The Syracuse Journal, Volume 26, Number 21, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 14 September 1933 — Page 2

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CHE SYRACUSE JOURNAL REPUBLICAN. Published- every Thursday at Syracuse. Indiana. Entered as second-class matter on May Ith. 1908. at the postoffice at 3yracu.se. Indiana, under the Act of C<>ncr?ss of March 3rd. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES O : . in advance $2.00 Six Months in advance — 1.00 Single Copies ~ 4 ■ • -®&. Subscriptions dropped if not renewed wlien time Is out. ■ ii \ Editor and Publisher Office Phone 4 — Home Phone 9Q4 Illi' RSI) AV. SEPT, 14. 1933 AIDING FARMERS The wheal program of the federal government is- meeting with success in this county. In fact, according to Irvin J. Mathews, federal agent in charge of the .program in Kosciusko and St. Joseph Counties, have shown the bset results of any in the northern half of Indiana. Oyer 250 farmers representing the most acres in the county have signed the agreement -to reduce acres in wheat and accept the bonus. With the wheat and cotton prog rain fl well on its way, and the : lau . iitei ini: of hogs still going oh, peoplecare waking up to the fact that a broad .agricultural policy is being foii iulated and developed by the ad- *• ministration. r It is no secret that the agricultural department is now working out a scheme similar to the wheat program for hogs and corn. Probably as soon » .< the five million pigs are made into feitilizcK tHe corn and hog program will be (announced. Those farmers r who feel that they have been slight(ed by the administration because they listened to the exhortation of the farm board to reduce wheat, may feel belter when they can sit down and figure out their base for ■ corn. After the distribution of the bonus for wheat this fall and probably for corn next spring, farmers will have j. soii,ie_ money , over ■ and above the woj-ld price but whether or not the ■agricultural act will be ah econo■mi< al success remains to be seen, It . is doubtful if the leaders of the program are si4re j of success themselves Farmers, are beginning to complain about the rising prices of stuff which they have to buy, caused the tnanufacturori say, by processing taxes and the NRA But the prices , that they received have shown little . advancement. »0 farmers are beginning* to inquire if a price on a c< mmodity is an NRA price. This would indieile that they are beginning tv feel disatisCed. • One farmer who quite evidently did n«‘t believe tn the agricultural adjustment act remarked that the t iily thing that the farmer needs is i ?wei pi i ed agricultural implements and machinery. They could get ulong then, without the rest of the red tape. • — ’ ■ However, whatever happens to the farmer, when it is all over, he ought to have a better idea of How niuch food stull is consumed in this country and h w iriuch can be exported. MAIN STREET WHITTLINGS ■ School books are neither Republican or Democratic.. The tepublivans have released an tta< k on McNutt for changing several of the school books this year, and claim, it was a needss expense They are right, but ■■• hey forget that school books have been changed almost every other yewj before McNutt was in power, tor some reason dr other and the pie with*children in. school have paid and paid. Os course the people . > peeled belter things' from the jmocrat.s under Haul ,V> McNutt’s •■uiei.-hip. The school book publishing commies are the ones that profit when u change is made in texts. There is an exception to this stateent. If a certain company is pub- . -hing a text and a change is con- < aplated and that company’s offir . N think there is no chance of heir text being selected another y ar, they start yelling about econiy, and that it is a shame to make iple buy new texts, to change .ooks, when the old one is just as ? >d and can be passed on to the y unger children. That racket has been worked by iblishing companies in the past. One publishing house which had ...on selling its history book for 10 ,>rs within this state for $2.10 was m danger of losing its contract, two Jj c trs ago. Book, contracts are for » i.ve years. *hb company’s agents got busy. j, V ey persuaded the farm bureau and 1.» Hoosier taxpayers it would be saving to continue with the same I ok so second-hand ones could be .. ed rather than different books t ery year. A howl went up about economy and suffering parents, all f -tered by the company’s agents. Thb company did not lose their contract and did not lower the price of the book. ’ This year the contract was reawarded to the company . for the history book. Another cover was put on the same history book, the fast two chapters of the book were changed slightly and the book was pul out for >1.62. Naturally one wonders why two

years ago the book could not have sold for* SI. 62. The school book business must be more Subtle than politics. Next Monday the civil officials of this county will be engaged in a struggle with the County board of tax adjustment. The tax board will want to reduce taxes and the officials will want to keep the amount asked in the various budgets. If the tax board can sanely reduce taxes it will accomplish a good piece of work. If, however, the board listens to (the pleas and threats of some organizations which would wreck all government if they had the power, - to accomplish their purpose —to reduce property tax —and the board would slash taxes to the radical level demanded by these organizations, government in this county will receive an irreparable setback. Good sense and sanity will be required to solve the tax board’s problem, caused by of money among the people and the essential need of maintaining adequate governmental functions. At last the rain came, bringing I cooler weather, Sunday, and the first part of the week, than that which hovered about the 100 mark last wegk, and a higher water level in the lakes, and grass for cows, sheep | and horses; also green fairways on ; golf courses. The first hint that trade has been receding since the middle Os July has been released by the department of commerce. The Democrats and General Johnson have been turning out a lot of ballyhoo about increasing business all this time, but when the department’s real figures were released the only consolation that the people can have is that business in general is at a higher index than this time last year. And the war between Bolivia and’ Paraguay keeps on. And Cuba keeps on disagreeing $ itself as to who is to be head of affairs down there. The local band completed its series of weekly concerts last Wednesday night. The music was enjoyed by everyone. Syracuse in its band for it is a good one and is a local affair The editor sincerely hopes that finances can be arranged so that next summer the band will still be able to play its weekly concerts. When Luois Solt came into the office, Saturday, he wanted to settle up any bills owed and asked Roscoe Howard how much he owed him. When Howard looked up Solt’s account, Solt had over-paid it by 83 cents last settlement. So Howard had to pay out 83 cents. EXCUSES. (C. E. W’ade, director, Chicago College sos Commrece.-) Excuses’ What are they? Excuses in a few words may be described as a- “Confession of failure. " ’ Excuses are one of the most deadly enemies of mankind. They paralyze the potential possibilities of men by convincing him that in case he does not do his best that he can offer up an excuse. We so often try to excuse ourselves for failure by giving an excuse that seldom fools anybody but ourselves, They are reasons for not doing a thing which could be done. Most of the men whose names are written high on the scroll of fame could have very easily produced excuses for giving up early in life. Homer like Milton and Prescott was blind. He might have squatted in the dust at the gate of Athens and been content with the crusts thrown him by the Charitable. Demoethenes had at least three excuses that he could have offered. His lungs were weak, he stuttered, and his voice was rasping and harsh. Julius Caesar was an epileptic. Charles Lamb, prince of the essayists, spent his first twenty-five years in an insane asylum and the rest of his life caring for his demented sister. Bethoven was deaf, but he composed the “Moonlight Sonata.** Lord Byron wanted* to be an athlete, but he had a club foot yet he became a very skilled boxer and was one of the few who swam the Hellespont at the point where Leander is supposed to have drowned.. Booker T. Washington was a negro and poor but his accomplishments are known to all. Pope was a hunchback, Robert Louis —Stephenson was a consumptive and wrote most of his books in bed. Daniel Webster was too timid to recite in school. Excuses! Excuses! But never used. Can’t we get such a lesson from these men so that when confronted by this stifling and deadening malady, excuses, we will hold our head up and look the world square in the face and refuse to be a,Weakling? - HAS BROKEN LEG. Walter Wiggs, who lives on the Steve Miller farm south of town, had his Wt leg broken just below the knee when his horse kicked him. Wiggs was raking hay, and the rake slipped against the horse’s foot, frightening it.. It kicked back and struck Wiggs' knee, and also broke the single tree. Wiggs managed to crawl around to hitch the horse to the rake and ride back to the house.

ADVISES MAKING NRA SUCCESS BY"’ r ABANDONING IT

Scathing Letter by U. S. Senator N- To Johnson. WASHINGTON, D. C — A United States senator—-Henry D. Hatfield, (rep.) of W. Va. ,—has expressed his views on the NRA to Gen. Hugh S. Johnson. Senator Hatfield made public a correspondence between the recovery administrator and himself. The senator’s letter is a blistering document, suggesting to Johnson that the NRA be made a complete success by its complete abandonment. Gen. Johnson wrote to Senator Hatfield a few days ago requesting the senator’s support of the National Recovery plan. Johnson to Hatfield. The letter which Gep. Johnson had sent to Senator Hatfield follows: “I know you are aware of the efforts of the national recovery administration' A generous and sympathetic spirit of cooperation has been quite generally indicated by the public. Leaders in industry, labor and of the public at large are accepting the plan for reemployment with a faith and a sincerity that justify an expectation that the campaign will meet with success. ’’Just now your leadership will have inestimable value and I earnestly solicit your constant support. By your public Utterances and in the influences you exert within your state and elsewhere you can render a distinct service in behalf of the national recovery program, and in the same manner give us substantial encouragement) as well. “I shall welcome your suggestions and advice at. any time.’’.’ Senator Replies. The communication which Senator Hatfield,sent in answer to the general was in part as follows: “I assume that your communication is merely a circular letter sent in identical form to all of the senators. 1 want to assure you, sir, that I have every sympathy for your predicament. It must be trying to one who received his early education at West Point, and there swore to uphold and perpetuate the constitution, to find himself obliged to forgo the principles of government approved by the founders of this republic. ? “Upon reflection, however, 1 find that there are a number of items touching yopr NIRA program in which 1 would be glad to co-operate with you to the fullest extent of my poor abilities. “I will patriotically co-operate with you. in sending a respectful petition to the President to exercise his legislative function of repeal and abandon this ghastly folly of industrial regimentation; for such is our present state of ignominy that by a single stroke of his pen all this economic madness called NIRA can be ended. “Speculation and Profiteering." . “I will eagerly cooperate with you toward restraining the oijgy of speculation now carried on under the absolutism of those who subscribed to and qualified under- the NIRA, and in curbing the paradise of profiteering that the makeshift NIRA plans have precipitated. “I will zealously cooperate with you in expelling from high places in our government such intellectual theorists as Prof. Raymond Moley, Prof. Rexford Tugwell and others, who are characterized by Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. , as admirers of the red flag and principles of communism. i

“1 will respectfully Cooperate with you in beseeching the President to adhere to his sound money pledge solemnly given before a great audience in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, to the end that we may avoid the disaster of further inflation and unsound money, thus preparing the way for a return to the gold standard and possibly saving our country from further miseries. "Restore Anti-Trust Laws.”

“I am yours to command in any ; effort to restore the anti-trust laws, so that monopolies of commerce, so dreaded by President Wilson, and which are now being set up under the auspices of the NIRA, may be avoided, thereby restoring to the small independent business man his right to survive and protecting the consuming public from extortionate price racketeering. “Also, you may look for my full cooperation in cutting off these wasteful bounties to farmers, and i for the abandonment of such disgraceful practices aa plowing underl 110.000,000 acres of cotton, government purchase and slaughter of 5,1000,000 hogs, and, so I am told, government purchase of millions of 1 pounds of butter for purposes of 1 destruction. 1 “These practices are not in accord with my idea of sensible economy; they savor, according to my modest individual view, more of the atmosphere of the lunatic asylum, if there is any such an institution reserved for economic theorists who flout the beneficence of Providence. “In short, sir, my idea of making NIRA a complete success would be to abandon it entirely. Smash these fetters that NIRA has fastened on our farmers, manufacturers, merchants, financiers, laboring men, industrial workmen, mechanics, professional, trades, and office people generally, and I venture to say America can

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recover swiftly by means of the stajmina and the resourcefulness. of a free Nation. There were many positive signs of recovery before, the advent of NIRA; hence we can only con elude that it is a needless impediment. “Since the pliant, bewildered, submissive, terrorized congress of rhe one hundred days practically abdicated all of its legislative functions, I can scarcely see how the executive department would be in need of any further powers, as it now daily legislates for the entire nation. “Assuming that it is not further power you desire, because NIRA bristles with powers of every description, so that the destiny of an entire nation is now committed to the caprice of a single individual, I beg to offer this one further suggestion, namely, that the swaggering bully rarely remains very long a popular figure in our national life. "Do you not think it more compatible. with the traditions of our government to avoid blustering and bulldozing; and do you not imagine that some persons resent such incautious allusions as that you recently made to the hanging of Danny Deever, which was construed as a reference to lynch law, which, according to the admonitions of history, ever was a game that more than one person played at? “Recently I ventured to deplore publicly any resort to a boycott in support of NIRA, branding it as an intolerable species of social ostracism in time of peace. Afterward I was glad to note you had disavowed such an intent; but notwithstanding that assurahce, I regret to learn that such boycotts are being carried out by your authority and under your name, and 1 can offer you incontrovertible proof of same, should yoy care to have it. This setting of neighbor against neighbor, 1 feel, can only lead to confusion and disaster. The administration, indeed, may learn to its . discomfiture that the housewivse of America are adepts at boycotting unscrupulous profiteers. And it is easy, to imagine that many of the nation’s housewives already are finding it difficult to keep up with the inflated prices that NIRA is causing.

“Counter to Spirit of America”

“Surely by this time you have seen enough of the inner workings of NIRA to realize that it runs counter to. the oldest traditions and very spirit of America. It can never be satisfactory to a free people, and no amount of ballyhoo can make it so. Surely, in your hearts you must be averse to the Russioriizing of America. I note that you declared your intention of resigning in November. I hope that you will do so sooner, and that when you do you will frankly and bbldly inform the nation, what you must know to be the truth, that NIRA never can successfully manage the affairs of a free people. In that connection I will gladly cooperate, with you to restore, to our postage stamps the face of the immortal George Washington, which has now been blotted out and replaced by the so-called ’’soviet scythe. ’ Perhaps in writing you thus frankly, sir, I am a better friend to you than some of those whom you picturesquely allude to as ‘chislers,’ who flaunt your bright colored insignia and then proceed economically to stab you in the back. “In conclusion, let me absolve you of any intent to set up an advance alibi for the impending collapse of NIRA. 1 hope it is not the intent of your associates to blame the impending'failure of NIRA on noncooperation of the Republican party. I really want to thank you most cordially for the acknowledgement tfiat there is in existence such a deliberate body as the United States senate. I thank you also for designing to seek the opinion of a mere senator. I shall take delight in cooperating with you along the lines I have indicated. ” PRIZES PROVIDED FOR GROWERS OF MINT AND ONIONS LAFAYETTE, Ind.—lndiana producers of mint oil and onions will share in the prize awards at the Fourth Annual Muck Crops Show, which will be held at Warsaw, November 8-11. Mint growers will exhibit one pint samples of oil for the show. Prizes will be awarded to the first ten places in the mint oil class. Onion prizes will be more numerous this year as Indiana onion growers compete for the onion king crown with 50-pound samples. Better than S3OO in cash prizes will be awarded to exhibitors of red, white or yellow onions. Special classes are open to the members of the Indiana 1000 Bushel Onion Club and the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Onion Club, and there will be a class for the Valencia or Sweet Spanish type onions. One of the outstanding features of last year’s show was the open competition with other onion growing sections in the Mid-West Onion Grower’s Class, which will be a feature again this year. Ths best sample of Southport Yellow Globe onions exhibited was grown by John Stauffer, of Akron. Further information regarding the show may be obtained by addressing W. B. Ward, Horticultural Department, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind.

BOOK REVIEW. . “Mandoa, Mandoa,” by Winfired Yioltby, published Sept. 12 by The MacMillan Co., is without doubt one of the best novels of the year. It has sustaining interest, colorful descriptons, rollicking humor, and intrguing epsodes from Cover to cover. j It is the story of an English tourri ing agency seeking patrons, and es- i tablishes a tourist route from Eng- ! land to Mandoa, Mandoa, in Central Darkest Africa. The author is a native of Yitfk-j shire, graduate of Oxford, Director; in the English Magazne, “Time and i Tide,” and has a number of novels; to her credit. Rose Macauley said of Mandoa, | Mandoa. that it is "a richly detailed and luxuriantly conceived comic tragedy.” And such it truly is. Many amusing incidents provoke the smil-: es of a jaded, weary world; while! others are sober and contain real in-; formation for the reader who makes | of his reading, an art. ] For a book that is good in'all re-, spects, we suggest “Mandoa, Man- j doa.” Today concludes this series of Book’, Reviews. In closing I express myi thanks to the Editor, and to the readers, say, "Thanks for listenin’.”) And I appreciate the co-operation of j The MacMillan Company, perhaps; the greatest publishing, house in the world. __ -; BESSIE W. BALLARD GOLF L —_— • i The greenskeepers of golf courses ' of the state met at the South Shore Golf Club, Monday, and were Served a fish dinner at the club house. Thirty-five attended. — ~. I Fifty-two golfers have qualified fori the Maxwelton Golf club tourna-l ment. Elimination started Monday, I and the management hopes to have the first round played off by Sunday evening. In the qualifying rounds, Glen, Field of Nappanee was medalist with t J 8: M. M. Smith of Syracuse was, 'runner, up with 7 an 82. Sixteen play-1 ers qualified for the championship; flight and were matched as follows: ■ Glen Field, Nappanee vs John Cor-i nelL Goshen; Spencer Heennan, ■ Syracuse, vs. Charles Bachman Jr., Syracuse; Court Slabaugh, Syracuse' vs. Major Swartz, Nappanee; Frank; Cornell, Goshen vs Ellsworth Rood, Nappanee; Reed Newcomer, Nappanee vs Tom Kauffman, Goshen; L. Stouder, Goshen, vs R. Nappanee; L. Field, Nappanee vs Roy Huffman, Nappanee; G. Lothian 1 Goshen vs M. M. Smith, Syracuse. ' The survivors of this flight, after | three rounds of competition, w’ill be awarded the trophy, and the runner up a gold medal. The remaining players were placed in two groups called flight first and second. Winners of these flights will be awarded a silver medal and a bronze medal. Syracuse players' who qualified for the first flight were: William Smith, George Butt, Miles Smith. Those who qualified for the second were: C. A. Langston, Melburn Rapp, Pell Clayton and James Butt. — I SHALL CHOOSE MY COMPANY By DOUGLAS MALLOCH THE past 18 both our friend and foe, j And we shall say If more or less it shall be so. Forgetfulness Is not our friend if we forego ' The memory of things that bless, Nor memory If we shall know But recollections that distress. ■ i The wise will treat them as they do The ones they meet upon the way: The faithful few .Os yesterday Shall be their comrades all life through. Forgotten strangers those who say The thing unkind, or prove untrue. Nor on our burdens burdens lay. s Yes. I shall say to memory, If it shall bless the way I wend, “Abide with me Until the For su£h shall my companions be. My journey =share, my steps attend. For I shall choose my company. Forget the foe, recall the friend.” © ISIS.. Dou«la» Maltocto.—WNU Servica. 1

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DR. OSKAR L. TIETJENS. Westinghouse research engineer, has made public an Invention of his which, he claims, will double the speed of small motorboats. It consists of thin steel vanes which are set beneath the boat and on the motor. When the boat reaches its maximum speed these vanes raise It entirely out of the \vater. ,

The Old Mans Corner

i (The views expressed in this 1 column are those of the author who I wishes to remain anonymous, and j not necessarily ( those of the editor of ; The Journal. Anyone who does not' .agree with views expressed here is . welcome to write in reply so long as the writer’s identity is known to the j editor.) ; That's that. Should ha’ been five ; games straight ’f he .hadn’t moved i his pawn . back. Always does that land denies it. Too aggressive. Wager he had a young father. Where’s ■ ma paper ’bout Intelligence, or true age index. Here’s one copy. Wonder !’f its final copy. ’Read it again. The Age of The Father." i Indiana University this year en.teitained its “honor students, and their parents as a custom appearing recently in many schools. I wonder just how correct and warranted is such honor-conferring ■ system? j The “Daily Student" says that a famous Hoosier artist “was first rec-j iognized as a genius at 14.” But how’ ; can we gauge a boy's mind even before his birth, so as to surely educate him correctly? > A scientific theory, much studied i lately, says that augmented intel!fleet, brain power, is due to length <of time between generations; in short, the older the father the more brains his son. Thousands of cases uniformly sustain the theory. Tabulation of many cases not only demonstrate this law, but show that j natural,., definite classifications of mentality exist, each statum with a i similar, comparable mental “age infl dex” in its individuals. So, children with fathei-s much-over 40 at their birth should not be classed with those under 35. Persons with an “age index” farther apart than say five years cannot usually be grouped together hopefully. Thus, Thomas A. STORE VITAMINS , FOR WINTER USE, PURDUE ADVISES ; . -s LAFAYETTE, Ind.—Storing up for winter means putting away food to. be eaten duriyg the winter time. Storing vitamins means eating plenty of certain kinds of foods right now and storing up a reserve of some of the vitamins against a possible scarcity of vitamin-rich foods in winter, states Miss Aneta Beadle, extension nutritionist of Purdue University. Midsummer is the very time for “storing" she says, for gardens and the summer sunshine are sources of all the vitamins thus far known, ■arden foods are most abundant now, and the summer sun js richest in the ultra-violet rays. Authorities agree that at least six vitamins —A, B, G, D, E and G are indespensable to human health. lt is not always easy to get a full quota of all the vitamins and usually the quantity in one ordinary serving of cooked food is small. The supply of green foods, for most people, is uneven—more abundant and cheaper in the growing season, less abundant or less obtainable in the winter. It is then that the body needs its vitamin reserve. Vitamin € is not stored to any great extent and must be provided daily in the diet, a fact which makes

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Edison and Colonel Lindbergh each had a father aged 43 at their*births. They could not go slow enough to fit into the “average class,” so left school prematurely. They illustrate the rule. _ When this theory is accepted, as it should be now, it will, be a true "intelligence text;” a correct, reliable “age index” for all , pupils and students, and for all adults as well, for grading them and choosing logical curricula, employments, interests, etc.; displacing our rough, unscientific, expensive method of “trial and error,” or “catch-as-catch-can.” Moreover, knowledge this law of life will check egotism, tending to create a healthy humility and social outlook. It will awaken a livlier admiration for mankind per se, and for the natural laws of this ever-wonder-ful world in which we live. •So Franklin Roosevelt is no fluke. He will last out for wear or woe. He had a 54 year old father. " For his equal in public life we haye to go back to Augustus, the First Roman Emperor, whose father was also about 54. He became Dictator, “to save the Roman Republic” from a depression! Forty years later Rome awoke to And itself “saved”—but a rotten Monarchy! America should find better salvation. Nearly all towns have geniuses. I know; a Syracuse boy with a 54 year old “age index” and 99 years for two < generations—better than Roosevelt and equal to Justavus Adolphus, an all-time world hero. By 1960 he will be in “Who’s Who.” I two children here with father of 50; also a boy with a 43 year old “age index” the same as “Lindy” and Thos A. Edison, One graduate from ’Cuse High school this spring won honors and a scholarship. 1 don’t know the facts, but wager his fatherover 35 at his birth. 'canned toinatoes highly important winter. Vitamin B is stored only to a limited extent, but it is found in [many of the winter foods. Plenty of sunshine supplies Vitamin D. But why so much stress on vitamins? They are still very much of a mystery even to science. Perhaps their reality is most convincingly proved when they are absent, fori if j they are lacking long enough, acute i disease occurs. Several diseases ocj curing among people who live on a i limited variety of foods are “know’n Ito be cured by changing the diet. lln most cases the faulty diets consist too largely of cereals and the cheapest articles of food and naturally the most widely used by people \vhose diet is most restricted by cost. However, there are other people who are ill-fed not through lack pf food, but through a lack of understanding of what they need, or perhaps through tradition, or habit. In America particularly it was not a habit to use enough green foods to | balance the cereals and meats in the usual diet. When something is lacking in the diet, it is often something that is found in the garden foods, or something derived froiffthe sun’s rays. Therefore, make the most of the garden and the sunshine while they | are at their best, to get a good start for the winter.