Ligonier Banner., Volume 73, Number 41, Ligonier, Noble County, 12 October 1939 — Page 2

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If for no other reason, the United States should try to keep out of war to avoid the crushing cost in money. The government has spent billions to keep its own people alive in the depression, but if it starts out to destroy/humanity there is no telling where the debt will run. From England we learn of an increase tax program that cuts deeper and more broadly than any imposed even in the fourth year of the first World War. The tax is to be raised to 37% per cent on the average man’s income, with surtaxes running up to 80 per cent for the very wealthy. The new taxes reach even the single man mak-

ing $lO a week. In contrast with the taxes now being paid in this ~country, a married couple with no children and an income of $2,000 a year will pay $245.26 tax in England, while the same couple here would pay none.

Even Canada, which so far hasn’t sent any troops to France, has voted an increase from 15 to 20 per cent on corporation taxes and placed a surtax of 20 per cent on all incomes. The income tax levy, increasing the normal tax paid by one-fifth, atfects little incomes as well as large ones. The war brings a loss in civil liberties, including censorship of radio and press. So the road to war is a costly one. The average man pays twice—with money and loss of his civil liberty—even if he escapes making the third sacrifice, laying down his life. When we see only bankruptcy as the spoils of war, Americans should continue to insist that this nation stay out. You and I should offer a prayer for the President who is trying to keep us at peace,

No person is always right, but President Roosevelt’s batting average is far above normal. He was right last July when he included $500,000,000 of federal credit in his lending-spending program for new railway equipment. The proposal was in.dignantly hurled into the Congressional wastebasket by a bipartisan coalifion detefmined to end Rooseveltian ““experimnta. tion” ang “extravagance.” Now it is October and the railways are hastily calling conferences to discuss ways and means of pro. curing enough freight cars to carry on their business. W. C. Kendall, head of the car service division of the Association of American Railroads, calls upon shippers and receivers to make economical use of cars, to load and unload promptly, to = avoid waste of space in order to meet an impending shortage. The bueiness pick-up cannot be blamed on the “war boom.” The President knew, and so did industry, which had reported last December that it needed $900,000,000. of new equipment of the need. In railway circles the shortage of freight cars was put at $200,000 at the very moment that the President’s plan was being digcarded. New gar comstrugtion, which would have provided employment this summer, will now have to be ordered at a higher price level. This is the upshot of the noble crusade against the President’s sinister penchant for looking ahead. The bipartisan coalition is welcome to whatever comfort it can draw from the picture.

The greatest flood of mail in the capitol’s history 1s attempting to stampede Congress to vote against repeal of the arms embargo. A tide of letters and post cards reaching the astounding to. tal of 300,000 is being greeted with an unwonted Congressional skepticism. Congressmen got wise after the avalanche of letters and telegrams they received against the President’s reorganigation bill in the spring of 1938, They are now determined to look m ‘the letters, to tind out - whether the notes are the result Bad, it so, to discount L. R A D g g %%‘%J

Congressmen, who live their lives in the shadow of angry letters, undoubtedly are correlating the fact that 90 per cen of their majl demands retention of the arms embargo with the fact that 57 per cent of the voters in a Gallup poll demands repeal of the embargo. This comparison takes some of the steam out of the hottest of mail pouches. Perhaps there are lean days ahead for pressure groups which have, through an efficient mail campaign, managed to defeat the President on several issues before Congress. The right to send an imperious letter to one’s Con. gressman is a sacred right. It ‘has been ‘the medium through ‘which Congressmen have gauged public sentiment. But the pressure groups have destroyed value of the mail bag to the Congressman. We now have a skeptical Congress. The mechanical, mimeographed, sign on the dotted line letters are losing their effectiveness. It is a healthy, democratic sign to see that the bubble lhas burst of its own weight.

| Timely Topics

Newsweek reports a great boom being experienced by plants manufacturing wood type, used for extra large headlines in newspapers and for posters. The orders of one such firm is said to have increased 300 per cent during the first week of the war.

While shaving a customer, Frank Dugan of Philadelphia saw an automobile hit a man in front of his barber shop, and start to speed away. Dugan dasheq after the hit-and-run driver, jumped on the running board razor in hand, caused him to stop, and turned him over to a policeman.

John Lindsey of New Jersey has attended a theatrical performance once in his 95 years. That was on the night of April -4, 1865, at the Ford theater in Washington where he witnessed the shooting of President Lincoln. The tragedy so shocked Lindsey that he never went to a show again.

Recounting some facts of women aviators, a writer reminds us that the first woman airplane pilot in the world was Harriet Quimby, who obtained her license in 1912, She met the fate of most pioneer flyers, being killed in a crash while giving a stunt exhibition in Boston.

NEW RAIL EQUIPMENT

There will be no shortage of railroad facilities in the United States under any circumstances, according to J. J. Pelley, president of the Association of American Railroads, whose board of direc. tors has ‘declared that the roads can and will meet any anticipated demand for transportation. It was stated that the railroads are at work now on necessary reDairs to cars and locomotives, and that as need develops for additional equipment it will be available, :

A specific instance of action looking toward increased facilities for rail traffic is seen in the appropriation this month of $B,000,000 by the Illinois Central Railroad for the purchase of new equipment, 3

Purchases for this one road will include 1,500 coal cars, 1,000 box cars and 10 Disel-electric switching and transfer locomotives, the locomotives to be used on the Chicago terminal, replacing steam power.

~ Orders will be placed asg promptly as the necessary details can be arranged, and will call for im._ mediate delivery in anticipation of increased business,

’ - Representatives of the leading railroads have been meeting in Washington to give further consideration to the business and transportation situation. :

The Greater Chicago Hotel Association recently announced that if only 13 guests appear for a dinner party at any of the city’s hotels, a store dummy in full dress will be provided to reassure the superstitious.

A squad of patrolmen in Boston, in respomse to a report -of “shocking nudity,” rushed out ang found Briice Bugbee Dorr, aged 11-months, taking a sun bath. _Clarence D. Collins of Georges Mills, N. H.,, has the finest col. lection of cloeks in the country, and always keeps' 160 of Mi running in his home,

THE LIGONIER BANNER, LIGONIER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1939

Job Benefits Take : Drop In September

~ Job insurance benefits paid to Hoosier workers have passed $25,000,000, 17 months after first payments ‘were made, the Indiana Unemployment Compensation Division announced today. In paying that amount, the Division has issned 2,350,000 benefit checks, an average of 138,300, valued at approximately $l,470,000 per month, according to John W Limbert, compensation manager in this district.

Payments dropped during September to less than 15,000 checks per week, the lowest so far this year, and contrasted with 55,000 per week the same month last year and the 1939 high of 33,99 per week of February. ’ Some 220,000 indiviiduals have drawn benefits, and about 45,000 of them who drew their maximum benefits last year, have established benefit rights again this year. Payments have declined markedly through 1939, in re. sponse to continned improvement in business conditions. ~ In the Elkhart district, which includes Elkhart, LaGrange, Kosciusko and western part of Noble counties, benefit payments so far have totaled 45,700 cheeks for $440,000. About 4,600 persons have drawn benefits through the Elkhart district offices, and 700 of them have qualified for new benefit periods thig year. NEWS 200 YEARS AGO

In eonnection with the 200th anniversary of the Maryland Gaz-’ ette, some early copies of that newspaper were exhibited. ‘The news and advertisements of early days were naturally quite different from what is found in current newspapers, as they reflected the customs and beliefs of their time. . : ~ One of the stories from Vienna told of the burning of several persons convicted of witcheraft, among them ‘‘a midwife who had baptized 2,000 children in the iname of the devil.” A local item related the experience of a negro slave who struck g white man in an argument over a fight. The negro was sentenced to have one of his ears cut off ‘“pursuant to the law in such cases.” 3 Among the advertisements was one announcing the arrival of a cargo of “about 200 choice slaves, which will be exposed for sale on Thursday the 22nd of this instant.”

In its issue of October 21, 1762, the Maryland Gazette published the news of the birth of a son to the British king and queen, which had occurred on August 12. The story bore the headlines: “Great Joy to the Nation! A Prince of Wales is. Born. God Save the King.” This was the dissolute and notorious character who afterward became George IV.

The Maryland Gazette was frequently suspended for varying periods, but is credited by the Librarian of Congress with being ‘“the dean of present-day American newspapers.”

LEE DIED A “PRISONER"

It may not be generally known that General Robert E. Lee was technically a prisoner of war at the time of his death in 1870, but such is the case, according to 4 recent writer.

After Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, he was released on parole. President Johnson’s amnesty proclamation issued the following month did not include Confederate officers above the rank of colonel or any who had been educated at West Point or who had resigned from the United States army to join the Confederacy, so Lee was ineligible for amnesty on all threo counts.

~ Johnson provided, however, that those in the expected classes would have their applications for pardon considered and Lee made application accordingly, but his request was entirely ignored by the President. The termg of Lee’s parole were respected, however, and he was never molested, al. though he was never restored to citizenship. :

_ As is well known, after the war General Lee accepted the presi dency of Washington College® at Lexington, Va., and remained in that office until he died, when the name of the institution was changed to Washington and Lee. But at the time of his death he was still a paroled prisoner of war, deprived of his civil rights.

Three cases from Noble county were cared for during the past year by the Indiana University psychological clinies, located . at Bloomington and Indianapolis, according to the announcement of Dr. C. M. Louttit, direetor of the clinics, The clinics served a tota! of 802 Indiana people, 444 were registered at the Indianapolis clinic and 368 at the Bloomington clinfie. ~This represents an in‘crease of 16 per cent over the gnumber served last year.

Charging that her husband, Frank, “treated the dog better than he treated me,”and that ““the dog treated me better than my husband did,” Mrs. Karolinu Mascha of Chicago sued for a divorce. : 3 % ; : [‘ G, W. Curry and two danghters and Mrs. Leonora. Becker of

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This Week’s Best Stories and Witticisms

" And has the baby learned to !talk yet? My yes—We’re teaching him to keep quiet now. T -o X % Mother, why did you marry father? ~ So you’ve begun to wonder, too. X X % Do either of you fittle boys ever say naughty words? Well, mum, ain’t much of a hand at it myself, but Bill here is a wow. Cuss for the lady, Bill. * X What do lions eat? 7z What they can find. - o Suppose they can’t find any. thing? : Then they eat something else. xX x : Did you have any luck shooting tigers in India? 3 & Marvelous luck. Didn’t ¢ome aecross a single tiger. seix X ¥ Once when I was lost in South Africa I came across a tribe of wild women who had no tongues. Good gracious! How could ‘they talk? ; - They couldn’t. That’'s what ‘made them wild. : 4 . What would you do if you saw a bear? ; < “I'd climb a tree. & ’ But don’t you know that bears can climb trees? A

Yes, I know that. But my tree would be shaking too hard. X X ox I struck the trail of a bear this morning and followed it till about half past four this afternoon before giving it up. What made you qui¢ after putting in a whkole day’s work? Well, to tell the truth, it seemed to me that the trail was getting entirely toe fresh. X X x Pity the poor flea. He knows all his. children are going to the dogs. x X % = ~ Your dog seems to be very friendly little fellow. All through dinner he kept looking at me and wagging his tail. ~ Yes, you had his plate. X Xux : Make-up: Expert—l'm having trouble making up the face of Missy Blank for that part. I wish I could make her mouth bigger. Director—l don’t see how you can unless you %ake her ears off. oX.X 3 : ) Customs Agent—What have you to declare? e : American Tourist, returning from Europe—l declare that I am glad te get back.

x X x ! Census Taker, to housewife— What @0 yqu do? Housewife—l keep house, scrub Scour, bake, wash dishes, cook do the laundry, iron, sew, mend, and other household dwties. : Census Taker—Tll'll list you as a;. “Housewife—no occupatien.” § / X X% i . Pessismist vs, Optimist: A pessismist seeg every ditfiocul- | ty, an opportunity. % i An optimist sees an eppertunity In every difficulty, . X Xi.x il ' Framing - Our Lives: = | - Religion does not consiat im, the performance of certain cere~| monial acts at specified! times;, ' outside which acts and times it has no place: but -comsists in: framing our whole life, ang’ all’ our acts, upon a distinet: view ‘of. our. position as created beings,: chatged by the fact that of our" Sadtion, wil, ét;g;nstwm flly.crostures ad to o Ornt

Noble County Farmers Insure 1940 Wheat Crop

As of September 30, the final date for applying for insurance on 1940 wheat crop, a compilation of figures in the Noble County Agricultural Conservation Association office, shows that 964 county farmers have insured their wheat, according to Ted J. Hile Wheat Crop Insurance Representative.

Mr. Hile said that unusual in. terest was shown in crop insurance this year by Noble county wheat growers. Most growers who had 1939 wheat crops insured have again applied for imsurance, and many, additional farmers have realized the benefits resulting from the protection o fthis “allrisk” insurance, Mr Hile stated. ~ “Our goal of 1939 applications for crop insurance was far exceeded this year,” Mr. Hile said. “Needless to say, we are well Dleased with the unexpected results and we are very gratified to know that so many of eur wheat growers are interested in this phase of the Triple A Farm Program.”’ ‘ .

The 964 applicatons for insurance received this year compares with 96 applications received from wheat growers in the county last year, or nearly 10 times as many. Mr. Hile pointed out. Applications weré received for 10,000 acres to 10,107 acres of wheat. The total alloted acres of wheat covered with crop insurance is 10,050, he said. Last year, 1272 acres of wheat in, Noble county was . covered by insurance.

Losses suffered in the county on the 1939 wheat crop were $561.00, according to a final re. port recently completed. Principal factors causing these losses were drought, winter kill, and hessian fly according to Ted J. Hile. i

" BIG SCALE MINING What is described as the most Spectacular mining operation in the world today is under way in ‘Arizona, where an estimated 74 million tons of earth must be stripped from a copper ore deposit, as a preliminary to mining thé ore itself.

This excavation work i 3 going forward at the rate of aboat 28,000 tons a day, using power shovels that lift two tons or more of earth at a bite. The earth is deposited in special trucks and hauled away “to fill g nearby canyon, :

. Under the surface of the ground at an average depth of about 420 feet, lies the vast bed of ore, ascertained by diamond drilling to be approximately a mile long, half a mile wide and 800 feet thick. It lis estimated that 250 million tong of ore ultimately may be taken from the mine. It is of low grade, however, and contains only about 10 pounds of copper to the ton. ~ Such “lean” ore could only be mined at a profit by mass pro=duction and with the most modern equipment. Natufally, an enormous amount of capital was: necessary to undertake the development of the mine at all. i

But through American initia-: tive, capital and dourageé the : difficulties attending this amazing operation are being overcome and another hitherto unproductive natural resotirce wm:" be added to the nation’s wealth,

. MeDonald Taylor of DegMoines!} claims the. world’s’ microscopic whittling championship ° after making a table, four chairs, four spoong and four plates from one matchstick, ; ; ' G The Record, daily newspaper of Wyanet, 111, appeared recently with ome page blank exeept fory an apologetic statement which: read: “Don’t -laugh, .We had . helluva- time filling the other:

o WHAT YOU FOLKS TALKED ABOUT YEARS AGO e

10 Years Ago ~ Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Marker of Waterloo, lowa and Mr. and Mrs. John Marker of Toledo were visiting relatives in Ligonier. . Mrs. Sam Selig entertained a lparty of friends at her home on W. Third street.

- Miss Mary Lyon entertained ‘members of her club to a marshmallow roast. _

Virginia Oldfather, Louisa King, Martha Holloway and Errington Bowen attended a fraternity ball at Wabash College, Crawfordsville. Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Ackerman had gone to Fort Wayne to meet their son Alfred cf Lima, ()., and bring him home to sgend the Jewish holidays here. : Jesse Hire of Hopkins, Mich, and Mr. and Mr 3. Jack Hire of South Bend wera here to attend the funeral of Mr:. Mike Hire and Mrs. Lon Hire. E. P. Lombard, former cashier of the Citizen’s Bank but now of Auburn, was active in the pursuit and ecapture of the Spencerville bank robbers. _ Mrs. Ira Yoder entertained in honor. of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Swigart and son, Mr. and Mrs. ‘Williams of Annapolis, and Miss Gladys Swigart of Columbia City. Mrs. C. D. Lane entertained her bridge club and two substitute guests, Mrs. W. W. Wood and Mrs. Leland Thompsou. High score was made by Mrs. R. D. Shobe, v

20 Years Ago

Former Mayor J. B. Schutt had moved his family into the house on Martin street vacated by Dr. C. D. Lane. Mrs. Jennie Weaver and daughter who had been visiting in the A. B. Weaver home 12ft for their home in New Mexico. - Chester Smith brcught Mrs. Smith home from Fert Wayne where she had been visiting. - ~ Miss Ceclia Carney entertained isixteen of her young friends with a supper at Blarney cottage Nat’ticrow Beach.

Rolly Stage better known as “Dad”, clerk in the Sack grocery, is off duty suffering from the flu. .

Deputy Postmaster Milner still had ‘““too much cheek for his own comfort.” A bad tooth caused it “to swell to about double its generous size.”

Job Sharp arrived home from an extended visit in lowa and Minnesota.

AMERICAN BIG GAME | Big game animalg in the United States, once thought in danger of extinction, are now rapidly increasing in numbers, according to the Department of the Interior, which recently completed a survey in which the most accurate count possible was made.

The inventory showed about six million big-game animals, indicating a gain of nearly a million since the nation-wide survey of 1937 was made. With the exception of buffaloel, no animals in captivity were counted.) Deer are the most numerous of the big-game animals, numbering more than five-sixths of the total. Others include 228,000

l[ Our Neicusors' ViEws

BUSINESS TAKES LUVUARGE ' GRAIN OF SALT WITH BOOM ~ Encouraging indeed is the marked tendency of the business world to take with a large grain ©of salt the upsurge of business due directly and indirectly to the European war. . Coming just when it did, the up-surge was welcome, and the prospect of profitable business is pleasant to many firms who for the past two years have been operating in the red. : But there is very little of the wild hullabaloo that greeted the “war boom” of 1915 and 1916. Like everything else, the business situation is different. - And like everybody else, business men learned something last time.

- It is_entirely possible that direct war business may not be nearly as great this time as last, even if the arms embargo should be repealed. In the first place, the British and French are much better equipped to supply themselves. They have one year's clear warning, and the horribte shortage of shells and war materials which so hurt the British in 1914 are unlikely this time. Instead of three important arms

plants in Britian, as in 1914, there are hundreds today. The French, whose best industrial territory ‘was immediately taken: from them in 1914, do not face this hamdicap today. Such buying as fhese countries do in the United ‘States will be organized and centralized this time, not widly competifive, - : Tn Tact, such uplift as business has ween thus far is only to a small extend attributable directly to war buying. Most of it has come from the stimulus:which war «conditions gave to domestic buying, from our OWn Arms - pro-

Mrs. Alberf Bordner was in Nappanee owing to the serious illness of her daughter, Mrs. Horace Hartman, who was suffering presumably from a form of sleeping sickness. T

Meyer Jacobs returned from Chicago where Mrs. Jacobs was al patient in the Presbyterian hospital. | Miss Lucile Gutelius who had been visiting her sister Mrs. Morton Long, returned to her home in Kendallville. Attorney Lloyd Burris of Goshen was in Ligonier on business with Straus Brothers company. Fred H. Green was on an extended business trip to the west in behalf of the Green Brothers and Oldfather firm. - 30 Years Ago . Mrs. Leo Solomon had gone to Mobile, Ala., following the death of her mother Mrs. S. Ochs. She planned to spend th¢ winter with her daughter, Mrs. Simon. James Graham who was attending school at Morgan Park, 111., spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Graham.

Miss Ann Beeson was a guest of Miss Florence Knox at Goshen. Miss Helen Decker had been vigiting in Kendallville. ~ Miss Helen Raubert came home lfrom South Bend to visit her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Raubert. Mrs. L. J. Dunning and Mrs. Ashton Sedgwick were visiting in Chicago. Ike Todd had had an interesting letter from his son Fred who was in the signal corps at Minto, Alaska.

C. M. Kinney had resigned his position- ag cashier at the Citi. zen’s Bank owing to poor health. The home of George Hussey was the scene of a pretty autumn party the week previous when Miss Corinne celebrated her birthday anniversary by entertaining thirty of hér young friends.

Calvin Knecht was made cashier of the Citizen’'s bank following the resignation of £. M. Kinuney.

40 Years Ago

Mrs. O. M. Christie ad Mrs. M. C. Pollock visited the latter’s parents, Clerk Prickett and wife at Albion.

James A. Arthur and C. M. Immel of Goshen attended the reception given Grand Chancellor McDonald.

elk, 93,500 black bears, 16,300 moose, besides smaller numbers of wild sheep, mountain goats, grizzly bears and buffaloes. Least numerous of big game animals are the woodland caribou, only 16 of which were reported, 12 in Minnesota and 4 in the state of Washington. There were 845 European wild boars accounted for, 425 of them being in Tennessee, Sk

.At one time the buffalo, or bison, seemed in danger of extinction, but through the intervention of the government in recent years these animals have been protected and allowed to multiply, so that there are at present about 4,500.

to the United States from countries cut off from Europe. Steel production at above 84 per cent of production may not hold that pace, being apparently far ahead of consumption. Farm commodity prices are up, but still far below parity. Railway earnings for August show that marked improvement in that field had begun before the war broke. Chilean, Brazilian and Portuguese railway equipment orders in prospect are war business only indirectly. So are other orders from neutrals, - ,

The most hopeful side of this ‘“war boomlet” is the restrained way in which business leaders are facing it. Repeated warnings have come from many of them against .overoptimism, ®* overspeculation, over expansion. Quick, excesisve profits will only be taken away by taxation, whereas if such profit margins are turned as far as possible into cheapened prices leading to an expanded domestic market, the gains made may be solidified and made a bulwark for the future when contraction follows abnormal war conditions. This policy is nq theory urged by impractical dreamers, but a sound, statemanlike course put forward by such pragmatists as the American Bankers association. @

Such uplift as war conditions bring to business must be regarded not as something in itself, but simply as a chance to reduce unemployment and the relief burden, to get budgets back on a sounder basis, and, in short,.to get solidly to our feet.—Kendallville

Miss Zella Latta went to Nebraska for a month’s visit. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scott were guests of Prof. R. D. Keehn at ‘Goshen.

N. W. Adams of Findlay, Ohio who had been here to attend the reunion of the 129th regimen!, remained to visit his old mess mate Paul Joray. ~ Bert Inks was in Kendallville where he participated l_n a game of ball, playing with Kendallville against Auburn. The bowling alleys were opeaed by Mr. Winkler which offered prospects of pleasure for the ‘“long winter evenings.” Mondays were reserved for ladies, from 8 a. m, until 5 p. m. Private parties, were requested to make reservations. in advance. e i 50 Years Ago Goshen News had called attention to a case in that county where a young man gave up a $l2OO position to accept a political office worth $750. The editor of the Ligonier Banner made this comment: “The ways of the hungry office seeker are past finding out.” Capt. Hi Iddings had returned after a visit in Washington where he had been looking after the interests of several «f his friends. Miss Sarah Eve of Edgerton, Ohio, had been visiting her sister, Mrs. Daniel Schwab.

The editor believed in giving credit where credit was due: “L. J. Bodely of Fort Wayne and one of the best democrats in Indiana” visited in Ligonier. " Mrs. Joseph Drain was in Chicago to visit her sca John and other relatives.

Things do come about somehow. A prominent druggist said: “The government ought to regulate the sale of morphine the same as the sale of liquor. The motphine habit is a fearful thing.” Dr. Luella Day of Goshen had been sentenced to thres years in the penitentiary. She secured the

assistace of M. A. O. Parckard of Plymouth and the sentence was revoked. o

The first trial by jury in the new court house at Albion® had been held Oct. 9, 1889. Frank P. Bothwell was the first attorney to address them. It was the case of an old lady of Perry township being tried for unsound mind, The jury so found.

Noble county had a daily newspaper, ‘““the first ever projected within its borders.” It was ecalled The Daily Journal, started in Kendallville by O. H. Downey.

Similar conservation measures have been taken with respect to other native bigigame animale and wild life generally, with gratifying results. -

The eity commissionerg of New Hampton, N. H., recently announced they would exempt from taxes for five years the first experienced blacksmith who would settle there and ply his trade.

In response to a call for help coast;y guardsmen in Chilmark, Mass., rushed to No Man’s Island and milked a cow. The island’s caretaker was sick, and his wife didn’t know how to milk.

~ THE SWISS EXAMPLE " Peoples of German, French and Italian blood get along well together as Swiss citizens. There are cantons in Switzerland where each one of these races predominates, and yet they all join harmoniously in a single government,

If diverse races can do that in Switzerland, why can’t othér sections of Europe follow the Swiss example? For generations, the belief has prevailed in Europe that the peopleg of Germany and France can never be friendly neighbors, and that the Italians won’t mix with either. But look at Switzerland with its three languages! ~ LSt

The Swiss nation is not a new one. All through the numerous European wars of the last® 124 years, Swiss neutrality has been respected. Since the present war began, neighboring nations have bledged that Switzerland will not be invaded.

But the smart, peaceable Swiss are not taking any chances. They ,have a highly efficient army ‘which is guarding their borders. Their St. ‘Gottard forti. fications are said to be as efticient and up-to-date as any in Europe, and there are excellent provisions for troops at all strategic points. -

- Switzerland observes its policy of peace, and thus far has been successful in maintaining it because she is realistic encugh to realize that proper defensive measures are most nkely to guarantee peace. New forts have - been -erected Ilately to brevent sudden invasions either by Get.many or France, and other pre.: tection has been planned to meet the new problems of m though the mountaius are adtural’