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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-16
DR.. {. II. Smith To
Publish NelU Book

After more than ten years of re-
search and writing, DR.. C. Henry
Smith, head of the history and gov
ernment department at Bluffton col
lege, will publish his latest volume on
the entire history of the Mennonites
during the last four hundred years
early this fall.
Entitled "The Story of the Men
nonites" the book will cover the
European and American phases of
the social and economic wanderings
and settlements of that group, look
ing into their institutions and GUS
toms and many other sides of the
Mennonites' history.
Numbering five or six at the pres
ent time, the books previously writ
ten by DR.. Smith also deal with
some phases of the Mennonite pic
ture, the last showing the immigra-
ton of German Mennonites into
Pennsylvania and published by the
Pennsylvania German Society re-
Gently.
During his research DR.. Smith has
been led into many European and
American countries, looking into the
homes of Mennonite immigrants,
reading their books and histories,
and listening to the family stories
of these people.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-16
ArmOrsville

Recent callers at the Rayl home
were: Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Cloore, of
Lafayette; Mr.. and Mrs. Sam AM
stutz and son Daryl, Mrs. Sarah
Oates, Miss Clarabel Owens, Mrs.
Thomas Wolfley, Mrs. Robert Mat
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Oehrli, Mr..
and Mrs. Cloyce Robnolte, Mrs.
Leland Snyder and daughter Sharon,
Marion Downey, of Findlay; Ray
mond Tuttle, Mr.. and Mrs. H. G..
Downey and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Elmer Anderson.
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Wilkins Jr.,
and family called on Mrs. Gladys
Hosafros, Monday.
Recent callers of Mrs. Eva Mont
gomery, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Battles,
Mrs. Walter Schantz and son Billy,
Mrs. Stanley Ream, Mr.. and Mrs. /.
A. Zay, Mr.. and Mrs. Vaughn Spell
man and daughter and Mrs. Hannah
Swank who came to spend some
time there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin Hartman and
family spent Sunday afternoon at
the o. P. Hartman home and Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Grismore and
family, Mrs. Dora Hartman and Mr..
and Mrs. Russell MCGEE called in
the evening.
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. O. Hilty and daughter
! Rosann were Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Ewing, Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Young,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Hilty and son.
Mr.. and Mrs. William E. Coldiron
and Miss Virginia Tobian of Dear
born, Mich, spent the weekend at
the C. E. Klingler home.
| Mr.. and Mrs. H. o. Hilty and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Hart
man and son called Sunday evening
at the Ivan Montgomery home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl McCafferty and
son Donald called Sunday afternoon
at the Scott McCafferty home in
Rawson.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Mertz, Mrs.
Manton, Mrs. Catherine Welsh called
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-16
Announce Cast For
Shdkespearedn Play

1t was announced this week that
the annual Bluffton college Shakes
pea1tean play will be presented on
the evening of Bluffton Day, June
10. 1t will be "a Midsummer
Nights Dream.
Rehearsals for the featured pro-
duction will begin next week.
1t was also announced that a pag-
cant depicting the founding of Bluff
ton college forty years ago will be
presented as part of commence
ment activities. Date for the pag-
cant as yet has not been set.
Cast for the production is as fol-
lows: Theseus, John Boehr; Egeus,
Mark Houshower; Philostrate, Gene
Hilty; Lysander, Herbert Oyer; De
metrius, Dale Francis; Ounce, Oar
vim Lugibihl; Snug, NJ. Brown; Bot
tom, L. Metzker; Flute, P. Soldner;
Snout, R. Wagner; Starveling, Bert
Smucker; Hippolyta, Helene Stone
hill; Hernia, Betty Keeney; Helena,
Julia Culp; Oberon, Bill Burbick
Titania, Bettye Lewis; Puck, Duane
Tway; Peaseblossom, M. Olivet; Cob
web, Zitella Gettles; Moth, Mary
Smucker; Mustardseed, 10 Haldy;
Fairy, Lora Schultz. Supporting
roles will be taken by Ray Ramseyer
Don Gundy, Rosalie Barnes, Gene
We've Stein, Robert West, Mary
Lape, Gladys Raber, Shirly Bailey
and Loreen Peters.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-16
Uncommon
mexicanS
MIR. Currier and Mr.. Ives

THEY gave Americans of their
= day the equivalent of the news
reels of today. They were the pic
torial historians of contemporary
American life a century ago when
newspapers contained little or no
picture material except an oc-
casiona1 fashion print.
When a steamboat blew up,
great fire swept a city or some
other disaster occurred, Mr.. Cur
rier and Mr.. Ives Immediately put
out colored picture of the event
with plenty of action in it. When
the United States was at war, they
issued splendid battle pictures with
plumed generals on prancing horses
(and plenty of CORY detail as to dead
and wounded soldiers). There were
pictures of horse races and other
sporting events, there were pictures
of swift clipper ships and pictures
OF the first tranScontinental trains
running amidst Indians and buffalo.
There were highly moral pictures
there were even "comic strips"
-caricatures of life among the ne
groes, called "Darktown Comics"
1t all started back in 1880 when
young Nathaniel Currier, working
as an apprentice to John Pendle-
ton, who had returned from Europe
with the new art OF lithography, be-
gan thinking of setting up his own
business. So he went to New York
and started as photographer in
partnership with a young man
named Stoddard. This partnership
lasted only year but in 1885 Cur
rier began again. He soon built I'D
a profitable business but it wasn't
until 1850 when James A. Ives be-
came his partner that fame and
fortune came to them.
For 80 years Mr.. Currier and Mr..
Ives were 'printmakers to the
American people" and Currier and
Ives prints of one sort or another
were to be found on the walls of
virtually every American home. In
1880 Currier retired with fortune
but the firm continued with a son
of the founder in his place. In
1888 machine color printing was ap-
piled to their product and even
greater numbers OF their pictures
flooded the country.
In recent years Currier and Ives
prints have become Americana.
Where once these prints sold from
six cents to So, they are now sell
ing for anywhere from $40 to $500.
And one of them recently brought
S3,000i
@ Western Newspaper Union.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-16

parish in Lima. This society of mis-
sionary priests was founded in 1892.
Is YEARS UNDER REDEMPToRIsTs
During the Is years under the Re-
demptorist Fathers, a full basement
was placed under the church and a
new hot air heating system was in
stalled.
In 1882 the parish became COM
pletely independent for the first time
when the charge was given to the
Rev. Father James Hebbeler, of
Lima, who served until 1888.
He was succeeded by Rev. Father
Robert Maher, the present pastor,
under whom continued progress has
been made, and worthwhile improve
ments to the church building have
been effected.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-16
East Orange

Mr.. and Mrs. Will Stager, Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph Stager were Sunday
dinner guests of Mrs. Hannah
Gambler and daughter Gayle of Ada.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Nonnamak-
er and sons Harold and Dean were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ira Slusser of near Bluffton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Gallant and
daughters Marylin Ann and Carol
Sue spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Clapper of Mt. Gilead.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Nonnamaker
and daughters Eileen and Loretta
Mae, Ed Boutwell,, Mr.. and Mrs.
Rob Potts, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Kim
mel and son Raymond and daughter
Marie Edith, Edward, Richard,
Merle and Margaret Frick, of Lima;
Mr.. George Boutwell,, Mr.. Will Bout
well and daughter Josephine of Ada;
Mr.. and Mrs. r. J. Boutwell,, Mr..
and Mrs. B. J. Boutwell, and son
Byron Leo spent Sunday with Mrs.
Elizabeth Boutwell, of west of
Bluffton.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Boutwell, en-
tertained the Tried and True class
of the Riley Creek Baptist church
Saturday evening.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-16
Thespians To GiUe
Last One-Act Ra4

The Thespian Dramatic Society
will present the final series of one
act play performances of the "Tom
Thumb Theatre" on May 21. AS yet
only one of the two plays, as an
nounced by President William Bur-
bick, has been chosen.
"Joe", by Jane Dransfeld, trag-
edy depicting mountain back woods
drama will be presented. The story
involves a woman having an insane
son whom the authorities try to take
away.
The play is supported by the fol-
lowing cast: Betty Keeney, Bert
Smucker, Wilma Nash, Mark Hush
over, Rosalie Barnes, and John
Boehr.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-16
Students To GiUe
Graduation RecitaIs

Senior piano recitals will be Civ
en- by Margery Lecrone of Bucyrus
on May 81 and Virgil Bartz of Co.
lumbus Grove on June 8 in the col
lege chapel. Miss Lecrone and Mr.
Bartz are seniors in the college
music department who will receive
their Bachelor School Music Degree
this spring.
Two other recitals are scheduled
to be presented this spring. Miss
Esther Hilty, graduate of Wooster
college, now taking postgraduate
work in Bluffton college will render
vocal recital. Mr.. Wilson Jones
of Lima, will also present a vocal
recital. AS yet no definite date has
been set for these two presentations
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-16
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT

Estate of C. w. Young, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Charles Young,
whose Post Office address is 317 S. E. 18th
St., Oklahoma City, Okla. has been duly
appointed and qualified as executor of the
Estate of G. w. Young. late of Allen County,
Ohio, deceased.
Dated this End day of May, 1910.
RAYMOND p. SMITH,
Judge of the Probate Court,
Allen County, Ohio.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-16

Sunday afternoon at the Charles
Montgomery home.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. E. Coldiron,
Miss Virginia Tobian, Mr.. and Mrs.
C. E. Klingler and son Clyde were
Sunday dinner guests at the John
w. Wilkins home near Arlington.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Welsh of Ada
called at the Chas. Montgomery
home Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. /. Moore called
Sunday evening at the c. E. Klingler
home. :
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-16

Development of blue mold in Ohio
tobacco beds depends upon weather
conditions. Hot, dry weather during
the last half of May and early June
may prevent the trouble, but growers
should be ready to use preventive
measures if cool, cloudy weather
prevails at that time. Agricultural
agents can give information about
control measures.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-16
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT

Estate of Martha Nj. Radebaugh, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that William M.
Radebaugh. whose Post Office address is
lit E. Main St.. Bellevue. Ohio. has been
duly appointed and qualified as administra-
tor of the Estate of Martha M. Radebaugh.
late of Allen County, Ohio. deceased.
Dated this 7th day of May l940
RAYMOND P. SMITH.
Judge of the Probate Court,
Allen County Ohio.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-16
Snaucker Renamed
Peace Club President

Bertran Smucker, Bluffton, was re-
elected president of the Bluffton
College Peace Action club at a meet
ing held on May s. Richard Weaver
Betty Keeney, and Wilton Hartzler
were elected to serve on the execu-
tive council next year. Professor
Russell A. Lantz was chosen faculty
advisor of the group.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-16

The annual potato field day for
Ohio will be held on the farm of
Virgil Royer, near Arcanum, in
Darke county, all day August s.
Earl Tussing, Ohio State University,
says a program for women, exhibits,
demonstrations, and an inspection of
paintings on the Roger farm will
keep everyone attending busy.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-16

The 17-year cicada will emerge
about the last of May in 13 south
western Ohio counties this year and
may be present in one other. This
is the third largest of the four
broods which appear in Ohio.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-16

The average value of Iowa farm
lands was S213 an acre in 1920, S113
an acre in 1880, and $5S an acre in
1888. Land values in Ohio varied
from $3.50 an acre in 1920, through
$50 an acre in 1920, to $50 an acre in
1888.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-16

The Ohio income from dairy farm
ing is approximately S75,000,000 in
an average year but the state still
has to buy dairy products. The
79,000,000 pounds of butter produced
here each year is 5O,OO0,O00 pounds
short of the amount consumed in
the state.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-26
A. F. OF l.. AND POLITICS

THE end of the most vigorously contested and
crucial election in the United States since
1860 finds the American Federation of Labor in
strategic position to serve labor and the nation
Without fanfare and simply a matter OF
principle we recommend or dsapproved candi-
dates upon their public record. We made no ef-
fort to control votes to dictate how anybody
should vote. We simply made public the facts
and we are gratified that, in general the election
was in conformity with this Offices recommended
tions of these facts. We are committed to prnci-
pes not to parties OF candidates, and this policy
is the source of unity necessary for effectiveness
We need within the labor movement unity and
conviction Of principles. Our power is born of
desire for justice and for happiness with a will
to make such sacrifices as are needed to achieve
these needs. Our achievements are commensur-
ate with unity of action and singleness of pul
pose.
We eXacted no commitments from any candi-
date and expect to collect reward for political
services. Whatever legislative proposals we shall
sponsor will grow out of labor's needs.
In connection with the administration of labor
laws and laws especially conditioning our welfare
shall expect representatives of the Federation
to be included in the administrative personnel in
positions where policies are decided. Such appoint
ments must be based on ability to serve. Service
is labors duty and opportunity.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-26
UPHEAVAL AT VICHY

TOR years it had been Pierre Laval's policy Gf
= he can be said to have had policy at alD to
offset the giant strength of Germany by Latin
bloc of Italy, France, Spain and Portugal That
policy was ineligible only on the assumption that
Italy strong and that Britain doomed to
sure defeat. The British resistance at home, and
now the stunning British victory in Egypt, have
undermined M. LavaPs policy and have touched
off an explosion within the Vichy Government it.
self. M. Laval has fallen, disgraced and disin-
herited politically, taken into armed custody and
barred from succession to the leadership OF
France.
1t is possible that M. Laval had tried to re-
peat the disastrous miscaIculatiOn of MussOlini,
whom he so much admired. With Italys weak
ness becoming glarngly apparent, he may have
concluded that his only hope was in open alliance
with Germany, just Musson concluded last
June when he took Italy into the war in the hope
of saving some of the loot for himself Whatever
the truth of the story of M. Laval's plot with
the Germans, whatever his object, he seems to
have carried his Schemlng too far to please either
his own political superors or his masters in Ber-
lin
The downfall of NJ Laval will seem, at first
sight, to be blessing There was a smell of
double dealing about this man throughout his
career. He had lost faith in democracy at home
and in Britain; if he did not love dictatorship as
such, he was always willing to conniVe with it,
which was just as bad. He was crafty and cum
ming, devious in all his ways, fact that may eX-
plain his downfall. For the Germans may well
have found it more convenient to deal with M
Flandin, a dul-witted man as NJ. Laval was not
a bumbling politician rather than an architect of
policy, q puppet for the Nazis rather than a po-
tential leader of his country
Probably the British are right in feeling that
the change in France is not a change for the bet
ter They know that France is prisoner of war,
a prisoner with moose around her neck, as Mar
Shal Petan himself admitted several months ago
In these circumstances, the British will not build
hopes on the fact that the remnant of authority
in France is to be held more firmly by MarShalS
Petain and Weygand The Marshals are patriotic
Frenchmen but they are not free agents they
will do German bidding because they must. If
they ovcr-Step, at home in the African colonies
the penalty can be complete German occupation
of France at any time 1t now remains for Ger
many to show what the old Marshals shall be al
lowed to do with their power.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-26

mestic production plants. The way to get the
maximum production is to keep factories and
plants running full time. More shifts of workers
is the first step in the solution of the problem
Three shifts in every shop and factory where
there is imperative need for more production
should be emphasized.
This most obvious solution is endorsed and
vigorously advocated by Colonel Flemming, ad-
ministrator Of the Wage and Hour Division of the
Department of Labor, who told manufacturers
meeting in New York that labor relations rest
with them. The overtime problem will fade out
where enough workers are employed and factories
run at full capacities under sufficient shifts to
keep the wheels turning. 1t is up to labor and
management to agree on plans.
Responsibility for the most important element
lin national morale rests with the employers as
well as with the workers. The government has
never attempted to conduct labor relations 1t has
laid down the rules in the National Labor Re-
lations Act and insisted that those rules be fol
lowed There has been restraints on labor as
we'll as on management. The law written fol
guidance and control of all parties affected by it.
AS. Col Fleming pointed out the manufacturers
is good business and good citizenship to observe
the rules as plainly set forth in the law.
'You are risking business when you ignore
them. Industry's largest customer Ohe Govern
ment) wants them followed in letter and spirit
he said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-26
LABOR PAPER MANAGER
NAMED TO PAY BOARD

Washington, d. C. (ILNS) Fred
S. Walker, long member of Columbia
Typographical Union No. 101, and
manager of the Trade Unionist, Of
fetal organ of the Central Labor
Union, has been appointed labor mem
Der of the District of Columbia Mini
mum Wage Board The appointment
for a three-year term, was made by
the District Commissioners.
Walker has been active in labor
and civic affairs for many years. He
succeeds Arthur l.. Schoenthal of the
L. S. Department of Labor, whose
term expires December 81. Scheon-
thai, Washington labor official, ad-
vised District officials he could no
longer serve on the Minimum wage
Board.
The new appointee was secretary
treasurer of Columbia Typographical
Union for II years and also mem
ber of the Board of Trustees for the
Union Printers Home, maintained by
the international Typographical Union
at Colorado Springs, Colo. He has
been business manager Of the Trades
Unionist for three years. John b
IColpoyS is editor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-26

Sal B. Hoffman,, International
President of the Upholsterers' In
ternational Union of North Amer
lea, was elected to his present posi-
ton in 1887. He is the youngest
International President ever to
head his organization and is today
the youngest man to hold such
responsible position in the Amer
lean Federation of Labor.
Mr.. Hoffman, Joined the Whole
sale Upholsterers' Local Union No.
II in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
as an apprentice in November,
1920, when he was 18 years of age.
Within a few months after becom-
ing a member of the Local Union
it became involved in a general
strike and he was made chairman
of the picket committee. The strike
was won and Sal B. Hoffman, be-
came the financial secretary of his
Local Union. In rapid succession
he served as Executive Board
Member, Business Representative
and President of his Local Union.
In 1929 he became general or
ganlZer Tor the International Un-
ion. Two years later he returned
to Philadelphia to resume the Of
flee of Business Agent of Local No.
IT, and held this Office until his
election as international President.
Mr.. Hoffman, has established
special research, educational and
Union Label departments in his
international Union. His campaign
for the use of the Union Label on
all products has met with unusual
success and has attracted the at
tention of the entire Labor move
ment.
His address is: Mr.. Sal B. Hoff-
mann, international President,
Upholsterers' international Union
of North America, 19 West 44th
Street, Suite 701, New York, N. Y.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-26
GUARDING PURSE AND HEALTH
(FrOm the TvDOpraphical JOurnaD

From the Typographical JoulnaD
DURING September, 1910, thirty-seven adver-
~ tisers of articles and commodities were order
ed to cease and desist from certain representa-
tons by the Federal Trade Commission. The ad-
lauded the virtues of wide range
of commodities, ranging from burial vaults to face
powders, from breakfast foods to hog medicines,
from clothing to hair tonics, from diet concoctons
to motor oils-all have been found to have failed
to meet the claims OF efficiency advertised
Constant vigilance of the ETC results in the
saving Of thousands Of dollars for readers Of news
paper and magazine advertising who believe what
they read in those pages, yet little knowledge of
the great work of this government agency reaches
the public,
Publications can not be blamed for accepting
advertisements which are later
found to be based on untrustWorthy statements
and claims. Neither can the readers who fall vic
tins to the deceitful phrases Of the writer's of
these questionable advertisements. Were it not for
Uncle Sam there would be no way to circumvent
the injurious results to follow.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-26
PLANNING FOR FUTURE

NECESSITY Of training skilled workers now for
~ work in the future is emphasized by the
American Federation of Labor in its latest survey
of unemployment.
To-day" the Federation says, "thc United
States is producing more goods on a 1O-hour week
than we produced in 1929 on a 1S or 5O-hOu'
weeks, and we have fewer persons employed Our
labor supply is adequate to meet all defense needs
provided that employers plan ahead We need only
adequate time to train men for the type of work
required.
"Those who fail to plan ahead for their labor
needs have no right to cry labor shortage if
trained workers are not ready for them"
Farsighted employers will be doing service
to themselves and the nation by needing the Fed
cration's words and 'planning ahead"