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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-01-10
THE RssTFEr0S NEWS. Rf.TFFFGN.,
News Our Grandfathers Read
From Issue OF June 9, 1910

The Boxweli- Patterson Richland
township commencement will be held
Friday evening June IT at the
Bluffton town hall at 500 p. M.
Each graduate must recite some
poem, essay or short Grafton that he
has committed to memory. Graduates
are Jesse w. Steiner, Genevieve
Betzner, Lyle Richards, Zoa Augs-
burger, Lydia Burkholder, Harvey
Burkholder, Leila Frick, Lizzie Stein
er, Freda Fryman, Lavina Gratz,
Ilo Boothby, Rosella Biederman,
Harry Amstutz, Fred Augsburger,
Fanny Lauby, Ruth Neiswander,
Minnie Balmer, Raymond Augsburr
ger, Abe Block, Ella Steiner, Mildred
Bixel, Ralph Stearns, Estelle Am
stutz, Agnes Sechler, Bernice Bogart,
Zoe Miller, Hazel Augsburger, Ros-
coe Bowers, Grace Murray.
A baby girl was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Eugene Tschiegg last week.
Phares Steiner secured a position
with the Lima Locomotive works.
Willis Althaus left for Green
castle, Ind, to attend the graduation
exercises of his brother C. P. Alt
haus.
P. B. Amstutz has passed a sub
scription around for the purpose of
building sheds at the Ebenezer
church and has secured 40 sigma
lures. A barn will be built to ac-
commodate the rigs.
Samuel E. Vincent of Columbus
and Mary Alice, daughter of c. L.
Steiner, three miles west of Bluffton,
were married Sunday morning by
the Rev. w. S. Gottschall.
Invitations are issued for the mar
riage of Miss Mayme Boyer of near
Rockport and Alvin Whistler, former
ly of this place. The wedding will
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-01-10

. "She begs the simplest ques-
tions," ,orote Alfred Cochrane. Turn
not aside at any OF today's Guess
again questions, though they may
be simple. Merely place a mark in
the space provided, and check be-
loto for the correct ansUer and your
rating.
ID Henry VIII was noted for his
vast collection of: (a) recipes; (b)
pottery; (c)
wines; Id wives.
(2) tIn the spring young mans
fancy lightly turns to thoughts of
love" was written by: (a) Shakes
peare: (b) Wordsworth;
(c) Shelley; (d) Tennyson.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-01-10
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take place June 18th.
Miss Louisa Ruhl left Saturday to
visit friends in Oberlin and Cleye-
land.
Real Estate agent D. S. Flick sold
the Charles Fenton property on
Riley street to Floyd Everett.
Mrs. Noah Basinger and Mrs.
George Pifer of Orange Twp, left
Sunday for Gallon, to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Petrie.
Much credit is due Clark Frick
and son Robert, who went to Maple
Grove cemetery and neatly repainted
the markers at the soldiers graves,
before decoration day.
Misses Nellie Eaton, Eva Idle, Zoe
Bentley, Flora Plattner, Mable Fett,
Mable Jones, Lillian Zehrbach, Mr.,
and Mrs. c. A. Waltz, Armin and
Ray Hauenstein, drove to Ada, Fri
day and saw President Taft.
A very enjoyable evening was
spent at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Sam Stettler in honor of Mrs. o. V
Swerlein of Goshen, Ind. Those
present were: Mrs. o. V. Swerleir
Mrs. w. Hawk and family, Mrs. r
Potee and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs
Albert Deppler, Mrs. Pence and
daughter, Misses Ilo Boothby, Emma
Woods, Leila Satterlee and Z. E
Mosiman.
Orange township citizens will well
come back Alva Anderson and wife
in the near future, as they have
bought the Walter Hilty farm.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-01-10

farm, a veteran beginning operations
would need at least S3,400 for ma
chinery and an additional minimum
outlay of $1,000 for livestock.
This would make the total cost of
setting up farming operations APP
proximately S21 900, and under pres
ent arrangements veterans can OBJ
tain maximum government loans of
only $4,000 for chattels and an esti-
mated commercial loan of $4,000 is
in force, too little to finance most
farm transactions in which veterans
figure.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-01-10

prices are due to owners hopes that
they may be able to sell the farms
to returning war veterans who have
promises of federal loans for that
purpose.
Seemingly no thought has been
given to the fact that soaring prices
for farm land will make it increas-
ingly difficult for veterans to buy
farms, as an increase of one-half
would make an 80-acre farm cost
in excess of $4,000.
!. BIG HURDLE FOR VET
In addition to the cost of the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-01-10
NEWS OUR FATHERS READ
FROM ISSUE OF JANUARY Is, 1917

The George Duffman family who
have resided in Michigan for the
past ten years will return to Bluffton
to make their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. p. Hummon and
daughter Elizabeth are in California
for the winter sightseeing.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-01-10

The reserve supply Of clover and
legume seeds is expected to be at a
very low level after 1916 spring
seedlings, so farmers are urged to
plan to harvest these seeds in 1916
and are advised to increase seed
yields per acre by placing colonies
of bees in the fields.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-01-10

Land Prices Rise 48
Per Cent In 10 Years
Concluded from page Il
LAND PRICES SOAR

LAND PRICES SOAR
Before the outbreak of World War
II, good farm land in the Bluffton
area was priced roughly at $50 an
acre. This. same land now is quoted
at an average of upwards of 1925
per acre. In 1885 the same land
would have brought about $50.
In some cases, present high
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-01-10

For years the facts about General Motors have been
made public.
In spite of this, the UAW.CIO demands chance to
look at our books with the hint that we could meet
Union demands eff the truth really known"
We have firmly declined to recognize this basis
for bargaining:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-01
Wartime Diphtheria
Rise Points 10 Need
OF Constant Vigilance
By Thomas R. Henry

Diphtheria, although reduced al
most 80 per cent in the United
States in 20 years, remains a Turk
ing menace in the world.
This is shown by statistical
study just completed by the United
States Public Health Service which
indicates that only constant vigil
ance can be expected to protect
populations against one of the most
deadly of ma1adies.
In 1924 there were 120,500 cases
In the United States. In 1914 there
were only 14,150. The death rate
dropped from 10000 to 1000 be-
tween these dates. 1t appeared as
If diphtheria was almost at the
vanishing point. There was, how
ever, a very slight increase during
the war years.
Sweeps Wartime Europe.
Very different was the experience
Of Europe where there had been a
roughly similar decline in diph-
liberia incidence during two de-
cades. Shortly after the outbreak
Of the war, catastrophe epidemics
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-01

started. On the continent, exclud-
ing Russia, there were more than a
million cases in both 1943 and 1914.
In Norway the case rate increased
24-fold. The annual rate increased
12-fold In Holland and about eight
fold in Belgium. In Germany there
was about a 800 per cent increase.
The decline of the diphtheria rate
in all these countries for almost
Ia quarter century had been with
out the aid of much immunization
Of children, such as had been prac-
ticed in the United States. This
had led to questioning as to whether
immunization was worth while, since
the case rate declined anyway.
The disease, it was argued, had
shown periodic increases and de-
clines for as long as there were
medical records. This may be true
to some extent, since the Public
Health Service study shows that
there was a statistical upturn in
the United States at the time the
big European epidemic started.
But 1t was able to make little
Roadway and, the statistics show, it
made greatest gains In those Sec
tons of the country was immuniza-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-01

ton Of the younger population was
least advanced. The proportion Of
fatal cases to all cases reported,
however, remained about the same
as at the start Of the great decline.
This, the Public Health Service
statistics show, is in striking con-
trast to the picture for scarlet fever,
against which there is relatively lit
tie immunization in this country.
With the advent Of the sulfa drugs,
however, there was an enormous
decrease in death rates although the
case rates we're fairly constant.
Thus, the study indicates, whether
diphtheria immunization has been
the chief cause for the decline of
the disease, 1t Is about the only in
surance against catastrophe out
breaks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-01
'Teen-Age Scientist
Tests Open Here )

Forty 'teen-age scientists from IA
States, including / from the Dis
trict, will begin competition today
for scholarships at the Science
Talent Institute held at the Hotel
Statler.
The group of 20 boys and II girls
was selected from about 10000 en-
trants for the scholarships totaling
$11, 900 offered by the Westinghouse
Educational Foundation. Included
in the group is John Taylor Hop
kins w, 906 Gallatin street NV.
The search for the Nations bright
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-01
Two Named to Committee

Two nearby Maryland resident
men are among the IA men ap-
pointed yesterday by Gov. O'Conor
to membership on the Maryland
War Memorial Committee. They
are Mayor Harry A. L. Barker Of
Riverdale and w. I. Green OF the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-01

est youths with bent for science
was conducted by the Science Clubs
Of America. Prizes include two
scholarships for four years of study,
worth $1,000 each, for the foremost
boy and girl scientists. Eight
scholarships for four years of study,
valued at $500 each, viii also be
awarded, and the judges can dis
tribute other scholarships valued
at $1,000.
The group will meet Mrs. Harry
S. Truman at the White House at
4 pm. today. The schedule lists
numerous talks by scientists and
visits to scientific exhibits here dur
ing their f1ve-day stay.
All heat is the result of the con-
tinuous motion of atoms and mole,
culeS in all substances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-01

farmers Banking 81 Trust Co.,
Rockville. Mr.. Green lives in Silver
Spring.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1946-03-01
N. Y. Board of Education Exonerates Teacher
Accused of Spreading Anti-Semitic Propaganda

NEW YORK, GTA) - May
Quinn, Brooklyn elementary
school teacher, who was charged
with spreading anti-Semitic pro-
paganda in her classrooms, was
exonerated last week by the
New York City Board of Edu-
cation. James Marshall, former
Board president, was the only
one of the six members voting
who favored Miss Quinn's dis
missal.
After the decision was announ-
ced, Marshall read a lengthy
document reviewing the accusa-
ton against the teacher and
pointing out why he believed
she was guilty of an "un-Ameri-
can, undemocratic and intolerant
attitude" which was the phras-
ing of the formal charge against
her. The only punishment melted
out to Miss Quinn was an Off
cial reprimand and a fine of two
months salary, but since she has
been suspended for four months
without pay, the net result was
to give her two months back pay.
The charges against Miss
Quinn date back to the Fall of
1912, when sixteen teachers in
her school complained to the
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1946-03-01

ctive survey to demonstrate
nat not all Jews are Zionists:
l fact, that only a small per-
entage of the Jews actually
avor the Zionist program.
81 do not know Of the methods
he Palestine Government in
ends to employ to obtain such
statistics. Ways, am sure, will
BE found. It is therefore of trans
,endent Importance for us to be
able to show that Jews every
where are overwhelmingly Zion
Ists."
Joining in the appeal of the
ZOA president, DR.. Stephen S.
Wise, as zone of the few surviv-
ing founders of the Zionist Or
ganization of America" urges
"our fellow-Jews throughout the
United States of America to de-
monstrate that we represent the
great majority of American Jews
as contrasted with the handful
who misrepresented the Ameri-
can Jewish community at the
hearings of the Joint Anglo-Am-
erican Committee of Inquiry"
DR.. Wise further declared that
''the way to prove that we do
represent the vast proponderance
of American Jews, their opinions,
their convictions alike, is to
reach in this year, 1916, a men,
bership in the number of $780,
300, set for us by DR.. Silver as
president of the Zionist Organi-
cation of America"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1946-03-01
ZIONIST WEEK. PROCLAIMED
MARCH l7th-24th

New York, N. Y. = The eight
day period beginning with March
18th (Purim) through the oath
has been proclaimed as Zionist
Enrolment Week dedicated to
the mobilization of all segments
of the Jewish community within
the ranks of the Zionist Organi-
cation of America" the national
headquarters of the ZOA an
nounced here.
Designating Zionist Week, DIR.
Abba Hill Silver, president of
the Zionist Organization of Am
erica called upon Zionists
throughout the land to concen-
trate during that period upon the
task of attaining the goal of $780,
900 members for the Organiza-
ton.
Zionist membership today -
declared DR.. Silver - symbolic
es a demonstration of the or
ganized will of American Jewry.
Only recently dispatch from
Jerusalem reported that the Pal
estine Government, in anticipa-
ton of the visit of the Commit
tee of Inquiry, is now making an
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1946-03-01

principal that she was spreading
subversive and anti-Semitic pro-
paganda. A libel suit against the
teachers on the basis of this ac-
cusation was dismissed in court
last June.
Parent and teacher groups,
representatives of which attend
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1946-03-01

ed the board meeting, indicated
that they plan to take the case
into the courts, if possible, in
an attempt to force the board to
dismiss Miss Quinn.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1946-03-01


reefod European Aid Program In these
the N
clothing needing
Clothing
Denmark anC
Evening star., 1946-01-13

prayers at night. Mrs. Fringer reported
he had covered his face with his hands
and whispered, II forgot" His mother
beamed with delight. Hes getting to be
his old self again"
In six weeks. Mrs. Fringer relayed some
twenty-five hundred messages, packed
with comfort for kids and parents.
In time, however, she saw them as
something more. The relief from anxiety
meant that the emotional energy of these
people could be conserved and put into
constructive work later on in cases of
physical handicap"
Today Rockford's epidemic is over 1t
was an experience her people will never
forget. Thirty-seven of their children are
gone. Others will be lame for years. Hun
dreds of parents will be haunted by their
Nightmares of fear. But equally unfor-
gettable will be the simple humanity of
Mrs. Fringer. In a day of frenzy and in
the thick of high-powered, efficiently
executed relief campaign, she had the
vision to see the one thing that was miss
ing, the heart to realize its importance, and
the courage to step in and supply it.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
BUTTON MAN
4 0-Second CiOse-Jp

RIDDLE. The answer to that vexing
dilemma: Button. button, who's got
the button?" is Herbert Partridge,
owner of Manhattan's Old Buttons
Shop, only one of its kind in the
world.
Such a collection of eye-nuzzling
buttons has never before been gath
cred under one roof. Included are
buttons of amber, shell, lapis lazuli,
pewter and jade; tapestry, inlaid. en-
graved and carved buttons; buttons
depicting the fall of the angels and
buttons thinning the fall of Troy. It's
a button-fancier' paradise.
WHO'S WHO. Some 10000 items
comprise the stock on view and on
sale at tiny shop where you are
likely to bump into the Duchess of
Windsor, Edward G. Robinson, Made
leine Carroll, Mainbocher, Hattie
Carnegie, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller.
One midnight Mr.. Partridge was
working on a rush job. He heard an
insistent tapping on the window. Re-
luctantly he opened up, found Adrian,
the fashion designer, and his wife.
Janet Gaynor. They had spotted some
intriguing buttons in the window.
wouldn't take no for an answer.
You may be surprised to learn that
old buttons cost anywhere from 81
to $1OO apiece. Button biographies
and photographers are hunted down
by button lovers with the zeal en-
Evening star., 1946-01-13

action. gave abundantly of beds, cribs,
blankets, automobiles and money. The
National Foundation for Infantile Paraly-
sis recruited nurses and skilled physical
therapists, and advanced quarter of
million dollars to help pay the bills. 1t was
a spectacle of community character - of
people rising together to save their kids.
BUT with all its energy and generosity,
there was one thing the community could
not provide - until Mrs. Fringer came
along She knew that when child is sick
and scared there is no medicine or service
that comforts him so much as the feeling
that his mother and father are watching
over him. Nor is there any worry greater
than that of parent Polio, however, de-
manded their separation. The stricken
children were isolated in the hospitals for
at least two weeks.
During the first week of the epidemic,
Mrs. Fringer saw the unhappiness this
was causing - and way to attack it. She
was the wife of doctor. She had had long
experience as nurse and hospital super
intendent. She went to the Polio Emer-
Evening star., 1946-01-13

gency Committee and proposed what she
called Service for Parents She was asked
to start the project at once.
From then on. seven days week. Mrs.
Fringer worked as liaison between the
children in the hospitals and the parents
outside - in short as substitute mother.
Every morning at her desk she received
personally a dozen mothers and fathers,
half-crazed with anxiety, and talked by
phone with sixty more.
In her notebooks she wrote all their
questions and messages. And in their next
conversation, after she'd gone from bed
to bed in the hospitals, she gave them the
answers they were starved for. No medi-
cal data = that was the doctors business
- but straight shoulder esti
mates of each child's condition, and init
Evening star., 1946-01-13

ployed by Pinkerton detectives track
ing down a missing person. A half
dozen Wedgewood buttons turned
out in the latter part of the eighteenth
century will get you jeep in trade.
The launching of the only old
button shop in the world was just
one of those things. Mr.. Partridge,
transplanted Londoner, had been
operating an antique shop and COL
lecting buttons as hobby. One day
he was offered a chance to buy up
1O,OOOold buttons, many ofreal value.
1t was a prize catch, but there was
only one thing man could do with
that many buttons: Go into the
button business. - JOHN FRANCHEY
Evening star., 1946-01-13

mate, meaningful re-
ports on how he looked
and how he ate and what
he wanted and what he
said about the Teddy.
bear.
1T WAS far more than
the short doing as we'll
as can be expected"
that hard-pressed nurses
had to say over the
phone. And it made the
difference between hope
and anguish. One mother
wanted to know if her
boy had been saying his
Evening star., 1946-01-13

parents and stricken chill
dren. They are also a
record of what the little,
gray woman, Mrs. Viii
liam r. Fringer, did last
summer to relieve the
misery that was visited
upon Rockford by a sud-
den, brutal epidemic of
infantile paralysis.
The disease struck in
July. In four months
three hundred and
ninety-fve children were
carried into hospitals.
The townspeople,
shocked into whirlwind
Evening star., 1946-01-13

What this woman did in a
time of crisis has brought
her a city's lasting love .
In ROCKFORD, ILL.,. there is small gray
Il haired woman of sixty who has note
book, strangely marked. On the left-hand
pages, pencilled in red, are short questions
and statements: us he talking much?
How is his appetite? Well bring the pic
ture books" And on the opposite pages,
in black pencil: How is my dog? When
will they come to see me? like the
mashed potatoes II not the spinach
A name Identifies each entry. There are
hundreds of them, and they are record of
indirect communication between anxious
Evening star., 1946-01-13
This Week Magazine

FOR b E 7 Z II M r c A
WILLIAM |. NICHOLS, Editor
LADY LION-HUkTER. .............. 4
BY Helen Wordsn
YOU'RE FIRED, CARSONl". l"........ 6
by Willard N. Temple
SWEET FiRECRACKER. ............... 9
BY Louis Berg
SIill MORE "MATSlES". 10
BY Ckorjss D. Rice
WHO'S A SUGGEST. II
by Howard Whifmon
ACCIDENTAL MEETING. ............13
by Oseor Sehissoh
FOOD FOR CONVERSATION. ....... IS
BY Cismenfins Puddieford
FOUR CIGARETTES. -
by Arthur Gordon
Cover BY Fred LsTour
Evening star., 1946-01-13
JNnikMMHr

co -CETTER. The Sunfower Ord
nance Works, at Desota, Kan. has
received the following missive:
sIRs: IHEAR YoU-ALL ARE LOOKING
TO SELL GOVERNMENT SURPLUS FUNDS.
CALCULATE l COULD USE SOME OF
THEM FUNDS. PLEASE SEND INFoRMA-
rION FOR BIDDING ON SAME.
SUPER-SERVICE. The story has
Just got round to us about big de-
partment store which solemnly prom
ised that all Christmas gifts would
be delivered by December Is. At four
am. Christmas morning. the store
manager was reused from his bed by
the phone. A woman on the wire said:
Il want to thank you for the lovely
gift received. It's perfectly darling
hat and it came from your store"
But madam" mumbled the man
ager, why call at this hour of the
morning to tell me about it?'
Because" she snapped. lone of
your drivers Just delivered it,"
REMINDER. Substitute Mother"
on this page, tells of polio epidemic
in Rockford, Ill. Such disaster could
happen anywhere - even in your
own home town. And the way to
prevent it is simple: Join the March
of Dimes!
GHOST STORY. 1t. Col. Lee Schoen
writes us a chiller about No IS Addi-
son Road. London, a house that was
badly shaken by V-bomb. No. IS
has window that behaves in ghostly
fashion: At the slightest vibration.
the window gives an ominous shudder
and slowly, slowly raises itself. The
distraught residents we're on the point
of fleeing the place. until the local
glazier hit on the explanation: Origi-
nally the pane in the window was very
heavy plate-glass stock. After the
bombing it was replaced by ordinary
glass - which was too light to bal
ance the CONFERENCE.-The. We assume
they've nailed it down by this time.
NIL. W. l.
Evening star., 1946-01-13

Names and descriptions Of all characters In
magazine ~ % are Wholly imaginary. % Any " name $
which happens to be the same that of any
person. living or dead. Is entirely coincidentsi.
Evening star., 1946-01-13

TW-l-l5-46
Evening star., 1946-12-13
Sunday Reading

The postwar urge for educa-
tion has overwhelmed the Ma
tion's school system, creating
a serious problem in provid-
ing sufficient physical facilities
and teaching personnel to
meet the load. The District
of Columbia is faced with its
portion of this troublesome
problem.
In the feature section of this
weeks Sunday Star, Henry A.
Muslin, education editor Of
The Star. writes of the local
emergency. In the editorial
section is an article dealing
more specifically with the SAL
ary issue in the teaching pro-
fession throughout the coun-
try.
Gerard D. Reilly, former
member Of the National Labor
Relations Board, discusses an
aspect Of the current labor
picture in a column on the
editorial page. Mr.. Reilly, who
was solicitor for the Depart
ment of Labor before becom-
ing a member OF the NLRB In
1941, has had a leading role in
drafting and interpreting the
present Federal labor laws.
Other sections of The Sum
day Star cover such special
interest subjects as books, the
theater, music, art and farm
and garden. A locally edited
gravure section, This Week
magazine and q big comic
section are included.