The Syracuse Journal, Volume 23, Number 41, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 5 February 1931 — Page 1

by Arthur Brisbane FUTURE OF* TELEVISION BAD NEWS COMES OUT WHY NOT HUNT GOLD? OLD AGE PENSIONS

Calvin Coolidge has written his opinion that old-age pensions are not advisable. Saye he: “What a selfrespecting people really needs is not a system of old-age pensions but a population made sufficiently skriled by education and sufficiently .controlled and well disposed by the help of religiion, so that old-age pensions would be a superfluity. Unless real reform comes from within, the problem will never be solved.” Education may some day provide for old age. Meanwhile, what “selfrespecting old people" want is semething to eat, and a place to sleep outside of the poor house. They have plenty, of religion, but can’t eat it, unfortunately. After you have taken all the work out of an old horse, you should either knock him on the head or feed him. After it has taken all the work out of old man and women, their country can’t knock them. on the head and, therefore, having had their work, it ought to feed' them. The world needs more gold. and may get it. France and Uncle Sam now control the world’s supply, France, with the highest per capita gold reserve. Hard times ha\e sent prospectors back to hills and mountains, their “good times easy j< bs” in cities having vanished. You see more and more of them traveling the western desert country, each* in his years of prospecting, probably passing great fortunes a dozen tifnes. To prospect in one thing, to find is another. These men often spend a lifetime without reward. More money has been put into gold mines and gold hunting than has ever been taken out. But even the oldest prospector never looks discouraged. Hope is back of the sunburned face and gray beard, and fortune is always just ahead. You needn’t feel sorry for him. Trying to the only thing in life worth while- possession .to not! ing. And he to trying, and full of hop j. A young gentleman spending his oead father's money in a fashionable gambling house might well envy the old prospector seeking a “grubstake for just one more trip. Wise men that invest in American values, foolish people that gamble in those values, will probably be deceived as to real conditions during the next few months. The bad news-of 1930 will come out now. in the corporation reports showing what happened, profits down, gloomy change in earnings. And this will frighten those that do not realize conditions. Dozens of these sad statements will c«>me out, and the foolish will say; “Everything to going to the dogs, 1 shall sell what 1 have.” The fact to that things are coming back, having “gone to the dogs” last year. If you are wise you will hold what you have. The healthy man has his little ilinesses. Uncle Sam has just had his. The situation to described by Otto H. Kahn, accurately, thus: “In a few years we shall look back and find it hard to believe that the best American properties once sold at today's ridiculous prices.” Television, which means “seeing afar,” has its real beginning, and in the usual way. Men made tools of bronze to kill each other more easily than with flints, ■ and the iron age came to supply better killing tools. Now bronze and iron are useful apart from killing. Television to used to flash stock quotations, a whole row of them, to any earthly distance in a fraction of a second, making the stock ticker as old-fashioned as the stage coach. Young Mr. Vincent Astor, catching turtles on the Galapagos islands, could have on hto yacht an instrument that would show him, before any Wall street man could know it, that he made a mistake buyng sugar stocks. Later television will be useful apart from stock speculation, home Einstein, Moses, Maimonides or Spinoza of the future may be seen and heard by the whole world standing on Mount Ararat, sending out a message of vital importance that nobody but himself will understand. Gandhi to freed by Britain after nine months in a comfortable jail, and to said to find freedom oppressive Leading 320,000,000 Asiatics to not an easy task, when 60,000,000 of them insist on killing the others, and there is no particular place to which they can be led. Drive Britain out of India and millions would die off or be killed off every year, and Gandhi, intelligent and well meaning, knows it. Os all scientific discoveries made accidentally one of the strangest comes from Joliet, HL Doctor Weaver ordered a transfusion of “parent’s” blood, in the case of a fifteen-year-old girl suffering from infantile paraiysto Another doctor misunderstood him to say “parrot’s* blood, and accordingly made a transfusion of blood from the heart of a living parrot. Doctors say the child is getting wait A thousand doctors will exclaim “bosh." -■

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UNEMPLOYED DEMAND AID AT CAPITOL Send Committee Before House to Tell Their Wants. With news coming from various parts of the country that unemployment decreased slightly in January, and that further decrease to expected with the coming of spring, a different report comes from polis.The Indiana Federation of Labor reports that unemployment has shown no increase or improvement. ~in regard to this lack of work, comes further news from Indianapois that a committee of 14, representing unemployed pedfcle, appeared before the house of representatives, Monday. They made several definite lemands. Hundreds of the unemployed waited outside the entrance while the 14 vho represented them entered the building. Dan Winigar, Bruceville, a cripple, ed the group. He presented a petiion containing 14 demands for relief s prepared by the unemployed counit of Indiana. Winigar said that he was a member »f the executive committee of the ouncil and declared that it is not afilisted with the communist movement. After the demands of .the council were read, Winigar warned the assemblymen that unless the jobless thousands are given relief that they would reiterate their demands and hat to avert a serious situation the lawmakers should act immediately. “Thousands more will be hungry lext week,” Winigar said with a ges.ure. “The working class has a right .o live and if you fail to help us necessity will force the unemployed to call upon you again in even greater numbers.” On motion of D. L. McKesson, Plymouth, floor leader of the house, it was agreed that the house would extend to any group of persons 10 minutes to present their prievanees. Most important of the demands were: I—That a $50,000,000 unemployment fund be appropriated by a graduated tax levy on incomes over $5,■XX), with the addition of all funds now appropriated for maintenance of state militia, various armories, etc.; 2 That sls per week be paid every unemployed person* plus $3 to every dependent, without discrimination as to race, color, creed or nationality. 3 — That a law be enacted forbidding eviction of unemployed workers for non-payment of rent. 4— That unemployed persons owning $7,000 or less in property be exempted from taxation. 5— That sheriff’s sales for delinquent taxes and foreclosure of mortgages on property of unemployed persons be prohibited by statute." 6— That public utility companies be required to supply unemployed workers and their families with free electricity, gas, water and carfare. 7— That special famers* relief, loan and insurance fund be raised by taxing non-taxable bonds, and that the revenue, with other money at the disposal of the farm board, go to a farmers’ relief loan and insurance committee. 8— That a moratorium of five years be declared on all farm mortgages against one-family farms. 9— That debts on livestock, implements, etc., be cancelled.

TWO LOCAL ICE BOAT FANS SEE COSTLY CRAFT TRAVEL

Two of Syracuse’s most enthusiastic ice yachtsmen, “Spud” Kehr and Prentice Kindig visited Oshkosh, on Lake Winnebago, and Madison, on Lakes Mendota and Monona, Wto., Sunday, where they examined ice boats deluxe, found at these places. They are more enthusiastic than ever now, after seeing them, and are planning on making faster snd cleaner looking boats for next winter as the result of their trip. “We saw how real ice boats should be built," they stated. They saw ice boats which they declare, cost from $5,000 to SIO,OOO. These boats have the bottom structures made of laminated, imported woods, as a rule, they say, and the cock pits, some cd which are made of hand carved mahogany, have room for only two people. The runners of the boats are made of duraluminum, and are cast to order for the owners of the boats. Soane of the boats are 35 feet long, and the cross beams are in proportion. Masts are 30 feet high and

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EDITOR IAL

There have been circulating about the town of Syracuse, during the past week, rumors, and more rumors, about milk conditions and malta fever in this vicinity. Some of the stories are greatly exaggerated, some have an element of truth in them, some are true. The rumors were brought to he attention of the Journal, and an investigation was made. Doctors, /elerinaries, dairymen and farmers .•ere interviewed, and these facts were uncovered. Malta fever is a low grade disease .hat runs down the human system, in a cow’ it causes abortion. The disease is transmitted to the human system through drinking milk from an effected cow, or by having he germ enter the human body hrough a break or cut in the skin. There is no malta fever among i>eople in Syracuse, nor has there ’>een any, according to statements of Syracuse doctors, and others recently called from other towns to treat illnesses here. There is only one case known in the United States where a veterinary has contracted the disease, from treating effected cows, according to Dr. Blue. So the disease to not so easily contracted as rumors indicate. It is true that conditions in some of the herds are not what they should beFew if any of the herds which furnish milk for the town of Syracuse and Lake Wawasee, have been tested

NEW RULING MADE ABOUT CONTAINERS After motorists have gone through a lot of grief trying to get the required containers for certificates of registration in their cars, there comes from Indianapolis the news that this is no longer necessary. The announcement is: Motorists will not have to discard their present certificate of registration container and purchase the metal container sold through the secretary of state’s office, according to a ruling just announced by Frank Mayr, Jr., secretary-of state. “It to true that the state police, who benefit from the sale of the metal containers were instructed to enforce that section of the certificate of registration act which requires the purchase of the container, but it seems to me that it is an unreasonable requirement, and I have directed that no action be taken against those failing to comply,” said Mayr. All certificates must be displayed in the front compartment of the car. State Policeman Ralph C. Liggett has been very conscientious, ip enforcing the regulation in Kosciusko county but since the statement by the secretary of state it is not expected hat Liggett file any charges against persoris failing to purchase the metal containers from the automobile license bureaus. — -o BABY BOY DIES AT HOME ON THURSDAY Earl, infant son of Mr. and Mr». George F. Rarig, died at hto home last Thursday morning, following a j two months illness. He was one year and 10 months old. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon, at the Carr funeral home. Rev. Hutsinpilar of Benton was in charge of the service. Burial was made in the Syracuse cemetery.

carry a tremenduous spread of canvas, they report. "Our boats on the lake are just attempts,” they claimed, when asked how the boats on Syracuse and Wawasee lakes compare with those seen Sunday. “Another thing, the? have boats that can be handled,” they say, “and men who know how to handle them. The boats run on one runner, go in circles, turn with the wind, and actually seem to be alive. The ice was ideal, there was plenty of wind—oh, they have it all,*'Spud said. Kerr and Kindig left Saturday evening, drove all night, arrived in Oshkosh Sunday morning, enjoyed the ice boating all day, drove home, Sunday night, arriving in Syracuse about 4:30 Monday morning. One misfortune occurred in Chicago. They stalled their flivver on Michigan avenue, at one of the busiest street intersections, and had to have the assistance of some of the Chicago police force to get the car moved out of the line of traffic. 1 1

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for malta fever. It is the opinion of the editor, that to absolutely make sure that children and adults will not this disease, or any disease from milk, and in fairness to all dairymen who supply milk to consumers in this vicinity, the town board should pass an ordinance specifying rigid milk and cow inspection, and requiring that all milk and cream be pasteurized before being sold. Within the ordinance there should be written, that all cattle which supply milk to the town should be tested for T. B. This is only complying with the state law. These cows should also be tested once a year for malta fever, by a competent veterinary. The town ordinance should contain the provision that all milk must be pasteurized according to the latest methods. A penalty should be fixed for violation of this law, and also a penalty for anyone selling milk that is not pasteurized or coming from a tested Berd. T. B. testing and testing for malta fever only costs a small sum. The cost of pasteurizing milk could be met by all of the dairymen erecting a joint pasteurizaation plant. Other cities and towns do it. Syracuse doing it would mean residents here would always be sure of pure milk. And it would put an end to the stories that are now in circulation, some of which are extremely ugly.

TIRES ARE PUNCTURED Sorpeone scattered tacks in the driveway near the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mann, last Wednesday night or Thursday morning. The tires of Mann’s car were punctured as were the tires of Seider and Burgner’s grocery struck, and of the car of Mrs. Mabel Cess. Mann picked up two handfuls of tacks in the road after the first puncture, he said, but some that he didn’t find punctured the other machines. It is to be regretted that the Journal cannot print the things that will happen .to the culprit when Mann finds him. After its over, it’ll make a good story, — STAR TEAM NAMED AFTER TOURNAMENT I At the request of the Syracuse Journal, Court Slabaugh has selected a star team made up of basket ball players who participated in the county turrnament in aWrsaw. Mr. Slabaugh was asked to do this for the Journal because he is a former star basketball player, because he coached teams for a number of years in the past, with success, turning our teams that participated in the state tournament, because he is still a student of basketball, keeping up with the latest style of play, and because he is considered an outhority on basketball over the county.The players named on the ; team h* selected, after wateshing all of the games of the tournament are: Eaton; back guard, from Claypool; Rex, floor guard, Milford; Troup, center, Milford; Barkman, forward, Mentone, and Orr, forward Pierceton. ENTERTAINS AT BRIDGE. Mrs. George Xanders entertained ■the Syracuse Bridge Club ■at her home last Wednesday. The afternoon of bridge was preceded by a 1 o’clock luncheon. Mrs. L; A. Seider won club prize, and Mrs. M. M. Smith won guest prize. Out of town guests were Mrs. Isabel Grieger of South Bend, and Mrs. Glenn Young of Goshen. o— ■ — ENTER TRAINING

Miss Mary Jane Hire and Miss Cleo Cory, graduates of last year’s class of the Syracuse High school, went to Elkhart Monday, where they entered the-nune's training class of the Elkhart General hospital. Miss Cory had been working at the Grand hotel. 0 TWO MEN ARE HURT WHEN SAWING WOOD Buzz saws caused two accidents last week. Charles Ryman lost the third finger of hto left hand last Thursday. He was sawing wood, at hto home, just after noon, when the accident occurred. Friends rushed him to the doctor’s office for medical attention. On Friday, Jake Doty was injured while sawing wood. The crank of the engine slipped, and hit hto chin with such force that it knocked him out. Eight stitches were necessary to sew up the cut extending from the 'edge of hto chin to his lower lip.

OPEN SUGAR CAMPS IN THIS SECTION FEB. 3 THIS YEAR With Florida having had an unisually cold winter, with all parts of he country suffering from lack of . ain, and with the vicinity of Syracuse enjoying sunshiny spring days his past week, the trees themselves aave decided that spring is here. . Monday was so sunshiny there is ao doubt the ground hog saw its shadow. On Tuesday, Feb. 3rd, several people opened up sugar camps In this vicinity. Floyd Strieby was in town early Tuesday morning, and announced he vas\nn his way to tap trees on his farm. ,W. Wiggs, on the old Steve j Miller farm also opened up his sugar camp that same day. Thi report was heard at the first of the week, that Mathews, near the gravel pit, got a bucketful of sap from maple trees last week. Many report that watercress is growing in ditches, and that tulips ire pushing out of the ground on the sunny sides of houses where the bulbs have been planted. HONOR ROLL FOR MONTH IS GIVFN school just completed, are: Seniors—None. Juniors—Wallace Baugher, Mary Jensen. Sophomo(stpJoe Freeman. Eighty 7?J.’i e FI If Seventh Grade—Martha Brower, Chester Brown, Christian Koher, Geraldine Lung, Ralph Mick Carma Parkhurst. Honor students of the grade school are: First Grade—Frances Deardorff, Betty Gordy, Betty Henwood, Wendell Beck, Warren Benson, Philip Bowser, Russel Ritter, Lowell Sharp. Second Grade—Martha Rose Hibschman, Betty Miller, Ruth Rarig, Suzanne Rapp, Nelson Hinderer. Third Grade—Florence Baugher, Lois Dillon, Billie Emerson, Betty Hark less, Lois Kline, Scott Hollett, Alonzo Nicodemus. Fourth Grade —Carol Cory, Robert Hinderer, Burton Niles. Fifth Grade —Agnes Fleming, Ruth Nicodemus, Baja Rowdabaugh, Richard Beck, Oliver Hibschman, Philip Miles. Sixth Grade—Juanita Geiger, Kathryn Nicodemus, James Butt. —o ■- GOES THROUGH ICE ON BARBEE LAKE Russell Hinderer put his foot in it Sunday. He and Harry Mann went to Barbee Lakes to fish through the ice. There were a number of fishermen out on the ice, but when they started out, Hinderer went through with both feet, getting wet .with water, muck and marl, to his armpits. When he went through, his bucket of minnows went one way, and his fishing tackle the other. When Mann tried to help him out he went through with one foot. With difficulty they both returned to shore recovering their equipment on the way. There was a heater in Mann’s car, and they think this prevented Hinderer from catching cold from hto ducking on their return home.

SYRACUSE JOURNAL MOVING TO NEW QUARTERS ON MAIN STREET

When the last paper runs off the press, Thursday morning, the plan is to start tearing the old press down,, to take it, together with the rest of! the equipment of he Syracuse Journ- j al, to the new quarters, Sarjent’s I building, on Main street, formerly j owned and occupied by Hollett. The offices of the Syracuse paper have been located in the quarters on Huntington, since 1918. The equipment was moved there by Pret Miles, who had owned the paper for two years. He had continued its publication in the rooms above The Royal store, until the summer of 1918. Mr. Miles said the quarters on Huntington then became vacant, and rather than miss taking an available downstairs building, he figured out how he could fit the equipment of the printing office into the floor space of the building. He made many maps, and measured exactly where this should go, and that should go, and finally had planned a place for everything. After one edition was run off the press, he tore the press down, and

| DO YOU REMEMBER—--20 Years Ago. When George Colwell and Sam Searfoss bought the boat factory of Leßoy Bare? <■ . • • • 15 Years Ago When announcement was made of the marriage of Hazel Tully and Fordie Grisamer? • » • 10 Years Ago ( When Matty Katzer and J. Edward Ballou bought the hotel from Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Brunjes. 5 Years Ago When Ernest Bushong was injured while at work for the Wawasee Cedar Chest Co? LECTURE GIVEN BY MRS. E. BUSHONG A few weeks ago Mrs. W.allace Grayston of Huntington and Lake Wawasee, invited Mrs. Ernest Bushong to come to Huntington to tell a group there, of life in Santo Domingo. * Mrs. Bushong, who came to. the States from Santo Domingo, 12 years ago, accepted the invitation, and went there Friday, thinking, she said, that she would speak to a group similar to one of the Syracuse clubs. But she found that a luncheon in iher honor was being held Friday noon, after which she was to address a meeting of the missionary societies of the city, and the ministers of the various churches, this meeting being held in one of tjie churches. .She claims she was frightened at the size of the crowd, but Mrs. Grayston asked that she explain to them her own personal story of how she came to this country, and then describe conditions in Santo Domingo. Mrs. Bushong became interested in the story, and the telling not so hard after all. The various missionary groups had been studying the West Indies and Santo Domingo, and this was the reason Mrs. Grayston asked her friend from there to relate actual experiences, Mrs. Bushong took some of the handwork she had brought from home,' AY scenes on the island, and so forth, and really gave an illustrated ecture, permitting those who attended the meeting to examine these artices after the meeting. She also took- the recent number of the National’ Geographic, she said, in which there is an article about, and excellent pictures of Santo Domingo. During her talk she brought out the fact which many who heard her lecture had not known before, that Christopher Columbus’s remains are buried at the Cathedral in Santo Domingo City. She said that for years it was thought that Columbus, having died in prison in Spain, had been buried there, but that in his will, he had asked to have his bones rest in Santo Domingo, the wonderful land . he had discovered. ’ This was done, but later the Spanish excavated what they thought were his bones, taking these back to be buried in Spain. But in 1877, Mrs. Bushong said/ quoting authorities on the matter, these bones in the lead chest in which they had been sent, were unearthed from one of the walls of the cathedral of Santo Domingo. They now rest there. Following the lecture Friday afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. Bushqng were guests at dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Grayston. .

moved it, that week end, to the ;• quarters on He left 'the Ilinograph and other equipment above Connolly’s* store, for use the following week, and then moved these to j the new quarters. During the adjustment of the press with Mr. Miles underneath it, working, the heavy bed of the press started slipping, he said, and kept on going, sliding off on to the floor, just missing his head. The corner of the heavy iron yent through the floor. Mr. Miles published the paper until 1922, when he sold it to Mr. Bitner. Miles had bought the paper from George Snyder, at which time the type was all hand set. Mr. Miles installed the linograph to take the place of this slow method of setting type. » The new home for the Journal, was vacated Monday when Mr. Hollett removed hto equipment. Roy Sarjent, proprietor, has been having thq, walls and building cleaned, and it is to be ready for occupancy by the Journal, by Thursday afternoon.

MILFORD IS ’ VICTORIOUS 1 ATTORNEY Syracuse Loses County Championship in Overtime Game. Despite the fact that predictions ill over the county had Syracuse elininated from the basketball tournanent in early games, Syracuse only ost the county championship, in the Inal game in Warsaw Saturday light, by ttvo points. Milford won his overtime game 25 to 23 and •ounty championship. The two teams took the floor of the crowded gym Saturday evening nd Milford scored first with a free hrow-, followed quickly bj one scord by Syracuse. Then Milford began he attack that. had so much do vith Syracuse’s defeat. At the end of the quarter Milford ■ ead by a score of 9 to 3. During his quarter Milford players scorjd up points because the players ould always find the basket when hey occasionally broke through ■ Syracuse’s strong guarding. The Syracuse'players were able to break hrough Milford’s defensive guardng with comparative ease, but were inable to put frheir shots through hsSsbasket, for score counts. During the second quarter, Syra■use players recovered their shootng ability to some extent, and out- £3 )layed their opponents. The score at he end of the half stood 12 to 15 in L 'avor of Milford. It was during this period that 4icodemus in a fast play, dribbled '’/i Jr he bali down the floor and tossed it n for a basket. Shortly afterwards Lobison grabbed the ball from a > • free pitch that went wild, and put jne in that made the score 12 to 13 n Milford’s favor. Milford took time >ut for a conference at this point. Rex, of Milford, made the last basket of the half, making the score 12-15. In the third quarter the crowd ?aw the Milford team bewildered by he swiftness and cleverness of the ’Synumse "attack. tied the r Wore with Bitner caging the basket. Then Rdbison made another basket, aising the score” to 18 and 16, in Syracuse’s favor. Milford came back with a field goal and free throw; hen Syracuse scored d free throw before the gun sounded the end of he third quarter. The score stood 19 to 19. ’ The fourth quarter saw both Syracuse and Milford players completely worn out. Men were left unguarded it. moments which were precarious for the opposite side. Syracuse players kept on taking he most shots at the basket, but were unable to make these count. The gun sounded with the ball, pitched by Bitner, rolling aropnd the edge of the basket, undecided which way to roll. It rolled outside, leaving the score at the end of the game 21 to 21. The crowd’s frenzy had been grow- < ing more intense, hoots, yells, cheers martially indicating the excitement felt by all of the spectators. The gun sounded, and the last fatal three minutes play to decide the county championship, was on. Rex of Milford fouled Robison. Rex was • aken out of the game, having four personals. Robison misled the two free throws. Trout of Milford made two throws which were good, and then Robison shot a basket. The gun again sounded, and the game ended, Milford 25, Syracuse 23. Milford FG FT T f Habb, f 2 15 Rex, f 4 2 10 Rumfelt, f 0 0 0 Troup, c 4 19 Jones, g 0 0 0 Haney, g • 0 11 } Total 10 5 25 Syracuse FG FT T Bitner, f 2 15Robison, f 2 15 Lepper, c 10 2 Jones, g 0 3 3 Nicodemus, g 2 4 8 Total 7 9 23 In the semi-finals Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon, Syracuse had defeated Pierceton 26 to 19, and Etna Green 19 to 15. The preliminary game Syracuse played Friday evening was with Wfelf Lake, and Syracuse won 37 to 19. Milford had defeated Beaver Dam, 31 to 26 in an exciting game Saturday morning. It was the first Milford played, and Beaver Dam put up such a fight that the noisy crowd seemed, to be with the Beaver Dam squad to the man. In their afternoon game Milford had won from Mento:»e by one basket, the final score being 35 to 33. (Continued on Last Page)

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