The Syracuse Journal, Volume 27, Number 4, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 17 May 1934 — Page 1

by Arthur Brisbane BALM FOR BANKERS WHEAT BURNING UP WE DRINK MORE WHISKY SIX BILLIONS FOR WEAPONS

The new stock exchange law may bring business and balm to worried bankers that now look upon their pitiful, huge piles of ‘liquidity,*' alias ready money, unable to lend it, because they are afraid of everything that calls itself “security.” That is as bad as having a cow and being afraid to milk her lest she kick. « The definition of a banker as one who “lends you an umbrella when the sun is shining and takes it back when it rains” is not just. The sound banker is one who does not • I lose his bank's money. How can he lend it when he has not the faintest idea what anything or anybody is worth and does not even know what a dollar is worth? A law compelling stock speculators to margin their gambling by 40 or more per cent may stimulate bank loans. The banker may say to the speculator and broker, “I'll add 20 per cent cash to that margin, or / even 40 per cent, because 1 love you both, only I must have a first hen on the entire business.” What would the virtuous, reforming brain trusters do about that? Bad news from wheat-growing regions, intense heat burning up crops In Nebraska, hot winds added to injury done by the sun's heat, sweeping away moisture. Ihe experiment of planting only just as much wheat as is needed may prove disas.rvus if rain is too long delayed.- You cannot regulate crop pr6duction as you can that of automobiles, or shoes. In this year of our Lord, Americans are drinking whisky than they did before prohibition, and paying taxes on it. Three hundred millions of gallons of bootleg liquor is not included in the statistics. Beer drinking h;»s fallen off 50 per cent, S reports from Washingon restored whisky as irink. Teraon. who thought rovide an antidote to which was widespread in ms uay. would be disturbed by the beer news. But he . was oldfashioned. Figures supplied by the League of Nations show that European countries have spent about 000 since the last war on killing machinery for another war, while carefully refraining from psying the >10,000,000,000 that they owe us. It is announced from Paris that, for.the fourth time, France will default on the war debt to the United States. And it is probable that England will default again, as she did last time. Last time she handed Uncle Sam “a token," saying: “Please accept that, and don’t call it a default. j It is doubtful if this country would accept a token this time. England probably either faces a substantial payment or official default. Germany, owing private debts to Americans, English and French plans to pay the English and French, and let the Ahiericans wait, in accordance with a well-establish-ed European custom. President Roosevelt is said to have infromed Germany that he does not favor this discrimination. He might slop the German nonsense by informing Mr. Hitler's government that until he treats his American creditors exactly as any others the ports of the United States will be closed to German products and, if necessary, to German ships, also. This country doesn’t need Europe, and Europe does need this country. “Steel” is looking up, the output being at a higher level now than any time since June, 1930. Incidentally, in Geneva, where world news and war news centers, it b learned that “the nations are strengthening every military branch of their governments." If all this getting ready should end as it usually does in Europe you would see United States steel production go up fast. Many million tons of iron would be needed for killing. It b to be hoped that thb time our government will not send ten thousand million dollars to enable Europe to pay for her killing machinery, as was done last time. A Texas candidate declares hb congressional candidacy anoymously, refuses to give hb name, but bsues a photograph of himself as a boy six years old, with “button shoes and a suit forty years old," saying, “Judge me by thb.** That picture b apt to deceive the public. At the age of six almost any human being looks intelligent, K honest, pleasing. But forty years of time, politics and scheming often change that.

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FAST TIME DECIDED AT BOARD MEET I Clocks to be Changed To Daylight Savings Time Sunday A. M. A toss of a coin with fate, or [something, directing its fall, decidI ed that Syracuse was to go on DayI light Savings Time, with clocks to i tie moved ahead an hour at midnight Saturday night thb week. The coin fell heads up, Tuesday night at the meeting of the town board. William Connolly said at the meeting that he had been, steadily opposed to the adoption of DLS time until last year. Last year, he explained, many lake residents and . visitors started to complain about the difference in time. When the motion was put up to the board for a vote, Connolly voted in ! the affirmative, Fielden Sharp vot- ! ed No, and Emory Strieby stated i that since he had no personal feeling ! either way og the [subject, that he I would toes a coin to decide. Sharp was asked to call it, and he called tails, so that if the coin fell heads up, there would be DLS time m Syracuse. The coin came down heads up much to Sharp's disgust. No ordinance is needed to put the law into effect that clocks will advance at the hour designated by the .own board, as several* jears ago an ordinance was passed by the board making daylight savings time legal, and thb was never repealed. DLS time will be in effect until Sept. 29, according to the board's decbion, on which dale neighboring towns will go back to Central Standard time. The board decided that thb experiment will be tried for one year. George L. Xanders, who has been a consistent advocate of DLS time, bi ought the question before the board, Tuesday evening. He told thejuwn trustees that the Chamber of Commerce had gone on record at their meeting at noon that Jay, in favor of DLS time and that he was chosen to advance the W~°P<«ition before the board. V Immediately an animated dbcussion took pl ice between board mem) bets, merchants and others who at tended the meeting. Those who had to do business with' other towns were in favor of daylight savings time. Peck Kline, who spoke as a representative of clerks in retail stores spoke against it, claiming the clerks -would have to work longer if DLS time were put into effect. L. A. Seider said that the adop(Continued on Last Pave) MRS. LEWALLEN, 91 BURIED SATURDAY Funeral Held at Home, Burial in North Webster Following Death Wednesday Night. Funeral services for “Grandma" Lewallen were held at her home, Saturday morning, with Rev. O. H. Warstler officiating. Burial was in the north Webster cemetery. Elisabeth Kilter Lewallen, daughter of David and Nancy Ritter, was born near North Webster, in Turkey Creek Township, April 4, 1843. She died May 9, 1934, aged 91 yean at her home south of Lake Wwaasee. In October 1860 she was married to David Lewallen. There were eight children: William of Stanley, Wb., Daniel of Goshen; Mrs. George Roth enbergre of Elcho, Wb., Nancy, who died at the age of two; Aquilla of North Webster, Sallie at home; Mrs. James Angel of Kimmell; and Simeon of Syracuse. Her husband died May 20, 1926. Soon after their marriage in 1860 Mr. and Mrs. Lewallen joined the Evangelical Church at North Webster. Fifty yean ago they purchased and moved to the present Lewallen farm home, and joined the Church of the Brethren in thb community. Besides her seven children, Mn. Lewallen is survived by 27 grandchildren, more than 50 great-grand children; a large number of great-great-grandchildren; one sbter, Mrs. Wm. Gerard of North Webster. Among the 50 grand-children who survive, b Harry Lewallen of Warsaw, county superintendent of schoob. 0 FINDS BIG MUSHROOMS Young Phillip Brower went mushroom hunting, Saturday, and found two mushrooms, less than half an inch long. And he didn’t have magnifying glasses on to see them either. Dry weather b blamed for their lack

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NUDISTS LEAVE MUTE EVIDENCE OF VISIT TO LAKE; MAY NOT BUY FARM

Only a few orange peelings which hadn’t burned in a bonfire, logs placed about the one-time fire to serve as primitive chairs; and a newly built one-holer not far away, unprotected from observation in any direction, were the remains, Sunday of the Nudists* camp the Sunday before on what was once the old SwiI hart farm. ; The farm is located in the “Hoss I Hills,” not in Turkey Creek townj ship, and not on road 13 but several I twisting “Hoss Hills" road miles from 13. It is at present owned by Dill Mock, who gave Will Kindig an option to sell it. He in turn had gotten in touch with George Oliver of Warsaw, who said he was manager of the Northern Indiana club which wanted to buy the 86 acres of ground. Its desirability was that theie is a small lake, called Long lake, on the farm. The bonfires, the orange peelings, etc., were located near the muck shores of the lake. Residents near the farm state that about 25 people had been there the Sunday before, and they claim the visitors were in the nude. The cold, rainy weather of last Sunday would prevent even the most ardent Nudist, perhaps ever a member of a Polar Bear Club, from returning to the club's camp-to-be. But the Sunday before the farm was posted with “Keep Out,”’“Private,” ‘No Trespassing” notices. Last Sunday these signs had all been removed. When questioned if thb meant the Nudists had changed their minds about locating here. Will Kindig replied he did not know. The sheriff said that Manager Oliver said he would give up thb place as being too close to the Methodbt church camp of Epworth Forest. Sheriff Person also said if RILEY HIGH WINS GOLF TOURNAMENT -<5 - ' ' . '-W* ■ Players on That Team Abo Take Home Two of Three Medals For Low Scores. The only s High school team of golfers playing in the second Syracuse High School Invitational Golf tournament, Saturday, which was coached by a woman, won not only the second annual tournament on the South Shore golf course, but took home two of the three medals award ed for low scores. Thb was Riley High School ofSouth Bend, coached by Miss Juno Kinert. Fourteen High Schoob of Northern Indiana entered thb 18 hole medal golf tourney, each school being represented by four playrea. Riley’s team turned in a total score of 324; Mishawaka, 338; and Elmhurst High of Fort Wayne, 342. The Syracuse team, composed of Geiger, Abts, Xanders and Jensen placed 11th with a score of 378. Walter Kroll of Riley turned in the best individual acdre for the 18 holes, a 75. Tom Hutchinson of Mishawaka was second with a 76, and John Hagy of Riley, third with a 79. Riley High was awarded the plaque for the best team score, and the three best individual players in the tourney were given medab. The first tournament, played last year, was played on a rainy day. Saturday was sunshiny, but the weather was cold. 0 ROOF CAUGHT FIRE TUESDAY MORNING Flames on Roof on Harry Culler Home Quickly Extinguished; Kitchen Roof Burned. The roof on the kitchen of the Harry Culler home was damaged by fire about 6:30 Tuesday morning. The damage was covered by insurance. Mrs. Culler, who was cooking in the kitchen, discovered that the roof was on* fire, probably sparks from the chimney having caused thb. The fire alarm was turned in, and both fire tracks were taken to the Culler home on North Huntington street, as theie was a high wind blowing. A stream of water from a garden hose, stretched from the Fielden Sharp home and applied by Sharp, Harry Culler and sons had the fire metier control when the firemen arrived. But before the fire was extinguished, practically every shingle on the section of the roof had to be removed, as there were sparks burning on almost' every shingle on the

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[they ever did locate in thb county, and he caught them in the nude, he’d take them just that way to ’court in Warsaw. ( To reach the scene of the bonfire at the side of the lake one can walk down a lane from the main “Hoss Hills” road. But unless one discovers the lane, one must climb hills, cross barbed wire fences and wade through mucky wet spots. It gives one the impression, when reached, that thb spot would be ideal for Nudists to become nude in, as it is most difficult to reach. But then there was once a man who said something about better mouse traps than made elsewhere, would mean a path beaten to one’s door, so it may be possible more Nudity than on Wawasee beaches will mean bigger and better paths on the old Siwhart farm —in case the club buys it. The branches of tall trees near the lake meet at the top to form a roof far above the ground, and there are many pretty wild Sowers in bloom on the hillsides of the farm which is just one hill after another. But according to one of the residents living on a hill near that farm: “1 just don’t know what they'll do in the summer time with no clothes on down there; why, mosquitoes' nearly eat you alive up here with all your clothes on.” There b no building on the farm, the log house which formerly stood there having been bought and moved away some time ago. There b much valuable timber there, however It is not known in what aborts Nudists indulge, but there is no room on the narrow level spot near the lake shore, nor in the lane leading to it, for a basketball court nor a tennis court, must less a baseball diamond. Knitting or quilting could be taken up, but it is likely Nudists think thb form of amusement b a useless waste of time. PASS FORGED CHECKS. Warnings were sent out Saturday by the Northern Indiana Public Service Co., that forged checks, all made ..out to Carl Kramer and signed by L. E. Sheets, purporting to bo pay checks of the company, drawn on the First National Bank and Trust Co., of Hammond were being passed in thb vicinity. Two of these checks wore cashed by merchants in Goshen and several in Elkhart. According to Noble Myers, the report sent him b that the checks are good duplicates of the company’s pay cheeks, forgery of the con?-' pany’s name and “pay roll check” being printed on the checks. Anyone being asked to cash one of these checks b asked to report at once. o—, 0 —, BRAIN TRUST MUST HURRY QUAIL EGGS Otherwise Eggs Will Not Arrive Before Hatcheries Close by Code Agreement; Local Club Worried The Brain Trust in Washington b going to have to enforce the AAA code so far as quail are concerned, if the Wawasee Conservation club b to have the allotment of quail permitted it thb summer by the state conservation department. Quail are going to have to lay eggs by a certain date or else— Five hundred quail eggs were to be sent the club, starting after June Ist, to arrive 100 a week. The plan ’ was to have these eggs hatched at the Cromwell hatchery and the birds released in thb vicinity. But because of the NRA that hatchery must close, aa well as all hatcheries, Juno 15, and the eggs wouldn’t be hatched at closing time. According to Lawrence Schlecht, manager of the hatchery, the only thing to do b for thoeo who make the initialed laws to force the quail to hurry up and by the eggs earlier than nrwal for hatching It b abo understood that the drought in the west b going to lessen the wheat crop from the amount expected by the AAA when the allotments wees alloted, and there have been a number reporting hogs with unusually large litters, just after the owners of the hogs had signed up to reduce production. —Q— . SEE HUMAN SPIDER. Friday evening a crowd watched the “human spider’* climb the front of Osborn's building, hang by hb heel from a rope half-way up the building and rshssi himself from a straight-jacket, complete the climb to the top of the building, and then stand on hb head on the edge of the “spider” was blindfolded and drove a Chevrolet from Osborn’s to the

3 COTTAGES ROBBED ON SOUTH SHORE Thefts Friday Night Follow Brannum > Robbery. Three more cottages along the southside of Lake Wawasee, not far from the South Shore Inn, were entered Friday night. One of these was the J. G.. Brannum cottage which had been robbed Thursday night the week before. The news of the robbery was not discovered until Mr. and Mrs. R. Conrad of Kokomo arrived at their lake home, Saturday morning, to find that someone had been there during the night and had scattered most of their belongings over the house, as had been done at the Brannum cottage the week previous. When he learned of thb Roy Brown looked over cottages near hb home again, and foufid that the one belonging to IbxUKinnear of Marion and the Brannum cottage had been entered. The Kinnear cottage was treated as the others—ransacked, but thb time the Brannum cottage only showed an open window, how someone had climbed in it,, across a bed, leaving a trail of leaves. Mr. and Mrs. Kinnear came to the lake, Sunday, and said they could not say what was missing. Mr.. and Mrs. Brannum who had planned to come to the lake for the week end, were unable to do so because of the funeral of a friend in Indianapolb, Sunday. When telephoned the news, Mr. Brannum said he thought whoever made the second entry was seek ing what had been lost the first time tell-tale evidence, a personal belonging which Mr. Brannum has in hb possession in Indianapolb. He found it when visiting hb summer home after the first robbery. The thief, or thieves, seem to think summer residents have gold hoarded in such places as handkerchief boxes, etc., as such boxes are emptied and ransacked by the intruders. They must also be familiar with the conditions at these homes — whether the owners are there for the season or not. 0 FORMER RESIDENT DIESIN ELKHART Kaiser, of Kaiser and Klink Store Several Yean Ago Dies in Elkhart. John Kaiser, aged 76, who was in business here in Syracuse a number of yean ago with Dan Klink, suffered X stroke, and died at hb home in Elkhart, early Wednesday morning. Funeral services for him will be held in Elkhart Friday afternoon and at the Lutheran church here in Syracuse at 3 o’clock. He will be buried beside hb wife in the Syracuse cemetery. Surviving him are: hb daughter, Mn. 4 Geraldine Farley of Elkhart; Mn. Ernest Richhart of Syracuse; and d foster son, Clarence J. Kline of Syracuse; a brother, Jacob Kabsr of Edgerton, 0., and a sbter, Mrs. Louise Earney of Stryker, O. Mr. Kaiser was born in Mansfield, O. October 13, 1857. When he was a child hb family moved near Edon, O. and he remained there until he located here in Syracuse in 1903. He bft here, going to Elkhart, January 1918, where he worked for the New York Central Railroad until he retired six yean ago. Hb wife, Louise Hoch Kaber, whom he married April 26, 1885, died in Elkhart June 24, 1926. 0 — J TO OPEN OFFICE HERE Dr. G. Latham, dentbt, of Chicago, plane to move to Syracuse with hb wife and family, about June Ist, and open a dentist's office above Thornburg’s drug store. Mn. Latham b the daughter of Charles Williams who bought the Rippey property on Lake street about two yean ago. Dr. and Mn. Latham have throe children, a son at home, one in Syracuse, N. T., and a daughter who will graduate from grammar school in June. Dr. Latham has practised dentistry in Morgan Park for the past 18 yean. Q, HOME EC CLUB MEETS. The Richville Home Economics club met May Ist at the home of Mrs. Nettie Weybright, with Mn. Nellie Roach assistant hostess. The meeting was a cooking lesson, the bason on cheese making. There were 17 memben present. Popcorn and candy were served. The next meeting will be on June 5 with Mrs. Grace Green and Mrs. Ruth Sheline ihMtesses.

DO YOU REMEMBER—i i 24 Yean Ago. When Mn. Wm. Darr’s SIO,OOO damage suit against the B. & O. Railroad was tried in Indianapolb. • * • 15 Yean Ago. \ When Matty Katzer and Dr. C. R. Hoy, just returned from overseas duty, reached Syracuse? • • • Ten Years Ago When Clarence Kehr and Sylvester Unrue were injured when the scaffold on which they were working on Mn. Edgar Rippey’s house on Lake street, broke and let both men fall to the ground. * * * 5 Yean Ago. When Mn. P. R. Sprague was injured when the car in which she and her son Dale, Mn. W. C. Bartels and children were coming to Syracuse front Wisconsin, was wrecked near Lafayette? Q_ 2|ON LAKE WAWASEE! The Rathskellar will open in the South Shore Inn, Saturday evening thb week, May 19, according to the announcement of John Boyts. Ding Swartz and hb “Harlequins” will furnish the music. > Waco, of which Ross Frapklin became manager 20 years j ago this summer, has had its name changed to Waco Gardens, and will be managed thb year by William McFryer of Fort Wayne. The opening date is May 27, with John Garber and hb orchestra. According to reports, beer b to be served at tables placed around the dance floor. There is to be no charge for parking, but a fence will be built about the pavilion and a “cover charge” made for entrance there. “ ■ Rev. Mygrant has opened hb cot-tage-in Oakwood Park for the season. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Deutsch and family went to New York last Thursday to visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Neerman ar■tved at the Oakwood Park hotel Tuesday evening, after spending the winter in Florida and are making the hotel ready for opening for the season. Both A. W. Emerson and Louis Solt have redecorated and changed the arrangement of fixtures in the interior of their stores, preparing for the summer business. The new manager at W aco and family have rented Herbert Fackler’s cottage near Waco, for the season. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Mock spent Saturday evening in Fort Wayne with Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Ingalls. Ralph Teetor, Dan Teetor and son Jack from Hagerstown spent the week end at the lake. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miller of Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cripe of Goshen spent the week end at their cottage. Mrs. Ray Seamans and sister and daughter and party from Chicago spent the week end *t the Seamans cottage. Mr. and Mn. E. L. Martin have returned home after spending last week in Michigan. Callen at the Roy Brown home, Sunday afternoon were: Mr. and Mn. Earl Kinnear of Marion; Mr. and Mn. Don Fassler of Kokomo; Mn. George Mellinger and daughter Blanche; Mr. and Mn. Dinny Clark of Epworth Forest. Mr. and Mn. Desmond Vawter and daughter Juanita, Mr. and Mn. Jesse Vawter and Mn. Fred Vawter of Indianapolb spent the week end with Mn. C. M. Vawter. Mr. and Mn. Emil Deister of Fort Wayne are having their cottage cleaned thb week, and opened for the season. Mr. and Mn. Solt spent Saturday and Sunday in South Bend. Saturday afternoon they attended the blossom day celebration in Benton Harbor. The Harwood and Conrad cottages are being painted thb week. Mr. and Mn. Carl Rusch of Indianapolb have moved to their lake home for the season. ® Mr. and Mn. R. M. Pentreath of Clinton are spending thb week at their summer home. Mr. and Mn. George Gale and Mr. and Mn. D. Woods of Mishawaka were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mn. J. H. Elliott. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Adams of Indianapolis, Mr. and Mn. R. A. (Canttaued on Last Page)

SUBSCRIBERS OF STOCK OF BANK TO MEET 78 Will Meet to Elect Directors, Monday, At Grade School All of the’ 350 shares of stock pledged for the new State Bank of Syracuse, have been paid for, and there will be a meeting of the 78 subscribers of thb new stock, Monday evening, May 21, in the Grade school building, at 8 e’clock, (DST) The purpose of the meeting b to make a preliminary selection of directors of the bank. Thb board will consist of five members. Every subscriber of stock should be present it thb meeting, Monday evening, it is urged, because it b important that a quorum be present. The preliminary selection of directors will have to be ratified later, when the subscribers to the new stock of the bank will receive their new stock. These directors will select a president, a secretary for the board and a cashier for the State Bank of Syracuse. According to the present bank officials, examination of the bank by the state department and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation will be made as soon as possible after May 23. bank employes at present are working hard to do all the clerical work necessary for the reopening of the bank. 0 DECORATION DAY PROGRAM PLANNED C. of C. Asks Legion to Take Charge Also Decides for Daylight Savings Time at Meeting. The Chamber of Commerce jkt a called meeting, Tuesday noon, endorsed the motion of George Xanders that Syracuse should adopt daylight savings time, by a vote of 6 to 4. Many present did not vote on the subject, but remarked that they would abide by the decbion of the majority. Arguments were heard on every side after Xanders made hb motion. And the arguments did not end after the meeting adjourned but were carried out on the street. Those opposing the motion claimed I that Daylight savings time was tried in Syracuse several years ago, and after two weeks trial the merchants signed a petition to go back on standard time. Those in favor of daylight saving stated that it had not been given a fair trial before, and that some of the merchants never did adopt it for even the two weeks trial. Plan Memorial Program. As the meeting b the last one bcfor Memorial Day, arrangements were made for the Memorial Day program. The program will be at the High School at 2:30 o’clock, Wednesday, May 30, with the American Legion in charge. Ralph F. Gates, former state commander of the American Legion will deliver the address. Committees appointed to make final arrangements are as follows: flower committee, school teachers with Court Slabaugh, chairman; flag committee, William Bowld; Finance committee, W. G. Connolly; Music, Vernon Beckman. Band to Play. While discussing whether the band should play or not thb summer, and ’ whether on Wednesday or Saturday night, the question of NRA enforcement came up. The merchants finally agreed that the band should play on Wednesday night, but that brought up the question whether the stores, especially the retail groceries should keep open more than 69 hours a week. That period of time for keeping open per week was agreed upon as retail grocers* code at a meeting in Goshen some time ago. The feeling that exists among most of as shown by the adoption of the motion that the band should play on Wednesday night, was that the regulation of the code should he ignored until someone enforces the code. If someone does enforce the code regulation then the band could play on Saturday, as there would be no sense in having the band play on Wednesday night if the stores were not allowed to be open that night. 0 — / Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Langston have moved from the Rothenberger house to the Kenneth Harkless property in Pottowatomie Park.

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