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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18

sending a flood of kilograms over the
week end to congressman asking them
to put the skids under 0PA now
fighting for its life in Washington.
Bluffton oldtimers will remember
]. J. Jake" Makely, one of the stall
warts of the Odd Fellow lodge here
some 40 years ago. He is now living
in Columbia, No., and celebrated his
S0th birthday anniversary last month.
He keeps informed on happenings in
Bluffton thru the columns of the
News.
And speaking of the days way back
when-Mrs. Lydia Lora has a photo
graph of her two brothers Adolph and
Wilbur Schifferly taken April 9, 1911,
as they were reading The Bluffton
News at their home in Cincinnati.
Both have been gone from Bluffton
for more than 40 years but still
have a warm spot in their hearts for
the old home town. Adolph still re-
sides in Cincinnati while Wilbur lives
in nearby Bromley, Ky.
You've all heard complaints of the
older generation berating the short
comings of the youngsters-but oc-
casionally the youngsters speak up
and have something to say for them
selves. The other day we overheard
farm youth of junior high school
age complaining that his father con-
siders him capable of driving the
tractor all day-and to do a mans
iob-but at night, he's not old enough
to be trusted with the family car to
go to town. Perhaps we're wrong
but it seems to us that some
where in this incident is something
that tends to make boys dissatisfied
with the farm.
A strange paradox is the fact that
altho colleges are overflowing, high
school enrollments are the lowest in
years, so we are told by Clair "Styx"
Stettler, instructor in Cleveland's
East Technical high school here on
Easter recess the first of the week
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Cal
Stettler. The colleges are crowded
with ex-service men while the big
city high schools which speeded up
courses during the war have grad
uated some which under ordinary con-
ditions would still have been in high
school. This condition is further ag-
gravated by the declining birth rate.
Present enrolment of East Tech high
school of 1900 is less than half its
capacity. Stettler who got his first
taste of newspaper work on the Bluff
ton college student publication the
Witmarsum, is instructor in journal
ism and conducts classes in news ad-
vertising writing, supervises publica-
tion of the Cleveland schools news
paper and handles its publicity.
Comes a letter from Capt. Elbert
Kibele, stationed at Frankfurt on
Main in Germany where he frequent
ly sees 1t. Dwight Diller, also sta
toned at that place. The city has
been badly smashed by the war
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
NOTICE TO BIDDERS

The Board of Public Affairs of the Village
of Bluffton. Ohio will receive bids for the
repairing and painting of the elevated water
tank located on the grounds where the water
works plant ID situated in the Village of
Button. Ohio.
Bidder 10 do ali electric welding. furnish
all welding material paint and labor TO COM
plete job as per specifications.
EXTERIOR: The Contractor will clean and
scale all exterior surfaces of the tank and
tower from the ground up by removing all
rust. scale and loose paint. After cleaning
one coat of Dutch Boy Red-lead equivalent.
is to be thoroughly brushed into the grain of
the metal. and after allowing sufficient dry
ing period to apply one complete coat of good
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18

Kibele says, with most of the build-
ings in ruins. Extent of the damage
is impossible to comprehend unless
one has seen it, he continues. There
were about two weeks of ice skating
during January, however the past
winter was mild and not nearly as
cold as winters in Ohio. he writes.
Charles Hilty doesn't mind moving
the grass at his South Main street
residence when the results are as sur
prising as they turned out to be last
Saturday. Pushing away at the lawn
mower, he stopped when he spotted
mushroom right in front of the whirl-
ing blades. A search of the vicinity
yielded more than so of them and
provided a tasty evening snack for
the family.
Buttons housing shortage is get
ting a lot of publicity these days
in fact an item appeared the other
day in the Denver (Colorado) Post
that Bluffton people are building
garages to serve as homes until more
material is available. Looking over
the newspaper, the Bluffton date
line caught the eye of Gordon Hilty,
Bluffton native now living in Denver,
who sent the clipping to his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Hilty residing
south of town. Gordon, remembered
as an outstanding vocalist in his high
school days here is soloist for St.
Johns Episcopal cathedral in Denver
and also doing other solo work in
that section.
Comes an appeal from Lee Coon,
Buttons municipal cleaner-upper
asking householders to help keep al
leys clean. Many people, he says,
dump refuse in alleys all of which,
excepting brush, will be hauled away
by the towns collecting system, if
placed in containers. If refuse is
burned in the alleys the debris and
ashes should be removed, especially
if it contains nails.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
ROckport

Farm Bureau Council No. will
meet with Mr.. and Mrs. Cal Garmot-
ter Wednesday evening of next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coy Kohl who have
lived on a farm in this vicinity for
number of years recently moved to
their newly remodeled home in Col
umbus Grove.
Mrs. ]. o. Cupp, Mrs. Edgar Begg,
Mrs. w. E. Marshall and Mrs. John
Burkholder represented the local mis-
sionary society at meeting of Lima
Presbyterial held in Venedocia last
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dale Westenbarger
who have made their home with Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Mason in Columbus
Grove since Mr.. Westenbarger's dis
charge from the army, are planning
to go to housekeeping near Vaughns-
vile soon. Mr.. Westenbarger is en-
ployed in Lima.
The April meeting of the Friendly
Neighbor's Club will be held with
Mrs. Osa Reams Thursday afternoon
of next week with the following pro-
gram: Song; Roll Call-Favorite Ra-
dio Singer; Paderwski's Life"-Mrs.
Audrey Hauenstein; Kate Smith Be-
hind the Mike"-Mrs. Louis Van Me-
ter; Musical Contest-Mrs. Ella HUI
Der.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. c. Campbell at
tended funeral services for a relative
in Fremont Sunday afternoon.
Miss Rebecca Marshall, student in
Music at Ohio State University in
Columbus, spent the week end with
her parents Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
Marshall.
The annual Congregational meet
ing and Lenten service was held at
the Presbyterian Church Sunday eve
ming. Reports for the past year were
read and new officers selected.
Mrs. Jesse Spicer, Mrs. Fac Ros-
culp and Mrs. David Zimmerman and
little daughter of Lima were Wednes-
day dinner guests of Mrs. Alice
Bodell. Mr.. and Mrs. Harley Kess-
! Ter of Lima were afternoon callers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Boedecker of
Ottawa were supper guests, Sunday
evening of the formers mother, Mrs,
Lena Rockhill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Begg and sons
John and William were Saturday
night and Sunday guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Eugene Van Meter and son Don
ME of Millersburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Delmer Reagan of
Dayton were week end guests of Mr.
and Mrs. d. c. Campbell.
Miss Patricia Seeley of Columbus
Grove was entertained in the Guy
Mayberry home over the week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Trumbo OF
Muskogee, Oklahoma, who were in
Chicago on business, spent Wednes-
day night of last week with Mr.. and
Mrs. F. r. Mason in Columbus Grove
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Sears of Nor.
man, Oklahoma, are here for a visit
with Mrs. Sears parents Mr.. ane
Mrs. F. r. Mason and a sister Mrs
Guy Mayberry. Mr.. Sears, who was
located in San Francisco during the
war, has been released from the army
and resumed his former position as
history teacher in the University OF
Oklahoma.
Charles Wilkerson former Rock
port boy, who has just returned from
army service in Japan, his wife and
two children, Mr.. and Mrs. Olan Will
kerson of Lima and Mrs. Earl Smith
of Van Vert were Sunday afternoon
callers in the home of Mrs. Lena
Rockhil1.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
Birthday Dinners

Mr.. and Mrs. Maynard J. Coon of
North Robinson entertained at din
ner Sunday in honor of his birth
day anniversary, Mr.. and Mrs. H.
L. Coon of Bluffton and Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Coon and daughter
Cynthia of Columbus.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Lauby, Miss
Marilyn Lauby and Walter Grant
MOMM &c, were Sunday supper
guests of Mr.. and Mrs Carl Der
ringer and family in honor of the
birthdays of Mrs. Lauby and Robert
Derringer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18

Treatment of oats to prevent smut
may ad several bushels per acre to
the yield. The treatment is in
expensive and is easy to apply. All
county agricultural agents have
printed directions for recommended
ways of treating field and vegetable
seeds to prevent disease.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
THE STATE OF OHIO

Allen County, IS.
Estate of Mildred E. staufer beceasedsss"~
Chester A. Stauffer of Blufftoh, x0ff6, has
been appointed and qualified as~<sdministrator
of the estate of Mildred " ~Stallffer late of
Allen County Ohio. deceased.
Dated this goth dry of March 1916.
RAYMOND P. SMITH. Probate Judge So
Evening star., 1946-06-01

Of shopping 1o center. 44oo block Bennini
shofeham Hetsl Corp, erection Of $50;
E% sG1R ssts5 ssSdooo ososodit0n' $500 Calvert street
Fourteen cases, valued at $375 $50
approved on the basis of rare and
unusual individual hardship and
with the use of a minimum amount
of critically short materials:
Ben L: colomb lCrown GrilL, alterations
$4,000.
William Lee, alterations to restaurant
SOB H street NV, $4,000.
1856 Georgia avenue NV. $4,000.
John Heatwole, alterations to restaurant
12l1 Wisconsin avenue, $4,000.
Lionel B, Rowland, jr. (Howland Motors)
erectlon OF sales and service garage, Lau-
REL Md. $4,000.
Tri-S Suburban Broadcasting Corp. erec.
ton Of radio station, Montgomery County
1. S Burka and Samuel p. Cohen, erec.
ton OF warehouse, West Virginia avenue
NE, S125,00O.
John r: and William R. Perrine, erec.
alexandria, Va, S4S,000.
II. and K Chester, erection of DOS,
office, 3703s Nichols avenue Sc, $40, 900.
stand, !sl1 Vermont avenue NV. ST. $50.
Pr. =. S.. Hoffman. alterations for doc.
apartments. Pearson. Nd, Sc, 900.
Young Mems Shop, alterations, 1923 I
street NV. So: 600.
$4,000 -"'
Evening star., 1946-06-01

and has emerged as complement
Of the Reserve Officers of the Naval
Services, which is limited to officers.
Robert E. McCord is comman-
dant of the new chapter.
Ceremonies last night were marked
by a call of the roll of honor by the
Rev. Maurice S. Sheehy, director of
religious education at Catholic Uni
versity and chaplain of the aircraft
carrier Saratoga during the war.
High Navy officials, club members
and representatives of the families
OF those honored stood at attention
while the 469 names were read.
Peace Called Highest Tribute.
Admiral Halsey told an audience
of about 1000 that the best tribute
to the dead would be winning the
peace"
Part of the program was a show
ing of the Navy film, "The Fighting
Lady" The USS Missouri's mess
Evening star., 1946-06-01
CPA Grants Permits
To As Applicants for
District Construction

Forty-six applications for COM
mercial and industrial construction
IN the District are valued at $2,758,-
254 were approved in the last week,
Edward M. Synan, District construc-
ton manager for the Civilian Pro-
duction Administration, announced
last night.
In the same time, % applications
for $1,043,6 in construction were
denied.
A breakdown of approvals follows.
Twenty projects valued at $804 ,285
approved because they created a
minimum or no impact on veterans
housing:
.. Hill & Tibbitts; Inc. installation of sani-
600.
Edward ziger, alterations to building,
Sddnn-4l9 sdn King street. Alexandria. Va. SlO,-
William 1. Peters. alterations to ONCE
WoodroW S Men ssasep sRop at Of air
econditloning, 3006 Fourteenth street NV,
National Association of Broadcasters. in
staIlation 8 al Of Of air conditioning. 1850 N street
ss sItIonns M unit dEd dS14 Gaiatin Street, Hyatts
nsa Masanss3p HS5sl cs Store HRts Hen cGn
North Capitol street. $500.
& Rsn5 5o Of ssSsnth sfsees N ssynss era
Daniel v. Ashley. erection Of delicatessen
snS apartments 57o9 bloek doG Sheriff road
Aeronauticai Radio, Inc. installation
Of -eonlditioning system, 1los Sixteenth
st. Jane, James Corp, Corp, alterations to store
front, LIZA Pennsylvania avenue NV.
Mayer Ackerman, alterations to tailor
shop, 1880 Connecticut avenue, $1,000.
Capitol Radio Engineering Institute, Inc,
altesat,onS to GI aoS school, 1880 Fourteenth
Harry and Samuel Brown. alterations
to store front, 1925 H st. ne. $4,000,
Fifth street ezsaosas NE. s5.7oo ai'efa''0hS' i
Public Buildings :Admlnistration, instal-
lation Of air conditioning in lab, South
Independence avenue S;W,, $4,000.
Pioneer Laundry. addition. s2o Rhode
Harry GeIlman LELAND Pharmacy. al
thesda. Md. $1,000.
hut, I4O0 jefferson Davis highway. Airing
ton, Va, $4,000 =
Jerry Maiatico, partial construction Of
office building, Connecticut avenue and H
street NV, 100000.
Twelve projects, valued at ST.
s78,649, approved because they elimi-
mated serious shortage of an essen
tial activity or service affecting the
general health, safety or welfare of
the community:
County School Board of Fairfax County.
Va, erection of elementary school, Falls
Church, Va; Sl50,000.
County School Board of Fairfax County,
Va addition to elementary school, Vienna,
County School Board of Arlington
County, Va, erection of elementary school,
Quincy Street School, Arlington City, Va;
Silver Spring Volunteer Fire Department,
Inc, erection of municipal fire station,
Silver Spring, Md. $4,000.
The Laurel Sanitarium, alterations,
Laurel, Nd; S10,S50.
Greenbelt Consumer Services, Inc. erec-
and 81 Crescent road, Greenbelt' Nd;
Francis A. Smith and Robert F. Gabriel
elk, erection of garage and service station.
Pearson Md, $4,000.
Mrs. Enid Sims Snow, insertion Of air
condition equipment, 1925 M street NV,
S79a.
st. Agnes School, in diocese of Virginia,
alteration to dormitory, Alexandria Va
Dr.. Phillip T Johnson and DR.. Henry
S. Robinson. jr., establishment Of out
patient clinic, 1742 Sixth street NV,
$4,000.
Benning Investment >Co.. Inc. erection
Evening star., 1946-06-01

table, on which the Japanese sur
render was signed, was on view.
Rear Admiral Dewitt G. Ramsey
commandant of the Anacostia Naval
Air Station, appealed to club men,
bers to help raise 1854 volunteers for
air station duty to help with the
Naval Reserve air training program.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Tribute Paid 10 Navy
Enlisted Dead 10 Be
Rebroadcasf Toniqht

Families and friends of the 469
sailors, Marines and Coast Guards
men from the District who gave
their lives during the war will hear
a rebroadcast this evening OF a
memorial tribute led by Admiral
William F. Halsey at the Mayflower
Hotel last night. The rebroadcast is
set for 7:30 pm. on Station VOL.
Admiral Halsey paid honor to
enlisted men on the roll of honor
particularly, saying:
1T was the enlisted man who won
the war, we brass hats did nothing
but make a few decisions"
Club Branch Inaugurated.
Occasion for the tribute was the
launching of the "U. s. S. Capita
Ship of Washington" the Capitals
branch of the Navy Club of America
The club includes all men ane
women who have served in the Navy
Evening star., 1946-06-01

The Bahamas Islands have sent
England nearly 100000 worth of
canned honey and tomatoes, as a
gift,
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-20
Big Business
in Politics

Looking toward the cam
paign of 1896, Altgeld aroused
the country and took control
of the party away from Cleve-
land. He had great plans to
win the election with a genuine
peoples candidate and a re-
born Jeffersonian party. These
plans were thwarted by gla-
mor-boy VILLA m Jennings
Bryan of the silver tongue,
who GRATED himself into the
nomination.
The ensuing campaign, as Fast
shows, set new records for large
scale corruption. 1t was, of
course, the Republican Party
which broke its own previous
records. The campaign was his
torical also in marking a new
technique of business in politics
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-20

tutional Republic "of the people,
by the people, for the people"
AGAINST that dream of a
democratic way of life has been
opposed the hard realists of spe-
cial privilege. In the early days of
our Republic it was Hamilton's
thesis against Jefferson's, the
classes against the masses.
Over the long sweep of
American history the people
have held their own in Ameri-
ca. Our written guarantees of
individual liberties have been
firm bulwark against any
wide-s suppression
of ideas.
But there has never been a
year nor day, nor an hour, even
in America, when there were not
loud voices raised against those
democratic ideals.
n
THE year 1916 is no exception.
We have not yet recovered
from a devastating world war
fought in defense of human
rights; but the voices of oppres-
sion are loud in our land today.
The fact is they were never
stilled, even during the dark and
dangerous days of war.
They are the voices of reaction.
They are the voices of special
privilege, and of retreat, and of
defeatism. They are voices with
out faith in America or in peo-
pie.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-20
ADOLPH HITLER {

In America, his rise to power
gave Dutch courage TO people
who never believed in the Ameri-
can dream. Under his leadership,
even when there was no direct
connection, native fascism in
America was emboldened to come
out in the open, to fan the latent
fires of racial and religious bigot-
ny into open flame, to attempt
to destroy our individual liber-
ties and the rights of labor, and
turn the hands of the clock of
history back to the Middle Ages.
ADOLPH Hitler is gone. Mus
solini is gone.
Their ideas remain. So do
the instruments of those ideas.
The mighty presence of Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt in the White
House defeated reaction for 13
wonderful years while America
caught up with the rest of the
world in social legislation. Now
that he has gone the buzzards
are sweeping in, trying to undo
all that was done under his mag
nificent leadership.
Every Member of Congress =
In the Senate and in the House
- is under a constant barrage by
avaricious industrial and finan-
cial groups to pass drastic legis-
1ation to destroy the hard-won
and highly-prized rights of or
ganized labor, to destroy OPA
and the Wagner Act.
have repeatedly criticized the
conduct of the House Committee
on Un-American Activities be-
cause it has been made the in
strument for the forces of reac-
ton
The present committee is set
up as permanent legislative
committee with broad powers Of
investigation.
This is violation of the order
1y mode of procedure established
In 100 years of continuous Amer
lean government.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-20
A Wandering
Worker

THERE as a soldier he took
another beating, partly at the
hands of corrupt army suppliers
whose uniforms and shoes disin-
tegrated off the soldiers backs
in the first downpour of rain.
He took a beating from the M,
K & T as a track laborer, where
he contracted a sickness that
shortened his life.
He became wandering
worker, and when periodic I'M
employment hit the expanding
American economy, he became
a bum. But he was ambitious.
He went to school, and entered
the bottom rung of the white
collar class as teacher.
Fast's story, which concen-
trates on the high points, then
picks up John Peter Altgeld on
November II, 1887 = that his
toric day when the anarchists
were hanged on the charge of
Educating" the mysterious hand
that threw the Haymarket bomb.
He is judge now, living in a
fine stone house and married to
a cultured woman, and he is one
of the few liberals who refused
to sign the petition of $4,000 ask
ing for pardon for the doomed
men.
HE believes the trial was I'M
fair, but after all, they are anar-
chists, and what good would his
signature on a petition be? This
section contains an excellent re-
sumo of the Haymarket affair.
Fast skips six more years and
comes to 1893. Playing the po-
litical game skilfully by not
sticking his neck out over hot
controversies, playing both ends
against the middle, Altgeld has
become Governor of Illinois. But
he is known to be honest, and
the people are with him.
Had he been born in this
country he was brought
from Germany at the age of
three months - he might have
become President. History, his
and ours, might then have
been different, for it is pos
sible that Altgeld would have
continued to play a-cautious
game in order to achieve the
highest office i'm the land.
WE do not know. ALI we know
is that, at the height of his ca
reer, from being passively honest
he became belligerently so. He
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-20

THE House has no real control
over the conduct of the Commit
tee or it's personnel. Some sad
mistakes already have been
made.
Liberal salaries are paid to So
called investigators who have no
real knowledge or understanding
of the. problems involved.
Some of them have proved
openly anti-Semitic and anti-Ne-
gro and anti-Labor. They have
used the smear techniques of the
old Dies committee, but with
less skill and more savagery.
WERE it not so tragic for the
American way of life, the first
annual report of that committee
would be funny.
The committees recent report
was shocking to fair-minded
Americans.
It was filled with anti-Sem-
itic innuendOs, with der0gatOry
remarks about American citi-
zens who happen to belong to
some racial or religious minor
ity.
I criticize the complete lack of
objectivity in the report, the
strained effort to extend the
smear of Communist activities to
every liberal and progressive in
dividual or organization in the
United States, the astounding
one-sidedness of the committees
Investigations, the naive declara-
ton that fascism and communism
are similar.
HOWEVER, the activities of
this committee can be best under
stood in the light of historic
American struggles.
Since the very foundation of
the American form of govern
ment there has been an amending
conflict between two ways of
life.
The American dream has been
OF true democracy - a consti-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-20
Reviewed by
LAWRENCE MARTIN

THE AMERICAN. A Middle
Western Legend. BY How
ard Fast. DUEL, Sloan &
Pearce, 337 PIP. $500.
AS usual, Howard Fast's
new historical novel "The
American" is no museum
piece. 1t is as timely as tbs
struggle over the OPA.
Its hero, John Peter Alt
geld, is the man who, as Gov
ernor of Illinois in the 1905,
defied Big Business and its
respectable elements" by
pardoning the three Haymar-
ket labor leaders who had not
been hanged.
Altgeld is one of the few ex-
traordinary men Chicago has pro-
duced. We Chicagoans needed to
have our remembrance of him re-
freshed, and now Howard Fast,
New Yorker, has placed an hon
orable wreath on that lonesome
grave.
"The American" opens with
"Pete" Altgeld, farm boy of IL,
taking whipping at the hands
of his German peasant father. 1t
was hard life on that frontier
Ohio farm, and from it the lad
escaped, as soon as he was old
enough, to the Civil War.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-20
.IOWAR|

reviewed the Haymarket trial,
and came, out of his study with
a pardon for the three men re-
manning in Jail. But what a par
dom In it he denounced the trial
in words that rang around the
world.
They rang too in the offices of
Big Property. Overnight Altgeld
became, as he knew he would,
the anti-Christ of big business
and it's janizaries, and the COM
mon peoples hope.
Denounced by press and pulpit
as the anarchist governor" of
Illinois, he carried the fight di-
rect to the people as Franklin
Roosevelt carried it.
THE Pullman strike, when
Grover Cleveland sent Federal
troops into Illinois against Alt
geld's bitter protests, made the
Governor see that the Demo
cratic Party, his party, was IS
much a tool of the giant corpora
tons as the COP.