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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-26
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu-
ton of the war to complete Vic
tory,
THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

There is nothing that pleases God SO
much as praise. There is no test of faith so
true as the grace of Thanksgiving. Are
you praising God enough? Are you thank
ing Him for your actual blessings, that are
daring to praise Him even for those trials
which are but blessings IN disguise? Have
you learned to praise Him in advance for
the blessings which have not yet come?
From streams In the Dessert
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-26
Berlin Bombed Again

When the Raj raided Berlin On Monday
night, we voiced some surprise that it could
do so on such large scale only four nights
after it's Thursday raid Such expeditions re-
quire time for preparation, for assembling
bombs and servicing planes. But as 1t turns
out, the Raj had not reached the height OF
it's performance, for the planes were back
over Berlin again the next night. again in
force again causing terrible damage.
Three raids within the span ct five days,
in which some 5000 and probably more long
tons of block busting bombs were rained upon
the Reich capital. Hitler's capital where he
strutted at his best. where he plotted this
war, and where he manufactured and as
sembled much of his battle equipment is as
nearly one with Ninevah anc Tyre as man.
created attack can make 1t. Truly, the Ger
mans are paying a frlght+ul price for their
air blitz on London when they controlled the
Skies
It has been the studied opinion OF compe-
tent observers that Germany could be beaten
only when the war was carried to its soil.
Remembering that Germany escaped from the
former World war without physical damage,
with none of her streets, no foot OF her soil,
stained with the blood of her armed forces,
these observers were quick to realize that
the one way to prevent recurrence Of that
failure to defeat Prussianjsm was to force
Germans to undergo the horrors of war at
their doors.
Well, the German people are undergoing
this experience now. on an even greater scale
than could be imposed by LAM. invasion. Ham,
burg, Cologne, Essen, Mannheim, Hanover,
much Of the Ruhr basin with it's industries
and resources, are in ruins. Now, Berlin joins
that group. Berlin, the boast of her militarists
for generation, the city above all others in
the world in plotting wars and conquests, is
scarcely more than pile of debris. No longer
can there be any doubt in German minds that
war is disastrous adventure, when it is
made upon peoples potentially strong, how
ever weak they may be when the first gun
is fired.
This series of attacks on Berlin is not with
out its dangers. Nazis talk Of reprisals which,
being desperate and cornered, they will do
their best to put into effect. They talk of
a reprisal weapon, to the use of which they
have been driven. They probably mean poison
gas That is all that is left to them, and there
is no reason to doubt that Hitler has held it
in reserve as a last resort.
What the Nazis may not realize is that
the Allies, and particularly the Chemical War
fare branch of the American war machine,
is prepared to outmatch them in this, once
they use it, as they are in all other things.
1t will be an even more terrible day for Ger
many if her Fuehrer launches gas attack
on any OF the far-flung battlefielcs of this war.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-26
By RAYMOND CLAPPER


WASHINGTON. - Maybe labor
knows what it is doing, but some
of the things that happen don't
make sense from anybody's view
point so far as I can see.
For instance, what a w at
Pittsburgh the other day wasn't
anything criminally vicious l i k e
some of the affairs that Pegler
exposes. What / saw was just
dumb. You would think Ameri-
can workmen would be smarter.
1t was in the Mesta Machine
Works at Pittsburgh. They make
big guns for the Army and Navy,
and drive shafts for cruisers and
destroyers, and other heavy work
that few other plants can do. ]
went up there with some Navy
officers to inspect the Mesta works
where a new unit built for the
Navy was to be opened.
Whether the workmen knew the
Navy officer were coming
through that morning and wanted
to put their worst foot forward,
or whether it was coincidence !
cont know. But you should have
seen the faces of the Navy Off
GERS when they went into the foun-
dry and found nothing going on.
1t was like going into giants
tomb. There was no noise. Work
men were loafing around. Several
workmen were pitching horseshoes
The clink against the pin was the
only sound in that vast. murky
shed. The Naval officers o d
there aghast. But it didn't inter-
iere with the horseshoe game nor
with the interest of the workmen
in watching it.
Those Workmen were involuntar-
lily idle. They couldn't work be-
cause during the night the crane
operators went on strike. Heavy
material could not be moved.
The strike came in trivial dis
pute over Sunday work. About rs
crane operators went out and tied
UP most of the rest of the plant
employing 4,500 men. The midnight
gang started the walkout. At 2 am.
they telephoned Lorenz Iversen.
president of Mesta. He got dress
ed and went to the plant. He Wait
ed until nearly five am. but the
CLIO. spokesman still had not ar
rived and the men wouldn't talk
so Iversen went back home. That
the dispute was trivial was indi-
Gated when the men went back
to work "a hours later after gov
eminent conciliators said t h ere
would be no negotiations until the
men returned to work
Recently A. F. of L. electricians
walked out on the w Mesta
Navy plant because power lines
were brought into the plant by the
power company electricians who
have their own union. It was a
penalty strike, just to register a
protest.
That kind Of protest strike has
occurred before on Navy work in
the Pittsburgh area and Navy Of
ficers have become bitter about
it. No wages are involved-onlv
j1lrisdictional privileges. There is
more work than all can do. Time
is essential and every hour counts
Doesn't it seem stupid for hand
full of workmen in plant, to walk
out on the Navy or the Army lust
as a petty penalty? The theory
is that labor gets even with the
company by delaying war orders
day or two.
| don't see how this kind If
thing makes sense from anybodv's
point OF view except PERHAPS lit.
ters And I don't believe at all
mat those men are interested in
aelplng Hitler. As I walked
through the rest of the plant
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-26
Your
Telling Me

We can already visuallz ssr
wrath of a postwar Cllail aorrr.
Commerce on hearing its conn \.
hnity referred to as d Wv
copter town.
] milf
"The House That Jack ,..s,d Dp
has Junior puzzled. " ,l,'ild
was it possible to Ouil'
house without jack?
As those "despised' R ,:.;@
thunder ever nearer the .a o0 n
of Germany, Der FuehFets 10 n 4,
ably wonders how soon .,. ne !
minister rugs to whole 'D'f
of "Mein Kampf."
E! f! ! n3j
Now is the time, says II. Il
Durnkopf, to lay in W ssni
New Years greetings TO .ss,t,s5
folks who will send you 0da''F
edly) a Christmas caro-
(! {! ! ri, q
In trying to apply tilSI lnl3pss |
gummed wall paper. 0L@ asor q |
jenkins discovered, the otn o \.
that he was stuck with the
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-26

O1eomargarine interests are "o-
dering yet how it happened
They felt they had made ool
clear case against punitive tax.
al hearings before the House Asa
culture committee. They had Sou
up under whitening crosS-eAan'...
ton by the dairy boys. they ~.
their guns loaded for the nezl l. ,.s.
ing and were prepared u '"'
the dairy lads apart. ,r
But they had reckoned "ll~.
the dairymen's long experience .
iockeying a bill through p'''''
or pigeon-holing it.
The dairy boys simply cou ,.,.,
noses-found they had the y,@
and quietly called a secret !. ll-' +
ing. There they voted, II 10 d
TO- kill the Fulmer bill to lFg''
oleomargarine taxes. ,....
The coup was one Of the WON
blows suffered by oleomarss ann.
men since dairymen began 1t, 1.sr
mo them around in 1886. MaA NJ
the move to pigeon-hole the ,.3 g-.
was Representative Martin 1 1.1' 4
sen r. of Minnesota hoiD s,sn
the worlds largest dairy c .,a i,
atives and leading milk s'a'' ,
the Union.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-26
PERRY DECLINES

COLUMBIA, S. c., Nov. 25.-
R-W. L. Perry. president of the
Columbia Chamber of Commerce
who was elected to city council
to fill vacancy that had existed
for six months, declined today to
accept the post.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-26

Soil from IL nations is packed
around the roots of their native
trees in Rockefeller Park, Cleve-
land, O.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-26
Fair Enough

Editors Note.-The Star and tho News accepts no
responsibility fer the personal views Of MI PeEer.
md often disagree with them much many Of
his readers. His articles serve the good purpose Of
making people think
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-26

When House members prepared
recently to leave on an air trip
% inspect air bases in South and
Central America they left behind
Representative Paul Kilday d.
OF Texas.
1t wasn't that they had no room
for the author of the take Ia
theirs LAST draft bill.
"My 1O-year-old daughter simply
said 'no'-so here I am the Lex
an explained.
incidentally, the trip got little
publicity for fear the Army nl2a'
veto the flight as it did once De-
fore.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-26

There is strong belief in govern.
ment and ambassadorial circles
that there is more than rumor or
speculation to reports of an early
meeting between President Roose.
welt, Prime Minister Churchill and
Premier Stain.
All have admitted in one wav
Or another that such a conference
is desirable. However the Soviet
premier has held back on the
ground he cannot leave his country
during its desperate battle 10 drive
out the invader-especially since
he is commander-in-chief Of The
Army.
So, as soon as the Nails an
definitely routed from a militar,
viewpoint. the meeting is likely
he held. But where? Casablanc
Quebec 49, Moscow - aboard
warship, or in big letters, TUT
KEY?
You guess it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-26
Inside
Washington

WAsH1NGToN.-Feeling On Can.
ltol Hill is that no sharper fgs.
ever took place than that in nrs,
pect between Congress and +b
White House on the subsidy issr.
F. D. R. is under extreme nro,
sure from labor TO hold prices +,
line and to scrap the little s+s.@'
formula which never has h.
fully applied.
At the same time. CONGRESS- f.,
life of the Commodity CredH - co]
poratlon must be extended bevo r
Dec. 81. In both House and Sao".
bills to continue the CCC. tbo o =
are absolute bans on subsi5in'
Chances are, the bill ALREADY nss 49,
ed by the House will be t SG's
over by the Senate with 0 fo-
changes. ''|
In such case, with subsidies an.
whatever measure passes is nros
ably headed for a veto as # ",
last year. ' VIII
Enthusiasts for air power fo,.
that If the Allies invade FurN9.
by the channel route too oufcl rs
air power will not receive tbp n~5'
lie credit they claim for If as p19'
matter Of record. "
Basis of their belief is Iact Il,
sufficient bombing strength 81 f..
to accomplish all that air nor -o,
can accomplish to knock Ger MAN,
out of the war. '''''
The airmen say between 5m
and $500 bombers must be avail,
able constantly to knock ont t tba
iNazis. So far, the Eighth Air For ,''
has not-according to report-bs5
more than 700 and the Brjt,S
labout 1000.
| ~ l1dIltd4h 5,0UO bombers in
daily action, two TO three times
| that number must be on hand co9
stantly-some say. WIZ
So, if an invasion succeeds tbo
airmen fear that all thew have
done so far will be overlooked al.
though no invasion could probably
have succeeded without The bomb.
ing that has preceded it Up TO now
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-05-13
Honor Three Events

Three events were observed by a
gathering at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Montgomery of Orange
township, Sunday. The occasion not
only marked Mothers day, but also
the birthday anniversary of Mrs
Montgomery and the twentieth we'd
ding anniversary of the couple
Many beautiful gifts were received
Those enjoying the occasion in.
cluded:
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Klingler, Mr.
and Mrs. ]. l.. Wolber, Mr.. and Mrs
Gale Patton and sons Russell and
Morris, Mr.. and Mrs. Justin Klinglel
and son Larry, Patty Moore, Car
men Alverez and Patty Harruff all
of Ada.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Klingler and
sons Richard and Danny of Lima
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Smith and child
rem Jackie, Betty and Dick of Alger
Kathleen Waltz, Mt. Cory; Wanda
Montgomery, Carolyn Sue and Norma
Jean MacFarland of Columbus ane
Nancy Deitzler of Westminster.
A son Earl, who is in the arm.
stationed at Ft. Sill, Okla, coule
not be present.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-05-13
Caution Needed By Garden Beginners
To Eliminate Cultivation Casualties

With heavy rush into garden
ing in the immediate offing, veteran
gardeners in Bluffton hasten to of
Ter advice to the many tillers of
small plots who will have their first
experience with the spade and hoe
Now that considerable portion
of food must come from the small
home plots, oldtimers point out that
the observance of a few simple pre-
cautions will enable the embryonic
gardener to avoid considerable dis
comfort.
Excessive sunburn, aching muscles
and other discomforts are results of
unwise activity on the part of the
inexperienced.
If normal precautions are exer-
cised, the tilling of a home garden
will be enjoyable and beneficial to
the gardeners health. If not, a
goodly share of backaches and at
tendant ills may come from the first
fling at spading and hoeing. So if
you would avoid becoming a culti-
waiting casualty, heed a few good
tips from the veteran gardeners who
know from experience what to do
and not to do.
GUARD AGAINST SUNBURN
No matter how sturdy you may
feel before you set forth for your
garden, hoe in hand, you'll not turn
into a suntanned superman right
at once.
Get used to the sun gradually
Don't end up the first day with a
painful, perhaps dangerous, case Of
sunburn. It's much wiser practice
to season the body with short periods
of work in the sun, and build up a
protective tan. This system also is
prescribed for toning up office mus
cles to the unaccustomed manual
labor in the garden.
For, as you'll find out, pushing 8
hoe and pushing a pencil are as diff
ferent as rowing your fishing boat
! for a few miles upstream and riding
costly along with motor doing the
work.
| SOME TIMELY TIPS
The amateur hoe wielder will de
l we'll to hoe a little at time, unit
: his hands get hardened. For bisters
while usually considered minor mat
ters, are painful, and can cause g
good bit of trouble if the Skin
breaks and dirt gets into the sores
For first time gardeners, old hand:
at the game offer a few good tips
They are:
Be sure and wear a hat in the
hot sun, for sunstrike is always {
possibility.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-05-13

DIR. /. w. Bauman, professor of So
GEOLOGY, spoke to members of the col
lege Church association Sunday even
ing.
The Vesper choir was presented in
sacred concert at the st. John Men
MONTE church, north of Bluffton, Sun
day evening, with Professor Russell
A. Lantz, head of the college music
department, directing. Two more pre-
sentations will be given by the choir
this year: Cowan's cantata, 'The Rose
Maiden, will be presented in Ramsey
er chapel on the campus, Friday even
ing, May 21, as the opening activity of
commencement week end. The regu-
lar sacred concert of the choir will be
given in the Bluffton First Mennonite
church, Sunday evening, May %, OF
commencement week end.
Pres. Lloyd L. Ramseyer attended
an all day session in Chicago, Friday
for the purpose of helping work out
a training program for Civilian Public
Service reserve men. A number OF
Bluffton college men have been ac.
cepted into the c. p. S. reserve corps
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-05-13
Wild Greens Can Replenish Your Diet,
Make You Healthy And Aid In War Effort

Dandelions and other wild greens
are very healthful and can form a
substantial addition to the diet, it
was announced this week by the
Office of War Information.
The Greens can be picked in your
back yard, in the pasture or hund-
reds of other places where they are
not wanted. By SO doing the war
effort will be aided and a lot of
people will be surprised who thought
that food comes only from stores.
In the northeastern states they
have been eating dandelion greens
for years, and the middle west states
know all about dock which mixes
with other salad greens, and plan
tin which can be served the same
way.
Down south poke shoots are up
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-05-13

The Button Meas presents
another in the series of import
ant bat lesser knoaun aspects OF
South Anaerica.-EDIToR.
The once-fabulously wealthy silver
mines of Bolivia, which in the Span
ish Colonial days yielded immense
treasures to hordes of adventures
and explorers, are now engaged IN
producing a far more humble, but
equally as vital element-tin ore.
Tin is a necessary substance in the
manufacture of essential war weap-
ons and equipment, and is one of the
most important contributions of Lat
in American countries to other prin-
cipal sources of tin, in enemy hands.
Bolivia is sending to the United
States almost the total output of her
great tin producing mines which are
high in the "Cordillera Real", $4,000
to 10000 feet in altitude. Because
Bolivia is a completely landlocked
country, without ports and shipping
facilities of its own, uniqueness has
been achieved in conquering the diff
ficulties of transportation in moving
its products to shipping ports on the
Pacific coast.
The building of the aerial cable
tramway at the Caracoles mines is
one of the most spectacular engin-
eering feats ever attempted. Six
teen thousand feet above sea level
this six-mile, double cable road is
perhaps the highest one of its kind
in the world, supported by half a
hundred giant towers. Huge steel
buckets, filled with ore, speed over
this cable system from mines to mill.
The route traverses snow-covered
Andean peaks, yawning ravines, and
almost perpindicular mountain sides.
Still another phase of transport
ing Bolivia's tin to the world mark
cts is the arduous mountain route
which must be covered from mills
to shipping points. Half century
ago, sturdy, sure-footed llamas load
ed with heavy ore carried their
burden over the Andes in true cara.
van style. But modern railways
have long since tapped the minera
regions of Bolivia, and a network o.
connecting lines no wpermits a con
stant and quickened flow of product.
to the Pacific ports of Mollendo
africa, and Antofagasta.
Potosi is the leading producer Of
Bolivian tin, mining about half thu
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-05-13
BIuffton College Notes

and will start their training for serv-
ice in the foreign field in the very near
future.
Women of Bluffton college Home
Economics department presented their
annual fashion show. Tuesday evening
in the Ramseyer chapel. Growing of
Miss Helen Habegger, junior from
Busby, Montana, as Home Economics
Queen, was the main event of the
evening.
Sara Meyer, Bluffton college senior
from Mt. Cory, will be presented by
the Bluffton college Department of
Music in piano recital on Friday even
ing. Bettye Lewis, senior from Bluff
ton, will be presented in piano recital
next Monday evening. Harold Thies-
sen, senior from Basna, Central Pro-
vince, India, will appear in violin re-
cital next Tuesday evening.
Members of the Bluffton college
Peace club will conduct the regular
Sunday evening worship service at the
local Mennonite church, Sunday even.
ing.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-05-13

Salt tablets, or ordinary table salt
dissolved in water, are excellent to
lessen danger of sunstrike or heat
prostration.
Be sure you know what poison
ivy is. It's nasty to get into, and
if you have new garden plot, bet
ter be sure you know what the ivy
looks like. It's best to stay away
from it.
If you do come into contact with
it, better consult physician. You
can tell it because it has three glossy
leaves growing from a single stem,
and sometimes has a growth of
white berries. It's usually found as
a climbing or trailing vine, but may
occur as a low, erect shrub.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-05-13
Bolivia's Tin From High In Andes
Mountains Vital To Winning War

annual production. The wealth of
this district has been legendary and
fabulous, from the century of its
"silver age, when its riches were
proverbial, and reckless, adventurous
men fiocked to explore the "silver
soul" of the adobe town on a barren
terrace, $4,000 feet above the level
of the sea. In short, Potosi was in
Colonial days parallel with our
modern "boom towns. In 1545,
thousands of Spaniards and Indians
crowded the steep mountain trails
by mule and horseback; prices of
hard-gained necessities scared; flour
and eggs were more valuable than
silvers silver dust flowed through
markets of the narrow streets of the
| little town in wanton Indifference.
Thus, the wealth of the town and
| the resources of the mines were
quickly squandered, and today, the
far less radiant tin substance is
being taken from the lodes which in
dim past yielded more fabulous
| treasure.
Before the war, Bolivian tin ores
were shipped to England and other
refneries, and re-exported to the
United States. Now, however,
smelters have been built on the
Texas seacoast, so that both the raw
and finished product may be received
and shipped directly.
More precious, perhaps, than the
] silver wealth of Potosi is its produc-
tion of common, everyday tin.
Whereas its silver was scattered
recklessly, its tin supplies are hoard
ed with far greater zeal, for every
available ton is needed to supply
| armed forces with mechanical equip
ment and materials, and to provide
preservation of foods which must be
shipped to our fighting men and
allies in a hundred countries in the
world.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-05-13
Elrose

Miss Joan Gallant of Marion, Jas
Gallant of Bucyrus, spent the week
end with their sister June Gallant in
the home of their grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. j. r. Fisher. Sunday WIS.,
itors were Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Gal
liant, daughter Patricia Anne of Blu.
cyrus, Mrs. Thomas Koontz and sor
Robert.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. V. Klingler anc
family of near Ada, Mr.. and Mrs
Howard Nonnamaker and family OF
Hassen, Mrs. S. H. Koontz and Chas
Nonnamaker were Sunday dinner
guests in the Ami Nonnamaker home
Miss Betty Jean Hamilton, Mrs. An.
ma Koontz and Mrs. N. B. Steinmar
of Baton Rouge, Louisiana called in
the afternoon.
H. d. Morrison of Tulsa, Oklahoma
arrived Friday and is spending sever.
al days with relatives and friends in
this vicinity.
Sunday dinner guests in the M. j
Stratton home were, Mr.. and Mrs. C
w. Klingler and family, Mr.. and Mrs
B. J. Stratton and family and H. D
Morrison of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Mrs. N. B. Steinman of Bator
Rouge, Louisiana, arrived Friday te
spend several weeks with her mother
Mrs. Anna Koontz.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Koontz and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Ebay
and family spent Mothers Day with
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Ebay of Ada.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lendon Basinger and
family, Mrs. Emmaline Nonnamakel
were Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Stauffer in Bluffton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Freeman Basinger OF
South of Bluffton moved Friday into
the Pearl Harman home.
Mr.. and Mrs. ROLAND Koontz and
family of Bluffton and Mrs. Lindon
Basinger, Floyd Hartman called Sun
day in the A. j. Nonnamaker home.
The children expect to enjoy their
last day of school program and picnic
Friday, May IA at the Mt. Cory school.
The frequent rains are hindering
the spring work.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. d. Williamson
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Wade
| Marshall.
The Y. P. NJ. c. of the Bethesda
church will meet Friday evening with
Fairy Nonnamaker.