NT - rT SRA RTI y + 3 HE DALLAS POS More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution Tm . 3 he N Fred Kiefer Recalls A Great Speech In His Thoughtful Column On This Week’s Editorial Page And Javie Aiche Calls For A Needed Election Reform. The Farmer Has Finished His Sea- son’s Work. Are His Books in Black or Red Today? Watch For The Post’s Analysis Of Yields And Prices Next Week. Vol. 49 POST SCRIPTS THE POST, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1939 Goal Of $1,745 Sought Locally By CWE Workers No. 46 TWO-HUNDRED-YEAR OLD MILL ROLLS AGAIN Fire Truck Gets 0.K. Aiter Rigid Test By Engineer Farmers To Get Price Increase ENGLAND Throws 455 Gallons Per Mrs. Blackman Major Governor James Aids Local Dairymen By Signing FUN Minute: Tour Of Water For Dallas Aro: Ploa Order Authorizing Cent-A-Quart Boost In Milk WAR Responding to the plea of local dairymen for a “living price!’ for their milk products, Governor Arthur H. James yes- terday signed an order raising the price paid to farmers in this area to $2.96 per hundredweight for 4 per cent butterfat Class 1 (bottled) milk and $2.20 per hundredweight for Class 1A (fluid cream), effective December 1. An emergency measure to offset the mounting costs of milk production due to the excessive summer drought, the = >order calls for a one-cent in- . Mains Made For Survey Made For Response Aiming at a goal of $1,745, vol- unteer workers in Community Wel- | fare Federation’s annual campaign | began soliciting funds throughout | the Dallas area this week and re- ported yesterday that most people were responding generously. A plea for whole-hearted co-op- KEEP CHEERFUL! With Indoor Games For Dark Nights Send Your “Evacuee” Child A New Game THE AJAX COMPANY 291 High Road, Ilford A favorable report on the fire-fighting equipment of Dr. | Henry M. Laing Fire Co. will | be made to Dallas Council at | its next meeting by W. L. Stephenson, engineer, who yes- | terday completed a survey of | We have been reading some Eng- lish newspapers recently, hoping 0 ® that we might find in them some- thing that would explain this strange, somnambulistic European War. Now we're more confused than we were before. This was to have been a war of totalitarian terror. Hitler said it would be, and everybody believed him that time. England and France made ready for death which would come from the sky. Children were hurried off to the country. People dug furiously in their gardens, building A. R. P. shelters. Gas masks bumped constantly against the most aristocratic hips. The world held its breath and waited— but very little happened. Maybe Winchell is right when he predicts an imminent, desperate land, air and sea offensive by Ger- many that will, at last, bring the horror everyone expected. On the other hand, maybe Lloyd’s of Lon- don is right when it lays odds that the war will be over by Christmas. Whoever is right, the people of England are clinging still to the hopeful belief that some miracle yet may come before it is too late. We looked in vain through these newspapers for any note of fierce- ness. It just wasn’t there. There were jokes about the war, cartoons about the war, advertisements for Air Raid shelters, dull, conserva- tive dispatches from the scenes of what passes for action but there were no violent outbursts of hatred for any enemy. * * * Such London papers as the Daily Express devote their first three or four pages to heavily-headlined news of war developments but even that has a quality which might be more appropriate to a soccer match than a world crisis. On Page 1 of the Express, which, unlike the thundering Times no longer gives its front page over to classified ads, is a picture of Hitler wearing what the Express guarantees is a bullet- proof chest-protector. Underneath the photo of Der Fuehrer is a car- toon of General Goering, who has so many medals that he is compelled to hang the surplus on the dach- shund which follows him. Humor seems to be a major ele- ment in this war. Even the adver- tisements of amusement places and game shops stress | that slogan, “Keep Cheerful!” One large newspa- per offers a half guinea for ‘the best war stories” and in one issue we saw contributors had filled three columns with anecdotes. A typical entry is that of F. J. Patman, 51, Wentworth-road, South- end-on-Sea, Essex. “A Negro who works at the same factory as I do was on his way home on his bi- cycle the other night when he was knocked down by an Army lorry. The driver picked him up and re- marked, “I say, chum, isn’t this carrying the black-out a bit too far?” The tendency to poke fun at the inconveniences of war crops up everywhere in English newspapers these days. There is, for example, the women’s page writer who dis- cusses the possibility of food short- age in England and reminisces about the ‘queue’ system which was invented in the last war to re- place th indiscriminate scramble for rations. “Do you remember,” this writer asks, “the famous story of the last war, of the servant girl who brought home to her mistress quite a new excuse when she was hours late back from a shopping expedition ? ‘Please, mum, the margarine queue (Continued on Page 8) the town’s protection against. fire. | With Chief Leslie Warhola and | Assistant James F. Besecker, Mr. | After more than a year of research and repairs, the 00-year-old | , 4 Kunkle. “The important thing,” | Stephenson, who was sent here by ! grist mill on the historic plantation home of General Robert E. Lee in the Middle Department Rating As- | Stratford, Va., resumed its clattering and creaking last week to supply sociation of Philadelphia at the re- |! neighboring farms with flour ground between millstones worn by cen- quest of borough council, observed ! the borough fire truck during a! pumping test at the pond near Irem Country Club. Achieving 80 per cent of its ca- pacity, the pumper threw 455 gal- lons of water a minute with a single line of hose from a small nozzle with suction from a difficult pond hole. The force was such that it took three men to hold the hose steady. Also present for the test were Harry Ohlman, Add Woolbert, Jr., Henry Shupp and Tom Hislop. Mr. Stephenson indicated that in his report to council ‘W€ will put an unqualified O. K. upon the fire com- pany’s truck and accessories. The engineer also made a tour of the Dallas Water Co. system, check- ing on mains and on potential sites for fire plugs. His findings will be incorporated into a report which will guide council in improvements which will aim toward a reduction of fire insurance premiums for local property owners. 19,164 Acres Were Improved In County Luzerne County farmers who par- ticipated in the 1938 Agricultural Conservation Program improved 19,964 acres of farm land in the county by carrying out soil-building practices undey the program, ac- cording to a report from ‘Grover C. Stock of Carverton, a member of the committee. f For their work, these 759 farmers | have received conservation pay | ments amounting to $42,684. This money was earned through carrying out soil-building practices and com- plying with acreage allotments. In addition, for this year for the first time 378 wheat farmers of the coun- ty have received adjustment pay- ments to the amount of $5,260. Morgan To Dedicate Cross At Alderson A cross in memory of Miss Emma Odenkirchen will be dedicated by Rev. David Morgan at Alderson Methodist Church on Sunday morn- ing. The cross has been given to the church by Miss Odenkirchen’s brother, Addison, of Waterbury. Conn. Miss Odenkirchen was an active worker in the Alderson church for about 40 years. She died in July. Other services in Rev. Mr. Mor- gan’s charge #ill be: Ruggles, 8:45; Alderson, 10; Noxen, 11:15; Kunkle, 7:45 p. m. Rev. Mr. Morgan's ser- mon will be “Have You Said I'm Sorry ?” New Symphony Growing; More Members Needed The largest crowd yet attended the rehearsal of the new symphony at College Misericordia on Monday night. A number of prominent per- sons from this section have joined the group and Miss Margaret Short, of the college music department, conductor of the symphony, is de- lighted with the response so far. The symphony has not reached its full size, however, and Miss Short is anxious to hear from any who would like to join with the group. AMERICAN FLAGAT POST OFFICE STOLEN IN BROAD DAYLIGHT An American flag, stolen boldly in broad daylight from in front of the Dallas post office, was found this week along the highway near Kunkle. The flag, one of the type which flutters along the Main Street curb line every holiday, had been put out on Saturday morning, in tribute to Armistice Day. : About mid-afternoon two young men who had parked their green roadster near the post office yanked the flag pole from its metal sheath spectators nearby realized what was happening. Joseph Polacky, the postmaster, was not in the office at the time but returned a few minutes later and was informed of the theft by Chief of Police Walter Covert. As tHey discussed the affair a green roadster sped past but had disap- pedred before they could note the license. Mr. Polacky notified the United States Postal Inspector for this dis- trict. On Wednesday Milton Huey reported he had found the flag along the road near Kunkle. turies of service. machinery, probably the last left in Left: The restored mill. Right: A closeup of the wooden the country. A. 100-year-old grist mill at Jonestown, near Shickshinny, one of the last in this section powered by a water wheel, burned two months ago. County's Bumper Crop For 1939 Is Estimated At 2,500,000 Bushels Harold Brace, Orange, On State Committee Which Is Directing FSCC Purchases To Reduce Surplus The purchase of more than 18,000 bushels of apples in Northeastern | Pennsylvania recently by the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. has made a considerable dent in this region’s staggering apple surplus, the result of the second bumper crop in three years. Twelve carloads of apples—averaging about 500 bushels to the car— have been bought from farmers in the Dallas section alone, according to Harold Brace of Orange, who, as a member of the four-man Industrial Committee of Pennsylvania/ is di- recting the whittling down of theft surplus counties. fo a This year’s crop in Luzéfne Coun- ty has been estimated as high as 2,500,000 bushels, which would mean that it exceeds even the bumper crop of 1937. The natural, two-year cycle, added to the fact that a freeze in 1938 killed blos- soms and resulted in a short crop last year, is given as an explanation for this year’s surplus. in seven Noytheastetn Surplus Nation-wide The Glutted market has hammer- ed prices down and farmers are storing tremendous surpluses await- ing a more favorable market. The situation is not local, because the crop in the nation is said to be about 20,000,000 bushels above nor- mal. In Wayne, Bradford, Susquehan- na, Wyoming, Lackawanna, Colum- bia and Luzerne Counties, the area covered by Mr. Brace, 37 cars of apples have been loaded for the FSCC. Local farmers loaded some of their apples on cars at Dallas and Harvey's Lake and trucked more: to the FSCC warehouse at Wilkes-Barre. The Surplus Commodities Corp. pays farmers the approximate mar- ket price for their apples. One provision is that for every bushel bought by the FSCC the farmer must divert one bushel to some non-market use, such as en- silage, stock feed, evaporation, cider or fertilizer, or not harvest it. The FSCC purchases, therefore, reduce the surplus by.two bushels for every one bushel purchased for relief pur- poses. ; Maybe They Value Democracy More ' The man had just come back from the Armistice Day parade in Wilkes-Barre. He picked up the telephone and called this newspa- per office, because he felt he had seen something the reporters for the dailies might have overlooked. “It wasn’t the flags and it wasn’t the soldiers that brought the lump into my throat,” he said. “It was the people who stood on the curbs, men with broad, slavic faces and heavy moustaches and women with bandannas tied under their chins, the kind of people the politicians politely call “the newer nationali- ties.” ‘ “Most of us were content just to stand and gape. Once in a while we'd applaud lightly. Then I saw those other people. The men lift- ed their battered hats reverently as the flag went past and there was a glow which came to brighten the dull faces of the women. And in’ their eyes I saw a hope that the things that have happened in their homelands across the ocean will not reach them here. “I had never known any other flag, any other country, any other system. But they had, and they had given it all up for this flag. I saw them—up and down the street | — almost trembling as they saluted | my country’s Stars and Stripes and I knew that among the throngs watching Wilkes-Barre’s Armistice Day parade these men and women' from the old country were, at that | moment, the best Americans of us all” i { Bar, ‘Catechist’ Wins Bee For Ide Swartz Tells Alumni Of Work In Lg Elwood Ide, a gradyat€ of Dal- las Borough High School last Spring, won the spelling bee at the meet- ing of the borough Alumni Associ- ation on Wednesday night by spell- ing ’'catechist” after the word had sent a row of the town’s best spell- ers down in defeat. At the business meeting which preceded the bee it was decided to call a meeting next Monday night at the Dallas fire house for repre- sentatives from high schools in this section to organize an alumni bas- ketball league. Joseph Swartz, a graduate of the local school and who is a guide at Beverly Hills, Cal, gave an inter- esting talk on his work in guiding tourists about the region where many of the moving picture stars live. Mr. Swartz is visiting his par- ents here. Attending the meeting were: Elwood Ide, Barry Furneaux, Warren Culp, Wilbur Davis, Wil- liam Baker, Mary Jeter, Jane Knecht, Ethel Maltman, Marguerite Ide, Bill Templeton, Muriel Lewin, Velma Herring, Betty Niemeyer, Gerald Sullivan, Merril Thomas, James LaBar, Harold Habblett, Roy Verfaillie, Helen Czulegar, Catherine Davis, Roberta Yeisley, Earl Van Campen, Edward Brace, Ruth Him, Doris McCarty, Dorothy Sullivan, Bill Man, Hazel Baer, Clarence La- Jack Roberts, Carline Cape- roon, Ralph Rood and T. A. Wil- liammee. Thanksgiving Services At St. Paul's Wednesday The annual Thanksgiving service will be held at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Shavertown, on Wednes- day night, November 22, at 7:45. Rev. Mr. Frankfort will preach on “Our God-Centered Thanksgiving.” eration was made last night by Mrs. John Blackman, who is the major for Dallas, Lehman, Trucksville, | Huntsville, Harvey’s Lake, Idetown ! she reminded people, ‘‘is to give— | to give whatever is possible.” She emphasized the value: of the Federation in supplying funds which otherwise would have to be secured through taxes. The 31 agencies of the Federation have been especially active in the Dallas area during the last year. Mrs. Blackman expressed the belief that the civic-minded res- idents of this section will respond willingly to show their gratitude for the humanitarian work of the social agencies in this section. Workers Volunteer To Help The team members who have volunteered their time to make the drive a success are: Captain, Mrs. Floyd Sanders, Dal- las; lieutenants, Miss Kathryn Tompkins, Albert L. Jones, Mrs. Charles Wagner, Mrs. Bradford Murphy. Captain, Mrs. Charles W. Lee, Dallas; Mrs. Stanley Davies, Mrs. Ray Shiber, Mrs. Lee Scott, Mrs. Jerome Marshall. Captain, Mrs. John Durbin, Dal- las; lieutenants, Mrs. Laverne Shi- ber, Mrs. Beatrice Oliver, Mrs. Sal- ly Hauck. Captain, Mrs. Donald Innes, Trucksville; lieutenants, Mrs. Henry Ahlborn, Mrs. E. B. Mulligan, Jr., Mrs. John Humphreys, Mrs. Robert Stull, Mrs. Eleanor Buckholz, Mrs. Lewis Wolfe. ; Captain, Mrs. Hayden Phillips, Trucksville; Mrs. Robert Taylor, Mrs. H. A. Shappelle, Mrs. H. J. { Harter, Mrs. Hugh Ridall, Mrs. S. | R. Schooley, Mrs. Wilbur Manning, ' Mrs. William Powell, John ! Robinson. | Captain, Mrs. Thomas Robinson; lieutenants, Mrs. Jeanne Maxwell, Mrs. Charles Jones, Miss Phyllis West, Mrs. J. T. Nicholson. Harvey's Lake: Miss Louella Gos- ‘sart and Mrs. James Robinson. | Sunday Services A? | St. Paul's Lutheran Mrs. sermon at the 11 o'clock service at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Shav- ertown, Sunday morning. Mrs. W. Gordon Williams of Forty Fort will address the Luther League devo- tional service at 6:45 p. m. The an- nual thank offering service will be held at vespers at 7:30. Mrs. Wil- liams will speak and the women’s auxiliary will present a pageant. Williams Wins High Honors At Princeton Alexander “Babe” Williams, for- mer athletic star at Lehman High School and Wyoming Seminary now a student at Princeton Univer- sity, is winning high scholastic ranking in his class, according to reports. Harvest Hop Tonight A Harvest Hop will be held to- night (Friday) at Dallas Borough High School. El Terry's orchestra will play. Campaign just starting. McDERMOTT, DON, R. 4, ROBERTS, CARL, Dallas Entries In The Dallas Post Subscription Campaign Names and standings of entries will be published weekly. New entries invited in the campaign. Anyone turning in one or more sub- scriptions by 1 p. m. next Wednesday will be credited with 20,000 extra points for his first report. BURKHARDT, EDWIN, Hunlock Creek ENDERS, ELLIOTT, Alderson FURNEAUZX, BARRY, Orchard Grove Farm GAY, SHELDON, R. 3, Dallas HONEYWELL, MISS FLORENCE, Kunkle LYNE, MRS. ROYAL, Trucksville LEE, MRS. PEYNTON, Dallas PERREGO, MILTON, A., Huntsville Sh ROGERS, MRS. LLOYD, Meeker ............ ; SULLIVAN, GERALD, Dallas Lots of room for new ones. 26,000 teas 25,000 _.. 44,000 25,000 30,000 Dallas “Housecleaning” will be the sub-' ject of Rev. Herbert E. Frankfort’s! HARTERS DISCOVER CAR PARKED BESIDE THEIRS IS THAT OF THEIR SON When Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harter of Trucksville drove in- to a parking station in Philadel- phia last Saturday they dis- covered that the car next to theirs was that of their son, Sherman, a student at Penn- sylvania State College. Mr. and Mrs. Harter had de- cided upon the trip suddenly, and so had not notified their son, who had, unbeknownst to them, too, driven in from Penn State. They recognized his car immediately by its profusion of stickers and pennants, relics of a summer jaunt across the country. They left word with the park- ing station attendant and found Sherman waiting for them after the game. It's Not Too Late For New Entries Extra Point Offer Will End On November 24 The biggest and best extra point offer of the entire Dallas Post sub- scription campaign will be in effect until next Friday, November 24. Under this offer workers in the campaign will be credited with 10,000 extra points for each dollar’s worth of subscriptions turned in. The extra credits will he in. addi- tion to the regular poiié schedule, as printed on the covers of the order books. In other words, until Friday evening, November 24, sub- scriptions will count two ways, both extra credits and extra credits. All concerned have the guaran- tee of the management that this is the biggest and best extra point offer that will be made during the campaign. The offer will include every dollar turned in from the first announcement until the even- ing of November 24. Extra credits will be issued and placed to the credit of the workers at the end of the offer. Every one entered in the cam- paign should make an extra effort to round up évery prospect and promise ‘during this biggest extra point offer. The work done by next Friday evening, November 24, will go a long way toward deciding the winners of the cash prizes. It is not too late for new entries in the campaign. A new entry could easily get into the competi- tion if he would make a start im- mediately and take advantage of the biggest and best extra point offer. Subscription points are published this week and the campaign is get- ting away to a good start. Names of entries will be published again next week and workers are request- ed to turn in subscriptions twice weekly, each Saturday and Wed- nesday. One should try and keep his or her name up with the lead- ers in the published lists. Thanksgiving Services A Union Thanksgiving service for Kunkle, Alderson, Ruggles and Nox- en will be held at Noxen Methodist Church on Thursday morning at 9:30 when Rev. David Morgan, pas- tor, will preach on “Thanksgiving Service.” crease to the consumer on quarts of Grade B milk and corresponding increases on quarts of Grade A and other fluid milk products. Neither retail pints nor half-pints of Grade B milk was affected by the order. The increase was promised by the Milk Control Commission last month and was to have been put into effect on November 1 but Gov- ernor James postponed his approval when objections were filed. On Wednesday C. W. Space of Dallas, a director of the Milk Producers’ As- sociation of Northeastern Pennsyl- vania and a leader in the fight for better milk prices for the dairyman, attended a conference with Attor- ney General Claude T. Reno in Har- risburg. At that meeting Confmissi ) members, dairymen and d i cussed the proposed increase. At conclusion of the conference At- torney General Reno agreed to sub- mit the order again to the Gover- nor, for his approval or disapproval. Costs Are Up 50 Per Cent In announcing the increase the Commission explained that although it was reluctant to increase the con- sumer price, testimony taken at the Scranton hearings on September 20 and October 18 revealed that the producer’s costs had jumped as much as 50 cents per hundred- ° weight of milk during the past 10 months. Devastating effects of drought on roughage, pasturage and grain re- sulted in low milk production —&— higher price. The incr ased &'n- sumer price was necessary tc car- ry the producer through the emer- gency period, the Commission said. Under present prices, dairy farm- ers received a blend or average return of about $2.30 per hundred- weight for milk during September. This, producers maintained, was in- sufficient to meet their rising costs. The blend. price under the new order will be about $2.50 per hun- dredweight, according to an esti- mate by dairy experts based on cur- rent market utilization trends. To Continue For Four Months By provision of the order, the re- tail price of 13 cents per quart will continue only until April 1, 1940, unless the Commission amends the order before that time. In comparison with the new 13- cent Grade B quart in Scranton, the Commission pointed out that the corresponding retail prices in New York and northern New Jersey va- ried from 14 to 15 cents per quart. In Baltimore the price is 13 cents per quart on Grade B milk and in Washington, D. C., 14 cents. In ad- dition, both the Schuylkill and Johnstown-Altoona areas have a 13- cent retail price, the Commission said. New York, with its 14 to 15 cent retail price on door delivery, has a Class 1 price of $3.02 (4% butterfat milk). At the request of producers, the Milk Control Commission in its new order changed the basis of price schedules from 4% butterfat milk to 3.5% butterfat milk. This means that although the new order calls for a Class 1 price of $2,76 per hun- dredweight on the 3.5% butterfat basis, dairy farmers will receive $2.96 per hundredweight, for 4% butterfat milk, the former basis for prices. Prices now in effect on the 4% butterfat basis are $2.70 per hun- dredweight for Class 1 and $2 for Class 1A. : FARMER BEFUDDLED WHEN POLICE NAB HIS In the future, Ignatz Drabinski, trustful farmer from Chase, is go- ing to be skeptical about helpful strangers who offer to drive him home from Wilkes-Barre. On Sunday night Mr. Drabinski was in Wilkes-Barre and in /the course of the evening he encounter- ed one Stanley Brolley, a jovial soul who sympathized with Mr. Drapinski’'s difficulty in finding transportation back home. Ac- cording to the Chase farmer, Brolley accommodatingly offered to drive Drabinski home for 60 cents. Drabinski says they got in a car FRIEND Brolley pointed out. Drabinski paid his 60 cents in advance. Just then Joseph Morris, owner of the car, arrived with police. Brolley, says fled but police caught him after a {tWo-block chase and verybody went to the police station \to talk it over. > The innocent Mr. Dropinghi \pes bewildered by the turn of events. “Lotsa trouble for nawthing,” he commented philosophically ‘as po-. lice warned him to be wiser in the future.
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