The Syracuse Journal, Volume 24, Number 46, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 10 March 1932 — Page 1

by Arthur Brisbane NO FAMILY SAFE IS UNCLE SAM SPENDING? TALK PEACE. FIGHT HARD CRITICISM, GOOD AND BAD

Any news except that .concerning the Lindbergh child is not news at this writing. The head of a great nation might die, any extraordinary event might occur, nothing could take the public's attention, its tense, pitiful interest, from the Lindbergh kidnapping. That fact is a tribute to human nature and the soundness of its institutions. The family is the foundation of society, all civilization is built upon it. And this most horribly outrageous invasion of the sanctity of the family makes every other conceivable happening seem unimportant. Life, family, and children are not safe under our gangster rule. In England kidnapping is almost unknown, and is not a firmly established, profitable “racket,” as in this country of prohibition, racketeering, bootlegging and lawlessness. The London Daily News sees in the Lindbergh kidnapping “the most open challenge to civilized government that has ever been ventured." This country is disgraced by its lawlessness, its supinersubmission to the rule of criminals, gk{jgsters, racketeers of all kinds. You might think that we were a nation of idiots to see our governbusying itself with the affairs and needs of other countries, while showing not the faintest ability to suppress crime at home. In eight of the forty-eight states, death is now the legal penalty for kidnapping. In New Jersey, kidnapping can be punished with life imprisonment, or a minimum of five years, at the discretion of the judge. It is important that kidnapping should be made a federal crime, be cause of the persistence with which the Department of Justice follows criminals, as shown on counterfeiting cases.

Soma may be hoarding, but Uncle Sam is not. In fact, he is going a “teeny-weeny" bit beyond his means. In the last eight months he took in one billion, three hundred and thirtyfour million and some odd hundreds of thousands of dollars and spent three billions, one hundred and fifteen millions and some odd thousands. In other words, he spent exactly $1,781,017,496 more than he took in. [ J ——, ' ? This interests you, because you will be taxed to make up the difference. Uncle Sam has no choice. To livS at the rate of almost $220,000,000 a month, more than $7,000,000 a day beyond your income, means optimism. Japan with a polite smile accepts the League of Nations plan for a pleasant discussion of ways to end hostilities, also agreeing with China on “a temporary truce.” That’s in one part of the news. The other part of the news is headed: “Japanese storm whole line. Chinese give way, fight-, ing in dogged retreat. Mines imperii Japanese flagship." In other words,, while talking peace they are fighting more savagly than ever. Zs Congressman William Irving Sirov* ich of Now York says modern critics “ruin the legitimate* theater by destructive criticism." Critics reply that Congressman Sirovich wrote an inferior play, the critics said so, and this annoyed him. Mr. Sirovich’s play may have been bad; none the less, much modern criticism seems written primarily to prove what a smart little boy the dramatic critic is, and pot written to help the theater by offering constructive suggestions to managers, playwrights and actors. |.' I v '■ ~~ f ■ ' ■ Modern criticism may be described, unfortunately, as “smart-aleck" criticism. Criticism worth while encourages the actor or playwright generously, points out his defects kindly, avoids wounding his feelings. Modern critics might study Boileau’s way of criticising and encouraging the young poet Racine. When the latter wrote to Boileau, "I ought to tell you that I write with great facility," the reply was, ”1 hope to teach you to write with great difficulty." The new . cry in England; “Buy British" is yielding results. If Lord Beaverbrook can carry through his plan of free trade inside of the empire, all of its units trading with each other without restrictions, as our forty-eight states trade with each other, no custom houses between there will be a new British boom. Some have said mistakenly that one of our troubles has been installment baying. On the contrary, it has been an excellent thing, enabling the buyer to enjoy his purchase while be paid for it, promoting sales and proeHereafter you will bo able to "travel by deferred payment plan "an idea inaugurated by the Cunard line. You buy your steamship ticket, paying part down, crocs the ocean, travel and finish paying for the voyage after you return.

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BEAVER DAM WINNER OF TOURNEY Syracuse Eliminated In First Game of B. B. Tourney. Beaver Dam won the sectional basketball tourney from Warsaw in the final game played in Warsaw, Saturday night by the score of 13 to 9. Syracuse had been eliminated, in their first game by Sidney, Friday afternoon, by the score of 27 to 24. Beaver Dam won the first game of the tourney as well as the last game. They defeated Leesburg 19 to 17, Friday morning. In the game which followed Pierceton eliminated Etna Green 20 to 18. Friday afternoon Warsaw won from Claypool 28 to 18. Sidney downed Syracuse, and in the final game of that afternoon North Webster won from Silver Lake 25 to 24. Friday evening Mentone won from Atwood 28 to. 18, and Burket eliminated Milford 23 to 22. Saturday morning Beaver Dan won frofii Pierceton 26 to 16; Warsaw won from Sidney 29 to 14; Mentone won from North Webster 33 to 26: Saturday afternoon Beaver Dam won from Burket 24 to 12 and Warsaw defeated Mentone 25 to 18. In the game against Sidney, Syracuse lead at the end of the first quarter, 6 to 5, and at the end of the half 15 to 12. The third quarter was Syracuse's downfall as Sidney caught up and passed Syracuse 23 to 19 at the end of this period. . Beck jumping center, Osborn, Richhart, Miller and Kline started the game for Syracuse .Sidney started the scoring of th? moment after the start of ne ga. .ea foul W * called, on Kline. This Sidney faikl to score but did score one called on Osborn. This was followed by a basket giving Sidney a -3 to 0 lead when Osborn shot a basket for Syracuse. Sidney had two free throw chances on a personal called on Miller but scored neither. Beck missed three (Continued on Last Page)

TIPPECANOE HOTEL OWNER, WIFE DIE Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lytle, who for many years operated the North: Shore Hotel at Tippecanoe Lake, died within a day of each other. Mr. Lytle, who was 58 years of age, passed away very suddenly at 5:30 o’clock Friday afternnoon after a day’s illdess of pneumonia. Mrs. Lytle was critically ill at the time of his death, and she passed away about 3:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon. She had been ill with pneumonia. Mr. Lytle had been ill of influenza for several days but pneumonia did not develop until Friday afternoon and he died almost instantly. Mr. Lytle was born at Malone, N. Y., and had been at Tippecanoe lake for the past twenty years. Before coming here he was a noted automobile race driver. Mr. and Mra. Lytle resided at the Tippecanoe Lake hotel throughout the year. Mr. Lytle is survived by three children, of a former marriage: Victor Lytle, of California; Claude Lytle of Toledo, O, and Miss Sybil Lytle of Chicago and one son by his second marriage, Robert Lytle, residing at home. Funeral services were held from the First Brethren Church of Goshen, Tuesday afternoon with Rev. Julius Pfeiffer, Leesburg minister officiating. Interment .was in Sugar Grove cemetery near Goshen. 0 KEY IN FORT WAYNELOCKED DOOR IN CUSE Owen Strieby went to Fort Wayne, Monday to attend the meeting of dealers who sell Apex radios. He forgot and took the key to the store with him. Marlington (Flunky) Mench couldn’t lock the front door when he was ready to shut up shop for Strieby, Monday evening. But he wasn’t going to spend all night there. So he found a bolt and put it on the front door, fastening it from the inside. He then left the store room by the rear door which locks with a Yale night lock. He put this lock on before closing the door. The key to this was missing, and when Strieby was ready to open up the shop for business Tuesday morning he had to break in. 0 BIRTH ANNOUNCED Mr- and Mrs. Merle Gawthrop are announcing the birth of a baby girl, Sunday morning. Her name is Marilyn Joan.

WORLD TRAVELER TELLS TALE TOLD BY ONE WHO BELIEVED IT

The Journal is glad to have the opportunity to publish the following story by Miles Smith, just returned from the south seas— A STORY TOLD ME, BY ONE J. WHO BELIEVED IT TRUE” Rain had been falling for days, causing all the inhabitants of “Molekula” to stay under cover. Their provisions had been nearly all used, and heir patience was more than punished. During the periods, short, in which they could collect copra, and trade, they worked hard. But the rain would not give them long to do this. What made it all the harder to endure, was that the rain was out of season. And this they could not understand. They would prepare for the summer season, but this period was surely a punishment by one of the Gods, for something or other which they had done. Could it be true, what this white brother was telling them? Could their beliefs have been wrong during all the years of their ancestors? And as the clouds continued to cover up the sun, they kept calm, although not in good humor, and they spent much time thinking of the things that the stranger had told them. And they vowed that they

WINTER COMES WITH ARRIVAL OF SPRING With the spring weather of all winter departing on the arrival of March, the first month of spring, Syracuse and vicinity shivered this past week with thermometers hovering around the zero mark mornings. Tulips were about two inches up out of the ground, buds on bushes were ready to burst into bloom; branches of cherry trees had come out into bloom when picked and placed in water in warm houses; maple trees were being tapped to make sugar. Then Saturday’s rain' turned into snow and the thermometer went down as the weather man had promised alLwinter. Sunday saw little traffic in town or about the lake. On Monday morning Melvin Niles discovered the radiator of his school hack was frozen, and he telephoned to parents of children on his route. Several fathers got out their own cars and took children of their immediate neighborhood to school that morning. Lake Papakeetchie was frozen over Monday. Syracuse and Lake Wawasee couldn’t freeze because of the high wind blowing. When this died down a little by Tuesday afternoon, Syracuse lake was frozen over. By Wednesday morning Wawasee Lake was frozen across according to Dwight Mock Who said you could see the ice but that bd wasn’t going out on it—yet. It was feared the peach crop would be ruined, but according to Stephen Freeman the trees seem to have escaped injury so far. W. C. Redmon said the apple trees hadn’t suffered, when he was asked yesterday morning. He said 'that Dewart Lake was almost frozen over, there being only one open spot in the middle of the lake. NEPHEW KILLED IN WRECK IN SO. BEND Mr. and Mrs. Warren Ruple were called to South Bend, Sunday, by the death of their nephew, Harry Ruple, 30, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ruple. His death occurred Sunday morning about 2 o'clock as the result of an automobile accident. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon. Ruple was one of a party of six riding in the cgr belonging to F. M. Clark of Mishawaka. When Clark’s car struck the rear end of a trailer parked on East Colfax Avenue, Ruple riding in the back seat was killed instantly, his neck having been broken, his jaw likewise and one of his arms nearly cut off. Mr. and Mrs. Clark were injured as was Miss Evelyn Van Gundy of South Bend and Mr. and Mrs. A. Dale Phillips of Goshen. Their injuries were not serious but Mrs. Phillips remained in the hospital in South Bend. Clark and Phillips were held for questioning by the corner. Ruple was a salesman selling office supplies. He had called at the Wilt factory here last Wednesday and then at the Warren Ruple home. BANK IS GIVEN JUDGMENT The American State bank of Bloomington, HL, bas been given a judgment on a mortgage foreclosure! against Willis B. Dye, receiver of the Wawasee Cedar Chest Co, and others totalling $4,744.75.

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would listen more attentively to what he might say. And still the rain continued to fall, and fall. Some of them were obliged to work in the rain, as did the brothers living on the islands north of them, so as to be able to collect enough bread fruit and fish to feed * their families. The sun made them : happy, and wild, and tenacious. If ■ the sun would only come to their ' rescue before the white missionary got hold of them! But it did not. And, las fate would have it, on the days : that they were inclined slightly to swing with the missionary, the sky 1 would clear, and give them a short i time to collect more food and trading J materials. And so it happened that . with the aid of the rain, the Rev. Wilson swung the entire tribe to Christianity. Their God had been the volcano which erupted once or twice a year. And spread lava here and there and scolded them for what they had done wrong between eruptions by thundering at them. But now they understood that this was merely a natural thing, caused by something or other pertaining to the center of the earth. They went no longer to its crater to (Continued on Last Page)

NEW RESIDENTS MOVE TO SYRACUSE THIS WEEK New residents moved to Syracuse this past week. The men are employes of the road construction company which will soon start work on this section of Road 6. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ott have moved into Colwell’s house on Harrison Street. They are from Franklin, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mcßride, newlyweds, have moved into Miss Katherine Rothenberger*s house on Huntington street. Mrs. Mcßride was formmerly from Franklin and Mr. McBride from Churubusco. Mr. and Mrs. Dunn and eight months old baby have moved from Fort Wayne to Mrs. Mae Hoelcher*s property on Lake street. Mr an.d Mrs. H. Wesling of Evansville* Ind, were to move into the Guy Ott property on Huntington street today. . _, a. WANT COUNTY VET TO TEST CATTLE WARSAW, Ind.—Farmers, 100 strong, who petitioned the board of county commissioners for the appointment of a county veterinary for Kosciusko county to make the tuberculosis test for cattle, were informed by the board that action will have to be taken first by the county council. This body has not as yet made an appropriation for this work. It is claimed that the amount to be paid by the county would be sl,500 and the balance will be borne by the state. Those desiring a county veterinarian are milk producers who desire to have Kosciusko county placed on the certified list of counties in which milk is free from tuberculosis. . ■ The last test was made several years ago by Drs. F. M. Hopper and George Keith. £ *■ Mandamus action to force the county; council to make the special appropriation of $1,500 for the employment of veterinarians to make tests of Kosciusko county cattle is threatened by the organized county farmers. Owners of milk cows says they will be barred from shipping their milk and cream into Illinois after April 1 unless the cattle are tested and comply with the Illinois statutes which bar shipments of milk and cream into that state unless the same comes from tuberculosis tested cows. They add that they are receiving 90 cents per hundred pounds more in the Illinois markets than they can get elsewhere, and aver that the amount involved in this county is a considerable sum. County commissioners Say they have no authority in the matter which has now passed out of their hands and is up to consideration of a special meeting of the county council. When the last budget was made by the commissioners they were required under instructions of the state tax board to include a $1,500 appropriation for the hi/e of a veterinary for such tests, under the law which requires such work every three years. The county council refused to approve this $1,500 appropriation and cut it out of the budget. A delegation of 100 farmers headed by Alva Melott of Etna Green and Owen D. Stackhouse, Scott township, presented a petition asking the special appropriation. The petition was handed to the commissioners, but must be referred to the county council for action since the commissioners have no authority now in the matter.

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LIGHT RATE PROTEST IS CONSIDERED f Company Will Report Decision Within Two Weeks. Officials of the Northern Indiana Public Service company promised to let the town board and the committee from the Chamber of Commerce . know in 2 weeks or 10 days wha.| can be done with the present rate structure applying to individuals of the town and the present contract for street lights. This was the result of the meeting held Friday afternoon in the grade school building when the town board, a committee - from the chamber of commerce and three officials of the Northern Indiana Public Service Co. conferred on the possibilities of a rate reduction in the vicinity. The meeting was called by the public utility company after a petition asking for a reduction in rates signed by 100 users of electricity was presented to the company last week. M. Schader, rate expert for'the company, after listening to the plea for rate reduction expressed by W. G. Connolly, stated that the company is feeling the effect of the present depression just as much as anyone else. That taxes on company property form a large part of its overhead, and that public utilities had been too optomistic for several years having made extension and improvements, the pro.fits from which have not materialized. The company is not asking for sympathy for its errors, however, he said. He also stated that two courses are open to consumers of electrical energy who are seeking adjustment in rates. One is to go before the public service commission and the other to petition the company direct. Scbader remarked that petitioning the ompany direct was the less expensive way, and if the petitioners were not satisfied they could then take their petition before the public service commission. In asking for a reduction for the individual consumers, W. G. Connolly had also askecLfor a reduction in the amount that the town pays for street lighting. If a reduction to the town is not possible with the present lighting system, Connolly asked if the company would allow the town to reduce the lamps from 250 watts to 100 watts, also some of the overhead lights with a corresponding reduction in the amount of money paid for the service. Schader said that he felt sure the company would not hold the town to. the present contract but would either reduce the flat rate to the town or allow the town to adopt the method suggested by Cbnnolly. ’ Mr. Anderson, division manager and W. C. Murchie, district manager also expressed themselves as pleased by the way in which the town is seeking an adjustment in rates, and said that in a meeting to be held in 10 days or twb weeks the citizens will be informed of the company’s decision either way. They also said that after careful study of individual accounts of the consumers of the town, the rate structure and the amount (Continued on Last Page) KLINK’S STOLEN CAR RECOVERED SUNDAY The car belonging to Orval Klink which had been stolen was found by South Bend police in South Bend on Western Avenue, Sunday afternoon. Sometime between Friday evening and Saturday afternoon Klink's car was stolen from the garage behind his house. / Klink said he had left the keys in the, car Friday evening when he put it in the garage and that the tank was full of gas. He discovered . the car was gone about 4:30 Saturday afternoon. He thought someone was playing a joke on him. Finally he notified the highway policeman at Warsaw that his machine was afnong the missing. Sunday afternoon he received a long distance telephone call from a detective in South Bend telling him that if he would pay for the call he would tell Klink where his car was. Klink did so and then went to South Bend and paid a garage bill there and recovered his car. It was found on Western avenue by police. People living on that street became suspicious after the car stood parked there from Saturday night till Sunday noon without anyone claiming ft. They called the police. The car was not insured against theft.

DO YOU | REMEMBER— | 20 Years Ago. When B. F. Kitson bought the Catherine Grissom farm south of town? ■ • • • 15 Years Ago When “Wallace Howard, genial salesman at Thorhburg’s drug store limped for several days with a toe crushed by a cake of ice falling oh it?" • * • 10 Years Ago f ' When Atwood won from Syracuse and in the final game won from Culver the championship of the section and the right to play in the regional at Purdue? S t ♦ Five Years Ago. , When Syracuse won the final game from Warsaw in the tourney flayed in Milford? ANTI-HOARDING IS URGED BY GROUP Acting in cO-operation with the present anti-hoarding campaign" inaugurated by President Hoover, the Chamber of Commerce voted the following resolution be added to the minutes of the regular meeting Tuesday noon: ? Resolution. WHEREAS, There is a nationwide movement to discourage the hoarding of money; financial authorities claim that one dollar in currency taken out of normal circulation results in the destruction of from five to ten times that amount in credit, and WHEREAS, the confidence of the citizens of the United States in the financial structure of their nation must not, under any circumstances, be impared, and WHEREAS, civic clubs, and or ganizations throughout the United States are organizing a movement against hoarding, therefore be it RESOLVED, that the Chamber of Commerce of the'town of Syracuse, Kosciusko County, Indiana, join the anti-hoarding movement and each individual member of this organization take an active part in this movement; making every endeavor to inspire confidence in his fellow citizens. The Chamber of Commerce of Syracuse, Indiana. Warren T. Colwell, President. Attest: Harry L. Porter,, Sec. o . INDIANA MOTORISTS INJURED IN OHIO •vi . An insurance company’s representative who drove to Ohio last Saturday to find out about an insured car which had been stolen and was then wrecked, had his own car wrecked on his return trip home. The insurance agent, Byron Doll of Elkhart was accompanied by his wife, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. WmSheffield, and Mr. Bird of White Pigeon, Mich., owner of the stolen car. •, The car had been taken a week before by three young men and two girls. One girl was killed when the car was wrecked in Franklin, 0., and the other one in the hospital on ac-, count of injuries. The boys were in ! jail. ‘ , The party went to Franklin and • were returning when Mr. Doll’s car | skidded on icy pavement and over-' turned down a seven foot embankment about 11 o’clock.that night. Mrs. Doll suffered a fractured collar bone and her legs were cut and bled so that the blood froze in her shoes. Mr. Doll suffered cuts and minor injuries but Mr. Bird was not hurt. It was impossible to get a car to stop to pick them up, as passersby seemed to think they were attempting to hold them up. They walked about three miles before a moving van picked them up and took them to Greenville, O. There their injuries were treated and the wrecked car was towed there and repaired so the party could continue home Sunday. o x. ■ HAVE HARD LUCK Mr. and Mts. Chauncey Miller, who moved from the Good farm near Solomon's Creek to Benton after experiencing a number of money losses had a serious loss just before moving. They had sold their chilckens for approximately S3O. For safe keeping the money had been put under a newspaper which lined a , bureau drawer. Forgetting the money temporarily, and in the hurry of cleaning, Mrs. Miller folded the greenbacks into the newspaper unthinkingly and threw the paper into the fire to burn. The small cash reserve fund, burned too. I

C. M’CLINTTC WINS TRIAL IN WARSAW i Jury Hears * Damage Suit Resulting From Accident In the suit of Millard L. Eppert, 10 year old son of George Eppert, against Charles McClintic of Syra- » euse and Lake Wawasee, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the de|.,fendr.nt, Friday. Personal injuries were suffered by Millard Eppert when struck, by McClintic’s automobile on the road on the south side of the lake, January 13, 1931, and SIO,OOO damages were asked. The defendant claimed the boy ran his sled out in front of the McClintic automobile without warning. Attorney Brubaker of Warsaw represented McCljntic, and Bowser, I Vernon and Dausman of Goshen were j attorneys for the plaintiff. The witnesses were questioned and argui ments presented to the jury by Daus- ■ man. The trial was called last Thursday in Warsaw. As that was publication d'ay of last week’s Journal, A. W. Emerson reported the trial. Witnesses called by the plaintiff’s at- ! tdrney were Dr. C. R. Hoy, Mrs. Lei Count, Law rence Deardorff, George Eppert and the boy Millard, and Dr. ; Elliott of Elkhart. Witnesses who appeared at the re- ; quest of the defense were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brown, Ver Hey Lung, 1 Frank Wogoman, Donald LeCount and Charles “Shack” McClintici Dr. Hoy was the first wntness called and gave a description of the ' boy’s injuries. During the trial is was brought but 'that the berm of the road is about three feet wide at the point of the accident edged with a ditch from 18 to 28 inches deep. The plaintiff claimed the boy had been pushing his j sled along the right side of the road headed east, riding with one leg on ' the sled and pushing with the other leg, with one runner of the sled on i the berm seven inches front the pavement; that struck by the car the boy was knocked 35 feet to a ditch on the north side of the road; that the boy had been hit from the rear by the center of the bumper of the car. The plaintiffs claimed the boy ”had been sent to the Donald LeCount home to borrow oil and was pushing himself in that direction when the accident occurred. When Mrs, LeCount was called ta j the stand she said that she heard the | crash and went to the front door to see what had happened and was just iin tpne to see something flying ; through the air. Lawrence Deardorff testified that he had arrived at the Eppert home 15 • minutes after the boy had been takien to the hospital. He had ■ gone there to make a social call as was his habit three or four times a week. That he met Mrs. Eppert at t the door and she told him of the accident. That he went back to his car and got a flashlight and rule and measured the sled tracks, one runner track in the snow being seven inches from the pavement on the berm and the other being on the pavement. That he picked up pieces of the sled but didn’t see the sled itself. When Donald LeCount took the stand Friday morning, he said that Deardorff had come to his home about 10:30 o’clock the morning after the accident, and asked about the accident, saying that he didn’t know (Continued on Last Page) GERMAN WAR YET ADDRESSES C. OF C. Fred Gprham, a machine gunner in the German army during the w'orld war gave a talk before the» Chamber of Commerce, Tuesday, at the Wawasee Restaurant. Gorham was born in Bremen and after finishing school in Germany was drafted into the German army and became a machine gun instractor. He was sent to Constantinople before the outbreak of the world war. During the war he fought the British at Dardanelles and in Asia Minor. He did not have much veneration for the Kaiser, and his talk Tuesday placed the blame for the war on the Kaiser. Gorham’s story gave a picture of the life of a German soldier in the trenches during the war, their hopes and fears and their attitude, toward' the war.

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