‘speech or of Press” — The Constitution. 2.:The Dallas Post is a youthful, liberal, aggressive dedicated to the highest ideals of the journalistic tradi ‘suburban area about Dallas. It strives constantly to ‘than a newspaper, a community institution. Subscription, $2.00 per year, payable in advance. scribers who send us changes of address are reques change. Advertising rates on request. 9 “Congress shall make nolow.. .. abridging the freedom of. ‘concerned primarily with the development of the rich rural- include both' new and old addresses with the notice of ‘More Than A Neswpaper — A Comdmurity weekly, ton and "ESTABLISHED 1889 be more Friday Morning At The Dallas Post Plant, Avenue, Dallas, Penna, By The Dallas Po Sub- Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at tod th under Act of March 3, 1879. Howarp W. RisLEY HowzLL E. Regs Harowrp J. Price Gene THE DALLAS POST A Liberal, Independent Newspaper Published Every Managing Editor Mechanical Superintendent Institution - 2, Lehman st, Inc. Dallas, Pa., operation ral Manager ; affairs. Trucksville between those that now exist. 6. Complete elimination of politics from local school 7. Construction of more sidewalls: THE POST'S CIVIC PROGRAM | 1. A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and connecting with the Sullivan Trail at Tunkhannock. A greater development of community consciousness among residents of Dallas, ! Fernbrook. 3. Centralization of local fire, and police protection. 4, Sanitary sewage systems for local towns. 5. A consolidated high school eventually, and better co- , Shavertown, and A Lesson From AN INDIAN hree hundred years or so ago an Onondaga Indian addressed a council of warriors representing the numer- ribes roaming the wilderness in this section. He urged the ity of forming a defensive alliance for their common wel- He picked up a slender twig and snapped it between his vers. Then he reached for a bundle of the same slender s, but despite his greatest effort he could not break them. In this way he demonstrated that individual tribes were and easily broken, but that when united they became g, powerful and able to resist attack. The visiting chiefs were deeply impressed and there was that day the famous Iroquois League, or, as it was some- known, the Six Nations. It become the most powerful p of Indians in all North Americ and for generations it rned all neighboring tribes wisely and well. To it belonged Onondagas, Oneidas, Cayugas, Mohawks, Senecas and Tus- ras. pe Today history is repeating itself. or many years dairymen of this section, like the Indian before them, fought their battles individually. They took . they could get for their milk, and when their books ved a loss at the end of the year, they submitted weakly. se they were widely scattered and lacked unity in thought “action they struggled on, year after year, floundering help- , often suffering poverty while others, less important to social structure, were blessed by prosperity. ‘armers were slow to learn the lesson of co-operation. iy have it still to learn. But they are fighting together to- ‘more than they ever have before. Taking a leaf from the of associations which have been demanding a living , for milk elsewhere—and getting it—dairymen in Luzerne ighboring counties now are showing new life, and get- results. x : ‘Farmers were slow to learn the lesson of co-operation, but are working together today more than ever before. They ize at last that to present their case clearly to officialdom ‘the public they must be organized, and in the last six months Luzerne and neighboring counties have seen a new a peace-time army of determined farmers—spring into e, its members working shoulder to shoulder to solve 5 anding problem. Not only because milk is an cssential food, but because the mic cendition of the farmer effects the economic condition © rest of us, the so-called “milk problem” touches every nsumer. It has received far too little attention from the pub- probably because the complicated schedules and the intricate st records are baffling to the person who is not a student of iculture or distribution. Now, however, with a one-cent- ) the consumer with new impact. The banner of a fighting crusade for economic freedom is waving over local farms at last. Dairymen are at last taking over their own industry. In a few short months they have established the basis for their fight for a living price for milk. And, with the understanding and support of the consumer, they will win that fight. Next Tuespay’s THE Day : ~ Everybody out to the stockholder’s meeting next Tuesday! It’s your meeting. Once a year the voters get a chance to select their hired hands, the men and women who will con- duct public business for the next few years. : This year voters will elect officers for the counties, the boroughs, the school districts and the townships. The candi- dates who are successful will decide policies, levy taxes and spend public money. Every man and woman, without excep- tion, has a vital interest in next Tuesday’s election. Considering the issues at stake in this year’s election, there has been a surprising lack of interest among the electorate. The ote at the primary was disappointingly light. Seasoned ob- servers blame the European War for the disinterest in policies. You can’t stir up much enthusiasm in Candidate Whoozis’ po- litical ambitions when ships are being sunk and armies of un- ‘precedented size are facing each other on the Western Front. National leaders have asked that partisanship be adjourn- ed for the duration of the emergency, and it is true that nation- al unity is essential in the war world, but the fact remains that ‘partisan politics is a prime motivating factor in a democracy. Both parties have candidates in the field. Both have plat- forms. Both want to win. And you can’t fight a campaign without partisanship. : Your choice of candidates is your own business. It is our business to try to convince you that you must vote, for unless you do, the results next Tuesday night will not be an accurate reflection of the will of all the people. Mgr. AicHE'S PROPHECY Apparently our Javie Aiche was speaking, with almost clairvoyant understanding on October 6 when he wrote, in his column on this page, “after a while a lot of coal will clutter up the railroad sidings; the people of the domain of Old King Coal ~ will once again accustom themselves to part-time operation . ..” ~ At the time the Chamber of Commerce boys were hailing the boom in anthracite blithely, and no one was in a mood for ‘Mz. Aiche’s dark, if well-founded, warning. His complaint that oom” in the coal district annoyed the perennial optimists. | This week Javie Aiche was vindicated, and by no less a personage than Secretary of Mines John Ira Thomas, who arned operators their activity may bring on a coal market sh. * “There’s half a million tons of coal on the tracks now,” homas asserted. “They're mining too much again.” And even re ominous were the reports of drastic price-cutting among Fred M. Kiefer past. ‘javie aiche SECOND | THOUGHTS You might write a book, | GIMME A MATCH Like thousands of others we are convinced that not only dear editor. I would gladly] will our constitutional form of | turn over to you the intermin- government be safer under a !able succession of facts that | Republican administration in [are coming to notice in what! the future but improved econ- {I myself might call “The Re- pudiation of Republican] Claims to Economy in Luzerne | County.” There was economy; oh, yes! But only for the very rich. Your scrivener has been! looking over the records; thus omics will run a parallel course as the records have proven to be the case in the Let us go back to 1913 when the Democrats took over the custody of the national gov- ernment. They immediately far he has seen collection of |- K PICK CEREFULLY . . . THERE ARE NO REFUNS! ONE OF Qu THIS IS VOTER’s DAY/ MAKE HIS PARTY A success, * PRESENT YOUR FAVORITE VOTER wis reduced the tariff on imports with the declared intentions of lowering the living costs. Al- most at once unemployment reared its ugly head and only Europe, with the consequent necessity of purchasing war supplies from this country and the cutting off of imports from abroad, averted a major cat- astrophe. Under the Wilson Adminis- tration, also, the Income Tax Law became a fact. Something drastic had to be done since the national debt had risen from almost nothing to the then stupendous figure of twenty-five billions of dollars. Under Republican leader- ship from 1921 to 1929 this debt was reduced, through wise taxation, to thirteen bil- the breaking out of war inj more than $500,000 from, those who by pretext became | the proteges of Republican | economy in the home baili-| wick. Now that there has been ! change of control in the! ‘county, the very best reason | why the Democrats should be! kept in power is to permit]! them to go on with the revela- | tions. It is in co-operation! with their own party’s Auditor General Warren Roberts that the surprises are being un- capped. Suppose you were as rich as the Coxes? Would you have been glad to have paid taxes on your wealth? The very day yids 250 WITH CANDYDATES / lye Gs WHICH ONE SHALL I TAKE, UNCLE SAM? R PARTY 1939 Lincoln Newspaper Features, Ine. LIKE BEST, OF % COURSE, SON! \ is Xu r dQ you reach the deadline of this week’s Dallas Post, Thursday, the lawyer for the Coxes will be around at the court house THE LOW DOWN FROM lions. Prosperity flooded the|with a check for more than wage earners reached its high-|magnanimously permitted country and the income -of [$17,000 which the Republicans | HICKORY GROVE quart increase in prospect, the problem is being presented | there was no real basis for rejoicing over the so-called Sar! est peak. In the fall of 1929 | the great depression came inj with a crash—caused largely by conditions abroad and by the folly of over-speculation on the part of our own people. In the midst of the Govern- ment’s gradual progress in conquering these evils, the voters turned again to the De- mocrats. Nineteen hundred and thir- ty-two introduced to the American Nation the most fantastically-extravagant mix- ture of alphabetical govern- ment they had ever been called upon to stomach. We were promised the elimination of unemployment; pros- perity throughout the length and breadth of the land; a re- duction of the national debt and a reduction in the cost of government of at least twenty- five per cent. Not to mention the “more abundant life”. Let us compare actual con- ditions with these promises. We have had (until once again a European War threat- ens to come to the Demoerats’ rescue) the same number of unemployed as we had in 1932. We have had no prosperity in seven, long years. The debt has not only not been reduced but its magnitude is startling with the total at close to forty-six billions of dollars. Consider these facts: From the Demo- cratic debt of twenty-three bil- lions to the Republican debt of thirteen, a reduction of ten billions, and back to a Roose- velt writing-in-the-red of the collosal figure it has now reached. And, further, instead of reducing the cost of govern- ment it has been increased to such an extent that it hardly seems possible the budget can ever again be balanced. “The expense and debts con- tracted by our Government during the Wilson and Roose- velt administrations can only | be rectified by the party which has always stood for the best there is in farming, finance, banking, manufacturing and transportation and that is, ac- cording to its record, the Re- publican Party. “The Republican Party will provide the businessman, in- ventor, promoter, investor and producer with full freedom and protection”. These men will be relieved from govern- ment interference and control and then, and then only, will operators scared by the surplus. Moral: The Post’s Javie iche generally knows what he’s talking about. prosperity come and jobs in private industry will again be cbs gs 2 MN This breathless commo- tion in the U. S. about the war in Europe looks a little ower-done. Looks like we are trying to bor- row trouble. Looks like somebody is maybe going out of their way to fix up a momentous problem so as to have something big or difficult to solve. It is like the sailor who had a rope that was too long—he didn't know what to do about it. If the rope had been too short, them to withhold. | The probe has only bopiri) After it is through with bond- ed and stock wealth it must take up property assessments. Already there is plenty of evi- dence. Some of your corres- pondent’s- fellow - townsmen, owning palatial homes on the best streets, have been assess- ed only as much as your scri- vener pays for a domicile in what rapidly is becoming the slum ‘district of the West Side. . Oh, but you would be sur- prised to read the communica- tions that have lain in the files that would have been at the court house. You would| ¢qsy, he said—he could be even astounded to learn| splice it. that many of the best people you know have long since de- parted your precincts and have been living in States where there is no necessity to levy upon millions and millions in dividend-paying securit- ies—preferably in States where the government draws largesse from tremendous gambling enterprises and from only temporary visitation on the part of lucky Pennsylvan- ians. Yours with the low down, JO SERRA State office the only son of John Mitchell. Dick Mitchell was fired—after ten years of service with Governor Fisher, Governor Pinchot and Gover- nor Earle. Dick just didn’t have the influence, nor the in- herited wealth, to stay put Today, as this screed is be- with the Republican Party. ing drummed off the type- writer, is Mitchell Day. John Mitchell was the most honor- able, the most honest, the most unselfish Labor leader the country has ever known. He won advances for the anthra- cite miners and for the busi- nessmen of the hard coal dis- trict and for all who live therein—and drew for him- self $1,200 a year. Contrast that with John L. Lewis’ $25,- 000 and expenses. Contrast the Lewis life in the finest hos- telries of the great cities, the Lewis mansion in Virginia and the Lewis suite of offices in Washington; contrast all with John Mitchell sitting in a humble hotel room of the Hart on Pennsylvania avenue, win- ning a strike while conferring from a seat on the edge of his bed. : Well, on Mitchell Day the Republicans discharged from Economy in Luzerne County has been wholly a matter of the county officers taking credit for the savings enacted by the Democratic administra- tion preceding in this com- monwealth. The State took over roads and bridges, the State took over care of the poor, the State expanded Re- lief and WPA. The Republi- cans have smashed most of the advance. And in its place they gave you the spectacle of Re- i publican prosperity at Ber- y wick, for instance, where 2,000 motorcars clogged entrance to American Car & Foundry plant because the Republican press said the industry was back to 1929 production. It wasn’t, of course, and the poor devils had to go home as job- less as they came. Forgive your correspondent for effusiveness. The story is Iso long. It is only one of the filled with the one-time un-|revelations that would do Lu- employed. (Thanks, A. P.) |zerne County good—if the vo- Your county is a small but|ters are sensible enough to tegral part of the National |permit an opposition party to scene. By keeping Luzerne|dig further into the records. County Republican you will Which means, of course, by have done all that you possibly | electing the complete Luzerne could for your party through-| County Democratic ticket. out the nation. And that’s all| They and your scrivener thank any party cap ask of any man.’ you. ; been very much interested in Edith Blez THE SENTIM For some time now I have| the American Youth Hostel movement but it wasn’t until last week that I had a real op- portunity to come in contact with anyone really connected with the organization. A young man in the village where | I live is a member of the as- | sociation and has been con- ducting bicycle trips here and abroad for several years. First let me tell you the real motive behind the Youth Hos- tel movement. It was organiz- ed to encourage young people | to travel, to see not only their own country but other coun- tries as well. The movement was started so that young peo- ple could travel very cheaply and in company with other | young people who were inter- ested in the same things. The Hostel group caters particular- ly to young people but older people are encouraged to take up this novel way of seeing the country. The movement is really more active abroad than it is in this country and many young people in “this country have traveled all over Europe ion a bicycle, young people who | | would never have seen Hol-| ‘land, England or Germany if it | hadn’t been for the protection of the Youth Hostel Associa- tion. * * 0 * The young man I mentioned |is completely sold on the idea {that there is no better way to see the world than from a bi- cycle. He was very much against attempting any leng- thy trips on the ordinary American bicycle. He insists that American bicycles are toys and it is the foreign bi- cycles, equipped with hand are built to cover distance. I] was quite interested in the trip the young man took this sum- mer. He took a group of ten young people on a trip which| lasted eight weeks. They spent | three weeks in Germany, some | time in England, some in Hol- brakes and gear shifts, which| ENTAL SIDE tels were located in Germany, and that it was possible to stay over night for the very small sum of ten cents. In other countries the fee for a night's lodging is twenty-five cents. Contrary to all reports the young man said it was possible to purchase plenty of good simple food in Germany and while they were in Germany they lived very comfortably for about sixty cents a day. * * * The young man seemed to feel that this country will nev- er be really bicycle conscious. There are too many automo- biles and young people are not anxious to travel under their own power. They want auto- mobiles, and travelling any real distance on a bicycle seems rather silly. I wish the movement would grow in’ this country. I wish we could sell our young peo- ple the idea that it is really good to see the world from a bicycle. It seemed incredible to me as I sat listening to that young man talk, that a young person of his type had seen so Imuch of the world on so little money and so little time. He was. an average person, edu- cated in our public schools with no more money than the average person who has been on his own for a few years. And yet he had seen the lake regions of England, he had traveled all over Holland, ped- aled through the Black Forest of Germany and next summer he plans to take a group to Alaska or perhaps Mexico. It all seems like a dream to those of us who have never had the opportunity to travel and the Youth Hostel Association makes it quite easy. All you need is a good bicycle, a few people who are eager to travel, and the courage to stick at this business of seeing the world on the roads which are off the beaten track. Frankly, I think the ypung people are missing a rare opportunity in not looking into an association land and Wales, and the rest of the time in the Alps. Evident-| Ny the hostels in Europe can- Inot be compared with the ones lin this country. Many of them | ‘are reconditioned cast les. Imagine what a thrill it must |be to spend the night in al | castle located high in the | mountains. | I was quite interested in the | fact that the very finest Hos- which offers so much for so little. "FREEDOM The columnists and contrib- _utors on this page are al- lowed great latitude in ex- pressing their own opinions, even when their opinions are at variance with those of The Post. ”
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