The Syracuse Journal, Volume 27, Number 37, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 10 January 1935 — Page 1

WtSeK by Arthur Brisbane A LONG SWIM MONEY FLOWS WEST $5.44 FOR $3.3? NOT SO BARREN

The new year, 1936, latest contribution of Father Time to the long chain, of beads called “eternity,” is here Wand we are in it. We shall continue to read opinions and rumors, plans and criticism of , plans, in our slow progress to prosperity's shore. It is a long swim when you are thrown overboard in the middle of Lake Superior; This country was thrown overboard in another lake of superior prosperity and unlimited expectations back in 1929. Farmers, newspapers devoted to the fanners' interest, big bankers in the East, and interested in the fact that the money tide that for so long flowed from producers in the West to accumulators in the E*pt, is now flowing in the other direction. * The money tide goes out toward the farms of wheat raisers and stock, in the West and Middle West, and to the cotton farmers in the Souths It is as though the Great Lakes had been tilled upward at the eastern end, and the waters sent rushing toward the Rocky mountains. The tide will not flow long in that western direction, probably. Men that have the mortgages and collect the interest accumulate the mor«« in the long run. Long ago, a man waged that he would stand on London bridge offering genuine gold sovereigns for a shilling each and And few takers. The gold sovereigns were genuine, but nobody would buy. Mel Smith a circus official called “Lucky” Smith, bet that Los Angeles citizens would refuse to buy genuine $6 bills for $3.39. Hundreds walked by, looked at the genuine bills. Some cried “Fake!” Only two purchased. “Lucky” Smith won a SIOO wsgvMany Americans wish they had been as skeptical about certain stock back in 1929. The distinguished George W. Russel of Ireland, who signs his writ- ' ings “AE", says, • “I am always struck by the terrible barrenness of rural life in America.” He thinks we must And some way to enrich it,” and if we don’t, “then the disease which destroyed ancient Italy will eat into America. You will no longer feed yourselves, and you will be strnck with palsy of bread and circuses. ” Mr. Russell may And greater richness in Irish farmhouses; but it is a richness of the character and of the mind, not the surroundings. There is little barrenness about, other than intellectual, in our rural life with its automobiles, rsdio, moving pictures within easy reach, rural delivery, porcelain bath tubs, mail or- ' der catalogues, prayer meetings, revivals, annual circus, the public library, soon reached by automobile. * ~“' r " " " * . Next summer our ships of war, “venturing almost to Oriental waters,” will engage in far-flung war games covering more than 6,000,000 square miles of the Pacific ocean. How interesting that will be, and how rapidly those ships would come running home to hide away in port if a few large bombing planes should sail out from Asia, from Tokyo or Russia’s Vladivostok, over those 6,000,000 square miles of the Pacific, and drop explosive bombs and poison gas bombs on the battleships! Geological explorers from the Byrd exposition, near the South pole, report important veins of mines*! quarts, discovered in mountains along the coast of Marie Byrd Lend. If the geologists should .bring back actual samples rich in gold, how quickly men would find away to reach those mountains, how indifferent to death they would be in the effort ta get there! In Kansas a terrific dust storm, hiding the sun, suggests that the Agricultural department help farmers by developing some temporary covercrop that could be sown on Wheat and corn fields when the crops come off, a nitrogen-fixing 1 plant if possible. It would protect dusty surfaces'from high winds and he plowed under, contributing humus, before the next planting. In the Northwest, farmers have used the “duckfoot" cultivator, which cuts a path 60 feet wide, going through the roots of weeds and not destroying the protection of the stubbie from srind and the washing of heavy rains. A wise motto of earlier days was: “When in doubt, refrain.” In Russia and other countries where the will of one takes the place of alow decisions by the urn* jority, the maxim roads: “When in doubt, shoot.” Moscow reports 14 more executed ta avenge the killing of . Sergei Kirov, Making U7 lives taken to expiate that one murder.

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CROWDS COME TO VIEW THE “AG” EXHIBIT I $47 in Prizes Awarded To Boys and Entries In Open Class. For three days, last Thursday, Friday and Saturday, a continuous stream of people visited the agricultural exhibit of the vocational classes of Syracuse High school and their teacher, C. A. Langston; and the wild life exhibit of the Conservation department; the exhibit being held in the building formerly occupied by j Strieby’s Radio Shop. On Friday afternoon classes from the Grade school building marched in turn, to view the exhibit. The sullen, odoriferous badger and the big eagle attracted the children the most, but most of the men were in- j terested in the various species of pheasants, six in kind, in pairs of male and female; olhers were inter- 1 ested in the two foxes, the pair of raccoons in their special cages. The big black bear didn’t come because of lack of transportation facilities. Next year it is planned s that there will be a bigger and better agricultural show in Syracuse, because most of the farmers who viewed the products on display this year, claimed that next year they would bring in produce to compete for the prizes. . Harold Brown, vocational-agricul-ture teacher of* Goshen schools was the judge of produce, and he said after judging that he had judged first “ag” shows in other towns, and none of the towns had the number of entries in a Arst show as Syracuse did in this Arst annual one. The Hib&chman family, Clee and son Oliver had entries in 14 exhibits and placed either Arst, second or third in every exhibit. Russell Gawthrop was heavy winner in the boys class and Paul Buhrt' walked away with the corn'exhibits. . Prizes awarded amounted to $42.70 other money donated by Syracuse business people having been used for expenses. Some of the prizes were in money, some in trade. Most Arst prizes and all sweepstakes were $1 each; second, 75 cents or 60 cents; third 60 cents or 25 cents, depending on the number of entries in the class. In the club display, Arst won $1.60; second place SI.OO and third 60 cents. Open Class—Corn , Paul Buhrt won the sweepstake, Arst and second in the 10 ears exhibit open class; Arst and third in the single ear exhibit open class; Hibschmon won second in the single ear and third in the 10 ears exhibit. Richard Beck won Arst in pop cbrn, 10 ears; and Oliver Hibechman second and third. Emory Guy won Arst in potatoes, open class; Hibecjhman, second; and Harold Kane third. In apples, open class, Bill Kern won Arst and second, and Stephen Freeman third and fourth. Stephen Freeman won Arst in eggs (Continued on Last Page) CARS IN TROOBIE BECAUSE OF ICE Wheels of Machines Misbehave, But No One Injured on Slippery Streets. When Orval G. Carr was driving home, Saturday evening, his car struck ice on the bridge on West Main street and got out of control, gaining speed as it went down grade. It crashed against the curbstone on one side of the street and ended up in the hedge near the Mitt Rentfrow home across the street. Mr. Carr was uninjured and the car escaped damage. In the afternoon, driving towards Syracuse and accompanied by Sylvester Coy, Mr. Carr sad Men Mrs. Clarence Snyder’s car leave the road near the Chris Darr home, and end in a ditch. By means of a rope attached from her machine to his, Mr. Carr was able to puli the machine back into the road, undamaged. The ear of Mr. Marshall of Goshen, which had been driven on the ice of Wawasee, about 200 feet from shore, near Ogden’s Point, Saturday night, while he and a friend were fishing through the ice, crashed through the ice on its way back to shore. The wrecker was sent for, as the two front wheels and one rear wheel were through the ice. Fortunately the water was only about three feet deep. No one wee injured, nor the car damaged in this accident I — -r. *jl .jKJs sKi ■

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COUNTY MANAGERS | WILL BE PROPOSED 1 Plan to be Submitted to State Legislature Would be Appointed Instead of Elected. — According to the Indianapolis Star, radical changes in local government are to be proposed to the 79th General Assembly which convenes this morning. j Bills in the process of formation * provide for some of the following ! radical changes in local government: j 1. Revision of county government to establish a manager plan in so far as the constitution will permit. This scheme would retain the constitutional officers, rearrange their duties and abolish offices not demanded by the state’s basic law. Under this plan the county commissioners | would be abolished. 2. Establishment of a county unit of education. Township trustees would be retained, but they would constitute the county j board of education. All schools outsidei of cities vould be county, i lather than township controlled. 3. Reduction o» the number of townships in all counties. No serious proposal is being made to abolish the office of township ! trustee. Another bill to be submitted for adoption by the 1935 Legislature is the model state NRA tbi 1. This measure, which would m. ke the Governor the chief state code authority was prepared by the state relations division of the NRA, headed by Donald Richberg. In his annual report" to the Governor, Philip Lutz, jr., attorney general, proposed more measures in ( line with centralizing thfe government. Mr. Lutz would designate Marion county as the legal domicile 1 of all departments, divisions, boards and commissions of the state. He recommended that the attorney general be given authority to enforce the criminal law within the counties of the state, that he be given au- ! thority to appear before the grand jury of any county. Constitutionality of all acts of the Legislature would be defended by the attorney general, if another of j his recommendations are carried out. He recommends that with the filing bf a suit in any court of the state, raising the question of constitutionality of any act or part of an act of the legislature, notice of the suit should be served upon the attorney j general who would then appear as ; party defendant and defend the constitutionality of the act. j The attorney general would halt the retaining of attorneys by state departments and compel observance of the ruling that all legal work of i all departments be conducted exclusively through the office of the attorney general. j Three amendments to the state’s utility laws affecting valuations for taxing purposes and for rate making purposes were suggested by him. One would eliminate the provision that lands of a public utility shall ( i not be valued at a greater amount j than the assessed value of such land exclusive of improvements as valued j for taxation. The proposed amend- j ment would provide that such lands be valued at “the fair average of jthe normal market value of land in the vicinity having a similar chariScter.” A second proposed amendment >would eliminate the statute which | provides for an appeal de novo upon -a rate order by the Public Service 1 Commission to the Circuit Court of i the county in which the utility is , located. A third amendment proposed would provide exclusive jurisdiction in the "Indiana Supreme Court for review jof rate orders of the Public Service Commission. % o NO BABIES DIED LAST YEAR IN SYRACUSE; 1$ DEATHS Births in Syracuse during the year 11934, exceeded deaths, by two; t there being 17 births and 15 deaths , during that period, and 10 infeer tious diseases. During the preceding year there , had been 23 births and 18 deaths in Syracuse. Last year was unusual because not a baby died during the 12 months. The youngest person who died was [ 14 years of age. The eldest who died I was aged 85, and three were 73 years old; one 72, one 71, and one 70. The average age of the 16 who } died is 57 years. TRUCK LEAVES ROAD s The fog which hung over this t vicinity the first part of this week , made driving difficult. Tuesday i morning a heavily laden truck left , the road and crashed through the r gate into the barnyard of the Simpt son place near Solomon’s Creek. »| No one was hurt and the truck did not turn over to damage itself or t contents, but its wheels sank into the soft ground, and another truck had • to be sent there, to which the load* of the first truck was transferred. * -

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LAUGHUN IS NAMED HEAD OF HIGHWAYS Succeeds E. McClintic After March Ist is Decision. Tuesday afternoon, the y county commissioners appointed IS. R. Laughlin of Syracuse as county superintendent of roads, to succeed E. E. McClintic, who had resigned after it was made clear to him that he had no chance of being re-appointed. Laughlin, who is a Republican, is an experienced road man. He has been appointed for 10 months, from March Ist until the last of December McClintic will remain in office until March Ist. y The selection of Laughlin as ‘the superintendent, by the board which is composed of two Democrats and one Republican, was due to the fact that the Democratic organization in the primaries defeated Fred Ringenberger for renomination as commissioner, and made what the organization now calls him “a sore Democrat” Ringenberger, even though he was defeated in the primary, will hold office until Jan. 1, 1936, when Seward W. Poor, Republican who defeated Claude Smith, Democrat, at the election, takes office. Ringenberger also automatically became chairman of the board at the beginning of this year. Then, Ringenberger was placed in a strategic point to work out hia revenge for his defeat. He thought McClintic worked against him in the primaries. So evidently he decided McClintic must go. Some time ago Ringenberger looked favorably upon Laughlin’s candidacy for the job, even though he is a Republican—or maybe because he is a Republican. If William Dorsey, the new Republican member of the board of commissioners could be persuaded to back Laughlin# lie would be appointed. Dorsey had to agree to appoint Laughlin or see another Democrat besides McClintic appointed, for John Summe and Ringenberger could have gotten together and agreed on some other Democrat. So a Republican, county road supervisor was presented to the county by a board composed of three members, two of which are Democrats. This is politics as played by the Democrats.

Aside from it being a political appointment, Mr. Laughlin is wellknown in Syracuse and vicinity as well-qualified for the position, having been with McClintic, Colwell and Gordy a number of years, and during the past year having served as foreman on street and road FERA jobs. Mr. McClintic discharged several garage employes yesterday, and S. R. Laughlin, who .had been supervisor of work on road work of FERA. CCC MEN WORKING NIGHTS ON PONDS Wawasee Fish Hatchery Project and Work so far Accomplished Told By Bauer In Charge of Work. A night shift again commenced work, Monday night, at the Wawasee CCC camp, after a lay-off from just before Christmas. This is in line wfth instructions of H. A. Wood, director of ECW work in this state, who. gave the order, to keep keep trucks and all heavy machinery working as much as possible. At the Wawasee CCC camp, the enrollment is not up to full strength of 242 men, only 197 being enrolled now. When the camp first opened there were 214 enroliees. Due to some of the men obtaining work ami some being discharged from the camp because of lasiness and refusal to work, the number has thus been reduced. But according to L. F. Bauer, Superintendent in charge of ECW work of building of the new fish ponds by the CCC enroliees, in about two weeks, Lieut Francis Deisher who built the camp, is to return to Wawasee, to rebuild the barracks building which burned, and in about 60 days it is expected that the enrollment will be 236 men. I 4* present the camp is in need of ; nine local enroliees. These will likely be enrolled from Fort Wayne or So. I Bend. The present plans for the enlarged fish hatchery at Lake Wawasee call for 36 ponds, six extra ponds having been approved at the Milwaukee office after the original proposal (Continued ms Last Page)

ELECTION WILL BE HELD ON JAN. 29TH Halleck, Named by Republicans to Run for Congress Paid Visit Here Saturday. . Charles A. Halleck, lawyer from Renssalear, who is candidate on the Republican ticket to fill the vacancy in Congress caused by the death of Fred Landis, and like Landis, running against George Durgan, Democratic candidate, spent Friday and Saturday in this county, visiting Syracuse and vicinity Saturday afternoon. Mr. Halleck said; “When the second district elected Mr. Landis as Congressman they proved they didn’t want a Democrat to represent them, a rubber stamp. I would count it the highest honor to be sent to Washington by electing not me, but a representative of the Republican party. “It is necessary for Republicans to turn out to vote, to win this election, as there is but one office being voted at this time, instead of others where they might be more interest, and because of weather conditions at this time of year perhaps keeping voters from coming to the polls.” Governor Paul V. McNutt has fixed Jan. 29 as the date for the special election in the second district to fill the vacancy in congress caused by the death of the late Fred Landis who defeated his democratic opponent in the general election last fall by a majority of almost 11,000 votes. The voting will be conducted in the special election exactly as in a general election. Charles A. Halleck, 35 years old, prosecutor of Jasper county, was selected by the republicans of the district as their candidate. Since his selection some weeks ago, Mr. Halleck has been carrying on an active campaign over the district and has already visited many of the counties. Reports from various parts of the district are that Mr. Halleck is being very favorably received and that he is making a strong candidate. Although the time before the election is short, he expects to visit all < of the thirteen counties of the dis- j trict before the election. - ' Republican leaders have been j pointing out that the second district went republican in the general election by an overwhelming majority and that it should and will go republican in the special election. They are urging all members party to get out to vote on January 29 in order that the district may be kept republican and that their candidate, who is a young man of sound progressive ideas, may be sent to congress and kept there to become a leader in that body. In speeches made by Mr. Halleck in LaFayette and Warsaw he said:

“Sly entire political background has been one of a republican and I am today a staunch believer that the fundamental principles and traditions, which have been the basis of the social and economic structure of our nation, are still sound and workable, we must realize that we are living in a changing world and that such adjustments must be made as shall enable us to keep pace with changing social and economic conditions. If I am successful in this elec- j tion it shall be my constant purpose ] to determine for myself as to what is good and what is had, and to use that legislative judgment which the constitution expects of a representative in congress. My responsibility will be to the people of my district, snd the state and nation, and' my purpose will be to determine what is best for them and vote accordingly. It is my honest belief that such a policy is far safer and wiser than a policy which would require your representative to blindly follow the advice and direction of other governmental officers or departments. If successful, I will, of course, cooperate with the national administration in all measures which I consider to be for the good of our citizenship, but I will just as strenuously oppose anything I believe to be against the interests of the people." CONSERVATION MEETING f The Department of Forestry U sponsoring a dinner in cooperation , with the State Department of Con- * servation at Lafayette, Ind. on January 16. Earl W. Tinker, Regional Foreester, U. S. Forest Service will be the principal speaker. Anyone wishing to attend this meeting should get in touch with Warren Colwell, secretary of the Wawasee Conservation Club. UNEMPLOYED VETS ASKED TO SIGN APPLICATIONS O. P. Davis, adjutant of the Wawasee Post of the American Legion, requests that every unemployed ‘ veteran fill out an application blank, asking for work. These blanks for the vets have been sent to Davis from the Indiana State Unemployment Service.

I DO YOU REMEMBER—i 1 26 Years Ag 0—1949. When The Syracuse Journal had been organized with Walker and Fancii as printers and publishers, and was published as one of the Syracuse papers? When news from it included: The B. & O. Ice houses have been torn down and moved away from here. One ad offered “for sale cheap, a one cylinder Cadillac”. County officers who took up their duties were: George McKrill, surveyor and Edward Poulson, deputy; H. V. Lehman, prosecuting attorney; Admund S. Lash, county commissioner; George W. Irvine, treasurer, and Ed Hass, sheriff. Mrs. Charles Knorr was busy fitting one of the rooms in the basement of the school house as a library and 800 volumes were on hand and other donations of books were asked. Among the advertisers in the Journal were: W. G.' Connolly, Druckamiller & Son, Liverymen; C. E. Wilcox, undertaker; Cull Grisamen, photographer, D. S. Hontz, dentist; J, H. Bowser, physician; Cornelius & Butt, attorneys; Wm. Beckman, furniture store; R. W. Vorhis for wood; Searfoss Brothers cash grocery; J. W. Rothenberger, undertaker; Stetler’s Grocery; M. C. Truesdell’s drygoods store; Lincoln Cory and Isaiah Klingaman, auctioneers; Hinderer & Beck, merchants; M. L. Russell, dry goods; F. L. Hoch, druggist, Seider’s grocery, R. Hire's restaurant. And the one ad which read: “Hullo! Put in a gas engine and a dandy cutter and am making a lot of bologna. Please order before you want the goods, then you won’t have to wait for them. E. W. Hire." o ION LAKE WAWASEE! I . I Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Long of Chicago spent the week end at their lake home. Their son-in-law, Robert Beard, who recently made such high honors at an insurance school in Chicago, is to go to London where he will be employed at Lloyd’s. Mr. and Mrs. Beard will live there for about six months. Dr. and Mrs. A. J. Wildanger of Flint, Mich., have announced the engagement of their daughter Louise to George Southworth of Flint, son of Mrs. Bruce Golian of Chicago and Wawasee and Ray M., Southworth of LaFayette. The date for the wedding has not yet been set. Miss Wildanger is a member of the Flint Junior League and a graduate of Wellesley college, class of '33. Mr. Southworth has resided in Flint for the past year, as manager of the clothing department of Sears Roebuck Co. x there. Previous to that he had been in London for three years where he was an officer in the commercial attache’s office in the American embassy. Dwight Mock and Russell Cooper caught 43 perch, fishing through the ice, Sunday.

Bill Kelly was busy the first of the week cutting down the poplar trees along the road at the rear of the Will Dale property, across the road from the Roy Brown home. I Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cripe of Goshen were lake visitors, Friday; Charles E. Miller of Anderson spent. Sunday there; and Mr. and Mrs. Bill ’ Gingrich of South Bend spent New ( Year’s day there. Mrs. Glenn Shock and daughter] Donnabeile had visited Mr. and Mrs. Will Mallon from Christmas, until Sunday, when accompanied by Mr. j and Mrs. Roy Brown, Mr. and Mrs. J Mallon took them home to Elkhart. ( Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Dickson and family from Wabash, who bought : and are having the Daugherty property remodelled, visited the summer home, Sunday. ! * ! Mr. and Mrs. George W. Mellinger butchered, on last Thursday. They were assisted by Mr. and Mrs. j Jerry Hamman, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brown and Miss Lydia Mellinger, Mr. and Mrs. John Walton, Jake i Hamman and Mr. and Mrs. Milt Brown. Henry Grieger has been catching fish through the ice on Wawasee, so he and Mrs. Grieger entertained Mr. < and Mrs. John Grieger and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Grieger at a fish fry, Tuesday evening. j i 1 Mr. and Mrs. Irving Bishop and ‘ children spent the holidays with Mrs. Bishop’s relatives in New Castle. While there, Eleanor became ill with bronchitis, and Mrs. Bishop became ill a few days later, so that Mr. Bishop came home without them, Harrv so that he could re-

SYRACUSE IS WINNER OF TOURNAMENT Takes Final Game From New Paris Saturday At Leesburg. Syracuse won a basketball tourney. They won the invitational tournament, Saturday evening, at Lees-' burg, by defeating New Paris, the choice of most of the prognostica-» tors, in the finals, by the score of 30 to 22. In the afternoon Syracuse boys defeated Leesburg, the third time this season, by the score of 21 to 14. Leesburg, the host of the tournament, was the goat of the series, for when the play off for the dubious honor of which team should be third, Milford emerged the victor by the overwhelming score of 44 to 26. Milford lost to New Paris in the afternoon 28 to 22. Syracuse Plays Ball. Playing excellent and sometimes brilliant ball, the Syracuse High School basketball team outplayed the New Paris team in every department of the game, the final one of the tourney. Before the game was a few minutes old, Syracuse had'* made five points and their opponents had not scored. Bitner, on a well-executed play from the tip off, broke through New Paris’s defense and made the first field goal of the game. Stucky scored from the free throw line, and Searfoss shot a basket, bringing the score to 5 to 0. Then Yeater, No. 64 of New Paris scored, but Bitner duplicated this basket immediately afterwards. Stucky made field goal, and Hollar of New Paris chanced a long shot which was good, just as the whistle sounded the end of the quarter with Syracuse leading 9 to 4. Osborn started scoring the second quarter by making good a free throw for Syracuse. Yeater made a field goal for New Paris. Osborn missed another free throw chance, but Bitner caught the ball from the back board and tossed the ball through ; the ring for a field goal. During this play, Bitner received a cut on his head and time out was .taken for the injury to be dressed. Yeater scored a free throw for New Paris and Stucky followed it with a basket for Syracuse, making jthe score 14 to 7. ; On another foul called on Searfoss, Yeater scored another free j throw. Then Bitner quickly shot two (Continued on Last P-«ve» CORN-HOG PLAN IS HEARD BY FARMERS Attend Meeting at School house to Hear Mellott; No Contracts Offered for Signatures.

I Between 25 and 30 farmers attended the corh-hog meeting at the Syracuse High School building, Tuesday afternoon. | Alva Mellott, emergency agricultural agent for the county, and 1 Roy T. Merkle explained the 1935 cornhog contracts. | Some of the farmers were enthusiastic over the new contracts; some (were non-committal, while others said they would not sign. No one was asked to sign a contract at this meeting, as it was held only for the purpose of explaining Ithe provisions of the contracts. The new contract changes the minimum reduction in corn acreage jfrom 20 to 10 per cent below the average annual acreage in 1932 and 1933 but again limits the reduction to 30 per cent. The minimum reduction in hdgs produced for market is j fixed at 10 per cent compared with 'the minimum of 25 per cent below the 1932-33 base provided in the ,1934 contract. j Payments also are changed. Farmers will be allowed 35 cents a bushel on the estimated corn yield of the acres retired from production compared with 30 cents this year land the contracted acres may be used for any purposes except growing field corn. Under the 1934 contract, acres withdrawn from corn production could be used only in limited ways, but because of the drought ,the Administration modified the limitations. * Under the new contract, sls a head will be paid on 10 per cent of the hog base, that is the average number- of hogs produced for market from litters farrowed in 1932 and 1933. In the old contract, $5 a head was paid on 75 per cent of the hog base.

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