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Erstwhile Calamity Becomes An Incident < Under: The New Deal , , The Chicago Tribune, which concerns itself primarily and continuously with the severest form of criticism of the Roosevelt Administration, has just inadvertently printed a short eulogy of it in line of duty. It was related that “for just a moment despair hung over the town of Hartland, Wisconsin, whose bank of that name failed for $434,000.” As when more than 12,000 banks failed during the Republican Administration between Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, the momentary despair was natural. - : But before the news could reach the Chicago Tribune, the 1,200 depositors were informed that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation would settle at once. All whose accounts were for $5,000 or less were right away paid off and that included almost every one. The incident, which prior to Roosevelt and 1934 would have been a major calamity for the community, brought out the interesting information that since the F D I C became effective January 1, 1934, only 15 banks have failed in all that region and in every instance practically every depositor had restored to him the full amount of his account. & 288 8 » XPeering from behind the drop curtain are indications that every effort is being made by groups of highly placed industrial leaders to secure agreement by Republican party topnotchers to the nomination of Senator Vandenberg of Michigan and Prosecutor Dewey of New York for President. Giving force to the move is a report that Joseph N. Pew, Jr., of Sun Oil, Republican boss and party angel of Pennsylvania, is vigorously promoting the drive. It might be well for him to consider that the 1928 desertion to Hoover by a Texas Democratic majority was on a spacious, prejudicial issue, that the Democrats of Texas have profited by the issue and will not be moved by a ticket having so politically and economically vulnerable a backing as that reputed for Vandenberg and Dewey.”’— ‘Waco News-Tribune (Ind.) $ 8 8 “’lndependent” Vote Will Go To The New Deal Again In 1940 . Looking ahead to 1940, the people are told that there are 10,000,000 voters: who list themselves as “independent voters”, allied neither to the Republican nor the Democratic parties, owing allegiance to neither party. They are not to be found at party rallies. They may not even talk politics. But they do cast votes, very important votes, if the figures are correct. The attitude of these voters in the past was understandable. They saw little difference between the parties, which for long periods differed little if at all. They boasted that they voted for the man, not the platform, which to them meant nothing. So they went to the polls and regularly elected, when they agreed, the candidates whom they considered the best men for the jobs. The results were found in local elections and county elections which often shifted from party to party. : There was no mistake about the attitude of the independent voters when real issues arose. They voted solidly for President Roosevelt in 1932, for they discovered that the “Great Ifilgineer” was merely the agent of Big Business, a thing the independent voter hates with an undying hate. They voted for Roosevelt again in 1936, showing that their faith had not been lesseped. - There will be few “independent”!voters in 1940, for the issues will be clear and marked. They will vote for the liberal party. They will vote for the progressive principles which are presented in that campaign, rather than for the man. : : It is to these 10,000,000 voters that the propaganda organs are turning their interest. They have known for some time that the Democratic party is dedicated, as a party caucus of Democratic Congressmen declared, to the New Deal. Even those who voted against some very important measures voted for this party declaration. ¢ It is the minds of these 10,000,000 that the great metropolitan press, the press agencies, the columnists, are attempting to poison. The one cure for such poison, of course, is truth. The party must answer each calumny with facts, each libel with truth. Will any independent voter cast a ballot for the reactionary Republican candidate for Congress when he remembers how his home was rescued by a New Deal policy, when bread lines were replaced with the right and privilege to ‘work ? = : : Will any independent voter remain independent long when he is reminded of the victories of the New Deal, the rescue of the nation itself from the brink of revolution on which it stood at the end of 19327? , They are grouped, these independent voters, jn a recent survey showing 15 per cent among the higher income brackets. That means that the very rich will again trust the ‘Republican party -as guardians of their dollars. There are 54 per cent in the middle class. Big business is tempting them. There are 31 per cent in the low income levels, .which means they may again be deluded as they were deluded in 1938 by Republican candidates for Congress who promised larger pensions and larger pay, but deserted at the first chance to fulfill their pledges to voters. - That is the picture. The problem of the Democratic party is to see that these 10,000,000 are not fooled, not ‘misled, by those forces which are spending countless millions to destroy the New Deal. s G

; “For some months we have been of the opinion that Mr. Hoover was and is a candidate for a second term. Now comes Fredérick William Wile and says: ‘“Politicians in position to know are now convinced the former President is something more than receptive for.a third nomination. There are concrete indications that the Californian’s hat is in the ring.” In his cross-country rambles, in his recorded utterances and in his pitiful pleas for uninstructed delegates. to the 1940 Republican national convention, a de- ; Hooveristic campaign can be seen:”--Fort Wayne

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' The Republican high command is making an issue of the size of the national debt in this compaign. ‘Democrats should accept the challenge of this issue with a great deal of pride, for the national debt has done two things, primarily. SR _ 3 \ @a® Al aEred o First, the spendng program of the. President and the Con- . gress during the past six years which has made g net increase’ " in’ the debt of some 10 billion dollars, has saved this country from revolution or dictatorship such as has encompassed the nations «f Europe. :t * = Second, federal spending has enabled the local units of govern‘ment to cease spending, thus reducing the déebt of the local units of government some eight billion dollars. Here in Indiana, for instance, because the federal government has assumed the expense of public improvements, the lg—cal units of government have been able to reduce their debt approximately 40 million dollars. ’® ® * i And after all, the people are considerably more itnerested in ~ local taxes, in local debts in the cities, towns, townships, etec., than in any national debt. As a matter o. fact and record, out of a population «f 38,238, . 508 in Indiana according to the- - census, only 152,665 Individuals and corporations in Indiana paid any direct federal taxes in 1938 in support of the national government or the national debt. & - * ; These 152,665 individuals and corporations paid a total of $37,560,355.03 in federal net income taxes and the people of Indiana have received in direct cash benefits from the fedoutreasury approximately $3 f ery $1 paid in federal income tax. For during the past six years the people of Indiana kave received a total of $736,263.619 in cash from the various federal agencies. Basing the total federal income tax paid o nlast year’s total, which is high compared to previous years, the total income tax paid in six years would amount to only approximately $225,000,000. In other words Indiana folks have received some $500,000,000 more in ecash benefits than they have paid out in federal income taxes in the six-year period.

. And here’s a significant fact. the very Republicans, men of wealth wha are attempting to frighten the people by declaring - President Roosevelt is spending the country into bankruptcy, are the first to join the scramble to buy every government bond issue, and buy these bonds at the lowest interest rate in the nation’s bhistory. - Their actions belie their words. T * @ ‘ ' With every issue of government bonds over-subscribed, the naton’s obligations are today at the highest price in history. In spite of stringent stock market regulation to prevent speculation, with the people’s money, in spite of the National Labor :Relations Board, n spite of the wages and hours act, and ‘“‘business deterents,” the Nation’s bonds are selling today well above par, as high as $122. * & @ With a lower national debt, and without any of the so-called ‘“business deterents” which the Republican politicians like to blame for their lack of patriotism in taking up the slack in unemployment, the Nation’s bonds in the era of Herbert Hoover, were selling far below par. )

The- attempt to inculeate fear in the minds of ‘the people with reference to the national debt has fallen flat just as the Republican “National Debt Week” fell like g dud in a sodden field. Their attempts, instead of instilling fear has ‘served the purpose of makng the people of our naton study just what the natonal debt means to ther. economc well beng. . They find that here in Indiana it means they have received $3 for every $1 they have spent and that the cash benefits received as a result of this national debt would pay the entire- tax bill of Indiana, property, state gross income and federal net income, for a period of almost five years. . % ol .y DR e . The national debt was created for you, for labor, industry, business, agriculture and the unemployed. It is an ieipernagt:n;'fgj‘ot' your mopey which has brought high return in dividends to you individually. i

Two congressional inves'igators were said to be probing complaints of irregularities in the WPA work in Indiana this . week., , The charges are that, rellef lgbor ig heing used In_privte Suizmprisss, John K. Jennings, state W A"fi ministrator, denieés ofticial knowledge of any such investigation.

REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIPIN ~ CONGRESS IS ASSAILED

By WALTER A. SHEAD . The policy of Republican leadership in the Congress of the United States during the past few months is apparent even to the uninitiated in political straeegy. - ;

And this leadership is a pittful commentary on the gullibility of the American public. We had an example of this ‘Republican leadership, so called, In the recent session of the Indiana General ~ Assembly, a leadérship which had as its objective embarrassment to the administration in power, Tepudiation of ‘existing program, with the welfare of the masses of the people relegated into the distant background. What the people see in this sort of leadership are the surface indications as pictured in the partisan metropolitan press. And what is this picture which Republican leadership is attempting to paint for the public to see?

Here it is in all its ugliness. They are attempting to tell the people that because the Congress defeated a plank in the Prestdent’s program that Congress s in revolt and the President nas been repudiated. They are attempting to tell the people that because they sliced huge holes in the appropriation bills, the fiscal policy of the Administration is driving the nation into bankruptcy. They are attempting to tell the people that by defeat of some of the Roosevelt program that the President has failed to redeem his platform planks and his pledges. They are attempting to stir up unrest and fear because 1940 is a presidential campaign year. There is nothing new in this political trick. =

Insofar as the partisan press is . comcerned, the Republican leadership is painting the pieture. They are riding to a fall, however, for prapaganda and balf-truths are not swallowed by the American people as In aays of yore when they knew nothing of their federal government except that it was conducted down at Washington. But what is this Republican leadership and Why is it seeking to mis-lead the people by every means at its command?

In the first place Republican leadership is where it has always ‘been—in the hands of the international bankers and high finance in the nation. The Republicans at the party helm, as they have been in the past, are merely the catspaws and puppets for those who pull the strings: from Wall Street. The leadership is the same which granted huge cash subsidies to railroads totalling billions of dollars; the same leadership which subsidized industry with high protective tariffs at the expense of the masses of the people; the same leadership which spent billions under Hoo--ver for relief of big business, but not one cent for the rank and file of the people; the same leadership which frittered away tne public domain in huge land grants; the same leadership which made billions of dollars in the building of utility empires which tottered about the heads of innocent stockholders; the same leadership which made Labor a commodity to be bought ana osla at will; the same leadership which made of the farmer a peon at slave wages; the same leadership which looted the public till at, Teapot Dome; the same leadership which cost the nation and its people billions of dollars in unbridled speculation while In control of stocks, .bonds, discoutns and interests in the money mart; the same leadership which offered to finance the civil war for Abraham Lincoln at interest charges running from 24 to 36 percent. And this ‘‘patriotic” leadership was kicked into the ash can by Lincoln,

And they hate Roosevelt for the same reason. Roosevelt has kicked down their playhouse. They hate him so much that they will; gamble with the welfare of the people, rather than see the New Deal succeed; they hate him because he has driven interest rates down from usury to a point reasonable and fair; they hate him: because the . Government 1s dssuing bonds today at fiveeighths of .one percent interest instead of at three, four or five percent; they hate him because the Security Exchange Commssion now holds a tight curb on Wall Street. speculation; tney hate him ‘because their banks cannot speculate with depositors’ money, but. must conduct themselves as commercial banks; they hate him because he has courageously set up safe-guards against pyramiding of holding ecompa‘nles, ‘the ‘issuance of watered, ‘worthless stocks; they hate him because he has given a new Freedom to labor; they hate him because he has pegged the farmers prices, preventing in large measure, the unlicensed gambling in the nation’s food stuffs.

So by deliberate intent, using the Republican members of Congress and a few weak-kpeed, disgruntled = Democrats,. -Llwbel,ed, aB, their tools, the baroms of finance have driven a wedge here, have forced a bargain there, all in an effort to prevent the Presi-

dent of the United States from carrying out hig program for recovery in the nation. : They have deliberately with‘held capital until their banks literally bulging with cash. Why? To prevent expansion of Industry and thereby maintain unemployment so that huge relief expenditures will continue necessary. All with the trite platitude that private capital would do the job it the government would step aside. But they had that opportunity from 1929 to 1933 ang miserably failed. :

“They - have deliberately, at every turn, sought -to balk Franklin D. Roosevelt in an effort to embarrass him, to belittle him, to repudiate him before the people because Roosevelt has used the power of Government for the welfare of the people in behalf of the laboring men and women, for the good of the farmer, in an effort to help small business and the little banks, the great raak and file of the people. They have charged him with engendering class hatred, because his sympathies have been expressed in be‘half of the forgotten Man and ‘the homes of the lowly. ~ But this time they fail. The people refuse to be fooled. There has been too much “double-talk” from Republican candidates. For six and a half years, the Pres:dent, for the first time in the history of the nation, has taken the people into his full confidence. They see evidences of his helpful program on every side in therr homes, their farms, their bus?ness houses, in their banks, in the schools, on the roads, in the hospitals, in their gymnasiums, parks, playgrounds, recreation centers, swimming pools, public buildings, libraries, in the forests and in the prairies and aeserts, in public utilites, helpful to everyone in every walk of life. And despite their hymns 'of Hate, every poll indicates the continued loyalty and confidence of the great masses of the people in Franklin D. Roosevelt ana the program of the Democratre Party.

This Week’s Best Stories and Witticisms

Harold: “You say you were once cast away on a desert island, entirely without food. How did you live?” s George: ‘“Oh, I happened to have an insurance policy in my pocket and I found enough provisions in it to keep me alive till I was rescued\”’

Sandy, Jr., it séems was in difficulties. In a moment of weakness he had loaned a friend $5OO without benefit of written receipt. In desperation, he consulted his father. ,

_ TFather (considering): ‘*That’s easy, me lad. Write him and say you need the $l,OOO instantly.” Sandy, Jr.: ‘“You mean the $500.” . Father: “That I do.not. You say $l,OOO and he will write back that he only owes you $5OO. Then you will have it in writing.

Mrs. Teawhiffle: “Did you change the table napkins as I told you?” New Maid: ‘‘Yes’'m. I shuf? fled ’em and dealt ’em out so’s no one gets the same one he had at breakfast.”

I am seeking an explanation of this phenomenon: ‘I frequently wake up at five o’clock in the morning and from then until the alarm rings at seven oO’clock, I am unable to sleep soundly. However, the instant the alarm rings I am completely weary and feel as though I could sleep without stirring until noon. Many other persons report similar experience.

‘““Choir practice was out early tonight, wasn’t it?”’ said the chorister’s wife. . “How did it happen?” ‘ e .*“oOh,. replied her husband, ‘“‘somebody blew. an auto horn outside .and a minute later the male quartet was all that was left.” ’ ; -

“Do you play golf?” he asked of the simple but gushing maiden,. i)

‘“Dear me, no,” she bashfully replied. I don’t believe I should even know how to hold the caddie.” ik i

Teacher: *“Give me a sentence with an onbjeet.”, : : Boy: ‘“Teacher, you are very beantiful.” : ] :

Teacher: ‘“What is the oobJect?” e ' : Boy: “A good mark.”

Voice on Phone: “How do you feel' this morning?” : | Tady; “All right” . Voice: ‘“Then I guess I have the wrong number.” . : Visitor: “Why does the whistle blow for @ fire?” = = . Gob: “It doesn’t blow for the fire, It blows for the water, it already has the fire,” S

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Ater greeting a friend trom‘ LaPorte, Indiana, who stopped at my office to say hello, our conversation drifted into politics. He was sure, for he read The Chicago Tribune every morning, that the nation was on the brink of bankruptey because of federal spending. He is a Republican and praised his party leaders for forcing through a reduction in ‘WPA appropriations. ‘*That’s what’s got to be done. This spending must stop,”’ he told me. He was much concerned about the nationa]l] debt which —and I think he repeated exact words he had read in The Tribune—was being saddled on his children and his grandchildren-to-be. He believed that any reduction in federal expenditures put money in his pocket. He did not see why the dismissal of 25,000 WPA workers in Indiana affected him except to save him federal taxes. Up to this point he had done the talking. Your correspondent finally got the floor. ‘“Wait a minute,” said your humble servant, “you’ve missed the point entirely,”

~ Here are some of the things my visitor hadn’t considered. Of the 25,000 WPA workers in Indiana who will get pink dismissal slips by Sept. 1, approximately 300 live in LaPorte. There are no jobs waiting for these men. They must turn to the township trustee to keep from starving. Now a township has only one way it can raise funds for poor relief and that is by taxes on homes, lots, farms and other tangible property. Trustees have all been notified of the extent of WPA layoffs so that they can prepare for an increase in local home relief burden in- their 1940 budgets. In Center townshp, LaPorte county, where my friend resides, the township poor relief levy this year was 89 cents per $lOO assessed valuation. Trustee Lauren Arndt estimates that it will jump to $1.05 next year. My friend is going to get hit plenty hard because he owns several pieces of property. [He pays only a little federal income tax, which helps finance WPA. He would be much better off if the federal government carried the relief load instead of his township. When he said goodbye, he wasn’t so jubilant over the Republican idea of township relief. Think of your own case. Wheh.is better for you?

This is a little drama entitled: “Playing Poker with Human Chips.”” Aect I: ‘“‘Father,” says the small boy, “you promised me we would go to a movie on my birthday. Don’t forget, it’s today.” ‘“Sorry, son,” replies the father. ‘“We can’t go.” ‘““Why not? It's only 25 cents. You

Our NEeicußors' VlEws

A competent Washington correspondent of the Associated Press has described the last session of congreas as a ‘‘session of frustration.”” In the main, he is right.

The session was largely one of oppositionism, opposition to Roogevelt leadership on the floor of both house and senate and opposition to anti-Roosevelt leadership in the committee rooms. The result of this oppositionism is that measures favored by the President frequently died or were twisted out of shape on the floor, while measures to which the President would naturally be opposed did not even emerge from committee. _

. Exceptions were: (1) The ad-'ministration-sponsored g o v|eTn’ment reorganization bill, which passed with flying colors despite the fact that it bore a close resemblance to last year’s misnamed *“dictator bill”’; (2) The administration-spon-sored national defense bill, to which a majority of anti-Roose-velt senators and representatives lent approval; - (8) Continuation of the President’s power to revalue the dollar, which finally won the o. k. of anti-administrationites; =~ (4) The farm aid measure, sponsored by the help of antiadministration solons. : These four exceptions should be noted and pointed to whenever any anti-Roosevelt man brags fulsomely: . “We blocked . him on everything.” . L

But the . Roosevelt-approved legislation which. was turned down may properly be listed as of at least. comparable . importance, since the senate refused to act on neutrality and the house both killed the President’s lending program and voted to investigate the National Labor _Relations SN And, much to the delight of businessmen . and. investors, congress achieved compiete repeal of the undistributed profits tax. . _“A gession of frustration,”

| What You Folls Taked Abou b 10 Years Ago =~ 19 Years Ago

. Mrs. John Slutz and Miss Jessie Decker were in Indianapolis, visiting their nephew, Dr. White, and family. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Sackett spent their 'vacation in lowa and Nebraska. . Dr. C. D. Lane was on a fishing expedition in northern Michjgan and Canada for two weeks. The Ligonier band gave an open air concert in Kendallville with Madaline Sack and her violin as a special feature. i Mrs. M. A. Kirkland received a card from Elva Foote, who was motoring in the east. Harold, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. V. Borger, was operated on in the Goshen hospital. : Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Sheets of Chicago visited his mother. Mrs. W. E. Bartholomew. Mrs. Earl Blinn of Jackson, Mich., and Mrs. Jesse Kern, of New Carlisle, Ind., visited their nieces, Mrs. Earl Taylor and Mrs. Chester Hile. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Todd and son, Charles, of Buffalo, N. Y., were visiting Mrs. Todd’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smith and other friends. Mrs. Graham Lyon entertained at luncheon and bridge honoring Mrs. Calvin Knecht of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Percy Doubla of Garrett.

promised—"’ ‘I might not have a job in another month,” says the father, a WPA worker. Act 2: “Hello,” says the grocer, answering the telephone. ‘“Sorry, I can’t send you a check for a little while. Sure I want to pay you, but a lot of my customers are WPA people and they’ve stopped spending. You know how it is, this new bill they passed. The WYA people are scared, they’re trying to save their money. Well, don't get sore at me! Tell it to the Republican members of Congress. It’s their fault.” :

Feunlly, somebody ought to take the New Deal aside and give it a talking to, and make it stand aside and let business have a chance! Why? Look at this. The Bethlehem Steel Corporation the first quarter. of 1938 made 2 profits of $895,000. Then the New Deal got in its deadly work and itt made $2,409,000 the first quarter of 1939. And more nf New Deal meddling . . . During January, February and March of 1938, the United States 3teel Corporation showed a deficit of $1 292,000, but during the corresponding period of 1939 the Naw Deal gnt after it and il shcwed a profit of $661,000. DuPont, ton, has had a hard tme. The company reported a net ncome of $39.871,535 for the first six months of the year, more than double the $18.937,605 earning for the corresponding period of last year. Common stock earned a share for the first half, compared with $1.36 for the same period of 19358, Ain't tbis New Deal awful?

comments Richard L. Turner of the Associateq Press. And a session of frustration it was—with reservations. — Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.

We once said editorially that the Indianapolis Star was noted for its accurate reporting of political events. And we think now as we thought before that Mr. Maurice Early of the Staf is the most competent and impartial political writer in the State. But Mr. Early got off on a bad tangent Monday morning when he said that hitchhikers, those ‘“pests’’ with well-developed thumbs were made illegal July I.’)

Hitchhiking is still legal. The only difference between now and June 30 is that hitchhikers no longer can stand on the pavement while soliciting a ride. There is no prohibition against thumb-wagging while on the road’s shoulder or on a sidewalk Nor is there any prohibition against soliciting a ride while on the pavement itself so long as the person doing the goliciting does not stand but keeps moving. Where Mr. Early made his major mistake was over the definition of the word “roadway.” The pertinent section of the new traffic code, which went into effect July 1, reads:

- Qec. 87. Pedestrians soliciting rides. No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride from the driver of any vehicle.” " The word roadway is defined in Section 14 of the same code as: :

“(¢) That portion of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular traffie.” ; . After we had read Mr. Early’s column we were all up in arms ?with the thought that something ‘had been put over on all of us ‘young men who must stand at the side of the pavement with I. U. stickers on our week-end bags in order to get home and sée the folks once in a while. However,

~ Irl Rose, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ike Rose, was here with his fi‘ancee, Miss Phyllis Regenberg of New York City. -He was connected with an advertising agen¢y of New York. ~ Officers ang drectors of a new industry organized in Syracuse known as the Syracuse Mfg. Co., and capitalized at $150,000 were L. E. Slotterback, Sam Searfross and Elmer P. Miles. - Rev. Charles L. Deßow of Dallas, Texas, formerly of Ligonier, preached a sermon at the Chautauqua then in session. Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Ollinghouse were parents of a new son. Mr. and Mrs. Sol Sax of Chicago were visiting Eli Jacobs and other relatives, Mrs. Elsie Williams visited Bentha Hapner at Solomon's Creek. Marshal Showalter warned motorists to dim their lights when lpassing cars on Cavin street. \ James McDonald and family of ! Marion were spending a vacation lat' the McDonald cottage at Wawasee, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Stutzman of Goshen and Joe Shively of Elk‘hart were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Wysong. Joseph R. Masters of Wawaka and well known in Ligonier, was a patient in a Fort Wayne hospital for an operation.

Troop 106 . Scouting News By Morton Barch

The main feature of the Scout meeting on last Monday night was the first Court of Honor held since the troop came back frem camp.

Ed Rex, Norman Duke and James Bangs received their Second Class pins. These were belated awards given to these boys at this summer’s ecamp. ' Byron Strait, Allan Thompson and Robert Levy received the rank ow First Class Scout. In the Merit Badge section, George Churchhill, pioneering; Robert Levy, Handicraft, Life-saving and Swimming; Robert Matthews, Civies; Keith Sickafoose, Metal Work and Scholarship; Ross Williams, Pioneering; Allan Thompson, Swimming, and Morton Barch, Athletics. Ross Williams was awarded the rank of Star Scout and Morton Barch received the Life Secout award. Vo !

An error appeared in last week’s column which was that the local troop received stars fror being a ‘““Class H” troop. It should have read ‘““Class A" troop.

Joe Levy was chairman of the Court of Homnor. O. R. Bangs, George Green and Rev. J. O. Beardsley were counsellors.

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Eagles of Columbia City were Sund y guests of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Stertzbach. The ladies are cougins.

State Senator Oscar Cravens,.to whom we went in our rage assured us that there is no cause for alarm. .

- The limitation that is imposed is really a benefit for all concerned. It's purpose, Mr. Cravéns said, is to cut down the mortality rate and not to ‘“ban hitchhikers,”” as the headline in the Star said.

‘Bloomington people will benefit most from the new law. No longer will they have to avoid _Nort’h Walnut like the plague every Friday afternoon, just because Indianapolis bound students choose to stand 10 feet or S 0 out in the road. Henceforth those young gentlemen will have to stand decorously ‘upon the sidewalk or else face a $lOO fine or 10 days in the county hoosegow.—lndiana Daily Student. .

Events of the past decade have been such as to shake the faith of many people in progress.. Because the world has gone backward in so many respects since the World War, people are tempted to believe progress has ended. 7 ’

[, That is -where perspective is needed. It is true that we may .move backward in any one year, ‘perhaps, or in any 10 years. It is necessary to look back over history to see that the world really ‘does move forward, slowly, even if three backward steps are sometimes taken following four forward. Sy ;

The other night E. G. Gpoch, British president of the National Union of Agricultural Workers, was entertained at dinner. The place, Windsor Castle; his host, King George himself. Yet just a little more than 100 years before, Dorsetshire farmers were exiled to the penal colony at Botany Bay for joining a trade union. Yes, the world moves, and deepite periods of backward steps, it moves In the long run in the right direction.—Goshen News-