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SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1941-08-07
CEDAR POINT
Gene Krupa brings his native
Rhythm Orchestra for week
beginning Friday. Aug. 8.

Music beyond the ken of Bach.
Drum beats to make the African
natives google with envy. Tha:
and all that goes with it-can be
expected when Gene Krupa and
his famous orchestra comes to
Cedar Point Friday. August 9Th.
This will be the second time
THE King of the Hide-beaters"
has been at Cedar Point His ap-
pearance there last year having
been so successful that the dane
ers practically made him promise
to come back this season.
krupa started his drumming
career when only thirteen years
old. After a year in college. he
left the campus to study for his
degree of D. T. doctor OF Tym.
pani). In 1929 he was playing in
Red Nichols jazz band along
side OF young fellow named
Goodman.
In addition to being acknowl-
edged as the finest drummer in
America today. Gene is a real
Snowman with loads of stage
personality. Without the benefit
of any production man or or any
trick hats and uniforms. Krupa
is always the center of attraction
when his orchestra is playing.
Genes new trush, Anita o.
Day. is as full of personality and
vigor as is her boss, and she is
rapidely skyrocking to the top
among all of the girl singers.
Howard DuLaney has been voted
the most popular of all the male
singers by three girls colleges
and several sororities.
AS the season reaches its peak
the management at Cedar Point
reports that nothing can keep
this year from being the great
est in the forty-three year histo-
nv of the resort.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1941-08-07
AUTO CITY SPEAKS
By Hilla Thalgott

Detroit, Mich. August 7-.Af-
ter few weeks absence. | can
come back with good news. Our
boys went to Cleveland East or
August 3 and came home the
victors. which vertainly was no;
hard to take. l understand the
game was quite an exciting one
with the final score being 14-t
in our favor. After the game, all
attended the picnic and really
had one good time. O. Thank yor
Cleveland East for your spendit
hospitality and for all the fun we
had.
Congratulations
to Martins Ferry on the success
OF the Swimming Meet held in
your City, and to you Norma
Wellman upon being selected
Saxon Queen which is quite an
honor. A big hand for Cleveland
East and our Detroit girls for
winning the meet.
Meeting
There is much to be discuss.
ed at our monthly meeting to be
held August 8 at the church. The
report on our picnic will be given
and plans for our Fall Dance
will be started. How about lO(
per cent attendance everybody.
If anyone has found a wallet
at the picnic grounds, please re.
turn it to Bill Lutsch, $3.50 Altei
Road. 1t contains substantial
amount of money and many othe,
valuables. 1t will be greatly ap.
preciated.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1941-08-07
AMERICA ON GUARD!

. Above is a reproduction Of tho
Treasury Departments Defense
Savings Poster, showing an exact
duplication of the original Minute
Man" statue by famed sculptor
Daniel Chester French. Defense
Bonds and Stamps, on sale at your
bank or post Office, are a vital part
At Americas defense preparations.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1941-08-07
Bill Oyer Trio to entertain
at Tavern Terrace

One of the most unusual sing
ing and playing trios ever to ap-
pear in this part of the country
will open engagement in the Ia
vern Terrace at Cedar Point on
August 4th. This group of YER
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1941-08-07

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vertlSers.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1941-01-23
A GOOD SUGGESTION

We get the information that in some states re-
lief is being withheld from those who have, or
could get, ground for gardens, and yet won't
raise, or at least make an honest effort, to raise
vegetables It is stated that the plan works fine,
and those seeking relief-especially receiving
surplus commodities, greatly lessened. Such
plan does not necessarily mean that persons
who raise garden, do not need relief But it
does mean that relief is withheld from those who
able to work, but won't. There are many
worthy people who are getting relief who deserve
all they get and perhaps much more. The coun-
try would be most ungrateful if it did not care for
such. But what gripes many is the fact that
those thoroughly able to work, are too lazy to do
SO, and then expect that they be kept. They also
expect to auto for pleasure and to spend
money for booze and other unnecessary things.
A small piece of land, properly titled, will go
long way toward providing living. This county
has plenty of good ground for gardens, and seeds
very cheap. We wonder how about trying it
out in Morgan county this year, and see how it
works? People don't object to helping needy peo-
pie who try to get along, but who because of mis-
fortune other good reason, can't make both ends
meet-in fact the majority of people really enjoy
sharing what they have with the worthy who are
in need; but they don't enjoy working and pro-
ducing and then expected to help feed those able
to work, but too lazy to do so.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1941-01-23

tains above us pine-clad. The tur-
bUlent, musical American river cas-
caded nearby, sounding all night
like a storm of rain
Never to be forgotten was the
''snowfower, which grows right
out of the snow, blossoming in
crimson bells. 1t startles one like
the gorgeous apparition of the red
bird. Scores of times we found it.,
but this particular one was IS inch
es high, with its scarlet stalk over
two inches thick. Sarcodes san
guinea, for that is it's name, mean
ing bloody flesh, shines like coral or
wax, and is like a giant asparagus
tip, dressed in gorgeous scarlet. IT
is a saprosite, a scavenger of ma
ture whose lowly task is to take de-
caying wood and build it into a
miracle of beauty! To return 20
the Mother Lode. You would be
fabuiously rich if you would find
it, the source from which all gold
trickles down the streams.
You can. There is a Mother Lode
to everything. To the universe it.
self, SO harmOniously compounded
of 90 elements, to life, to happi-
ness, to health, to peace. What is
the source of all well-being but
God himself, the father of our
spirits Howard H. Scott
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1941-01-23
COUNTRY IS UNITED

During the presidential campaign last fall
which was very heated, and about everything
real or imaginable dug up and flung back and
forth at opposing candidates. it would seem that
the United States was torn asunder by internal
strife, which would never be healed We can
imagine Hitler and other dictators, chuckling to
themselves and feeling that things in America
were coming their way fast But they don't know
America Presidential campaigns in this country
are like great debating societies. with very little
restrictions imposed as to what is said from the
platform, pulpit in the press. But after the
election and it is all over the citizens rally round
their chosen leader. How forcibly this dem
onstrated in the peaceful, orderly inauguration
of President Roosevelt in his precedent shatter
ing third term. This Inauguration is proof in the
eyes of dictator ruled millions, that democracy
still lives, and the United States, the greatest
country in the world is united. Here we find the
presidents opponent in the last campaign, back of
him practically 100 percent in his position toward
aiding England in her death-grip against the die.
tators of Europe.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1941-01-23
WOULD BAR COMMUNISTS FROM
TICKET

DR.. H. T. Phillips of Athens, state senator of
this district has introduced bill in the general
assembly that should pass unanimously and
without debate. The bill would bar the Com
munist party or any "un-American' group from
the Ohio ballot and halt appropriations to any
university which has not suppressed un-Ameri-
can activities. We do not know how far-reach-
ing this proposed bill aims to be, but it should
bar teachers in public Schools also those from
civil service positions, and preachers from pupts
who teach advocate Communistic doctrine or
any other doctrine advocating the overthrow of
our government If those in this country advo-
eating Communism other doctrines opposing
Our form of government could only be made to
take thorough course in some Communistc
country-and make them reside there they would
change some of their ideas and long for America
as did the late (but not lamented) Emma Gold
man.
Not only should Ohio pass such measure as
has been introduced by Senator Phillips. but it
should be made law of every state in the union.
Communism is un-American through and
through, so why should it be tolerated in Ameri
lea?
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1941-01-23
INCOME TAX EXEMPTION LOWER

We would call attention to instructions in the
Income Tax blanks which state that every citizen
and resident of the United States having, during
the taxable year, gross income derived from any
source whatever, unless exempt from tax by law
in amount specified as follows: Single, or mar
ried and not living with husband or wife for any
part of the taxable year, having gross income of
$500 If married and living with husband
wife for the entire taxable year if each has an
income and their combined income is $4,000 or
over, they must each make return or file joint
return. If only one has income and his gross in
come is $4,000 over, only that is required
to make return.
While the exemption is lower than in the past,
it does not necessarily mean that every person
with gross income of $500 must pay income
tax, since they would be entitled to certain ex-
emptions, and the same is true of persons married
with gross income of $4,000 However the law
does state that returns be filed, as stated if the
income is as low as $500 for single persons and
$4,000 if married. Keep the foregoing in mind,
and don't try and "get by" and not file a return.
To do so would be federal offense, and sooner
or later you would very likely be caught.
The filing of returns must be on or before
March 15. Those having income tax to pay may
pay in full with return four installments, or
before the 18th day of the 3rd, 9th and 18th
month from close of taxable year. Severe penal
ties are imposed for not filing return, for filing
false or fraudulent return, or failing to file on
time
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1941-01-23
MEIGS SCRIBE LOOKS
INTO THE PAST

Back in the past-in our boyhood,
we had the idea that to see things
one had to have money and travel
far, but as we have grown older we
have found there is much close to
home that many of us have never
seen. Tonight, our second as head
of the house on the former Murray
farm, we see in memory the folks
who sojourned here in our boyhoOd
and young manhood. Let us start
with the farm where we are writing.
At that time Ed Murray was one of
Morgan county's best farmers. He
raised bumper crops and kept fine
stock. His farm was well fenced
and kept Mrs. Murray was good
house keeper and cook. Why
shouldn't she be? With six children
and hired hands she had plenty of
practice. We well remember Mr..
Murray's last days. Protracted meet
ing was in progress at Emery. When
we came home, as we were passing
the home of their son, Charley, we
heard call from the house. When
we entered we found Charley quite
i'll. We in company of Willie Sang
who came later stayed with him
during the night. His father got
the word that he was sick and
came. Some days before the father.
had hurt his knee. We soon found
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1941-01-23

yard.'' There must be more than
one man travelling the road, or he
is doing a lot of travelling back and
forth. But back to the hollow.
Some of the finest timber of all
kinds native to this climate has
been cut and marketed in form of
lumber-staves, frame timber, mine
props, and no doubt boat gunnels
for fiat boats. AS we remember,
older men like John Sammons, an
old fiat boatman, telling of cutting
these gunnels Climbers as long as
their boat was to be-. Cutting
meant cutting them the proper
1ength-then hewing them. Then
they were hauled to the creek and
foated to the !. Muskingum river
when the creek was at flood stage.
The boats were built at the mouth
Of the creek, loaded with provisions,
then the long float to New Orleans
was started, and where the voyage
ended, unless the cargo was sold be-
fore they reached that city. After
the disposal of the cargo the boat
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1941-01-23

came Horace Greedy driven by the
notorious Hank Monk, making his
campaign speeches. John Studebak-
er of the great Studebaker firm, be-
gan his manufacturing life here,
making miners WheelbarroWs, some
of which we saw Visiting the place
where they were made, We found
his successor Adolph Adler Stude
baker told Adler he went east with
$500 realized from his wheelbar-
rows, and with this started the
plant that made wagons, and later
automobiles. We drove to Coloma,
where gold was discovered.
The very place is marked by a
great monument of boulders built
out in the stream, with the name in
stone "Sutters Mill" Weeds and a
winding path make it none too easy
to find. Here we panned in the
sluice-way for gold and got it too.
A road leads up the hill, where
the monument to James Marshall
stands, the discoverer of gold. The
kindly ranger, Mr.. Ball and his
wife, made us at home. We passed
the cabin, built and occupied by
Marshall. Here they found him
dead in his bed with hat and clothes
on. We saw the old Jail, with rings
in the floor for desperate characters.
The Chinese followed the white
miners here, and the ruins of two
Chinese stores are still to be seen
We passed over the same road made
famous by the Pony Express. We
realized that over this same road
came the $4,000 miners to Coloma
Over this road the Wells Fargo Ex-
press exported millions of dollars in
slugs and gold dust, to assist the
Union through the Civil war.
The splendid high-gear road,
number so, climbs from altitude 80
at Sacramento, to 1888 at Echo
Summit Pass, overlooking glorious
Lake Tahoe. 1t follows the turbu-
lent American River. Both road and
river are very deceptive. Most of
the time the river seemed to be flow
Ing up hill, the steep up-road to be
going down hill. This illusion is
quite common to even the soberest
driver. At Eagle Rock we slept
amid beautiful scenery, the noun
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1941-01-23
THE MOTHER
LODE COUNTRY

When Marshall discovered gold
at Suffers Mill, he did not know he
had tapped the great Mother Lode,
source of nearly all of California S
gold. This district reaches north
and south for 200 miles, Suffers
Mill being at the extreme north
end. Mother Lode is a name given
to the great Quartz Vein, or lead
Qeed) from which source all gold
has washed down the rivers and
streams.
This is natures way of mining.
preparing the gold for anyone who
may be there to pick it up. Placer
(plasser) mining is taking the
loose nuggets and dust of gold
from streams and gullies and wash
ing it. This earliest form of min
ing has been revived to some ex-
tent. The Spanish word placer
tplah-sare) means place, where the
gold is found loose in sand or gray-
el. Loosened by water, the streams
carry it down, the heavy gold sinks
through the bedrock, where it is
found. With a miners help, we
panned some gold and brought it
home, from the very spot where
gold was first found, the sluice-way
of the old mill
So Placerville got its name from
placer mining. 1t is an interesting
town, 40 miles east of Sacramento.
1t had great notoriety in the early
days. 1t was first called Hangtown,
because of numerous hanagings for
capital offenses. A tree was called
Hangman's tree where criminals
ended their lives one or more at a
time. Swinging in the wind they
looked out unlike wash out on q
line. SO they called the main
street indelicately "Shirt-T
Bend " as it is today.
The poet, Edwin Markham, taught
school here, and later superintended
the county schools Of EIdorado. His
picture adOrns the walls Here
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1941-01-23
was sold, thus every trip meant the

was sold, thus every trip meant the
building of a new boat.
Mr.. Sammons made AZ trips, SO
you can see with several who were
in the business a large amount OF
Morgan county timber was taken
south to be used in building there.
And now after some rs years, the
Croy Lumber company has just COM
pleted saving three sets in this hol-
low, and still there is much small
timber. We have long thought this
an ideal place for state park. With
a short dam a lake could be formed
with wonderful springs of good wa
ter, with trees for shade, and dens
and nests it seems nature has done
all that she could do, to make this
an ideal place to hunt, fish and rest.
While this tale is coming to us fas-
ter than we can write, we will stop
here to see what We editor and
readers think of it. If you don't
enjoy it. Ray can't pay us-if we
don't get paid, we will twiddle our
thumbs, and save our finger.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1941-01-23
MUSSOLINI AND GREECE

Two points in Mussolini's address
to the Fascist partys leaders may
gain significance if taken together.
While not denying that his cam
paign in Greece had suffered set
backs, he assured his hearers: II
tell you we shall break Greece's
back. Whether in two or IL months
it little matters. The war has bare
ly begun. We have enough men
and means to annihilate all Greece
resistance. Once a beginning is
made / do not soften. / have al
ready shown it, and, whatever has
happened, is happening or may hap
pen, | will show it again"
1t can hardly be news to the
Fascist leaders, to the Italian peo-
pie or to the world at large that
Italy has enough men and means to
defeat Greece in the long run. But
it may be news, and to the Fascist
not very pleasant news, that "the
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1941-01-23

war has barely begun" When the
frontier was crossed the inspired
press spoke of three weeks as lin
it; now the duce is talking or
year as though a few years more OF
less did not matter. 1t is unlikely
that the people of Italy are so in
different to the continuance Of the
war and of the hardship and i'm
poverishment resulting from the
blockade.
Premier Mussolini's insistence
that victory over little Greece is as
sursd and that Italy needs no aid
may be coupled with an earlier pas
sage in the speech in which, with
curious and uncharacteristic mod
esty, he related how he had be-
sought Hitler to permit Italy to
participate in the battle against
Great Britain with planes and sub
marines: Il add at once, Germany
had no need of our aid Notwith-
standing this, l am grateful to the
fuehrer for having accepted my Of
fer. Nothing so much as blood shed
together or sacrifices endured in a
common cause makes relations be-
tween people solid and durable"
But no matter how complete Hit
ler's confidence may have been. it is
likely that he welcomed the aid of
planes as calculated to shorten a
war which already from his point
of view was disappointly long. And
likewise, even if MUssolini is conf
dent of being able, by the use of
overwhelmingly superior forces, to
"break Greece's back in a year, Or
in whatever time might be requir-
ed, he may not object to having
this minor war cut short and made
less expensive in life and money
The most obvious way of shorten
ing it, now that the fifth column
has apparently failed to function, is
by securing aid from outside, and
outside practically means Germany.
In his tribute to the fuehrer's mag
nanimity in permitting Italy to vol
unteer unheeded aid in his war on
England Mussolini puts himself in a
good strategic position for being
equally magnanimous in case his op-
posite number at the other end of
the exis should wish further to
''consecrate the fraternity of Ital-
ian-German arms"
This does not, however, mean
that the duce would welcome Nazi
reinforcements for his temporarily
baffled army. Still less does it
mean that he would rejoice in hav-
ing direction of the campaign taken
over by German strategists who
would make an end of muddling
through. The latest news and gOs-
sip in regard to the new politico-
military offensive which is being
worked out on the diplomatic front
point rather to "parallep action by
Italy and Germany.
1t would serve Mussolini's pur-
pose equally well if German army
should use Bulgarian territory for a
push to the east which would di-
vide the already inadequate Greek
forces, and British aid would like
wise be weakened if the entry of
Spain into the war should permit
German siege of Gibralter. These
are possible strategic moves of
which the duce could not well
speak, but they may have been in
his mind when he spoke with studi-
GUS Indifference of the length of the
war and praised Hitler for grac-
iously permitting Italy to help
shorten the fuehrer's war on Great
Britain.-Springfie Mass, Repub-
lican.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1941-01-23

the fertility their fields
by sprinkng them with Clouds American soldiers increase
their skill through artillery Both fertile soil and skilled
defense farmers last
operating with the AAA Farm Program applied nearly million
lime the the rate
cropand Mane Vermont New Hamp
shire Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1941-01-23

This name is applied to hollow
that starts on the Chambers farm
near state route IS, and ends at
the county road leading from the
creek road at the Murray farm and
ending at Bristol-Emery road at
the Parmiter residence, known, or
called by some Zone man b0ule-
Evening star., 1941-04-09
Continued From First Page)

director, and other company Of
ficials
Gov. Van Wagoher declined to
say whether Henry Ford, founder
of the automobile firm, or his son,
Edsel Ford, company president, we're
present.
Mr.. Murray, before returning to
Washington last night, was re-
ported to have given Mr.. Dewey
and the Governor a list of "irri-
ducible demands" of the union for
settlement of its strike.
Election Has Been Ordered.
Informed sources expressed be-
lief that the present aim of the
mediators was to reopen the plant
with an agreement by the COM
pany to negotiate union grievances
in the interim before the holding
OF an employe bargaining election
ordered by the National Labor Re-
lations Board. The board directed
that the election be held within
As DAYS.
Reopening of the River Rouge
plant, worlds largest industrial
unit with $4,000 hourly-rated en-
ployes.' might permit some 100000
workers including those employed
in Ford branches and supplier
plants, to resume their jobs.
Pickets maintained their lines al
the plant gates today, still under
the Watchful eyes of State police
who have maintained order in the
area since the Governor called them
into action after violent outbreaks
occurred last week.