The Syracuse Journal, Volume 22, Number 42, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 13 February 1930 — Page 4

THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL ■.(PUBLICAN Published every Thursday at i Syracuse, Indiana. Entered as second-class matter on May 4th, 1908. at the postofflce at Syracuse, Indiana, under the Act of Congress of March 3rd. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, in advance ..,s’oo Six’months, in advance ........ 1-25 Single .Copies .; .05 Subscriptions dropped If not renewed when time Is out. HARRY L. PORTER, JR. Editor and Publisher Office Phone 4—Home Phone R-1787' Thursday. Feb. 13, l*3j> “The Li’l Wife In Africa’ (Editor’s Note: Because so many people have suggested we write some of our African experiences; and because so much is written of big game. and so little of housekeeping near the Equator, the editor’s wife is writing, from the diary she kept, about “The Li’l Wife in Africa.") Before we, could. lease Kinshasa, after we finally did acquire some space on a river boat, we Jtad to have some more physical examinations. To see if we were aS as we had been when they finally let us have our passport visa-ed. This time a Kinshasa physician ex amined us to see if we showed any signs of sleeping sickness. They were trying to locate the sleeping Sickness areas, and all persons going up or down the river had to have the spots between their shoulder blades and the back? of their necks> exam- ■ ined-. We hadn’t picked up anything yet so the doctor gave us one more certificate for us to try to keep from losing. We had finally gotten places on a river boat, with its paddle wheel in rear, like the Ohio river boats have. But it was a wood burner ami that meant" we stopped every so of ten to take on some rijiore fuel. ■ The sp i was called a cabin, and had two would-be beds in it, each with mosquito netting over its framework. We had to furnish the sheets, blankets and soforth from our, ow n bed rolls. There were 30. white passengers on this-middle deck. Above was the bridge from where the captain commanded the boat.. His wife and two children lived up there with him, and he hadn’t any more time f< r the pasSehgers on the second deck, than he did for the cargo of freight, fuel, niggers, and livestock below. . Oyr cabins were at the rear of the second deck. The front' deck was the place where we ate on the fables and chairs placed there'.’.ln the prow of the deck below, unroofed and just -.below the spot where our meals were served, were 4 pigs and 6 goats, smelling,’squealing, and acting much like goal* and pigs can’ be expected to act. crammed together’ in a six foot enclosure. ’ We finally g-ot under way and puff: ed slowly upstream. In addition to the evening tie-up, each night, we made stops once each day for wood,. The boat would dritwin c-lose to the shore where a few grass houses squatted, a big husky black would leap overboard from our boa.f, into the shallow water, using what I'd always thought 'was the Australian crawl stroke, right there* in Africa. He'd have the cable around his Waist, and when he reached short would attach it to a tree, and there We’d be anchored. The rest of the brunette crew would put a plank across to shore, making a bridge from the boat,, and then, undressed except for the cloth about their waists where modesty was preserved, these natives would hurry ashore, pick up stacks of wood and load these in our boat, in every available space belos, for fuel, trying not to crowd our cargo of live stock. - After a wait' of an hour or So this way, we'd back out again from -the shore, and continue up river, until dusk. Then we’d tie up again for the night. After a few stops for fuel, the white passengers acquired the habit of getting in the way Os the crew. We were rushing ashore trying to buy food from the natives, as a change from the goat we had heard baa-ing all day before cooking. Sometimes at Some of the villages, white men were stationed, in charge of posts where the soap companies were storing those palm nuts that niggers had collected to make complexions for school girls back home. l And shampoo for hair. These white men would always come down to the boat to talk with the captain, to see if friends had come from Europe and inquire for mail and news, if any. In one of the villages where we stopped for wood, on»the veranda of the largest house in the center of a scattering of native grass, houses, sat what once must have been a “passionate, strong, silent white man, given a bit to dring,” who didn’t come down to the boat . His white helmet indicated his race to us, as we crossed the plank from out boat to shore, and we hurried up to see if, he didn't want to sell n* some nice green baa&aa. And when we got there, there were two dirty black, swaating 1 , thick-lip-

ped, flat nosed, kinky-haired, barefoot, blue cloth draped women, who sat on the steps at his feet, holding to the arms of several squalling, light yellow colored children so they couldn’t run away—painting .a dramatic scene in strong virile colors, of the influence of the tropics, “the mysterious. wierd, fascinating lure of opulent Africa.” On tin? table near the man lay a whip matie of hippo hide. He was the master in his home! . , lie didn’t, have any green bananas f< r sale, so we didn’t stay long. 'But it was different from the tropical play we had seen the night before we sailed from New York.. In tha\ cast there, hadn’t been any fat. filthy, formless female. And the chickens didn’t strut across the veranda and filth in the front yard, and there weren't any. poor little yellow kiddies in the cast, wailing at the audience. . ■> It did seem as though we really had been “scalped” oil those theater tickets.

Mrs. Georjje Xanders will be hostess to the Bridge Club this evening. Melvin Dillon continues to, improve in health. , Mrs. Dave Dewart has been ill at Her home the past two weeks. . Mr- and Mrs. Jerry Hamman called on Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kelberg, at their' home south of town, Sunday. The W. C. T. U. met at the home of Mrs. Levi Kitson Tuesday afternoon, . ' Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nine and Mr. and Mrs. Ira Kehr were Warsaw visitors Saturday. Mrs. Roy Riddle went to Toledo, last Wednesday, to visit her son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Harry . Kiddle. Mrs. Dan Misider of Milford spent last Thursday with Mrs. S. E. KoWdaha’ugh and family. , Dan Wolf is improving the interior <>f his building occupied hy the Seider and Burgener giocerv. Johji Grieger drove to Hanna, Sunday .to bring Mrs. Grieger following her week’s visit there. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hendrickson announce the birth of a daughter, Helen Marie, in Elkhart, Thursday. Mr .and Mrs. Fieldon Sharp spent Monday evening with Mr. and Mrs; Leland Baker. Mrs. Walter Kegg went to Mi’fbrd Tuesday -to visit Mrs'. Jasper- Clem. wh<> is i'll there. “ J. H .Miller. - f N th' M.m hester. visited relatives and friends, in Sviac.use Wednesday ■ Everett Evans, ,of Cromwell has been a guest of his brother. Di. A 1.. Evans, t,his past week, '■ ’ ■ Mrs. Sue Bowser spent the week end with her sort, Dr Phillip Bowser in Goshen. ■’. ’ ■ Milt Weaver, who called t on Chas. Kentfrow Sunday .reports him as being not so well as he had been. Henry M. Rapp of Elkhart spent the week end here, with his sons and families. Melburn and Joe Kapp. Mrs, Ij. W. Buchholz and Miss Helen Jeffries were Elkhart, shoppers last Wednesday. Mr. and Mss. Harry Grieger visited the Auto Show in South Bend last Sunday evening, ' , — Charles Kroh and Hilary Bach- ", visited Walkertbh . and South Bend, on business last Friday. Alva Steinbarger of Howe is spend: ing a few- days with his daughter: and family, Mrs. W B. Fisher. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Gall have moved from Decatur, 111., to the O. L. Richhart farm south west of town. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Brown spent Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Roach of Millersburg. Mr. and Mrs. Orvan Kober of Buffalo, N. Y., spent Sunday at the Elmer Koher home. Mr .and Mrs. Charles Long, and son Charles, and Thomas Warner, spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Swenson, and son Harold. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harrington and,son Donald, of Wakarusa, spent Sunday afternoon at the Fred Hinderer home. Miss Helen Leacock . came home from Chicago Monday for a few days visit with her mother, Mrs. Zella Leacock. Mrs. Rilla Heyer of Chicago has been a guest this past week, of her daughter, Mrs. D. R. Wolf, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cory of Elkhart came to Syracuse last Thursday to visit his mother,. Mrs. Amanda Deeter. Albert Miller and his sister, Mrs. Sarah Sophia Sloan, were called to Eldora, 0., last Saturday to the funeral of their sister, Lydia Petries. Jackie and Rosenlary Carr have returned home from a week’s visit with their grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. Hay of Silver Lake, Mrs. N. C. Isenbarger drove over from South Bend Sunday, to visit A. W. Strieby, who has been ill at his home for the last few w*eks. James Monroe Kehr is accompanied to and from work at the post office these days, by his newly purchased two months old pup. Mrs. Ernest Bushong was hostess to the Art Club last Thursday eve-

[CLAIM FLOODS IN INDIANA i CARRY AWAY FERTILE SOIL

' INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 12.— Overflow of bottom lands formerly I considered beneficial because of rich deposits left, is no longer valuable ■ to low’ land owners, for the former rich soil long ago was washed away into the rivers, never to return. Floods in Indiana today, it is charg- ■ ed by the state forester of the conser- | vation department .are damaging to j bottom lands, in addition to the dam- | age they may do to buildings, where once mere inundation of bottom land j had some real value. In a bulletin issued by Ralph F. i Wilcox, state forester for Indiana, I lae compares the enormous loss of i plant food and fertility of the soil from floods, to thd thief of the underworld. It is estimated, he declares, that 126,000,000 pounds of plant food is L>st each year from pastures and cultivated and abandoned fields of the United States . The fertilizer value of this lost material is two billion dollais, arid at least §200,000,000 of this sum is a tangible loss to farm" ers. Soil erosion removes twenty-one times as much soil fertility each year | •asfour agricultural crops grow. I Floods are directly tracable to erosion and loss of soil fertility, he de-[ dares. Small rivulets feed streams i and they in turn make rivers. Thou-i sands of cubic yards of soil are carried in solution and suspension by the water to clog the river inbuth and build up the stream'bed so it will overflow its banks and destroy life and property in time of floods.

niiig. Members decided to attend | the reciprocity meeting in Pierceton. Mr. and Mrs. W.. W Poyser and Mrs. Getrude Fuller of Goshen were .Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. [Gants. Mr. and Mrs. Irving Bishop announce the birth of a daughter, Eleanor Ann, Sunday in the Goshen hospital. Miss Louise Stuckman spent the week end in Nappanee at the'home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gal I Stuckman. Mr. and Mrs. Alva Nicolai, of Elk- • hart, and Mr. and Mrs. Dave-Brown I were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. I and .Mrs. Fred Hmderer. Mrs. Deane Lease of Fort Wayne, [who has been visiting Her mother,. Mr- Forrest Sneppj this past week, i nas gone to Goshen to spend a ffcw days with Mrs. C. R. Lease. [ After recovering from his injury (caused when he was Struck tim-. I'ber falling from his barn roof a week ' ago; Koy Brown has been ill at his home with tonsilitis.this past Week. 1 Mrs. Herman Clause and ‘sons Wil- | lis and Ross Harman, of Churubusco, and Mr .and Mrs. Will Bushong were Sunday dinner.guests of Mr. and Mrs. J T. Kiddle . Miss Kathryn Richhart and Miss Phyllis Mock came home from South Bend Business College to spend the [week end with local relatives and friends.

t Mr .and Mrs. Ernest Richards, Mr. and Mrs. Ainos Gawthrop, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Self .were Sunday dinner guests of Mr .and Mi's. Clarence Snyder. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Boothroyd and Mrs. Merle Harkless of Chicago, drove to Syracuse Saturday to spend the week end with A. W. Strieby who is ill at his home. Mr. and Mrs. William DePew of Elkhart were in Syracuse calling on friends and relatives here Saturday. Mrs, John Hendrikson accompanied them. Mrs. Harry Mann h-as been suffering for several days following the extraction of a tooth . Mr. Mann "has missed work for a few days on account of illness. All of the members of the boa.'d of directors attended the monthly meeting at the State Bank of Syracuse, Tuesday morning. A. A. Rasor came to the meeting from Warsaw. The rank of Knight was conferred upon Arthur L- Evans and Venn L. Fikel, at last week’s meeting of the Knights of Pythias. The weekly attendance award was given to Sheldon Harkless. The Mission Circle of the Church of God met with Mrs. William Bowld last week. Rev. and Mrs. G. L. Chapman were supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bowld following the meeting. O. V. Bartholomew ,of Dallas, Tex., who came to Chicago on business last week, spent from Wednesday until Friday here, as the guest of his parents, and his sister, Mrs. M. Snobarger. /A Vernon Beckman has returned home after a week’s absence which he calls a “buy-buy” trip. ’ He vised Ft. Wayne, Indianapolis, and the store of his friend, C. Cree Gable, in Muncie. Miss Ida Deardorff came home from. Chicago to spend the last week end with her mother, Mrs. Lydia Deardorff. On reaching Syracuse she learned that her mother was in Milford caring for her sister-in-law, Mrs. Jap Clem, who has been ill there. Mrs. Sue Bowser entertained a few of her friends to a buckwheat cakebridge breakfast, Tuesday. Among the guests were; Mrs. John Grieger, Mrs. Walter Kegg, Mrs. Ralph Thorn-

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Overflow lands suffer severely. in Knox, Gibson, Posey, and Vanderburgh counties are finding that floods no longer leave them with fertile flats, but with yellow sterile mud instead. The sin and neglect of the upland farmer is paid for by the farmer of the lowlands. This is not a problem between individual farmers, Wilcox declares, but it is a problem for the present and future generations . It is one of public welfare. ' , Wilcox and assistants recently inpected southern Indiana counties where practically entire townships have lost so much fertility and soil since the timber was cleared away less than a century ago .that they are permanently ruined for agriculture. In one township, fields are destroyed, foads are impassable many months each year, and erosion has followed back from the old road until the foundation stones of a corner of a once used school house have rolled down into the road. It is ho wonder to one familiar with actual conditions that Indiana has a school aid problem ,he contends. Such problems will never be solved, in opinion of state forester, until natural resources, which are the basis of public wealth and standards of living, are developed and properly maintained. The forestry division feels that the basic resource of Indiana's hill land is a forest crop, properly managed in large units for a sustaining yield by state supervision'and regulated logging.

burg, Mre. Sol Miller, and Mrs. Glenn Young of Milford. Seventy people were served at the home of Mrs. Sue Bowser, and 12 suppers Were sent out, last Thursday evening,. when Committee No. 4, of the Ladies Aid of the Methodist church served supper following their afternoon meeting. Mrs, Sol Miller .Mrs, Ralph Thornt>Urg and daughter, Martha Ann, drove to Ft. Wayne Saturday to visit Mrs. Perry Ort ;of Churubusco, who is in the Fort Wayne hospital, and to see her small daughter, Martha Ann. . Rev. Traster and Mr. Hire of Blue RiveA church, visited Rev. G. L. Chapman Sunday, a week ago. Rev. fraster’s son, who was nearly killed in an automobile accident hear Canton. Ohio, had been brought to his father’s home, and. his recovery, is hoped for.

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ENTERTAINS CLUB Miss Alice Mann entertained her bridge club to a dinner-bridge party, at her home Tuesday evening. During the play, high score prize was won by Miss Gertrude Hoch, second high by Miss Helen Jeffries. Guests were: Mrs. W. Smith of Indianapolis; Mrs. Joe Rush of Milford; Mrs. Estel Moore of Cromwell; Mi's. Mallard Hire and Misses Nellie Mann, Lois Butt, Helen Jeffries and Gertrude Hoch. —r--. ■ CARD OF THANKS We want to thank the folks who so kindly helped our daughter Virginia, and especially the Felty’s who took her into their home and cared for her after the Major Marsh fire. Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Cleveland.

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