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The people's voice., 1955-09-09

productive ACCOMPLISHMENTS cannot tolerate the
deterioration of existing modern communities and
the wasting away of the work skills of the people
who live in the areas
The solution to this gargantuan problem clearly
calls for action by government and business at
tional and community levels
summary of the federal program proposed by
the Economic Outlook includes technical assistance
to communities construction of urgently needed pub
lie facilities, loans to private investors to build fac
tories IN distressed areas, fast tax Wrteoffs for
them, government purchases from manufacturers in
these areas, better standard for unemployment
compensation, and improvement in the federal pen
sion system.
Business program in the communities would
seem to be full recognition of its community respon
sibility 1t unemployment is caused by relocation
closing down of factories others should be built to
take their place. displaced workers should be af-
fordedt when possible the opportunity for employ
ment in plants in other cities. Affected workers
should be informed we'll in advance of a factory
close-down or removal SO they would have time to be
trained for other work, to search for other en-
ployment.
Chronic unemployment and labor surpluses
should have the early attention of the next session
of Congress.
The people's voice., 1955-09-09
Unemployment National Problem
BY SCOOP WHITE In LABOR'S DAILY 0TU)

BY SCOOP WHITE In LABOR'S DAILY 1TU)
One OF the strangest analoges in America is that
plenty and want walk hand in hand Sleek Cadiacs
roll down our streets throngs of tired obseekers
line the sidewalks.
According to official government statistics the
nations national output in May of this year reached
new all-tme high, and surpassed the previous peak
reached in May, 1853. Newspapers across the nation
headllned the good news, but they almost ignored
the somber news that, despite the new high in pro
ductivlty total unemployment was million more
than two years ago.
Emphasizing the bright business picture is an
essential part of the Big Business Administrations
365-days-a-year campaign to perpetuate itself in
office The nations press being sef-appointed press
agents for the administration quite as adept at
rolling up the window shades when the sun is shin
ing as it is at jerking them down when omnous
weather threatens
But despite mounting corporation profits, the
exuberance of Big Business and exaggerated claims
of Republican political hucksters, harsh reality must
be faced
According to United States Department of Labor
Statistics there in the nation today 1872 in
which substantial labor surplus exists.
These are broken down into seven areas with un-
employment of II per cent and over five with
The people's voice., 1955-09-09
Look Who's Complaining!

MILWAUKEE, PAL Wisconsin
Gamers have complained to the Wis
consin Industrial Commission that the
lack of competent field labor at the
right time and the right place has
cost them four TO five million cases
of canned goods. This was too much
for the Wisconsin State CIO Council
which suggested that there just might
be an explanation in what these can
ners are paying their workers. An
average cherry orchard workman can
pick 40 pals of cherries day at 90
cents pail and then he is charged
$1.85 day for board. This averages
out to about 85 cents an hour.
The people's voice., 1955-09-09

Lawrence citizens come to my office
directly after the Republican victory
and he assured his listeners that such
a delegation will never have to meet
with a third-rate clerk in a back
room"
Little significant progress towards
the relief of distressed areas ac-
companied the COP victory, the
CIO said. In Lawrence, it found,
2O.9% of the labor force was idle
in January 1858 and 22.9% was
idle in May 1855.
The people's voice., 1955-09-09

with chronic labor surplus" the
Economic Outlook reported. "Nine
teen major labor-market areas and
40 smaller ones are now in this cate
CORY.
"According to the Secretary of
Labor many of these areas not only
have been suffering from chronic
heavy unemployment-in some cases
for decade and longer; in addition,
for the one-and-two-year periods,
known employment expansions by
firms now in the area are not of suf-
ficient size to use fully the areas pres
ent labor surplus"
The CLIO observed that in areas in
which textiles have been the main
stay, particularly in New England,
the result has often been tragic.
COP PROSPERITY"
OVERLOOKED LAWRENCE
despite valiant community efforts
to bring in new industries" the Eco
nomic Outlook said, Lawrence and
Lowell, Mass, are still suffering from
chronic unemployment at the rate of
22.6@o and 10.3% respectively. Ac-
cording to the July 1866 report, in
Providence, R. l., another depressed |
textile area between go and go of |
the work force remains jobless.
Substitutes for coal-like gas and |
oil-have cut sharply into sales, while
at the same time increased mechani- /
zation has been reducing jobs in the
mines. AS a consequence, persistent
distress has overtaken Scranton,
Wilkes-Barre and Johnstown, Pa.
unemployment 14.8%, 1870 and
20.7% respectively and dozens of
other communities in Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, Kentucky and south
ern Illinois.
The CIO said that in Cumberland,
Md, an example of smaller de-
pressed area, almost one of every
five workers was jobless in January
1855. In this locality the combined
decline in coal mining, railroading
and textiles has hit the community
with tragic force.
"Surely we cannot callously ignore
he personal problems of the hun
1reds of thousands who live in our
depressed areas, nor can
we afford the staggering cost of in
difference which is necessarily borne
~ the entire nation," the CIO said.
While local "bootstrap" operations
lave succeeded in raising some funds
rom the citizens of the affected
reas, the Economic Outlook reported,
few of the community-development
projects have come close to achieving
heir employment goals"
The people's voice., 1955-09-09
RECALLS IKE'S 1852
CAMPAIGN PLEDGE

The CIO recalled that in 1852 can
didate Eisenhower "gave voice to his
awareness of federal responsibility
towards distressed areas when he told
the people of Lawrence that after his
election You will have a friendly
government interested in t he e
things He urged a committee of
The people's voice., 1955-09-09
Clio ECONOMIC 0UTL O0K' ASKS BROAD
PROGRAM TO AID DISTRESSED AREAS

The CO has declared this nation afford ignore the
special problems of chronca depressed and said pub
lie and private programs must be developed to help
mites eradicate the economic decay which has infected them
A single Washington agency recommended by the Go
Economic Outlook it's current issue direct and coordinate
The people's voice., 1955-09-09

If you are sometimes saddened by
the thought that you can't take it with
you, just remember the 20-odd rela-
tives who are happy at the thought.
The people's voice., 1955-09-09

all aid at the federal level.
Other aspects of proposed mimi
mum federal program TO combat
unemployment, the publication said,
should include technical assistance;
public works; loans to private in
vestors and fast tax write-offs to
firms building or expanding in such
areas; government procurement
from the stricken areas; retraining
of jobless; extended periods of un-
employment compensation benefits
and changes in the federal pension
system so displaced older workers
can get benefits.
Further courageous Congressional
action is needed to check plant-piracy
and the community blight it brings
about" the Outlook added. Business
itself must also help, 1T said, by in
quiring if a new plant or expanded
operation could be located where one
now exists.
"Today every corporation board
of directors must fulfill a public trust
as well as a private one," the Out
look said. "The effect of every action
on the community welfare must now
be carefully weighed"
UP TO 1920 OF LABOR
FORCE IDLE
The monthly publication of the ClO
Department of Education and Re
search detailed a broad program for
Congressional action to bring relief
to the areas of substantial labor sur
plus. now classified by the U. 5.
Department of Labor as existing IN
81 of the 149 major labor-market
areas. At least six per cent of the
labor force is reported idle in these
areas. In a dozen of the areas the
iobless rate exceeded nine per cent,
i'm seven it was over IL per cent.
Unemployment also exceeds six per
cent-the critical point-in lOl small
er Iabor-market areas in which count
was made, the CIO publication noted.
In some of these the jobless rate runs
as high as 20 per cent.
Recently newspapers across the
country headlined the good news
that national output in May had
at last overtaken the previous peak
of springtime, 1858. Unfortunately,
the fact that total unemployment in
Nav was running more than mill
lion higher than two years before
despite the new production peak
was scarcely mentioned, if at all, ;"
the CIO said.
Ont of the 1872 areas identified as
suffering a substantial labor surplus
n July 1866, 68 localities-almost
exactly one-half-are classified by
he Department of Labor as areas !
Evening star., 1955-05-20

sweeping the room with men,
acing gleam. On the hour every
hour, he raises a jug to his lips
the same number of times that
the hour strikes
Then there are the grandilo-
quent ancients that show trees
in full bloom. with a waterfall
flowing, and birds literally fit
ting and twittering among the
limbs. And a one-inch hexag-
onal pocket watch with a cover
of pure rock -crytal. And Amer
ican' Colonial-made banjoes,
steeples and pillar-and-scrolls
And the clypsyedra, or water
thief" which operates by the
principle of water seepage, gears
and chains.
For some reason an old hurdy-
gurdy, which reluctantly plays
the Blue Danube" got into the
show. Mr.. Goldstein had an
explanation.
"Clock making has always
gone hand in hand with making
gimmicks." he said, displaying a
multiple-blade pocket knife no
more than an inch long.
As the first-day crowd began
thinning out, Mrs. H. c. Back
Evening star., 1955-05-20
Clock Collectors Here
Are Having Good Time

tude SO degrees AZ minutes 80
seconds; west longitude n de-
grees is minutes 80 seconds).
The face Of the dial also. car
ries a poetic excerpt that de-
lights the hearts of timepiece
collectors:
Too SloU for those t1ho Ddtt;'
Too StDitt for those tDho fear:
Too long for those iDho grieve;;
Too short for those lDho re-
joice::
But for those Who loUe,
Time is eternity.
Where to begin In singing out
the mass of priceless. if not
timeless, exhibits?
There stands a 4-foot-high
hand-carved Seplica of the
Cathedral Of Elms. Germany,
circa 1850. It looks awfully
gingerbreadish. But every hour
on the hour it plays carillon-like
religious music.
On a table reposed a dog on
a box with a clock face set into
it. On another sat Bacchus, the
god Of wine. on a barrel.
The dogs eyeballs jerked back
and forth with the tick of each
second. His tail beat out the
number of all the passing hours.
The Bacchus job was even
more unnerving.
His beady orbs have a way of
Evening star., 1955-05-20
BY JOHN w. STEP

The tick season began with q
vengeance yesterday in a ground
floor corner of the Hotel Wash
ington.
It was the opening of the
three-day convention of the Ma
tional Association of Watch and
Clock Collectors.
The first foregathering of this
organization here. the conven-
tion brought at least one point
home with Big Ben-like bong.
Watch and clock collectors are
no less Jealous than Roosevelt
Island birdwatchers or any rep
resentative society for preven-
tion of the mutilation of post
age stamps.
What is more. the collectors
there are something like 1000 in
the association-would appear to
have unlimited wealth to sink
into their hobby. One exhibit
at the show is valued at 500 900.
Another consisted of choice items
from an 100000 collection.
But you shouldn't worry about
the valuations any more than
the exhibitors. Everything is
heavily insured. Also. there is
an off-duty member Of the
Hyattsville (Md.) police force
to guard it.
Most of the entries are
antiques. A brand-newcomer
was a gold sun dial. 1t was made
by one of the Nations few re-
manning horologiSts. Bernard
Goldstein of New York, one of
this country's few remaining
clock and clock-part makers
dying craft. Mr.. Goldstein
also collects, as you'd expect.
His gold sun dial is to be pre-
sented to President and Mrs.
Eisenhower today. The idea is
that the Eisenhowers install it
in the front yard of their Gettys-
burg Pa) farm Its polished
face shows the precise astro-
nomical location of the presi-
Dental front yard (north lati-
Evening star., 1955-05-20

Casablanca, a center of Arab
nationalist agitation, was the
scene of a series of shootings and
other incidents yesterday that
left at least one Moroccan dead.
At Oujda, a European was killed
in a shooting.
Police patrols were increased
in CaSablanca as demonstrators
Evening star., 1955-05-20

stoned several buses, cut tele-
phone lines and sabotaged a rail-
road signal.
Nationalist pamphlets urged a
shopkeepers' strike over the week
end. They called for another
shutdown to last until May 26
after a brief opening on Monday,
the end of Ramadan,
Evening star., 1955-05-20
Violence Mounts
In Moroccan Areas

CASABLANCA. Morocco, May
20 (P1.-Violence is mounting in
this French North African pro-
tectorate as Ramadan-the Mos
lem month Of fasting-nears its
end.
Evening star., 1955-05-20

ham, chairman of the show. was
asked the classic question:
What time is it?"
So help US, she looked at her
Evening star., 1955-05-20

factory-made wrist watch tclock
collectors hate factories) and re-
piled with utmost seriousness:
MY watch is broken"
Evening star., 1955-05-20

Easy fitting luxurious
sport coats, carefully tai
lored with center vent.
1907 all wool. Assorted
tweeds, checks, sparkleS in
variety new shades. All
perfect quality.
Evening star., 1955-05-20

You'll recognize the famous maker
as soon as you see these fine suits.
They never need to be dry cleaned
and rarely. If ever, pressed. just
wash them-the wrinkles disappear.
II presses itself as it dries and the
crease reappears. Perfect for va
cation travelling!
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-03-24
Supply Pastor
Is Named By
EbeneZer Church

The Rev. Vernon Springer, mis-
sionary home on furlough from the
African Congo, will take over the
pulpit of the Ebenezer Mennonite
church as supply pastor, it was an
nounced this week. He will continue
until it is time to return to Africa
or until a permanent pastor is
named for the charge.
The church has been without a
pastor since the first of the year
when the Rev. Howard Landes left
for new post in the East.
Rev. Mr.. Springer is awaiting the
recovery of his wife from recent sur
gerry before returning to Africa. She
is presently recuperating at the Mis-
sion headquarters in Chicago.
A graduate of Bluffton college in
1881, he has been a missionary to
Africa since that same year. There
are four children: Charles, who
graduated from BIC last spring and
is attending Mennonite Biblical Sem
mary in Chicago; Wilmer, sopho-
more in Bluffton college; jeanette,
freshman in Bluffton high school; /;
and Shirley in the fourth grade.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-03-24
Dorm Girls Plan
Piano Dedication

Piano solos, vocal numbers, a
string ensemble and a Silver Tea
will all be included in the piano ded-
ication program to be held in the
Bluffton College Lincoln Hall girls
dorm Sunday afternoon, at 800 p.
m. The public is invited.
The dorm became the proud pos
SCISSOR of the new Hamilton baby
grand piano through the united eff
forts of the girls, parents, friends
and campus organizations. Special
projects have been carried on to help
pay of it.
Among the special numbers on the
program will be piano solos by
Eloise Gerig, Doneta Amstutz, Sarita
Schrock, Edith Yoder and Jane Nyce.
Vocal solos. and ensembles will be
sung by Ruth Gilliom, Judy Lora,
Moreen Musser, Dorothy Bishop, I'm
ogene Lehman, Mytella Lehman and
Connie Diller. In addition to the
string ensemble, special instrumental
numbers will be given by Edith Su-
derman, Dorothy Garwood and Edith
Yoder.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-03-24
Births

The following births were recorded
at Bluffton Community hospital dur
ing the past week:
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Schumacher,
Pandora, a boy, William Karl, born
last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Bibler,
Deshler, a girl, Theresa Rose, born
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Duffman, Mt.
Cory, girl, Barbara Ann, born Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. James King Nancy
Steinman), Bluffton, girl, Susan
Louise, born Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dean Nonnamaker,
Bluffton, a girl, Alice Kay, born Sat
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Eibling, Raw
son, boy, Timothy Leroy, born
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Warren
Bluffton. a boy, born Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Reichley, Jen-
era, a girl, born Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul 0benour, Lima
girl, born Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Bushatz
Bluffton, boy, born Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lowell Tate, Nc
Comb, boy, born Wednesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-03-24

It's vital pieces of machinery al
ready scattered from Missouri to
Mexico, Buttons old municipal light
and power plant this week was rapid
ly becoming nothing more than a
brick shell as the dismantling work
was pressed to completion.
Charles Weaver, Detroit dealer in
used power equipment, has been on
the job here personally supervising
the dismantling operation and ship
ment of the equipment which he pur-
chased this summer for $4,000 from
the Ohio Power Company.
At present Weaver and crew of
local men are loading boiler tubes and
packing large valves and other boil
er equipment in freight cars destined
for Mexico City. The Detroit man
has sold all of the Bluffton plant
boilers to Martinez Ortega Y Cia,
chemical manufacturers in Mexico
City.
Four freight cars of equipment
have already been shipped to Mexico
and about four more remain to be
loaded and sent out, Mr.. Weaver said.
The Mexican firms influence with it's
government has ena b led it to
receive the Bluffton equipment duty
free.
The freight cars loaded in Bluffton
will be rolled direct to Mexico City
without reloading, carrying freight
bill of from 81 900 to $4,000 for each
car.
Mr.. Weaver estimates that approx
imately $4,000 will be spent reIpov-
ing the equipment from the LOCAL
building and loading it on freight
cars. Nearly $4,000 has been speAt
on local labor already, he says.
How does he sell equipment to d
foreign buyer? It's cash on the bar
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-03-24
| 900 Visitors Admire New $4,000
Mennonite Memorial Home At Dedication

More than 1000 persons toured
the new $4,000 Mennonite Mem
orial Home wide-eyed with admiration
last Sunday, and capacity crowd
was present for the formal dedica-
ton.
The low-lying building offers sur
prisingly commodious accommoda-
tions and the furnishings were found
extremely attractive by the crowd.
Although certain accoutrements
such as drapes had not arrived for
the opening, the color scheme which
varied in every room and the variety
of furnishings gave the building the
atmosphere of a pleasant modern
home rather than that Of hospital or
institution found many places.
The long ramps which replace stairs
were capeted and wall-to-wall carpet
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-03-24

to plague individual property owners.
Apparently there is considerable
number of Bluffton residents who
still do not realize that construction
of the interceptors and sewage treat
ment plant at the insistence of the
state merely served to remove sewage
from Big and Little Riley creek, so
as to relieve downstream pollution.
So far as the individual property
holder is concerned, if he had sewer
trouble before construction of the in
terceptors, he will continue to have
it.
Neither has construction of the
new system obligated the town to
take over the many private sewers
which carry sewage to the intercept
tors, the mayor said. 1t still remains
the property owners individual res
possibility to maintain the line, and
IN some cases where the town has of
fered assistance it is not from a
legal or financial responsibility, the
chief executive of the village
declared.
When new homes are built, it like
wise remains the responsibility of the
owner to provide his own sewer out
let to the interceptor. If he cannot
reach the interceptor in an existing
sewer it is up to him to provide his
own. On this point there also is a
lot of misunderstanding the mayor
said.
Construction of a new sanitary
sewage system for the town, ade-
quate to link every area with the in
tercepting sewers along the creeks,
would cost the village an estimated
half million dollars, according to en-
gineers' estimates.
That procedure, however, will be
the only way in which the manifold
existing sewer problems of many
local residents can be remedied, un-
less the areas involved want to work
out their own problems by construct
ing new sewers of their own.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-03-24
Francis Lugibihl
Fills Vacancy On
Cemetery Board

Francis Lugibihl, of S. Jackson
street and proprietor of the Lugibih
Newsstand, has been appointed by
Mayor Wilbur A. Howe as the third
member of the Maple Grove cemetery
hoard of trustees.
Lugibihl will complete the six-yeaT
term of the late John Thompson, with
his term expiring in 1868, the mayor
said. Other members of the cemetery
board are President William Edwards
and Sam Bixel, the clerk.
Appointment of Lugibihl was con-
firmed by council at Tuesday nights
meeting.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-03-24
Village COhncil To Take Bids
On Construction Of New School Sewer

Municipal councilmen at Tuesday
nights meeting agreed to handle ad-
vertising for bidding for a new sewer
for the elementary school building to
be constructed this summer, and at
the same time offered little assis-
tance to the board of education on
the sewer project.
At the Recommendation of Street
Commissioner H. L. Coon and Mayor
Wilbur A. Howe, counciimen decided
to construct new section of 14-inch
sewer distance of so feet on Spring
street, replacing an existing smaller
sewer.
This move not only would provide
better outlet on Spring street fo1
the new school sewer. but also would
help surface water control in the
area, it was pointed out.
All sewer work on Spring street
would be at village expense, but the
board of education will be expected
to pay for the elementary building
sewer from the school grounds to
Spring street, distance of one block
In acceding to board of education
request that bidding on the school
sewer project be handled by the town
councilmen said they will proceed with
advertising for bids as soon as school
authorities provide the necessary
specifications.
Last week the board of education
explained the town was being asked
to handle bid for the sewer at the