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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-18
Honor BlufftOn
Lumber Dealer
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position of its first vice president is
an old established and influential
trade organization, numbering in its
membership lumber dealers thruout
Ohio. A gathering of more than
1000 is in attendance at the Dayton
convention this week.
Prominent in Association
Steinman is well known thruout
the state in the lumber trade and
has been active in the. work of the
association. During the past year
he was the associations second vice
president. He is also president of
the Bluffton Board of Education,
past governor of District 13-A of the
Lions club, former president of the
Bluffton Lions club and also active
in Masonic circles, being past COM
mander of the Findlay commandery
of Knight Templars.
National significance is attached to
the address of Thurman w. Arnold
assistant United States attorney gen.
eral who will address the convention,
Friday.
Others on the list of speakers in
clude Roy T. Wenzlick of ST. Louis,
internationally known because of
past accurate predictions concerning
building costs and volume; Walter
Scales of Washington, D. c., tech
nical engineer for the National Lum-
Der Manufacturers association; Don
Campbell of Lebanon, KY, former
president of the National Retail
Lumber Dealers association; w. j
Cheyney of New York, vice president
of the National Retail Furniture as
sociation and VIM. Abernathy OF
Atlanta, Ga, prominent southern
manufacturer.
In the announcement of Steinman's
election as vice president the Dayton
convention also announced "Home
for the Money in 1910" as its theme
for the current meeting.
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drive against infantile paralysis,
Bluffton college will contribute five
cents from each single admission tick
ct sold at the Cedarville game Thurs
day night to the Bluffton fund. Only
Bluffton, Defiance and CedarviIIe re-
main in the Northwest Ohio confer
ence and it is not likely that any tro-
phies will be awarded this season. ).
Wilmington has dropped out to join
the Ohio conference.
Beaverdam defeated Columbus Grove
last week 25 to 20. ;. Then Beaver
dam dropped out of tie for lead in
the Allen county league when topped
by Lafayette, "a to IT. This gave
Spencerville undisputed possession of
first place. Lima South topped Gen.
trail last week 26 to %. :. Findlay
colleges clash with Kenyon at Find
lay this Thursday will be relief per-
formance for Findlay. . .Cridersville's
Roger Phillips has scored 27O points
in IL games, IL of which have been
won by Cridersville. =. Wapakoneta
topped st. Marys in Western Buck
eye league game last week, 81 to 90.
Rawson, beaten by Bluffton High, is
tied with Van Buren and Arcadia for
the lead in the Hancock county league.
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FIFTY FAMOUS
FRONTIERSMEN
d. ELMO CCnr1. rrrATSON


ONE spring day In the year 1913
~ horseman came gailoping through
the streets Of San Francisco. sprang
from his weary horse and rushed
through the plaza. hatless and travel
stained, waving aloft little bottle
filled with some shining particles and
shouting Gold Gold Gold from the
American river 7"
Thus 1t was that Sam Brannan.
frontiersman and adventurer. won the
title of "the first Forty-Niner." For
he was the first to bring to San Fran
cisco authentic news of the discovery
of gold by James w. Marshall near
Suffers Fort.
But this was not the only historic
first in the career of sam Brannan,
Back In the late thirties and early for
ties he had been a jonrneyman printer,
free lance writer, an editor and "a
natural-born promoter" Also he was
a full-hedged elder in the Church of
the Latter Day Saints until the Nor
mon leaders little later had occasion,
and very good reason. to expel him.
In July. 1876. he brought to Califor.
MIA a colony of some 300 Mormons. the
first American colonists to reach Yerba
Buena, the little Spanish settlement on
San Francisco bay. Immediately be
began on the series of his historic
"frsts"-he preached the first English
sermon ever heard there, he solemn
lied the first American marriage on
California SOIL he set up the first flour
mill and gave the settlement its first
newspaper. the California Star.
After he was expelled from the Nor
mon church. he became the first Call
fornia promoter by getting out spe-
cial edition of his Star and sending
1000 copies Of the paper overland to
the Mississippi valley and the eastern
states. extolling the virtues of the
country to prospective settlers.
Then'came the discovery of gold and
Rrannan's role as 'the first Forty-Nin-
er." His sensational announcement Of
the gold discovery depopulated San
Francisco within a few days and re
suited in Suffers little kingdom of
New Helvetia" being oyerrun by a
swarm of goldseekers.
In the wild era chat followed, Bran
nan prospered. He was gambler and
banker, merchant and hotel owner, I'M
porter and exporter, gold digger and
real estate specuiator shipowner ana
smuggler. AS San Francisco grew he
ioomed larger and larger on its hori.
zon, and at last was ruling 1t like o
Chinese mandarin. Then misfortune
overlook him. His later career was
one of ups and downs" but he never
remained entirely down, and when he
died In 1889 at the age Of seventy, he
was fairly prosperous. in contrast TO
the poverty of Sutter and Marshall.
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Two games, one at home and the
other on a foreign court, will be
played within the next week by
Bluffton colleges improving cage
outfit.
Cedarville's crack five will oppose
the Beavers this Thursday night on
the Bluffton court, and on Tuesday
night of next week the Burckymen
will play at Ohio Northern.
With George Radulovicl's injured
leg nearly healed, Coach A. G.
Burcky is hoping to have his team
at full strength for the Cedarville
assignment. If he returns to the
lineup it will be the first time since
the first week in December that the
Beavers have not been hit by in
juries.
Cedarville has five veterans from
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Turbine Arrives
At Light Plant
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give the Bluffton plant its first turbo-
generator. When the municipal plant
was first equipped it was impractical
to consider turbine generating equip
ment because the local load was not
heavy enough.
For economies in operation, a
turbo-generator should not be used
when the load is less than 500 K. w.
according to engineering opinion. It
has only been in very recent years
that output of the Bluffton plant has
passed that mark.
Installation of the turbine will
give the town improved service, and
in addition the guarantee under
which it is sold assures operating
economy of at least 40 per cent.
Economies in operation will be
represented principally in fuel saw
ings, it being estimated that ap-
proximately $4,000 less will be spent
each year for coal when the unit is
put into use.
No Bond Issue
Net cost of the modern Westing-
house turbine, complete with direct
coupled exeter and surface condens-
er, is $4,000. This is being paid
from the plants cash balance, and no
bond issue will be required.
One of the light plants present
battery of three Skinner unifow
engines is being traded on the gen.
orator. This is a $50 K. w. unit,
for which a credit allowance of $1,000
was made, reducing the purchase
price of $15,500, including freight, to
a net cost of $4,000.
After the turbine is set up and
checked the Skinner engine will be
dismantled and shipped to the Power
Plant Equipment Co., of New York
City, from whom the turbo-generator
was obtained.
Following its installation, the tur-
bine with the two remaining Skinner
engines will give the local plant a
capacity of 1850 X. W., which should
be sufficient for the towns require
ments for years to come.
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Kansan Speaks
To Student B0dY

DR.. E. l.. Harshbarger, professor of
history and international relations at
Bethel college, Bluffton sister institu-
tion, spoke at college chapel services
Friday morning.
DR.. Harshbarger, former teacher at
Bluffton high school and college, gave
the students an insight on the Euro
pean situation as he saw it this sum-
mer while travelling in Europe and as
a student at the Academy of Interna-
tional Law at The Hague. He was
one of ten Americans awarded a fell
lowship by the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace. Having re-
turned from Europe as late as Aug.
&c, DR.. Harshbarger gave very vivid
picture of the European scene.
In the evening at 7:30 he spoke at
the First Mennonite church on the
topic, Lights Out Over Europe"
DR.. Harshbarger was on his way
back to Newton, Kansas after having
served as a member of a committee of
the three historic peace churches in a
conference with President Roosevelt
at Washington, D. C. This committee
interviewed the President together
with other cabinet officers on the sub
ject of service in time of war which
would be consistent with the philos-
cphy of conscientious ohiectora. The
Kansas educator said that the delcga-
ton was well received by the admins
tration
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College Five To Play Cedaryille
Here Thursday; At Ada Tuesday

last years outfit, which twice de-
feated Bluffton, but the Beavers
have been showing constant improve
ment and the Bluffton mentor be-
lieves his crew viii have good
chance to capture their first victory
of the season in Thursdays game
here.
AS a special contribution to the
national campaign against infantile
paralysis, FIVE cents of each thirty
five cent admission ticket sold at the
Cedarville game viii be turned over
to the Bluffton fund.
In the tilt against Ohio Northern,
the Beavers will be tackling their
sixth Ohio conference foe. Altho the
Bears have a fast-traveling outfit,
Bluffton is doped to keep in the
running all the way despite their
under dog rating.
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Reserves Win TUice
By Identical Scores

Bluffton High reserves won two
cage assignments by identical scores
during the past week, trouncing Ce-
lima seconds here on Friday night,
26 to 25, and winning over Wiltshire
understudies at Wiltshire on Satur-
day by the same count.
Against Celina, the Bluffton sec
onds trailed at the quarter 6 to g.,
but tied up the count at halftime,
10-all The Pirates were ahead Il
to Is at the third quarter.
At Wiltshire, Fritchie paced the
Reserve attack with IL points, and
Rich Gratz got eight.
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Mackinac, Mich.
Rev. Thomas M. Chalmers. director
of the New York Evangelization
Society, Brooklyn, N. Y, who has
been visiting in this vicinity since
last Thursday, will leave next Sat-
urday for a trip west. Rev. Chal-
mers married one of the Van Gunten
girls, three miles south of Bluffton.
The annual Sunday school picnic
OF the German Ev. Lutheran Trinity
congregation of Jenera, will be held
on Thursday, August z, in Michael
Traucht's grove, south of Jenera.
Mrs. S. w. Stratton is in Lakeside
hospital, Cleveland, and will take
treatment for several weeks. She
passed thru successful operation
the first of last week.
Clair Fett and Lysle and Donayin
Baumgartner are visiting this week
in Toledo with Ralph Bixel and at
tending the Perry Centennial cele-
DrdC1On.
Il. b. Betzner will return from
Berlin, Ontario, the last of the week.
He will greet his many friends on
Homecoming day.
GERMAN SETTLEMENT
Noah Thut purchased thirty-six
;acres of land in Logan county recent
Fly and expects to move to that place
pin the near future.
: T. B. Hilty and wife will leave
today for a trip through the western
Estates. They will visit their daugh-
ster, Mrs. Lizzie Gerber, in Oregon.
They will be gone about three
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-18
NEWS OUR FATHERS READ
FROM ISSUE OF JULY 81. 1919

Next Tuesday, August 5, the town
of Bluffton will be in gala attire for
the big homecoming to which every
resident of Bluffton and vicinity.
former and past, is cordially and
urgently invited to come. The en-
tire town is being cleaned up and
prepared for this celebration and the
authorities at the college, on the
campus of which the celebration is
to take place, are making extensive
preparations.
Ralph West, of Berne, Ind, was
an over-Sunday visitor with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fletch West.
Miss Zanna Staater is home from
the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
Architect DeCurtins at his own
expense is replacing all outside doors
at the new high school building.
I. A. Kitchen went last week to
Marinette county, Wisconsin, accom-
panying a number of prospective
land buyers. John Manages also was
one of the party.
Mr.. w. H. Michel, who taught in
Bluffton High school the last half
of last year, will not return to Bluff
ton next year.
The population of Bluffton in 191
was 1858, gain of ITO over 190l
Beaverdam 455 in 1910, loss of {
since 1900; of Richland townshi
1906, outside of Bluffton and Be.
verdam, loss of SO since 1900.
c. A. Arganbright is rattlin
around in Editor Biery's shoes tn
week, while the latter and so
Clarence, are on a vacation trip |
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Bluffton High cagers will play two
games at home in the next week,
meeting North Baltimore here this
Friday night, and opposing Colum-
bus Grove next Tuesday.
Since the first of the year the
Pirates have not been defeated at
home, and in four starts on the local
floor during the season the Diller-
men have lost but one.
Backers of the Bluffton crew are
hopeful that the Pirates will con-
tinue their winning streak at home,
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PRESIDENT
AT CONFERENCE

DR.. L. L. Ramseyer, president of
Bluffton college, has been attending
several college conferences in the
east as the official Bluffton represen-
tative this week.
The conferences DIR. Ramseyer in
dicated he expected to attend upon
his departure Tuesday included the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-18
Jumping Beans

Most Mexican jumping beans
come from the province of Chihua-
hua; they are the seeds of various
members of family of swamp
trees listed as euphorbiaceous
plants. When the plant is in BIOS
som small moth (Carpocapsa sal
titans) lays an egg in one part of
the flower. The hatched larvae bore
INTO the growing beans but do not
attain full growth until the beans
are hard and ripe. The larva in
SIDE the bean moves it by coiling
up and then suddenly extending IL
self. Later in the season it cuts a
circular door through the bean and
changes to pupa. and then. when
the pupa is transformed to a moth.
II escapes through this door. Close
examination of the bean will show
this means of exit.
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High School To Play North Baltimore,
Columbus Grove In Home Cage Tits

altho North Baltimore and Colum-
bus Grove each have been playing a
good brand of ball.
Improvement has been in constant
evidence of Bluffton's play since the
close of the Christmas vacation
period, however, and chances are
that the locals will end the season
with a balance on the winning side.
In nine games played thus far, the
Pirates have won four and lost five,
but held the edge in scoring, 281 to
their opponents $50.
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College Cagers Falter In Second
Half; Lose TO Findlay Five, 35-2o

Bluffton had 9 to 6 advantage,
their widest of the game.
At the start of the last half, Find
Law ran the count to 16 OF II before
Bluffton could break the scoring ice.
The Beavers then pulled up to trail
by only two points, 18 to 10, but
from that time Findlay literally ran
away with the game and Buttons
hopes were gone.
Findlay's conquest over Bluffton
was the teams sixth victory in
eight starts.
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Coming Games
Thursday, Jan 18
College VS. Cedarville, here
Friday, Jan. 10
High School VS. North Baltimore, here
Tuesday, Pan. %
High School VS. Col. Grove, here
College VS. Ohio Northern, there
Bluffton High Varsity and Reserve
cagers in four games last week really
turned in freak scoring perform
ance. In three of four games the
scores were identical, and in the
fourth one-half of the same count was
duplicated. The Pirate seconds won
games from Celina and Wiltshire by
the same score, 26 to %. .Bluffton's
Varsity trimmed Celina 26 to %, and
Wiltshire the next night also made
25 points against Bluffton but the To-
Gals got only 21.
n
Bluffton Highs best performances
have been at home this season.. The
Dillermen have won three out of four
starts on the local floor. Away from
home they have dropped four games
in five starts. :. Bluffton colleges
outlook is Frightening, Coach A. C.
Burcky reports, despite seven straight
losses. :. The Beavers looked much
improved in the Findlay contest last
week.
Next years cage team at the col
lege should be one of the best in sew
eral seasons, Coach Burcky said. Sew
en- tall freshman candidates are look
ing good and if they return next year
they should team with returning vet
erans to good advantage. Some idea
of the headache in coaching these
days. however, is seen in the fact that
Findlay college has 40 freshman bas-
ketball candidates.
In cooperation with the national
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meeting of the Association of Ameri-
part of this week in Philadelphia.
can colleges, the Association of
Church Related colleges and the As
sociation of the Boards of Religious
Education, all being held the latter
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SHORT SPORTS

Team Standing
Team w T. PTS. Onts.
Bluffton High 4 s 2S1 2SO
Bluffton College o Z 2O2 321
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In cooperation with the national
Evening star., 1940-09-08

and the aircraft Centers on the West
Coast, only to find disappointment.
o. This fall wiH be an especially critical
time for the NEARLY eight million high
school and college youths Who are
marching back to their ciassrOOnss.
Those who will be seeking full-time
jobs within the next year or so should
review their vocational ambitions crit
ically and reshape them to fit the
rapidly changing occupational scene.
Many youths face the necessity of
staying out of school for semester or
so at some time during their course so
as to earn extra money to complete
their schooling. They would be wise
to consider staying out this fall, since
job prospects look especially bright.
Next Week: Job Queries from
THIS WEEK reodes
Evening star., 1940-09-08
YOU AND YOUR JOB
- bv Lvle NJ. Spencer

lyle Nj. SPENCER IS Director Of
clence Research Associates of Chicago,
sfion0liy- knOWn organization of job
gbertS. In this column - nritfen e1-
1sireiy for THIS WEEK MAGAZINE -
h. Spencer WiN present each Week
wthdnd practical in nforndfiOn on ,seu
NelObments in the JOB market. The
Hnn WiH be Of Seyrice 10 Everyone Dh0
9. or is seeking, a JOb. - The Editor
HIS is going to be banner fall
for job-hunters - the most ex-
citing since 1929!
September is always the best month
1 the whole year for finding work.
N business awakens then from its
immcr slumbcrs. This year a strong
pward trend in general business CON
iffons will give an additional boost
, job prospects. And added to that
1ere is Americas giant multi-billion-
ollar defense program, the effects OF
hich, incidentally, are only begin
ing to be felt
This rising wave of employment is
nly one development in the world of
usiness. There are other surging new
urrents that soon may alter the work
" life of every jobholder. Though
ar defense program may have trans
Hmed many idle factories into dyna-
NOS of activity - meaning more jobs
n millions - the war has also tor
edoed nearly a fifth of our foreign
sarkcts, cutting jobs from under
nousands of American workmen.
A world at war is causing drastic
lifts in the labor market, alternately
reating and destroying jobs all over
he country. Many of these changes
rll be outlined in this column during
omlng weeks. In the meantime, here
4 quick, brief summary of the pres
BIT outlook:
Z. When 0nr NATIONAL defense program
e0ches its peak ii may create JOBS,
becfiy and indiTectiy, for as many as
ree or tonr million Uo1keys, bnt it sriH
et get up tnH steam for at least another
ear. The three to four million esti-
iate is based on funds already appro-
Tlated or authorized. Further
preparations would mean still more
Ibs. Bottleneck labor shortages may
ccur in neutrality-suspicious.. These will
e confined largely to the skilled-labor
roup. Employment managers will be
Dklng mainly for experienced men
aimed for specialized jobs in ship
ullding, aircraft construction. ma
nne shops, industrial chemicals, sur
Gal supplies, foundries and mechan-
al maintenance.
To supply this specialized labor,
Q LABOR mobilization dirfsion of the
sfioHdi Defense Advisory Commission
Uked out training courses during the
ssmer. These will now shift into high
ar. AS many as l,25O,OOO persons
~ be trained this next year, mostly
machinists, lathe operators. sheet
etal workers, auto and aircraft
sChaniCs. Much more than the
100000 already appropriated for
Is purpose will be needed. Most of
Evening star., 1940-09-08

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ence in the brightness of
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Try Pepsodent with
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Others will admire.
Evening star., 1940-09-08

the Can0lQdteS iOr training Will be
taken from the registers of public
employment Offices. So. if you are in
terested, your first call should be at
the nearest office of your local employ
ment service.
D. The preparedness program offers er-
rellen JOB opportunities for unemployed
persons orer forty with skill and expert
ence. Labor shortages in the crafts
mentioned above undoubtedly will
relax age barriers. Employment Offices
throughout the East, Middle West
and Far West already have received
many calls for skilled workers up to
the age of sixty-three. And ''refresher"
courses are now being offered free by
the government to workers whose skills
have grown rusty through disuse.
4. Adequate defense Of the Western
Hemisphere ineritably means tre-
mendOnS increase tn the personnel of all
branches of on1 armed forces. To man,
repair and operate fleet of $4,000
fighting planes - just one branch of
our military service would require
nearly million trained men. Esti-
mates of the minimum personnel
needed for all our armed forces vary
from 10000 to 3,0OO. 600 men. with a
figure of about 1900 600 being men
toned most frequently. Military serv-
ice, by the way, is worth the careful
consideration of any unframed youth,
for it offers sound training courses in
hundreds of skilled occupations that
are also important in civilian life.
.. During the coming year maembloy-
nient may sink to its i0icesf level since
1929. There is no present eridence, h0sU-
erer, that 1t wiH come anywhere near
being eliminated AS a matter of fact,
unemployment increased temporarily
in both Canada and England after war
was declared. The shift from peace
time business activities to prepared
ness production causes many short
term dislocations, during which more
workers may actually be discharged
than are hired. But even when arma-
ments production hits its full stride,
the best available estimates Indicate
that unemployment will not sink
below the five-million level.
Unskilled workers will be helped
least of all by business improvement
and in most cases it is unwise for per-
sons without training to migrate to
industrial areas in the hopes of finding
jobs. Many already have hurried to
the automobile district around Detroit
Evening star., 1940-09-08

the candidates for training will be
taken from the registers of public
employment Offices. So. if you are in
terested, your first call should be at
the nearest Office of your local employ
ment service.