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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-19

Ramseyer home. Mrs. Powell and
Mrs. Hirschfeld returned home after
having spent the past week there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Schaublin
and daughter Patsy Ann spent the
week end with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Sargent and sons Of
Columbus Grove.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Hochstettler
spent Sunday evening at the Amos
and Francis Basinger home.
Mrs. Richard Core and daughter
Linda Lee returned to their home in
Lima after spending a few weeks
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Gratz.
Mr. and Mrs. H. o. Hilty and
daughter Rosann spent last Tuesday
evening at the w. C. schaublin
home.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gratz spent
Sunday evening with Mr.. and Mrs.
Russell Leiber and son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Marquart and
son Melvin spent Wednesday even
ing with Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Mar
quart, Sr.
Past week callers at the Earnest
Gratz home were: Mrs. Warren
Moser, Mrs. Otto Amstutz, Mrs. Paul
Rhoads, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Green
and sons, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilford
Gratz, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter schaub-
lin and Mrs. Russell Schaublin and
daughter.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-19
Blufton High School
Notes

semester examinations were
closed at the high school last week,
and work on the second semester was
started Monday morning Student
teachers from Blufton college who
took over classes at the start of the
new school period include: William
Tisdale, Ronald Uurmi Donald Weng-
er, Jim Ehrman, Kenneth Slower,
Gladys Florip, Pauline Miller, Donita
Hartzler. Helen Thutt, Ann Ruth
Steiner, Evelyn Nullet, Ruth Whil-
edge, Dorothy Green, David Van
Eman, John Gregg, Kenneth ALTER.
Alva Tetlow, James Miller, Bill Ram
seyer and Batella Masters.
-
A vocational trades and industry
course met for its first class session
Tuesday evening in the high school.
A class in shop electricity viii meet
every Tuesday night and one in shop
drawing viii be held each Thursday.
Jack Remde is teaching the electricity
course and George Klay is in charge
of the second
Henry Huber, prominent district
farmer, was the speaker at a meeting
Of the Future Farmers Of America,
last Thursday in club rooms at the
high school Agricultural conditions
in France were described blythe speak
er, who was a member Of the Ohio
Farmer tour thru Europe last year.
First meeting Of the short course in
home economics was held in the home
economics room al the high school
last Monday. Meetings will be held
each Monday night for a period of 10
weeks.
##*
Bibles recently donated to Bluffton
schools by The Gideons, interdomina-
tional society, will be used principally
in the religious education classes. The
policy Of the board Of education has
been announced as to permit the read
ings Of scriptures, without comment.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-19

More than 100000 winter wheat
growers in the United States are car
rying insurance on their 1899 crop.
Ohio growers turned in a large num-
Der Of applications for insurance but
only 41 per cent paid their premiums
and obtained policies.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-19

National forests furnished one and
one-half billion feet Of timber, for
age for nearly 100000 head of live
stock, water for 100000 city resi-
dents, shelter for 100000 big game
animals and 100000 furbearers,
provided recreation for 30.000,000
people, and furnished work for 1,000,-
600 people last year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-19

The egg beater comes in handy
when making d flour thickening for
gravies and sauces. Lumpiness can
be avoided completely If you use an
egg beater to smooth the -four paste.
Evening star., 1939-05-15
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E.. TrdcepeH.

Carefully we split q piece Of rubber
tubing, and pushed it down on the rim
all the way around.
The birds thus had neat rubber tired
perch.
One day, however, they knocked the
rubber tire off, and perched on the sharp
tin just as easily. BY the time we noticed
the tire was gone the birds had been
using the sharp edged perch for several
days, apparently without harm, so we
decided that here again nature knew a
great deal more than we did.
~ *xH
After all, there is no use being fussy
about the birds, as to what they like and
what they do not like, and what is good,
better, best for them.
Too much human interference does
them little good.
They may be trusted to use their own
instincts to good purpose at all times.
That Is why no one can say definitely
that any type Of man-made birdhouse
will attract certain birds, or that various
types Of vines and plants and trees are
sure-fire attractors.
Theoretically, they will respond to
houses of the right door size to bushes
with berries, to trees, especially ever
green's to luxuriant vines, to yards with
shallow bird baths, and food put out to
them
So they will, but that these things, in
themselves, spell the difference between
q irIc
be said with assurance, for the birds
themselves have something to say in the
matter.
Nesting materials, such as dog and cat
hairs, lengths of string and cord. feathers
and the like-a display Of these, either
purposely or accidentally, may or may
not attract birds
Just what makes them select a site
for nesting, out Of all possible sites, is
more or less unknown. The presence of
house cats is not deterrent, evidently
nor noise or confusion in neighborhood:
often the birds choose sites which appear
to human minds very poor to say the
least
The robin house, or shelf, should be
mace open on three sides, as the name
suggests.
The birds like to fly into and out of
the nest quickly, to slide out, as it were
at the approach Of danger They will
not usually take to a site which offers
but one way of getting into and out of it
Those who put up birdhouses, and have
birds to occupy them promptly, may
think they have solved the problem but
the very next year the songsters may
refuse to use the houses.
A house used by a mouse should be
cleaned out thoroughly, and washed with
soap and water, If feasible, then dried
well IN the sun. Mice and rats are
hereditary bird enemies; rats, especially
get many fedglings. Squirrels at times
eat eggs and young.
Evening star., 1939-05-15
EAST FALLS CHURCH, VA.

Dear Sir: For q number OF months
have devoured your column each eve
ming, for have been catering to the
wild birds all winter at my log cabin
home in nearby Virginia, and while the
bluebirds roasted in the beautiful home
constructed especially for them last year,
practically all of February and early
March (three pairs of them) yet they
have not returned to build their nest,
as have the chickadee and the wren.
II should like to know how to attract
them back to both the modern home and
the rustic type. However, the chickadees
have taken over one of the warehouses;
and said wrens seem to be house hunting
about the DR.. Van Fleet rose which en-
tirely covers one side of the cabin.
I'm fact, the chickadee has feathered
her nest with handfuls Of fur which I
have combed out of my airdale from time
to time.
"Is it possible to hope for the return
of the wrens who formerly occupied an
other house, after mouse had nested in
the wrenhouse during the winter while
1t was stored In the woodhouse?
"A recent article dealt with robins and
their building habits; 1t has attracted
my attention, as I set up shelflike nest
about 7 feet high on huge pine tree
nearby, covering same with tarred roof
ing paper.
Should 1t be opened at each side in
stead of the very front, or is it hopeless
to attract robins on such heavily wooded
tracts? have seen many hopping about
my lawn, especially on cloudy days.
II shall not take up more of your time
on this subject nearest my heart, but
have profited by every bit of the valuable
information contained in your double
column. especially the exchange Of ex-
periences by your many readers. Yours
for bigger and better birds.
Sincerely, o. E. c."
A DR.. Van Fleet rose vine Is one of the
very best bird attractors in the world.
It's long canes and heavy foliage satisfy
the bird mind as to possible protection,
although just how deceptive this may be
was detailed here recently.
If the birds think it offers safety, how
ever that helps them great deal surely
they have psychology, of a sort, as we'll
as humans and what benefits its mind,
little though it may be, must help the
whole bird
Possibly other luxuriant growing rose
vines are liked by the songsters just as
well. Certainly the sharp spines in no
wise deter them. The horny material Of
which claws and legs are made ably re-
sists injury.
Several winters ago we had a tin bird
feeder, with a turned up rim. also of tin
(galvanized. This was rather sharp.
and at first we shrank from permitting
the feathered folk to use 1t.
Evening star., 1939-05-15

rect control over either prices or wages.
In the case Of wages, the Government
would have the power to regulate work.
ing hours, which in turn would regulate
the demand of industry for labor which
In turn would regulate wages. In the
case Of prices, the Government could un-
dersell the market with the surplus goods
which it had bought at cost price when
prices got too high.
In case an individual concern should
want to close down for repairs, or could
not obtain raw materials, or for any
other reason was justified in closing
down, or in case the planning boards
estimate of the amount of goods that
the industry as whole should supply
was not sufficient to warrant all of the
concerns in keeping their places of busi-
ness open, then, any concern, at the dis
cretion OF the planning board, and with
his own consent, should be allowed to
have the whole or part Of his quota ab
sorbed by other concerns In the same
business, provided that the industry as
a whole should manufacture the amount
OF goods estimated as necessary by its
planning board.
Where demand was steady and did not
fluctuate, as In the case of staple articles,
estimates could be made for a year in
advance. In other industries where de-
mand was governed by changing popular
tastes and where novelty was frequently
required, estimates could be made for
much shorter periods OF time, so that
production would be barely kept ahead of
consumption. WOO. OWEN
May 10.
Evening star., 1939-05-15

their countries have logically taken
up, and intend to maintain. excludes
them from being the object Of any
political combination whatever Of
the powers"
The northern governments "wel-
come expressions from any other
country of desire to respect their
integrity and independence" They
wish to imply no slight or mistrust
Of Germany's motives and inten-
tions." But within these punctil-
iously correct words is imbedded an
undeniable rebuff Of Hitler's diplo-
matte offensive. In corner Of
Europe where democracy is firmly
implanted any other attitude toward
totalitarian pretensions would have
come as a rude shock. The Nazis
have knocked in vain on the Vikings
doOr
Evening star., 1939-05-15
Objections to Refugee
Bill Recited.

To the Editor Of The Star:
The Wagner-Rogers bill, now pending
asks Congress to allow 10000 refugee
children to become citizens Of the United
States and guarantees they will not be-
come public charges. There are, how
ever, serious objections to its passage.
This country would not only be called
upon to educate these children, but
would also face the problem of having,
IN few years, approximately 10000 ad-
dltlonal candidates for American Jobs.
These 10000 children represent 10000
potential families. Assuming there would
be an average Of five children to a family
and using the simple process of dividing
the children of each generation by two
and multiplying by five, it may be quickly
shown that the descendants of these
refugee children would, in four genera
tions alone, amount to 1,286,750. For
every alien, regardless Of race or nation
ality, that is admitted and given work,
an American is put upon relief. Ameri-
can citizens are being pauperized to
make way for those who have no claim
upon this country.
At present there are in the United
States over 100000 unemployed; over
100000 are on relief; over 100000 des-
titute American children are in need of
the bare necessities of life, to say nothing
of their lack Of educational advantages:
millions of American girls and BOYS
graduate from schools to find no avail
able jobs and add their list to the al
ready long one Of unemployed.
Congressman should consider the needs
of their own country and countrymen
and the wishes of their constituents
whose vote of confidence put these Con-
gressmen where they are.
S. WHITFIELD.
May II.
Evening star., 1939-05-15
Says Humanity Dictates
Admission Of Refugees.
tn the Editor of The Star.

Many reasons, political, social and eco
nomic, are offered by advocates Of the
proposal to admit 10000 refugee chill
dren to this country. All Of these reasons
doubtless have their merits, but there Is
one so clearly outweighing them all that
wonder it Is not more often stressed.
This overwhelming reason Is simply the
reason of humanity. We want to save
these children from starvation and
slavery because we are humane people.
One may disregard the handful Of ener-
getic propagandists in opposition They
must do their duty. But the great ma
jority of the American people favor the
rescue Of these helpless youngsters be-
cause we are what we are
Speaking as one who knows a good
deal about foreign peoples, submit that
most Americans have an appreciation of
the Golden Rule that is unique. The
temporary economic difficulties Of the
present must not be permitted to obscure
this eternal verify, which stems directly
from our basic love Of democracy and our
natural wealth. America can afford to
be generous, and has never yet failed in
its duty to humanity. If it had, approx
mately 130,000,0oO of us, descendants of
older sets Of refugees, wouldn't be here
now. Our ancestors left the old countries
for the same reasons these innocent chill
dren wish to leave now. The Golden
Rule was valued then, and we should re-
member that 1t has never been repealed
May 10. WILLIAM MANN.
Evening star., 1939-05-15
Barter With Bolivia

Germany'S granting OF 4,OOO, ,OOO-
mark barter credit to Bolivia for the
purchase Of manufactured products
to be paid for with Bolivian minerals,
hides and oil carries step further
the Reich's effort to implant its
economic doctrines in Latin America
and bears certain disturbing implica-
tions for the United States.
About IS per cent of Bolivia's ex-
portation is tin, but practically the
entire balance, with the exception
Of small quantity of cattle hides,
coca, quinine, rubber and wool, Is
made up of zinc, lead, tungsten,
antimony, copper, bismuth and sui
phur, all Of them strategic raw ma
terials.
Germany will have access to all Of
these with exception of tin, which
by international agreement is mar
keted through the World Tin Com
mittee in London. The principal tin
smelteries are located in England,
too, so that most of Bolivia's ex-
portation remains outside the scope
of the barter deal.
The agreement is most important
In its relation to the oil industry,
and possible future development Of
Bolivia as source Of petroleum for
the Reich. The nation has never
been an exporter of oil, the small
production going almost entirely into
domestic consumption, and in fact
is a heavy importer Of all kinds Of
petroleum products, mainly from the
United States and Peru. It is be-
lieved to possess important oil re-
sources, however, and the new Ger
man credits will be used for the ex-
ploitation OF these and for the in
tensification of production in fields
already opened
Adequate oil resources, a primary
necessity for wartime and for an in
dustrial economy such as Germany's,
are a matter of grave anxiety not
only for Germany, but for Italy and
Japan. None of them possesses any
such resources, outside Of Germany's
relatively unimportant domestic pro-
duction.
Germany is striving to do in Bolivia
what she has sought to do in other
Latin American countries
herself so closely with their economic
system that in case Of war they
could not afford, without seriously
dislocating their economies, to aban-
don Germany and stand with the
United States in defense of world
democracy.
1t is disruptive technique aimed
at destroying whatever reality Latin
American solidarity may ever achieve.
and in this connection the present
barter deal is of deep concern to
the United States, meriting some
study Of measures to counteract its
effect.
Evening star., 1939-05-15
Admiral Leuhy at San Juon

Announcement that the ranking
officer of the Navy, Admiral William
D. Leahy, who will soon retire as
Chief of Naval Operations, is to sue
ceed Major General Blanton Winship
as Governor of Puerto Rico, is an
event of more than ordinary sig
niflcance. 1t is promptly followed by
news of the governments intention
to transform our insular outpost in
the southern Atlantic into an impor-
tant link in the Caribbean defense
scheme to serve the same basic pur-
pose as Hawaii, on the Pacific side Of
the Panama Canal Zone.
Last winters maneuvers of the
United States Fleet were pivoted on
the region of which Puerto Rico is
the strategic center. AS Admiral
Leahy was President Roosevelt s
companion on that occasion, the
subsequently disclosed plan to estab-
lish the Department of Puerto Rico"
as special unit in the national
defense system was obviously the
direct result of the observations made
and decisions reached on the spot by
the Commander in Chief and the
Chief of Naval Operations.
AS the United States most exposed
position in the Atlantic, Puerto Rico
is ideally situated to serve as an air
base fortress. On the conversion Of
the island into such a stronghold, the
Army and Navy now propose to spend
$30,000,000 for coastal defense forti-
f1cations, long-range bombers and
navy patrol planes. The underlying
purpose is to equip the island with
facilities to intercept any aerial
threat from Europe directed at the
Panama Canal, the continental
United States, or South America.
Construction activities are to begin
July l, as soon as new fiscal year
funds are available to the War and
Navy Departments.
Admiral Leahy, who has been the
Presidents chief adviser during the
United States greatest peace time
arms expansion, is in every respect
qualified to serve as governor of
what is already being called the
american Gibraltar" In letter to
the Puerto Rican resident commits
sioner at Washington, Santiago
Iglesias, Mr.. Roosevelt says he "some
time ago determined to make Admiral
Leahy Governor of Puerto Rico when
he went on the retired list this sum-
mer, and am sure you will find that
as Governor, he will serve the people
of the island with ability and under
standing"
The President might have said,
with equal assurance, as, Of course,
he feels, that as commander of a
great new airbase in the Atlantic, the
distinguished officer who has spent
the better part of half a century in
the naval service will enhance his
reputation in the new responsible
ties he will shortly assume,
Evening star., 1939-05-15
Psalm

Father, thank Thee that am alive
To see the beauty Of an apple tree,
And last nights raindrops shining In
the sun
Upon the lilac bushes and the grass.
And hear the robins sing their morning
praise
Up IN the branches Of the apple tree.
A globe Of fragrant foam, faint-tinged
with pink.
Pity the little children, Father, who
Have never seen the wonder OF a tree
Rising in seashell pink into the blue.
And may some kinder fate than they
have known
Show them an orchard, where they lose
themselves
In ecstacy Of living. there with Thee,
ELIZABETH n. CRE0LOW.
Evening star., 1939-05-15
Shooting Stors
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON

Exacting.
He talked of ennui, and he said
This life was all a bore.
The hours, monotonously spread,
Annoyed him more and more.
He vowed excitement was the thing
On which his soul was bent,
He wanted something narrowing
Before he'd be content.
And as he pondered thus one day
An angry bull he met.
He woke and ran, but, sad to say,
The bull ran faster yet.
He cried, while climbing over the gate,
All pale, with garments rent,
"This is excitement, pure and straight
Yet he was not content.
Evening star., 1939-05-15
Nuzis Baked in the North

Last weeks Nazi diplomatic score
was not so high. Hitler lost two i'm
portant rounds decisively. Turkey,
Germany's World War ally, aligned
herself with the grand peace alli-
ance' headed by Great Britain and
France. Almost simultaneously, the
four great Scandinavian nations
Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Fin
land-formally rejected Berlin over
lures to join the Reich in non-
aggression pacts.
A declaration to that effect, issued
at Stockholm after a conference
among their respective foreign min
listers, was followed by the revelation
that Estonia and Latvia, which were
at first favorable to the German pro-
posal, are now reluctant to accept it
and are minded to join their Scandi-
navian neighbors in a pan-northern
union pledged to the observance of
strict neutrality.
Thus the Nazis' dramatic attempt
to minimize Anglo-French stop
aggression plans by linking Ger
many's northern neighbors in an un-
derstanding with the Reich has been
thwarted. Lithuania, which Hitler
holds in subsection through the oc-
cupation Of Memel, remains his only
friendly" outlook on the Baltic. The
coldness of the northern states may
be expected to whet the Fuehrers de-
sire to bend Poland to his will, as we'll
as to intensity his maneuvers to keep
Stain out of the anti-axis group.
The northern foreign ministers"
as they are described in the Stock
holm communique, affirm that
Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Fin
land adhere to the doctrine laid down
at their meeting in Oslo last year.
There they declared that the north
ern countries, "as hitherto, remain
outside Of all groups Of powers that
may be formed in Europe, and in the
event of war will do everything to
avoid being involved"
In specific response to Germany's
invitation to become parties ITO more
or less extensive non-aggression
pacts," the swedes, Danes, Nor
wegians and Firms hold unanimously
that "the international policy which
Evening star., 1939-05-15
Troops in Harlan

With q majority of the Nations
soft coal mines reopening today,
the battle front in the union shop"
struggle between the miners and
operators has shifted to Harlan
County, Kentucky, where National
Guardsmen have been stationed by
Governor A. B. Chandler to pre-
vent violence" during an attempt to
resume mining operations on non-
union basis.
Faced with a demand from John
L. Lewis, head of the United Mine
Workers, that the non-union mines
be kept closed, the Kentucky Gov
ernor has replied that mo one can
tell our people to work or not to
work and no one can come into this
State and cause trouble"
If, by that statement, Governor
Chandler means that the troops have
been called out to assure the Harlan
County miners complete freedom of
choice in deciding whether to re-
turn to work or remain out of the
mines in further effort to enforce
their union shop demands he has
acted wholly within the bounds OF
propriety. Developments of the next
few days should reveal whether in
fact the Governor is interested only
in safeguarding the right of the men
to work or not to work, as they see
fit, but it is not amiss to observe that
the past experience of the miners
in Bloody Harlan" is sufficient to
establish a prima facie case to the
contrary.
The situation is one which calls
for the exercise of restraint by both
sides, and in that respect Mr.. Lewis
has not lived up to his responsibility.
His statements that there must mot
be shooting of mine workers by coal
operators" and that the miners can
not be "shot back into the mines
Evening star., 1939-05-15

are distinctly inflammatory in their
effect, and are not based on any facts
justifying such extreme inferences.
It is understandable that Mr..
Lewis, having established his union
shop in the greater part of the in
dustry, should now be seeking to
make that victory complete. But
that wholly natural desire does not
relieve him of the obligation to make
his contribution to avoidance of vio-
lence and bloodShed.