Editoyially Speaking:
Taxes Can Kill
The gravest and most far-reaching internal sue this country
faces is the cost of its government. And of a!'issues, it is prob-
: ably the least understood.
Tue Darras Post
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
At a time when the Federal government's hcome is at a near-
record peak, and when the burden of taxition borne by the
people is without precedent in days of peaci the nation is un-
able to make both ends meet. It is running aheavy deficit which
will be added to the towering national debt—a debt which is a
direct obligation upon every man with an frcome, a piece of
property, or material resources of any kind.
There is, of course, a glib answer to all of this.
te rich man and the rich business—let them carry the load for
he rest of us.” But the fact is that we could tax the rich into
financial extinction and the proceed wouldn't even come close
'0 paying the bill. It is the tens of millions with moderate
means—not the few with large means—who are hurt by extrav-
agant government.
But that is not the end of the story. Something infinitely
\ ominous is quietly happening in this country. Taxes are killing
our economic growh.
, A recent article in Newsweek describes this. Sales of common
stock in industry largely determine whether. we shall have good
times or bad, an expanding economy or a static economy, more
amployment or less in the future. Yet, Newsweek says, last
yearitrading in stocks accounted for only four per cent of the
nationap income where, in the 55 years prior to 1930, it aver-
aged more than 40 per cent. This means, the magazine goes on,
that “if mot of our corporations were not already in existence,
it would be mpossible today to create them.” The money that
once went into the enterprises upon which our living standards
and our world leac®tship are built is being taxed out of existence.
This is but one illi*tration out of many! that could be cited.
Every individual whose ‘income is above {the subsistence level
knows how onerous taxes Peanticallyt every one talks at
one time or another about the cost of govgrnment and how some-
thing must be done. But talk is generallfdthe beginning and the
end of it.
This brings us to a fundamental fact,
costly government is simply a symptom
whelming significance. That condition i
cold figures. It exists in the minds and |
In the last twenty years, there has be
in our concept of government. We have
tasks which always before were the duty
the local community. More and more of
to protect us in every way. We are lo
We ask government to protect our health
for us if we are unemployed, and see us ti
the cradle to the grave. We ask it to |
goods and services. The polite term for
“the welfare state,” a softer name for §ocialism. The welfare
state always leads to one of two conclysions. It impoverishes
and enslaves the people and subjects them to ruthless dictatorship,
as in Eastern Europe. Or, finally, the people rid themselves of
its worst manifestations, as the voters 6f New Zealand and
Australia recently did. But, even in the latter case, the wealth
of nations has been dissipated, and the fentacles of government
have been woven so tight that it may takfl generations to recover.
Therefore, taxation directly affects all @fur liberties. Excessively
expensive government is always super-g(lernment. It is pater
nalistic government. It is, in its more aflvanced stages, govern-
ment by fiat and decree. It is, in its fina stages. government by
terror. 1he KuSsian revolution was fOUflit in tne name of the
common man. And now, in that huge “eople’s state”, tens of
millions of common men and women livdll miserably in medieval
darkness, and real liberty is unknown.
The basic troubles of the world, fro
can in one way or another be charged tc
All-powerful government 1s simply a =
individual self-reliance, initiative, pride, fndependence of spirit,
the will to work—the qualites which made possible the founding
and the growth of this republic. We, as & people, are fortunate
that we have not yet gone so far on the “welfare state” road that
has overcome so much of the world. But we, as a people, must
do it ourselves. Big government will not do it for us. We must
ask ourselves this question: “Are we willing, in return for a
mirage of material security, for which wg pay through exhorbit-
ant ‘taxation, to sacrifice those liberties [for which men have
fought and struggled for two thousand years?”
It is: “Tax
re
Wasteful, excessively
a condition of over-
not be described in
arts of the people.
an insidious change
furned to it to perform
of the individual and
s look to government
ing our independence.
build our homes, care
ough all the way from
ovide more and more
this “gimme” habit is
war to human want,
too much government.
lection of the loss of
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By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr.
No thanks to the Barnyard, which has kittens to spare when there
is no demand for them, and is fresh out of kittens when the Pump-
House sends out an S.0.S., we now have infresidence a somewhat non-
descript item. Not exactly a kitten, not exactly a cat, a feline with ob-
viously mixed ancestry, but outstanding in the one characteristic which
makes a cat acceptable. It ea I
r is of the perpetual | yy» =
Dr oe and of a “strength | Dining Room Completed
which shakes the vaguely striped | Dell. Towndhip. School Boerd
tiger body from stem to stern. The | : p ore AGE
green eyes slit themselves in glazed | ™€t © Tues ay nig an 00
comfort before the blazing hearth, | care off routine school business. The
the claws lazily sheathe and un- | cafeterfa dining room is completed
sheathe themselves in the radiant|and thie Board will shortly ask for
heat, the entire cat expands un-|bids fof dining room furniture,
der the sun of family approval
Vol. 60, No
30 Low hental
Homes May Be
Built In Area
Banks Ready To
Start If State
Okays Application
If present applications are ap-
proved by the State Housing Auth-
ority at least fifty low rental homes
will be constructed on the old Dal-
las Fair Grounds this summer ac-
cording to Bernard Banks of B., C.
Banks Construction Company, de-
velopers and builders of Elmcrest,
All is now in the planning stage,
according to Mr. Banks, and. no-
thing can be said definitely about
when construction will start, all
depending upon the speed with
{ which the application is approved
in Harrisburg.
The homes will be single rental
dwellings having two or three bed-
rooms and will be built under the
provisions of the Act passed last
year by the Legislature to provide
low rental homes to alleviate the
housing shortage. Construction will
be subsidized in part by the State so
that rentals can be held to a mini-
mum,
If plans are approved, Mr. Banks
said a corporation will be formed
to handle rentals. The properties
cannot be sold, under the State
Law, for many years and must be
used exclusively for rental pur-
poses.
While Mr. Banks was definite
when he said his firm was ready to
build the houses, he admitted that
the procedure of the new law is
not altogether clear to contractors.
Assisting him in speeding up the
application has bgen Hon. Harold
Flack, representative in the Legis-
lature from this district.
When interviewed by this news-
paper, Mr. Flack said the law is so
new that few know about it so that
full details have not been worked
out, and few counties have taken
advantage of it.
He indicated allotments of funds
low rental construction will be
made by counties where there is a
shortage of rental properties.
Seek 1,000
Blood Donors
Ohlman Heads Local
Red Cross Program
Harry L. Ohlman is general chair-
man for the Red Cross Regional
Blood Program for the Back Moun-
tain Area and already has his
committees set up to obtain 1,000
blood donors in this area who will
give one pint of blood annually to
the regional bank which will serve
1,535,000 people in 17 Northeastern
counties having 30 Red Cross chap-
ters and 61 hospitals,
Under the plan persons requiring
blood will receive it free except for
physician’s and hospital costs of ad-
ministering it. They will be ex-
pected, however, to return the
blood when they are able,
Already thirty-five members of
Kingston Township Veterans Asso-
ciation have signed cards to give
a pint each and many others are
doing likewise.
Committee chairmen are as fol-
lows:
Veterans’ Organizations and Am-
erican Legion, George Turn; Back
Mountain Churches, Henry W. Pet-
erson; St. Therese’s Church, Sha-
vertown, Mrs. Fred M. Kiefer; Our
Lady of Victory Chapel, Harvey's
Lake, Mrs. Fred M. Kiefer; Prince
of Peace Church, Dallas, Mrs, Paul
Goddard; St. Paul's Lutheran
(Continued on Page Eight)
for
FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1950
The home of Mr. "and Mrs.
James Kozemchak, Huntsville, was
awarded first prize in Dallas Bus-
iness Association’s Christmas Light-
ing Contest for the best decorated
home.
Mr. Kozemchak wrapped his front
door in gaily colored cellophane
and tied it with red ribbons and
Wins First Place In Lighting Conic.
PHOTO BY KOzZEMCHAK
sprigs of evergreen to resemble a
Christmas package.
The eaves were festooned with
ropes of ground pine and window
boxes were filled with greens and
colored lights, The home was then
given indirect lighting by spotlights
placed in shrubbery.
PHOTO BY
HUDSON
MRS. FRED SWANSON
Mrs. Swanson
Queen For a Day
Husband Says It's
“The Year Around”
Mrs. Fred Swanson of Harvey's
Lake was Queen for a Day last
week on Mutual Broadcasting Com-
pany’'s Program of that name, but
she is a Queen every day of the
year according to her husband,
Chief of Police Fred Swanson even
though she didn’t place among the
five women of the nation who were
chosen to go to Hollywood where
one was chosen Queen of America.
And the neighbrs and this news-
paper agree with Fred,
It all started when someone in
Harvey's Lake Women’s Scrvice
Club nominated Mrs. Swanson as
Queen of the Day for Wyoming
Valley and vicinity. Ten women
were selected to appear on the pro-
gram at WBAX last Tuesday. Three
of them incidentally were from
(Continued on Page Five)
Judges Select Price-Winners
In Best Lighted Homes Contest
The home of James Kozemchak,
facing Huntsville Reservoir, was
judged the most attractively decor-
ated in the Christmas lighting con-
test sponsored by Dallas Business
Association.
Mr. Kozemchak will receive an
award of $40.
The front door of his home was
arranged to resemble a Christmas
package flanked by two large candy
canes.
Other. winners were Janet Hay-
cox, second, $10, Main street. She
arranged a large wreath with red
lights against the side of her home
with other lighting at each end of
the home to supplement it, Christ-
mas carols were carried over a loud
speaker system,
Third was William Stoeckert,
Dallas R.F.D., $5 prize. Mr. Stoeck-
ert trimmed a seventy-five foot ev-
ergreen with streamers of red and
blue lights. In the yard between his
home and stables was a twelve
foot Christmas wreath lighted by
red bulbs and within a circle of
red lamps was Santa Claus with a
sleigh loaded with Christmas pack-
ages and drawn by reindeer.
Fourth place, $5 prize, went to
Jack Dungey, of Lake street for the
entrance to his porch which was
made to resemble a large wreath
flanked at each end of the porch
by large colorful red Christmas
candles.
Fifth place, $4 prize was won by
Fred Welsh, Center Hill Road. On
the front of his home was a large
Santa Claus drawn by reindeer,
with colored lights in the surround-
ing shrubbery. On the lawn was a
manger scene with a white star
above it in an evergreen tree, A
doe and her fawn lying in the snow
were the center of attention,
Sixth place, $3 prize, went to
Ralph Gerhart, Franklin street,
Shavertown. Mr. Gerhart spotlight-
ed his home where a large Santa
Claus was superimposed on his
front porch. Colored Christmas
lights added to the effect.
Honorable mention was won by
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church for its
gaily decorated doorway and na-
tivity scene; Thomas Kingston,
Memorial Highway for the white
cross and temple effects at his
home; Daniel Robinhold, Machell
(Continued on Page Five)
end an accepted social position as
Head Cat instead of underling,
Offhand, it seems incredible that
this cat had to be imported from |
Lake Packanack, New Jersey be-|
cause of the dearth of kittens here- |
abouts. There must be any num-|
ber of litters in the Back Mountain |
region, kittens doubtless descend- |
ed from a long and distinguished |
line of mousers, kittens whose own- |
ers are panting to part with them,
but did you ever try to find a kit- |
ten when you wanted one?
Let your own tabby produce |
kittens, and you can’t give them |
away. You have to advertise for
a home in the Dallas Post and of- |
fer as a bonus a year’s supply of]
catfood.
Advertise for a kitten and you|
get phone calls extolling the vir- |
tues of a pair of beagle puppies, a|
green parrot with a vocabulary, and |
a large and motheaten tomcat. No
kittens except four microscopic
specimens three days old whose
mother has unaccountably died,
and which require nourishment on
the tip of a spoon or per-medicine-
(Continued on Page Six)
Lehigh University Glee Club To Give Benefit Concert for Prince of Peace Church
6 CENTS PER COPY
Glee Club To
Give Concert
For New Church
Lehigh University
Singers To Appear
At Irem Temple
Sponsored by Prince of Peace
Episcopal Church Congregation, Le-
high University Glee Club, under
direction of Prof. Wiliam Schempf,
will present a concert on Friday
evening, January 20th, in Irem
Temple, Wilkes-Barre, Proceeds will
be added to the church building
fund.
Lehigh University’s 70-man Glee
Club has achieved much fame
wherever it appeared. In addition
to giving concerts in many cities of
neighboring states as well as in
Pennsylvania, it has broadcast over
CBS as well as on independent
radio programs, Members of the
musical unit are carefully chosen
from the Colleges of Liberal Arts,
Business Administration, and En-
gineering of the University.
On tour, the Glee Club has been
warmly received by audiences. Mu-
sic critics of metropolitan news-
papers have been generous in their
praise of the club.
Director Schempf, head of the
Department of Music at Lehigh
University, is a graduate of the
University of Wisconsin and East-
man School of Music, He studied
with Cailliet, Hanson and Kousse-
vitsky.
Concert tickets are now on sale
at Irem Temple, and various ticket
agencies in Wilkes-Barre and Scran-
ton, and can also be obtained
from Rev. William R, Williams,
rector of Prince of Peace, and mem-
bers of the church congregation.
John Sheehan, Hunstville road, has
charge of ticket distribution,
Claims He Got
Fleas In Mail
Tony Racezoski Is
Committed to Retreat
Complaining that Postmaster Jo-
seph Polacky had sent him bed-
bugs in an envelope, Tony Race-
zoski, about 58, has been com-
mitted to Retreat Mental Hospital
after an examination by a Sanity
Commission at Luzerne County
Prison.
Long a problem to residents of
the Heights where he made threats
against their lives and disturbed
the nights with cursing and yell-
ing, Racezoski lived alone in a
shack built on a piece of land on
Elizabeth Street which he pur-
chased a number of years ago from
Frank Michel's father.
A few days before Christmas
neighbors observed Tony walking
up and down the street with an
axe on his shoulder. They notified
Chief of Police Russell Honeywell.
Tony told him there were 48 people
he didn’t like and he was going to
fix them. When the chief observed
that he had a soup dish with six
bottles of iodine in his left hand
he asked him why. “Sometimes I
get so mad I'm afraid my head will
split. Then I put iddine on the
cracks.” J
Chief Honeywell had him placed
in Luzerne County Prison and Jus-
tice of the Peace James Besecker
started proceedings to have him
committed to a mental institution,
He was unemployed and had been
on relief for many years. Although
neighbors had long known his men-
tal condition and feared him, no
one had the courage to do anything
about it until Chief Honeywell and
Jim Besecker acted at the insis-
tance of Mrs. Michels,
Board to Meet
Kingston Township School Board
will meet Monday night at the
High School at 7:30 P.M.
First baby to be born at Nesbitt
Hospital in the new year was a
Back Mountain girl, six-pound and
nine ounce Suzanne Jane Wardan,
daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Charles
Wardan of Shavertown and sixth
great grandchild of Mr. and Mrs.
Marvin Elston of Kunkle. Besides
all this—baby Suzanne was born
on great grandmom Elston’s seventy
eighth birthday anniversary! Let’s
hope the two ,will celebrate many
many more birthdays together!
Suzanne Jane was born at 12:43
a.m. Sunday morning, January,
1950. She is the Wardan’s first
child, daughter of the former Doris
Hess and only grandchild of Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Hess of Kunkle.
She is also the grand daughter of]
1950 Baby Arrives 78 Years
After Her Great Grandmother
BOX SCORE
Back Mountain Highway Deaths and
Serious aceidents since V-é Day
Hospitalised Killed
11
Smith Sworn In
As Burgess Of
Dallas Borough
Council Approves
$50,800 Worth of
Building Permits
Newly elected officials of Dallas
Borough were sworn in before Jus-
tice of the Peace James F. Besecker
at the reorganization meeting of
Dallas Borough Council on Tuesday
night.
Herbert A. Smith, Machell Aven-
ue, became Burgess of Dallas for
the third time, Burgess Smith suc-
ceeds Burgess George W. Williams
who defeated Smith for the office
four years ago.
Councilmen Warden Kunkle and
Fred Welsh, reelected to office,
and Joseph Jewell, newly elected
member, presented their certificates
of election, and Council then re-
elected its incumbent officials, Jo-
seph MacVeigh, chairman; Warden
Kunkle, vice chairman, and James
Besecker, secretary. :
All Borough officers were reap-
pointed. They were Ralph Eipper,
Street Commissioner, $2,400; Rus-
sell Honeywell, chief of police,
$2,400, plus $20 per month car ex-
pense (Chief Honeywell owns his
own automobile which he uses in
police patrol work); John T. Jeter,
Borough Engineer; his salary was
increased from $150 to $200; Atty.
Burt B, Lewis, Borough Solicitor;
his salary was increased from $150
to $200; Ralph Brickel, treasurer,
$50; J. F. Besecker, secretary, his
salary was increased from $35 to
$42 per month. Salary of Burgess
H. A. Smith is $50 per year.
Reappointed to the Board of
Health were Mrs. Robert Moore,
Mrs, John Sheehan, and J. F. Be-
secker., Dr. Robert M. Bodycomb
was appointed to succeed the late
James Franklin
Building permits amounting to
$50,800 for a two-month period
were approved as follows: Thomas
Reese, garage, Franklin street, $450;
Stella McKinnis, roof, Norton ~Av-
enue, $350; Nesbitt Garinger, ga-
rage, $1,500; Carl Deutch, garage,
$200; Leonard Bruce, garage, $700;
Frantz Estate, roof, Main Street,
$500; Robert B. Wallis, home,
Spring and Lehman, Avenue, $8,500;
Charles Wood, home, Center Hill
Road, $14,800; Mr. and Mrs. Stan-
ley Lija,home, Columbia Avenue,
$8,800; James A. Oliver Inc., re-
modeling building for body shop,
$250; Shavertown Builders Supply,
7 x 23 foot drug store on Church
street side of Acme Market, $4,700;
Charles Wcod, home, Center Hill
road, $10,000; A. C. Devens, repairs
to warehouse after fire, $250.
Bills amounting to $1,510 were
ordered pszid. All members were
present except William Davis. The
meeting adjourned at 8:50 p.m.
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BACK MOUNTAIN CHURCH
LEAGUE SCHEDULE
Saturday, Jan, 7, 7:15, 8:15, 9:15
Dallas Borough Gym: Kunkle vs,
St. Therese’s; Huntsville Christian
vs. St. Paul's; Mt. Zion vs. Dallas
Methodist.
Kingston Township Gym: Shav-
ertown Methodist vs. Prince of
Peace; Lehman vs. Trucksville
Methodist,
Monday, Jan, 9, 7:15, 8:15, 9:15
Dallas Twp. Gym: Shavertown
Methodist vs, Kunkle; St. Paul's
vs. Prince of Peace; St. Therese’s
vs. Dallas Methodist.
BACK MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL
LEAGUE SCHEDULE
Friday, Jan, 6
Kingston Twp, at Harter; Laketon,
at Dallas Twp.; Dallas Borough g
Fairview.
Tuesday, Jan, 10
Dallas Twp. at Kingston Twp.; fFair-
view at Harter; Laketon atf Iech-
man,
BM
£3
Trucksville.
Great grandma/and grandpa Els-
ton have six sgther great grand-
children; Jacki# Dodson, son of Mr,
and Mrs. Fred Dodson, Bonnie Lee
Elston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Gene Elstorf Wayne Elston Jr., son
of Mr, and Mrs, Wayne Sr., Ralph
Elston, soi of Mr. and Mrs, Gomer
Elston, Jo Carol Birnstock, daughter
of Mr, and Mrs. Calvert Birnstock,
and Marty Kenney, son of Mr. and
Mrs, Frank Kenney. All of the
above except Marty live close
enough to Great Grandmom and
Grandpop Elston to be right roy-
ally spoiled—and thoroughly en-
joyed!
Mr. and Mrs, Wardan of