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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-04
Entertains Sorority


Entertains Sorority
Mrs. r. L. Triplett entertained at
a week end house party from Thurs
day until Monday group of charter
members of Iota chapter of Alpha
Omicron Pi sorority of the Univer-
sity of Illinois.
Thirteen of the original % men,
bers were present for the fourth
biennial gathering to renew former
friendships of college days. A his
tory of Iota chapter is being COM
piled by the group from the found
ing of the chapter to date.
Of the % charter members 26 are
living, residing in widely scattered
sections of the country.
Those present for the reunion here
were:
Mrs. R. L. Shute and Mrs. Fred
Ebert, Champaign, H.; Mrs. C. B.
Nolte, Chicago; Mrs. C. o. Barnett,
Bridgeport, H.; Mrs. George Tehon,
Urbana, H.; Mrs. Fred Stevens,
Tuscola, ILL.,; Mrs. Dale Hubbard,
Boswell, Ind; Mrs. M. w. Scholl,
Indianapolis; Mrs. ]. |. Pettigrew,
Honewood, H.; Mrs. R. R. Dennison,
Warsaw, Va; Mrs. VIM. Mcdonald,
Indianapolis; Mrs. L. A. Blood,
Chicago; and Mrs. Triplett.
The next meeting will be held at
the home of Mrs. Dennison in War
saw, Va.
Coming Wedding
Announcement has been made of
the coming wedding of Miss Guyneth
Bish of this place and Frank Haner
of McComb to take place in the near
future.
Legion Auxiliary
The Bluffton Legion Auxiliary will
meet at the Legion hall next Tues
day night at o'clock.
Attends Synodical
| Mrs. w. E. Diller attended the
Ohio Synodical of the Presbyterian
church at Wooster the past week.
Richland Community Circle
The Richland Community Circle
will meet at the home of Mrs. Leah
Matter, Thursday morning, July IL
at 10:45 instead Of 100 o'clock as
formerly planned. Each member is
requested to bring a covered dish
and her own service. Assisting the
hostess will be Mrs. Pauline thinner
man and Mrs. Bertha Deppler.
Sew and So All Club
The Sew and So All club met
Tuesday night at the home of
Florence Ann Blome.
Gold Star All Club
The Gold Star All club met at the
home of Joan Pifer, Tuesday. Ap-
pearing on the program were Har-
riet Fett and Violet Slusser. Dem
onstrations were given by Winifred
Fett and Treva Marquart. Visitors
were James Fett, Rose Mary Mont
gomery and Mrs. Carl Derringer.
Those appearing on the next pro-
gram will be Josephine Augsburger,
Carol Montgomery and Violet Slus-
ser.
Honor Bride
Honoring Mrs. Dwight Zimmerly
a recent bride, Edith Zimmerly, Jean
Moore, Golda Wiess, and Eva Mar
tin entertained at the latter's home
last Thursday evening with we'd
ding shower.
The evening was spent outside
with Japanese lanterns in the arbor.
Games were enjoyed by all with the
prizes being awarded to Glada Will
kins and the honor bride, Mrs. Zim-
merly. During the evening alarm
clocks disclosed the gifts in the
nearby bushes after which weiner
roast was enjoyed.
Those present and those sending
gifts were:
The honor guest, Mrs. Dwight
Zimmerly, lilo Isham, Pearl Gratz,
Myrtle Henry, La Vaun Habegger,
Lavina Habegger, Glada Wilkins.
| Mary Jane and Pauline Carr
Fannie Augsburger, Geneva Hostel.
tier, Rachel Schaublin, Marie Which
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-04

Coming Wedding
Announcement has been made G
the coming wedding of Miss Guynet
Bish of this place and Frank Hane
of McComb to take place in the nes
future.
Evening star., 1940-06-30
Fresh Civic Talent

lHE machine had no comeback, and
Gabriel only twenty seven, moved into City
Hall on January l, 1898. He has since been
reelected and is serving his second term.
He has done away with the daWdling die
hards and has surrounded himself with new.
fresh civic talent The Boy Mayor, indeed,
is one of the oldest officials in this real-life,
honest to goodness Boys Town, where all
the key positions are held by eager, energetic
political babies The City Council chairman,
Joe kobylarz, is twenty-elght; Sol Barrale,
Secretary of the Board of Taxation, is twenty
seven; Superintendent of Public Works and
City Engineer David Cascino is twenty
seven; City Auditor William Peio is twenty
eight Relief Director John luhas is twenty
four; four of the Councilmen are under thirty;
and half the Board of Education members
are still in their early thirtles.
As you may assume from their names all
of these youths are the sons of immigrants.
Garfield, an industrial town, has population
of %, ,739. of whom ll,lO3 are foreign-born
and 1900 more are the offspring OF foreign
born parents. The work of this Second Gen
Grafton government in salvaglng their city
from the depths of despair is thrilling cpl
sode in the history of the democracy that gave
shelter to their parents.
The Gabriel administration first move
(Continved on poge 81
Evening star., 1940-06-30

pools. A dank brewery odor hung over the
town constantly.
Now and then, reform leagues made feeble
attempts to clean up the city, but to no avail
Once, when the mayor was addressing re-
form group, denying that there was any such
thing as a still in their fair city, an explosion
shook the walls of the hall - one of Garfield S
largest stills had blown up within a stones
throw of them
The big-time hoodlums were heroes to the
bows of Garfield. The kids would stand on
street corners and cape at the loudly dressed
mobsters as they stepped from elegant linn
ousines They wanted to grow up and be like
Ziggy and Little Moe and The Dutchman.
Many of them quit the schoolroom for the
poolroom.
Evening star., 1940-06-30

At THE height of the crime wave some
IA years ago the mayor of Garfield, New
q - Jersey, visited Miami and was
promptly snapped by the news photogra-
pliers, who had been told he was Al Capone.
When informed later of their error the cam
eramen laughed off the incident by comment
ing that even if the visiting mayor didn't
resemble Scarface, his municipality was
enough like Cicero, AIS headquarters, to JUS
tify their mistake
A few swift years roll by. Again the scene
is Miami. The news photographers are pres
ent. A new mayor of Garfield arrives in town.
He is leading the Garfield High School foot
ball team, selected by Grantland Rice and
committee of sports writer's to play for the
national high-school championship. This
time, boyish, blond Mayor John Gabriel is
mistaken for one of the players.
These two cases of mistaken identity sum
up one of the most stirring chapters in Amer
ica's fight against the twin evils Crime and
Depression parents of the problem of juve-
nile delinquency.
The little town of Garfield, New Jersey,
is merely one of a cluster of industrial COM
munities across the Hudson from New York
City, but during the gun-spitting prohibition
era, it attained grisly importance: Garfield
was the last stop on gangland's one-way rides
- verltabe hells graveyard for Manhattan
and Jersey mobsters. Law and order were held
bullet-riddled body was dumped on the side
walk almost in front of the police station. The
big rumrunning and racketeerng gangs had
Evening star., 1940-06-30

a setting for political coup before. There
was hilbilly band humping out the music
good and fast, and the girls fretfully tapped
time as we fellows hunChed around a table
and plotted to take over the city government
One girl was more impatient than the Others
She didn't want to be Walliower all night,
so she snatChed up her purse, Jlnglng with
her mad money, and stomped out of the hall
She was my date.
Il wasn't at all chivarous, | know, but we
simply forgot all about the dance, we got so
wrapped up in this idea of governing the CITY
ourselves.
"Of course, we knew we could never hope
to take over the city government overnight
- or in one election. The machine was too
strong We had to be quiet and clever and
do it by degrees
Gabriel, himself, started the movement
by running for councilman. The machine did
not back him Wholeheartedly, but neither did
it fight him too vigorously. He was elected in
November, 1884, at the age of twenty-four!
The following election he carried another cons
frere into the council with him. The next year,
in the fall of 1887, the secret Youth Party"
as you might call it, decided that the time
had now come to go after bigger game So
Gabriel ran for mayor.
Conditions hadn't improved There were
both joblessness and Juvenile delinquency
Gabriel saw a solution in one word: play
grounds. There was not single playground
in the entire city of nearly 10000! His cam
pagn could have been summed up in this
sentence: Get the fathers off the bread lines
and the boys off the streets by building play
grounds.
Evening star., 1940-06-30
The Seors Remained

hEPEAL failed to corr0,t the juvenile prob
lem. The glamorized Omen, of course, moved
in and cleaned up the racketeers but GARFIELD
was left with its dead-enders. Prohibition
was gone, but the scars were still there. The
first ugly days of the depression made matters
worse. and mots of petty thieves roamed the
neighborhood.
The city administrations paid little prac-
tica heed to the fostering problem OF juvenile
adelinQuenCy. Sure, arrests were made - TOO,
too many of them. And scores OF boys were
sent off to state institutions. snarllng ana
swearing to come back and get even with
YOU coppcrs,'' But there was no scientific
psychological study made of the why and
wherefore of this waywardness. They dldnt
even bother to keep a count of the young
criminals.
But "hell's graveyard got the surprise OF
its life when, some years ago, young John
Gabriel stepped into the picture In high
school he had been a star haltback. He had
won an athletic scholarship to DreXel lnstl-
tute in Philadelphia. There, for four years,
he heard and read more and more stories OF
the tragic trail that so many OF his former
schoolmates were travelling as they sought to
ape the big shots of the underworld He knew
that the boys were not entirely to blame,
after all, no basic effort had been made to
save these boys.
When Gabriel came home from college,
he found Garfield an impoverished, bewll-
dered, discouraged and thoroughly dlScredlted
community. He was lucky enough to get
lob teaching school in the neighboring town
of Lodi, but many smart youths of his age
were without work They would sit about at
night and decry conditions bitterly. These
disillusioned young men gave the govern
ment quite a kicking around. But Gabriel
just sat and listened.
Not for long, though. He was sickened by
the stagnation of the towns young people.
and angered by the realization that the old
people weren't doing anything adequate
about it. 1t was time, he decided, for govern
ment of youth, by youth, for youth, He
sprang the idea on his friends one night at,
of all places dance. He grins when he thinks
about it today.
Il guess, he says, there never was such
Evening star., 1940-06-30

headquarters in Garfield to which they could
retire when the heat" was on back home.
The largest stills in the East lat one time
the unofficial count was eighty were located
in and around the little town. There we're
Evening star., 1940-06-30
THE BOY: WHO CLEANED UP
KELL'S GRAVEYARD

Garfield, NJ J., was known as the last stop
on Gangland's one-waY rides. Rackets and
depression were steering more and more Of
the towns youths into crime. Then youth
itself, led by boy mayor, took over
by Richard McCann
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-24
@.-.a.ex Majority In Senate
i ~ lie Boon To Democrats

or in only skinny majority it
usually sticks together. This is 1ruer
III i silIn,py majority than Of an out
right minority. \ small minority can
afford to quarrel internally 1t
doesn't lose anything by it: its 4
minority anyway. A skinny major!-
~, though, sacrifices all It's aGvNnta-
3>S il il S;Nd!vidcS.
May Cain Solidarity
So if the Democrats margin is
materially reduced next November.
they're likely 10 gain greatly in soil
darity.
For the sake Of argument, sup
pose 4 Republican is elected presi-
cent next Autumn, and suppose he
sets : Republican house Of repre-
Seutatives. Nevertheless, he'll have
on his hands 4 Democratic senate I'M
I'll 1912 at the earliest. That Demo-
cratic senate, its party having suffer-
ct, severe setback. is virtually Ger
tain to be as irrevocably Democra-
TIC us rock. multiplying every White
House policy as fast as it's suggested.
y republican president, in such 4
LiN. will have politically miserable
two years Of it.
Il 4 Democrat wins the presidency,
with Il Republican house OF repre-
>GntatiVeS. while narrowly hanging
Cnto the senate. as he couldn't help
but do. he will have 4 pretty mana
geaole congress to deal with.
House OF Representatives
Representatives. chances are hard
CT 10 calculate tnan the senatorial.
ones.
Only 80 senate seats are TO be
fled or rctilled this ycar. Their
various prospects can be pretty close
IS Scrutinized. but the 435 represen-
tatives' respective outloolis are over
~ widespread to be reckoncd with.
except locally.
Congressman Joseph w Martin,
Republican leader in the lower house,
asserts that the c.. O. p. will scoop
in a majority. OF course. the Demo-
Gratis deny it.
Ii the Republicans with 1863 seats
versus go Democrats and six mis-
do score a majority il
will involve a big turnover.
AS to the representatives its
largely a matter of gueSSWork.
For that matter. the whole thing
IS. from the presidency on down.
In normal times some reasonably
fair SurmiSine can hc donN--hut ~
with blitzkricgs raging.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-24
Danger OF Split

.r-~ q 0or.v is IN 4 minority
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-24
NOTED SPEAKERS Fer
DUKE COMMENCEMENT

Durham, April 2i.-DUH1 un:ve--
islty'S commencement program, Jun2
l-3, will be hcadlincd by two Wc.i
known speakers, d.. William Allan
Nelson, nHcsitcnl .: Smith college.
and Dr. Thomas Guthrie Spccr;,
pastor Of Brown Memorial Pretty
terrain church, Baltimore.
DE- Nelson will deliver Inc conr-
mencement address Oh Monday, June
,. and Dr.. Specs will be heard in
the commencement address o. the
preceding evening.
Reunions by dozen classes OF
alumni will be a part OF the three
day program.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-24
Rails Lead In
Stock Rally

New York, April 24.-(AP)-Rails
opened an upward path for the rest
OF the stock market today--Eut trad
CTS showed great hes!,ancy in fol-
towing the lead.
Despite rising tendencies in sev-
eral categories including specialtes
prices were uneven toward the fourth
nUur.
SteelS appeared to be the most UNI
decided performers Of al. After de-
rlllcS OF aS much rs Il point liz the
morning they rallied 20 plus signs
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-24
MEATLESS MONDAY DECREED

Brussels, April 24.--(AP)-King
Leopold has signed a decree MAX
ing Monday a meatlcss day rcr Bel
GUM beginning April 30. Authori-
tative informantS said Tuesday
would be made Il second mcatless
day if necessary.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-24
CONVENTION Is SET.

Charlotte. April 24.-(AP)-State
Commander George T. Pickett Of Dis
abled American Veterans announced
today that the annual department
convention would be held June 2l-2&
1t WILMINGTON.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-24

The Dutch East Indies did some
thing even the japanese generals IN
China couldn't do. They pat Japan
back on the front page.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-24

i'm slipped ;Elin 10 around pre-
v.ous closing marks. Trends were q
confused Is thr Nur reports which
:ei: market men with no basis upon
,..,t.ch to formulate thci programs.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-24

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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-06
Looks Like Roosevelt

At press time early this morning the indica-
tons were that President Roosevelt had been
reelected President of the United States. In
the judgment of the majority of voters he is
the man to guide the ship of state in the
troubled waters that lie ahead. The confidence
the people of this free democracy still lodges
in the man who for seven years and more has
used the full power of his position not only to
try to preserve peace abroad but latterly to
insure peace at home through thorough pre-
paredness for war.
The decision at the polls, all things consider
ed, was a wise one. Whatever mistakes may
have been made during Mr.. Roosevelt's two
administrations, and no one denies that mis-
takes have been made, it is obvious, at least
tc a majority of voting Americans, that he is
best fitted to carry on the task he launched
and with which he is best acquainted.
A change in government at this time, with
so much of the rest of the world at war and
our own escape from war depending on the
preparations we make to fend it off, would
have been a perilous adventure, with the issue
uncertain. Any other man in the White House
would, whatever his other qualifications in
leadership and statecraft, require many
months to familiarize himself with the domes-
tic and foreign situation before he could start
a program Of his own or even determine if
the Roosevelt program should be continued.
And this at a time when speed in all defense
preparations is the essence of our security.
Now that the people have spoken, it is i'm
~perative that all rancor, all animosity, all
bitterness, be purged from every mind, and
America move forward as a united people
under the leadership that has proved its eff
ficiency, mistakes Notwithstanding, through
the worried years that have gone and con-
fidently and bravely face the future with
Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-06

+he women's committee of the Acclon Argen-
Tin. . movement to combat all forms OF 111tn
column and dictator propaganda in our coun-
trv. We do not attack any one in person. we
trv to build up the idea Of democracy.
To do this, she explained, the members mold
street meetings in the good old democratic
fashion. They start out with music to draw a
crowd. Are the people polite to you?" she was
asked. 'Oh, yes,' came the answer. 1.-The
men all take off their, hats"
In this, we must admit, the Argentine move
ment differs with feminist movements in both
England and this country, where women soap
box orators in the good old days were not
only heckled but often egged as well.
1t is a grand thing, these Argentine women
are doing-especially fine in a country where
alien infiltration has been going on actively
for years and has gained alarming influence.
Obviously the decision on a presiding officer
for the Washington conference of inter-Amerl-
can women has been wisely made. Sonora
Guerrero has ideas worth passing on to the
sister American republics.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-06

a buzzard. That was when he came into the
war, after France had broken down, with the
aim of picking a few bones of the French
carcass. But we did the buzzard an injustice,
and hasten to apologize to it.
When the war was static and levity excus-
able, a French general, hearing that Mussolini
was likely to throw in with Germany, declar-
ed that would be alright because Hitler would
have to send 10 divisions to protect the
Italians. He seems to have had the right idea.
At least Mussolini has done little in any of his
exploits to justify the faith Hitler apparently
imposed in him when the Axis was formed.
And this new failure of the Italians to march
boldly to their detectives in Greece is what
makes the campaign there an ominous af-
fair. It is apparent that, if the Axis is to
drive through Greece, and it must or lose
more of its waning prestige, it will be neces-
sary for Hitler to send the 10 divisions the
French general said would be necessary, or
even more than 10 divisions, to rescue the
Italians. And whenever the Nazis take a hand
in the campaign in Greece the probability is
the war will spread throughout the Balkans.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-06
What It Doesn't Mean

In the several days that nave elapsed since
Marshal Petain agreed with Adolf Hitler on
the principle" of collaboration for the peace
of Europe there have been a number of state
ments meant to explain what this pronounce.
ment does not mean. There has been none to
indicate what it does mean.
Thus we have been told that France will not
enter the wal on the Axis side. That her war
ships will not be turned over to the Germans
and Italians, that her naval bases will not be
made available for use against the British.
And yet, if Hitler and Mussolini are to make
the lot of the French easier, as Marshal Petain
says they will, they must expect something
in return.
The general aim of Marshal Petain and M.
Laval seems to be a totalitarian France CO.
operating with the Axis to create a totalitarian
new ORDER on the continental sort of fascist
United States Of Europe wrought by force.
That much emerges in hazy outline. Whether
the people of France will follow these leaders
once they understand where they are being
taken is a question the future must answer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-06
The Boyd Survey

Wilmington probably has never had such a
complete survey of industrial possibilities and
resources as is contained in a report just fin.
ished by Henry E. Boyd, manager of the Viii.
mington Port Traffic association. 1t was com.
piled for the industrial committee organized
some time ago and is to be distributed far
and wide in the campaign to bring new indus
tries to southeastern North Carolina.
1t is exhaustive, painstaking and tremen
dously enlightening. If anyone has harbored &
doubt of this sections Industrial potentialities
It is only necessary to study its pages to have
that doubt dispelled.
Wilmington, as the focal point of the area
IS capable of becoming a great city if its in
dustrial possibilities are fully developed. tt
realize this dream it will be necessary to ge
the Boyd survey into the board room of ever,
manufacturing firm in the country now con
templating expansion or removal to Dixie
and reinforce it with personal appeal and ex
PLANTATION by some dynamic salesman skilled
in promotion.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-06
Jaycees Want You

The Junior Chamber of Commerce wants
the active cooperation through membership of
the young men of Wilmington. Its position was
made clear in a letter to this newspaper
published on this page in yesterdays editions.
The letter said the organization, among other
things, offers opportunity to do something
for your community" and added unless you
do something for your community you are
not a good citizen"
That last is a sweeping statement, but in
contestable. Passive or static citizenship. even
mough 1t does not transgress the war-moral
or criminal-is not truly good citizenship. The
need is for active, progressive citizenship. the
KIND that is up and doing, forever working
lntellgently, even militantly, for the advance
ment OF the community. If we read the letter
rightly, the thrust is directed to the former
class, and the challenge to the latter.
The Junior Chamber of Commerce wants
every young man in Wilmington, whose ambi.
ton IS to do something for the betterment OF
his city, on its roster. With them. the organiza.
uon may reasonably hope to be a guiding
powerful force in the development of the com.
munlty. Without them its capacity to serve
constructively will be Handicapped.
Just now, when the nation is engaged in its
tremendous rearmament project, when SC
many eligible young men are either in camr
with the National Guard or soon to leave in
response to the draft, it is important that al
men within the membership age limits enrol
IN the Junior Chamber of Commerce that its
efforts may have the largest possible partici.
patton and its voice in city planning be mos1
effective.
1t is not enough that the young men OIL
Wilmington have faith in their city. They mus
have a hand in it's activities. The Biblica,
declaration, that faith without works is dead
applies with peculiar significance to this an
peal of the Jaycees.