Ligonier Banner., Volume 73, Number 36, Ligonier, Noble County, 7 September 1939 — Page 7

Columns of Smoke by RHM

Lament S I softly breathed against the glass of Time, and on it traced my name, But ere I knew, the mist I blew was disappearing. I am Fame. ~ RHM

o O o Simmerings Smell of the freshly furrowed earth Growling roll of the thunderhorn Hazy dreams of the autumn’s birth - Glaring yellow of summer corn Gentle eyes of a chestnut mare Thirsty sound of the earth in rain Lightning flash of the frightened hare Golden days of a golden chain I stare through multicolored neon light, Out to the cool and starry country night, And there I drink the quiet once * again And hold communion with godfearing men. Ly i - RHM : 0o 0 o : Arrowhead I found an arrowhead that lay Upon a piece of' ochre clay, And all around, upon the ground, The rain had beat the earth away. This is a viperstone, I thought, A treacherous flint the clouds have caught, That in the mud, stained red with blood, - Must face the fate that it has bought. But underneath the arrowhead I saw that I had been misled: The faithful heir protected there The earth from which itself was bred. l : RHM

o 0 o . I Am Al Torn My glass, half filled with amber liquid, stands All motionless before me. Burning sands Vary contour with a sudden notion Of the winds. This glass-encas-ed ocean : Is my intelléct, the sands my passions: Your warm breath the instrument that fashions Grotesque dune or great and thundering breaker. Hell-wind from the bowels of Beauty, maker Of the water-sand solution, leave me {Yesterday’s sweet toys, Ah! Do not cleave me From placidity and contemplation; ; Cease, I beg, this dreamy usurpation. Vanish! Nay, yet stay— I now I’'m all torn : Between the starry night : and windy morn. ! RHM o O o When Light My Cheek Your Lips Did Touch When light my cheek your lips did touch, With laughing eyes you went your way

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And never knew that in my heart Were things my lips could never say. ' RHM 0 O 0 Song (For Anita, Singing) ; Could Love be set to musie, The stars would bend to listen; The plunging planets and the moon Would hang astounded at the tune, And court the globe, and glisten. . But this our love’s light musie Will bend the stars down never; Around the world the moon will swing, | Theplanets move, for all we sing, As they have moved forever. | Charles W. Norris l

~ Proof of the ageless quality of Beauty is demonstrated in the poems of the Shi King, or Book of Odes, compiled by Confucius from .the age-old collections. These simple songs of the people are as lovely and bright today as they were on that distant day when some happy bard first sang them.

D D 0 Ancient Persian poetry lives today probably more by virtue of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam than any other Persian work. When Edward Fitz Gerald first translated this work it fell from the press practically stillborn; not until Dante Gabriel Rossetti chanced upon a copy in a bookstall, marked down to a penny, and recognized its merit did it come into its own. Five editions were subsequently brought out by Fitzgerald, and innumerable printings have since been made.

U. B. Conference e Is In Session Many From Here Attending Sessions This Week At Winona Lake The ninety-fifth session of the St. Joseph conference of the United Brethren in *Christ is in progress this week at Winona Lake, work commencing Tuesday morning with the meeting of the different committees. Dr. H. H. Fout is the Bishop in charge of the conference with Dr. B. H. Cain the superintenednt of this district. Rev. M. S. Livengood of Warsaw ig the pastor host. There are fifteen committees to take care of the various departments, that of Temperance with S. P. O’Reilley of Ligonier as the head and R. E. Vance, formerly of Ligonier, in charge of Foreign Missions being of special interest to this community. Rev. O’Reilley will give in his report on Temperance Saturday morning. The appointments will be made publice Sunday forenoon. Many from the United Brethren congregation of Ligonier will be in attendance during the week to hear the different interesting addersses by outstanding ministers.

Mrs. Daisy Herbert of Barnegat, N. J., has operated milk and ice delivery wagons since her husband’s health faileq 20 years ago.

THE LIGONIER BANNER, LIGONIER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1939

Employment Increases ~ During Past Month Most of the Indiana manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries studied by the Indiana State Employment Service in cooperation with the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics expanded employment and pay rolls from midJuly to mid-August, according to an announcement today by J. Bradley Haight, acting director of the State agency. His statement ‘was based on a tabulation of early reports made available by 2,198 establishments employing 169,199 wage earners in August. This was an increase of 3.9 per cent from the July employment in identical firms. Pay rolls increased 6.9

per cent during the month. A f’p/ronounced upward surge was recorded for manufacturing industries when reports from 876 | plants with 127,035 wage earners in August showed advances of 5.0 per cent in employment and 8. 6 per cent in pay rolls. Although an upturn is normally expected in August, seasoal indexes for Indiana manufacturing employment show an increase of 0.5 per cent is the seasonal average. Bureau of Labor Statistics indexes for the United States show an average increase of 1.9 per cent from July to August for the 20-year period from 1919 to 1938, inclusive.

Although these figureg are of a preliminry nature, the increases were so wide-spread and of such magnitude as to leave little doubt but that the final tabulation also will show a general expansion of manufacturing activity from July to Augusg. All of the 14 major groups of manufacturing indus‘tries studied expanded pay rolls and all but the textiles and their products group increased employment from July to August. The textiles and their products group showed little change during the month, decreasing employment 0.8 per cent but increasing pay rolls 0.4 per cent. ' , Employment increases from July to August in manufacturing ranged from 0.5 per cent in the chemicals and petroleum refining group to 22.3 per cent in the food and kindred products group. Nine of the 14 groups studied expanded employment one per cent or more, . Pay roll increases for the manufactuirng groups ranged from 0.4 per cent to 24.0 per cent for July to August. Two groups,—textiles and their products and chemicals and petroleum refining,—each increased pay rolls 0.4 per cent. All of the other 12 groups of manufacturing industries exexpanded pay rolls more than 2 per cent. Pay roll gains of more than 10 per cent from July to August were shown for machinery, transportation equipment, railroad repair shops, nonferrous metals and products, lumber and allied products, and leather and its © manufacturers groups. The greatest single factor in the current employment expansion aside from the general cyclical trend, was the seasonal increase in the canning industry. The fact that July pay rolls were curtailed by the Fourth of July holiday wag a factor in the gains recorded from July to August. The preliminary August index for all manufacturing employment in Indiana reached the highest level since December, 1937 and was 17.9 per cent ahead of August, 1938. The preliminary pay roll index for all manufacturing was above that for any month since November, 1937 and 30.4 per cent higher than a year ago.

Employment in plants manufacturing durable goods expanded 3.9 per cent from July to August and 26.1 per cent from August, 1938 to August, 1939. Pay rolls for this group showed gains of 11.0 per cent in the monthly comparison and 45.1 per cent for the year period. In the non-durable goods group of manufacturing industries, employment expanded 7.1 per cent from July to August and 5.5 per cent during the 12 months ending in August. Pay rolls gained 3.3 per cent during the month and 5.7 per cent for the year. Reports for 1,322 non-manu-facturing establishments employing 42,164 wage earners in August showed increases of 0.8 per cent in employment and 1.7 per cent in pay rolls in comparison with July. Retail trade, wholesale trade, o,and laundries experienced contra-seasonal losses while quarrying and non-metallic mining showed contra-seasonal gains in employment and pay rolls. The other non-manufacturing industries adhered closely to the normal seasonal pattern.

Schlemmer Reunion At Tourist Park The Schlemmer family reunion was held at the Tourist park Sunday with 126 members present. This family has been coming to this grove for the past eighteen years and were much delighted at the improvement made :in the beauty and up keep of the park. There were so many present at the Sunday reunion that after their dinner was served they engaged in a ball game the winners treating the losers to soft drinks. . A tramp is at the back door and I'm going to give him one of my ples. I feel sorry for him. Nome

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JOCALS

Mrs. Jane Auerbach and brother Nathan Wertheimer spent the week end, in Chicago with friends. Mrs. Mary Frick attended the Frick reunion Sunday at the Jesse Boss home near Albion. Mr. and Mrs. William Milner were guests of Mrs. Ben Hoopcngarner at Syracuse Sunday. Miss Kathleen Sutton of Topeka and Adefan Wolfe of Ligonier spent the week end and Lamor Day in Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Wooster of Pontiae, Mich., were over week end guests of Mrs. Wooster’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hite. Mr. and Mrs. Jameg Hull of Columbia City were guests Thurs day evening of Mr. and Mrs. William Nelson. :

Guy Calbeck is slowly improving from an operation performed several weeks ago. He has been able to go on short- drives several times.

Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Harrell returned home from a vacation spent in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Black Hills.

Mrs. Rosabelle Brode Murray of Indianapolis was a week end and Labor Day guest of her mother, Mrs. Ben Glaser and family. Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Todd are moving to the Dunning flat over the Mathews five and ten cent store. 4

; Dick, Jack and Jim Vanderford were guests of their father and mother Mr. and Mrs. Chester Vanderford at their cottage at Ogden Island, Wawasee. " Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lake will spend Sunday - (Sept. 10) in Detroit guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Cresswell.

Mrs. Volney King joined her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. MecConnell of Columbia City, on a trip to Argos, Ind., to attend the Swihart reunion.

Mrs. Jennie Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. J. Warren Moore, and Mr. and Mrs, Jake Kline of Elkhart attended the Love family reunion at Sidney, Ohio, Sunday.

. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Allen, Miss Margaret Lake of Indianapolis and Howard Wolf of Urbana, Ind., were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lake.

‘Mr. and Mrs. Olin Stansbury and children of Chicago spent the week end and Monday with Mr. Stansbury’s mother, Mrs. Lena Stansbury. Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Nelson and Mr, and Mrs. Chestnut and daughter of Chicago spent Sunday and the week end-with Mr. Nelson’s mother, Mrs. Osie Nelson. Mr. @nd Mrs. J. O. Slutz entertained at dinner at Sargents, ‘Wawasee, Sunday for Frank Bothwell and Miss Jessie Decker, Ligonier, and for Mr. and Mrs. Carl Decker of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ferguson entertained their six couple clup Friday evening. Mr. ang Mrs. Milton Loeser were substitute guests. At bridge, prizes for high score went to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Loy.

Mrs. Josephine Shobe entertained eight ladies Thursday evening to a dinner at Zentmeyers. At bridge played in the Shobe home, prizes were awarded Mrs. Gertrude Ferguson, Mrs. Helen Vanderford and Mrs. Bertha Kelley. :

Mr. and Mrs. Ruhl Stair and family of Elkhart spent Thursday with Mrs. Stair’s sister, Mrs. Henry Golder and Mr, Golden. Their daughter who has been ill for two years is able to return to school this semester. : Mrs. A. F. Biggs entertained the Friday bridge club to a one o’clock luncheon at Zentmeyers. There were three substitute guests: Mrs. Odell Oldfather, Mrs. Frank Zimmerman and Mrs. A. B, Weaver. Mrs. Oldfather received the guest prize and Mrs. Wilbur Draper and Mrs. W. B. Inks the club ' prizes.

~ Mrs, Frances Hoopengarner Who has been a guest of her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs, 'Wmlam Milner and her bro-ther-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs, Milton Loeser of Ligonier and her husband’s mother, Mrs. Ben 'Hoopengarner of Syracuse for some weeks, returned Monday to N Tome 1n Washinsion, .

Mr. and Mrs. Ray Mathews were in Toledo Sunday. Dr. and Mrs. T. N. Siersdorfer have returned from a weeks’ visit in Indianapolis. Mrs. John Seagley and daughter are spending several weeks in Chicago. Mrs. Vida Sloan and sons of Kendallville were guests Monday of Mrs. G. S. Lyon. Charles Graham of Elkhart was in Ligonier over the week end guest of friends, Mrs. Frank Zimmerman will entertain the Friday bridge club this week.

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wigton spent Monday at the Wellington cottage, Wawasee.

‘Mrs. Mornie Miller spent the week end and Labor Day at her cottage in Rome City. Miss Ruth Bolly of Toledo spent a few days during the past week with Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Simmons.

Ed Culver and Mr. and Mrs. Eli Graff of South Bend were guests Sunday in the Mel Culver home,

Mr. and Mrs. Mel Culver and daughter Betty Lou and Mrs. Carrie Wade drove into Michigan Monday.

. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Marker entertained at their Diamond Lake cottage Labor Day Mr. and Mrs. 0. C. Deardorf.

Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Woolley of Rolling Prairie, Ind., spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gates and son Sammy. William Leaders has accepted a position in the Ridenour drug store and began work Monday morning. Sunday guests of Mrs. Albert Bordner were her daughters, Mrs. Burley Miller of Detroit and Mrs. Horace Hartman of South Bend and their families. Mrs. Albert Bordner and sister Miss Knight entertained over the week end their brother Sherman Knight and Mrs. Knight of Indianapolis. Roy Jorg went to Chicago Friday. [He was accompanied' by Mrs. Jorg’s mother, Mrs. Lydia Rupp, who returned to her home there.

Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Todd had as Labor Day guests Mrs. Todd’s brother and wife, Dr. and Mrs. H. K. Mcllroy and Miss Elizabeth Miller of Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Duke and children, Mrs. Frank Wood and Mrs. Jennie Wolcott spent Labor Day at the Wood cottage, Natticrow Beach, X Mr. and Mrs. Z. W. Smith of Chicago spent the week end and Labor Day with her parents the Tuckers and her sister Mrs. Guy }Calbeck. :

.Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Vondersmith and Mrs. Mae Boats spent the week end and Monday with Mr. and Mrs. ‘William Heffley at their cottage at Gull Lake, Mich.

Mr. and Mrs. Clair Weir were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Weir, returning to their home in Laporte Mbnday, accompanied by their daughter. Marylin who had been visiting her grandparents. - Mrs. Mary Jackson left Wednesday for a two weeks’ vacation in Pittsburgh and New England states. She will make the Thousand Island trip on the St. Laurence River. '

Schuyler Sackett is down town at his place of business and mingling with his friends after a week’s illness the result of a fall from a ladder at his home in which he suffered a head injury and other bruises.

Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Weaver entertained at the Weaver ‘cottage, Ogden Island, fourteen - guests Sunday evening to a pienic supper in compliment to their houseguests from Cleveland, 0., Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Sass and Mr. and Mrs, F. F. Cole. St Mr. and Mrs. Leo Kerner and Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Sheets entertained at their summer home "south‘ of Ligonier Saturday evening for Mr.and Mrs. Graham Lyon, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Loy, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Simmons, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Janes, Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Wertheimer, Mr, and Mrs. Leon Wertheimer, Mr. and Mrs, Robert Sinclair, Mrs. Floyd, Leming and John Kenney. Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. Kerner in Bast Orange, New Jersey, = S A R

~ Mrs. Eliza Curry, Mrs. Ethel Cook and daughter Oretta, Mr. and Mrs. Cal Curry, Mr. and Mgs. Charles Adams and daughters Beverly Ann and Carolyn Sue of Warsaw were Sunday guests of J. W. Curry.

~ Civil Service Examinations ~ The United States Civil Ser?vice Commission has anpounced open competitive examinations for the positions lisited below. Applications must be on file in the Commission’s office at Washington, D. C., not later than the closing date specified in each case. The first date given lis for receipt of applications from States east of Colorado; the second date, for applications from Colorado and States westward. Associate Agronomist (forage crops), $3,200 a year, Assistant Agronomist (forage crops), $2,600 a year, Assistant Agronomist (cotton), $2,600 a year, Assistant Pathologist (corn investigations), $2,600 a year, Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture. For the associate agronomist position applicants must not have passed their forty-fifth, and for the other positions they must not have passed their fortieth, birthday. Closing dates are October 2 and October 5, 1939.

Biochemist (nut = investigations), $3,800 a year, Pomologist (fruit breeding), $3,800 a year, Pomologist (physiology), $3,800 a year, Bureau of Plant Industry. Applicants must not have passed their fifty-third birthday. Closing dates are October 2 and October 5, 1939.

Senior Plant Anatomist, $4,600 a year, Senior Physicist, $4,600 a year, Assistant Physiologist (plant hormones investigations), $2,600 a year, Bureau of Plant Industry. For the assistant physiologist position applicants must not have passed their fortieth birthday, and for the other positions they must not have passed their fifty-third birthday. Closing dates are October 2 and October 5, 1939. Senior Aquatie Physiologist, $4,600 a year, and .- Associate Aquatic Physiologist, $3,200 a year, Fisheries Service, Department of the Interior. Applicants for the senior grade must not have pasesd their fifty-third birthday, and for the associate grade they must not have passed their forty-fifth birthday. Closing dates are October 2 and October 5, 1939.

Senior Oyster Culturist, $2,000 a year, Fisheries Service. Applicants must not have passed their forty-eighth birthday. Closing dates are October 2 and October 5, 1939.

Student Aid, $1,440 a year, Department of Agriculture. Optional subjects are: Agricultural economics, agronomy, biology, engineering, forestry, horticulture, range management #nd soils. Applicants must not have passed their thirtieth birthday. Closing dates are September 25 and September 28, 1939,

Junior Addressograph Operator, $1,440 a year, Under Addressograph Operator, $1,260 g 2 year, Graphotype Operator, $l,260 a year. Applicants must have had experience in operating these machines. They must have reached their eighteenth but must not have passed their fifty-third birthday. Closing dates are September 25 and September 28, 1939. .

Full information may be obtained from the Ligonier postoffice.

Price Lists Given ; Out at State Fair

Mimeographed price lists for hardwood and evergreen trees produced in the state forest nureries and available for planting next spring, are being' distributed at the forestry building, which is a -partf of the Department of Conservation’s exhibit at the Indiana State Fair. More than thirteen species are included in the list of trees available to Hoosier landowners for reforestation and windbreak plantings. More than. three million state forest nursery trees were used in reforestation plantings on private land in Indiama during 1939. Because of the demand, individuals desiring trees for one or both of these purposes, are urged to file their orders as soon as possible with the Division of Forestry.

Conservation Layout - Attracts State Fair Labor Day Visitors Labor Day visitors to Indiana’s 87th State Fair expressed their approval of the Department of Conservation’s exhibit. Containing a number of new features, the Fish and Game building and the other: Conservation headquarters already have been visited by thousands of interested conservationists ana sportmen. ‘ New features of the Department’s exhibit this year include: a drilling outfit similar to those operating in Indiana oil and gas fields, sections of big trees which grew in Indiana; woodchopping contest, and a display”of beaver, ducks, geese and muskrats,” __Recelying its share of attention this year is a dam between the two ponds in the watérfowl dis--4 _“j %«gyég(“ \) %}:{ L $ %,

Modern Trends in the U. B. CHURCH Rev. S, P. O’Reilley

The Church of The United Brethren in Christ, had its beginning in Eastern Pennsylvania among the German speaking people. It grew ocut of the experience of two men, one a minister and Missionary of the German Reform Church, Rev. William Philippi Otterbein, the other Martin Boeh-m.‘ a minister to the Mennonites, theses two men laboring among the scattered communities of Eastern Pennsylvania, in the latter part- of the seventeenth century. Each realized a

need of counsel. As these two men’s path often crossed, they soon discovered that many of their problems were the same, and that the great need in each one of their communions was an experience that would change the live of those to whom they ministered. And to that end and for that purpose these two men began holding conferences. They were joined by others until it grew to the place, where they adopted a set of rules and published a discipline, and called the new organization by the name of *“The United Brethren. in Christ.”

| For the first half century they confined their ministery to the German speaking people only, and primarily to the rural fields. Therefore the growth of this ichurch has been slow but sublstantial until today its members number more than half million in the United States, with five mission fields. The United Brethren Church, has always taught and believed in an experimental religion. A religion that not only united the individual with a body of believers, but religion that changed the heart and life of the individual. Some one has said, “that they believe that religion ought to be as intelligent as science.” The United Brethren chureh has always tsyd/ght that religion ought to be “"more intelligent than science, for while science in many cases are dealing with theory, religion is dealing with a reality.

The United Brethren church of today believes and teaches that the supreme business of the church is to lead men into the true way of life. And that anything short of that is not wholly fulfilling its duty to God and the world about it. It therefore stands for those things, though some are termed today as old fashion, that contribute to the development of the spiritual life and character of men. It believes that the Church is God’s instrument by which and through which the Divine Graces are transmitted to His children, and that its mission is too sacred, and its time too valuable to spend on those things that are not essential. ‘That belief also places the church against those things in life that have a tendency to rob life of its best or cheapen it. In the present day it is finding that the great religious leaders are joining hands with it in its program.

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Music for the national reunion of United Confederate Veterans was furnished by the famous United States Marine Band, now on a nation-wide tour. The reunion, held at Trinidad, Colo., was attended by only a small number of surviving veterans whose ages ranged rom 90 to 97.

Left-handed persons are at a disadvantage in almost every calling, with the single exception of professional baseball, according to a pschologist. He advises that children who show a tendency to left-handedness be trained early to use their right hands.

An unusual robbery is reported from Harrison, N. J.,, near where four men held up J. F. Thomas and G. L. Campwell with a truck load of rayon and a trailer. They locked Thomag and Campbell in the traller, transferred the rayon to another truck and fled. -

Mayor Fred J. Huester, of Scranton, Pa., set aside August 24 as “Gloria Jean Day,” in honor of the homecoming of the city’s 11-year-old soprano . prodigy, Gloria Jean, for the world premiere of her first m'otioxkpicture at a Scranton theater. e

The London Daily Telegraph has joined the ranks of English newspapers which print news on the front page. Until recent years front pages of British papers were devoted entirely to advertisements. The London Times and the Daily Mail still adhere to this ancient practice. ,

COOKING AROUND AMERICA. The Second of a Series of Seven Unusual Color Pages—lllustrated lby James Montgomery Flagg. One of the Many Interesting Features in The American Weekly, the Magazine Distributed with the SUNDAY CHICAGO HERALDAMBRICAN, . . . 0

Automatic Counters ' To Record Traffic - On State Highways . A— Plans for the instaliation of twelve additional automatic traffic counters on the state highway system to compile data on the number of vehicles using various roads, were announced today by ‘T. A. Discus, chairman of the State Highway Commission. Six automatic counters, recording the number of passing vehicles at designated points on the state highway system, are already in operation and have proven a valuable source of informaton to the Commssion and its engineering and research staffs. The counters operate elec trically, recording each passing vehicle through the interuption of a bean of light which extends across the road. ; Bids were taken on the twelve new automatic counters last week and it is anticipated that they will be installed within a short time. In addition to the counters which will be installed at more or less permanent locations, bids were taken on two portable counters ‘which will be used in taking short itime traffic counts on various state highways. These portable )counters are operated by wheels of vehicles passing over a tape which extends across the highway surface.

Data collected through the operation of the automatic counters is used by the Commission in working out future road improvement programs and is especially valuable in the developement of information on traffic flow by the Bureau of Highway Planning, recently re-established through federal funds.

FATAL FARM AOCIDENTS Although farming is hardly considered a hazardous occupation, so far as physical danger is concerned, deaths from accidents on farms unmbered about 4,300 in 1938, according to a recént publication of the National Saféty Council. This is a larger number than was killed in any other single industry, but it is relatively low considering the large percentage of the population engaged in agriculture. The need for safety education on the farm is evident, never theless, and the results of an intensive farm safety program in Kansas last year were most gratifying. 3 Farm fatalities in Kansas dropped from 83 to 1937 to only 57 in 1938, and there is no doubt that this excellent showing was due largely to the efforts of the state safety council gnd associated agencies. Records kept during the last eight years by the Kansas state board of health show that 29 per cent of all fatal farm accidents in the state were suffered in the operation of machinery, while 20 per cent were injuries by aningls and 10 per cent by excessive heat. Accident on the farm, as elsewhere, could be largely, eliminated by taking reasonable precautiong at all times.

Details of Fresh Egg Law Made Clear Indiana’s voluntary *“Fresh Egg”’ law, enacted by the last gession of the General Assembly as an attempt to provide a way for consumers to obtain fresh eggs, was explained recently as to how wholesalers and retailers may co-operate. When the law becomes effective ~August 14 or thereafter, grocerymen and retailers may sell eggs one of two ways, explain members of the Indiana egg board, administering the law. If a retailer desires to sell eggs as “fresh eggs’’, he must first apply to the state egg board for a permit for each store and then the eggs he sells gs fresh eggs will be subject to an official inspeetion as a check to determine if the product qualifies for the minimum quality standards as set by the board. : i

No permit will be necessary for him to sell eggs ‘‘as eggs’, but he will not be permitted under the law to advertise his product, “an fresh eggs or sell under %rds of similar import such 28 ‘mew laid eggs’, ‘strictly fresh egss’, ‘hennery eggs’, 'countl‘t‘% egss’, ‘quaranteed eggs’, or any other term implying freshness.” His eggs must be sold “as eggs” with mo reference to quality and gize, ' %

Wholesalers dealing in “Fresh Eggs” are required to follow & procedure similar to that of the retailer. It will be necessary to ebtain a permit which req’u!rel the eggs to be subject to inspectfon. : e Members .of the board, which will have its headquarters here, are: Thad Macy, Spencer, president, representing the Indiana Farm Bureau; Sidney ?ufiho‘ Morgantown, vice-president, representing the tate mfiu—sociation of Indiana; B. R. Menefee, Purdue University m% rding secretary, representing the- - Experiment Station; Walter Greenough, Indianapolis, representing the Indiava Chain store Council; and Clarencs H. Schmidt, Crown it ing the Indiana Retall Grocers and Meat Dealers Assoclation. cations for permits to sell fresh

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