Ligonier Banner., Volume 70, Number 32, Ligonier, Noble County, 3 September 1936 — Page 2

The Ligonier Banner 2 Bstablished 1867 Published by THE BANNER PUBLISHING (0. L 124 Cavin Street ‘M. A. Cotherman -HBditor-Manager Published every Thursday and entered the Postoffice at Ligonier, Indiana as _gecond class J_n&tter.

SIGNS OF THESE TIMES ° By Dudley A. Smith. Trying to follow the inconsistencies of some campaign arguments is better sport than the season’s current “Knock-Knock Game.” For example, there ig the contention of certain Hoosier Republican leaders that they are devoted to Alfred M. Landon because he balanced the Kansas state budget, but who are opposed, for the same reason, to the continuation of Democratic government in Indiana.

And there {is the statement of National Republican Chairman Hamilton that Recovery in the United States would have been much more rapid if Mr. Roosevelt, as 2a candidate, had conferred with Prasident Hoover in the last days of his muddled administration. The election of Roosevelt, Windy John Hamilton maintains, caused a slump in a “business recovery” which he says was started in the Fall of 1932. Now anyone is at liberty to try to find a single reputable statistical firm or business expert who can produce a chart which shows any business upturn in 1932. John gets the Hoosier faround the corner” statements mixed up with facts.

Charts on business which are on the desks of even those Wall Street bankers who went all the way to Topeka to pay homage to William Randolph Hearst’s protege, show without question and undeniably that the depths of the depressior was hit when Hoover went out of office and that steadily ever since America has been on the wupgrade. Today business in Indiana is 12% above normal agnd for the nation it is about 80% of the fool’'s paradies years which included booms of war-time,. post-war and stock market speculatibns. Business ig so good in the nation today that the national director o President Roosevelt’s national emergency council has quit his govern ment job and has gone home to look after his private busines sinterests. It i so good that the Reconstruction Finance Corporation which came along to salvage the economic wreckage of 1930, 1931 and 1932 will soon be going out of business. This corporation was $706,000,000 in the hole in 1932 because of lendings to banks, railroads and insurance companies. The strain of 1933 made the RFC’s deficit of that year $1,121,000,000. Again in 1934 the ‘deficit was $566,000,000. But in the fiscal years of 1935, 1936 and 1937, RFC has been returning a profit.

It now appearg that the Reconstruction Finance Corporation will soon be closing shop. The reason is that Recovery is so certain and actual in the business and industrial world that the large corporations which were saved from the Hoover disaster and ruin, are now paying off their large government loans. That is, most of them, except the defunct Dawes bank, which owes $63,000,000 that taxpayers must carry, are paying off their ioans. Railroads have paid off $155,300,000. Banks have cashed in $1,700,000,000. The Rooesvelt program is working: the government is going out of the banking business and private capital is picking up the credit lead.

President Hopver tried with might and main to get private capita! to back up everything, even the tottering and unstable stock markets. But they failed him. If it ig true that a little advice to Hoover from Candidate Roosevelt would have saved the nation; think how greatly Hoover must have missed the sage advise that Messers Landon and Knox are now handing out. Yes; where were Landon and Knox with

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their plans .when the Republican party and Mr. Hoover were fumbling with federal government and human lives?

If foolish things are in order, let’s submit this one: ‘“Knock, Knock"-— “Who’s there?” “Land-on” *“Landon who?” “Land-on the New 'Deal” Or, this one:“Knock, knock” “Who's there?’ “Frank Knox” “Frank Knex who?’ “Frank Knox Franklin.” But that’s enough. Politics late summer heat ang insincere campaign arguments will have us all in the bughouse before long.

It ig pleasant to note that husiness failures in the first six months of 1936 were the lowest for any similar period since 1920 and that they were 125% fewer than even last year when .- everyone thought a record had been set. It likewise i 8 pleasant to rote that this electign year has failed to produce the usual “election year slump in business” and that even the excessive hot. weather of July and August failed to retard sales yolume and business profits.

Farm purchasing power .ir the Federal Reserve district including Indiana is up 31 per cent over last year. In the first balf of 1936, a 75 per cent increase in profits was reported. for 477 industrial firms of the country while 663 railroadds and atil ilty corporations showed a 62 per cent gain in profits. Certainly these are facts which sufficiently dispute campaign generalities.

State Fair President _: Optimistic About 1936 ~ “Pageant of Progress”

President Charles H. Taylor of the Indiana Board of Agriculture, governing body of the State Fair predicts all attendance records will be broken at this year’s event. President Taylor said, “with the many ne w‘i\im—provements an d

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features scheduled this year, the Indiana State Fair to be held from September sth to 11th inclusive, will be one of the greatest shows ever held any place. ; “In all my years of experience in fairs and expositions I have never seen anything like the enthusiasm that is being shown this year by fair officials and exhibitors alike. ' When the building activities now in progress are completed, we will have the finest state fair grounds in all the world. A new underground tunnel that will permit four automo biles in addition to pedestrians to enter the infield without waiting for the race track to be cleared is about completed. Two new barns to stable America’s fastest trotters and pacers entered in the Grand Circuit meet, is nearing completion as is the new Educational building which is to house exhibits of school supplies books, school room equipment, busses and other things of interest to the student and his parents.”

Corn Husking Contest Nav. 6

The Indiana state cornhusking con test to select the Hoosier competitor for the national contest will he held November 6 Dave Thompson, Indiana editor of the Prairie Farmer, anppounced. The Indiana contest is to be held on the Bartel farm near Marion. The winner will go to the national contest four days later in Licking county, Ohio..

Big Attractions Sept. 24-25

The Centennial afternoons of Thursday and Friday September 24 and 256 will be given over to a revival of old games, ceontests, free acts, races and other features.

These programs are being/ planned for your special entertainment so make Thursday and Friday afternoons your play day in Albjon. Watch this paper for further announcement. '

cy ‘ Townsend ; Says

May 1. that he u-m the secret of eternal youth who dares to face each day with courage, faith and ideals? . . - The foundation of all our accomplishments is freedom. The most nriceleu heritage that of liberty.

! , " e e g : e | i v ~‘:‘ Q‘ ot P I"’ R M. C. Townsend

Without it all the rest is worthless and meaningless. % . » . Banker: “What is your son taking at college?” Farmer: *“All I've got.'f S & 9 To the shrinking and the timid we point to the happier tomorrow. That is the invitation of liberty to the free of soul. That is the beckon to the brave. **- : ] Only those are old who have lost the power of closing each day with a hope in their hearts that tomorrow will find a new opportunity to do something that will make the world better and other people happier. « = = : May the nation be kept forever foung in its énthusiasms, its hopes, ts ideals. b

Potaty Prices Skid.

The lowly potato, which g month ago seemed about to disappear from the average comsumer’s table except as a delicacy, when the shortage sent prices to the highest levels in years, is- again within reach of the ordinary pocketbook. Rains and almost ideal growing weather over most of the principal growing belt in the last three weeks have resulted in improvement in the late crop which is said to be little short of phenomenal. As of Aug. 1, crop statisticicans of the department of agricultlure estimated this year’s production at 294 million bushels, but the crop betterment since that time will necessitate a large upward revision in these figures, potatp expertsg said. The crop, however, must still undergo the September viscissitudes of possible freezes and blight. Definite reports on the final crop will not be avallable until about Oct. 1.

Prices of potatoeg are now about half of what they were a month ago, partly the result ‘of the abrupt reversal in crop prospects and partly in confomance with a seasonal price movement. £

Consider New Bridge at Lake.

That the state will reopen state road WNo. 9 at Rome City where a truck carried the bridge over Sylvan lake away Thursday and killed the driver, was promised after an investigation by W. C. Everett assistant engineer for the state highway department in the Fort Wayne district. Everett said further investigation would be made to see if certain bridge structureg in the Warsaw district could be used temporarily at Rome City, or whether the state would coustruct g temporory bridge of timber at that point. At present the town of Rome City is shut off from the direct mnorth route and many summer residents already have askeq action. The state will build within @ or 10 months a permanent concrete bridge across another portion of the lake and elim--inate ‘many curves in the present road. The temporary bridge under consideration would be used until that bridge is completed.

Farmers Get 129 Million

The Milk Industry foundation reported the American farmer’s cash income from milk in July total $129,000,000 in June and $113,000,000 in July, 1936. For the seven months ended July 31 total farm income from milk wag estimated at $812,000,000 against $768,000,000 in the comparable 1935 period. : “Part of the unusually large July increase,” the report said, “was due to farmers receiving Esu'bstanfially larger unit prices for their milk as aresult of the drought.”

Breaks Shoulder: Squirrel Hunting. Miss Kathryn Hough, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hough of Kendallville sustained a fracture of her left shoulder Tuesday morning when she fell from a treé while squirrel hunting with her father, near Mon'go. Miss Hough’s aim was perfect when she fired at a squirrel in a tree but as the squirrel fell it lodged in the tree. In climbing the tree to're‘move the squirrel Miss Hough Tell a distance of about six feet, alighting on her sghoulder.

Corn-Hog Checks to Farmers.

Corn-hog checks represented approximately 75 per cent of the $42,165,762 paid to Indiana farmers up 'to -June 30 under the agricultural adjustment administration’s . crop control. program according to figures received from Washington. - iDistribution: under the _corn-hog program in Indiana . totalled $35,$15,149, {f was reported. Wheat contracts brought Indiana farmers checkg totalling $5,940,480,

THE LIGONIER BANNER, LIGONIER, INDIANA

Once Prevailed in Peru Religion of $ Dl k(e Q'htilnvrlhrh!l.fia.lu Yg fore the Inca Empire was established the gods were almost unlimited in number—even the family had its god. Among popular objects worshiped were trees, stones, rivers, mountains, flowers and ani:nals. The animals were selected Orcmmmm istics—the condor, largest of all flying birds and one indigenous to the Andes, was revered because of its size; the fox, for its cunning; the jaguar, for its strength. Rocks, caves and lakes also were worshiped because it was the belief of the Indians that from such places their ancestors had sprung. In fact, one legend has it that the first Inca Manco. Ceapac, m.d.&uflne‘é clay representing the erent native:heduirodtontha{he!;tohh empire; that he painted with the clothes they were to wear, and told them the localities In which the various natives they represented were to spring up. Then he sent them down below and they later sprang into the world—some from waterfalls, others from caves and trees, thus endowing such objects with the qualities of a god.

City of Antwerp Recalls Story of Painter Rubens

Ih the last years of the Sixteenth century the Jesuits of Antwerp had a little lad whose parents had called him Peter Paul after the saints, on whose day he was born in 1577, notes a writer in the Los Angeles Times. His father John, a lawyer and magistrate of the city, having been under suspicion as a Calvinist, had fled to Germany with the mother of the boy where, becoming involved in an intrigue with Anna, the second wife of William the Silent, he suffered imprisonment and banishment and later death at Cologne. The mother and boy returned to the old home in the Place de Meir, while the boy attended school on what is now Rue Otto Venius, after the painter Venius. He also learned painting from Van Noort, who taught in the Rue du Jardin. Then he traveled over Europe and painted for royalty and nobility everywhere till’on his mother’s death he built him a palace in what became Rue Rubens, for this is the story of Rubens, to see whom and learn of whom the world now flocks to Antwerp, nearly 300 years after his death.

Stephenson-Smith | __The -€enter Chapel U. B. church four miles northwest of Kendallville was the scene of a pretty wedding Saturday, when Miss Mildred Stevenson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Stevenson of Albjion became the bride of Clayton Smith of the Center Chapel neighborhood, son of Mr. and Mrs.f L. W. Smith, Marlboro Mass. The church was beautifully decorated. Miss Stevenson was graduated from the Albion high school and for the past several yearsr has heen employed as bookkeeper and stenograph er at the Garment factory in this city Mr. Smith is a native of Marlboro ‘and attended high school there. Upon graduation he came to Indiana and ‘the past ten years has been making his home with Mr. and Mrs. Mandel Munk. He is a talented vocalist and elocutionist. For the present he is engaged in farming in the Center Chapel neighborhood and he and hig bride will reside there. Incidentally, this is the first wedding ever performed in the Center Chapel church which was built and dedicated in 1896.

Will Leave Friday.

Thomas Franks, Wawaka; Alvin Wysong, Wawaka; Bill Favinger, Kimmell; Mijldred and Robert Harper, Ligonier, will lecave Friday of this week with their livestcck entries for the state fair.

Thomas Franks anq Alvin Wysong will show their Hereford calves, Bill Favinger hig Shorthorn calves and Mildred and Robert Harper,: their lambs and pigs. ) The Noble County Livestock Judging team consisting of Bi!ly Cloues, Jonn Favinger and Donald Waif Tom Renkenberger, alternate, will go down Monday, Sept. 7th, for the. state contest which takes place at the fair on that day. ! Mildred Harper, the Nobie county entrant in dresg revie will apvear: in thig contest at the state fair on Saturday, Sept. sth. P

‘With the farm bureau building at at the Indiana State Fair Gronnds ,\completelw redecorated, preparations gre completed for the Bureau's part in the fair program, September b to 11 inclusive, according to Edmond C. Foust, publicity director for the organization. Each of the departments will be represented. The daily broadcast over WFBM ‘will be given from the state fair grounds each noon from 12:15 to 12:30. The social and educational ‘department jill present a one and one half hour’ entertainment each afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from the stage in the Farm Bureau building. Frank P. Sanders age 81 years ploneer ‘merchant and ex-banker of mortheastern Jndiana died Tuesday morning at 'the family home in Wolcottville. Death followed a lingering illness from hardening of the arteries and complications, He was the last of a family of twelve children. S R i ‘

SCHOOL SUPPLIES OFFICIAL LIGONIER SUPPLIES Complete Stock ~ KNIGHT'S DRUG STORE

VERDICT OF ACCIDENTAL DEATH Cab of Van Removed Seven Hours After Crash; Detour On Road 9 Establishehd

“Accidental Death from a crushed chest and superinduced by drowning” was the verdict announced by Myron C. Hutchins, of Kendallville, Noble county coromer, after an investigation into the tragic death of Marty Martz 26, Kalamazzo track driver. Martz lost his life when he was pinned in the telescoped cad of his large semi-trailer truck loaded with 400 cases of Dbeer, whan the “tumbles” bridge at Sylvan Lak», Rome City, collapsed under the ten# ton weight.

Just how the accident occurrad may never be known. One thaeory was that the side of the huge truck struck the north rail of the bridge and weakened the structure, causing it to collapse. The tractor of the truck was near the center of the channei and the rear wheels of the trailer had not reached the bridge when it collapsed. ‘The trailer nose dived into the channel, which is about eight fset deep at that point carrying {its human cargo with it. Martz’s body was removed from the crumpled cab about four hours after thec rash by Sheriff Irvin Cazier anq State Policeman George Harrison of the Ligonier barracks According to Sheriff Cazier it apQared as if the victim had made a frantic effort to get out the right door of the cab. The truck tractor was puckled in the center and the steering wheel was badly bent by the tmpact. Only after pressure

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was relieved from the cab by raising the trailer was the body of Martz able to be extricated. Authorities agreed that It was possible that Martz falled to judge the sharp turn at the grade in the highway at the approach of the bridge and struck the raillng. thus spreading the sides and pushing the girders off the abutment. Rumors that Martz had a companjon were blasted when the cab truck :‘?‘-.dubod by a wrecker. All search to reveall a second body. It was said that a person at the Berghott Brewing company, Fort Wayne asked Martz for a rides but that he declined. This led to the theory a second man was drowned. Coroner Hutchins, in examining witnesses said that Me!ville Fowler, 80-year-old cottager, who resides near by, made a heroic effort to rescue Martz. Rushing to the scene after hearing the crash he plunged into the water and finding the cab submerged, succeeded in grabbing hold of Martz's hand. Martz’s hand closed }convuldvely. which was an apparent nerve reaction after death. A small quantity of water was found in one lung at the morgue wherer the body was removed. It is the beliel of Coroper Hutchins that Martz was rendered unconscious and his chest crushed. A deep cnt in his right side near his back caused a hemorrhage.

Mrs. Fredericka Klinkenbery, age 56 years, lifelong resident of Kendayyville die¢d Sunday morning at her home, following a short critical illness. Death was reported due to acute gastro-enteritis.

STATE TRAFFIC TOLL HEAVY

Ninety-Nine Deaths In July Result of 618 Accidents, Reports State Direetor,

Traffic accidents claimed the lives of 99 persons in Indiana during the month -of July, statg, director of public safety Don F. Stiver reported today.

The July toll brought the state total for the first geven months of the year to 68, a gain of 25 over the same perifod of 1935 In spite of an intensive safe-driving campaign by state and local authorities, Stiver said. p

The state’s increase for the seven monthg over the corresponding perfod of 1935 was 4 per cent as compared to a national trafic fatality Increase of two per cent.

Fort Wayne had the best record for the period of any city with more than 70,000 population, reporting 145 deaths per 100,000 population. Indianapolis ranked last in the large city group with a rate of 25.5. Delphi had the highest rate in the state with a report of 156.1. Only seven counties — Daviess, Spencer, Ohio, Crawford, Scott and Union were credited with perfect records. Has Close Call. Dewitt Riley farmer ngar Columbia City had the unusual experience of being imprisoned within a burning truck cab. He had just purchased the truck and was unfamiliar with operating the doors of the cab. The truck burst into flames and before he could escape he ‘received ‘severe burns to his hands and face.