The Syracuse Journal, Volume 24, Number 42, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 11 February 1932 — Page 4

THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL ' REPUBLICAN. Published every Thursday at Entered matter on May 4th. 19V8. at the postoftice at Syracuse. Indiana, under the Act of Congress of March 3rd. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year. In advance 12.00 Six Months in advance -- LOO Single Copies -05 Subscriptions dropped if not renewed < when time Is out. harry" L PORTER. JR. Editor and Publisher Office Phone 4 — Home Phone 9«4 FEBRUARY 11. 1*»32 MAIN STREET WHITTLINGS The only reason given so far that the rates on electricity should bei lowered in Syracuse is that everything else has come down and therefore electric rates should come down If that is the only reason for citizens, believing the rates should be lowered, they had better forget the subject. Rates are not made because someone tells the public service commission that the rates should be such and so. They are based on the amount of money invested, replace-’ ment costs. returns, -labor, overhead and so forth. Wheat coming down to 50 cents a bushel hasn’t lowered the amount of money invested in the electric company; the returns on, the investment have been lowered by people using less electricity; and the utility companies claim they did "not raise their rates at the time of high prices those are a few of the arguments to be met in asking for rale reduction here. Rates possibly should be lowerjed here. (That's our opinion every time we pay the. light bill) but they Will not be lowered just because v.e all have less money to spend. The large increase in power epnaumed by Syracuse customersofjthe Northern Indiana Public Service Cq». during the late winter and early spring months every year might be caused by the company not having voltage regulators on the power lines coming into Syracuse. When there is plenty > f water at the company's power plant on the Elkhart river the voltage increases on the Syracuse lines. With the increase in voltage more kilowatts are consumed due to the fact that a 40 watt lamp gives more light and therefore uses more power. That causes the meter to go around more rapidly. That is a suggestion but it might be worth investigating. \ The huge ice boat, built by the Howard brothers, Jim Kroh and Orval Klink was tested out Tuesday. Sometime ago one.of the owners suggested jokingly that they'd name it Old Constipation. Tuesday it lived up to its name. It couldn’t pass anything, A feeling of optimism is being felt by most of the 'merchants of Syracuse. They believe that the crisis of the present financial panic in town has passed, The crisis was'the bank closing, which caused a chill of apprehension to pass over the whole community. ‘ But with the reopening 'of the bank, Saturday morning, ». stronger than ever, came the feeling that the worst is over - I. ■ Financial conditions never remain still, they are always changing. And if the worst is past, conditions are bound to Improve * On Saturday representatives of the Kosciusko Farm Bureau met| with County Assessor Bert Dausman to discuss the valuation of real estate, •specially farms. : • I County papers have reported that Dausman proposed a schedule of reduction in farm assessments (averaging 28 per cent. Turkey’Creek Township would receive a 40 per cent reduction on farm assessments. People on Maun' street are wondering just what such a cut -in ax-ess-ment would faean. The Indiana Farm Bureau says: “Farmers are asking that their lands be appraised according to law," mean-

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ing their true cash value. “They realize, as well as the assessor that a low assessment would mean a high tax rate, but they know, too, that a high tax rate will not increase their tax bill. It may in fact reduce it because it will limit the debt that may be incurred by their township or county.” “The debt that may be incurred” probably refers to the law that any municipality may only bond itself up to 2 per cent of its property valuation. Lower valuation means less bonds. Farmers are to be encouraged in their fight to lower taxes, but we still believe that the only fairway, and sure way it to reduce expenditures. If the farm assessments are lowered, the valuation of lake property, business property and every other form of real property must be reduced by the same ratio to make a fair distribution of the tax burden. And with what result? A higher rate of taxation, the extra expense of reassessment, much trouble and hitternesis. We told you so. In the'issue of Jan. 14, among the splinters of the Main Street Whittli rigs was: “One of the gentle zephers that has been loosened and might grow into a qualified gale is that Sapp, lawyer and recent appointee of the state highway commission is going to be a Republican candidate for governor.” The zephyr became a gale.. News from Indianapolis this week . stated that Governor Leslie will put? Sapp in the race for the Republican nomination for governor, to combat the sentiment for the nomination of M. Thurman and Fred Landis. ■ SRF..-- O- ———— j 1 osiil Remains Blamed for Defects in Teeth It is a long rail from the mastodons—giant elephants that reamed over North America .'<".<**» years :*.-•• - to the teeth of Arizona s- bool Children, but there appears to be a clear ••otme. tion as reported from the Aric<mm experiment station of the Department of. Agri* ulture. A largo number <*f the Inhabitants , of the village of St. I>a\i<l, Ariz., had a peculiar condition of the teeth known as mottled .enamel. This was found In every person whose permanent teeth had been erupted in the locality. it was finally traced to the drinking water, mostly obtained from artesian wells. Analysis sln>.v<«l this wafer to contain an abnormal amount of the Hi*tni* al vlemetit tlavrine. The deeper the wells the less fluorine. Further research in the vicinity revealed deposits of fossilized mastodon bones and tusks. This ebtitained considerable quantities of the rare element. The conclusion was that the long dead animals constituted at least »ne source of the Impurity In the waler . that :f' ■ raildren'a teeth with a pre-uniubly Inedible del\-> t.--l >etr*>it‘ N* ws. / Masterpiece of Nature That Defies Puny Man • ’ln IX’.m the owners of a tract of redwood timber near Porterville, Calif., attempted to fell jf-giant redwood tree but failed. The tree was sawed through from both sides at an angle and although cut through was held as In. a vise. A lljtle Irish lumberjack used a charge of black powder in the cut. but all that the charge did "as to move the sawed end of the tree an Inch In Its resting place. Had dynamite been available at the time the tree would not have been saved. Men at that time were engaged in the for-ests-cutting stakes for ti«e In fencing in the valleys. Hitching post’s were turned out and were in great demand in front of all business places In the t wls of the treeless valleys of California. But the tree that refused to hill though cut entirely through, still stands, dead of course, In the dense fbrest near Porterville. Maple Tree Sap The movement of sap In the maple tree Is described generally as follows; It is the watery solution which circulates through the vascular tissue in woody plants. The ascending current consists <>f the water of Imbibition In which are dissolved Various salts ohtnined from the earth. This so-called crude sap imsses through the xylem portion of the vascular bundles to the chlorophyll-containing tissues, the leaves in most plants, where u*e surplus water Is transpired into new’y formed carbohydrates and protelds through the phloem or sieve tissue to the part- of the plant which may require them, the descending current often being calk'd elaborated’ sap, From this It will be seen that the sap taker, in tapping a tree is the type of sap which has already formtai the carbohydrates and protelds and Is therefore largely from the descending or orated sap. Defense of Hobbies It was •’Tristram Shandy-” that made famous, but he had other hobbies than writing novels, many of them, books, shooting. painting and hddling. His excuse for Indulging in\ so many hollies was framed In words like these: “Have not the wisest men In all ages, not excepting Solomon himself, had their hobbyhorses, their running' horses, their coins and their cockle shells, their drums and their trumpets, their fiddles and their butterflies? And so long as a. man rides his hobby-horse peaceably and quietly along the king's highway, and neither compels you nor me to get up behind him. pray sir. what have you or I with it?” John J. Raskob has loaned more money to the Democratic Party, which is at least no worse than risking it on the stock market.

* The condition o* LT.’S. Sena Unrue ' is reported as serious. , The Art Club met Jast Friday even- \ ing at the home of Mrs. John Grieger George Butt came from South Bend ' to spend last week end at home. Miss Meriam Peffley is at home ill, threatened with pneumonia. Among those ill with the flu last i week were: L. A. Seider, Roy Brown Dean Jenson and Orval £nobarger. Mrs. Celia Rutledge of Alvordton, (Ohio, came to Syracuse Friday to visit Mrs. Garrett Gnssom. Maxwell Middleton, student at Indiana Central College came home Friday night to stay until Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Whitt left for Kalamazoo, Mich., Tuesday for a two weeks stay. Roy Sarjent spent Saturday and ■ Sunday in Gary. He has been ill with ; a cold this week. Mrs. A. J. Koley of Detroit, Mich-. i moved into the Mishler property on Lake street this week. Mr. and Mrs. Kay Foster of Avilla were gues.ts of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Foster, Monday. Henry Kolberg .was in town this i week, recovered from his illness of i last week. • Mrs. Rose Neff returned home Sunday after a visit with her mother j and sister in Nappanee. Mrs. Fred Searfoss, Mrs. Allen I Ritter spent Wednesday with Mrs. Alice Mathews. John Mellinger received word that his son Victor had died in California ‘ Saturday morning, from a heart attack. Frank Hagg, Mrs. Perry and Mrs. i Fritzgerald of Pierceton spent Sun- | day with John Hibschman and fainAmong those who won prizes m the contests were Mrs. Chas. Ryman, Bert Cripe,' Mrs. Howard McSweeney, Leonard Barnhart and Russell Becker Cleo Weaver's team was the winning team, Charles Ryman’s team wop 2nd place, Charles Weaver 3rd and Pete Plew 4th. . j Mr. and Mrs. Henry Whitmer, who live near Richville were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Unrue Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Alva Nicolai of Elkhart and Mr. and Mrs. Eston Clayton were Sunday dinner guests at the Fred Hinderer home. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Niles of near Milford spent Saturday evening at ,the home of Mr. and Mrs. James ( Brickel. * j Mr, and Mrs. Harold Gray and son Edgar of Nappanee were Sunday afternoon guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brown. i A. W. Emerson and two daughters drove to Marion, Saturday and returned home Sunday bringing Mrs. Emerson. with them. Her o condition :s niuch improved. J. Wm. Jarboe, of Lincol.n, Neb., w ho has, been attending a convention ; in Chicago is spending a few days in Syracuse in the home of his parRev and Mis. Jarboe. Melvin Hibschman spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hibschman, and took Sunday /.ight supper with Mr. and Mrs. Warren Fisher. S Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Doty and son of 1 Milford and Mr. and Mrs. Walter’Kember of Toledo, Ohio, called on Mr. and Mrs. Fred Searfoss evening. I Mr. and Mrs. Orval G. Carr and family spent Sunday at the home of Dr, and Mrs. J. C. Hay at Silver Like. They brought Stanley Carr home with them after several weeks spent with his grandparents. Mrs. H. W. Buchhelz has received a letter from Mrs; Beery in the sanitarium at Lima, O, and Mrs. Bedi-y writes that her condition is worse, that kidney trouble is almost as serI ious as lung trouble. | S. E. Rowdabaugh and Ruth and Earl came home from Ann Arbor, ; Mich., Friday to stay until Sunday. {Guests of the Rowdabaugh family : here Sunday were, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rowdabaugh of New Pafis. Mrs. Jack Powell and son Roger of Indianapolis were guests of her mother, Mrs. Laura Launer from i Friday until Sunday. On Sunday Mr. ‘ and Mrs. Herbert Launer of Elkhart ■ joined the party to spend the day. Miss Alice Mann went to Churub--1 usco, Friday evening where she was i guest at a party given by Mrs. Lowell Peiley. Miss Mann remained there Friday night to spend Saturday with I Mrs. Pefley. Mrs. Eugene Maloy ! worked in her place at the library. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Whitt and John Jones spent Friday in Fort Wayne in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earnest j Sweet. Mrs. Sweet and Little Mary Alyce returned home with them to spend a week with her mother, Mrs. i James Brickel. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Friedman and children, who lives with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Burket, went to Mishawaka, I Sunday, to attend the 37th wedding i anniversary of his parents, Mr. and J Mrs. George Friedman. A turkey din- | ner was enjoyed at noon by the guests. | After the games and contests the entire class was treated to a fine j oyster supper furnished by Pete, Plew’s team. Those who served were Pete Plew, Floyd Middleton, Gny Symensma, Mrs. Eva Davis, Helen Wogoman, Mrs. Millard Tom and Frank Gibson. Mr. and Mrs. Alva Pinkerton entertained as their Sunday dinner guests, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Pinkerton, and daughter Louise; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Neff and daughters Corra Emma Jean and Darlene; and Mr. and Mrs. Loren Eyer and sons James

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Americans Today Should Gain Courage FrorffStory of Lincoln

The following article on Lincoln was written and sent le the Journal by Senator James E. Watson: We whoJJlve in Indiana have rea-, son to be proud thag in our State I Abraham Lincoln grew from boy-. hood to manhood. Our fields and! forests 1 were his nourishing and cherishing influence. In our forests and in the simple companionship of our pioneers, men and women strong of arm, of conviction and of faith • his character was formed, his beliefs developed, his ideas fixed. We know that throughout his life his memory often turned to this home of his youth. Many of the anec- r dotes through which hq brought his i wisdom to bear on vexihg problems turned upon incidents of his life here. Long after he journeyed from Spencer County to the Illinois prairies and a wider theatre of action, he revisited the scenes of his boyhood. ~One of the few poems he ever w-rote was inspired by this pilgrimage, breathing the melancholy he felt because of the absence of so many he’ had known. We are passing through a Nation- j al period of difficulty and distress,: not unlike others of similar chara-1 ctor; but which, if not checked by j unfailing courage and unyielding pa-i triotism, may threaten the very of the Nation. At such a timejWe may well turn for inspiration to rhe; career of this great man, so much ; revered, so much beloved, that his ■ figure becomes legendary; and when ; now, as never before, every fact' £bout him has become of supreme ■ public interest. Worse Depression Then While a youth in Indiana Lincoln lived through a period of National; depression that took on the proportions of disaster. Thomas H. Benton, f the great Missouri Senator, in his work, “Thirty Years in Congress,” declared that when he entered the Senate in 1821, commerce out the Union was paralyzed; was no market for the farmers’ pro-| duce; no employment for labor; and | when the only sound of the hammer; Was that heard at sales by the sheriff! of the property of ruined debtors. I Currency was of uncertain value aqdJ much of it worthless. Mechanics’* were pleading for work on the un-1 finished Capitol at W’ashington at! fifty cents a day or less. We know) that this paralysis of industry and’ agriculture touched even the far j frontier ori* which the Lincolns lived; for an English traveler, journeying i as far west as Indiana, so recounts-! In a book published upon his return to Europe, he set down the conclusion that the day had gone by when there was further opportunity for Old World emigrants in America, since the country had sunk into permanent poverty and even bankruptcy. jTroubles .Continued Such conditions intermittently continued throughout Lincoln’s earlier life. His business ventures in Illinois ending so disastrously, occurred during a period of National adversity; for, not only during the twenties, but during the thirties, forties/ and fifties, the American people went through severe financial trials. How: mistaken the commentator who, in the midst of these crises, which I come to Nations as to individuals through the inevitable process of this Republic was at an end! It not even fairly begun. Before . bur country lay the marvelous development which has made it the richest and most powerful Nation on Earth. * Here, in a rude Indiana cabin, was a National resource no traveler

and Billy. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Grissom celebrated their 37th wedding anniversary, Sunday. Guests at the dinner were: Frances Grissom, Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Grissom and their guest, Mrs. Rutledge, and Mr. and Mrs. Hase he 1 Grissom and her daughter Helen. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Mellinger are reported as impoved, this week. Mr. and Mrs. George Mellinger took Mrs. Mary Landau home to Waterword, Sunday, after spending a week with Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Mellinger, and Mrs. Mellinger’s sister, Mrs. Ira Noel came from Goshen to spend this week with them. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Burket went to Columbia City, Sunday to visit their niece, who had one of her eyes re-

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would have reckoned. By the light of the fireplace he was reading the life of Washington and the biography of Henry Clay. From the one he gained, according to his testimony the first impulse of that patriotism of which he became the very incar nation. From the other he became the convinced advocate of the American System” of Henry Clay whicl became the faith of the great part} Lincoln helped found, and led to its first National victory. Here were thoughts being stirred, in the darl and lonely wilderness, destined t< refashion a Nation’s history and sei its feet on a pathway of progress toward primacy among the Nations tyas Symbol. But Lincoln was possible only be cause he became the symbol of : faith, the embodiment of a courage, the inspired leader of a love oi country, that stirred the hearts o! millions of his countrymen. Great leaders are made possible only b\ great followings. We hear the complaint often today that we lack lead ership. To what extent is this due t< the fact that in a period of prosper ity and luxury all of us ir some degree have surrendered t< that indifference, that selfishness lack of courage and faith, that 'unreadiness to strive against obstacles, that cynicism and skepticisn and despair, which permeating s people in a Republic like ours, make the achievements of leadership impossible? It is hard to keep thi faith in times of trial, which test [ loyalty and tempt fear. How well ; Lincoln learned this when in th< ; nfidst of his struggle to save the Un ion, when the fate of a Nation rest led. on his shoulders, he was assailec not only from the front but from the P rear, alike by friend and foe, and ir mid-stream of his administration, ii 1862 and later in 1864 he faced th* possibility of repudiation by the people in whose cause he was making supreme sacrifice! Age of Cynicism. We live in an age of cynicism hnc ;of pessimism, of criticism and o. j cowardice. This nation was mad< I great by men and women of hope am j courage. They faced difficulties am ; endured hardships beside whicl i those of our own generation are in. I significant. They fought on. The} i saw beyond darkness to light. ForI eign commentators who ridiculed vi j sions of great commonw’ealths risin; from the crude frontiers on whicl I our forebears would# if they coulc I return' today, see the realization oi the dreams of the men and womer of Lincoln’s age fulfilled beyond all .expectation. In prosperity, rejoice; in adversity, reflect. We need most of all serious!} to think when misfortune comes up on us; for, it is by this means tha: we learn lessons of inestimable valut which later we may use. The darkness of adversity falls on all lands It is the belated shadow of a war ir which the world burned up half its wealth? In some lands peoples steadied by no faith, grounded in no loyalty to enduring principle, have blindly plunged inti chaos. , Let us not fail to hold fast to that j which is good; or to comprehend thr ’values we still have at stake. Imbuec with some of Lincoln’s loyalty anc courage, let us stand true to Lincoln’s principles; let us . not fail in loyalty tq leaders who in places ol tesponsibiity beset by danger anc difficutly, are seeking to apply these principles to the solution of our National problems in the midst if “a world on fire.”

moved in the hospital there. Their niece, Mrs. Effie Anthtos lives in Rensselaer, but as her in Columbia City she went there for the operation. She had suffered since 19 years ago* when, . with a group of girls, she was going down the stairs in the school house, and the girl next to her, who had* a pen stuck in her hair, turned her head quickly, which forced the pen through Mrs. Anties’ eye. The sight was put out then, but the eye’s condition became worse so that removing the eyeball was decided upon. Japs and Bolsheviks are said to be looking warily at each other across the Manchurian border And warily is the right way to look, in both instances.

NEW DEVELOPMENT IN GREENHOUSE MANAGEMENT i — The production of out-of-season-vegetables under glass represents the highest development of modern agriculture, declares Prof. A. W. Marion, Greenhouse Specialist, of Ohio State University; one of the out-of-state speakers for Agriculturd Conference Week at Purdue Jan. 11-15. To be successful, the greenhouse grower must produce tremenlous yields of vegetables of the highest quality at the lowest unit iost possible, says Prof. Marion. The greenhouse grower is fortunate n that he can control four of the ( ive essential factors necessary for! naximum plant growth. Namely, .'ertility, heat, water and air. Conseluently, he must learn to manipulate hese four factors to take full advantage of the prevailing light con-; litions since light is the one factor I he cannot control. From a fertility standpoint, nitro-1 ;en is most often the limiting ele-1 nent. Last year in Ohio, by apply-

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ing sufficient nitrogen, we increased the yield of tomatoes as much as six tons per acre, and the yield of cucumbers as much as 4,000 dozen per acre. Jn addition to nitrogen, potassium, phosphorous, manganese, magnesium, iron and Boron are often limiting factors of importance in the order named. , The presence of soluble salts in injurious quantities is presenting a unique problem in the whole forcing area. These salts are residues that have been left behind in the soil by water, manures, fertilizers and in some cases have laeen deposited by J underground seepage. Under certain (Conditions, it requires several years !of drastic treatment before these salts can be eliminated or reduced to a point where no damage occurs. In the final analysis, practically j all of our greenhouse troubles can jbe traced directly or indirectly to ! faulty management,, with the pos'sible exception of some disease and ‘ insect outbreaks. Even these are asIsociated very closely with management.