The Syracuse Journal, Volume 25, Number 39, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 19 January 1933 — Page 2

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THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL REPUBLICAN. Published erery 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. - SUBSCRIPTION RATESOne year, in advance ..$2.00 Six Months in advance _— — I.OQ Single Copies -05 Subscriptions dropped If not renewed when time is out. . ===: HA&YXTORTER~JRr Editor and Publisher Office Phone 1— Home Phone 904 THURSDAY, JAN. 19, 1933 MAIN STREET WHITTLINGS PERSUADING THE HOGS. Legislative wheels are grinding. Every now and then they throw off a spark whose fleeting glimmer illuminates plans so that he may glitnpse what destiny holds for us in the next four years. Their farm plan is to be based on a subsidy for those who voluntarily control production, which is easy for the small grain farmer. All he will have to do is to cut his acreage. But it is also to be applied to hogs. Now, when you undertake to teach a hog to control his production, gentlemen, let us speak plainly, you have a job on your hands. We do not deny that there are many eloquent, arguments for voluntary controlled production which will appeal to the enlightened self-interest adult hog. Jlut what is to be done with the young sow of subnormal intelligence and bad home environment or the headstrong individualist who would set her own impulses above the sober judgment of the Democratic party and insist on having eight or ten little piggies to the litter instead of the allotted six’ We assume that in this kind of a litter only six-would be safe for the subsidized home market, and the rest would be chalkniarked by the inspector /or the Democratic board of hog temperance and morals aS destined to be slaughteied for the enwrt trade and dumped on an unprotected, and unsubsidized world market. But is this not a cruel and barbaric penalty for society to. exact from motherhood for one little mistake? County chairmen should use cara in selecting the thousands of federal inspectors who will ride, in government cars from farm to farm, charged with; controlling hog production. They should be, of course, men of unquestioned integrity. But they should temper justice with mercy. They should remember their own youth. Emporia, Kas. Gazette. __ :0— : ■ Since January Ist in Syracuse, Indiana Beekman’s closed for some time; Jet Whi|e store closed for all time; Connolly’s. Roy.d-Store closed. Who was it that said before election day: “It can’t get any worse?” But, as “Duck” Traster put it when he paid the Journal/tkffice a call, Saturday. “President Hoover’s the beiit president we ever had. Under every other president we all had to work. With Hoover president everyone gets a vacation.** Many people were out of doors,’ Sunday, enjoying the warm, sunny weather. Ice boat enthusiasts were sailing their boats on the last wedge of ice left on Syracuse Lake, and despite gloomy predictions of onlookers. no one went through. We are not in favor of the domestic allotment plan, but the propaganda that is being released by the millers and bakers about the increase in the price of bread which they say will result if this plan is enacted, does not hold water by the bakers’ own argument. They claimed, when questioned about the fixed price of bread sometime after wheat had .dipped to new lows, that the price of wheat or flopr had very little effect on the price of bread. They said then that the cost of flour was only a small percent of the total cost of making a loaf of bread:. ■ Following this line of reasoning then, why should bread advance in

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price if wheat's cost is fixed at 75c a bushel, when it did not drop with the cost of wheat? The domestic allotment plan fixes the price of wheat at 75c a bushel.. Is that price at seaboard? Buffalo? Chicago? or St. Louis? Wheat varies in price in different localities due to freight cost. No one has mentioned where it will cost 75c. q—J. E. Kern has a new automobile. Will Darr has been ill this past week. , Mrs. Jacob Bowser and daughter Gladys were ill with flu this week. Mrs. Roy Schleeter entertained her bridge club last Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. ' Warren Colwell were Sunday guestls of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Searfoss. ' Mr. and Mrs. Walter Shufflebarger have moved from the Haney property on West Main St. to Bagersville. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Solt visited Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Swenson Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Lewallen and son from Goshen were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Hamman, Sunday. Mrs. George Morris of Elgin, 111., is spending this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer P. Miles. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Wagner of Elkhart spent Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Wagner. Mr. and; Mrs. Henry Clason and family of Goshen were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rasor, Sunday. Henry M. Rapp of Elkhart was in town, Thursday and Friday, visiting his sons. Mrs. George Cleghorn of Hammond Ind. , came to Syracuse Monday to spend this week with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rasor. . Mr. and Mrs. Alva Nicolai, and Mr. arid Mrs. Harold Nicolai and family of Elkhart- called on Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Rex, Sunday afternoon. A number from the Church of God here, in Syracuse attended service at the Mt. Tabor church, Sunday evening, where a revival is in progress. K Members pf the Lutheran church here and Rev. Pettit, pastor, attended the meeting of the Luther League in Elkhart, Sunday. Mr. and Mts. Anderson and Mr. Herrington from Mishawaka were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hinderer, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Will Gants visited Mr. and Mrji. Ira Gants in Warsaw, and Rev. and Mrs. Guild at Winona Lake, Sunday. ’ » ‘ Mr. and Mrs. James Guy and Mrs. Jennie Wolf from near Warsaw were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Grisson Monday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Swenson took their sori Harold back to school at Fort Wayne, Sunday, and spent the afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. D. Crow, where Harold is staying. The meeting night for the Pythian Sisters has been changed from Friday nights to Wednesday night, every two weeks. They met last night. Mrs. Sol Miller has been spending this past week with her sister, Mrs. B. B. Morgan of Chesterton. Miss Mary Darr is taking , care of the house work during Mrs. Miller’s absence. / . ■ Dr. and Mrs. F. W. Brian and fanjily and Mrs. Hillabold came from Bloomington, 111., to attend funeral services for George Stephen Kroh, Saturday. They visited relatives here from Friday until Sunday. Ralph Thornburg and son Ralph; Louis Heerman and sun Spencer, and Sol Miller arid son Dick attended the Minnesota-Notre Dame basketball game in South Bend, Tuesday evening, _. ■ Members of the Concord Chapter from Elkhart were entertained at an oyster supper at the Masonic lodge rooms fyere, Monday evening. —W; T. Colwell and M. E. Rapp were cooks, James Searfoss and Harry Culler waited tables. There is some discussion as to which lodge member ate the most oysters. . RE A RESTATE TRANSFERS The Journal is furnished with the following transfers of real estate by Houton C. Frazer & Son, abstractors, Warsaw: A. Henry Willis to Everett W. Hunter, part-of Government Lot No 4, section 14 Tippecanoe twp., sl. D.'■'Franklin Venator to Lucy El Upson, lots 9 and 13 Island Park, Chapman Lake, sl. Thurlow C. Green to John L. Green, 80 acres section 24 Jefferson township, $335. Bertha S. Boettger et al to Elisabeth Evans, 40 acres section 18 Jefferson township, sl. David E. Metzler to Phillip H. Strauss, 35.44 acres section 6, Jefferson township, sl. Wm. T. Eagan to Grace L. Eagan lot 2 McMahon's Plat, Wawasee Lake, (1. Edward F. Yarnelle to Edith F. and Wm. Page Yarnelle, 29 lots Yarnelle Point, Eagle Lake, sl. Arthur Jordan to Arthur Jordan Land Company, lot 12 Warner’s Lake Front additioni Webstar Lake, I 1 - o When the banka were frozen, did you notice how the bankers thawed out—they smiled at everybody, taking no chances on ' offending a depositor?

KING’S ENGLISH (Continued from Page One) be them,” “Everybody bought their own ticket," and “The kitten mews when she wants in. *’ But they make large concessions to the crowd, and they strike off grammatical shackles that have galled the slaves of good form for generations. A Distinguished Jury. If we say, “It is me,” and “Who are you looking for?” and “None are expected,” no one hereafter will sneer at us for illiteracy except prigs and purists. We may say “Go slow” “Move quick," ’’lt is awfully’cold” and “The New York climate is healthy” without fear of shocking anybody except the unprogressive dogma fancier who doesn’t know that linguistic hoopskirts are now out of fashion. Doctor Leonard consulted skilled users of English on both sides of the Atlantic. He organized a jury of more than 300 publishers, editors, authors lexicographers, philologists, business men and teachers. He asked them to vote on several hundreds of everyday usages that strict grammarians call criminal. Among the jurors were Doctor Canby, Doctor Vizetelly, H. L. Mencken, William Allen White, Lee Hartmen, . Charles H. Seaver, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Louise Pound, Mary Austin, Zona Gale, Booth Tarkington, H. G. Wells, E. A. Robinson, Rupert Hughes and Van Wyck Bro&ks. The experts were seldom unanimous on any point .-considered, but their ballots on many points amounted to a landslide for the forgotten man in the street. Their verdict was “not guilty” for a large number of usages that pedants have fiercely condemned. Some Usages No Longer Barret! According to the Leonard jury, it ■is all right to say “all right,” and the speaker who dares to say “pretty good” is pretty good. The old quarrel between “farther" arid “further” ends in a draw; neither word is further away from correctness than the other. “Nice” is welcomed to nice linguistic society. So is “folks. ” So is “Loan me a pencil.” It is proper now “to make a date” and to taxi” to the spot, “We only had three tickets for the four of us,” and “Can I go now?" and "Try and do it” are established in respectable use and need cause no One .to blush. "From whence" is no longeY banned, and we may say “I have no doubt but what,” if we feel that we must. And the bars are lowered for "Pue to a cold, he was absent.” Barrie made a character in “Dear Brutus” exclaim, "I wish I was wonderful” and our new instructors do not chide him. If there was any hope for the subjunctive they would try and save the poor mood from vanishing; but they agree that •it is doomed, and cheerfully they wave good-by to it. They take in scores of outcast expressions from wandering about the cold streets and kill the fatted calf for them. “This much” and "this tall” “get home” and “shewas home” "the reason why” and "the reason was because,” "had rather,” all dressed up” and "I don’t know if I can” these and many other constructions once deemed sinister and Offensive are ushered to seats by the fireside. An oldfashioned rhetorician coming home to the English department from his sabbatical year -will find strange company all over the place. The rhetorician will be jarred, nd doubt. The writer who has spent a lifetime in learning’ to be nice and refined in his technique will wonder painstaking folk are told that the old and difficult distinctions between “shall” and “will" are no longer important and that “They asked my friends and myself’ is quite O. K The copyreader who for years has patiently changed "providing” w “provided” in sentences like “I will go, providing he stays," will find to his sorrow-that he has wasted his time. English, it seems, is stronger than any rhetorician or writer dr copyreader, and no reactionary ckn stop it from growing in its own sweet wild way. For most of these violations of once venerated rules of grammar the juryfinds precedents in the writings of the best authors. It is discovered that good authors prefer the unall sin of colioqualism to the of being stiltedly correct. They ssy, “One rarely enjoys hrs luncheon, when he is tired.” They would rath er do that than say, with «t>nssipus propriety, “One rarely enjoys one’s luncheon when one is tired.” Sensible writers, we are told, shrink from seeming to be precious and hyperurbanized in their diction. They like to appear to be good fellows and liberal minded and thus they help along the current disrespect for mossy grammar laws. Life and Language. Miss Ruth Mary Weeks of Kansas City, writing the foreword for the Leonard survey report, remarks that life changes more rapidly* than schools; that textbooks are cluttered with requirements no longer observed by educated men, and that many outmoded rules should be discarded. She says: “Dictionaries, grammars, books of rhetoric are not eternal statutes handed down from heaven like the tables of Mosiac law. They are history, not dogma; description, not command—descriptions of the changing speech habits of the mass of men. “It is useless to resist the current of language change,” Miss Weeks continues. “It is true that change is not always progress; it is true that languages have decayed, and that

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English may prove no exception to the rule. Perhaps the present wave of grammatical simplification is obliterating fine distinctions we might well preserve. But we can no more arrest this process than King Canute could check the tide.” And Miss Weeks utters this ringing declaration of independence: “To make your meaning clear —that is the secret of good punctuation, good usage. good speech-and good writing. Freed by such studies as Doctor Leonard’s from the crushing load of outworn, formalities, we shall per haps have time to stimulate in our students the clarified thought from which alone a composition worth punctuating can result.” Not all of the teachers at the Memphis convention went along with the new liberals. One conservative cried in anguish that “just plain slovenliness’ would lead a person to say “It is me,” for.“lt is I." But the bitterenders were few. Fprmal Punctuation Under iFire. Old rules of punctuation come in for a hard drubbing in the Leonard repora. The authorities say that w hajl is needed in the writing world is principles, not rules. They insist that punctuation exists solely to facilatate understanding; that the purpose behind all punctuation rules is greater intelligibility. The opinions of 150 experts on commas and semicolons have been assembled land the results of their voting on sample sentences submitted make 90 pages in {he report. The editors suggest the report as a guide in the re-cast-ing of style sheets' in all publication offices where the tyranny of out-of-date rules weighs heavy. It should not be thought from this article that, the surrender to colloquialisms has been unconditional or that the English teachers are in utter rout before the advancing hordes of loose expressions of the day. The path has been held valiantly against a great number of uncultivated usages. "It sure was good,” and “The party who wrote that was a scholar” have been repelled with great te r. “Do like I do” is strtl outside the pale, along with “ain’t,” “busted.” “I haven’t hardly a cent” and "hadn't ought.’ There is no mercy for New Hampshire’s “I calculate to go.” There are few friends for “Leave me come in,” “all the further” and “He did noble.” •Still Beyond the Patle, JSpme usages met with more lenience from the judges, but with not enough to place them on the establish ed list. They have been set down as disputable, with the arguments of the jury for and against them, and writers and speakers use them at their qwn risk. Examples of the disputable 4 re: “Every one was here, but they all went home.” “He dove off the pier., “W hat was the reason for the dog barking?” “1 can’t seem to make It, 1 A heap of work,” “In hopes of,” “In back of,” “Going some,” \V here are we at?” “I read where a plane fell” and “Reverend Jones.” There are more than one hundred .of these dubious usages on the list. After another generation, many of .these may have come to be established, for that is the irrestible'tendency of the language. Meanwhile, this Leonard survey, which is published by the Inland Press, Chicago, for the National Council of the Teachers of English, is the most thorough overhauling the English language has had in years. . -0- <— • IST GAME FRIDAY Drawing for the Kosciusko county basketball tournament which will.be held in the Warsaw armory on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 27 and 28, were made by the County Principals association in the offices of Harry E. Lewallen, county superintendent of schools. In the first game called for 2 o’clock Friday afternoon, Jan. 27, Milford will meet Pierceton; Burket and Atwood clash at 3 o’clock; Syracuse and Etna Green at- 4 o'clock; Silver Lake and Mentone will play in the evening at 7 o’clock; North W ebster and Leesburg at 8 o’clock. On Saturday morning Claypool and Beaver Dam. will play at 8 p’clock and at 9 o’clock Saturday the winner of the Milford-Pierceton game will play Sidney following which the winners of the preceding games will clash. p The radio has put oratory on the same basis as reading -listeners are no longer under obligation to be bored, unlike an audience sitting helpless in a hall. •

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I I IN OUR CHURCHES I ‘ I i- > METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH A. J. Armstrong, Minister. Dr. O. C. Stoelting, Supt. Church School, 9:45 a. m. Morning Worship, 11:00. Evening worship, 7:00 p. m. Mid-w’eek Service, Tuesday, 7:15. ZION CHAPEL. Rev. Vern Keller, pastor. Sherman Deaton, Supt. Sunday school at 10 a. in. fi? Morning Worship, 11:00 a. ni. Evening service, 7 o’clock. ' Indian. Village. Walter Knepper, Supt. » Sunday school, 10:00 a. m. Morning service 11:00 a. m. CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN Evangelist; J. Edwin Jarboe, pastor Guy Symensma, S. S. Supt. Sunday School 10 a. m. Preaching, at 11 a. m. and 7:00 p, m EVANGELICAL CHURCH The Church with Worship, Fellowship, Service. Rev. R. G. Foust, Pastor. P. W. Soltau, Supt. Public Cordially Invited. Sunday School, 9:45. Divine Worship, 10:45 a. m. No evening service. LAKESIDE U. B. CHURCH Rev. E. C. Reidenbach, Pastor. Syracuse. Sunday School, 9:45 a. tn. 2:00 p. m. the W. C. T. U. will hold a special meeting at this hour with a special speaker. The public is urged to be present Prayer hour Thursday 7:30 p. in. Concord. Sunday School, 9:45 a. m. Morning worship, 10:45. Young People’s Meeting, 6:00 p.m. Evening service at 7:00 p. m. Indian Village. Sunday School, 10:00 a. m. CHURCH OF GQD Rev. Marion Shroyiar, pastor. C. J. Kitson, S. S. Supt. Sunday School, 10:00 a. in. Christian Endeavor, 11:00 a. m. Prayer'Service, Thursday 7:30 p.m. GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH ■ ' : «' Rev. John A .Pettit, Pastor. Joe Kindig, Supt. Sunday school. 9:45 a. m. Evening worship 7:00. Luther^ League 6:00 p. m. The ehoir of Trinity Lutheran church, Elkhart, will present the cantata “Queen Esther. ’’ This is a 'complete musical service. The public is cordially invited.

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REPORT FOR YEAR MADE* BY BRETHREN S. S. The following is the yearly report of the Sunday school of the Church of the Brethren. Total attendance in S, S., 9,832 Total offering for year, $500.00 Largest attendance, May 8, 311. Smallest attendance, Jan. 13, 113. Largest offering, May 8, $14.32 Smallest offering, Jan. 3, $5.99.

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Cradle Roll attendance, 365. Elementary department, 2,507. Elementary dept, offering, $62.73. Adult offering, $437.27. Sunday school officers making this report are: Guy Symensma, Sunday, school superintendent; Roy Meek, treasurer; Mrs. H. R. McSweeney, secretary; Mrs. Ruth Meek, superin- ” tendent elementary department. o— - TRY A JOURNAL WANT AD