Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 1, Number 49, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 11 November 1938 — Page 2

Syracuse-Wawasee Journal PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT SYRACUSE, INDIANA BY SMITH & HOWARD IRA T HOWARD EDWARD H. SMITH Editor Business Manager Entered as Second Class Matter December 31, 1937, at the Postoffice at Syracuse Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. OUR NEW JOURNAL With this issue of the Syracuse-Wawasee Journal we have changed it from a 7-column four page paper to a semi- tabloid 6column 12 page paper. Increased national advertising necessitated the change and the management found by decreasing the size of the page and adding more pages that both advertising and reading space would be greatly increased, hence the change. In making the change we want our readers to know it has not been made to assume metropolitan airs, but to better serve them, as the Journal will always, under present management, remain a country newspaper, giving the local news of town, township and county, as has been our policy since its inception nearly twelve months ago. The Journal has from the very start tried to be impartial as to race, creed or sect; has steered clear of scandals and libelous i|ewsmatter and has tried to give to its hundreds of readers of Syracuse, its natural trading area, and the county at large the loeaMiews that is of greatest interest to both its town and rural reader. Trusting its new make up will meet with the approval of its readers, we are, Yours for the news, SYRACUSE - WAWASEE JOURNAL PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS THEN THERE WERE TWO DAMS A woman wrote to Jacob Riis, once famous as a newspaper man and social worker, and told him she had always admired Theodore Roosevelt until she had heard that he said “Damn’ when he led his men up San Juan Hill. If that were so she would regretfully be compelled to change her opinion of Colonel Roosevelt. Roger William Riis said his father was asked to verify this upsetting rumor. The father’s impatient answer was confined to this: 5 “Dear Madam: I do not know whether Colonel Roosevelt said ‘Damn’ when he went up San Juan Hill, but I know that I did when I read your letter.”

DANIEL WILLARD RIDES THE LINE

Daniel Willard, who has been for I more than twenty-five years the President of the Baltimore and Ohio is first, and foremoest. a railroader, but he is also a fascinating, many-sided personality and a man of unbounded energy and vitality. To do him justice within the covers of a single book is no slight task. However, it has been accomplished here in as colorful and interesting a biography as any in recent years. Edward Hungerford, the author, is himself a prominent figure in railroading and he has been a friend of “Uncle Dan” Willard and been closely associated with him for a number of years. Mr. Hungerford’s history of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and his work as director of the Centennial celebration of the B. & O. have given him an unusual insight into ’ the man who controls this great corporation, the man who has always spent as much time riding the line in his traveling office as seated at his desk in Baltimore. The present book begins wltn Daniel Willard’s boyhood on a Vermont farm and describes how he made his way through such schooling as was available to a farm boy of limited resources seventy years ago. With consummate artistry Mr. Hungerford recreates from Willard’s boysood reminiscences the standing for more than, a quarter or background for one of the most spectacular careers American business has ever fostered. Daniel Willard first beame a railroader with the old Connecticut and Passumpsic in Vermont, and from then on the reader follows his career with ever increasing amdiration. From section hand, he graduated to running a donkey engine for a construction gang. Then he became a fireman and finally an engineer. Mr. Hungerford tells of his first and nearly fatal accident on the line in thrilling detail, and \paints a grand picture of railroad life in that far off day. He then presents the reasons for Willard’s first move to the “Soo” which was

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to prove so important to his later advancement. Daniel Wijliard went to the “Soo” in Northern Minnesota when it was still in its infancy and there he gained much of the experience which carried hm ito the top, experience which included everything from making emergency repairs on a locomotive to selling tickets at a wayside station. From this point on Daniel Willard’s rise made railroad history. He left the “Soo” to go with the Baltimore and Ohio; then with the Erie; then the Burlington, and finally to take on the job of President of the Baltimore and Ohio-—a position whicn he has maintained with inspiration, justice, human sympathy and undera century. Mr. Hungerford never disgresses far from the main theme, but in the course of “Daniel Willard Rides the Line” he gives the reader fascinating glimpses of what went on behind the scenes in American railroading during the past fifty years. The characters and personalities ot famous old locomotives are treated with the same care as the men in Daniel Willard’s life. The part that Daniel Willard has played in the great labor disputes and in the framing of railroad legislation is given just prominence, and there are endless anecdotes illustrating the dry humor of this man who still remembers the Vermont farm. When the reader has finished “Daniel Willard Rides the Line he feels that he has really known “Uncle Dan.” If he had spent a quiet evening with Mr. Willard in his home in Baltimore, he could know no more of Mr. Willard’s broad culture, his tastes in reading and art, his shrewd judgments of men, or of his views on labor or education —the latter gathered from his active participation in the affairs of Johns Hopkins University, as Presdent of its Board of Trustees. Whenever possible Mr. Hungerford has quoted Daniel Willard in his own words. The result is an inspiring biography of one of the finest products of the grand old American spirit.

itmi I FRED W. BRAUN ifc A How are your brakes? If you were to drive an unfamiliar car you would probably immediately ask about the condition of the brakes. Yet we often step into our own cars knowing that the brakes are not up to standard, and we drive at unusual speeds. Where standards have been set the results of investigations are usually surprising. Often 50 per cent of the vehicles are not able io make a stop from 20 miles per hour in 37 feet. Grease on brake drums, delayed action on all brakes, and other causes are responsible for poor brake action. Have your brakes checked regularly. They should be up tor 3 ’ standard at all times. Whe n an emergency arises you want to be prepared, and you can not be prepared with poor brakes. FARM YOUTHS FROM 45 STATES TO MEET Chicago, Nov. 7—America’s farm youth will take an important part in the programs of the continent’s largest annual agricultural show, the International Live Stock Exposition, which will be held here November 26 to December 3. Concurrent with the exposition is the National 4-H Club Congress, which has been held in connection with it for the past 17 years. Twelve hundred boys and girls from the farms of 45 states, Canada, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico will meet in Chicago to compete for top honors of the year in scores of projects ranging frm home making activities to live stock and crop production. Represent Select Group They will represent the pick of the 1,200,000 boys and girls enrolled in this largest youth organization. A majority will attend the week’s congress on all-expense trips won by their records in contests held earlier in the year at their home state and county fairs. Prize-winning sample and examples of cooking, canning, clothing, and home decorating displays from the various state shows will be exhibited in the 4-H Club building, adjacent to the International Amphitheatre at the Chicago Stock Yards where the live stock show will be held. —, While they afre not busy with their own demonstrations and contests, the delegates will be treated to educational .industrial tours, banquets, and varied entertainment. One of the popular features of the Exposition’s Horse shows is the parade of all the Club Congress participants in the International Amphitheatre arena, concluded with ceremonies announcing the winners and conferring the awards. Hundreds to Exhibit Hundreds of farm boys and girls from the leading live stock producing states will tal/e an active part in the exposition itself in a competitive exhibition of cattle, sheep, and swine of their own raising, a feature of the opening weekend. They will also take part in live stock, crops, and meat judging contests. College scholarships will be awarded to many of the winners. More 'recently junior classes have been added to the International Grain and Hay show, and the title of “Corn Prince” is conferred on the winner of the best ten ear sample grown and exhibited by a farm | boy, to correspond to the “Corn King” award going to the grower of the champion ten ears in the open classes of this world’s largest crops show. f

(Continued from Page 1) are boring from within to destroy the American way. Some think maybe Dies should get 3 millions too. This group of thinkers believe it as important to save the American system as to try and improve it. Treasury experts are busy trying to figure out away to collect social security taxes from farmers employing helpers and housewives employing domestics. The problem was given serious thought in two recent meetings in Washington. Both meetings were to pool ideas for amending the Social Security Act te cover more people. The method still favored for collecting these farm and household security taxes, according to reports, is the one that would require the farmer and housewife to buy special stamps to be affixed to cards carried by the workers. ELECTION SIDELIGHT: A minister in a mid-western city closed his church for an indefinite period just before election. He said the congregation argued so loudly about politics that no one could hear his sermon. SYRACUSE YOUTH IS SENTENCED TO PRISON Tilman Coy, 21, of Syracuse, Monday was sentenced to serve from 1 to 10 years at the Indiana state reformatory when he entered a plea of guilty to charge of rape. Coy entered a plea of not guilty when arraigned on the charge Friday. Monday he withdrew that olea and entered a plea of guilty. He was arrested last week on affidavit signed by state police officers, accusing him of assaulting a Goshen woman. INSTALLS NEW BOOTHS IN SWALLOW CAFE AT GOSHEN MONDAY The Searfoss Auto Trim Co., of this city, completed Monday the building and placing of the new booths in the Swallow Case at Goshen. ® Manager Sam Searfoss and his men set up the booths in the cate late Monday night. LOSES VALUABLE horse P. H. Clayton, proprietor of the Mabie Ann Riding Academy, lost a valuable German coach horse last Saturday morning when it was struck by an automobile and had its right hind leg broken just below the knee. The horse broke loose at the barn and wandered onto the public road and was hit by a Ford car in which Paul Spry and Jim Losey were riding. The horse was killed later to relieve it of its suffering. CHURCH SOCIAL BYENT The ladies of the United Brethren church are sponsoring an invitational birthday party at the church on the afternoon of November the 16th. An interesting program of music devotionals, readings and a playlet entitled “Mrs. Deacon Spriggs” will make up the entertainment feature. In addition to the program a three.point seasonal birthday dinner will be served. A most enjoyable and profitable time is anticipatedNew Home-grown Raspberries Town Councilman Francis Grissome brought to the Journal office last Friday a raspberry stalk with six ripe berries and a wealth ot new Bloom. The stock was taken from a raspberry bush at the city dump on the shore of the channel.

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