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Recently, James Nelligan joined
| with 233 other U.S. Congressmen in
voting for a “billion dollar jobs bill”
| which ‘would purportedly provide
| for some 200,000 ‘temporary public
Bl scrvice” jobs across the nation.
| When queried about the details,
Bl Congressman Nelligan said that
these were sketchy because of the
| haste with which the bill was
| written, However, he said that
| generally, locations where
| unemployment is above the
hs national average will be eligible for
WE the program.
I ‘I took a sharp look at the high
unemployment (nearly 11 percent
in Luzerne County) in my district
and saw this bill as an opportunity
reported to have said.
_ Sloppy, sloppy! Perhaps next
time the Congressman ought to
wear his glasses when he takes such
a look. . . .
Yet, one must sympathize.
Certainly no one wants the present
levels of unemployment to continue.
Clearly this is a waste of one of the
nation’s most valuable resources--
its manpower. But a quick look at
the basic economics involved
reveals that the route to full em-
ployment and prosperity cannot lie
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in development of more govern-
ment jobs--either temporary or
permanent. This is so because it is
obvious that such jobs will have to
be paid for by the taxpayers. And,
equally obvious, the dollars ex-
tracted from the taxpayers must
reduce their purchasing power by
exactly the same amount as is spent
for the ‘‘jobs’’ program. Public
spending will be increased; but
private spending will be decreased.
Public jobs increase; private jobs
decrease. In short, this flimsy,
jerry-built, hastily put together
multi-billion dollar ‘jobs’ program
is as phoney as a three-dollar bill!
This does not mean that there
isn’t a worrisome unemployment
problem. Certainly thoughtful
about effective solutions. But the
fact is that business booms and
depressions have been around for a
as any statistics can be found. Yet
to-date, their causes and cures are
mystifying.
In his epic work: ‘Business
Cycles” the last Wesley Mitchell
(founder of the National Bureau of
Economic Research) after studying
the business cycle in many different
nations covering all time periods
for which data were available,
observed that the typical business
cycle occured only in those nations
which had a freely expansible
system of money and credit. This
represents approximately the only
concrete knowledge we have of the
phenomenon to date.
Hordes of economic savants have
proposed diverse nostrums. As yet,
however, none of their ‘‘cures’ ever
seemed to work. Perhaps the pre-
ponderance of these suggest that
government actions be taken to
stimulate the economy. But one
might observe that proponents of
this view have never been able to
economics (like the Soviet Union,
for example) do not enjoy endless
prosperity but perversely suffer
booms and busts like their capitalist
neighbors. Ht
will keep trying to find the cure for
depression. But also let’s all keep in
mind the fact that no one ever got
rich by taking money out of one
pocket and putting it in another:
Hugh P. King
12 Main St.
Dallas, Pa.
BY NANCY KOZEMCHAK
Talk about a busman’s holiday.
Mrs. Crump called me a few weeks
ago and asked if I would like to go to
Scranton with her on a Thursday
morning; if I would drive, she
would ‘pay for our lunch. After
looking at the calendar, I told her I
had some special typing to do on
that Thursday morning. Her an-
swer to that was, can’t you do it at
home at night? Okay, then I said I
would like to bowl at 1:00 and she
said, can’t you skip it this week?
Then I asked, why are we going to
Scranton? She said, naturally, we
are going to a book sale and try to
buy some books for next year’s
library auction. To make a long
story short, I picked her up at 9,
drove to Scranton with one lane of
traffic all the way up, got to the sale
and they were not ready yet, so we
had coffee, ended up buying a good
amount of books out of cartons,
couldn’t wait till they were set up,
ran out of time for lunch so we ate
some fancy Greek food made and
sold by one of the local churches,
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left Scranton at noon, took her home
to Dallas and I arrived in Luzerne to
bowl at 10 minutes before 1 p.m.
After that hectic morning, my first
game I bowled a 193. Mrs. Crump is
one tremendous person, a remark-
able woman, 87 years young and
still going strong! Our library is
still one of her favorite pets.
Inter-library loan is a service to
the public. If a patron needs a cer-
tain book and we don’t have it here,
we request it through Osterhout in
Wilkes-Barre and if they don’t have
it they will try to find it. This past
summer we have received books for
our patrons from Tennessee,
Florida, and Texas along with
many from college libraries out of
the district. A new service is the fic-
tion round, locating fiction in local
areas before sending out of town.
We have sent some of our fiction to
other areas. The Osterhout van
delivers and picks up from Back
Mountain Monday, Wednesday and
Friday each week. One of our
slogans, if youneed particular book
and we don’t have it here, we can
It arrived on Thursday, Sept. 23 at
4:46 a.m., and will hang around
until Dec. 21 at 11:39 p.m. During its
visit, it will treat us all to some of
see, especially. around the Back
Mountain.
Rarely will a day pass that
someone won't comment on the
changes in the countryside, awe-
some and stupendous! What
natures does in the few short
months of autumn is impossible to
rival on a man-made scale. The
colorful cascade which greets us as
we leave our houses to head for
school, work, or wherever--
awakens something in our souls,
sparking to life a part of us which
too often lies dormant.
We are fortunate to be so blessed.
Where else can you drive to a milk
store on Huntsville Road and pass
through a panorama of greens,
reds, golds and oranges such as
some travel hundreds of miles to
see? And around the corner, you
can stop at your local farmhouse to
pick up a bushel of fresh apples or
just pressed cider? And how many
others can easily catch an autumn
sunset at Harveys Lake, where the
blue of the water fairly shimmers
with the glory of the surrounding
mountains? Piles of pumpkins will
soon be spotted on the roadside,
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ready to decorate our homes. And
the Luzerne County Tourist
Promotion Agency will be placing
its map of our neighborhood on the
autumn tour‘schedule.
People from" tewn will ‘make a
point of driving out on a Sunday
afternoon. And all we need do is
look out our window.
it often turns to winter before we
appreciate it in its fullest. With the
cooler weather, many of us are
smitten with an added burst of
energy, and not unlike the squirrels
and inhabitants of the forest, begin
to prepare for the long cold months
of winter. The hum of the chainsaw
replaces the whine of the lawn-
mower, and we put our gardens to
bed, while canning or freezing the
results of the months of loving care
and attention.
While engrossed in all of this
preparation, we: must remember
the beauty and brilliance which
typify fall are fleeting at best. Take
a few ‘moments to stop and look
around. Walk with your family.
Catch nature in its most daring
change of face and let it overwhelm
you. Get high on fall and let yourself
feel pretty special and very lucky to
live in the Back Mountain where the
season is at its best.
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Gotagripe,
complaint or
criticism? Want to
getitoff your
chest? All you
have todo is pick
up the phone and
dial 675-5211 and
tell our ‘‘listening
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try to get it for you somewhere else.
The Collectors Group will meet
Wednesday, Sept. 29 at 7:30 in the
library annex.
New books at the library:
‘Second Heaven” by Judith Guest
is a passionate novel that delineates
in bold and eloquent lines the lives
of three people who will concern
and involve readers. A rich novel
with emotional exaltation so
triumphantly conveyed.
“Master of the Game” by Sidney
Sheldon is the story of the Blackwell
dynasty which takes place over a
period of 100 years. The story races
from the diamond fields of South
Africa to the back streets of Paris
and the stately homes of England.
Pressures of your job have you
down? Throw away those tran-
quilizers and visit the Back
Mountain Memorial Library, a
place where tensions disappear as
you relax while you read.
Dave Mitchell,
Kunkle: ‘‘I don’t
think the fine should
be stiffer for the first
offense. A lot of
people don’t drink all
the time, just at a
- ‘party or something.
Why should they get
nailed for that? They
should crack down
on second and third
offenders.’’
Cathy Dymond,
Sweet Valley: ‘It’s a
really . serious
problem. I think they
need stiffer fines.’’
Kim Wright,
Noxen: ‘‘Put them in
jail for about a week
for one thing. It’s a
terrible problem,
especially when
someone is killed.’
Del Smith, Shaver-
town: ‘‘Stiffer fines
would help to keep
our highways safer,
and help the drivers
who have a problem
with alcohol, get
them to recognize
their problem.”’