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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-11-20
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this year is the increasing number
of out-of-town sportsmen seeking to
hunt here and the greatly increased
no hunting signs being posted on
various fields and wooded areas.
1t has been reported that more
farmers and land owners than ever
before have been permitting hunting
ON their premises only by special
permission. Some property owners
have been charging hunters small
fee for the privilege of hunting on
their premises.
Farmers have been taking the no
hunting stand in increasing proper
tons because of the destruction of
property and in some cases the
livestock. With livestock command
ing premium prices farmers are spe-
cially concerned lest the farm ami
mails be killed by stray bullets.
Soy BEAN FIELDS
Also adding to the difficulty is the
large acreage of soy beans under
cultivation in area farms. This
makes excellent cover for the pheas-
ants but at the same time with the
beans reaching a new high market
level, farmers resent hunters tramp
ing over their crops.
Many farmers, however, have been
willing to cooperate with local
sportsmen and give permission for
hunting. Much of the resentment of
local landowners is based on the
tendency of hunters coming from
distance and then showing no con-
Germ for the rights of the property
owner.
Most hunters have reported that
the pheasants are much more numer-
Gus this year and that the birds are
fatter and cleaner than formerly.
On the other hand, disgruntled few
said that they did not even see one
| bird.
EXCELLENT WEATHER
The weather left nothing to be de-
sired and throughout the first of the
week The report of guns could be
heard in almost any part of the
town with the volley of shots con-
tinuing until late afternoon.
Many hunters who had dressed
for cold weather were sorry they had
on so much clothing for the season
has turned out to be almost balmy
Numerous hunters here profted by
the Saturday half holiday number
of firms in Bluffton granted their
employees, and spent the day tramp
ing the countryside.
SPoRTsMEN'S CLUB
Much credit for the large amount
of game available in the Bluffton
district must be given to the Bluff
ton Community Sportsmen's club
(which has been engaged in scien-
tific restocking program during the
past year.
| Rabbits, also, are plentiful this
year but the Bluffton hunters seem
to have gone afeld more for the
pheasants than the Dummies. Part
ridges are about normal and grouse
are not to be found in the locality
1t has been pointed out, however
that when the pheasants become less
numerous, the hunters will start fo1
the other game.
Hunting starts at 7:30 a. m. and
ends at 5 p. m. with this schedule in
effect until the close of the season
The pheasant season will close No
vember 80 and the rabbit season will
extend until January l.
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IN THIS NEWSPAPER
Cigarette Paper Here

Cigarette paper, heretofore i'm
ported from France, is being made
in Pisgah Forest, N. c., successful
ly. The Ecusta Paper company will
use 1000 tons of Minnesota and $500
tons of California flax fiber this year
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-11-20
Boy Scout News
Ry Robert Stratton

Members of Boy Scout troop NO.
Sc collected old papers and maga-
zines Saturday and will collect again
in two weeks. Helping in the coli
lection were Charles Triplehorn,
Robert Ramseyer, Gene Patterson,
Gordon and Paul Bixel, Robert
Stratton, all day; Dean Niswander
and Don Augsburger, morning;
Richard Minck, Robert Fisher, after
noon.
Bluffton scouts helped in the ush-
ering at the Ohio State-Illinois game
at Columbus Saturday. There were:
Bill Mericle, Harry Minck, John
Schmidt and Otto Klassen. They
were accompanied by Scoutmaster
Karl Gable.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-11-20

mo Trapping" signs at the Bluff
ton News office.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-11-20

First Power Press
The London Times was the first
newspaper to be printed by steam
instead of manual labor.
Evening star., 1941-11-19

which Mr.. Melchior was able to
convey, although singing in their
native language.
Mr.. Melchior has a unique inter-
pretive ability in songs that exceeds
from our personal viewpoint, the art
which he brings to his operatic
portrayals Gifted with a resonant
voice ideally suited to the taxing
Wagnerian roles, he yet is able to
use it to re-create the smallest
effects and the tenderest emotion
found In the song texts. What is
more, he put his whole soul into
his singing. making the human
element predominate with the
warmth Of his tone. He is student
of the poetry of the words and
knows how to project it and its
alliance with music. Felt even in
the songs sung in the Scandinavian
languages. it was still more impress
sive in such songs as Schubert's S
Dem Unendlichen" and An die
Musk" Lange-Muellers Die heili-
gen drei Koenige," Harold Craxton' S
Come You Mary and Bransen's S
There Shall Be Music When You
Come
Schubert's Der Erlkoenig" has no
finer interpreter than Nine. Leh-
mann, who knows to a fine point
the exact amount of drama to put
into it. Her singing of ''Liebes-
botschaft" by Schubert. Brahms
"Mein Maedel hat einen Rosen-
mund," VOLTS "Verborgenheit" and
Strauss "Zueignung" was suavity
itself, the phrases spun with the
finest legato, the desired effect In
Evening star., 1941-11-19

human drama taut with suspense
II am. LOS, 3:l5, $40, 7:30 ano
$40 pm.
Metropolitan-"The Maltese Fal-
con-" mystery. plus some comic
moments: 11:10 am, lis, 800
$50, 7:35 and $40 pm.
Columbia-"Week End in Ha-
vana," made musically bright BY
Carmen Miranda: 10:45 am. 1875
2:25. AIS, sos, 8 and $50 pm.
Pix-"Tanks a Million" comedy
about the military life: $50, 4:45
6:45. $40 and 1890 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts; con.
tinuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1941-11-19

land. better known as Cary Grant
Starring names in their homeland
and equally as we'll known here
include Sir Cedric HardWicke, Nigel
Bruce, Heather Angel, Dame May
Whitty, Isabel Jeans and Stanley
Logan.
Making their debuts in American
pictures are Auriol Lee. authoress.
playwright, producer, director and
actress, a figure in the British
who's who In the theater, who began
her show career at Drury Lane in
1900; Pax Walker. the young lady
who was blown into the sea when
the Athena was torpedoed last fall;
18.year-old Faith Brook, who before
coming to this country did her year
of war service as a farmerette;
Violet Shelton MRS. Nigel Bruce
star of the original London pro-
duction Of The Last of Mrs.
Cheney; Maureen Roden-Ryan
Abby Players graduate; Carol Cur
tis-Brown. Donald Stuart and Au-
brey Mather-all noted thespians.
Evening star., 1941-11-19

dicated by slight and subtle means.
Her voice, though limited in range.
is deeply expressive and smooth and
flexible in its transition from tone
to tone. The art Of song singing
such as Nine Lehman possesses
is not practiced much today for the
mastery of simplicity in interpreta-
ton united to keen feeling for both
words and music requires a special
endowment.
Four duets by Schumann ending
with the amusing "Unter'm Fen
ster," which on its repetition was
capped by a chaste salute on Mr.
Melchior's cheek by Nine. Lehmann
and the Spring Song" from Die
Walkure" showed a fine blending of
the artists voices. The program was
completed by a group OF songs in
English sung by Nine. Lehman in
cluding Seth Felt's ITO Electra" i"
Purcell's There's Not a Swain" :"
Haydn's She Never Told Her
Lover" and Schuberts Who Is
sylvia" Encores were numerous
during the pragram and at its con-
clusion.
Evening star., 1941-11-19

tacular IN the program Nine. Leh-
mann and Mr.. Melchior presented
but great deal of the purest melody
expressing the finest emotions as
created by the poets of the musical
world
The literature which these writers
have left is vast and, to some extent.
unexplored. At least. the general
public is familiar with only part
Of it, mostly the numbers of sure
appeal as tested in concert pro-
grams. 1t seemed pity that Nine.
Lehman and Mr.. Melchior did not
seek out the less we'll known yet
equally beautiful songs from the
same composers selected yesterday,
but preferred to adhere for the most
part to the tried and true. This
concert was special occasion,
marking as it did their debut as CO.
artists under Mrs. Dorseys man
agement in Constitution Hall. and
would have warranted a new choice
of songs since most Of those pro-
grammed have been heard often on
these same artists former appear
ances here.
However. these best loved songs
Of Schubert, Schumann. Brahms and
Wolf can be heard again and again
with constant pleasure. The group
in Danish. Swedish and Norwegian,
with which Mr.. Melchior opened the
recital, was worthy to be associated
with those renowned names besides
revealing the extraordinary skill of
the Scandinavian composers to
public that has little opportunity to
become acquainted with them. They
are beautiful songs. rich in senti-
ment and melody, the message Of
Evening star., 1941-11-19
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage.
National "The Rivals" with
Mary Boland, Bobby Clark and
Walter Hampden: 230 and $50 pm.
Wardman Park-"Kiss the Boys
Goodbye" played by the Washing
ton Civic Theater: 8:45 pm.
Screen.
Palace-"Nothing but the Truth"
coming from Bob Hope: IL am,
los, 3:15, $50, 7:30 and $40 pm.
Capitol-"Hot Spot" being the
one B Cradle and V. Mature are
on: II am, las, 4;30, tbs and
10 pm. Stage shows: 1885, $40
$50 and 9:15 pm.
Earle-"Internation Squadron ,
Ronald Reagan in the r. A. F.:
II am. lao, 4:30, tbs and 10 pm
Stage shows: 1855, $40, 6:25 and
9:10 pm.
Keith's-"It Started With Eve
Deanna Durbin's latest: 11:40 am.
lao, $40, $40, TAO and $40 pm
Little-"The Stars Look Down,
Evening star., 1941-11-19
Britons at Work
With the single exception 9

With the single exception Of Joan
Fontaine, who was born in the cos
mopolitan International Settlement
Of Toxic, Of Island of Guernsey par
entage, the large cast of R-K-O-
Radios Suspicion" directed by
Alfred Hitchcock, halls from the
British Isles. Many of them are
appearing for the first time in
American films.
Costarring with Miss Fontaine
Is Archibald Leach of Bristol, Eng
Evening star., 1941-11-19
AII-Stutes Club to Dance

A get acquainted" dance will be
held by the All-States Social Club
tonight in Alnas Temple, 1914 X
street NV. The dance will be from
10 pm. to 1 am. and music will be
by Willis Pittman's Orchestra.
Evening star., 1941-11-19
LOtte Lehman and MelchiOr
Heard in Lieder Singing
Pure Melody Features Program
That Fails, However, to Present
Songs Less Well Known
By ALICE EVERSMAN.

The vanishing art of eder enjoyed last evening when
hior
equally renowned world almost the
specialize
Evening star., 1941-02-18
Argues Right of All Nations
Is Supreme Over Selfish Needs of One.

To the Editor of The Star:
The duty of self preservation is abso-
lutte. 1t completely suspends the duty of
obedience to any lesser law. The antith-
es1s of this vital fact would make of
International law an instrument for the
dissolution of the society of nations.
Dictators would place irresponsible force
in the seat of justice. Germany would
turn the human race to the slavish
despotisms Of medieval darkness, Amer
lea to the lawful freedom of an enlight-
ened future.
The legal state of America in respect
of Germany, arising from our excep-
tional acts which apparently go beyond
the boundaries of ordinary law, can best
be defined as imperfect war, such as may
result from an international intervention.
Our measures, intended to promote
the defeat of Germany, and so constitut-
ing hostility and susceptible of being
construed by that nation as acts of war,
will continue within the obscure limits
of imperfect war while diplomatic rela-
tionS are maintained, however impaired,
is privileged to translate the indefinite
situation into actual war.
Americas assistance to the British
would be unlawful if the only iustifica-
ton were that our departure from neu-
trality was required by a threat to our
independence, the legal remedy for which
Is resort to war and not the abandon
ment of treaties and law. The legal
justification must demonstrate the ex-
istence of danger to the stability and
existence of the complete society of ma
tions, demonstration amply provided
by Germany, and assert Americas duty,
as the representative of that society, to
intervene for the purpose of ending the
menace to and vindicating the law Of
that society.
The right of the society of nations is
supreme and takes precedence of the
ordinary right of any individual state to
independence of action or to the ordi-
nary advantages of treaties and law
which may be disregarded provided that
the offending nation makes respect for
the subordinate, inconsistent with the
full vindication Of the universal right.
The United States possesses the legal
right and Is bulwarked by an irrevocable
sanction to intervene in the present war
against a nation Of indisputable law
lessness, an object Of which nation is to
reorganize and dominate the society Of
Evening star., 1941-02-18
District Court Vacancy

The action of the District Bar
Association in indorsing eight candi-
dates for the vacancy on the District
Court bench, coming after the Bar
risters, an organization of younger
lawyers, had taken similar action
with respect to three candidates,
makes available to the Attorney
General and the President COM
prehensive list of thoroughly COM
petent potential nominees to this
important judicial post.
Members of the local bar, for
reasons which are well known and
well founded, have sought by all
proper means at their disposal to
interest the President in the selec-
ton of a District lawyer to fill the
vacancy created by the retirement
of Associate Justice Peyton Gordon.
For number of years vacancies
on the United States Court of Appeals
have been filled by the appointment
of men not closely identified with
the District bar on the theory-dis-
puted by many washington lawyers
that the appellate court is a national
rather than a local tribunal. There
IS no question, however, as to the
essentially local character Of the
District Court, and this fact, coupled
Evening star., 1941-02-18
THIS AND THAT
BY Charles z. Truce1Dell.

A hawk made a second surprise visit
to our bird feeding station about
month after the first assault.
This time he got nothing.
We could not be sure 1t was the same
bird, in the excitement of the moment.
which was brief enough.
The birds came back to the feeding
station Immediately, something which
they rarely do If a victim has been
carried away.
There was a great commotion in the
yard. Birds suddenly few into the
air in all directions, with the center
of the outcry at the rose vine on the
fence.
The first thing we could see was
large bird which dropped squarely into
the center of the yard.
1t was the hawk!
In the split second he remained
poised, we merely had time to admire
his wonderful posture.
Smaller birds hold themselves on an
angle, as it were, but a hawk stands
straight up and down.
With a great flap of wings the crea-
ture took to the air and dived over the
fence, disappearing into some trees
block away.
The time was so short that we could
not identify him.
After the previous swoop, month
ago. when an English sparrow was car
ried away, we wondered if the hawk
would be back every day for his break
fast.
In the interval we feel reasonably
certain that he did not appear even
once, so this may be taken as evidence
that hawks do not kill as many birds as
they are supposed to kill
Much Of the hue and cry against
hawks has been proved to be entirely
needless.
Cooper's hawk, and the sharp Skinned
hawk, are among the very few which
deserve to be exterminated, according to
experts
The st. Louis Post-Dispatch recently
said, in this connection:
Are hawks and owls harmful to wild
life and poultry, or are they friends of
the farmer and hunter?
THE question has long been debated,
and now an actual test in Missouri pro-
duces evidence in favor of the big birds.
Members of the Macon County Con-
servation Federation, believing that
quail were being killed by hawks and
owls. staged a two-week drive against
them last month.
The campaign, in which the Mis-
souri, Conservation Commission CO.
operated, netted 1875 hawks and As owls.
An examination of the birds at the Co.
operative Wildlife Research Unit at the
University of Missouri produced the fol-
lowing data:
Remains of field mice and other
small animals were found in 1873
stomachs, bird remains in 10, traces of
insects and grass in 9, and 43 stomachs
were empty.
Evening star., 1941-02-18

nations by creating continental hege-
monies. The complete fabric of the So
ciety of nations, their law and their con-
tinued existence are threatened with
demolition by Germany.
To defend that society, whose interests
include the right of existence of the
United States and of each free nation,
and any threat to which is a challenge to
us, America lawfully may adopt any
measure and may employ force to any
degree that may be deemed imperative
to suppress Germanys lawlessness and
to restore to the victims of wrongs in
f1icted by that nation their independence
and freedom of action.
Each duty of free nation in interna-
tional law is subordinated to the duty of
preservation, and the complete So
ciety Of nations cannot be denied what
is lawful for an individual state. The
existence Of that society being menaced,
America, as a guardian member of that
society and possessed of the power. is
sanctioned by the most fundamental
law to protect that society with any acts
that are consistent with the nature of a
moral being. EDWARD CONN.
Evening star., 1941-02-18
PenuIizinq Speeders

In ordering more stringent curtail-
ment of driving privileges for con-
victed speeders, the District Commits
sionerS have made a commendable
move in the interest of traffic safety.
Traffic Director William A. Van Du-
zer, who recommended the heavier
penalties, pointed out that an analy-
sis of twenty-five recent fatal acci-
dents disclosed that fast driving was
an important factor in ten cases.
Heretofore it has been the policy of
the Traffic Division to suspend for
thirty days the driving permit of an
operator convicted of driving in eX-
cess of fifty miles an hour. Permits
Of second offenders could be revoked
for from thirty to sixty days. The
new policy calls for ninety-day suS-
pension of driving privileges for
f1rst-offenS speeding in excess of
forty-f1ve miles an hour and a six
month suspension in the case of sec
ond offenders exceeding that speed.
Police records show that arrests
for speeding have more than doubled
in the past three months. While
some of this increase in arrests may
have resulted from increased vigi-
lance on the part of the police, acci-
dent statistics show that speeding
continues to be a major cause of
death and injury on the streets of
Washington. The situation demands
firm measures if human lives are to
be saved, for nothing short of what
Traffic Director Van Duzer terms
"harsh" penalties seem to impress
many reckless drivers, in which cate
CORY fall the chronic speeders. It Is
Evening star., 1941-02-18

"Unrhistakable signs Of quail were
found in only one specimen. a marsh
hawk, and a feather or two that might
have been those Of quail in two others.
THE Conservation Commissions re-
port points out that marsh hawks and
red-tails feed on carrion, that neither
is capable Of catching a healthy, Wig
orous quail, so it is likely they eat only
dead or crippled birds.
"The case is plain enough, the COM
mission concludes, that hawks and owls
are mostly mousers and should be pro-
tected as valuable allies to the farmer"
"Of course, 1t is pointed out, the
farmer has right to kill any rlaurauder
which Is taking his chickens, but anJ
widespread campaign against the two
species would be harmful both to Wild
life propagation and to agriculture"
All this has been proved time and
time again by scientists and other in
vestigators. but no doubt it is good to
prove 1t once again for hard-headed
persons who would rather shoot than
think.
The hawks, if they could talk probably
would have a good right to think of
themselves as a superior race, and say
something along the following line:
Look how upright we stand, how
fearlessl
Our poiSe alone would show any one
that we are afraid of nothing. You
will never see a. hawk flying away
timidly, as all the other birds do.
They are all afraid of US, therefore
we must be wonderful fellows"
If hawk comes to your feeding sta
ton, try rather to scare it away than to
kill 1t. The chances are that it is after
mice, anyway.
The first male cardinal sang his true
spring song in our garden at o'clock
In the morning February 7.
This was several days later than the
song had been reported from other
parts of the city. 1t seems that the
bird sings first in the city. 1t is warmer
there, and therefore seems more like
spring TO him.
AL the birds think spring is Just
around the corner. They have ways of
knowing these things better than hu-
mans. The male cardinals are growing
brighter day by day. The English
sparrows are fighting each other on all
sides.
1t may seem that spring is a long
way of, to us, but to the birds it Is
just a few weeks away, and they know.
Even the mother cardinals are deepen
ing their olive color.
These birds begin to nest in April.
There are few birds really prettier
than the female cardinal In fact. 1t
is a mighty fine family, one of the
superior species.
We said above that the male sang He
did.
But the female also can sing During
the time Of courtship she sings as
sweetly as he. a feat which the female
Of most species cannot equal
Evening star., 1941-02-18

with the reasonable contention that
judge we'll grounded in the peculi-
arities of local procedure would be
able more quickly to assume his full
share Of the courts work, forms the
principal basis for the position taken
by the District bar.
Justice Gordon was a District
representative on the bench, and
his retirement leaves five District
and six non-District judges on the
lower court. In the light of these
facts, there is reason to hope that
Mr.. Roosevelt will be inclined favor
ably toward the position taken by the
District bar, and that the nomina-
ton will be made promptly in view
of the seriously congested state of
the courts docket.
Evening star., 1941-02-18
Put Out

Every now and then hotel keepers
are troubled with the problem of the
noisy, turbulent guest who disturbs
the peace of the others. He is espe-
cially bothersome II the hotel in
question is of the resort type, cater
ing to clientele temporarily retired
from the hurry burly of harsh and
critical world.
Within this classification comes the
jail at Paducah, Kentucky. To secure
guests it depends upon a series of
judges who, when likely looking
prospects appear before them, rec
ommend that they go there and pro-
vide uniformed escorts to see that
they do. The judges act in good
faith, but occasionally slip and sign
up Objectionable characters. When
that happens they shrug their
shoulders and admit that it is too
bad, but what can they do?
But not Judge Cornelison. He re-
ceived petition from thirteen in
mates complaining of a certain pro-
tege of his: "It is almost impossible
for us to stay in Jail with him for he
is Public Nuisance Number One. It
seems to us we are punished enough
without having to put up with him" "
His Honor acted promptly and merci-
lessly. Without giving the offender
another chance, with no advance
notice, he put him ruthlessly out into
the cold air of freedom.