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“The Totem Pole”
Harrisburg, August 19—The professional horn-blowers are working
up a fine spit-and-polish on their instruments these days and on many
a dull sunshiny afternoon will be found deep in the hills, testing said
instruments with varying toots and honks.
Object of this musical harangue
activities next month when both
is to prepare for the forthcoming
the Republicans and Democrats
open their Fall political campaigns |
in Pennsylvania.
Technically and theoretically the
Republicans in this State have al-
ready opened their affair, having
some months ago announced that
they quietly stole into a Franklin
County village by name of Cham-
bersburg for their opening cere-
mony.
Since that time nothing has been
heard from GOP headquarters
here — until recently when the boys
let it be known that they were
inviting one Tom Dewey, their
Presidential candidate, to officially
open the campaign in Pennsylvania
next month in Pittsburg.
For some reason they apparently
decided to start all over again. How
many more starts they are going to
have before they really get under
way, nobody around here seems fo
know for sure.
On the other hand the Democrats
are still fretting and fussing over
their opening event. Efforts are
being made now, through proper
channels, pipelines and sundry dis-
couraging and devious devices, to
brow-beat President Truman into
being on hand for their official
opening in the Keystone State.
“Fact of the matter is,” confided
Grandpaw Pettibone from behind
his dark glasses, ‘that both sides
know they are going to need all
the help they can get to put the
big and important State of Penn-
sylvania in the proper column.”
The politicos in Washington are
not unaware of the 4,000,000 votes
floating around within the confines
of Pennsylvania, nor are they over-
looking the vastly important 35
electoral votes tucked away under
the Pennsylvania blanket.
They are, in effect telling the
boys here:
“Woo those votes as
never wooed before, Bud.”
Similarly the word is being
passed on down the line. By the
time matters really get rolling a
month or so hence there should
be enough blood-thirsty politicians
on the loose to keep matters fairly
lively for the populace.
But notwithstanding all the com-
motion created in the upper circles,
it will be the lads on the home
front — the local canidates — who
will really spearhead activities.
“This is what the politicians call
a ‘grass-roots’ year,” our old!
political sage informed us, licking |
the remnants of a chocolate bar
from his fingers. ‘This is the year
son, you'll find all those political
birds working hard and furiously
on the folks at home — nothing
like it in recent years.”
And for the sake of a united
front at least, bristling Jim Duff
has patched up his differences (for
the time being) with other leaders
of the GOP in Pennsylvania and
all appears to be peaceful in that
camp.
By the same token the Democrats
have no major disputes on their
vests and all appears to be serene
you've
there too — which leaves both op-
ponents licking only minor wounds
before joining battle.
SAFETY VALVE
CONSUMERS SHOULD OPPOSE
HIGHER WATER RATES
Dear Editor:
With regard to increased water
rates in Dallas and Shavertown.
There has been a flood of in-
creases in utility rates in the past
year. Some of them may be justi-
fiable, particularly where operating
expenses have been greatly in-
creased and: these form a large
portion of the company’s return.
Conversely, when prices recede, op-
erating expenses should reduce,
and rates should be lessened. Even
if consumers should concede that
an increase should now be allowed,
they must, to be consistent, ask
for a corresponding decrease when
prices fall.
In order to do this intelligently,
the consumers should know the
basis upon which the company em-
ployed these high prices in com-
puting the requested increase. This
information, the consumers can se-
cure if they will file a formal, not
informal, complaint, before the
date the increase in rates becomes
effective.
"This will place the burden of
proof upon the company, and it
must furnish, among other informa-
tion, a complete inventory and ap-
praisal, and an operating state-
ment. If the consumers do not
avail themselves of this opportun-
ity, then at any subsequent date,
when they desire a rate decrease,
the burden of proof is upon them.
This is a very disadvantageous
situation in many ways.
Consumers should not admit that
present inflated prices constitute
grounds for a higher valuation up-
on which to base rates, for the
Superior Court has held in the
Equitable Gas case ‘reproduction
cost under ordinary circumstances
and reasonably stable prices is a
theoretical value based upon un-
certain and fugitive data and the
Commission is not obliged to ac-
cept such estimates which would
increase such theoretical value
where they. are based upon highly
inflationary prices and where the
economic conditions are uncertain
and unstable.”
Despite this dictum, one large
company in the western part of the
state based its increase upon just
such inflationary prices as the
Court has condemned. It may be
that others are in the same posi-
tion, possibly the Dallas and
Shavertown Water Companies
among them.
For many years the Federal
Power Commission has refused to
consider the reproduction cost
theory as a basis for ratemaking,
as have the California Commission
and some others. The Pennsylvania
Commission has been according
greater weight to original cost than
formerly. This is another reason
why the consumers should not be
appalled by the thought of a valu-
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ation based upon present prices.
The usual danger to consumers
is that they are generally disor-
ganized, good starters and poor
finishers, and the Committee which
they appoint as their representa-
tives sometimes do more for the
company than they do for the con-
sumers. For this reason it is ad-
visable that Committees be care-
fully selected, and their affiliations
considered before acceptance.
Women are often more persistent
in such causes, and merit appoint-
ment.
It has been generally considered
advisable to raise one year’s in-
creases as a war chest for a rate
fight. The consumers should fight
their own battle, and not merely
request the Commission to investi-
gate and act for them. The com-
mission is understaffed for such
purposes, and its appropriation is
inadequate for making extensive in-
vestigations such as are required
in the average rate case. There is
no more reason for a consumer
asking the Commission to do all
the work in a rate case than there
is for a litigant to go into Court
and ask the judge to set up his
case.
A rate case properly presented
is a very profitable undertaking.
The Scranton-Spring Brook Water
Service Company case has saved
the consumers about twenty-five
million dollars to date. If the Com-
mittees had rested upon the evi-
dence, and fought the case to a
proper termination, rather than
agreeing upon unwarranted settle-
ments, as much as twenty-four mil-
lion dollars more might have been
SEE
YOUR
DEALER
(Ask About
our- Liberal
Wiring
Allowance)
is very low.
cooking.
ELECTRIC COOKING is
Inexpensive!
SoME folks have the idea that electric cooking is expensive.
taken the time to get the facts by asking users or inquiring at their dealers.
Through the years there have been many improvements made in electric ranges
—improvements in speed and efficiency. Today, the cost of cooking electrically
For this low operating cost you get excellent cooking service—better cooking—
faster cooking—easier cooking—more comfortable . cooking—more convenient
LUZERNE COUNTY GAS AND ELECTRIC CORP.
They just haven't
Lehman Police Hold
Third Annual Dance
Members of the Lehman Police
Association wish to express their
appreciation to the scores of friends
and neighbors who attended their
third annual dance held in Hunts-
ville Recreation Hall Tuesday even-
ing. Over two hundred and fifty
people attended. Proceeds will be
used to pay for uniforms and
equipment.
Committee in charge: Chief Joe
Ide, Captain L. E. Beisel, Joe Regon,
Fred Davenport and John Major.
saved. The total cost of the con-
sumers’ case, in both the Scranton
and Spring Brook districts, did not
exceed $350,000. Not many in-
vestments are as remunerative.
Very truly yours,
W. L. Lance
: WATCH
GROW!
As mighty oaks from tiny
acorns grow, so it is with
your savings IF you ‘put
aside” regularly. Let your
money earn interest for
tomorrow by opening an
account today.
Member F.D.I.C.
KINGSTON
NATIONAL BANK
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a community institution”
ESTABLISHED 1889
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Associate Editor
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MRS. T. M. B. HICKS
KINGSTON CORNERS
Greene County is the leading
sheep-producing county in the State.
“As near as your telephone”
363-R-4
Alfred D.
Bronson
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
SWEET VALLEY, PA.
Keep cows milking -
CREAM
ORDER
PASTURES ARE DRYING UP!
Feed adequate roughage
and
TIOGA 20%
or
TIOGA
ATINE
16%
TODAY
Phone 337-R-49
KUNKLE, PA.
DEVENS MILLING COMPANY
A. C. DEVENS, Owner
Phone 200
DALLAS, PA.
THE NATURE EDITOR
He takes the city train, and on the way
he ponders neat and charming things to say
about the country he has lately left.
The countryside, bereft
of his society, resumes
the battle—weeds among legumes,
cows in cornfields, bugs in the potatoes,
drought and flood and woodchucks in tomatoes—
the humdrum daily diet of disaster.
Safe behind his polished desk, the master
in his purplest prose.
(oh lavendar the smooth ink flows!)
poetically praises
rains—the smells of barns—blue summers—phrases
flow like syrup from his urbane pen.
The farmer reads and snorts—and then
he loudly swears his wits are growing dim,
or else Dame Nature spends her scowls on him,
and saves her smiles and kisses for
the nature editor.
BIANCA BRADBURY.
In the New York Herald-Tribune
THINGS
Sometomes when I am at tea with you,
I catch my breath
At a thought that is old as the world is old
And more bitter than death.
It is that the spoon that you just laid down
And the cup that you hold
May be here shining and insolent :
When you are still and cold.
Your careless note that I laid away
May leap to my eyes like flame,
When the world has almost forgotten your voice °
Or the sound of your name.
The golden Virgin da Vinci drew
May smile on over your head,
And daffodils nod in the silver vase
When you are dead.
So let the moth and dust corrupt and thieves
Break through and I shall be glad, -
Because of the hatred I bear toward things
Instead of the love I had.
For life seems only a shuddering breath,
: A smothering, desperate cry;
And things have a terrible permanence
When people die.
—Aline Kilmer.
LAW OF DIMINISHING WORKERS
(Figures certified as of December 31, 1947)
Population of United States 135,000,000
People 65 or older 37,000,000
Balance left to do the work 98,000,000
People 21 years or younger i 54,000,000
Balance left to do the work 44,000,000
People working for the government 21,000,000
Balance left to do the work 23,000,000
People in the armed services 10,000,000
Balance left to do the work 13,000,000
People in state and city offices 12,800,000
Balance left to do the work 200,000
People in hospitals and insane asylums 126,000
Balance left to do the work 74,000
Bums and others who won't work — 62,000
Balance left to work 12,000
People in jails 11,998
BALANCE 2
TWO—you and I! And you'd better get a wiggle on, because
I'm getting tired of running this country alone! 3
—~Contributed by L. L. Richardson.
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