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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-01-28
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I1 Elmo Scott Nd1doss
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The First u. S. Admiral
July 4 this year was more than
- just another independence day
for the little city of Hastings on
Hudson, N. Y. Combined with it
was the observance of Farragut
day, for the next day, July 5,
marked the 140th anniversary of the
birth of the man who was its most
distinguished citizen--David Glas-
cow Farragut, the first man who
ever held the rank of admiral in
the United States navy.
Although Farragut was born near
Knoxville, Tenn, on July S, 1901,
it was from little cottage in Hast
ings on Hudson that he went forth
to win his greatest fame as naval
commander. He was living there in
1861, awaiting a call to duty, when
he was summoned to Washington
and started on the career which was
to make him the victor in two of the
most important battles of the Civil
war and to place him in our galaxy
of naval heroes along with John Paul
Jones, Isaac Hull and Oliver Hazard
Perry. And all this he accomplished
after he was GO years old!
Few, if any, American naval off,
GERS have had as long and as dis
tinguished a record as Farragut.
Adopted by a famous naval officer,
Capt. David d. Porter, at the age of
eight, young Farragut was given the
appointment of midshipman before
he was 10 years old. He served on
the frigate Essex, which captured
several prizes at the outbreak of
the War of 1872 with England, and
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-01-28
BIvffton High School Notes

Students of the speech classes will
participate in various kinds of debate
and speech completion at Findlay on
Feb. 13 and ID. The Bluffton High
school debating team will debate the
following propositions: Resolved:
That a federal world government
should be established. Roberta Wen
ger and Dorothy Anderson are on the
affirmative and Robert Pannabecker
and Barbara Triplett are on the mega
tive.
There will also be competition in
humorous readings, declamations, or
iginal oratory, dramatic readings and
extemporaneous speeches.
Practice for the Junior play, "Cov-
eralls", to be presented on Feb. %
and %, is starting this week. P. W..
Stauffer, director, will announce the
cast in the near future.
Three movie features will be shown
at the high school during February
and March, it was announced this
week by Barbara Jean Triplett, chair
man of the committee. The titles
are: Our Town, Feb. 10; Mad About
Music, March 10; Streets of New
York, March "a. Students will be re-
quired to help defray portion of the
expenses.
Eleven students are taking the aer-
onautics course, taught by Mr.. Stett-
Ter. Enrolled are: Sylvan Burkhold-
er, Floyd Herr, Robert and Richard
Oberly, Ralph Althaus, James Stone
hill, David Smucker, Dorothy Ander-
son, Roberta Wenger, Donivan Mo-
ser and Calvin Dudgeon.
American Eagle" is the title of the
senior play to be presented in the
spring. The books are here and men,
bers of the senior class are reading
the production.
The Hi-Y club is setting up an en-
ployment bureau for the benefit of
high school students. They will make
a survey of job possibilities in the
community and make the information
available to students desiring work.
James Gratz, club president, has ap-
pointed David Smucker to head up the
plan.
Another activity of the club will be
the donation of blood to the Red
Cross. Robert OberIy is in charge of
arrangements for this activity.
Winners in the girls intra-mural
basketball tournament are as follows:
Margaret Griffith, Glenna Swick, Le-
Won Which, Joyce Young, Dorothy
Dunbar, Julie Garmatter, Mary Lou
Schmidt, Madalene McCune and Mary
Lou Shafer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-01-28

The lodge, oldest of its kind in
the country, is composed of substan-
tial business men. Membership is
granted by invitation only.
On the second day of every Feb
ruary it is the duty of the prophets
and patriarchs of the lodge to go to
the fields and keep watch beside the
grounding holes until noon. The
day is rounded out by banquet in
the evening.
At this banquet the prophets make
their reports after which the meet
irg is adjourned until the next year.
Many well known Americans are
honorary members of the club in
cluding Lowsll Thomas, President
Roosevelt and many others. A Hindu
potentiate is also member and has
donated a small costly oriental rug
en- which the Grand Patriarch of the
lodge stands during every annual
meeting.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-01-28
Spring Carnival In Rio Eclipses
Famed Mardi Gras OF New Orleans

spring of the ancient Roman fes-
tivals and it was not until the mid
die of the last century, when clubs
were organized, that it assumed its
modern shape. Today, nearly every
one belongs to a club. Withia re-
cent years the Brazilian government
has lent financial support to the Car
nival.
King Memo, the Roman god Of
frolics, was incorporated into the
Carnival d few years ago. His ar
rival at the "dock", where he is
greeted by the Caana0alescos and
presented with the key to the city,
starts the triumphal tour through
the Avenide Rio Branco and the
Beira Mar. Then begins the release
of emotions that sweeps the city for
three successive days.
Great expense and effort go into
floats, which are constructed by the
clubs in competition for prizes. II
the early days. floats depicted myth
ologival events, then later such sub
jects as the faulty water system of
the city. On top of the floats scenes
were enacted, in which one person
| would discuss the subject with an
other, to the amusement of bystand-
ers. Today, Hitler and Hirohito and
what they stand for, will come into
their share CT '.jioing", while hap
pier events, such as Brazil's war on
submarines and the United States
laading In Africa will be portrayed.
Carnival has become the theme
of many songs, some of which seem
to live forever. Right now, during
the days following Christmas, pro-
life numbers are being heard in
Rio and spreading to other cities.
By Carnival time only few sur
vive-they stay in the air-newsboys
whistle them, cooks hum them, and
all Brazil dances to the tunes. Their
they live on and on
Great balls mark the end of the
day, and the beginning of another
day. The biggest are held at the
Teatro Municipal (which the Presi-
dent usually attends), and in the in
ternationally famous casinos, Copa-
cabana, Atlantico and Urea. 1t is
said that Carnival in Rio is as i'm
portant to Brazil as football or base
ball to the United States-war or nc
war it must go on.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-01-28

Runners-up were: Dorothy An
derson, Mildred Campbell, Harriet
Fett, Florence Hofer, Ada Lehman,
Eileen Moser, Barbara Triplett, Clare
Reagan, Margaret Shumaker, Miriam
Stettler nd Eileen Weinhold.
***
Enrolment of 113 students as
members of the Junior Red Cross was
announced this week by Mary Mar
garet Basinger, chairman.
The Hi-Y club will entertain the
Girl Reserves club with party to be
held on Feb. 10. The entertainment
committee consists of David Smucker,
chm; James Gratz, Warden Loganbill
and Ralph Althaus.
The Girl Reserves gave the Hi-Y
club party at Christmas time.
Glass movies to be shown in the
near future are: Earth's Crust, Con-
quering the Desert, Coal Mining, jan
uary %; Life Cycle, Feb. 2; U. S. S.
Akron, Feb. 5; South America, Feb.
A..
Members of senior class have re-
ceived their name cards and are ex-
changing them with their various
class mates.
Ralph Emanuel, native of Turkey,
will speak at a student assembly
meeting Thursday morning at IL
o'clock.
The course in home nursing started
Tuesday night-meeting at the high
school in Room 211.
Social Angles of Boy-Girl Rela-
lationships is the subject of the
talk to be given by Mrs. j. S. Steiner
to the Hi-Y club meeting to be held
Wednesday night at 1880 o'clock.
The Pirates are anticipating the
hardest game of the basketball season
when they meet Bellefontaine there
Friday night.
A number of girls from the senior
class have signed up for special train
ing for work at the Triplett Electric
al Instrument Co. The girls will be
paid while they are studying and in
several months will be ready for
specialized work at the plant.
Subscription drive for the Cutlass
got underway on Tuesday morning
when Barbara Jean Triplett, editor,
and Mary Margaret Basinger, asso-
ciate editor, helped the various rooms
organize for solicitations on Tuesday
morning.
Due to increased production cost it
has been found necessary to ask the
students to pay portion of the ex-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-01-28
Postwar Talk OF Radical Departure
In Conventional Auto Design Squelched

models, would require at least two
full years of preparation. Waiting
this period of time would be fatal
to postwar prosperity.
The only logical thing to do will
be for car makers to start turning
out cars of 1912 design.
Articles have been printed in pop
ular journals pointing out that the
industry is ready Immediately to
market a car made largely of plas-
tics, only half the weight of the
present car, having the engine in
the rear and having much more
space and comfort inside.
A car like that may be in the off
ing but it won't be Immediately after
the war, the experts state.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-01-28
OPA Orders Fifth
Tire Re-capped

Bluffton motorists had better ex-
anime tire No. and if the spare
lacks tread it will have to be re-
capped, like it or not.
The Office of Price Administration
made this fact known after some
motorists grumbled that the spare
was used so seldom that recapping
sounded like waste of rubber.
The OPA, however, has countered
with the argument that it will be
the most economical thing to do in
the long run since spare tires will
likely be used much oftener than
was the case previously.
1t Is precaution against riding
on lad spare in case one Of the
other tires is damaged and is a pro-
lection for the vehicle owner against
being charged with abuse in the
event he rides on the spare, it was
stated.
Explaining the spare tires rule
OPA said all five tires must be ex-
amined with Investigators looking
for such things as: Correct air pres
sure, speedometer mileage, serial
numbers, rim and wheel sizes, align
ment cuts, abrasions, breaks and
blisters on tread or sidewall.
Unbalanced wheels, faulty brake
adjustment, excessive wear of king
pins, bush:ngs and wheel bearings.
Holders of IA" gasoline books
have until March 81 for their initial
trip to the tire inspection station,
while "B", &C" and set" drivers
must appear by February %.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-01-28

Residents here who are thinking
that the postwar era will bring
them a wonder-car had better revise
their notions since it is very likely
that the public will buy duplicate
of the 1912 automobile.
This is the gist of an article ap-
pearing in The American Machinlst
and the conclusions are based on
data furnished by top officials OF the
automobile industry.
Radical departure may come later
but an impatient public demanding
new cars Immediately will require
the use of existing patterns and de-
signs, it was stated.
To design completely new car,
departing radically from conventional
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-01-28

The Blufton Necs presents
another IN the series of inter
esting but lesser knoion aspects
of South observation-disclosures.
Combine the festivities of the New
Orleans Mardi Gras, the beauty of
the Tournament of Roses, and the
merry-making frolics of the famous
Mummers parade in Philadelphia,
and you get fair conception of Rio
de Janeiro's Carnival, an annual
spectacle that includes features of
all of them and perhaps bit more.
Carnival in Rio takes place in
Brazil's beautiful capital on the
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday before
Ash Wednesday ushers in the somber
season of Lent. These three days
are but the climax of long prepa-
ration. For months ideas have been
developing, floats have been under
construction, dances and songs ar
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ton of the people-the common peo-
pie who set aside bits of their earn
ings for many months in order
to enjoy fully few carefree days.
1t has been said that "Brazilians
spent one-half of the year prepar-
ing for Carnival, and the other half
resting from it."
Much of Brazil's rich tradition has
found its roots in Carnival time,
when her people give expression to
their emotions in song and dance, in
poetry and art, thus adding to Bra
zil's rich artistic lore.
Not alone for fun, songs, dances,
and music is Carnival in Rio import
ant, since in manner the celebra-
tion serves as national safety valve
by which Brazilians let off steam.
BY song, dance and allegorical floats,
some satirical and others humorous,
the man in the street expresses his
opinion about national and interna
tional politics, religion and social
matters. 1t is safe to assume that
government officials keep ears and
eyes open during Carnival.
Rios Carnival is a remote off
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-01-28
Hints For Maintaining Your Electric
Washer At Top Operating Efficiency

EDITORS NoTE: With the man
ufacture of practically all house
hold mechanical appliances elm
mated for tie duration of the
acdr 1t IS important that the ut
most attention be given to their
maintenance. A series of ar
ticles, based on Information se-
cured from the home manage
naent department of Ohio State
university, u,il be presented each
aceek on the care of different
household appliances.
Observation of a few simple rules
in the care of the family washing
machine will prolong its life for at
least the duration of the war and
possibly for long time after that,
it was indicated in a report made
public by home management special
lists from Ohio State university.
The following Dos and Don't have
been suggested as important for the
conservation and maintenance of eff
ficiency of the electric washer.
DO
1. Watch water line. Too much
water or too little water with too
heavy load of clothes may damage
motor and gears.
2. Add water softener to water, if
needed, at least two minutes before
adding the soap.
B. Be sure to warm up motor be-
fore connecting cord into circuit if
the machine has to be stored in a
cold location. This may be done by
filling tub with hot water, or letting
machine stand in warm room at
least one hour before use.
a. Distribute articles between
wringer rolls SO that pressure is
even. The gears can easily be brok-
en- under uneven or too great a load.
5. Keep washing time down to
minimum-saves clothes and also
washer.
6. Keep cord off floor. Repair any
break in cord insulation Immediately
Z. Have the metal frame of wash
er connected to a suitable ground
connection. This should be done by
competent electrician.
8. Be sure the motor is protected
with some overload protective de-
vice of correct ampere rating either
built into the machine itself or set
in as a part of the circuit by a COM
petent electrician.
8. Completely empty tub, water
pump, and hose before storing wash
er during cold weather. The rubber
will be better preserved if left in dry
condition. If water freezes in pump
the control may be damaged.
DON'T -.
l. Don't fill tub so full that water
covers agitator post.
2. Don't put too heavy a load Of
clothes in washer, or through wiring
Ell.
3. Don't turn motor on if any par
of mechanism (agitator, wringer
dryer, or pump) is in gear. Gear!
may be broken if load is too great
or uneven, or motor may be over
loaded and burnt out.
4. Don't use time (if there is one)
as an on and off switch. Be SURE
to turn agitator and wringer gear.
off before resetting timing device
Switch points in motor may b.
burned out if machine is in geal
when this connection is made.
6. Don't blame the washer for no
doing good job if you try to wasl
in badly soiled water. Clean sud
is required for a clean job.
6. Don't allow buttons and othe
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-01-28

Success in meeting farm produc-
tion goals for 1943 in Ohio will be
dependent to great extent upon
getting the last possible ounce of
help from machinery. Every piece
of power farm equipment should be
given a general overhauling to make
certain it will be ready to operate
when needed. Efforts also should be
made to make community work
schedules for tools which will not be
used full-time on the farms of their
owners.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-01-28

at the tender age of IL, Midship-
man Farragut was made prize-mas-
ter of one of the captured ships.
BY the time of the outbreak of the
War with Mexico in 1846, Farragut
had risen to the rank of command
er. He Immediately applied for
command of ship and was finally
given the sloop Saratoga. In it he
arrived there too late to take part
in the capture of Vera Cruz, which
had already fallen to the American
land forces. During the rest Of the
war he had to content himself with
blockade duty.
However, greater glory awaited
him is years later and the story of
his part in saving the Union is one
that is familiar to every American
schoolboy. For it was Farragut who
aboard his flagship, the Hartford,
took his fleet up the Mississippi,
past the laundering guns of Fort
jackson and Fort st. Philip, and
captured New Orleans in the spring
Of 1862. The immediate effect of
that victory was to change the pur-
pose of Emperor Napoleon III Of
France, who was about to recognize
the Confederacy and take measures
to raise the blockade. 1t was Far
ragut who ran by the batteries at
Port Hudson and helped Gen. N. p.
Banks capture that important post
in July, 1868, so that Abraham Lin
coin was able to write "The Father
of Waters now flows unvexed to
the sea-"
And finally it was Farragut who
won the great victory of Mobile Bay
in 1854 and to the famous sayings of
naval heroes, such as John Paul
Jones' Il have not yet begun to
fight!" and Oliver Hazard Perry's s
1--WE have met the enemy and they
are ours" added his own immortal
Damn the torpedoes! Go ahead!
Full speed" Stopping the passage
of blockade-runners from Mobile
and thus closing another main ave-
nue. of supplies for the Confederacy
was Farragut's last important con-
tribution to winning the war.
BY November, 1864, his health had
begun to fail and he was ordered
home. In December New York
gave him a great public reception
and presented him with a purse
of $4,000 with which to buy a home
there. Soon afterwards he was made
vice admiral and on July 25, 1866
congress created the grade of ad.
miral, hitherto unknown in the Unit.
ed States navy, and that rank was
given to Farragut. He died in Ports.
mouth, N. H., August IA, 1870.
Farragut's memory survives in q
colossal bronze statue which stands
in Farragut square in Washington
D. c. 1t was made by Winnie Ream
the famous woman sculptor of Civi
war days, and was paid for by con
gressional appropriation. There i.
also a statue of heroic size executed
by Augustus st. Gaudens, in Madi
son square in New York and II
the Church of the Incarnation is 1
marble tablet containing a bas-re
lief likeness of the man who ha:
been called the greatest naval com
mander the world has ever SEEN"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-01-28

penses of publication which amount
to over 5000 per year.
Report cards for the first semester
were distributed to the students on
Tuesday afternoon.
Federal Aid to Education was dis
cussed by Harry Barnes and Sidney
Hauenstein at the teachers meeting
held Monday afternoon.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-22

coral OF commerce True precious coral however,
grow only the Mediterranean Sea and the Japan
And almost unbeleyaby beautiful the coral pools
and settings where every object to with its
ncghbor IN colors ranging from the softly ridescent 10
tho gay and gorgeous Multhucd sca-urchins and
fishes and eels Of marvellous blue commonplaces;
those transparent depths where thousand pastel colors
please the eye even tho forbddng kind beauty
all its own.
The sca-scorpon may be taken as a case in point.
This Eaudy FISH sometimes called the armored gurnard,
endowed with exceedingly attractive color pattern.
tgt II is Of the most dangerous fishes reef
because ITS srres highly poisonous to human
II is pictured here among sharks and octopi unpeas-
ant neighbors
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-22

hight, 1919. In tho United NrHtrF ur Nrrrr1
Amrrirau Weekly, Inc. All Rights Reserved ! nder
International Copyright. Including Foreign Rights.
Reproduction in Original, in Translation
!. .NpreesN iorhIlt1.1
Evening star., 1943-11-22

property quickly. I did. Moonshiners
told me during my IS years field
service not to come this way again.
I didn't"
Native of Rockbridge County, Va,
and descendant of Gen. Albert Pike
of Arkansas, Mr.. Pike was appointed
from Arkansas. AS for civil service,
he credits Presidents Grover Cleve-
land and Woodrow Wilson with put
ting the merit system into effect.
"Mr Cleveland blanketed all Federal
employees save postal employees into
civil service, and Mr.. Wilson at one
clip brought 100000 postal workers
into the system" he pointed out.
He started his Government career
in March, 1890, as messenger in
the old Howe Iron Building on F
street next door to the present Cap
itol Theater 1T had iron rather
than steel supports. that's how it
got its name" he unused. Mr.. Pike
learned engineering the hard way.
Today he is Atlantic division en-
gineer of the Interiors Typographical
section. During the World War he
served overseas nearly two years
with the AID (Rainbow) Division.
Although the Oldest Interior en-
ploye, he still has another year to
serve before reaching the statutory
retirement age of 10.
Evening star., 1943-11-22

celled a hearing scheduled for today
on wage demands Of the concentra-
ton plant employees. Earlier, the
WLB had threatened to take such
action unless the men returned to
work by today.
w. H. Mooney, international rep
resentative for the international
Union Of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers (CIO), with which Re-
pubhc's Spaulding employees are
anliated, said the union had not
authorized the stoppage and was
urging the men to submit the dis
pute through regular grievance
channels"
Republic spokesmen declined to
comment on the dispute.
Evening star., 1943-11-22

the Allied air forces In the South
west Pacific promised the Aus
tralians plane-load Of anything
they wanted. They shouted back
beer, mail, food and women" !" Gen.
Kenney filled the food request with
fresh meat flown in on the next
ration plasle. .
But for the beer and women he
seht instead five pounds of choco-
late and ~ packages OF American
cigarettes for each Commando.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Chocolate and Cigarettes
Reward Aussie Viciors
By thetAssociated Press.

b theAss0ciated Press.
SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA.
Nov. 21.-Lt. Gen. George G. Ken
ney kept his promise to Australian
Commands who rid Kaipait in
New Guinea OF band of Japs, but
he had to substitute chocolate bars
and American cigarettes for women
and beer.
In late September the Australians
IN hand-to-hand fighting killed 200
Japanese and drove another 300 out
Of Kaipait, inland village 60 miles
northwest Of Lac. enabling the AL
lies to secure another airdrome in
the area.
The next day the commander OF
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Accord in Birmingham
Work 5toppage Sought
BY the Associated Press

zHsoOCl9VcU tccbs
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Now. 22.-
w. s. Pierce, commissioner for the
Labor Departments Cancellation
Service, said today his onice was
attempting to work out an agree
ment to end a work stoppage at
the Spaulding operation of Republic
Steel Corp.
The regional War Labor Board
Office in Atlanta said the dispute,
involving approximately 470 men
employed at the Spaulding concen-
tration plant and Red Ore mine,
began last Wednesday as result
OF the discharge of four workmen.
Last night the regional WLB can
Evening star., 1943-11-22

when TO keep
still.
T h ere W a S
that day in 1919
when a bear
chased him in
Idaho, while he
was m ap pin 6
t o pog r a p h y.
II We b e e n
chased by every
thing from dogs
to bears to
W o m e n a n d
m o on sl1 liners.
he says. An irate
woman told me
to get off her