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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-23

Ohio farmers who spend winter
hours in the work shop should get
extension bulletin No. POI recently
published by the extension service.
1t has "a pages of text and pictures
of ways of making the time in the
farm shop more productive. Exten-
sion agents will give free copies of
the bulletin to those asking for it.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-23

(Which Way America, a dramatic
radio presentation, was the feature
of one of the daily chapel services
last week at the college. BY means
of a low-powered broadcasting sys-
tenn, the program was broadcast
from a room in College hall and
picked up by large radio placed in
the chapel. Presentation of the play
was sponsored by the college peace
action group.
Prayer week was observed at the
college last week under auspices of
the campus Y. NJ. and Y. w. c. A.
organizations. Evening meetings
were addressed by Rev. ID. j. Unruh,
pastor of the st. John Mennonite
church, of Pandora.
Members of the Mems Gospel team
are making an eastern tour during a
seven-day Thanksgiving vacation.
They left Tuesday and will make
nine appearances in Ohio and Pen
nsylvania. In the group are John
Boehr, Robert Sommers, Leonard
Metzger, James Habegger, Harvey
Bauman and Stanley Fretz. DR.. |.
w. Bauman, advisor, accompanied
the deputation.
Presentation of a series of one
act plays was inaugurated last Fri
day night at a meeting of the Thes-
plans, college dramatic society, in
their new Tom Thumb theatre.
"Where the Cross Is Made" and
Little Prison" were staged. In the
casts of the two offerings were VIM.
Burbick, Gladys Raber, Bill Holt
kamp, Gene Hilty, Phyllis Driver,
Helene Stonehill, Mary Smucker,
Lucia Greiser and Alice Olewine.
Bluffton debaters completed a SER
les of practice forensic meets with
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-23

called on Mrs. Brice Ewing at the
Lima hospital, Sunday afternoon and
also called on Mrs. Mary Mitchell OF
Lima.
Sunday afternoon callers of Mr..
and Mrs. Chas. Montgomery and fam
lily were Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Zeller
of Gibsonburg, Pa, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Rhuel McCafferty.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Klingler, Mr..
and Mrs. c. E. Klingler and son call
ed Sunday afternoon on Mrs. Sarah
Crist and Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram King
Ter and family.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-23

Farmers in some sections of Ohio
have been urged to sell timber be-
cause the trees were likely to be
killed in short time by insects or
disease. Extension forester F. w.
Dean says this argument is just a
pressure method to get farmers to
sell. Prospects for losses from dis
ease or forest insects now are no
greater than at any previous time.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-23
ArmOrsviIle

Mr.. and Mrs. II. 0. Hilty and dau-
ghters Fern and Rosann, Mr.. and Mrs
Robert Ewing spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Hilty and son of Colum-
bus.
Past week callers of Mrs. Hannah
Swank and Mrs. Eva Montgomery
were: Mr.. and Mrs. |. A. Zay, Mr.,
and Mrs. Dwight Diller, Mrs. Daisy
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-23
Presidents Thanksgiving Proclamation

Full text of President Roosevelt's
proclamation setting Thursday, Nov.
70, as Thanksgiving Day, follows:
THANKSGIVING DAY-Iess
By the President of the United
States of America.
A PROCLAMATION
|, Franklin d. Roosevelt, President
of the United States of America. do
hereby designate Thursday, the twen-
ty-third of November, 1899, as a day
of general thanksgiving.
More than three centuries, at the
season of the gathering of the har-
vest, the Pilgrims humbly paused in
their work and gave thanks to God
for the preservation of their commun-
ity and for the abundant yield of the
soil.
A century and half later, after
the new nation had been formed, and
the charter of government, the Con-
stitution of the Republic, had received
the assent of the States, President
Washington and his successors invited
the people of the nation to lay down
their tasks one day in the year and
give thanks for the blessings that had
been granted them by Divine Provi-
dence.
1t is fitting that we should continue
this hallowed custom and select a day
in 1889 to be dedicated to reverent
thoughts of thanksgiving.
Our nation has gone steadily for.
ward in the application of democratic
processes to enconomic and socia
problems. We have faced the spec.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-23
Coffin Weighs Four Tons

Buried in full dress 5000 years
ago, a chieftain has been discov-
cred recently in tree-trunk coffin
weighing four tons, near Castleton,
England.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-23

The safety of the state depends up
on the welfare of the toiling masses.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-23

BY the President of the United
States of America.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-25
MEMBER
CASH-CARRY NEUTRALITY
THE SAFEST KIND

The United States congress TODAY
faces decision whether it will cast
aside politics in a time of world emer-
gency, vote for the safest, sanest plan
to keep this nation out of war, and
prove to political theorists everywhere
that great democracy is in truth cap
able of fast, concerted action.
Those who hide political aspirations
under chauvinistic claptrap designed to
discredit the present administration
should be forever branded by the peo-
pie for what they are, opportunsts who
place personal or party advancement
above national welfare
Whatever mistakes he may have made
IN the past, whatever political ambitions
may have been attributed to him in other
matters, President Roosevelt has con-
vinced conscientious, non-partisan OBJ
servers that in this crisis he is entirely
sincere. His desire is to keep the United
States out of war. 1t is a desire that
finds living echo in millions of Ameri.
can hearts.
The president has proposed to con-
gress that the present embargo on ship
ment of goods of war; be repealed
He has asked, instead law allowing
any nation, anywhere, to buy whatso-
ever it will from the United States =
SO long as it pays cash or what it buys,
and carries its purchase away in its own
ships.
He has asked, in addition, stringent
rules preventing any ship flying the
flag of the United States from sailing
into the war zone, and preventing any
citizen of the United States from enter
ing the war zone except under greatest
necessity.
There are those who declare the pres
ident's program would be a step toward
war How can this be so?
We entered the last war because pub
lie opinion was inflamed when Amerl-
can ships were sunk and American ma
tionals killed These things cannot nap
pen if American ships are kept out OF
the zone of military operations, and
American nationals are kept out OF the
range of torpedoes and shells.
We entered the last war, too, because
our business men had extended heavy
credit to foreign purchasers, and the
people were deluded into believing they
had to protect with guns and men these
heavy investments. This cannot happen
if purchasers are required to pay cash
for the things they buy from US.
What better advice could the Onlted
States have today than this: "Exteno
no credit to warning nations; seno no
sh;ns TO shell-torn waters; let no cltl-
zens endanger their lives in Europes
war? -,
That. in simplest form, is the cash,
and-carrv proposal for neutrality ana
no other embodving so much safety mas
vet been offered.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-25
WHAT OF THE EMBARGO?

If you blindly accept the theory that
Guns. powder, airplanes and warships
are the only goods of war; you must
accent also the belief that the existing
embargo against shipment of war ma
terials from the United States is the
hest road to continued neutrality.
The truth is that everything sent to
Eurone is of some use to warning ma
tions ANY ship that carries goods to
Europe. regardless of its flag, is in dan
oer from belligerent vessels. The only
wav we can prevent sinking of our
ships is to keep them out OF the wal
zone.
The only way to do that is through
a cash-and-carry system.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-25
Famous Sayings

The United States is still the
home of relatively simple, trust
ing people, inclined to believe that
black is black and white is white
and that when a man or reSpon-
sible government says "I will"
they will.
The European war is giving us a
quick education in international
politics. Too quick, in fact, perhaps
so quick that we cannot absorb it.
The cynicism of the Russian
regime in grabbing its chunk of
PROSTATE Poland before Germany
gets it all surpasses anything ever
seem in the days of "imperialistic
greed" The fact that Commissar
Molotov explains the Soviets' "sa-
cred duty" to protect its oppressed
minoritieS in Ukrainian and Byelo-
Poland is cut from the same piece
of cloth as Hitler's previous move
to relieve oppressed" German min
critics in Czechoslovakia. The phony
enthusiasm with which the "liber-
ated" peoples in both countries
greeted the invaders is the same
in both cases. so is the excuse in
each case that responsible govern
ment (having first been carefully
underminded did not exist.
The brutal facts are that Hitler
decided to have what he wanted
from Poland even if it cost a war.
Russia after sitting on the side
lines until Poland was safely de-
feated pounced on the body like
a buzzard to have her share. She
did so, not only because it was
q cheap way to add to Soviet terr-
itory, but she did not trust Hitler
to make a fair "divvy" of the spoils
and because she distrusts seeing
Germany grow too powerful on her
very borders. By moving those bor-
ders westward, she enlarged her
own defense zone. This after years
of loud assertion that she would
instantly spring to the aid of any
victim of aggression.
This is all to be expected in a
jackal civilization. But We must
remember that country that was
capable of thus dividing up with
Germany helpless Poland is also
quite capable of dividing up with
Japan a beaten China. Russia al
ready has all of liner Mongolia.
BY taking the rest of western China
it can hem in all of northern
British Indio, ready to move in
should social revolution strike this
socially restless country. What more
natural than for her to say to ia
pan, "All right, you take the China
seacoast; we'll take the western in
terror; why fight each other?"
Whereupon Japan will be free to
boot out, finally and forever. all
European and American interests
in China. The Philippines, to be
freed in 1916, would be just about
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-25
illegal ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
THE UNITED STATES, SOUTH
ERN DISTRICT OF CALIFOR-
MA, SOUHERN DIVISION.
No. 1888 In Bankruptcy
NOTICE OF FIRST MEETING

NOllSE Of FlhS1 4VlEE INV
OF CREDITORS
In the matter of WILLIAM E.
OGLESBY, Bankrupt.
To the Creditors of the above
named Bankrupt of the County of
Imperial and District aforesaid:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that on the % day of July, 1899,
WILLIAM E. OGLESBY was duly
adjudicated bankrupt; and that the
first meeting of creditors will be
held at the office of the under
signed, 207-210 Rehkopf Building
in the City of Ell Centre, State of
California, on the 10th day of Oc-
tober, 1889, at nine o'clock am,
at which time the said creditors
may attend, proved their claims,
appoint a trustee, examine the
bankrupt, consider authorizing the
trustee to sell the property of said
bankrupt, and transact such other
business as may properly come be-
fore said meeting.
Claims must be filed within six
months from the 10 day of October,
1899, the first date set for the
meeting of creditors in this pro-
ceeding.
Dated: Fi
r. B. WHITELAW,
Referee in Bankruptcy.
(Sept. 25)
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-25
Bruce Cation in Washington
Dissects the News

from the role which was origi-
nally planned for it.
The administration has good
out, if it wants to do this pain
lessly. The board was officially
set up to serve in an advisory
capacity, and the understanding
is that it will continue to do his.
Officially, then, there will be no
need to do any beheading or to
reverse any policies. 1t can simply
be announced that the board has
been doing advisory work, that its
advisory work was from the start
intended to be purely temporary
:. and so on.
That, according to the latest
dope, is the track that will be taken.
Present idea is that if there is to
be a real war industries board it
will include representatives of 9TH
er groups than industrialists.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-25
TIP TO THE AGED
(OroViIIe Mercury Register)

Old age pensions will be increased
from S35 to $40 under the provisions of
legislation which passed congress and
has been signed by the executive. The
federal contribution is now $50 per
month instead of the SIS which had pre-
vailed previously.
The professional promoters and agi-
tators will conveniently overlook the
news item upon which this comment is
based and the significance which it car
ries that the elderly citizens of Califor-
mia are in a strong position for still ad-
ditional pension increases if they will
but curb their impatience and lodge their
trust in the good faith and the good
heart of the taxpayers rather than If
responsibles who fatten upon the fear
of age dependency.
The assurance of regular county pay
days is worth vastly more than the
Establishments of self-seeking promo
ters whose Vaccinations may cause the
pensioners to lose that which they al
ready have-a repetition of the fable of
the dog and the bone.
1t will bear repeating that California
pays the highest pension in the nation.
In Texas the top pension is S12. In Flor
ida it is $40. Arkansas pays S6.OS. Cal
ifornia pays her half of the nations top
pension of $40, and the United States
treasury matches the ante. Both state
and nation guarantee their pension prom
ises, and they're payable in real money
Woodland Democrat.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-25
WE CAN
KEEP OUT
(Wall Street Journal)

''N'ft
Congress now is meeting in eXtraor-
dinarv session, not limited to the sub
iect which is uppermost in every mind.
but with its whole attention focused
thereon. That an honestly non-partisan
discussion of the problems created for
us by state of war in Europe is a vital
national necessity is everywhere conced-
ed
Free and adequate debate there must
be. But one state of mind and the ex-
preston of it ought to be excluded from
our consideration of neutrality legis-
lation as literally un-American. That is
the helpless assumption that we cannot
possibly keep out of Europes wars. This
species of defeatism occasionally crops
out here and there. 1t may or may not be
the result of self-interested propagan-
da; in any case it is weakness of the
spirit which points to a surrender in ad-
vance of any will on our part to manage
our own affairs. 1t is completely false
apprehension of the realities of our sit
uation.
One other point may be made now,
before the formal debate opens in con-
gress. Officers of a neutral government
and all members of congress are Of
ficers of our government-havea a duty
to draw a sharp line between opinion
on our relation to foreign war and
opinion on the issues or the conduct of
that war
We can keep out of Europe's wars.
The question before congress is how best
to make sure that We do so. Our public
men can further that great purpose by
guarding their speech
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-25

that school to keep them from being
contaminated. They sent their chill
dren to school to get an education
not to study sex problems!
Would you like to know what
has happened in those 13 years?
That "upstart professor" is now
the most famous teacher in his
field in the world-Professor Err
nest R. Groves, professor of sociol-
ogy at the University of North Car
olina.
The year the course opened only
a few students enrolled. The other
students claimed that the enrolled
students merely wanted to get a
thrill, and poked fun at them on
the campus. But the young profess
sor continued with his idea He be-
lieved that you should study how
to make a success of marriage Just
as you should study any other vital
subject Simple as it sounds now, it
created a sensation at the time.
Well that sneak" course is now
the most popular senior course on
the campusl Practically every SEN
ior tries to fit it into his course.
And SO popular is it that many take
it without getting college credit for
it The course is open to seniors,
and to the juniors who are preparing
for law or medicine. During the time
Professor Groves has been teach
ing it, 1000 students have taken
1t. 1t has become so popular that
three sections have been organized,
for the coming year.
Nobody in the United States, pro-
badly, knows more on the subject
OF why a marriage succeeds or fails
than Professor Groves: so | wrote
to him asking him TO give me what
he considered the six most impor-
tant principles of a successful mar
riage. Here they are just as he sent
them TO me:
Il sWould choose the following
six as of chief importance in sue
cessful marriage:
l. Affection, not mere passion,
for the chosen mate.
2. An intelligent preparation for
marriage and parenthood by both
the man and the woman.
g. The capacity and willingness
to build a mutually satisfying home
life.
T. Courage in meeting respon-
sibilities both in and out of the
home.
5. A sense Of justice which pro-
tects both the man and the woman
from any effort to exploit the other.
g. A desire for children and the
ability to give them the comrade-
ship that encourages their emo
tional maturity and individuality"
Sensible? OF course it is! Think
this over, you parents, who hope
for a happy married life for your
boys and girls-and for a happy
home life for your grandchildren.
Cont you think that preparation
or marriage should be taught in
very college in the land?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-25
Willis Thorntons S Editorial on:
Not Cynical Enough for Europes Game

ripe for her. 1t is not too soon to
begin asking, well, what part do
we want to take in that gamer"
The United States, prone to be
sentimental, and to think of inter-
national affairs in terms of personal
relations between one honorable
man and another, must learn to
think of them in terms of naked
national self-interest as interpreted
by ruling cliques That is the way
the world is being run and that
is the world we have to face.
Face 1t we must, but always with
a thought for the better world
that must emerge some day If
there is to be anything left of life
at all. If all the rest of the planet
forgets that world-to-be, we must
not forget it: the dream that some
day there must be world in which
decent men and women can live in
freedom and in peace.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-25

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (UP)-
Don't be surprised if the much
publicized War Resources Board
is quietly and permanently side
tracked in the near future.
An intra New Deal backfire
against the board has taken place.
One cabinet member is on record
with the flat assertion that the
board is "out," as far as New
Deal plans for wartime industrial
mobilization are concerned.
Principal complaints are that
the board is unduly weighted with
big league industrialists, that the
House of Morgan is too visible in
its background and that-in view
of the far-reaching controls which
are programmed for industry,
finance and labor in case of war
the body chosen to handle those
controls ought to have strong la
Dor, farmer and consumer repre-
sentation.
The War Resources Board was
set up some time ago by joint ac-
ton of the War and Navy de-
partments. 1t convened here COM
paratively recently and had a gen.
eral discussion of its program.
Nothing very definite came out of
it, largely because it was gener-
ally assumed on all sides that the
boards biggest job would begin
only when, as and if the nation
went to war.
Head of the board is Edward
r. Stettinius, jr., head of U. S.
Steel. Other members are DR..
Karl Compton, president of Mass
achusetts Institute of Technology;
Walter S. Clifford, president of
the American Telephone and Tel
egraph company; General Robert
E. Wood, president of Sears Roe
buck and company; Harold Moul-
ton, president of the Brookings
Institution; John Lee Pratt, a dir
ector of General Motors, and John
Hancock, New York banker.
Although the exact duties of
the board have not been clearly
defined, it was assumed that in
case of war it would play the part
which the famous War Industries
Board played in 1917 and 1918.
That was the intention of the War
and Navy departments, which set
it up. 1t was that which disturbed
the New Dealers, in and out of the
cabinet, and started the backfire.
The program which the War De-
partment has drawn up for indus
trial mobilization in case of war
the program which this board was
intended to administer is ex-
tremely far-reaching. 1t would put
labor under the most complete gov
finance, industry, agriculture and
ernment control. If adopted-and
the War Department plans to
press for its adoption the moment
war comes, if it ever does come
it would mean a dictatorship of
almost incredible extent and pow
er.
Whether congress would approve
such program may be another
natter. What bothered the New
Dealers was the idea that If the
program were approved, its dir
,ction would be in the hands of
| board whose members were
pretty largely on the opposite side
If the fence from the New Deal,
md some OF whom were identified
more or less intimately with the
Morgan banking firm.
SO the fight began: and the lat
st tip is that the War Resources
Board will be gently steered away
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-25

No. 1892
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DIS
TRICT, Plaintiff.
VS..
LEWIS D. LIGHTLY, ct. al, De-
PENDANTS.
Harry w. Horton and George R.
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
The People of the State of Cali
fornia send greetings to LEWIS d.
LIGHTLY, EDITH MAY LIGHTLY,
PIONEER ABSTRACT & TITLE
GUARANTY COMPANY, a Corpor-
alton, as trustee, L. f. HARTNETT,
C. w. SANDERS, SECURITY
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
LOS ANGELES, a National Bank
ing Association, CITIZENS MA
TIONAL TRUST AND SAVINGS
BANK OF LOS ANGELES, a Ma
til on al Banking ASS o ci a tion,
GEORGE NOWLIN, John Doe,
JANE DOE. RICHARD ROE, JOHN
DOE COMPANY, Corporation,
Richard Roe Company, a Co-part-
nership, and j. Doe as Admins
traitor or Administrative of the Es-
tate of R. Roe, deceased,
You are hereby directed to ap-
pear and answer the Complaint in
an action entitled as above, brought
against you in the Superior Court
of the County of Imperial, State
of California, within ten days after
the service on you of this Sum-
mons-if served within this county;
or within thirty days if served else
where.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract, or
it will apply to the court for any
other relief demanded in the COM
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this 18th day of May, 1939
(SeaD w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
"a By CITHA LAMSON,
Deputy Clerk.
(Sept 1925: Oct. 2-9-16-23-30;
Nov. 6-13-20)
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-25
Barbs-

Vitamin B is proposed as cure
for gray hair, now we can worry
about world problems without
worrying that our hair will go white.
Bermuda lifts thy -Ctand-
ing ban on motor cars because OF
the war. We must not forget to
add resulting accident deaths to
the war toll.
Red Cross proposes an atroclty
quiz in the Polish war area Nazis
will no doubt instruct Poles manned
by shells to say they got that way
falling off the barn roof.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-25

on Preparation
for Marriage
N g W s p a pc r S
wrote burning ed
itorials against it.
Women'S clubs
buzzed. Preachers
stood up in their
pulpits and de-
nounced the up
start professor.
Parents took their
children out of
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-25

The most complicated musical in
Strument in the world is said to be
the orchestron, located in the Pro-
vincial Trade Museum in Stutt-
gart, Germany. 1t was constructed
in 1905, and contains 81 flutes, 38
clarinets, eight trumpets, besides
drums, cymbals hautboys and ba-
SoonS.