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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-03-16
NO AMMUNITION FOR
AMUSEMENT PURPOSES

While it is possible that by
fall there will be sufficient
rifle and shotgun ammunition
for game shooting, the War Pro-
duction Board said that for the
time being none can be spared
from supplies needed by farm
ers to protect crops and live
stock.
No ammunition will be made
available for amusement pur-
poses, WPB officials stated.
DO t> Tho foo With nonScl
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-03-16
TO ISOLATE ERE

1t was announced in Britain
wednesday that the Allies in
tend to isolate Fire for not com
plying with their request that
the Irish close German and
Japanese offices there. Travel
restrictions have already been
imposed upon Fire. The next
step in the isolation program
was not disclosed.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-03-16

WILLIAM TALL BULL
He is a graduate of the Busby
high school, and was editor Of
the school paper there.
He married Josephine Wilson,
daughter of MI. and Mrs. James
Wilson, in 1941. They have a
daughter, Ernestine, born, in
1912,
Tall Bull enlised in the army
in the latter part Of 1912.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-03-16
WILSON SERVING
IN

Arthur Albert Wilson, son of
MIR. and Mrs. James Wilson OF
Busby, is with the Army medi-
cal corps in Greenland, accord
ing to word received by his par
entS.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-03-16

Dale Reed Is visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. John
SWindle. Dale has been employ
ed on the Alcan Highway since
July, 1943. He will leave here
shortly for California for a visit
with his brother, Dwain.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-03-16

James was in Hardin recently
to spend a short leave with his
father, Roy James. He returned
to Farragut, Idaho, where he re-
ceived his boot training, on Feb.
20.
He entered service in the Navy
on December 10, 1913.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-03-16

Back The Attack With Bonds!
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-14
Bluffton Boy Scouts Are Gathering
MilkWeed Floss To Aid War Effort

ton scouts will turn out en- mass this
week to help the war effort by pick
ing all they can find in this area.
Anyone who knows of a sizable
patch of milkweed will help make
the campaign success if they will
notify Scoutmaster Woodrow Little,
of Troop 81.
Standard open-mesh onion bags
that will hold about one bushel of
pods are provided by the state de-
partment of education. A satisfac-
torily filled bag should contain about
800 pods, for which the government
will pay 20 cents when properly
dried.
Picking may be done at any time
after the seeds begin to turn brown
and until the pods have opened but
before the floss has blown away.
Immediately after picking the bags
must be hung in the open, off the
ground, until thoroughly dry.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-14
Ridiculed Mosquito Doctor" Found
Key To Control Of Yellow Fever

agent in question. How he reached
this conclusion was not matter of
accident or of hasty research.
Some time before it had occurred
to him that the disease might spread
from a sort of incubation by some
outward agent; none was more per-
fectly suited to this than the mos
quito. Finlay decided therefore to
give all his energies to the study of
the mosquito.
However, few were those who be-
lieved him when he finally had the
proof that the "Aedes agypti" was
the culprit; he was laughed at,
called maniac, referred to as "the
mosquito doctor.
In humble silence he worked on
through eighteen unbelieving years.
Finally, in 1900, two British doctors
who had visited him in Havana, Drs.
Durham and Myers, published in
the British Medical Journal, an ar
ticle expressing confidence in his
work.
But it was not until a few months
later, when DR.. Walter Reed and
Drs. Carroll, Agramonte and Lazear
had been appointed on the Army
Yellow Fever Board in a newly lib.
Grated Cuba, that Finlay's theory
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-14
Button In First World War
What Happened Here Twenty-Five Years Ago This Week

this country after years Y. NJ. C. A.
work in France. Miss Coburn is
spending several weeks with her
brother Cyril and wife of Buffalo.
An American flag will float from
every school building in Bluffton and
Allen county when school opens this
month and thereafter under provisions
of a new law passed by a recent ses-
sion of the Ohio general assembly.
Albert Hager is enjoying a short
furlough with his parents at Pandora.
Albert expects to get his discharge in
about a month
Mrs. Philip Pifer of Orange town
ship received a note of appreciation
last week from a soldier in France
after he had received a pair of socks
from the Red Cross which Mrs. Pifer
knitted. Mrs. Pifer had enclosed a
note in the socks prior to turning
the mover to the Red Cross.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-14

Mexico is far behind the United
States in farm cultivation and crop
and fruit disease prevention, 1t was
pointed out in a letter received this
week from Homer Moser, who Is
working as an agricultural mission
ary in that country. He was pre-
viously in charge of an agricultural
mission station in Brazil.
The former Bluffton man writes:
sRight now I am working on fruit
diseases and pruning and spraying
of trees. Brown rot is very com
mon peach disease here. The fruit
rots on the trees before it ripens,
and their fruit crop is not much to
brag about. 1t can be controlled by
spraying and burning the fruit as
it falls to the ground, but little of
that is done.
Pruning of fruit trees apparent
ly is unknown to most of the natives
where | have been. The u. S. gov
and the Rockefeller foundation all
are doing very fine job in agricul-
tural research, but the trouble is
their information often does not get
into the hands of the people respon-
sible for the crops, and if it did /
suppose many could not use it.
"This gives me good chance to
be connecting link between those
making recommendations, and the
poems who should be taking advant-
age of the helpful reports. The
Rockefeller foundation has been es-
pecially helpful in the plant path
ology line.
VISITS SCHOOL
"Just a few days ago few of
us visited experiment stations and
very famous agricultural school. You
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-14
Lafayette

The Keystone and Sempre Fidelis
Glasses of the Methodist church met
at the home of Ruth Sumney, Thurs
day evening. Others present were.
Mrs. Bessie Slain, Mrs. Inez May,
Ivalene Urich, Mrs. Jennie Fett, Mrs.
Pauline Shrider, Miss Cadda Rum
baugh, Mrs. Bess Brackney, Mrs. Ere
da Arthur, Mrs. Mildred Carey, Mrs.
Blanche Helser, Mrs. Martha Rams
bottom.
Visitors at the home of Mrs. Mary
f. Voorhees, and Cora Ellis were Mr..
and Mrs. F. R. Holland, Mr.. and Mrs.
Don Baron and son Vain of Canton
and George Mather of Unionport.
Mr.. Charles Y. Mather, C. B. NJ. C.
G. and Mrs. Mather of Portsmouth,
Virginia were week end guests of the
formers grandmother, Mrs. Isaas
Voorhees, and Mrs. Cora Ellis.
Mrs. Mary E. Vorhees and Mrs.
Cora Ellis were Saturday evening
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. D. p.
Hall and sons.
Robert Carman and son of Spring
field and Oscar Hervey of Alger call
ed on Mrs Mary Yorhees and daught-
er, Tuesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-14

was awarded public recognition.
After the Board had given up all
other possibilities-and only then
it turned towards DR.. FinIay's
strange ideas.
Carroll and Lazear let themselves
be bitten by Infected mosquitoes.
Both fell i'll with the disease and
DR.. Lazear died in the experiment
which proved how true Finlay's the
ory was.
The latter years of Carlos J. Fin
lays simple and dignified life was
full and happy. He was honored by
his own and other countries. He
became Chief Sanitary Officer of
Cuba, founded the National Sanitary
Board. He had only been retired
six years when he died in August
1916 in Havana.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-14
Sept. 4th, 1919.

Uncle Sans attempt to lower the
rising cost of living is finding ready
response with Bluffton housewives,
said Postmast Locher. The first ship
ment of Army food is expected to ar
rive here from Chicago before the end
of the week. The greater part of the
orders have been placed for canned
goods, with meats holding a second
place.
Miss Erma Jones, former Bluffton
High school instructor, who was en-
gagged for the past year in canteen
work in st. Nazaire, France, has re-
turned to her home in Pittsburgh, ac-
cording to word received by her many
friends here.
C. G.. Coburn has returned from a
trip to New York City where he met
his daughter Vera on her arrival in
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-14
Wartime Conditions Reflected AS Big
London Newspapers Shrink To Four Pages

England's greatest newspapers,
which before the war We'd with our
own metropolitan dailies in numbers
of pages, are smaller than The
Bluffton News in their present war
time dress.
Copies of several of the outstand-
ing British papers were received
here this week from Sgt. Roland
Swank, who has been stationed in
England for some time, and the
most astonishing feature was their
reduced size.
Even such favorites as "The
Daily Mail", "News Chronicle,
DAILY Express, and "The People"
have only four pages daily. Sunday
papers, which in this country are
extra-voluminous, are limited in
England to but six pages.
Practically everything in the pap
ers is devoted to news of the war.
There is hardly any news of local
interest and all four pages are
largely filled with news releases
from fighting fronts.
Local news carried by the papers
generally has some bearing on the
war effort, making it apparent that
thoughts of the conflict are upper
most all the time in England. One
such item, for example, reads:
"A 37-year-old filter, William
Trowbridge, of whom specialist in
neurology said that he was liable to
fall asleep at any hour of the day,
was fined a total of 30 pounds
(about 5000 our money! for being
absent from his work in a factory.
"Trowbridge, who is said to suf-
fer from a lethargic disease de-
clared: Dozens of times | have fall
len asleep on the train and have
been carried to Euston, when |
should have gotten off at Crewe to
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-14

go to work"
Featured prominently in the news
papers, all of which carried July
datelines, were stories of the dam
age being inflicted by the German
flying bombs, against which the
British at that time had no ade-
quate defense.
Advertising is limited, and in a
four-page paper, hardly more than
two columns are devoted to adver-
tising space. There are no large ad-
vertisements, and there is no adver-
tising of any kind by retail stores.
A difference from American Gus
tom, is the space sold at the top of
the front page by the masthead for
small advertisements in each issue.
Readers of the comics would not
like present British newspaper style
for there are no comic features in
them. Also missing from the Brit
ish newspapers are the columnists
that can be found in profusion in
every American daily.
Two of the papers have abbfeviat-
ed columns dealing with the lighter
side of life, perhaps to ease a diet
of serious war news, but columnists
who comment on military and naval
procedure, on the home front, ETC..
are entirely missing from the British
newspaper scene.
Occasionally there will be a short
article dealing with news events in
the United States, but for the most
part subject matter is restricted tc
the progress of the war and its
effect on England.
Indicative of the British view.
point, the war in the Pacific gets
very little space, and most of the
news is devoted to the European
conflict which after all is much
| closer home to the English.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-14
Mexican Farming Methods Far
Outmoded, Homer Moser Writes

will remember some years ago the
Mexican government took all the
land away from the big land owners
and gave it to the people. General
Zapata was the leader and his cry
was Give the land to the people
who till it."
ut was phrase that bore re-
suits altho it has not been as eff
cient as anticipated. Big farms that
had been we'll organized and well
directed were divided and given to
poor poems who had no capital and
no experience in operating as farm
ers.
ut is no wonder production went
down, and Mexico is still endeavor-
ing to teach these small independent
farmers how to make a success of
their work.
"The agricultural school we visited
the other day is located on one of
the former large farms. It is very
well organized and it impressed me
once more that when the people
here want to put on a display they
can outdo us by far.
FOLLOW TROUGH SAILS
"The only hitch again comes when
one realizes that there is no connec-
ton between the school and the COM
mon farmer. The students do not
expect to be farmers but will get a
white collar job when they gradu-
ate. Tuition is high and they are
willing to pay to enter.
Farm machinery is very expens-
i've here, as the exchange is most
unfavorable to Mexico, about five to
one. That means the common man
cannot possible buy American farm
machinery, and most go along with
outmoded methods"
Moser recently spent six weeks in
Denver with his family. He made
the return trip to Mexico on a
motorcycle purchased in Denver
when the army released for sale sew
eral hundred of those vehicles. In
his letter, he said he enjoyed the
trip very much, and that he was
finding the motorcycle of much use
in making his rounds in Mexico.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-14

Bluffton Boy Scouts this week will
pick milkweed floss as their contribu-
ton in a nationwide drive to pro-
vide critically needed material for
the filling of life preservers issued
to members of the armed forces.
Since the Japanese capture of
Java, our supply of kapok has been
cut off, and the only satisfactory
America substitute as a filler for
life preservers has been milk weed
floss.
This product of the common milk
week has proved sufficiently water
proof and bouyant for use in lfe
vests and vast quantities of it are
needed. Two bushel bags of milk
weed pods will provide only enough
floss to fill one life preserver.
Boy Scout troops the country over
are participating in the nationwide
drive to collect the floss, and Bluff
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-14
ArmOrsville

The L. A. S. and w. M. S. of the
Liberty Chapel church will meet this
Thursday for an all day meeting
with Miss May Thompson.
S/Sgt. and Mrs. Robert Matter of
Dayton spent the week end at the
Charles Montgomery home. Sunday
callers were Mr.. and Mrs. Vaughn
Spellman and daughter Patsy, Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest Klingler.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. |. Moore are
spending several days with Mr.. and
Mrs. Leo Beagle and family of
Carey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Hauenstein
spent Sunday at the Levi Hauenstein
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. P. Hartman
called on Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Hart
man and family Sunday afternoon.
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl McCafferty and son Sgt.
Max McCafferty were Mrs. ROLAND
Guider, Mrs. Maxine McCafferty,
Miss Margaret Guider and Gerald
Harshey.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-14
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank all those who ex-
tended aid and sympathy in the death
and burial of our beloved husband and
father, Edward Reagan; especially FIR.
Scheiber for his consoling words and
women of the st. Marys Altar and
Rosary society and all others who as
sisted in any way.
Mrs. Lenore Reagan and Family.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-14
HOtUe, Little NetU
Doubles Champs

Woodrow Little and w. A. Howe
teamed up to win the doubles cham
pionship of the Bluffton Tennis club
in tournament play completed last
week when the new champs defeated
Norman Triplett and Sid Stettler.
Score in the final round was 7-5,
rs, ST, 6-2. Triplett and Stettler
were defending champions.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-14
Hog Mango

The other form of hog mango Is
demodectic. There is no known cure
for this form Of mango, but it
spreads less rapidly and its effect on
animals is less severe than common
mango. The best way to get rid of
demodectic mango is to dispose of
the affected animals and disinfect
the quarters they occupied.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-14
CARD OF THANKS

Our heartfelt thans to all those who
gave aid and sympathy during the
illness and death of our beloved hus-
band and father, Chris Bixel; also
Rev. Smucker who officiated at the
funeral, the singers for their services
and all those sending flowers.
Mrs. Chris Bixel and Family.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-14

Capt. Boyd Grubaugh, of Van
Vert, brother of Capt. Glover Cru
baugh and Miss Nedra Grubaugh,
both of whom formerly attended
Bluffton college, has been missing
over China since August 90, his par
ents were notified this week. He
was pilot of a B-29 Super-Fort-
ress.
His brother, who formerly attend
ed college here, also is in the Army
air force.
Don't stop-Keep on buying War
Bonds for Victory.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-14


another In the series of unusual
and little knoaVn features of Cen
trai and South AnleTicd.-EDIToR
1t is sometimes surprising to find
how little is generally known about
DR.. Finlay; how few people realize
what he stands for, and what hu-
manity has gained because of him.
One of the great figures of science,
he is unknown to the average we'll
informed public, and lies forgotten
in the shadow of two other great
men: Gorgas and Walter Reed.
Carlos j. Finlay was born over
hundred years ago on December
3, 1888 in the Cuban city of Puerto
Principe, now Camaguey. OF Scotch
and French ancestry, he combined
the best Europen qualities with those
of his native soil, being, in spite of
his cosmopolitan background, true
son-and today one of the glories-
of the Pearl of the Antilles.
Part of Carlos childhood and
early youth were spent in Europe
but ill-health forced him several
times to return to his native land.
In 1856 he graduated from Jefferson
Medical College in Philadelphia and,
after a number of trips to South
America, settled finally in Havana
where he was to live most of the
rest of his life.
The year was 1857 and yellow
fever-the plague that had been ter
rorizing humanity for many cen
turies-was still raging in most
tropical and some temperate coun-
tries.
The deadly "yellow jack or
"black vomit" as it was sometimes
called, assailed the south of the
United States and the Caribbean
region with special intensity, while
in some sections it had become an
endemic disease.
Yellow fever cost thousands of
lives in each epidemic, the mortality
rate being about fifty per cent of
those who got it.
During 1902 half of Santo Do
mingo's population of 10000 died of
it; six years later, two-thirds of the
people of Guadeloupe perished dur
ing a single year.
Yellow fever had been and was an
important factor in the history of
the Americas. 1t accounted for the
backward condition of some regions
of the continent and yet was at the
same time, in some sort a defensive
force against encroaching Europeans
who were even less immune to it
than the natives or the creoles.
Besides giving his attention to
cholera, tuberculosis and several
other scourges of mankind, young
DR.. Finlay undertook the study of
yellow fever. He started his re-
search in the historical field and
from there worked on the different
possibilities for the propagation of
the disease.
In 1872, after thirteen years of
study, the summary of his investiga-
tion, presented by him at the Aa-
vana Academy of Sciences, was still
a trail leading nowhere.
In February 1881, however, he
was able to state, in his address al
the Washington International Sani-
tary Conference, that his studies had
led him to believe that three requi-
sites were necessary for the proPa-
cation of yellow fever: the pres
ence of a previous case; the pres
ence of person liable to contract
the disease; and, finally, an indie
pendent agent to carry the malady
from sick to health individual.
Only few months later, in Aug
ust 1881, Finlay discovered that the
"Aedos agypti" species of the mos
quito family was the transmission
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-14

The job is not over yet-buy bonds
for complete victory.
Evening star., 1944-12-01

with some other girl where they
will be free to live what they are
pleased to call their own lives"
Inevitably the big cities attract
the teen-agers as sugar does flies,
for their secret dream is to be a
model in New York, or have a Gov
ernment position in Washington, or
to be a star in Hollywood And
what happens to these poor little
innocents when they find them
selves half starved and lonely and
broke is story we read through
our tears.
But what are the parents TO do
about it? The stern parent atti-
tude does not work nowadays, for
| if father and mother hold too tight
rein on their teen-agers, they
simply jump the bars. Lock the
doors on Susie and Mamie and they
climb out of the window. Forbid
them to have their boy friends come
to the house and they meet them
on the sly. Nor, no matter how
vlgilant mother is, can she follow
her girls when they go into Offices
to work.
! So in the end, it comes down
to every girl having to be her own
chaperon, and the only thing that
mother can do to protect her teen
ager is 10 begin teaching her in
the cradle the rock bottom prin-
ciples of modesty and decency that
are Woman's only protection. II
mother does that and breeds ir
her the faith that makes her hole
her honor dearer than her life
then her daughter can walk through
the fire of temptation without ever
getting the hem of her garment
scorched
I But mother has to be a fast work,
er for she has only II or 13 year:
in which to fit her daughter for life
Evening star., 1944-12-01
Cookbook for
The Boys!

Looking for a Christmas gift
de luxe for that man of yours
who loves to putter in the kitch-
en- on Sundays? Here's the per-
feet answer, 200 Dishes for Men
to Cook" by Arthur H. Deute, hot
off the presses of M. Barrows &
Co. of New York.
This collection of recipes is
gathered from the far corners of
the world, as well as from special
sections of these United States.
Each dish is beamed particularly
to the masculine taste and is
easily prepared by the amateur
male chef, Mr.. Deute knows his
culinary onionS-and everything
else in the food line-to perfec-
ton, and this book Is one that
should be in the library of every
epicure.
1t is of particular interest TO
us because for several years Mr..
Deute has been regular contrib
utor to The Evening Star-his ar
ticles appearing several times a
week on the Woman's Page,
where they have helped many
housewife to understand the de-
mands of the masculine palate.
Some of the recipes included in
the book have appeared pre-
viously in The Star, so they may
be welcomed as old friends. Due
to illness, Mr.. Deute has been
unable to send in any articles re-
cently-so We are glad to have
him represented by this delight
full volume BIC.