The Syracuse Journal, Volume 26, Number 16, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 10 August 1933 — Page 2

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THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL REPUBLICAN. ___ • ■ - - """ '*’ ■— L ■ igLUL"” Published every Thursday at Syracuse. Indiana. Entered as second-class matter on May 4 th. 1908. at the postoffice at Syracuse, Indiana, tinder the Act of Congress of March 3rd, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year. In advance ..........$2.00 Six Months in advance 1.00 Single Copies 06 Subscriptions dropi>e<l If not renewed when time Is out. HARRY L. PORTER, Editor and Publisher Office Phone 4 — Ilotne Phone 904 THURSDAY. AUGUST 10, 1933 THE BLOODLESS AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The only excuse for dictatorship is success. Knowing this fact, the present administration will use every power of the federal government to make the National Recovery Act a success. The administration is embarked on a program of national planning. Business is going to be regulated for 7 the common good. Fanners are goin" to have, the amount of crops which they sow planned for them. Ihe federal government is now in the mortgage business- The Tennessee River Valley project smells of communism. The old order of let the buyer beware has now changed to _ let the seller beware. All of this amounts to a social and economic revolution. Whether one likes the program or uot, Congress has given the power to the President to try to accomplish this revolution. I’he NRA is supposedly a voluntary • cement but the signal from I, igh S. Johnson is being awaited to instigate a gigantic boycott of those oho have not joined in the move? n ?nt. The administration must make the movement a success. Propaganda, publicity, threats, coercion, boycott «pd the right to license men to en- ; ire in the business of earnings their bvir.ga will all be used. The administration says that industry must conform for its own good, and the common good of the people- but volunt rily. So far. Plans are now being made in Washington to handle those who are violating the spirit and intent of the .’President's agreement. The whole p .ipose of the agreement is to empl «y more men and give the employrjs living wages. in many towns and cities, retaile.s and merchants are using the reemployment agreement aa an instrument to shorten working hours. That is not the intent of the NBA. The in .in idea is to employ more men. N<» doubt many people have sign-, eu the agreement, through fear of & >tt, or rushed hastily .to sign v.ihout knowing what signing Feally Others perhaps thought that if they signed the J agreement and obtained blue eagles for their wini ws they could do business as bewithout raising employes pay .r i shortening working hours. They in- tight there never would t>e investigation. But a special • bureau •is being cieated by the NRA to handle compi .mts and make investigations. And rding to Hugh S. Johnson in chuige of It all “God Help the Vio--1.-or.* >< it might be a wise plan for emI loyers to study the blanket code and specific codes of each particular industry to see if they are living up to the agreements they sign. , The codes are not hard to understand. As to the whole revolution we'd say: ‘‘We ain’t seer> nothin’ yet." WHY CREATE A FOODSCARCITY? It is distressingly obvious that the iiuijn concern of the economist and legislators who are attempting by nan.qial and international action to r ike wheat prices is not human welf re but increased profits. Profits do not insure human happiness or. even pi osperity. In fact, one-of the underlying causes of the present pitiful plight of mankind is too much profit in the hands of those engaged in none ••ntial and tn some dases uneconomic pursuits. And what do wo find our practical thinkers urging as a remedy for the fact that low wages and tariff barriers have lowered wheat prices and created an unsalable surplus? Do they see to the root of the matter—that inability of the people’s of the World to buy is the reason there seems to be a “surplus"? v\ e do not have too much grain.

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Millions of people go hungry everyday. Thousands have died of starvation in India and China in the last ten years. Yet the remedy, say the economists, is less wheat. Almost as if in answer to their problem, and yet making even more glaring the inhumanity of; crop destruction and limitation, comes a drought to America’s Middle Weet threatening to destroy acres and acres of growing grain; Prices immediately leap sensationally, yet Who is the gainer? Not the farmer whose crop is ruined; not the worker whose pittance must be spent for higher-priced bread, The speculators and brokers make the profit and each continued day of the blistering drought is money in their pockets, and joy to their unproductive little minds. But the farm er, with the love of the soil and growing things in his heart, is again the loser, for the results of his labor are being destroyed before his eyes. Os what value is dollar wheat to him who has no wheal to sell or to him who has no money with which to buy? Forecasts of approaching rain bring unloading of grains on the market and rapidly falling prices. Plenty is an evil; scarcity a blessing; starvation an incident. Why has it not occurred to these assiduous priceraisers that the best and surest remedy for the malady of which they complain is to develop a market for their wheat—all they can produce of it? The extent of the potential w;orld market has never even been probed. We do not have over-production. What we are suffering from is underconsumption, the inability to satisfy wants because of lack of pur chasing power. Os course, the problem of opening and creating new markets is not simple; in many respects it is more involved and more difficult of accomplishment than the artificial stimulants and sedatives now being experienced with. It might not be the final answer. But is is sound and constructive. Why not try it?—Zion’s Herald.

MAIN STREET WHITTLINGS

Just like Harold Teen in the funny paper, young ladies in backless pajamas, bathing suits and sun tan suits have been seen on Main street with initials in adhesive tape marked on their backs. In the good old days the boy friends used to carve the initials in the tree instead of using adhesive tape to leave his mark white, while the rest of the girl friend's back became brown in the sun. Which shows the power of the press to suggest things, .not order that they be done.

Anyone could tell that Democratic officials were at Lake Wawasee this week. The cars had license plates with but one, two or three numbers on them.

J. C. Abbott came into the Journal office, Tuesday, with the startling announcement that it waa no use for anyone to do any fishing on either Wawasee or Syracuse Lake as he had just caught all the fish.' A few question* disclosed the fact that he, his brother-in-law, Leon Connolly and Scotty Causer ad been fishing and that Loon had caught 10 fish, 7 bull heads and three blue gills. ■ ■ Fred Hoopingarner is complaining that since he has obtained the blue eagle of the NRA and is abiding by the hours specified for hi* employe that he has to clean up the garage for his help in the morning. Turkey Creek Township was Democratic Monday and Tuesday, but if history repeats itself, it will be Republican again at the next election. Hitler of Germany has decreed the sterilisation of unfit Germans. Probably people who don’t believe implicitly in Hitlerism will be declared the unfit. How long before that state of affairs will prevail in the United States? Can’t you remember way back when a business man in this country was permitted to have charge of his own business as well a* pay taxes on the privilege of having the business? o ;— The Century at Progress fair in Chicago ought— to prove that some thing* travel in circles. For example during the past hundred year* we have gone from beer to home brew and then back to beer again.

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THERE are various ways of practicing putting. Walter Travis used to use a miniature cup and stroke the ball by imagining he was driving a tack Into the back of IL Other players have laid out a chalk line and putted along it or parallel to IL Many players have practiced only _on the green Itself, sometimes using a spot in direct line to the hole to putt All good golfers are agreed however that the ball must be struck accurately and precisely to gain best results. Some golfers have gone so far as to use this phase alone In their practice with beneficial results. Instead of aiming at some particular terget and gauging the range accordingly, they practice only correct stroking and accurate contact with the ball Their whole mind Is con esntrated on the stroke with no attention at all as to where the ball may finish. In this way a sound putting stroke Is soon achieved. ©. ISM. BWI eradicate.—WNU Sarrica. o ] GOLF Enno Franke, pro of the South Shore Golf Club and G. Miller of Fort Wayne won the pro-amateur meet Monday at the South Shore Golf course. Their card showed a 70 for the 18 holes. The method of scoring in the pro-amateur meets is to score the best ball of either one of the team for that hole. This is the second meet that Franke has won this summer. John Watson, pro of the Erskine course, and Bill Earle of South Bend were second; “Pug" Allen and Cloeson of the Tippecanoe County Clull were third. Nine teams of two each played in the tournament. Don Perry, pro of the Wawasee Golf Club and Stan Brink turned in lbe best card for the first nine ptkyed, the score being 33. Perry got into trouble on the last three holes of the second nine and turned in a 72. When the scores for the last nine were turned in, it was discovered that 4 teams had tied for second place with 71’s. On the play off, Wataon and his partner won second place on the second hole, playing it in 3. Dustin of

'Niles, Mich., and Richards of South Bend .were eliminated from hte runjning on these holes, making a 5. Two teams, Alien and Classon 3 of ‘ Tippecanoe, and John Sonneburg ’ and Bud Williamson of Fort Wayne were left in the play to determine who should be ‘third. On the fifth I hole, Allen and Clossen won with a 3. Thirty-eight golfers from clubs in South Bend, Fort Wayne, Elkhart, ‘Huntington and Syracuse, and from ’the Tippecanoe, Wawasee, MaxweL ' ton and South Shore Golf clubs play,ed in The Tavern’s Invitational , Ladies Handicap Tournament on the ! South Shore Golf Club’s course, yesterday. Mrs. L. L. Sams of Elkhart won th* match with a 99 gross score and 66 net. Mis* Dorothy Gustafson of South Bend had low net score with an 88 gross and 83 net. Miss L. Moore of Turkey Creek had second low gross score with a 97 gross and 85 net. Second low net was the score of Mrs. Ralph Thornburg with a 72. Mr*. Frank Cox was third low net with a 73. 0 Electricity Doable* Speed Electric power for hauling French canal boat* ha* doubled the speed per hour ortr the old-fashioned horsedrawn boats. g - Newspaper dispatch says that a Chattanooga grocer smelled apples cooking and found that the sun waa doing the cooking through a plate glass window. Well, it sounds like applesauce to us.

THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL

STATE SPENDING SIO,OOO MORE A DAY THAN OVER A YEAR AGO

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—With state, disbursements having actually increased by SIO,OOO a day over a year ago, as shown by the state auditor’s books for the semi-annual period this year, Gov. Paul McNutt’s administration must curtail expenses sharply or state governmental costs this year will set an all-time record high mark. By the time the governor returns from his California excursion to the governor’s conference, he will have before him the complete financial reports of both the state auditor and the state treasurer covering his first half-year in office. These reports show disbursements of more than $24,000,000, with a sharp reduction in the cash balance that McNutt found in the treasury when he took office last January. $1,60«.rn Up In 6 Months. With an actual increase of more than $1,600,000 in < six months, the governor will find, for comparable services plus his administrative innovations, that his first six months were at a rate of $600,000 a month more than the average month of the last two fiscal years. No one at the state house expects disbursements can continue at this rate if for no other reason than the money is not in sight and they feel the governor, despite his unlimited powers, would be unwilling to have the first year of his tenure marked by the state actually borrowing money. Less Road Building. The McNutt road building program being about half that of the last two years* is expected to relieve embarrassment by the gasoline tax and the auto license money being available to pay government costs other than for highways while money coming from Washington will permit the state to carry out a fairly large roaddevelopment program. The McNutt expenditures of thiis year seem all the more excessive in comparison with a year ago when it is recalled that those for the first half of 1932 were in advance of the special session of the legislature, which cut the last half sharply, including the 15 per cent general salary reduction, much of which has been eliminated by increases by the governor. Among these increases are the SBOO salary boosts to McNutt’s new public service commission, the full time employment of Lieut-Governor Townsend at $6,000 a year, the $5,200 a year paid the three new highway commissioners, and miscellaneous increases scattered among those filling the more important jobs in t,he new administration. Housekeeping SI,OOO Monthly. Governor McNutt’s personal house-

PUBLIC UTILITIES WILL PAY TAX AFTER SEPT. 1 On and after September 1, 1933, all vendors of electrical energy will be liable for tax on electrical energy sold for domestic or commercial consumption, and not for resale, at the rate of 3 per cent of the price for which the energy is sold. The law specifically provides that a publiclyowned electric and power plant will not be liable for tax on electrical enbrgy it sells, even though such energy is sold for domestic or commercial consumption. In the case of an owner or lessee of a building who purchases electrical energy for resale to tenants therein, the law regards the sale for consumption, and th«| resale to the tenant is not considered a sale for consumption. Section 616 of the Revenue Act of 1932, imposing on the consumer a tax of 3 per cent on amounts paid for electrical energy furnished for domestic or commercial consump-

“Don’tDo That Again," Says Life Saver W. 1 , Wk H 11 r A. i Ww 1 ■ i -- ‘ S- F 23 v. J bv > .7 Jr Jr t' •_ rpIVB-year-old Susanne Evans or Wynnwood, Pa., Is here admonishing WllV Ham Kuehne, three yean old, after rescuing him from drowning in Indian ereek. The boy had waded out beyond his depth and was unconscious when Suzanne went after him and succeeded in dragging him to the bank, and then ran for help. It seems as If Suzanne rates a Carnegie medal.

keeping is costing the taxpayers more than SI,OOO a month. In the first half-year of his occupancy of the state mansion on Fall Creek, the governor has drawn on the state treasury for a total of $6,188.80 for maintenance of the property. Though in popular speech it is described as a mansion, the property is nothing more than a large, comfortable home and in no sense comparable to more elaborately, but privately owned places, whose owners count their maintenance far below the SI,OOO monthly rate. ! Expensive Housekeeping. The SI,OOO a month covers only the housekeeping and does not include the governor’s entire expense account to the state. His office expense, including his own SB,OOO a year in salary and the salaries of the largest clerical force any governor ever had, is paid from a separate appropriation. Other departments from their funds pay for other expenses of Mr. McNutt. The state highway pays for his automobile, the state police for his bodyguard, the conservation department for his family outing in Dunes Park, and‘without a complete audit of all state expenditures there is no way of Telling the exact expense account that the state bears for the governor. For maintenance of the “mansion," Mr. McNutt draws a monthly allowance of $666.67, of SB,OOO a year, i nd in addition to this he has spent from a private fund, over which he has sole control, about S4OO a month more for housekeeping. These expense items.vary from a couple of cake pans bought for $1.49 to bedspreads and draperies billed at $300.69 Soon after coming into the “mansion” he bought $07.44 worth of miscellaneous kitchen utensils, and then he found in Bloomington—“one flat ironer” at $104.50. Buys Knicknacks. An ornamental fence was put around the property at a cost of $302.80, and sod costing $240.70 was placed on the lawn, and awnings were placed over all windows at $323.22. A new radio was bought for $l5O, a waste basket at $2.95 and wall paper at 67H cents a roll. Then came “one pedestal type klertziar" at $31.50, the flagpole was( painted for $22.50, and finally “one plateau and 12 glass doilies” at $23.50. Four years ago the mansion was completely re-furnished and when the McNutts first inspected it their statement was that it was so complete that nothing was needed. But they have found the “shorts”. Anyway, the state is paying more than SI,OOO for “maintenance.”

tion, was amended by the Act of June 16, 1933, (Public No. 73—73rd Congress) so that the vendor of electrical energy sold on and after September 1, 1933, for domestic or commercial consumption will be liable for payment of the 3 per cent tax, based on the price for which sold. Under the provisions of section 616 now in effect, the tax must be paid by the domestic or commercial consumer of electrical energy furnished up to and including August 31, 1933, irrespective of when payment for the energy so furnished is made. LAKE NEWS. (Continued from Page One) urday from his business trip to Washington and New York City. Mrs. R. H. Beard, Jr., who had spent the past week with her mother, Mrs. Long, returned to Chicago, Sunday evening. o — TRY A JOURNAL WANT AD

MARRIED IN FORT WAYNE A pretty home wedding was that of John H. Jones of Fort Wayne and Miss Margaret Hurtig of Syracuse, at 8 o’clock, Friday evening, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Sweet of Fort Wayne. Charles Richards of Fort Wayne was best man, and Mrs. Richards attended the bride. Little Miss Mary Alyce Sweet was ring bearer. Rev. Jarboe of Syracuse officiated. Those present were: Mr. Hurtig and daughter Edna; Mr. and Mrs. James Brickel of Syracuse; Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Whitt, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Richardson, Mrs Wilmer Kruse, Mrs. William Kruse, Mr. and Mrs. Sweet of Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Jones will live in Fort Wayne where Mr. Jones is employed.

BEER 15c at THE TAVERN SANDWICHES — LUNCH — DINNER Food cooked as only Matty knows how to cook it COME ANY TIME MATTY IS READY TO SERVE YOU

have cash buyer for modern cottage, south shore wawasee preferred, also choice vacant lake frontage. call Syracuse r-926 simon, inc. (next to waco)

. ( - T - MEMBER WE DO OUR PART . » - We cheerfully accept the NRA for business recovery. We have complied with the act in so far as our knowledge extends. Possibly this week end the Code formulated by the Drug Institute of America will be approved by our President and we pledge ourselves to ply in every way with the word and spirit of it and we ask the co-opera- \ tion of our customers. / Thornburg Drug Co.

BACHMAN’S Syracuse Indiana —GROCERY SPECIALS—- . A —. ~ ~ ' . ’ '' d ■■ - • • ' • ' * SUGAR, 10 lbs, ...X 52c. - ■ ii—— —.—-. APPLE BUTTER, 38 oz. jar, specail,.... 19c CRUSHED PINEAPPLE, 6i lb can .. ... 59c OLIVES, Stuffed, 5 oz. bottle 15c MONARCH GRAPEFRUIT, can 10c ORANGES, SUNKIST, 2 doz 39c LEMONS, large size, doz 25c RED KIDNEY BEANS, 30 oz can 10c SLICED PINEAPPLE, Fancy Libby, No. 2i size can... 25c PORK & BEANS, LIBBY’S, 1 lb. can .... 5c

THURSDAY, AUGUST Is, 1933

HAS BRIDGE PARTY Mrs. Lowell Pefley entertained ■members of the Churubusco Bridge club at the home of her mother, Mrs. Nora Wilcox, Tuesday. Three tables were in play and prizes were won by Mrs. Arthur Davidson and Mrs. Perry Ort.

Fall Hats ARE HEREPRICE RANGE 1551.48 $1.48 T 0 $3.75 Fall Dresses are Expected Within a Week. The Variety Store