Editorially Speaking: What Has Happened To Meat Prices? Is any form of “price control” workable? The answer to that is yes—but not the kind of arbitrary and antificial controls which Tue Darras Post MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION DALLAS H R governments sometimes impose, to the eventual sorrow of their - people. The only kind of “price control” which does a sound job is that which is part and parcel of the supply-demand system of production and distribution. : Meat has been providing an exceptionally good sample of that. This winter there was a seasonal increase in meat supplies. As a result, between September and mid-January the general wholesale price of all meats, for the country as a whole, declined about 20 percent. This was reflected in sharp declines in retail prices. In the Chicago area, over the same period of time, pork chops dropped an average of 2 per cent, round steak, 25 per cent, and so on down the line. Lard, which is one of the major by- products of the meat packing industry, sank 30 percent. This, to repeat; was the result of increased meat supplies available to the consumer. How long that will go on, no one knows. But all of us should know, from experience and obser- vation, that government controls and allocations would inev- itably create shortages—precisely as they would act as a welcome shot in the arm to the black market. No one will do his utmost to produce more meat for the future if he knows that the prices he will receive, and the markets available to him, will be dictated by the whims of politicians whose principal interest lies in seek- ing favor with the voters. Supply and demand continues to demonstrate that it is the best and fairest economic system yet devised by man. Lies Breeding More Lies It is an indefensible lie to say that struggle between employers and employees is inevitable. Such a lie can only be supported by other lies. The current version of this lie is that American business is a parasite controlled from Wall Street, nurtured in monopoly, charging extortionate prices and making outrageous profits. The truth is exactly the opposite. American industry is the * greatest strength of the nation, owned and controlled by millions of Americans either as stockholders or self-employed businessmen. x ¥ X FROM. PILLAR TO POST By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr. Hats off to Phyllis. She's writing an exuberant autobiography with ' no holds barred, and it makes amusing reading. “Three Acres” isn’t a column, nor should it be assayed as such. It is the beginning of a book which when completed will undoubtedly find a publisher, for though it is suggestive in its treatment of “The Egg and I”, it is far more cleverly written. It is breezy in spots, but life is breezy at times, and a person who Veterans Have Busy February can take everything as it comes with the future, | The following is a summary of with a grain of salt and with the ‘ougue in the cheek, Bas yome a Every writer should resign him- | activities of Dallas Township Vet- ! way toward milking w bai, self with his first published word | erans’ Agriculture Class for Feb- | to the fact that it is impossible | ruary. to please everybody. Break into| The class started February with print, and there you are, a handy a wonderful chicken supper served target. That's the price for ex- by the Home Economics Department pressing yourself, a lifelong resi- of Dallas Township Schools on Feb- dence in. a glass house with not enough Venetian blinds to go Miss Margaret Kane. around. | Atty. Peter Kanjorski spoke on As a general rule, if you approach | rural law and answered questions ruary 7, under the supervision of | | writing or life with the ambition | for the veterans. Others attending of giving no offense and pleasing everybody, you give offense where none was intended, and you please nobody, not even yourself. If you don’t achieve either of these dis- tinctions, you take shape in the local mind as a vague and formless wraith, entirely lacking in person- ality. You can’t win. I remember with wry amusement that a local mer- chant took exception to my account of a harmless thumbing through the pages of a Sears Roebuck cata- logue in search of some luxury item that would amount to precisely ten | dollars, postage included, ten dol- lars: being the exact amount of binge money with no strings at- tached to it which was mine to spend. The fact that the money was never spent at all, but laid philosophically aside to finance an umbrella for a rainy day, didn’t figure in the argument, which was that if Mrs. Hicks was not going to spend ten dollars she ought to not spend it rummaging ‘through a local store to the confusion of the clerks and the ruination of’ the shelf arrangements instead of not spending it comfortably in front of the fire with the feet elevated to the top of the Franklin stove and the shoulder blades comforted with cushions. After all, the proof of the pud- ding, etc, etc. I note that the readers who profess to be the most deeply disturbed about the biologi- cal inferences in “Three Acres” are the very ones who dive the most precipitately for the second page of the Post in order not to miss anything. And I'm now sitting back and waiting for reverberations. , State Master To Speak at Pamona Pamona Grange 44 will meet with Mountain Grange at Carverton on March 19. Sharp Fullerton, Mas- ter of the State Grange will be the speaker. were Don Evans, president, Floyd Chamberlain, Secretary, and Tom Moore, members of the School Board; R. H. ‘Kuhnert, principal; Frank Wagner, William Liem, and Veterans’ Administration Training Officer Holleran. Anthony Beckant, Swoyerville, treasurer of the Agricultural Club, was toastmaster. On February 14, Robert Parla- man, public relations officer of the State Game Commission spoke on | “Wildlife as A Crop” and soil con- servation. On February 21, James Hutchison, county agent, discussed the latest developments . in soil conservation seed, fertilizer, spraying and mod- ern farming. The class opened Monday, Feb- ruary 28 under the leadership of Joe Price, president of Dallas Vet- erans Agriculture Club, discussing the newly organized State agricul- tural club called Young Farmers of Pennsylvania, and very similar: to the long established F. F. A. The new club will deal mainly with adults. After a lengthy discussion about the State club and its by-laws, a motion to join was tabled until the next monthly meeting, so that there can be further investigation and study of the by-laws. The class is under the super- vision of H. L. Chambers and E. J. Keller, accredited instructors. Library Book Club Will Meet Wednesday There will be an informal book discussion at the meeting of the library book club next Wednesday afternoon starting at 2 at the lib- rary. Members of the serving commit- tee will be Mrs. S. L. Alberts, Mrs. Charles Ashley, Mrs, John Benner, Mrs. Primo Berrettini, Mrs. Norti Berti, Mrs. James Besecker, Mrs. M. A. Briggs, Mrs. Alfred Bronson, Mrs. Luther Brown and Mrs. Harry Coolbaugh. Vol. 59, No. 10 FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1949 6 CENTS PER COPY {INGSTO ACKSON E TO TOTAL BOX SCORE Back Mountain Highway Deaths and Serious accidents since V-J Day Hospitalized Killed 2 11 1 TOW IP 20 4 3 2 1 2 20 N 31 | Firemen Back Scout Movement Committee Approves Ward-LaFrance Truck Deciding that its responsibility to | the community is not limited alone | to fire protection, Trucksville Vol- | unteer Fire Company at a well | attended meeting on Friday night | voted to take over the sponsorship | of Boy Scout Troops in its com- | munity. Among those who spoke for the | project were: Stanley Cashmark, | who has considerable experience in | Scout work, and Rev. Robert Web- | ster, pastor of Trucksville Metho- | dist Church. . President Don Finney appointed the following Troop committee: Stanley ' Cashmark, Dr. John =H. Doane, ‘Rev. Robert Webster, Tom | Jenkins, William" Johnston, Stanley Farr,’ S. Dy# Finney and Warren Unger. Mr<*Ungar is a former Eagle Scout with more than twenty years experience in Scouting. His father was also interested in Scouting. | Bert Fennell will be scoutmaster and Dr. Carl Bradbury will have charge of Sea Scouts. Meetings of both groups will be held shortly. It is also hoped that a Cub Pack can be organized under the super- vision of the firemen’s committee. Leaders reported that there are sixty boys in the community who are definitely interested in some phase of scouting. There are ap- proximately twenty-nine who want to belong to the Scouts; twenty-one who would like to join the Cubs and twelve older boys interested in Sea Scouts. Choose Fire Truck William Strange, chairman of the committee to select a fire truck, said that members of committee have visited Penn Argyl, Hamburg and Hanover Township to view equipment and have decided that Ward-LaFrance equipment costing approximately $12,000 will = best meet requirements of the company. purchased within the = next few months. It was also reported that due to the unusually mild weather - two grass fires were among the four fires to which the company sponded during February. re- Jackson Firemen Answer First Call A telephone call by Ira Van Orden brought Jackson's high pressure fog fire truck, driven by Harold Bert- ram, assistant fire chief, to the scene of the fire in less thap” three minutes. It was tn Jno com- pany’s first response a fire call. A brush fire started by Mr. Van Orden got out of control and threat- ened Harold Palmer’s residence and buildings. There was no damage done by the fire. Fire Chief Bonning asks all resi- dents to be extremely careful in starting brush fires and if they get out of control to call the Jackson Volunteer Fire Department immed- iately. “It is ‘better to answer a call and find the fire out than to answer a belated call and find ser- ious damage already done. In short, call first.” Dallas Township PTA To Sponsor Hobby Show Dallas Township P. T. A. will sponsor a hobby show in the high School building Monday, March 21. when the public will be invited to show displays or to come and en- joy other people’s. The Home Economics Farm Bur- eau will display all available mater- ials_and classes of hobbies. Hobbies already lined up for the display are dog collections, tea cups, salts and peppers, pitchers, wedgewood, woodwork, weaving, { house plants and paintings. Persons wishing to display hob- bies will kindly get in touch with Mrs. Jean Mitchell, Mrs. Mildred Pruett, Mrs. Arline Evans, Mrs. Dorothy Hislop, Mrs. Mary Hart- man, Mrs. Minnie Sidorek, Mrs. Eleanor Barnes, Mrs. Iona Davis, Mrs. Catherine Mulcey, or Mrs. Helen Evans. No Socialized Medicine Dallas Kiwanis Club has informed Congressman Daniel Flood thap” it is opposed to any form of seectilized medicine being adopted at pre- sent or future sessions of Congress. The equipment will probably be; {to cheer him during his long ill- BE |] 8 Among the talented groups and) individuals participating in the sec- | ond Annual Musicale of Back Moun- | tain talent will be the Dallas Wo- | men’s Club Chorale under the dir- | ection of Mrs. Norman F. Patton. | This festival of music is scheduled for next Friday night, March 18th, | School. Members of the Dallas Women’s | Club Chorale present in the above | picture are: Front row, left to right, | Arvilla Keiper, Mary Bennallack, ' Judges Named For Farm Show Centermoreland Grange Plans Exhibit J. D. Hutchison, Luzerne County Agent; Ellis Swingle, manager of Sterling Farms, Alderson; William Schaefer, manager of NEPA Arti- ficial Breeding Coop; and Gilbert Burr, secretary of Bradco, will be judges at the Farm Products Show at Centermoreland Grange Hall on Saturday, March 12, starting at 10:30 A. M., according to Harold Appleby, master of the Grange. There will be displays of hay, silage, corn, eggs and other farm products. Ladies of the Grange will serve dinner at noon. Topics for discussion will be: “Good Hay and Good Silage Help Milk Production”—H. A, Bronson, County, D. H. I. T. Tester. “New Castle Disease in Our Poul- try” —Gilbert Burr, Meshoppen. “Green Wrap Tomatoes”’—J. D. Hutchison, Trucksville. “Grassland Farming’’'—Ellis Swin- gle, Alderson. “Our Interest in Grade Cows’—William Schaefer, hannock. “Food For All Ages’—Clara A. Stankowich, Wyoming County Home Economics Extension Rep. and “Accident Prevention in the Home.” Miss Stankowich will meet with the ladies for a separate meeting in the afternoon when the home | economics exhibits will be discussed. Mother And Son Have Broken Legs Mrs. Lizzie Moore, formerly of Sweet Valley, is a patient at Nesbitt Hospital where she was taken Tues- day afternoon after suffering a broken hip. Her son, Cecil Moore, is now confined to his hgme re- cuperating from a broken_leg~ he received less than three months ago.’ Mrs. Moore, tripped at the Sam Morgan home, Kingston, where she is housekeeper. She was rising from a chair with an infant in her arms when she lost her balance and could make no effort to recover. The child was uninjured. Her condition is good. Dairy Tunk- Schuyler Kase Seriously Ill Schuyler Kase, president of Northeastern Pennsylvania Volan- teer Firemen’s Association, whé has conducted fire schools for<practi- { cally all fire companies in the Back Mountain area, is seriously ill at his home in Olyphant. Trucksville Firemen urge all local company members to forward cards to him ness. Open Air Theatre A ‘highway sign at the entrance to Country Club Road sdys a.fiew 800-seat open air theatr ill be erected there soon. Charlotte Payne, Beatrice Lewis, Marion Whitney, Adeltha Mahler, Amy Scott, Margaret Purcell, Mrs. Norman F. Patton, director. Back Row, left to right: Betty Grose, Marion Harvey, Wilda, Elston, Mary Reese, Evelyn Eck, Nancy LeGrand, | Margaret Jewell. Absent when pic- Cummings, Dorothy Husted, Rob- erta Quaill, Anne Rekus and Fanny Williams, Started in 1948 this musical event has developed into the out- Lehman End Men Arthur Nuss Thomas Elston i For the first time in four years a Lehman High School Class will present a minstrel show, \ “Gentlemen Be Seated” will be given Friday and Saturday nights, March 18 and 19 by the Class of 1950. The production is being directed by Miss Jule C. Bartley, assisted by Bernard J. Gerrity, head of the music department. Interlocuter will be Donald Britt, with Arthur Nuss, Thomas Elston, Ronald Hutchinson, Fred Disque, Andrew Harrison and Robert Hontz as end men. Carl Rood is stage manager. Eve- lyn Keller is accompanist, assisted by Bettina Tvede. Wild Ducks Stop At Eipper's For Swim Cris Eipper says that hedias seen no robins or blue birds, but fifty ducks stopped at his place for an hour’s swim and then headed north. Whether Cris has seen them or not, dozens of residents have called the Post this week to say that they have robins and some blue birds in their yards, To Take Part In All-Back Mountain Musicale standing program of music of this | area. This year’s Second Annual | Musicale will feature the Music of | Debussy, Brahms, Mozart, Tschai- | kovsky, Cheminade, Kreisler, Rom- | berg, and Rachmaninoff, also more | recent composers. This event, which is held to en- | courage + interest in music in this in the Kingston Township High |ture was taken: Zora Bogart, Rita area, is sponsored by the Ladies | Auxiliary of St. Paul's Lutheran | Church, Shavertown, with Mrs. P. M. Winter as chairlady. Tickets | may be purchased at the door be- | fore 8:00 P. M. on Friday evening. Township Grads Elect Officers Committee Named To Write By-Laws First business meeting of Dallas Township Alumni Association was held at the high scghool library Fri- day night. Electigh of Officers was the chief business: Elected were: President, Mrs, Ed- ward Sidorek; Vice President, Ed- win Lumley; Recording Secretary, Dorothy Weaver; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Walter = Gosart; Treasurer, Mrs. James Knecht; Fac- ulty adviser, Daniel Williams. Mrs. Robert L. Dolbear was ap- pointed chairman of the constitu- tion and by-laws committee which will meet March 30 at the high school library to draft a charter for the new organization. Mem- bers of the committee will be an- nounced later. Idetown Farmer Leads Fight On Federal Project No Conclusions Are Reached At Wilkes- Barre Mass Meeting Luzerne County farmers remain unconvinced that additional gov- ernment aid is necessary for local soil conservation, following an air- ing of both sides of the issue at Hotel Redington Wednesday night. Representing the farmers, John M. Hewitt, Idetown, revealed that government regulations would in effect force the land owner to ac- cept erosion control of his property whether he wished or not, and that he would be reduced from the stat- us of owner to that of farm occu- pant subject to punishment by law. He quoted from a book of reg- ulations published for department- al employees and not for public circulation. “I had to sign my life away to get this book,” he said, “The fellow who gave me this book would lose his job if it were known.” He added that the reg- ulations had been published with the intention of enforcing them. “If this is voluntary,” He added, speaking of the entire plan, “then I am nuts!” Presenting the case for a fed- eral ‘erosion control district was William J. Robbins Jr., Trucksville, read the disputed state act to the assembly. Wade W. Gregory, farm- er director of the Carbon County program supported his views and extolled the work in his region, stating that Luzerne County farm- ers were throwing away a chance to get technical assistance by gov- ernment experts. Stephen Emmanuel, who owns a farm outside the County, spoke in favor of conservation. Carl Stainbrook, representing the State Game Commission, disavowed any activity by the commission and said that “ we are all inter- ested in conservation.” Leading the attack for the farm- ers was Fred Bittenbender, prom- inent Huntington Mills farmer, who reported that earlier in the week he asked Miles Horst, State Secretary of Agriculture, if outside aid could give the farmers anything that they had not received already. Mr. Horst said, ‘Very little.” 3 William Smith, Berwick orchard- ist, said that free rye grass, free Next meeting of the association will be held at the school library, April 6 at 8 p.m. All alumni are requested to attend and present their ideas on what should be in- corporated into the by-laws. Present at the meeting: Mr, and Mrs. James Knecht, Mrs. William Lancio, Mrs. Edward Sidorek, Mrs. Walter Gosart, Mrs. Robert L. Dol- bear, Mrs. Leslie Tinsley, Mrs. Niles Hess, Miss Pauline Kozemchak, Miss Mary Hones, Miss Dorothy Weav- er, Edwin Lumley, and Daniel Wil- liams. Glee Clubs Sponsor Picturesque Frolic A Picturesque Frolic featuring musical numbers and interesting scenes from nineteen different coun- ties will be presented by Dallas Senior and Junior Woman's Clubs Thursday evening, April 28 in Dal- las High School Auditorium. Members of the general com- mittee are: Mrs. Joseph Schmerer, Mrs. Alan Montross; costumes, Mrs. John Girvan, Miss Janine Sawyer; music, Mrs. Leonard Harvey, Mrs. Harold Elston; personnel, Mrs. Rob- ert Dolbear, Mrs. Sherman Harter; publicity, Mrs. Hordon Edwards, Mrs. Muriel Garinger; research Mrs, Robert Williams, Mrs. Roymane Oney; stage properties, ‘Mrs, Wil- liam Deibert, Mrs. Sam Margillina, script, Mrs. Howard Yeager, Miss Kay O’Boyle; tickets, Mrs. Wilson Maury, Mrs. Wilbur Davies; diree- tor, Mrs. Norman Patton. To Be On Station WILK A unique program was presented at Dallas Junior Woman's Club meeting last Tuesday evening when Chuck Whittier of Station WILK conducted a quiz on varied ques- tions. Taking part were Mrs, Wil- son Garinger, Mrs. William Baker Jr., Mrs. Wilbur Davis and Mrs. Claudia Guyette. The quiz which was recorded will be broadcast over WILK Tuesday evening at 7:10. or cheap young trees and other inducements had been offered as “bait” to gain favor among farmers for the program. He. pointed out, however, that Luzerne County now. uses more rye grass than.is” used in the rest of the state altogether. There is, he claimed, no other com- parable area which is more con- servation conscious. Several farmers dissented vigor- ously at the mention of “free” rye grass, Comparing the conservation work already in effect in Luzerne County with that of a nearby county which is an erosion control area, Mr. Bit- tenbender and others showed that work has progressed farther here than it has where government ex- perts are working. Mr. Bittenben- der said that once in the past a federal erosion control expert had worked in Luzerne County and “when he left we had to do all the work over again to make it satis- factory.” Mr. Hewitt commented on the existing regulations and said that the gist of the program was “if they don’t obey the program, force them to.” He quoted sections to show how a non-complying farmer might be punished. In reference to his previous state- ment ' that the plan was a “lousy, dirty communist trick” he declared that he did not believe that there were any communists present or involved, but he said that the spirit of communism was there. “The communists,” he said, “know that they have to kill the farmers, the land owners, the sportsmen and the business men a little at a time.” “Farmers,” he stated, “are the most consevation-minded people in the world. They have to be. They know that if they don’t take care of the land, they all go hungry and so will everybody else.” James Hutchison, County Agent, was acclaimed to be one of the best known and most successful county agents, not only in Pennsylvania but all adjoining states, and he received an enthusiastic ovation from the assembly. -
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