Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 45, Number 16, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 3 February 1950 — Page 6

ALCATRAZ ARTISTS STAR AT SHOW

ONE OF THE STRANGEST places tn which art has turned up is grim Alcatraz prison, the federal penitentiary reserved for the most case-hardened of criminals. Twenty-one of the nation’s most notorious killers, forgers and tom-my-gun artists form the art colony on Alcatraz, and their work has received favorable criticism from asch noted artists as Franz Bergmann, director of the San Francisco Art Commission’s show, where several Alcatraz canvases were exhibited at the last exposition. Mr. Bergmann said that the average work of the Alcatraz group to “much above the average of the more than 600 individual exhibitors” who showed their best works at the exposition. One of the artists from “The Rock” was John Paul Chase, who used to be first lieutenant to “Baby Face” Nelson and who was a wizard with a tommy-gun. He is serving a life sentence. Another was a man who is serving 199 years and whose only worry is that he can’t get the correct shade of blue in a landscape. Still another is a former counterfeiter, who now uses the same painstaking technique on the leaves of a tree that be once took putting the lines of Alexander Hamilton’s eyebrows on a phony $lO bill The art colony idea originated with the Catholic chaplain of Alcatraz, Father Joseph Clark, ‘ shortly after the bloody prison rioting of 1946. Warden Edwin B. Swope credits the project with doing much to quiet down the prison by giving a constructive interest to the sullen diehard* who sat brooding idly in their eells. Weekly art classes nee conducted by George Harris, prominent San Francisco artist, who volunteered his Mrvices as Instructor. The felon artists purchase their own materials out of money they

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earn working in prison shops. They paint in their cells from an hour before darkness until “Lights out” at 9:30. All display the patience of men who know that they have all the time in the world. There is no

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hurry, and they do good work. Samples that are shown at the San Francisco show won high ■ praise. Strangely enough, there was nothing about this Alcatraz art to suggest that locked-in flavor.

Wawakeechie Home Ec. Club The, Wawakeechie Home Economics Club meeting was held Wednesday, Jan. 25, at the Turkey Creek Conservation Club house with 22 present. The secretary and treasurer’s report was given and old and new business discussed. The lesson “The Outlook,” was by Mrs. Al Burson, vice-president. It was agreed to contribute SIO.OO to the'March of Dimes. The meeting was closed by Mrs. Paul Christine, president. Delightful refreshments were then served by the hostess, Mrs. Fred Banta and Mrs. Grayston Rhul.

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PURDUE SHORT COURSE HELD AT FT, WAYNE The third week of Purdue’s second annual four week agricultural short course at the Fort Wayne Center will deal with “Farm Drainage and Farm Electrical Equipment.” Gerald A. Karstens, shown above and Gerald W. Isaacs, both from the Purr due University campus at Lafayette, will teach this phase of the short course from Feb. 20 to 24. Mr. Karstens is an instructor in agricultural engineering on the campus. He holds a bachelor’s degree in that subject from South Dakota State College. His experience includes five years of employment with the Army Engineers in flood control and with the Soil Conservation Service in land drainage. In addition to his teaching duties, he serves as an assistant agricultural engineer in the engineering phases of Soil Conservation, Land Drainage and Reclamation. Mr. Isaacs, who holds both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue, is an instructor in the agricultural engineering department in farm and home equipment. He is a native of Parke County and served one year in the U. S. Navy as an electronic technician’s mate. He has written several articles on electrical subjects. Registration for the Agricultural Short Course is now going on at the Purdue Center, Fort Wayne. The four weeks course will start February 6th. Classes will be held from 10 to 12 a. m. and 1 to 3 p. m. Monday thru Friday. Dr. Bateman, district manager of the Center announced the change in the afternoon hours frOm 2 to 4 to 1 to 3 p. m. to benefit those living a distance from Fort Wayne. FILE CROSS-COMPLAINT Adam and Gladys Haag, who held title through purchase at a tax sale to 10 acres of real estate at Syracuse which has been taken over for school purposes by Turkey Creek township, have filed a cross complaint in circuit court. They ask that their title be quieted and claim the right to receive the full amount of damages, $3,100, placed on the property byviewers in the condemnation proceedings, withdrawing any exceptions to the assessment. They name as cross-defendants, Madison F. Jones, trustee of Turkey Creek township And Vernon and Marion H. Hastings and the Hastings daughter, Mary Jane Gaff, original owners who claim redemption rights in the property.

By Jim Larkin February weather can seldom win our praise, And most of us could get along without it. But. except in Leap Year, this month has two less days, Which is, perhaps, the one good thing about it. The increasing number of special “Days” and “Weeks” is somewliat confusing. Thus, my office neighbor, Gardner Meyst, thinking that it was one way to observe the occasion, ordered a minced-ham sandwich for his lunch on Ground Hog Day. KEN KEENE THE CORNER DRUGGIST Looking at a ft ~~~ v bronze bust of V jJi Abraham Lincoin, which oc'•X. .Zrtltf cupies a niche ZS- above the prescription counter, i'VivsSKf Ken Keene reM MW”' marked: “A good way for people to observe the coming birthday of that man, would be to reread and think about some of his common sense remarks. One of las reasons for wanting to free the slaves was that he believed every man was entitled to get and keep the money he earned. And remember, he said: ‘Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good to the world. That some Should be rich shows that others can become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise’. I hope that those people who seem willing to give up this privilege and freedom may find an Emancipator when thev have lost these blessings. They will want one”. J. O. Brannan, traveling salesman writes: “More power to that rational thinker, Ken Keene. We need more of such logic.” Thanks, Jack. A cold morning, a slow fire in the kitchen stove, and a sleepy dad, formed a bad combination, according to a recent news item. Pops wanted to pep up the fire with a little kerosene, but being drowsy, he made the mistake of using gasoline. The house was hot in a hurry, but the family members were colder than ever as they stood outside and watched the blaze. Be wide awake when handling any inflammable products, and avoid using them to start or stimulate a fire. DEFINITIONS IN RHYME Deviation from a common rule, or irregularity, . Is covered by a useful word, which is ANOMALY. AMENITY—the quality of being agreeable; of pleasant disposition, Should move you upward in your job and improve your position. Hot soup on a cold day is great stuff—if eaten. But it is very bad when taken externally—as the result of a pan of it being knocked off the I stove. Keep pan handles turned to I back of the stove. YOU HAVE YOUR SAY Some budding Indiana poet, with the modest signature, “I. G.” sends a post card bearing this little couplet: It looks like spinsterhood for Tilly; She says that Valentines are silly. \ (Readers: Your letters or comments ! are welcome anytime. Address: Jim ! Larkin, 757 N. Broadway, Milwaukee 2, Wis.) The instance of St. Valentine’s P’V recalls a poignant boyhood memci-. I spent mv hoard of pennies for a gorgeous, laev tribute to a girl so ■ supremely supernal that I could r ; t bring myself to sign the message. Knowing this, my aggressive pal, “Red” Davis, told the fair one he had sponsored the salute, and he was rewarded with a chaste (and it must have been wonderful) kiss. Thus began my extra-curricular education. I REMEMBER... By THE OLD-TIMERS From Mrs. Mary Stewart of ChF | — eago: “I remember when ladies took great pride in their luxuriant, long hair. Families with grown daughters made a ritual of the j shampoo; it was washed fortnight- | ly, usually with a change in the moon, then the ends were singed, I an oil was rubbed thoroughly into I the scalp; rain water had been saved and strained for use with tar soap for dark hair and castile for light. Then it was carefully dried and vigorously brushed out in the sun. In spite of all this, some heads still looked frowsy.” Rom Gardner Campbell of Wakefield, Mass.: “I remember when a committee of local women proal WA_"7/"" " ""*4 tested a display of women’s underwear in the window of the Browser dry goods store in our town.” Fran H. I. Phillips of New York (to Gardner Campbell): “In reference to your contribution to T Remember . . .* recalling “when Lydia Pinkham’s compound and Hood’s sarsaparilla were about the only non-local advertisements in die newspapers,’ did you know that it wasn’t until Lydia Pinkham’s sons put a S6O ad on the first page of a Boston newspaper that her famous remedy became one of the greatest newspaper advertisers in history? Out of a $3,800,000 lor years she poured $3,000,000 back into advertising. Proving advertising pays!” (Mra abeot yenr memories sf days gone by, oH-timers? Bend years today in eare of I Mr. Friendly. Bon Mg. Frimto f tort, By J

1 •r'FriyTC’/^lt‘ I '’rW-’-'^vy*r 'ti:j CONVALESCENT . . . Pee Wee Reese, Brooklyn shcrts’.op, rests at Louisville hospital after undergoing hernia operation. Doctcrs say he will be able to jcin his cl:b fer spr‘”’ tre'-' r. He exf ■ ’' ’.a leave Losj-i.al in 10 d~ys or ao. Speed of Bowling Ball In one series of tests made recently the average speed of a bowling ball was found to be about 30 miles per hour, with 37.5 miles per hour as the highest speed recorded. SLOGANS IN THIS AGE of decadence —and that’s what it is—the brain is seldom used by about a third of the population when it is deciding the nation’s fate and that of their children in the voting booth. The emotions pull the lever for enough voters to swing our once proud nation constantly backward toward the days of feudalism, or statism—"government of the many by the few.” The slogan employed to cover this reactionary trend is “Liberalism.” Its adherents call them selves “Progressives” (They are progressing all right —progressing backward!) In order to totally hoodwink that third of the population which in its semi-blindness swings the vote ever away from the “freedom of the individual,” the “Liberal” leaders invent impressive slogans to undermine the really liberal and progressive.third of the population. They label these sincere Americans “Reactionaries” and “Fascists.” Now that one-third of America, which tries to use its mind when it votes is, as a rule, more conservative in action and in speech where the interests Os its country are concerned. They are,usually of a type too earnest to indulge as freely in slang and slogan as are the “Liber-als-with-other-people’s-money’ ’ and the “Progressives—backwards.” They don’t seem to rea’ize that the word SLOGAN has become the most important word in the dictionary. No only here but all over the world. Hitler ’ might never have won out in Germany without his slogans; the Red slogans ran like fire through the excited Russians in 1917 and thereafter; “Fascismo” stirred the emotions of the Italians to a frenzy, and “New Deal” had more to do with the election and re-election of F. D. R. than we realize. Now we have a couple of new babies—little “fair deal” and baby “welfare state.” How about labeling them “lari deal” and “farewell state?” Why don’t those who wish to stop the advance toward statism roll up their sleeves, let down their hair, forget their reserve, and break loose a few slogans of their own. A GREAT MAN—PLEASEI IN 1948, eight million American families and single individuals received incomes of SI,OOO or less, and nearly a third of the nation’s families and individuals received $2,000 or less. Before government began throwing wrenches into our economic machinery, one could buy a good meal for 50 cents and “have a time” with $5.00. We paid 50 cents apiece for cotton undershirts and drawers which are now $1.50. Four-dollar shirts once cost a dollar, and the man with SI,OOO- - income could get along. But the Wagner act gave labor leaders mastery over union labor, and these ambitious leaders forced up union wages and started the spiral which boosted prices so high that a third of the population began to feel the pinch. Then the farm supports were so “overworked” that it renn’red over half thc»r *•> feed the families in the low brackets. This unbalancing formula final!.' boosted the farmer and union lab orer into the medium income brackets, and the richer they be came the less they seemed to have, while the low income fami lies became almost poverty stricken in terms of purchasing power It was a progressive spiral which did no one any good. The formula is still popular. It gets votes and leads down the path to national bankruptcy. There ARE alternatives to this tragic procedure, the prototpyes of which have destroyed so many nations throughout history. The patriotic men and women of America must realize that unrestricted governmental interference in a nation’s economy invariably spells ruin. If they realize this IN TIME, they could stop the present rapid trend toward state control. Another alternative is that some great man will appear upon the political horizon and be made president of the United States. He must be a brave and unselfish man, one who will stand upon the principles which made this nation rich and great; one who will tell the pressure groups not to vote for him.

BENEFIT GAME NETS NEARLY SISOO FOR STRICKEN COACHES . The benefit basketball game ; held at Warsaw, Monday night netted nearly SISOO. This money will go to Moin Miller and Dean Rager, the two ex-Sidney High i School coaches who have been seriously ill for months. Nelson Auer, Loren Loagenbaug and Joe Bauer played on the county officials team, and Millard Sink acted as one of the coaches for the county coaches. The coaches won 57-50. ' •< f

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FRIDAY, FEB. 3, 1950

MRS. EDWARD HOGAN Mrs. Mldred Hogan, aged 82, summer resident at Lake Wawasee for the past 20 years, died Saturday morning of complications at a Chicago hospital. Her permanent residence was at Chicago. Edward Hogan, the husband, is only surviving relative. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Troxel funeral home, > North Webster, with Rev. James Rhine, pastor of the Methodist church in charge. Burial was made in McClintic cemetery, Wawasee Lake.