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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08
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We remember reading poem about
q man with hoe-but what were
looking for now is man with pillow
and if we don't find him soon
there'll be one less victory garden
boosting the war effort -. reports
Tuesday that some of the gardens are
being plowed. . :. one farmer finished
up rs here in town the past week or
two. =. and youth who knows his til
lage plowed lots after school last
week and now jingles $40 in his jeans
=. and gardeners up in arms against
dogs on the loose. 5. SO now there's a
town ordinance calculated to keep
Fido at home. $500. and this coming
right after meat rationing last week
looks like tough times ahead for the
pooch. :. :. speaking of meat ration
ing, some of the boys who should
know say rib boil, four point rating,
is the best buy-if you want to get
the most meat for your points. ......
and shed a tear for the passing of
that great American emblem of de-
mocracy, the hot dog-gone but not
forgotten-for the duration probably
:. and prospects for hamburger are
about $3.50. =. and preachers may
still relish unrationed chickens as their
favorite. :. but editors rate the gravy
at least our chief did at the College
booster dinner the other night-which
by the way made him quite happy.
maybe he won't be so happy after he
reads this and someone else may be
writing our column next week. well
there it is and we'll let it stand for
the record.
Congratulations to Grandma Eliza
beth Parrish who will be 95 years old
on Friday. She was born in 1848
when James X. Polk was president
and the country was in the turmoil of
the Mexican WARMTH the issue of
slavery, states rights and secession
fast coming up as leading domestic
issue. Mrs. Parrish is in fair health
at her home on North Lawn avenue
and plans to observe the day quietly.
And speaking of Presidents-Elmer
Diller of the Bluffton Milling plant
can name all of them in order-from
Washington to Roosevelt; also most
of the vice presidents. He learned
them good many years ago when he
was a pupil in the Mulberry school in
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08

The Girl Reserves are conducting
a magazine sale which will end on
Monday. The girl selling the larg-
est number will receive a prize. If
the club sells a larger total than the
Hi-Y they will receive a bonus of
$5. The sales campaign is under
the direction of Mary Ellen Lugin-
buhl, president of the club.
Students in the 7th grade are also
being listed for employment oppor-
tunities for after school or summer
work. They are filling out employ
ment cards under the direction of
the Hi-Y club which is sponsoring
a school employment clearing house.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08
Completes Training
In Aerial Gll5aneru

Sgt. Robert X. Cooney, Jr., son of
Mr.. and Mrs. r. X. Cooney of South
Jackson street, was graduated Mon
day from the Army Air Forces Flex-
ible Gunnery School at Fort Myers,
Florida.
Now qualified as an aerial gunner,
he will become a member of one of
the thousands of bomber crews which
will be sent overseas in few weeks.
He will receive his crew training at
an operational training field in the
United States.
Sgt. Cooney has been in the army
five months. He is also graduated
from Armorer school.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08
Button College Notes

public schools, Monday evening in the
Musselman library. Miss M'Della
Moon, professor of biology at the col
lege, gave an illustrated talk on fruit
and vegetables of Florida. Wilbur
Steiner, Bluffton alumnus, showed his
colored movies of Florida.
Under direction of Professor Rus
sell A. Lantz, the Vesper choir will
be presented in sacred concert next
Sunday evening at p. M, in the
Bluffton Presbyterian church. The
choir will also appear on Tuesday
evening of Passion week, giving Du-
Bois' "Seven Last Words of Christ"
at the local Mennonite church.
Students will participate in a big
international party, Saturday, April
10, to be directed by the campus So
cial committee. All students have
been requested to dress in costume
for the affair, SO that as many coun-
tries as possible will be represented.
The group will visit five faculty and
student homes during the evening,
where games of various countries will
be played, and representative refresh
ments will be served.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08

Riley township. The teacher was the
lac p. D. Amstutz, one of the really
outstanding early educators of this
section.
There's a shortage of truck driv-
ers-and if you want coal in hurry
YOU may have to dive the truck your
self. That's what happened Saturday
when two Bluffton householders didn't
have enough fuel to last over the
week end. So Gerhard Buhler, high
school principal and Joe Stage, rail-
road employe turned truck drivers
and operated the truck of local coal
dealer to get enough coal in their bins
for over Sunday.
Bv a margin of four hours, Fred
Welty is farming this week on Welty
Bros. place north of town instead of
soldering. 1t all happened when
Fred was honorably discharged at
Camp Livingston, La, last Wednes-
day because he was over the 38-year
old age limit-and four hours later
came word from the war department
to stop discharging men over 38 years.
It happened on the first of April
but it wasn't an April Fool prank
When Mrs. Willis Althaus and her
sister, Mrs. Walter Good of Ashland,
former Bluffton residents motored
here to attend the funeral services OF
their cousin, Mrs. Sarah Oberly.
Complications arose when they stopp-
ed at Bluffton gas station and told
the attendant to "fill 'er up" for the
return trip-only to find that Mrs.
Althaus' husband had pocketed the
KEY to the gas tank-and was in Ash
land. A long distance telephone call
-collect-to Ashland and the missing
kew arrived in Bluffton the next morn
ing-the Studebaker started home
and was Willis face red.
Meeting an internationally famous
general most Unexpectedly was the
experience last week of Willard Lee,
residing northwest flown, while on
a bus between Toledo and Detroit.
Lee took seat in the bus beside and
elderly looking gentleman and the
two struck up a conversation touch
ing on such topics as the weather,
crops and the war. Finally the strang-
er asked Lee if he knew to whom he
was talking. Lee indicated that he
did not and caught his breath in as
tonishment when informed that his
travel-partner was none other than
General John J. Pershing, commander
of the American forces in the first
World War and prominent figure in
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08
Troop Sc BY Malcolm Basinger

troop DO by Malcolm baSinger
Most of the troop took nature
hike under the direction of Scoutmas-
ter Karl Gable. This was followed
by the roll call and business. Badges
received by the scouts at the Court
of Honor, Wednesday night, were
handed out at this meeting.
Robert Ramseyer and Malcolm Ba-
singer slept out at Foxis hill, Friday
night, April 2. Two new scouts, Dean
and Wayne Sommers have been ad-
ded to Troop Sc. Next weeks meet
ing will be a nature hike.
Jim Harmon passed first class map
making.
Troop SO BY Maynard Pogue
Lanoy Loganbill led in the scout
oath. Burl Meyer gave the II scout
laws. Earl Frick led in the pledge
of allegiance. Each scout had to
name an animal.
There was a game of prisoners
base. Robert Neuenschwander's team
won. Some songs were sung.
* **
Tests passed: Earl Frick, ID
mile hike, handicraft.
Bob Stalter, IA mile hike, thrift.
Morris Groman and Lanoy Logan
bill were given their tenderfoot badg-
es by candlelight.
= A box kite competition will be held
by the scouts at the college football
field at the next meeting. Prizes will
be awarded for the best kites.
Every scout of Troop SO qualified
for advancement or one or more merit
badges. The troop appeared at the
Lima Central Auditorium, Wednesday
and the following scouts received
awards:
End class-Bob Stater, Keith Kirk
land, Jimmie Howe, Burl Meyer, Ken
meth Bracy.
1st class-Maynard Pogue, John
Bracy, Dean Ferguson, Robert Coon,
Roderick Nonnamaker, David Frick,
David Stearns.
Merit Badges-John Bracy, Safety
handicraft, reading; Harry Burkhold-
er, Carpentry; Karl and Earl Frick
handicraft; David Frick, Carpentry
Don Fritchie, reading, handicraft
safety; Maynard Pogue, reading, per-
sonal health, handicraft, pathfinding;
David Stearns, photography.
The following officers were named
at the meeting:
Bob Coon, senior patrol leader;
Roderick Nonnamaker, senior patrol
leader; patrol leaders, Dean Ferguson
Maynard Pogue, Karl Frick; Assist
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08
625 Fed At Lima
Mission In March

During the month of March there
were 625 men fed and 233 given
lodging at the Lima City Mission,
it was announced this week by the
Rev. Adam D. Welty, superintendent
of the institution. The facilities
have been used increasingly since
the war, it was stated.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08
BIuffton High School Notes

The fifth six-weeks' period of the
school year will end this week and
the final period will start on Monday
morning. The usual six-weeks' tests
are being given this week.
The high school faculty were the
guests of the Bluffton college faculty
in a meeting held at the college Ii
brary Monday night.
Ruth Linrud, harpist, entertained
the students as one of the regular
lecture course numbers at an as
sembly meeting Wednesday morning.
Arden Baker, personnel director
of the Triplett Electrical Instrument
Co., will be the speaker at the Hi-Y
meeting Wednesday night at 1880
o'clock.
Coat hangers are being collected
at the school as donation to the
Red Cross. Every student has been
asked to bring at least one.
All of the students of the high
school were photographed on minia-
tur film last Friday. The pictures
are for use in the office files. Stu
dents are permitted to buy the pic
lures at moderate prices.
Tumbling teams are being chosen
from the boys and girls physical
education classes. A program in
cluding tumbling, calisthenics, skills,
first aid, games and acrobatics will
be presented in an athletic review in
the gymnasium next Friday, April
16 at p. m.
Approximately $50 students will
participate in this program, the pro-
ceeds of which will be used for ex-
penses involved in sponsoring a
baseball team. The boys team will
be chosen next under the direction of
Coach Kent Cotterman. The girls
team, under the direction of Mrs.
Harriet Luginbuhl, has been chosen
as follows:
Mary Jane Garmatter, Jean Burk-
holder, Mary Burkholder, Dorothy
Burns, Marilyn Fett, Wanda Mis-
wander, Ceacle Pottee, Mary Rockey,
Mary Schmidt, Dora Luginbuhl,
Mary Bauman, Betty Bixel, jeanne
Buhler, Helen Burkholder, Joan
Clark, Colleen Goodman, Wanda
Lehman, Peggy Martin, Alice Panna-
becker, Jackie Burns.
Lois Harris, Alice Schmidt, Pa
tricia Schmidt, Dorothy Anderson,
Florence Hofer, Adah Lehman, Ruby
Lehman, Barbara Triplett, Ruth
Burkholder, Miriam Schaeublin, Mar
garet Shumaker, Juanita Bame,
Miriam Stettler, Mary Louise Dean,
Florence Blome, Margaret Griffith,
Glenna Swick, Louise Soldner, Betty
Roush, Joyce Young, Mabel Burk-
holder, juice Garmatter, Mary Lou
Schmidt, Esther Schumacher, Doro-
thy Wenger, Ferol Althaus, NADIA
lene McCune, Frieda Martin, Helen
Smith, Doris Dunifon, Alice Oyer,
Roberta Wenger, Margaret Diller,
Phyllis Hardwick, Mary Lou Shaffer,
Margaret Groman, Harriet Burkhart,
Peggy Eckenwiler, Maxine Criblez,
Lois Hauenstein, Lnella Herr, Donna
Wingate, Norma Badertscher, Doro-
.hy Dunbar, Wilma Geiger.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08

Buy War Bonds and Defense
Stamps now.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19

81 was told that they lined
the hold with stores, and that
then, on the instructions OF the
'retresd.' they just dumped the
rest OF the cargo into the CEN
ter Of the hold. No attempt TO
store it--no attempt to conserve
space"
In one case, Bradley was told,
matches wCTC- tUddcd IN dry
hold "a hold containing tinder-dry
cargo. where the friction of the
voyage might set them afire. In
that case. after the ship had been
loaded. three or four days were
spent in restowing cargo. And that
could be laid only at the door OF
the "retread" who was the ships
supply officer.
In another case, Bradley said.
sailors disguised with the efforts
of SteVedoreS TO collect high
premium wages for loading ship
attempted 10 interfere. Bradley
The pressure was 50 great
that the sailors were sharply
dissuaded from interfering with
the wage scale"
The entire question of delays, OF
ship losses and damage from
faulty loading, will be aired at the
committee hearings.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
WALTER +. BLICHARI,
1868 Roosevelt avenue.
Hamtramck. Mich.

TO THE EDITOR:
IT IS amusing TO read the dill
4 ferent opinions Of what we
are going 10 do for the boys
after the war.
According to our representa-
tiveS in Washington, we VIII
have 100000 in our fighting
forces by January, 1914. Each
one Of the 100000 will have
AT least two back home who will
cast their ballot the same As he.
Eleven million plus 22.OOO,OOO
equal 100000
Yes. there Will be union after
this war. the greatest union ever
The American Legion. They.
will dictate the after the war
problem. l believe every one Of
the old political powers will be
Just memory when the boys
come home.
u q
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
Big Pay for Ship Leaders
Sore Spot With Soldiers
BY DAVID CAMELON
Detroit Times Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, March ~
VOr'RE membcy Of the armed forces You get $50
month Plus bonus for shooting ommu"tto@
ut the enemy, and
Fo, hdring him shoot the same stuff at you
You see coating ut an american port demand
ing doubIc time for lood0g ship Sundoy-oad de-
Daudj0g doubIe doublc time because it's ammunition.
Y0U think:
"H these guys work 10 hours ddy-dnd a lot OF
them do-they make much in day for loading
the stuff as / do in a month for shooting It,"
H0W do you feel about 1t!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19

the greatest Of riches because
it forecasts a good crop, while
New York millionaire is bound
to be unhappy for many rea-
sons (envy, jealousy, losing his
money, Investments.
7 NEVER saw a happy rich
man. unless it was the late
}. p. Morgan, who cast aside all
his riches into government
bonds and maintained his bank
mainly for the purposes Of en-
ploymCnt rather than power.
SO l say all these Wallace,
WelleS or Ball plans for a post
war world are foolish. They do
not consider the essential being
OF man in his nationalistic con-
ditionS or propose TO correct
them.
II these politicians really
want TO do something along the
line of the canned goods they
now are advertising, they will
first intGfpatiOnalizc the people
Of the world before they try to
internationall2e its politics.
They will change the existing
situation 10 the point where
YOU will meet a Russian, Chi
ncSe or Negro on the street as
a friend and equal
THEY can do that by develop
-tfftee-ttfc-+A-per- cent- norm
that is common 10 all the COM
mon intuitive inStincts-into a
mass civilization
How to do that, do not
know. Common education would
help Ohe Oxford movement ex-
banded TO reality.
Let the liberals contain them
selves in the 10 per cent reality
of what can be accomplished e
Let them get a ConGenial
situation before they start 10
CONCEAL il. Let them. in short
intcrnationallZc the people Of
tho world-makc them one be-
fore they start talking about
making the world one.
Distributed by Kinr Features synd Inc.
Reproduction IN Whole or In Part
Strictly prom blted.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19

THE answer will be presented 10
l. the House merchant marine
committee Monday when il begins
its investigation of charges that
space is wasted on American ships
sailing for th6 battlefronts, and
that ship SailingS are delayed and
even torpeooed. because Of faulty
handling by the loading crews.
The Investigation ha been or
dercd by Rep. Bland of Virginia.
chairman Of the committee. II
will not be aimed at any particular
union, any particular group. In
fact, according to Rep Bradley OF
Michigan, member of the COM
mlttee:
"Nembers Of the national
maritime union have told us
that ships are being ieOpard1ed
because they are not properly
loaded. Ships are sent out top
heavy-ships are sent out 80
poorly loaded that the cargo
shifts, and they have In put back
to port.
"A ship limping back Ia port
with its cargo shifted Is an easy
prey for submarines. We are not
attempting TO PREJUDICE the
blame. II may lie with the
stevedore crews loading the
ships.
1T may lie with the officers
commanding the ships.
THE navy has been forced to
press into service a lot Of what
the seamen call 'retreads.'
"A 'retread' is an officer who
served in the last war, who has
been out Of the navy for %
wears, and has been recalled Tor
convoy duty"
Bradley continued.
Zone subject To be inquired
into by the committee involves
"A story told me by a man aboard
one of the vessels.
TIVE story, Bradley SAID, was
L that of a gang which demanded
double double time for loading
ammunition on a Sunday. Bradley
said:
They were paid Sl.2O an
hour. Double time was $40.
And double double time was
$3.50. That's close To S. an hour
for loading a vessel AT an Ameri-
can port to supply our troops on
foreign soil.
"The man who told me that
story sailed with the ship TO a
battle ground.
HE was under fire. while un-
loading that cargo. l asked him
how he felt. remembering the
gang back I'm America who re-
ceiVed a. much In one day Tor
loading IL a. he received In n
month for unloading under fire,
nc said.
1--WE didn't like II very
much"
DUT tho StcvedoreS, Bradley said
- arc not altogether TO blame
There's another story that Of 2
'rctread who was IN charge o
loading a ship
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
etterS
To The Editor

TO THE EDITOR:
Z WOULD appreciate this
L chance in presenting my
views in regard 10 the question
of Russia and Poland.
A writer for another publlca-
ton has presented a biased ac-
count of the problem concerned.
] shall counter his statements.
Russia most recently an
nounced in an official statement
that ANY one who thinks that
abe shall cede her part OF Po-
land must be fool.
A biased journalist claims
that she is in the right in this
stand.
Russia first rose TO power in
the 18th Century through the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Poland.
The land she received then she
never held previously.
When the first World War
broke out, Poland rose and
fought.
Russia did not come TO the
peace conference that followed
and by so doing left the Polish
eastern boundaries in doubt.
In reality. Poland had Just
claim on all lands as far as kiev
and the Volga River
In 1920 the BolSheviks in
vaded Poland, moved 10 as far
as Warsaw sweeping all resist
anCe in front OF them.
She then sent agents over all
Of Europe, just AS Hitler did be-
fore this war.
Russia was an arsenal while
Poland had not one ammunition
factory in all her domain, and
received from the sympathetic
countries only advice and offers
of a shameful peace which she
refused.
Here the barefooted Poles
fought off the invincibie boards
and crushed them in a manner
that brought the admiration OF
the world.
Since that time Poland has
been in all respects good
ncighbor 10 Russia.
And yet we find the cry OF
imperialism thrown AT coun-
try that seeks only her prewar
boundaries.
venture 10 predict that this
Is Just a prelude and excuse for
the imperialistic designs OF Rus
STA.
WALTER T.. BLICHARI,
1868 Roosevelt avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
BY wESTBROOK PEGLER

TT Is easy 10 understand why
L both FranklinS and Walter
would prefer that the young
mans insurance business with
the union he kept quiet The war
workers all over the country
who find. on applying for Jobs.
that they must Join the union
and buy insurance through the
son Of the union president.
might be rcbellious and start
fight.
But how they expect TO get
away with their denial when all
this proof exists in sworn state
mentS is not clear.
Rich as they were. young
F'ranklin'S rewards for the pre-
vious insurance on the members
were petty by comparison with
the commissions which he may
now receive from the Occidental
on the enormously increased
membership Of about 100000.
most of il involuntary,
II the war goes two or three
years more. he will be fixed for
life. Not even Mrs Roosevelts
salary limitation decree would
have touched him. for such COM
missions are not salary
The gravy train is really high
balling now.
Copyrighted By United Features synd.. Ina.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
BAERLNG DOWN ON The NEWS:
TI.U III With buttons
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

II they going ny that Ruml plan this year
they will have % do II with buttons. 49,.
cleaner than flour barrel with the bottom knocked
out But still take Of the July payment with bad
check and the Ruml plan its first bounce
Either way they gong take care Of everything like
driver with 20mule whip Don't forget that Morsenthau
isn't running any charitable institution.
Only trouble is that Congress ike the deliberate
who slow making up his mind he wQre three hats
Dt,rbl,d o. Intt7-suara. ~, ssf.,,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19

DUT tho StcvedoreS. Bradley said,
ID are not altogether to blame.
There's another story that Of 2
"retread who was IN charge Of
loading a ship
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
The Fighting Preacher

THE Rev Merton S Rice was generally esteemed and
| nationally recognized among the ranking clergymen
of his faith The highest honors of his church could have
been his for the askingMore than once he virtually
refused to be made a bishop
That was because by heritage and by irresistible
inclination first and last preacher Not fancy
or a fashionable Just plain oldfasnioned fighting
preacher.
His erudtIon comprehensive but there was moth
Inc of the cold theological ogican about him. His idea
was rather Get right down INTO the thick of things
and trade punches head on with the devil
IF FOUGHT SO Justify and SO unflaggingly against
/ the forces of evil he them that all Detroit,
regardless of belief respected him and his vigor.
DR. Rice arrived here 30 years ago, when the city
was being tagged Dynamic Detroit. He typfed that
application perfectly throwing himself at into the
religious and civic life Of Detroit like charging uIlback
His infectious energy never Jagged until he died And
when men and women called him Mike Rice the nick
name was a mark Of reverence.
In ms death, American Mcthodism loses one of its
most forccfu proponents and Detroit widely beloved
preacher and magnetic civic personality