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OREKNCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1933
NO. 73
„,)0I) MEETING CONDUCTED BY MEN’S FORUM
FIRST OF SERIES PRESENTED AT CHRISTIAN CHURCH SUNDAY NIOHT
KBV ROBERT BECK IS SPEAKER
G. O. P. Democrat
Special Music Alsu Features Service. Sermon: "Christianity and Economic Situation"
Bp fore a lanre congregation the Mi n’s Forum of the First Christian church presented last Sunday evening the first of a series of three Sunday evening services. A large chorus of men under the di rection of Charles A. Hamilton led the congregational singing A special feature was a violin solo by Edward C. Tritt accompanied by Milton S. Trusler. Robert T. Beck, minister of the church, was the speaker and had as his subject. “Christianity and the Economic Situation.” He said that on many expresisons of the economic and social institutions of western civilization Christianity had made a most extraordinary impress. The selfcontrol, the simplicity, the social conscience as seen in many aspects of our present day living can be traced directly to New Testament Christian-
I ity.
The issue of today centers around the battle of conflicting ideals, ratliei than in the pattern of modem institutions, the speaker declared. The cynical interpretation of life as without purpose hurls itself against the view that man is a living soul. The seeking of privilege arrays itself against the Christian ideal of responsibility. The set for pleasure and amusement, both in its form and in its underlying philosophy, which forms a great pail of our present living, is in striking contrast to that set up by our schools and churches. He called attention t< the study of the “Movies" by Henry James Forman, soon to come frorr I the press in book form. In this study I 84:( motion pictures were examined. I Of this number d"' presented ebarI acter. that had no occupation, ot [ were gangsters, piostitutes, thieves [ bootleggers or engaged in illegal occupations. The appraisement of Christ still stands "Life does not consist in th' abundance of the things one pus j ses.ses." Real wealth consists in men of integrity, men of honor, men of intellect, men of industry, men who have the Spirit of Christ. Happines.must not be divorced front work; nor dare we look upon man as a tool. The new day must dawn “when man shall call man his brother and love as himself another.” Our churches hold enough men to bring in a new day of justice and righteousness if they an awakened to their power The program was as follows: Organ Prelude. Prelude in E, Miss Freda Macdonald. Hymn. The Churches' One Foundation, congregation. Hymn, Holy, Holy, Holy is the I.otd, congregation. Scripture reading, Paul F. Boston. Prayer, Ira A. Cowling. Offertory. Anthem, Nearer To Thee, Men'.- < horua. Violin Solo. Edward C. Tritt. Mil ton S. Trusler, accompanist. Hymn, Faith of Our Father, con gregation. Benediction Organ Postlude, Finale, Kncrtit. Miss Freda Macdonald. MAHKIAEE LICENSE Alger Leatherman, fireman, and Ada E. Rice, housekeeper, both of Greencastle.
FRANCE HAS WORLD'S BEST ARMED FORCE
Stratosphere Prober r
MOST I’EAt K-MINDED NATION BUT BEST PREPARED FOR WAR
It isn't often that a politician gets tuch a pleasant surprise as was the 'ot of Charles B. Wagner (above), 9f Washington, Pa. Unknown to aim, Wagner, a staunch Republi:an, was nominated on the Demotratic ticket for one of the Pennsylvania Assembly places from Washington County. To his amazement, he was elected. He says he will endeavor to carry out the wishes of his Democratic consti-
tuents.
t'ONTKADK TORY
SITUATION
Old Feeling \ gainst Germany Prevails According To United Press Correspondent.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of five articles by Richard McMillan discussing why Europe doesn't dis-
arm.
By Richard McMillan United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Jan Ifi (UP)—France is the most pacifically-minded nation in the world today, yet at the present time she has the best-equipped army in Europe and the most formidable chain of fortresses—bristling with gun an i bayonet—in human history. She has just placed an order to build the last word in naval death-dealing weapon.-, tire 2R,:!00 tons pocket-bat-tleship Dunkerke. This apparent contradiction towards disarmament, so puzzling to the foreign mind, is quite simple and understandable to every Frenchman. ‘Tiie gold we are piling up in the Bank of France will be used to fight Germany,” a Frenchman who had fought and been wounded in the World war, told me. But neither he nor anyone else in the country wants to be at war again with the hereditary foe across the northeast fron-
tier.
Why. then, does the Republic go on training and preparing for war. dt would lie more accurate to say that France is preparing for the pos-
sibility of war.
France emerged from the World war blood-drenched but satisfied. She had defeated her old enemy, snatched back the lost provinces of AlsaceLorraine secured her share of the spoils of the German colonies, whereby she became the second largest empire in the world. Her devastated region, razed to the ground by four years of warfare, has been rebuilt in modern style and Germany has had to pay the bill. Germany’s money, too, paid for the destruction of the coal mines .and factories in the north, all now equipped w ith up-to-date machinery enabling them to compete
with Germany.
In the Saar. France lias been exploiting what were once German coal
fields, and she will continue to do so I’KD ES ARF. HIGH DURING I’RES-j until the plebiscite under League of ENT I’ERIGD OF Et ONOMIC Nations auspices in 11)36. ThroughDEI'RESSION out Europe, French influence in poli- ____ tics is more potent than at any time
since Napoleon. France has reason
to be satisfied. The spirit of
MORE WINTER WEATHER AND SNOW ON WAY
Royal Mother
MIDWEST IS DUE FOR SOME MID WINTER \\ EATHKR THIS WEEK
/ERo TEMPERATURE REPORTED
Some of the Middle West States Path of Severe Cold Wave From Northwest
Gas Money To Pav 6ft Bonds
Bil l. STARTED IN LEGISLATURE TO PR I VIDE PAYMENT FOR DEFAULTED BONDS Putnam county road bond holders may yet be paid the principal on them ts result of a bill introduced in the Tate senate Saturday which will permit ten counties in Indiana which deaulted the principal of outstanding mnds. to be paid out of gasoline tax nonies instead of from a regular
levy.
Putnam county was one of the ten Indiana counties defaulting on road •>ond principals due this year. This ame about when the tax adjustment boa id reduced the levies sufficiently o not allow the payment of principal
luo in I'.Kid
However, there is sufficient gasiline monies for this payment if the egislature makes it legal, and in all irobability, it will be done. Howtver, before it i- accomplished, strenious oppesitfon will tie met from nany sources, principally automobile iwnei., who now claim they are payng muth more than their share of
jovei nmental operating costs. Trapping Has Been Good Here
Professor Auguste Piccard. Bel gian scientist famed for his two flights into the stratosphere, is shown as he arrived at New York on the S. S. Champlain. The savant is here to make a lecture tour of the country. The proceeds will be used to finance another trip to the higher regions. He may make the next ascent from the American continent, somewhere in the vicinity of Hudson Bay.
Japanese May
Make Bij: Bush
( MINES!: mm ES FEAR I I KillER IM \sio\ OF M \IN .1 VPANESE IM \DING TROOPS
A snow laden winter breeze bore ! down on the middle west today after 1 several days of almost Indian sum- 1 mer mildness. Zero temperatures were predicted i for the corn and hog-raising states tonight, with a rain turning gradually ! into snow. At mid-afternoon ye.ster- i day, the temperature stood at 51 de-! glees and parks in cities were crowded, hut weather forecasters said that was a teaser. The forecast for the next 24 hours i held threats of wind, snow or rain for I ail the states in the Great Lakes and i upped Mississippi valley states. Pre-! diction was for snow from the upper Minnesota line far into the old south, with rain where snow does not fall. | Storm warnings were issued for the .Great Lakes. No excessively low [ temperatures wore predicted, although forcasters believed it would I be “much colder.”
FINAL DRAFTS OF DOMESTIC RILL ARE DUE
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS FIN'D ADMINISTRATION BILLS READY FOR ACTION
BEER MEASURE of INTEKESl
Is Being Watched More I halt Others. But All Are Of Vital Interest To People
DIVORCE IS SOUGHT
Trappers of Putnam county tlii.~ year apparently were not affected by the depression as fur prices have maintained their level while prices for other commodities have teboganned downward, it was reported here
Monday.
A Greencastle dealer stated that he will have shipped approximately 3,- j
opo.-sum I
peace reigns in the
thoughts of the people, but the powder factories, the steel works, the dockyards clang and rattle as tanks, guns, aircraft, war vessels are hammered into shape and ranged up in readiness for action. The very teasons which give France cause for sat-
i isfuction make her uneasy and do
>00 hides of muskrat,
skunk, red fox, mink and coon, to . , , .
, termined to l>e prepared,
furriers when the buying season clost.-
m January 20. Trappers are forbid I France's position in Europe today leu by law to trap fur after January i much like that of a rich man living 15 but have an additional five days in , amongst poor, envious neighbors. Aid li to dispose of their green hides ; France has nothing to gam but much
The Greencastle dealer said that to lose by a new war.
muskrat and opposum hides brought 'Hie French viewpoint is that the from 30 to 36 cents, skunk from 70 j instigators of strife in Europe now to 75 cents, mink and coon from $2.50 are not the French people but the
t ( , $;t.()0, and red fox from $2 to $3.50. nations defeated in 1018.
Will Reorganize Highway Body
Muskrat and opposum are the most numerous fur bearing animals in tlb>
country.
According to the local dealer there at-., from eight to ten fur dealers in
"Germany," says the French, "secretly is preparing to attack us in older to wrest back the territory she lost, to rejoin her dismembered East Prussia to the homeland by abolition
PEIPING, Jan. It!, (UP) Chinese officials feared today that the Japanese were planning an advance from the Great VVall toward Tientsin, although the Shanhaikwan area was quiet and there was little activity outside the wall. The fears were based on reports from General Ho Chu Kuo, commander of the Chinese gait'ison at Shan haikwan. Heavy Chinese concentrations were reported along the I On mile railway from Tientsin to .Shanhaikwan. Japanese were concentrating at Suichung and Chinehow. and it was believed licie that the Japanese would attempt to drive the Chinese to the Tientsin side of the lain
river.
Outside the Great Wall, the Japanese accepted the challenge of Gen. Feng Chan Mai’s “Big Swords” who harrassod the Nipponese troc ps last wo“k and claimed to have checked their advance into Jehol province. Manchoukuo troops protected the Japanese rear, while Japanese troops launched counter-attack- at strategic points outside the Great Wall Skirmishes, but no important engagements, were reported between Chinese and Manchoukuo patrols from Chiomenkuo. the ninth gate pass, to Shihmenchai, the tenth gate pass. Chines feared the Japanese intended to renew their operations as far inland us Kupeikou. The Japanese stated last week that they intended mereh to occupy the passes, blocking entry into Manchuria. Japanese airplanes resumed bomb ing in tile Kailu sector, reports here said, hut inflicted little damage "Big Swords ’ and guerillas commanded by Gen. Cheng Kewi Lin. canying out cavalry raids similar to the activities of Jeb Stuart during the American Civil war, occupied passes north "f the ninth gate which command thi western approaches to Chengtefu, capital of Jehol The Chinese military intelligenge reported that these activities would delay a Japanese offensive on Jehol at least a week.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 16. (UP) Final drafts of administration bills today interested Indiana legislators returning for the general assembly's second full weekMany Democratic program bills are scheduled for introduction during the week. Information as to their j exact contents was sought today as | both the house and senate rccon-
j veiled.
Among the administration ineasI uies being drawn finally the one legalizing beer in Indiana was most ■ watched. Its details still were being ! shaped today while provisions of its companion measures were more gen-
erally settled and known.
Penalties in the original beer bill for manufacture of home brew have
T. ... .been stricken tentatively from the (.M. MOl N I OF 1 FlDf IS . E , measure, it was said today. Demo .11 DC F, ADV Ot A 11, OF AMF.RI- i ( . ra tic leaders from both houses l AN LEGION j studied the bill yesterday and re-
| moved the clause placing a fine rang-
1NDIANAPOL1S, Jan. 1<> I lie cxe-1 j n(? f rom to $1,000 for beer mak-
cutive committee of the Indiana de- in „ at
Queen Joanna, wife of King Boris III of Bulgaria, who recently presented her husband and country »ith a baby princess. The Queen is a daughter of the King and Queen of Italy. This is the first child bom to the Bulgarian rulers and the occasion was marked by nation-wide rejoicing when the good news was
flashed from Sofia, the capital Is Elected To
Succeed DonneiT
partment of the American
Clyde Underwood of Greencastle I tiled suit for divorce In circuit court j Monday against Frances Underwood ; on grounds his wife associated with'
other men and finally left him. A- ship champaign vvere outlined and C.
cording to the corn plaint the couple i ^
of
Legion I
yesterday chose Aug. 27-20 as the time of the next state convention, to
be held at Evansville.
Plans for a four weeks’ member-
mg at home.
A total of 18 changes in the orig ino 1 draft were considered with wide uipport at the conference yesterday. They included one legalizing the sale •if draught beer. It was taboo'd in the original bill because of "no saloons” platform promises and it up-
of
Mount of Tipton, former judge j
married November 15. 1929 and sep- ” l •'lA 011 circuit court, was elected p eHre( j t„ ( ) a y legalized sale arated February 20. 1932. Fred V. judge advocate. 5 ecr w j|| 5^, j n bottles only. Thomas Is attorney for tin plaintiff. 1 Mount was chosen to succeed Wilmi, License fees of the original meas-
S. Dormer of Greencastle, who resign urp> ranginkr from $5,000 yearly for
ed following his election as judge 01 j brewers to $ rK)0 for each ^taller, a n>
llic Putnam circuit court j being trimmed to bring the retail cost William 0. Nelson of Anderson, I HrK , akeagy pri c ( .s. AlO-cent.
12-cunce bottle is the goal of the fee
Hrar Vu Unusual Uom|K*nsation Uasr
FIVE NON RESIDENT DEFEND \M > INVOLVED IN < tSB OI Alt 1 HUR WOODS
A compensation case, in which Ai
state commander, who presided, said the objective of the membership drive would be to enroll 12,008 members j between Jan. and Feb- II. Thiwould bring the membership up to tin j
enrollment on F’eb. 11. 1932.
The Indiana department is in tenth place nationally, having enrolled 15, per cent of its quota for the year ] Clarence A. Jackson • f Newcastle.
objection to the measure
its limitatn/n of whole ilei , to
tlmi Woods of F incastle is plaintiff, membership chairman, reported at tin unusual in that five non-residents ot meeting,
the state and their insurance companies are defendants, was held before the state industrial board in the law library of the courthouse Mon day. The hearing was opened at 9 o’clock in tin* morning and was not completed until 1 o’clock in the afternoon Mr. Woods is seekin|g compen-
sation for total disability.
Defendants in the action were various contractors in the construction f state road 43. located in Ohio and Illinois. The immediate contractor!
defendant is H. L. DeMuth of Bowl |,\\\yf:K SAYS HIS PLAN PROing Green, O. POSED WITH OTHERS W ILL Mr. Woods was injured when hi.s| ^|| ( 'png WORLD
left teg was caught in a post driller I
last June 24. The leg was fractured CHICAGO. Jan. 16. (UP)-A plan in several places above and below t h‘‘ | designed to save the woil l from ecoknee and he was confined to hospitals | non|jc ru | n WU!i . u | )in itb'd today by a for more than three months. ■ co mmittee of 20 prominent men for Representatives of all the defend- 1 r , )VU | „f the peoples of the na
ants and their insurance companies , t j nns The program proposes a four year
Nelson said Governor Paul t Me Nutt, a past -talc and national coin mandcr, and Raymond S. Springer of 1 Connersville, will head the member ship campaign. Both men addressed
j the executive meeting. Uhicajjo Man
r
()ulliii<\s Plan
Putnam county. With each <>ne buying 0 f the Polish corridor and to fly once in the same number of hides as the , more the German flag on the high
Greencastle dealer it would seem that aeag .”
Putnam county is still a good trapping
I territory
DINNER DA I E 1 H VNGED Hie Putnam County Credit As-ocia
tii n's annual meeting has been postponed from the 23rd to the 24th, in order not t > conflict with the Meth-'
defend- j a pp roV a| of
npanies j ,i ((ns
weie present for the hearing. A de-
■•isi'ii is expected in about two weeks, j un j v , irKI(l arni8 holiday, scaling down
| of war debts owed the United States
8 BANKS C LOSE and their ayment in cash within four ST LOUIS. Jan. 16, (UP) Flight | years, emcellation of other inter-al-liHiiks. with total deposits of more lie i war debts, and a progressive pro than $8,000,000 dosed hero today, j rata reduction of armaments to agbringing the total number of banks gregate a 50 per cent reduction by suspended here during the past ten the end of the arms holiday, days to 16. G"he plan was drafted by Salmon O. Levinson, Chicago lawyer and peace MORTGAGE RELIEF proponent whose ideas were incorporWASHINGTON, Jan. 16, (l'P> —! ated in the Kdlogg-Briand pact to
relief of 1 outlaw war. It is subscribed to by
■utting. Another
was
me in each county. With that provision, beer traffie would be too profitable in such counties as loike, St. Joseph. Allen, Vigo, Vandcrburg and Marion, it was argued. The clause will be re written to limit distributors m a population basi . Rep. John F’ Ryan, Tetre Haute, tnd Sen. Fred A. Egan, Gary, were nnong the Democratic leaders studyng the bill yesterday and who still vorked on it today. Other administration iiiea.-iirc to be introduced this week are those providing for an income tax and sales ‘ax, teorganization oi the public ser I vice commission, creation of a state 1 iepartment of public safety and j health by combining present departments of a policing nature, a new tax- : ing method for intangibles, and a ^ new banking code. W W, O’BRIEN DIES William Waldo O’Brien, age 26 years, s'n of Dr, 11. M O'Brien of Danville, passed away suddenly of heart disease early Monday morning tt bis home in Danville. Mr. O’Brien was a nephew of Dr. W. M. O’Brien
of this city.
F'uneral arrangements will b" an-
nounced later.
COMMISSION WILL BE MADE IT OF THREE ALL TIME MEN WITH
ONE ACTING DIRECTOR
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 10, (UP)
Fifforts by American and Britisli statesmen and even by Germans themselves to disabuse the French
DAUGHTER OF FORMER | mind uf ^ persistent nightmare
PRESIDENT IS DEADj have failed. The argument put to ; the F’leneh has been this:
CA1M1BRIDGE, Mass- Jan. 16 <UP> 1 "It was the armaments race before Mrs Jessie Wilson Sayre, 45, Cam-| 1914 which was the direct cause of’ bridge, daughter of the late President , the World war. If Fiance remains 1 Wihon died at Wyman House of'as powerfullv armed as she is today j
1 mmediate Yecommendation' foV i»s-1 Cambridge hospital last right follow ] an armament race can be the only sage of administration measures t«>; inK a gall bladder and ai pendicitls result. You cannot expect your neigh- j reorganize the state highway commis ' operation. ! ^ * 1)6 d <‘>’ r,vH of , what y° u ial1 I Sion is expected by the senate from Friday night she entered the hos- defensive weapons so long as you reits roads committee. pital and the operation was perform-; main w.th guns and tanks and bombAttorney General Philip Lutz. Jr. P d Saturday by Dr. Herbert F. Day. ert. She. too. has neighbors against has been studying the bills over the I Her condition was rei>orted serious whom she might want to defend her-
weekend at request of authors, who hut not critical- Yesterday, however, m
desired several minor changes in the she took a turn for the worse, and The French reply to this is unwav-
two blood transfusions failed to save ; ,. r j n>r , <‘We admit,” they say, “we ber have been spending $450,000,(8)0 Besides her husband, Mrs Sayre yearly on our armed forces, and that ] eaveg two sni 18 * Woodrow Wilson #ur ne w forts on the frontiers are the state roads' Sayre and Francis Bowes .Sayres, Jr, on Thm)
j and a daughter, L.casor
for Monday evening, Januar.v 23.
THE WEATHER
Light rain; colder northwest and west central (Hirtinns tonight; rain, turning to snow, and much colder
Tuesday.
FOX Dim F. \ F til l RF Persons who participated in a fox drive in Clinton t un-hip Satuid.i; are said to have failed to ure my of the animals due to the sn. ill number of persons who took part in the drive.
NINE HI RT IN ( RASH
Miss Uan-rir. 61 Calk'd B\ Ikalli
AT BOSPITAI SUNDAY. SURVIVING KEI VIIVES LIVE
IN FILLMORE
wording.
The new highways bills would abolish the bipartisan four-man commission and create a partisan three-man
body to be known as
comuu»siou.
“ Il « * WI ' ''■ h "‘ Ute " (t’ZTl.s^nL. n.™*."* ........ lawyer.
lent soon will lie placed before the | professional and civic lenders of Chi-
umse for action. Chairman Steagall j cago and the middle west,
of the banking and currency commit-1 “ I he wnTI is on the brink of an tee announced today. economic .dark ages unless something,
constructive is done," laevinson de-1
clareJ today. “The world cannot keep! on feeding increasing millions by
LOGANSPORT, Did.. Jan. 16 (UP) |charity and it faces complete break-
|—Nine per on> injured in an auto ,down on morale. mobile accident near Walton were re “The plan we have prepared is one Miss Emma Garrett, age 61 yr.n ported recovering today in Logans- of business and humanity, not of poli- passed away Sunday evening at 7:45 ! pert and Peru hospitals. .tics. It was prepared by plain peo o’i lock at the county hospital, follovvOiarles Whitman, 21, Logansport Pie for plain pepol?. It is designed to ing an operation last Thursday.
end hat historians will tznn an age Miss Garret whose former home of economic insanity.” was in Saybroek, 111., had been living “For the United States, this pro-! with her two nieces at Fillmore since gram would bring the most money the death of her brother Frank Gar23, and the most peace.” he said. “It will rett, two years ago. » he objected that Europe won’t dis-1 She is survived by two nieces. Mi-a arm. But if anyone can explain why ^ Lucy and Miss La>la Garrett and a the European nations should not call nephew Joel Garrett, all of Fillmore.
20 Years Ago TODAY’IN GREENCASTLE
Mrs. Estes Duncan was a visitor I driver of on® car, and John Reed. 8, here from ( Inver laic. | Peru, were reported the most seriously Waliash»dcfeateil the DePauw bus- j hurt- • •
ketball team. 46 to 20. J, P. Allen, Jr., left today on a business trip to New York City. Miss Mabel Stoner spent the day in
Indianapolis.
E. L. Harris went to St. laruis, Mo. C. A. Kel’e^ was in Fillmore on
Others injured were Harry Burr, 54, Logansport; Darrell Barr, Ixvgansport; h"<1 L*o Reed, 35, Me Clelland Reed, 78. Mjjp. I^*k Reed. 30, and Ruth and Richard Reed, four-
year-old twins all of Peru.
Whiteman’s automobile caught f'® 6
aft**' era--'-'
an arms holiday if it means staving off disaster, then I’ll admit a flaw in
the nlaa.”
The body will be taken to her home in Saybrook for burial. F’uneral services will be held there Wedr.tsaav,