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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-20

"Janey-!"
Eyes, Baldy." Jane sat up in bed,
dreams still in her eyes. She had
been late in getting to sleep. There
had been so much to think of--Fred-
erick Towne's proposal-the star
ting change in Evans
''It's telegram. Open the door,
dear"
She caught up her dressing-gown
and wrapped it around her. "A tele-
gram?" She was with him now in
the hall. "Baldy, is it Judy?"
Eyes. She's ill. Asks if you can
come on and look after the kiddies.
"Of course" She swayed little.
"Hold on to me minute, Baldy.
1t takes my breath away"
"You mustn't be scared, old girl"
'I'll be all right in min
ute.
His arms were tight about her.
"It seems as if ! should go, too,
Janey."
"But you can't. IN get things
ready and ride in with you in the
morning. I'll pack my trunk if you'll
bring it down from the attic. I can
sleep on the train tomorrow"
The next morning Badly went to
bring his car around, and Evans
stood with his hand on the back of
James chair, looking down at her.
you'll write to me, Jane?"
"Oh, of course
He shifted his hand from the chair
back to her shoulder. Dear little
girl, if my laundering prayers will
help you any-you'll have Them"
She turned in her chair and looked
up at him. She could not speak.
Their eyes met, and once more Jane
had that breathless sense of fiutter-
ing wings within her that lifted to
the sun.
Then Badly was back, and the
bags were ready, and there was
just that last hand-clasp. God
bless you, Jane
Frederick Towne was at the train.
He had been dismayed at the news
of James departure. do you mean
that you are going to stay indefinite
ly?" he had asked over the wire.
81 shall stay as long as Judy
needs me-"
Frederick had flowers for her,
books and a big box of sweets. Peo-
pie in the Pullman stared at Jane
in the midst of all her magnifcence.
They stared too, at Towne, and at
Briggs, who rushed in at the last
moment with more books from
Brentano.
Edith and Baldy were on the
platform. Edith had come down
with Towne. So Frederick, alone
with Jane, said. 81 want you to think
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-20

Herbert Augsburger has returned
home after visiting the past two
weeks with his brther, Dale Augsbur-
ger at Detroit, Mich.
Mrs. Edith Mann of Bluffton was
Thursday guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harley Lugibihl.
Mrs. Cal. Bailey has been spending
the week in Findlay with Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer Walthers and family.
A DINNER party was held Wednes-
day evening in honor of the birthday
of Helen Cook at her home. Those
present at the affair were the honor
ed guest, Virginia Gill of Bluffton;
Evelyn Amstutz, Helen Wolfe, Eileen
Amstutz, Mrs. ID. r. Van Meter, Max
inc Cook and Mrs. L. E. Cook Sew
eral lovely gifts were received by the
honored guest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Delmar Beery and
family spent Saturday at Evans Lake,
Michigan, the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Davis.
Philip Piper who was recently hired
as telegraph operator by the Nickel
Plate r. R. has been working at
Buckland the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Truax of Stu
benville, Ohio, are spending the week
with the formers mother, Mrs. Minnie
Truax.
Mrs. Morris Pfeifer and family
were Wednesday visitors of Mr.. and
Mrs. Z. c. Pfeifer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Weaver and son
Gary of Fremont are visiting with
Mrs. Lille Anderson and Mrs. Della
Weaver over the week end.
Mrs. Ray Miller and Mrs. Robert
Miller of Cleveland were Thursday
visitors of their grandfather, VIM.
Mcbride who has been i'll the past
few weeks. Mr.. Mcbride has been
removed to the Lima hospital.
Miss Virginia Burkholder was q
Thursday guest of Miss Jane Evans
at Lima.
| Miss Louella Bailey is spending the
summer with Mrs. Don Forche at
Russell's Point.
Mrs. VIM. Younkman, Mrs. John
Augsburger and Mrs. VIM. Arnold
spent Thursday with their sister Mrs.
John Baker at Ada.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. c. Bowlus of Col
umbus were over night guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Dwight Baughman.
The Young Peoples Sunday school
class of the Church of Christ met
Wednesday evening with Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Ellenburger, Jr., Those pres
ent were: Mr.. and Mrs. Carl AM
stutz, Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Yant,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lewis, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lewis Van Meter, Mrs. Grant
Barber, Mrs. Morris Pfeifer and the
host and hostess.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mick McDorman of
Mansfield spent Saturday with Mrs
Emmo Barber and Frank McDorman
| Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Marker and dau
| ghters Evelyn and Virginia of Var
Vert were Saturday callers of Mrs
Carrie Durkee and daughter, Ruth.
| Carol Anderson spent several days
with Wanda Griffith at Cairo.
Mrs. I. w. Byerly and daughter
Ruby of Lima, were Wednesday even
ing guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Delma1
Beery.
Clarence Ross and family of Day
ton spent several days this week with
Mrs. Catherine Ross.
The Ladies Aid society of the
Church of Christ met Friday evening
with Mrs. Carl Amstutz. Those pres
ents were: Mrs. Ruth Lewis, Mrs
Mildred Varvel, Mrs. Jim Eetta Edge
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-20

Moisture evaporates from soil in
cleared fields about nine times as
rapidly as from soil covered with
dense forest. Water evaporates
from soil in the open-park type of
woods FIVE times as rapidly as from
soil in dense woods containing under
growth.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-20

Bacterial wilt of sweet corn can be
controlled only by planting varieties
resistant to the disease. Infected
plants have wrinkled, twisted, or
otherwise malformed leaves. Early
infection may prevent plants from
growing more than six to eight
inches tall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-13

Muskrat's house. There wasn't q
sign of it. Either the water was
over it or it had been swept away.
Billy dived in and swan over to
where Jerry's house used to be.
You know, Billy Is a very fine SWIM
mer. There was no house there.
Then Billy swan over to the hole
In the bank which was Jerry's castle.
Billy knew all about that. He had
been inside more than once when
Jerry wasn't about. He knew just
what q fine, comfortable bedroom
there was at the end Of the long
hall. Taking q long breath, Billy
dived and entered the long hall. He
hurried clear to the end OF 1t to
that snug bedroom. It was filled
with water. Billy turned and bur.
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ried out to get q breath Of air. Then
he hung about q while looking for
Jerry Muskrat. There was no sign
Of him.
Hes been carried away by the
swift current" thought Billy. THAT
means that by this time he has
reached the Big River, and we'll
never see him here again. And
that means -"
Billy didn't finish. Instead he
started back home as fast as he
could dart, and that Is very fast.
He was In a hurry to get there. He
was excited. It was clear that he
had something on his mind.
my dear" he cried Is soon q he
SAW Mrs. Billy, I've the most SPLEEN
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such excitement. So he was out to

such excitement. So he was out to
see all that was to be seen.
When he reached the pond Of
Paddy the Beaver he saw right
away that Paddy and his house
were quite all right. You see, the
water could not rise high enough
to trouble Paddy. It simply ran
over the top of Paddy's dam. But
below that dam the Laughing Brook
was swollen and rushing angrily
between high banks. Billy kept on
until the banks became lower and
were overlooked. At last he reached
the edge Of the Green Forest and
discovered that there was no sign
Of the Smiling Pool. Instead, the
water spread far across the Green
Meadows. Billy looked for Jerry
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lid news for you. Guess what It

did news for you. Guess what It
is?"
Mrs. Billy couldn't guess. She
didn't try very hard. She knew by
the way Billy acted that he couldn't
keep what was on his mind to him
self very long.
Jerry Muskrat has been swept
away!" cried Billy.
What of that?" demanded Mrs.
Billy, without the least bit Of in
terest.
Gust this" replied Billy. THAT
castle of his in the bank which we
so often wished was ours will be
empty as soon as the water is out
Of It,"
Instantly Mrs. Billy was a. much
interested as she had been uninter-
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Bedtime Stories
By THORNTON w. BURGESS.

If there is any one person who
knows all that is going on along the
Laughing Brook, around the Smil-
ing Pool, and even for some dis
lance up and down the Big River
that person is Billy Mink. Yes, sir
it is Billy Mink. You see, Billy Is
such lively fellow that he Is for
ever on the go. He Is great trav-
eler. And he moves so rapidly that
he can cover long distances. So
little happens along the Laughing
Brook from where it begins deep ir
the Green Forest to where It end
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LETTER-OUT

letter from
called the last column Print the letter opposite
the
its natural disturbance
Answer to Yesterdays LeterOu.
Leer-Out
P) PRMAGE- MIRAGE cit isn't what you think it Isl.
CD D1SHEVEI-SHELVED Git was passed over)
CN) GODSEND-DODGES (for tricks.
Co CALUN1ET-AMUIET charm).
CID CRUSHER-RECURS Git happens AGAIN..
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in the Big River that Billy doesn't
know about.


know about.
Now, when the great flood came,
the flood which swept away Jerry
Muskrat's house in the Smiling
Pool, drove Jerry out of his castle
in the bank and finally carried him
clear down to the Big River on log,
Billy Mink and Mrs. Billy Mink
were living in the bank of the
Laughing Brook, deep in the Green
Forest above the pond which Paddy
the Beaver had made. OF course,
the melting snow and ice filled the
Laughing Brook up there and made
the water deep, but 1t was not deep
enough to bother Billy and Mrs.
Billy. OF course, this high, swift
water was exciting and BILLY loves
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ested before. THAT Is news!" she
exclaimed. well move In right
away"
(Copyright 1e39.)
Most Ancient BUILDING
Z, fo6
Trademark applied
For q. s. Patent Once
ADVERTISEMENT.
By Hobon

The walls and vaultings in the
Pantheon, or Church of Santa Maria
rotonda, in perfect preservation, in
Rome, built about the year a BE-,
Is Rome's most ancient standing
building.
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Twizzier Answer

The faster flea made IS trips
while tho slower one made eight.
The Omaha guide., 1939-01-14
NEGROES PROTESTS
WOODRING'S LIBEL

We wish TO vigorously protest the
libel on the Negro group, voiced by
the Secretary of War, Harry H. Wood
ring, in a letter to Walter White, secre-
tary of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People,
when says: Following a well establish
ed principle which is endorsed by your
people, it is necessary to set up specific
unit to which colored persons may
be assigned, and these organizations
must have a definite and proper place
in the balanced force organization of
the Army as a whole"
OF course, it is common experience
of Negroes that both the Army and
Navy and all but contemptous of the
existence of Negroes, except when the
country is facing possible disaster and
the unqualified support of every man,
woman and child is needed to assure
victory for the Stars and Stripes. 1t
it VIGOROUSLY true that when the Stars
and Stripes fac no immediate foe, the
Army and Navy treat Negroes more
as wards or as subjects than as citizens.
But when Secretary of War Wood
ring comes out ~pointedly and says to
Negroes hat Negroes themselves ap-
prove the principle of segregation, he
needs to be set Alright, even though he
knows, and tn record of the battle of
Negroes for civil rights shows, hat
the race does not approve this princi-
pie. Washington Tribune.
The Omaha guide., 1939-01-14
SCIENCE AND BETTER LIVING

The annual convention Of Ameri-
a scientists, which just concluded its
sessions a Richmond, Virginia, was an
outstanding event not only for science
but for all American citizens.
More than at any previous session
of these leading specialists in biology,
medicine, chemistry, physics, and allied
sciences, the idea that Science and De-
mocracy must march forward hand in
hand was stresser again and again.
When the medical men spoke of
curing disease, they also showed that
their scientific work involved a Gov
ernmental program of housing, slum
clearance, and economic security.
When the chemists spoke of better
food for the home, of purer milk and
The Omaha guide., 1939-01-14
IN THE INTEREST OF LABOR

In the next session OF Congress
the Administration can either attempt
to prevent any revision" says the New
York Times editorially. What is more
important than such a revision con-
sidered by itself is a comprehensive and
we'll balanced labor program designed
as far as possible to promote indus
trial peace. Is is unlikely that Congress
could form a balanced program in the
heat of its own debates unless some
authoritatievly study had already been
made of its own problem. The president
could perform no more useful service
in this cause than by the appointment
of a commission, similar in its general
make up to the commission that gave
US such fine objective reports on labor
conditions in England and Sweden to
prepare a set of we'll considered recon-
mendations. If such a commissions re-
port were balanced and non partisan,
the resulting discussions and legislation
in Congress would almost certainly
be governed by its spirit"
The Omaha guide., 1939-01-14

fore the Civil War. What is worse, the
landowners today are slaves to the
same system. 1 is a system holding the
whole South down.
''The effect that The Negro has on
political thinking runs from the naive
ana comic TO the bitter and tragic. Once
| was talking to a very intelligent
Southern colleague in the House of Re-
representatives. about slum clearance.
That Negroes should be in slums had
never occurred to him.
From all this we can gather that
the Negro stands like a Black Colossus
IN the middle of every Southern, and
hence every American, problem. He
is both a symbol and an excuse for
rea%ctionary voting"
1T is a simple proposition: the
Negro should have a right to make a
living; let US say not altogether for
his own sake, but to keep him from be-
ing a drain and drag on the community.
Il the Negroes economic status is inn
proved it will solve many other serious
and complicated problems concerning
the races. For the sake of the South
and the nation the problem of the Ne
gro must be approached with more
light and less heat. And the life of the
Negro must be protected, and he should
he allowed to fool coo,,raO
This new understanding of the
problems of all the people of the South
by a Southern lawmaker is certainly
appreciated by those who are interest
ed in the promotion of the general well
fare of our country.
-Calvin's Digest by Floyd Calvin
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300
Jones: My career is promising.
Louise: Really? What do you do?
Jones: I make political speeches.
THE RADIO MART

In 1887 the RADIO industry sold
some 8,065,O00 radio sets for the sum
OF $3.50, OO0, 900. In the same year the
sale of replacement parts and brought
this amount up to S537. 100000.
There are 3d. 900, 900 families in the
United States and 100000 of them
now have home radios, which e a
market s~aturation of 81 percent. Con-
sidered against the fact that twenty
years ago here were virtually no home
with sets, this level of s~aturation be-
comes perhaps the most impressive sta
tistic in recent United States business
history. 1t means of course, that radio
now depends enormously on its re-
placement market. RADIO like the auto-
mobile industry is dong a good job Of
making its past sold products look OBJ
solete.
Colored people are apparently over
looking this field of enterprise. In 1885
tire were only II radios and music
stores owned and operated by Negroes
in the United States. These IL stores
had a total annual sale of $4,000 their
total annual payroll was $40, 600.
According to figures from the bu-
reau of Census only rs percent of all
Negro families had a RADIO set in 1880.
More than IA per cent of the Urban
families had a radio set as compared
with 0.3 percent for rural families and
3 percent for rural non-farm families.
Negro families in the North and West
owned a much larger per cent of radios
than Negro families in the south. While
there has been an appreciate increase
in the number of radios owned by Ne
groes since 1880 there are still many
Colred families particularly in the
south without a radio.
For greater economic security,
read u Colored papers and buy their
advertised products.
BUYERS GUIDE by Clarence H.
Peacock.
The Omaha guide., 1939-01-14

better bread, they showedsthatsth5i
scientific work involved the whole pro=
gressive fight for better living stan
dards.
American science = al science
worthy OF the name-lives and grows
as 2 response to the needs and problems
Of the community. And for the COM
munity to benefit as well as for science
to develop a democratic community is
necessary.
Thus, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science takes
place in the army. Of progress. Side.
by side with people, helping to solve
their problems, American science can
best keep clear the path Of free.
seiehce.
The Omaha guide., 1939-01-14
NEW LIGHT

Congressman Maverick of Texas
throws some light on the general wei
fare problems of the South and the
nation in the current Virginia Quar-
terly Review. In an article Lets Join
the United States" he makes such as
tonishing frank (for a Southern Con-
gressman) statements as:
"Of Southern universities, l know
of only nj which teaches much truth
about the South: the University Of
North Carolina. There may be others
but travel and diligent search have not
convinced me there is another"
POSSIBLY | should have known it,
but not until recently did I learn that
somewhere around five sixths of the
Southern whites were not slaves own
ers at the outbreak of the Civil War.
In Congress just these last four years,
and being or at least born Southerner,
| was shocked to learn he overwhelm-
ing sentiment of the white South was
against secession in 1861"
"But before we appraise the pre-
sent day situation, let us take a look
at history. Let us get the background.
For indeed, from the historical and the
present day point of view, facts will
prove that the South owes its desperate
status principally to the Negro. It is
either the Negro in actuality, or in
symbol,
''The Confederate Constitution also
provided that the powers of the Con-
federate states were merely delegated
Congress, and not granted, as in the
Constitution of the United States. Sla-
very was everywhere protected and to
be made perpetual"
Sharecropping and land tenancy
hold from fifty to eighty per cent of
the agricultural population, whereas
there was little or none of either be-
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first understanding blows 70 the
reaetionafy forces which would drive
the Negro and white in order to OPP
press the Negro and at the same time,
keep the whole Of America in darkness.
The 10th Anniversary Of this truly
American document recalls not alone
the emancipation of the Negro people
but also the collaboration of the Negro
and white people toward further demo-
craey and progress.
Lincoln affixed his immortal sign
ature to- this. document as President
of the United States. But as leader of
all progressive American he realized
that the ending Of slavery was essen
tial to the upward development Of the
country.
Frederick Douglass was a co work
er Lincoln, rallying his people to united
struggle with the progressive white
people of his day as the effective means
OF bursting the bonds of inhuman
slavery.
Out Of this unity, forged in the
fires OF the Civil War, came the 18th,
18th and 18th Amendments, which
supposedly guaranteed the equality and
full citizenship of the Negro people in
every phase of American life. But as
noble as was the Emancipation, there
remains to be cleaned up those nests
of reaction which have not yet accept
ed it.
There are the Southern "unrecon-
structed rebel re~actionaries and their
allies in the North. There are lynch
ings, Scottsboro cases, discrimination,
jim crowism, segregation and various
kinds OF vicious oppression against
the Negro people.
This rs Anniversary requires a
re-dedication of the American people
to the fight to end this oppression once
and for all. Most important, it neces-
states the passage at this session of
Congress, opening tomorrow, of the
anti-lynching bill, symbolic of the
whole fight for Negro rights.
Thus, as in 1868, will the cause of
progress and democracy be advanced
for all Americans.
The Omaha guide., 1939-01-14
~SEVENTY-SIX ANNIVERSARY

Two men stand out in American
history as symbolic of the lofty prin-
ciples of the Emancipation Proclama-
ton, the historic document which came
into being 76 vars ago, on Jan. l, 1863.
They are Abraham Lincoln, the
"Great En%Nancpator," and Frederick
Douglass, the heroic Negro Adolf
Zionist.
Working together, they gave the
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= -
died."-James Weldon Johnson
TODAY MARKS another milestone
in the march of a struggling people to-
ward that goal attained by leading
races of the earth. 1t was decreed in the
early event of the republic that the ma
ton could not long endure half slave
and half free. 1t must be said in keep
ing the records straight, some of the
cdonies were opposed to slavery. South
Carolina, and Virginia passed laws a
gainst the evils in their provinces.
It was a great commercial venture
fer the ship builders of Liverpool, Eng
land and the crown vetoed the efforts
of South Carolina and Virginia in
Aer struggle for keeping slavery out
of their confines.
1t was the brave Frederick Doug
lass who taught the spirit of Sr Will
ham Wilberforce and his school in the
old world and carried on with brilliant
success in making the sentiment which
gave us Harriet Beecher Stowe, Wen
dell Phillips and Abraham Lincoln.
After that bitter struggle between
the states which ceased hostilities IN
1865 the group has steadily made pro-
gress. Often friendless, forgotten and
denied the opportunities of decent ex-
istence and educational facilities, we
have not given up the struggle in deep
despair.
The hard school that followed i'm
mediately upon the heels of slavery
tempered the souls of the weary ira
velers to the extent no race on the face
of the earth has ever been able to wea-
Their the tempest and endure the hard
ships with such marked success.
The great tory of Cup From Sla-
very" reads like a novel and not only
the South, the country at large but the
world should feel proud Of the contri-
button of the colored race. It has made
bricks without straw and on every
hand has insisted in spite of the out
RACES, and lawlessness practiced upon
it, an unparalleled devotion and an
instructive loyalty to the flag and the
government of the United States.
We pause today in thanksgiving
for the freedom that has come to us
in celebration for the victories achiev-
ed. The dawn of a new day is upon us
and on every hand are the evidences
of faith, struggle and untiring effort.
We have made our mistakes as other
people.
We have been outlawed and held
down by those who possess lesser moral
and poorer vision, but through it all
we have not fallen by the way.
Atlanta World
The Omaha guide., 1939-01-14
EDITORIALS
THREE F0URTHs OF A CENTURY

'Bitter the road we trod,
Bitter the Christening rod
Fell in days when hone unborn had
died."-James Weldon Johnson