© of his pocket. _PAGE TWO BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Handsome Is, Handsome Does: Case of Mind Over Mattress By BILLY ROSE At a spaghetti salon, I got to talking with a reformed boot- legger who is currently the Mister Big of a big whiskey company. “What do you hear from the mob?” I asked. fill up three sheets of copy paper?” “Anything that woyld The former Man of Extinction thought a minute. ‘“There’s one story I don’t remember seeing in print,” he said. “It’s about an old man named Ronowitz who ran a candy store on the East Side around the time Dutch Schultz was buying his first delivery trucks. .. .” | One night as the storekeeper was about to lock up, a hoodlum stepped into the shop and pressed a gun against the old man’s mid- dle. ‘‘Hide me somewhere,’ he said. The old man knew better than to argue with a revolver. “Who's chasing you?” he asked, as he opened the trap door which led to the - cellar. “Some fellas from Jersey.” When they got to the basement, Ronowitz pointed to a couple of old mattresses near the coal bin. ‘Lay down,” he said, ‘and I'll make a sandwich.” A minute later the storekeeper had rolled man and mattresses into a bundle and tied it up with a piece of old clothesline. * * » AS HE STARTED back, up to the store, a couple of men, guns in hand, came down the stairs. ‘“What- cha doin’ in the cellar?’’ asked one. ‘“Bankin’ the furnace,” said the old man. The gents from Jersey poked around in the trash barrels, ex- amined the coal bin and then came to the rolled-up mattresses. “Pll throw a bullet into them tor luck,’ said one of them. “You been seein’ too many movies,” said the other. ‘Let's try the roof.” The mobsters Ronowitz heard the door bang. He banked the fire, and waited in his ‘store until he saw the men climb into a car and drive off. Then he went back down and untied the mattresses. “You done fine, Pop,’”’ said the fugitive, taking a wad of bills out “Tell me when to Billy Rose stop countin’. “Such money 1 said the old man. “Ya kin have anything ya con't take” instructions went upstairs and want,” said the gangster. “Make a wish. Better yet, make three wishes like in them fairy stor- ioc. ies “Well,” said the storekeeper, “I hear in a couple weeks some guy from the West Side is opening a candy store on the next block.” ‘““He ain't gonna open,” said the hoodlum. . “Keep talkin’.” ‘The man who sells me my chocolate syrup, all of a sudden he wants a 15 per cent mark-up.” “I'll discuss it with him. Chances are you'll get a reduction. One more wish to go—this time make it good.” “That’s all I can think of,” said Ronowitz, ‘excepting maybe you'd like to tell me how it felt when you was in the mattress.” * * * THE GANGSTER’S lips tight- ened. ' “You're makin’ fun of me, Pop,” he said, ‘“‘and I don’t like it. I wanted to pay ya off nice and proper, but since ya don’t want it that way, maybe I better try some- thin’ else.” Ten minutes later, as per phone from the hoodlum, a black car drove up and Ronowitz was pushed into the back seat. The car headed north and kept going until it parked near a wooden bridge somewhere in Westchester. The driver took some chains from the luggage compartment, put a heavy piece of scrap iron on the old man’s middle, and then lashed his legs to his chest so the metal was wedged in between. “Throw bim over when I count three,” said the hoodlum. “One— 4 *“Two—" The old man braced himself and wondered who would mind the store ibe next day. Suddenly the gangster grinned. He walked over and began to undo the chains. “Now you got your answer, Pop,” he said. ‘‘That’s how I felt when I was in the mattress.” | STRICTLY BUSINESS by McFeatters “What kind of a model railroad lt did you say Dials Mcallen) Junior bought ?”’ : Cavey. Your Bank. check. ; Safely, L When you pay by check, your money is safe. You write the check for the amount desired and the funds are carried to their destination by the Avoid risk, Be businesslike—pay by check. In addition to our regular checking we offer our Special Checking Account Plan. The cost is $1.50 for 20 checks. There is no charge for deposits— no minimum balance required—no monthly serv- ice charge. And your name is imprinted on each 9), KINGSTON NATIONAL BANK Money Conveniently AT KINGSTON CORNERS "FOUNDED 1804 Member F.D.LG N SAFETY VALVE Dallas, Feb. 21, 1950 Dear Editor: We have suffered with the tele- phone service for many years. We did not care to express our dissatis- faction because we felt that some day they would give us a break— TODAY WE GOT IT—our new In- crease in rates. I never wrote a letter like this in my life but to have this dern thing jammed down my throat is beyond human endurance. Half the time I cannot use my phone and the other half I cannot hear what | is being said to me. SLIGHT INCREASE in this and that. Sit down and figure out just what you did pay and then figure out what you are now paying be- cause of a few cents an hour granted ‘to its employees. © MY GUESS IS $22,111.00 NET per year for the Commonwealth Telephone Co. and 16¢ an hour for the girls. Telephone Subscriber (disgruntled) Newspaper Subscriber (satisfied) SOME TIPS FOR AL Gobbler’s Knob, Pa., Feb. 20, 1950. Ye Ole Dallas Post Gentlemen: In answer to Al in his column portraying his troubles with the modern car (Hism and the DalBank’s) and his plea for an easy way to raise ‘er up when flat- ter’nell. i Out Gobbler’s Knob way we has lots of ways, such as a few: A block and tackle is always a good bet. Throw a line over a tree limb. Hook pully end on bumper and heave. Tie line to opposite wheel of car after raising. This al- ways works after you find the tree. To lower car cut rope. Sometimes we just build a big hole under that durn old flat and take her off thataway. We used ter use fence rails, but with the mines working as they are, them rails is a disappearing mighty fast. Back her up over a big fat sow. Once the bumper is over her back, give her a bucket of swill and she'll stay quiet until you've changed that ‘er tire. To lower. car, remove swill bucket, swing over your head and hit sow where she sits. Be sure the brake is on that ’er ole car. Some of our friends carry an ole skirt and cone of dem Picture Hats. When they gets a flat, they just puts on, the femmy rig and looks coy. Pretty soon some City Slicker falls for the bait and your (her) troubles are over. Be sure you have shaved before trying this. With this new house-raising in this back region, steal a few con- crete blocks and a plank. Run that ol car up plank on block, twist plank out, car falls on block and you change tire. To get a goin’ agin just ask one of them bulldozer guys crowdin’ our fair countryside to please give you a teeny little doze. Hopin’ this helps that Al Guy, Ambrose Kitunkel. AUSTIN HAS AL'S IDEA Dear Editor: To Al and all others who are looking for the same things in a car. The Austin has a jack that op- erates from inside the car to lift either right or left side of the car. It is so easy to use that women and children can operate in with ease. But not because it is a light car for the Austin weighs approx. 2250 lbs., less spare wheel, tools, etc. If you want economy: The Aus- tin 2 Door Sedan sells for $1295 completely equipped and the 4 Door Sedan for $1345. The Austin can cut your operating costs in half. You get up to 35 miles per gallon of gasoline! Handling ease: You can park an Austin where other cars can’t quite make it. You can circle ‘on a dime’. Power: The power of its 40 h.p. motor is amazing. The Austin has a cruising speed of 60 to 65 miles per hour. Comfort: In the Austin you re- lax. For here's a ride that is level ‘round the sharpest curve . .. low- to-the-road for safety . . . smooth because of low pressure tires . . . and roomy as high priced cars. A demonstration puts you under no obligation so why not come in and see the New Austin? Mrs. Dan Meeker @® You're all right, Mrs. Meeker, —and a darn good ad writer. So good that when your husband offered to pay for this letter as an ad, we made the suggestion that we'd like to run it in the Safety Valve. —Editor. GETS $468,000 GRANT February 23, 1950 Dear Editor: - Have noticed by the Post that you are working on a joint school district in Dallas Borough and Township. Our four boards just voted Fri- day evening last to accept State Public School Building Authority for addition to our high school for $468,000. Our grant has been approved. We are one of the first thirty-four to be approved and were number forty-one on the docket. - T. A. Williammee, Millville Joint School Dist. THE DALLAS POST “More than a mewspaper, a community institution” ESTABLISHED 1889 Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers’ Association A non-partisan liberal progressive newspaper pub- lished every Friday morning. at the Dallas Post plant Lehman Avenue, Dallas Pennsylvania. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa., under the Act of March 38, 1879. 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National display advertising rates 63¢ per column inch. Local display advertising rates 50c per column inch; specified position 60c per inch. Classified rates 8¢ per Minimum charge 50c. Unless paid for at advertising rates, we can give no assurance that an- nouncements of plays, parties, rummage sales or any affairs for raising money word. will appear in a specific issue. In no case will such items be taken on Thursdavs. Preference will in all instances be given to editorial matter which has not previously appeared in publication. Editor and Publisher HOWARD W. RISLEY Associate Editor MYRA ZEISER RISLEY Contributing Editor MRS. T. M. B. HICKS Sports Editor WILLIAM HART ONLY YESTERDAY From The Post of ten and twenty years ago this week. i February 28, 1930 After months of deliberation, plans have been started to estab- lish a clay products plant at Noxen. Ex-County Surveyor Charles Cooke is compiling a map of lands of Albert Lewis Estate at Bear Creek, a tract including more than 12,000 acres. John Yaple was up at the Coun- try Club Saturday trying out his eye on the clay pigeons. “Bud” a dog owned by H. S. VanCampen, suffered injuries which necessitated amputation of his foot this week when a truck Lloyd Cease was driving collided with a Dallas street car. February 23, 1940 Mrs. Bernice’ Lundy and Mrs. Eva Ray are the end women in the Kiwanis Minstrel which will be given at Kingston Township High School next Thursday and and Friday nights. More than 500 properties in Dal- las and vicinity which were : to have sold at the Court House next 1929 and 1930 taxes were saved when the owners paid the delin- quent taxes. Mr. and Mrs. William Powell re- turned to their home at Shrine View after spending some weeks in Florida. Misses Margaret and Ruth Hull of Washington, D. C., were week- end guests of Mrs. Laura Patterson. The girls came to Dallas to attend the Templin-Eck wedding. A troupe of “Broadway Ladies” who will appear in the dancing chorus in the second act of “West of the Rio” written for Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company by Howell Rees and Fred Kiefer, is composed of Mrs. Charles Jones, Mrs. Gerald Dettmore, Mrs. J. C. Fleming, Mrs. Peynton Lee, Mrs. Charles Max- well, Mrs, William Brickel, Mrs. Kenneth Oliver, Mrs. Ord Trum- bower, Mrs. Leonard Harvey and Jean Bogert. Arlene Rood is the director. YETTER’S CHICKS NEW HAMPSHIRES, SEX-LINK, BARRED CROSSES A strain for Eggs and Broiler raisers. Pa. & U.S. Approved, Pullorum Clean. Pikes Creek (near Ruggles Store) Phone 461-R-3 Postoffice Hunlock’s Creek R.F.D. 1 LEIDINGER’S 117 S. Washington St. Wilkes-Barre, Pa.—Phone 3-9459 Don’t sell your antiques be- fore calling LEIDINGER'S. Rifles, Revolvers; Guns, Fur- niture, Glass, Silver, and Coins. Entire Estates Bought. THE POST, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1950 Babson Discusses Insurance Stocks Many letters have come to me asking that I suggest an investment which combines: (1) proper diver- sification; (2) an inflation hedge based upon low cost compared with liquidating value; (3) a fair inter- est yield, and (4) freedom from labor troubles. This last is very important. After considerable thought, I recommend stocks of good long established fire insur- ance companies, and herewith are my reasons. Any of these stocks can be purchased through your lo- cal bank. Inflation Hedges 1. Insurance companies are actu- ally well diversified and balanced “investment trusts” with a secona source of earnings from the insur- ance business. This second source will often produce as much in- come as the stocks and bonds which the company owns. Furthermore, the purchasers of this form of in- vestment trust should receive more income—and certainly more secur- ity—than by the direct purchase of most securities. For instance, the Home Insurance Company, the stock of which sells at $35 a share, has invested assets of $60 a share. 2. Fire insurance stecks are sell- ing at a low ratio to liquidating val- ue. To take the case of the Home Insurance Company again as an ex- ample, it is selling at about 85% of its current liquidating value. Since 1935 the average annual range for all fire insurance com- panies has been less than the lig- uidating value. As most fire insur- ance companies have a portfolio of good common stocks, they should be a fair inflation hedge. Dividend Outlook 3. Generally ‘dividends on fire insurance stocks gradually increase The ratio of dividends paid to in- vestment income received is below the normal average for other class- es of stocks. This shows conserva- tive management. The leveling off of premiums will stop the drain on surplus and permit greater divi- dends. Increasing dividends should cause increasing market prices. 4, There are cycles in the insur- ance business. The cycle now is that of a period of good earnings, which give a yield between 4% and 5% although a large part of the assets are in Government Bonds. Perhaps never before in history has prop- erty been so nearly insured to full value. The rates are not ordinarily reduced until five-year-average re- sults demonstrate them to be too high. When rates again begin to be reduced and or fire losses increase, dividends and prices of fire’ insur- ance stocks may again decline for a period. Small Labor Expense 5. A period of labor troubles— such as we are witnessing today (Continued on Page Seven) Do You Want To Cut Your Federal Taxes? Efficiency At Less Cost Efficiency is necessary to reduce the cost of government. It is also imperative for our national pros- perity. The Commission on the Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government in its minute survey of the 1812 Federal agencies, boards, and departments, found a sad lack of effective house- keeping. This Commission, created by Congress with the approval of President Truman, was headed by former President Hoover. It has provided a vivid picture of the weaknesses in our present set-up, and suggested ways of increasing efficiency so that your taxes may be reduced. Today thousands of tons of obso- lete, useless records are stored in steel cabinets in expensive offices at maintenance charges of $29 per year each, when they could be kept in warehouses at a cost of only $2.15 per year each. In 1928 the Department of Agri- culture had about 22,000 employees and spent less than $26 million. In 1948 it had 82,000 employees and spent $834 millions of your hard- earned tax dollars. In a single Georgia cotton county, 47 employ- ees of 7 separate USDA field ser- vices were handing out advice. A Washington State county had 184 Department agents and a Maryland county had 88 agents advising the heavily taxed farmers. A Missouri dairyman was “confused and irri- tated” when he recently received contradictory advice from five gov- ernment agencies on how to ferti- lize his fields. These are a few instances of the thousands discovered by the Com- mission where elimination of dupli- cation would give increased effi ciency and better service at less cost. If all of the recommen- dations of the Commission ars adopted, the workers of this country would save between three and four billion dollars in taxes annually. If you are Interested in seeing these changes made in your gov- ernment, tell your Congressman. Write the Citizens Committee for Reorganization of the Executive Branch of the Government, 1421 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia .2, Pennsylvania, for more informa- tion. Talk to your friends about it. These much-needed reforms cannot be made into law without your support! ¢ THE IDES OF MARCH western newspapers, author unknown: proposition that all men are fair game. money. pure waste. yourself. ships. also named. and other sources. Alexander J. Dallas. seem to recount. position at the bar. named in his honor. ~~ B nad Notes Garfield Jackson has called our attention to a sort of paraphrase of Lincoln’s Gettysburg address that has been going the rounds of “One score and 16 years ago our fathers brought forth upon this nation a new tax, conceived in desperation and dedicated to the “Now we are engaged in a great mass of calculations testing whether that taxpayer or any taxpayer so confused and so impover- ished can long endure. We are met on Form 1040. We have come to dedicate a large portion of our income to a final resting place with those men who here spend their lives that they may spend our “It is altogether anguish and torture that we should do this. But in the legal sense we cannot evade, we cannot cheat, we cannot underestimate this tax. The collectors, glever and sly, who com- puted here, have gone far beyond our power to add and subtract. : “Our creditors will little note nor long remember what we pay here, but the Bureau of Internal Revenue can never forget what we report here. It is rather for us to be dedicated to the great task re- maining before us—that from these vanished dollars we take in- creased devotion to the few remaining, that we here highly resolve that next year will not find us in a higher income tax bracket.” When you pay your income tax, make a special note of how much 10% of your payment will be. Then remember that your Gov- ernment is spending about $40 billion. Recall that the Hoover Com- mission reported $4 billion could be saved simply by orderly govern- ment housekeeping. So 10% of your tax is your contribution for The Hoover Commission did not attempt to suggest the Gov- ernment quit doing anything—only that orderly methods be applied to what it now does. If useless and harmful activities were ended, you might have another sizable percentage of earnings to use for THE MAN FOR WHOM DALLAS WAS NAMED From time to time many persons have asked how Dallas got its name. While it is not clear why this area was named in honor of Alexander Dallas it is interesting to know something more about the man and the circumstances which brought about the formation of a new township out of old certified Kingston and Bedford Town- The name Dallas was applied to the new Township, twenty- five years before Dallas, Texas, was named in honor of Alexander Dallas’s son, George M. Dallas, for whom Dallas Lodge F. & A.M. was The following material is gathered in part from Brewster's His- tory of Certified Kingston Township, the Encyclopedia Britannica At the April Sessions of the court of 1816, Nehemiah Ide, a res- ident of the old certified township of Bedford presented his petition praying the court to erect a new township. The viewers reported, at the August Sessions, in favor of a’ new township. In this territory was about one sixth of old certified Bedford. The remainder of this new township was taken from Plymouth. This report was confirmed at the April Sessions of the Court in 1817, and the new township was given the name of Dallas in honor of Hon. What connection Dallas had with the area, history does not ~ He was born on the island of Jamaica, West Indies on June 21, 1759, the son of Dr. Robert C. Dallas, a Scottish physician practicing there. Dr. Dallas soon returned to England with his family and Alex- ander was educated at Edinburgh and Westminster. He studied law at the Inner Temple and returned to Jamaica in 1780. In 1783 he settled in Philadelphia and immediately took the oath of allegiance to the United States and rapidly attained a prominent He was interested in theatrical projects and wrote several dramatic compositions. From 1791 to 1801 he was secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and acquired a position of much in- fluence in the Democratic-Republican Party of the State. In October, 1814 President Madison appointed him secretary of the treasury, to succeed George W. Campbell whose brief and disas- trous term had been marked by wholesale bank suspensions, and an enormous depreciation of state and national bank notes. The ap-' pointment itself inspired confidence, and Dallas’s prompt measures still further relieved the situation. Dallas, who belonged to the financial school of Albert Gallatin, deserves to rank among Ameri- ca’s greatest financiers. He found the government bankrupt and after two years at the head of the treasury left it with a surplus of $20,- 000,000; moreover as Henry Adams pointed out, his measures had “fixed the financial system in a firm groove for twenty years.” He retired from office to resume his law practice, but the bur- den of his official duties had undermined his health and he died sud- denly at Philadelphia on June 16th, 1817, at the age of 58, just two months after a new township in Northeastern Pennsylvania was Leather Jackets Renewed and Redyed eo Zippers Repaired and Replaced ® 24-Hour Service If Requested Qatyy Cleaning RT, A little more ca ref A DON'T GAMBLE! with specialized cleaning services! Far Coats Glazed ° Garments Shortened and’ Lengthened . Same-Day Service If Needed CALL CIRCLE CLEANERS DIAL 7-1645 OR DALLAS 597-R-2 “Routes Throughout Wyoming Valley” CIRCLE Cleaning & Dyeing Company i931 WYOMING AVENUE 7-1645 FORTY FORT =
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