The Indiana Journal, Volume 34, Number 24, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 14 October 1937 — Page 1

INDIANA The Heart of

AGRICULTURE

THIRTY-FQURTH YEAR

* j■- J/ • /■ James Preston Official Washington has a new worry now: “Will an era of ‘profit- * less prosperity’ drive the nation into a new depression?” Many people have wondered why the recent business recession has occurred when things seemed to be going on so nicely during the first six months of this year. Some blamed wars or taxes or strikes or unbalanced budgets. But new studies just published by the Department of Commerce appear to throw fresh light on the subject. In brief, the facts show the nation progressed splendidly last year in.its climb from the depression. National income produced, which means the net value of commodities produced and services rendered, reached nearly sixtyfour billon dollars. It is estimated that they will top seventy billion dollars this year. Those figures compare with a depression bottom of less than forty billions. The catch, as economists see it, is this: Nobody works for nothing; to some the return for labor is a wage or salary, and to others it is a profit on a money investment. The j, wage earner’s excess above necessary living costs is his “profit”; the factory’s excess above production costs is its “profit.” And just as rising living wages costs eat into wage earner’ “profits” so do increasing production costs cut into factory “profits” which keep a business in business. ( The Commerce EApartment’s fig- ■ ures'offer interesting comparisons between agriculture and manufacturing. ‘ ( Ji Agriculture last year produced commodities and services worth > six billion dollars, or 9.4 per cent® •of the nation’s income. It paid outi four billions.. Its excess of income . produced over income paid out was nearly 32 per cent. I ( Manufacturing, while producing , fourteen and a half billion dol-> lars worth of goods and services, , or 23 per cent of the total national income, had to pay out fourteen and a quarter billions. Hence, the manufacturing/, industry’s excess of income produced over income paid out was far under 3 per cent, compared with agriculture’s 32 per cent. One potent reason, of course, was higher prices paid for raw materials; another higher taxes; another increasing labor costs, for labor last year got 66.5 per cent of the national income—a bigger proportion than ever before in history. But the public, accustomed by the depression to paying low prices, just doesn’t like to pay prices necessary to meet higher production costs. So the margin ( of profits, already slashed by taxes and labor costs, is being kept down by consumer resistance. Washington is worried and trying to find an answer, but it hasn’t so far. One of the dangers of a swing downward lies in the depletion ofj manufacturing reserves and the, straining national public debt. During the past depression industry was able to dump over twenty-five billion dollars into efforts to maintain operations and employment. The tax on reserves and higher production, costs have prevented the recouping of these surpluses for another' rainy day. STEEL’S LIFE SPAN In 1886 the life of finished steel produced in the United States was 15 years. In 1936 the average 1 fe of steel products Is estimated at 33% years. School Children in Motion Pictures ' . • •• Motion pictures of Syracuse High School students were taken Monday and will be in the high school auditorium tomorrow night. Playground activities, school work and other scenes are featured in the film.

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Rev. J. C. Bailey J PASTOR OF UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH NAMED TO VACANT POSITION IN ASSOCIATION i

Goshen Named One of Several Places for Assembly , Rev. J. C. Bailey, pastor of the United Brethren Church was - elected president of the ''yraeuse Ministerial Association at a meet- j ing held last Thursday afteinoon ( in the Methodist Church parson- • age, home of Rev. Travis Purdy, j Rev. Jerome Kaufman, former ] pastor of the Lutheran Church here, who has been transferred to , another pastorate, was the former | president of the association. • | Rev. Ralph G. Rarick, pastor of the Church of the Brethren was elected secretary-treasurer of the ( association to succeed Rev. Bailey. Rev. Rarick was welcomed to i membership in the association by I Rev.. J. S. Pritchard, pastor of | the Trinity Evangelical ’ChUrch, who has served in Syracuse long- I er than any resident minister. ’ Rarick succeeds Rev, J t Edwin Jarboe as pastor of the ■ .Church of The Brethren. I | The Association decided to hold | the customary Union Thanksgiving service on November 25 at the ] Church of the Brethren with the sermon delivered by Rev. Bailey. Reports were given on Boy Scout activities. The success of this work is largely due to the efforts of Rev. Pritchard, scoutmaster. The scouts meet each Monday evening at 7 o’clock in scout headquarters, Thornburg building. Members of the Association discussed their meeting date and it was decided, to meet regularly’ at 2 p. m. the first Monday in each month. The next meeting will be held with Rev. Rarick, who lesides in the Church parsonage. G.Laucks Xanders Enters Law School I Son of Syiacuse Attorney to Follow Father’s Profession G. Laucks Xanders of Syracuse . has recently enrolled, at the Indiana Law School of Indianapolis for the 1937-38 school year. More ( than 225 stud vts have registered i I this fall at the Indianapolis institution, which has had unusual) success in preparing students for ; the legal profession. This is the forty-third annual , school year of the Indiana Law School. It was established in 1894 j ,by a group of Indianapolis attorneys which included Vice Presi- , dent Charles W. Fairbanks of the United States and Senator John W. Kern, who was representing Indiana in Congress at that time. I The school is the oldest law school i in Indiana and one of the oldest i in the mid-west. Laucks Xanders is a son of George L. Xanders, Syracuse attorney. . Two Local Girls Get Scholarships » .... i Lucy Bachman, daughter of » Charles C. Bachman, Sr., has f enrolled in Indiana University. , She is the recipient of the county s scholarship from Kosciusko county.

VOICE OF THE HOOSIER STATE

Milton Wysong Talks , To Round Table Club The Ladies of the Round Table met Monday evening at tne home, of Mrs. Edna Geyer. Responses were favorite fiowers and shrubs. The guest speaker for the evening was Milton Wysong, diiector of educational conservation. Mr. Wysong gave short talks on “Soil Erosion," and “Mistaken Ideas of Dredging.” Mr. Wysong also entertained with a slide picture machine de- 1 pictjng animal life and nature ; beauties of Indiana. There were six guests present. Refreshments were se.-ved by ’ the hostess. LOCALGRADS WILL ATTEND; HOMECOMING! Indiana University to’ Greet Alumni This ! Saturday .Daniel Strauss, and Phillip Smith, Warsaw, and William MaxweU and George F. Clark, Mentone, former members of the Indiana University band, and Harold J. Bowser, of Syracuse, ex-football player at I. < U., have received special invi- ' tations to the football and band ( alumni reunions being held Friday and Saturday at Blooming•ton in connection with the Illi- 1 nois-Indiana Homecoming foot- ! ball game. George Fisher, War- < saw, is serving as Homecoming ( chairman for Kosciusko county. Bloomington, Ind., Oct. 14. — ( Former LU. football warriors and 1 band players will return to the campus for their annual Homecoming Pow Wow banquet Friday night (Oct. 15) and their reunion * Saturday at the Illinois-Indiana 1 football game. Fred D. Cornell, quarterback of j the first Indiana University team j of 1886, will come here from ( Lincoln, Nebr., to preside over j the Pow Wow. Football players of < teams from 1886 through 1912, ] and also of the 1917, 1922, 1927, - and 1932 teams will hold reunions this year. ;» Prominent among the players is the 1910 team, which met Illinois on old Jordan Field that year for the Big Ten championship. Illinois won 3-0. A. H. Berndt, mayor 1 of Bloomington and captain of the < 1910 team, has sent a special in- £ vitation to his mates to return £ and whoop it up for Bo McMil- < lin and the Fightin’ Hoosiers. 1 About 700 alumni of Indiana’s 1 famous band will hold their first i annual reunion at Homecoming this year. They will watch the 1 “Battle of the Bands” as the Ulin- : ois and Indiana musicians put on ' their spectacular marching formations between halves. Band alum- • ni will hold their reunion dinner 1 Saturday night after the game. Since records of the band ftlumni are incomplete, Director Frederick E. Green is broadcasting a blanket invitation to all LU. band! alumni to return for thu Home*' comings I

SYRACUSE, INDIANA

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1937.

Heads Ministers' Union {People and in the Late News | .'Will! I yhs w . I '<' 1 — *4-' a v' Il rfW? SMI 91 II ' 4 WAR WARNING .. . Declaring that America is threatened with k Participation in possible world war. President Roosevelt tells 750,v . 660 at opening of new $11,500,000 outer drive development ,in ChiI eago that belligerent nations should be quarantined. Commentators OOWlii ' ' ■ and forei § n nations see-departure from U. S. isolation policy in -\ x? WerWl warning, I ADRIFT ... Al M in gal one, lEk. (above) news- W MB * reel camera- | |: WWI tethered above * * Old Orchard, FA x r * BH Jk i Me.. shooting ' 1 ‘ scenes, soared s I aloft when the ■Mg- • JwMfJ 1 IH anchor rope broke, freeing W "Wfe a| these balloons. W fl His 13-mile sky ride was ended -j by Father _", x. mine- SEATED .. . Despite admission he for- NEW'RECORD .<. Bernarr Macfadden, ; tured some of nrierly was a member of the Ku Klux 69; noted health/ Advocate, Shown being ’ the balloons Klan, Justice Hugo Black took his place congratulated fey‘-Mayor .Williams, (right) : with a fe w on the bench with the other eight black- of Miami after'na»ging up record tri oldr ! ' well - directed robed justices when the Supreme Court est pilot lo make 1,200-mile, solo, non- i 'shots. convened recently.- Justice Black is 'stop flight. .He. flgw.from New York to ; shown here talking to. - Miami in)B hours, -t ,'*t. . .. - ~ r__— 7,-j, jT —.:

Legion Installs New Officers: And Entertain Business Men

Officers of Wawasee Post American Legion were installed last Thursday evening -by District Commander Donald F. Kitch of Plymouth. Following the installation, during which O. P. Davis I succeeded Nelson Miles as Post) Commander, the Legion entertain-: ed at the Pickwick Lounge in;

Select Speakers for Chapel Services Speakers for High SchooL chapel services were selected at the meeting of the Syracuse Ministerial Association last week. On Friday November 5, Rev. Ralph » Rarick and the Church of the Brethren will have charge of chapel service. On Wednesday, November 24, the Thanksgiving' Chapel service will be conducted by Rev. Samuel Pritchard and the Trinity Evangelical Church. Two Syracuse Boys at Purdue Univ. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 14. — Enrollment for the first semester of Butler University’s 83rd annual i school year shows that two re-j sidents of Syracuse have begun! class work on the Fairview camp-1 us according to an announcement by Mrs. Martha B. Enyart, acting registrar and examiner. Those enrolled from Syracuse are James Fick, a member of the senior class, and Henry Abts, a freshman. Steel Workers Have Big Buying Power It is estimated that the American steel worker earns in 1H hours of labor an amount equal in buy, •ing £ower to the English work, 'man’s 3% hours, the German’s 7 'hours and the Belgian’s 14 hours.

honor of the District- Commander; and new officers. A nhmber of business men of Syracuse and Lake Wawasee were! guests. Nelson Miles was toastmaster and presented the speakers. A. L. Miller and F. Allan | Weatherholt delivered short talks. 1 Commander Fitch commented up- ' on the activity of the Legion and

AU TU LICENSE PASS MILLIUN MARK IN IND. First Time in History Indiana Reaches That Figure Indianapolis, Oct. 14. — More than a million auto license plates have been sold to date, according to Frank Finney, Commissioner of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. This is the first time in history ithe total has exceeded that mark. ; The total number of passenger [car plates sold to date is and of truck plates is 134,351. Total for all classifications of plates, including trailer, semitrailer, etc., is 1,010,200, an.increase of 62,294 over the same period last year. Mr. Finney anticipates the Division will sell. approximately 25,000 more plates of all kinds before the 1938 plates go ort ? saie, which will bring the total to approximately 1,035,000. Another record broken is indicated in the sale of 1,229,376 operators’ and chauffers’ licenses, an increase of 90,264 over the (Continued on Page two)

| urged the cooperation of the j Legion with local businessmen. He said the Legion is a service J organization, and it is the Legions I task to serve the community in every way possible. An active program of he said, will win the cooperation on the whole community.

; Basketball Team Begins Practice [ Students of Syracuse High School have begun basketball practice for the season. The first game will be played with Cromwell at Syracuse on November 5. Eighteen boys will represent , Syracuse on the basketball squad, I according to Coach Neff. Ten Ivill be on the second team and eight on the first team. Schools to Dismiss October 21 and 22 School will dismiss October, 21 and 22, according to Court Sla_ baugh, superintendent. The order was issued by the County Board of Education to give teachers an opportunity to attend the Teacher Association Meetings those two days. Mrs. Edna Hess, Eugene Fidler and Miss Judith *Burcaw will attend the session at Indianapolis. All others, will attend at Fort Wayne except Mrs. Eloise Klink who will spend both days at South Bend. Railroads Used Sleepers in 1836 In 1836 the first railroad sleep, ing car was used on a run between Harrisburg and, Chambersburg, Pa. Twelve bunks wth rough mattresses were provided for- the pasj. sengers..

TWO DAY AFFAIR TO FEATUF : JUDGING AND EXHIBITION f THOROUGHBRED LI VEST O’: Harry F. Ainsworth, State Club Leader i : Purdue University Will Be Speaker for Occasion

Rides, Concession and Amusements Are Arranged Tomorrow noon, the curtain will go up on the first annual Lions Club Cattle Show. The affair, a two day event will be held on State Route 13, South of Syracuse on Lake -Wawasee near The Tavern Hotel. Scores of exhibits fiej arranged and several rides andj concessions are already set-up awaiting the crowds. Ten thoroughbred cattle raised by farmer boys in this section and sponsored by the Lions Club will feature the show and will be sold at auction Saturday.

Hibschman Winsj| Trip To Chicago!; Syracuse Youth Scored 390in Cattle Judgipg; at Fair Oliver Hibschman, vocational agriculture student, won a trip to the Chicago International Liveshow as a result of winning second place in the judging contest ifield at Kosciusko County 1"; >r. Charles Miller and Wa-yne Coy ranked with the leading scorers by placing sixth and ninth respectively. The scores of the winners were: , Marion Smith, of Mentone, 394; Oliver Hibschman, of Syracuse, 390; Lawrence Ulver, of Etna Green, 388; Lloyd Cress, of Mentone, 387; and Edgar Teeter of W arsaw, 381. Other local boys taking pait in the judging were Robert Disher Approve Public Relief Program $750,000 Spent Daily to Develop"‘Mew Fields, Survey Shows Indianapolis, October 14. , — ( Indiana’s public assistance program has full approval and complete allocation of federal fbnds through the last quarter of 1937, to December 31, T. A. Gottschalk, state administrator of public welfare, has been informed by Washington. The federal share of Indiana’s public assistance program, serving more than 65,000 needy persons at present, is $1,296,053.78 for the last three months of 1937. Os this sum, $868,203.57 will be the federal government’s share to approximately 40,500 old age recipients of aid; $349,708.94 will be the federal share to approximately 22,500 dependent children; and $78,141.27 will be the federal share to blind persons in need.Percentages of funds paid out are: Aged—so per cent federal, 30 per cent state and 20 per cent county; Blind—-50 per cent state and 50 per cent federal; Aid to Dependent Children —40 per tent state, 33 per cent federal and 27 per cent county. Indiana’s program for oxtension of Services to Crippled Children through the State fjepartipent of Public Welfare has been approved by the Children’s Bureau, United States Department of Labor for the next nine months.

INDIANA The Center of INDUSTRY

According to the publicity ■ mittee the affair has been wai publicized and if weather is - i too cold, a large crowd f pe<>; c from towns and ike rural area is expected on bo ii days - / ! J Saturday, is an all day picnic jaffair, with entertainment provided by-the Wawasee Drum mid | Bugle Coips and The Little Ger- ; man Band of Elkhart as added at- ; tractions. Rides and concessions are expected to provide much t.nI tertainmenit and amusement. Harry F. Ainsworth, associate state club leader of Purdue University will deliver a talk of interest to farmers and 4-11 (Huh members, on Saturday afternoon.

INDIANA WILL STANDARDIZE ROADMARKING No-Passing Zones On Highways To Be Uniform t > -aDetailed information .pn the marking, of “no-passing” zones on Indiana state highways to make such designations uniform, has ’been sent to district engineers, Earl Crawford, chairman of the State Highway Commission, reported today. The instructions provide for the I establishment of no-passing zones at all points on the state highway system where motorists do not have a minimum of seven hundred and fifty feet sight distance ahead. The yellow line marking will.be applied parallel to tie black centerline on curves and hills where limited visioq makes passing hazardous. A ypllow circle, twenty f. uinches in diameter, will . \ motorists that they are en : < a no-passing zone and are to main in that traffic lane a- i as the yellow strip is on t side of the centerline, marking to that used on tlane highways will be m • three-lane Surfaces at point \ : curves or .grades limit tance ahead to less than hundred and fifty feet. On three-ilane highways tin - low circle and line Will motorists into the outside lane til there is again sufficient s ' distance ahead .to permit pass' ■ On four-lane highways a contii - ous . yellow line will separate t e lanes for traffic movingk in oi- . posite directions. Establishment of no - passing zones at points where curves or grades limit sight distance ahead to less than seven hundred and fifty feet, is made a duty of the State Highway Commission by an act of the General Assembly.. The law also provides for a fine of from five to one hundred dollars for failure to observe the zone marking. Restricting the movement of traffic on curves and grades where the motorist’s vision ahead is limited, is a part of the Highway Commission’s program for greater motoring safety and the reduction of accidents.

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