The Syracuse Journal, Volume 19, Number 37, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 13 January 1927 — Page 1

TfiE Syracuse Journal. Syracuse’s Slogan: “A Welcoming Town WitH a Beckoning Lake.”

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SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Items of liiterest Concernini Our High School Written for The Syracuse Journal. ; The honor roll for the fourth month contained the names of the following stouents: Seniurs illbecea Fieuni ng, Euz. beth McClintic, irffanche Mellirger, Cecidia Moran. Arthur Morris , bale Shock, Eva Yoder. Juniors Leda Connolly. Maxine Jenkins, 1 hyilis MornsonJ boplf norvs Mary Geiger, Helen Schroeder. Fresh. >uui Mary Jean; Bachman, VeLnia Fleming. Ralph Leacock. Lajwrence Schtecht. Irene Shock. The semester honor roll re*, quiremejits are: Perfect attendance for firsts semester, no charges in dqportirnent and no gr.vie below B. The siudents meetir g these requi rements were: Seniors R becca F1 e iri in g , 4tn McCl.ntic, Cecilia Moran: Junijra— Leila Connolly. Enn Fleming. Monday morning Rev. MeMichael returned the Bible test papers and gave the correct answer for each question. He also: gave is a system by which to grade these papers ourselves. No one, apparently, made any grade of which to be prould. The senior class enjoyed a party at tie home of Arthur Morris last Thursday evening. The par•y Wfß to be a birthday surprise hut whether it was or uot.no One can determine. A ? del|ghtful cyster supper was served during the evening which naturally added their share of entertainment to the program of t(ie evening. j Tues lay afternoon the high school gills went in a Iwdyi to the Evangelical church where they heard a lecture, ably handled by Mrs. Retd. The (lecture covered, ch idly, the dangers encountered by a young girl and the ways by which 1 most of the dangers can Ke avoided. The talk’should be foo l for thought for ; every girl wlio heard it. Elizabeth Claxton, Louise Hedgei aunt, visited the school last veek. Tuesday. Lester Plank and Christine Ga notte, Both former students <>f the school, re urhed as visitors. Don't forget the SyracuseNortfy Webster basketball game is to fee played in the Syracuse gynn Saturday evening. | Come and ste the fun! The city 'and will play. ■ A Junior history student made the following statement in class. “John; Brown in his raid killed half a dozen people —or maybe it was si|K.“ (Really now!) IkmUrrf'm low voice) A cs—nn 'ti?.,: vkoqldn’t lx* right T tumble mum-4-Teaehcr: —Wha*. were you going to say? Senior -I wasn’t Quite sure. Wednesday imormng Di. Reed talked before the assembly. He gave a very interesting talk. And he invited all the high’ school pupils to come to the meeting next Friday rrht especially and any other night. It is an established custom for the citizens to entertain the teams in ’the county tourney. They will want lodging} Friday - night, and breakfast Saturday morning. In homes where breakfast can not be furnish Al arrangements will be made for the boys to eat at the Tea Room. At present provision has been made for seventy ©f The one hundred thirty to be taken care off. Anybody who is willing to help entertsin these teams, toll some member of the high school £ Q L_ JUNIOR MUSICAL (TAB Miriam I’efflyentertained the Junior Musical Club Friday eve ning at her home. The study for the evening was on 'the life of Bach. | Prizes were won by Velva Brown, Evelyn Strock;- Alice Coy. Betty Ward and Harriett » Kitoon was initiated ® a new member. Refreshment were served.

SYR.U l SE AVINS AGAIN s i Playing good and bad basket- | bad at times, the Syracuse first ' and second teams won from the Wolf Lake teams on their floor : Saturday night. Wolf Lake had a a team of big boys, but most of |the time they were nev" in the i right place, and the first half I ended with a 31-7 couM. In the ! second half the Syracuse boys ! dApensed with team work ami [ j wete outplayed 18-10. Box Score Svracuse Secon ! Team J Players FG FT PTS - K iream in 11 3 O R. Miller ........ 3 17 .I F. Crow -. 3 3 9 ’H. Bebeck ....... 2 3 7 R. (Jodshalk 1 2 4 M. Bushong 0 11 } Totals 1" 11 31 Wolf Lake Second Team ° Players F< J FT , PFS C. .Hawk 6 1 13 L. Hcmtzelman -. 4 1 9 J Beers 0 0 0 ,H. Barr 0 3 3 0. fucker 0 0 0 W. Ridgeley 0 0 0 Totals 10 5 25 Syracuse First Team Plave s FG FT PTS D. Shock 5 -1 11 E. Ketring 3 2 8 A. Kline am an .... 0 11 D. Riddle 4 4 12 R. Go<Lshaik 11 3 (’.'Bachman I 2 4 H/Godshalk 0 2 2 Totals 14 13 41 Playeis FG Ff PTS Wolf Lake First Team V. Edwards 0 0 0 IL Serfus 5 0 10 C. Huntsman .... 2 0 4 R. Hickman ....;. 2 I 5 O. Addis 1 3 5 C. Hawk ......... 0 0 0 T. Stang land .... 0 0 0 W. Ridgeley 0 0 0 C. Taggart 0 i 1 Totals 10 5 25 On account of the meeting being held in the Community building. the North Webster game will he played. Sctuiday night. North Webster has two stars in Phelps arid Lautz and word has already been sent out Lorn Web>re will be a different score than the one Novem!nm 21. We'll see about tha*. '"■■r*--"— 0 1 BOY SCOTT TROOP Twentv-one boys that have passed their twelfth birthday have signed up and will become neimbers ofi a kcal boy scout troop under the direction of Rev. Eiler, who w’ill act as Scout The assistant has not been named yet. The Troop Committee of men that will sponsor the organization has als» l>een secured with W. G. Connolly as the chairman. These boys had a preliminary Yneeting last week at the library with the men present and were addressed by Charles D iugherty. the singer with the C.j Fenwick Reed Evangelistic Party, now conduc'd ng a campaign in the Community building. Mr Daugherty has had years of experience in the scopt work and talked to the group for an houif on the ideals and i plans of thd greatest boy organisation in ttye w’orld. There is now a total vvembershin of over six hundred thousand. Four patrols of eight boys each make a full troop. Tpey meet weekly for business examination i and play. Officers are elected I according to the need Ciaracter I building and leadersh n develop- : ment are prime essentials. I • There is practically no limit to advancement as th«rfe is merit badge work that gives this op- • portunity and it de nils crreatly i on the individual first . becomes a TenderfocK then a Se- - cond Class, First Class. Star. Life r and Eagle. It requires a great - amount of study to gam the last - as he must have twenty-one ? merit badges befo>e he reaches t that rank. | ? The opportunity here for a 1 real troco is splendidand with - proner co-operation of parents - and business men, d will soon be ? 'hie to show results. Let us all boost the boys and Wh them become real urm with honor, decency and stability behind their names. e o- 1 > GRANTED A DIWRCE P '' — e In circuit court Mrs. Fdna Leedv Norris, wife o( Ersil B v a Norris, of Pierceton., who was. e convktedi by a jurv < shooting t her on November 26, granted a divorce from her husband by s Ju J ge L W. Royse. t Norris is now serving} his sen- * Al *4. A.* 1 wnve i i wc |W i

I LONG LIFE WITH HEALTH j 9 J DR. WM. F. KING State Health Commissioner. ' When King Solomon, thte ; wrisest man the world ever saw, choose wisdom as his portion. I length of days was also accorded him as one of the choicest gifts *.<3aven could confer upon a mortal being. “The elixir of life” ■' has been the dream of poets an.i philosophers from the days of che Chaldean sages* Ponce DeLeon went fort ,' on an adventure to seek the Fountain of Youth and discovered Florida where four centuries later,-men older than Ponce DeLeon developed the fountain of fortunes in real estate. How to postpone I old age has been the lure of ad- ! venturous spirits, not only in the J i-ealm of disco very and exploration but in the realm of science well and yet man continues to approximate in his life span he biblical three score years : and ten.. It is true, of course, | that age is not measured entire-1 ly by years and while numerical- ' ly age cannot be postponed or i the numerical count of years be j changed, physical age may be postponed and physical strenght and physical stability may be preserved and made vital and effective long past the biblical numerical age. It is obvious that length of years, if it means only an 'extended period of physical discomfort and mental weakness, is a burden and that to be a blessing length of years must be accompanied by health of body and mind. The desire to live long and well is universal. Today no one wishes to be old or to even appear to be old. This was not altogether true*fifty years ago. At that time men and women were old at sixty, largely because they appealed to be old. Men wore grey beards, dressed in black, carried and used a cane, retired from active participation in worldly affairs and demanded the respect due to old age., Women w’ere grandmothers at fifty, wore nightcaps, pieced quilts comforters to passu the time away, cried out against the follies and the frailties of youth and and lived largely on the shady side of life. The expected happened, of coqrse, and men and women passed on from the infirmities of age at three score and ten. All this is vastly different today—men continue their active participation in business affairs long after the time at which grandfather retired, men wear knickers and play golf at eighty and carry caaies to be true, but not to use, the patriarchal beard has gone into the ciscard and the ruddy complexion of youth remains long past the allotted three score and ten. Women carry on social and club activities long past period when grandmother faded out pf the picture and instead of crying out at the follies of ycutlr, take part in some follies and dress and act the part of youth itself. Hence we see the grandmothers of today active, interested, hearty and healthy long after the numerical three score and ten has been recorded. I was interested recently in reading a small Primer on “Long Life and How to Reach It" published in 1882. The writer after calling attention to the fact that in the city of Philadelphia only 4 per cent of all deaths were from old age causes, while 96 per cent were from inherited maladies and from what he termed “accidental deaths” such as typhoid, diphtheria, cholera infantum and smallpox, commented on this fact by saying “I have no doubt and statistics in regard to the gradual increasing success of sanitary precautions aboard prove there can be no doubt that all of these accidental deaths and a large proportion of the deaths from inheritdß .diseases might by proper hygienic management be absolutely prevented." In bther words, that by due attention to t“e rules of the most perfect science of hygiene. nearly 300,000 inhabitants of the United States might escape dying as they (to of painful diseases in their youth and in their prime and might instead live out the full measure of their usefulness to extreme old age and then almost without reluctance put off this mortal life by a nearly painless process of its gradual extinction. If» as the writer continues, such satisfactory results are possible in the ’ attainment of long life and sound health by sanitary regula- ► tions and forced upon the ignorant and vicious against their will, what grand success may we not look for in this country when s free and enlightened people voluntarily practice a wise and

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of health? What this gifted observer saw in prospect has in • large degree come true. The avleiage span of humari life forty years ago was approximately > thirty-seven years. The average span of life today in civilized countries is approximately fifty- [ two years, in other words, more : han tilteen\-ears have been . { added to the 'average length of ' j life in less than a half century and most of this has been due • to a wise and intelligent obe- . dience to the law’s of hygiene. Since postponing old age means ■ postponing the physical and mcn- ? tai infirmities which are usually | associated with numerical age ; and. since health of body and ■ f.nijtd is essential to a comfortable i and efficient old age, it would i be well to define health in sucn way as 'fb/show wiiat is involved or whatUshould be involved in any consideration of old age4e-. ferred. The best definition of health I have ever seen is the s following—“ Health is the highest | degree of eff iciericy prolonged . ever the greatest period of ■ time. It is the quality of life ; that renders the individual fit to live mos; and serve best.” Health as here defined applied to numerical old age would mean the individual living on year after year, well past three score and teit fit to live, to enjoy, to serve t nd to be useful and then all at once, like the Deacon s one-hoss shay, by a process of disintegration and extinction quitring this mortal dife without pain and without regret. Tl|e average span of human life has been increased not less than fifteen years within the past fifty years. This average span of lifje :an be increased, another sis- J teen years within the next fifty ! yeaijs by merely putting into ap-! plication the knowledge we ffow have! concerning disease preven- 1 tion, protection against sickness ' through conxmunity sanitation and I personal hygiene. In other ■ wqrds, if no further progress i should be made In unraveling the • facts governing our bodfiy exist- i ence: and w’e should use intelli- i gen ly only the facts we now i hayq, average spw of human ; life would be increased to approximately seventy years within Lpei next two generations. Wjiat has been accomplished thus far through hygiene, sanitation and prevention has been accomplished largely because of the {things that have been done • for and done to the individual j and i the community. Prevenuhas been lessened because individuals and communitM*s}have been compelled to observe the law’s of quarantine and have been prevented from extending their communicable diseases to others. Because parents in many instances have been compelled to give attention to the J physical welfare of their children, because men engaged in die manufacture, distribution and sale of foods have been com-, pelted to manufacture, distribute and handle these foods in a safe and sanitary manner, because

Nation’s Champion Horses To Compete in February

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Nancy Highland, horse shown in the above picture which last year gained the title of the beat three gaited saddle horse in the United States ta to be shown again this year with the severest competition imagiu; able at the Los Angeles Horse show, February S to 12. Nancy Highland won the national championship at the New York Show last year dethroning Bohemian Actress which had held the title for six years. The horse is owned by Maud Fawn Banks of Covina, California, and is trained and ridden by Roy Davis, shown riding. The Los Angeles show is to have 110 classes with a total of 135JW0 In prise money. This is more than ever

dairymen have been compelled i to see that tows were free from ! tuberculosis, have been compelled to safeguard milk by j pasteurization and have been compelled to handle milk in a clean and sapitary way, because municipalities have been compelled to safeguard water supplies and privately owned water companies h&ve been required to purify the water supply furnished to the public by processes of purification and. flteration. In other w’ords. because health wards, health departments and health officers have officially projected themselves and their knowledge into the every day affairs of life often times despite the active protest and opposition of those who are toe beneficiaries and because govermnent, local, state and national, has done for the public at large could kings that should be done an.l that the public at large could not do for itself. It has cqme td be generally accepted that a given community has it within its power to determine. very largely w’ha: its sickness rate arid its death rate will be. In other words, public health is a purchasable commodity, and therefore, a community by determining the amount of money, co-operation and intelligence it is willing to invest in public health can also determine within certain natural limitations just about the amount of sickness, and the number of deaths it is going to have. The same fundamental and w r eil re- 1 cognized principle can be applied to the individual as well as to the community. In other wordsi J he number of biithdays an individual may have can be decided ' largely by the individual himself. The way to insure the largest number of birthdays is for the indivQtoal to take the' best poss ble physical care of himself, and, should sickness come, to give himself the best possible medical supervision and care. After all, .public health is personal, and the sum total of physical liealth~“and physical effeciency in any group, community or nation is merely the combined physical heaUh and physical efficiency of thfe individuals who make up that particular unit. In the public health work of today we are getting away from the thought of how’ much the health Can do for the individual, and are thinking more jn terms of what the individual can and should do for himself. WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Mr. sred Mrs. Fred Hinderer celebrated their forty-fifth wedding anniversary on Saturday. January 8. Their children and grandchildren came to their home and gave them a surprise and spent the evening with them. A fine feature of the evening was the sumptuous meal that was nropared and served by the guests. ;' o Is your subscription due? -

bring out the liveliest contest of them all when Edna May's King owned by Revel Lindsay • English, and Easter Star owned by Marco Hellman, meet in the five gaited championship. Easter Star won last year after the judges were obliged to keep the horses in the ring for twenty extra minuted to determine which was the better. Since that time Edna May's King has won the SIO,OOO stake at the Kentucky state fair. One of the horses will gain the distinction of being the best five gaited horse in the United States. The 110 classes, which include five $2,000 stakes, will show a total of about 400 horses. More than 150 of these are from East of the Rocky Mountains. 1 - - -i" ; ' /T ' -

INDEPENDENTS WIN TWO Last Thursday night, January 6. the Syracuse boys journeyed !io Mentone to meet toe Mentone • I ndependents. the strongest team in this district. As a matter of fact, ft is believed that Ithis is the team that Syracuse | oust defeat to go to the State . T ourna jent. Althoupfh. one of the main cog wheels, Druckamiller. was unr ile to puke the trip w\‘h the toys, this w’as one of the finest games played by the Independents this’ year. It was also one cf the most exciting games that las been witnessed. Five hun- • red fans rocked the bleachers in their excitement. In the fir.’ minute of pi ay, Apers dribbled under the basket iving Syracuse the lead. Mentone then called time out and mom that time, until tije end of the half. Mentone lead, the -rccre being 14-18 at the half. Afer the first four mints'es of the second, half, our boys tied the ''ore ’and at 41 minutes to go, Mentone lead. 26-28. Snavely shot a free throw’, making the score 27-28. Auers then repeated one of his snake dribbles, winding through five men for a basket, giving Syracuse a lead :f one point. Thirty seconds to jo and, Roy Schultz made a long >3ss to his brother Harry . rom the center of lhe Icor giving Syracuse a lead of 3 points. Pete Hall called time .o inquire the time. Ten more ■ econds and our boys stalled, not .iving Mentone another chance and the final shot was fired. The Mentone band kept, the crowd lull of pep before the game and during the half. Tuesday night, January 11, the boys played BuchanaQ. Michigan, in the Milford Gym, and easily defeated them by a score'of 53 Syracuse was not in danger at any time. Druckamiller played in his old position as forward and seemed to be right at home, being high score man having 25 points to his credit. All played well for Syracuse. The walk-away is qjiite impressive through the fact that it was the Michigan teams’ first defeat of the season. Next Thursday night, the strong Wakarusa Independents will play the Syracuse Independents at Milford. Wakarusa is coming back to even up their defeat they took from the Syracuse boys earlier in the season. Although the Wakarusa boys have an advantage of Syracuse with their 6 foot 4 center giving thqm the tip-off. our boys hope to hold their own with the same defense they performed at Wakarusa. —oW. A. CLUB Mrs. P. H. Miles entertained the Wednesday Afternoon Club on Wednesday. This is the eighth meeting of the club year; and the subject was “The Makers of our Clothing and our Responsibility Toward Them.” Mrs. Sol Miller wrote an article on “How Our Grandmothers Made Their Clothing. 1 * Ip the absence of Mrs. Joe Rapp, Mrs. Nelson Miles had charge of the subject, “The Invention of Machinery and its effect on Women and Children in Industry.” The following officers were elected: President, (re-elected) —Mrs. C. C. Bachman. Vice-president, (re-elected) — Mrs. A. A. Pfingst. Secretary-treasurer—M rs. P. H. Miles. Corresponding secretary, (reelected)— Mrs. P. R. Sprague. Chairman program committee, Mrs. Nelson Mites. o — HELD REGULAR MEETING On Monday January 10, the Willing Workers Sunday school class of the Church of God met a£ the home of' Prentice Kindig for the regiri? - meeting. After the business meeting was closed games were played, at which several won prizes. A pot luck supper was served. Those present were: Cressel Kitson, teacher: Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Stookey, Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Hedges. Delos Weaver, Monroe Kehr, Louise Hedges, Christine Garriotte, dell Longacre, Phyllis Mock. Mary Jane Hire, Margaret Coy, Genieve Kitson, Hascal Kitson and Esther Long. All report a good t ime. o Vt u'll like '“Gigolo.” Everyone will! It’s different It’s reaL It’s hirman. It’s a sure fire bet. At Crystal Ligonier, next Tuesday, Wedtoeslay and Thursday, January 18, 19 and 20-

THINGS TO i THINK ABOUT Review of Things by the Editor As He Sees Them on the Surface. it Good Neighbors ; We came across an item in an exchange a few days ago that ■ struck us as containing pretty j evidence that the old spirit of { helps ulness to others is not dead in the land. The husband of a ! Kansas woman died and left a j seven y-five acre field of corn , anding, and across from it a held of. oats-r-ten acres —®nd ready to cut. Everybody was’ busy to led a hand,. Word was passed around following the burial of the owner of the little farm, and the next day +wentyseven able-bodied men, with corn knives and a reaper, ;made quick work of toe crops.’ By dark they had saved them for the widow’. Somtimes we see things, or read them, ’hat lead us to believe that the old neighborly spirit is dead. And then we Fun. across an example similar to the one in Kansas. Or we learn of a Syracuse citizen being ill, and quickly see the old spirit revived through visits of neighbors to the bedside, along with frequent inquiry as to the patient’s condition by those on the srireet. And it cheers our heart and makes us gted. It convinces us that there ard still a lot of good people in the world, and that the place to find them is in the Small town and the rural districts. It is good to know tluV the spirit of the old neighbor who rushes in with glass of jelly whenever anyone in the family is* ill has not vanished from the! earth. i . i A writer in a current magazine says that a man and his wife must eat a bushel of salt together before they can le arn to trust each ether with their eyes shut. He may be correct, hut a bushel is a heap of sadt. Rags make paper; paper makes money; money makes riches; riches make banks; banks make 'oans; loans make poverty; poverty. makes rags, and then you* start all over again. Two Kentucky school boys killed their teacher because he called them down. Those boys should moye to Chicago after -.hey graduate. A recent writer sayS there are 152 different ways of holding a baby. Many a father has tried every one of them without satisfying the baby. A Boston man drew! 7 years in the pen for kissing a ginl. But lots of Syracuse men were sentenced for lite after similar misdemeanors. . ——— I ■ . v Woman walked: into a store in South Bend and asked for some corsets. They had to look it up in- the dictionary to find, out what she meant. No business is so great that it can afford not to advertise. No business is so small that it cannot afford to advertise. A musical show consists of a lot of ope-fourth dressed girls enY tirofy surrounded by bald heads and rubber necks. Mother kept ’ that school-girl complexion by occasionally walking five or ten miles past a lot of drug stores. Closed autos are the most popular in winter, while closed mouths are popular the year around. We live by example. Gungangs get theirs from nations. One tries to outdo the other in arms. Constant use will wear a thing ou*, only apparent exception being some people’s nerve. The millions of germs on money and in kisses never make a man refuse either. The Bible is the world’s best seller 9.069,120 having been sold last year. * A man seldom turns over a new leaf until the old one is all smeared. • Now, altogether! Let’s make it a year of push for this communitx-

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