The Syracuse Journal, Volume 28, Number 43, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 20 February 1936 — Page 4

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THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL INDEPENDENT Published Every Thursday at Syracuse, Indiana. Entered as second-class matter on May 4th, 1908, at the postoffice at Syracuse, Indiana, under the Act of Congress of March 3ra, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Three Years, in advance $5.00 Six Months in advance _ SI.OO One Year, in advance, $2.00 Single Copies - 5c Subscriptions Dropped if Not Rene.wed When Time Is Out. F. ALLAN WEATHERHOLT, Editor and Publisher. PHONE 4 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3s, 1934 CROSSING PROTECTION Again the railroad crossing on Huntington street has been the scene of an accident. This time, no one was killed or seriously hurt, but there have been more fatal experiences at the seme place. Something should be done about it. In a civilised community, it would appear a to an unbiased observer, that some one is at fault when a condition of this kind is permitted to exist so long. It may be the railroad’s responsibility, it may be the fault of the Town Board, or it may be the fault of each of us, for doing nothing about it Before someone else has a tragic experience, concerted action should be taken. Here is a splendid opportunity for the newlyorganized Chamber of Commerce to er.dotse a project of general crossing elimination. Not only should the Chamber of Commerce which Is representative of the community, take this action, but the Chamber of Commerce should see the thing through. Protection of life, limb and property is of vital importance to everyone alike. We share a common interest in the danger. We should likewise be ° willing to sht re a common interest in obtaining proper protection. Crossing elimination, or proper safety devices, on Huntington street, should be the* watch word. Coordinated effort will bring and each of us must do our full share.

ARE TVA RATES TOO HIGH? A great deal ht>s been heard of the low electric rates ertabluhed by the TVA in certain Southern communities. It has the: if the TVA program could be spread to other parts of the nation, it would create an electrical paradise, wherein we could use all the current we want, and pay next to nothing for it. Maybe so! But, in a recent March of Time news-reel, with delineated TVA acts and objectives. Wendell L. Willkie, President of the Commonwealth «nd Southern Corporation, which has given a large part of the South improved electric service.al declining rates, for many years, was ceiled upon for his opinion. Mr. Willkie, who is generally regarded as one- of the most progressive of utility leaders, and who is certainly not a man given to wild and unprovable statements, said: can sell power more cheaply only by charging the deficits to the federal taxpayer, which means everybody tnrl he U. S., and by bookkeeping methods which so amazed the Comptroller General of the U. S. that he issued one of the most caustic reports of recent governmental! history.” He then added the most striking statement of all that if the government would give his company the same subsidies now received by TVA, it would promise tou ndercut the much-publicized TVA rate structu.e by at least 25 per ednt! Similar ch. ller.ges have been made in the past—and it is a matter of record that not a single governmental official involved in this great s<cialis.ic experiment has clearly, factually and unden-tandeb y refuted the criticism. That is something for citizens of the whole nation to think about. The government is undertaking many vest hydroelectric developments, and rill otheis a e proposed. Continuance and extension of the TVA plan will mean that the tavpayers must put up billions to erect unnecessary and subsidized federal electric plants to unfairly compete with private enterprises whose rates, it is clacked, could be materially reduced if they were given equal advantages. —u — BOOSTING SURPLUS" INCOME What does the thrifty family do 1 that wants to get ahead in the world? It studies how to save by j eliiminating waste. If it spends fifty dollars a month for food, a ten per cent saving on price would mean an ; increase of $5.00 per month in the family purchasing power. The great bulk of the average 1 family’s income must be closely budgeted -eo much for food, so much for rent, so much for clothing, and so on. It is reliably estimated j that not over ten per cent of that ! income is "surplus" that can be used ' for amusement, savings and similar I things beyond mere eziriance. Take » family with of $l5O per month. If it now has a surplus of sls per month, that is 10 per cent of its income. If its food bill is SSO, alO per cent reduction would add $6 to its surplus, an increase of 331-3 per cent. Thus, » mere ten per cent saving in the monthly food bill would increase our average family’s ’surplus" by one-third—more money for everything that makes life pleasurable and secure. And when millions of famihee have such an increase in their surplus, the total runs far into the billions each yesr -purchasing power released for other usee. In this simple illustration is proof of the soundness of merchandising infood bv mi noting overhead and middleman waste. ■ '1

WHY MORE FARM LAND? 'I Government policies are often difficult to understand, and one that iespecially bewildering just now is that which pays farmers for keeping | their land out of cultivation on the : one hand, while on the ’ other it spends hundreds of millions on reclamation projects to provide more land. The inconsistency and absurdity of such a course was pointed out in a recent speech by James R. Howard, an lowa farmer and former president of the American Farm Bureau i Federation, who particularly referred to the Columbia River develop- | inent, which be characterized as the biggest reclamation project the world has ever known, its avows, j purpose being to bring 1,200, Ort) acres of desert land into cultivation, or four times the potential expansion of Boulder Dam. He quotes the engineers as stating that the cost to the Federal Treasury to make these 1,300,000 seres tillable will be 390 million dollars, and adds: "Thus, while the Government is insisting that 1 reduce my production, it is taxing the nation $350 per (acre to bring these competing acres I into cultivation. 1 am told that tKU is only one of some 75 reclamation projects being financed by the Government" The situation which Mr. Howard describes is something for every farmer and every taxpayer to think about And every person in the United Stales who buys anything’ is a taxpayer, directly or indirectly. A Government policy which forces good land out of cultivation while paying enormous prices to provide j additional form land through reclamation simply does not make sense. • si6.eee,m’ee«i worth ~ OF SECURITY. We are aoccustomed to astronomic figures? these days. We think of a billion dollars as we used to think Jof a million, and a mere hundred thousand seems insignificant. Even so, recently published figures concerning the life insurance indus-try-should cause the reader to think twice about the service the industry is rendering the nation. During the year 1935, life insurance payments totaled $2,6<X),000,000 of which $1,790,4)00,000 went to living policyholders, and only $900,000,000 to beneficiaries. No one knows how much of tthat great sum was received by persons in straitened circumstances, to whom it meant the , difference between comfort and pri- | vation, but it is certain that a sub- | stantial part of it served the purpose. ! For the six-year period beginning in , 1930, life insurance paid out over ! $16,000,000,000 dollars which kept > homes from foreclosure, business j from failure, and individuals from ! dire want. Quietly and efficiently, the life I insurance industry has done a mag- | nificent piece of work in bringing ■ social security to milloins of fore- ; sighted, thrifty citizens. RETORT COURTEOUS I The Jackson, Miss.. Daily News, Democratic as a matter of course, recently printed the following, editorial comment: M We don’t care one hurrah in Hades how they vote, for the Literary Digest poll is a fake anyhow. I “On the fourth of March, 1937, at the noon hour, on the front steps of the Capitol Building at Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt wtU be inaugurated for his second term as Pres idem of thte United States. ; “That’s as certain as sunrise tomorrow morning." " The polite but deadly observation j of the Literary Digest is: “The editor of the Jackson Daily News has forgotten that neither Mr. Roosevelt nor any other man will be inaugurated on March 4, 1937. The inauguration will be on Jsnv HFy 20 ** *

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EvmOttrkaders » >. ,• ® February 15, 1936 Editor Syracuse Journal, Syracuse, Indiana. I read with interest your article, in the February 13th issue of your newspaper, regarding the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. Without authorization, 1 believe I am speaking for the “Cottagers” on Lake Wawssee when I thank my friend coe, and the other members of the Chamber, who took issue with the member who apparent ly considered us as undesirable “aliens” unfit to express opinions on local affairs and whom you quote as st-ying thet if a checkback were made on these individuals (we cottagers) “it would be found that they did not amount to very much where they came from.” Well, well! That’s a comprehensive statement, t king in a lot of territory. I have only been coming up to Syracuse and Wawasee since 1897, but during that time have met and considered my friends many residents of Syracuse and the Urban area adjoining, and thought too, leaving my humble self out of the picture, that Lake Wawasee had a pretty fair bunch summering on its shores. Many of my friends have passed away in those 39 years, people of almost daily contact, like Milt Brown, Milt W’oods, Ike Mellinger etc. I shall always -deeply regret the tragic end of one I knew so well and who was so dependable, Frank Greider. We of Vawter Park will never forget Frank. In conclusion, a little thought, we cottagers leave a lot of moneyin the community too. Stop and ponder what your taxes would be if the Lake Lots were all idle? , The interests of Syracuse tie in with Lake Wawasee, and both should pull together. Success to your efforts for a friendly setup that will be for mutual benefit. RALPH M. PENTREATH, Os Clinton and Wawasee. Syracuse. Indiana. February 19, 1936 Editor, Sy recuse Journal, City. Dear Sir: If possible, will you kindly publish this letter? To Townsend Plan supporters, sympathizers and others: This is a suggestion for a * Get Together Meeting” to be held soon in Syracuse by the men, young and older, who favor The Townsend Plan, or who want to understand it more fully. I am not a Townsend-Organi-zation man, so this will not be . such a meeting. It will be an independent and open forum, to study The Townsend Plan and to exchange views on the general subject Plans t o oganize would then be in order. Strong stalemen's are now being made, in the press, radio, etc., unfavorable to Dr. Town- . send and the Plan. If Syracuse and the “Wawasee Country” are to be organized, it should be done now. Men who win attend such a meeting are asked to see me. W. L. BALLARD. o Highest taxed nation is England, where 25 per cent of notional income goes for taxation. But England has a balanced budget, while in the U. S. government spending is far outrunning revenue and creating deficits which must be paid for in the future. ~ ——- —U— ■ The meet accurate way to evaluate a country’s tax burden is in the light of the relation of taxes to the national income. On that basis, the U. S. tax problem is becoming steadily ■ self.

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DO YOU j REMEMBER— | ! Syracuse Journal—Feb. 17, 1916 I Wesley Hire has bought the half interest of his partner, Mr. Deeter, > in the meat market; | -Ed Miles, while on his way home j slipped on the ice in front of the * Charles Beery house. He was knock•ed unconscious, and was unable to i go about his work for several days. I Otis C. Butt of the firm of Cornel- ’ ius & Butt, was admitted to the bar of Kosciusko county, Wednesday of • this week. .•- • u I On Lake Wawasee n s • < Charles Cripe and Ira Detwiler, both of Goshen were here Saturday, to do a little ice fishing. Mr and Mrs Char, les Naylor have .gone to Fort Wayne, to visit Mr. and Mrs. William Weaver. Lieutenant Hurst of the CCC Camp has been transferred to another camp near South Bend. His wife, ; Mrs. Hurst has returned to Mexico, : Indiana. I - i Mrs. T. R. Tshffnnen, wife of j Captain Tshannan of the CCC Camp, . has gone to Fort -Wayne. ! Miss Louise Voorhees has been ill. I Mrs. Orie Connor, Bedford, who j had been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jay ' Elliott went to Detroit Saturday to visit Mrs. Frank Ketchen, her sister. Robert Elliott spent the week-end in South Bend and Mishawaka, with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Jay Elliott were Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Arten Merrill of. Goshen were also guests at the Brown home, Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Long, accompanied by his son-in-law and daughter of Chicago, are vacationing in the south. They plan to sail for a short cruise to Cuba and Havana before returning. Mr. Long will go to Phoenix, Arizano, before returning here late in March. He was a visitor here over the weekend, and made arrangements for further additions to his place on Kale Island. Many Lake residents have bad inquiries regarding the rental of summer cottages. In some places work is underway preparing for a busy summer season. There were a number of persons who braved the elements esrly this week to do a little ice fishing. Catches of bluegills and pike were reported ed in small numbers. n Weather had moderated somewh t around the Lake, early this week. Temperatures remain below the freezing point, however, and there is little activity. Here and there some persons are preparing their places for the summer rash, and are generally anticipating a busy season. Road plows have been on the go constantly keeping highways clear, but a number of small private roads were shoveled out by individuate. In many places around the lake, snow has drifted to as much as eight feet. j ROUND TRIP TO Ghicago Every Week-end Travel in comfortaNe B&Ocoechee ITwriMHfM jg A Opotat«. r<»de*«a*coMaft Ticket A«em Baltimore & Ohio

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A United States News’ tabulation says that when our national income . reached its 1929 peak of $79,000,000,000, taxation accounted for 12.4 per cent of it,* In 1933, national income touched ' its post-war low, dropping to $43,500,000,4)00, and taxes took 18.6 per cent. In 1934 and 1935, taxes took 19 per cent and 19.1 per cent of the national income, respectively. FINE D RY CLEANING Syracuse Dry Cleaners M. E. RAPP