SPIRIT OF
very Slogan Entered Is A Brick In The New Dormitory
To Care For The 500 Boys Who Must Now Be
Turned Away Each Year
i The eyes of the world are on the world’s “biggest little city
“Town, as the Big “Build Boys Town" contest gets into full swing. And they should
be because every single day at Boys Town something of great importance to America
has been going on for the past nineteen years. |
THE DALLAS POST,
DALLAS, PA. FRID Ly
greta
test Gets Under Way
SLOGAN CONTEST
a"
this week—Boys
Boys Town takes homeless and aban
-doned boys off the streets and out of the
leys, saves them from becoming crim-
~ inals and makes good, productive Ameri
an citizens out of them. Race, color or
‘creed, you know, mean absolutely noth-
J ng at Boys Town—just so it is a homer
less boy in need of help. Boys Town has
‘made good citizens of 4,446 homeless boys
in the past nineteen years. Not a single
.one of those boys 1s in jail or peniten-
_tiary today. Isn't that a record, though!
Just stop and think a minute what
~ Crime is costing this country every year.
Crime Costs You $1.50 Every Day
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
says Crime is costing 16 Billion Dollars a
year. Think of it! That means it is cost
ing every wage earner $1.50 a day, seven
“days a week, every single day of their
dives. That's what it’s costing you.
Now Boys Town has saved 4,446 boys
‘of all races, colors and creeds from “ber
‘coming criminals. and has made good citi
zens out of them. J. Edgar Hoover, head
of the nation’s G-Men estimates the aver-
age criminal costs the taxpayers more than
$100,000 during his lifetime. That's just
the “average” criminal—that doesn’t mean
ones like Dillinger, ‘Baby Face” Nelson,
“Pretty Boy" Floyd and some of the oth-
‘er outstanding ones.
Well, taking that figure of $100,000 as
the cost of the average criminal career,
then Boys Town has saved the taxpayers
of this country considerably more than
$444,600,000 in the past nineteen years.
Yes, Boys Town has done a wonderful
job and this: newspaper is proud of the
way the people of this community are
responding to the needs of Homeless
Boys. But you know that although Boys
Town has done such a fine job so far,
still because of lack of room an average
of 500 boys must be turned away each
year. -
~~ One dollar, you know, is placed by this
paper in the Big Build Boys Town Fund
for every new one-year subscription, two-
year renewal subscription or - two year
past due subscription paid-up, turned in
by those taking part in the contest. The
contest closes at midnight, April 13.
Every week receipts of the fund to
date are sent along to Boys Town to-
~ ward construction of the new dormitory
building there.
Boys Town Began As A Dream
~ Boys Town started nineteen years ago
as a dream in the mind of its founder,
_ Father Flanagan. He had been running
and-outers, in .Omaha. Sometimes 1,000
of these poor derelicts slept and ate in his
“Hotel” on a single night. From talking
with these men he was struck with one
‘fact. Most of them were where they
“were because of a neglected, homeless boy~
hood. Then he decided ‘to care for
Homeless Boys. ! : .
He borrowed $90 from a friend to pay
‘the first month's rent on a house in
Omaha. Two boys who slept in his men’s
hotel and three others he saved fram go-
ing to the reform school were the first
five boys in his home. .
Boys Town has cared for 4,446 Home:
Tless Boys in the past nineteen years. All
‘are today respected, self-sustaining’ citi
“zens of their various communities. Not a
‘single one is in a jail or penitentiary
Where would they be now, but for Boys
"Town? Probably in the ranks of Crime,
“wr at best purposeless idlers and misfits.
* Usn’t that a splendid story background
Va shelter for homeless men, drifters, down- | P
TRUCKSVILLE PULLET
LAYS EGG MORE THAN
NINE INCHES AROUND
A barred rock pullet belonging to
Mrs. Ira Lamoreaux of Trucksville
laid an egg this week measuring nine
and fifteen sixteenths inches in cir
cumference.
The egg is four inches long and
seven and threessixteenths inches
around at its greatest width. Mrs.
Lamoreaux. says the pullet has laid
unusually large eggs before.
Special Music At
Trucksville M. E.
Palm Sunday Marks Opening
Of Special Pre-Easter
Services
Easter will be anticipated at Trucks
ville M. E. Church with an unusually am-
bitious program of music which will be-
gin with a cantata, “The Crucifixion,”
by Stainer, on Sunday night. Three
services will be held next week.
On Sunday morning Rev. Harry M.
Savacool, pastor, will preach on the sub-
ject ‘Intelligent Praise.” The music will
include selections by the Junior and Sen-
jor choirs, with Mrs. George Reynolds,
Jr., as soloist during the Senior Choir’s
rendition of “Ride On! Ride On!”
The soloists at the cantata in the eve
ning ‘will be Fred Finnev: Samuel Davis,
Willard Woolbert, Mrs. George Reynolds,
Jr., and Ray Gemmel. Mrs. B. Aubrey
Ayre, organist and choir director, will
direct the cantata. She will also have
charge of other music.
Next Tuesday night at 7:30 the first
of the Holy Week services will be held,
“A Service of Confession and Heart
Searching.” On Thursday night at 7230
there will be Holy Communion and Con- |
firmation. A quartet, having as members
Doris Chapman, Willard Woolbert, Mrs
Fred Houghwout and Fred Finney wil
sing “O All Ye That Pass By, by Vic-
toria. On Good Friday afternoon at 2
. m. Mrs. Ayre will play an organ re
cital, th sacred music from Wagner's
“Parsifal” and ‘Beside the Cross Remain-
ing” from Gounod’s “The Redemption.
in the world can be written about such
a subject. Remember the whole thing to,
keep. in mind is to make your ten-word
logan as simple and effective as possible.
See Rules on This Page
If you haven't already done so, sit
down and write that ten-word slogan to-
day. You may win $1,000 or one of the
other big cash prizes. Remember the |
subject is’ “What Boys Town Means to
America As A Check on Crime.”
You will find the simple rules of the
big “Build Boys’ Town" contest on this
page of:this newspaper. ‘
Do your part for the Homeless Boy!
He needs you. He's counting on your
help to give him the only thing he asks
—a chance to become a good American
~ for a slogan contest? The finest slogan
citizen. Help this newspaper Build Boys
Town. :
4
ves OF The Nation On Boy's Town As Cos
ALLAS PEOPLE ENTER INTO 2OYS’ TOWN CITY COUNCIL
The world’s youngest mayor and city commission busy with city
business.
Ruggles
MRS. MYRTLE KOCHER
CORRESPONDENT
Mrs. Louise Kocher, a member. of the
Grange at ,Beaver Run sitce 1887 has
been in grange work fifty years at Rug-
gles. She was a member of Bowman's
Creek Grange before coming to Ruggles
Grange. Two other Charter members
from Beaver Run Grange are still living.
Fred Shulde of Ruggles and R. P. Kocher,
who lives now at Bloomsburg, have also
been fifty years in grange work.
® x ox
Orrison Kocher called on Fayette Wil-
liams at Alderson on Monday morning,
finding him confined to the house with a
sprained ankle. At this writing he is
much improved.
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Mr. and Mrs. Ben Rood spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Orrison Kocher.
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Mrs. Anna Kraft called on Mr.
Mrs. William Shand recently.
and
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Mrs. Ethel Shupp and daughter, Na:
omi Shupp, are in the hospital suffering
injuries from automobile accident on Sun-
day.
* * *
Bert Fish called on Thomas
Sunday.
Kitchen on
Mrs. Almon Rood and Mrs. Mina Har-
rison spent Friday with Mrs. William
Shand.
Mrs. Florence Hoppes called on Mrs.
Myrtle Kocher on Friday.
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Mrs. Louise Frick has returned to her
home after spending the winter months
with her relatives in New York City.
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Mrs. Frick: spent Saturday
calling on Mrs. Laura Brislin.
* * *
Those who attended Pomona Grange
at Carvetton on Saturday from Ruggles
were: Mr. and Mrs. Verne Kitchen,
daughter, Vera, Mrs. William Hillard,
Mrs. Mina Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Orri-
son Kocher and Mrs. Louise Kocher
evening
"Ro
The eleventh wedding anniversary of
Mr. and Mrs. William Harrison was
celebrated on March 10th at their home
by a dinner party to the following
friends:
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Mr. and Mrs. Almon Rood, son, Ralph,
| daughters, Eleanor and Dorothy, of Rug-
gles; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jones of Rug-
gles, Mr. and Mrs. William Maletta and
daughter, Regina, of Wilkes-Barre; Mr.
and Mrs. William Harrison, daughter,
Edna, Mary Higgens, sons, William Har-
LOCAL DELEGATION TO JOIN
IN STATE L O. O. F. ASSEMBLY
RALLY RECALLS PROGRESS OF FRATERNITY
A delegation of Odd Fellows from local lodges will join with members of the
I. O. O. F. from other parts of Central and Eastern Pennsylvania in a gigantic rally
in Zembo Mosque, Third and Division Streets, Harrisburg, on next Wednesday night
at 8 o'clock.
\
The local lodges which are expected to be represented are Oneida, No. 23, Dal-
las; Toby's Creek, No. 1078, Trucksville; Osage, No. 712, Lehman; Sweet Valley,
No. 874, and Harveyville, No. 788.
Dr. Robert Bodycomb of Dallas, dis
trict deputy, is county chairman of pub-
licity for the rally.
Nationally Known Speaker
The Hon. Geo. I. Breil, of Kentucky,
director of Development and Extension of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
will be in ‘Harrisburg on the above date
and address this Rally, and confer with
local leaders in the interest of the order
in Central Pennsylvania.
Mr. Breil, a nationally known orator,
has visited every state in the nation in
his present mission of carrying the mes-
sage of fraternalism and friendship among
men to the members of his Lodge, its af-
filiates and their friends. He comes to
Central Pennsylvania as a special repre-
sentative of the Hon. Geo. E. Hershman,
of Indiana, Grand Sire of the world-wide
order of Odd Fellows. !
Drawing from his 40 years of experi
ence in the field of fraternal brotherhood,
Mr. Breil contends that the development
of a closer bond and understanding among
the peoples of the world will aid in solv-
ing many present day problems.
I. O. O. F. History Reviewed
The Independent Order of Odd, Fellows
is the second oldest and second largest
fraternal organization in the United
States. It was founded by Thomas Wil-
dey and four of his friends in Baltimore,
Maryland, in 1819, who felt the need of
a society in which mankind could be
bound by fraternal ties.
and Corey Kocher. The couple received
many beautiful gifts.
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*
Rev. Albright of Noxen Lutheran
Church is having some excellent Lenten
services at Laketon Lutheran Church ev-
rison, John, Lewis and Elwood Higgens, ery Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
The founder, Mr. Wildey, came to this
country and discovered that he was alone
in a new world without friends upon
whom he could rely in the event of sick-
ness and trouble. He discovered that
there were many other young men in the
America of that time in a similar plight.
Mr. Wildey's purpose was to set up a
brotherhood in which those young men
could find a friend's hand, receive aid
when they were in need and the fellow-
ship without which life is hollow. Since
the origin of the idea with Mr. Wildey
and his small group of companions, the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
grown to an organization of world-wide
scope, embracing 16,000 subordinate
lodges and a membership of 2,500,000.
There are branches of the order in the
United States, Canada, New Zealand,
Australia, New South Wales, Panama,
Cuba, Tasmania, Czechoslovakia, Poland,
Sweden and Denmark. Other degrees of
Odd Fellowship include the Encampment
and Patriarchs Militant, and for the wom-
en relatives of Odd Fellows, the Rebekah
Degree and Ladies’ Auxiliary. They also
have Junior Lodges and Theta Rho Girls’
Clubs for boys and girls of teen ages.
In the spirit of mutual aid the order
is now spending approximately $5,000,000
a year for the relief of its sick and dis-
tressed, and care of widows, orphans and
aged. The order maintains in the United
States and Canada 68 homes for the care
of the indigent aged and widows and or-
phans who have a connection with the
Odd Fellows.
The ritual of Odd Fellowship is built
around the incidents of friendship in the
Bible, and all members of the order are
under oath to apply the teachings of
ose biblical lessons in their every day
ife.
CONVENIENCE
Make the most of the electri-
cal service at your command.
For a few cents a day every
farm within reach of our trans-
mission lines can have running
water in homes and barns.
There are hundreds of electri-
cal labor-saving devices that you
can put in every-day use at a
cost so low that it is not worth
considering.
Let electricity do the drudg-
ery. If your home and farm are
not already being served by this
company, let us. go over your
problems with you.
Harvey's Lake
Light Company
Here are the simple rules
first, here are the prizes:
And THIRTY PRIZES
inclusive)
Write a simple slogan
| 1.
a Check On Crime.” Boys
you know, is the Home of
tion’s Homeless Boys.
tomorrow.
good,
criminals of
Town has made
day.
and striking as possible.
ample:
will win.
Mail or bring your
per before midnight,
{ ; ? .ud plainly.
Su aop— ros
big Build Boys Town Contest. But .
(Ninth to Thirty-eighth
ees $5.00
more than 10 words on “What
Boys Town means to America As
And it is
the neglected, homeless boys of
today that become the hardened
upright
citizens of 4,446 homeless boys
already. Not a single one of those
boys is in a jail or penitentiary to-
Your slogan should be as simple
For ex-
“Build Boys Town and
Check Grime at Its Source.”
simplest, most effective statement
fn ten words or less of what Boys
Town means to America As a
Check On Crime is the ome that
es written on a plain piece of
paper to the office of this newspa~
April 13,
Be sure your name and address
are written on the paper correctly
KNOCK! KNOCK! WHO'S THERE? - - -
OPPORTUNITY!
“Build Boys Town” Rules
$2,100 In Cash Prizes
in the
First Prize ....$1,000 in Cash |pewa] of a subscription or a two-
Second Prize ..$ 500 in Cash|yo,: past que subscription paid up
Third Prize ...$ 250 in Cash |__ ,¢ the regular rate. For every
Fourth Prize...$ 100 in Cash !gycn subscription turned in, one
Fifth Prize....$ 50 in Cash |gogan may be entered. You can
Sixth Prize....$ 25 in Cash |gnter as many slogans as’ you
Seventh Prize..$§ 15 in Cash | pose, just so each slogan is ac-
Eighth Prize...$ 10 in Cash|.ompanied by a new subscription,
each
of not
per upon request,
3.
Town,
a Na-
together with
Boys
close of the contest.
closes Tuesday, April 13.
ular publication date.
6.
The Fund for each slogan entered
needed there.
1.
8.
9.
property of Boys Town.
slogan
awards will be made.
Decision of the judges is
course final.
Every slogan entered in the
contest must be accompanied
by one new one-year subscription
to this newspaper, a two-year re-
a two-year renewal or a two-year
past due subscription paid up.
Literature telling all about
« Boys Town will be given you
free at the office of this newspa-
This newspaper will turn over
$1.00 to the Build Boys Town
the contest, for the erection of the
new dormitory building, so badly
Winning slogans become the
~
Final results of the contest,
the winning
slogans will be announced in this
newspaper the week following the
The contest
Results
will be announced in this newspa-
per the following week on the reg-
TAKE ONE NEW SUBSCRIPTION FOR
YOURSELF OR A FRIEND,
RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION
FOR TWO YEARS,
OR
PAY A SUBSCRIPTION TWO YEARS
PAST DUE
You Will Be Eligible to Enter
~ This Nation-Wide Contest
in
In ease of a tie, duplicate
of
IF YOU...
has