Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1936 — Page 14

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Founder of Olive Branch Church Dead in New Orleans.

WILLIAM 8. CANFIELD, Indi- _ anapolis attorney and founder of ~ the Olive Branch Christian Church, . died suddenly yesterday in New Orleans, where he had stopped on a return trip to Mexico City. He was 69, : Time for the funeral services, to be held in the Central Christian Church, has not been set. Burial is "to be in Crown Hill. Mr. Canfield, who was senior member of the law firm of Canfield, Carey & Cox, Fidelity Trust Building, had gone to Mexico with a party composed of Roy Combs, Otto W, Cox, Dr. Harry Epstein, Dr. Charles Kaufman, Dr. Lee Wherry and Mr. and Mrs. Coburn ‘Scholl. Mr. Combs and Mr. Canfield, who had separated from the party at the border, were in New Orleans when Mr. Canfield died in a garags where his automobile was being re-

paired. Born Here in 1866

Born in Indianapolis Nov. 22, 1866, the son of the Rev. J. M. Canfield, pioneer Christian minister in Indiana, Mr. Canfield atended the * public schools, Butler University and Indiana Law School. He began law practice in 1898. Mr. Canfield organized the first congregation of the Olive Branch Church. He was a member of the Central Christian Church, holder of the Pilggim’s Degree of Merit in the Loyal Order of Moose, a member of the Knights of Pythias and Elks. Survivors are a sister, Mrs. J. Walter Carpenter, Johnson City, Tenn.; three nieces, Mrs. Dana B. Starr and Mrs. G. Schuyler Blue, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Roy Owens - of Johnson City; and three nephews, the Rev. Paul Carpenter, Buchanan, Mich.; the Rev. Walter Carpenter, Louisville, Ky., and William Carpenter, Johnson City.

HUGO WUELFING, native of Germany and an Indianapolis resident for 51 years, died yesterday in his home, 1849 Nowland-av, after an illness of six weeks. He was 75. Funeral services are to be held in the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary. Burial is to be in Crown Hill. Time for the service is to be set later, Mr. Wuelfing was born in Dusseldorf, Germany. He was in the cotton business in Texas, and the mustard and meat business in Chicago before he came to Indianapolis in 1885. He was employed here by the Prancke Hardware Co. He entered the lumber business in 1908, remaining at that work until 1919. He was secretary of the Home Builders Savings and Loan Association for many years and also was secretary of the Turners Building and Savings Association. He retired five years ago. Survivors are a daughtér, Mrs. J. G. Warren, Indianapolis; three sons, . Fred Wuelfinig, Indianapolis; Otto Wuelfing,. Denver, and Hugo | Wauelfing, San. Diego, Cal; two brothers, Otto ‘Wuelfing, Indianapolis, - and Paul Wauelfing * of Germany, nine grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.

MRS. MARTHA ETTA FITCH, lifelong resident | of Indianapolis, died yeste 3 North Belle View-pl., following an illness of several months. She was 75. Puneral services are to be held at 2 p. m. Monday in the home. Burial is to be in Floral Park. The Rev. W. C. Morgan, West Michigan-st M. E. Church pastor, is to officiate. Mrs. Fitch was a member of the Merrit Place M. E. Church. ‘ Survivors are two sons, Edward Bly and Willard Bly, Indianapolis; three daughters, Miss Ruth White, Indianapolis; Mrs. Hazel Reigel, Mecca, and Mrs. Lottie Rutledge, Greenfield; seven grandchildren aad seven great-grandchildren.

MRS. CLARA ELIZABETH EDWARDS, 1440 N. Warman-av, who died Thursday in the Methodist Hospital following an illness of 10 days, is to be buried in Crown Hill today following funeral services at 3 p. m, in the home. She was 38. The Rev. Glen Mell, pastor of Eighth Christian Church, is to have charge of the services. Survivors gre the husband, Claude G. Edwards; a son, Claude Jr; three sisters, Mrs. Caroline Pickett, Mrs. Emma Woolwine and Mrs. Anna Steel, and three brothers, Henry Alsmeyer all of Indianapolis.

MRS. LILLEY M. LEE, Indianapolis resident for 16 years, died yesterday in -the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. Earl Smith, 332 Ridge-view-av, following an illness of 10

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and of action and those social, economic and governmental institutions which ‘create political issues.

MEANS COURAGE

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans. That is no idle phrase. The word. “American” has come to mean something more than a dweller within our boundaries. It means an attitude of heart and mind, an outlook on life. It means not only deep love of liberty and justice, but courage to face the dangers and responsibilities that go with liberty. Our fathers cherished this way of life because they bought it with their own blood. We have received it as a free gift from them. There is danger that we may not prize it as we should.. This American way of life is being challenged. * ' We are told that it does not meet modern requirements. The condisions of the time incline some of our people to listen to these accusations. Some are trying to supplant our institutions by others from abroad. Periods of depression are favorable for reviving ancient and discredited systems of society and government, and presenting them as the sure way of gaining Utopia. In the waste and extravagance of the boom days and the hardships of the depression many of us went -wool gathering.

CONFIDENCE SHAKEN

~So it is not surprising that the confidence of many of our people in our way of doing things has been shaken. They are wondering whether we may not have to scrap our American institutions. This doubt and distrust is fostered by. unstable men to whom it is always dangerous to give political power.

like the depression, is world-wide, and not ‘confined “tovztheorUnitédt

economic system of free enterprise, but even the representative form of government, Before the depression, such. phrases as “the onward sweep of democracy were commonplace. Now in many parts of the world ‘democracy is. in retreat and dic~ %atorships are advancing. Today we can well review the way of life that has brought us thus far on the road to national greatness, and ask ourselves whether the: end of that road has been reached. Let us look at:the picture as it exists in thousands of American communities, as they. are in normal times. We see men, women and children living together as families in homes. We see that the family and the home are the foundation of national life. We also. see the heads of families assuming responsibility for- their support, -carrying on every variety of occupation to .earn the means of support. We see them facing life with cheerfulness ‘and courage, asking no odds, taking - pride in their. independence, supporting their families, helping these in need. .

RISE THROUGH RANKS

We see them rising through the ranks to the highest positions in every. field.

larger problems by voluntary cooperation with their friends and neighbors, through economic, educational and political organizations. We see them, generally speaking, traveling from the cradle to the ve without ever feeling the coercive or directing hand of govern-

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better than any other way. J ‘We know there are niany wrongs to right. Only ithe m d will claim that this system ‘is perfect or that all its results are desirable. We do not contend that individual effort can of itself overcome many of the handicaps placed on great numbers of individuals by the workings of our industrial civilization. ~~ -- -. The record proves, however; that our system gives the most personal liberty to human beings ‘and offers on the whole the highest possible standard of life to the greatest numbers. It is a ‘system which permits the driving force of free initiative to produce more of the good : things of life and thus promote a more rapid improvement of human welfare than can be found: anywhere outside of America." ! We have Jdound : by experience that American institutions sefve our purpose better than those of any other country. We not only want to safeguard our freedom, but we also want security and abundance of the g things of life,

We are told, however, by defeatists that we can not have both. We must, they say, choose between freedom and security. They insist .we must give’ up one in order to gain the other. Let us not surrender to any such counsel of despair. Let us--not abandon our determination to win security and abundance without sacrificing any of our precious heritage of freedom.

INNOCENT SUFFER

fear that the temporary set-back is to be permanent. There is nothing to justify any such conclusion. We have had hard times before. They have followed wars, or a period when our people have lost

in reckless speculation. The day of reckoning always comes and then, as now, unfortunately, the inoncent suffer with the guilty. We are told how, however, that we ‘got out of nervous depressions because of the natural growth of the country and the westward expansion ‘of thé frontier. We are warned that we are at the end of

offered is that the Federal government shall restrict production, dole out jobs and parcel out business opportunities. WS This argument, instead of being progressive, is 40 years behind the times. Much the same thing was - said during the depression of the 1890’s. There was more. reason for that defeatist attitude then than there is now. : The expansion of our geographical frontier was slowing down. The

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