Ligonier Banner., Volume 73, Number 34, Ligonier, Noble County, 24 August 1939 — Page 2

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RESPONSIBILITY FIXED There are 25,000 citizens of Indiana who are not jubilantly echoing “they beat Roosevelt”. They h&dppen to know who was beaten. They found the answer in the little notices that after September 1, they will be turned over to the tender mercies of “business” or the Township Trustees. They will be out of jobs, thanks to the Republican Congress who let their hate of Roosevelt outrank their judgment. ' ; ; There is an increasing number of business men and property owners, who are discovering that they, also, are well defeated. For they find that their business is dropped when the W. P. A. workers no longer receive checks. They find their cash registers dwindling, just a little—enough perhaps to turn the tide between profit and loss. They know, all too well, that the only cure for poor business is more customers and that more customers mean more buying power. » ; When the property owners look at tax budgets for the coming year, they discover that every township trustee has increased the sum which must be raised for poor relief. They have known but one way in the past. The Townships had to borrow money, so that during the Hoover depression, the total borrowed, and run to very high figures. They have found that they are now paying an exorbitant amount of interest on these sums, and that it is increasing not diminishing. : The self-liquidating lending plan suggested by the President begins to look better to the voters. They are not as frightened about the public debt of the future as they are scared by the more immediate problem. The people know that the banks are full of money. They know that the only reason it is not spent is the timidity of bankers to take a chance, a timidity that would be dispelled if they knew that the government stood behind every loan. They know that the country needs houses, railroads, everything. They know that there are idle men. They are certain that the dollars are idle. . The responsibility for the dilemma is fixed. It came from Republican Congressmen who stood adamant against the President’s plan. Their proud boast that they “beat the President” gets little response from those who discover that it was not the President who was beaten but the working men and business men. , : The only cure for unemployment is a job. The only cure for business is more buying power. The Republican Congressmen voted against both. The blame is fixed. Every man who has lost his job, every business man who has lost a customer knows what happened and will correct it at the next election.

“One of the choicer fictions perpetrated on the public by the metropolitan Republican press is the allegation that Indiana is ‘normally’ a Republican state. Actually, Indiana has had Democratic governors during eight of the last gubernatorial terms. A four-year edge in the course of 68 years is hardly conclusive that Indiana is ‘normally” Republi/[:;m.” Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette (Dem.) $BB & : PAYING THE PIPER Although the common citizen may not have recognized it, he was assessed for the payment of the cost, before the big Republican rally to be held next month. It is true that he did not pay the money directly. It was collected at a gathering of business men, called together by the miracle man Capehart, who finds the role of “angel” for the party a little burdensome. So he called together those who want special privileges, rebates, tariffs, and other forms of extortion from the public, and told them that it was time to rally to the support of the party. Those same men will be at the next legislature, when it assembles, demanding their pound of flesh, if the plan works and they should elect Republicans to take over the government. These gentlemen are gambling, with the public’s money, on their hatred of New Deal policies and their animosity to President Roosevelt and those Who have stood back of him. For every dollar these party leaders spend, they expect to get back five or ten, when the pay-off comes. These men do not like the Democratic party for good reason. They know what happened to the Insulls and the Clarks in this state when Paul V. McNutt becar‘:i&..‘overnor and reduced the rates or electricity by ten million ‘dollars. They know what happened when Governor Townsend relieved the farmers and the home owners from the necessary burden of supporting the public schools by taxation wupon property and kept those schools open while those of other states were closing. , They do not like the Democratic system of supporting the necessary cost of practical polit%cs, by assessing party workers. When Capehart summoned his business men to raise funds, he gave away the secret that those who pay the piper are not the men who hand over the money, but the people themselves who will be raided later by these same privileged interests. e : For every barbecued sandwich there will be a raid on the public pocketbook, if the plan works. , The old shell game has been worked before. Perhaps the people will wake up. They may not like the Mark Hanna type of politics which appears to be coming back again,

“The most difficult responsibility of the Republican party in 1940 will not by any means be the selection of a candidate but the adoption of those ‘clean-cut, constructive courageous principles’ which Senator” Vandenberg says are 80 vital to victory. Certainly no time at all ean be lost if those principles are to be offered to the electorate in the next campaign.”—Newcastle (Pa.) News (Rep.) : $8 8 & “Before embarking upon the high seas, Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton proffered some advice to ‘Republican candidates for Congress next year. He told them that ‘The bark of the Townsendites is worse ~ than their bite’ He can qualify without challenge as an expert on Townsendism. He wrangled sufficient Town- - send support to win 68 seats in Congress last year. But _ he is spreading it on a bit thick when he says the govern- ~ ment is committed to an old age assistance program. For. he has insisted all along that the Roosevelt program ‘sctually s ot old age assistance; "—Lincoln Star (lnd.

THE LIGONIER BANNER, LIGONIER, INDIANA, THURSDAY AUGUST 24, 1939

;}_g - - | 4 o fEa R S =-y S e == _‘ 7_;,;’_:_-:"_ - ;;l_:_;’;:;. , AR L T el e ‘,-.‘H TINE i Business has-claimed that recovery would come faster if the New Deal would remove certain regulatory restrictions, It has wanted the undistributed profit taxes revised, and this was done, and other taxes were modified along lines which business urged. The 76th session of Congress placed no new restrictions upon business and industry. Congress “froze’’ the Social Security payroll tax for old-age insurance ot its present 1 per cent level for employees and employers for the next three years, postponed the originally authorized increase to 1% per cent on each next year. It also limited the tax liability for unemployment compensation’ to cover only the first $3,000 paid to each worker instead of overall coverage. It is estimated that this will save business 65 million dollars annually, while freezing of the old-age payroll tax is estimated to save industry and workers 825 million dollars over the next three years. In view of all that has happened, it is now up to business to make good on its claims.

Business should be appeased because federal spending and lending has been curtailed and the number of men and women of WPA has been reduced. The Republican party which has fought Roosevelt on every turn has repeatedly said that buisness could abgorb the unemployeqd if government gave it a chance. That has been the only solution the Republican party has ever advanced for solving the unemployment problem. Business and in’dustry have never made any such promises, neither have they denied their ability to provide work for the present WPA workers. The showdown hag come. In Indfana approximately 25, 000 WPAers will be dropped by Sept. 1. Business has wanted federal spending stopped and WPA rolls slashed. It has its opportunity now to put Republican recovery plan into effect. It has no further alibis.

Do you recall the campaigns of 1934, 1936, and 1938 and the caustic charges of Republicans that New Deal Senators and Representatives were ‘“‘rubber stamps’ for following President Roosevelt’s leadership? The public was led to believe that Democrats who went along with the President were committing an unpardonable sin. The party out of power, in desperation, will usually say or do anything to blacken and damage the opposition, but when it is in office, it drops its robes of virtue. This was very well illustrated by the “51 Club” in the 1939 session of the state legislature when the 51 ‘Republican members of the House voted as a unit at the bidding of the Republican State Chairman. In the 76th Congress we find the seven - Republican members of the House doing another nice job of “rubber stamping.” At least The Indianapolis News carried this headline over a story “G. O. P. Hoosiers vote with Party.” ‘The article told of “party solidarity of the Republicans when it came to voting, lls that being a “rubber stamp’”. We think it is. What 'do you think?

Pennsylvania has had a taste of the Republican idea of handling relief. Gov. Arthur E. James has instituted a ‘“humanizing relief” program which provides for (1) publicity of names of relief recipients; (2) setting up of county relief boards, dominated by Republicans; (3) a “work or starve” law whereby all émployable persons receiving relief must perform such work as may be assigned to them by the county boards on peril of being cut off the rolls. Pennsylvania is an example of the Republican method of relief in operation, so reporters thought that when Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio announced his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination and declared he was in favor of a balanced budget in two years, and at the same time taking care of the needy, they would inquire if he approved of Governor James’' program. Taft said: l"No Comment’’, Then he scowled, i

Have you gone to bed at night and been unable to sleep because of worry over the national debt which some Republican orator or newspaper has said was hurtling the nation into bankryptcy? llf this boogey man has been plaguing, an Associated Press dispatch from Washington should quell your fear and aniety. It would seem that the boys "with the money still have confidence in the fiscal policy of the country. July sales of ‘‘baby bonds’ totaled $84,684,803. This figure has been exceeded for a single month only in two Janudrys when large investors bought at one time all )'of $lO,OOO permitted one person in a year. The June total was $67,173,726, and the July figure

% k é e : . _juest from e’ Dig Cthlji Z " Wo listened all the evening : - z While she bragged about such things ; As motor cars and money L*?WREN CE And fur coats and diamond rings. 2 She talked of gowns and facials, : AWi[H SENE And she raved about her home—- = She listed all its contents, : From the basement to the dome! e Shmamdflx of her bridge games \=— ' e prizes she had won; § \ She told us of the parties ~ _.- \ Where she had “big-city fun”; ~,-~ e \ She painted countless pictures \ ;jla;‘ , ~Of the stellar role she plays ‘\ - m In what migit be entitlod, 1 | i L “Wasteful Women and Their Ways.” l .jfi | At last, I found the courage [ > § ( “'l - Toinject a word or two, @\ B 2 Since we agreed the ending “ \%' N i\éfl Of her monologue was due; R,)% ~\ 1| P -To ask about her children g 3 e \'Hg : Was a faux pas, I'll confess— - R -/‘ ‘N . Because she answered bluntly, N\ }} VBN g\ Ot they're quite all right, T guess.” 35.:—7; & 2~ S 2|l -\| YA (Rl B/ T vsbze . W)| =T A NE T I \§ I . N

last year was $40,866,875. While the moneyed men talk of mational bankruptcy, they still buy government bonds. Persons don’t usually invest in business which is on the verge of bankruptcy.

ROOSTER’'S SPURS 3l a A 4 & , ="—.. e

By WALTER A SHEAD The fact that the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives ran up an increased expenditure of almost $lO,OOO over the 1937 session and $34,000 over the 1933 session of the General Assembly proves beyond any mere averment that they were insincere in their mouthings of economy and in the slashes they made in the budget expenditures.

This action on their part, when they had an opportunity to show to the people real economy in government, proves that their only objective in arbitrary and capricious budget slashes was to embarrass the present state administration. .

And the point of embarrassment was to force discharge of Democratic employees. The most . serious embarrassment, however, is not to the state administration, but to the pedple in the necessary curtailment of important functions of government.

An outstanding example, showing the G. O. P. complete lack of knowledge in the operation of various state departments, was the slash of approximately $76,000 in the biennial appropriation for the Public Service Commission.

"Here is a department of government which has saved the people of Indiana approximately $8,000,000 annually on utility bills, The Public Service Commission is the only barrier between the monopolistic public utilities and the pocket books of the people of the state. These utilities, telephone, light, power, water, are given monopolies based on conenience and necessity and, without competition, could charge rates which are exorbitant were it not for the protectorate which the Public Service Commission exercises. This protection is based on the ability of the commission to obtain detailed reports of valuations, of utility property values and the like, upon which rates

During the administration of Governors Leslie, Jackson and as far back as Goodrich, the people of the state were, each year, yoked with consistently increasing utility rates, and they were powerless. At least one Republican Governor was interested personally and financially in public utilities.

So flagrant had this abuse become during the Republean years that it became a major issue in the campaign of 1932 when Govemor Paul V. MeNutt promised hig first action would be to fire the five-man commission and reduce utility rates. o '&* i : . Had the Republican House ~ leadership been conversant with L facts with reference to the com- - mission, they would have has operated on a much smaller

tions; has done twice as much work with a smaller personnel; has turned back into the state . general fund $300,831.71 MORE than their total budget allowances, including the $50,000 revolving fund which is - used for emergency purposes., % *® % ; In addition, the commission has had the added dutieg of the Motor Vehicle Department and Rural Electrification Corporat ion s. While the present commission turns huge sums back into the state general fund, the commission under Governor Leslie spent $2,883 more for the fiscal year 1930-31 and $121,812 more for the year 1931-32 than they collected in fees. Under Leslie, the commission employed 23 accountants. Today they employ 9. They employed 40 engineers under Leslie. Today they employ 20. They employed 27 typists in 1932, while today they employ 9. Total employees for 1932 were 103 while the total today is 73.

And so with this department writing a record of umnequalled service, making money for the state in fees collected, operating on a much reduced budget, slashing $8,000,000 annually from the public utility bill, it must be penalized by a group of Republican legislators, ignorant of what they were doing. Ag a result the public suffers. - ‘s * @ ; Just one more instance of Republican irresponsibility and insincerity.

This Week’s Best Stories - and Witticisms,

“Do you believe in prayer?” a friend of mine once asked his negro servant. “Yas sir, boss,” was the quick reply. et “Do you say your prayers every day?”’ : ‘“Yas sir, boss, I certainly does.’ ‘‘Well, Joe, does God answer all your prayers?’’ ' “Yas sir, boss. He answers one way or another.” Parson. ‘“Rastus, that’s a fine garden you have there.” ‘ Rastus: “Yah sur, Pahson.” ‘Parson: “You must thank the Almighty for that.” Rastus: “Pahson, did you ebbah see his piece of ground when de Almighty had it all to Hisself?”’

The submarine had sunk the steamer, and:' McTavis and MacPherson had been adrift for two days in an open boat. Finally McTavis got down on his knees and said: :

“O Lord, I ken I've broken maist 0’ thy commandments. I've been a hard drinker all my days —but, O Lord, if we’'re spared this time, I promise never—- . MacPherson: ‘I widna commit mysel’ over- far, Donald, I think I see land yon.” :

~ Lady: “These alphabet noodles are too small. Haven't you @ larger size?’’ Grocer: ‘‘Why, you've been buying those for years.” ~Lady: “I know, but my eyesight is getting bad. I can’t read small print now.” : , e f I : : i —Judge (to a thief who had been nabbed with the goods):: “Well, fellow, where did. you steal -this silverware?” ~ Culprit—*“ln _'the loeal fraternity houses, your honr? ' Judge—" Officer, call " up " the hotels and distribute this stuff.”

Our Neicußors' ViEws

By HARVEY W. MORLEY ~ (Editor, Angola Herald) ~ Ray E. Smith, who has done and is doing such spendid work for the Democrats of this state has just had his attention focused on “the dark corner of Indiana’” by a reference Senator Minton made to this Fourth Congressional district recently, and the hot rejoinder of our hoss-doctor Congressman, George Gillie of Fort Wayne. That is Ray’s alibi for asking me to make this contribution to his very excellent Democratic necessity, The Hoosier Sentinel.

That ‘‘dark corner’ business was no news to us in Steuben county. This is a dark corner, and if it were not for such fighting partisans as Judge A. C. Wood and a few other uncompromising Democrats, this county would have been annexed to Vermont years ago, instead of being just a step-son, suspected of having had a blood transfusion from the Green Mountain State. Instead, in every campaign the local G. 0. P. finds they have a fight on their hands. They do not find the field abandoned to their ticket, but instead face plenty to worry about, most often for their candidates for sheriff or auditor. Sometimes the contest is very close, And so back in 1930, and again in 1932, Theodore Wood, son of the Judge, was elected prosecuting attorney, carrying Steuben county by a comfortable majority. His first election, of course, was before the days of, and without the aid of Roosevelt landsides which made, in later years, many nominal Republican counties, including Steuben, Democratic. Theodore Wood was the first Democrat elected -in this county for 56 years. And still our county has been thoroughly organized and militant in every election. Indeed without the Democratic vote polled here in the last election Senator Van Nuys would certainly have had to go through that recount. The result would have been so near a tie.

Steuben county Democrats, who always cast ballots close to registered vote, never forget the value of one vote, because in 1844 the vote of one man in this county is credited with indirectly bringing on the Mexican War and its long train of eventualities, about which more anon. But in the last election the Steuben county Democratic vote not only saved a Van Nuys recount, but prevented the defeat of a member of the Indiana Appellate court and a member of the state Supreme court. Such a claim could be made by almost any county, of course. However, it demonstrates the value of maintaining close harmony with the party workers in every county, just as the election results in this county nearly one hundred years ago taught Steuben county partisans the need for getting in the last vote and courting the best efforts of the precinct committeemen and women in even sparsely populated precincts. It’s my considered opinion that sometimes these workers are forgotten after election. Without their efforts no county chairman could even come to bat, to say nothing of getting to first base. s

Back in 1844 a Democratic worker in = Salem Township, Steuben county, (where Mrs. }Thomas R. Marshall comes from)! coaxed a farmer to leave his fields and go to the polls just in time to cast the last ballot. Now the farmer recalled that, and only went to the polls because, he had promised to vote for Maddison Marsh of Orland, who was Democratic candidate against Enos Beal of Fremont, candidate on the Whig ticket. Mr. Marsh was elected to the state legislature by a majority of one and this last }voter was the one. The Indiana legislature in joint session elected Edward Hanningan United States Senator by a majority of one, and Maddison Marsh was the one. Then the U. S. Senate admitted Texas to the Union by a majority of one, and Edward Hannigan was the one. The admission of ‘Texas brought on the Mexican ‘War. Believe it or not, Mr. Ripley, the vote of one Salem Township, Steuben ' county, Indiana

j Mrs. Newrich: ‘““A dozen bottles of curry powder.” | Grocer: “You use it a lot in your cooking, don’t you?” Mrs. Newrich: Why, no, I've been grooming my horse with it.” Although g bolt of lightning wrecked the bed on which she was Sleeping and set it on fire, Mrs. Julius Adams of St. Petersburg, Fla., was uninjured. - Charles Beeman, 4, of Austin Minn., accidently set the fire to the family home, but carried his younger sister to safety. - Joan Manners, a Hollywood actress, was given five Uays ln jail for contempt when she viog?ra court order against picket-

farmer is an object lesson in the worth of political efficiency seldom, if ever equalled. ;

Voters in Steuben county take their polities pretty j straight, which divides good friends in this sector of the ‘“‘dark corner”, It got so hot once that we had three Angola candidates for Congress on the ticket at the same time, two from the same board of directors, Hon. Cyrus Cline, Democrat, who served this district admirably for eight years, Hon. Lewis W. Fairfield,. Republican, who finally succeeded him, Prof. W. O. Bailey of Tri-State College (as was Prof. Fairfield) who ran on the Prohibition ticket. All of these estimable men have gone to their reward, and if they looked down in recent years and gsaw scrambles where two Steuben county hopefuls (including this writer and T. P. Riddle) were defeated for nomination by another who began life in this county, James I. Farley, who was elected, and has now become our last casulty, they must have been reminded that the leopard does not change his spots. ;

This ‘“dark corner’ has had a number °of [Democrats who have been placed on the state ticket or otherwise in the limelight. Stephen A. Powers once represented this Senatorial district and by reason of his hirsute appearance, his humor and peculiar abilities, and hig ‘“‘skunk bill”’ got in the state papers with regularity, being dubbed by the Capitol City political writers as “Quaker Oats’*. Later Glenn Van Auken, another Steuben county man, was elected to the .state Senate, became Senate leader, served on the Public Service Commission and otherwise ‘“‘went to town’’. Ano more lovable character ever was in the state holise than Judge Frank M. Powers of Angola, whose spendid services on the Indiana Appellate court were cut short by his untimely death in 1915,

While Vice-President Thomas R. Marsall was never a resident of Steuben county, he spent much time here and married one of Steuben county’s fairest daughters, the amiable, winsome ang talented Lois Kimsey. Hon. Willis A. Fox, of Angola, recently deceased, was once nominated for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and made a splendid race, receiving a large(;fbmplimentary vote in this county and ‘Noble county, in wheh Tatter place he had been county superintendent of schools and was a great favorite. Mr. Fox was this county’s last contribution to the state ticket, except when this writer was complimented by be‘ing put on as presidential elec- | tor, until Judge Alphonso C. Wood came along and was twice elected, both times receiving a splendid complimentary vote throughout the eight ‘‘dark corner” counties where he is well known. He served eight years with marked distinction, and is now the senior \practicing member of the Steuben county bar, of which he is president. ;

The intense interest and loyalty of Steuben county Democrats to everything' Democratic was just demonstrated by a real outpouring to hear our dynamic state chairman, Fred F. Bays, on the occasion of his visit to Pokagon State Park, near Angola, where he addressed a multitude from Steuben and various counties in the ‘“‘dark corner.” It is entirely superfluous to tell Sentinel readerg what a powerful appeal Mr. Bays makes to a Democratic audience. But at this meet ing by dint of good work on the part of the local committee and the sponsor, the Steuben County Women’s Democratic Club, a goodly number of Republicans were in his.audience., And did our new state chairman sell himself and his cause to strangers within our gates! His address ig partisan but his bearing, his demeanor is ingratiating, He impresses you as a salesman with unending beHef in his goods. He does not ridicule the coat you may be ’wearing, ‘but shows you what a nice product he is selling. He does not importune, he demonstrates. He examines the fabric before your eyes, discusses what you may have had an idea is its

The most northerly CCC camp was recently = established in Mount Mc¢Kinley national park in Alaska, with 200 boys enrolled. ; Mildred Harmon of Evanston, 111,, tried to make a plaster cast of her own face, but when it ‘hardened she had to have it chiseled off. : 4 C. C. Neely, 81 of Nashville Tenn., was awarded $lOO damages in a suit brought against three youths who cut off his long beard. Y ~ J. W. Reid of Dallas had a color movie made of an operation he recently underwent which he exhibits to any one who wishes to

weak point, shows you Its excellence, invites your patronage—sells you. Fred Bays meets opposing arguments candidly, freely. As courteously as though engaged in debate, but none-the-less positively. You somehow gain confidence that he is speaking with knowledge and authority, but that he is playing the game fair. A speech by Fred Bays, who leaves a good taste by closing with a novel entertainment, should be enjoyed by every county in the state, light or dark.

R. Earl Peters has his summer home in Steuben county and his friends here are legion. Since Earl has been so prominently mentioned as the Democratic candidate for Governor, he is constantly the topic of conversation whenever politics is talked. ‘While it is understood that Mr. Peters is not seeking the nomination but would take it if tendered him, his friends are enthusiastically back of him and very active in his behalf. Earl's long experience as state chairman, his acquaintance in every county, his organizing ability, hjs success in bringing factions together, his well known favorable position with the national chairman and the national administration are pointed to by his friends as making him especially gvailable asg a gubernatorial candidate. His Steuben county friends and neighbors are insistent that he be nominated.

Right now Steuben county is a hot-bed of McNutt for President activities. Harold Kelley the fire-eating Angola city chairman who is like an ant, always working at both ends, is president of the club, which is growing apace. A national Presidential ticket with Paul V. McNutt on either end of it would arouse more Democratic enthusiasm in Steuben county than we have seen for many a day. And it is not uncommopn in this stand-pat county to hear stalwart Republicans says ‘‘that man McNutt is a real executive who gets things jdone. I am for him’’.

Another very popular man mentioned for Governor in this county is James D. Adams of Columbia City. Jim is greatly almired here, and his work as ehairman of the State Highway Commission, where millions of dollars were spent while he was the commission head with never a breath of suspicion or critcism, endeareg/-»him still more to our

Another favorite with many ““dark corner” folks is Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker, in whose ability and clean record all have confidence. As head of the Finance Committee the directing hand of “Governor’’ Schricker hag made the Indiana State Fair outstanding in the nation. His insistence and success in making it a real agricultural and farm live stock show has made him a favorite with Steuben county farmers, who take their business seriously. —Hoosier Sentinel.

;One Danger Remains “Automobiles are being built safer and safer each year. Roads are better designed, so as to eliminate hazards. Next year’s automobiles will probably be most equipped with a new “sealed-beam” headlamp which will tend to eliminate road glare. This invention, which is expected to rank with four-wheel brakes, safety glass, and all-steel bodies as a safety feature, was developed jointly by the lamp and motor manufacturers who pooled their knowledge and experience to produce it. An excellent example of co-operation, by the way. A new type of safety glass which eliminates side-window distortion and undue eye-strain is also to be introduced by one company, and new bodies partly made of transparent plastics are to be introduced. = Yes, automobiles are being made safer each year. The one safety factor that seems hardest of all to improve is the fool behind the wheel. Even there some progress is being made by relentless safety campaigns and education, but more unyielding than glass or steel or plastic is the stubbornness of the human mind, slow to learn, slower to change. —Goshen News-Democrat. S

A large Persian cat, valued at $250, jumped from the car of tourists at Brooklyn, la., and the family stayed over two days until it was found. At Bloomfield, la., a pullet belonging to Charles Bullock Tesently laid an egg having three separate yolks. » One pupil in a marriage course at Scranton-Keystone College decribed a- happy -familes as “‘one ‘Wherein each member wants to iwash, ,t.g;e. dishes, - 5 i » A calt swallowed a purse containiag s6oln tills belonging o