Ligonier Banner., Volume 74, Number 42, Ligonier, Noble County, 17 October 1940 — Page 2

r ; ; : fHE LIGONIER BANNER - ESTABLISHED 1867 : Published every Thursday and entered as second class matter at the Postoffice at Ligonier, Indiana. BAYNE A. MORLEY. Editor and Publisher. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE ‘ One Year = = . . . - - $1.50 Six Months - . . . - - - 75¢ \ €2 00 Per Year Outside Trading Area : 3 & 9 '~ (9

Th- 01l hope of preserving what 1s best lie. in t e practic: of an immense charity, a wide tilerance, a sincere respect for opin--Isas that are not ours. , ---P. G. Hamerton

On Your Toes! “rhe cnly way to win an election insofar as the organizaiivia is concerned is to work night and day to get our progrum to the peopie and then get them to the polls on ciection day.” - This was the statement of Fred F. Bays, Democratic State Chaiiman, in a warning against overconfidence of Democratic workers throughout the state. - ~ . : . “Of course, we are gratified that the Gallup Polil, the Fc:tune Poll and other polls indicate a spiendid Demoeratic vietory this fall. But these polls cannot win thls election for us. It is only by dint of unceasing work that elections are won. | = “We have everything with which to win. We deserve to win. We have a program for tiie people, a record of achievement in behalf of the people and one of the finest groups of state candidates ever ofed the peopie of Indiana. Our opposition has nothing to offer the peuple, but in spite or these factors in our favor, it’s the votes in the ballot box on election day that count. .

“I urge every county chairman and vice-chair-man, every precinct comitteeman and woman, every block worker, every Democrat worthy of the name and everyone who desires good government to leave no stone unturned to get every single vote possible to get in the bailot box by 6:00 p. mon November 5. If we do that we will win.”

: 5 & 88, 8 Wendell Willkie has become the nation’s Number One political hitch-hiker. - e | ’ He is seeking to ride to the White House on the policies aind the record of Franklin D. Rocsevelt. In every speech he makes he places his stamp of approval on the record of the New Deal but admits, modestly, that he could do a better job. ‘ B%n 9 ' , “Mr. Willkie does not set a very high stardard of patriotic Americanism. He says four men in the world—Hitler, Mussoini, Stalin and Roosavet regard themselves as ‘indispensable” To link President Roosevelt with such characters is unworthy any American. The American people will tell Mr. Willkie so in November.”—Hamilton (0.) Journal-News (Ind.) : . .B &% n » “Wendell Willkie would have been well advised to hold his tongue rather than give vent to the angry. sarcasm with which he greeted the announcement that Mayor LaGuardia will support the reelection of iPresidep{; Franklin D. Roosevelt. A wisecrack will not serve Mr. Willkie in this instance. Fiorello LaGuardia, one-time Republican and now an independent, is one of the great political figures of this day and time. He is honest, a high-grade executive, an stands head and shoulders above the commen run of politicians in inteiligence and intellectual courage.”— Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune (Ind, Dem.)

.q T‘ ] T ] % 4B AREERRNERERRVERERE It is estimated that since 1853 Americans have contributed more _thapy 100° million dollars for ~ Christian missiong in Japan. A few days ago, the Rev. Toyohko Kagawa, a graduate of the Prince~ ton a{]niveréi,‘;y Divinity School, ~and Japan’s most widely known ‘Chrstian leader, wag arrested on ~ Vague charge of violating the mil- ~ The preliminary 1940 censug _ Teport gives Washington, D. C., & - Populaticn of 663,153, an inereass of 36 per cent in the last 10 years _and the greatest increase attain_ _ed Dy any latge city. Thishas Elmrapae st oisirs sttt e - e g

Enrollment in elementary schools of the United States this tall gre estimated at 21,500,000 of about one million less than those of three wyears ago This is accounted for by the decreasing ‘number of birtus during recent years, - : At an agsembly in New York City, 100 Jewish rabbis adopted résolutions to the effect tna: they §vioul-d- not geek deferment or exemption- from military duty for themselves or ‘rabbinical students ag they might do under th> new censeription law. | When the formerly Democratic Chattanooga Times came out in support of Wiliie for prosudent. %w%%’m@a% L s g b s e e e

THE LIGONIER BANNER, LIGONIER, INDIANA, THURSDAY OCTOBER 17, 1940

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i o WHAT YOU FOLKS TALKED ABOUT YEARS AGO e .

10 Years Ago - Mrs. Mary Ann Roe, 91°died Wednesday merning at the home of her gon Frank in this city. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Inks left Thursday morning on a ten day motor trip through the east. Tuesday afternoon Marion Reese suffered severe burns when he came in contact with electric wires of the Inter State in Topeka It was necessary to amputate his right arm. it A republican rally was held at Wawaka Friday evening. Plang were under way for a Hallowe’en celebration with Roy Jorg at the head. ; Harold Simmons is suffering from gun shot injuries. IMrs, Osiq Nelson is home from Cedar.ﬁß‘aplds,.\,lowa. 2 20 Years Ago - ol 'Qomi)ton purchased the ‘house at the corner of Union and | ; Grand streets of Josephine Wol, Improvements were being planned at the Christian churcl. Mrs. Ray Loy arrived in Lig onier after an extended visit in ’Des M:ines, lowa. '

~Around The State ¢

RECEIVES OBJECTIONS TO SCHOOL LEVY CUT : : : ; F Elkhart county Auditor Her_l bert P. Sisterhen received 28 let—| ters protesting the action of the Elkhart county tax adjustment board in reducing the Elkhart schcol eity " tax levy for 1940 from $1.05 to $1.03. The letterss will be referred to the field rep—resentative of the state board of tax commisgioners when he conducts a public haring at a date to be established Jater. : Decisicn to appeal the adjust—ment board’s action to the state tax board was announced some time ago by the Elkhart school board. : B 00l . RUNAWAY ACCIDENT FATAL TO GREEN TWP. FARMER Young, 48. prominent Green township farmer who died FriR e ﬂ,* "f;:';::\ S wr»“;\ »-,f#“,: day at St. Joseph’s hospital at TFort Wayne of injuries suftered iR & dokp btk s s 00 weeks ago, were held Sunday at s e e e e W 3R it sullered a broken back when he was dragged some el o, ey

Bump Sack was gplaying with an Angola orchestra. There were no bn"tus 01 deaths during September ir Ligonier. . 30 Years Ago Cromwell and Ligonier are scheduled to have a bill game Sunday. It will be the last game of the season, RS. Emerick was selected as the Demiocratic member of the County commissiOne‘rs. Governcr Marhall will speak Friday night at Kendaiiville c¢losing his egmpaign. Uhcle John Kenney of the Haw patch was in the city yesterday. He is in execellent healtk: and takes great interest in pubiic affairg despite his great age. The Ligonier Band p'ayed at Cromwell Sunday. . | | 40 Years Ago | Luke H. Wrigley, of Albion, Iw‘ill address the people of Ligo|nier and vicinity next Saturday (at the City Hall, He wl] taik on the political issues of the day.

CARL GRAHAM : }ls CANDIDATE 4 ! A ———— 3 {,W. Carl Graham, former gtate xAmericanism‘ officer, and A. R. | Vagalues, present state Ameri‘canism officer, of Fort Wayne, were unanimously indorsed by | the Fort Wayne post No. 47, American Legion, for state and ! district commander of the Legion. l S The candidacies of the two men will ‘be submitted to the district Legion meeting October 30 at Columbia ‘City. Both have beeen active for many years in Legion , affairs. ' ?OOLUMBIA\CI'!‘Y GIRL MISSING | ~ Mrs. Maude Woodley, of near icolumbia City has enligted the ldid of the police in locating her idaughter, Betty, 15, who has been | missing since last Sunday. The : girl -was last seen in a Columbia _lQity restaurant with two men | i who were enroute to South Bend.' {TO WILLIAM PRICKETT - | | ~William . H. Pirckett, 82 died| iat his home in Benton Sunday| afternoon following a three day |iilness from bronenial pneumonia | He had been in failing health | | Surviving are the widow, two |, Turers: eervices were hel | | SOAdRT I Bentin and Bural was (2l Damen Suntey iy ey e 1 3"2 o LT R SRR i Wy RS SR AR A L LROER -3 {barn at his home, eight miles|

The 74th Indiana Regiment is holdig its annual reunicn at Pleasant Ikhke. NeXt year they will meet at Rome City. Some enterprising citizens o! Millersburg are =gitating for electric lights in that tcwn, ' ~ Isaac Rose left last Monday to attend the nmeeting ¢f the carriage Builders Association in New York. - o F. P. Bothwe!l hag moved his office into the Banner Block where he has fitted up a fine suite of offices. . - 90 Years Ago Mrs. I. B. McDobnald, of Columbia City returned to her home Mongay after a two week visit here. ' The incandescent - lights will soon be put in : Democratic headquarters will open at the City Hall next Sat. urday aftrenoon. The new system of voting will be carefully explained. New portable folding bath tubs are being shown at Beazle’s Harness Shop. . It is rumored that a new mai] train is to be put on the Lake Shore Line within the next few weeks.

| $20,000 DAMAGE SUIT - 7 FILED AT FORT WAYNE 1 - i The school city of Fort Wayne and the United States Casgualty company were named defendants in two law suits brought by Ralph l‘,Levin, 19, and his father, Jack Levin, ariging out of injuries suffered by the youth in an intra_ mural track meet at the North side high school inFort Wayne May 22 1940. y . The youth asks $20;000 damages for an injured left leg and the father $l,OOO for hogpital and medical services and $5OO for loss of gervices. e © The student was injured, according to the complaint, while participating in a jumping event 'COLUMBIA CITY HUNTER = KILLED BY OWN GUN ¢ Bbomer Shinbeckle, Columbia @ ﬁﬂy Saturday when his shotgun {ing Off hif head P e e «*t | Joe Anm Sparks, 14 years ol¢ [P e e | %ﬁﬁ%ﬁ ”; @V, S;‘ ,fﬁ'é; e ,&'&gﬁgﬁg‘g = fon TBBO 4% wtie %’%?%% fon .o, oU ‘BIX liies west of f%f it ’ “,ﬁgg}\ﬁ% ek “;%f %?@*aﬁﬁsgw?ﬁ%ﬁg%i% ek o sudentl e o e e s i s e See e R

ATDSTERS : AN YOy 0 | freE ey , i ey vk o SETeI 8 g By %«AL':ER A. SHEAD In thie current iscuc of the magzine Life, there is a pieture of

Wendell Willkie thumbing his nose at a Roosevelt sign held aloft by a young man in overalis. And Willkie is usingiboih hands in his thumbing act. *» * ® . Now no one condones the

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‘gz tlowers, the vegetable bar. wgzs or the heckling which has iooted Willkie alinost everywhere 2 has appeared. But the fact of he matter is that the undignified, .mart - alex mannerisms and the nore or less confempt with which Jilikkie ', greets tha crowds- who u.n out to sec him, 1. accountable in large measure for the treatment 7iven him at the hands of the American people, ;

k% ® % His frequent use of cuss words indé his-impulsive rashness brand iim ag very different from the type of man the American neople want 2s their leader in the White House. In Sunday’s papers we saw an example of the contrast between Willkie and the President. * * * While Willkie was snarling “Cuwr and Coward” at his advarsaries, tha Fres':lent was mak‘nv a groat A--erican speech at H:Je Pa X ea the inportance of !oc~l s=if - gov-rament in the gitics and counties of the nation ‘ * *A * The Pres’dency of the United Stebs s perhans the most powerul odice in the word and the n7n whe vecupics that office must ‘n some degree measure up to the Jdianitr, and the expectations of -<he one hundred and thirty million people whom he represents in na tional and world affairs. e - The American people do not want a barn-storming, political mountebank in the White House. We are a Democratic people it is true, and we do not look with favor upon stiffness, false pride or snobbishness on the part >f our leaders. We do, however, expect the President of the United States to be something more than the figure Wendell Willkie has cut on lus tour of the nation. ; o * % * <

Mr. Willkie has a facile imagination. He still seeks to be all things to all people and it just depends upon what section of the country he speaks as to where that imagination gropes in his past for local color. One cheering crowd hears that he has been a hog farmer; to another he comes di: rect from the steel mills; out in the far west:he was an old cow hand. He has been dish washer, bakery employee, harvest hand, business man, hobo, cattle raiser, short order cook, high school teacher and small town lawyer. **% : i ~His composite photo caused sne cartoonist to depict him as a lone cowboy riding up Wall street with chaps and patent leather shoes. . % .

But for some reasoa, perhaps his inate modesty, or some prank of memory, Mr. Willkie does not boast of his last job, which if you remember was the president of Commonwealth & Southern utility holding company, at a stipend of $75,000 per year and bonus. Mr. Willkie does not boast .f that. He does not boast of his bitter war with labor unions as head of a far-flung utility empire, ner of his hiring labor spies, or the use of tear gas during labor troubles, . ; X % » :

. It is our thought that Wendell Willkie has definitely placed himelf out of the running for the Presidency this November, More than twenty-eizht mniil.ion American voters will decide he is unsafe to have at the helm to guide this nation. “ Ll

B ¥ * ‘We need the steady, experi--nced and courageous hand on the siller and the calm, cool, deliberate orain and the mature judgment of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House in these times. At the beach near Dover, Eng‘and. a Britigh lieutenant dashed “lot who had been shot dowm, ronially cnongh, iswtongut W . Jacobs, who risked his s to save & Nazi flyer, is aJew.

- We, The People SOME OF THE ANSWERS By Jay Franklin

Following the slection, some cf the nfore light-hearted New Deulers are ‘considering g far-flug plan for the imaginative soluticn of thé problem of the last seven rears: The refusal f aandful of disgrintled citizens to follow the slectien returns,

Neither Fifth Columnists, og- © etionipts nor lud citizens at heart,” these people simpiy do not like living in the 1940 med,] 't America, They either want to 0 hlgk' to an impcssibie 1880 'r, quite generougly, cfters to sct ‘le fo¥ g return to the lhe 1920.5. “hey honest'yn don’t like the way ‘he country h:s turned out and their ‘vplces are raised in rightcous indignation whenever their :ountl%:;gctg its age.

Hitler or Stalin would liquidate these ‘people, on general principles—as would Mussolini. In England, the plucky British have solved’ the problem by herdine them: into llitte concentration camps called elubs, where they are allowed to talk at each other about ‘how the country is going to the dags and in moments of aDoplexy are encouraged to write a letter to the “Times.” In France before the fall, they were encouraged to distinguieh their energies .with the aild of an elaborate gyftem of padded cells—nown a 8 nids d’amour—and pretty litt&e;jailors who kept ‘saying, “Tu as raisen mon chou’’ at their tale of Gallic woe. :

None of these solutions is available for us. We dq not liquidate the losers in an election. The club system would not work here. becanse with us "Colonel Blimp is genérélly B 8 member of the firm of Nitwit, Blimp and Foozlo —investnvent- coungel—or the presidént of the Blimp Whoozit Compa;'x, : : So a'i“ho'vel plan has been devised, -We are coing to establish not a Devil's Islan. for our unrecois;tructed ones, but an Angel’'s Island. They will be in-

vited—or encouraged—to live there, as guests of the government, in the greatest of comfort. Golf courses, swimming, riding, duck hupting, tennis, and cocktails will be provided by society. Neat cottages or large dormitories (labeled gs hotelg) will be set up to hous¢ them. Newspaperr will be specially edited for their pleasure and radio programs or movies arﬁ;nged }so as not to shock them wﬁth a senge of ugly realities. %}irtation will be encour-

. gThiﬂ Week’s Best Stories “snd Witticisms

One df the teachers, recently returned from the summer vacation, brings this one in. She met one of lier puplls on the-day before school opened and said, “Well Betty, what has been happening at your house this summer?”’ : .

‘Our cat eame home with four little Republicang yesierday.” the little girl replied. The nextuday the teacher, trying to take up a little tume, weut around he room asking each child something interesting that had happened to him during the vacation. ‘And now, Beity,” she said, *"Teil the class what you told me yesterday.” ' : , Samtfetw, ‘Our cat brought four little Demoerats home the other: day." - :

| “You told me_ yesterday tha ‘they mere Republicans'’ the teach ‘er: Teplied, . ... N ) “That was before they opehedl| their eyes,” the little girl sdid ~

~ ‘Dom’t lookinow,” said one eye to the other, *“but there lis sofiething between ug that mells,” Lo Jim Dilts declares he has found the meanest man in the country. An elderly couple, who were charged with ereating a breach of peace in their own home, came to him for advice. “How did you come to cause this digturbance,” ~ "Well, it was like this," reLpﬁﬂ!ﬂwq{avnm. “John and 1 was thinking, Then I turned to him and said, “John, gheep ‘are John said ‘Yes, my lamb'."

aged and divore made nst too difficult or public for those who want to change partners in the old game of man vs. woman, They will be given expengive clcthes and allowed tc go as gften as they like—under armed guards (tactfully called body-guards or private detectives)— to offices ia Manhattan skyscrapers, wrere they ean eten nanerg and h %e their heads over the state of the world. The clever thing ahout thig plan is thet the euests of the nation on America’'s Ange] Isloal will never realize that they avn’ heing 10.-¥ed in.: Tlnsterd, they will feel that they are heing most exclugive and are keeping athar, people out. Their armed gtten:iants and wardens will wear guitable uniforms and will always taneh theé h:t, bow or curtsey and say. Yes, Sir and Yes, Madam. If bharhed wire entanglements or 'nctrieal fen es are required, the will be patrolled on the ingide ot the social stoekade, reten~ihly tn keep ontsiders from eraghine in —thns maline sure th:t the in‘mates remain on honnds. Never ‘v word, deed or rectn=a will these refngees from the New Deal oot the ‘mpression that they are rot ruling America 51 v —oA }ments 0® donht they w'l' ha ropesrred hy heine enecnreend to Iﬂ"n checks or. in extreme caces, will be permitted to telephorne their congrsssman.

For a time, some thon~ht was 3 given to the idea that Termniq or Nantucket winld d~ for our Angel's Is'a~d— but the war males Bermudy too important to accommodate our econ’mie refuoees whi'e Nan‘ucket is »ot a rdther wiidy corner in terms of our naval deferse. In Duzzard's Bay, however. and at the cast end of cnng Island Sovmrd there are a number of islads ideal for the purpose, which covld readily be acquired and would require a min imum of effort to prerare for those Americans who have learned nothing and forgottcn nothing and are proud of it. Under the new total defgnse program it should be possible to acquire some of these by eminent domain and set the C, C. C. boys preparing golf links and dormitories. Until ;theu, of course, the eastern end of Long Island will do pretty well as a first-aid station for the wbunded egoesg of Twentieth Centuiy "America. As a matter of fact, perhaps we have had a set of Angel's Islands all the time and never knew it.

A traveling salesman stopped in just long enough to tell ug thus one that he had picked up in Indianapolis. An overworked business man had been ordered to bed for a complete rest by his doctor. He hadn’t been there a day and was just enjoying himself when the phone ranz. A few - minutes later his wife came running up stairs and asked if he had answered it. ‘ “Yes'’, he replied. “We!l, what was it?"” asked the slightly irritated woman. ~“Oh” the hugband said, “Just . some fellow who winted to kn'w if the coast was clear, and I told him to call the Ccast Guard.

‘Women, says Sensible Sis’ Bothersome Brother, are like wild horses. They run agroungd loose for a while, but sooner or later somebody bridles ‘em.

A member of the Time Kliilers’ club brings out a new one on the old theme about the man whe had decided to give $lOO to the laziest man he found, - During his travels he came to a little southern town and saw : man lying under a huge tree. But the shade was on the other side of the tree and the tran wag sitting in the boiling sun, . “"Why don’t you move Over - the shade?” the traveler asked. - “Oh, it’h git over here,” the ‘man drawled. - “I mgreed to give $lOO to the laziest man “in the world, and 1 believe you get the money.” ~ "Okay, put it in my pocket,” sald the tramp. - . Miss Marian Griffith of Lehigh_ ton, Pa., gtood highest in her class when graduated this sum-. mer.. Her mother, Mrs. Sadle Griffith, . who received her dipgﬁﬂﬁ?ﬂ&mwﬁwﬁ%m mwﬁﬁéﬁg‘w%%:w%w&ﬁ%w Bhbaeh s SRI Hien Rave falied 40 séluEn s - .o