The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-15

column story too good to pass by
Recently a Bluffton college student
sidled up as though he might be go
ing to put the touch on US for ten
dollar loan to take his best girl to
the Olivet game. Casting a furtive
glance in several directions, he said
he was looking for a little advice.
1t seems that a handful of stu
dents had an idea in the interest
of intellectual curiosity that ii
would be of value to read, sort
of first-hand, few newspapers
not held in the highest. esteem
by Mr.. Mccarthy ef al. For ex-
ample, the boys had already SUBJ
scribed to what they believed to
be an organ of the Fascists. They
had an averred Socialist paper
coming to Headquarters, and now
they dared to top with the idea
of subscribing for a once-a-week
edition of The Daily Worker for
six month period.
"We could use a fictitious name on
the subscription list, but hoy arr we
going to pay for it," he RSked. "Do
you think we'd arouse /suspiqfon at
the Post Office by writing aImoney
order for a dollar and half to the
Communist organ?"( 4 I y
Until that moment weIhahn't hlly
realized the impact lof the Mccarthy
investigations. Ana we could even
then hear a whisper gytng up" 8.
and there's Comrhynist up at the
college," Someone might be branded
Communist because he subscribed
to The Daily Worker.
Last week having been Nation
al Newspaper week wherein the
song of praise was duly sung for
freedom of the press and free
dom of information, We regret
that on the spur of the moment
We Suggested that caution might
be the better part of valor, and
that the paper could perhaps be
obtained without exciting suspi-
cion by the simple lexpedient of
placing cash in the subscription
envelope. Il
We wish, Instead, we had advised
fortnight action on tn b matter/ THAT
our friend subscribe lSnd write Ia,
postal money order or his personal
check in payment. Matter of fact,
we wish we had suggestd he could
use our name and we would sign the
check.
Those who might whisper
about it and point the finger at
"Communist' on evidence such
as that would do far greater
harm against the freedoms we
call democracy than The Daily
Worker.
TO REPORT less serious aspects
of the local scene, Leslie Scott is the
first to mention this fall having seen
wild deer in the woods and farmlots
of this area. While squirrel hunting
near Rawson Saturday, Mr.. Scott
spotted not more than 200 yards
away two full-grown does and a
fawn. After watching them for some
10 or IL minutes through the tele-
scopic sights of his rifle, Leslie decid-
ed to get inside his auto where it was
less cold. With this movement, how
ever, the deer tossed up the white
flag of their short tails and scamper-
ed away hurdling fences with ease.
Although squirrel hunting was not
the best and he returned with only
one red squirrel, Scott reports having
seen at least 10 cock pheasants dur
ing the day.
THE MAGNIFICENT GAMMA
bed at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lew Burkholder on Cherry street
is attracting much favorable
comment in these tag days of
flower colprs. The striking red d
and yellow blossoms on tall green
stalks blend nicely with the fall
leaves. The bed is nearly Is feet
long by SIX feet deep.
AT LIONS CLUB meeting Tuesday
evening of last week, Sid Stettler,
playing up to a paragraph about his
cotton plantation in the Jungle News,
wore boutonniere of one of his full
blown cotton bolls. President Ed
Waltermire thereupon presented Sid
with sample packet of tobacco seed,
hopeful, we assume, that Sid will be-
come a real southern planter and
grow cigars next summer to help
keep the Lion president in supply.
ADD PRACTICAL HOBBIES: For
II years Carl Mumma, Bluffton cleo
trician, has been a collector of odd
size bolts and nuts in unusual threads
not sold by the average hardware
store. The items are obtained from
junked electrical pieces along with
odd size washers which he tosses in
to boxes and later sorts at his leisure.
The Mumma collection has proved
a life-saver for numerous emergency
repair jobs in the community, when
it appeared that the only way of OBJ
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