rations and hold back their cars to PAGE TWO PR i A i SECOND THOUGHTS | By javie aiche } il When he was in the halls of national legislation we called John J. Dempsey the third Luzerne County Congressman; that, of course, being due to J. Harold Flannery already holding portfolio from us, and John Steven McGroarty having equal rights by grace of the voters of California, | who perhaps had forgotten he was born in Miner's Mills and once served as Luzerne County Treasurer. Demp- sey should be broadened; he should . be designated the new Patrick Henry. Listen: “This is an oil state. Oil runs automobiles, and from it is con- structed tires by synthetic process. By act of legislature and over my signature there has been devised in ‘New Mexico a speed limit of 45 miles an hour, and I defy the Office of Price Administration, the bureau- cracy of Washington, and the min- ions of oppression, to arrest any citizen of my commonwealth and get away with punishing him.” That's John J. Dempsey speaking. When he said “‘this is an oil State” he really should have changed from ! an impersonal to a personal pro- | noun; he should have said “Mine is! an oil State” because he was speak- | ing in Springfield, Illinois, and not | in New Mexico, to a group of news reporters. “These regulators of American | life want oil State people to draw 35 miles an hour. That's nonsense. _ Any man who knows the construc- tion of the modern-day internal combustion engine is aware that motor cars ,even in 1941, were made- to travel at a minimum speed of 45 miles an hour. That's why New Mex- ico adopted that as a speed maxi- | mum on commonwealth highways. To drive a car at 35 wears down the engine; it does not wear down the tires to drive at 45, no matter what these bureaucrats and tres- passers on human rights may say to the contrary. In New Mexico, sir, my citizens, and you too, when you come there, will drive with all the gas you want and at a minimum speed of 45 miles an hour. That's the law and I'm Governor.” sions of OPA, either, because as a loser on the right side he immedi- ately was found a job with a high salary until he could run for Gover- nor and be elected. After you have traveled the prairies and plains at 60 miles an hour, hours on end be- fore coming to the next town, you | feel constrained to whoop it up to the high heavens for John J. Demp- sey and for success to his defiance of share-the-misery regulations.’ The mood continues when you stop at the farm of Henry Gregoire, :in Bristol, and see barns as big as circus tents, bulging with corn and oats he can’t afford to feed to beef cattle; beef cattle of Struthers Jones {lean and hungry because they can’t get the corn; the plains pounded to dust by the surplus herds that no one. wants to market at a loss and corn growers will not feed because the corn they want is worth more than the beef evolved from it under OPA restrictions. I have been five days among these cattle and corn kings, and where once their stake! (spell it both ways) was in beef it is now in beefing about the plight they are in. You will understand it next winter when you will not be able to buy a beef roast or a prime steak for anything short of an act of treason. Health Topics By F. B. Schooley, M. D. | J Influenza Influenza is an acute, highly con- tagious and infectious disease. It oc- If that isn’t a give-me-liberty- or- give-me-death speech, what is it? curs in epidemic and pandemis out- breaks, during which it spreads with I haven't been in New Mexico, but |great rapidity. The history of influ- at Hotel Leland, I applauded John !enza shows that severe epidemics J. Dempsey, giving him mental in- dex with his protonym of the prize ring. He's a fighting son-of-a-gun, and may Liberty bless him beyond | wartime measure. Because, it iis ‘very true that speed under 45 miles, an hour in the oil states, which happen to be the broad common- wealths ofeye-challenging horizons and endless distances, a lesser speed doesn’t get you anywhere. And ' what's the use of conserving gaso- line when oceans of it wait in pool while rivers of it run by tankcar to the East and the earth’s bosom gushes it in back yards and out of school playgrounds? As for tires, is it sinful to buy them to save them from rotting in the garages and at- tic hideaways? Only one thing puzzled me about John J. Dempsey. Last time I heard of him in Congress he was a New Dealer. And when he lost for U. S. Senator in New Mexico he lost be- cause of the New Deal sponsorship. It wasn’t a reason for him to become a Patrick Henry against the oppres- ~ Radio Service . DRIVE UP HERE! Come Service. tip-top shape—while ordinary “ex- perts” still would be tinkering it! .. 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It may occur suddenly with the onset of influenza, or may develop insidiously during the course of the disease. Absolute confinement to bed is essential to insure recovery and to prevent complications. The sulfona- mides are of value more particularly in cases with secondary bacterial in- fection. Dilute soap solution are ef- fective germicides for influenza virus. of home grown feeds. A Ti ET SP EAD GUARD AGAINST FEED With a planned feeding program adapted to your supply -o-ga feed Service Man will be glad to assist you in working out your program— WASTE A. C. KUNKLE, PA. Phone 3387-R-5 DEVENS MILLING COMPANY Devens, Owner DALLAS, Pa. Phone: 200 Fa out the world. An Old Duck Hunter Dear Howard: "I guess it is about time that I should 'get on the beam and write a few lines to you. I am still here at Fort Snelling so just send the Post. this way and I shall continue to keep up on the home front news. I haven't received a paper for two weeks now, but I guess it is my own fault since I have failed to notify you that I have been receiving it up until that time. This Minnesota weather sure has been grand so far this fall. We have had just one little snow flurry so far although heavy frosts are present most every morning. These days are the kind that get in my blood as the leaves are down and the ducks and geese are flying. The ringnecks just tantalize an old hunter when they crow early in the crisp morning air and fly about un- molested. The gray squirrels are busy here about the lawns and trees storing up wood for that winter weather that is just around the corner here. ‘I guess I had better stop writing about such things or I will have myself and a lot of other fellows tempted to go A. W. O. L. I guess we won't have to worry about the scarcity of game for a while if the shell situation is the same in the East as it is here. I read an interesting article in the St. Paul Dispatch today. Some- one advertised fifty boxes of shot- gun shells for sale in the newspaper. Before noon four thousand eager buyers milled in the vicinity of the address and blocked traffic and flooded the poor man with telephone calls. He finally had to call the police to clear the crowd and when he found out where the mistake was—well, it was just a prank that someone had played upon him. I had a pleasant, surprise a few weeks ago when Stanley Hoyt from Kunkle stopped here to visit me on his way back to British Columbia. He sure looked good and we had a fine visit. He told me that he had visited you while he was home. I see by one of the recent Posts himself. Walt is an old classmate of mine from Dallas Township High School. I have seen several good football games here this fall. The Minnesota Gophers have a fairly good team again this year. Thirty-two of our boys returned from North Africa last week with a contingent of Italian prisoners. They had quite an interesting trip ‘and they brought back some very interesting souvenirs. An Italian rifle in perfect working condition was one of the articles which inter- ested me quite a bit. It closely re- sembles our carbine, but is inferior in every detail. In fact, I would hate to depend upon it for squirrels. A German mess kit also took my eye. It was a four piece affair con- taining a can opener, knife, fork and spoon of stainless steel that fitted together in a compact unit. One of the boys had a bridal photograph of his wife along, and an Italian prisoner, a former artist, made a beautiful oil painting copy of it for the total sum of three packs of cigarettes or about seventeen cents. Most of their prisoners were very well behaved and were anxious to get out of the war. Well, I guess this just about finishes tonight's letter so I shall close hoping to get that Post this week. ; Sincerely, Lt. Glenn A. Kitchen Fort Snelling, Minn. ® Brother, for a letter jam-packed with news, this one can’t be beat. Always nice to get a letter from you, Glenn.—Editor. This Is A Story Dear Mr. Risley: It is about fifteen minutes before chow time, so I thought I would pen you a letter while I have a chance. After I was in California for a week, I was sent to the Aleutians where I am now. Although the weather is nothing like Pennsyl- vania weather, it isn’t too bad. I have met several fellows from Wilkes-Barre, and the other day, much to my amazement, I met some one from Dallas. His name is Evans, who lives on R. D. 3. Al- was’ good to meet someone from your own town. It seems as though you are living in another world up here. Last night I went to a U. S. O. show, where I saw some girls. Some treat! That might seem funny to you, but since there are girls behind all the trees up here—only there come sight, no matter how young or old she is. It was a real good show. It even had an orchestra which was sending out with some that Walt Lewin is doing O. K. for! though I didn’t know him before, it | aren't any trees, a girl is a wel- | THE OUTPOST Where those at home and the men and women in the armed = services from the Back Mountain Region—in camps and on the fighting frents—keep contact with their fellows through- { ( When you're far away from home and Yuh can sneer at all your troubles, an’ You can lift your chin and whistle, an’ lished in “The Stars and Stripes”. When the cook is downright nutty, an’ When he feeds yuh canned tomatoes for jes’ seventeen straight days, When a letter comes yuh grab, it right before the other guys An’ yuh git a little vision of the light that’s in Her eye; Yuh can see her smiles and dimples an’ fer other girls you're blind. When you've really had a letter from the Girl yuh left behind. -—_ Gettin’ Letters you're feelin’ kind of blue, When the world is topsy turvy, nothin’ sets just right for you; yer cares yuh never mind, When you've really had a letter from the Girl yuh left behind. his biskits never raise, treat him fairly kind, If you've really had a letter from the Girl yuh left behind. When the Captain's got a grouch on, an’ has bawled you out for fair, When some pesky Lieut has sassed you which at home he wouldn’t dare, Yuh can lift your chin and whistle and that’s easy you will find, If you've really had a letter from the Girl yuh left behind. Jest a sheet or two of paper with a purple stamp or two But it means the whole creation to the heart and soul of you, An’ yuh git to feelin’ pious an’ yuh pray a bit, yuh mind, Fer the great Almighty’s blessin’ on the Girl yuh left behind. This poem by “E. C. D.” was written during the last war and pub- solid jive. Those girls do deserve much credit for coming all the way up here on their own accord. After them, whose home town was the place I worked one summer as a waiter—Long Branch, New Jersey. Well, it’s time for chow and I am starved, as usual. = I have gained eight pounds in a month. I hope I gain some more. Please keep the Posts coming. Yours truly, L- David Schmerer On the Aleutians : ® Seems like it was yesterday I was saying “Good-Bye” to you at the postoffice, and you gave me all the names of the girls and boys at your farewell party. Wasn't a chorus girl at it. And here you are in the Aleutians and not talking to Esquimaux either. We heard through Mrs. Evans that Dory is in the hut next to you. It's a small T nm a newspaper, nity institution” “More, ‘a conv THE DALLAS POST ESTABLISHED 1889 A non-partisan liberal progressive newspaper pub- lished every Friday morning at its plant on Lehman Ave- nus, Dallas, Penna., by the Dallas Post. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subsorlp- tion rates: 50 a year; $1.50 six months. No subscriptions accepted for less than gix months. Out-of- state subseriptions: $3.00 a year; $2.00 six months or less. ack somes, more than ome week old, 10¢ ed Single copies, at a rate of 6c each, can be obfained every Friday mem- ing at the following newsstands: Dallas—Tally-Ho Grille, Hislop’s Res- taurant; Bhavertown, Evans’ Drug store; Trucksville—Leonard’s Store; Idetown—Caves Store; Huntsville— Hontz's Store; Jiarveps Lake—Ed- wards’ Restaurant; lderson—Dea- ter’'s Store. . When requesting a change of ad- dress subscribers are asked to give their old as well as new address in order to prevent delay. We will net be responsible for the return of wunselicifed manuseripts, Gig ik and editorial matter un- less i stamped en T8lope is epcipsed, a fn no case wi be is gi for this, material for more than 80 days. National display advertising rates 60c per eolumn inch. Local display advertising rates 40c per column inch. Classified rates 2c per word. Minimum charge 25c. Unless > paid for at advertising rates, we can give no assurance that announcements of plays, par- ties, rummage sales ar any affairs for raising money will appear in a specific issue. In no. case will such items be taken om Thursdays. Editor and Publisher HOWARD W. RISLEY Editors , % S/Sgt. Howell E. Rees, U.S.A. Y Lieut Warren Hicks, U.S.A. Associate Editor MYRA ZEISER RISLEY Contributing Editors JOHN V. HEFFERNAN MRS. T. M. B. HICKS EDITH BLEZ DR. F. B. SCHOOLEY MARTHA HADSEL War-Time Correspondents MRS. J. GORDON HADSEL Advertising Department HELEN BOOTH Y Harry Lee Smith American Red Cross Foreign Ser. Mechanical Superintendent HARRY E. POST Mechanical Department Y S/Sgt. Alan C. Kistler, U.S.A. yc: Norman Rosnick, U.S.N. +“ S/Sgt. Alfred Davis, U.S.A. % Pvt. Wm. Heélmboldt, U.S.A. % Pvt. Joseph Riehl, U.S.A. the show, I was talking to one ofa our gang is. + In Armed Serviee. world. I don’t know where a mar- ried man could go to look at a chorus girl unmolested.—Editor. Meets Old Friends Dear Sir: Just a few lines between classes to thank you for the Post. It is one of the best papers that I have ever seen because it isn’t full of war news. I don’t know how the other fellows in the service think, but I hear about the war through the day so it is a treat to read a paper that rests your mind. > Well, they have sent me up here to Illinois and it is a very nice place. The people up here treat the sol- diers like their own sons and they hope their sons are getting treated the same way. I know if they are in Pennsylvania they are getting treated that way. Well, I am thanking you again for the Post because by having it I found a good friend of mine and a number of fellows in the service. He %s Lt. Itvin Ddvis, who "is *sta- tioned with the infantry. Then they sent me to Camp Ellis, Illinois,” and there I found a guy that I ran around with back in good old Shavertown. He is Pvt. Joe Gallagher from Shavertown. Just about every night Joe and I go up to the service club and P. X. to sit around and talk about the fun we had back home and wonder where some of Boy, I would like to know. Well, I guess you would like to know what we do in a Station Hos- pital. Well, we are about 200 to 300 miles behind the front lines and take care of the men who are wounded. We have 750 beds so you can see it isn’t very small. We have about 300 men and 75 nurses and 47 officers and everyone of us is kept busy at all times. We give the men the best treatment we can, then send them back to the States in a No. Gen. Hosp. from there some of them go home and others to camps in the States. Ones we can take care of are sent back to their units to fight. Well, that is for that. There is one thing I would like to do and that is to thank each and every one of you in person for mak- ing the Post the best in the country. Well, I hope every thing is O. K. back there and everyone is doing their best to get this mess over so we can come home to the ones we love and try to forget what was going on over there. So till I get the paper and come home to thank you, I will close with luck to every- one back home. Yours truly, Pvt. Allen D. Pritchard Camp Ellis, Illinois ® By golly, we almost put this letter on the front page. From salutation to conclusion it radiates enthusiasm. Just in case folks don’t know it, we'd like to say, Allan, that you are one of three sons of Mrs. Ellen Pritchard, Shavertown, who are now in service. Had a letter from Bob at Camp Edwards this week, and Ray is overseas with the engineers.—Editor. From Professor Boston Dear Howard: Since my last communication with you, I have traveled quite some distance. I have been assigned to the Merced Army Air Field as me- teorology instructor. I received my commission at the Grand Rapids Weather School on August 21. On that date, I was ordered to report to the Army Air Forces Western Flying Training Command, with headquarters at | | Santa Ana, California, for an as- signment to an air base. We were in Camp Pickett, Virginia, THE SENTIMENTAL SIDE By EDITH BLEZ Have you begun your annual struggle with window curtains yet? There is nothing quite as attractive as’ fresh curtains draped gracefully over a spotless window pane, but I would rather someone else hung the curtains. If you are one who can take curtain hanging gracefully, you are out of my class. You are in a class by yourself. Don’t tell me there is nothing to THE LOW. DOWN HICKORY.GROVE Even the T-year-itch don’t last forever. Fun- ny-business there at our Capitol will get cleared up. Several congressmen went home during the last few years, and without a return coupon on their R. R. ticket. If I was a Senator still down there on the payroll I would mot dally around, about making a long and careful look into the first crystal ball I could find— if I had not already done so. In our land of the Free, we go in for bobbed hair and then we go in for let- ting it grow and pinning it up. We go from mnight- shirts to pajamas. We do things. We go odd places. We been tasting every concoction. any Govern- ment Doctor could cook up. We have a bad taste in our mouth. But she looks like we might be headed for home again— back to the ways of our forefathers. Brothers and sisters, home will look good. Yours with the low down, —JO SERRA. home on a short leave and left by automobile for California on August 30. We had a wonderful trip across the States. We traveled the central route, which took us through St. Louis, Denver, Salt Lake City, a- cross the Mojave Desert to Santa Ana. Upon reporting to headquarters, I was’ assigned to Merced, which is located in, central California in the heart of the San Joaquin’ Valley. This is the fruit center of the entire state. Flying conditions here are excel- lent during the greater part of the year. There is no rain during the spring or summer months but they say it rains frequently during the winter. My wife and I enjoyed the Dallas Post during our stay in Michigan, and, again, we wish to extend our thanks to you for sending it to us. We should like to continue to re-. ceive the paper at our new location. Please address it to me at the Merced Army Air Base, Merced California. Sincerely yours, . Clarence S. Boston Merced Army Air Base Merced, California ® Please tell me how we are going to run another Lehman Memorial Day Program and Horse Show with all the good men in the army? Good luck to you. Prof.—Editor. From The Thick Of IT Dear Howard: Received two copies (June issues) of the Post several weeks ago. First since May. Very glad to get them. I would have written sooner, but as you know am working for a “Ver- min Exterminating Concern”, and we just had a busy season. “Open Season”, in fact. Wish the Post could get through oftener. Thanks. Via V Mail Yours, [ Aewis LeGrand Somewhere in South Pacific ® That's a lot to expect from a newspaper. The fellows tell me you've been in some really hot spots. Johnny Garbutt mentioned that you were on a mission.—Editor Clay Pigeons To Airplanes Dear Howard: I received your much appreciated Dallas Post. There is not a better way I can keep informed as to what my friends and neighbors are doing and don’t let anyone try to tell you that news from home doesn’t mean a lot to the morale of a soldier. It sure peps them up when they re- ceive mail at mail call, which, in- cidentally, is given out morning and afternoon. I have a fine bunch of fellows in my barracks. I have not found one that doesn’t try to cooperate with the rest of the gang. We have very good food and all we want of it. Our basic training is quite tough but the more we have, the more we get used to it. The Army sure puts a soldier in excellent condition. My (Continued on Page Three) @it. I suspect some of the people who brag that it is a simple task have just as much trouble as I do, but it! ‘ . There is so much to this business of getting the curtains up. It isn’t half as simple as it looks. First, there is the business of just enough starch to make them hang properly. How much is just enough starch? Do you know? No one seems to know and there isn’t a book on the market with the information, but there must be “just enough starch.” They tell me—the wise ones—-that it comes with practice. From my experience I've never had enough practice. After the curtains are laundered the search for something to stand on to hang them. Something al- ways seems to happen to the step ladder. It is broken or someone has borrowed it. An ordinary chair is never high enough. How are you there isn’t a Philadelphia phone book in the house? Well—we man- age to locate something and then the circus is off to a good start! I curtain onto the fixture that I don’t discover that the curtains do not match. Every year I tell myself that the curtains must be matched before they are hung, but every year the same thing happens. I get down from the chair and begin matching curtains. You know what happens when they are dragged all over the place. Mine always have to be pressed again! This year I have suffered added trials. This year I had to put up the fixtures that hold the curtain rods. It was simple when I began opera- tions. There was nothing to it! Just a curtain fixture, a couple of nails and a hammer. It didn’t work out quite as easily as I suspected it would. The hammer and I didn’t get along very well." You wouldn’t be- lieve what a mess I got in to. I finally got the fixtures where they belonged and then I attempted to fit the new curtain rods into the fix- tures. Once or twice the fixtures didn’t quite hold and I found my- the nails as well. I thought I had | self with not only the curtain rod in my hand but the fixtures and fully, but I evidently didn’t! Why doesn’t someone tell me about these things. It finally worked out alright, but it was terrific while it lasted. If any- one suggests fresh curtains at Christmas time I'll swoon. My cur- tain hanging is over until this time next year! JOHN LEIDLINGER (“Red,” formerly with Frey Bros.) All Kinds Of LEATHER WORK REPAIRING Very Neatly Done. Harness, Collars and Horse Supplies Dog Supplies and 3 LUGGAGE 117 SO. WASHINGTON ST., Dial 8-9459 Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Get Your 1943 Hunting License $2.00 EVANS DRUG STORE Shavertown A EAR THE | FIRST NATIONAL BRNK DALLAS, PENNA. MEMBERS AMERICAN { BANKERS’ ASSOCIATION DIRECTORS R. L. Brickel, C. A. Frantz, W. B. Jeter, Sterling Machell, W. R. 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