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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
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SHALL I TAKE,
UNCLE SAM?
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LIKE BEST, OF %
COURSE, SON!
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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.
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