Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 44, Number 20, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 8 January 1925 — Page 3

the ADVANCE-NEWS BY E. V. BLAIR f, EW S The ADVANCE, ll ’ eoso)MtMJune 1,1920 THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1925 SALARY BOOSTING UNPOPULAR. Henry N. Sherwood of Franklin, who was pointed state superintendent of public instruction following his nomination on the n .publican ticket, to succeed B. J. Harris, re.pnied, and who subsequently was elected on that ticket under the general promise and ,‘,U re of economy and tax-reduction, seems „ jjfjve misinterpreted the evident disposition ' f t he people to be liberal in providing edu- , ltional facilities and administration. He V \vas quite willing to accept a ‘55,000 office and to campaign for continued incumbencyjat that ti.Miie. Fntrenched by the election for a term to start March 15, ho scratches out the item of $5,000 for salary in the budget that was prepared by his predecessor and shoves [jtion U p to $7,5(j1. If Mr. Sherwood has found that, the office demands mbre thanks reason.,|)te from-a “$5,000 man” ho should resign | m ,l seek another job that will pay him what j ;e i s worth. If, perchance, the state cannot iiud a capable successor below the $7,500' mark Mr. Sherwood may be recalled to save the day jt the salary now. demanded by him. Then the salary question may be fairly said to he settled by the good.old-fashioned law of supply and demand. If the collective mind of the general assemble is at all in consonance with the collective mind of the taxpayers, it will set a stern I face toward all efforts to effect an increase ill. I the salary of any incumbent. It’s,bad policy I of general principles, to be resorted to only in I case of extreme emergency and to correct a I manifest injustice. But in this case a preceI dent would be especially demoralizing. The I puljlie expects something rather more idealI istic from its educators than a common poliI tician’s itch for the pecuniary emoluments of I office —Fdkhart Truth. I HOT CAKE DIPLOMACY. I President Coolidge may leave a record as I one of the most astute executives who ever oeI copied the white house. One who is smart I enough to invite the senators and representaI tires to breakfast will go far. I Dinner'invitations are usually formal and I often mean only a necessary courtesy. Lunch- ■ eon is a meal over which men expect to trunI sact business and get down to cases. But ■ breakfast, is different. It is’the intimate meal ' H of the day, the one that disarms hostility and ■ forces out whatever is reasonable in a man. ■ Newspaper people always speak with I wirmtli for breakfast for to a majority of thorn 9it is the most important of the food occasions. ■ AVe Jiave never known a newspaper man who I did not think well of his breakfast. K I Therefore, when President Coolidge calls ■ six or a dozen senators and representatives toI gether for New England sausage and buck- | wheat cakes he not only works his will upon ■ them but lie causes himself to be well reportI od in the newspapers. A newspaper writer cannot bring himself I to say anything ill of what is done around the H inornintß coffee and during- the first smoke of ■ tli.. day. With more than four years of prosi- ■ dentiai breakfasts on the program this nation ■ should progress.—South Bend 'Tribune. I NEPOTISM. ■ The Indianapolis News has. published a ■ sharp rebuke of the governor-elect for practic- ■ iiig nepotism in the dismissal of Dr. Bryou A. ■ Biggs from the superintendency of the Indiana HSchool for Feeble-Minded Youth, Fort Wayne, ■ and the appointment of James Gr. Jackson, a ■ brother of the incoming governor. ■ AA e are reminded by the News also that the ■ members of the board of trustees should have ■ resigned rather than submit. We hope that ■ the members of the republican state commit■he realize that the party has enough to ac- ■ '•muit for and will not permit the Hon. Edward ■ •Jackson to run roughshod over the people as ■ a spoilsman. As for nepotism, that is especi- ■ ally repugnant and most people thought it had ■ g"im out of style. It seems, however, that rela- ■ jj\es of officeholders will still be attached to ■ 1,1 public payroll in certain cases and those ■ cas i ?s are the ones Chairman Walb should ■ notice The Biggs case was flagrant. It should ■ not be repeated. GO FORWARD!

' is not so much the speed with which, ungs are done that counts, but with stead b kss. An essential of all kinds of progress is *'>t it be continuous. There must be no standstill. The rate'of progress may, for one ,' ,iM)n hr another, slacken at times, but the m\ eiuent must always be forward. A man’s maybe comparatively slow, but if he pur--1 it steadily and with his eyes wide open, ‘tin * \b*- s ?? ore . progress than one who rushes ' "’’K bltn <% for a time, and, exhausted by his In r .'fu 8 ’ stumbl <* frequently and sometimes **>. P a th altogether. “It’s dogged does wi , I boose ybur goal, keep steadily on. th ‘ r er occurs J you will find yourself farmyard than if you had never begun. -.- ‘ i '

ENCOURAGE THE BIRDS. .It really needs no ‘argument to say that lords arc usctul as well ns ornamental. With a few exceptions, they serve ;1 V erv Important purpose m keeping the earth’s vegetation from being almost entirely destroyed by insect pests. They do the double duty' of protecting our food tor us and filling the air with music. Birds are diligent in their consumption of those insignificant things wliieli cause mail so much trouble. But we wonder if man is as diligent in reciprocating. With the deforestation of the land, whioli the 1 milds of man have wrought, the harbors and hiding place for birds have been largely destroyed. Their food supply has also been tampered with, so that at times their search for food avails them nothing. To show an appreciation of birds and what they are doing for us, the city of Fort Collins, Colorado, has been officially declared a bird sanctuary where more birds can seek refuge from the rigors of tliQ winter and be provided with food and water at times when they' are scarce. The children are being especially interested, and they are being urged to feed the birds so that they will come tq*-1 ho ft) seek crumbs. Is that not a worthy thought for the rural schools, and even rural homes? The children are benefited by their acquaintance with birds, as there is something esthetic in an interest in bird lore. Furthermore, the children’s interest in nature and the beauties around them, becomes enlarged and they get interested in the conservation of nature. '* ■ Would not the last ice storm have offered a great opportunity of relieving sufferering among bird friends and at the same* time afforded an interesting pastime? THE BUSINESS LIFEBOAT. Insurance funds are perhaps the busiest and most helpful funds in the whole range of industrial and commercial activity. The private owner may' hoard his capital or even deplete it for running expenses rather than risk it in any investment. But insurance money must work, or the company fails. For this reason, and because insurance in some form is the principal foundation of commercial credit, the taxation and restriction of insurance funds should be a matter for intelligent understanding rather than political prejudice. With forty-eight new legislatures coming on, and ill each a probable iiood of insurance measures to be considered, there is necessity for combating foolish and ill-considered measures which interferes with sound business policies. Communism would substitute mass taxation and obligation for individual saving. TnsurMdfe'requires the individual to save for himself, and protect the public from his own disasters. It makes private conservation and not,public waste its creed; it puts-a premium on individual independence instead of encouraging mass irresponsibility. Insurance builds up a tangible fact, available for those who will toil and save today; communism gibly promises to underwrite any' fantastic shortage for any or all its people, without considering the effect on society as a whole. Insurance needs to be considered in the light of a business lifeboat, a saving church, a personal sacrifice to avert possible public mendicancy', and as an industrial anchor for the whole system of honest credits; not sis a fair target for the professional politician and destructive legislation. A RECORD POSSIBLE. If the present legislature meets and adjourns without adding scores of laws it will have established a record. The average IlPosier is skeptical about promises of curtailed legislation. Too many promises of that kind have been made by members of the legislature and political leaders in the past, and too few of them have been kept to inspire confidence in the latest pronouncement to this this effect. • v Citizens are viewing the promises, of tax reform in the same skeptical mood. Not that they are not ardently hoping for “rigid economy',” “business administration,” “thrift” and “saving of the people’s money.” They are pray'ing for that kind of relief, and .wondering whether, their prayers will be fulfilled. Members of the legislature will receive a hearty benediction from weary taxpayers of the. sthte if they succeed in carrying out their promise of reducing the expenses of the state and of following the excellent example which the national government has set. If they' are looking-for an incentive, the drastic Action of the federal government furnishes it. The people are wondering if they will be' able to do in Indiana what the federal government has done on a fiational scale.

BIBLE AND TELEPHONE DIRECTORY. ■ Next to the Bible the best circulated book in America is the telephone, directory. Never mentioned as “A Best Seller, ’’ 25,000,000 copies of the American telephone directory are published and circulated each year. A telephone dollar is expended thus: Kents, three cents; taxes, ten cents; miscellaneous, eleven cents; material, fifteen cents; wages, sixty-one cents. Few other great, industries show so large a proportion of their earnings expended for either wages or taxes. Net plant additions to the Bell System in 1923 required $240,000,000

NAPPANEE ADVANCE-NEWS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1925

H HUMS GIVEN 10 AID BUM EASTMAN. KODAK MAN, DUKE, TOBACCO MANUFACTURER, GIVE BIG SUMS Andrew Carnegie was the first multimillionaire, In this country, who proclaimed the doctrine that it was a disgrace for a man to die very riclt. He proceeded to illustrate his meaning by giving several hundred millions of dollars to funds for the founding of public libraries, and also endowed techhlcal schools and colleges, to give young men the chance for an education which he, as a boy and young man, had never had. Only a small percentage of his great?fortune was given to his only child, a daughter. John D. Rockefeller has been the most princely giver of all time. The Chicago University is a monument largely to his generosity. He has given hundreds of millions for endowing schools and colleges in this country, and for medical research, and to carry on public health campaigns in our own as well as in other lands. Last week two very rich men, one in Rochester and the other in North Carolina, likewise made large benefactions for the benefit of their fellow men. Eastman, the kodak man, who had already given nearly fifteen millions of dollars to help colleges, made a further appropriation of fifteen millions of dollars to help the Rochester University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other worthy educational institutions. Mr. l)uke, the wealthy tobacco manufacturer of North Carolina, gave to philanthropic and educatinal institutions in the south, mostly in North and South Carolina, ihe princely sum, of $25,000,000. Mr. Eastman gave $1,000,000 to-Ahe Tuskegee school in Alabama and an equal amount for a college for colored men in Virginia. These all go to show that the possessors of great wealth are coming more and more to realize that wealth Is a trust, entrusted to them, and that they have no right to use this trust for purely selfish ends, but must also use It for the good of mankind,, We believe this view of riches is becoming the accepted view, and that the very wealthy men are becoming convinced that they must use a large portion of their money for the good of others, because it would demonstrate their own unfitness for the trust, if they used It selfishly. ELKHART COUNTY HOLSTEIN NOTES The purpose of these notes is not only to Inform those interested in Elkhart County Holstein Association of things doing inside the county, but to tell the public in general what. Holsteins have done in Elkhart County, in Indiana, and in other states, and why Holsteins are Economical Producers of the most healthful milk that It is possible to obtain. “There’s a Reason’’ why of all the purse bred dairy cattle In America more than half are Holsteins and of all the pure bred and grade cattle in the United States nearly half are Holsteins, and why Holsteins are the most numerous in the 30 states that produce 76.2 per cent of the Nation’s milk supply, 93.3 per cent of the condensed and evaporated milk, 84.9 per cent of the creamery butter, 49.1 per cent of the farm butter, 94.4 per cent of the factory cheese, 87.7 per cent of the farm, cheese. The average annual production of all dairy cows in these states is 3806 pounds of mjlk. In other states where Holsteins do not predomiriate the average Is 2,562 pounds. More Figures Next Time. The County Association held its Annual organization meeting in County Agent’s office on December 6th. The following officers, were elected: President—-Joe Gorsuch, Goshen. Vice-Pres.; —Noble Hoover, Goshen. Sec.-Tres’y.—Tim Blosser, Nappanee. c

The officers together with Chas. Weldy and Earl Cook, will constitute the Executive Committee. The Appointment of Progress Committees will be taken care of by the president when thd occasion demands. Prof. R. D. Canan of Purdue University was present and delivered a mighty fine address on a proposed program for, the coming year. The outstanding achievements of the. past year were the organization of a Cow Testing Association (in cooperation with other dairy breed associations) r The showing of eattle at local shows. Other projects that we have been forking on is county wide Tuberculosis Eradication among cattle. Organization of a Calf club that we hope to have in operation by spring, and the bringing into the county several good bulls. The active demand for cattle of the right kind has ben demonstrated by

the 3 or 4 sales that have boon held during the last year. Numerous cows have sold for more, than al over the S3OO, and one vent to the 's4oo mark. The last sale held by Wenger and son of Elkhart brought an average of over S2OO for the cows in milk, which ranks well with sales held any where. Our Cow Testing is bringing out tlte fitcl that wo have some extra ordinary producers. A number of cows have already more than 400 pounds of fat in the first 8 months that the Association has ben In progress. Boyd Shriner of Wakarusa had high herd for December with an kverage of over 52 pounds of fat per cow. This is the best average that has been brought out thus far. Boyd’s herd is composed of pure bred and grade Holsteins. Tim Blosser had high cow for December with a production of 75.2 pounds of fat A pure bred Holstein of Arthur Landis’ leads the Association for the first 8 months of the year. We are planning to have our Annual Holstein day the latter part of January or the fore part of February at Wakarusa. Watch for the Announcements in the papers and he sure to attend, because it will be worth while, ’ Watch for Holstein notes about once a month. ’ . TOM SIM.S SAYS Among the wild movements on foot we have the new fall dance: Wouldn’t it be fine if we all made what we claim we do? * If a girl’s face is her fortune there is billions in a drug store. Some husbands are happy, other's wives won’t stay home alone. One of these debutantes tells us getting marled Is even more serious than joining lodge. Ho hum! It’s a funny world. People who should be happy are not and those who shouldn’t be, are.

RIVERSIDE LAUNDRY AGEH ORVILLE CLIPP, Nappanee Agent Phone 83 The Riverside laundry of Elkhart has appointed Orville Clipp as agent for Nappanee Parties having laundry bundles or family washings can leave them at his auto supply store, E. Market street, or the laundry truck will call if preferred. Phone 83, and you will receive prompt attention.

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FARMERS The different seasons of the year follow each other in close succession. Only a few more weeks and the rush of spring work will be upon us. *** A Right now during the lull of January is the very best time to have all equipment for spring.work on the farm put in good working older. Farmers, we urge you to bring in your team harness at your earliest convenience, for repair -and oiling. \\ e have extra help at this time of the year for this department, and can do your harness work at lower cost. A few dollars outlay now in having your team harness, collars, bridles, etc., all fit out in,goqd repair, will save you much valuable time and expense during the busy spring season. „ Get our prices on harness, collars, pads and an\ oil-lot team or bum equipment/ , . -•' .. . —f M ■ ;• ’ V , ‘; , ___ . . ,'k . * • ' -*• . . ' SHIVELY BROTHERS Hardware, Furniture. Harness --——- - bNappanee

AUDITORIUM FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, JAN. 9-10— CONSTANCE TALMADGE as the flapper of 1662 in K “THE DANGEROUS MAID” *' / Full of Thrill and Romance — CONSTANCE TALMADGE in her biggest romantic drama and a star cast including Conway Tearle, Marjorie Daw and Tully Marshall < ALSO—“News” and Comedy, “Blow Out.” MONDAY AND TUESDAY, JAN. 12-13 * FRED THOMSON in “THE MARK OF LOPEZ” With Silver King, the most remarkable horse ever screened ALSO—“The Iron Man” and “Robinson Crusoe." WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, JAN. 14-15 J. E. WILLIAMS PRESENTS “THE UNINVITED GUEST” Directed by Ralph I nee ALSO—News and Comedy.

S-A-V-E CONSISTENTLY Interest Period--Jan. 1, 1925 Money deposited in our savings department up to and including Jan. 10, will draw interest at four per cent from Jan. Ist. Interest payable quarterly. : > First National Bank NAPPANEE ~ - - p —T*- '■ * .

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