_PAGE TWO | im 4 Tr or By William J. Robbins Jr. Recently a contemptible piece of skullduggery, perpetrated by the Top Brass of the Game Commission was crammed down the throats of the sportsmen of this State as a dessert for a repast of blunders. To explain this T have before me a letter made up on a mimeograph machine, dated April 15 and signed by Warren Singer of the Lymanville Rod and Gun Club. The heading in bold type,—A SPORTSMAN LOOKS AT THE POISON PROGRAM, and the body of this propaganda sheet I shall quote as written. “Everyone is aware of ithe rea- sons back of the Game Commission's poison program—the protection of human life and property. “The sportsman has an interest in this phase of the program equal to that of any other citizen, because he is also a citizen and is equally anxious concerning his livestock— his pets—his family. But he has an added interest due to his stake in wildlife of the ‘Commonwealth. “All warm blooded animals are susceptible to rabies: We have no assurance that the present epidemic, ‘unless checked, will mot spread to many other species of wild animals’ —and even fbirds. “I am confident that the poison baits are being carefully prepared and placed so that they will be at- tractive only to the meat-eating species of wildlife—those species generally considered predatory, and harmful to the sportman’s interest: Skunks, opposums, crows and foxes ~ are generally regarded as enemies of small game and it is those species thiat most regularly: fall victim to poison. It is those species which most need to be controlled, and, from the sportsman’s standpoint, it is those species which can best be spared, A reduction in the numbers of predators: should result in an up- swing in the abundance of rabbits,” ringnecks and ‘grouse. “I am also” confident that ‘the officers of the Game Commission are capable and conscientious, .and that: they are doing everything possible farmer, the landowner, the sports-: ‘man and ‘the general public. Per-. haps the most that we ‘can do as sportsman to cooperate and support: the Commissior is to: help in every way possible to’ create a ‘thorgugh. understanding of the program by all sportsman. “The least that we can do is to withhold final judgement until the program has been completed and we have had time to evaluate results.” (end of quote—verbatim et litera- tim) Space will not permit the un- ravelling of this letter word for word but it is apparent that a group of sportsmen up fn [Springville are taken for a ride on the efforts of the employees of the Commission. What results have there been in the north part of the State so far as the so- called poison program goes, is not now, and never will be given to those who are paying the salaries of those in charge. Just a week ago a farmer told me that he saw poison being thrown from a car ‘in the vicinity of his farm. Suet eating birds are being affected and so far as the officers saying {they will gather up the un- used pellets,—what of ‘those that are carried to tree ‘tops etc? (Arsenic is a minemal and lis lethal for years and years. Just what was in the mind of Mr. Singer when he so graciously patted the backs of the Commission mem- bers will never be known either. Did he speak for himself, or the majority of sportsmen in his region ? Such. compliments lead me to be- lieve thiat this letter was drawn up in the office of the District Super- Visor. Yes, I shall go one step farther and say that the postage for this lapologetic epistle was paid for by the sportsmen who on the whole are quite ethical, per capita, more-so than those entrusted to safeguard their interests. Suffice to sal, that postage meter miachine No 79206 is in the office of the Pennsylvania Game Commission, Forty Fort, and this was the stamp on this most recent attempt to obtain unearned plaudits. Nature has done more to alleviate the epi- demic than those in charge are doing, and Nature recieved mo [plau- -dits, not even a mention.. to safe-guard the interests of the - Much more could be said in this column but those that read it can fill in between the lines, or draw conclusions of their own. The alle- gations are mine alone and reper- cussions will be shouldered by me, not any - sportsmen’s group with which I am affiliated. concerned — public — landowner— EB THE POST, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1952 a N pr — THE DALLAS POST || Poger Babson : KEEPING POSTED DISCUSSES More than a newspaper, NALLY RE BUSINESS OUTLOOK a community institution” - RENT = = ESTABLISHED 1889 a Po As my readers know, I have thus far been pretty blue about the pros- pects for business up to election time next November, But, President Truman's decision fto pull out of the race has changed my outlook. I fee] more optimistic mow! FEELINGS CONTROL STATISTICS ‘When I was a boy. in Gloucester, Massachusetts, my [Father ran a store. He often said to me: ‘Roger. it isn't how much money [people have in the bank that makes (them buy my merchandise—no sir, it's HOW THEY FEEL!” That was good advice in 1900, and it is still good. Just take a look iat what's hap- pened in the last year. You will remember that the bureaucrats and the brain trusters in Washington were warning the nation that a new wave of inflation was just ahead— that there soon would be big short- ‘ages again. That was only twelve short months ago. Did these short- ages show up? They did not. Why ? Because the people who do the buy- ing decided to save more and buy less. The government statisticians || could measure inventories, but they couldn’t figure out people’s feelings! EVERYBODY FEELING BETTER In my opinion, business and the public have both been holding back from making decisions and buying until after the elections. Now, how- ever, with the President making his historic “shall not run” decision, all that is changed. There is a wide- spread feeling that nearly all of his possible successors would be more kindly disposed to business. A feel- ing of relief has spread through the country from one end to the other. Now, ‘this feeling is not something you can measure in black and white. You can’t put it into a graph. But, it is the kind of thing that will make a man go out and spend a little more money than he would have before. Just a month ago he may have told his wife that “there’ll be no new car this year.” Today, how- ever, he may feel that things aren't so bad after all and say: “There is enough in the bank for a rainy day; so, with election prospects looking brighter, why not now enjoy the new car?” This should cause cur- rently high inventories to be pared down. SWING TO RIGHT There is another important pos- sibility that should not be over- looked, With President Truman out (Continued on Page Seven) Our Friends In The BACK MOUNTAIN AREA and on The WEST SIDE We invite you fo use the banking facilities of our Kingston Office. They are as complete as those in our main office AND in addition, a large FREE PARKING LOT. Wyoming Ave, at Union St. Main Office Market and Franklin Streets Wilkes-Barre Kingston Office Wyoming Avenue at # Union Street MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP. Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers’ Association A non-partisan liberal progressive mewspaper 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 8, 1879. Subscrip- tion rates: $3.00 a year; $2.00 six months. No subscriptions accepted for less than six months. Out-of state subscriptions: $3.60 a year; $2.50 six months or less. 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Big brush fire in Fernbrook ex- tinguished after threatening three houses. Herbert Lundy buys Sullivan building, and plans remodelling to house three modern stores, a tavern and three second floor apartments. It’s clean-up day in Dallas, with Borough trucks carting off rubbish. Teachers will register 2500 Back Mountain families for rationing. Rev, Frances Freeman and Rev. Harry M. Savacool, Methodist mini- sters of Dallas and Trucksville have been tranferred. Rhoda. Eddinger will be Dallas Township's first May Queen since 1936. Shoulder lamb chops, 33 cents per 1b; new potatoes, 6 lbs. for 25 cents; strawberries, 25 cents per quart; P&G soap, 4 bars for 19 cents: Frank Swanson, father of [Fred Swanson, Harveys Lake Police (Chief assistant, died on Monday after a lingering illness. Miss Frances Sayre becomes the bride of [Stacey M. Schoonover. Mr. and Mrs. John Merical cele- brated their sixty-fifth wedding an- niversary. From the Issue of April 29, 1932 Camp Acahela reduces its fees to match declining incomes. Anti-diphtheria campaign will start Tuesday iat local schools, with children between six months and ten years given toxin-antitoxin at parent's request. Six teams have registered for Rural Quoit League. Birth rate shows steady decline. D. F. Westover, banker, dies at forty-five. . Vegetable soup, two cans for 10 cents; spaghetti, beans, shrimp and peanut butter, ditto. Butterine, 10 cents per lb. Les Warhola and his orchestra will play for the Saturday might farmer dance in Shavertown. Free: three spirea with each pair of umbrella trees, pair for $1.50. Cars washed and Simonized, $3. Larger Quarters Announcement has been made from the Washington office of the Honorable Daniel J. Flood, congress- man from this area, that larger and more suitable quarters for iShaver- town postoffice have been approved, and authorized by the Postmaster Geneyial. * The day the story of the molasses and the bees appeared in this col- umn, my colleague William Robbins, of Fin, Fur and Feather, came over to see me. He knows a great deal about bees and has planned a cam- paign by which he hopes to per- suade them to move to -modern living quarters. We will get the honey-maybe. He and I were reminiscing about a lot of things, and finally Mr. Robbins asked if I recalled an ex- pedition we had been ion back in the twenties. ‘And indeed T did. A young man had been hunting bear up on the morth slope of the North Mountain range, and way back on a rock ledge he had found an Indian jug or water jar. It has since been ‘examined by an expert and pronounced genuine. and it is still in possession of the person who found it. Well, this discovery caused all kinds of excitement fin archeological and histerical circles in Wyoming Valley, and nothing must do ‘but a group must have a look at the ledge where the vase was found. So—the expedition was formed and the date set for a Sunday morning. William J. Robbins, Sr. was in command. Those under him were the present Fin, Fur and Feather, Mr. and Mrs. Hachita, the former a geologist with one of the coal companies; Miss Frances Dorrance and Mr. Tillotson, representing ‘the Historical Society; and Mr. and Mrs. Kent, representing nothing. We drove up the Bowmans (Creek Road left the cars at Dinstels, walked up the railroad track for a couple of miles, then turned right and began to climb. It was a muggy day in late autumn and looked like rain any minute. The going was tough, brush, briars, stones, thorns. About a mile or so up the mountain Mr. Tillotson gave out. He was over seventy, built more for comfort than for mountain climbing. We parked him, his umbrella, and a paper bag containing a pair of over- shoes, on the ground and made him as comfortable ms ‘possible. He was ¥ certain that he was going to die, but he didn't. One member of the expedition stayed with Mr. Tillotson and the rest went on. ‘We saw the place where the jug had been found, a cleft in the rock perhaps three fieet high and going back five or six feet. It was easily possible for something to have been hidden ‘there and mot found 'for a century or more. If some Indian picked that place to hide his hooch, he picked a good one. Having seen all there was to see we started down. The skies opened, mand the rains came, not a gentle shower but pg regular gully-washer. Mr. Tillot- son, with the only umbrella, had lots of ,takes for assistance, and he needed it. We had gone a mile or more. cut- ting diagonally from our path, when Mr. Robbins discovered a large rock jutting out from the mountainside five or six feet, and long enough for all of us to get under. By that time there was mot a dry stitch in the crowd, and some of the hair-dos were looking a little tired. Mr, Rob- bins allowed as how the [place looked as if it might have been used for an Indian shelter, and sug- gested that we do some digging to see if we could find anything. With sticks, stones, and bare hands we dug down about a foot and ran into red dirt which was pronounced wood ‘ashes. We scraped around in this stuff and found a dozen or so small pieces of broken pottery. This proved to everyone's satisfaction that the Indians had used this place and had had pottery. Meanwhile it continued to rain torrents. Mr. Tillotson and his es- cort had gone on down the slope. There was nothing for the remain- der of the group to do but take the storm and get for Dinstels as fast as the slippery footing allowed. Such a looking group of scientists have never been seen before or since. Having been reared in the army and learned foresight, I had a quart thermos of black coffee in my car. This drink gave us a lift. We piled into our cars, closed them tight, turned on the heaters and let the steam fly. Tt was the only Turkish bath I ever had on expedition thirty years later, Rob- bins, Jr. and I agreed we had had a heck of a time but lots of fun. Yurchak And Kastor Honored At U of P Two Back Mountain Boys have won. extracurricular honors at the University of Pennsylvania. Peter M. Yurchak, son of Mrs. Laska B. Yunchak, of 16 N. Frank- lin Street, Wilkes-Barre, formerly of Goss Manor, has been elected vice chairman of the student board of governors of Houston Hall, the Uni- versity’s student union: and social center. John A. Kastor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred B. Kastor, of Holiday House, Dallas, has been elected manager of WXPN, campus radio station. Both are juniors in the Univer- sity’s ‘College of Arts and Sciences. _ higher offer was made. “had been scourin, Barnyard Notes HERBERT HOOVER'S MEMOIRS The second volume of “The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover” has just been published by The Macmillan Company. In this volume dealing with “The Cabinet and the Presidency, 1920-1933" Mr. Hoover continues the story of his career, begun in the first volume. “Years of Adventure, 1874-1920.” Each of these volumes is written in a fascinating manner, and each is packed with action. In the second volume 1920-1933” one is impressed with the record of a president who sought to serve the nation during a critical period, instead of working to perpetrate himself or a political party in power. How one man could crowd so much public service into one lifetime is a near miracle. In these days of endless wars, and vacillating political leader- ship which is afraid to stand squarely for American traditions, it is heartening to read Mr. Hoover's memoirs which one can see are written with absolute sincerity and a high sense of personal respon- sibility toward a nation he loves. Thus, he adds another chapter to the endless list of services he has rendered his country. Mr. Hoover has brought history to life. ABSURD For many years, stories have been making the rounds about wonderful discoveries which have been suppressed and buried in the deepest depths of the deep freeze ‘by “selfish” commercial interests. It’s impossible to know how many people believe these fables, but the number is probably substantial. And they are some- thing of a headache to the industries involved, which become the targets of undeserved ill-will. Some time ago Roger William Riis published an article in Science News Letter, called Phantom Inventions, in which he dealt with these stories. All of them, he observed, have four common characteristics, “(1) they are never firsthand; (2) the hero is a poor but brilliant inventor; (3) the villian is a wicked corporation; (4) they are untrue.” Some of the stories, untrue as they are, are ingenious and fascinating. One of the oldest tells of a pill or a powder which when mixed with water provides a motor fuel as good as gasoline at practically no cost. This tremendous discovery, the tale runs, was at once bought up by the oil companies and consigned to oblivion. It’s obvious that if a man actually could produce such a compound he would gain wealth beyond the dreams of avarice by the simple expedient of selling it to the public—but that fact is conveniently overlooked. Still another tells of an amazing carburetor which will give 50 miles or so to the gallon of gas. Again, it is alleged, the oil com- panies grabbed the patent and made sure the device will never be marketed. No one has ever been able to find this patent in the patent-office files, which are open to the public—but that fact is also overlooked in the telling. An amusing variant of this has been making the rounds lately. It seems a man bought a new car in the low-price bracket. When it was brought in for servicing the dealer asked how he liked it. The owner was all enthusiasm—it was the finest running machine he’d ever had and, on top of that, it got 50 miles to the gallon. The dealer turned pale, lifted the car's hood and peered into the engine compartment. He turned back to the owner and, obviously in a state of worried excitement, said that he’d trade the highest priced car manufactured for the machine. The owner refused, and a still Finally, in desperation the dealer explained. The car the man had bought, he said, was an experimental model which had been shipped from the factory in error. The company the nation for it, and would pay anything to get it ‘back. There the story ends. Ther fact is, of course, that experi- , mental cars are not, even produced in the | ‘same plants as standard models, and it would be impossible for one of them to be included in the regular shipments to dealers. Still another tall tale deals with a razor blade which will last forever, and which was bought by a leading razor company for millions and suppressed. The razor people made a strenuous effort to trace this story to its source, but were unsuccessful. They said they’d never seen such a blade, but they'd certainly like to. Official bodies have investigated charges that astonishingly valuable patents were being abused or suppressed. Anyone who wished to was free to testify. But all that was ever unearthed was rumor—never a fact. DAILY: Tuesday & Friday 1-5 p.m. EVENINGS: Tuesday - Wednesday & Friday 7 to 8:30 p.m. NOTHING - - - gives you so much yet cosis so littleas . . . EYE CARE Dr. A. S. 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