Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 3, Number 2, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 15 December 1939 — Page 5

■ x4A r ao BY i . i 1 FRED W. BRAUN # © In a recent newspaper I read that the Honorable Secretary of Interior, Mr. Ickes, had made the statement “ he wished he had an armored car and could proceed down the highway and knock off some of the on our roads.” What is Mri* Ickes talking about? Doesn’t he know that some of the best highway safety records in the country have been developed by fleets of trucks? Doesn’t Mr. Ickes know that from 1927 to 1938 the fatal accident rate for trucks decreased 29 per cent, and that the number of trucks involved in fatal accidents was 17 per cent lower in 1938 than in 1937. Isn’t he aware that some of our truck drivers have driven hundreds of thousands of miles without an accident of any kind? Doesn’t he know that truck companies and fleet owners are spending thousands of dollars for safety annually and that these dollars are an investment in safe driving? Doesn’t, he know that the young men on these trucks are devoting a lot of their time to the development of safety records that will be difficult to equal? It is discouraging to have government officials give an opinion about some type of busness when the facts prove just the opposite. This befuddling remark is entirely uncalled for and is direct unjustified criticism if the trucking and transportation industry. There may be exceptions in certain cases, but certainly the entire industry should not be called on the carpet for one or two individual drivers. I’m for the trucking industry because of the splendid safety performances their drivers have turned out. TIMELY TOPICS Newsweek reports a great boom being experiences by plants manufacturing wood type, used for extra large headlines in newspapers and for posters. The orders of one firm is said to have increased 300 per cent during the first Week of the war. One World War hero still occupies the same position he held in 1914. He is Adolphe Max, bnrgomaster (mayor) of Brussels, Belgium, who was imprisioned for defying the Germans when they entered his city. He is now 70 years old and still alive. At the recent international convention of the Loyal Order of Moose, held in Philadelphia, the title of “dictator” was abolished and “governor” substituted. The change was made because the word dictator “has fallen into disrepute,” according to a resolution unanimously adopted. 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 dashed after the hit-and-run driver, jumped on BACHMAN'S For Finer Xmas Candies

the running board, razor in hand, caused him to stop, and turned him over to a policeman. Paul Gurtler, who was a sergeant in the company of Corporal Adolph Hitler, during the World Was, has enlisted in the Canadian Army. Gurtler is now a naturalized Canadian, whose home is in the province of Alberta. John Lindsey of New Jersey has attended a theatrical performance once in his 95 years. That was on the night of April 14, 1865, at the Ford theatre 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 feats of women aviators, a writer reminds us that the first women 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 an exhibition in Boston. Expressing skepticism about the value of strenuous exercise, Geo.Jean Nathan, the author and crit ic points out that the laziest animals live the longest. He cites the tortoise and elephant, which some-

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times reach the age of 200 years, while the dog, squirrel and other active animals die at a relatively early age. THIRTY MILLION FISH PLANTEP IN INDIANA LAKES AND STREAMS Hatcheries operated by the Division of Fish and Game have completed the planting of nearly thirty million fish in Indiana lakes and streams, assuring future sport for Hooser anglers, Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner of the Department of Conservation, said today. Tabulated reports from the state hatcheries show that 29,890,166 fish were placed in state waters during the year, with an increase of more than a quarter of a million in the number of fish propagated in hatchery ponds. These reports do not include the game fish propagated in conservation club hatcheries and also planted in Indiana waters. Figures on the club operations will not be available for several weeks. BRITISH DRIVERS USE I.EFT SIDE OF ROAD Motorists of nations abroad and tourists visiting them are required to drive on the right band side of the road more often than the left.

according to Bert Vanderwarf, head of the Chicago Motor club’s foreign travel division. The ratio is about 8 to 5, he said. “Aside from China and Newfoundland, most of the principal countries requiring motorists to use the left side are under British domination,” he said.

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■ GIRL SCOUT NEWS The Girl Scouts met after school in the Scout Hall. Everyone brought dolls and made clothes for them. There was a court of Honor meeting after the troop adjourned.

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