The Syracuse Journal, Volume 28, Number 51, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 16 April 1936 — Page 2

THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL INDEPENDENT 11 1 -nwi <■■■■' Published Every Thursday at Syracuse, Indiana. Entered as second-class matter on May 4th, 1908, at the pestoffice at Syracuse, Indiana, under the Act of Congress of March 3rd, 1879. i SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, in advance. $2.00 Six Months in advance SI.OO Three Years, in advance $5.00 Single Copies— 5c Subset iptions Dropped if Not Renewed When Time Is Out. F. ALLAN WEATHERHOLT, Editor and Publisher. PHONE 4 THURSDAY, APRIL 16,1936 COMBINED ADVERTISING The Syracuse-Wawasee Community Chamber of Commerce has approved a plan of publicity and promotion that is expected to result in the expansion of business, the establishment of new industry in the town, and wider advertisement for the lakes and lake country. There has been some criticism because such a plan may cost money. But those who criticise, - fail to look further than the actual cost, see only what they are expending, and lack the vision to appreciate what will doubtless be gained. In the plans of the several committees working toward the emf for improvement, it has been suggested that a full-time secretary be employed to complete the program already adopted. A directory of lake dwellers is needed, and will be published. New road signs are to be erected for miles around the community, and folders advertising the lakes are to be distributed in hotels and other points in surrounding cities and states. A program so broad as this must cost something. But if every business man in Syracuse and around Lake Wawasee will bear his proportionate share of the cost, the program can be enlarged and completedOne ot the faults with all of us, is that we have not until now attempted a united effort to advertise our biggest industry, the lakes for vacations. This is a golden opportunity. We must support the plan.

INFLATION. 4 .. . i talk of inflation is again heard in Congreas. The government's bills are piling up—vast numbers of dollars must be found to pay for the veterans’ bonus, for the retirement of matured federal bonds, for the new farm program. Treasury experts are obviously dubious of the { of issuing new bonds, and Congress itself, facing an election year, in which all Representatives' and a third of the Senators must again come before the electorate for approval or rejection, are extremely chary of passing new taxes or increasing old ones. “So," say many Congressmen, in effect, “why don’t we simply speed up the presses 'in the Bureau of Printing and Engraving and nroduce new currency to meet our needs?” In support of this, they produce the fact that the gold now held by the Treasury has a. value of $10,182, - 000,000, while the amount of cusrency In circulation totals but little more than half of that —$6,700,000.000. In a recent feature article, entitled “The New Gold Rush,” the United Stales News summarises the inflation problem, and shows why the “gold surplus” is not what is appears on the surface. A brief of the News' findings follows: Os the $10,000,000,000 worth of gold stored by the Treasury, the Federal Reserve Banks hold gold certificates worth $7,930,700,000. These certificates are nothing more or less than warehouse receipts. The treasury keeps the gold the banks possess what amounts to a contract for its use. The certificates serve sb backing for the $3,666,000,000 worth of Federal Reserve Notes which we alt use in carrying on business transactions. They also serve as backing for other notes valued at a little more than $260,000,000. Further, their part of the Treasury's gold is backing for all the bank deposits of the nation—totaling some s4s,ooo,ooo,ooo—which are the source and mainstay of credit. Thus, the gold certificates held by the Federal Reserve constitute a trust fund, shared in by all the country's bank depositors, who were forced to turn in their own gold and gold certificates in 1933. After the gold backing of the gold certificates is taken out, the Treasury has about $2,250,000,000 worth of the yellow metal left in stock. But even this portion of the total gold hoard is not “free." One billion eight hundred millions of it is in the stabilisation fund, which is used to protect the dollar in currency wars. The remainder, of about $450,000000, is included in the Treasury's general fund. If new money were issued against this half-billion, the Treasury’s cash balance would be proportionately reduced and nothing could be gained. So, concludes the News, in which it agrees with recent statements of Treasury officials, there te no available gold Against which new currency *may be isaued ls such new currency is ordered by Congreas over an almdet inevitable Presidential veto—it wilt be necessary to confiscate partiAUy or wholly the < gold held in trust for bank depoei-1 tors. And it is a certanity that any inflationary program will meet with terrific opposition not only from those in high places in industry and government, but from millions of "ordinary citizens” a* well.» • Elbert L. Groves, who has been wwwHnr a week with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Groves, ra•ttrßwG wO VQIwIvJf v ww W1 niurifav

WHEN WE STOP GROWING It is generally agreed that in another generation or so our American population will be stabilized. It is slowing down rapidly. In nearly half the states not enough children are 1 being born to keep even. One statistician thinks the country will probably reach its maximum population ten years from now. What then? Not necessarily anything tragic, but something extremely important. “It begins to be plain to me,” says the statistician, “that we are in sight of adjustments that will have profound effects on our country." Meaning industrial, commercial, social and political effects. The business changes, perhaps, are easiest to foresee, though few people seem to have given much thought to the matter. A business writer suggests that business will probably not flatten out when the census figures do. Even a declining population, he says, could use more and more goods. "More and larger bouses, for example, and better houses, with more machinery in their basements and kitchens." People would want to travel more, and use more automobiles and trains. Speaking in general, there is no visible limit to human wants. LOST PENMANSHIP. The very low state of penmanship in this country is bemoaned by the editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. Indeed, he says, penmanship is a lost art. The handwriting of school boys requires a cipher to read. And the signatures of people age wierd scrawls defying ..interpretation. The complaint believes the increasing use of typewriters is to blame for the early loss of such penmanship as a child acquires in school. If anyone rises to ask what difference penmanship makes, anyhow, the answer may be given that signatures are still important and that an illegible aignature is probably easier for forgers to imitate than a legible one. Also, while the custom of sending picture postcards continues, legible writing ia desirable from the standpoint of recipienta. It's nice to know whom a card cornea from and what the sender wrote. The typewriter does not make good handwriting impossible. It merely makes the writer impatient of the slow motion of pen or pencil and induces him to hurry and scrawl. A little patience and effort would save such handwriting as we need. ®— FOOD AND ECONOMICS. The Health Committee of the League of Nations, composed of 12 nutrition experts from six counties, reports that the diet of the average person in nearly every county Is deficient in vitamins and minerala. The committee presents specimen diete for children and for different age and occupational groups. Doubtless the world's eating habits can be greatly improved by eduea. tion. Knowing the nutritional valise of different foods helps the intelMgent housewife to plan well balanced meals. But that is only part of the world's diet problem. There are economic hurdles which have to be surmounted before tlbe people on or below the poverty borderline can eat as the nutrition experts say they should. Fresh fruits and fresh vegetables and milk are not available to large numbers of fa cities simply fat* cause they cost too much for vwry The world food problem Is montiyl

Library Notes ft ALICE MANN. “Life With Father," by Clarence Day. A book about home life, and about married life. It is a book that any husband, wife, son or daughter •will chuckle over. It is being read in thousands of Americans households. "The Hurricane," by Nordoff and Hall. This book is a modern story of the South Seas; of white men and brown; of a* subtle clash of racial temperaments decided by nature—a hurricane —overpowering, inhuman, majestic. It is a story of such force and beauty that it will be long remembered. Two printings, totalling 25,000 copies before publication. Juvenile: “Shanty Ann”, by Grace Moon. This is a story of a little girl and her father, and their adventures when they start caravaning on California roads in their only remaining possession—an ancient Ford —to sharpen knives and scissors. All goes well until one day when the Ford stops short near a dump-hesp, and a queer little shanty on the edge of a desert. After seeing this shanty, Ann and her father have to make the best of it, and the story of how they do It, will delight every child who loves a picnic. “Little Tom of England,” by Madeline Brandeis. Little English Tom and little American Bob, met, fought, and became friends on the great steamer that took them from New York to Plymouth. Bob and his mother were going to travel in England, and Tom, was working his way across the ocean as a page boy in order to get back home. It was Tom’s glowing tales of England's history, her heroes and her beauties, that a keener appreciation of the glamourous places he visited while in England, such as Stonehenge, Clovelly, Straford-on-Avon, and the great city of London. "Girl Wanted”, by Josephine Bacon. Kit Chalmers, the delightful heroine, is a first year girl at a fashionable boarding and day school in New York. Amid all the glamour of such a school, with its friendship, traditions, and taboos, Kit’s life runs in a light-hearted course, until just before her Senior year. Suddenly her uncle dies, leaving a load of debt behind him, and since Kit is an orphan, and her uncle her chief means of support, her school career is threatened. One substantial thing Kit inherits, however, is the old and supposedly haunted house which provides the mysterious background for this story. In the climax, the various skeins of the story suddenly tie together, and Kit finds herself the center of a villainous plot, which is fortunately discovered. She also finds the means of returning to boarding school. o PEACH TREES INJURED BY WINTERY WEATHER Recent low winter temperatures have resulted in the killing of practically ail peach fruit buds in all parts of the state. As in 1918 and 1930, the leaf buds and ends of the cambium cells on the trunks and bodies of the trees are brown to black in color and often appear to be entirely dead. £ How should such trees be pruned and fertilised in the spring of 1936? Where the injury has any of the characteristics described above, it would be best to delay all pruning in many canes-even the bark and branches have been seriously injured until late April or e®, rly May. —O,. Okie Rightist* and Leftist* tn the pioneer churches In Ohio the aggressive swain could not lean dove against fits buxom sweetheart aa they listened to the sermon, because in those lays the men had to tit In seats tn the ten of the center aisle while the women sat ee the right IS HERE. •.. So Is The Road Hog .... Our No ExduMoa policy will absolutely cover your car under •ay circnmst itnces, at the lowest possible cost. t | mwjf ociuuticr 11 AfsemnsT Xhtes/sM <h» Zorwcr 11 11 Sooth Hymtiogtoo Strati I Phone St Syracuse, Ind. -

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— / , , „ , e- —— — PEN POINTS Being a great critic isn’t hard. All you need is a good vocabulary and a grouch. Maybe courage has its source in the heart, but good sportsmanship depends on the liver. But how strange to see free people turn pale when the caller says he’s a federal agent Nothing is useless. If it won’t do for a bridge prize, you can use it as filling for a sandwich. It Is easy to determine your class. You can’t shed tears over the sufferings of your betters. The more successful he is, the more his friends back in the old home town wonder how he gets by. How can people respect the law when pictures make the officer look meaner than the bandit A professional critic is a person who thinks every artist’s success due to the dumbness of the public. The restaurant patron who howls be cause his plate isn’t hot Is the one who eats in the kitchen at home. You can go to college and earn a degree or you can quit at the seventh grade and make money enough to en dow the college.—Los Angeles Times. o The abundant life means taxing the people of Portland, Maine, for taking a tree census at San Diego, Calif., or vice versa.

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BIRTHS ANNOUNCED Rev. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Brynestad of Warren, Minn., are announcing the birth of a son, «Lorens Quither. Mrs. Brynestad is the former Miss Myrtle Foxford of this city. o — The Good Cheer Sunday School Class met at the Church of the Brother n, Tuesday evening, for potluck supper. FINE DRY CLEANING Coats and Suits SANITONE 75c STANDARD NAPTHA I 50c Syracuse Dry Cleaner M. E. Rapp Phone 9o

| The Home Decorator | By THORNBURG DRUG CO. KITCHEN

Are you on good terms with your own kitchen? You ought to be since it is your “office” and the scene of a goodly portion of the day's labour. Every woman wants a pretty kitchen . . . and often enough doesn't have it. But don't was'.e too much sympathy on her. because it is largely her own fault. No matter how windowless the room may be, or olc fashioned the fixtures, there is truthfully no reason why it should be bleak or gloomy. There are many inexpensive things that can be done today to dress up the kitchen, so let's start with the largest order and work down to the little things . . . the little things that really count. In the first place don’t let anyone catch your kitchen with a dirty face. Scrub the dirt, grease and film from the old paint, get a good wall paint that will endure . (it isn’t expensive) and then put it on. Any paint dealer will give you instruc ticns or supply you with booklets on how the job should be done. You'll be able to use it, scrub it, and enjoy the room with no fear for its loveliness. With proper cleansing.—soap and water—it will always look fresh and bright, the elements that identify the efficient home manager. Then the floors—unless you’ve a willing husband to do your polishing for you, I’d suggest a liquid wax or a water-, emulsion floor finish. It's easy to apply and a monthly waxing and a bi-weekly damp-mopping will take care of it. Next. Refintsh those odds and ends of furniture. Until you try your hand with brush and a can of quick-dryiny enamel you can't appreciate your skill. That scarred stool or battered chair can be made not only like new again, but in many cases even better and more attractive then before. And matched kitchen utensils are very swish and swank these days. Using the same shade as applied to your chairs, brighten up your wooden knife.

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box, the flower pots, the wooden handle on your coSee pot and saucepans, the bottom of your wooden salad bowl, the / curtain rods, the inside of your cabinets, your cookie crocks and what have you. There is no end to it. As to color schemes, make a choice that seems inviting and livable to you. A good cheerful blue might predominate—picked up in the edges of the curtains and in „ your lacquer work (especially if you can gather up th£ wherewithal to get a set of those grand copper cqoking utensils), white walls, dark highly polished floor, with a touch of red in it. and a creamy white for stove and icebox—cabinets and cupboards of the same with a little gay stencil work in blue. But choose your own combinations. There are color cards available which practically solve your ftroblem for you. And after all your abours. walk into your refurnished ■ kitchen . . . and cheer.