The Syracuse Journal, Volume 26, Number 22, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 21 September 1933 — Page 2

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I'HF/SYRACI’SE JOVBNAL 7 REPUBLICAN. Ptbli.-hed every Thuraday at Syracuse, Indiana. Ent« ?«d as second-class matter on \! Ith/'IWM* at the pvstoffice at Syracuse. Indiana, under the Act of 1 March 3rd. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES V i» year, tn advance ..........82.00 Six Months in advance _— -- 1-00 Single Copies 05 Subscription* dropped If not renewed when time Is out. H \ itltY U PORTER, JR* Editor ami Publisher Office Phone 4 Home Phone 904 IHI RsDAY, SEPT. 21. 1933 St I I il It \ I ION BY EMERGENCY There is. only one amendment to the constitution now pending and that is the twenty-first, which repeals the eighteenth. Jhe constitution has not. been amended to permit.the President, by decree,. t<« confiscate the money of citizens’. The fundamental law has not been amended to permit the President rathei than congress to regulate the currency. Nor has there been an amendment to permit the secretary of agriculture by decree to tax the citizens at rates which he regards as necessary, nor is there .i: , ......th • it! a his forbidding a iaimer to sell produce al prices which the farmer regards as satis-; factory And so on. There is no p • extending the. list, though readily be extended by any one who Ti- read the acts of the special session !■£ congress and the decree- of the federal government' issued since last March When jnv -point is made that the ; constitution has been not only led, but violated, the reply; • that the nation; as in '..tfhe midst <>f so dire an emei gency. that nd lune Can he . wasted ’in bringing about an orderly amendment as provied’in Article V. Opinions on this; point wili differ, but there cun be little difference over the conclusion that if an emergency justifies diaregard <>l '•' ut ion in some puiticuiais it justifies Mo.iiai disregard all along the line. If one emergency c.m destioy the right of pris vite property, then another emergency Can destroy the.-'righf to a fair trial, the freedom’of the press, of speech and of religion, the right to assemble and petition and all the other hard won civil liberties ■ If the President because of ah emeigei. y t: i.y coni,scale. why may th* e . en<y use the an , : ess out df the capitol and dissolve the Supreme court? The doctrine of emergency, by it* very nature, can haife ho limits. An emergency which today, ■ the assumption of the tax- •_ powei by Mr W e can; to-istify-a declaration of war -e< t by' .'..••i c •e> execu’.iVe olficer. It the su cc-ted extensions of the emerge . do wine appear to be; absurd it should be remembered that <** they are. no more- absurd than the! f the last < ngress would 'have I • my me. lawyer or lay-; man, a few years ago.. Per hap# it is] .erth rc .din... that - the Wetrnar tutidn also guaranteed civil; liberties and that the German peo»le have been deprived of them because of the .-alleged existence of an | emei gem y •■k If the people of this country want * t, change in the fundamentals of .eir law the way to bring it aboutj x id coniine it to the things which; >esire altered is clear and pre-| ■e Article V. points the way. It i ha* been followed successfully 20.1 nes. Not even the drys, indifferent s they were to constitutional prinil, ventured to alter the constiitibn without formally amending it. 'bey did not seek to prevent trade ; intoxicants by pretending that the . event ion of interstate commerce in commodity is a regulation of it or . .t the prevention of drinking is. ; >perly speaking,, * question of eneral welfare ’’ The drys amendthe constitution to make their -hibition possible and the same thod should lie followed by any - else who seeks to remold the . nerican government and redefine ■ rights of an American citizen, t-herwise there is no constitution J there are" no rigHTs.*“Chicago ’. l ibitne. * ; ■■■ a .I SYRACUSE WINS .’•yracuse won from North Webster the game played hjhe, Sunday ernoon The sc>r/ was 3 toj. acuse scoring three runs in the ond inning and North Webster ocking a home run in the last inn- ' ' j North Webster made 5 hits, had ’ > strike outs, one walk’ and one , n. pitched and Garver was < icher. The home run. was knocked I■. Likens. For Syracuse, Byland pitched and . uer was catcher. There were 7 i its 2 errors, ’2 walks, 7 strike outs . nd 3 runs. BAND HAS PICNIC Members of The Syracuse City Rand and their families enjoyed a picnic at Indian Hill, Sunday. FolIxwing dinner, in the afternoon the liand members played a concert in the woods.

Mrs. Sarah Howard has been ill , with the flu this week. Mr. and Mrs. James Traster attended the fair in Chicago, Sunday. ( Mrs. A. F. Statler attended the j fair in Chicago last week. , Lige LeCount and family visited I Mr. and Mrs. John Hurtig, Sunday i afternoon. Mrs. Lowell Pefley of Churubusco i visited her mother, Mrs. Nora Wil-. I i cox from Monday until yesterday. Mr! and Mrs. Will Mallon spentSunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Kern in Elkhart. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Weimer spent Sunday evening, with his mother at ' I North Webster. i Media Manns of Silver Lake is spending a few days this week with Wilma Geiger; Ned Harley is expected home today, after a vacation spent with i relatives in Waukegan, 111. Mrs. Elisabeth Shock and Jonas Cripe called at the Jerry Hamman ' home, Saturday. Rev. Howard Paschal and Mrs. Paschal of Fort Wayne called at the Charles Rentfrow home last weke. Miss Donnabelle Tribble of Milford spent Saturday night and Sunday al ; the Jesse Darr home. Mr. and Mrs. John Sudlow moved to his mother’s property on the Vawter Park road, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rowdabaugh visited relatives in Lafayette from Wednesday until Friday. Mr and Mrs. Ralph Thornburg and family spent Sunday with relatives in Marion. Mrs. Walter Ballard went to Chicago, Monday, to visit relatives. She plans to return home next week. Ben Kitson returned home, Sunday. from a visit' with his son in Dixon, 111. Mrs. Frank Klink, Miss Roberta Crow and Paul McClintic spent Friday in South Bend. o Mrs. Ida Bowersox left on Monday for Hollywood, Cal. . where she will spend the winter Mrs. Belvia Mault visited her grandmother, Mrs Sarah Lingofeller, Sunday. The first Ruffner family reunion was held, Sunday.' There were 76 present. ; . , The Misses Moaclene and Maymie Wogoman spent last week in Chicago where they attended the fair. Mr and Mrs. George Cleghorn of Hammond, Ind., are spending a few days vacation with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rasor. Circle No. 3 of the Methodist l.adies Aid planned to have a pot luck dinner at the home of Mrs A. W. Emerson today. Mr. and Mr*. C. W. Howard and Mr. and Mrs. M W. Macy left on Monday afternoon for a two weeks vacation in Michigan. Mrs Sarah E. Hall of Glen Ellen, 11J. , came last Thursday to make an indefinite stay with her daughter-in-ilaw, Mrs. Nora Wilcox. Mitchel Hamman of Stanley, Wis. came to Syracuse, Friday night, to visit his brother, Jerry and family, and other relatives here. Rev and Mrs. A. J. Armstrong and Rev. and Mrs. R. G. Foust returned Friday from their 10 days vacation in Michigan. Bert Cripe entertained his Sunday I school class at his home, Friday night. Fourteen members and five .visitors attended. Owen Strieby brought his wife and children home from Chicago, Sunday, afte» a week’s Mrs. Zell a Leacock. Mrs. M._ Pryor and Miss Mane Holton returned home to Chicago, Friday. They had been guests of ( Mrs. John Grieger. Mrs. Kate Stieglitz and two children and Mis* Ann Meyers visited relatives in Bluffton and Latty, O. , Saturday and Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor and children and Mrs. Sellers from Walkerton spent Sunday with Mm Isabel Grieger. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Searfoss and son Charles went to Chicago, Friday where they visited the fair. They returned home Monday. Roy Darr is reducing the size of his barn at the rear of his property, to make the barn into a garage. Sy Bauer is helping with the work. Fred Self is on vacatibn from the postal service this week and Hilary Bachman is carrying mail on his route in his place, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Green spent last week in Michigan, Angola and LaGrange, and returned home Saturday. Mrs. Roy Riddle returned home from Willard, 0., Monday night, having spent a week with her husband who is working there. Mr. and Mm. Melvin Dillen and family and Mrs. Rose Bartholomew spent Sunday at the home of Mrs. Dillen’s sister, Mrs. Ed Stultz in Buchanan, Mich. Ed McClintic went to Chicago, Thursday, to attend the fair aand visit his sons in Chicago and Milwaukee. He planned to be gone about 10 days. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lanta and Max Shanton of Milford; Rev. Leroy Geiger of Evansville and Frank Geiger of Macy were guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Geiger, Sunday. ” Mr. and Mr*. Perry Groves and family from near Goshen, Mr. and Mr*. Carl Larson and Samuel of So. Bend were guests of Mrs. Lydia Deardonf, Sunday.

COUNTY TAX RATE (Continued from Page One) sing disapproval of the voters’ inegistration law passed by the recent legislature. This subject was under constant fire during the entire session, Monday, and whenever an appropriation came up pertaining to this registration it was given more than usual consideration with an attendant sarcastic bombardment. The first appropriation considered started the attack on the registration law which only ended when the board allowed for registration expense a| total of only 51.400. The original' estimate was SB,OOO and the amount allowed for this purpose by the coun-; ty council was $5,675. After the board had entirely cut out the SSOO “per diem of clerk,” which is for fees for attending court and goes back to the county, so was only a matter of bookkeeping, the salary of the first deputy clerk was cut from $1,300 allowed by the codnty council to SI,200; the item j of expense of $875 for registration clerk came up. Warned to Obey Law. Lew Shroyer immediately made a motion that not a cent be allowed by the board for. the registration of voters. The motion was seconded by Maurice Brosnahan, blit was lost, after George Xander* and Homer Igo had warned the board to obey the law. Shroyer claimed that Marion j county had not allowed any appro-; I priation for registration and was; preparing to take the law to the su-j prefne court t test its constitutionality. I The board reduced the amount al-; b wed for clerk hire for registration purposes to $640. The amount origin- ' ally asked for was sl,f>oo, but this was reduced to $875 by the county Council. Other items pertaining to registration w ithin the county clerk’s ap-’ propriation were: SSO for furniture; and SIOO for a typewirter. Both of these items were erased vehemently by the hoard. z 8 J 4 cents per Voter. Dunnfc the discussion of the registration, Gast read a letter from the attorney genetai’s .office giving an itemized statement of how much it should cost to register each voter. The figure used was 15 cents per, voter. When the show was finally over the board had allowed 8% cents per voter. They estimated that there would be 16,000 voters register in this county next year. The biggest cut in registration expense was made when the board con-! sulered the appropriation. of the county commissioners. In this appropriation; $6,800 was the amount published for registration supplies and for the payment of assessor and town clerks for registration, of voters. The county council cut this amount to $4,800, and the tax board cooly whittled it down un- 1 til only $760 was left. ” I Cut Old Age Pensions. -' I The amount asked for old age pensions caused more than the usual amount of discussiom The board allowed $7,500 after a motion Os Henry Willis that SIO,OOO be allowed for the purpose was lost. Floyd Robbins of the Hoosier Taxpayers Union wanted to know if the old age pension I would relieve the tow nships of any 'of the burden they are carrying for poor relief Henry Willis, trustee of Tippecanoe township, who is serving on the board thought not. This Opinion was shared by the board. One member said it amounted to an extra levy for the poor. A . ~ When asked how many would receive these pensions, Halen Kyle staled that approximately 2(H> applications had already been turned and that about 450 application blanks j which had been taken out had not j been returned. She had no idea how j many persons would be eligible to receive this pension, and raeither did anyone else. The original estimate for old age pensions was S2S,(XX), but was cut to $15,000 by the county council. The final ctit of the. tax adjustment board was $7,500. $40,900 for Poor Relief. The matter of poor relief caused much discussion as Horner Igoe contended that because of the maamer in which the budget was calculated the townships which had little poor relief expense were paying part of Warsaw and Wayne Township’s poor relief. He said by statute each township was supposed to pay for its own poor relief. Helen Kyle was again called upon for an explanation. She explained that the county advanced from the county’s general fund to the various townships, the money to pay each township’s poor relief. That the following year a levy was fixed for each township, high enough to care of its poor relief demand, and that in this way the county’s general fund was to be reimbursed. This year she said $40,000 had been expended by townships for poor relief and that this amount would be used next year. Last year, she explained, , the county board of tax adjustment cut $30,000 originally ashed for poor relief, to $20,000. During this past year it was necessary for the county council to make two additional appropriations of SIO,OOO each, to keep pace with the growing demand for poor relief. She explained that only $30,500.26 had been placed in miscellaneous receipts which are deductable from the total budget estimate, due to the

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fact that the general fund was very lowand due to the fact that some of the money was not available, being in closed banks. • - Vera Kelly and Homer Igo contended that there should be more money in miscellaneous receipts, for as the budget was published, the township would be paying SIO,OOO alone for poor relief which had not been spent. Vera Kelly suggested that the figure $63,750 be used for miscellaneous recipts as it w-as near the exact amount to be collected. The board finally accepted his ■ figures, which were made up as fol- ! lows: $40,000 for poor relief; $3,750 for old age pensions— which comes from j the state as the state pays half of these old age pensions -and $20,000 miscellaneous fees from the county offices. With the figure of $63,750 used for miscellaneous receipts, the amount to be raised by taxation will Ibe lowered bj SBB,2SO s The larger : the receipts coming from other sources than taxation, the less the i amount to be raised by taxation. Other Cuts. The reduction of $14,040 made by the tax board was made possible by the following cuts. The budget of the clerk was reduced by $1,035, or from $6,460 to $5.425. ; A reduction of S4OO w’as made in I the budget of the auditor. The county council had allowed $6,980, which [sum was cut to $6,580. The county treasurer’s budget was reduced from $7,580 to $7,330, a reduction of $250; the county rej corder’s was reduced from $2,950 to ($2,800, a reduction of $l5O. The budget for the sheriff was ! considered. Harley Person had want-[ ; ed the item ‘‘salary or wages of de- ( puties for emergencies" changed, j jHe had originally asked ' for this i [purpose, $2,400, but the county | council had reduced it to S9OO. They! also inserted, into the budget an item ; for SSOO called “per diem for assistant attending board of commissioners’ meeting.” Person claimed that he could not use this SSOO for paying a full time assistant unless the board of commissioners agreed that the sum could be used for this purpose. Igo explained that SSOO wis appropriated by the council so that Person could use the sum for paying a full time assistant. After some discussion the SSOO was cut by the board to S4OO, and tnemi bets of the board wrote into the j minutes that they would attend personally the next meeting of the commissioners and request that Person be allowed to-use this amount for paying the full time assistant. Deputy i« Court Bailiff. The deputy sheriff at present acts part of the time as court bailiff and is not always available in case of an emergency. Person wanted enough money next year so that the deputy would not have to act as bailiff to I get enough money to live. The board agreed with him. If the commissioners agree to the board’s proposition, the deputy sheriff will receive approximately $1,400. '’ The sheriff’s office was cut by $125 from $5,935 to $5,810. — yhe county superintendent’s office was cut from $3,305 to $3,(280. The coroner was not reduced from $420, but the county assessor’s office was reduced from $1,500 to.' $1,480. The prosecuting attorney’s office was given a cut of $125 by the board which makes the entire expense allowance for this office $2,175 The board allowed $1,420 for the county pail, a cut of SIOO.. Judge is Supreme. The budget for the circuit court ; was not considered by the board as | they have no jurisdiction over this appropriation. The judge is supreme over this court and all pertaining to it. The budget of the circuit court is $9,230. , ' . The county surveyor’s office was reduced from $3,426.50 to $3,122.50. The budget of the court house was cut from $7,800 to $6,100. Money for, operation of the county poor farm allowed by the board was $16,245. The county council had allowed $16,545. The budget of the county commis- [ sioners which contained such items as supplies for registration, old age pension, was reduced by $12,340. During the discussion of the coun- i ty commissioners budget, the salary of the attendonce officer came up I for some questions.' The salary of S7OO and S3OO expenses was allowed after it was learned that the attendance officer would investigate persons making applications for old age pensions. ' • After the county budget had been ; considered by the board, Helen Kyle , announced that to date this year, i $59,739 had been paid on interest and' county unit road bonds, and that $107,398 had been paid off on township road bonds. She also said that in two or three years most of the bonds will have been paid. i BRIDGE CLUB MEETS The Syracuse Bridge club held its first meeting after summer vacation Tuesday evening, at the home of the new prseident, Mrs. L. A. Seider. It was decided that only contract bridge would be played this year, and numbers were drawn by mem bers so each learned when her turn would come to entertain the club.

] , GOLF *( The. first round of the Maxwelton. Golf tournament has been played, most of the play being on Saturday and Sunday, and Court Slabaugh, playing in the championship flight, covered himself with, glory. He defeated Major Swartz of Nappanee, and he shot each of the last nine holes of the 18 in par. In this flight Glen Field defeated John Cornell: M. M. Smith defeated George Lothian; Frank Cornel won by default from Ellsworth Rood; Reed Newcomer defeated Tom Kauffman. This was a close match until Newcomer holed his approach shot on 17 which took the spirit out of Kauffman. They had been even until then. The closest mulch of the tournament was played between Roy Huffman and M. M. Smith in the second round, Tuesday. The match ended on the I.Bth by Smith winning this hole.’ Score was 84-85. In the first Hight Bob Bartlett de- ! seated George Bill Smith; Miles Smith won from C. D. Barnes* of Milford; Pell Clayton defeated Dr. Simmons of Goshen; C. A. Langs ton defeated Mei Rapp. j, —~. ” - " •G R A NDM A” \VH IS TLE R SUFFERED STROKE Irvin Bailey came from Jackson, Mich.,» Wednesday morning to get Mrs. Emma Whistler, to take her back with, him to assist in the care of “Grandma” Whistler, who suffered a stroke the day before

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The Old Man’s Corner

*■> (The views expressed in this column are those of the author who wishes to remain anonymous, and not necessarily those of the editor of The Journal. Anyone who does not agree with view’s expressed here is welcome to write in reply so long as ' the writer’s identity is known to the editor,) Ha, ha ha! Guess I made ’em mad. ‘ Wouldn’t show ’em this paper. Did1 n’t want ’em to know I wrote such a paper. Really fine though. Fine 1 for young brides-to-be, grooms, too, to have their weekly “Safety Pin • Club” or what, an’ talk and learn ’bout future things. I’ll read it out- ■ loud: Dedicated to “Safety Pin” Clubs Personal conveniences are . abundant in our day that few of us [ comprehend the things that other I generations had to go without. : ■ Generations- not long ago knew not the use of metal of any kind. And . when first it appeared its uses were ; simple ahd few. But gradually it f won its way. Habits and fashions were set and maintained. Hands j grew skillful and machinery came to multiply production and variety. Metal was applied to first this and then that. New metals and alloys ; came and multiplied; and lo! we found ourselves, did our ancestors. , living in The Iron Age. t But the' use of metals became more r refined. Metal 'personal conveniences > appeared and entered more and - more largely into the life of each of us. At last came the final develop-

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ment, the ultimate application of, metal to personal convenience: The Safety Pin! Who but has been served by a Safety? From the cradle to the grave, in public life and private, this humble, ornate-necessity, finds its way. What can protect the little sleeper, snugly wrapped in its eiderdown, from unkind blast, but the Safety? What holds the youngsters’ pants and skirts through the rough and tumble, active age of youth? What hope for bachelor, fingers stiff, who knows not where to find the needle’s eye? Petticoats (alas, alack, no more!) how many Safeties they could hide) So on and on through’ life’s circle to eiderdown the kindly, helpful Safety goes, as friendly as the sprightliest purp, as quiet as a mouse! All hail, say we, The Safety Pin, the latest and the best! | ’Tis but a- step frpm use to ornament: yet only the proved can* make the step: those w’ho have proved ; their worth; but (/The Safety has “the grade”. From use and abuse, to honor, ornate, we have raised our life-long friend. From this day forth it stands esteemed the emblem of our Club; revered for age. for art, fvr use, All hail “The Safety Pin.” From proseate use to figure nf speech, from object to institution it moves. ■ We count it an honor, we count it a joy, to designate by symbol our Club newly formed by the sign of pur old friend, Safety Pin.