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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-18
Palm Dotted San Bias Islands
Untouched BY Modern Civilization

San Bias; weird and ghostly, they
marry only among themselves and
are known as moon children.
/. While men wear shirts with tucked
bosoms and derby hats, the women's
attire is reminiscent of the ancient
Egyptians
Clad in brightly colored sarongs
made. of home-spun fabric, their
heads covered with a veileur shawl,
they all wear nose-rings of. pure
gold, little girls noses being pierced
since a few days after birth. ssar
Another of their customs is to bind
the legs of women SO as to cause an
atre<,hy of the calves in their admir-
alton Tor slender legs.
San Bias indigenes lead the simple
and unpretentious life of primitive
tribes. They sail canoes, fish and
cultivate the soil on the mainland,
never staying overnight on their
plantations, however, but returning
to their homes on the islands.
Their principal export crop is
coconuts. Labor is strictly divided.
Women work in the house and carry
the coconuts. The men provide the
food and gather the coconuts. Boys
are worth little in San Bias but girls
are carefully watched over.
At marriage the man moves into
his wife's house; the more sons-in-
law an Indian has, the more work
ers he has, and therefore, daughters
-son-in-law producers-are valuable
possessions.
Extremely independent in spirit,
the natives of San Bias simply re-
fuse to be assimilated by civilization.
The Catholic church has made little
progress there, except maybe in Mar
CANA. the chief town which has about
FIVE hundred inhabitants.
In the same way, education had
made practically no headway until
very recently, because of the Indian
belief that those who learned to
read and write would go to hell
when they died.
Although San Bias natives live by
their own tribal laws, they are citi-
zens of the republic. Panama gives
them a certain amount of local au-
tonomy, prevents their exploitation
and provides for them such paternal-
istic care as seems necessary for
their survival.
The Government maintains resi-
| dent commissioner at Porvenir, the
entrance to the archipelago; the
duties of this official are principally
to maintain order, to register ships
and passengers entering San Bias
and make sanitary regulations.
No. Dorothy Lamour is not unique
on our continent. If you want tc
make sure of the fact, go to Pana
mas San Bias where the Caribbean
beats against palm dotted islands
wherein the year 1945-every
woman still wears a sarong.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-18

The following IS one Of
series of articles on unusual
and interesting aspects of South
America. EDITOR.
Here and there, on this relatively
civilized hemisphere of ours, are nu-
clei of population that seem to have
escaped from the infuance of the
white man, to have kept their tradi-
tional customs and primitive ways,
to be as genuine and untouched as
when Columbus first landed on the
continent. One of these picturesque,
wild and secluded spots is San Bias
archipelago off the coast of Panama.
Tradition has it that Columbus on
first seeing the group of islands de-
clared that they must be as numer-
Gus as the days of the year and that
surprisingly enough when they were
counted it was found that there were,
in fact, three hundred and sixty-five
of them.
They stretch on the Caribbean sea
over a distance of more than a
hundred miles from Colon in the
northeastern part of Panama to the
border of Colombia emerald green
| topped with palms, above which rise
the peaks of green mountains, and
studded with thatched cottages.
Not connected with the mainland
and the rest of the worldly either
| mail, telegraph or telephone, San
Bias archipelago's only contact with
civilization is through the plane or
boat from Colon which picks up CO.
conuts and brings to the natives
such goods as are not available on
the islands.
One motor boat has been equipped
especially for tourists excursions for
although until recently the people of
San Bias resented bitterly the visit
of white men, they are today toler-
ated as long as they do not spend
the night on the islands.
These range in size from islets
with perhaps half dozen palm trees
to large thickly populated islands
like Portagandi where the paramount
chief of the San Bias islands lives
and rules. The total population of
the archipelago may be roughly esti-
] mated at about thirty thousand.
Who are these San Bias Indians,
/ anyway? Known also as Cunas they
are of a short, stocky race some
what Asiatic in appearance, with
high cheek-bones, slanting eyes and
dark straight hair.
| Altho in contact with Europeans
since the 10th century, they have
maintained racial purity and inde-
pendence by vigorous opposition tc
foreign settlement and by intermar-
riage Their language is Chibchar
dialect with Spanish influence anC
their culture shows South American
origin.
Quite often albino children appear
among the pure-blooded Indians o.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-18

Cyrus Locher, one of Cleveland's
rising young attorneys, former well
known young man from this section
has entered into a law partnership
with Harold Remington, we'll known
referee in bankruptcy.
The remarkable presence of mind
of a nine year old girl is all that
saved the life of little playmate as
the youngster fell into the abandon
ed quarry near the L. E. and w.
Railroad. Helen Swick was accidently
pushed into the quarry and as her
friends became frightened and ran
away screaming, little Helen Stoner
stayed behind and waited until the
youngster came to the surface.
Reaching down she grasped her COM
panion and while screaming for help
held on until assistance come. Hazel
Swick also nine returned upon hear
ing the cry and aided her in pulling
their playmate from the water.
Jacob Schnegg, one of our most
popular young men, was quietly mar
ried to Miss Lena Shaeler, popular
young woman from Findlay. Rev.
Gottshall pronounced them man and
wife.
u. S. and Ezra Amstutz, who spent
last summer in Kansas, are now To-
Gated in Colfax, Washington.
r. A. Boaz, a former boy from
here, who is now a mail carrier at
Ottawa, will leave for California.
| Andrew Amstutz will deliver mail in
his absence.
A postal card surprise, reminded
Miss Faery Huber south of town Of
her eleventh birthday anniversary
which occurred on Sunday.
An unusually large audience at
tended vesper services at the College
chapel, Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Mo-
siman's address on "The Women of
Germany" was very interesting and
we'll received.
Ralph Deisot, who has been max
ing his home with his uncle, Paul
Studler and family since his arrival
from Switzerland, left for Detroit
where he will accept position as
watch maker.
The foundation for the Lugibill and
Zehrbach new business block on
South Main street is complete and
ready for the brick work.
George Tipton's Uncle Toms Cabin
with band, real bloodhounds and col
ored quartette will show in Bluffton
soon.
| Wade King, Chas. Brenner, Paul
Keller, and Jacob ulrich killed 3s
rabbits and 13 quail the opening of
hunting season.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-18
Farmers Tackle Task
Of Cleaning Snow
From Roads
(Continued from page

Continued from page u
more than 80 of them had to find
emergency overnight lodging in
homes here.
Meanwhile farmers have organized
for the man-sized job of digging
themselves out, and residents of each
section are attempting to clear
enough of their road to permit them
to get to main thorofare. Even
under this method, however, it will
continue to be necessary for them to
drive miles out of their way to get
to their destination without getting
stalled.
Richland townships snow plow
broke down again last Saturday, and
until repairs are completed farmers
here can expect no assistance from
that source.
Pay For Farmers
To compensate farmers for their
work however, Richland trustees
have announced they will pay 30
cents an hour for time worked in
clearing roads. To qualify for pay
ment an order must be obtained
from one of the trustees before work
is started. F. C. Badertscher, Wal
ter Marshall and Allen Grismore are
members of the board.
Bluffton public schools which op-
Grated all but one day last week,
opened Monday, but students were
sent home early in the afternoon and
the schools were closed again on
Tuesday. With fair weather We'd
nesday morning, classes were resum-
| ed.
Conditions are such that school
authorities cannot tell from one day
to another when classes can be held
and students have to check each
morning to learn what is scheduled.
Roads Blocked
Since roads were blocked by the
blizzard of December IL, the school
bus assigned to the area northwest
of town where conditions are par
ticularly bad has been unable to COW
er its territory, and the schools 9th,
er three buses have been able to
operate over only a part of their
routes on the days school is open.
Rural mail carriers still are un-
able to resume complete service, anc
trucks which gather milk and pro.
duce from farms can reach only 9
few places on their usual rounds.
Abatement of sub-zero and near.
zero weather over the last week
represented the only favorable breai
in the conditions. With the temper
ature near or below zero mark near
ly every day for four weeks, it hae
been the longest protracted colo
wave in the memory of most Blufftor
area residents. Warmer weather il
in prospect Thursday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-18
SPECIAL AAA QUALITY MATING

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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-18
Bluffton High Cagers Will Play
St Marys Here On Friday Night

Bluffton High cagers will make
their first home appearance in more
than a month when they entertain
St. Marys here Friday night.
The Roughriders will be the third
Class A team in a row that the
struggling Bluffton outfit has been
called on to face, and the visiting
outfit is said to be one of the best
to represent st. Marys in several
years. ssA
Friday nights engagement will be
the Pirates third Western Buckeye
league game of the season. s.
After playing st. Marys here the
Burckymen will not be home again
until January 30 when Pandora will
oppose the locals on the Bluffton
floor.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-18
News Our Grandfathers Read
From Issue OF November 18 1909

Rev.. Father Henry Doerner, who
SO faithfully served the st. Mary's
Catholic church at this place for Is
years, passed away at the age of "a
years.
At the Sunday school convention OF
the Swiss Mennonite churches, D. w
Bixler talked on "How Can We Gre
ate A Spiritual Interest in Our
Young Peoples Meetings" Albert
WinkIer followed with the topic
"How Can the Program be Made
More Interesting"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-18
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After leading for three quarters,
Bluffton High cagers lost a heart
breaker to Kenton on the Hardin
county schools court Tuesday night
by a score Of 90 to. s28.
However, there was some consola-
ton for the Pirates, for in the tilt
against the strong ..Kenton, aggrega-
tion the locals put on their best per-
formance of the season.
1t was wild first-quarter, with
the score tied FIVE times, and the
greatest margin either team held
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-18

Bluffton High reserves were de-
feated by Kenton seconds, 28 to 1t,
Tuesday night at Kenton, after lead
ing at halftime, 13 to 10.
At the close of the first quarter
the score was tied, but Bluffton's
three-point lead at halftime failed to
hold up long when Kenton Tailed
eight points in the third stanza while
holding the Pirates scoreless.
Moser, with eight points, set the
scoring pace for the Bluffton re-
serves in the tilt.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-18

The average price of logs and
standing timber rose I'd and 16 per
cent respectively in 1943 over 1912
prices. The prices were determined
from reports of 10000 stumpage and
log sales.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-18
Settles Bet With Hogs

Seventeen state governors each
received by railway express a fine
Nebraska hog recently, representing
the settlement of the odd wager of
Gov. Dwight Griswold. that Nebras-
ka would top their states in sub
scriptions to Third War Loan bonds.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-18

The average farm family in the
world produces only food for itself
and enough surplus to feed one-half
an urban family. The average for
u. S. farmers is enough for home use
and a surplus for four city families.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-18

Studies made of sales of Ohio farms
show that a considerable percentage
of the sales of farm property were
made by retired farmers or widows of
farmers. Very few farms which have
been bought by spectators have been
resold recently.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-18

The 1945 egg goal has been consid-
erabiy reduced from that of 1914 but
it still provides 347 eggs for every
civilian.
Ohio boys and girls picked over
100000 bags of milkweed pods in 1914
but Michigan youngsters harvested
more than 100000 bags. Wisconsin,
New York, Pennsylvania, and Mime
sofa each gathered from 100000 to
350,000 bgas.
In surveying prospective surplus
war equipment which might become
useful to farmers, government Off
Gals state there will be number of
bridges which could be used, and they
also advance the theory that steel
mats for landing strips on airfelds
might be salvaged for walks or road
surfaces on farms.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-22
7||NII[NdlIlZ2'

Washington, D. C.-Although
many people may be disappoint-
ed in the accomplishments of the
labor-management conference to
date, it is the general concensus
of opinion here that it cannot end
in complete failure. For, even
though few agreements may be
reached which will help solve Ia
bor-management problems, the
conference already has done a
great deal toward defining the
differences which exist between
labor and management. That ac-
complishment in itself, will make
it easier for congress, for the adj
ministration, and for business and
labor to seek practical solutions.
One congressman commented:
members of congress, most of
whom are closely following the
procedure of the conference, are
going to have a clearer picture
than they ever did before of wha:
this epidemic of strikes is all
about. It is going to help us lot
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-22

in determining whether new la
Dor legislation is necessary, and
if so, what kinds of legislation
will do the most good. This whole
problem is now getting a good
airing-and that is what has been
needed"
Little action on labor legisla-
ton is expected until the con-
ference is over-until both labor
and management have put all of
their cards on the table. Then
legislation will undoubtedly be
sought aimed at reducing the
"area of differences"
q
Meanwhile, the fight between
the automobile workers and the
automobile manufacturers has
reached the point where the pub
lie is demanding an early settle
ment. Reports that the 100000
automobiles expected to be pro-
duced in 1945 has now dwindled
to less than a quarter of that fl
cure has aroused a car-hungry
public, and letters pouring in to
congress reveal that the public
is not only concerned over get
ting new automobiles, but is in
creasingly fearful that the delay
may disrupt our nations recon-
version program.
There also has been considera-
BILE objection to the fact that au-
tomobiles which are on display
do not have any price tags on
them, as is also the case with a
good number of other items on
the consumers high priority
list. The public, apparently,
wants to start buying these items
now-to get in line with cash
payments-but they don't want
to buy "a pig in a poke" so far as
price is concerned. Manufactur
ers are becoming equally insistent
that the government end its delay
in agreeing to ceiling prices.
X +
In the most interesting press
conference which Clinton Ander-
son has held since he became Sec
rotary of agriculture, he revealed
that meat rationing will probably
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-22

can afford to raise pay is per cent
without necessitating price in
creases.
With labor problems now being
analysed from so many different
angles, there is considerable op-
timism here that the strikes which
threatened to disrupt our whole
reconversion program may posi-
bly, be avoided.
The joint committee on inter-
nal revenue taxation will soon
release report showing that bill
lions of dollars of untaxed in
come, including the income of tax
exempt organizations such as Ia
Dor unions and co-operatives, is
costing the federal government a
huge sum of money. When the
report is released, it is expected
that legislation may be introduc.
ed to tighten up on the regula.
tons governing tax exemptions
In addition to organization:
which are legally tax exempt, the
treasury is also having difficulty
in collecting millions of dollar:
in personal income taxes which
year after year, 60 unreported
Pointing out that there are many
in small as well as large income
brackets who "get around" tn,
tax, a treasury official used as al
example the walters in restaur
ants who, although they make
most of their money from tips, re
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-22

port only their actual salary.
During the next year the whole
tax situation will be reviewed
and many radical changes in tax
alton methods are expected to re-
suit. The new tax bill for 1946
is considered a stop-gap measure
aimed at reducing taxes for the
coming year but without attempt
ing to revise taxing methods.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-22
Boggs News

A large crowd attended the
service held at the Round Knob
Baptist church Saturday and
Sunday night, with the Rev. Tom
my Salmons, conducting.
Miss Lola Miller, a student at
Glade Valley high school, spent
the past week end with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jess Miller.
Mrs. Foster Mash visited her
daughter, Mrs. E. J. Poe. last
week.
Mr.. Este Roark, of Treetop,
was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harvey Roark, Saturday and
Sunday.
Mrs. Milt Miller and sons are
now visiting with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jess Miller, of JEFF
ferson.
Miss Elsie Smith spent the past
week end with her mother, Mrs
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-22

be all over by the end of the
year, that our civilian food sup
ply will hereafter be much bet
ter than "even in prewar years"
Mr.. Anderson also released fl
cures on our program for helping
hungry Europe during the rest of
the year. He said that our ex-
ports of food to the United King
dom, liberated countries III Eu-
rope and French North Africa
would be increased by about so
per cent during the last quarter
of the year.
Pointing out the enormity Of
our feed supply, the secretary in
dictated that our shipments to 9TH
er countries could be still greater,
without any shortages at home.
The only thing which is prevent
ing greater shipments, he said, is
the regulations regarding such
shipments and the financial diff
ficulties involved. Total food
shipments in the last quarter will
be about 100000 tons.
Mr.. Anderson, who favors get
ting rid of subsidies as soon as
the time is ripe, indicated that
some subsidies may be termina-
ted soon even though it may re-
suit in increased prices.
Prime Minister Attlee's re-
cent visit to Washington was
somewhat overshadowed by the
multi-sided efforts which are be-
ing made here to achieve peace
on the labor-management front.
The British prime minister came
to the United States primarily to
try to reach some agreement with
President Truman on the disposal
Of atomic bomb information. But,
although that subject is one of
worldwide Importance, officials
here seem to be more Immediately
concerned with our problem of
getting industry back into full
production and avoiding a de-
preston.
Mr.. Attlee proposes that the
secret of the atomic bomb be put
under the control of the security
council of the United Nations, but
that suggestion is meeting with a
rather cool reception here. A
second proposal of the British,
which appears to be more accept
able to our leaders, is that the
United States be appointed custo-
dian of the bomb secret but that
it's use be entirely the direction
of the council.
Efforts to have the bomb ban
ned as an instrument of war, with
all nations pledged not to use it,
seem to be considered impracti-
cal by most members of our gov
eminent. The feelings of many
of them were expressed by Sen
ator johnson of Colorado when he
asked: IF it is possible to outlaw
the bomb, why not 60 the whole
step and outlaw war;"
Developments aimed at settling
our labor problems include: Cd
A conscientious effort on the part
of those attending the labor-man-
agement conference here to make
the conference a successful end
it with some concrete proposals
which will really result in great
er harmony; (2) the insistence of
President Truman, in his talks
with leaders of labor and man.
agement, to show the world that
we can bring about economic
sterilization on the home front;
60 the action of the house of rep
Iresentatives aimed at repeal of
the Smith Connally act and sub
stitution of legislation which
would penalize strikers and curb
the political activities of unions;
and az the statistics released by
Secretary Wallace purporting to
show that industry in general can
afford to raise pay 10 per cent
and that the automobile industry
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-22
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