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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-12-05
SPEAKING OF LUCK

When Howard Mlnato won the
turkey at the NvC meeting. It made
us wonder why some people always
seem to be so cockeyed lucky,
while others 0ike us) can GO
through life taking one chance af-
ter another on raffles and other
drawings, and never even come
close. Howard, of course, won
first prize in the NVC rattle held
last summer. obtaining a beauti-
full refrigerator with which to
start married life.
AS reported above, Howard very
generously stepped out of the pic
ture as far as the turkey was con-
cerned. Who should win on the
second drawing but Duffy Kiyoha-
ra, who also is known as a friend
of Lady Luck. AS an amateur fish
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-12-05

this conference was not complete
drift of the definitive charter of
the projected organization but was
set of proposals as to what such a
charter should contain as regards
the main structure of the organi-
cation; the main duties, RESPONSE
bilities, and obligations to be ac-
cepted by the member-states; and
some of the essential procedures.
One of the major problems at
Dumbarton Oaks, and later at Yal-
ia, and San Francisco, was the
big-power veto. This arose from
the attempt to form an organiza-
ton in which substantive ques-
lions would be decided by some sort
OF majority vote, instead Of on the
basis of unanimity OF all its men1-
bers, as was the case with the
League of Nations.
THERE ARE TWO -
...sides to the veto problem.
One is that a great power can pre-
vent enforcement action being taxi
en- against itself. The other is that
the veto power becomes extremely
important on the question of whe-
ther the armed forces of that pow
er can be set into motion without
its consent.
At San Francisco the Charter
of the United Nations was finally
formulated in all its details, was
n e G d n d was
signed. In the winter of 1915, In
London, the United Nations organ
ization which is operating under
that charter became a going con-
Germ.
WHY DID WE
work so vigorously to lead the
world in the direction of organized
international cooperation?
There were numerous reasons
why the United States took a lead
ing role
l. We had learned that unless all
nations are willing to renounce
the right to use force as a means of
settling international disputes or as
means of attaining national aims,
there was not going to be peace or
security in the world.
2. We had learned that, when, in
spite OF such remuneration, threats
to the peace develop or breaches
OF the peace occur, only joint action
by the peace-loving nations is suf-
ficients in the world of today, to
deal with those situations.
3. We had learned out of bitter
experience that, unless there is an
orderly system of regulation of arm
aments by mutual agreement. the
world Is going to run into one of
two very grave difficulties: either
there will be an ornaments race:
or there will be a situation in
which some nations will be arming
but others will remain disarmed
which will be an invitation to ag-
gression.
4. We had learned that economic
warfare in time of political peace
is a destructive and disrupting pro-
cess, which paves the way for mi
litary conflict.
.. Finally, we learned that In all
these fields international institu-
tons are of the greatest innoranna
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-12-05
THE THREE CTS.

THE THREE CTS.
This weeks LIFE magazine car
ries a short article about those a
mazing 'enterpreneurs of war-slr-
plus goods. George, Don aand b.
ford" (the GI's), which is all the
more interesting to Northwest
readers because their business is
located in Seattle.
Starting on a shoestring in Fe-
bruary, 1916, these three veterans
built up a business which gave
them a profit of 100000 IN a year.
Their familiar advertising, slightly
on the wacky side, apparently gets
results as well as laughs; and with
out much doubt, their business Is
the most spetacularly successful one
thus far started by ex-GI's in this
locality.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-12-05
OUR PICK

OUR PICK
Knowing how eargerly the fans
await this columns exclusive foot
ball predictions. we pick Notre
Dame over Southern California this
Saturday-but it won't be a land
slide. Yes, we know that Notre
Dame will go all out" to pile I'D
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-12-05

erman, Duffy won a hot-water
heater not long ago, in the Team
sters' Derby. Well, of course he
probably would say that it wasn't
luck, but we leave that for our
readers to decide for themselves
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-12-05
Excl. Notes

ton.
The meeting was closed with a
turkey rattle. in which Howard
Minato's name was drawn. Howard
declined the turkey and another
name was drawn for the turkey,
which turned out to be Duffy XII
yohara. AS Duffy did not follow
Towards example, he was assigned
to police up the meeting room by
the Chairman.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-12-05
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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-12-05
AS EARLY As

as EASL1 AS
...1942 and 1913, the then Secre-
airy of State Cordell Hull, In his
addresses and other public state
ments, discussed again and again
the need for organized information
al relations after the war.
1.-THE nations that stand for peace
and security must now make up
their minds and act together--or
there win be neither peace nor Sc
curity," Hull emphasized, thus
bringing up the most crucial prob
lens in the whole field of postwar
international organization.
The system of organized inter-
national security, created after the
first World War through the es-
adjustment of the League of Ma
tons. was gravely defective because
of the nonparticipation, at one time
or another, of some of the major
nations of that period. The United
States was among those who were
absent from the League member
ship.
THUS,
:. the central problem in the
summer and fall of 1913 was whe-
Their or not all the nations which
would emerge from the war as the
major nations of the world would
be willing to play their part in the
creation of a postwar system of
collective security, oper a ii n 9
through general international or
ganization.
At the Moscow conference of
October, 1913, the Big Four-the
United States, Great Britain, the
Soviet Onion and China-issued q
joint four-nation declaration that
the international organization Of
the future should be open to adher-
ence by all peace-loving states, large
and small. The implication of this
declaration was that the mainten-
ance of peace and security in the
future should not be considered
as the responsibility of the foui
great powers alone but should be
recognized as joint task of all
nations able and willing. to accept
that responsibility.
1T WAS EVIDENT
from the start that the key to
successful negotiations lay in the
determination of the commitments
the responsibilities, and the obliga-
tions which the Larger nations OF
the world would be willing to un-
dertake.
Therefore, it was thought wiser
for the big -Four" nations to meet
first by themselves and determine
the responsibilities, the duties, and
the obligations which they would
be willing to assume, and then 10
have general conference of all the
nations OF the world for final
agreement on what should be con-
tanned in the charter of such en-
organization.
THE BIG FOUR"
met at Dumbarton Oaks from
the end of August to the begin
ming of October, 1914. The "Dum-
barton Oaks Proposals" issued at
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-06
High School Office Is
Rdnsdcked By ThieUes

Thieves broke into the high school
building Monday night, ransacked
the office, forced open one safe and
jammed the lock of another but
found no money which was appar-
entity the object of their search.
The robbery was discovered by
Wade Bechtol, ianitor, when he op-
ened the building Tuesday morning
at o'clock. The break-in was ap-
parently the work of juveniles who
gained entrance to the building
through the boiler room and obtain
ed tools from the manual arts de-
partment and janitors' quarters
which they used to force doors
leading to the office.
A light safe in the office contain
ing records was broken open but the
marauders failed to crack heavier
safe in the office which contained a
sum of money The lock, however,
was jammed so badly that the safe
cannot now be opened it was stated
by Supt. r. S. Lanham, Tuesday.
Deputies from the sherif's office
were here Tuesday taking finger
prints and collecting other clues il
the case.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-06
Schools VIII Hold
Night Session Here

Regular sessions of Bluffton High
and Grade school classes will be held
this Wednesday evening, as part of
the local observance of National Ed
ucation week.
School students will be dismissed
Wednesday afternoon and classes
regularly scheduled for that period
will be held from 1880 to 8 p. m.
Buses will transport rural pupils to
and from school for the night
classes.
All patrons and friends of the
school district are invited to be
present, and student guides will be
on duty to supply information and
direction to all visitors.
The school open house program
will constitute the regular November
meeting of the Parent-Teaeher as,
sociation.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-06
Stores Will Close Tuesday During
One-hOur Armistice Day Program
Ohio Northern Professor VIII
Speak At Meeting in The
I'll. S. Auditorium
BIufftOn High Band Also Will
Play for Armistice Day
Observance Here

Bluffton retail business establish
Iments will be closed from II a. m.
until noon next Tuesday as the town
pauses for one-hour Observance Of
Armistice Day, highlighted BY a
community program in the high
school auditorium.
Speaker at the Armistice Day
service will be Prof. Lawrence Free
man, of Ohio Northern university, on
the subject "Americanism." .
Special patriotic music for the
program will be provided by the
uniformed Bluffton High school band,
directed by it's conductor, Harold
Hunter. The meeting is sponsored
by the Bluffton American Legion
post. -..s......
Marking the start of the Armistiee
Day observance, the deep throated
whistle at the municipal light plant
will be blown at II a. M, signalling
the customary pause in reverence of
the memory of those who gave their
lives in World War /.
Legion officials this week urged
residents of the community to at
tend the exercises.
In observance of the day as a
national holiday, the Citizens Nation
al bank and the Bluffton post office
will be closed thruout the day.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-06
BIBLE LECTURES
AT COLLEGE OPEN
ON NOVEMBER is
DR.. Charles L. Fritsch, Prince
ton Seminary, Will Be
Bible Lecturer
Ministers and Mennonite Wo-
mems Conferences to Be i'm
Conjunction with Institute

DR.. Charles 7. Fritsch, professor
of Old Testament at Princeton
Theological Seminary, Princeton, n.
j., will be the speaker at six-day
series of Bluffton college Bible
lectures opening Sunday morning,
Nov. Is, and continuing thru the
following Friday.
On the opening day of the annual
lecture presentation, morning and
evening services will be held in the
First Mennonite church, and an
afternoon vesper service in the Ram
seyer chapel on the campus.
Beginning Monday, Nov. II, there
will be two lectures daily; in the
morning at Ramseyer chapel and in
the evening at the First Mennonite
church.
In connection with the Bible
lectures, a two-day minister's con-
ference will be held on the campus,
Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 10,
and 20. A Mennonite women's con-
ference also will be conducted on the
same days.
Speakers at the minister's meet
will include Rev. A. S. Rosenberger
Dalton; Rev, Olin Krehbiel, Berne
Ind; Rev. f. ]. Bohn, Pandora; Rev
Howard Nyce, Allentown, Pa; Rev
Robert Hartzler, Goshen, Ind; ant
DR.. S. F. Pannabecker, dean of the
Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Chica,
go.
On the women's conference pro
gram, speakers will be Rev, Kreh
biel, Miss Rita Freie, Amsterdam
Holland, a Blufton college student
Mrs. John Neufeld, Miss Helen Bohn
Miss Edna Ramseyer, Miss Fried;
Lehman, DR.. Lloyd L. Ramseyer
Ronald Rich, and Rev. Russell
Schnell.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-06

Crowning of the queen between
halves of the Bluffton-C Columbus
Grove football game on Harmon
field, Friday night will be one of
the high spots of the Bluffton high
school Homecoming festivities.
The queen, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harvey Burkholder west of
BIuffton, together with her two at
tendants are all seniors.
Following the game a Homecoming
dance will be held in the high school
gymnasium for Bluffton and Colum-
bus Grove high school students and
Bluffton alumni.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-06
BOARD BUYS NAVY.
TURBINE unit FOR
LIGHT PLANT HERE
1850 XIV Unit to Be Converted
for Operation in NUM-
cipal Plant
Contract Let at $24,720 Bid,
Plus Cost of Conversion
and Installation

Purchase of a used 1850 XIV tur-
bine, removed from a Navy escort
ship, was announced this week by the
board of public affairs, after a con-
tract had been let to Charles Weaver
and Co., of Detroit, on bid of $24s
720, plus conversion and installation.
The turbine was one inspected
aboard ship several weeks ago by
Supt. John Swisher, of the municipal
light plant, and its installation will
give the local plant additional gen.
Grating capacity required to handle
rapidly increasing electrical load.
Accessory parts for the turbine are
included in the $24, ,720 purchase price.
No estimate was announced on the
cost of conversion and installation.
Delivery to the local plant will be
made within 80 days after the con-
tract is signed. Conversion will be
accomplished here after the turbine
is delivered.
The Charles Weaver Co. bid was
low of two submitted.
After conversion, the 1850 XIV tur-
bine will be sufficiently large to han
die the towns peak loads, providing
adequate standby capacity that now
is lacking.
Present equipment of the plant in,
cludes 1850 XIV and 750 XIV tur-
bines. The latter is unable to handle
the present town load at peak capa
city, precipitating the need for addi
tional electrical generation capacity.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-06
Negro Soprano In
Concert Here Monday

Roena Savage, noted lyric soprano
will be presented in the Bluffton Col
lege Concert series at 8 p. m. next
Monday in Ramseyer chapel on the
campus.
Miss Savage has broad exper-
ience in concert appearances, and III
addition has taught in two colleges.
She has appeared with symphonies
in broadeasts featuring French
Negro and Spanish folksongs- In
addition she was honored by seiec-
ton as soloist for the 10th and .z9th
anniversary meetings of the Asso-
ciation for the Study of Negro Llte
and History.
The concert artists most recent
radio series, "I'll Sing Thee Songs.
was presented over the Don Lee Mu-
tual Station on the west coast.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-06
TAKE DYING FISH
OUT OF BUCKEYE
TO WATER WORKS
State Tests Show Oxygen in the
Buckeye VIII Not Sustain
Fish Life
Fish Gasping for Air IN Buckeye
Removed by Sportsmen's
Club to Water Works

Transfer of large game fish from
Buckeye lake to the Waterworks
quarry was under way Tuesday and
Wednesday, as members of the Com
munity Sportsmen's club sought to
save thousands of fish dying in the
larger body of water from lack of
oxygen.
Crews of volunteer workers started
seining gasping fish from the Buck
eye Tuesday evening, after tests by
Fish Management Agent Clarence
Clark, of st. Marys, showed oxygen
content of the water was not suffici-
ent to sustain fish life.
Clark's tests, made at the request
of the Sportsmen's club disclosed
there was less than one part of oxy-
gen per million of water, less than
half the amount for fish to continue
living.
Conditions at the lake became criti-
cal on Monday, as large SCHOOLS OF
game fish fioundered helplessly at the
surface of the water, gasping for air.
Aerate Water
Aerating water by pumping it into
the air with the towns fire truck
Tuesday afternoon did little to allevi-
ate the condition, and the removal of
fish was started in the evening after
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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-06
Missionary Convention
At Missionary Church

A missionary convention will be
held at the Missionary church here
beginning this Wednesday night and
continuing Thursday and Friday
nights and Sunday morning and
evening it is announced by the
pastor, Rev. Robert Welch.
Services, beginning at 1880 will
be in charge of a missionary party
headed by Rev. c. ]. Gerig of Ft.
Wayne, district superintendent of
the Missionary church association.
Services are announced as follows
Wednesday-Rev. Gerig.
Observation-Disclosures lecture on
South America by Rev. Judd, re-
turned missionary. --.----
Friday-Miss Beyerle of West
China.
sunday-Rev. c. Berkey of Africa
at 1890 a. m. and Rev. Gerig ir
the evening.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-06

Total unofficial vote was: Baker.
349; Howe, 273; Stauffer, 206.
Takes Office Jan. /
Baker will assume the office of
mayor on January /, next. His
term as a member of the town
council expires December 81 which
also marks the expiration of Howe's
term as mayor.
Interest in Tuesdays voting CEN
tered in the mayorality race, a
three-way affair which developed a
week ago when a bipartisan fac
tion backed Howe in a write-in
move for reelection, although he
said he was not candidate.
In the race for clerk, Charles
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-06
Wheat Tithing MOUie
At Union Church Meet

Perry Hayden, founder of the
world famous Biblical Wheat Tith-
ing project, will appear here at
1880 p. m. Sunday to show his coll
ored movie of the program in the
First Methodist church.
Sponsored by the Bluffton Minis
terial association, the movie-lecture
will be presented as the regular
monthly union service Rev. Paul
Cramer, pastor of the Methodist
church, is president of the Minis
terial association.
Inspired by sermon based on the
text John 1924, in the Tecumseh
Michigan Quaker church, on Sept.
20, 1910, Hayden planted one cubic
inch of wheat on land furnished by
the late Henry Ford.
The original plot of land was four
feet by eight feet in size, and as
commanded in Malachi $40, he de-
cided to pay a tithe of the crop to
his church and replant the remain
ing nine-tenths
The first crop was 30 cubic inches,
and the sixth and final crop was IT,
$50 bushels, requiring 2,66 acres for
its production. 1t was harvested by
ZIG farmers of 30 different faiths
and creeds.
According to Robert Ripley's BE
lieye Il Or Not" the project II con
tinned for 10 years would require
all of the land in the United States,
and IN 13 years would cover the si,.
tire globe.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-06
Return From -Four
Months In Scotland

Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Hauenstein
of Campus Drive arrived home We'd
nesday after spending the summer
in Scotland with their son-in-law
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. W M.
c Tod at Galashiels near Edinburgh.
Mrs Tod is the former Barbara
Hauenstein.
The Bluffton couple who left late
last June made the transatlantic
trips by plane Returning they left
London Monday night and arrived
Tuesday in. New York, making the
trip home by rail from that city.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-06

Coal pulverizing equipment will be
put into operation late this month
at the Howard stager coal yard to
produce stoker coal for area users.
A threatened shortage of stoker
coal led to Stager's decision to in
stall the new equipment, which in
cludes a coal puverizing machine
and an oil treatment process.
Egg coal, which is comparatively
plentiful, will be- pulyerized to make
stoker grades in the process.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-06
Results From
Nearby Towns
BEAVERDAM

DhA EhDAM
/. L. Sawmiller was reelected
mayor Of Beaverdam with 112 votes
to 81 votes for his opponent VIM
Lutterbein.
Other Beaverdam results:&
Clerk-Athene Burns 20; Ruth
Durkee 162.
Treas.-Bernice Huber 160.
Council (six to elect)-P. w. Am
stutz 72; VIM. Amstutz 101; Frank
Anderson 143; w. A. Arnold sc;
Walter Beck ia; Clarence Boop 80;
o. K. Burns At; T. V. Stirn 1876;
Ralph Vertner 116; John Young 64,
School levy 3 mills for 2 years
Richland South: Yes 73, No 25.
Beaverdam: Yes 1873, No AZ. Monroe:
Yes 70, No 27. Total: Yes 300, No
ga.
School Board-Howard Moser,
Carl Amstutz, r. F. Simon.
ARLINGTON
Arlington's $215,000 school bond
issue carried 637 to 227, or so votes
Continued on page 1O)
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-06

Emans, democrat, defeated Richard
Cookson, republican, by a vote of
487 to $40. Emans, who is clerk of
the board Of public affairs also will
assume the duties Of corporation
clerk next January 1, succeeding VI.
Q. Geiger, democrat, present clerk
who was elected to membership on
the town council .
Stettler Reelected
Sidney Stettler, democrat, high
school mathematics instructor, was
reelected town treasurer by vote
of AS, defeating Hiram Huser,
republican who polled 372 votes.
Four democrats and two republic
ans will make up the town council.
They are: Armin Hauenstein, re-
publican, with 613 votes; w. O.
Geiger, democrat, Gil votes; Chas.
Alderman, republican, 600 votes;
Don Patterson, democrat, 551 votes;
Chester Stauffer, democrat, 486 votes;
Frank Todd, democrat, 37S votes.
In the council, Alderman, Patter-
son, Stauffer and Todd were re-elect-
ed. Hauenstein is a former mayor
and councilman and Geiger is at
present corporation clerk.
Board of Public Affairs
Edgar Conaway, republican, who
was appointed to fill the unexpired
term of the late Harry Barnes, was
elected to that office with 476 votes.
Two new members elected are
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