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i 'jy THE SCRANTON TIMES, TUESDAY. JUNE 29. 1937 4 YOUNG FELLOW! DO YOU WANT A RUNAWAY? At minimi A CO-BAETNEBSHIP jOjjjf General 19H-1938 1 EDWARD J. LYNETT Editor nnd Publluhcr JAMES FLANAGAN A Manager WILLIAM fi. LYNETT Publiaher A Democratle Newapaper Published Every Week Day Afternoon At i THE NEW TIMES BUILDING Penn Ave.

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Scranton, as second class mail matter. uates who have been, graduated for years and have no schools and never will have any. The economic waste of the states funds and the dissipation of the talents of the graduates are appalling. keep a girl or (a young man in a teacher college costs them and their parents huge surrfs annually in the aggregate. Many of the families make sacrifices that mean actual hardship in order to make a teacher.

When they are out thevcan not get jobs in the profession for which they have trained. Educators ought to face the situation. Isnt it better to have fewer teacher colleges and turn out fewer teachers than to luve families spend their money for the wrong kind of training for their sons and daughters Would it be better to turn some of the teacher colleges into training schools that would produce better equipped girls for housewives, nurses, stenographers and professional channels in which there would be more opportunity than in teaching? You can not laugh down the fact that there are hundreds of teachers in every county of the state in name only and with no chance of ever having the privilege of teaching a class of boys or girls. The patchwork that is education would he less costly and more serviceable to the people if it were realistically grappled with, but it is a problem being ducked and dodged. 000 Mr.

Morgan On Tax Dodging EHIND WASHINGTON HEADLINES (Copyright, 1987) By H. B. BAUKHAGB Washington, June 29. The com plexioq 6i the farm lobby in Wash mgton has begun to reveal a deli cate flush of pink about the cor ners. Not that the sturdy, bronzei! features of the grange and the American farm bureau federation could get sunburned.

But the new national committee on rural social planning, which stands at the extreme end (reading from rightist to leftist), is trying to elbow to the front Last week, after most of the audience and all of the press had deserted the headings on the wages and hours bill, Gardner Jacksor: took the stand for seventeen pages He is the chairman of the above-mentioned group (the H. C. R. S. if we must become alphabetical) And his thesis seemed to be whal new deal social legislation has noi done for the seamy side ol agriculture.

The implication was that the administrations achievement in this field was zero, minus. POLITICAL DYNAMITE The. farm-tenants, share-cropperi and farm -laborers and their ilk, ar all political dynamite and een Senator Black, chairman of the hearing, shivered a little as Mr Jackson stepped forward and began juggling the explosives. The souta ern senators remember now the share cropper investigatiorrhad to be soft pedalled until after Senator Robinson was safely elected in 1936 Several things in connection with the subject which Mr. Jackson didnt mention would have caused more than a shiver.

LOWER STRATUM The present farm vote, Mr Jackson said, was a He claimed that it represents the thin upper-crust, and that it needlessly frightened congress into eliminating benefiits for his proteges who inhabit the bottom stratum of agrt culture. These little fellows of the plow and hoe, from the tenant about to lose his tenancy to the bundle stiff, as the migratory worker is politely designated, are just as potentially powerful politically, and are rapidly achieving organization, declared Mr. Jackson. The top 3,000,000 American farmers who produce 86 per cent of the farm products, he claimed, are outnumbered by the group composed of another 3,000,000 who produce the remaining 14 per cent but dont hire labor, plus the 3,000,000 laborers themselves. These folk, Mr.

Jackson says, are in the ill-clad, ill-houses, lll-nour-lshed class which the president says he wants to help. They are on the way to organization. declares Mr. Jackson, so be-warel LETTUCE SHEDDERS How much of this is wishful thinking? Quien Sabe? All we know i what we read in the papers. But this highly unpublished, perhaps deniable, but loudly rumored situation gives pause: It is said that the national labor relations board, whose jurisdiction does not go beyond the realm of the industrial worker, is now, holding a secret investigation of the grievances of the lettuce sheddera whose strike in Salmas, last 'rear resulted in fierce riots and iloodshed.

If this is so, and the board tacitly recognizes these workers in a marginal Industry (one on the border between agriculture and industry), it may create a far-reaching precedent. GIRDLER The silly season seems to havi broken prematurely on Washington Paradoxes and inconsistencies treac on each others heels. Tom Girdler proved one. Applauded for his forthright, if hardlj tolerant, comments in the senati he cancelled a public presi conference, called eight or nim newspapermen to a private cocktai arty. Suddenly straddling his chair ie began to comment on the per sonalities involved in the curren dispute with a frankness only com' parable to some of the more p'ungei passages of the uninhibited F.lizi bethan.

He interpolated his- marks with put that in you papers. A little shocking, but not out character. Then, suddenly, after the storli (duly tempered to the pious eye the copy desk) had been put on tb wires, he got the recent guests oi vvwu (ucou vj the phone and told them, too laU not to print what had been said, Mr. Girdlers counsel had beei present at the interview, but mad no restraining or qualifying com ment at the time. RADIO There will be quite a hole In thi ether if Commissioner John Stude baker doesn't get funds from the re lief bill to continue the radio proj ect of the office of education.

He claims that the project ha proved that entertainment and edu cation can be made a success b1 commercail standards. It has draggei in more fan mail than Major Bowes The responses to the Smithsoniai Institution program, The World I Yours, Let Freedom Ring," i dramatization of the bill of rights and other programs have givei pause to commercial radio. But his big idea has never beei tried. Its a series called All Amer ica, and it is planned as an interna tional good-will show with enter tainment thrown in an air follow up on the Good Neighbor treatie of the Buenos Aires peace confer ence. It is claimed that the progran has the earnest backing of the stat department and the Pan-Americai diplomats.

o-o-o Senator Soaper Says Copyright, 1987. By N. A. N. luu.

The head of a statue In Londor strand broke off without warnii and felled a passerby. You tru these things for years and wh happens? they turn on you. The Moscow fliers who landed miles short of their goal must the American plan. To make Wal safely, you shoot for Constantlnopl We may rest assured virtue will triumph in Spain and vice will totter. There remains the small mat-ter of determining which ia which.

Its odd about a diplomat putting on a morning coat, instead of the sweater and cap, to announce that his country can pay nothing on an old war. Brokers played cricket on thi floor of Londons stock exchangi when- things grew dull. Still, a they say, everthmg relative. One-Minute Pulpit There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment He that feareth is not made perfect in Jove. I John 4:1.

(From the Springfield Republican) J. P. Morgan says "taxation is a legal question, pure and simple, and not a moral one." Let it stand as the ethic of one of the largest taxpayers in the United States. And let us not be hypocritical in judging him. We are just interested.

Mr. Morgan did not incorporate his yacht because he did not think it worth while. But the man who did incorporate his yacht to escape taxes was morally justified, for you only do what you are compelled to do by law. It is never any pleasure for any one to pay taxes. You dont do any more than you have to.

You can not censure Mr. Morgan with severity In view of the fact that the federal courts have taken the same position. Please examine the judgment in the case of Marshall vs. the commissioner of internal revenue, decided April 6, 1932, in the United States court of appeals, sixth district, which was recently reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, much to the ordinary small taxpayers edification. In that case Mr.

Marshall had avoided part of his income tax by transferring to his wife certificates of stock that were paying dividends. She kept the certificates in a safety deposit box to which her husbands secretary had a key. She testified in court that, should her husband ever need the securities, she would give them back to him. It was a plain case of tax avoidance by means of a fake transfer of ownership. And what did the United States circuit court have to say? Just this, brethren: There was nothing unlawful, or even mildly unethical.

In the motive of petitioner, to avoid aotne portion of the burden of taxation. There la nothing Illegal In a gift of aharea of atock by a husband to bla wife. As for the wifes readiness to give back the securities If her husband should ever want them, the bench toed the scratch without This spirit on flip part of a wife In her willingness to share with her hus hand whatever ahe might have, la not uncommon, and la, we think, commend able rather than the reverse A writ of certiorari in this case failed to move the United States supreme court, which refysed to review the decision of the circuit court. So Mr, Morgan has the highest judicial authority to sustain his general position. The situation becomes sardonically droll, however if there was nothing even mildly unethical in tax dodging, such as was practiced in Marshall vs.

the United States when we consider the "little fellows. Their necks are stuck out all the time for the tax collector because they can not afford to hire lawyers and tax specialists to find loopholes in the tax laws. It is their privilege also, as the court said, to avoid some portion of the burden of taxation, if they can. But, they cant, poor devils, get away with it It costs too much, if done with the requisite skill. This prompts the suggestion that free legal service be furnished to all the small income tax payers so that they can enjoy the same facilities Mr.

Morgan enjoys. If the motive is good, as the court declared, why not make tax dodging, or avoidance, easy for us all? Equality of opportunity" might well have a new application, especially since a strong sentiment has arisen among the heavier taxpayers to lower the income tax exemption bo as to catch the millions fn the lowest brackets in order to make them tax conscious." ERSONAL AND PERTINENT WHEN WILL LOVE COMET Some find Love late, some find him soon, Some with the rose in May, Some with the nightingale in June, And some when skies are gray; Lov.e comes to some with smiling eyes. And comes with tears to some; For some Love sings, for some Love sighs, For some Loves lips are dumb. How will you come to me, fair Love? Will you come late or soon With sad or smiling skies above, By light of sun or moon? Will you be sad, will you be sweet, Sing, sigh. Love, or be dumb? Will it be summer when we meet.

Or autumn ere you come? Pakenham Beatty. A Contending that it is high time the world at large should know more about the beauties of that part of Pennsylvania, the Btooms-burg Morning Press yesterday issued what it terms "a scenic and mail-it-away edition. Thirty-two pages of the paper are given over to pictures and descriptions of beauty spots, scenic wonders and vacation places in Columbia county and nearby. From a newspaper standpoint the scenic edition of the Press is well put together. It shows a care in the selection of illustrations as well as descriptive articles and can be very useful not only to the Board of Trade of Bloomsburg but that entile region in making people acquainted with the scenic grandeur of the territory surrounding Bloomsburg All too few people know of the beauties of Pennsylvania and especially of their own immediate locality.

Pei haps this may be due to too great familiarity and a tendency to look afar for beauty which is to be had right at our doorstep. The enterprise of the Press in presenting its scenic and mail-it-away edition I have no doubt will prompt other newspapers throughout the state, particularly in sections where there is natural beauty, to issue similar editions. Incidentally the edition ought to be a help to the new state scenic commission which has just been granted a half million dollars to advertise the beauties and attractions of Pennsylvania. A Ask the axerage motorist hereabouts how long it is since the Lackawanna tiail was built and the answer will probably be. "twenty-five or thirty years.

As a matter of fact the trail is but fifteen years old. The formal opening of the highway took place June 28. 1922, or fifteen years ago yesterday It would be interesting to know how many million cars have traveled over the trail in the" decade and a half since the exercises at New Milford, participated in by Governor Sproul, of Pennsylvania, and Governor Miller, of New York. At the time it was built the trail was the longest road job let by the state department of highways. The cost was $5,000,000.

Agitation fnr the building of the trail was started shortly after the roadbed was abandoned by the L. W. when the so-called "cutoff between Clarks Summit and Great Bend was built. Credit generally is given to Attorney J. W.

Browning, now of Glenburn, for the idea of having the old roadbed converted into a highway. It was not, however, until about 1917 that an actual survey was made. The first contract, I believe, was let in 1919. The dedication ceremony, however, was put back until the entire road was completed. The Times claims credit for suggesting the name, "Lackawanna trail, which is the official title of the roadway.

Ornamental and shade trees need constant attention if they are to survive. The natural home of the tree is the forest There it grows among favorable surroundings witti soil and moisture conditions adapted to its needs. When a tree is transplanted to a grass covered lawn or along a paved street it is exposed to unnatural conditions. Shade trees aie often planted on sterile or mineral soil and among rocks and cinders. The symptoms of an unsatisfactory location are poor growth and an unhealthy discoloration of the foliage.

Healthy trees have rich green leaves. City trees nearly always suffer Irom lack of water and soil, and during the heat of the summer months it is necessary to water them frequently, especially trees which were planted during the spring. When trees must be watered during the day time, water should be supplied to surrounding soil and not as a spray against the foliage. Early evening after sunset is the best time to water trees. Many trees become unhealthy because they need certain elements which they tire unable to obtain in sufficient quantity from the soil where they have been planted.

These necessary elements can often be supplied in the form of fertilizer. Fertilizer should not be supplied late in the growing season because it is apt to stimulate growth to such an extent that the growing branches will not have a chance to harden before the freezing weather in winter. 0-0-0 Simon Lake's Achievement. Springfield Republican: The discovery of a total of 86 cents in the wreck of what was supposed to be the British frigate Hussar, sunk during the Revolutionary War with gold said to be worth $4,800,000, may be discouraging to those who plan, each new year, to recover millions of sunken treasure from the bottom of the sea. But it seems to be due to Simon Lake, inventor of submarines and submarine apparatus, to recall that he warned his backers at the beginning that it was not certain that the Hussar ever had gold aboard.

While the wreck, which yielded the 88 cents of which under contract 8.8 cents must go to the federal government, seems to have been that of a tug whose boilers blew up only a few years ago, it may still be that in the baby submarine and the hinged steel tube extending to the bottom like a giant vacuum cleaner, Mr. Lake has made an important contribution to the development of deep-sea salvage. 1 An Optimist Speaks. Williamsport Sun: Charles M. Schwab has established a reputation as Americas No.

1 industrial optimist He returns from Europe with his optimism undimmed, despite thax troubles which are now being experienced in Bethlehem Steel plants. In the face of what are called the worst conditions the steel industry has faced sine 1892, Mr. Schwab Erofesses confidence in American uSiness conditions and says that "this labor trouble," while it interrupts the march of business back to prosperity, is but "a phase, and that we'U right ourselves in the end. It is to be hoped that Mr. Schwab's words will prove to be born of the ripened experience of age and not the fruit of ignorance of actual' conditions, COL.

LOUIS ARTHUR WATRES EN make communities. That is brought home when the lifework of Col. Louis Arthur Watres in this city of ours reviewed. Few men in Scranton's history have had a bigger part in its upbuilding. For well over sixty years Colonel Watres had been an outstanding figure here.

Nor was his reputation confined to Scranton or his native Lackawanna. It extended throughout the state and info the nation itself. He held many positions of trust, was lieutenant governor and was deprived of the governorship by one of those turns of the political wheel which could not have been foreseen. Nationally, be was prominent because of the part he played in the building of the Washington National Memorial at Alexandria, Ya. While a lawyer by profession, Col.

Watres early turned business endeavors, die showed a special capacity as an organizer. Outstanding in his achievements as a business executive was bis development of the Spring Brook Water Company, supplying the lower Lackawanna and almost the entire Wyoming valley, in a civic way here he was chiefly responsible for the erection of the Chamber of Commerce building. Even before he was president of the organization he conceived the idea of a great building which would be a community center. To his energy, more than to any one else's, was the building made possible. Fraternally the colonel had numerous connections.

His activities from a welfare standpoint were mafiy apd varied. He was trustee of -schools, hospitals, Pennsylvania Association for the Blind and many other such eleemosynary institutions. In the field of finance Colonel Watres had long been recognized as an outstanding figure; banking, in fact, had attracted him before he became a waterlord. Nor must his part as a soldier be overlooked. He was one of the charter members of the old Scranton City Guard, our first citizen-soldier organization.

During the Spanish-American War he was commissioned a colonel and served as head of the local regiment for many years afterwards. From this brief resume it can be seen that Colonel Watres life was a full one, indeed. He typified the oft-heard expression, If something is to be done, get a busy man to do it. Although his own activities were far flung and took up much of his time, he always found time to give to community effort. Nor did he overlook the social niceties or opportunities to make friends.

At the close of his long life Colonel Watres, who was eighty-six, expired last night the people of this community can not help but realize he gave much of-his time, effort and ability to community development and upbuilding, to make of Scranton and this whole region, of which he was so proud to be a citizen, a better place in which to live. Over the years to come his name will have a place in the list of the citys great. 000 Renowned Educator IN the world of education, particularly in our own country, few men have become better known in recent years than Prof. William Me-Andrew. In a long career given over to teaching he was the Storm center of many battles between school boards, teachers federations and other groups.

His brilliance of mind was generally acknowledged. His independence and his courage frequently brought on conflicts which in most cases ended with his ousting or resigning. Outstanding in his long career was his bout, if it can be called that, with Mayor (Big Bill) Thompson, of Chicago, who demanded Mr. McAndrews ouster on the ground that he was a British propagandist and, as Thompson put it, a stool pigeon for King George. Previous to going to Chicago Mr.

McAndrew had become embroiled with certain politicians in Manhattan, where he was associate superintendent of schools, and also with the teachers federation. Not only did he feel it his duty to see that the teachers in the school districts where he was in charge were qualified and gave capable service but also that school sites were selected because of their adaptability and convenience to the school population rather than because of any advantage which their acquisition might be to political leaders or their favorites. Mr. McAndrew died yesterday at Mamaroneck, N. at the age of seventy-three.

000 A controversy is raging in a Chicago news aper over which is the tpp (upper part) jnd ottom (lower end) of Lake Michigan. The answer is easy the top is where you go in swimming and the bottom is where you end up if you dont how C. of C. Action On Coal Rail Rate BY their action in going on record for a study to determine the fairness of freight rates on anthracite coal the directors of the chamber of commerce reached a decision that meets with public approval. The Times has, as a public service, stood Consistently for a new deal on hard coal freight rates, much of the time alone but undeterred, and on solid ground.

The issue of reasonable freight rates is already before the interstate commerce commission, but the chambers action will be a prop in supplementing the request of the coal industry for a cut in rail rates. Were all the chambers of commerce of the anthracite region joining annually in Anthracite Week with the purpose of stimulating recovery in the industry, united and formal in sup-orting the plea of the coal operators before he interstate commerce commission, it would impress the commission. So much time has elapsed since the freight rate issue was raised more recently that the decision of the chamber of commerce to make dear its attitude to the commission without further delay is prudent. The essence of any movement of such importance is clarity, tirm-ness and dispatch. As an organization presuming to bespeak the Sentiment of business and depending upon in i dividual and' collective financial and moral sup port the chamber of commerce could not have afforded to do aughtr but take a positive post tion on anthracite freight rates without suffer ing an impairment of its standing.

The coal roads, of which there are nine orig inating roads, have no just cause of complaint They have enjoyed, for many years, rates that gave them the handsomest kind of profits on a commodity of which they have enjo)ed a monopoly in carrying. While the coal roads are part of the com- munity life it is also necessary that their man-( agers shall not forget that the relationship be-. tween the community and themselves is mutual. The people who work for them and the local business men who ship over their lines, have contributed as much to their prosperity as they have to that of the community. This is some- thing some railroad men seem to overlook.

It i also may be mentioned that no small part of i the financing and success of some of the anthra-; Cite carrying roads came from the localities in they operates These facts should help to establish, in the minds of the railroad execu-, tives and the anthracite communities alike, the reciprocal character of the relationship between the roads and the people. The latter want only a fair deal on anthracite freight rates, nothing more and nothing less. Mens heads are getting larger, says an English magazine. After reading the latest news from Europe we arent sure whether it is an actual increase in size or just a hangover. 0-00 Ducking and Dodging On Education THE state commission which studied the educational setup in this state reports we have only scratched the surface in arriving at educational standards and advocates continued planning.

Education in this state, as in many is like a crazy quilt. It is patched here and patched there. Of course, it is better than no education, and it is good, but it is so utterly haphazard" that neither the educators nor the citizens know whether they are getting the right kind of a system or their moneys worth. The education doctors themselves are at sixes and sevens. The criticism of the states educational sys-, tem is not based on any unworthy motives.

Schbol boards are not responsible for it. It is more fundamental. The major obligation for an educational system is on educational leaders and especially those in-state positions with the authority to supervise it. But they have been evading it for years and years. Just one item in this states system may be mentioned as evidence of the need of reform.

That is the numerous state teachers colleges. We have more of them than necessary and they are costing several million dollars a year. Not long ago the legislature passed a bill providing for practically permanent tenure for teachers until they are well along in years. The idea is to protect teachers against political re-prisals. That is all right.

But at the same time we are appropriating millions of dollars for providing education for more teachers. The fact is we are turning out more teachers Jjhan can be absorbed by. the public school sys- fesm. Every year more hundreds of girls and I fOung men are" being graduated from the teach-'p colleges of the state and have no place j'W i-11 county of Lackawanna there are if not thousands, of teacher college grad Nt Looking Backward froa Th Tim. at Thirty aa I'lftMa Vaara As.

(Jane 29, 1907.) The annual water rate for families in Scranton and Dunmore will be reduced from $8 to $8 on Monday. This announcement was made by W. W. Scranton and is in accord with a promise he made some time ago. L.

B. Stillwell, of New York city, a brother of Col. F. W. Stillwell, of this city, was honored at Wesleyan University commencement exercises by having the degree of master of science conferred upon him.

The Salvation Army, through Adjutant Nankeville, today stated it would conduct a picnic for 500 poor children and mothers at Moosic Lake next Tuesday. (June 29. 1922.) John F. Reynolds and John B. Shannon, of Carbondale, have purchased for $12,000 from the Consolidated Water Supply Company, a strip of land bordering on Newton lake and Mud pond and adjoining the Elk View Country Club.

Maurice and Samuel Miller, have acquired the plant of the Scranton Cold Storage Company at 15-17 Lackawanna avenue. The price was, $30,000 and the real estate man handling the sale was A. P. Benjamin. They will remodel the building.

Contract members of the Electrical Association of Scranton and vicinity announced they will close their stores at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoons during July and August 0-00 Just Folks By EDGAB A. GUEST MEN AND FISH He tossed the bait Into the brook And caught a fish upon the hook. That night in camp we heard him say: For ages long, from day to day Its really very strange to me That fish have never learned to see The deadly barb beneath the fly And in their wisdom pass it by. All day the while Ive fished Ive thought About the various ones Ive caught And each has jumped to snatch the lure Believing that his meal was sure. The trout beholds a morsel fine; Thinks it an easy way to dine And lands before hes had his meal Into some artful anglers creeL It seems to me the wily trout By now should know to look in doubt On such allurements and beware Of easy meals men dangle there; But no! They grab the tempting bait And feel the hidden barbs, too late! They never learn, as mortals do Tie difference twixt false and true.

laughed another. "Mortals make Continually the same mistake! Let some one offer golden grains The greed for profit has no brains! Mankind believes this even yet Something for nothing he can get Doubt it? Well count the loss you've booked! And see how often you've been hooked. (Copyright, I 17. Edgar A. Guest.) 000 THE GRAB BAG One-Minute Test.

1. Who is governor of Pennsylvania? 2. Who preceded Charles Evans Hughes as diief justice of the United States supreme court? 3. Distinguish between perennial and annual plants. Hints On Etiquette.

The time to serve cocktails and appetizers at a dinner party is when the guests arrive. Words of Wisdom. The press is the foe of rhetoric but the friend of reason. Coltoa Todays Horoscope. Persons whose birthday occurs today like to obtain perfect seclusion so they may indulge in deep, reflective thought.

One-Mlnnte Test Answers. 1. George H. Earle. 2.

The late William Howard Taft, former president 3. Perennial plants live several years. Annuals must be planted anew each season. THE TIMES PRAISES LIBRARY Editor Times: The greatest asset we have in Scranton, my estimation, is the public library, and I know how splendid the equipment is there as I have spent many hours reading in the downtown library. I think that people would read more if they only realized the benefit gained in books.

Unfortunateljr. some people as children are raised in homes where books are not very common and I know that many times I have been in homes of wealth even where the people only had one or two books, and there seems to be a lack of love for reading in such homes. I find that books are worth while as they are instructive and help to pass away idle hours in a pleasant way. I have alwavs been fond of reading myself and have tried to encourage others to become interested in books by giving them books after I had finished or when I had duplicates. I think that children can be' trained to read and enjoy books if the parents take an early interest by supervising their reading and by giving them books from time to time.

So many people Just spend their entire time in reading worthless magazines and many are not elevating and they could gain more in my estimation by good books. BOOK LOVER. LETS ALL HELP. Editor Times: The loss of the twenty-one expert mechanics who left Scranton in a body for another city was not only the loss of twenty-one men to the city but the buying power of their families. It is a very serious situation when so many individuals are leaving Scranton for other cities unable to secure employment here, os it affects the pock-etbook of every resident in Scranton indirectly.

When I moved here two years ago I saw few vacant houses or stores but now in my own neighborhood there are many vacant houses and vacant stores in different sections which shows that Scranton has lost round within the last two years. have had several friends who moved with their families up to Endicott, N. and also several friends who had to leave for Philadelphia with their families unable to secure work here. I think that the solution to this problem Is an aggressive advertising campaign which woqld stress the beauty of the scenery here and the climate as well as the close proximity to the large cities. I have only my house In Scranton as I live off of funds invested in other cities so am not personally MAIL BAG affected as much as individuals who have put their all in Scranton and their savings of a life time.

It is time that something is done about conditions here or otherwise the city will dwindle until it will be only like a deserted mining town. D. A. D. (May we beg to suggest that a city good enough to live in should be good enough for at least a part investment of funds the Jady says she has.

You cant shift all the burden to other shoulders. Ed.) 0-0-0 THIS DATE IN 1 NEWS OF PAST Tuesday, June 29. Compiled By Clark Klnnatrd. Copyright, 1117, (INS). Festival of SS.

Peter and Paul. Ten Years Ago Today Bemt Bal-chen and Bert Acosta flew the Atlantic, with R. E. Byrd as passenger, but became lost looking for Paris and were forced down on coast. 1865 William E.

Borah was born. 1936 Dayton Dean pleaded guilty at Detroit to the Black Legion murder which bared the ramifications of the organization. 0-0-0 FACTOGRAPHS The shrike, commonly called the butcher bird, hangs its prey on a thorn to dry after killing it The average life of a U. S. dollar bill is one year.

0-0-0 Word Study By W. L. GO DON Words Often Misused: Da not say, What did you say that Say, Why did you say Omit for. Often Harangue. Pronounce ha-rang, first a as in ask unstressed, last syllable as rang, and accent last syllable, not the first Often Misspelled: Petticoat Observe the not pettycoat Synonyms: Unwholesome, un- healthful, unsound.

Injurious, insalubrious. Word Study: Use a word three times and it is yours. Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Invade: to infringe; encroach upon. We shall not Invade the rights of the people," 1.