,
Lawrence and Harry, of Beaumont,
and Alpha, Bethlehem. There are also
27 grandchildren. Mrs, Hilbert died
twelve years ago.
The funeral will be held Saturday
afternoon at 1 from the Scovell home
with further services at 2 in the Union
Church, Beaumont. Interment will be
in Beaumont Cemetery.
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Laketon
MRS MARIE OBERST
CORRESPONDENT
The members of the Laketon Luth-
eran Church and friends gave a fare-
well dinner in the church basement
on New Year's eve for Rev. George
Elson Ruff and wife and eight chil-
dren. Rev. Ruff is resigning the pas- Hd
torate of the Laketon Lutheran church !
and we regret his leaving us very i
much, as he has served us faithfully :
during the past eleven years, during {
all kinds of weather,
Mrs. Jane Cunningham of Arch
Street, Wilkes-Barre, is visiting Mrs. eh
Marie ‘Oberst this week. : =r Sy
Mrs. Hugh Templeton ‘is ‘visiting x Bs
friends in Wilkes-Barre today. :
Mrs. James Pehlam ‘spent Tuesday i
in Wilkes-Barre,
Orange ;
HARRIET R. DYMOND 4
CORRESPONDENT y
Robert Snyder has returned home
after spending a few days at Harris-
burg.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Welsh, Frances:
Dymond and Sheldon Gay were the:
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Sick-
ler on Saturday evening.
The Home Guards held their month- :
ly meeting at the home of Eudora
Berlin, Saturday. 3
Miss Esther Whitlock was the after-
noon guest of Mrs. Sara Furgeson,
Mrs. Charles Hessler spent the week
end with relatives at Moosic. :
Mrs. ‘Morris Welsh was the guest
of Mrs. Leslie Dymond on Tuesday.
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