The Syracuse Journal, Volume 18, Number 11, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 16 July 1925 — Page 1

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SUMMER SCHOOL Os the Miehigmi Synod of the Lutheran Church Opened at Oakwood Monday An audience of nearly two thousand people crowded into the big auditorrtim at Oakwood Park Monday night to witness the very impressive presentation of the pageant "The Way of Peace” given by a cast of one hundred and twenty-five young people from the Lutheran churches of Syracuse, Cromwell and Nappanee. The presentation of the pageant scored a tremendous "hit” with the vast audience. Brilliant features of the pageant were the stately processional of the nations, the stirring scenes and sounds of war, the pictures of the terrible results -of war, and the triumphal entry of Christianity, "The Way of Peace.” This was the opening service of the annual Summer School of the Michigan Synod of the Lutheran church. Rev. L. F. Gunderman of Ann Arbor, Michigan, was in charge of the service and gave the opening address. The Luther League of the Michigan Synod was organized Tuesday with the following officers: President, Rev. G. C. Goering, Battle Creek, Mich.; vice president, Kenneth Shook, Detroit; recording secretary. Miss Mary Miller, Uniondale, Ind.; corresponding secretary, Miss Lulu Eby, Nappanee; treasurer, James Olson. Elkhart; executive committee, Ernest Ulery, Middlebury, and Miss Isabel Chamberlain. South Bend. The attendance at the school is running into the hundreds, exceeding the expectations of the Lutheran officials in charge of the school. The sessions of the school will continue until Friday evening. Rev. Dr. Simon Peter Long, of Chicago, one of Americas greatest preachers, gives his famous lecture, "My Old Overland,” on Thursday evening, and on Friday evening the Trinity Lutheran Choir of Fort Wayne will give a sacred concert. o —- AUTO CRASHED INTO FENCE Three persons were injured Sunday when their auto climbed a fence along the Rookstool road east of Benton. Mrs. Godrey Gerdster is at the Goshen hospital suffering with a fractured hip, a fractured arm and cuts, and bruises on the body. Mrs. Gerdster’s mother and Mr. Gerdster suffered minor cuts and bruises and were able to go to their home in Elkhart. The trio were in a Ford and when near a curve at the residence of Anderson Juday the machine swerved and crashed into the fence. The car literally climbed the fence, the two front wheels lodging on top of a post. Several passing autoists went to the assistance of the injured people. o KOSCIUSKO CORN CROP Miner N. Justin, government agricultural statistician, estimates that 71,000 acres were planted in corn in Kosciusko county this year. The average corn acreage in Kosciusko county is from 60,000 to Ui.OOO. The estimate* shows an increase of about b per cent in the acreage of the entire state. The prospect for a good crcp is said to be the- best m six years, Benton county, with 113,000 acres, has the largest ccrn acreage in the stare. Kosciusko county ranks aoout twentieth in the state in the number of a-res. ——— o- —• ■

SEIZED SLOT MACHINE* - Sheriff Milo Maloy visited the south side of Lake Wawasee on Saturday afternoon and seized five slot machines, two at the South Shore Inn. two at Louis Solt’s place and one at the Ukumbak Inn. The slot machines were taken to Warsaw, where they probably will be ordered destroyed after the court disposes of the cases against the operators of these machines. The sheriff seized several ma chines two years ago and at that time gave notice that no slol machines would be tolerated. r—O—■ « ; You can divorce your wife—but you can’t divwee the Safetj First Patch after it’s put on Sold by Syracuse Auto Sales

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DOUBLE DROWNING AT WEBSTER LAKE North Webster was the scene 1 i of a double drowning Monday afternoon at about 4 o’clock. George Umback, aged 54. and his son-in-law, Lawrence Seiler, 29 years old, were the victims. Their bodies were recovered an hour later in water eight or ten feet deep. After the bodies had been recovered efforts were made to revive the men, but without avail. The two men were in bathing and ventured into deep water. It is believed the men were supporting themselves with an inflated inner tube of an automobile and that the tube floated away from them. One of the men started to swim after the tube, but failed to reach it and both men sank before they could swim to shallow water. The wives of the two men were bathing near the shore and they heard the cries of the drowning men. Other persons also heard the cries and rushed to the rescue, but arrived trio late. The two families came to Webster lake from JLouis ville, Ky.. With their soyes and little tow-year-old daughter of the Seiler’s, last Saturday to spend two weeks at the lake and were occupying the Rothenberger cottage at Epworth Forest. - SEAPLANE FALLS IN LAKE A seaplane, which for several weeks has been carrying passengers, on Saturday afternoon pulled off a stunt that was not on the regular program. Dean Brossman. the pilot, was making a passenger flight that afternoon, and was circling about 100 feet above the water near Morrison Island, when his controls failed to respond and the plane, occupied by himself and a woman passenger, made a nose dive and plunged into the lake. The pilot and the woman were rescued »by parties in a launch. Aside from being severely shaken up the woman was unhurt, but Mr. Brossman received a cut over the right eye, caused by the breaking of his goggles. Very little damage was done, to the plane. ‘ The name of the woman passenger was not learned. ——o CELEBRATED BIRTHDAY Martha Rose Mishler celebrated her eighth birthday on Wednesday, July 8 n by entertaining fifteen of her little friends at her home on Front street. J Games were enjoyed on the lawn during the afternoon, after which refreshments were served at tables prettily decorated with flowers. A birthday cake, decorated with eight lighted candles, took no small place in the celebration. Each little guest was given a favor. < PUBLIC SALE On Saturday. July 18, Geo. W. Juday will sell at his residence in Syracuse, a lot of household goods, consisting of stoves, tables. chairs, and numerous other articles for cash to the highest bidder. Sale commences at one o’clock.

o GASOLINE WENT VP The price of gasoline went up one cent Tuesday and is now selling in Syracuse for 24.4 c a gallon. The advance in price was announced by all companies and affects eleven states* —, o BAKE SALE The Ladies Aid of the United Brethren church will conduct a market on Saturday, July 18, at Strieby’s seed room. They will have for sale chicken and noodles. and a variety of baked goods. u-it UNDERWENT AN OPERATION Mrs. Nathaniel Altland, who underwent an operation last week at the Goshen hospital is getting along as well as can be expected. o— DEATHS AND BIRTHS During the month of May. 29 deaths and 42 births were reported in Kosciusko county. HALF-RATE AFTER AUGUST 1 Half-rate prices on automobile licenses will become effective ir Indiana after August 1. MaaafactareFs Sale J»ly 22 n, 24 aad 25 at Howard’s Plumb tag 81m*.

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL j _ The commencement exercises Ii of the Daily Vacation Bible r school, which closed last Friday, was held at the Church of God I Sunday evening with a large , audience irfattendance. ’ Rev. Wm. L Eiler, director of i the school, stated, that the i school, of two weeks duration, [ was a success. The children at- > tending the school were in favor , of extending the school to four weeks next year. Forty pupils • were given perfect attendance ■ cards. Following is a report of the at- . tendance of the Daily Vacation Bible School from June 29 to July 10: Total enrollment. 135. Average attendance. 97-plus. Attending every session, -4€ L Enrollment by departments: Beginners—Miss Rapp and Miss Blanchard, teachers —M. E. 4; U. B. 9; Luth. 5; Evang. 8; Church of God 2. Total 28. Primary—Mrs. Bauer. Mrs. J. Rapp, Miss C. Rapp, teachers— M. E. 9; U. B. 7; Luth. 5; Evang. 10; Church of God 9. Total 40. Juniors —Rev. Royer. Miss Kitson. Mrs. Bushong, teachers —M. E. 16; U. B. 12; Luth 6; Evang. 16; Church of God 2. Total 52. Intermediates —Rev. Dauner. Rev. McMichael, teachers —M. E. 5; U. B. 1; Luth. 3: Evang. 1; Church of God 1. Total 11. Following is the enrollment by churches: Methodist Episcopal, 34; United Brethren. 29; Grace Lutheran. I 19; Evangelical, 35; Uhurch of I God, 14. I Leader c-f music, Mrs. Floyd Hedges. Schools not co-operating. 4. Director. Rev. Wm. L. Eiler. o THE “NUMBER PLEASE” GIRL Do peole ever stop to think that the “number please?” voice at the other end of the line is that of a human being? The Michigan Dispatch asks the question, and then supplies the answer. The genial, apt. well-man-nered operator whose duties are exacting and monotonpus, ha3£ as much right to nerves as anyone else on earth, yet she holds a kind of tolerance toward the rest of the world in the face of all manner of insolence and of crankiness. How many say “please” when she asks the number, and how many stop long enough to reflect upon what she thinks and what she knows? She nurses her private opinions and buries so much gossip in the course of a day’s work that she could wreck many a happy home. She is that indispensable, know-it-all, “Do unto others” plan, telephone girl. There are forty-two of them in Michigan City who go on duty at 6:30 in the mining and work in shifts from then an until that time of the morning again. They work with dexterity and skill. They keep mentally fit by keeping physically fit with regularly appointed classes in the gym. with athletic sports and outings , when occasion comes. Before bei coming operators they go through ( a most rigid test of training. The . life of the telephone girl is Pot r an easy one. It is predicted that in five

more years the picturesque “hello” girl will become a memory, the dial phone coming to take her place. In that event the subscriber will be to blame for wire trouble and can only swear at the dial instead of the operator. This will be a blow to the romantic side of the telephone. The popularity of the phone girl and her cheery voice is one of the greatest assets to phone companies. The telephone directory wages a campaign of education. Ip making emergency calls it urges the subscriber to say to the operator “I want a policeman." or “I want to report a fire.” Instead, people merely yell “fire" and get all excited, forgetting to give their name and location. Others phone in and want to know wheee all the Mack smoke is coming from, some ask for the correct time, when certain trains will be in, who is the governor of Indiana and who is the vice of the United States. Sometimes patrons want to know when a letter has been written and mailed would reach a certain point of destination. With no offense toward anyone and good will toward all. the “hello” girl is a good source of information and she plays her ! ofttimes trying part with admiri able cheerfulness and with good humor. —- o f At Howard’s Plumbing fifes? . a ManafaetweFs Sale wifi be Ml July 22, 23, 24 and 25.

SYRACUSE INDIANA, THURSDAY. JULY

RICHARD LIEBER AT WINONA LAKE "Conservation aims to reduce the intensity of the struggle of onr existence, to make the situation more favorable. to reduce mere existence to a subordinate place and thus to give an onnrri tunity for development to a higher intellectual and spiritual level,” Richard Lieber, director of the state conservation department, told an- audience of the Indiana Parent-Teachers’ Association in an address at Winona Lake Friday. His subject was “Our Children’s Inheritance,” and in detail the speaker explained that the present generation is charged with leaving a rich legacy of natural resources to coming generations. Prior to Mr. Lieber’s talk several reels of motion pictures, made by the conservation department, shewing the state parks, state fish hatcheries, and varied natural resources and their development, were shown. “It is most fitting that the Par-ent-Teachers’ Association should be interested in the work of the conservation department dealing with natural resources," Mr. Lieber said, “for this association, as I understand it. has for its object the care of childhood, that invaluable human resource of our state. Between these two resources, the human and the natural, exists quite obviously an intimate relation. "As the population expands I* and in places becomes congested in density, we do realize that the need of conservation is progressively relative to the figure of population. This matter of population has changed customs and habits, and the very concept of ethics and morals.” The speaker declared that because the area of the state is not expansible and population is increasing, it is more difficult to obtain food and clothing; to obtain’shelter; to keep these vast beehives of human activities — our modern cities —in a sanitary condition; to keep streams and lakes free from pollution; to replant forests; to save the coal and oil deposits; to increase the percentage of heat and power units: to devise ways and means to bring into use those resources which may have been overlooked; to provide nublic places for recreation and sport, which in the end means increased public and mental vigor. In short, to maintain a free running engine of public service at the .least expense with the greatest results. * "To save our most valuable human resource, emphasis should be placed on education —not so much for work as for leisure. It is not the work time generally which makes people unhappy and leads them into trouble, but their capacity to conduct their lives in the remaining sixteen hours of the day. It seems that people have lost the capacity to entertain themselves, and have demanded more commercialized entertainment. Our department does what it can to co-operate with the school and the home, through its various divisions.

One of our specialists in bird lore addressed .50.000 children and teachers last season. Young and old come to our state parks which are monuments to the state’s past, such being very accessible by fine state highways."

Mr. Lieber gave figures to show the tremendous popularity of the state parks, showing Turkey Run entertained 35.000 visitors in 1919. and that 75.000 visited it in 1924. Up to June of this year 26.523 people paid admissions to this park, and the 1925 season will be a record breaker. Concessions in 1919 brought the state $500; this same nark now nets $14,000 annually from concessions. A 60 percent increase in attendance is noted at McCormick’s Creek Canyon nark, while Clifty Falls park at Madison is rivalling Turkey Run and enjoyed 20,359 admissions this year up to June 30. he said. The speaker cited statistics to show th a* the state parks are an investment, not an expense. In years the entire conservation donartment only spent $567,000 of tax monev. while the residue of about $853,000 represents the earnings. Reduced to a per capita charge the amount of tax money appropriated for the use of the entire department of six divisions amounts to less than 19 cents for 51 years for each inhabitant, or less than 3t cents per year. And to offset this, the department can show, Mr. Lieber said, not counting any of the many services rendered, a book value of propertf held for the state to offset the $567,000 tax monies received. This property

SOUSA AT WINONA LAKE ; From the standpoint of musical s preferences the typical Ameri- : can is a mess of apple sauce, .. large gobs of jada and a lot of ! static, says Lieut. .Com. John t Philip Sousa, who this seasou will lead his band on its Thira-of-a-Century Tour. Moreover, there ain’t no such animal. Be- ’ ing an American, the average i Ahierican is too much of an individualist to be typical, says Sousa. So S?usa, as he tours the country—this season he visits 47 states and 4 Canadian provinces —is always on the look-out for changing preferences in the way of music. “When I first began my travels the United States was divided into two sections —hte one in which it was safe to play ‘Marching Through Georgia’ and the one in which it wasn’t,” says Sousa. “A program in those days was fairly certain to please bdth in Portland. Maine, and Portland, 'Oregon, Now it is possible to perceive a difference in the musical preferences of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Two influences have been most largely responsible for variations in American musical tastes. One is the talking machine and the other is the motion picture. I have found that musical appreciation in a city which has a good quality of music in its motion picture houses is miles in advance of that in the town where the music of the movies is only so-so. The talking machine record performed the invaluable service of familiarizing thousands who never saw an opera or heard a symphony concert with the best music." Sousa’s only Indiana engagements are at Winona Lake on July 18. • f o AN UNUSUAL DISPUTE Recently at Salem cemetery, north of Ligonier, the disputed lot claimed to be the property of Mrs. Tyler and Mrs. Knowles, was dug into by the proper offi- s cials and the body of Mrs. Tyler was found occupying it. Nothing but a* small pile of bones were found —no coffin, etc. The body of Miss Edith Nowles will now have to be exhumed, A search is now being made for the lot in which the infant child of the Nowles family also lies. Sympathy for both the families is expressed by neighbors over the most unusual and unfortunate affair. —— o FARM POPULATION DECLINE The farm population of the United States decreased approximately 182.000 during 1924, according to estimates based on a survey of 25.000 representative farms, made recently by the United States Department of Agriculture. This is a sharp drop of .6 per cent during that year, the estimated farm population on January 1. 1925, being 31,134,000 compared with 31,316,000 on January 1, 1926. This estimate includes net only the agricultural workers, but all men, women and children living on the farms on that date. i 0

DEATH OF MRS. BECKNELL Mrs. *I. J. Becknell passed away at her home in Goshen about noon on Sunday, July 12. The deceased had been in failing health for some time. She is survived by her husband, Dr. I. J. Becknell, and two sons. She was well known by a number of friends in this city who mourn her untimely death. FRACTURED BONE IN FALL Virginia Riddle fell on the sidewalk in front of the bank on Monday evening while playing with some little friends and fractured a bone in her left forearm. She is wearing her arm in a tight bandage this week, but is getting along nicely. o— — W. C. T. U. MEETING The W. C. T. U. meeting was held in the home of Mrs. Floyd Hedges on Tuesday afternoon. There were sixteen members and two visitors present. —o NOTICE The banks o f Kosciusko county will, not be open on Wednesday afternoon. July 22. on account of the bankers picnic at Yellow Banks. today has a far greater value than when purchased, he declared.

BUY EGG’S NOW FOR WINTER USE I f Eggs bought now and preserv- . ed for winter use means approxiF mately a five-dollar saving on II this one item of foed alone tq family in Kosciusko coun--Tly. according to the Blue Valley ,! Creamery Institute. Tbis statement is based on figures showing f] that the price of eggs is gener- - ally twice as high 5 ber to February as June. • The practice of putting away ’ eggs for winter not only be- ; speaks economy, but should also • induce a greater consumption of • this almost ideal food; states the Institute in explaining the pre- ; servathn process. I Two four-gallon stone or i earthenware capable of holding twenty dozen eggs, will i be found sufficient for the aver- ! age family. They should first j be cleaned and scalded with boili ing water. The eggs are then , placed small end down and a > cooled solution of water glass (sodium silicate), one quart to nine quarts of water that has i been boiled and thoroughly cool. I is poured over the eggs to close «up the pores in the shell to prevent the egg liquids from evaporating. The topmost layer of eggs should be kept covered to a depth of at least two inches with the solution at all times. The crocks are then placed in a cool dry place, after being tightly covered with waxed paper to prevent the evaporation of the solution. Eggs preserved in this fashion can be kept in perfect condition from six to ten months and used for every purpose, according to the Institute. They will appear mere watery when broken out of the shell, but the flavor and nutritive qualities will be very satisfactory. When the eggs taken from the crocks are to be boiled, a small hole should be made in the shell with a pin at the large end of the egg before placing it in the water. This permits the air in the egg to escape and prevents it from crack- ' ing because of the pressure. NEWSPAPER A UTILITY A newspaper is a public utility, says Wniiam Allen White, noted editor of the Emporia. Kans., Gazette, and in an editorial he tells why: “A newspaper certainly is affected with the public interest as much as the street car. the telephone, or the gas plant, and all the other municipal utilities. ; “An editor is really a trustee, entitled to his profits if they are . clean and decent to the fullest . extent that he may make them, but not entitled to make his profits at the community’s loss. “Unless he can give the public > some valuable thing—informat- ■ tion. guidance or entertainment —he has no right to his profits. "A newspaper is certainly a . public utility.” o —- OVER-NIGHT AIR MAIL

The first over-night air mail plane between New York and Chicago, an incident that a decade ago would have led to an insanity inquest on the part of the inspiritor, was accomplished on Thursday of last week, piloted by W. B. Williams, of Cleveland, Ohio. - The first leg of the flight was started at Hadley field. New Jersey, at 7:46 p. m., eastern standard time, Wednesday, made a stop at Cleveland, and then proceeded to Chicago, arriving at Maywood field at 6:18 a. m. The trip was made on schedule time and the way is lighted with 250.000-candle-power lights at various points along the route. PAVE HUNTINGTON STREET The town board met Tuesdav evening to hear persons interested or affected by the proposed public imnrovement, i. e., the paving of. Huntington street. A remonstrance, signed by 33 freeholders, was presented. The petition asking for this improvement contained the names of freeholders. As the remonstrance failed to have the necessary 65 per cent same was overruled and the ptving of Huntington street is only a nuestion of time. A motion was filed with the town clerk that evening that an appeal would be taken, and it looks Hke the matter'will be thrashed out in court. —— o ——— BIRTHS A daughter was born on Tuesday, July 14, to Mr. and Mrs. Guy Rang at South Bend. The newcomer will answer to the name of Carol Neva.

THINGS TO : THINK ABOUT I — Review of Things by the Editor ' As He Sees Them on th» Surface. : ; ..'I The Greatest Grief When a friend or a relative dies, or even one whom we might ( have helped but neglected to do > so: we have reproached ourselves with the regret that we did not show ""affection, sympathy cf helpfulness when it* would have . lightened burdens or have given ■ joy. This has been the experience of mankind since civilization began. Beautiful spirits, lovable natures. tender relatives >and deathless friends pass into the realms of death without the word we might have spoken. They go where nevermore is heart cr soul hunger or love hunger. Then the irrevocable and irremediable silence falls, and we find ourselves forever powerless to do that which our heart is big th do, but which we neglected to do when we so easily could have done it. In all the history of accumulated griefs, this is -the greatest grief—the real reason behind our sorrow. All about us are people who arc; starving for some word of love, affection or appreciation. And strange to say they are the ones who from deepest tenderness of heart and nature, of unselfishness and of sacrifice, contribute most of the real and genuine and worthwhile affection of the world. Measured by the yardstick of eternity, life is but a fleeting instant. Why should it be devoted to pulling and hauling and crowding and crushing wh*en tomorrow every one of us measure exactly equal in God’s acre and <■ are soon forgotten? A little love and kindness her? and now would transform this old world. A man had been away from an Indiana town for some years, and upon his return ye ed took hrs pen in hand and wrote: “His numerous friends were surprised to see him unchanged.” But to j think of the anguish of the poor ' editor when he beheld in the | paper after the edition had been I broadcast, a version of the item in which an unkind fate had caused the operator to leave the "c” out of “unchai.ged”!' It is reported that a woman arrived at a New York hotel with six big trunks filled with Parisian gowns and modern dresses. She Drobably intends to open a wholesale' ready-to-wear establishment in this country. For every dollar won in stock speculation someone has lost. The broker gets his at the exoense of both—going and coming. He runs the “kitty.” Eventually!—and because yonmust do it eventually, and lxcanse the longer you jyait the older yen grow—therefore, do it now —today if possible. After being mistreated for years one of our best friends. Health, packs his .grip and moves out. And gold won’t, induce him to return. He’s through. "Remember the days of thy 0 youth.” You worked hard and received little pay, but now yon want a small fortune for doing nothing. If you wish to know the value of money you can read it upon the faces of those on whom it has been bestowed. Hot weather has one cornpen- [ sation—you know there’ll be no . snow to shovel in the morning. The girl who knows how to do her own sewing doesn’t sow , . many wijd oats. Home is a place where a man can do/ just as he pleases if his . wife isn’t there. j Giving a woman driver nlenty , of roadway is both polite and t prudent. r . -Another* thing that is ; very good for the complexion is to let it alone. , The more dishwater a wedding h ring sees the longer it seems to i. la«P. B e Even if he was only a dentist’s son, he had lots of pull.

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