The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 25, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 20 October 1927 — Page 1

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SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Items of Interest Concerning Our High School Written for The Syracuse Journal. Twenty four new books have been purchased by the township from the Indiana Young People s Reading Circle at Indianapolis. A few of the better known ones I from the different groups are:' Croup I, “Dot and David” by Johnson and “Under the Story Tree” by Laßue; Group 11, "Peter Pan” by Barrie and “Little Joe Otter” by Burgess; Group 111 "Hollow Tree” and "Deep Woods” by and “Stories •Pictures Tell” ■by Carpenter;; Group IV, “Northward Ho” by I Stevenson and "Becky” by Blan-; chard; Group V, "Stories from! Great Operas” by McSpadden and "King Arthur” by Creswich. Thursday morning the committee for nomination of yell leaders met and reported the following candidates: Girls, Leila Connolly, Mabel Miller, and Marjorie Kline; Boys. Johnny Sudlow, J a fries Connolly and Robert Lepper. Friday morning the members of the Junior and Senior High School chose Robert Lep-i per and Leila Connolly to pilot the cheering squad. The correspondent is pleased | to announce two days vacation, October 20 and 21 owing to the Teachers’ Association at Fort Wayne and Indianapolis. Some of the students are planning pleasure trips and hunting expi-| ditions while others are looking forward (?) to work in the corn fields and potato patches. * • ■' Evalyn Gordy, a member of the Senior class is leaving for Los Angeles. California, where she will spend the winter : Although her classmates envy her journey to the “Land of Sunshine" they will miss Evalyn's 1 contribution to the class fund of knowledge. The School is going to try to buy an Orthophonic Victrola by taking subscriptions for the McCall Magazine. Renewals and new subscriptions will mean profits which we hope will enable us to make this purchase. The members of the Senior En glish class have the “pleasure” of writing a modern essay every day for the next ten days on subjects pertaining to the school and betterment of it. The Season Ticket sale for bas ketball games is going rather slowly, which evidently means that some people are not aware of the bargain that is in store for them. The grades are going to sell condy, pop corn, pop, ‘ and ice cream at the basket ball games this year. The profits will be used to buy new Reading Circle books. The Pathfinder became so popular to the lower classmen I that the uppers were advised to I take them home, so that lessons i might not suffer too much. - Rev. Royer gave the Wednesday morning talk. He gave us a description of some of the most interesting places visited on his recent trip to Washington. Mrs. Nelson Miles substituted for Miss Hamman, who was unable to canry on her work on account of illness. <

The Misses Wyatt will enter school next week as members of the Sophomore and Senior classes. The ninth period put in its first andwe hope last appearance this week. ?. .......oW. A. CU’B The Wednesday Afternoon Club met at the home of Mrs. N. A. Miles on Wednesday afternoon. Eighteen members responded to roll call by giving a current event. After the regular program the hostess pleasantly surprised the guests by serving tea. —o—.— Don’t miss “Bean Geste” the mystery story oi the French Foreign Legion with Ronald Colman. A man's story, that women lore. We endorse it to the skies SeO it at Crystal Ligonier, next Tuesday, Wednesday. and Thursday, October 25,2€ and 27.

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I MILFORD MOVIE MAN FOUND GUILTY BY JURY i The case against Frank Parish, Milford moving picture show opi erator, charged with breaking the Sabbath by operation of a pic- ’ ture show on Sunday, August 21, {’was found guilty by a jury in i Circuit Court, Thursday, and fin'ed $5. • v Five jurymen" 1 were disqualij fied by both the state and dei sense. Prosecuting Attorney. William G. Loehr required that I all jurymen who sat on the panel i should believe in the ten com- ■ I mandments. He also asked if they traded at Milford or attend|ed Sunday shows. Only' one man, who said he had attended a Sun- > day’ movie about five years ago was left on the jury. Witnesses for the state were < Leslie Noggle, employed at Mel-; lencamp’s Furniture Store, who went with Loehr the night he j went to Milford. He said on the i night in question 83 to 85 cars were parked in Milford streets. Thomas Dobson. Milford marshal, testified that Frank Parish was the owner of the theatre. Leßoy, McDonald. Milford machine operator, said the show was running on Wednesday, F riday, Saturday aud Sunday. The film that night was “Tillie the Toiler” and an educational film. Carlyle Barnes, editor of the Milford Mail, identified an ad in his paper as one given him to run by Parish advertising the Sunday show. Dimple McPherson. ticket seller, testified that tickets were sold on Sunday night. Mr. Parish was charged with operating his picture show on Sunday. August 21. However, he operated his show on Sunday ever since. Parish paid his fine and costs Monday.• which amounted to s3l. A similar case was tried at Newcastle last week and B. D. Cockrill. who operated his picture show on Sunday, was acquitted by a jury after a deliberation of a little more than an hour. A post card vote in the village of Glencoe, 111., on the question of whether the town is to have a moving picture theatre, indicates that the people of that tow'n, long without a movie, want a picture show. Responses show ed 455 in favor and 73 against.' Three hundred and fifty residents | were in favor of Sunday moviesl and 168 against.

CARNIVAL 'Fhe carnival at the Community ( building opened last night with a good-sized crowd present. With • each admission ticket a coupon 1 is given, which will participate 1 in a prize given away each night and also a grand prize to be gi- ‘ ven away Saturday night. Save your coupons. , The radio set given away Wednesday night was won by Mary 1 Druckamiller. The carnival closes Saturday ' night. ■— 0 — 1 KIM) DEED One of our townsmen passed the farm of David Price last 1 week. He noticed a number of autos in the yard and when he 1 passed the corn field he saw a number of men cutting corn. All ’ this reminded him that there was sickness in the Price family and that the men were cutting Mr. Price’s com for him. It also reminded him that it is not all in being served, but in serving others. A friend in need is a friend indeed. o SYRACUSE INDEPENDENTS The Syracuse Independent basketball team has been re-organ-ized with J. D. Wilt as manager, J. C. Abbott as publicity manaand Emory Druckamiller as coach and captain. Several games have already been scheduled and we are informed they will play the first game with Ligonier at Cromwell. Monday night, October 24. o WANTS SC HOOL BAND The Cromwell Advance puts up a strong plea for a school 1 band in Cromwell and insists ‘ that the town has plenty of talent for such a musical organiza- ' tion. 1 o ’ CAR CRASHED INTO TREE Marion Bushong’s Chevrolet coach crashed into a tree at the Pine Tree Inn, near Benton. Frip day evening. The car was badly h wrecked. I- -i - o - ■ Tommy Da ad u rand and his Na* i. tional Barn Dance Gang from W. t L. S. will be at Crystal. Ligonier, Friday. October 21. Also regular picture program.

Syracuse’s Slogan: “A Welcoming Town With a Beckoning Lake.”

RECIPROCITY MEETING One of the best meetings of its kind ever held in Syracuse, was ’ held last Thursday evening, Oc- , tober 13, at the home of the President of the Round Table, Mrs. W. F. Kindig, whose club sponsored the meeting. The pretty home was beauti- | fully decorated with gorgeous fall flowers. This was a splendid get-together meeting, which is the purpose of such an affair. Mrs. Neff of Milford who is District Chairman, gave a pleas- ' ing talk. Several musical selections were rendered by the Junior Round Table Club, which has a splendid membership of high school girls. Mrs. Eby sang My Roseary.■ Mrs. Eby has a very' pleasing voice and was accompanied by Helen Leacock on the piaano. Mrs. Kenneth Harkless repre- ; renting the W. A. C.. sang Wini ter Lullaby, which was so good. . that a second song was requested Mrs. Beider accompanied her on the piano. Miss Blanche Sprague gave an interesting talk on Art to represent that club. A violin duet by Helen Leacock- and Mary Jean Bachman is worthy' of special mention. Mrs. FTeston Miles gave a book review of The Plutocrat, which was well rendered. Natheta Sloan needs no special mention ,of her talent as a whistler. Mrs. Roy Riddle read in her pleasing way a fine paper entitled, A World of Opportunify The last number was the National Anthem, played by Mrs. Leacock at the piano. Helen Leacock. violin; Mary Jean Bachman, violin; Leila Connolly, saxophone Natheta Sloan, whistler, after which everyone marched to the dining room to help themselves to refreshments. It is needless to say they were enjoyed. A committee of four, one member of each club was appointed to be on the look out for anything that might present itself for the benefit of Syracuse. The meeting adjourned everyone feeling it had been an evening well spent. .— —o— TOWNSHIP S. S. CONVENTION

The Turkey Creek Township Convention of Sunday, Schools ’ will be held in the United Brethren Church on Sunday, October 23. afternoon and evening. 1 Following is the program 2:00 —Devotions, Rev. A. Nico demus. ' 2:15— Announcements a n d ’ Committees—Music. 1 2:30 Address: “What Can 1 1 Do to Make the Sunday Schoo 1 Fullfil Its Mission in the Church,” Dr. A. H. Arbaugh. ’ Discussion: 0. C. Stoelting. Sherman Deaton. 3:15 Music—Zion School. 3:2o—Address: ’ “Plans That Work in Practice,” Dr. M. E Richardson. ' Discussion led by Rev. R. G Foust. Song Rev. A. Nicodemus. Collection. 4:3o—Benediction. Meeting of Committees. 7:00 —Devotions —Rev. J. H Royer. Report, Committee on Resolu tions, J. TT Riddle, Chairman. Report, Committee on Nominations, G. W. Colwell. Chairman. Music —Evangelical Quartet. 7:3o—Address—T he Whole Task of Religious Education, Dr. M. K. Richardson. Music and Collection. Benediction —Rev. R. G. Foust. Please cut this out and bring to the Convention. Our speakers this year are of exceptional ability. Dr. Arbaugh was for many years a Professor in a prominent Lutheran College and Dr. Richardson, of Fort Wayne has achieved success not only in his pastoral work but in his Sunday School work. o •— FIRE The fire department was called to the residence of Chester Middleton on Boston street. Monday afternoon, where the kitchen roof had caught fire. The blaze was soon extinguished without . doing much damage, however, a hole was burned in the roof. . — ——o STORK HAS LEAD During August there were 34 deaths and 53 births in Kosciusko county according to the monthhr report of the Indiana t State Board of Health just rej ceived here. Last year for Au- - gust there were 17 deaths in ? the county. Jackie Coogan in “The Bugle - Call.” Lovable! Heroic! You'll . give him your tears and cheers ■, at Crystal. Ligonier, next Sunr day and Monday, October 23 and M.

SYRACUSE. INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1927.

; Syracuse Library 1 Hunting Song Tek a cool night, goad an cleah, Skiff o’ snow upon de’ groun’; ‘ Jes’ ’bout fall-time o’ de yeah * Wen de leaves is dry- an’ brown; Tek a dog an’ tek a axe, ’ Tek a lantun in yo’ han’; . Step light whah de switches cracks. Fu’ dey’s huntin’ in de lan’. Down th’oo de valleys an’ ovah de. hills. Into de woods whah de simmontree grow, Wakin’ an skeerin' de po’ whippo’ wills, I Huntin fu’ coon an’ fu’ possum we goes. Bruce Barton’s "The Man Nobody Knows” which is a wholly sincere and reverent effort to picture Jesus Christ as he really was, freed from the feminizing legends of the early church and of medieval times. Chirst emerges in these pages as you find Hxm in the gospels—but not as you find Him in things written since. For this book is not i theology, not a “life" of Christ. It presents him as a living and breathing identity, as real and I alive as you and I. This book may be obtained from your li-, brary. o A pamphlet entitled “Signs of Health in Childhood” is now available at the library. Pa- i rents, this should interest you. Also pamphlets containing photos of memorials to Lincoln and "Lincoln, the Hoosier” may interest some of you. Last but by no means least, Richad Halliburton’s “Glorious Adventure”. Anyone who has read the "Royal Road to Romance” can’t afford to miss this book — but w'hether you’ve read the latter or not you have a tremenduous "thrill” waiting for you in the former —a modern Odyssey. Q_ Every American boy or girl, man or woman will of course want to, read our copy of Lindbergh’s "We.” . 4) Rudolph Beckman contributed the copies of the National Geographic, asked for last week, to the library.

, - — —. INDIANA’S GREAT OUTDOORS The outdoors of Indiana, immortalized by James Whitco ■ o Riley and Gene Stratton Po ter. need bow to no other outdoor region in the United States, and the millions of dollars spent annually by Hoosiers in traveling to distant dimes tor outdoor recreation is money wasted, according to L. G. Bradford, South Bend. President of the Indiana i Division of the Izaak Walton I I eague, in an appeal to chapters | of the League io take a ' ore I active part in the constrvatio i of > the outdoors. "The Hoosier doesn't know Indiana,” declared Mr. Bradford. “He doesn’t know the great: wealth of outdoors that is spread | out under his very nose. It is i the duty of real conservation in | Indiana not .inly io conserve, to guard our outdoor treasures ard propagate wild life, but to promote. by education, an increased use of our wonderiul natural resources. This is necessary in the interest not only of health, but ofcivan thmkurj. c.ean living, the dean up 014 ' g of our vouch.” The I I oa Dr : on of t WaP.r w• i on the th.csbhold of the j-.catesl growth o its’career, declarer. Mr. Brad f or i. in calling on all Waltonians in the state to put their shoulders to the wheel to push through the expansion program in the cause of “a greater League, a greater outdoors —health, recreation and happiness for all.” "What we need in Indiana,” he said, “is a greater Izaak Walton League. More members more chapters. We need mam power and woman power to put Indiana on the map as a real outdoor state and to let the Hoosier know he has such a state, in order that all may benefit." o RUMMAGE SALE The Wednesday Afternoon Club will conduct its annual rummage sale in the basement of the library on Friday and Saturday, October 28 and 29, commenicing at 12:30 p. m. each day. I Plenty of good winter clothing. I Bargains. 25-2 t fl » O. E. S. CHAPTER I Stated meeting of Syracuse i Chapter O. E. S. Wednesday. Oc- • tober 26. Chapter will open i promptly at 8 o’clock. All mem- | bers requested to be present.

STATE AUTO THEFT FUND Legal proceedings to compel state officials to return to the state auto, theft fund and hold for its orginally intended purposes a total of $491,000 which in recent years has been converted to other state financial uses is I under consideration by directors i of the Hoosier State Automobile Association, it was learned. ' The proposed suit was discuss- ' ed by the directors at a meeting in Indiananpolis Friday and a committee consisting of C.- W. Lanz, Dedford. Elmer Elsner, and Dr. J. N. McCoy, Vincennes, was appointed to prepare the suit. The officials of the association have taken the view that the auto theft money was provided by the certificate of title law for the specific purpose of being o ’jenefit to automobile owners principally through auto theft prevention work and that this money, therefore, should be held for this specific purpose and should not be diverted by state officials to other state financia 1 uses. The language of the certificate of title law. the officials of the association say, provides that funds so obtained shall continue over from year to year in the same fund. Thdy pointed out that during the McCray state administration $400,000 was borrowed on a note and was placed in the state general fund and that after a succeeding legislative session this note was torn up and an additional $91,000, which had been accumulated in the theft fund was placed in the general fund. Following the 1925 legislature they say, many different funds, including the theft fund, were pooled together in the general fund and. in spite of efforts and demands of the Automobile Association to receive consideration for this special fund, nothing was done. They said that even now the income from the auto theft law is being placed in the state general fund instead of being held for the use of the state motor police department? ' * "The work being done by the state motor police is only a drop in the bucket as compared to what could and should be done iq, Indiana and if there is any way the Hoosier State Automobile Association can see that it is done that is what we propose to do,” Mr. Lanz said, in a statement from the offices of the association.

DEATH OF MRS. D. PRICE Mrs. David Price died Tuesday at the Goshen hospital after being a patient there for less than a week. Mrs. Price was a Vir-; ginian by birth, being one of, nine children of Mr. and Mrs. ■ Harvey Hollar, two brothers. Ar 3 thur and Frank, living in Virginia and one brother Otis, in Washington, D. C. Four sisters live in Virginia and one is dead. She came to Indiana 28 years ago and two years later was united in marriage to David Price. Four children were born to the union, all at home, three miles northeast of Milford. — o EXHIBITION CLOSED The Centenary Exhibition of I the B. & O. railroad at Baltimore closed. Saturday. The atten-: dance was in excess of 1,200,000. i On the last day over 14,000 auto-1 mobiles found parking space on. the fair grounds. One visitor. Richard Francis, is exactly as old as the Baltimore and Ohio—loo years. He was born in July 1827. o DEATH OF A CHILD Eloise May Kehr, five months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Kehr, died Thursday night at the home of her parents, 207 Cross street, Goshen. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the family home. Rev. T. E George officiating. Interment in the Syracuse cemetery. NEB FILLING STATION Warren Ruple is making preparations to build a filling station on his residence property on the comer of Main and Harrison streets. The house has been sold to Kenneth Harkless, who will move it to a location on the lake. * “Beau Geste? an amazing story of the adventures of three brothers in the French Foreign Legion. One of the finest pictures of the age. A big road show attraction at Crystal, Ligonier, next Tuesday. Wednesday, and Thursday. October 25. 26 and 27. Admission 25c and 35c.

IACOB P. DUNN FINDS ORtGIN OF “HOOSIER” Indiana’s fighting backwoodsmen, who wandered down to New Orleans in the old Mississippi river steamboat day's, are reponsible for the word "Hoosier” being attached to denizens of this state, according to researches completed recently by Jacob Piatt Dunn, Evansville historian. “Hosier” or “Hoozer” as it is -pelled in the old dictionaries, las its modefrn equivalent in the lang word "Wow” or “Knockout,” according to Dunn, who las made An extensive study of >ld English dialects. In more degant phraseology it means something Unusually strong and arge.” . According to old tales of the 'ighteen thirties. Hoosier boys fften drifted down to New Groans. which was a metropolitan ity. even ir those days. In fact i trip to N’Awleens was the height of ever riverman’s ambitions. Many were the fist fights enraged in there by the Hoosier ■'oys with the dandies of the “big city,” who laughed at the un outh backwoodsmen, but later rubbing their bruised chins and blackened eyes, said. "Well, he -horely was, a Hoozer. You’ali couldn’t expect me to lick a wildcat could ydh?” Various stories have been told from time to time, of the origin of Hoosier, the one most widely credited being that it is a contraction of the call "Who’s Yere?” (Who are you) with which the pioneer of Indiana challenged anyone who knocked at his door of nights. Dunn, claims, however, that his nterpretations is the more logical. He directs the doubter to examine a glossary of words and used in the Cumberland District of England, from which many Indiana settlers emigrated. This, he declares, contains many quaint expressions which were later incorporated into Indiana’s pioneer dialect. Vestiges of this quaint speech may still be found in isolated sections of, the state, he claims. The Evansville historian cites the case of John Finley, a resident of Cumberland county. England, who came here in 1820, or thereabouts, and became one of Indiana’s first poets. In 1830 Finley wrote “The Hoosher’s Nest ” or yHoozer’s Nest,” which title he later changed to the Hoosier’s Nest. Since the publication of that poem the term has been appropriated ’by Indiana people alone, and many an Indianian, ever yet would be ready to prove himself "something unusuaPy strong and large” if the name were applied as an insult.

IT CANT BE DONE “It would be a good thing for motorists] to learn and remember that a car going sixty miles per hour covers 88 feet per second; a car going thirty miles an hour means 22 feet per second,” says J. N. McCoy, vice-president of the Hoosier State Automobile Association. “If a man driving his car at 60 miles an hour does not see another cajr coming out of an intersecting street until he is 88 feet from it. he has only one second in which to stop. It cannot possibly be done. If a man is driving KI miles an hour and Sees another car coming out of an intersecting street when he is 44 feet from it, he has only one second to stop. Impossible. If a man drives his car 15 miles an hour and does not see another car coming out of an intersecting street. Or a child dodging out from behind a parked machine, or a wo|man with a baby carriage suddenly starting to cross, until he is 22 feet from the object, he has only one second in which to stop. It can’t be done. “Keep this in mind.” says Dr. McCoy, “and avoid accidents.” o MEDICINE LODoE TREATY’ From all parts of the southwestern plains ihe tribesmen were gathering lor a council with the white in-»n and when they had assembled on the banks of the Medicine Lodv.e river in Kansas those presenc witnessed a scene of barbaric spledor that lias seldom been Jup icalea on this continent. Sixty years later (October 12, 13 and 14 of this year) the citizens of Kansas gathered on that spot to celebrate with appropriate ceremonies the famous Medicine Lodge Indian treaty. In this issue of The Journal there is an illustrated feature article about this historic event. It is written by Elmo Scott Watson, a well-known historian of the Western Frontier. Be sure to read it.

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT Review of Things by the Editor As He Sees Them on the Surface. A Nomination He may never have listened to an orator eulogize his service to humanity, he may never have attended a banquet at which notables gathered to do him honor, and he may never have greeted a group of scientists gathered at his home out of respect for his achievements. And yet, working in his quiet modest way, he has earned honors in abundance for his services to his fellow men. Who is he? We will give you a clue. It is the first cold evening of late fall, giving promise of. long dreary days and nights of winter. A penetrating, cold rain, driven forward on a northerly gale, has transformed the roads to canals of mud. Snow is following close behind, and you retire early under the weigfit of an extra quilt or two. Our friend,, too, of whom we write, is planning on an evening of comfort and rest, but just as he has settled down the phone rings. A hurry call. Sickness on the Jones farm, ten miles out on a side road. ’ And of course he goes, as you know he always goes. If you were to commend him for it, he would probably answer: “But such is life to the country doctor. No heroism about it, just business, and as soon as they are in better shape financially, I’ll get my fee.” Acting simply in line of duty however, he maay have saved a mother, whose little children need her many years, or a father upon whose work depends the happiness of a large family. So we reserve a niche in our hall of fame for the country doctor.

I Blain English Speaking of the doctors, a local celebrity called on one of our own physicians not long ago for an examination. “Doctor,” he said, “if there is anything the matter with me, don’t frighten me half to death by’ giving it a long scientific name. Just tell me what it is in plain English.” “Well .sir, to be frank, you are lazy.” “Thank you, doctor. Now tell me the scientific name for it. I’ve got to report to the missus.” Moving pictures shows are operated in Goshen. Ligonier, Elkhart. South Bend and other places on Sundays without interference by the authorities. If it is legally wrong for the Milford man to operate his movie on Sundays is it not equally as wrong for the other fellows? The Post Office Department decided to curtail mail order houses from shipping unsolicited merchandise. in their effort to foist undesirable goods on the public. We like the selection and use of that word —“Cur-tail.” It doesn’t take the average boy long to learn that nothing makes a girl madder than not kissing her when she knows that the boys knows he could. Slang is fruitful; for instance, a peach had a date with a prune and when she handed him a lemon he went plum crazy. The fellow with the chronic grouch can improve his popula- 1 rity if he will chew the rag less and his food more. Bones says having a ready imagination is a fine thing, but it isn’t worth much when it comes to paying bills. % The man who can take static out of radio or hot air out of political speeches has his fortune made. *• So far as we’ve heard, none of the presidential candidates has said that he’d rather be wet than be president. After all, being thp black sheep of the family i&i’t any worse than being the family goat Knock your town to a stranger and he’ll think you have a yellow streak. If a man knows where he’s going, you can tell it by his walk. If aman knows where he is go ing, you can tell it by his walk.

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