Ligonier Banner., Volume 73, Number 40, Ligonier, Noble County, 5 October 1939 — Page 2

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c ;-'i' —— e ’ S—--‘T Res e = e e By RAY E. SMITH, EDITOR THE HOOSIER SENTINEL

In these war-jittery days partiotism should arise above partisan politics. The need today is for national unity, not a nation divided along politcal lines. Now is the time to uphold the President in his efforts to keep this nation at peace. It is not a time to play politics. We are, after all, Americang first. For this reason it was partisan politics of the worst kind when James M. Tucker, Secretary of State, said in a speech at a Republican water. melon feast at New Castle that President Roosevelt is trying to lead the United States into war, .that he aspires to “become a world figure,” and that Roosevelt wants us in war so he can serve a third term. Now Mr. Tucker is a bright young man—one of the ‘best attorneys in Paoli—but hard1y qualified to advise the President on foreign affairs. No one will believe that Mr. Tucker even -believes himself to be an expert on foréign policies. This makes his statements all the more ridiculous. They were intended to arouse distrust in Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Tucker hit below the belt.

- Two issues which the Republican high command expected to use in the 1940 political campaign have been shot from under them through turn of events the last few weeks. One of these was the howl that Roosevelt was trying to plunge us into war to make himself a dictator, while at the same time he was plunging

us into bankruptey. Obviously, these two hopes are now ~in.

compatible because if the President has bankrupted the nation, he has made the American people incapable of meddling in any war. The people want peace. And also, obvioulsy, if the President were trying to make himself a dictator by the war route, he would not be so earnestly trying to keep us free from any possible entanglements—again something very dear and popullar with the people. -

- The other plank upon which the Republican leaders counted was the refusal to repeal or mo. dify the present neutrality laws —something which was fought solidly by the Reépublicans in the last Congress. The G. O. P. has banked heavily on this. Senator Borah led the fight against changing the neutrality laws because his own private information was better than the expert information of the President and state department and he knew positively 80 he said, that there would not be a European war. The Republicans in Congress took this gamble and lost miserably. Now thelr big industrial leaders are screaming ing for a chance to make big money by selling supplies to the Allies while the big financiers in their party are itching to get their hands into the fat internation money pie. The pressure is terrific and the Republicans in Cong-ress\are frankly on the spot. So this issue has become gall and wormwood for the harassed reactionary Republican leaders.

However, not all issues have soured on the G.O.P. leaders. They still have a sure-fire hit, a’' honey, a natural. It is the change of the date Thanksgiving from No. 30 to Nov. 23. This issue has none of the poison in it of many other issues. It has not the dynamite of a proposal to repeal all New Deal legislation—most of which a considerable “portion of Republican Congress‘men ‘supported. The Thanks‘giving issue seems safe and easy ‘to understand. Republican spell. “Binders can 'qﬁqﬁ_t_:‘ “Back to old- : fl'lkione’d Thanksgivings. Back 140 “ruined *bank depositors. Back to a’ government of best minds. Back to rugged individualisn:. Back to two chickens in every ‘garage and the corn gone to pot.” As things stand today, the Thanksgiving Day change is all the Republicans’ have left for Dérty to take to the people! S a i & Buropean war.” As Al | e ' sf:ii: ‘w‘"-&%ﬁyﬁﬁ‘?%ffks;ﬁ%%

tainly the war had little to do with what happened to business and labor in August. Yet the report for that month shows that retail sales were 7 per cent above July, estimated upon the average for that month from the years 1923 to 1935. This state was among four states which showed this prosperity. The Indiana University Bureau of Business Research comments: “In Ight of war speculation stimulug being felt by prices and production, a rise of 7 per cent may appear quite moderate, but it should be recognized that only a few industries were affected by foreign buying before the outbreak of hostilities and little of the business placed in anticipation of a major war in Europe found its way to Indiana industries.” It will be well to remember these facts when the Republican orators tell you that it was a European war that sav. ed the Roosevelt recovery program. It just isn’t true.

This Week’s Best Stories and Witticisms

The Sunday school teacher had sought to impress upon her pupils the fact that God is everywhere about us. For a test question she asked, “Willie, where do you think God is this morning?” “In our bathe room at home”, was Willie's prompt and assured reply.

““What o nearth makes you say that?” asked the amazed teacher. “Cause,” Willie’s ey2s shone triumphantly, “just before I left home I heard papa say, ‘My Lord! how long are you going to be in there?”’ :x X x First nurse: “There’s a patient in my ward that hasn’t tried to make love to me.” = Second nurse: “Yeahk, one of mine is still unconscious, to0o.” xX x ; She was &sked - how many men she thought her expensive perfume really attracted, and she said about 10 per cent. X X x A guest at g recent meeéting of the Timekillers’ Club told about a tourist who wag visiting an Indian reservation.

“White man very glad to meet red man,” he said to the chief, “White man hopes big chief feeling very good.”

“Hi, fellows,” shouted the In_ dian to his followers, “‘come and listen to this guy. He's great! :x X x . A fashion note pictrueg a lady’s pocketbook that can be worn as a hat:. Likely about as much in it one place as the other. %x X x Little Ikey’s grandmother offered him a piece of candy if he would wash his hands and face. “If you wash behind your ears, I will give you two pices,” she added.

“Vhat,” he wanted to know, ‘vould be your best offer for a whole bath?” #° X X x

We hear of home where the spring housecleaning brougt to light a school arithmetic that the father of the household had used, and a boy o fthe family found interest in looking through it. “Huh,” he snorted, *I don’t think the folks that run the schools. are go hot at keeping up with the times. We still have the same problems Dad had.”

XX ¥ : “What is more beautiful than a pretty girl to behold?” “Such grammar! You mean to be held.” % X - Times have changed since the days of the barber who had a little dog that watched intently whenever he cut a head of hair. “He does it,” explained the barber, ‘“because I sometimes snip off a bit of the customer’s ear.” ’ ;£X % .

A Chicago man told us about a friend of his who was standing in front of a pawnship talking to the owner of the place. The owner was spilling his troubles. “It’s terrible,” he said.. “Every cop and detective that comes aleng thinks I'm g fence.” Whereupon the friend Immediately spoke up: “Then you 'better watch out. Here comes a police -dog!”’ e N R A stranger drew up to the pumps in front of a filling station, as Bill Stuckey tells it, popved out of the car and into the rest room, calling out over his shoulder: “Th Dionne. Quiata” Wh gm[

THE LIGONIER BANNER, LIGONIER, INDIANA,; THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1939

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In its payment of $7OO per teaching unit to the public schools of Indiana, the state government is lifting approximately $14,000,000 annually from the backs of the taxpayers in the local subdivisions of government. * e *

In other words this $14,000,000 is taken off real property and distributed on basis of ability to pay through the Gross Income tax. And yet the Republican leaders hold this expenditure up as an increased cost of State Government. Of course it is not, but let'’s assume that it is and compare some educational costs in In. diana, v * % = Education is the foundation of any democracy. Thomas Jefferson believed that was true when he founded the public school system in the nation. It is only in countries where the people are kept in ignorance that dictators assume control. & *® &

With a population which has increased by leaps and bounds during the past two decades, the ramifications of eQucation have increased with consequent increase in costs. This is true not only in Indiana, but in other states. . % = Fifty-one per cent of the total cost of government in Indiana today is for education. In 1920 the cost of education was only 26 per cent of the total cost of government. In that year the total expenditures for education, including the institutions of higher learning such as the two state universities, was $6,058,000 In 1938 the cost of education totaleq $24,232,00. * & *®

And of course in this increased cost ig included the $14,000,000 disbursed to the local communities from the gross income tax revenues. ®& ® X So “in the cost of education alone in Indiana there is an in. crease of $18,000,000 over 1920. * ] # The next largest state expenditure is in the field of public welfare. These costs, while not strictly costs of state government, are included by the Republican leaders in their castigations that the cost of state government is soaring. These costs are also paid out of gross income tax collections. & * - In 1920 for instance, Indiana ‘didn’t care much about its needy .or crippled children, it aged folks, its blind, or its dependent mothers and the total appropriations that year under the old state board of charities system was $43,585.26 or .199% of the total cost of government. In 1938 the state’s share alone for public welfare totaled $5,196,000 or eleven per cent of the total cost of government. In other words, there has been an increase of almost eleven perecnt in these costs. But would you do away with them and gp back to the $43,000 expenditure? ; & & * In these two fields alone the so-ealled cost of government has increased from 26.19 per cent in 1920 to 62 per cent in 1938. Take these two amounts $14,000,000 and $5,000,000 out of the cost and there hag been a reduction in the other fields of government. Utility rates have been reduced $10,000,000 annually. Property taxes have beén reduced $50,000,000 annually; $31,000,000 of state funds annually have been disbursed to local communities to-relieve the local tax levy. During the past six years of Demo. cratic control property tax reduction" and reduction in utility rates accounts for a saving of ap‘pro'xil}nht'ely_ $360,000,000. ’, Would you return your boys and girls to the ill-kept, cold, unsanitary country school and peérmit them to trudge miles to school afoot, or get out the old bus and take them yourself?

& * *® Would you do away with old age pensions, blind pension? Would you eliminate the care now given neely children, or dependent. and crippled children? Would you repeal the mothers’ pension law? llf these are not properly state functions, do you want the counties to assume the responsibility and lose the federal aid given? That's the policy Republicans adopted in‘the recent leglslaThese are the only increases in sovernmental costs in Indiana. d and this increass has been ab-

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sorbed and the taxpayers have been given a net tax reduction of approximately $22,000,000 annually, : ;

Fire Hazards Stressed By Chief Oyler

Co-operation of Citizens Asked For Fire Prevention Week Oct. 8 to 14

‘““Most practical aspect of National Fire Prevention Week, which is being observed this year from October 8 to 14, is that each of us shall take time to go over our property and make sure that it contains none of the -conditions that are known as common causes of fire,” Chief Oyler stated this morning. A very common cause of a particularly bad kind of fire is the practice of placing ‘ashes in combustible containers, the Chief continued. An inspection of the basements in Ligonier or in almost any city or town in the country, would disclose that the average property owner makes use of wooden boxes, splint baskets and " cardboard cartons, as receptacles for ashes. ‘ -The reason for designating fires due to this cause, as particularly bad fires, explained Chief Oyler, is that furnaces are usually tended the last thing at night, just before the family retires. It may take fifteen or twenty minutes for the hot ashes, or the chance of live coal, to ignite the container, and for the fire to communicate to the nearby pile of kindling. By that time the family is asleep and before anyone is aware that anything is wrong the upper floors are full of smoke and heated combustible gases. Such fires usually result in loss of life. N

- Chief Oyler states that every property owner can make a ma. terial contribution toward the observance of National Fire Prevention Week, and at the same time eliminate the possibility of a fire in his own property due to hot ashes, by the simple means of ‘providing himself with metal tubs or cans and disposing of all ’the combustible containers that he has been in the habit of using in this very dangerous practice. “Night fires are most likely to be bad ones in any class of property,” the Chief concluded, “but a night fire in a dwelling where a family is asleep is certain to be particularly bad. Clean basements and careful firing, including safe disposition of ashes, is the best insurance against such fires.” e :

SEEKING MORE ARMY RECRUITS Under an Executive Order of the President of the United States, the War Department has announced an intensive Recruiting Campaign for an increase in the Regular Army.

~There are many choice vacancies open for enlis’tme.nt to qualified young men, who are single, citizens of the United States able-bodied and free from disease, and who can read, speak and write the English language. .

~ Vacancies are now open - for Field Artillery and Quartermas. ter corps at Ft. Knox, Kentucky; and for Infantry and Medigal De~ partment of Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. ' : Anyone interested may apply in person or by letter to any of the following listed = Recruiting offices located in Post Office Buildings at: Evansville, Fort Wayne, Hammond, Indianapolis, Muneie, South Bend and Terre Haute, Indiana; and Loulsville, Kentucky.

i REAL ESTAT'B Illlu.lum..“.mgé

_‘Perry 1. Stahl et al to George E. McCaffery lots 11-2 Extended Sylvan Cove Orange township.

Vida L. Summers et al to Lawrence D. Baker and wife frl. Pt Wl, NEI; Sec. 31 Wayne township. :

Martha Scott, and husband to John T. Chaney and wife frl. pt. SWI; SE 1-4 Sec. 18 Washington township.

Keith Spade and wife to D. P. Evard lot 34 Lakeside Drive, Bear Lake. v

Hubert M. Bailey and wife to Elsie H. Knafel pt. S NEI4 Sec. 22 Jefferson township. Charles R. Hunter and wife to Gwendolyn Martin and husband Lot 11 Lovett’s add. Wolcottville. Della Scheffler to Clark A. Holsinger E pt. NWI4 Sec. 4 Orange township. .

Henry Ambrose Haley and wife to Kenneth E. Thomas pt. SE4 SW 1.4 Sec. 9 Orange township. Kenneth Thomas to Henry Ambrose Haley and wife pt. SE% SW 1-4 Ses. 9 Orange township. Lewis A. McClellan and wife to Lloyd C. Douglas pt. SWI4 SW Sec. 17 Washington township. v

Carl Paullin et al to Reed H: Fisel SE¥% NE 1-4 and Pt. SW 1-4 NE 1-4 Sec. 31 and SW%. NW 1-4 Sec. 32 Swan Township. Joseph H. Bartholomew to Wal. ter ¥. Horman and wife lot 16 DePew add. Bear Lake. Elsie Fabian to Daniel Mertz and wife lots 19-20 Bear Lake. Frona E. Paullin and husband to Warren Whan and wife SE SE 1-4 Sec. 19 Swan Twp. . Charles L. Haskett and wife to Leo P. Galland and wife lat 17 1. P. A. Ground Orange township. , o

Eva' L, Smith and husband: to Elbert Kirkpatrick and wife lot 71 Tiffin add. Albion. . Curtis A. Harper and wife to James B. Finley pt. lot 8 Daniels add. Kendallville. .

~ James B. Finley to Curtis A. Harper pt. lot 8 Daniel's add. Kendallville. .

Evangeline oO’ C Myers and husband to Ed Adams lot 44 o’Connor Beach Sylvan Lake. Blanche Draper to Howard W. Garl and wife lot 51 O. P. Ligonier. H

Casimer .Molargik and wife to Andrew A. Konger pt. SEY% SE 1-4 Sec. 19 Swan township, Andrew Konger to Dorothy Konger pt. SEY SE 1-4 Sec. 19 Swan township. A

Noble County Loan and Savings Association to Robert J. Misselhorn and wife pt. Lots 219.220 Mitchell’s Add. Kendallville.

Many Gallons ot . . Gas Used By World - Faiy Visitors

Two spans like the Golden Gate bridge at San Franciseo could be built ‘and paid . for with the ‘money motorists ‘will pay in gas taxes while driving to and from. the world’s fairs this year. A recent survey reveals that motorists driving to both world’s fairs will drop nmearly seventy million dollars 'in to the palms of federal"and state gasoline tax collectors * this ‘year, énough to pay the bill, according to the Chi-

And here’s how and why: a total of nine million car :loads of motorists are expected to visit ’the fairs. Collectively, they will drive some 18 billion car miles and consume about one billion, two - hundred ‘million gallons of gasoline, making a total tax as. sessment of $70,000,000 twice the: cost of the Goldén Gate bridge, the motor club points out,

Our Neicaßors' ViEws|

WAR MAY NITE AMERICAS m 1 ~ PERMANENT BONDS | - If ever in the history of the United States there was an opportunity for long-range statesmanship, it is the deliberations among the 21 American republics now geing on in Panama. The whole future o fthe western world may easily be involved. .. Everybody knows that the European war throws our way certain opportunities for trade. South American buyers accustomed to being supplied from Europe have had to turn to the United States. There will be business to be had in the mar. kets to the south.

But it is imperative that the United States look on this situation as more than a mere opportunity to turn a quick profit. It is much bigger than that; the world will go on after ihe war, and it will be a different world. Infer<American policies arrived at now will have a large hand in ‘ shaping that world. i _ Closer trade llnks between the Americas are inevitable. But the important thing is to place them on so solid a foundation that after the war is over they cannot be shaken. If the United States ships southward shoddy goods for the sake of a quick profit, this will react against us in the future when others again compete for the same markets. It is only if | we” ship quality goods at fair prices, extend liberal credits facilities, make every effort to receive South American goods in return, so that the trade may be mutually advantageous, that we may hope to be building anything solid for the future. Present tendencies in the world seem to doom the small country. In eastern Asia, a Japanese-do-minated system may soon prevail. i

In eastern Europe and most of the rest of Asia, the Russian Soviet government is already dominant, In western Europe, either a British-French system or a German system will emerge as the controlling factor. The old British empire system is already fading. That is not to say that the empire will be destroyed. But as an economic system, it will probably never again occupy the dominant position in the world that it did in 1900. Time and technology have passed it by. In this world, dominated by three or four colossal system, the Americas must take their place, not as a “system’ dominated by a single power, but as an economic unit tied together by mutual interest and ready to defend that interest by joint action. The dream of Simon Bolivar for a peaceful association of coequal American states, their eyes fixed on the American future, not the European past, may yet come true. The necessities of a world now in process of regrouping itself may prevail where sheer

County Tax Adjustment Board Completes Work

“The State Board of Tax Com. missioners is the last line of defense against higher taxes,”” Harry Miesse, ‘secretary of the Indiana Taxpayers Association, announced today as he urged property taxpayers to take appeals from budgets that are” considered too high. : . ‘“The: county boards of tax adjustment have completed their work,”” Mr. Mieesse explained. “Residents of every governmental 'unit know now how much their property taxes will be next year. A study of the budgets and demands for public money ishows that in nearly every county {there is a trend toward higl;er tax rates for 1940. County councils made drastic reductions and further reductions were made by county adjustment boards,. but additional savings are possible if the taxpayers wil ltake advantage of the facilities accorded them by the Indiana law.

‘“Every budget and rate in excess of the. amounts permittted by the tax limitation law will go to the state board’ automatically.

The board will fix hearings in all counties on these rates and budgets and the taxpayers will be given notice in the local papers of the date of the hearing five days before it ig to be held. Taxpayers are urged to attend these hearings and assist the Tax Board in making - reductions wherever possible. i . " “In a great any cases the rate is less than $1.25 in townships and $2.00 in cities and towns, exclusive of rates. for debt service and public welfare, and re. ductions can be obtained and taxpayers may get relief by appealing to the state tax board not later October 15th. The board will fix hearings in the counties from which these appeals are taken. These appeals cost the taxpayers nothing and should be made in the hope of obtaining relief from ' the threatened oppressve tax burdems. - *Taxpayers throughout Indiana have watchéd the mounting expense of g overnment with growing alarm. We urge them. fo]

idealism for 100 years has failed.— (Kendallville News. Sun). el g | GERMANY AND RUSSIA. Napoleon I and Czar Alexander I met on the raft at Tilsit in 1807, swore eternal friendship, and on paper divided up Europe between them. The friendship lasted quick. Napoleon got mad because the czar insisted on trading with England. In 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia; and that was the beginning of the end for Napoleon. Left alone, Stalin and Hitler would most likely fall out sooner or later. With the Allies ham. mering away at them, their natural tendency will be to stick closer together than ever to defend their joint grab of Poland.

We think now would be a good time for the Allies to lay off and let nature take its course with two strong men, each of whom is the all highest in his own country. :

. Apart from this strategic aspect of it, we don™ Bee how the Allies can lick a German-Russian combination. The Britisn navy may be able to starve Germany. But it can’t stare Russia. Russia can feed itself; and we should think that in g pinch it could feed a lot of Germans. too. ;

Even if we should go into war with the Allies, it is hard to see how any conceivable Allied army could thrash oinHRDL cmfwptt could crash through Germany and then.- march on to Moscow and bring Stalin to terms. It lookg as if the cards are stacked aganst the Allies, and as if they had better call it off while they can. If they stand by their professed resolves to put down Hitlerism and restore Poland, the likeliest winner of this ‘war will be Mr. Stalin. And his domain in the end may not be simply Russia and a slice of Poland, but the whole of Europe.— (New York Daily News.)

SIGMUND FREUD That Sigmund Freud should have been permitted to die in London only by the grace of a princess of Greece who had ransomed him for 250,000 schillings is one of the deeper damnations that have marked Hitler’s presecution of ‘“non.Aryans.” - Yet there was something of a Greek tragedy’s ineitability in this end of a strong, original mind. From ‘his youth Freud had to suffer be%cause of his origin. Never did his native anti-Semitec Austria accord him the academic position that was his by right. The prejudice of which Freud was alifelong victim drove him within himself, though it cannot explain his colossal self-satisfac-tion and his natural intellectual arrogance. He prided himself on what he called his ‘“powers of resistance,” talked in later years only to adoring disciples and wrote about his work and beliefs with the theological unction

the state board. That is their last ‘chance to force the adoption of reasonable taxes on property. ‘“The Indiana Taxpayers Association is eager to be of service in the campaign to hold down the cost of government. Taxpayers who wish to be provided with blanks for appeals, or who degire advice about the prepara. tion of evidence to be used when ‘hearings are held, may apply to our office in Indianapolis and our experts will be assigned to help them. The ownership of homes and farms in Indiana is going to become a luxury that relatively few can afford unless there is a concerted drive against unecessary governmental expenses.”

Food Sales Here _ Return $78,000 In Hidden Taxes

~ Families in Noble county pay an estimated $78,000 in hidden taxes annually through their purchases of food, a National Consumers Tax Commission survey showed today. ‘““Nearly eight per cent of the total food bill represents shifted taxes buried in the price of every, purchase,”. the- report -stated. “These unseen levies, for example, take 11 per cent of butter costs, 6% per cent of bread costs, 10% per cent of sliced bacon and 14% per cent of the cost of coffee’.

The report was made- public through Mrs. William Ball, of Muncie, national committee member, who leads NCTC study groups in about 79 communities in the educational crusade against ‘‘un. necessary consumer-penalizing taxes.” The report added:

l “Chieft offénders, andj those -that fall most heavily on lower income families, are hidden taxes. These are levied: originally against the producer, manufacturer, shipper and distributor. Unable to absorb the load, each must pass on a sgmre of its taxes and the consumer ultimately pays them,i usually without knowning it.” - The commission, in whose nonpartisan crusade groups in approximately - 5,200 communities have launched tax study programs, said the hidden tax figure: does not include the many ‘other’ hidden and direct taxes families' lere have to pay. ' .k bl * The food tax estimate was comS ST IR R e 1 eSS R O e S e e R R NSRS AR

of a man who never lost faith in himself. His was an inhospitable mind. He complained that psychologists ignored him. Yet he refused to read Nietzsche, and rarely gave credit for inspiration derived from the writings of others.

Few investigators have uttered doctrines that have caused so much dispute. Though they acknowledge the importance of his work, psychiatrists still dismiss him as unscientific. He used no apparatus, developed no physical technique, conducted experimengs on patients without the usual controls, cared nothing for statistical procedures and speculated freely in the expansive Aristotelian manner. _Yet this half_artist, halfphilosopher enriched us with the greatest contribution ever made to our knowledge of the mind’s mysterious processes. As the result of his relentless probing of the mind, sleep turned out to be a riot of imagination;

dreams wish-fulfillments that no “well-bred” person would dare to express in waking moments; harmless jokes full of obscene meaning; the love of a son for his mother a guilty fixation. From treating hysterics afflicted with strange inhibitions, Freud passed to humanity as a whole. Though he never saw a savage in the jungle, he had no hesitation in interpreting primitve and even advanced cultures in terms of sex. And it made no difference that experienced anthropologists tried to correct his grosser errors. With mythology, religion, folklore, art, it was the same. On little more than the coincidence that “Moses” means ‘““child” in ancient Egyptian, he attempted to solve the vast problem of the re-emergence and triumph of Mosaic monotheism after its brief vogue under an extraordinary Pharaoh. It is such large_scale speculation that arouses the ire of historiams, sociologist, theologians and , psychologists. Yet it ig also speculation that/ impresses because of its magnificent sweep, its plausibility.

It is still debatable whether Freud’s influence on our culture or on psychology is the profound. er. So strong is that influence that we have almost forgotten to say “cruelty’’ instead of ““sadism”’, or ‘“egoism’ instead of ‘“narcissism,” and that we talk glibly of ‘“libido,” “Oedipus complex,” “wish-fulfillment” as if we had always known them. Whether he was a true scientist or not, Freud’s place is secure if for mno other reason than that he broke down ancient taboos and cleared the way for a new approach to the mind, and hence for a real science of psychology instead of the pseudo-science which we now have and which is based on laboratory findings that have little relation to life. He was the most effective disturber of com. placency in our time.—(The New York Times).

puted from NCTC averages bhased on last avilable U. S. Bureau of the Census figures which placed 1935 food sales in the county at $1,000,000. Government esti_ mates of total sales in the country last year approximate the total in the 1935 sudy, the NCTC said.

To Hold Hybrid Corn Field Day

Roy Parker, Noble county Hybrid seed corn producer will hold ra Field and Seed House day, October 10th in and around Kim’mell. Inspection of the seed house is scheduled for 11-12 a. m. Dinner will be served at ~the Seed House at noon and four different farms near Kimmell producing hybrid for the seed house will be visited in the afternoon.

’ K. E. Beeson, Purdue Extension "Agronomist and Dr. Chas. IGregory, Extension Purdue Plant Pathologist will be working on corn plots in the county on the same day and will sSpeak at the Parkgr Seed House meeting just afternoon. All Noble County farmeérs are cérdially’ invited to ate s a 3 a 0

Gracious Amid Gloom Yet for all my Lord’s gloom, I find Him sweet, gracious, loving, kind; and I want both pen and words to set forth the fairness, beauty and sweetness of Christ’s love, and the honmor of this cross of Christ, which {s glorious to me, though the world thinketh shame thereof.—Samue} Rutherford, o

Rev. Gerald E. Bonney of Randolph Center, Vt., is a vertrilo. quist, and uses a dummy similiar to Charlie McCathy in teaching a children’s Sunday school class. While he was on vacatfon, fHie apartment of Ralph Elm*’%mt Lake City caught uremgg overheated radio which had boe going-continuously 10 days. Wwhicki had fallen ‘into s well, L. V. "Warlick of Marcush, OkFaf #8)