The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 13, Number 12, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 22 July 1920 — Page 4

L he Syracuse Journal Democratic f Foreign Advertining Representative I THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION ! published every Thursday, at Syracuse, Indiana. $2.00 a Year Phones: Office, 4— Residence, 904 -' ?IN DIANA Entered as second-class matter on May 4th, 1908, at the postoffice at Jyracuse, Indiana, under the Act of bngress of March 3rd, 1879. Preston Henry Miles, Editor. Thursday, July ** 1920 Boys are leaving our farms hi great numbers and flocking, to the cities and industrial centers, upsetting the farming plans m most instances. It has been our hope that some pne of our reao'ers might send in to us a signed article for our touching upon the subject. We consider it a fallacy to propose keeping the hoys at home on the farms by means of modern comfort improvements in the home advanced and progressive farming machinery, automobiles, musical instruments and various other things that money will buy. These things all have a place in the argument we admit, but will not in themselves satisfy. The farmers should conduct their farm operations upon a family co-operative plan, whereby the children early become interested in the profits derived from "their labor z 'n the farm. Too generally .he farmers take everything and °xpect their children u.r il they reach then majority to work for their board and clothes. Mos* boys will not stay upon the farm purely from a sense ol duty. Tb.'-y should have an opportunity to build up a bank accont of their own and to make a start in life. If the farm does not give them this opportunity, the majority of them will leave and seek the opportunity elsewhere. Farmers should conduct their farm operations on the lines of family co-operation, and not wait until they are dead and gone before the children participate in the estate that their labor has helped to create. This is our view of the problem We invite any of our readers to express his view, and we will “Open Forum” department the department of The Journal that is open to everybody. We request, however, that the article be signed, although we will withhold the writer’s name if he desires. o o Our whole social life is artificial; it is honey combed with pretense. We are striving to pass the counterfeit for the real. We are living beyond our means and can not escape the penalty of our prodigality. It is abvious we are * facing a situation of peril. What shall we do about it? We must preach the gospel of work—that there is no place for the drones in the hives of our industries; that everyone must undertake to do s he work for which he is best fitted, and that to do nothing should be regarded as a disgrace and the person held up as a slacker. We must do something to help our day and generation and to replace with service at least the equivalent of what we consume. We should make ourselves creditors, and not debtors, to society. o —o A French painter has destroyed all his pictures because people did not seem to show much enthusiasm over them. This is the self sacrificing spirit we would like to see inculcated in the spring poet. O o — And old man of wisdom once said that the ship never comes to the loafer on the dock.

THE OPEN FORUM I i I -I ■I — I Manhood and Pride Pride is sin. Pride is enmity with God Pride has been consi lered the cause of the fall of angels wh.ch at the beginning were occupants ot heaven and from which they are forever banished, from the presence of the Lord. So pride is >n itsell a sin of the worst cpss, as whoever exalts himself shall be abashed or put to shame. But and r very serious, “but” is there nc* seme connection. between pride and manhood. Manhood, +he s + rength of humanity. Manhood w iich we today have almost lost right of. Dare to be a Daniel, is manhood is it also pr de? Ido wish with all my heart and soul that there would be found more "men" even with pride. Men who have principles. Men of character, men of strength ic stand up for the right, to have pride—yes, 1 purposely say p’ ide— to say “No” when temptation to join in amusements known to be impure and degrading. I wish there were more pride and strength of ci aracter the daily life ol today. which : s almost lost. Manhood and womanhood are without any grit, any pride, or what some prefer to call respectability. The -worid today is looking for ‘ the “man.” Great commercial houses are willing to pay fabulous salaries to men of leadership »f ability, and can not find them. The government of the country, as well as nations of the other parts of +he world, is looking for political leaders and can mot find them. And the church of God, the Christian church, the corner stone of our civilization, is looking for the man that can I lead to victory for Christianity. Why is this condition? With 1 all modern progress, inventions, ' knowledge, education, it would he expected to find men of I rreater ability than those passed before. It would be expected to find men more pure, more righteous, more iust, more capable of treat leadership and uplift of humanity. But the actual fact .roves different. In our high ; schools today less percentage of vole men graduated than ever before In our higher universities the impurity and weak mindedness of the student is inTeasine in alarming proportion. To give statistics corroborating this assertion can easily be secured, but would be too lengthy to give in this short remark. The motion pictures, which a r e in themselves a great, help for education and can be of moral influence if rightly employed, is today the hot bed Cie breeding ground of immorality. Young men and women ’an point to their degrading life from the seduction produced by the impure motion picture show if our days, and eternity will testify to the fact. Where is the man who dares to call a halt to the element of sensuality which almost seems to be breathed from the air of iur civilization? Where is today to be found a Luther? a Wesley? or even a Spurgian? Where is to be found a Daniel? a Joseph? It takes courage to break with the comradeship in the amusement circle. It takes moral courage to stand the sneer, the leer when accused of being too proud to join in these everyday amusements and by some called progress, of our time. Who lares td do the revolt and to stand the sneer? Even the woman, the purer nart of humanity, are drawn away from the straight way, the straight path of life, and I wish to see the day coming when the mothers would take more pride in themselves and the training of their boys and girls than they do. Let the woman, the head of the house as she is, take pride in her home, herself, her children, to raise them as jewels for heaven as they are. And many young men and women on the dowmward grade would put flowers on the memory of that straight strong training mother. Y oung men. arise, be strong to resist, take heed to the call of the time for the daring, courag-

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eous, self made man who knows the right way and dares to walk on it. Young women, let there < be no time w..en the recording angel will put your name on the ; pages of impure lives, and loss of your self esteem, have courage and pride to say “No!”—(Peter t S. Nielsen, s, ~o CARD OF THANKS I take this means of thanking the many kind friends and people of Syracuse who expressed their sympathy and gave their assistance at the recent death of my husband Mrs. Harry W. Barclay. ■ —o SAMUEL HANN DEAD Samuel Hann, residing two and one-half miles southeast of Syracuse, died at 4 o’clock yesterday morning at the age of 77 years. His death followed as a result of a stroke of paralysis he had suffered just seven days before. Mr. Hann had been a citizen of this locality for the past ten years, the last two of which have been spent at the farm known as the Stephen Miller place. He is survived by a w'ife and five children Funeral services will be conducted today at 2:00 o’clock in the North Webster Methodist church.

If Money Talks then this advertisement should be heard in Timbuctoo. IT SIMPLY SHRIEKS! How’s this for Sound - SBO suits reduced to S6O $62 50 (< “ “ $45 SSB “ <( (t SSB And suits formerly selling at §53.50 t Now, $37.00 No-these suits are not ready made. They are made up in the latest styles and specially to your own measure! There are 154 pure wool fabrics to pick from at this sale and regardless of your choice. You will save a lot of money o The Royal Store

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tfRACM LUTHERAN CHURCH Rev. Wm. Boatman. Pastor. Sunday School 9:30 a. m. Nevin McConnell, SUpt. Services ; 10:45 a. m. Theme: ‘ Four Modern American Gods.” You are invited and urged to attend our Sunday school and church services. o CHURCH OF GOD Rev. Floyd Hedges, Pastor Sunday School 10:00 a. m. Allen Ott, Supt. Christian Endeavor... .6:30 p. m. Preaching.... 7:30 p. m. Everybody cordially welcome. • — | ? OTI' E FOR HEARING OF IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION Notice is hereby given that the Board of Trustees of the incorporated town of Syracuse, Indiana, did on the 20th day of July, 1920, adopt a resolution that an improvement be made in said town as follows: That Huntington Street in said town from the end of the •oncrete pavement at the south *’ide of the alley between Main I and Pearl Streets south to the] north line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad light of way, and from the end of the concrete pavement at the north side of

the alley between Main and 1 1 Washington Streets north to a i point which is 980 feet north I i from the north ride of High 1i Street be improved as follows: s That the roadway of said street 1 ( between the points aforesaid, ‘ and the roadway of all inter- } secting and entering streets and alleys lying within said portions ] of aforesaid Huntington Street not included in the roadway ’ thereof, be improved -by grading •'urbing and paving the same with re-inforced concrete, creosoted wooden block, or brick with concrete foundation, or of brick with earth sub-grade, from curb line to curb line, to | the uniform width of twelve z l2) neet on each side of a concrete Township roadway from the end of the concrete pavement at the south side of the alley between Main and Pearl street south to the south side of Pearl Street, to the uniform width of seven (7) feet on each side of said Township roadway from the south side of Pearl Street to the north line of the right of w'ay of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com- ! pany, and io the uniform width [of twelve (12) feet on each srle of a concrete Township roadway from the end of the concrete pavement at the north side of the alley between

Main and Washington Streets north to the north side of Washington Street, to the uniform width of seven (7) feet on each side of said Township roadway north to the north side of High Street, and to the uniform width of three (3) feet on each side of said Township roadway north a distance of 9SO feet, placing the necessary marginal concrete and stone curbing, and curbing said roadway between the points aforesaid with concrete and stone curbing. All work done in the making of said described public improvement shall be in accordance with the: terms and conditions of [such Improvement Resolution, and the details, drawings, plans, profiles and specifications for such proposed improvement.

THE VAWTER PARK STORE now open with a full lines of Staple and Fancy Groceries, Meats, Ice Cream and Soft Drinks. We carry a complete line of Fishing Tackle and Bather’s Supplies. We pay the highest market prices for Fresh Eggs, good Blitter and Produce. Our Motto is Service and Quality. The Vawter Park Store Louis J. Solt, Prop.

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which are on file and may be seen in the office of the town clerk of said town. That the said Board of Trustees has fixed the 10th day of August, 1920, at '7:30 o’clock, P. M., at the Town Hall in Syracuse, Indiana, as the time and place for the public considerat’on of the proposed improve-n-ent, at which time said Board •if Trustees will hear all persons interested, r v ho-e property’ is Table to be assessed for said improvement, and will decide whether the benefits to thv property liable to be assessed for such improvement will equal the estimated cost thereof. By order of the Board of Trustees of Syracuse, Indiana. James M. Searfoss, Town Clerk July 20, 1920. 7222