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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-04-24
BLUFFTON STARTS
SPRING PROGRAM
OF STREET WORK
Grading of Huber Street, New
Thorofare Under Way
This Week
Resurfacing of Kibler Street
From Jackson to Grove
Is Scheduled

Inaugurating an extensive spring
and summer street improvement
program, work was started this
week on opening Huber street from
Mound to Cherry street.
Grading of the new street is
under way, to be followed with a
crushed stone top. When completed
Huber street will continue all the
way from jefferson to Cherry street,
coming out on the latter thorofare
by the Mrs. William Underwood
property.
Huber street has ended in the
past at the point of its intersec-
tion with Mound street near the
Fred Hofer residence, and many
Bluffton persons in the past have
considered the two streets as one
thorofare.
Resurface Kibler Street
Other work on the summer i'm.
provement program will include re
surfacing of Kibler street from
Jackson to Grove street.
Another project entails the grad
ing of South Jackson street from
Kibler street south to the end of
Jackson, a distance of approximate
ly 400 feet.
A WPA sidewalk construction pro-
gram also is scheduled for the sum-
mer months, with individual prop
erty owners paying for materials
and the WPA furnishing free labor
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-04-24
FiUe Plays Will Be
GiUen Here Next Week

Four short one-act plays and an
hour length play will be presented
by the Bluffton High school English
and speech departments in the
school auditorium Monday and Tues
day nights at o'clock.
On the program Monday night is
Shakespeare's "A Mid sum m e r
Nights Dream" and a one-act play
Things. Three one-act plays,
Julius Caesar" "Not Quite Such a
Goose" and "Those Husbands OF
Ours" will be given Tuesday night
Rehearsals for the productions
have been held under the direction
of P. w. Stauffer, instructor in
speech and dramatics at the high
school.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-04-24
Births

The following birth at the Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Spaeth, girl,
last Wednesday. Mrs. Spaeth is the
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray Kern.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. J. M.
Springer of Peora, H., boy Satur-
day morning at the Methodist hos
pital. Mrs. Springer was formerly
Miss Treva Stepleton, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. S. H. Stepleton of this
place.
Announcement has been made of
the birth of son to Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilbert Welty of Dayton. Mrs. Welty
was formerly Miss Vera Locher,
daughter of Samuel Locher of near
Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-04-24
Orange Sunday School
Meet At Riley Church

Spring meeting of the Orange
township Sunday school convention
will be held at the Riley Greek Bap-
tist church on Sunday, May A.
Rev. E. j. Haldeman, of Fostoria,
will be the speaker for the occasion.
Special musical numbers from the
local churches will be presented.
The evening session will be adj
dressed by Rev. @. s. Johnson from
Toledo. A special feature of the
evening session will be the Star male
quartet from Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-04-24
Richard Carts Passes
State Pharmacy Exam

Richard Carts, who is employed at
a pharmacy in Findlay, passed exam
nations of the state pharmaceutical
board, according toword received
here the first of the week.
Carts, graduate in pharmacy at
Ohio Northern university took the
state examination last month. His
wife is the former Miss Betty Trip
lett, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Cleon
Triplett of South Main street.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-04-24
High School Glee Clubs Given Highest
HOnOrs In State Music Meet At Columbus
Mosquito Control
To Start In Nay

Preliminary work on Bluffton's
summer mosquito control program
will be started in May, with control
work similar to that of last summer
scheduled for June.
Robert Oyer, who handled the
stream spraying last summer, will
be re-employed again this year,
Mayor w. A. Howe said. Oyer,
however, will not take up his duties
until June, and preliminary work
will be done by other municipal
employees.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-04-24
SOash Is Manager
Of Buckeye Lake

Evan Soash will serve as manager
of Buckeye Lake, Bluffton swimming
center, for the coming summer sea-
son.
Soash's appointment was made at
this weeks meeting of the municipal
council.
Councilmen also authorized the
construction of a concrete walk from
the bathhouse to the lake, with the
work to be completed before the sea-
son opens.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-04-24
Seek Conference On
Tax Settlement Here

Mayor w. A. Howe indicated the
first of the week that he would seek
conference with County Auditor
Floyd Griffin to determine the reason
for an alleged cut of $1,400 in the
amount due the town in the Febru-
ary real estate tax settlement.
According to Howe the tax settle
ment of approximately S2,100 after
deductions should have been $4,000,
the amount received last year and
which he stated was requested in the
budget for this year submitted by
the town and later approved by the
county tax commission.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-04-24
Religious Education
Glasses In Program

A program of religious musical,
dramatic and recitation numbers will
be presented by the classes in re-
ligious education at the high school
auditorium Sunday night at 7:30
o'clock, it was announced by Miss
Elizabeth Tiefenthaler, instructor.
Each of the grades from one to
eight will present a short religious
play, musical number and hymns or
concerted reading of scripture. Al.
B. Longsdorf, president of the coun-
Gil of religious education, will speak
briefly of the religious education pro-
gram carried out in the Bluffton
schools.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-04-24
NeU Bridge Here
Nears Completion

Work on the jefferson street bridge
over Big Riley creek likely will be
completed within the next week,
weather permitting.
Installation of new girders and a
new floor for the bridge has been
completed and few more days work
will mark completion of the project.
The improvement is being made by
the state highway department.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-04-24
Masonic Inspection
Here Next Monday

Annual inspection of the Bluffton
Masonic lodge will be held next Mon
day at a regular meeting in the
lodge rooms here.
The second degree will be confer
red before the inspecting officer.
This Thursday night Masonic en-
ployes of The Triplett Electrical In
strument Co. will fill all the chairs
at Rawson when an employe of the
firm receives the third degree.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-04-24
Main Street May Be Flushed
To Eliminate Summer Dust Nuisance

Buttons annual summer dust nui-
sance in the business district will be
alleviated if project proposed Mon
day night at a meeting of the muni-
cipal council is carried thru to COM
pletion.
Flushing of streets with water
from fire hydrants is being consid-
cred as a means of eliminating traf-
fic dust. In the past this condition
has brought many complaints from
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-04-24

Bluffton merchants.
Approval to use water for the
flushing program has been requested
of the board of public affairs by
Mayor Wilbur A. Howe.
In washing the dust from streets,
fire hose would be used, with Street
Commissioner Lee Coon supervising
the project. The section to be treat
ed would be Main street from Wash
ington street to College avenue.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
A.E.F. Comes Home

The last of the 1000, 900 soldiers who went
from the United States to France during the
World War are only now, more than 20 years
later, struggling home.
Many American soldiers stayed behind when
the A. E. F. came home. They married
French girls, and settled in Paris or in the
little towns and villages they had come to
know. At a rate of 100 a week the Red Cross
is now moving them and their families to
Lisbon on their way to the country most OF
them have not seen in 20 years, and which
their wives and children have never seen.
It is a tragic end to 20 years of effort to
build a life in another land to which they
had become attached. But of course the Ger
man conquest which wiped out SO many
Frenchmen has wiped out these Americans,
too. Thus a thin trickle of good French blood
is being added to our national life, and well
come it is, just as these veterans of the A.
E. F.. are welcome, though their homecoming
has been so long delayed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
Bettered By Revamping

AS revamped by the senate foreign affairs
committee, the lease-lend bill, as the debate
on it started yesterday. is a much more ac-
ceptable measure than it was originally or
in the form approved by the house. To some
extent, at least, the control congress would
retain over operations under the bills pro-
visions has been increased.
The Brynes amendment, despite the charge
that it is mere window dressing" does seem
to set up an additional check on the powers
that would be delegated to the executive by
the bill. It's announced purpose is to require
the President to obtain both an authorization
and an appropriation from congress before
he enters into any contracts for defense arti-
cles that would be turned over to other coun-
tries.
In it's first version the bill ave the Presi-
dent this authority and the only control con-
gress retained was the power to appropriate.
Under the Byrnes amendment each request
will be dealt with separately and will, in ef-
feet, go through the mill twice. There is
some virtue in this procedure or it would
not have been followed by congress for more
than 100 years.
The senate committee seems to have
strengthened the house amendment providing
that powers granted can be terminated by
joint resolution even before the expiration
date. The authority given the President is
made contingent o the absence Of such a
resolution. Actually the chance of a resolu-
ton getting through both houses, in the abb
sence of a fragrant abuse of executive power,
is as good as non-existent.
But the committee failed to list the coun-
tries that are to receive American help. The
question of how far to 60 in the matter OF
aiding nations resisting aggression is still to
be determined.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
Tt Taxes Credulity

Considering the recurrent SURPRISES which
have bedeviled our agricultural economy for
years without number, it is hard to credit
the statement of Prof. W. I. Myers of Cornell
that there. will be IAN international scramble
for food after the war ends"
eff the United States,'' says Professor My
ers, ''were called upon to feed Europe as in
the first World war it would be necessary
to decrease our own food consumption or in
crease production, or both"
While it is doubtless true that millions Of
people in Europe and the Orient are today
badly fed or even close to starvation, it is
also true that it is the war itself which has
had a tremendous adverse effect on agri-
cultural production. Vast numbers of men
have been taken from the fields to go into
armies or into plants making munitions. In
many lands what used to be farms are now
occupied by troops.
But when the conflict is over, the presump-
ion is that agricultural activities will quick
ly reach normal proportions again. In that
event, will we not encounter once more a
situation where supply is likely to exceed
demand? Certainly in view of improved meth
DDS of farming, better machinery, fertilizers,
etc., it takes a vivid imagination to visualize
"a scramble for food" for any long period
at least.
But if the scramble does come, there are
few in the United States who will not vel
come the end of a policy of blowing under
each third row and the arrival of an era
when decent prices will prevail for crops.
Especially will this latter situation be welcome
to New Hanover county farmers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18

people, through letters to congress and the
newspapers, have had their direct say, aside
from the official debate.
Soon the lend-lease bill will pass, or it will
not pass. Whichever is the result, it is hard
indeed to see how democratic process could
have had more Difference, how any possible
means has been overlooked to make certain
that the decision is the deliberate decision of
the majority of the American people.
So, while we moan gently to ourselves about
the fate of democracy in the future, let's
not overlook this pretty convincing demon
stration of it's vitality that is going on every
day before our too often u~nseeing eyes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
CAPT. CANTWELL
LAUDED IN PAPER
Eulogy to Late Coast Guard
Officer Published in the
Alumni Bulletin

A stirring euology to the life and
accomplishments of CAPTAIN 1ob,
Cassin Cantwell, n of the outstara
ing officers of the United stoto.
Coast Guard service, is contained in
a recent issue of the U. S. Cons.
Guard Academy Alumni Associatio,
Bulletin, copies of which have heon
received in Wilmington by relatives
Of the late captain.
Capt. Cantwell, a cousin of Rob.
ert C. Cantwell, Jr., of SIS Marker
street, and the Misses Anna and
Lenora CantWell, of S14 Princess
died last October, and was buried at
sea, with full Coast Guard honors
just outside San Francisco's Golden
Gate.
Born in Raleigh in 1859, the son
of an early Carolina family, .John
Cantwell went to sea as a young boy,
and in 1880 was appointed a cadet
in the Revenue Cutter services.
~progenitor of the now-famous Coast
Guard. For 40 years he served the
service in varying capacities, achiev.
ing eventually the rating of senior
captain of the entire service.
A talented writer as well as a
skilled seaman, Capt. Cantwell's &c.
counts Of exploits of the coast guard
are considered w today invaluable
documents in the archives of the
service. His book, Report On The
Operations Of The U. S. Revenue
Cutter Nunnivak On The Yukon
River Station" was perhaps the
fines account of then-little-known
Alaska.
Closing his tribute to Capt. Cant.
well, published in the Academy bull
letin, Harry w. Frantz, noted Ma.
tional Geographic magazine writer,
had this to say about Capt. Cant.
we'll:
"There will be no stone marker
over Captain Cantwell's grave. But
there will be memory in the sun-lit
blue of the Pacific off the Golden
Gate. There will be remembrance in
the white sails of passing ships, and
the silver hulls of the soaring clip
pers; and by nights in the shining
stars. Distant foghorns and the toll
Of buoy-bells will bring echos from
his friendly soul.
"And when in lonely seas, hard
messed sailors battle with the storm
until some swift cutter brings
rescue, thoughtful men will know
that there is in fact a Coast Guard
shirt. a spirit born of brave lives
through fifteen past decades OF Cap
tain John Cassin Cantwell and H.
600 other officers not unlike him.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
Democracy Functions

Some people have their eyes so firmly fixed
on some doom they see far on ahead waiting
for democracy, that they overlook the fact
it's functioning right here and now.
When the draft act was passed last year, it
was thoroughly debated for months. Every
argument for it and against it was given full
play time and again. Then, after the most
complete kind of discussion, public and pri-
vate, official and unofficial, the duly elected
representatives of the people passed it by a
broad margin.
If the passage of that act, revolutionary de-
parture as it was from traditional American
principles, did not represent the will of the
American people, in what possible way could
that will have been better expressed?
Similarly, the lend-lease bill. Since the draft
act of last year, there has been a congress
sional election. A good share of the senators
and representatives now on the floor have
been to their constituencies for acceptance
or rejection. New members were elected by
people Who had one eye on European develop
ments and the ways in which they might al
feet the United States. Now comes the lend
lease bill.
No one can say both sides of this proposed
legislation have not had every conceivable
opportunity to present their cases. A continual
parade of witnesses, for and against, quail
fled and unqualified, expert and ~inexpert, sta
tstlcal and emotional, has passed through
the rooms OF both house and SEN
ate. Every conceivable scrap of information,
every imaginable point of view, have been
spread publicly before the legislators and the
country.
The President, apparently feeling the criti-
cism that followed last years destroyer trans
fer, for which he did not 60 to congress for
authority, appears to have made an especial
point of keeping out of this pending legisla-
ton. Amendments have been proposed, ar
gued, and some have been accepted. The
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
LEONARD APPEALS
FOR N. c. ECONOMY
Secretary of Fair Tax Asso-
citation Addresses Ramseur
Business Men

RAMSEUR, Feb. 17.-R Paul
Leonard, secretary Of the North
Carolina Fair Tax association, urged
a meeting of business men here to-
night to insist upon a policy of
economy in the operation of the
state.
The general assembly," he de.
clared, "is flirting with fiscal disas.
ter when it increases appropriations
to- the point that all SURPRISES in
the state treasury are exhausted. n
increased revenue from an artificial
prosperity created by defense snend.
ing is anticipated as a certainty"
In the last decade, Leonard said
citing statistics, the state "has in.
creased its public spending and tax
load all out of proportion to our in.
in wealth and population. and
far beyond the paying ability of th,
taxpayers.
Asserting that the "emereencv,,
under which the sales tax was adont-
ed had long passed he claimed credit
for the Fair Tax association for sore.
ating the public sentiment which
made the sales tax an issue in th,
last campaign and now makes almc :
certain that it's back will be broken
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
Fewer Farms

In the terrific 10 years just passed, the
whole number of farms in the United States
declined 81 per cent, from $685. 48 to $685.
789. AT the same time the average holding
increased from 1873 acres in 1910 to ia acres
today.
Thai is partly due to the fact that the dust
bowl which we have been industriously Great
ing in the southwest for many years has at
last begun to take its toll of blasted hopes
and ruined homestea6s.
All this means fewer Of the kind Of men
who are solid proprietors standing with their
feet on their own land. Such men are the
backbone of any country. To make it worse,
experts now believe that with high-powered
production methods, half as many farmers
as labor today could produce all the food the
country needs.
People living on the land have a value to
the country far beyond the mere food they
produce. They have a stability, a %solidness,
shown by no other kind of people. Thus every
effort to devise new ways of living on the
soil, or farm life not merely as a business
but as a way of living, is a contribution to
national stability, and deserves encourage
ment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
' Editorial Comment
SCHISM
Durham Herald

1t wasn't more than a few months ago that
we were witnesses of what apparently was a
schism of good size in the Democratic party
while the Republican party members stood
solldly together. That was a few months ago.
Now the situation seems the reverse. It's
the Republican party which has the schism.
The schism is quite simple and clearly de-
fined. On the one side are the progressive
members Of the party who want to shake it
out OF what they call its lethargy and wake it
up to a more realistic attitude toward foreign
and domestic affairs. On the other side are
the more conservative member who believe
that isolation is still possible, and whose atti-
tude toward domestic affairs is characterized
by distinct conservatism. They can't get an
other.
The hope of the party for the future is it's
younger and more progressive element, that
element which is in tune with times, which
does not hold to a policy simply because it
might have been proved the best policy at a
given time in the past, which believes that
men should look at a problem in it's relation
to current conditions, which has a great rev.
erence for the past and the teachings of his
tory but which can choose from the past what
is good for the present and toss aside the
other. This element is the hope of the Re-
publican party, and Wendell Willkie is its
leader.
Wl1lhlC oPOhC WloCly WllGI lie SAID mat the
party will never regain national power if it
clings to outmoded theories and practices.
Old line Republicans may point to the last
Presidential campaign as proof that the people
are turning in ever increasing numbers to
the Republican banner. They may point out
that had it not been for the international
crisis Republican administration would be in
power today.
But they might not be entirely right. Those
q, 1000, 900 people who cast their votes for the
Republican candidates may not have been
voting their desire for a Republican admins
tration. Some of them were voting their de-
sire not to break the third term tradition.
Others were voting purely for Willkie. Per-
haps they would have enjoyed voting for Will
kie more had he been anything but a Repub-
lican.
Republicans would do well to heed the warn
ings of those who nave spoken against the
party's conservatism and who would spruce
it up a bit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
National Defense Registration
Will Be Conducted In OnSlOW

The voluntary registration will
be headed by Miss Rhyme, home
demonstration agent, and from it
information will be available on
the tasks women and men, not
covered by selective service, can
perform and the amount of time
they a devote to jobs in con-
nection with national defense. The
information will be on file in the
city hall.
The WPA projects provide for
athletics, game rooms and other
recreational facilities for Camp
Davis soldiers to use when they
come to Jacksonville; adult educa-
ton to teach illiterates to read
and write, child education in tae
form of nursery schools; and lunch
rooms for children in school. In
the latter connection farm women
will be encouraged to MAINTAIN
gardens and can foods for con-
sumption by school children.
All this is to better prepare the
local population and make them
healthier for national defense, it
was said. 5
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
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