The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 12, Number 51, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 15 April 1920 — Page 1

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CARNEGIE LILRARV TO BE COMPLETED - k Materials Being Bought and Adaditional Funds Seem Now Assured. . At a meeting of the Syracuse Public Library board last Thursday it was decided to ask for bids on Monday, April 26, on general contracts for contruction work on the new Carnegie library. S. A. Craig of Huntington, the architect who designed and planned the building, attended the meeting of the board, and discussed the practicability and details of proceeding with the funds available.. A shipment of brick is expected to arrive any day now, this portion of the materials having been bought «,more than two weeks ago. The foundations, which were layed last fall, are in readiness to receive the walls. The building will be 26x60 feet and will occupy the site that was bought by the board two years ago, opposite the school building at the corner of Main and Harrison streets. The site was bought of the Stiffler heirs for $2,000 and after the old buildings were sold the cost of the lot was net about SI,BOO. The foundation walls, which were placed last fall, cost SBOO and have been paid for. Because of the rising cost of materials during the past two years it appeared impossible to build over the plans that had been approved by the Carnegie Foundation, and for which the Foundation had appropriated a fund of SIO,OOO. The Foundation was appealed to for an increase in the appropriation to cover the increase in the cost of materials, bufyNvithout success. It was then decided by the Syracuse Library board to appeal to the people locally for subscriptions to make up the increase estimated to be about $2,000. Last fall the local board had SBOO available from the joint town and township tax fund, and this was used in placing the foundation walls. To raise the remainder of the $2,000 increase, • —that is, to raise sl,2oo—a subscription 'paper was circulated. A canvass has been made with this list and approximately SI,OOO has been subscribed, leaving S2OO yet to be donated. The plans for the building call for a main floor, with reading rooms and book stacks, and a basement under the entire building, where will be an assembly room for 150 people, a staff room for general committee meetings, toilets for men and women and heating plant. The specifications call for art brick walls. The main entrance, an arched double doorway, will be to Main street. ch — SIMS CHARGES DENIED A flat denial of the Sims charges has come from Admiral Rodman who, in testifying voluntarily before the senate committee investigating the conflicting statements made by Admiral Sims and Secretary of the Navy Daniels denied categorically the statements of Admiral Sims to the effect that the United States entered the war without plans or policies; that it was unprepared to fight; and that it was a mistake to attempt to direct naval operations from Washington. Admiral Rodman declared that never in his more than forty years of service had the fleet been in a better state of preparedness than in the spring of 1917. Admiral H. B. Wilson, commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet, also disagrees with many of Sims’ criticisms of the navy department’s conduct of the war. Before the senate investigation committee the Ad-

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miral declared that the active fleet was never better prepared than in April, 1917. He also stated that the navy department whole-heartedly and energetically co-operated with the t Allies from the moment war was declared, and that “full and complete” plans were prepared to meet a German naval offensive. o RESULTS IN MICHIGAN In political circles much interest has been aroused by the results in the Michigan primaries, Senator Hiram Johnson, of California, having apparently defeated General Leonard Wood by a plurality of about 45,000 as a Republican candidate and Herbert Hoover leading Governor Edwards of New Jersey, his nearest Democratic competitor, by about 5,000 votes. V/ith 1,827 precincts out of 2,421 accounted for, the vote for the Republican candidates was as follows: Johnson, 143,524; Wood, 96,825; Lowden, 52,349; Hoover, 49,461. The vote for the Democratic candidates was: Hoover, 22,752; Edwards, 17,293, with McAdoo, Bryan and Palmer following in the order named. o THE PEACE MUDDLE The peace plan pending in the house of representatives, by which it is proposed to declare by joint resolution an end of the war with Germany, appears, from a test vote which occurred in connection with the adoption of a rule limiting debate on the measure, to be strongly favored, the vote for the rule being 214 to 155. Among those voting for the rule were seven democrats, one of whom, representative Huddleton of Alabama, created a decided sensation by a speech favoring the resolution, in which he said in part: “The Treaty of Versailles is dead. So far as the United States is concerned it might as well not have been written. The president is in irreconcilable deadlock with the senate, and there is no hope that either will yield.” Another league-adoption plan has been suggested. Senator Hitchcock, the acting democratic leader, has predicted that the covenant of the league of nations will be separated from the peace treaty and offered in the senate as an amendment to the peace resolution. It thus appears that the senate may soon be afforded an opportunity to vote upon the two portions of the treaty separated. o— TAX POLITICAL GIFTS A 100 percent tax on political gifts above SI,OOO is the plan proposed by Senator Thomas, democrat, of Colorado, as an amendment to a pending tariff measure. The plan would also require persons, firms and corporations making campaign contributions or expenditures to list them in their income tax returns. Senator Borah, who has recently severely criticized the alleged use of huge funds by presidential candidates in the primary campaign, said that he heartily favors Sentor Thomas’ proposal. o ONE STATE NEEDED Suffrage has failed in Delaware and there is now much skepticism as to the possibility of ratifying the federal suffrage amendment in time to permit the women of the country to participate in the fall elections. The ratification of but one more state is needed to make the amendment a valid part of the United States constitution, but that one vote seems harder to get than were all of the other thirty-five. s o - Mrs. Jane Bachman, who spent ■ the past several months at Lor- ' ain, Ohio, with her daughter, Mrs. J. H. Deeter, has returned home.' .

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1920

SYRACUSE MM GET i TRACTORFACTOFIY Burn-Oil Tractor Co. of Peoria, 1 HL, Mould Buy Foundry And Site Here. The Burn-Oil Tractor Company ■ has opened negotiations with the 1 Syracuse Commercial club to move its plant and equipment; from Peorid, 111., where it was ( established three years ago, to j Syracuse. This became known Friday when Benj. J. Brown, a corporation attorney of Winchester, Ind., visited Syracuse and made a survey of the possibilities here. Mr. Brown has been employed by the Burn-Oil company to find a location that will permit further growth, the company having met with a success that demands expansion of its plant. The Peoria site affords no room for expansion. Mr. Brown stated that the company could have sold 4,800 additional tractors last year, if it had been able to manufacture them. The Syracuse Commercial club met the company’s representatives Friday evening in the town hall and discussed the matter. Mr. Brown frankly stated that, the company had surveyed other locations, but it was his opinion the foundry building and site in Syracuse would come nearest to meeting requirements, for ample room is afforded for expansion. If the company elects to come here, no bonus will be asked of the town. The company will buy its building and site. It was explained that the tractor being built by the Burn-Oil company is not a product that will sell in'lndiana. At present the sales are all being made west Os the Mississippi river. The tractor uses kerosine oil as fuel, and is in the class of the heavy machines. A committee of three members of the Commercial club was appointed to visit the company’s •plant at Peoria. SMALL NEWSPAPERS The Italian government has decreed that, on account of the shortage of print paper, until further notice newspapers shall be restricted to two pages. For the first time in forty years the South Bend Tribune Thursday issued a four page paper. Due to an acute shortage of newsprint, it was fotmd necessary to eliminate all advertising and run a stright news fplio. — o UNIVERSAL TRAINING LOST The universal training plan has apparently been abandoned. Advocates of universal training in the senate have conceded their defeat and have offered as a subsitute a plan for volunteer training for all those between the ages of 18 and 28 who desire it Universal training had previously been rejected by the house of representatives. o - LOAN TO CHINA Japan has informed the state department of her adhesion to the arrangement under which bankers of the United States, Great Britain, France and that country are to enter a consortium for the financing of China. The amount of the contemplated loan is $250,090,000, to be paid in installments of $50,000,000 o MANY PIGS DYING Many pigs are dying in north- , ern Indiana counties. Farmers are greatly alarmed. The unusual death list has not been explained. In most instances the pigs die soon after birth. o . Journal want-ads are investments that pay dividends.

***** * ***** * THE CLAIMS OF THE * * CHURCH • * * ♦ * By Rev. S. W. Paul. * ***** * ***** That the attendance at church and Sunday school in Syracuse is far below what it should be is conceded by all who understand the conditions as they exist. Instead of an aggregate average attendance of three hundred and fifty at the six schools of the town there should be at least nine hundred, and even this number would leave from four to five hundred yet untouched. It is hard to believe that any good thoughtful citizen has ever given serious consideration to the far reaching influence of their example in constantly ignoring the claims of these divine institutions. We are all very much interested in the industrial and financial growth of our town, and this is as it should be. But a great majority of our people d(T not seem to understand tliat large Sunday schools and full churches are a great inducement to wide awaka farseeing business men to establish enterprizes in a community. If you ask why this is so, I answer in the language of a large manufacturer in the East who recently gave fifty thousand dollars to the Inter-Church World movement, “We never have any trouble with the men who are members of the church and devoutly worship God.” And then he added, “The salvation of industrial America depends on the church and her agencies.” The business world is capitalizing goodness today as never before in its history and it is keen enough to see that the church lies at the foundation of all goodness as well as all true civilzation. Honest, sober, industrious, trust-worthy men are as great an asset as any industry can have and they like to locate where the institution that makes such men is running in full blast. Another advantage the church gives from an economic standpoint is its .influonr’e in determining the financial values of property. In proof of this I need only ask you how much money you would invest in a community where there were no churches, or how much money could you get for property now owned if all the churches in the community were eliminated?

From another viewpoint, the church is the greatest preventative of crime the world knows any thing about, hence is a great saver to the state and nation in this respect. According to figures before me the crimes of this country cost more than a billion dollars a year and an amazingly small number of the criminals were at the time of prosecution or ever had been actively affiliated with the church. Not all people who are out of the church are criminals, of course, but nearly all the criminals come from that class. But you say it costs money to run the church, Yes, a trifling sum compared with other things —but what does it cost you who rarely if ever attend its services and who leave all the burdens for the other fellow to carry and at the same time get all the general blessings the church brings to humanity. Then the church has a right to your support because it in a large measure is responsible for the enactment and enforcement of the law that throws it§ protecting arms about you, your home and your property. It was religious conviction that lead our forefathers to leave their loved I homes in the old world and brave the storms of the Atlantic and , the perils of a savage hunted wilderness to found a great commonwealth and breath into its very life the spirit of their firy zeal for the church of God. The tremendous momentum of that zeal is not yet spent, but is

COUNTY CANDIDATES FILE DECLARATIONS Primary Election on Tuesday, May 4, Will be a Contest For All Offices. In compliance with the primary law of Indiana candidates have filed their declarations with the county clerk. For every office except sheriff in Kosciusko county there is a primary contest on. The names that will be chosen on Tuesday, May 4, to appear on the general election ballot in November will be from the following list: Judge— Richard Vannderveer, dem. Lemuel W. Royse, rep. Prosecuting Attorney— Geo. L. Xanders, dem. Henry W. Graham, rep. William Gray Loehr, rep. Frank McConnell, rep. Representative— William C. Landis, dem. Charles W. Harlan, rep. Jacob O. Deaton, rep. SheriffCharles B. Moon, rep. John R. Frantz, dem. Ed Poulson, rep. Surveyor— Wilbur J. Gill, dem. Stanley S. Boggs, rep. John M. Wainwright, rep. Coroner— Leroy V. Bibler, dem. Charles A. Kelly, rep. Commissioner, Middle Dist.— Rolla A. Anglin, dem. M. Pierce Kirkpatrick, dem. Conrad D. Longenecker, rep. Charlee A. Williamson, rep. Lewis E. Shroyer, rep. Commissioner, Southern Dist. — Theodore Parker, dem . J. W. Swick, dem Emsley A. Arnold, dem; Clarence A. Helvey, rep. County Council, First Dist. — Charles M. Powell, dem. Richard Guy. rep. County Council, Second Dist.— William H. Deßoer, dem. Samuel Guy, rep. County Council, Third Dist.— William R. Hall, dem. Robert V. Brady, rep. County Council, Fourth Dist. — Lester Rowland, dem. Seth Iden, rep. County Council, At Large— Jacob Kern, dem. Ezra E. Shock, dem. Victor H. Gawthrom, dem. J. Ellsworth Cook, rep. Milo H. Harmon, rep. crystalizing in legislative halls, judicial dicisions of the present executive mansions and in the day. The strong hand of the church has throttled the life out of the whiskey traffic of this country, and written its final doom in our federal constitution. The same hand is making relentless war on the white slave traffic and demanding in thundering tones that all crime, oppression, and injustice forever cease, and that you and your family be protected in the home, on the streets, in the factory, on the farm, everywhere. Friend, is such an institution worthy of your encouragement and support? If so, see to it that it gets it. Make yourself worthy of the blessings it brings to you. o HUMAN MAGNETS A report from Albany, New York, is to the effect that thirtyfive convicts of Clinton prison were turned into magnets as a result of a peculiar poisoning which .for a time baffled medical scientists. It was found that when the men touched steel, sparks would fly and their finger tips would violently vibrate the filaments of electric bulbs. The trouble was traced to the deadly botulinus germ which is said to

have come from salmon served ! to the men about two weeks ago. While it was known that the germ generated electricity, the scientists were unable to understand how it could turn the victims into human electrodes. Two of the men died from the disease; sixteen are said to be much improved; but others are still surcharged with electricity and their Vision is impaired. —o— BUT FIRST 100 ARE HARD “Until a man is 100 years old he ought to take his birthdays very lightly,” said Dr. William S. Welch, the distinguished pathologist of the Johns Hopkins Medical School on his seventieth birthday. “The span of life,” he added, “has been lengthened. Our greater knowledge of life and its preservation has added twelve and a half years to the span of life in the last century, and mostly in the last half century I do not believe that the older men should hang on too long, however. They should make way for the younger men. It is important that the younger men should be given a chance to do important work while they are yet in their prime. It would be well, perhaps, for the men advanced in years to change their activities, to do something different. Such a change provides a new interest, a new stimulus.” o RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT Wheras: In the all consuming process of nature, our esteemed brother, Mathias Walerius, has been taken from our midst, and Whereas: We recognize in his death the loss of a worthy and honorable member; therefore, be it Resolved: That the charter of Syracuse Chapter 283 0. E. S. be draped and a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the records of the lodge and a copy be presented the widow of the deceased brother. Committee, Warren T. Colwell Mrs. Ida Knorr Myrtle Rothenberger o MASONIC MEETING On Monday, April 19, Syracuse Chapter No. 124, Royal Arch Masons," will do work in the afternoon and evening, a banquet will be served at 6:30 o’clock by the ladies of the Eastern Star. The Grand High Priest of the state of Indiana will be present, and the work in the evening will be done by the Warsaw Chapter. All Royal Arch masons in this vicinity are extended a cordial invitation to come and enjoy the good thing afford at this meeting. Warren T. Colwell, High Priest. o A BIGGER NAVY A huge naval appropriation seems likely to be provided by .congress. The bill as it passed the house of representatives authorized a total of $424,500,000 and the senate committee, before which the bill is now pending, is said to favor a further increase of $39,000,000 in order to quicken naval contruction and to provide additional funds for navy aviation purposes. o NICE FAT DIVIDEND The board of directors of the Studebaker corporation of America, automobile manufacturers at South Bend in a meeting held in New York recently declared a stock dividend of 33 1-3 percent on $45,000,000 of outstanding common stock. The dividend is payable May 5 to holders of record April 19k - n Mr. and Mrs. Ike Mellinger of Goshen, V.E. Cripe and family of Elkhart, and Miss May Tish were guests Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs. Roy Brown at Vawter Park. ♦ . . .

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PARAGRJPHIC BITS ABOUT jOME FOLKS Notes of the Week on the Coming and Going of People You Know. Warren T. Colwell spent Saturday in Wabash on business. Mrs. Mary Maggert of Walkerton visiting at the home of Mrs. R. Davis. Mrs. P. R. Sprague is able to be out again after several weeks of ill health. L. E. Schlotterback and W. TColwell transacted business in Goshen Friday. Hobart Miller of Chicago spent the week end here at the Geo. s J. Cronehberger home. Glen A. Gordy of Fort Wayne spent the week end here with his parents. A baby boy, William Forrest, came to make his home with Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Kern, April 5. Little Miss Marjorie Shaffer of Millersburg is spending some time here with her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Younce. Miss Ruth Miles and Mrs. M. M. Smith and small son George spent Friday in Cromwell with their aunt, Mrs. A. H. Smith. Harold Sheffield, who is employed at Mishwaka, spent Sunday here at the home of his parents, Mr and Mrs. Wm. Sheffield. A large number of windows about town are still wearing board and paper patches as reminders of the big hail storm. Mrs. Celestra Hillabold has returned from Bloomington, 111., where she had spent several months with her daughter, Mrs. F. W. Brian. Mrs. Howard Cook of Uttica, N. Y., has for the past few days been the guest of her mother, Mrs Harry Leming, and her sisters. Chester Brown and family, Mr. and Mrs Harold Baker and Mrs. Erwin Mock were the guests of Harry Leming and family over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Artie Hentzel 1 and two children of Gary, came Tuesday evening and spent Wednesday visiting with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Hentzell and Mr. and Mrs. John Buhrt. Mrs. Geo J. Cronenberger, who suffered painful cuts and bruises about the head when she fell down the stairway at her home three weeks ago, is recovering nicely. Otis Isenbarger has been spending a few days here at home, enjoying a brief vacation from his studies at Ann. Arbor, Mich., where he is finishing his engineering course. Henry Tully, Mrs. Elmer Ott and Miss Lida Davis spent Saturday and Sunday at the Methodist hospital at Indianapolis visiting with Tilman Hire. They found Mr. Hire much improved and hoping to return home this week. Mrs. Sarah Ott re-subscribed this week to The Journal as a birthday present fpr her sister, Mrs. Wm. Hall, at Cory, Pa. This has been her custom for the past several years. We have Others on our mailing list who receive The Journal throughout the year to remind them of their friends. The Women’s Missionary association U. B. church will meet Thursday at 2 p. m. with Mrs. "Amanda Deeter at the Warren Rentfrow home. The program follows: “Interchurch World Movement, What Is It?”, “Interchurch World Movement, A Challenge,” “The Relation of United Bhethren to the Movement,” “The Movement, A Call to Prayer and Sacrificial Giving.” o Try the classified columns. '

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