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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-06-08

on Friday to visit several days with
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Sckmunk and
daughter Mary Margaret. On their
return trip they stopped off at
Niagara Falls and arrived home on
Monday evening.
Some Of the farmers have cut
their alfalfa for hay.
Many delegates from the various
churches of the Middle District Con-
ference of the Mennonite churches
are expected to be at Bluffton for
its Conference sessions June II to
20 inclusive.
Rev. A. S. Rosenberger of Dalton,
who was formerly pastor of the st.
John congregation is scheduled to
fill the pulpit of this former charge
on Sunday morning, June 18th.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Kohl, Mr.. and
Mrs. p. E. Kohl and Mr.. and Mrs,
Edward Kohl and son visited with
E. ID. Kohl on Sunday.
Eli Fett of Bluffton passed away
very suddenly on Monday forenoon
Funeral was held at Ebenezer
church Wednesday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andy Long and son
German and daughter Mary ano
husband of Bowling Green visited
with Mr.. Longs uncle, David Wen.
ger and also in the home of Mr.. anc
Mrs. E. E. Miller and family OF
Sunday.
Dale Snavely, teacher in the
agricultural department of Pandora
high school, took group of higf
school boys to Columbus, Ohio tt
participate in a live stock judging
contest.
The raising of soy beans seem:
to increase year after year. Some
farmers are producing them fol
hay while others for threshing tn,
beans, which are ground for feed fol
stock. They are proving to be al
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BLUFFToN MARKETS
Wednesday Morn

Wednesday Morning
Hogs-160 to 230, Sc; 230, to $50,
$500; roughs, $3.50; stays, $3.50.
Calves, $3.50; lambs, $3.50.
Grain (bushel prices)-Wheat T4c;
corn SOC; oats 34c; soys SIC.
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To Address College
Honor Society Here

Pi Delta, Bluffton college honor
airy scholastic society will hold its
annual meeting and dinner at the
Walnut Grill next Monday noon.
Speaker for the occasion will be
Prof. John Schwarz of Bowling
Green State university. His subject
will be "The Scholar and Human
Justice.
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FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
Woad poSfo~

j. A. Weed, Pastor
Thursday, 1880 p. m. Mid-week
devotional service.
SUNDAY:
900 a. m. Church school. In the
opening worship period there will be
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LUTHERAN CHURCH
w. L.. Harmony, Pastor

Preaching and Communion service
at 900 a. m.
Sunday school at 1000 a. m.
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The Golden Rule is the most use
ful of all measurements.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-12
COUNT WHEN YOU CAN

ADDING THE NUMBER of
ards known to be held by a certain
player in two suits and then SUBJ
racting from thirteen will tell how
many he holds in the other two COM
s-sd If you then ascertain the ex-
&rlmbeT hol by either him or
3Daltner in one of those two suits,
Us simple IS a, 3, c to reckon
In many he has in the remaining
de- At least it ought to be, but
many people who can handle much
more intricate figures than those
refuse to apply themselves to that
simple assignment in arithmetic
and s9 fail to make many safe con-
tracts.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-12
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
BY Shepard Barclay
rhA Aufhn ifv Aufhnr IfiAaW
'"Ths Authority on Authorities"

to see if hrs partner now wanted to
try 3-No trump, bid 4-Clubs in
stead, and North went to 5-Clubs.
In answer to the double of dia-
monds, West led the of that suit
to the Q and K. East took the A,
then led a third diamond. South
ruffed with the A, then disposed of
all the trunlps> discarding North's
heart 3. BY now South should have
known that East had five each in
the red suits. and only one trump,
therefore only two spades, but he
tried three rounds of high spades
and had to lose a spade at the end,
being down one.
Proper play of the spades was
marked by the count on East's hand.
After the A and K, South should
have finessed the 10, knowing East
couldn't follow, and the contract
would have been made.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-12
TOmOrrOW's Problem

TOmOrrOW's Problem
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dealer: North. Both sides vul-
nerable.)
With the club j led to the A and
the heart K returned, how should
South play for 6-Diamonds?
Features Syndicate, Inc.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-12
q K 7 3
81 10 s 2
6 So
. a K 10 5 4

Dealer: North. East-West vul-
nerable.)
South found two ways to kick
game out Of the window on this rub
Der bridge hand, first by bad bidding
ana then by bad play. After North
DID l-Spade and East 2-Hearts,
South called 3-Clubs, about the last
Nght thing he did. North then bid
0'Dlamonds, East doubled and
south, who might well have passed
Copyright. 1889 Kin
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-02
WATER AND AIR

Man has been far more successful
in rivaling the birds than in trying
to rival fishes and sea mammals. The
airplane has passed any speed reached
by feathered flyers, and the insect
speed of 600 miles per hour has been
reported by only one observer, and
strenuously denied by others. And
the plane, too, is rendering valuable
peace-time services.
The submarine, on the other, is use
less except in war; and far from safe
beneath the water in time of peace
Probably more people, in proportion
to numbers and frequency of trips
have been killed by going under the
water than by going up in the air
Mans courage dares all things.
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COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

Samuel Schaefer, executive secre-
tary of the National Jewish Hospital
in Denver. told Jewish gathering in
New York the other day that accord
ing to the Bank of international Set
Elements, the nations of the world are
spending one billion dollars month
on ornaments. He estimated that
for less than half that sum, tubercu-
losis could be wiped out, utterly, in
one generation.
"In other Words" he said, '.If Adolf
Hitler were to take a two-week vaca-
ton, and the worlds armament bill
for that period were given to build
more hospitals and hospitalize all ac-
tive tuberculosis patients, in less than
one generation the white plague would
be eradicated."
These striking figures really under
state the case.
In 1900, the tuberculosis death rate
in the registration states of this coun-
try was 1873 per 100000 population.
In 1882, the tuberculosis death rate
in registration states was 50 per
100000. Seventy per cent of the
deadliness Of this disease has been
wiped out in this country in 80 years.
With the knowledge now existing,
$5O0,0O0,O00 a month could be spent
only during the building period; with
every month after that period passed
the bill would dwindle; and in this
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new HOUSING ACT
FOR N. Y. STATE

Albany, N. Y. ILNS).-Just be-
, fore adjourning, the Legislature
adopted a housing act, which lends
the credit of the state to local COM
munities for low-cost housing. Fifty
million dollars may be loaned in the
next fiscal year, and $100,000,oo0
thereafter. The subsidy given by
the bill starts at $250,000 year;
and may not go above $1,000,000.
Not more than two-thirds of either
credit or subsidy can go to New York
City. In the next two years, there
fore, the city may reasonably count
on $10O,00O,OO0 from the state for
construction n-two-t thirds of $50,000,-
600 the first year and twice that sum
the next-and $1,0oO,0OO as a sub
sidy.
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LOngshOremen Told
To Load Freighter

Portland, Ore. (ILNS). - CLIO.
longshoremen of Portland were held
in violation of contract and ordered
to load the freighter William Luck
enbach in a decision handed down by
Dean Wayne l.. Morse of the Uni
versity of Oregon, coastwise water
front arbiter.
Morse's edict came less than "a
hours after he had told the Water
front Employers Association Of Port
land that it also had violated the 1888
agreement by closing the port when
longshoremen refused to work the
Luckenbach. The port was closed five
days, during which time ships could
neither load nor unload Longshore-
men declined to have anything to do
with the Luckenbach, because of an
imaginary picket line established by
the C. l. O. Maritime Officer Workers
Union, who contended the Luckenbach
company had failed to comply with
an order of the National Labor Rela-
tions Board instructing it to rehire
three discharged employees.
Morse said in his opinion the case
could have been arbitrated easily if
request for arbitration had been
made before the longshoremen took
their action, and before the employers
| ordered the port closed.
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Ben Gold, Communist,
Heads c.. 10. Merger

Atlantic City, N. J. (ILNS).-Ben
Gold of New York, well known Com
munist, was elected president Of the
newly formed international Leather
and Fur Workers Union here. The
union is c. %. affiliate.
The new organization was formed
through the merger Of the National
Association of Leather and Tannery
Workers of America and the Inter
national Fur Workers. Union of the
United States and Canada, which
closed its thirteenth biennial conven-
tion here on May Ia. Gold was for
merly president of the Fur Workers.
Pietro Lucchi of New York, gen
eral secretary and treasurer of the
Fur Workers, was elected to SINH
lar post in the new organization. Six
teen presidents were chosen to
complete the general executive board
which was authorized to complete the
merger details.
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country, at least, the disease would
vanish in much less than 80 years.
Three things have combined to post
pone the expected war crash in Eu-
rope.
First, Frances blunt refusal to
make territorial concessions to Mus
solini and Poland's yet blunter and
more important refusal to give Hitler
his will in Danzig have given a jolt
to the war-makers of the two die
tatorships. They have confirmed the
strong belief growing for more than
IA year that Hitler, at least, is a
coward.
Second, the (more- -or-less) demo
cratic powers of Europe have been
encouraged by this evidence of Nazi
weakness. Third, the anti Chamber
lain sentiment in England is growing
strong-though still much divided
that Chamberlain is now willing to
talk terms of an alliance with Russia
The Wall Street Journal sees an
other deterrent in fact that Nazi
leaders have $50 feathered their nests
by acquiring vast properties" that
they will hesitate about risking them
in war. Goebbels, Goering and 9TH
ers have been reported as seizing vast
estates in Austria and Czechoslovakia
This might work both ways, for rea-
sons too long to state; but is well
worth noting.
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But little by little, the string gets
worn and after a time 1T tends 10
disappear.
In every federal and state board
and commission there are either pu-
reaus or subordinates who make great
numbers of rules, orders and regu-
lations.
Mostly the affected individual citi-
zen has a remedy in court, if he can
get to court, which involves money as
the first consideration.
But cases develop where the affected
citizen has no recourse to court, as
in executive orders giving the Dies
committee a look at citizens income
tax return. THAT is DANGEROUS.
Not only that, but in the whole held
of bureaucratic power we approach
the thin edge where popular control
over the acts of officials fades out OF
the picture through lack of use and
the petty bureau official is left IN
seemingly untouchable grandeur upon
his PEDESTAL He may mean well and
he may even do we'll, which is not the
point. He does what he wants to do
AND THAT is THE POINT.
If the American people want bu-
reaucracy and decide, after careful
consideration, that it's the thing for
them, then they are entitled to 1t.
But if they do not want bureau
cracy, then they will do well to study
the trend, keep careful watch over
it and know exactly what is going on.
Such things can come against the
wishes of the people, after which it
takes mighty effort to dislodge the
incubus.
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his own 490-acre estate the social re-
forms which he has tried, to get
adopted as president of the Philip
pines.
He has told his tenants that they
have absolute freedom of politics, re-
ligion and speech. Each tenant will
have a half f-hectare-about l II acres
for a garden, pigs or chickens. Ad-
vances to the tenants for food, cloth
ing and medicine will bear no inter-
est; borrowed rice may be repaid in
kind at harvest; and all debts owed
by the tenants to the former owner
of the farm, which formed a part of
the price paid for it by Quezon, are
cancelled.
1t shows some rather primitive ways
of living-but also shows that the
president of the Philippines means
what he says when he calls for re-
forms, and that he has some very
practical social ideas. 1t would not
be hard to find quite a number of
high-toned gentlemen in this country
who in these matters are about seven
miles behind President Quezon.
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s'But in America, democracy has
gone resolutely forward. The national
labor policy adopted by the Congress
has extended democratic principles
and procedures from the political to
the industrial sphere. Today millions
of workers share through collective
bargaining in the making of decisions
that affect their lives. The ballot box
is replacing the machine gun as a
means of settling industrial disputes
Industrial workers are being granted
the rights of free men in free
country.
'.StiIl Much To Be Done"
"In spite of this progress, however
there is still much to be done. There
are still factories which stand like
fortresses, bristling with machine
guns and modern chemical weapons.
"There are still private armies
which are drilled and trained by GER
tain corporations for active combat
during industrial disputes. There are
still large industrial centers, like ur-
ban Harlans, where the constitutional
rights of citizens are trampled down
by selfish powerful interests.
"There are forces within the coun-
try which openly clamor for the de-
struction of civil liberties through the
perversion of governmental power
These forces are encouraged by the
existence of private tyrannies main
tanned by private armed forces and
by private gestapos. Other democra-
cies which have permitted private ar
mics to operate unchecked, no longer
exist. The price of liberty is eternal
vigilance. Let us not let evils con-
tinue to flourish through our own
neglect"
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WHAT NEXT?

A device that may enable iiers to
detect objects in the path of airplanes
as far as IA miles away was recently
displayed at Floyd Bennett Field
New York, by the Sensytrol Corpora
ton, whose engineers made it. 1t
sends out a micro-wave beam and en-
ploys revolutionary concept in the
field of electricity, according to Henry
Dickens, chief engineer.
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The Cherry
- Where with our
roo Little Hatchet we
tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
fOundly. Sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

Exposure of citizens private fnan-
cial affairs without the chance to re-
sist in the courts is the basis of a
protest to President Roosevelt against
an executive order making income
tax returns available to the Dies COM
mittee investigating un-American ac-
tivities.
In letter to the President, the
American Civil Liberties Union says
that the proper method for con-
gressional committee to get informa-
tion is by the issuance of subpoenas.
"The courts would then determine,
in case of a contest, whether or not
the submission of income tax returns
in particular cases is proper" the let
ter said.
Exception is also taken to the ex-
ecutive order on the ground that the
Dies investigation has been prejudiced
and lacking in judicial character.
The protest seems we'll taken. Ex-
posing a citizens private affairs with
out giving him a chance to have a
court review of the need of such ex-
posure, smacks too much of the kind
of thing that goes on under dictatorial
government in Europe. 1t is akin to
bureaucratic practices, of which have
experienced much in recent years.
The struggle for power takes vary
ing forms and always goes on.
Democracy came to people who had
the power and the nerve to take it
from autocrats.
Autocrats haven't finished fighting
for power, nor are they today without
a good deal of it.
Moral sense has something to do
with how much power some kinds of
people will take, even if they have
the power, but mostly those who have
power use it to keep what they have
and to get more.
Bureaucracy is a modified form of
autocracy. Of bureaucracy we have
much and the cry is always for more.
Boards and commissions are getting
more power and are multiplying in
number.
Delegated power at the outset usu-
ally has a string tied to it, so that
those who use the power may be
checked up and called to account
even fired or reversed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-02
AUTO PROFITS IN BIG GAIN

New York City (ILNS).-Nine au-
tomobile manufacturers had combined
net profits in the first three months of
1889 of $65,531,97S, compared with
net profits of $6,498,056 n the same
quarter of 1888. This is a gain of
910 per cent.
Thirty-six makers of auto parts and
equipment made joint net profits of
1924, ,127 the first quarter of this
year, against net loss of $2,151, ,113
in the same period of last year.
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FRIDAY, JUNE ., 1889.
THE CRIME OF STRIKING

The suit by Republic Steel against
the c. |. o. for $7,5OO,000 damages
is in one sense follow-up of the Apex
case; but with sharp differences.
In the Apex case, the strikers ad-
mittedly destroyed some machinery
Nothing of the sort happened in the
Republic matter. In the hosiery work
ers' strike, the company did not turn
loose a force of armed thugs to club
and shoot In the steel strike, Re-
public Steel laid in munitions includ-
ing pistols, gas guns and clubs, and
company guards dubbed, shot and
gassed numbers of strikers-in addi-
tion to which the South Chicago po-
lice killed 10 persons and wounded
and beat up many more for the crime
of being on public property in the
neighborhood of Republic mill.
But these differences are not the
main issue. Both Republic and Apex
suits are efforts to pervert the Sher-
man antitrust law to the destruction
of labor unions. Both stem from the
Danbury Hatters case, lasting from
1903 to 1916.
The reactionary Supreme Court of
that day permitted this perversion.
1t is to be hoped that the present court
will do what it has done in the last
two years with several similar laws
and suits, consign them to the ashcan.
A CONSISTENT REFORMER
Manuel Quezon has put in effect on
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-02
WISDOM

Rest is fine medicine; let your
stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your
brain rest, you wearied and worried
men of business; let your limbs rest,
ye children of Carlyle
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BILL DESIGNED TO
END OPPRESSIVE
LABOR PRACTICES
Will Be OF Great Benefit To Industry,
La Toilette Says; introduced BY
Himself And Senator Thomas.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-Sen-
ator Robert M. La Toilette made q
ringing plea for the bill introduced
by himself and Senator Thomas Of
Utah to stop Oppressive labor prac-
tees" This bill prohibits to en-
ployers:
The use of labor spies and labor
espionage.
The use of strikebreakers and
strikebreaking agencies.
The use of privately paid armed
guards off the premises Of the en-
ployer.
The possession and use of indus
trial munitions such as tear gas and
sub-machine guns.
Action Called Overdue
Urging prompt passage of the
measure, La Toilette said, in part:
''This bill is several decades over
due. The recommendation in the re-
ports of the committee are not novel
They echo the findings of past gov
ernmental Investigations conducted
periodically over the past 40 years
The practices prohibited by this bill
have a long history in American in
dustrial relations. Successive con-
gressional Investigations, since 1898,
have discovered and condemned the
use of the labor spy and the strike
breaking mercenary."
Stating that fair minded employers
would welcome the bill, Senator La
Toilette said:
'In thus seeking to curb the eX-
cesses of a few employers, the bill
imposes no burdens or restrictions
upon the majority Of employers who
have refrained from these practices.
The fair-minded employer is not sub
jected to any hazards; there are no
regulations or orders which change
from day to day and which must be
obeyed under serious penalties. The
offenses are clearly written into the
bill for the courts to apply.
Bill To Aid Stockholders
Indeed it is the committees belief
that the passage of this bill will ulti-
mately be welcomed even by those
connected with companies which now
cling to these oppressive practices.
The passage of the bill should put an
end to the squandering of the money
of the stockholders on labor spies,
strikebreaking agencies and munitions
dealers. 1t is no exaggeration to say
that in the last few years, during the
period covered by this committees in
vestigation, millions of dollars have
been spent on these oppressive labor
practices. The money of the stock
holders has made the labor spy racket
and the strikebreaking racket lucra-
tive fields for the crook and gangster.
Money paid to such characters is
money spent to create industrial
strife. The bill will remove from in
dustry the burden of these expend-
itures and their costly results"
And in summing up, he said:
"Civil liberties are under attack. In
many countries today, the black
shadow Of dictatorship hangs over
the lives of ordinary citizens. The
press is the voice of the dictatorship;
the radio is controlled by the censor;
the right to be secure in ones home
is no longer respected. Free trade
unions have been abolished.
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