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A TIMELY WARNING When the war is over, something more permanent must replace the jobs and buying power of thoge who hgve earned high wages in the making of munitions and implements of destruction. . . So warned Gov. M. Clifford Townsend, talking to big business executives who see lush days ahead. . The only way to accomplish this, says the Governor, is to increase the buying power of workers and perhaps shorten hours. While others are thinking in terms of war and its possible profits to a neutral nation, the Governor takes time out to look ahead. He wants to return to the things that happened after the last war in which this country became involved. : He remembers that in those days people acted as though the conditions were to last forever and engaged in a glorious spree of spending at high prices and gambling on their profits. They had what the President called “fools gold,” which was something different than gold. So the Governor reminds business men that the only security that business can obtain is more customers and that there can be more customers is to place more money in the pocketbooks of workers. A prosperity based on destruction soon ends. It kills its own customers. The prosperity suggested by the Governor is permanent, for it deals with the greater comfort and happiness of human beings. The Governor gives a most timely warning, at a time when some people are likely to lose their heads. 888 8 . ; If a person is jealous only of his own rights and hperties he is a perfect stranger to the fundamental principle of liberty.—Tuscolaiz C%mtg (313\'Iichigan) Advertiser.

THE BUBBLE BURSTS For a year Republicans have assumed that they could fool all the citizens and would ride back to power in 1940. The Democrats had the jitters. Too many were fooled by this bubble. They were fooled by the metropolitian newspapers and the propaganda machine. They were misled by this artificial display. They failed to recognize the fact that the people who did the claiming and the talking were those who have always been Republican payrollers and that it did not come from farmers, from workers and independent business men. - When the President’s plan for unemployment was halted by a Congress coalition, the cry went out that Roosevelt was defeated. His enemies failed to call attention to the fact that workers and business men were beaten, not Roosevelt. Every setback of the New Deal was translated into a major defeat. ‘ It took but one blast from Fred F. Bays, Democratic State Chairman, to burst this bubble of hope. The Republicans are back again, where they were in 1982, a party without an issue and a party without a program. From every county in the state, there is again enthusiasm and confidence. It comes from the people who have shown that they might have been discouraged, but never defeated. They have again joined in the ranks of a militant, energetic party which stands for progress. They have demonstrated that they have never lost confidence in the Democratic party nor in its program. More dismaying to these scandalmongers is the disappearance of party quarrels and bickering. While Republican leaders have plenty of quarrrels in their own ranks, they find little or none of them in opposition party which has again responded to the call. The Republicans are back where they started from—a party bewildered and lost by the display of courage and of confidence of the people in the New Deal under Democratic leadership. ) : Confidence is a wonderful thing, for a party as for a human being. One little puff and the Republican bubble of victory disappeared. Y ‘ » '8& 8 : People, like news, fall into three categories: important dgvelopments, commonplace occurrences, or unfortunate incidents. Classify yourself.—Tuscola County (Michigan) Advertiser. : % 8 28

BEWARE OF POISON “Do not believe of necessity everything you read or hear. Check up on it first,” said the President., In this appeal to the American citizen to preserve a neutral mind duding the developements of the European war, the President warned against the new weapon of warfare, the thing which is called propaganda and which has become so much a part of our life. It was propaganda which brought about the 1937 depression, at a time when the recovery was well on its way. It was rumor that stopped people from buying and sent many men and women back to the relief rolls, For it was buying power that made business and supported business and when this stopped, people lost their jobs. It was the use of propaganda which, directed and dictated by the forces of special privilege, which hampered and made ineffective every move of the New Deal. It was this same use of propaganda which removed 650,000 of the unemployed from useful work and reduced their buying power to the point of danger where private ‘business, especially of the farmer and retailer is concerned. It was this same sort of scandal which has stired up ‘hatred among the people, increased racial and religious animosity, and extended some of the old world enmities into this land of freedom. . g &ythe appeal that people do not believe of necessity all t] read and hear, the President is asking that the American peoples protect themselves from the poison of a controlled press. He calls to attention that adulterated Niews can be more deadly than adulterated food—but that each -person must be his own protector, ; - The world long ago denounced poisoned wells and waters as inhuman in times of war. It has declared that oisofted beef can no longer be sold. It remains to destroy g;m,wkichiaewonmdmoua e = AN en. . “Among the politica _commentators in Washington I pose that Mark Sulliv an_has led all the rest in the . {";""’A“"::i"}xffb‘;“ "‘ h 2 **" 2

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heard them growl at each other during press conferences. But the chiticism of the commentator has been constant. And yet in his account of the last news conference at the White House it was Mr. Sullivan who paid as eloquent a tribute to our Chief Executive as Franklin Delano Roosevelt is likely to receive while he remains in office. Reporting on the President’s expression of his desire and hope to keep America out of conflict, Mr. Sullivan added a final passage: “ ‘He handled himself extremely well. The newspaper men felt so. They knew that he, like them, had been up all night and that he must instantly turn to grave duties. As they turned to leave—a matter-of-fact tribe who take much for granted—several did an unusual thing. Half over their shoulders, as they hurried to their work, they called out, ‘Thank you very much, Mr. President.’ Amd that, I think, might very well serve as a motto for Americans of all political persuasions at this moment: ‘Thank you very much Mr. President. ’ ”

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The neutrality act prevents the United States from selling actual ‘weapons and war materials to bel--1 ligerant nations. President Roosevelt foresaw that would happen if France and England went to war against Germany. No one purchases here. If this arms embargo were lifted, it would not only help American business, but aid France and England, which have the ships to reach our shores.. Our economic weight would be on the side of Britian and France, because Germany'’s fleet is small and would not venture into the Atlantic. Foreseeing all this, and believing that war in Europe was inevitable, the President asked Congress several months ago to repeal the arms embargo clause. Immediately his enemies, the Republicans, assisted by reactionary Democrats, saw an opportunity to ‘get”’ the President. They bitterly accused him of being a warmonger. Senator Borah of Idaho rose to his feet to denounce the President’s knowledge of European affairs, saying he had -confidential infor. mation that there would be no war. Henry Ford joined in, saying Hitler was bluffing and there would be no conflict. Out to ‘““get” Roosevelt, his enemes killed the repal amendment in the Senate Foreign Relation Committee. The President’s foes were joyous.

But war came and the President was forced to invoke the meutrality law. The arms embargo prevented warring nations from placing huge orders for weapons and supplies in this country, American business was cut off from a Ilucrative market. The shoe began to pinch. The ‘‘hate Roosevelt” crowd discovered that it had bitten off its nose to spite its face. Big business, hungry for these juiey war contracts, began to turn against Republican solons, The pressure became terrific. Immediately they wanted to rush back to Washington and lift the embargo and square themselves with business men., The IPresident is letting them stew ‘whlie he waits for public opinion to crystalize. We are not criticising these members of Congress for their about-face., We're just laughing.

The ends to which reactionary Roosevelt haterg go are at times shocking. After all that he has done to put the nation back on its feet, it is hard to conceive the bitterness that is in their hearts. Several large companies headed by big businéss men who hate the President for liberalism are distributing cards to their salesmen with instructions to use them when: calling on customers. The cards read: “If You Don't

Give Me On Order, I'll Vote For Him Again.” The idea is to get some laughs at Roosevelt’s expense and spread a little anti. Roosevelt propaganda at the same time. To some this may seem a funny stunt, but to most persons who have ‘respect for the Presidency of the United States, it isn’t humorous. It is a cheap trick, but it is a forewarning that the 1940 campaign, like that in 1936, will be based upon hate and derision.

It seems unnecessary to answer the declaration heard now and then that the New Deal has failed to bring us out of the recovery and that there are as many unemployed today as there were in 1932, Everybody has common knowledge that this is untrue, but as long as foes of the President make these silly charges, they must be answered. The Presideat said in his Labor Day statement—and he has never been accused of falsifying figures—that since March, 1933, jobs in private industry (exclusive of agriculture) have been provided for more than 7,250,000 men and women who were out of jobs prior to that time. And in this same period, he said, the amount of weekly pay envelopes, in manufacturing alone, increased by more than $90,000,000 or more than $4,500,000,000 a year. These seem to be substantial gaing for American workers in six years and ecan hardly be called failure.

What has happened in industry, in business, in agriculture and in commerce in these six years? In order to make a fair comparison, the first 35 weeks of 1939 are compared to the first 35 weeks of 1932, when Hoover was President Auto output 2,266,000 units against 1,030,000 units; electric current - 0utput—76,244,000,000 compared to 50,320,000,000; building permits in 215 cities—s724,ll9,ooo against $216,310,000; Sear, Roebuck & Co. sales $317,383,000 against $143,838,000 in 1932; net operating in. come of 561 Class 1 railroads—s2l4,272,ooo against $121,920,7 000; foreign trade, . merchandise exp0rt5—51,645,713,000 against $950,830,000; stock price index of 420 stocks—B4.3 points compared to 57.7 in same period in 1932; Wheat, No. 2, price average 93 cents under Roosevelt, 1939, and 63 cents in 1932; Corn, No. 2 61 cents against 47 cents; Oats, No. 2—45 cents compared to 29 cents. These few ‘comparisons, bicked at random, ought to convince anybody that the New Deal has not failed. ; 2

, The teacher put a small worm ’in a glass of water. The worx’ni Swam around and seemed to enjoy tit. She took it from the glass of twate‘r and put it in a glass of 'whiskey. The worm wriggled a few minutes and died. ' She asked’ the pupils what the demonstration proved. Johnnie, who was popping his fingers loudest, ‘was given permission to give his ver- - “If you always drink whiskey you will never have worms,”

< THE’ ROOSTENS By WALTER A. SHEAD Approximately 60,000 owners of Indiana dairy herds comprising some 700,000 head of cattle, are today forced to stand the expense of blood testing, and have lost their indemnity for destroyed cattle in the fight against Bangs Disease, as a result of the refusal of Republicans in the last general assembly to appropriate money for this cause.

& » » Up until the end of the last fiscal year June 30, 1939, the Federal government was bearing one-third, and the state one-third of the' cost to eradicate this dread and fatal disease among cattle. But the Republican House of Representatives refused to appro. priate, $lOO,OO to match federal funds for the Indiana dairymen, o

“** - % It will be remembered, and is remembered by the farmers, that Mr. Archie Bobbitt, chairman of the Republican State Committee, who was giving orders to the 51 Republican memberg of the House, was particularly adamant upon this specific appropriation, saying in substauce, “The farmers have had enough, and it will be our policy to step on every appro-. priation for any cause, for any purpose or for any reason.’” And step they did. ® * ® The result is that Dr. J. Leonard Axby, state veterinarian after considerable dickering with the Federal government and -with Purdue . university finally contracted with the pharmaceutical firm of Pittman & Moore, to make these blood tests at 10 cents per test, The government would have charged 25 cents. x 4 #* . * ~ For cattle destroyed, however, the dairymen lost the indemnity ‘paid by the state and federal government jointly. The state veterinarian has, since August 1934 been co.operating with the Federal Bureau of Animal Husbandry in blood testing Indiana herds to eradicate the disease. With refusal of the appropriations, however; the Republicans have cut off the federal money.

* x = = Bangs disease is an infectious abortion disease in cattle and is transmitted to man in the form of undulant fever. The State Board of Health reports that during the past year there were 52 cases of undulant fever ' reported and that four of these cases were fatal, *® L ® Dr. Axby reports that approximately forty applications are being received daily for herd :testing and that about fifty per cent of the Herds show some infection with the Bangs disease. More than a year ago approximately 13.6 per cent of the 700,000 head of cattle were found to be infected. This percentage has dropped to about 9 per cent at ihis writing. Lack of funds to enforce testing and destruction of infect. ed cattle, however may increase. the percentage of infection.

‘:* ® & l The Federal government ~ matching-funds-policy had been paying from $25 for grade cattle up to $5O for pure bred cattle in indemnities. The dairymen now have lost this indemnity due to the arbitrary stand taken Iy the Republican members of the General Assems bly. %* ® / The State of Wisconsin recently appropriated $1,000,000 for this purpose. Illinois appropriated the same amount and the appropriation in Michigan was $350,000. Indiana alone failed to make the appropriation, : : * * B ; It would seem that the attitude of Republican legislators towards the farmers in Indiana, is approximately the same ag¢ the attitude of the Indiana Republicans in the Cons« gress, to let the farmers shift for themselves. For that is what they did when they voted against the appropriation for the Commodity Oredit Corpora~ tion used to peg the farmers’ produce prices. ~ e : ] & -

Thanks to a watchful adminis. tration the appropriation was slipped in as a rider on the deficlency appropriation bill. Indiana had no deficiency bill in which to slip the appropriation for the eradiction of Bangs disease. M ' A bandit who stopped Burt. Morris on a street in Olarksville, Tenn., robbed him of $8 and a bet of false teeth hie had in his pocket. NGRS R e

e WHAT YOU FOLKS TALKED ABOUT YEARS AGO e

10 Years Ago - Robert son of Mrs. Nellie Sedgwick wag brought home from a Fort Wayne hospital following an oppendicitis operation. Chester Kimmell, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Kimmell was oper. ated on for a sinus infection in an Indianapolis hospital.

Eaij White, fourteen year old grandson of Attorney Frank P. Bothwell, made a hole in one on the Riverside golf links at his home city Indianapolis. . Wendall Nichols left for Ames; lowa, to resume his studies in the University there. Ligonier grain dealers were paying $1.21 a bushel for wheat. Mrs. Walter Robinson and aunt Mrs. Jesse B. Smith of Houston, Texas, were in Cosperville visiting friends.

Rev. Russell Vance had been returned as pastor of the United Brethren church of Decatur, Ind. Herbert Kuger, son of Mrs. John McCloskey of Wawaka was drowned at Galesburg, 111.,, and his body was being shipped here for burial.

Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Jackson went to Quincy, Mich., with Mr. and Mrs. J. Morris of Elkhart to attend the wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. William Davis.

20 Years Ago The Ligonier Auto Body had just begun operation. The making. of patterns had taken up a great deal of time, but the factory was ready to begin to fill orders. Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Lyon were in West Virginia in the interest of the Lyon and Greenleaf mill. Mrs., Lulu Dodsworth accompanied by her sister Miss Ina Chapman and by Mrs. Werten Engle went to General hospital, Elkhart, for an operation. Miss Jeannette Pollock, Harry Holderness, Miss Ellen Moss and Charles Roadabaugh all of Angola were guests in Ligonier. : ‘Miss Kate Casey after spending the summer in Ligonier had returned to Indianapolis where she was an instructor in the school for the blind.

ASTRONOMERS WORRIED ~ Since 1675 the Greenwich Ob. servatory, near London, has been the worshop of British royal astronomers, and for many years its meridian hag been considered longitude 0, from which both east and west longitude is determined, by most civilized countries. But Greenwich is becoming unfit as a place for astronomical work, according to a report of Dr. H. Spencer Jones, royal as-

Our NEeicueors' Views

"HE CHOSE TO FIGHT l Mr. Eden’s first speech as Secretary of State for Dominions is an effective reply to the German claim that this is a war only aganist the injustices of the Treaty of Versailles, an effort only to bring back into the German Fatherland a city and a corridor that are rightfully its own. For Mr. Eden points out that, in making war, Hitler violated not only the Treafy of Versailles; he violated also hig own treaty of 1934 with Poland—a treaty whieh he himself had ne. gotiated of his own free will, a treaty by wheh the status of both Danzig and the Corridor was to remain unchanged until 1944, a treaty which bound both Germany land Poland to settle all disputes by ‘“peaceful means mutually agreed upon,” g treaty which still had five years to run when Hitler itore itup. ol

That was the second treaty of his own making, the second treaty in no way part or parcel of the Versailles system, which Hitler destroyed within a period of six months. He had pledged himself to respect the sovereignty of Czecho-Slovakia after the Sudeten area was taken from that country by the Peace of Munich; he broke that pledge to invade what remained of Czecho-Slovakia and 'add it to the German Reich. ‘' This |in itself was a plain warning to the Poles of what they might expect if they purchased a temporary peace at the price of a foreed surrender of their rights in Danzig and their title to the Corridor.‘ Munich was not Versailles, and to the Peace of Munich Hitler himself had specifically subsecribed. One question will not down. As Mr. Eden puts it: “Faced with such a catalogue of broken vows and discarded pledges, how is it possible to escape the conclusion that the Treaty of Versailles was not a grievance to redress, but a pretext for the use of force?” Hitler could not be restrained from fighting. He could not wait to discuss even his own last peace terms to Poland. He could not wait to discuss his clatms in a five-Power conterence convoked by his ally, Ttaly. Therefore he now finds himself in a war, not only with the small state of Po..

Mr. and Mrs. Myer Jacobs were spending sometime in Chicago with friends and relatives. Aaron Urich, N. Y. C. freight agent, was in Pennsylvania on a visit. Olin Stansbury was entering the University of Chicago. Francis Zimmerman and Everett Mier were also students there. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Thompson were visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Thompson.

30 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. Odel! Oldfather were in Chicago for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Graham were in Pittsburgh to visit friends. Mr. and Mrs. James Simmons, Mrs. Mary Kitson, and Mr. Charles Simmons were in Syracuse for a visit, Ambrose Yorkey, wife and daughter were here from Michigan City for a visit with Mr. Yorkey’s parents. Misses Gloria and Grace Graham were in Chicago. Miss Mae Becker of Detroit was visiting in the I. D. Straus home. Frank McDaniel had left for South Bend where he had g steno. graphic position at the Studebaker corporation. Dr. Walter Baker of South Bend spent a few days with his parents here. Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Gerber were in New York City to visit Mrs. Gerber’s sister, Mrs. O’Connor for a few weeks. Robert Shobe had left for Poughkeepsie, N. Y., to enter college. ‘ Mr. and Mrs. J. Kinnison and daughter Zola were in Goshen where Miss Zola was enroute to Terre Haute to enter the Normal there. ; Mr. J. E. McMeans of Brimfield had opened his afll term of piano instruction for Ligonier students.

40 Years Ago Sam Mier was in Springfield, 111.,, where the Mier Buggy Co., had a big display at the State Fair.

tronomer, because of interference of various kinds from modern London. e The glare of the city’s lights thrown against the sky, the thundering of trains, the sulphurous fumes from factories, and electrical interference with delicate instruments are among tha nuisances which worry the astronomers and hamper their observations. : While it may be necessary

‘Therefore once more and finally, he repudiates his own words, denies his own hollow demand far “peaceful revision of treaties.” Even should Poland be conquered, by his reckless act he has sabotaged the chances of further efforts for negotiation. Looking back at the record, it is plain that Hitler not only led his unhappy people into a futile war. He destroyed at its birth a new method: by which international wrongs might be righted. The Governments of Europe were painfully learning a lesson when this man, in a fit of senseless violence, tore up the text.—(The New York Times).

X XX LITTLE NEUTRALS IN PERIL The plight of the independent little nations of Europe is alarming. The entry of the Russian hordes into the conflict in Poland has spread fear to Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania, three Baltic nations that carved out of Russian territory at the peace table in Versailles. Stalin professes to be in Poland merely to protect Russian interests. It is generally believed that he intends to take over the parts of Poland that were under Russian jurisdiction before the World War. Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania are thought to be in for a similar fate. . -

Roumania is disturbed because of the possibility that the Soviet the possibility ' that the Soviet government may take a notion to recover Bessarabia, which was awarded to Roumania in the peace treaty. ‘Finland was a duchy of Russia before the World war and is none too comfortable as a result of the recent developments. There has been no outward sign of a plan to make it Russian again. But nobody knows what may happen in the conflagration that threatens to sweep over European civilization. Some nations that were not created or greatly enlarged after the World War are also on the anxious seat. Switzerland is reperted as having 500,000 soldiers under arms and watching lest its territory be invaded, Sweden is in a difficult position. It is anxious to remain neutral, although its people are strong1y in favor of the British and French, llts ore sof prime imW to_Germany, and the latter s insisting that the supply

Simon Schloss had revnted the property east of the Presbyterian church which was being constructed by Charles Smith. ‘ Mrs. C. R. Stansbury and daughter Marie were visiting Mrs. Leslie Kingsbury in Albion. - Mrs. Eldred was entertainiag the Round Table club. ~ Mrs. Gus Yorkey and daughter Bertha were visiting in Chicago and Valparaiso. Will Cavin had departed for Greencastle where he was to enter DePauw University. Ferd Loeser had shipped forty heavy draft horses to Kalkaskia, Mich. i Mrs. David Hire livng west of Ligonier -had been stricken by apoplexy and her condition was considered serious. Miss Dorothy Poppy, assistant principal of the Ligonier schools was at her home in Kendallville owing to the illness of her mother Miss Grace Baker was filling her place. Mrs. L. S. Shoup returned home from Kalamazoo, Mich., whare she had been visiting.

50 Years Ago There seemed to be a derth of local or personal news in the September 26th issue, the front page was given over almost en. tirely to news from correspondents. Those firms giving notice of closing owing to the Jewish holiday were: Straus Bros. Co., Sol Mier, E. Jacobs and Co., M. Jacobs and Co., M. Baum and Co., Sol May, Jacob Baum, Aaron Baum, D. & J. Selig, Isaac Ackerman.

The nice little pony purchased at Chicago by Sol Mier for his children had died, much to the sorrow of the little ones. Those wishing to attend a first class dancing school were asked to call on C .W. Morrell at the M. A. Hutchison jewelry store.

eventually to remove the royal observatory to another location, it is not believed that thig will be done in the near future, and the astronomers will have to make the best of the situation. The United Kingdom has several modern. observatories, among them being those at Edinburgh, Dublin, Oxford and Cambridge. No ‘observatory of the British Empire or any other country can compare with the best American.

~ Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgium are more fortunate than the strictly Baltic countries in that they have better access to the Atlantic. They are leaning over backwards in the effort to be strictly neutral and thus not give any excuse to Hitler for walking over them, as the Hohenzollerns did over Belgium in 1914, They do not overlook the fact that neutrality would not protect them if Hitler thought it to his ad. vantage to overrun any or all of them, They have seen what happened to Czecho-Slovakia, to Albania, Ethiopia and now to Poland.

Portugal seems to be the one little neutral in Europe that is disposed to resent openly what Hitler is doing. llt, of course, is safe from invasion or attack so long as the British and French control the seas and Spain keeps out of the melee. Itg sentiments undoubtedly are the same as those of the others to dwell in peace with the world and realize that the only threat to them is from Hitler and Stalin. (The Indianapolis Star). XXX MACHINE WAR One of the most hopeful signs that mankind may some day find a way to live in peace is seen in the fact that war has lost its glamor. If the thing that has seized the world is a war hysteria, it is not the kind which men now graying at the temples remember. No bands are playing, there are no parades, and women and children do not Iline the streets with tiny flags in their hands and brave smiles upon their lips. It is a grim, heart.breaking business. = The men face the ugly task courageously, but there is none of the bravado of 1914 and 1917. > ;

A poet of today could not write of war as ‘“‘that mad game the world so loves to play.” The peoples of France, Britain, Poland and Germany shudder at the grim prospect. Only a few, such as Hitler, are glory daszzled. They must be held in check, not in the love of arms, but for the love of liberty. The almost universal ‘hope for peace does not mean that youth sees more clearly and faces [a greater horror than ever befdre. It prays for a bloodless victory. “Who, wrote Virgil, ‘u.?m the enemy was defeated by strategy or valort”(lndlanspolfs