The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 42, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 18 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 SYRACUSE PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., r F. Allan Weatherholt, Editor

Farmers Institute SYRACUSE -LAKE Wawasee Community Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a Farmers’ Institute, to be held on the last week-end in February. The affair is the first of is kindUto be undertaken here for a number of years, and is worthy of the support of all citizens. The rural .sections of our trading area, naturally look .to the town for many things. Among these are numerous necessiites of life, as well as such other things including recreation, amusement and education. It is a S P*®P' did and neigrborly gesture on the part of the local Commercial Club, in sponsoring this even. i ’ ’ In the opinion of many, Syracuse has somewhat neglected its rural program and its rural population. We are proud the community has awakened to this need and duty. We can wholeheartedly endorse this institute, and respectfully urge the cooperation of the farmers and rural residents. This institute is yours, Mr. and Mrs. Farmer, and Syracuse needs you and your cooperation to assure its success. Crazg Money PEOPLE who are interested in the effects of inflation, an ever present danger nowadays, would do well to read an article in the current magazine “Commentator” by Lowell Thomas, of radio fame. Reciting the story of inflation as he saw it in Germany, he recounts how a million German marks at the end, of the World war were worth SIO,OOO, how later they were worth only $l5O and how they then continued to fall and fall. “One day I passed by a factory at about ten in the morning and saw a crowd of poorly dressed women awaiting outside the gate,” he. continues. “I learned that these women’s husbands were about to be paid their week’s wages at ten-thirty and they were waiting to get the money. At the hour the women surged into the gate. Then one came rushing forth, a sheaf of money clutched in her hand, and ran, ran desperately down the street. Another came forth, clutching her money, and ran; another, another, a whole crowd of women running madly. Why? Because prices at the stores changed at noon, and these women were rushing to spend the week’s wages while it still would buy something. After twelve o’clock it might buy only half, or a fifth, or a tenth, of what it would buy before twelve.” INFLATION, Thomas points out, is caused by the demand for “printing press money” —a demand now made in several bills pending before Congress. And then he adds: “Balancing the budget looks like one of the labors of Hercules. So there’s a siren lure sweeter than ever in its beguiling simplicity—print money to pay.” . When, and if, the government starts that system of paying Its debts, Germany’s experiences could easily be duplicated in America. Schopenhauer’s Reflections THE longer we live, the faster time goes. Time is like a ball rolling down hill. V z ith each yard its speed increases. The reason for this becomes clear if we recall how full and long the days seem when we are placed in a new environment. The first few days of a vacation, if we go to a strange place, seem longer than the succeeding two weeks. In the early years of life, the senses are hourly stimulated by new experiences. Gradually however, these senses are blunted and the days fade into one another, leaving almost no impression on our intellect. Birthdays come so fast that we lose the count. SCHOPENHAUER’S reflections on this subject led him to lay down the rule that the, length of any given year in a person’s liietime is in direct proportion to the number of times it will divide our whole life. At the age of fifty the year appears to us only one-tenth as long as it did at the age of five; at the age of sixty the fraction is reduced to one-twelfth; in other words, the fifth year is twelve times as long as the sixtieth year. Schopenhauer contends that the time of boredom, therefore, is youth and not old age. Children are so thoroughly alive or they are miserable. To them an idle hour is like a day. In later years the days fly so fast that he is out of bed before he discovers that the time has come to retire. Is this a consolation, or a cause for regret. Somebody is being paid for knowing what you don’t know. • Only one xlog in a hundred can accept a I little petting without making a nuisance of I himself.

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season is short, flowers and vegeiaows grow lustily because of the length of the summer days. We think of sunshine as positive* and of darkness as negative. Joy is thought to be always good and grief is to be avoided as an evil. But there are times when the negative may have a positive effect. Take chrysanthemums. Growers have found that what they need to hasten maturity is not more sunlight but more darkness regularly applied. In fact, as our gardner friend Nelson Coon tells us, florists are using this principle in common practice. Around four o’clock in the afternoon they cover the plants with black cloth and do not uncover them again until eight the next morning, thus shortening their day. This fools the plant into thinking that fall is coming on much earlier than usual, and, lo! we get early flowers. The dark days of our lives may be the ones that do most to hasten our maturity. After people have had great trouble one hears it said of them, “That experience caused them to grow up.” The youngster who has to bear more than her share of household burdens will probably become mature earlier than the one who skips carelessly along in the sunlight. The man who has to fight his way to success, who overcomes obstacles, who knows days of heartbreak and disappointment, should give thanks for those gifts straight from the gods that have increased his strength. & Is there any adequate reason, asks Dr. A. W. Slaten in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin (that man certainly writes much good stuff for that paper), why public schools should not run eleven months in the year; furnish a teacher a day’s work comparable to that put in by office and industrial folk; fill up a week at least until Saturday noon —unless everybody is to have a five-day week; cleap up its assignments in the school building instead of sending them home to be supervised by harassed parents who must do the teacher’s work clumsily and without pay; and finally become an occupation attractive to men?

PKe Must Build Men Again One large California employer told Jack Dionne, the Texas lumber publisher, about his inability to get satisfac- 5 tory help. “The trouble*” he said, “is that for five years we have been working with skeleton organizations, and we have not been building men to fit our needs. We must start all over again, building men.” Every employer should keep before him that oft-quoted sentance from Emerson’s essays: “The greatest enterprise in the world for splendor, for extent, is the upbuilding of a man.” All of us must interest ourselves in the proper training of young people who will take the places of those, who are running things today.

One incompetent, lazy, inefficient person in an office or factory will poison all his associates. Many of them will not even be conscious of the evil effect upon them. Only when the unfit worker has been removed will they experience a sense of uplift and new strength. It is the job of a manager to act the part of a chemist and mix only those human chemicals who belong together. To keep an incompetent, trouble-making, efficiency-lowering worker in an organization is to destroy both happiness and profits for others. How much longer is it going to take for the business men of this country to learn that the way to bring prosperity to this country and give the majority of our citizens the blessings of the much-talked-of “more abundant life” is by handing on Jto the public the benefits of technological progress? This doesn’t mean that reserves of cash may not be set up, but it does mean that profits on invested capital must be limited and that management must be efficient. This shouldn’t be a hard lesson to learn. Henry Ford offers us a practical example. A man has attained much wisdom when he learns that success is often won through surrendering. As E. St. Elmo Lewis writes us: “I know that entire reliance in one’s own power and ability does not always result in the decision to do the right thing at the right time in the right way. I know, tbo, that humility in many ways is the greatest power of man. Even in war, retreat has won many victories.” ■ ,r " "(■ V Down at Miami Beach, says an old newspaperman, Line Hager, when they speak of “the fat of the land” the rhetorical phrase stands for over-stuffed bathing suits. The ideal husband seems to be a law-abid-ing fellow that no other woman would take as a gift. The lessons that we learn so painfully in hard times are quickly forgotten in the sunshine of prosperity. Some experiences which appear to be disasters become, in retrospect, veritable lifesavers. ■■

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WORDS Os Wisdom God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.—Ovid. We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind. . —Cicero. Men have less lively perception of good than evil. —Livy — < Some people think they can push themselves forward by patting themselves on the back. The Spanish rhumba has become a Spanish rumble. And they don’t dance it, they shoot it. As an aid to teaching, two medical school men have devised a mechanical brain that does everything but think. That is what a lot of brains do. —Arkansas Gazette. After some persons see the handwriting on the wall they can’t read it.—lndianapolis News. Give me some men who are stout-hearted men, Who will fight for the right they adore. Start me with ten who are stout-hearted men, And I’ll soon give you ten thousand more. Oh, shoulder to shoulder and bolder and bolder They grow as they go to the fore. Then there’s nothing in the world can halt or mar a plan, When stout-hearted men can stick together man to man. It is not sufficient to produce the best goods in the world: we must also have the best methods of selling them. —The Lord Mayor of London. I think it is the duty of society to try to help the op-pressed.-—Sen ora Portes Gil of Mexico. Marriage laws and divorces, even more than economic and belligerent patriotism, remind me of the irrational ruthlessness of mankind.—H. G. Wells. Los Angeles proposes to enact an ordinance forbidding dogs to bark after 10 in the evening. Very good, but who will tell the dogs about it? —Cleveland Plain Dealer. The proverbial lamb would have to be able to make fifty miles an hour to follow Mary to school these days. —Los Angeles Times. Expert accountants have finally completed months of labor and arrived with the answer that the total cost of the depression was $149,000,000,000. All we can say is thaT it wasn’t worth it. —Hutchinson, Kansas, News. Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles. Exhaust less energy will carry one forward despite wrong thinking, but the right and logical way to do a thing will get one to the point with half the effort and at twice the speed. A dance never seems too long when you have the right partner. Face the facts, brutal though they may be. Every going business, small though it may be, contains the firm of a bigger business. “Don’t knock a competitor” has not yet been accepted by women as a rule of conduct. Honesty is the best policy, but a lot of people refuse to accept it as a working principle. Considering how many opportunities we have for making mistakes, even the worst of us do pretty well. After you've driven it three years an automobile isn’t as good as ever, and you know it. Do It Now may appear to be an old chestnut, but it still ranks as a most valuable piece of advice. By temperance in all things, we achieve the balance necessary for the full enjoyment of life.

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Copyright, 1937, King Features Syndicate, Inc. By CLARK KINNAIRD NEW YORK, Feb. 18-The antiwar play cycle has run its course, to be succeeded by a welter of dramas by journalistic-minded playwrights deriving inspiration from the nation’s current labor troubles. The word cycle is used in its loose, vernacular sense. Strictly speaking, cycle is a period of tiirie at the end of which certain aspects begin to rej peat themselves and anti-war dramatists began to repeat themselves some 23 centuries ago, after Euripides wrote ‘‘Hecuba” and “The Trojan Woman,” and Aristophanes composed “The Arharnians,” “The Knights” and “The Peace.” So far the playmakers preoccupied ; with the struggle between labor organizers ano investors for control of industry,, have fared no better than the Kingsleys, Paul Greens, John Haynes Holmeses, IKvin Shaws, et al., who sought to bring Euripides ' and Aristophanes up to date. Miss Lillian Hellman’s “Days to Come,” was removed from view less than a week after it unveiled a pic- ' ture of the effect of a strike on a midwest city. Leopold Atlas’ “But for the Grace ; of God,” hasn’t filled any pews for the Theater Guild with the eloquence of its sermon on “sweatshops” and child labor. President’s Son Does Well. i '*• Those who remember Sidney Kingsley’s “Iron Men” probably do , so because of the realism of Norman Bel Geddes’ amazing setting for the scene of skyscraper erectors at work. There was the WPA-Federal theater’s “Injunction Granted,” a synopsis of labor troubles in America, lit was, of course, one-sided, as are all the Federal theater’s plays. I Martin Flavin became so indignant about the effects of unemployment with which he was concered in I “Around the Corner”, that he became i inarticulate. It is rare for an indignant person’s remarks to make sense. The playwrights contributing this ! season’s labor problem were too long: at the forge, too little at the anvil. Latest of the plays inspired By the i country’s strike troubles, is “Tide Rising”, written by George Brewer, Jr. His sympathies seem to lie with those who inevitably suffer most — the consumers, the small businessj men. His chief protagonist is Jim Coswell (played by Grant Mitchell,

Predicts Majors Will Aid Sand-Lot Teams

PITTSBURGH. Feb. 18 (INS)— Not content with material obtained from minor league “farm” teams, professional baseball in this country will soon subsidize the semi-pro leagues also as an added method of bolstering tMe national game, it was predicted here by Honus Wagner, Pirate coach and baseball commissioner for the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress. Wagner pointed out tljat semi-pro teams were organized in every state in the union, with 48 state tournaments held annually, followed by « national “semi-pro world series.” Furthermore, the veteran pointed out, semi-pro teams were growing

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on leave from the movies), drug store keeper in a New England mill tpwn. A farfetched plot makes him the father-in-law of the Communist spit-fire (Tamara, the erstwhile musical I comedy crooner) whose agitation stores the millhands to strike. A citizen committee headed by Coswell is farmed to protect the rights of the Imiddlemen; it closes the mills, keeps the strikers in check and bars strikebreakers until both ‘sides can sit down and reach a settlement that respects the rights of the community at large. Mr. Brewer wisely leaves it aj matter of doubt as to whether this\is a solution for the problem. Ffancis Cleveland, son of the late president, makes a pleasing impression in-a minor role. Broadway will see jhim only briefiv, however, for “Tide Rising’ is unlikely to reach the flood level of public favor. Notes on a Playgoers Cuff. The journalistic playwrights who i look to the headlines for their inI spiration might take a tip from Fritz I Lang, the director responsible for I two of the most exciting of all the productions to come from Hollywood within the year -“Furry” and “You Only Live Once” He told the write! over drinks (his is coffee) this week | that he thinks the WPA is a theme for. great drama. He wants it to be the subject of his next photoplay. Helen Hayes’ “Victoria Regina” closes May 1. On the 4th she sails [ fori England to see the coronation of great-grandson. Hearing , that her impish husband had en- | gaged transportation in the name of ! Mr. Helen Hayes, the actress equalized things by responding to autoI graph requests with the signature, | “Mrs. Charles MacArthur”. . . . I This column was in error last week I in (stating the Theater Guild’s “Jane I Eyre” with Katharine Hepburn, had I suspended. It wiU tour until April ! insjtead of coming to Broadway. . . . I Add failures: Sir James Barrie’s ! latest play, “The Boy David”, which | he. wrote’for Elizabeth Bergner. Its | chilly reception in London makes it | doubtful if Broadway tfjll see BergI net in it. i There are rumors! of a Theater I Guild production of “Madame Bovafy” with Lynn Fontanne. . . . Hqlen Bonfils, of the distinguished Denver family, enters the Broadway producers’ ranks with “Sunkist”. . . An alarming suggestion of the expansiveness of Billy Rose’s future activities comes from a reader, who reports the producer of “Jumbo” sept an emissary to manufacturers to obtain costs of fleets of yachts and motor boats.

up: under close supervision of some of baseball’s all-time greats, among them Fred Clarke, fornier manager of the Pirates, who has been named as director of the -national finals at Wichita in August; Urban (Red) Faiber, former Chicago White Sox huirler, who will act as chief of the Illinois State Tournament at Elgin; Trjis Speaker, former manager of the Cleveland Indians, o who will supervise Ohio activities; Ty Cobb, the Georgia Peach, who will assist in directing the California state tournament at Los Angeles; and George Sisler, former manager of the St. Louis Browns, connected with the Nebraska organization.

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