Ligonier Banner., Volume 70, Number 16, Ligonier, Noble County, 14 May 1936 — Page 4

SIGNS OF /THESE TIMES By Dudlgy A_._ Smith -

Yellow Journalist Hearst and Governor Landon of Kansas, his candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, are telling members of that party that the results of the Cleveland convention are just as good as counted. They have framed the 1936 campaign issue against Presideft Roosevelt and have started the fight ag though there were no other contenders for the Republican nomination. :

From the Kansas capitol, where relief problems are in turmoil and the schoo]l problem is in a deplorable tangle, Governor Landon the other day assumeqd the right to speak on National subjects. He rejected the Roosevelt query, “Are You Better Off than You Were in 1933 And thén, in words that sound greatly like Millionaire Hearst, he framed the Nationa] issue thusly: “The real question and issue is this—Have we made as much progresg in ccming out of this depression as you have a reasonable right fs expect?”’

At the very outset, Governor Landon admits that President Roosevelt has brought America out of the Hoover depression by his valiant efforts of the past 3 years. Says Landon, “The depres3:on is over. Mr. Roosevelt brought ug out of it. But he didn’t bring us out rapidly enough.” Wow that’s really a serious indictment of the New . Deal.. It's like condeming the physician hecause his medicine didn't get you out of bed in one week instead of three. Lazarus might as appropriate ly have grumbled because the Saviour did not sooner raise him from the dead. . S

Let’s see about thig Landen c'.arge that America has not made as much progressrin coming out of the depression ag one might reagonably expect. ‘What were the bankers expecting in early 1933 after the Hoover catastrophey of 6,083 bank failures? Were they expecting that 15,000 other banks could be saved and deposits restored to 41 billion dollars by mid 1935, Well, nardly; for they were camping on the doorstep oi the ‘White House pleading for President Roosevelt to ‘“‘do something.” Ag a matter of fact, hanks of the nation were saved by Federai Louus and the Federal Insurance Deposit Corporation within six months after Roosevelt went to work on the wreckage left by Herbert Hoover. Was that progress enough? Any bank deposi‘tor can give the answer.

Retailers, wholesalers and industries were either bankrupt or living on reserves in early 1933. There was no purchasing power in the hand of consumers. Workers who had jobs were on ‘industrial charity producing goods to be sold at less than joost. Salesmen were working for commissions which didn’t come in. Within 9 monthg President Roosevelt’s emergency program enacted by Congress had restored prices to a pre-war parity; had -2stablished mipimum wageg and -‘the rightg of !abor to bargain collectively: had abolished price-utting and <chiseling such as had destroyed most markets for goods. In less than a year Roosevelt policies turned a 3-year downward economic plunge into an up-swing towarg profits and wages. Consult any business chart. o [Within one year and a hailf, Roosevelt farm policies fully doubled priceg for farm produce, which, under Hoover, had been the lowest and most miserable in more than a half century. At the end of three years the AAA had added $3,000,000,000 to the cash income of American farmers. ‘Was thi sdone rapidly encughs R e e e s

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Previoug Republican administrations had wrestled with the problem for 12 years onmnly to leisve the farmer sinking in the gquicksand of unsound governmental treatment of the problems of agricculture, foreign (rade and tariff protection. Rcosevelt gave the farmer hig first real protective federal legislation. Mr. Landon's party had wasted 70 years and had applied the protective tariff to every one’s Benefit excepting the farmer.

American labor as & respeciable organization with free rights to expresg itself on etonditicns of employment and wages never saw the dawn’s early light in this nation untik Franklin D. Rooseveit went to the White House. ‘Was this recognition given early in 1933 Ly a Democratic Congresg a matter of moving too slowly for the Kansas Governor? His party since the (Cjvil War had never recognizedg the righ's of lahor or the rights of humanity above property rights. SN

When the New 1)2al brought forih statesmen -~ holding firm belief that Social Justice wag the high purpose of the founders of this republic a new epoch was begun in American history of government. Laws to amecnd the so:a:, .economic and political orders are expressions by the Roosevelt almiaistration of its belief in Social Justice for the whole United States, This subject, therefore, is the “real Issuye” of the 1936 campaign if Mr. Laudon rcally ig in search of it. - Mr. Hearst would never understang it. , Motoy Vehicle Tax $26,605,000

* Motor vehcle tax collectons in Indiana quring 1935 amounted i) $26,605,000 of which $18,855,000 represented gasoline taxes:and $7,750,000 wag registration fees, according to J. P. Hutchens, secretary-manager of the Fort Wayne Motor Club. , , “Tor the country as & whole, state registration ang gusciine taxes again moved forward, reaching a total of $901,970,000 as compared with $877.958,000 in 1934. Nineteen states reported decreaseg in registration fee collections but these were more than offset by increased registration taxes in the remairfing states and higher gasoline tax revenues which gained in all but two states.

“New York continueg to Lold first place as collector of motor taxes with a total state revecue from this source of $86,082,000 followed by Pennsylvania with $68,655,000 and Texas with $59,928,000.

“A per vehicle tax of $55.68 keeps Florida in the lead from the standpoint of the individual tax bill. Vermont, which in 1934 was in fifth place as regards per vehicle taxes, moved up into second place ast year with an average charge per car of $53 71.7 :

Former Kendallville MaYor Dies

James S. Graves 77, who served as mayor of Kendallville from: 1894 to 1910 died Sunday at the Nohle county infirmary following a heart attack. Mr. Graves was graduated fiom DePauw university and served as city treasurer and city attorn2y at Kendallvillg before becoming mayor. He wag a native of Columbia City.

He was united in marriage to Miss Caroline Deurling of Kendallville May 10 1888 who preceded him in death May 2 1916. SurviviLz is one sistey Mrs. William Laßu: of Kendallville and several nieces.

Marriage Licenses

iCharleg T. Pierce, painter of Detroit, and Geraldine R. Schroeder, housework of Kendallville. ~ Arch Coffel farmer .of Rome City and Verne Ellenh Jolly at home Rome City. :

! NEW AUXILIARY HEAD e Mrs. Kate Zinn of Churubnseo Eelect ed Af District Meet Held Here : Thursday

‘About one hundred mem:bers of the Auxiliary of the American Legion at tended tMg Fourth district rally here Thursday. Mrs. Ka‘: Zinn of Churubusco was elected president of the district organization 2nd Mrs. Naomi Borman of Decatur first yice-presi-dent.

- The posts of secrotary, treasurer and historian are-to »e appointed at a later date by the president. Mrs. Katherine DeWald of Romg City retiring Fourth district president presided. Mrs. Lucile Baennett of .Kendallville {g retiring vice-president.. Among the guesis of honor wer2 Mrs. Enid Lemstra of Clinton, depart mentat president of the auxiiiary, Mrs, Marietta Burns of Crawlordsville, state Knightstown home chairwoman for the auxiliary; Mrs. Faye Holman of Rochester, state rehabilitation chairwoman and Mrs. Hattie Whitman of Columbia City head of the District World war veterans’ orphans’ educational fund, Bach auxiliary exeoutive present wa sheard in a short talk. The next district meeting is to be celd in Wolcottville in' July.

The meeting her, was held in the Christian church the iadies of the church serving the dinnec at /uie noon hour, Rl i N T // 1,424,760 As of Jan. 1 1936 A tota] of 1,424,760 Ford truck and commercial . car units were licensed for operation in the United States as of January 1 1936 a report to the Forq Motor Company disclosed. The total of all trucks and commercial cars licensed to operate at the outset of the year was 3,635,661, a gain of 7.9 per cent over 1934. More than 40 per cent of the total were Ford units.

The tota] of Ford truck and commercial car units in service was more than 51 per cent greater than the units of any other manufacturer which were licensed to operate on that date and the only make to total more than a million units. This Ford fleet was increased by almost 90,000 units in 1985 as a result of the licensing of 172,644 new Ford V-8 units and the retirement of only §2,709 old Ford modelg during the year.

' Nearly 1,000,000 of the Ford truck and commercial car units in operation were V-8 and other models manufactured since 1928, the report disclosed. A total of 468,156 units, however were of the Model " and T'T type a remarkable tribute to the endurance of this famous mode!. Even more striking ig the low retirement rate on Ford trucks of movre recent manufacture. Of the 190,663 new Ford trucksg sold during 1933 and 1934, 172,286 or 91% are still in service according to the report. The Company has received reports from many users who have operated these late models from 100,000 to 200,000 mileg and even more.

Jumps From Sinking Boeat.

Attempting to leap to safety when a leaky rowboat began to capsize ißobert Hostetler, 15-year-olq. son of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Hostetler of Goshen was drowned at about five o’clock Friday afternoon in the hydraulic canal at the rear of the Go'shen Ice Cream company.

The youth’'s younger brother William, aged 13, with whoi Robert was playing in the boat was successful in his jump to safety. The boys were paddling a*ound in a small home-made row boat and when the boat an old, l:aky scrow propelled by a single board-like paddle, began to fill with water, they started for shore. Upon approaching the shore line, the two boys jumped out of the boat within a few yards of the bank. The younger brother leaped out of the gide of the boat closer to the bank and waded ashore but Robert sank into eight feet of water. Neither.of the boys could gwim.

Power to Boards

The county welfare & departments have entire authority to make ‘decisiong on eligibility of indigents and the amount of assistance to be given in connection with the Social Sacurity program. Atty. Gen. Phiiip Lutz Jr., ruled in an opinion to Wayne Coy, state welfare director. The county department may delegate, the powers to the county director and he may sign all orders in the name of the board, Lutz said. i

> Woman Arrested ’ Mary Weaver %o’ New Paris arrest ed early Tuesday morning by the sheriff’s office on a charge ot selling alcoholic bevoruges without a permit waiveqd arraignment and entered a plea of not guiity before Judge Aldo J. Simpson in the Elkhart circuit court. She was released on bond of $6O. The arrest was made by the sheriff’s offic® oy Eikhart county after an investiga‘on revealed that she was selling beer.

Reéunion Suuday.

| The thirty-eighth anuniversary re‘union of the 157th regimen: Indiana Volunteer Infantry wiil be held In the high schol auditoriam at Waterloo Suday May 17 it was announced here. Registration will begin at § a. m. and & dinner will be served in the town hall between 11 and 1 o'clock by the Lafas’ asuxillary of the Waterlop post of the American Legion. : "

F. P. Bothwell returned from Indiangpolis on Saturday where he bhad been visiting his daughters.

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Two Islands Remnant of French Colonial Empire

The French colony of St. Plerre and Miquelon consists of two islands lying ten miles off the southern coast of Newfoundland. Together they have an area of less than 100 square miles and are the sole remnant of the great French colonial empire in North AmerSen, notes a correspondent in the Chicago Tribune.

At the beginning of the Eighteenth century France was in control of North America, except for the English colonles along the Atlantic seaboard, and the Spanish settlements in Florida and in the region reaching south and west from Texas. When the French &% tempted to build a line of forts from Presqu’lsle, now Erie, Pa., to the navlgable waters of the Ohio river in Pennsylvania, the English moved against them and started what is known In American history as the Freanch and Indian war. The treaty which settled this disturbance stripped France of its American possessions, leaving it the islands of St. Plerre and Miquelon as a fishing station. At that time there were three islands, Great Miquelon, Little Miquelon or Langlade and St Plerre, but since 1783 the Miquelons have been connected by a mnd bank. England has taken the islands three times since the end of the French and Indian war, but France has been in undisputed-possession since 1814. Their usefulness as a fishing station has gradually diminished, but at one time they were in a fair way to become the world’'s greatest smuggling station. This was checked to a great extent when the British government placed a consular agent on the islands.

Sees No Fish Shortage; v Ample Supply for World Fish as a substitute for meat has seven outstanding advantages, the Fish and Sea Food institute points out as a food hint, and leads off with the statement that there are 162 available varieties. - The other points are: No other class of food has so many varieties; there will probably never be a sea drought to make fish scarce; adequate lodine gets Into the diet of fish eaters: fish is a source of vitamin D, th® dietary factor that prevents and cures rickets; fish ils rich in calclue, necessary for bone and teeth health; of all flesh foods it is the most delicate and the easiest to digest; though an epicurean food, it is usually cheap enough for the purses of the poor. s

This country, Great Britaln and Japan are the greatest fish markets in the. world. The United States produces about one billion pounds a year and the Department of Agriculture anticipates an increase of per capita, because drouths with the resulting grain and pasture shortages {increase the price of meats. 1S

Celestial Visitors

There is really nothing extraordinary about a daylight meteor, except that it must be unusually large and close to the surface of the earth to demonstrate itself against the sun-illuminated atmosphere. These “celestial visitors,” as they have been called, are coursing through space constantly, more of them at certain seasons, but some of them all the time. It is only when they come within the air envelope of the earth that they manifest themselves, through being heated to incandescence in their passage. Some are entirely consumed by the heat thus engendered, while others, partly consumed, fall to the surface and explode and in rare instances large fragments of them are found. Some great masses of meteoric material have reached the earth.

Stomach Gas Zxploded

In an English medical journal, the Lancet, Dr. T. East reports the case of a man who complained of a stomach ache after supper, but took his wife to a movie just the same. In the wait between shows the man took out a cigarette and scratched a match, but when he applied the light to the end of the cigarette there was an explosion which blew the cigarette across several rows of seats, singed the man's mustache and burned his fingers. Doctor East explains this mishap was caused by the gas from the victim’s stomach mingling with air taken in by breathing in just the right proportions to make it inflammable. He literally ignited his breath, causing the explosion.—Wall Street Journal.

Receivers Paid Postage

In the days before postage stamps, when letters were pald for by the receiver and postage amounted to 25 cents and more, poor people resorted to all kinds of schemes to get their mall and still avoid paying the post, a favorite method being to send a letter with but a blank plece of paper Inside which the receiver refused but which by a prearranged plan was notice of “all Is well,” “yes,” or the like.

Peanut a Legume

The peanut is a first cousin to peas and beans, being leguminous. It has & peculiar habit of blooming above the ground then burying the seed pods In the ground. The peanut Is very nutri. tious, offering fat, proteln, and such minerals as phosphorus and iron together with yitamin B.

Found in Blue Ridge

In the Blue Ridge mountalos, and nowhere else, are found weird patural crosses of stone. According to local legend, angels cried at the time of the crucifimion and thelr tears crystallizsed in this form of stone.

Elkhart Man Aoguitte®,

A LaGrange circult court jury asequitted Roy Courtier 43 E'khart who was accused of robbing Miles Bennell Shipshewana furrier of $5OO lu eash last December. The jury received and returned the not gulity werdicl after over two bours deliberation.

1,221 MEMBERS IN NOBLE REMC. Fate of Rural Electrification Is Now Up ao Indiana Public Seryfee Commission.

The fate of the rural electrification program in Noble county will now rest with the Public Service commission of Indiana. The recent drive for members has been complated with 1,221 enrolled in Nobie county. This is about 55 per cent of the potential membership. In order 10 reczive federal aid 50 per cent of the potential membership is reguired. A hearing by the commission wi'l be held within a few weeks, when it will be determined whether the plan and present set-up will be profitable to Noble county farmers. It hus been pointed out that to make the business feasible and profitable there must be at least three patrons for each mile.

Those appearing before the public service commission, representing- No ble county, were Howard Herald, president of the REMC, M. E. Black, also an official and Carlos Palmer.

¢ Leads in Public Healty Work.

Indiana has taken the lead among states of the nation in protecting the health of itg citizens by & highlyorganized system of inspections, examination and licensing of various types of business, Gov. Pan! V. McNutt said 1 na radio address Sunday. The governor sighted the most recent step of the department of education in establishing a health division and requirement that public school pupils take a full course in health instruction. 1 The varions units protecting the bealth of Indiana .litizens include lthe beauty cul!turalist boaird harber 'examiners, denta] examienrs Splometry registia.ic., pollution hearing board, nurse examiners podiatry medical registration aud beard of health the govecnc: said.

“Bach division has heen effective in wiping out fly-by-night practioners, barbers and beauty-cuitur-alists,” McNutt said, “and hundreds of persons are being denied licenses bhecause they are physically anfit to practice.” *

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Dies From Crash Injury.

Funeral services for Jesse A. McCoy 43 a farmer of near Churubusco who died In a hospital at Huntington Sunday afternoon were held Wed nesday afternoon at the Christian Chapel church near Merriam with Rev. V. AL Harris and Rev. Carl Baldwin officiating. McCoy was driver ol a cattle truck which was struck by a Wabash train that had been rerouted over the Penn sylvaniag lines. His companion J. A. Winebrenner also of near Merriam was instantly killed in the crash. The men had been transporting a load of cattle to Tennessee. McCoy received a fractured skull and a crushed hip but his death resulted from a blood clot which formed near the lung and developed an ‘in fection.

A widow Chole Budd McCoy; two sons, Donald and James; a daughter Marjojrie; -his father, Winfield McCoy of near Albion; a brother Frank of Albion and a gister Mrs. Grace August of near Kendallville survive

Urges Veterans to Hold Bonds,

A. R. Killian, Lafayette, state department commander of the American Legion, Monday urged Hoosier veterans to hold ag a sound investment the approximately 350,000,000 in bonus payment bonds which will be distributed beginning June 15th. “Many veterans face emergencies but wherever possible the bonus bonds should be held as they draw three per cent interest wunti! 1945 and may be cashed-at any time,” Killian said at the gannual spring conference of the Indiana department

Approximately 100,000 Indiana veterans will receive the bonus payment Isadore E. Levine, LaPorte, national executive committeeman from Indiana reported. .

Assessing Nearly Over.

Annual assessment of personal property and additional improvementg to real estate will be completed in Noble county, Friday, May 15. No assessments, which will serve as the basis for 1937 taxes, can he made after Friday. All personal property is assessed by the township assessor or his deputy. Friday is also the last day on which the assessor may accept dog tax payments.

Contracts for Hightway Work,

Contractg for comstruction and improvement work on the gtata highways in fourteem counties were awarded by the State Highway Commission during April, it was announced today by James D. Adams, chairman. The work placed under contract hag a tota] cost of $624.79434, which will be paid from federal and state funds.

~ Included in the projects on which awards were made during April was the resurfacing or paving of approximately eleven miles of highways and the construction of two grade seperationg and twenty-one bridges, all of which are a part of the highway commission’s 1936 program and to be completed this year. Counties in which this work is located include: Floyd, Clay, Noble, Jackson, Martin, Gibson, Wabash, Montgomery, Fulton, Marshall, Madison, Perry and DeKalb,

Man’s Body Found in River.

Suicide by drowning was the verdict returned by Coroner Kar' W. Vetter, of Elkhart, after conducting an inquest over the body of Clayton A. Ganger, 52, who resides west of Goshen, which was taken from the Elkhart river at the Plymouth avenue bridge in Goshen Sunday merning by Ray D. Auer of thg Goshen police force. The body was in abou: four feet of water. % Ganger had been in poor health since January 17th, when he slipped and fell on the ice, injuring his spine He had also been out of employment. ] ‘

Syraecnse Youth Dies in Crash.

Funeral services for Maxwell Culler, 20, who was instantly kiled al Syracuse Saturday evening when he rode his motorcycle intg the side of the speeding Capitol [Limited passenger train, was held in the Methodist church there Monday afternoon. Culler was returning from his work at the Wawasee Slip, boat livery, shortly before six o'clock when the accident occurred. Driving at a high rate of speed, Culler was unable to avoid plowing into the first coach of the eastboung train.

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