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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-03-04
Trio On College Music
Course Friday Night

Instrumental and vocal selections
will be featured in a Bluffton col
lege music course concert to be pre-
sented at p. m. Friday in the
Ramseyer chapel by the Mozart Trio.
Appearing in the concert will be
Miss Claire Wellman, violinist; Miss
Agnes Blaufka, pianist, and Hen
drick deBoer, tenor.
Dutch tenor deBoer made his op-
cratic debut at the age of 10 sing
ing the leading role in Donizetti's
"Don Pasquals" and has had bril-
liant success in American concert ap-
pearances.
Miss Blaufka is of Czechoslovak-
ian heritage, but was born and
trained in this country.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-03-04
RICHLAND TWP. TO
IMPROVE SEVEN
MILES OF ROADS
Improvement Program This
Summer Will Be On Five
Township Roads
Cost of Work Will Be Shared by
Township Trustees and
County Commissioners

Seven miles of Richland township
roads will be improved this summer
at an estimated cost of $500, ac-
cording to plans drafted by township
trustees in conjunction with the
Allen county road department. 4,
Work will be done on the Bixel,
Swaney, Putnam county line and
Hancock county line roads, where an
oil-asphalt seal surface will be ap-
piled; and on the Grismore road for
which a mat asphalt treatment is
planned.
With costs of road surfacing
materials running about 25 per cent
higher than last year, the township
road program is cut under the 1947
schedule which embraced work on II
miles of road at D cost Of $1,000.
Plans for 194S provide for the
following projects:
Oil-asphalt seal on one mile of the
Swaney road from the Lincoln high
way to the Jackson township line.
Oil-asphalt seal on two miles of
the Bixel road from the Fett road to
the Pandora road.
Oil-asphalt seal on two miles of
the Putnam county line road from
the Phillips road to the Bentley
road.
Oil-asphalt seal on one mile of the
Hancock county line road from the
Huber road to the Dixie highway.
Mat-asphalt surface on one mile
of the Grismore road from the Leh-
man road to Route 696.
Cost of the program will be
shared by the township and county
commissioners.
No new improved roads are in
cluded in this summers program
the trustees announced. Last year
three miles of new roads were built
cutting the townships unimproved
roads to Is miles of stone pixies.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-03-04

gational Christian Church Of Lima.
The origin, purpose, and the evalua-
tion Of different forms of marriage
were some of the subjects discussed.
Judge Raymond Smith, the Juve-
nile Judge of the Lima Probate
Court, will lecture on "The Legal
Viewpoint of Marriage and Divorce"
uext Thursday, March IL.
DR.. Carl Kreider, acting Dean of
Goshen College, has consented to lee
ture on the Economic Adjustment
in Marriage the following week, on
Tuesday, March 16.
Dean H. E. Huber, Biology Pro
fessor at Ohio Northern University,
will present the Physical Basis and
Qualifications for Marriage" The
physiological and genetic considera-
tions and the biological effects of
Continued on page 10)
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-03-04

This Is the story of two Ohioans,
one of whom argued that the world
was hollow and full of flowers, and
the other, who sailed to the South
Pole to prove it but found it only
was a lot of bologna--or more
literally, 100 pounds of walrus
meat.
John Cleves Symmes (17S0-1829)
Hamilton, Butler County, son of Tim
othy Symmes, and nephew of John
Cleves Symmes, founder of Cincinn-
att, believed that the earth was hol.
low and wrote a book about it
''Theory of Concentric Spheres, Dem.
onstrating that the Earth is Hol.
low, HahitabIe Within and Widely
Open About the Poles" He also gavt
many lectures, charging no fees.
Symmes tried without success tt
get the governnient % send an ex
petition of 100 men to the soutl
Pole to prove his theory but dice
without achieving it. Above hi:
grave in Lytlew Park, former
Hamilton pioneer burying ground, is
an eight-foot granite monument will
sphere atop-solid throughout.
That was 100 years ago. Many
persons believed in Symmes theory
One of the most staunch believers
that the inside of the earth was
like the outside-excepting, more
beautiful, with flowers, verdure, veg
etahles and maybe, men flourishing
in it was Jeremiah n. Reynolds, Will
mington, Clinton County, graduate OF
Ohio University, Athens, and editor
in 1923, of The Wilmington specta-
tor.
After Symmes' death Reynolds lee
tured on the subject too, but charged
Continued on page 10)
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-03-04
BOgart Renamed
To Election Board

M. M. Bogart, Bluffton, Democrat,
and Dewey Fetter, Lima, Republican,
last week were appointed to the AL
len county board of elections, for
four-year terms beginning March l.
Appointments were made by Sec
retary of State Edward J. Hummell,
both having endorsements of their
party executive committees.
Bogart's selection is a re-appoint-
ment, as he has been serving as
chairman of the board. Fetter was
a member of the board until his
resignation last fall to campaign for
the COP nomination for congress.
Aldine Kohl, Bluffton, Republican,
also is a member of the board.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-03-04
Mennonite Relief
Colony To Be ShOWn

Motion pictures on the life of 1000
Mennonite refugees from Europe in
their new home in Paraguay will be
shown at p. m. next Tuesday in
the Pandora Grace Mennonite church
by Raymond Schlichting.
The European refugees were moved
to South America one year ago by
the Mennonite Central Committee, of
which Schlichting is a staff member.
In the pictures will be shown the
new colonies, hospitals, buildings,
schools, homes and industries. Two
more ship loads are enroute to Para
quay now from Europe.
The session in the Grace church is
sponsored by the Mennonite churches
of the Bluffton and Pandora areas.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-03-04
Small Tracts I'm Bluffton Area
Provide For Individual
Farmer Needs
Volume Not Sufficient For
Wide Commercial Sales;
Price S. Gallon

Continued demand for maple syrup
and little indication of a slump in
prices, ranging up to S5 a gallon,
find Bluffton area farmers with
maple groves getting their camps in
readiness this week for the spring
"run."
Local production of maple syrup,
revived by the wartime shortage of
sugar, has shown no indication of
reverting to it's pre-war status when
it was largely an abandoned practice,
a survey showed this week.
Price Rises
Before the war, many maple
groves were disregarded by owners
because their operation had been un-
profitable when sugar was plentiful
and when maple sugar could be pur-
chased in stores for as low as S1.5o
a gallon. -..@
Sugar shortages, however, brought
revival Of maple sugar camps here
for operation permitted the farmer
to serve his own individual needs, al
we'll as giving him assurance of higl
prices for the surplus he had foi
sale.
Inasmuch as area farmers do not
have capacity to make syrup com.
merically, there has been no es-
tablished price for the product, and
the limited quantities sold have
brought prices as high as $5 a
gallon.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-03-04
Burglars Loot Cash
Register OF Store

Burglars broke into Waltermire's s
variety store on North Main street
and rifled the cash register obtaining
$45, Saturday night. The robbery
was discovered Sunday afternoon.
The burglars entered the store
through a side door after hurting a
bottle through a glass panel and un-
locking the door from the inside.
Deputies from the Allen county
sheriff's office examined the bottle
Monday seeking to obtain finger
prints, it was stated by local police,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-03-04
BLIftOn Girl Head
Of Honorary S0ciety

Miss Jean Ann Steinman, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest Stein
man Of South Lawn avenue has been
elected president of the Baldwin
Wallace conservatory chapter OF
Mu Phi, national honorary music So
ciety.
Miss Steinman is junior major
ing in piano at the Baldwin Wallace
conservatory at Berea and by virtue
of being chosen president will be the
society's delegate to the national con
vention to be held in Cleveland this
summer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-03-04
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr., and Mrs. Richard Kleinhuizen,
Findlay, a girl, Arlene Marie, Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus Rausch, Je-
nera, girl, Marjory Kay, Friday,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ginther, OF
tawa, boy, Terry Paul, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Gossman,
Lima, a boy, Gerry Lee, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Beagle, Jr.,
Findlay, boy, Steven Gene, Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Which, Je-
nera, boy, Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Belts, Bluff,
ton, girl, Wednesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-03-04
Sister OF Former May Queen Named
To Same Honor At BlufftOn College
Bread 16 Cents For
20 Ounce Loaf; Price
Drops Two Cents Here

Retail price of bread dropped
two cents a 20-ounce loaf to 10
cents in Bluffton Tuesday as
wholesalers and retailers wiped
out the increase that went into
effect last January.
Rye, whole wheat, cracked
wheat and all other types of
bread are included in the cut.
Bakers are selling bread to deal
ers at 1914 cents and the
grocerymen are absorbing the
extra half cent at most stores.
Recent price cuts in the area
are reported to have brought
about the reduction.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-03-04
Named AS Manager
Of EL PdSO Office

Miss Dorothy Jennings, formerly
of Bluffton, now living in El Paso,
Texas, has been promoted to office
manager Of the Fred Hervey enter
prises in that city, according to word
received here.
The Hervey organization includes
six chain restaurants, super mark
ct and food products company, all
located in and near Ell Paso.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-03-04
Sound MoUie At Union
Church Service SuH,day

Emphasizing the stewardship and
missionary aspects of the Protestant
religion, Beyond Our 0wn," sound
movie produced by the Protestant
commission, will be shown at union
church service in the st. Johns Re-
formed church at 7:3O p. m. next
Sunday. Showing OF. the film here
is sponsored by the Ministerial as
sociation. 3 +
Pictured by an all-star cast the
movie has its basis on Jesus state
ment, what shall it profit man
il he gain the whole world and lose
his own soul?"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-03-04
PLANS COMPLETED
FOR TOWN SEWAGE
TREATMENT PLANT
Nineteen Pages of BIueprints.
172 Pages Of Specifications
In Final Draft
Completion of Planning Made
Possible By Federal In
terest-Free Loan

Nineteen pages of blueprints and
a specifications book of 172 pages
covering completed plans for Bluff
toms proposed sewage disposal
treatment plant were approved by
the municipal council Monday night.
With the completion of plans and
specifications for the plant by Fink
beiner, Pettis and Strout, Toledo
engineering firm, everything is in
readiness for seeking bids for the
local project, il and when funds may
be available for the work.
Plans for the intercepting sewers,
drafted last summer by the Toledo
engineers, have been approved in
Washington. and engineering work
now is completed for the proposed
plant.
Proceeding with blueprints and
specifications was made possible
here through federal loan, made
on an interest-free basis. Repayment
to the government is required if
and when the project is approved by
voters and d bond issue is passed
Cost $157,OO0
Estimated cost of the sewage
disposal plant, at today's prices, is
$4,000, approximately rs per cent
more than comparative work would
have cost in 1899, the council was
told Monday night by H. K. Strout,
member Of the engineering firm.
Cost Of the interceptor sewers,
planned along Big and Little Riley
creeks was estimated last spring at
S15O,0O0, altho prices have advanced
approximately IT per cent since that
time.
The modern, largely automatic
sewage treatment plant designed for
Bluffton III plans submitted Monday
will require the services of one
operator approximately eight hours
day, Strout told the council.
Principal Installations in the sew
age treatment plant consist Of ]
two-story brick control building
trickle infilter, grit chamber, quick
mix tank, sludge digestion plant and
sludge drying beds.
Odor-Free Plant
Recommended location of the plant
is on the triangular piece of land
owned by the Central Ohio Light
and Power CO., bordered by the A
c. and Y. railroad, the Bigler road
and the Buckeye lake property.
Sludge drying beds are at the
farthest point from the lake, Stout
pointed out, but he said there would
be no odor in the treatment pro-
cess, and that water discharged
from the plant after treatment would
be chemically pure enough to drink
Following acceptance of the plant
plans by council Monday night, they
| will be submitted TO the state board
of health and to the Federal Works
Agency, which loaned the money
for final approval.
In plans completed under the
federal loan, no provision is made
for a new network of sanitary sew
ers in the town, the project covering
only the Big and Little Riley inter.
ceptors and the sewage treatment
plant.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-03-04
Collect Personal
Tax Next Week

K Deputies from the office of the
Allen county auditor will be in Bluff
ton at the Citizens National bank
next Tuesday and Wednesday to as
sist taxpayers in preparing returns
of personal and clf fled taxes and
to receive payments oi same. Books
will close on March 81.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-03-04
CONDITION IMPROVED

Condition of NJ. M. Murray, form
er Bluffton postmaster, who has been
seriously i'll at Bluffton hospital for
nearly two weeks was reported some-
what improved Wednesday morning.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-03-04
Maple Syrup Season Opens In Area
Here AS Demand Continues Strong
f2i7'ngGGlIz;E;3} 70 s
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ar HAIRY l.. HALR

EDITORS NoTE-This is one
of series of articles to appear
in the Blufton Ne1Us dealing
i0ith early Ohio history. Others
t0iH appear jn forthcoming
ISSUES.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-03-04
VETERANS BONUS BLANKS

Bonus blanks for non-Legion
veterans may be obtained at the
court house in Lima, it was an
nounced this week.
Evening star., 1948-03-18

estimates are accurate, the Re.~as.. ,-.-.-
tary group will not only dwarf ours but
almost equal all those of Italy, France,
Germany, Britain and the United States
combined. ...-..
To be sure, as China and India have
shown, mere numbers do not add up to real
strength in the modern world. Right now,
as far as skilled manpower, industrial
capacity and chronological know-how are
concerned, the United States and the other
free western nations have considerable
edge on the Soviet Union and its empire.
But by 1870 or 1875, with the Russians
meanwhile sparing no effort to catch up
the situation may be far different and our
edge much narrower. In the circum-
Stances our population outlook-the pros
pective decline in our youth and the gain
in oldsters-is anything but reassuring in
an age when nations must still worry
about where they stand in the balance OF
power.
Evening star., 1948-03-18

1886 and the United States remained neutral
in that war in which the Alamo became
famous. The flag over the Alamo was the nag
of the Republic Of Texas, not the United States
flag Soldiers slain in the Alamo were not
United States soldiers They were Texas SOL
diers. The war between the United States and
Mexico was a decade later.
Mr.. Gaskil further errs in thinking the
United States purchased Alabama and Mssis-
sippi from France. Those two States were
carved from territory owned by Georgia, one
Of the original 13 States, and it also should be
remembered that Virginia ceded a vast terri
tory to the Union when she entered the Union.
The Northwest Territory, owned by Virginia.
was given to the Union at its forming and the
States Of Ohio Indiana and Illinois were later
carved from this territory. Massachusetts, also
gave the Union the territory from which Maine
was formed Florida is the only State formed
from purchased territory east of the Missis-
sippi River 1t should be remembered that
Vermont was not one Of the original 13 States;
she remained out Of the Union until after it
was formed and recognized, coming into the
Union on March II, 1871, during the first term
Of President George Washington. Thus, YER
mont and Texas together with the original Is
States never were territories of the United
States of America, nor were they acquired
through purchase or conquest. Maine and
Florida were the only territories on the Allan
tic. Florida was purchased from Spain, and
Massachusetts, gave us Maine.
COL. U. B. DERNE
Evening star., 1948-03-18
A Shoddy Performance

The administrations performance in the
GSI cafeteria strike has been dlsgraceful.
This strike, 1t will be recalled, grew out
Of the refusal by GSI to negotiate con-
tract with the union of cafeteria workers
until both the local union and its parent,
the United Public Workers, had signed the
anti-Communist affldavits called for In the
Taft-Hartley Act.
After the strike had failed of it's purpose,
the officers Of the local. following the
resignation of the president, signed the
afidavits. But the officers of the parent
union refused and still refuse to comply
with this provision of the law
In the face of these facts, the admins
tration has brought every possible pressure
to bear against GsI and in favor OF the
union, the latest example being the state
ment by Assistant Secretary of Labor John
W. Gibson, formerly C1O official, that
the GSI has acted in bad faith"
Unable to withstand the pressure. GSI
has yielded on all but one point. The
terms of settlement proposed by George
E. Strong, who was brought into the pic
ture by the administration as negotiator,
have been accepted, with one exception,
by GS1.
The proposed settlement would give
preference in rehiring to strikers If they
are more efficient than the workers who
replaced them This would affect only
skilled workers, and GSI was willing to
leave most of these determinations to Mr..
Strong. But 1t believes that any serious
differences on this point should be sub
mitted to an outside arbitrator selected
under auspices of the strictly neutral
American Arbitration Association.
This has been rejected by the union as
being too slow a process. And Federal
Works Administrator Fleming, who is In
charge of the buildings in which the
cafeterias are operated, is now threatening
to cancel the contract under which GSl
runs the cafeterias.
It is true that General Fleming has been
directed by the White House to settle the
dispute. But even when the fullest allow
ance is made for that, his latest threat, in
the light of what has gone before, is
nothing better than brazen use Of
official power for purposes of coercion.
And the intended beneficiary is union
whose national officers are either not will
ing or not able to state under oath that
thev are not Communists.
Evening star., 1948-03-18
Population and Power

Though it contains no startling new
estimates, the special population study
Just issued ,by the Census Bureau is
significant reminder of the fact that the
United States is undergoing far-reaching
changes in Its makeup Politically, eco
nomically and socially, these changes are
bound to have a deep influence on our
future way of life here at home. Beyond
that, in terms Of the world balance OF
power, their implications are of first i'm
portance.
The big point made by the study is that
our population is growing old. If present
trends continue, it will rise to a peak OF
about 166,0O0,000 by the year 1875, but
the proportional gain will take place only
In the age groups over As years. Thus the
Astoria group, now representing 205 per
cent of our numbers, will jump to 24.6 per
cent, and the group aged IS and over will
increase from IA per cent to 10.7 per cent.
Meanwhile, the younger groups will de-
cline; those between 18 and Al will fall
from their present 41.3 per cent to 1913
per cent, and those under 18 will drop from
308 to 25.4 per cent. AS for the longer
future, our overall growth will level off
after 1875, and general downward trend
will set in before the year 1000.
Population forecasts, of course, are al
ways subject to reservations because the
factors involved can be readily upset. But
the figures released by the Census Bureau
have been carefully calculated, and If there
Is no marked change in the present out
look, we can be sure that the projected
proportional increase will occur in the
older elements among us. We can be
sure, too, that the increase will bring with
Il important and perhaps troublesome
notifications in such domestic matters as
labor supply, education, the marketing of
consumer goods and demands for social
security. Slowly but surely, it will have
an effect on most major aspects of our
American society.
Equally mportant-more important-the
change can have international repercus-
sions. World population is increasing at
the rate of 200,000,000 every ten years. but
the signs indicate that most of the gain
after 1875 will be on the other side of the
Iron curtain and in the eastern areas in
general. In other words, assuming con-
tinuation of the current trend, the earth's
people will double to potentially catas-
trophic total of 1000 100000 in the next
100 years. with the western areas vastly
outnumbered. As for the nearer future
It has been estimated that the Soviet
Union, not including the satellite coun-
tries, will have populace of 50,000, 900 by
1870 and that 100000 of these will be
men between the military ages of 20 to "a
years Our own numbers in the same cate
cory will be only $4,000 900. In fact, II tn.
Evening star., 1948-03-18
Wants Draft and Weapons
To the Editor Of The Star:

TO the EQltor Of Inc 6tar.
heartily agree with william r. Burns. The
issue of whether or not we are to submit to
Soviet domination is being put to us squarely
by the acts of the Kremlin and the time for
action Is now! Also, a word OF praise for
McLemore's recent column. Yes, Henry, every
citizen of the United States was Inundated
and insulted when Pfc. Jack Grunden was
ordered to "get into the gutter where you
belong" and then shot In the back by Rus
sian soldier.
As this Obi veteran sees 1t, there no longer
is any question as to the end Of this cold"
war. The time long since arrived when all Of
us must realize what Is transpiring around us.
Have We 50 soon forgotten Pearl Harbor? VIII
some statesman again repeat the famous
words, TOO little, too late?
In calm realistic view Of the ever r-blackening
international situation. my immediate sugges
tions are as follows: % Congress should cease
its political wrangling, and reinstate the draft
law for a minimum of 100000 men under
arms on a rotating basis; and the Government
should take steps at once for the mass produc-
tion Of airplanes, ships, tanks and other
weapons of modern warfare.
1t is becoming increasingly apparent that
the Russians respect only military might If
such show OF strength as outlined here will
halt them in their headlong rush. our expen-
diture will be more than repaid. Should this
program not nip World War III in the bud, at
least we will be prepared.
ROBERT r. BLOON.