Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 46, Number 17, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 8 February 1952 — Page 2

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THROTTLING THE FREE PRESS •> (The following is reprinted from The Freeman Magazine.) “It is scarcely news that President Truman hates the But it came as news to us thar, the Administration was within an inch of getting a throttling hold on the finances of a free press during the closing minutes of the last session of Congress. The legislative clause in, question was contained in Senate 2170; it would have given the Administration’s price-control czar full authority over the size and allocation of the advertising budgets of private industry. This authority would have permitted the Administration to decide what constitutes ‘reasonable’ advertising expenses and to exclude from the ‘cost of sales’ any outlay deemed ‘unreasonable.’ The proposed legislation. tucked in %n ‘amendment’ to an amendment, passed an absent-minded Senate by a 49 to 21 vote. It would have passed in the House of Representatives if John E. Lyle, Jr., of Corpus Christi, Texas, hadn’t spotted the danger in the legislation to the whole concept of free speech. Mr. Lyle, it seems to us, deserves an editorial garland in every | newspaper and magazine in the land.” —THE FREEMAN. DISCOUNTED-IN ADVANCE A short time ago, the President announced the creation of a “Commission on the Health Needs of the Nation.” It is to be financed from emergency funds' which have been allocated for purposes of national defense. Dr. Gunnar Gunderson, a former president of the Wisconsin State Medical Society and a regent of the University of Wisconsin, was appointed a member. He immediately refused the appointment, and stated, “I believe I am correct in assuming that the Commission is designed, both in its majority membership and in its objectives, as an instrument of practical politics, to relieve President Truman from an embarrassing position as an unsuccessful advocate of compulsory health insurance.” This doctor is not alone In holding such views. The Chicago Daily News said editorially, /'Precedent '.♦... supports Df. Gunderson's conclusion that Mr. Truman’s interest in health is largely confined to the convalescence of his political machine. Under his auspices, the finding of the commission are discounted in advance, on the theory that he» is far too cagy to risk a report that might be critical of one of his favorite .vote-getting appeals.” The President of the American Medical Association said, “There Is no healdr emergency in this country to require such an investigation or to justify the use of defense emergency funds by such a commission. The health of the American people never has been better, as all component authorities know, and greater progress is being made in providing prepaid medical care for all who need or desire it than at any other time in the nation’s* history.” The moral is plain. The fight must continue with unabated vigor against the effort to bureaucratize the practice of medicine —and to save this country,, from Britain’s sorry experience. DON’T BE AN EASY MARK We are living in an age when the fine art of trying to get something for nothing is being practiced by nations, states, cities, and on down to the lowliest pick pocket and professional writers of bad checks. Fred Johnson, vice president of the American Stores of Philadelphia, has compiled information on the growth of the bad check racket. It reads like a fast moving story. For example, he points out that in the trading area of the American Stores a certain group of banks formerly turned back from three to five worthless checks a day. Now they turn back eighty each day. The recent crime investigations have caused certain lawless elements to switch their activities into other types of swindling, particularly the pushing of bad checks' among merchants, with shoplifting, and counterfeit money as side lines. After listing scores c>f examples of the way merchants and individuals are imposed bn and bilked by the bad check artists, Mr. Johnson gives some sound advice: “Checks should never be cashed on the basis of casual acquaintance, sympathy, hard luck tales, distress telegrams, vague answers, ’ altered credentials, haste, bluff and bluster, offended dignity, personal resentment, threats to report to the main ofAce, or alleged friendship with

an official of the company. Phoned instructions to cash checks, regardless of the source, should be disregarded.” There is one safe rule to follow. Don’t cash a check for anyone whom you don’t know or who cannot furnish you with absolutely satisfactory credentials. FROM THE SYRACUSE TOWN BOARD FEBRUARY 5, 1907. J. William Rothenberg'er asked the board to pass an ordinance regulating the /speed at which ambulances may/ be driven ■'on the. streets of7 Syracuse. Whereupon the board directed the attorney to draft an ordinance to be presented at the next regular meeting of the board. FEBRUARY 19, 1907. Ordinance No. 210. Be it ordained by the Board of Trustees of the incorporate town of Syracuse, Indiana that it shall be lawful for the driver of any ambulance to drive the team hitched thereto on the streets of said town at any speed which the driver thereof may deem to be necessary to meet the needs of the situation. After carefur consideration of said ordinance and on motion properly supported, the rules were suspended, and the vote being called for after first reading the members voted as follows: John Wingard, Yea. T. H. Clemens, Yea. Samuel Akers, Yea. 25 YEARS AGO Feb. io, 1927 Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Bauer are the parents of a son, born Feb. 3. Louise Niles, a freshman, reentered school Monday. Her long absence was due to a severe cold. Miss Emma Serena Stillwell, 71, passed away Feb. 3, at her (home here. A deal was closed on Tuesday whereby Orval G. Carr of Silver Lake, has purchased the Pletcher undertaking business of this city. Mrs. Susan Culler of Elkhart, is visiting here in the home of her brother, Sam Rasor. Fred Hinderer spent a few days in Wakarusa with Mr. and Mrs. David Harrington and other friends. Miss Edith Stetler who recently accepted a position in Mishawaka, spent the week end in the home of her parents. Fred Ringwait ha?S purchased a new Chrysler coach. Miss Thelma Geyer and Charles Dietrick spent Sunday at the home of Earl Darr Goshen. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brickel and daughter of Fostorai, Ohio, visited over Sunday with his father, J. F. Brickel and other relatives. The Junior Musical Club was entertained by Harriett Bachman, Feb. 4. The yearly officers were elected: president, Edna Leacock, and secretary, Velva Brown. TYLER WILL PROBATED The last will of Mrs. Nellie Y. Tyler, who died on Wednesday of last week, has been admitted to probate in Kosciusko circuit court. Terms of. the will dated July 12, 1949, leave the entire estate to a nieqe, Norma Jean Richcreek. The will apopints the Lake City Bank, of Warsaw, as executor. See and you will buy SPARTON TV — Syracuse Hdwr.

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CAPITOL (By Charles A. Halleck, Congressman, 2nd District.) Fewer farms but more iand in production was the story of agricultural development in the Second District during the five-year period from 1945 to 1950. Figures provided my oiiice by the Bureau of the Census indicate some interesting trends. Second District are raising fewer beef and dairy herds, but the production of pigs and hogs is up. The Census Bureau’s definition of a farm, incidentally, is any tract of land of three acres or more which produces crops worth $l5O or [fibre annually. Althogh there was a decline of 84,308 acres of land used in farming during the five-year period of the Bureau’s report, there were 105,494 more acres of cropland harvested in 1950. Value of * land and buildings showed a big increase. In 1945, according to the Census Bureau, the figure was $299,939,860. In 1950 it had climbed to $160,125,163. Average value of all farm products sold per farm moved up sharply, rising from $3,799 in 1945 to $6,546 in 1950. Seven years ago about 75 per cent of all farms in the District boasted electricity. By April 1, 1950, the Bureau found that 94.2 per cent were electrified. Following is the Summary Data. (Inventory items are for April 1, 1950 and January Ist, 1945; and production and sales items are for the calendar years 1949 and 1944.) Number of Farms 1950 1945 20,787 20,938 Land in farms (acres) 2,970,511 3,054,819 Average acres per farm 142.9 145.9 Value of land & Bldgs. $460,125,463 $299,939,860 Average value per acre $154.90 $98.19 Cropland harvester (acres) 2,038,590, 1,933,096 Farms Operated by Tenants 5,644 5,732 %. all farms operated by tenants ,2|7.2 27.4 Farms With Electricity 19,579 15,807 Farms with Electricity 94.2 „ 75.5 Farms with Tractors 15,2'28 13,506 Number of Tractors 24,499 17,181 Number of farms with products sold of SIO,OOO or more 4,246 Value all-Farm Products Sold $136,065,>691 $79,536,717

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Average value of all farm products sold per farm $ 6,546 $3,799 Number of all Cattle 2 76,050 300,885 i Number of Cows 1 18,058 149,497! Number of Hogs and Pigs 664,600 441,423 Number of sows and gilts for spring farrowing 105,898 71,40.9 Number animals sold alive: Cattle and Calves . 149,118 155,853 Hogs and Pigs 831,474 778,447 Value of All Crops Sold $53,809,186 $‘24,146,689 Value of all livestock and I livestock products sold $83,141,158 $55,3215,311 Com Harvested for Grain 907,007 (acres) 851.923 43,902,183 (bu.) 31,527,4121 1■ \ . — - ■ ' ? ‘ j FIRE HERE JAN. 31 A fire in the cottage at the r 'ar of the Cleo Weaver home in the south part of town, Jan. 31, cl id some damage, before i was extinguished by the Syracuse fire department. The cottage was occupied by the James flrock family, Mr. Weaver’s son-i iin-law. j The fire started in a room used fitjir storage purposes, apparently in an old upholstered arm chair. Dense smoke made the job of locating the fire more difficult. Ift c of lamp black which fell from the rafters, added to damage and also to the discom4t?rt and disgust of two firemen who emerged as colored fighters.

"WWDanxAvWAKE UP-or die! ! Nearly 20,000 people died in the dark—in the night-time traffic accidents in 1950. Over 750,000 were injured in the hours from dusk to dawn. Last year these casualties * went still higher. < 3 Night accidents are one of the greatest factors in the increasing highway death toll. Fatigue, poor illumination, headlight glare, faulty vision, and the greater number of dangerous drinking drivers at night are the major causes of this tragic nocturnal record. Another big factor—in both night and day-time fatalities —is "highway hypC nosis.” On long drives over smooth, unending roads the steady hypnotic monotony of humming wheels lulls drivers into a dangerous mental blank. Alertness gone, reactions at a low ebb, the worst can happen—and does. What do you do when you become drowsy while driving? Safe drivers, recognizing the danger signal, pull off the road and relax. Perhaps they stop for a cup of coffee and stretch their legs, or let someone else take • , ’ the wheel. They know, as every good driver knows, that safety demands alert driving, particularly at night when the killing rate per vehicle is as much as four times . greater in proportion to traffic volume than it is in the daytime. When you are driving in a fog of fatigue—pull over! Wake up, or die! As Though Your Life Depends On It - - IT DOES! The following firms and civic organizations are co-operating with The Journal in the drive to bring the above message to the people of our community: ! ED STEPHENSON — REAL ESTATE COMFO - SLEEP WAWASEE POST 223 WAWASEE LAKE PROPERTY OF THE AMERICAN LEGION OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION SYRACUSE RUBBER CO. KOSCIUSKO BEVERAGE CO JONES COAL CO. OVERHEAD DOOR CO. SYRACUSE-WAWASEE ANONYMOUS DONOR ROTARY CLUB - - .

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 2 Syracuse-Wawasee Journal. . i Syracuse, Indiana. Dear Sirs: We wish to express' our apprecaition of the fine cooperation given our 1951 Christmas Seal Sale, with weekly reminders, new's items, displays. ! etc. As a public service, we think it very fine and again say I . . . . Thank You. Lulu G. Curry, Executive Secretary, Kosciusko County Tuberculosis Association, Inc. PARENTS OF A SON Mr. and Mrs. Gene Felts, of Syracuse, are the parents of a son, Walter Lee, born Friday, February 1, at Goshen hospital.

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i County Bond Sales Reach Half. Million In Year A. Irving Nelson, chairman of ! the Kosciusko County Defense 1 Bond Committee, has received a ' report which discloses that although national redemptions of defense bonds exceeded the sales last year by $1,8’00,000,000 that Indiana reversed the national trend by registering sales exceeding redemptions by almost $3,- [ 000,000. Total bond sales for I the state during 1951 were $119,>658,877 as against total redemptions of $116,713,951. Indiana is believed to be one of the few j states in which the people purI chased more bonds than were redeemed. ; Fifty of Indiana’s ninety-two counties sold more bonds than were redeemed during the year. Some counties where industry was being converted into defense

production, resulting in temporary unemployment, reported the heaviest proportionate redemptions. Kosciusko county’s bond sales for the year reached a total of $572,561 as compared with redemptions of $538,493. Phone us your news — 191!

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WILL IS PROBATED The last will of . Elizabeth Clark, of Syracuse, who died last Dec. 26, has been admitted to probate in circuit court. All property is left to a son, Ren S. Clark. The will was dated Jun© 18, 1948. Try the classifieds.