Ligonier Banner., Volume 73, Number 35, Ligonier, Noble County, 31 August 1939 — Page 2
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SEES BETTER BUSINESS | Citing new products and new processes, Alfred P. Sloane, chairman of General Motors, told the stockholders in a special statement accompanying his annual report that “there exist the fundamental elements essential to a broad and sound business recovery with new job opportunities.” | In obvious criticism of prolonged opposition to Roosevelt recovery efforts, the chairman said: “We have had forced on our attention too much the descending spiral of events that led to depression lows. It seems advisable to recall here that there are equally effective and powerful forces which will build an ascending spiral leading to new levels of prosperity and progress. The horizons of enterprise were never broader than they are today. New knowledge and new skills have opened up fields of possibilities little dreamed of ever a decade ago. With only casual public notice, there has been emerging from industrial laboratories and scientific ‘workshops everywhere during the depression years a flow of new products and new concepts which bid fair to create for us, in reality, a new world of tomorrow.”
THE FIRST FRUITS Those who cheered when a Republican Congress cut the appropriations for the Works Progress Administration and forced vacations on those who have had WPA work for more than 18 months have changed their tune. ' , They discover that in every city, and#¥in every great center, the burden has been passed to the townships, and that a township debt is much nearer to the people than a national debt. The tax burden, despite all efforts of many local subdivigions of government to economize, is mounting. The interest each year on the money borrowed during the Hoover days to support soup kitchens is still there. Gone are the prospects for new bridges and schools and sewers to be built by those who demanded the right to earn their own living and retain their place in organized society. ¢ Citizens are still looking for private business to take up the slack, as was promised by Republican orators who declared that there would be a job for every man who wanted: one as soon as the Government took its hands off what they called “competition.” As yet, there are no signs that private business either can or will absorb any considerable part of those dismissed. ' The suggestion of the President that self-liquidating loans be supplied to railroads, electrification, building and other enterprises was murdered by the Republicans who bitterly opposed it. - But those idle dollars, 33 billion of them lacking this government guarantee, are not eager to rush to these same businesses. Money does not dare take the chance now, but might easily have responded to the call for loans with the Government giving the timid dollars confidence. Now they must wait until another Congress, repentant, returns and again tries to solve the problem of uniting the idle dollar and the idle man. ‘ Who will deny that in a machine age the inalienable right te wqu is as important as the right of liberty and pursuit of happiness? Indeed, it is not preliminary to all other rights?
“Mr. Taft has spoken. One-term Vandenberg has spoken. The student of history applauds these senatorial proffers and regrets that he can remember no other than Mr. Harding of Mr. Taft’s state as a sitting senator sent to the White house. The lover of old cushions must hope that Senator Borah’s worshippers will renew their quadrennial solicitations and try to entice the hermit from his cave.”—New York Times (Ind.)
. GOVERNOR TOWNSEND’S TRIUMPH Had Governor Townsend done nothing more—and he has done more for this state—he could let history write the record of his administration in what he has accomplished for industrial peace. The facts are plain. Indiana leads all states in the number of idle man hours per year, the lead being determined by the smallest number of hours lost from work through strikes or labor disputes. ‘ The Governor understands the problems of labor and of business. He knows that the most: violent thing labor can do to business is to quit working. He believes that there must be an escape from this loss. Before he became Governor, Townsend had seen strikes mean misery, not only in the homes of the laborers involved, but in the stores. He knew that landlords’ incomes were reduced every time workers quit their jobs. He knew that the small business men of the state would find their incomes and profits dwindling every time a mine ora factory closed its doors. He kenw that the farmers, looking for a market for their products, would turn away if the income of labor stopped. He also knew the laborer’s income stopped. He saw the problem as a problem of the state and of the state government, a problem of every community in which men work for wages, of every city which has factories. _ Believing that reason, not force, should govern all the relationships of labor, and that there should be bargaining rather than battle, Governor Townsend took immediate steps after his inauguration to bring about harmony in Indiana’s industries. He established the State Labor Department to handle all problems in the hope of avoiding strikes, and the success of this department is beyond question. - It has not been accidental that the owners of industry brought their new factories or their enlargements to Indiana. They had sensed that in Indiana there was a new spirit, founded on fairness and erected on justice. They believed that in such a state their dollars and their investHistory will record that Governor Townsend’s plea for justice and fairness in the handling of industrial problems w"mmmfim message to the legislature. At the ~end of a little more than two years the results have shown ‘his wisdom and statesmanship. e At his inauguration Governor Townsend said_ that he %, come a great Gflwbfiwflkfi% N e o Lcple. remembered hif 85 a good Governor., P T it 'W%W
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By WALTER A. SHEAD Already effects of the Republican action in Congress in slashing WPA appropriationg are becoming apparent in Indiana. For from every section comes the news ‘“relief sends tax rates up.” * = % Congressman Raymond Springer Republican of Connersville, enunciated the Republican policy with reference to relief when he said, as quoted in the Congressional Record of July 17, 1939, “Let us turn the administration of relief back to the local communities.” * * %* That was the Republican policy under Hoover, that the federal government would not spend a dime for local relief, but they spent billions and increased the national debt six and a half billion dollars for relief of Wall Street, big business, the railroads and banks.
Many Indiana subdivisions of government will not even be able to borrow the money to carry additional relief loads which will be forced upon them by this action of the Republican-Reactionary coalition in Congress. The Republicans by their votes, kicked almost a million men out of jobs on WPA. Then they voted to cut the wages of those left on the relief rolls. All thig after their promises, before election, to increase WPA wages.
And ironically, these Republican congressmen who sabotaged the jobs and wages of these Indiana men and women must come home now, if they dare, and face the music or hide out from their constituents because they will fing out they have unloaded a burden on the people here at home which they cannof carry.
But let’s see what else these same Republican congressmen did. They voted to scuttle the Slum clearance-housing bill.. And what is the result? . They voted 500,000 families in the nation out o? adequate housing and condemned them to live in squalor, filth and disease ridden slums. By their votes they kept 500,000 workers, most of them skilled men, out of employment at prevailing wages. They would have been engaged in actual construction. They voted to keep from 500,000 to 1,000,000 more out of employment in supply and material services. Employment for these men would have taken thousands from relief rolls ,thus saving huge expenditures for the treasury. :
And with the present slum clearance program as a yardstick, and we have examples here in Indiana at Indianapolis, Evansville and Gary, there is every reason to believe that substantially every dollar loaned by the government under thig Slum clearance and housing program would have been repaid with interest.
Let’s see what else the Republican congressmen from Indiana did, notably Harness, Halleck, Gillie and Springer. They voted against the Lending bill for small business and industry and thus kept another million men out of jobs. For with government insured loans, these small business and industrial firms could have expended because of their increased capital. In this instance the government had the record of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the Federal Housing Administration, both of which have been making insured mortage loans to American citizens for six years.
And this record shows that with adequate financing the American public is inherently honest, for not a single penyy has been lost to any bank or the government through the FHA in Indiana and a very small proportion, probably onetenth of one per cent through the Reconstruction _ Finance Corporation. And this infinitesimal loss has been from Banks, and not from business or industry. -
’ And so again, the Republicans turn their back on the rank and file of the people and align themselves with the bankers, the Power trusts. The Real Estate lobbyists and the Tories of Liberty League ilk.
! But more important to us here in Indiana, they vote to saddle increased relief loads on Indiana )taxpa'yers‘ least able to pay, instead of keeping the load on a lpatioml basis where the money comes from those best able to ey N o
CS ' Signs T r”: ”‘f” > ._j "‘"‘7l" ? """ df:::.w-”t“‘ ==l | e S| Afv,“ ';3 -;\__'_._A;":-L_;:g, j;—-::?;:' By RAY E. SMITH, EDITOR THE HOOS!'ER SENTINEL Newspaper headlines are telling the story of mounting property taxes. Why are local taxes going up? Because dismissal of WPA workers is throwing thousands of the unemployed back on township relief. Why are WPA workers being dismissed? Because votes of Republican Congressman Raymond S. Springer of Connersvills, George W. Gillie of iFort Wayne, Rorest A. Harness ’of Kokomo and Charles A. Halleck of Rensselaer helped curtail WPA appropriations in the name of economy. But it is not economy. The idle who get handouts from the township trustee do not build roads, schools, parks, sewers, swimming pools, etc. Without a pay check they do not spend at the corner grocery or buy at the downtown department store. The money to keep these jobless from starving comes from taxes levied on the property owners most of whom are not rich. When the federal government was carrying the entire relief load, the money came from federal income taxes—from those with ability to pay. Returning the Republican party to power means turning relief back to local communities. In broader terms, that means increasing your local property taxes.
In a series of meetings being held throughout the state by the Republican state committee and Republican editors, Arch Bobbitt, head of the Indiana G. O. P, is making ridiculous charges. He beats his breast in a “holier than thou” attitude and heaps bitter criticism upon Democratic office holders and leaders. That is the common practice for the party out of power, but people are growing weary of only criticism. They would like to know just what the Republicans would do about old age assistance pensions for the blind, aid to crippled and dependent children, the tax question, etc. Citizens would like to have the *““outs’’ talk sense, but Archie does not seem to have caught on. The citizens don’t want to hear from Bobbitt what rascals the Democrats are, they want proof that the Republican party understands some of the major problems of the day and has plausible plans for dealing with them. The old system of promising everything to everybody doesn’t work any more, but Archie believes the public is still gullible. He thinks you and I have forgotten those dark days ‘when the Republicans ran the state government. We know Archie. ' He’s just a ' politician trying to get in office. Anqg HOW doesn’t matter.
Michigan, the proud state, should bow its head in shame. A Republican legislature, anxiousfi to win favor of voters for 1940, put through a bill sharply curtailing the amount of money available for hospital care of handicapped children. The 80-year-old Republican Governor signed the measure. Now the state finds it does not have the money to care for its crippled children. The Crippled Children’s Commission is considering a plan suggested by Mrs. Gus Barris for placing coin boxes throughout the state to receive voluntary contributions and Pledges. The Boy Scouts, Salvation Army and other organizations would supervise the plac-. ing and care of the boxes. Thank God we have a government in Indiana that doesn’t have to pass the hat to take care of its unfortunate little children. .
What President Roosevelt has done for the people can not be taken away by ‘the Tory orators and editorial writers. They take ‘Some small mistaké and magnify it, hoping to swing the people against the President, but the Gallup poll reveals that people are not being deceived. A man of the middle class was telling this correspondent of his admiration for Roosevelt. “Tell me the reasons you are for F. D. R.”, I inquired. And he gave me six. Here they are: (1) “My money is now safe when I put it in banks. (2) Due to regulations on the exchange, Americans will not be sinking ‘their dollars in nonexistent properties in other countries. (3) We have humane labor laws and unions are allowed to organize, and if you don’t like unions, look what happened in other countries when they were suppressed, namely Germany, Italy and Russia. (4) We have social gecurity. (5) No one is allowed to starve under Roosevelt, and they don’t have to sell apples, either, and (6) we have. H.0.L.C,;, 0. C.C, N Y. A, F. H A and many other advantages that we didn’t have under Herbert Hoover The President has pioneered these humanitarian laws, but one thing you can’t accuse him of, and that is looking for non-existent corners.”
In conclusion, let’s all join in laments and moans for the brutal, murderous things that the New Deal is constantly inflicting upon American business. Never has poor business undergone such excruciating suffering as it has bean forced to suffer under the wicked New Deal. For instance, Studebaker Corporation had to suffer in July an increase of sales over July, 1938, of over 85 per cent. The Alexander Hamilton Institute of New York announced that our national income in June, 19389, was 11.4 per cent greater than in the corresponding month of 1938. Another sad case is that of General Motors. Sales of this bedeviled company in the first seven months of 1939 were 1,051,300 units as compared to 703,983 in -1938. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company has been presecuted to the extent that the first six months of this year its profits were $3,610.595 as compared to $1,669,828 in the corresponding period of 1938. The Wall Street Journal reports that aggregate earnings of 365 industrial companies reporting for the quarter ending June 30 amounted to 88.2 per cent more than for the same quarter in 1938. Yes, the New Deal has crucified business. President Roosevelt has failed. Everybody get out their handkerchiefs.
Japanese Beetles Are Found In Seven Cities Trapping to discover the presence of Japanese bettle, being conducted in 17 Hoosier -cities this summer by the Department of Conservation -in cooperation with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has resulted in the finding of beetles in seven cities, Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner of the Department of Conservation, said today. . Beetles have been found at Indianapolis, Logansport, Bluffton, Muncie, ‘- Richmond, Fort Wayne and Warsaw with = the largest number trapped at Indianapolis, Logansport and Fort Wayne. The survey will be discontinued this month when the beetles end their flying stage.
The largest bankruptey claim ever filed in South Bend federal court is one of $2,500,000 against Vincent Bendix, president of the Bendix Aviation Corporation. Bendix ten years ago had personally guaranteed a real estate bond issue in behalf of a bank company of Chicago.
This Week’s Best Stories and Witticisms
“How are you getting along at home since your wife went away?” “Fine, I’ve reached the highest point of efficiency; I now can put on my socks from either end:” ‘““Maria carries her age well, doesn’t she?” : “She ought to. She has had long years of experience.” Harold: ‘“Yeah, my banker has me on my feet again.” ' George: ‘“Good enough. Did he renew your loan?” Harold: ‘‘No. he foreclosed on my car.” . | i . | Identified Impatient Customer (in five-and-ten): ‘“Who attends to the nuts?”’ Girl: “I’'ll take care of you in just a minute sir.” " “My new sweetie has to watch his p’s and ¢’s.” ‘*“Why?”’ ‘““He’s an inspector at the alphabet soup factory.”
The woman who drives from ’the back seat of a car is no worse ‘tha‘n the man who who cooks from the dining room table. It was during Prohibition. The railroad station was packed with a gay going-away throng. Over at one side of the waiting room, stood a quiet little man, fidgeting about and attempting to hide himself from the crowd. A Federal Agent noticed that the stranger had something in his coat pocket from which drops were falling in slow trickles. The Fed, with a gleam ‘in his eye, collared the gent, put a finger out under the drops, caught one and tasted it. Then he spoke to the man. “Seotch?” ‘““Nope.” replied the stranger, ‘*Airdale pup!” - :
. Lady—Do you know what happens to young men who tell lies? Willie—Yes, they attract thd attention of bigshots and soon make lots of money. - Lady—Goodness, are you a eynic? : . Willie—No, I'm a caddy.
The gaudy blonde ankled intc. the glove shop and tossed a pair of newly purchased gloves on the counter. The size was wrong, the color was wrong, and besides, she didn’t like the style. The salesgirl assisted by the manager, pawed over the stock, but nothing seemed to suit the blonde. Tinal1y the manager sighed, “Well, ‘Miss, I guess we'll just have to give you a refund.” = - ~ "Oh, no you don’t!” replied the Tootsie, in a firm, grim voice. “I ‘want my money back.”
o WHAT YOU FOLKS TALKED ABOUT YEARS AGO e
10 Years Ago - Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bender and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Zimmerman were on their way home from Europe after_an absence of twosmonths. ’ ' Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Long and their guests Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Long, of Poteau, Okla., visited in South Bena. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Slabaugh and Mr. and Mrs. James Latta attended the Latta reunion at Sturgis, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Spurgeon attended the state meeting of the American Legion and Auxiliary at Richmond, Ind. E. Finley Kitson left for the south after having spent several months here. ! Dr. and Mrs. C. G. Keehn, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Shearer, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Kimmell, Mrs. Charles Andrews and Mrs. Otis Nushaum visited at the Kim-ro-ka farm near Lake Forest, 111.
20 Years Ago The Kahn Brothers Company of Chicago was planning to start a shirt factory in Ligonier providing they could seecure a suitable building and could be assured that they could get at least 30 women to operate the thirty new machines they planned to install. J. C. Kimmell announced the home coming reception for soldiers and sailors at Cromwell. George Bryan and Walter Robinson had come home from Detroit with Forqd cars. Col. I. D. Straus was appointed a member of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Committee for Indiana. He would serve with Mrs. Charles Carlise of South Bend and George Ade of Brook, Ind
Open Bids Tuesday For Road And Bridge Construction Work Road and bridge construction bids for work on state highways in Porter, Miami, Tippecanoe, Gibson, Pike, Morgan, Knox Wells Clinton, Greene, Lake and Sullivan counties will be received Tuesday by the State Highway Commission, T. A. Discus chairman, said today. The eleven projects have a total estimated cost of $1,200,000 which will be financed in part with federal funds allocated to Indiana for state highway improvement. Construction work will be started as soon as contracts can be awarded and will be pushed during the late summer and fall months with several of the projects scheduled for completion during the present year. Others have completion dates extending into 1940. Work on which bids are being taken includes the building of ten bridges and a grade separation and the paving or surfacing of about twelve miles of road. With the exception of a bridge on Road
Our NEeicHBORsS' VliEws
’ The United States has owned Alaska for 72 years. L There is ground for wondering how proud we ought to be of our record' in this magnificent territory. About $7,200,000 was paid for the vast area when Seward bought it from Russia. Many times that amount has come out in gold, other metals, furs fish, and lumber. '
Yet during that whole 72 years the United States has succeeded in achieving as a population figure in Alaska a static 60,000. There is something wrong there. For many years it has been known that vast stretches of Alaska were no polar tundra, but regions -potentially rich in agricultural soil, forests, and mineral wealth. 4 : '
Perhaps because Alaska came to the United States at a time when it was still opening up the west, when there were still vast stretches of the central continent to explore Alaska has been neglected. Now many people keep repeating, ‘‘the frontier is closed.” Yet Alaska is even today, for practical purposes, untouched.
‘A new survey by the Interior Department ig the latest of many to call attention to these neglected resources.
Land, climate, and resources of Alaska, says this report, are in every respect equal to Schandinavia, where 13,000,000 people have developed one af the finest civilizations known to the world. The report suggests large-scale settlement by refugees (since Americans have for 72 years refused to go there in any numbers). “This would build a new market for American goods, a new source for American energy and strength a new bulwak of defense, a new national inspiration for. achievement. And all without injuring the people of any other country.
A big crowd was anticipated in Ligonier Sept. 3 to see the big airplane express from Chicago deliver goods to the Jacob Sheets store. ; ; . S. L. Fryer of Wolf Lake purchased the Karl Knapp property on S. Wayne St.,, of E. P. Lombard.
- 30 Years Ago - Mayor and Mrs. James Kinnison, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Kinnison of Cape Giradeau, Mo., had spent Sunday in Goshen, guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Kinnison. ‘Miss Hortense Christner, Miss Kate Newton and Mrs. Melissa Denny were attending the Bible Conference .at Winona. Mrs. Frank Scott entertained at Natti Crow beach, Wawasee, for: Mrs. Harry Stone, Miss Kate King, Miss Glora Graham, Miss Harriet Ochs, Miss Hazel McDonald, Miss Madge Scott, Mrs. Hugh Hutchison, Mrs. Fred Clapp and Mrs. A J. Inksg. .«
Louis Levy was home from the east where he had gone on business for the J. L. Levy and Son store. Mrs. William Milner was home from a trip to Niagara Falls with Mr. Milner who stopped in Cleveland to visit friends. Mrs. Frank Zimmerman and son Francis were home from Toledo where they visited her father I. E. Knisely. - A. Woodruff and sons Ray and Dale were in Avilla to attend the funeral .of a relative. : 40 Years Ago ' This was an interesting 8 page issue crowded with live news and a number of display ads, chief ones being Straus Bros., Co., Weir and Cowley, King and Weaver and A. D. Newton. .
31 over the Wabash River at Peru and a bridge on Road 41 over the White River overflow at Hazelton the structures are g part of road improvement projects. Road projects include grading and paving a section of Road 52 between Lebanon and Lafayette; paving g relocated section of Road 54 just west of Bloomfield; paving two mileg on Chicago Ave. in East Chicago and Hammond as a by-pass route, and surfacing Road 154 from the Wabash River to Turman Creek in Sullivan county. To Meet With Noble County Group Al Stewart, head of Music Education at Purdue University will meet with the Noble County Home Division Ladies Chorus, Tuesday night September 5 at 8:30 p. m. D. S. T. Methodist church, Albion announces Mrs. Hazel Roscoe, Albion, president of the organization. , ; The chorus will reorganize at the meet for the coming year. All Home Division members interested are requested to attend.
Whether this particular plan ,is possible it is hard to say. But it is certain that the United States ought to turn eyes to Alaska with a greater seriousness than it has yet done. The situation of the world, and our own internal situation, is no longer such that we can afford to pass up any bets.— Goshen News-Democrat.
A Blistering Editorial : Every once in a while somebody entérs the editor’s office in a hurry. ‘“Conditions here are a scandal. Your paper ought to expose this man. I will give you all the facts. You ought to come out with a blistering editorial against him. It is your ecivic duty.” i j
We've heard several such crusaders and respect ther sincerity. = Privately we've agreed with some of them, but we don’t feel we can jeopardize the paper’s prestige to please every caller with a 'grievance. . These fellows who want to expose somebody usually back down when it is suggested they write the paper a letter exposing the scandal to be published over their signatures, “Why,” one flustered individual replied, °‘‘you cannot expect me to do that. It would get me into trouble. It would hurt me in my business.” After that there isn’t much more to say, and such visitors soon depart. : We do not mean to tolerate incompetence and scandal as an editorial policy, neither do we intend to be scandal mongers for whoever calls with a grievance which he will not publicly substantiate. We assume our citizens are honorable until proven otherwise and wish to speak well of them editorially until there is just cause for another stand. ~—Livingston County Press( Howell, Michigan). i g - In China, we are told, a mandoesn’t know his wife until after he has married her. We'll bet
Mrs. J. H. Green entertained a number of lady friends “in grand style” at her beautiful home on South Main street. Terry King an employee of the Northern Construction company, was spending a vacation at his home on S. Martin street. Miss Jennie Jackson professional nurse, was at her home west of the city prepared to answer calls, James Ferguson had the contract for the delivery of stome for the new abutments for the Cavin street bridge. Mrs. Simon Straus went to Fort Wayne to visit her parents and to accompany her little son Master Stanley Straus, home. Mrs. A. W. Lyon and Master Graham Lyon hagq returned thatweek from an extended visit at Rockford, Me., Mrs. Lyon’s old home.
50 Years Ago Announcement regarding the opening of the new school term was made by the members of the school board John Weir,, J. L. Dunning, and F. E. Hepler. New teachers employed were Miss Cora Mather, principal of High School and Helen Cunningham, principal of A and B grammar school. Mrs. Valentine opened a kindergarten school at her home on S. Martin street. _ Mr. Thomas Prickett and daughter Thirza were in Milwaukee, Wis., to attend the G. A. R. encampment. Dr. Isaac M. Wise delivered his “celebrated’” lecture, ‘‘The Footprints of Judaism in the World’s History” at. the dedication of the new Hebrew Temple. : Stock shows were beginning to be popular as a colt show was booked for Nappanee that week.
Traffic Volume Is 6% Over Last Year An increase of 6.13 percent in traffic moving over the Indiana state highway system during the first six months of 1939 ag compared with the same period in 1938, was reported today by T. A. Dicus, chairman of the State Highway Commissoan. The increaseqd traffic volume wae determined by the six automatic counters installed by the Commission to record the number of vehicles using the state highway system in diffent parts of Indiana. The gain registered during the first half of 1939 is a reversal of 1938 when the traffie volume on state highways was 1.97 percent under 1937. : : COOKING AROUND AMERICA? The- First of a Series of Seven Unusual Color Pages—lllustrated by James Montgomery Flagg. One of the Many interesting Features in The American Weekly, the Magazine Distributed with the SUNDAY CHICAGO HERALD AND EXAMINER.
they picked up that quaint custom from America.—Tuscola County Advertiser. :
~ An Onion Queen , There has been a rising tide of queens in the United States this 'season. We have had cherry, tomato, gladiolus and many other kinds of queens in this section of the country, and queens have been numerous everywhere. It has been a pleasure to see them, for youth and beauty as expressed in American girls are worthy of admiration. We believe we have the loveliest girls in the world, and we are glad to pose as their subjects at every opportunity.
But how about an onion queen? Isn’t that carrying the queen business too far, or as the saying is, getting off on the wrong scent? They have been having a big onion fete at Florida, N. Y., and an onion queen and her court have been the center of attraction. The Polish population of that vicinity raises most of the lonions, and girls of Polish descent made up the court. From the artistic photograph taken of them, they must have been ali right in regard to looks. Well, We must conclude that youth is lovely in any race and in any situation,
This brings some thoughts about the onion. It is a plant which arouses decided opinions. Those who like the onion like it very much, and those who don't like it, abhor it. As to those who detest the onion, some of us feel very sorry for them, for they deprive themselves of a great delight to the taste, if not to the smell. : Even if it is an outeast in polite society, the onion belongs to an aristocratic family, the lily. And the blub of an onion i 8 just as nice looking as the lily bulb. It even has a more healthy appearance, Ly - But at. that—an onion queen seems a trifle far-fetched.—Elk-hart Truth, ke e s A N