The Syracuse Journal, Volume 17, Number 40, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 29 January 1925 — Page 5

= “ If Everything for Your J KS '2l Balong Needs Good home t ..1 FwJ made bread, biscuit 11 and cookies always make a j|U*> r_j “hit” with husbands and I? ■ kiddies And they're tic- /—• x kled when you bake a tv- —/foJo $ delicious cake. vJGZti U y° u are not E ett,n e as £ oo< * results as you V’VL-jMr would like to have, why I s*“*kl Botcorwu^w ’ r h u * a &°utthe M ||jf***l B° Ur y °“ M€ u *‘ n 8h ave handled many different brands of flour and meal and know just W, .. J which are giving the best satisu| faction. We invite you to profit by our experience. Telephone Orders Given Prompt Attention Seider & Burgefier PURE FOOD GROCERS SYRACUSE. - INDIANA FARMERS' FINANCIAL STATEMENT AS AN AID TO BUSINESS SUCCESS

By 0. H. OTIS, Director, Agricultural Commission American Bankers Association Farmers, like other business men, frequently need to borrow money. Business men furnish their “bankers with a statement. Why should not the farmer? In order to safeguard

the depositors’ money which he loans out, the banker needs full information regarding the borrower’s financial condition. Many farmers are entitled to better credit standings which such credit statements will give them. These’ statements will also teU the farmer whether his business as a whole is a going concern. It is not such a difficult task to make out a statement at least once a year. The first year will be the hardest After that it will

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eome easy. The statement should include the value of land and buildings, the value of the crops on hand at the beginning

of the year, such as grain, bay, fiber crops, fruits and vegetables, etc. The statement should also include the number and value of the different classes of livestock. Including horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, poultry, bees. etc. It should also show value of crop machinery, dairy equipment, poultry equipment, harness, pleasure vehicles, power machinery, etc. Under ocher assets should be included cash on hand or in bank, loans receivable, accounts receivable, cash value of insurance policies, stocks and bonds. United States securities and other miscellaneous assets, not included in the above. The financial statement should also list liabilities, such as mortgages, both real estate and chattel, notes due bank, notes payable to others, accounts or bills due others, premiums on life Insurance, interest on taxes, etc. The net worth may be determined by taking the liabilities from the to tai assets. If there are any contingent liabilities they should also be listed. These would Include endorsements on notbs of others, security or bondsman for others, leases or contracts. Judgments or suits pending. Other Information hi addition to the above, general Information could be given on the cash value of life insurance assets pledged as collateral or Insurance carried on buildings, insurance carried on -livestock, Insurance carried on machinery or Implements, Uim for the year.

J. M. STARR, D. Cf. WIIWiMiIR Consultation and Spinal Analysis Free. PHONE 135 . The Fred Hoopingarner Residence Syracuse, Ind. - ~ NU _ FRESH. GL&fIN M&flT Await you at our market at all times* You will find the juiciest eats and the tenderest pieces here. We also handle smoked and dried meats aud a genera! line of canned meats. KLINK BROS. MEAT MARKET

cash rec el red during the year and caab paid out during the year. These various items can be ar ranged in tabulated form, abd the figures indicating the amounts in volved placed opposite each item. A copy of this credit statement should be preserved for use in making out next year's statement, and also for purposes of comparison when two yearly statements have been compiled. This comparison will give the fanner an idea as to how his business Is going. It faill be in the nature of an inventory, and will furnish abundant food for thought If the practice is persisted In for a series of years it wifi be of untold value to the farmer in studying the business management of his farm. Business men find it absolutely necessary to take inventory and prepare financial statements Such practice has not been so general with the fanner. Here lies an open door of opportunity. The financial statement Is the lint step toward reliable farm accounting. Once the farmer gets started In making statements ft will stimulate him to keep more records, to study more closely and minutely his business and to ascertain the sources of his profits as well as tbs factors that make up bls expenaea When these are known ways will he suggested as to how to increase receipts and reduce expenses. There are both satisfaction and profit in following np from year to year these credit statements and the farm records that necesaarily go with them.

! Correspondence I | ST Neighborhood Gilberts Emorv Voris is confined to his heme with a sore foot. Edna, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Wagner, is seriously ill. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Metz called on Mr. and Mrs. William Sheffield Sunday afternoon. • Dutch Haffer of Wabash spent Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Rowdabaugh. Forrest Crine and Russell Cooper spent Sunday evening at the heme of Jonathan Cripe. Mrs. Retta Warner* of South cf Syracuse hl visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Calvin Cooper. Mrs. John McGarity, Mrs. Floyd Rowdsbaugh and son Billie Friday with Mrs. Calvin Cooper. George Wood of Flora, Indiana, and well known here, is reported Quarantined in their home witlr small-pox. Mrs. Charles Lutes spent the oast week in Milford at the home of Mrs. Ellen Lutes Harris, who is seriously ill. Friends will be glad to learn i that the quarantine at the home of Raleigh Neff was lifted Tuesday and they are able to be out igain. The Buzzard Hills are the center of attraction during this snow. Seventy-five of New Paris High Schcol pupils gathered there Tuesday evening and enjoyed a slide. Russell Cooper in company with the young people of the Christian church of Milford went to Warsaw Wednesday evening and gave Miss Pauline Rasor a very pleasant birthday surprise. Tippecanoe Emmet Gordy helped A. W. Scott buzz wood last Friday. Emmet Gordy spent Sunday evening at George Kreager’s. Ray Bigler who has been having measles is getting along fine. Rev. Kurtz took dinner Sunday with J. Garber and family. Emmet Gordy ate Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Scott. Mrs. J. A. Baugher who has been on the sick list is able to be about her work again. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Scott and two sons called on J. L. Kline and family Friday evening. Mrs. 1.-iiah Kuhn spent Sunday afternoon at Charley Strieby’s home, south of North Webster. Robert Garber has not been able to attend school for a few days on account of a bad cold. Some of George White’s children have been having a bad cold, but are better at this writing. > Mrs. Celia, Mrs. Hattie, Miss Mary and John Baugher called at the J. Garber home one day last week. Mrs. Stanley Morehead and two daughters spent Thursday afternoon visiting the former’s sister, Mrs. J. L. Kline. White Oak There are a number of children entertaining the measles. Lester Dewart spent Monday evening with Ernest Mathews. Mr. and Mrs. James Ingels nent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mathews. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mathews spent Friday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Guy Fisher. Mr. and Mrs. James Dewart were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Deaton Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Walker of Syracuse spent Sunday with their son, Carl Walker and -family. Mr. and Mrs. Clel Grissom of Elkhart spent Saturday night with the Jatter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Coy and family. Those who spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Dewart were Mr. and Mrs. Bert Whitehead and Mr. and Mrs. John Dewart. Sunday evening Mr. and Mrs. Danial Warbel entertained Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mathews, Mr. and Mrs. William Wyland and son Eldon, Mrs. Jane Jones. Miss Flora Masters and Mr. and Mrs. William Jones. All had a splendid evening. % McColley’s Corners Graham Tyler buzzed wood on Monday for Orvie Richcreek and Don Hart. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Richcreek spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Kauffman. Mr. and Mrs. Graham Tyler spent Tuesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Nat House. Margaret Huffman of Warsaw isi visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harley Miller. Mrs. Millicent Miller visited with her daughter. Mrs. Richcreek on Wednesday? , Edward Richcreek spent Suni day afternoon at the home of • Mr. and Mrs. Orvie Richcreek. Miss Lottie House and Russell Swenston spent Sunday with Mr. I and Mrs. John Swenson and lit--1 tie son of Vawter Park.

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North Webster Rev. V. L. Clear of Freemont visited here this week. The M. E. Ladies’ Aid met with Mrs. Ira Rothenberger to sew lasrt week. Mr. and Mrs. Neill Hontz of Cromwell visited Miss Edith Hontz Saturday evening. Wallace Irvin and Ira Nine returned from Indiana University las* week for the mid-winter va- • ; n. The Webster high school basketball team were defeated by Milford when they went there tc play last Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Ditzler and friend of Warren. Indiana spent Wednesday and Thursday here last week. The two gentlemen enjovefF-fishing through the ice. Edd Black went to Indianapolis Tuesday to visit his little daughter Margaret who underwent a tonsil-adenoid operation at the Riley Memorial hospital there. ' , Four Corners Mr. and Mrs. Noble Myers spent a few dayc in Chicago. Lee Coiy called at the homes of Darr and Callander Monday. Mrs. LaTone Jenson was a Thursday afternoon visitor with Mrs. Snyder. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Darr spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Raymon Weydic of Mentone. Mrs. Blue of Richville is spending a few days with her daughter, Mrs. LaTone Jenson. Mr. and Mrs. James Callander and sen of Gravelton, Mr. and Mrs. Clint Grice were Sunday visitors in the Clint Callander home. Mr. and Mrs. Arden Geyer and daughter. Mrs. Henry Geyer, were Sunday visitors in the home of John Geyer of Nappanee. Solomoa’s Creek Wayne Hapner took Sunday dinner at the Ringwald home. Sunday School at 10 a.m. each Sunday morning. A welcome to all is given. Rev. J. W. Lower and Rev. Elder called on friends in Benton Monday afernoon. Mariv from this community are attending the tabernacle meeting at Goshen. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Hughaw called on Paul and Emma Ringwald Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rex took Sunday dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Rex in Millersburg. Mr. and* Mrs. Guy McDowell of Syracuse and children called on Mr. and Mrs.. Chester Firestone Sunday afternoon. Rev. J.; W. Lower of Warsaw, Rev. and Mrs. Elder of Solomon’s Creek and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gerhett were Sunday guests*at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bickel at Burr Oak. Mrs. Albert Darr and daughter Cl oy,- and granddaughter, Miriam Sundav afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Col-1 well at Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs. Levi Pearman. Mr. Artie Nicolai, Anderson Juday and daughter, Leela, took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Long. The following met Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Juday to remind Mr. Juday it was his eightieth birthdav: John C. Juday and sister. Miss Bell Juday, of Solomon’s Creek; Mr. and Mra G. E. Juday; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nellans. Goshen; Mr. and Mrs. John Ettline, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Drake, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Ettline, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Juday and son Dickie, Claude Thayer, Clyde Juday and girls, all of South Bend; Mr. and Mrs. Ben Judayhnd children of Elkhart; Mra L. S. Smith of Goshen, and Miss Goldie Method of Syracuse. All partook of a bountiful dinner. After enjoying a social afternoon all returned to their Homes wishing Mr. Juday many happy birthdays. Q HOGS FOL I/OWED OWNER TO HIS NEW LOCATION Hogs usually are neither intelligent nor companionable, but like other animals they do not always run true to type. In moving from one farm to another, perhaps ten miles away, Mr. Turner, a farmer of the Kentucky hills, decided, writes a contributor to the Youth’s Companion, to leave his herd of forty swine in an open field at his old home until the following morning when he would return for them. Next morning he was up early in his new house, making preparations for the arduous task of driving before him over rough mountain roads two score hogs, any or all of which might prove refractory. But when he emerged from the house into the front yard imagine his astonishment at seeing his hogs, hll forty of them, standing before him at the gate! Were the hogs so much attached to their owner that they followed him to his new home? Or did they follow the trail of the fanner’s cattle? The owner and all the neighbors, too, were completely mystified.

INDIANA HOMES AND HOMEMA KIN G PROG RAM By'Prof. Mary L. Matthews, Head, Home Economics Department, Purdue University.

There are three points which need particular stressing in the Homemaking program for 1925. First, I should like to urge the building of better houses with better equipment. Second, I criould like to' stress the value of organizing the Homemaker’s time. Perhaps you will call this making a schedule. The third thing to be stressed in the Homemakers program is that of health. We need to understand the rules of good health and we need to urge people to follow them. During this conference we are stressing the value of good equipment for the farm home and we are particularly interested in showing you the electrical eppliances which can be used in the home, if the farm woman can secure electricity from the trolley lines or if she hast a plant in her own home. There seems to be no reason why electrical appliances can not be utilized on the farm. The great difficulty at the present time is the exceedingly high costs of such devices). When the home is properly equipped the woman then needs to organize her time in such a way that she can get through her housekeeping. It is little value to have a well equipped house if the M-oman is still going to “putter”. around all day with her housekeeping. It is time for the modern woman to analyze the work she is doing in her home to determine whether the things she is doing are worth while. She needs to reduce the amount of cooking and the amount of scrubbing so that she may have more time to devote to other things than merely supplying the physical needs of her family. We as Home Economics teachers have been criticized because we have over stressed the technique of Homemaking and have neglected more important matters. Another thing we have been very much criticized for, is the fact that we have not stressed the matter of health in connection with our Home Economics teaching. We have taught cocking but we have neglected to emphasize Nutrition. Women are largely responsible for good health in the home and they must assume more responsibility for community health because no matter how carefully a woman manages her own home her family is not safe if bad conditions exist in the community. * —, 2 THE OPIUM TRAFFIC Great Britan is deeply interested, financially, in the opium business in India, and even in China, and has effectually blocked all efforts for an international agreement on the subject of control of the traffic. At the Geneva hearing before the League of Nations Lord Cecil proposed a time limit of 15 years for the suppression of legalized opium smoking in the Far East, providing the time would commence after opium smuggling China had been effectively *nn + rolled. This was not agreed to by the American representatives. Members of the House and Senate Foreign Relations Committees are emphatic in their disapproval of the attitude of England, asserting that it is a simple question of greed. o FROG IS A GOOD BAROMETER A barometer in common use in some parts of Europe consists of a pan of water and a frog and a little stepladder in it. When the frog comes out of the water and sits on the steps it is said infallibly to indicate rain. o WANT RATE INCREASE Believing that it is operating at a loss on its investment, the Mongo Mutual Telephone company has filed a petition with the public service commission of Indiana asking for permission to increase its rates. _o Miss Mary McLaren, one of the early movie stars has retired from the screen to wed Colonel Geo. H. Young, a British official stationed in India. J. M. SCHAFFER Chiropractor will be at the Amanda Darr residence, comer Harrison and Henry streets, Tuesday and Friday of each week. Hours 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m. 31-ts Wm. F. Fisher Agent for Royster Fertilizer Order Now M ill sell brands for Onions. Oats „ x *• and Corn Phone 267 Syracuse, Indiana

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AWARDS MADE IN B. & 0. STATE POTATO SHOW Cohipeting in a class of over one hundred entries, Fred C. Robbins of Kosciusko county was awarded the one-hundred dollar scholarship offered by the railroad company as first prize in the Baltimore and Ohio State Potato Show which was held at Purdue University recently in connection with the Annual State Potato Show. Young Robbins secured a yield of 119.8 bushels of Rural New Yorkers on his | acre plot. This yield v/as the highest that was secured by and of the 300 members of the Baltimore and Ohio Clubs. Mr. Robbins is a senior in the Pierceton High School arid will use his scholarsftrip towards an agricultural course at Purdue next fall. Paul Brenneman x of DeKalb county won the Blue Ribbon award in the Second -Year Class which carries with it a cash prize of. $15.00. Young Brenneman secured a yield cf 110.2 bushels on his 4 acre. He is a sienior in the Waterloo High School and is enrolled in the \rocational Agricultural course. In addition to the above, the following are the winners of the prizes awarded by the railroad company: First Year CI uh • Second Prize —$25.00 —L0y Ayers. DeKalb County. Third Prize—sls.oo— Evelyn Konn, Clark County. Fourth Pr i z e —slo.oo—Paul Shaw, Switzerland County. Advanced Chib Second Prize —$12.00 —Willard Weis. Dearborn County. Third Prize—slo.o0 —William Kessler, Jefferson County. Fourth Prize —$8.00 —Leonard Dillingham, Porter County. Fifth Prize —$5.00 —R obert Higbee. Ohio County. Harvey Kauffman of the Elkhart County Club was. crowned “Potato Kin.?” of Indiana bv Judge Ira Huffman of Purdue University, because of the fact that he exlribited the best peck in all classics of the entire show. The competition was vfcry keen for this honor as all jnfowers are anxipus to receive this award. Tile interest taken fc»y the members in the Potato Club work this year has been verygratifying to the Club ’Apartment of Purdue University, and to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which company has sponsored the club. The work of

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these clubs has awakened the farmer I in Indiana to the fact that certified seed can help increase very materially the yield of potatoes which they can secure. . o EUBOPEAN ENTANGLEMENTS There seems to be a wide divnce of opinion as to the status of the United States in European affairs since the signing c.f the Paris pact regarding the payment of American-claims bv Germany. Several English statesmen have great satisfacriori over the fart that the United States at last become a party to the contract, while France seems to think that the United States has practically assured them against German default. • Secretary Hughes, however, asserts that there are no entangling alliances; that in ,view of the inclusive character of payments under this Dawes plan it was necessary for us to take part in the conference to protect our interests. Several Senators, in'-luding Borah and Johnson demand more light m the subject and demand that the full text be submitted for inspection. — Q FORD MAY BID AGAIN Now that the Underwood bill leasing Muscle Shoals has passed the Senate and is before the House, unconfirmed reports indicate the possibility of another bid by Mr. Ford. Under the old bid Mr F>rd agreed to pay $5,000,000 for the properties* valued at $85,000,000, and a 100-year lease of the water power plants at a total of about $220,000,000. It is claimed that Mr. Ford’s pet project is a Lakes-to-Gulf railway with Muscle Shoals as a central power point with ramifications east and we*ft. With such independent distributing facilities for his motor products, coal, nitrate and fertilizer Mr. Ford could snap his fingers at the “Railroad trust” jusrt as he snapped them at the Wall Street “money trust.” It is believed a revised proposition from Mr. Ford will be presented to the House rather than the Senate, and in some quarters it is believed the President is very favorably inclined toward a Ford offer. o Advertise in the Journal. *