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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Lima Plans COmmun-
ity Chest Drive

Harvey w. Roberts, vice president
of the Metropolitan bank, of Lima,
will serve as campaign chairman of
the annual appeal of the Lima Com
munity chest, Rodney P. Lien, chest
president, announced recently.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Open Forum Speakers
Announced

The Lima Open Forum announces
that among the attractions this sea-
son will be James w. Wadsworth,
congressman from New York and
authority on international relations,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
HARDIN COUNTY
Horse Killed By
Lightning

A team of draft horses owned by
Orval Allen of near Hepburn, was
struck and killed by lightning bolt
last week as the animals stood in
a pasture field.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Volunteers Wanted
For Navy

Changes in the qualifications for
enlistment in the U. S Navy, made
following the governments announce
ment of plans to increase its armed
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Spanish War Vets
Plan Meet $.

The 31st reunion of the second
Ohio Volunteer infantry which
Evening star., 1939-04-10
Chicoao Produce

CHICAGO. April 10 R.-Poultry: live:
"a trucks: small hens easier balanSe
55oilsss ss pounds and under; cciored
springs 3 pounds wn,s rp sol9red 2o Ply
Rock. s11M: White ROCK. 1a$s; bsreSscf
ROSTERS, liz: ducks, 4s pounds up. col
ored. 16: white. ~; small colored, IS:
so Sn'e Old o is tefse hens turkeys young TOMS
score 90; a2, 2IIa: 9i, 21H: 90, 21H.:
80, 80, p; ss. 2oh; 90 centralized car
graded. extra frsts local 1eh; Cars. iss..
irsts. local 16; cars. 16h; current re-
ceipts. l4h; storase-packed extras. 17h:
rStat1ss ~ on track aS ~ total 2
Old stock. Idaho, Russets steady, demand
stronger. demand light other varieties ali
sis0ns pss Father S9ut b.ssd ssce light
Idaho Russet Burbanks, U. s. No. 1,
rado Red McClures. U. s. No. 1. cotton
sacks, sacks, 90: 2H:inch minimum; 2.15: wis.
Sol!h \ e Rsfoss SIs; 'tf Tr!Snp5s & s per cert
No. /. 20; 90 per cent U. s. No. 1, few
sales; 1;I5-20; early chios, IS per cent
q 8 No slsshtly stronser, sSaSs demsnd yers yers
sood; size 3 slightly weaker: demand slow;
Florida dull and unsettled; demand very
slow supplies rather, liberal: Texas Bliss
Triumphs; 50-lb. burlap sacks U. s. No
o7e e'S95 cot,6n saess mestl' 5 fGoG5 g Tssheq Ns
Bliss Triumphs, u S. No. /. 215.
Evening star., 1939-04-10
1898 Profit Marqins
OF Furniture Stores
Shown in Report
Years Volumes Down
About Is Per Cent
From 1887 Levels
9pecial D}spatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, April 10.-Large and
medium sized furniture stores closed
1898 with net profit equivalent to
o. and 80 cents, respectively, upon
each 500 of net sales, it was revealed
today by Roscoe r. Rau of Chicago,
executive vice president of the Ma
tional Retail Furniture Association,
in preview of the sixth annual re-
port of the controllers division of
the association to be released within
the next fortnight. Typical small
stores made profit of 3.48 per cent
Of sales for the year.
Volume was about Is per cent
under 1887 with the first half of the
year off most heavily and final
pickup in the last six months. which
made possible the small profit mar
gin indicated. Seventy per cent OF
the reporting firms were able to
show some net profit for the year
although practically all were in the
red at the end of the first half.
The earnings picture disclosed by
the report" said Mr.. Rau, "is clear
indication that furniture net earn
ings in a typical year run far less
than many critical estimates" In
1887, the best year since 1929, Mr.
Rau pointed out, the large store
showed a typical profit of 4.78 per
cent; the medium store, 6O6 per
cent, and the small store, 9 per cent.
Evening star., 1939-04-10
Transit Revenues Top
Year Ago Slightly
Special Dispat tch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 10.-Revenues
for the transit industry, for the
week ending April l, 1899. based on
telegraphic reports received from a
representative group Of transit
operating companies, showed a
slight increase from last year.
Transit Journals revenue in
dicator stands at 102.48, which
represents a gain of 2.48 per cent
from the corresponding week in
1888.
For the week ending March Is,
1899. the indicator was 102.56.
Gains for the week remained al
most the same, both in amount and
in geographical distribution, as for
the previous week. The best show
ings were made in the East, al
though differences were slight.
Evening star., 1939-04-10
New York Produce

NEW YORK. April 10 tP,,-EgRs. 24364
irregular. Mixed colors-Extra fancy. Sc
lection 1921: standards. 1SA-A: hrsts
II: mediums, 49,; dirties. No. l.. 1874:
average checks, 1874; storage packed firsts.
l7I
Whites-Resale Of premium marks
23Ha-25 "a: nearby. premium marks. 81 "a
s nearpy snd MidWestssn rds efSShanse
resale of nearby heavier mediums. 19h-23;
nearby and Midwestern, exchange mediums
1Sa4-19
Browns--Nearby. extra fancy. 2O-21h;
nearby and Mdwestern. exchange specials
10: exchange standards. 1871; nearby. ex-
change mediums. 1871.
Duck eggs-Nearby. $3.50
Butter; 500. 1913; steadier: creamery
higher than extra; 22s4 -23ia: extra t92
score). 2212: frsts (SS-9D. 21l7-22H;
seconds (S4-s7). 2Ola-21A.
Cheese. 172.Os3: easier: State, whole
milk flats held 1887. 2o-23; held 1888
1918: current makes. 14-14A.
Evening star., 1939-04-10
Chicuoo Livestock

CHICAGO, April 10 tRp.-(United States
Department OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. hogs,
5000 Esneral msrks. slew vad... and draEGy' EGy
74b: 77'49ft' FOOD sed1y to Choice. i70-2bO pounds.
pounds up. $751;. 90: few 140-160 pounds
at 7.O5-25: 40O-b60-pound sows' 6.10-
$50.
salable cattle. 1000; salable calves,
1000: very slow market; choice and prime
fed steers and strictly GOOD and choice
dition iavorins buying side; bidding 1925
on rank aane and e aesns sE9p o.t nas Sas
ing interests very bearish however: few
loads on order buyer account 1865 up
to 1880: latter scaling 1.196 pounds: next
market strictly good and choice lignt
heifers steady: others weak to. 25. mostly
l0-I6 OH: best light heifers. 1O35; cows
Evening star., 1939-04-10

AN arithmetic average Of net profits
in furniture stores during the past
decade. through boom years and de-
preston, would show the furniture
merchant doing about as well as the
average retailer in other lines, max
ing considerably less money than
many of the other groups" he said.
The 1898 controllers report is the
composite of several hundred re-
porting stores, large stores are clas-
sified as those selling more than
$350,00O per annum. medium stores
from $l25, 200 to $350,0O0 and small
stores $125, 900 and less. ...
Evening star., 1939-04-10

scarce. steady to easy; bulls fully steady
at down; vealers 25 lower at 1886
down: feeders very scarce.
salable sheep, 1900; fat lambs in
broad demand: indications fully rs higher;
talking 1000 to 1918 on good to choice
woolskins now hold at 1875 and 1O.4O
and better: two doubles medium to good
California spring lambs, 10.85 straight:
sheep steady.
Evening star., 1939-04-10
Bartlett Nominated
Exchange Chuirmun
ny tie Associa ted Press.

BY tie Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 10-Edward
E. Bartlett, jr., Of E. A. Pearce 6
Co., was nominated today to his
second term as chairman of the
Board of Governors of the New
York Stock Exchange. He has been
a member of the board since 1880
and a member of the stock exchange
since 1926. The annual election will
be May 8.
Evening star., 1939-04-10
Dividend Is Ordered

NEW YORK. April 10 (speciaD -
Directors of General Shoe Corp.
have declared a dividend of Is cents
per share on its outstanding COM
mon stock. payable April %. 1899, to
stockholders of record at the close
of business April IS.
Evening star., 1939-04-10
Money Market

NEW YORK. April 10 1P.-Call none,
| paper. % per cent. Time loans steady. SO.
80 days. aH; 4-6 months, "a per cent
Bankers ,acceptances unchanged; 5000
| cent: SO months as-i. per cent. Redis
count rate. New York Reserve Bank, l pei
Evening star., 1939-10-31

actress ever set for herself. On the
stage she was star, first, in light
opera, then in comedy, and subse-
quently in tragedy. In motion pic
lures, her brilliant career began in
1914, when the screen was silent. She
returned to it when it became vocal
and artistically much more ambitious
and attained an even more vivid sue
cess.
A positive personality always, Miss
Brady was especially positive that
women wasted great deal of time
worrying about age. At thirty-five,
she dismissed any possible challenge
of an onrushing generation with the
statement that a matron who had
substituted distinction for bloom"
occupied the pre-eminent position in
life. Her selection of clothes reflect
ed the same Sternness of conviction
for, even when she was named one
of the best-dressed women of her
time, she ascribed it to the fact that
she wore what suited her, not what
style decreed for given moment.
Careers of such luminosity are too
rare, in the theater or out of it, that
Miss Brady's death should not be an
occasion of deep regret.
Evening star., 1939-10-31
Says Broadcast From
Slovakia Misleading.
To the Editor Of The Star

To the Editor OF The Star
In the course of the regular European
broadcast of last night there was talk
by a news representative from Bratislava,
Slovaka, dealing with the election and
Inauguration of Slovakias first Presi-
dent which may have been very mis-
leading to the general public here. For
instance, the speaker referred to Slo-
vakia as a republic" and spoke of the
recent developments there as the out
growth and fulfillment of plan which
had been agreed upon between repre-
sentatives of Czechs and Slovaks in
Pittsburgh in 1918.
The fact is that Slovakia is about as
much of republic as is Soviet Russia
or Nazi Germany-or the pitiable Pro-
tektorat Won Boehmen und Maehren,"
where DR.. Hacha also is president"
Indeed, not even the government" of
Slovakia Gncluding DR.. Tiso, his cabinet
and the ParliamenD can act freely, but
is completely dominated from Berlin,
and merely serves as a rubber stamp for
Hitler and his Nazis. 1t commands
neither the respect nor the the conf
dence of the Slovak people, who consider
themselves as having been betrayed by
their leaders.
The pittsburgh agreement" provided
for union of Czechs and Slovaks in an
independent state" which shall be
republic (anO its constitution shall be
democratic" But how could anything
under Hitler's influence be democratic?
The very word is anathema to his ears.
october 27. EDW. WOLESENSKY,
Evening star., 1939-10-31

be considered. Mr.. Edison's report
implies that the Navy Department
yielded to the regional directors
refusal to comply with its wholly
reasonable request. If that was the
case-if the Navy's representative
made no further effort to obtain the
Government patterns-it would be
interesting to know why and upon
whose orders this extraordinary re-
gard was shown for a picket line
which, without any justification, was
blocking the exercise of a vital gov
ernmental function.
The House committee can render
valuable service If it will ascertain
the extent to which the strike and
the attitude of the regional director
interfered with the rearmament
program, and whether that inter-
ference was in fact condoned by the
Government.
Evening star., 1939-10-31

I was rather we'll acquainted with this
washington League for Peace and
Democracy" and this is about the way
the personnel lined up: Poets, lacking
appreciative audiences for their BRAIN
childs. 2: dogmatic arguers, lacking
audiences for their dogmatic arguments,
10; Government clerks, lonely, and doing
drab, uninteresting routine jobs, 20;
organizers (Who, in all the cases l met,
were American people, college educated
and honestly convinced that something
was wrong),4
That is your average parlor pink
group, and one of their meetings is
something pathetic to witness and boring
to hear. 1t is about as dangerous to
"the American way" as wet firecracker
and just about as interesting
There is only one reason why there
should be causes to fear these squeak
ing groups. If we allow conditions to
arise where great numbers of our people
are homeless, without food and desper-
ate for hope of betterment, then, and
only then, can any of these organiza tions
have any significance. amused"
October %.
Evening star., 1939-10-31
IndOrses Criticism of
Civil Service Ruling.
To the Editor of TIL,


May I felicitate Mr. George A. Warren
regarding his pointed declaration on the
rulings of the Civil Service Commission
limiting examinations to those who have
attended college or university of rec
ognized standing"
I concur in the expression of opinion
by Mr.. Warren and wish to add further
to the record.
The belief that recognized colleges or
universities have some peculiar pro-
prietary ingredient apparently was a
corollary in what may be called the
capillary attraction theory" of educa-
ton. This theory, worthy of sophomore
minds on the higher levels, holds that
the "best boys" are attracted to the best
schools" There is no adducible evi-
dence that the best boys" act like herds
of COWS and rush where their own kind
60. The concept best" in either con-
text defies limitation, and is accordingly
quite without value in any reasonable
discussion
Must citizens pay tribute to "recog-
nized institutions" in order to be con-
sidered adequately prepared to hold
Government positions? This seems to be
an extension of the idea of monopoly
into the field of education.
October 81. JOHN DOE.
Evening star., 1939-10-31
Union Peace Plan

An arrangement that seems fair to
both sides has opened the way for
the International Brotherhood of
Teamsters and the International
Union of Operating Engineers to end
their costly jurisdictional strike.
Under the findings of a special
committee from the Building Trades
Department of the American Feder-
alton of Labor, with which both are
affiliated, the teamsters would give
in on the issue which stirred the
trouble, namely, the right to drive
mobile concrete mixers, leaving this
work to the operating engineers. The
formers jurisdiction would be linn
tied to power-driven equipment used
for vehicular purposes.
Both sides agreed in advance to be
bound by the decision of the COM
mittee, composed of three Federation
vice presidents, and that fact pre-
sumably assures peace on the terms
outlined
The matter went before the arbi-
traitors last May, but illness of one
prevented consideration until a few
days ago. Once the conference
started it did not take long to decide
the merits of the case.
1t will be cause for general salts
faction If this is the final chapter
in the eamster-engineer struggle,
which has been Waged on a Nation
wide basis and has been felt with
particular force here, where recur-
rent stoppages of work eliminated
recently in the indictment of group
of teamster leaders and the teamster
local on charges of fostering strikes
and boycotts.
Unquestioned acceptance of the
committee decision not only will re-
move a constant threat from the
building industry, but also will afford
welcome, if belated demonstration
of the ability of the building trades
to adjust their intra- family troubles
peaceably.
John Possehl, head of the engi-
neers, very properly described the
prospective settlement as "a victory
for the building and construction in
dustry."
The effect that the new turn of
affairs will have on the court action
is, of course, problematical. In ad-
dition to the indictments here, the
Department of Justice also has gone
before the grand jury in st. Louis
with a jurisdictional dispute case as
part of the Nation wide inquiry into
restraints in building.
Evening star., 1939-10-31
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. Truce1pell.

Music Is often spoken of as the uni
versal language, but 1t means far more
than just being understood by all peoples.
The universal scope Of music is ex-
emplified in its very amplitude, the vari-
Gus types of music known throughout
the world.
To attempt to look upon this art in
just one of its many spheres is to narrow
it beyond recognition.
Yet this is exactly what is being done
by so many people today.
They are musical fascists without
realizing it.
Consider the bright young man who
mas discovered Swing"
Often he comes to the point where he
believes that no other sort Of music in
the world is worth listening to.
But that is not all.
Somehow he becomes obsessed with
the fixed idea that others who insist on
the universal scope of music are just old
fossils.
The Swing" addict of this type is a
curious manifestation of the plain fact
that the totalitarian idea is not confined
to politics alone or to those countries in
which it f1ourishes.
The total" outlook upon music, for
instance, may exist in America without
even its adherents realizing exactly what
they are doing.
To be total" in this respect, means
to exclude every type of music except
the sort one happens to fancy at the
time
Hence we have adherents of righteous
jazz really frothing at the mouth over
sweet music" even belittling sympho-
nies and players in symphony orchestras.
The latter they call long hairs" or long
haired musicians.
An honest tune of the folk type they
brand as corn"
These extremists cannot be excused on
the grounds that mostly they are young
men. 1t isn't the age, but the type Of
mind which makes people, in any art,
sneer at what they do not like.
The present monograph vogue has
brought to the fore the musical fascist
who claims that nothing is worth listen
ing to except symphonic music.
1t would be bad enough if this bore
and he really is that-merely believed
this, but that is only the beginning.
He does not want anybody else to
listen to anything else!
Had he the power, no doubt he would
bodily prevent other music lovers from
buying recorded piano music.
He would make it unlawful for them
to listen to fine records of the rhunlba
records or the Negro spirituals.
AS for any one who dared to confess
to liking for Hawaiian music, such a
Evening star., 1939-10-31

wight would be condemned to listen to
Russian symphony for 10 nights in a
row.
In the phonograph world this sad
trait is brought to focus, because in
it it is so easy to get what one wants
as long as ones money holds out.
And what one wants in music depends
upon ones tastes.
1t is much more than just question
of the artistic tastes, however.
The main consideration is whether
ones musical tastes are truly catholic,
or narrowed by sort of musical pro-
vincialism.
1t is even more than that 1t is
whether the listener, before ALL is really
interested in music, or simply its per-
formance.
There can be little question that the
shot jazz" addict of the sincere type Is
more interested in the athletic perform
ances he hears than he is in the music
his idols play.
The great Blk" Beiderbecke was a
made a lasting impression on listeners,
most of whom were young and just out
OF college, and who, therefore, were not
far removed from the football hero Wor-
ship.
One may suspect that the phonograph
record fan" who goes in heavily for
symphonic recordings, to the sneertul
exclusion of all else in the wonderland
of recorded music, is just young fellow
who falls prone before the eXuperance
and power of the magnificent SYM
phonies and equally magnificent orches-
tras.
His taste is excellent, but what he has
yet to do is to widen his musical horizon.
not only to take in lesser compositions,
but also to teach himself that the real
spirit of the art breathes as firmly in a
tender cradle song-although it Goes not
use cymbals-as in the movements of
his favorite Russian symphonies
Many an older listener will have to
take firm hold on himself, in this respect
He, too at times, may come to think
that music means magnificent music
only. Nothing could be farther from the
plain truth.
Music is universal.
Not only is it understood by all peo-
piles, but it has a scope which astounds
the investigator the farther he pro-
crosses.
It is said that Latin America has more
than 10 different types of dance rhythms,
not more than 20 of which have ever
been heard in the United States.
Whatever you like best in music. re-
joice in and love completely but also
recognize at the same time that it is only
a part of great whole which is as vide
as the very ocean of sound in which it
functions.
Evening star., 1939-10-31
The Right to Strike

Few persons in this country-in
the face of legitimate labor dispute
between an employer and his en-
ployes-Would deny the right of the
employees to strike and to maintain
supporting picket lines, but the dis
closure by Acting Secretary of the
Navy Edison of the position taken
by strikers at the Bohn Aluminium
Company, of Detroit, brings to light
a fragrant abuse of this privilege and
raises question as to whether the
Government did not in effect condone
that abuse.
Mr.. Edison, in report to the House
Naval Affairs Committee, said the
strike, called by the G. I. o. United
Automobile Workers, seriously de-
layed delivery to the Navy Depart
ment of parts needed in the naval
aircraft construction program. This,
of itself, presents grave question
whether any strike should be tol-
Grated if the result is serious inter-
ference with the Nations defense
program in a time of emergency.
If such a strike is proper in one case
it would be proper in others, and 1t
is conceivable that a situation might
arise in which the task of building
up our military establishment would
be crippled to an extent that could
imperil the national safety.
From Mr.. Edison's statement, how
ever, it appears that the unions lead
ership was guilty of more than merely
delaying the plane building program.
According to the Acting Secretary,
a Navy representative informed the
unions regional director of the "seri-
BUSINESS of the delay" and asked
permission to pass through the picket
line to pick up Government-owned
patterns (for engine parts and ship
them on a Government bill Of lading.
The reply Of the regional director,
Mr.. Edison said, was an emphatic
"No," accompanied by the statement
that the pickets would not let pat
terms or inspected castings be re-
moved. Apparently the union, while
preventing the work for the Navy
from being done in the Bohn plant,
was also determined that none of 1t
should be done elsewhere.
That is an attitude on the part of
the union which finds no sanction in
the right to strike. It merits and
will receive the sharpest public con-
demnation. But there is another
phase Of the incident which should
Evening star., 1939-10-31
Alice Brady

Even in the period marked by the
lavish blooming of new talent on
both stage and screen, the passing
of Alice Brady represents an acute
loss to the theater and the motion
picture. Possessed though they may
be of many excellences, few actresses
reach the stature of great ladies of
the theater. Miss Brady was one of
the few, making her life and her
achievement profound proof of her
contention that actresses are born,
not made.
Limitless in ambition, enthusiasm
and talent for her chosen profess
sion-chosen over the objections of
her father, William A. Brady, whose
objections are notoriously emphatic
Miss Brady spread herself over every
field of entertainment. And that she
never spread herself thinly was dem
onstrated in the magnitude of her
success in the most varied career an