The Syracuse Journal, Volume 24, Number 25, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 15 October 1931 — Page 4

THURSDAY. OCTOBER 15. 1931

THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL REPUBLICAN. —gs=' ■■ , =TJ. , —"ff-.-TS-Published every' Thursday at Syracuse. Indiana. Entered as second-class matter on May 4th. 1908. at the postoffice at Syracuse. Indiana, under the Act of Congress of March 3rd. 1879. 7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, in advance 82 00 Six Months in advance 1.00 Single Copies 05 Subscriptions dropped if not renewed e when time Is out. HARRY L PORTER. J IL Editor and Publisher Office Phone 4 . — Home Phone 904 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1931 should They not have EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES? Should the children in an agricultural section have the same opportunity Jto obtain an education as ♦ those who live in the city? Should they be allowed to graspg this opportunity when the way of a belter education is placed before them without any, or with very little additional expense to the taxpayers of the community? From recent happenings in this township a numler of people seem to hold the belief that children wh< live on farms .should not have this opportunity. That, in the final analysis, will be jhe result no mattei what other arguments are put forth against nine months school. Taxes should be loweied, children can learn more at home than in school; I had little schooling or none so why should children today have more; and the announcement of how many bushels"of wheat or pounds of pork it takes to pay a teacher, are some of the arguments just put forth against nine months s<?hool. These do not take into account the result handicapping of the children of this Community. Many brillant thinkers today are predicting the downfall 6f our civilization, for they claim they see the beginning of its breaking up now in the fact that people are unwilling to > maintain our present educational and living standards. If this be true, perhaps it is unthinkingly brought on by, those w inprotest against schooling. One consolation, however, the school term for Syracuse and community was not reduced to seven months or six months as s : e would like to have seen it. thus handicapping the children still further. It would’’seem especially in a v:::niunily like <>uis. that people would want to understand the economic forces that are play such ff vital • part in our lives. Perhaps no one'in the wild understands them. But trying to figure out’how many bushels of wheat it takes to pay a teacher’s salary is not going to direct these economic forces no matter how many pounds of side meat are thrown in besides. . The price of the wheat in comparison with the value of other commodities ' is just one of the effects, not the of the depression. through education, which this country, begins in the public school and forms the broad base up ‘ on which higher education is built, ’ will a better understanding of what causes “good" times and “bad” tim- I es > It k more difficult for every one, not just farmers, to pay taxes this < yeas than last, but taxes being cut 1 wasn’t the main thing mentioned when Qie length the school year was so violently discussed. The l stand that children only need a • limited amount of education and • that their work on the farm is more , important to their parents than their . future opportunities seemed the main interest. Three hundred years ago people fled from Europe to this country s< their children would have better opportunities and would not be oppressed by “their betters." A Revolutionary War was fought and the new nation of the United States formed on the basis that all men are created equal and should

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have equal opportunities. I The Civil War was fought to determine “whether that nation or; any nation so conceived and so de-1 dicated could long endure.” | And United States became known as the country where every one had j an equal chance. The trustee and his advisory board n Turkey Creek Township in attempting to better conditions here so children here could have opportunities equal with those in cities have oeen told that children in smaller communities have no use for inure education, that their parents would other have the benefits of their manual labor than see them edqcat»d so they will be one step in advance of the preceeding generation. Residents of other townships look ongingly at Turkey Creek now, inismuch as the tax rate here is so much lower per capita than in many >ther townships,, on account of so many lake property owners who do jot live here the year round. We all say, reduce taxes, yes, but not till the reduction does more harm than good. Couldn’t other taxes be reduced than those which are our country’s investment in the future an oncoming generation better educated and a step in advance of the present one? . _— —'—.—■■ . Byron Doll of Elkhart was in Syra-. •use on business, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Disher went lb Toledo, 0., on business, Monday'. Harold Coy. was taken away Sat-< urday to the hospital at Logansport.! Ike Mellinger was ill at his home | .he fiist of this week. . | Mr. and Mrs. M M. Smith and | family attended the Purdue-Illinoisi * Joe Bushong was able to be out' this week after being .sick it: bed I last week. w I Rev. Myron J 1 <■( Nevi Castle was a Syracuse visitor Mon- , day. p. Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Grissom. >pe o I Saturday night and Sunday with her | parents in West Unity, O. Miss Margaret Hurtig has been ini Chicago the past two weeks visiting Mr, and Mrs. William Livingston. Mr. and Mrs. Mart Long spent Sunday with’ Mr. and Mrs. Elmei Long. ! The Brethren Ladies’ Aid enjoyed a pot luck dinner and-meeting at the j church yesterday. Mrs. Margaret Wehrly returned) Sunday afternoon from Winona! Bench, where she visited her son. Miss Ida Deardorff .returned- to cago, Sunday, after spending the day at h< lire. , Mr. and Mrs. Torn Walters of Bre-; men spent Monday evening with Dr. C. R. Hoy and wife. - ; J. H. Miller and Mr. and Mrs. Levi J. Miller of North Manchester spent, Monday in Syracuse. , ( rad 'Auers spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. John Walton. J Mrs. M. M. Kirkland and Mrs. Smith of Ligonier were guests of Mrs. Sol Miller, Tuesday. Miss Velva Brown spent the week end at the home of Mr and Mrs. Noble Cory in Mishawaka; Miss Margarite Hesser went to Idaville, Sunday to visit until Wed 1 nvsday with Miss Acquilla Wyatt. I Mrs. J. W. Swenson entertained I the Foreign Missionary society of! the North We x er M. E. church last Thursday afternoon. , Mr. and Mrs.- Sol Miller were guests of Mr. and- Mrs J. H .Miller in North Manchester from Saturday until Monday.

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| Mrs. J. W. Swenson attended the Foreign Missionary convention at i last Monday. There were ■ about 214 people present. I Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Hamman and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kolberg spent ■Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Will Gipe • north of Columbia City. Mr. and Mrs. George A. Mellinger and family and Mr. and Mrs. John Walton spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hoopingarner came home from Chicago to spend Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. Lilly Hoopingarner. Mr. and Mrs. Thornburg and children returned home Saturday evening after a week’s eastern motor trip. Committee No. 3 of the Ladies Aid of the Methodist church is meeting this afternoon with Mrs. A. W. Emerson. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Schleeter have! • ented part of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Disher and have moved there. c ' ' Mr. and Mrs. John Meek are moving back to Syracuse this week from the Mel Tully h<une where they have spent several weeks. After spending Sunday at home, W. F. Kindig returned to So. Bend Monday morning for another week on the Federal grand jury. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Self and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Richards of Richville spent last week in the Henry Gumpp cottage on Ogden Island. I Mrs. Joe Rapp and children came from DeMotte, where she teaches, to spend Saturday and Sunday at home

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with Mr. Rapp. p Mrs. Dan Klink and Mrs. Jerry t Hamman accompanied Ora Benson to ; South Bend, Friday, where they - spent the day while the teachers; were ' attending institute. Miss Ruby Mellinger came home I from Kingsbury, where she is teaching, to spend Saturday and Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. I W. Mellinger. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sapen and children of Solomon’s Creek and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ritter and family I of Milford took Sunday dinner with Mrs. Alice Jarrett. Mr. and Mrs. George Kenyon of | Ogden Island and Mr. and Mrs. , Clark of South Bend spent last Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. J. | W. Swenson and son Harold. I Rev. and Mrs. H. R. Lookabill of 1 Minneapolis, Minn, chme a few days ago and are visiting in the home of p | Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Buettner, Mrs. j j Lookabill and Mrs. Buettner are sisters. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Dodley of Angola, Ind., were Sunday guests in the home of W. F. Kindig and family. They also attended the Farewell pArty at the Lutheran church. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Rarig went to Auburn, Saturday to spend Sunday / with his sisteri Mrs. Perry Foster -, accompanied them as far as Avilla, i where she visited her father. ! Mr. and Mrs. William Bevan and Mr. and Mrs. Woodcock and daughter Lucille of Chicago were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Brow-n last week end.

QUARTER BILLION IN REVENUE The tax is now imposed in every 332,000 or 64 per cenf; for local FROM GAS TAX IN 6 MONTHS state. Only 8 states increased the roads, $48,417,000 or 20 per cent; rate of tax within the six-months state and county bond payments, Gasoline taxes provided, in the p er j o d. Two others made increases $18,860,00 or per cent; city first six months of 1931, a net reve- effective in July and August. i streets, $10,157,000 or 4 per cent and nue of $246,373,000 which is to be total revenue derived was al- the remainder of $10,607,000, or 4hi used principally for road purposes located as follows: Construction and per cent for collection costs and misaccording to information collected maintenance of state highways, $l5B,- cellaneous items. from state authorities by the Bureau of Public Roads of the U- S. De — : , — - -- — . partment of Agriculture. Nearly 7,118,000,0b0 gallons were taxed, an in-■ WW T® < W" 1 crease of 4 S per cent over the same! WA / w JL m /\ I O period last year j ¥¥1111.61 HUUICO Consumption of gasoline increased j . ... '' R R ... .■ .j . in 36 states and decreased j.n 121 states. On the basis of the figures j This Year’s Crop is Frej of Scab and Worms, has long keeping for the half year it is estimated that qualities. The entire crop will be the gasoline tax will yield a reveZ\C7un n U h * l, ‘ bi " i “'’ d “ I,ars | Mechanically Sized and Graded ONE DOSE GERMAN c 12,000 Bushels Grimes, Jonathan, Wagoners, Winter Banana, Mclntosh, REMEDY ENDS GAS Var - e,ies - _ Sl-00 sV^b^ronT'doi” 1 !;; a <*--• «i 25 Adlerika helped. I eat anything now Banana, per bushel — ' : — — — and sleep good.”—Henry Dodd. You can’t get rid of indigestion or Apple Jell, made from Sound Ripe Fruit (PI OP gas by just doctoring the stomach. per gallon with jar — — — — xDX.fcrt? For gas stays in the UPPER bowel. Adlerika reaches BOTH upper . and Orchard 2 Miles West of Wolcottville, Ind. lower bowel, washing out poisons , ? which cause gas, nervousness and bad I . __ __ _ sleep. Get Adlerika today; by tomor- A Iq L 1 A I C* C row you feel the wonderful effect of I JLu« this German Doctor’s remedy. For] a sale, by Thornburg Drug Co. I

ELECTRIC RATES REDUCED VOLUNTARILY LONG BEFORE DROP IN OTHER PRICES the cost of living in general has shown a marked decline only within the past year or so, electric rates of public utility companies have been decreasing continuously over a period of years. Nationwide averages show that the cost of living in 1929 was practically the same as in 1923, but electric rates the country over were ten per cent less in 1929 than they were in 1923. Companies of the Midland United Company group, through voluntary rate reductions, afforded customers in 1929 a saving of 22 per cent as compared with rates prevailing in 1923 when formation of the group was begun. Had customers in 1929 paid for their electricity on the basis of the 1923 rates, they would have paid $5,150,384 more than they actually did pay. In 1930, the rate trend of these companies continued downward affording customers a saving of $5,301,807 for the year compared with 1923 rates. Reductions in residential electric schedules in recent years have been made possible to a large degree by the increasing use of electricity in large quantities by industries. The proportionately low costs of selling large amounts of energy to industries have helped to balance the much higher costs of distributing energy in small quantities to residential users. When industrial activity is sharply curtailed, there is a decrease in sales of industrial power. Thus, there is a'reduction in large scale production of energy and consequently the difficulties of making further reduction in residential rates are increased. Sales of industrial power by companies of the Midland group in 1930 made up more than 63 per cent of all the energy’ sold by these companies. Nevertheless, the companies are continuing to make voluntary rate reductions wherever possible. This has been their policy in the past and will continue to be their policy in the future. Thiz ij the tixth of a teriet of advertisements I publuhed in the interut of a better undemanding I of principles governing operation of public utilities. I Midland United Company PRINCIPAL OPERATING SUBSIDIARIES: Northern Indiana Public Service Company . . . > Gary Railways Company Public Service Company of Indiana . . . Indiana Service Corporation Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad . Indiana Railroad Indiana Electric Corporation . . . Wabash Valley Electric Company Northern Indiana Power Company . . Gary Heat, Light & Water Company