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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-05-02
Farm Bureau

Farm Bureau
Allen County Farm Bureau council
No. l will meet with Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Althaus next Tuesday night at
s o'clock.
Allen County Farm Bureau council
No. IL will meet with Mr.. and Mrs.
Weldon Basinger, Friday night at
s o'clock.
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Hold Style Show

Hold StyIe Show
The Bluffton college Home
Economics club will hold a style
show in the College chapel, this
Wednesday night at o'clock. Dur
ing the show organ music will be
furnished by Claren Sommer. Joan
McCarty and Harriet Schultz will
read the script. Camilla Gorby has
charge of decorations.
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Where Our Soldiers
Are

Pvt. Morris Hartman 15234591
Co. @, S. T. c.
Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey
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Entered as second class matter Mt
the postoffice at Bluffton, Ohio,
under the Act of March 8, 1879.
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Mennonite Missionary Society
The Women's Missionary society
of the First Mennonite church will
meet at the NJ. C. C. room Thursday
afternoon at o'clock. Members
come prepared to do mending and
other sewing.
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CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank all the friends
and neighbors for the aid and
sympathy extended during the illness
and death of our beloved mother and
grandmother; also the hospital
nurses for their untiring care, Rev.
Smucker who officiated at the
funeral and all those who assisted
and for the beautiful flowers.
Edwin Z. Lory & Grandchildren
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AMIGO Club

The AMIGO club will hold its final
meeting of the season Thursday
night with Mrs. Frances Wenger.
Officers will be elected for the COM
ing year.
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Named Head of Guild

Mrs. w. A. Amstutz of Bluffton,
former treasurer of the Indian Lake
Regional Women's Guild of the
Northwest Ohio Synod of the Evan
gelical and Reformed church was
named president of the organization
at its fifth annual spring conference
held at Upper Sandusky, Thursday.
Attending from Blufton were:
Mrs. V. C. Oppermann, Mrs. w. A.
Amstutz, Mrs. Ralph Stearns, Mrs.
John Balmer, Mrs. A. D. Gratz, Mrs
Gerald Crawfis, Mrs. Clair Michael
Mrs. Marden Basinger, Mrs. Ken
meth Luginbuhl, Mrs. Reese Huber
Mrs. w. o. Geiger, Misses Jane
Risser, Sara Badertscher and Mary
Louise Balmer.
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BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning

Grain (bushel prices) Wheat,
sta; corn, s1.12; oats, 80c; soy
beans, S2.04.
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Richland Community circle will
meet with Mrs. Edith Badertscher
Thursday afternoon, May 8. The
program follows:
Devotionals; Roll call, prominent
women; Song; Mom's Battle, Mothers
day; Keep Your Garden Young;
Grandma is coming; A Garden with
Knak, Iris, Contest, Song.
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Subscription rates: Year, $500;
six months, SIPS anywhere in u. S.
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On April /, prospects for poultry
indicated decrease of to 10 per
cent in chickens and of 10 to Is per
cent in turkeys in 1916, as compared
with 1916 production.
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Owners of Cincinnati dairy COM
pany were fined $500 each in federal
court for wartime violations of quota
restrictions on use of milk solids for
making ice cream and frozen dairy
foods. Judgment was imposed Mar.
10, 1916, upon conviction for 2s vio-
lations. Quota restrictions We're inn
posed to allow equitable food distri-
button.
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THE BLUFFTON NEWS
B. F. BIERY, Business Mgr.
c. A. BIERY, Editor

Published weekly at Bluffton, Ohio,
by thasBluffton News Publishing and
Printing Co.
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Uertrude Hoy Circle
Mothers and guests of members of
the Gertrude Hoy Missionary Circle
will be entertained at tea in the st.
Johns Reformed church basement,
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
"The Festival of the Christian
Home" will be the topic to be dis
cussed by a guest speaker. Mrs. Guy
Scoles will be chairman.
Hostesses are Mrs. Fairie Stager,
Mrs. Bernice Riser, Mrs. Julia OPP
permann, Mrs. Levada Bixel, Mrs.
Juanita Swank, Mrs. Helen Mass and
Mrs. Irene Niswander.
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clubs, lodges
and Societies

Eastern Star
Bluffton Eastern Star chapter will
meet next Tuesday night at s o'clock.
There will be initiation and refresh
ments.
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Jitsu Tau Club
The Jitsu Tau club will meet with
Mrs. Helen Wolfrom, Wednesday
night.
Evening star., 1946-08-28

toward greater resistance toward the
Soviet government.
The objective Of either compromise or
f1rmness is the same. It is to keep out
OF war and to get the world on firm
footing once more. No one can guaran-
tee which method is best suited to the
desired end. 1t is especially hard to
know because the curtain of censorship
and suspicion around Russia is so
heavy. 1t is impossible to know the
connection between what the Soviet
government really wants and what it
says 1t wants. The evidence in favor
OF a firm policy is in recent history
MIR. Truman evidently believes that a
firm, tough attitude toward Hitler 10
years ago might have prevented war.
Whatever may be the truth Of this
analogy, this is what our Government
believes. In pursuing this policy, the
American people will experience recur-
ring shocks. And these shocks may con-
tinue long time.
x X 4
War, however, is not inevitable There
are hopeful elements in the situation
which will cushion us against these
disturbing events. One is the fact that
tiator. Unless Mr.. Molotov is some
thing less than human, Mr.. Byrnes will
find means of bridging the gap between
their general outlooks. What happens
In diplomacy is that ultimately what
are called formulas are made, which
make agreements more possible. A Sec
ond element Of hope Is that, as Western
Europe RECEIVERS, it will be less and less
fertile ground for Communism and there
will be less encouragement to the Soviet
to push for more political penetration.
A final element of hope Is that, II the
next year or two can be muddled
through, process of evolution will take
place in Russia itself. The leaders Of
the revolution are now well along In
years. Kalinin is gone Litvinoff is out.
Stain Is In the sunset of life, and Molo-
tov grows no younger As the inevitable
turnover occurs, there may we'll be
change in policy which will bring East
and West closer together.
But for the time being, Americans will
find plenty OF stimulation In events
abroad
CReleased BY the Associated Newspapers. Ins.).
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Our Foreign Policy
By Ray,n ond MoIey

The most serious duty of the Ameri-
can press these days Is not only to re-
port the facts concerning Europe and
Asia, but to keep the public informed
of the long-run attitude of the Ameri-
can Government In foreign affairs. This
latter Is most important, because, in
the nature of things, mass public opin-
ion cannot keep up with rapidly chang
ing facts abroad. 1t must depend upon
Secretary of State James F. Byrnes
in Paris with his helpers and upon the
final judgment of President Truman in
Washington or elsewhere. A long sue
cession of critical decisions must be
made for which the President and Sec
retary Of State must assume quick re-
sponsibility. And upon the ultimate out
come Of these decisions may depend the
whole future. The rest of us can only
watch, hope and try to keep informed.
x**
This being true, it is just as neces-
sary to know what Nessrs. Truman and
Byrnes think of the facts as to know
the facts ourselves. The most reliable
information of what Is in the minds
of our responsible officials is something
like this:
Some months ago, the attitudes of
President Truman and Secretary Byrnes
toward Russia were, to degree, differ
ent. The Secretary of State leaned
more toward compromise with Russias
demands. Mr., Byrnes Is essentially a
negotiator. His years in Congress taught
him that, in passing legislation, half
loaf is quite an achievement; that the
main thing is to keep matters from
boiling over into an open brawl. and
that the appearance Of unanimity is
very high ideal. We cannot quarrel
with this, because, as Lord Morley said,
all statesmanship is based on compro-
mise. In any event, this is the natural
turn of the Byrnes mind.
Mr.. Truman seems to have reached
decision some months, ago that much
sitter attitude must be taken toward
Russia than that which marked the
war years and the months Immediately
after the war. He impressed this view
npon Mr.. Brynes and. because he was
President and Mr.. Byrnes was Secre-
tary Of State, the ultimate policy turned
Evening star., 1946-08-28

mlttlng the errors we were defending
the right is to compound felony.
The United States has betrayed all
the weak, endangered leaders, peoples
and parties who put their trust in us.
The United States has collaborated
with the U. S. 8. r. for the destruction
OF Europe and Western civilization.
AT Potsdam the United States sup
ported, and its President publicly justi-
lied while grinning for the photogra-
pliers, principles" and procedures which
uprooted millions. intensifying and ac-
celebrating mass migrations unparalleled
in human history; that created mass
hunger which they now ask the Ameri-
can people to sacrifice to assuage; that
condemned millions indiscriminately-
the guilty, the innocent, the children and
the unborn-to misery, death, idleness,
nihilitic despair, and world on which
it is better not to open ones eyes in
birth; that accelerated disintegration
and chaos; that favored the political
adventurer and spy; and that set de-
sign for aggression that cannot be So
called since it has already been encour-
aged and condoned
Let us not talk of organized con-
science" when the American conscience
has been progressively demobilized by its
leadership.
Today we are denouncing the U. S. S.
r. for abandoning our ideals, when we
ourselves long since abandoned them
The U. S. S. r. never pretended to be a
citadel of humanism and Christian civil
ization. She has her values and aims
and has been true to them But what
ours are can no longer be described with
a straight face. When the Casablanca
Conference announced unconditional
surrender, this column inquired exactly
who and what was asked Internationally
to surrender. Only the Germans? Or,
were we not, also, surrendering our war
aims and preparing to "redouble our zeal
as we lost sight Of our goal"
We cry after peace and do not find
1t because there has been neither fidelity,
honor. justice, intelligence, nor even q
primitive instinct for survival demon
strated by our international conduct.
We cannot even properly see the notes
in the eyes of others because of the
beams in our own
We are, indeed, in bad way But
no one put us there except our leader
ship and ourselves.
(Released BY the Bell Syndicate Incl
Evening star., 1946-08-28

mate may be discovered in the
geological character OF the ice-free
marginal zone. Sandstones and
limestones which conceivably con-
tain oil as well as coal predominant.
Conservationists repeatedly have
warned that the world will need
wealth of that sort in time to come.
The resources of the temperate
zones are being exploited at a rate
which has alarmed many authori-
ties.
DR.. Dunbar in his Introductory
statement stresses the value of air
transport. The Arctic. Greenland
particularly included, is nearer than
it formerly was Aviation has mod
if1ed peoples ideas of the Far
North. What it will do along like
lines in the future surely will be
still more significant.
Evening star., 1946-08-28

a number OF rumors about the motives
which had prompted him to take his
action. Some said he had been bought
by personal favors: others that he joined
the Russians to escape the ordeal of
very severe third degree.
Neither version apparently is true.
Former associates Of Won Seydlitz say he
had been protege of Gen. Fritsch,
who had been fired by Hitler before the
war and later committed suicide on the
Polish front. Neither officer had any
use for Hitler and Naziism But when
the war broke out they felt it was their
patriotic duty to fight for the father
land.
The Russian intelligence, which kept
good tab on all the German officers,
advised the Politbureau of the "possibil-
ities' Won Seydlitz could offer.
Shortly after he arrived in Moscow
after his capture at Stalingrad, Prime
Minister Stain received him. Ac-
cording to Won Seydlitz's former as
sociates, this conversation was followed
by others with Foreign Minister Molotov
and other high-ranking Soviet officials
and resulted in the creation of the Free
Germany movement. Won Seydlitz, the
German informants say, did not seek
any advantages for himself He was
strongly impressed by the views Of the
Russian leaders which, in a nutshell,
were that Russia has nothing against
the German people and would like to
bring about the closest possible associa-
tion with Germany at the end of the
war;
Won Seydlitz was convinced that the
Kremlin leaders were really anxious to
maintain united Reich, provided it
gave up all ideas of cooperating with
the western powers and entered into the
orbit of Soviet interests.
Stain later asserted in a broadcast
that the Russians were not fighting the
German people but only the Hitlerites
and he expressed his view that Germany
must remain an important power.
The Free Germany Committee was
organized soon afterward as a propa-
ganda agency to influence the German
officers and soldiers, although at the
Moscow conference in 1943 Molotov
promised Secretary of State Hull to dis
solve that organization.
AS a propaganda machine it was dis
solved in May, 1945. But it was organ
lied as military force later and placed
at Seydlitz's insistence under the COM
mand of Paulus. Today it is said
the Free Germany Army Corps-or
whatever new name it has been given
is considered one Of the best units OF
the Red Army.
Evening star., 1946-08-28
This Changing World
By Constantine BYown

The organization known in the fall of
i943 as the Free Germany Committee
headed at first bv 1t. Gen. Won Seydlitz
and later by his senior ofiicer, Field
Marshal Paulus, has been mentioned
very little since We day, when its prop
aganda value ceased to exist.
Recent reports, however, are that It
has been transformed into an effective
military unit of some $4,000 hand-picked
former war prisoners to which were
added number of young German re-
cruits. This army corps was stationed
until lately around Kaliningrad (the
new name for the ancient East Prussian
capital of Koenigsberg) under the COM
mand of Paulus.
A few weeks ago this force was re-
moved from Kaliningrad to Poland and
stationed in and around the industrial
town OF Lodz, 120 miles west of Warsaw.
The Polish government. subseryient as
1t is to Moscow, has not taken kindly to
this transfer of German troops into an
area which has been less damaged than
others by the war. The Beirut govern
ment Is said to have made representa-
tions to the Russian officials at Warsaw,
protesting that the arrival of a large
German force in Poland would further
increase the populations difficulties.
Many homes had to be evacuated to
make room for Paulus' large and exact
ing staff. At the same time, Russian or
Russian-sponsored troops live on the
land and there are enough food difficult
ties in Poland without adding another
10000 hungry men who have to be well
led to maintain their fighting efficiency,
$3.50
The Polish representations are said to.
have fsen on deaf ears For reasons of
high eatrategy, the well-equipped army
corps which is wearing the Red Army
uniform with a distinctive insignia had
to be moved to region closer to the
west than Kaliningrad.
Paulus himself is a disgruntled man
who felt that he had been let down by
the Fuehrer. After his surrender at
Stalingrad he hesitated for some time
before yielding to the entreaties of Won
Seydlitz to join the move which was
intended to help Germany get back on
her feet.
According to reliable informants who
were with the Free Germany Committee
before 1t became the Free GERMANY
army corps, and have now taken refuge
IN the western zone, Won Seydlitz, NOV
Ing spirit Of the Free Germany organi-
zation, is remarkably able man who
went over to the Russians with his eyes
wide open. Soon after he organized the
Moscow-sponsored movement there were
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Increased Leisure

1t was about two decades ago
when the professors of sociology and
psychology were in full hue and cry
over the problems posed by leisure
time. The situation caught the Ma
tion a bit of balance. Half a GEN.
tury ago the twelve to fourteen hour
day grudgingly gave way to ten;
then about the time automobiles be-
came common and the radio ne
cessity the nine-hour day was con-
sidered an important forward step.
The spread-the-work philosophy
of the thirties brought the forty
hour week into manufacturing and
for the first time in history workers
learned the pleasure and relaxation
that accompanies the two-day week
end. In two areas especially the
shorter hours did not apply: retail
stores and in farming. This summer
has seen general shortening of
work hours for the former group
Nationwide reports indicate that
many retail establishments have
gone on five-day week; many have
announced plans for staggering
hours and days during the winter
season SO workers will have forty
hour week.
Shorter work weeks have not
brought the dire results some pre-
dicted. Men and women have no
problem using the time in whole
some fashion for hobbies, gardening,
travel and just plain loafing. To
date there is no real solution for
lessening the hours of work on the
farm. This is a complicated prob
Evening star., 1946-08-28
A Warmer Greenland?

DR.. Max Dunbar Of McGill Uni
versity has returned to Montreal
after five years Of residence and re-
search in Greenland. The earliest
newspaper accounts of his expert
ence suggest that his formal report
may be of sensational interest. He
believes that the climate OF the
huge Arctic isle is changing. The
reason for this development, he
says, is Startling" alteration in
the Gulf stream and eddy currents.
A symptom of the gradual warm
ing up" process involved is the pres
ence OF "prodigious numbers" of
Goldfish "far up the coast, where
they never were noted before"
Whales and seals allegedly are NOV
ing northward "to avoid the heat"
Now, of course, the notion of
Greenland as competitor of Flor
ida is ridiculous. DR.. Dunbar would
be the first to laugh at it. But the
temperature statistics which he
cites are serious enough. They show
that twice previously-in the 1820s
and again in the 1940s-there were
systematic rises of the mercury. On
both occasions the trend continued
for about ten years. Then followed
declines. What distinguishes the
prevailing ascent is the fact that it
already has lasted nearly three
decades. Should the same tendency
remain unbroken for, say, few
centuries, the Arctic would be as
congenial for human habitation as
Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, If
not Quebec and Maine, currently
are.
In this connection it is worth
mentioning that the population of
Greenland in 1880 was in excess OF
sixteen thousand and that prior to
a smallpox epidemic approximately
hundred years ago, the country
supported about twice the total In
dicated. Nobody knows certainly
what lies under the ice cap which
covers the central portion Of the
island-72l, 900 square miles in esti-
mated area; but clue to potential
natural wealth which might be re-
vealed by further mutations In cli-
Evening star., 1946-08-28
The Repurutions Issue

The storm raised before the Eco
nomic Commission for the Balkans
and Finland at the Paris Confer
ence by the Australian proposal that
war reparations from those former
Axis satellites be put on a sound
economic basis reveals another con-
tentious aspect in the difficult task
of framing just and workable peace
settlements.
Objectively considered, the pro-
poSal of the Australian delegate,
Dr. E. R. Walker, seems thoroughly
meritorious. Taking care to preface
his proposal with agreement on the
principle of reparations and appre-
citation OF the damage suffered by
Soviet Russia and other nations at
the hands of aggressors-an ap-
proach in marked contrast to the
fiery denunciation of Russia by his
Australian colleague, j. A. Beasley-
DR.. Walker nevertheless argued the
necessity that the settlements
should be economically sound. He
therefore proposed that the eco
nomic phases of the armistice ar
rangements concluded under Soviet
initiative with the defeated Axis
satellites be reviewed by a perma-
nent reparations commission with
power to evaluate their capacity to
pay, to evaluate deliveries already
made under the armistices, and to
handle the mechanics of future pay
ments under principles to be laid
down by the Paris Conference.
Then the storm broke, precipi-
tated by Foreign Minister Molotov,
who, though not member of the
commission, appeared personally to
oppose the proposal. There was
little economics in Molotov's re-
buttal, which consisted mainly in
vitrolic harangue wherein he at
tackled DR.. Walkers motives, ques-
toned his intellectual capacity, and
went so far as to express doubts that
the Australian delegation reflected
the views of the Australian people.
Charging Australia's s spokesmen with
trying to prevent the establishment
Of peace, Mr.. Molotov shouted that
DR.. Walkers proposal was one
which "only an aggressor could
support"
This incorporate TRADE merely
reveals Moscow's determination to
perpetuate reparations imposed
upon the defeated satellites which
bind them economically in the
Soviet sphere. Such unilateral ac-
tions have already been objected to
by the western powers, but the Aus
tralian proposal tends to shift the
reparations issue from the rather
nebulous fields of diplomacy and
politics to the realm of economics
where it could be factually eyalu-
ated. Mr.. Molotov's threatening
harangue shows that this Is the last
thing Moscow desires.