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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
War Takes Market
From Ohio Farmers

War distributes its calamities un-
equally, and that also applies to its
effects on the market for farm
products of the United States, ac-
cording to r. M. Evans, administra-
tor for the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration.
Evans points out that the loss of
export markets for food and fiber,
no matter what turn the war takes,
has almost certainly prevented any
upturn this year in prices for most
crops and for livestock products.
Producers of foods consumed almost
entirely in this country may see
prices for those goods helped by in
creased buying power of city resi-
dents.
Tobacco and fruit growers already
have lost most of their export mar
ket and the entry of each additional
nation into the war makes further
decrease. England to which goods
still can be shipped, usually one of
the best customers for tobacco, is
buying none here now.
Wheat exports since September /,
at the outbreak of the war, have
dropped rs per cent. Cotton exports
from the 1910 crop are likely to be
far below those for the marketing
year now ending. Pork and lard
exports rose at the beginning of the
war but have drastically declined
since March 1.
The AAA administrator believes
that a plan of gearing food and
fiber production to existing markets
will be required to tide farmers
through an approaching period of
unsatisfactory prices. He states that
soil fertility might better be kept
in fields in reserve than removed by
surplus crops and wasted.
Present planted acreages of crops,
together with carryover supplies
from previous harvests, appear GER
tain to provide more than sufficient
food and fiber for any need that may
appear before the 1941 harvest.
Acreage allotments of the principal
crops can be increased in time to
anticipate any need that can not be
foreseen now.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18

The number of farms served with
electricity in the United States in
creased from about 100000 to more
than 100000 in the period 1928.
At hearing before the Securities
Commission, a Toledo, Ohio public
utility company presented data
showing that the average consump-
ton of electricity was greater on
farms in it's territory than in city
homes in 1899.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Rockport

Miss LaDonna Campbell accom-
panied friends to Wooster last Tues
day where they spent the day with
former college friends and teachers.
Mrs. Chris Amstutz of near Eus-
tice, Fla, spent last Tuesday at her
old home in this neighborhood now
occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. William
Reichenbach and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Cupp and
daughter Nancy Jane of Findlay and
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. o. Cupp and
daughter Edythe were Sunday dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Cupp
and family.
Herbert Jr., and Jean Marshall
were weekend guests of friends in
Oxford and vicinity.
Miss Elva Lackey and sister Alice
of Covena, Calf, called on former
friends in this vicinity last Thursday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Augsburger and
family of Williamsport, Pa. and Mr..
and Mrs. William Augsburger of
Bluffton were Thursday evening din
ner guests in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Marshall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Cupp, Mr..
and Mrs. J. o. Cupp, Mrs. Edgar
Begg and Mr.. Harley Van Meter
were among those who attended
funeral services Monday afternoon
for Mr.. Henry Searfoss of Beaver
dam.
Judge E. G. McClelland, Miss
Carrie Haskinson and Miss Ruth
Sutton of Bowling Green and the
Misses Fern Sutton of Newark; Mr..
A. H. Marshall and Mr.. and Mrs. F.
C. Marshall and son Robert took
supper Sunday evening with Mr.. and
Mrs. Orlo Marshall.
Mrs. Delmar Smith and son Kent
of Tontogany are expected here this
week to be guests of the formers
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. o. Cupp
The Smiths are leaving Tontogany
this fall to go to Avon Lake, a su-
berb of Cleveland, where Prof. Smith
will teach the coming year.
Prof. Sidney Hauenstein of Bluff.
ton gave an interesting talk at the
Presbyterian church service Sunday
morning on the meeting of Synod
recently held in Wooster, where he
represented Lima Presbytery as q
lay delegate.
Members of the Christian Endeav.
or society will entertain the EpwortE
League members of the Rockpori
and Beaverdam churches at special
meeting Sunday evening. An inter.
esting program is being planned
with Herbert Marshall, Jr. as the
leader. All the young people OF
these groups are urged to attend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pearl Polling ano
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Wheeler
and Mr.. Clyde Wheeler all of Lima
were Sunday afternoon guests OF
Mrs. Lena Rockhill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Yant OF
Beaveriam and Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
Amstutz spent Sunday at Ft
Recovery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Evers and
three children, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Wolf and Donald Steele all of Lima
spent Saturday afternoon and even
ing with Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Cogswell.
Rev. and Mrs. P. A. Kliewer OF
Bluffton took dinner Monday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Amstutz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Hetrick and
Mr.. and Mrs. Merlin Hetrick OF
Lima spent Sunday with their par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Hetrick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Drummond
and Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Taflingel
and son Bobby of Lima were Sunday
guests in the home of Mrs. Alice
Harsh.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Lehman and
daughter of New London were Sun
day visitors at the home of his
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Gideon
Lehman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Lehman
and daughter from Bartlesville,
Okla, called on relatives in this
vicinity, including Mr.. and Mrs.
Gideon Lehman of this place, Miss
Emma Lehman of Pandora, Mr.. and
Mrs. Byron Manages and family and
David Lehman of Lima.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Lee of Lima
were Friday guests of the formers
father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jacob Lee.
Nancy Jane Williams is enjoying
two weeks vacation with her grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Koontz
at Findlay.
Mrs. John Stearns and daughter
Ardella of Fostoria were Tuesday
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Clayton Rupright.
Mrs. Nora Eckenwiler spent the
] past week with Mr.. and Mrs. Yer
non Eckenwiler at Detroit, Mich.
Mrs. Sam Varvel and daughter
Mary visited on Tuesday with Rev.
and Mrs. L. C. Davis and daughter
at Van Vert.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Hart of Michi-
gan, Mr.. Frank McDorman and
daughter Esthel of Toledo spent a
few days the past week with Mrs.
Emma Barber.
] Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Yant and
family spent Sunday at Avondale
Park.
Miss Dorothy Hall and Russell
Polling of Ada spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Hall.
The Y. M. p. class of the M. E..
church was entertained Wednesday
evening at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Hall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Scott Lewis, Mrs.
Catherine Ross and son John spent
Wednesday with relatives at Ft.
Wayne, Ind.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Kollars, Mrs.
VIM. Neubrecht of Lima, and Mrs.
Angie Reeves of Pittsburgh, Pa,
were Thursday evening callers of
Mrs. Carrie Durkee and daughter
Ruth.
Bud Lombard is spending the sum-
mer vacation with Mr.. and Mrs. B.
M. Devilbliss at Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Mr.. Maynard Brackney of Dayton
was a weekend visitor of his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Brackney.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dana Grieder of
Sturgis, Mich, were week end visit
ors of the latter's mother, Mrs. Mae
Stewart.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Lippincott of
Lima were Sunday evening callers
of the formers aunt, Mrs. Emma
Vinson.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Amstutz and
daughter Elnora spent Sunday at
Russell's Point.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Chidister and
family of Elida; Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Hauenstein and family of Bluffton
visited at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Keiffer Sunday. Mr.. Henry
Gratz and daughter Helen were
afternoon callers also.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Ramsey of
Lima moved into the property on
Mill street vacated by VIM. Yarger.
Farmers in some parts of Iowa
were advised to place two-inch walls
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18

A heavy infestation of canker
worms in northeastern Ohio defoliat-
ed thousands of fruit, ornamental,
and forest trees. This destruction
could have been prevented by using
tanglefoot bands very early in spring
to prevent moths climbing the trees
to lay eggs or by applying poisons
to the foliage.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT

The state OF ONO, Allen County, S.
Emile HI. Mosiman. 2fO w. Grove St..
Bluffton. Ohio, has been appointed and quail
fed as executrix of the estate of Samuel X.
Mosiman. late of Allen County Ohio. deceas-
ed
Dated this 9th day Of June. 1910
RAYMOND r. SMITH,
IL Probate Judge.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Jennings of
Newark, were Monday evening call
ers at the Willard Jennings home.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Phillips and
son, Mrs. Lee and Margaret Kinear
were Sunday afternoon callers at
the Lyman Barnes home.
Master Rodney Jennings was host
Saturday evening to a group of his
friends at the home of his parents.
Those present were: Mary Nell and
Billie Hess, Sondra Huber, 10 Ann
and Doris Fett, Carol Ann and
Roberta Woods, Jimmie Binkley,
Ronnie Watt, and Sallie Ann Hilty.
The occasion being in honor of
Rodney's fifth birthday anniversary.
James r. Huber returned home
Sunday evening after spending a
week with his cousin, Loren Huber.
Sunday evening callers at the
Willard Jennings home were: Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Bowers, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilford Gratz, Mr.. and Mrs. /.
M. Jennings and Edmond Griffith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Younkman
and family and Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Phillips were Sunday dinner guests
in the F. G. Younkman home.
Mrs. Estella Locher, Mrs. Mary
Balmer and Mrs. Grace Harris call
ed Tuesday afternoon on Mrs. Lily
Fett and Nellie Huber.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Phillips and
daughter of Ada called Monday
evening at the Arthur Phillips home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Bone, Mrs.
Aldine Welty, Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde
Welty and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Clifford Montgomery and son, Mr..
and Mrs. Daniel Younkman and
daughters, Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Lu-
gibihl and daughter and Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Lugibihl and family and
Miss Lois Long and Marian Stettler
spent Sunday in Toledo with Mr.
and Mrs. Lester Zerbe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Huber and
family called Sunday afternoon or
Prof. and Mrs. HI. E. Huber and
Mr.. Jacob Huber of Ada.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Huber anc
son and Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart Berry.
hill and son called Sunday evening
on Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Huber ano
son.
Miss Edna Huber is spending he,
vacation with her uncle, Everett OF
Ada.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Brauen anc
Mrs. Chas. Miller and daughter
Christine called at the Dennis Brau.
en- home Sunday evening.
The Pleasant Hill Ladies Aid So.
ciety and their families met at the
Harry Huber home Thursday even.
ing for a covered dish supper, ano
the regular monthly meeting.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18

Farmers in some parts of Iowa
were advised to place two-inch walls
of paper soaked with creosote
around their corn fields to prevent
chinch bugs from entering as they
left the small grains.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18

Wheat harvest delayed in Ohio
about one week will result in a crop
about four bushels per acre below
the 1889 crop and about three
bushels below the 10-year average.
Scab and rust caused most of the
disease.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18

Our Want-ads bring results.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18

Washington and Athens counties
have been designated as areas in
which the food stamp plan of dis
posing of surplus foods will be used.
The counties had combined popula-
tion of 86,612 in the 1880 census,
and the number of people now re-
ceiving relief is estimated at 1927.
Dwight Wise, Sandusky county
farmer, has been named to head the
crop insurance program for the 10
north central states. He has served
as supervisor of crop insurance in
Ohio since 1888. Ted E. Rupert,
Allen county, has been appointed
state supervisor.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18

Rains have pushed grass in many
Ohio pastures ahead of the grazing
livestock, and the unused forage now
is so mature it will not be eaten.
Clipping pastures promotes new
growth that produces milk and meat
economically.
Evening star., 1940-06-30
INDEPENDENCE DAY
By the Right ReU. James E. Freeman, D. d. IL. d. D. c. L.
Bishop OF Washington.

vived the devastating horrors of a civil
war and, following it, effected the closer
unity of the States. Today we are in a
world that challenges our ideals of free
dom and independence. Democracy is
opposed by a new and violent form of
autOcracy. The larger freedom guaran-
teed to every citizen is threatened by
new concepts of nationalism, in which
the state is supreme and all men are
subservient to its sovereign power. Let
us at this time be clear in this, that
nations do not survive that put their
trust in ''reeking tube and iron shard."
Might and cruelty have their day, and it
is a tragic one, but sooner or later they
meet their Waterloo and cease to be.
A recent news commentator surveying
the havoc and destruction of war wrote
this pregnant sentence: The works of
man shrivel into insignificance before the
blazing majesty of God" We are being
compelled to recognize this today. The
supreme question that every true Ameri-
can, every lover of freedom must answer
is, have we the moral courage that
opAAiSn Alolu d ldlIll III llVlIlR
God; have we the stability to face and
meet the forces of evil and to resist and
overcome them by what we possess of
righteousness? The challenging word
which great Christian leader wrote to
an ancient and wavering people was
Stand fast in the liberty wherewith
Christ has made us free; and in anoth-
er place he boldly declares as he affirms
his trust in the prevailing power of God
We are more than conquerors through
Him that loved U.S." This has been true
OF us as we have moved along our way
to our present national strength If this
conquering spirit is to continue, we must
again, and with deepened devotion, turn
to Him who alone can empower us to
meet every crisis and emergency. Peni-
tence for our mistakes, forgiveness for
our manifest sins, a fresh and deliberate
determination to amend our ways, cour-
age to maintain our Christian ideals and
to defend our liberties; clothed with
such power we shall rise from every i'll
and misfortune that may come to us and
pursue our charted course and maintain
our independence.
Let every home become a sanctuary,
every duty be sanctified by prayer, every
citizen be rededicated to Gods will, and
We shall triumph in the cause to which
We are solemnly committed.
Evening star., 1940-06-30
Police Problem

1t is reassuring to learn that
the present patronage" police force
at the Capitol will be augmented on
July ! by a group of trained, merit
system policemen, even though
the Capitors gain will deprive
the Metropolitan Police Department
temporarily of the services of ap-
proximately a score of experienced,
efficient officers urgently needed for
city patrol duty. Under provisions
of 100000 deficiency item recently
passed by Congress, the Capitol Police
Board was authorized to draw on
Federal agencies and the Washington
police force for twenty-one additional
men to guard the Capitol, its grounds
and its office buildings and power
plant during the existing emergency.
1t now develops that all but one or
two of the new officers will be
drafted" from Major Ernest w.
Browns city police corps.
The transferred policemen will be
paid from Capitol funds, of course,
but in the meantime Major Brown
must call upon the Civil Service Com
mission for new men and put them
through three-month training
course before they can replace the
men taken over by the Capitol
authorities. And the city will not be
reimbursed for the time and money
and effort spent in training the off,
GERS involved in the shift. The White
House already had "conscripted" a
group of nineteen Metropolitan
policemen for its own guard force,
with the result that Washington will
be without the services of nearly
forty members of its authorized
police force, pending the schooling
of recruits to fill the vacancies.
1t is highly desirable that Federal
police agencies, heretofore composed
of patronage appointees, should be
manned by officers from the civil
service rolls. But it is regrettable
that Congress does not manifest as
much concern for the under-p -policed
Capital City as it does in strengthen
ing its own police detail. For exam
pie, although Major Brown pleaded
for at least one hundred additional
patrolmen for the coming fiscal year,
only fifteen finally were granted
and then only as a compromise
between the Senates approval of
twenty-five men and the Houses fail
ure to authorize any at all. That is
hardly what one could term fair play
on the part of Congress.
Evening star., 1940-06-30

We assume our right to independence,
hence we regard it's blessings too lightly.
1t is an essential part of our tradition, 1t
is woven into the very warp and woof of
our Constitution and Bill of Rights. We
strongly affirm 1t in our Declaration.
Our geographical position confirms us
in the belief that we are apart from all
that is implied by "entangling alliances"
On another Independence Day we are
moved to consider what are the reasons
for our assumed security, the large free
dom we enjoy and upon what it is based.
The whole splendid record of the birth
and growth of the Nation is story of
which all Americans are justly proud.
What are the fundamental truths that
lie behind this amazing growth and the
expanding influence of this Nation? It
has been something other than patriotic
fervor, excelling genius and an unprece-
dented capacity for industry and COM
merce that has brought us to our present
commanding place among nations. Be-
hind all our endeavors has resided a
deep-seated sense of our dependence
upon God.
At solemn moment in the Constitu-
tional Convention of 1787, Benjamin
Franklin arose and reverently said: "I
have lived, sir, long time, and the long
er I live the more convincing proofs I
see of this truth, that God governs in
the affairs of men" He then quoted the
words of Scripture: Except the Lord
build the house, they labor in vain that
build it," and added, 'I firmly believe
this"
Far, as at times we may have Strayed
from our ideals and our professed faith,
We have still held to the conviction that
In strange and underlined ways we have
been led by the God to whom the found
ing fathers committed their plans and
purposes when they laid deep and firm
the foundations of the Republic. Apart
from all our skill and wisdom there has
been the consciousness that we we're
guided and led by a higher power than
we ourselves possessed. The evidence of
this is writ large in the history of the
Nation. Crisis after crisis has witnessed
our survival when disaster seemed newt
able. Even influences that were alien
to our ideals have ultimately contributed
to the realization of our higher develop
ment
The whole story of Americas rapid
rise has no parallel in history We sur
Evening star., 1940-06-30
Jupun's Doctrine

Japan'S Foreign Minister, Hachiro
Arita, yesterday set forth limits for
the Far Eastern activities of non-
Oriental powers, limits which would
have the effect of creating kind of
ASiatic Monroe Doctrine" although
Mr.. Arita did not use the phrase.
There would be little to quarrel
with in such a declaration if it did
not contain clear indications that
Japan herself does not intend to
respect the boundaries she pro-
claims. Japan wants the rest of
the world to respect the status quo
in the Far East only for the pur-
pose of not interfering with Japan's
own expansion.
1t is understandable that Mr.. Arita
considers the future of East Asia
and the South Seas a matter of
grave concern" 1t is matter of
equal concern to the United States
and other powers.
Mr. Arita's statement in many re-
SpectS is in full accord with estab-
lished American policy. This Gov
ernment always has recognized that,
like the countries of this hemisphere,
the peoples of the Orient possess Ger
tain historical, racial and economic
interests in common. If Japan meant
only to be stabilizing force in the
present situation, not attempting to
alter it to her own advantage, Amer
leans would have nothing to fear.
But when Mr.. Arita speaks about
uniting all these regions under a
single sphere" in a system which
"presupposes the existence of a
stabilizing force" it sounds very
much as though Japan has reserva-
tions concerning the application of
the status quo stipulation to her own
procedure. Mr.. Arita gave clear evil
dence of an intention not only to
modify the existing status in Japan's
favor, but to bring under Japanese
dominance the entire East Asiatic
and South Seas regions, prospect
which neither the American people
nor any other people interested in
the Orient can contemplate without
grave concern.
Evening star., 1940-06-30
Capitol SideIiehts
By Will p. Kennedy.

Philadelphia - home Of the Liberty
Bell, where the Declaration of Independ-
ence was first read to the people, where
Congress met before there was a Wash
ington City-is again taking forward
steps to do its full duty toward national
defense. This leadership among the
large cities comes as is most proper under
our form OF government, up from the
people" The One Hundred Club, COM
posed OF two members from each of the
large social service, military clubs, Amer
lean Legion and about two-thirds of all
the clubs in the city-has sent its ennis
sary, former Representative Ira Drew. to
the Capital to confer with the State dele
cation, administration officials and ma
tlonal leaders regarding what Philadel-
phia needs in the way of national de-
tense and what service it must prepare
itself to give for the welfare of the Ma
ton. These Philadelphia patriots feel
that theirs is most important location
in the scheme of national defense and
Tor the prompt transmission of supplies.
Their first drive is for completion of an
adequate highway to the new airport
and navy yard. They are working to
have the old Pennsylvania turnpike,
which the State Legislature recently
voted to extend from Harrisburg to
Philadelphia further extended to the
navy yard. Mr.. Drew emphasized, how
ever, in his conferences here with ma
uonal defense strategiStS, emphasized
that this is only first step in the pro-
gram which the citizens One Hundred
Club has undertaken. and that it intends
to make Philadelphia the best equipped
city to do its tull share in defense Of the
Nation it helped so much to establish.
**
Prominent Senators and House mem
bers from Illinois, South Carolina, Ver-
mont and Wisconsin are proud of the
new legislation in their States which
brings them into close cooperation with
the National Cancer Institute in Bethes-
da, Md, set up by the Public Health
Service three years ago to foster and
coordinate research for cancer control,
and to cooperate with State agencies In
prevention, control and eradication of
that dread disease. Cancer is rated as
the second major cause of death in this
country, and there is possibility of
saving $4,000 lives each year through
cooperation with the States. There are
six other States that have already in
itiated cancer control programs-Mary-
land, Pennsylvania, New York, Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut and Georgia. New
York alone since January l, through CO.
operation of doctors and hospitals, has
listed 10000 cases for scientific analysis.
H*<*
There came to the House Post Office
the other day a card addressed to George
Washington, marked important" from
Spotswood, N. J. At the post office it
was stamped "Deceased-not H. of R."
On the card was written an appeal: IF
you can hear my prayer away out there
please come back to us-we need you
so, Beloved Father"