Ligonier Banner., Volume 71, Number 1, Ligonier, Noble County, 28 January 1937 — Page 2

The: .lgg‘omer Banner stablished 1867 Pubiished by THE BANNER PUBLISHING CO. 124 Cavin Street M. A. Cotherman Editor-Manager Published every Thursday and entered' the Pestoffice at Ligonier, Indiana as gecond clasg.matter,

HOME MAKERS WAGE EARNERS Vast Majority Marriéd Women Workers Obliged to Support Families The responsibility of 3 3-4 million women in the country for the double job of home making and wage earuing ‘is stressed in abulletin submitted to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins by the Women’s Bureau. The report was written by Miss Mary Elizabeth. Pidgeon, research director ofi the Bureau.

“In our studies in the Women’s Bureau we find that the vast majojrity of married womenworkers are holding jobs because they must earn money to support dependents partly or entirely,” the report says. ‘“Nor does the married woman’s economic need of a job always show on the surface. The ancient idea that if a woman is married she always has a husband who can furnish the entire support for the home is disproven by the whole economic situation of today."

The study, based on 1930 census data, shows that one milliop of the employed home makers were in famnilies having no man at the head. Almost half a million were the only wage earners in their families consisting of two or more persons. The report draws the following conclusion. “The women of today con tribute their full share to the economic life of this country as “Wwomen

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everywhere have always donme. N w} their way of doing so must fit he needs of a complex industrial sociéty rather than those of more primitive ages. This places upon many a Woman a two-fold responsibility Teqniring her to provide for the home neds of the family and to supply financial support. Through their wage earning activities in factory ,sture, office, laundry or restaurant milliGns of women are doing their bit in haild |ing the ordered life of their com-" munities.” :

Farmers Ajded By New Roads

Indiana’s 181,670 farms and the state’s centers of population are being brought closer together by farm-to-market road improvement projects which have been developed un< der the federal work relief program, state works progress administration officials popinted out. In announcing that approximately 8,000 miles of secondary roads had been affected by these projects the state headquarters called attention to the fact that thousands of Hoosler WPA workers had been given employment as a result of the program. The program includes building surfacing, resurfacing, repairing drain:ing, grading and widening roads constructing widening and repairing ‘bridges and culverts and eliminating dangerous “hump” railroad crossings. All projects are spousored Ly county officials who contribute ‘money for or provide required materials. Money to pay the labor cost is alloted by the WPA. According to the state offiziais, 5~ 500 miles of Indiana farm-to-market or secondary roads have been imrroved and another 2,241 miles are being repaired under WPA projects. In addition the state now has 230 miles of WPA improved paved roads, mostly blacktop, of which 74 miles are new construction and 156 miles represent repair work. Current projects include building and rspairing of 84 additional miles of paved roads.

Faith in Gyspy Charms Broken.

E. R. Lewis aged 83, of Fort Wayne has lost his faith in gypsy charms, but found that his knowledge of the nomads cost him $7BO he reported to police. Lewis consulted a band of the gypsies temporarily bivouacked at Fort’ Wayne and Jlearned a few things about phrenology. He bought a book on cranial bump lore and consulted the woman in charge several times about his troubles. He paid $5 for a candle-burning ceremony. 'The woman gave him an egg, told him to wrap it in a handkerchief and place it in his shoe over night. The woman broke the egg on his forehead the next day and told him there was: ‘hair in the yolk which was symbolical of the fact he had hair in his stomach. : . _* To remove the hair from his stomach, the woman persuaded Lewis to ‘bring his savings of $7BO which she pretended to sew in a sack on the right side of his underclothing. She sewed $35 of her money on the other! side. Finally Lewis became suspi-, cious and looked in the bag. It containled .no money. He sought his" oypsy friends and found they &ladl left the eity.

College Professor in Accident

The condition of Prof. Samuel A. Yoder, Gozhen college English instruc tor who was injured whepn struck by an automobile at Bloomington was reported as improved. 3

Prof. Yoder who is doing graduate work at Indiana univarsity suffered a fractured left elbow, broken thumb, and a slight concussion when ke was knocked down whilz walking across a Bloomingtop street.

Cut Third Set of Teeth

John Long 79 of Rochester went to a dentist with the complaint that he was suffering severe pain when biting food: with his false teeth. Dr. James T Bahcock the dentist took’ an x-ray photo and reported that the pain was caused because Long is cutting a third set of teeth. -

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. ACCIDENT TOLL LEAPS 1,000 New High:Record In Besths From ‘Caneer and. Accidents Reported

A new high record in deaths from cancer and all kinds of accidents, and a new low :death figure for ‘typhold fever, diphtheria, measles and child birth were established in Indiana in 1936 according to announcement by Dr. Verne K. Harvey, director of the state health"department. Traffic accidents took 1,349 lives—highest in the state’s history—as compared with 1,196 in 1935 and 1,227 in 1934. Deaths from all types of acci~ ‘dents totaled - 8,672, an increase of almost 1,000 over the preceding year. Health department records show there were about 13,000 more births' in the year thap ‘the 53,800 deaths. Births increased 1,00 over the preceding year while the death total showed lttle change. ' Cancer took 3,920 lives, a jump of 13 over the previous year. “ The typhoid fever toll dropped from 63 in 1935 to 61, and diphtheria deaths from 138 to 101. Only five deaths resulted from measles which had a death toll of 2256 in 1935 and 102 in 1935. :

Indicating progressive trends in the educational program of recent years to end so-called mneedless childbirth deaths, the toll from that cause was 247 as compared with 261 for 1935. Pxternally caused, or - violent deaths set a new all-time high of 4,‘328 as compared with 3,434 in 1934 and 3,938 in 1934. Homicides jumped from 155656 to 1760.

Suicides, followingg the economic curve, fell from 524 to 480. Other diseases causing death increases were tuberculosis from 1,657 to 1,694; scarlet fever which increased by one to 117; < pneumonia, from 3,074 to 3,499; syphilis, from 192 to 225, and’ influenza from 884 to 1,023.

Another cause registering a decrease was whooping cough, dropping from 139 to 57. Smallpox took mno lives last year and none in 1935.

Would End Employe Contribution

Blimination of employe contributions under the Indiana unemployment compensation act will be recommended to the present legislature, the state unemployment compensa-= tion board voted. The recommendation would not change the 1 per cent deducted for participaption in the federal old age retirement.

Under present law, employers deduct nine-tenths of 1 per cent from each pay check and turn it over to the state for the employment insur‘ance program. ;

- Employers pay 1.8 per cent on payrolls into the fund, which would be unchanged by the recommendation. Organized labor led the demand to relieve employes of their contributions.

Clarence A. Jackson director of the division estimated that under the pre~ sent system the fund would total about $59,000,000 by the end of 1938 but with employe contributions eliminated it would reach $44,000,000 by that time, a drop of $15,000,000.

Escaped Convict Hails Wrong Car

Russell Jewel 24 escaped inmate of the .Indiana .reformatory Pendleton, was back in custody after thumbing ‘a ride on road 54 north of Linton with two state . policemen. :

Jewell hailed a car contaifhing Walter . Howard and A George Barnhart 15 minutes . afte rthey had beea warned by state. poplice radio to be on lookout for Jewell a trusty who escaped frm the stone quarry early Friday. y

New :Stamp On Sale

A supply of the newly issued Army and “Navy: memorial stamps of one and two.cent denomination have been placed on sale at the Ligonier postoffice. The army stamps bear the portrait of General Andrew Jackson and the navy:stamp has:pictures of Step-: hen Decatur and Thomas Mae-. Donough., 2

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Nations of World Allot Year 1939 To New York Fair ‘World Expeosition Already Growing Up; Seeks Active Participation of State

. NEW 'YORK, (Special).—The New York World's Fair, in which every state in the nation must inevitably take small or gonfinent part, is out of its infancy. . Preparatory construction goes on night and day at the Flushing Meadow Site of 1216% .acres at the geographical centre of New York City. A steady flow of activities and announcements emanates from the Fair Corporation headquarters on four floors of the Empire State building. Judging from all of these, the Fair is a lusty, growing institution that will reach full maturity—no question about {t—by the scheduled opet?ln( day, April 30, 1939. The task of grading the site is about half completed. Battalions of men with trucks have already moved over 3,000,000 cubic yards of dry fill in the process of turning the waste marsh land: of the Flushing River basin into park ground. Other battalions are scooping out “meadow mat” for use as fertile top soil for the made lands, and in so doing excavate the beds for the two large lagoons featured in plans for the Fair. _ The first of the 300 structures which, according to estiinates, will house the 1939 Fair, has been completed and is raad) for occupancy. This is the headquarters building for the field forces of today and the employment department of the exposition period. Scheduled for early in the new year is the start of actual construction of the $900,000 Administration building. The designs for this structure, let under architectural contract a few weeks ago, are nearing the day of their approval in the Corporation’s. offices. Upon completion of this building, late in August, 1937, the Fair headquarters, bag, baggage and sales offices, moves to the exposition site. “The most splendid and significant edifice projected for the 1939 international exposition,” . the Theme building, as described at Fair headquarters, is also well along in its contractual period. The estimated cost of this great building for the “Thematic Centre” of the exposition is set at $1,200,000. The preliminary designs are to be finished in about eight weeks and the final plans submitted within four weeks thereafter. Construction is scheduled to start immediately the designs are completed. From this Theme centre will radiate all that is to be the 1939 Fair as conceived by its founders and rendered into concrete terminology and model by the Fair’s Board of Dasign. “Our job from now on is to give physfcal expression to the plan and theme

of the Fair as announced and as set down on paper in-.our headquarters,” says Grover Whalen, President of the Fair Corporation. “Starting next April 1, we plan to complete the design of one major building every ten .days for a period of seven months. In all, we expect to design no less than 30 major buildings to house the exhibits from every part of the world. Some 300 structures, in all, are planned for the Flushing Meadow site, within a few minutes’ ride from Manhattan.” Without solicitation on the part of the Fair, more than 250 American business houser and instituttions have begun preliminary conversations regarding their participation and are already planning -exhibits. Five of the great nations of the world have already assured the Corporation that they would erect their own buildings, while no less than 32 other nations have informally indicated their desire to participate. And then, on top of all this display of~ keen interest, comes the announcement that the International Convention Bureau, meeting in Paris, has allocated the year 1939 to the New York Fair. This means that the New York Fair has ex- . clusive ranking as the “one international exposition” of 1939, and assures it of the ' active support of the 21 nations signing the ggreement. ~ President Roosevelt has just extended’ ; official invitation to the nations of the ; world. Governor Herbert H. Lehman, of the host State of New York, has extended invitation to the governors and resi_dents of 47 states. Grover Whalen, like- ' wise, has invited the governors in a let‘ter pointing out that “the commercial’ .consequences of the New York World’s - Fair are so great and important that they '.alone would justify the active participation of every state.” Fair Commissioners are already in South America and Europe. Still others are on their way to the Far East and_ other foreign shores. Major Dennis E. Nolan, retired, as head of the Department of Foreign, State and Municipal Participation, will himself make representation to the governors and legislatures of the various states. ;

Meanwhile, under the direction of Harvey D. Gibson, President of the Manufacturers Trust Company, and Richard Whiiney,#ormer president of the New - York Stock Exchange, the prominent fig‘ures in the financial capital conducted -a-28-day campaign to.sell $27,829,500 in - debenture bonds-of the Fair to finance | the, construction period. ‘ Every confidence is being expressed that the Fair not only will “pay its way,” but that it will bring a billion dollars" more of revenue into Greater New York and stimulate American industry in general to an extent many fold that amount. '“Phe total cost of producing New York's 'Fair, ineluding collateral improvements, A 8 set at. $125,000,000. Statisticians esti« ~mate that the attendance will total more he City of New York, the State of ‘New York, and the Government of the »weill agcount for-$35,000,000. of-the ; Mn’u and thus lend.an official Backing never before achieved.

Secondary Roads to be Improved. Approximately 8,000 miles of Indiana, gecondary roads have been affect ¢d by the farm-to-market road improvements program being carried on by the Works Progress Adminisit;fation;‘jtv has been announced by state WPA officlals. As a result of ’,t,he. program thousands of unemployd persons were provided with jobs and Hoosferdom’s 181,570 farms have ‘been hrought closer together. Farm-to<market road projects inclide buflding, surfacing resurfacing nwm _grading, widen-. ing; construction, widening and rethe elim nof dangerous “hump”

Bum Penny Does Boomerang It’s often said that a bad’ penny returns and Joshua J. Mishler farmer living ip the west part of LaGrange county knows it to be true now. Mishler was working in his barnyard when he found a penny lying on the ground. Someone had drilled a tiny hole through the coin. Mishler picked it up and tossed it onto a window ledge of his henhouse. The penny struck the- ledge and bounded back, smacking Mishler on the eyeball. The injury while painful was not serious. Slightly peeved Mishler picked up the penny a second time and hurled it into spapce. But instead of disappeparing the had penny returned, and with such force after glancing off an ice-coated tree trunk that it struck one of Mr. Mishler’s upper incisors and chipped off a good sized corner. :

Crows Become Chief Target With the closing of the rabbit hunt ing season crows will become the chief arget for Hoosier nimrods, Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner of the Department of Conservation predicted. The Department of Conservation

is spomsoring Indiana’s fourth annual Crow Control Ceontest offering cash awards and game birds to pari cipating conservation clubs.

The contest began New Year’s day and will end May 31, with awards to be made on the b asis of crow feet turned in by competing clubs. Five awards totalling $75 will be made to the five clubs turning in the largest number of crow feet each month, with a $5O award to the ~lab turning in the most crow feet during the five-month period. In addition the clubs will receive one quail or pheasant for each 100 crow feet to its credit.

Want Tax Levy.

Early presentation of the American Legion’s proposal that the state continue a 4-mill tax Jevy to complete the Indiana World war memoriaal was planned after a conference of legion officers and legislators. The 4-mill levy would raise approximately $150,000 a year. TLegionnaires wish to continue the levy to finance removal of two churches on the war memorial plaza and construction of a state head; quarters hbuilding.

Elkhart Home Robbed

Raymond Workman of Elkhart reported to police that his home bad been entered while his wife and he were in Goshen, and $ll had been stolen from a dresser drawer.

Bandmaster Dies

Prof. Albert P. Wagoner 78 widely known Winona Lake bandmaster is dead following an attack of heart disease.

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FENCE

WHILE- IT LASTS AT Ay \ ’ B Last Year's Prices For delivery and settlement any time in : March, we will deliver to you, fence we have on hand at our very low last year prices. REMEMBER this applies only o to fence on hand as it is considerably higher and we will be obliged to advance prices as soon as present stock is gone. If you need fence, you may give us your order for later delivery. NOT OVER 300 RODS TO A CUSTOMER as we wish to pass it around as much as possible J. F. Seagly Co.

Games Banned

All pin ball games similar amusement devices and slot machines were ordered out of all business establish ments in Columbia City by Mayor James A. Brown. Word also was sent to persons leasing the machines that in the future the machines would be confiscated angd the persons displaying them would be arrested. The cityofficers will be assisted in the enforcement of the law throughout the county by Sheriff Eli Sauers. In otker lparts of the county no machines have been repoprted.

Reéfere®s Announced

The referees for the Cromwell-Lig-onier high school basketball game to be played at Cromwell on Friday even ing February 12 are George Merkle, Coach of the <Chester Center high school umpire, and L. B. Moore City Playground Director of Marion, referee.

Decrese is Noted

Less influenza, smallpox and typ-~ hoid fever with an increase in measles diphtheria and memingitis is shown in the weekly report of the Indiana State Board of Health for the week ending, Jan. 16 and received here. Scarlet fever cases were unchanged at 174.. " KCases as listed are: Tuberculosis 27; chickenpox 106; measles 12; scarlet fever, 174; smallpox 5; whooping cough, 40; diphtheria 25; influenza, 283 as compared to 346 the previous week; pneumonia 71; mumps 32; meningitis, 4.

Suffers Broken Shoulder

Jess Ott is confined to his home in Goshen with a fractured left skould er. Mr. Oit with a party of men, who were chasing a cow on the farm of Levi Kalb of near Millersburg Friday afternoon, slipped and fell and was kicked by the cow.