The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 40, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 4 February 1937 — Page 4

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The Syracuse Journal 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 3rd, 1879 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, in advance $2.00 Three Years, in advance $5.00 Six Months in advance SI.OO Single Copies .5 Subscriptions Dropped if Not Renewed When Time Is Out SYRACUSE PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., Publishers F. Allan Weatherholt, Editor THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1937

Journal's Platform CIVIC ENTERPRISES Better Street Lighting. Beautified City Park on Lake Front. Sewage Disposal System. Public Tennis Courts. Adequate Playground » Bathing Beach. PRIVATE ENTERPRISES . Dog Race Track. More Hotel Accomodations. Industrial Plants. . j • Amusement Park. ACCOMPLISHMENTS Re-organized Yacht Club. Grade Crossing Protection. Action on Road 13« Broader Publicity For Lakes.

The Man You Honor SHOW me the man you honot: I know by that symptom, better than any other, what kind of man you worship. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be, and would thank the gods, with your whole soul, for being if you could. —BY THOMAS CARLYLE

O - A Hand Across The State j LAKE Wawasee and Syracuse residents, in fact .almost all Northern Indiana communities extended a hand of helpfulness to Southern Indiana during their chaotic suffering and severe flood loss. Perhaps at no time in the history of the nation, and in the history ol this state, has there been a catastrophe so great, so destructive and so fatal to many Americans. Here in our lake country, where we have water which is calm, beautiful, restful, and friendly, it is difficult to' understand the wretched condition of pur southern neighbors. * TO those brave volunteers of our community, who so unselfishly* took their time from their homes and wbrk, a faced the dangers of a panic, disease, hunger, cold and suffering to aid their felldwmen when the call came, we extend our highest praise, and sincerest regard and respect. Only those who know the trials faced in a flood can understand what these men experienced. Sent by our community as rescue crews, they were also goodwill representatives. They did their task well,* brought only the highest praise to our town, and the respect of its citizens as their reward. WE are proud of these men. Proud they faced a difficult task in a cheerful, determined effort. Unlike wartime heros, these men left without the sound of marching feet, the blare of trumpets or the cheering throngs. Their return was equally unheralded. But in the hearts of most of us, we hold the highest admiration and friendliness for these volunteers. Even greater than that, in Southern Indiana, there are thousands of citizens who will long remember these men, and will recall the aid that came from their Northern neighbors. Holding Water Where It Falls IN this weeks news there is a timely account published in many papers of a plan to prevent floods, advanced by Paul B. Sears, author of “Deserts on the March,’ and botany professor at the University of Oklahoma. Sears’ book, dealing with dust storms, middle western soil problems and the effects upon world civilization of man’s te'ndancy to denude the soil has won high praise from the best informed, and has made the author something of an authority upon the subject. FEARS’ plan for flood prevention includes these points: Revegetation of hillsides capable of growing trees and grass. Practice of methods suited for control of rainfall. A re-designing of the nation’s roads and highways to control water flow. Through control of soil erosion, “Soil Conservation, agriculture, forestry and land utilization are all tied, together, Sears maintains. Downstream engineering has shown itself inadequate. The problem today is holding water where it falls.” THIS plan, that of holding water where it falls is a wide reaching one. It is a program that will, if followed, effect community in the nation. It’s success depends upon every community’s cooperation. In reading Professor .Sears’ suggestions, it has occurred to us, that Conservation Departments in all the states, working toward the end of reforestation and preventation of soil erosion, can do more to prevent the flood menace, than all of the engineers in the country.

Three-Year Highway Safety Plan STANDARD automobile drivers’ license laws are being urged for the whole country, by the National Safety Council, Inc M 20 North Wacker Drive, Chicago, for the purpose of reducing automobile accidents and victims 35 per cent by 1940. | It has been proven by the Council s survey that states requiring operators to complete a rigid driving test and examination before they are granted a license, have fewer traffic accidents than . states where operators are notlicensed, or are licensed without such a test. In many communities, few motorists know all they should about traffic regulations in their own county, because there is no effort to standardize the rules, and no effort to teach drivers which is right and what is wrong. WE strongly endorse the Safety Council’s plan of standardization of traffic regulations, and mandatory driving tests before licenses are issued to drivers. , ... During the next few months this law will come before many state legislatures.. The law also would, if enforced, revoke drivers licenses of those who are mentally, physically or morally incompetent. Such a law we believe will save many lives and prevent many accidents. If it will, every citizen should urge its speedy adoption.

How" Does It Affect You? & Adversity is a medicine which people are rather fond of recommending indiscriminately as a panacea for their neighbors. Like other medicines, it only agrees with certain constitutions. There are nerves which it braces, and nerves which it utterly shatters.

Filling A Country Woodbox (From "Linotype’s Shining Lines” for January) In an old farmhouse a big woodbox was built at the side of the huge fireplace chimney in which to keep wood either for a fireplace or the wood-burning kitchen stove. Ten baskets of wood are required to fill it. During the past summer two different men have had the job of keeping the kitchen supplied with wood. The first man brought in wood only when he was asked to do so by his wife, the cook. Usually she had to call him from some other task. He would bring in one armful and say, “There, I guess that will hold you until I get around to bringing in more. The kitchen workers would then have to reach far down into the box to get what they needed. * A more sensible system was used -by the second man. First of all he had the woodbox thoroughly cleaned. The bark that had accumulated at the bottom was taken out and burned. Then he brought in basketload after basketload until the box was filled. Since then he has merely kept it filled, bringing in no more than one or two loads at a time. Should the second man be busy at other work, or was absent for several days, the kitchen workers do not have to worry about their supply of stove wood. They always have more than they need. There’s a reserve supply on hand. The two men represent the people of the world. There are those who are improvident, who live from hand-to-mouth, who never think ahead, who cannot even think in terms of building up reserves, who make no savings, whose work is always crowding them, who are hard workers because they are bad planners. Then there are the people with forethought. They think ahead. They plan to make their work easier. They work hard to build up reserves so that they are prepared for emergencies. They are like the wise farmers who work hard during the growing season to provide food with which to stock the cellars. We are always a bit suspicious of people who talk about being overworked. Overwork is usually the result of inefficiency and inefficiency is the result of sloppy thinking. The first man, who never kept the woodbox filled, was always rushing hither and yon. He was the busiest person. Anyone seeing him moving about would be tempted to exclaim, “There’s a real worker. Watch him hustle around.” The fact is he was no good at all and had to be discharged for his utter incompetence. Great activity does not necessarily result; in great accomplishment. Now that we are entering the twelve brand new months of 1937, let us all clean out the woodbox of our business and fill it to the top with what we need. The time to do the hard work is right now. Let us get our equipment in shape, our supplies where they can be handled efficiently, and then go to more important tasks with minds that are free to be concentrated on what is most profitable. -JOSEPH T. MACKEY, President The darkest hour in any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. —Horace Greeley. A politician thinks of the next election, a statesman, of the next generation. —James Freeman Clarke. ’Tis the mind that makes the body rich. —Shakespeare. The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. —A. C. Benson. Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. —Mark Tawin. , When the state is most corrupt, then laws are most multiplied. —Tacitus.

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| BULLETS or JUSTIcFI! By REX COLLIER Copyright, 1936. by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc. H ‘ A LI IM 1 ■L It M MM'-:' 1. I » House in St. Paul Where Green Was Trapped.

EDDIE GREEN EDDIE GREEN, St. Paul gunman and bank robber, who had the underworld distinction of active membership in the Dillinger and the KarpisBarker gangs at the same time, invited death—and got it. Circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of Green by federal bureau of investigation agents, who set a trap for him on April 3, 1934, at a house in St. Paul, were the subject of an under-cover inquiry recently by secret service agents. The “ill-advised” secret service activities apparently were prompted by recurring rumors that G-men fired at Green without knowing his identity, that they only learned who he was by questioning him on his death-bed at the hospital, that Green was “mowed down” mercilessly and without warning and that he was a “minor hoodlum” who deserved better treatment. Well, let’s look at the record. With the co-operation of Director Hoover of the F. 1 have gone thoroughly over tlfwftireau’s heretofore confidential files, on the Green case and, I believe, have found the answer—officially—to the questions which puzzled curious secret service men. In the first place, a study of the criminal record of Edward Green —alias Eugene Green, George Graham, Charles Ryan, George Green, Fred Rogge, Frederick Riley, Fred Graham and Eugene Riley — fails to support the rumor that he was just a bad boy who became involved innocently with big-time killers. He started out as a small-timer—-his first sentence having been served in the house of correction for grand larceny, but he graduated into such select gangland company as that represented by Frank Nash, cause of the Kansas City massacre; Verne Miller, one of the massacre “trigger men”; Alvin and the Barker brothers, of kidnaping note, and, finally, John Dillinger. He robbed banks with the KarpisBarker gang and with the Dillinger gang. His home was the haven to which members of both gangs would flee in time of trouble, the “post office” through which they received their mail, the clearing house through which they kept in touch with one another, the headquarters where many desperate crimes were plotted. At the time of his death he was custodian of much of the heavy artillery composing the arsenal of the Dillinger mob. A second point supplied by the records is that Hoover’s men knew exactly whom they were shooting when they opened fire. They had set their trap for Green and no one else. \ A third point is that Green was shot only as a final resort—as he answered a command to halt by starting to run and reaching for his hip pocket. The fact that he lived for eight days after the shooting and was conscious until a few hours before his death belies reports that he was “riddled with bullets.” Full details of the events which led up to the capture of Green are disclosed herewith, by permission of the F. B. I. It will be recalled that on March 31, 1934, Dillinger, Homer Van Meter and Evelyn Frechette shot their way out of a St. Paul apartment house. A careful inquiry at this apartment provided G-men with the address of another apartment, on Marshall avenue, which they immediately investigated. At the second apartment they learned that apartment 106 had been occupied by a man of suspicious habits until the day of the Dillinger shooting affray, and that the man had not returned since that time. His description tallied with that of .Van. Meter. The manager said the apartment had been rented two weeks before by a “Mr. D. A. Stevens" and that the latter had turned the apartment over to the man answering Van Meter’s description. The agents obtained permission to enter this apartment. They found: a leather bag, a Thompson machine gun stock that fitted a stockless gun abandoned by Van Meter in his escape on March 31, a large quantity of ammunition, a revolver holster, a pair of field glasses, a two-foot piece of dynamite fuse and several “get-away” charts and road maps used in bank robberies. While the agents were in the apartment, two colored women appeared and announced they had

A vagrant was picked up in a western city with four sticks of dynamite in his pockets. He seemed to be loaded for retaliation in case a reckless motorist should run him down. t An optimist is a husband who tries to phone his wife at home when the car is available to her. Selfish individuals seldom see any good in anyone or anything. Every knock is a boost.to a progressive man.

been sent to “clean the apartment." These women, upon interrogation, eventually admitted that the “D. A. Stevens” who had rented the apartment was really Eddie Green, for whom they had worked at a roadhouse. They said Green and his paramour had called at their house that morning and asked them to go to the “Stevens” apartment on Marshall avenue and get a suitcase, a coat and some laundry. Their instructions were to take these articles to their home, where Green would call for them later that day. Several agents were “planted” in the colored women’s home. They were armed with rifles and automatic pistols —for they believed they were to face a desperate man, an associate of Dillinger and Van Meter. The latter pair had machinegunned their way to freedon only a few days before. The agents were determined not to let another member of the gang escape. One of the colored women was instructed to open the door and hand the bag to Green when he appeared, then step aside. Three agents were hidden at strategic places on the first floor, where they could watch developments through curtained windows. Just before 6 p. m. a sedan pulled to a stop in front of the house. There were a woman and a man in it, Green and his paramour. Green began getting out of the car almost before it stopped, ran up to the front door of the house and received the suitcase from the colored woman. Then he turned quickly and dashed back toward the car, the motor of which had been left running. As Green leaped down the front steps, the agent in charge of the squad commanded him to halt. Instead of obeying this command, the F. B. I. files show, Green quickened his pace startled by the command, reached toward his pocket as though to draw a gun. That instinctive, menacing gesture was a fatal one—it was the signal for the agents to fire, or seek safety and Iqt another gangster escape without so much as a struggle. Actually, that impulsive sweep of Green’s hand toward his gun pocket was a futile moye. He had left his guns at home —and it proved to be quite an arsenal, when G-men found it later. His woman companion was arrested and questioned/ She had on her $1,155. Green was found to have two safety deposit boxes containing $4,000 and $4,700, respectively. Green, questioned at the hospital, made the following admissions to F. B. I. agents: He had been downstairs in the St. Paul apartment when Dillinger and Van Meter made their sensa- : tional escape on March 31, 1934, fleeing during the confusion. He had arranged for Dr. Clayton E. May, Minneapolis physician (since convicted of harboring Dillinger) to treat a bullet wound Dillinger received in the apartment house battle. He had committed numerous bank robberies in association with the Karpis-Barker and Dillinger gangs. He had paticipated two weeks before with Dillinger, Van Meter, John Hamilton, “Baby Face” Nelson and Tommy Carroll in the $52,00C robbery of the First National bank at Mason City, lowa. He was planning to rob a bank in Newton, lowa, at the time he was shot. Part of his long criminal record in the fingerprint division of the F. B. I. follows: As Eugene Green, arrested by police, Milwaukee, Wis., August 11, 1916, charge, grand larceny; sentenced to six months. As Frederick Riley, arrested by police, Des Moines, lowa, suspicion of safeblowing; released to St. Paul police, who also wanted him for safeblowing and robbery; August 12, 1922. As Eddie Green, received at State reformatory, St. Cloud, Minn., November 15, 1922, under sentences of forty and five years and transferred to Minnesota State penitentiary. As Eddie Green, paroled from Minnesota State penitentiary, July 1, 1930. As Edward Green, arrested St. Paul, Minn., April 3, 1934 and charged with attempting murder of F. B. I. agent. This was the “bad boy” whose death appears to have aroused the sympathies of some deities of the’ G-men.

WORDS Os Wisdom

Without free speech no search for truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of truth is useful; without free speech progress is checked and the nations no longer march forward toward the nobler life which the future holds for man. Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race. —Charles Bradlaugh. The longer I live, the more deeply I am convinced that that which makes the difference between one man and another—between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant is energy, invincible determination, a purpose once formed and then death or victory. —Powell Buxton. j * . , X* Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one’s self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. —Thomas Hughes. Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities, influenced by all that has preceded, and to influence all that follows. The only way to illumine it is by extent of view. —William Ellery Channing. The man who starts out with the idea of getting/rich won’t succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day’s task successfully, stay faithfully within the natural operations of commercial law, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right. , —Rockefeller. The best way for a young man who is without friends or influence to begin is: first, to get a postion; second, to keep his mouth shut; third, observe; fourth, be faithful; fifth, make his employer think he would be lost in a fog without him; sixth, be polite. —Russell Sage. There is quite as much .education and true learning in the analysis of an ear of corn as in the analysis of a complex sentence; abilty to analyze clover and alfalfa roots savors of quite as much culture as does the study of the Latin and Greek roots. —O. H. Benson. It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven’t lost the things thajt money can’t buy. —George Horace Lorimer. — Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by ipisfortune; but great iriinds rise above them. —Washington Irving. A Detroiter has named a poor defenseless puppy “Throckmorton.” If the S. P. C. A. doesn’t have him slapped in jail for this, its charter should be abrogated. What it costs to live is what you have left over after supporting an automobile. * If you lose faith in your physician, you rob him of his most potent drug. Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger’s gardens. —Douglas Jerrold. Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. —Cardinal Newman. Brutalty to an animal is cruelty to mankind —it is only the difference in the victim. —Larmartine. A picture is a poem without words. —Horace. Another reason why no one should want to go back to the horse-and-buggy days is because that during this period the chickens so delighted to roost on the back of the buggy seat — and they invariably headed* the wrong way. A woman stylist says, “I think women should abandon trousers in public.” Gosh, lady, how you do talk! There are times when even the most democratic among us wonder if the great common people aren’t a little too common.

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