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PAGE EIGHT Schools in the Western Buckeye league, of which Bluffton High is a member, had a fine record in 1938-39 competition with non-league schools, according to a summary compiled by SidkvV C. Stettler, Bluffton faculty manager of athletics. In football play last fall with, non league schools, the six Western Buckeye schools scored 17 victories, one tie, and had only five losses chalked up against them. League schools scored 314 points to their op ponents’ 107. Teams defeating league schools in football were top-notch outfits in every respect. They were Sidney, Lima Central, Lima South, Ada and Coldwater. In football play against non-league teams, Van Wert, Bellefontaine, and St Marys ended the season with clean records. Van Wert had five victories, scoring 112 points and holding their opponents scoreless. Western Buckeye League Schools Have Fine 1938-39 Season Record Basketball play against non-league teams found Western Buckeye schools scoring 26 wins and losing 25. Bellefontaine with eight vic tories in nine games and Bluffton _________________ WATERSPAR Quick-Drying FLOOR VARNISH with five victories in seven starts headed the parade. Among the schools that defeated league teams were Willshire, Cold water, Lima Central, Bryan, Dayton Fairview, North Baltimore, Berne, Ind'., Fort Recovery, Defiance and Fostoria. Here's a varnish really made to stand the gaff of scuffing feet and the general beating fipors take. Waterspar Quick-Drying Floor Varnish resists abra sion, wear, soap, moisture, alkali. Dries quickly to a pale, high-gloss finish. Easy to apply. Give your floors a treat! Some of the schools defeated by league teams were Sidney, Kenton, Lima South, Ada, Urbana, Upper Arlington, Delphos Jefferson, Miam isburg and Ohio City. On the basis of football and basketball records, Stettler said Bel lefontaine emerged as the strongest outfit in the loop. Van Wert was a close second. Bluffton’s record gave the local school third place Wapakoneta was fourth St. Marys fifth and Celina sixth. Bluffton is the only Class school in the league. A PITTSBURGH PAINT PRODUCT, Steinman Bros. Lumber Co. Disease Control on Wild Life Disease control on wild life was first practiced in a hoof and mouth epidemic in deer in the Stanislaus National forest in California. Community Swimming Buckeye Lake for Everybody Enthusiastic response is being given to the Community Auction Sale to be held Friday, April 28th. The following articles are typical of the many different types of goods and services already donated: I Lamps, canned goods, pies, oil stove, dishes, 5 ton crushed stone, furniture of I all kinds, dishes, clocks, roller skates, labor, radios, range stoves, musical instru ments, chickens, chicks, pigs, goats, lambs, wheat, hams, potatoes, refrigerator, bird cage, paint, mirror, tricycle, camp cot, oil, lawn mower, vases, bucksaw, gard en plow, bookcase, electric motor, new swim suits, overalls, shoes, shirts, gloves and hundreds of other articles too numerous to mention. Anyone Not Having Articles to Donato, Cash Will De Accepted In order to raise the thousand dollar quota, many more articles are needed. Farmers and others in the community who have articles to donate are urged to notify M. M. Bogart or any other member of the Lions Club. Auctioneers are Clyde Warren, Isaac Neuenschwander and William Amstutz who are donating their services. THE COOPERATION OF ALL IS NEEDED Board Decides In Favor Of Dancing (Continued from page 1) function where dancing is included the program. Results of the questionnaire as an nounced by Leland Diller, clerk of the board were: 68 yes 21 no 4 neutral 22 not returned. Board's Vote In reaching its decision the vote in the board stood: Yes—Niswander, Steinman and Patterson. No—Gratz and Tosh. The majority of the board based its position on results of the poll which they said indicated that par ents of three-fifths of the two classes were in favor of including dancing on the program one-fifth opposed and one-fifth not voting. Their ac tion, irrespective of personal opinion, was in keeping with the wish of the majority of parents, they stated. The minority, strongly dissenting, declared dancing in the schools is wrong and should be excluded and said they could not vote for the measure under any circumstances. Action of the board,, they held, leaves the door wide open to dancing in the schools. The policy 61 danc ing in the schools, if continued, might bring about his resignation from the board, Tosh stated follow ing the vote. Makes Restrictions Conditions attached to the board’s majority decision, however, require that dancing at the banquet be properly supervised and that attend ance be limited to juniors, seniors and members of the high school faculty. No member of either class will be permitted to invite any out side guests. Decision Monday night was the first vote of record on the question of dancing in the Bluffton schools to be taken by a local board of edu cation. The matter was brought to a head last week when a group of parents and officers of the two upper classes appeared at the regu lar meeting of the board and asked that dancing be included in the pro gram of the annual junior-senior banquet. A suggestion was made by the board at that time that an expres sion of parents of the pupils be ob tained in regard to the matter and the board agreed to hold a special meeting Monday night to again take up the question. Present Returns of Poll Presentation of the returns was made to the board by Ralph Short/ president of the junior class at the opening of the meeting in the cafe teria Monday night. Following this, discussion contin ued for more than an hour on both sides of the question. Also resolu tion.' were read from councils of the Ebenezer and First Mennonite THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON churches discouraging dancing in the schools. The junior-senior banquet held dur ing the commencement season is the outstanding social function of the school year at which the juniors en tertain the graduating class. Dancing previously has not been included in the even ng’s program, although it is said that numbers of those attending the banquet in form er years left afterward to dance out of town. Following the board’s decision Monday night, Sujt. of Schools A. J. B. Longsdorf suggested that a committee composed of parents fa voring dancing and those opposed be organized to work with the program committee of the junior class in an effort to work out an evening’s en tertainment which would be mutually satisfactory. High School Third In First Track Meet Bluffton High’s inexperienced track team trailed Findlay and Lima South in a triangular meet at Find lay last Saturday afternoon. Fimllay *'tbpfied the scoring with 94 points Lima South was second with 41, and Bluffton had 14. i Bluffton tracksters captured one second, two third and five fourth places in the meet. Events in which local athletes placed were: 220-yard dash, Mumma, fourth shot put, King, second, and Burkholder, fourth high jump, Fisher, fourth discus, King, third mile-run, Klassen, third 220-yard low hurdles, Mumma, fourth. It was Bluffton’s first meet of the year, and with competition staged in a steady drizzle of rain Coach Dwight Diller was unable to get a true picture of the strength of his untried squad. One of this year’s track features will be a district Class meet on the Bluffton field May 6. Invitations have been sent to Oak Harbor, Ada, Columbus Groye, Pandora, Ottawa, Leipsic, Sycamore and Mt. Cory High schools. Overcast Skies Obscure Eclipse Amateur Bluffton sky gazers were disappointed Wednesday noon when overcast skies depried them of the opportunity of viewing the first eclipse of the year. A partial eclipse of the sun was scheduled from 11:35 a. m. to 12:28 p. m. About one-fourth of the sun, the northern quarter was covered by the disc of the moon when the eclipse v^as at its maximum. The Golden Rule is the most use ful of all measurements. OHIO WAR SCHOOL Navy Officers Get in 4Swini’ At Annapolis Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington. C.—WNU Service. To b” a midshipman at the United States Naval academy is the ambition of many an American youth. But it takes dogged persistence to become one. From every state and terri tory of the United States come the young men who aspire to commissions as naval officers. When you ar rive at the academy a num ber of your future classmates join you lads from Massa chusetts, Arkansas, Hawaii, and even from the Philippine islands. Before 1845, midshipmen were ed ucated solely by experience at sea and by such “book learning” as the individual chose to acquire, with the aid of ship “school masters.” George Bancroft, secretary of the navy under President Polk, early recognized the desirability of estab lishing a naval school ashore. Obtained Army Fort. Eventually Secretary Bancroft ob tained transfer to the navy depart ment of Fort Severn, an outmoded army fort near Annapolis, and founded there the naval school. Commander Franklin Buchanan, the first superintendent, had about 40 students and 7 instructors. From this slender beginning, the naval academy has gone splendidly forward, training officers for the na val service. The original naval school has disappeared, but the present group of 16 imposing build ings, begun in 1898, has risen on the foundations of the old. Now there are about 2,000 midshipmen at the academy. A graduate of the acade my, describing his early experience, said: “I had hardly stowed the mass of gear issued to me at the midship men’s store, and shifted to my new white uniform, when I prevailed upon my roommate to guide me around the Yard. From his vast experience of three weeks at the academy he could explain every thing “We strolled across Farragut field to the seawall and looked out over the bay. A Chesapeake bugeye, with raking masts and sails glistening in XS® Stroll Through Grounds. “Facing about, Bancroft hall tow ered above us in massive solidity. My roommate pointed out the arm ory, Dahlgren hall, where midship men keep their rifles and drill in foul weather, and Macdonough hall, the gymnasium, where the fu ture admirals do ‘stoop falls’ and ‘knee bends.’ “We strolled through Thompson stadium, scene of many a gridiron battle, and passed under the ter race to Stribling walk. There the Indian chieftain intrigued me. ‘Who’s the old gent?’ I inquired. ‘Ssh!’ He put his finger to his lips in mock fear. ‘Don’t let him hear you. That’^ Tecumseh, god of the 2.5. Don’t get him down on you, or you won’t be long around these parts.’ “He explained how midshipmen are marked in class and at exami nation on a basis of 4 for perfect (equivalent to 100 per cent), and that 2.5 is the passing mark. Any score below that minimum, he said, was ‘bilging,’ in academy parlance. “We moved down Stribling walk from Bancroft hall past the Mexi can monument to the academic group (Sampson, Maury, Isherwood, and Mahan halls). This path mid shipmen tread thrice daily, always in military formation, to their stud ies. Plebes Get ‘Deflated.’ Midshipmen from Annapolis are shown at Portsmouth, England, receiving a lesson in battle strategy during last summer’s cruise on the U. S. S. Texas and the V. S. S. Wyoming. The ships were manned largely by midshipmen and ratings undergoing training. the fading sunlight, came flying into the harbor on the last of the sea breeze. She was loaded to the gun wales with fresh oysters. “As we strolled back across the terrace to our room, a bugle sound ed formation and a gong clattered in the hall. ‘Better step out to for mation,’ my roommate said, and he ran toward our company pa rade. Early pasturing does not put much fat on livestock and it reduces the total amount of forage that a field would produce annually if the livestock was kept in the bam lot until the grass had time to get a real start. Scientists from the United States Department of Agriculture report a new manufacturing process which I i A pleasent task at Annapolis. Midshipman Elton L. Knapp of Monroe, Mich., in command of the third company, receives a kiss from Miss Ruth Scheidinger, also of Monroe, after she presented him with the colors, the feature event of the annual spring dress parade. “Bancroft’s broad corridors rang to our voices during that all too short summer, while we new plebes became acquainted with the rudi ments of military drill, seamanship, small arms target practice, and physical training. Yet in those care free days we dreaded the return of the upper-classmen away on their summer cruise. “Quite naturally, a plebe comes to the academy somewhat overim pressed with his own importance. The inevitable deflation is some times abrupt. “Even yet, I cannot recall with out a shudder that first day of aca demic year. I was ‘steering a prop er course’ down the middle of a cor ridor when a voice behind me spoke: ‘Where headed for, mister?’ ‘The midshipmen’s store, sir.’ ‘Sound off.’ “I was silent for a moment. A first classman moved around into my field of vision. ‘Good Lord!’ the stern voice cried. ‘Don’t you know “sound off” means to tell me your name and I state? Well then, what did Lawrence say?’ “I remembered Perry’s battle flag, the navy’s most historic ban ner, preserved in Memorial hall. Rough white letters on a faded blue background spell Captain Law rence’s last words as he lay dying on the deck of the Chesapeake. ‘Don't give up the ship, sir,’ I blurted out. ‘Well now, that’s better.’ The voice was more kindly. ‘What did Dewey do?’ ‘Sir?’ ‘See here, mister, you’re terri bly ignorant of naval history and tradition. Report to my room at 9:30 tonight for instruction. Savvy?’ ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘Shove off.’ Such was my first encounter with an upper-classman. ‘Your Brace Is Terrible.’ “At dinner formation, standing stiffly erect in the rear rank, eyes riveted on the back of the midship man’s neck in front, I believed I cut a perfect military figure. But some one growled behind me. ‘Pull your self together, mister. Your brace is terrible.’ “I stiffened to a more rigid posi tion. Presently we marched off to music played by the ‘hell cats,’ as the midshipmen drum and bugle corps is called by the regiment. From the regimental commander came the order, ‘SE-ATS!’ Two thousand chairs scraped in uni son and a roar echoed through the huge white mess hall.” It is a busy life. During a nor mal day, a midshipman attends sev en military formations, recites three times, and drills once. He is in spected frequently, both for person al appearance and for cleanliness of his room, for which he and his “wife,” or roommate, are jointly responsible. produces an interesting substance from whey. The substance resembles rubber in some ways but is trans parent. It is somewhat like glass but is softer and is flexible. There are six billion pounds of whey avail able annually in the United States. The man who lets a 10-cent argu ment lead him into a $10 bet de serves to lose. THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1930 Recreation Center i tiluttton’s ping pong team lost to Lima Westinghouse players last Wed nesday night at Lima by a score of 12 to 3. Bluffton players included Jim Miller, Gene Zuber, Bob Watkins, James Claik, Tony Wilson and Evan Soash. Local players lost to the same team a week ago by a score of 8 to 7. 1 I I Organization q|' a Bluffton Checker club was effected-at a meeting of 19 players from the district last Thurs day night at the home of John Diller. Those at the session were from Lima, Findlay, Pandora and Bluffton. Offi cers named by the group included Homer O. Dorsey, Findlay, president John Diller, vice-president, and Gene Zuber, Bluffton, secretary-treasurer. The newly organized group will be known as the Northwest Ohio Check er club and a clubroom will be estab lished in the Albert Steiner residence. This week’s meeting will be there on Thursday night. FIFTY FAMOUS FRONTIERSMEN By ELMO SCOTT WATSON “35 Battles—35 Victories” OVERNOR of the state of Frank VJ lin six terms governor of Tennessee four times elected to con gress a projector and hero of King’* Mountain: 35 battles- 35 victories his Indian war cry was: ‘Here they are* Come on, boys, come on!’ Such Is the inscription on one side of a monument in Knoxville, Tenn., and it sums up the career of one of the most romantic figures in frontier his tory—that of John Sevier, ‘‘Noll chucky Jack.” Born in Virginia in 1744 of a French Huguenot family, Sevier emigrated to James Robertson’s Watauga settlement In eastern Tennessee in 1773. Almost Immediately the young Virginian be came a leader in various forays against hostile Indians. By his audacity and the swiftness and unexpectedness of his attacks on the Indian towns, he broke the spirit of the Cherokees and their allies and prevented their being used by the British in a rear attack on the colonies during the Revolution. He used the same tactics In one of the most brilliant victories over the British during that war. He was one of the leaders of the mountain men in their swift dash to trap Colonel Fer guson and his troops at King's moun tain before they could receive aid from Cornwallis, and thus contributed to the victory at Yorktown. After the Revolution the Watauga settlement became an orphan. Neither North Carolina nor the new federal government seemed to want It. So in 1784 the settlers organized the Inde pendent state of Franklin, a common wealth unique in American history, and elected “Nolichucky Jack” as their governor. When North Carolina tried to assert its authority over the region again, the settlers resisted. Their governor was singled out for punishment, treacherously betrayed, captured and placed on trial at Mor gantown, N. C., for high treason. Ahd at once more than 1,000 of the moun tain men assembled to rescue tfieif beloved “Nolichucky Jack.” A civil war seemed Imminent. But Sevier made a spectacular escape From hts captors and a short time later his people elected him to the North Carolina lei? islature. There was some protest over seating him but eventually he was al lowed to take office. From that time on he was never long out of public life—as congress man from North Carolina, as the first governor of the new state of Tennes see. and then repeatedly re-elected, and thrice re-elected to congress. He died as he had lived—in the harness and in the field. The end came in 1815 in a tent on a surveying expedition for the government, surrounded by his soldiers. 1933, Western Newspaper Union. Ohio farmers who apply both limestone and fertilizer on soils which have an acid reaction get greater returns from each dollar in vested in the combined soil treat ment than do farmers who use fer tilizer without first applying lime. Save at STEINER'S POST TOASTIES 3 Pkgs........................ 25c KIDNEY BEANS, Fancy Dark Red 2 cans ...................... 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