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PAGE TWO Approval of one of the Mennonite service camps for conscientious ob jectors located near Angola, Ind., was given by a committee of Men nonite ministers and peace workers at a meeting of the group at Goshen, Indiana, last week. Rev. H. T. Unruh, pastor of the First Mennonite church, is a mem ber of the committee representing various conferences of the church joining in the effort to provide non combatant training for Mennonite young men. Local Pastor On Committee Approving Former C. C. C. Unit As Mennonite Camp The camp is a former C. C. C. unit and is well equipped with bar racks, recreation halls, administrative housing and all facilities needed to carry on effective camp work. The group will engage in reforestation in the area under the supervision of government experts. The historic peace churches such as the Quakers, Mennonites and Brethren have been permitted by the government to establish service cent ers for useful work to the govern ment of a non-combative nature un der provisions of the selective serv ice act. Pre-World war days when Bluffton was known as a great horse-trading center were brought to mind recently when Amos Thutt, local horse dealer, shipped a truck load of heavy draft horses to Mayport, Pa. Importing And Exporting Horses Once Was Flourishing Business In Bluffton From 1906 until 1914, importing and exporting horses was a fluor ishing business in the Bluffton area. Fine animals, including many for eign-bred Percherons and Belgians, were brought to Bluffton and sold at public auctions attended by people from miles around. One of the principal dealers of that era was D. K. Roth, of Gibson City, 'Ill., who for years brought Sixth Volume By Dr. Smith Sent To Press Dr. C. Henry Smith, professor of history at Bluffton college, recently sent to press his sixth book which he has written on various phases of Mennonite history. This 800 page volume covers the whole field of Mennonite History from the time of Menno Simon down to 1940. The book deals with the social, economic, and cultural aspects as well as the religious history of the Mennonites in Europe and Amer ica. Special emphasis is given in this book to the history of Mennon ites since the war and to the history of the Russian Mennonites and their migrations. Beginning with the life of Menno Simon and Anabaptist on to trace Mennonites Prussia and then their migration to Southern Russia under Empress Catherine II. It further tells of their experiences under the Bolshe vick Revolution and the final trek of some 30,000 to Canada and South the development of the movement the book goes the spread of the Dutch across the Baltic into THINK BE CAREFUL DRIVE SAFELY LIVE AND LET LIVE Do not drink and then drive. Do not drive while you drink. Do Do life. not drink while you drive, not Jeopardize your own not Jeopardize the life of Do others. 1 ounces of alcohol will lower your ability to judge dis tance 9.7%. Reduce your abiity to con centrate 35%. Lessen your muscular reac tion 17%. You need all your faculties to drive. Control your car. Stop and look. Do not hurry. Better late than not at all. Drive safe with an Aetna Policy. S. P. Herr, Agent Phone 363-W Bluffton, O. HOLLYWOOD THEATRE OTTAWA Where America’s Most Promi nent Stars Appear FRI.-SAT. Laraine Day—Robert Young “TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN SUN. MON. TUES. One of the biggest laughs of the year! CAROLE LOMBARD ROBT. MONTGOMERY GENE RAYMOND In the ail-time prize panic of the screen “Mr. and Mrs. SMITH” ... a flirting Mr. and a flitting Mrs. It’s daring! It’s delightful —and as spicy as it’s speedy! The supervision of the immediate projects of the camps will be pro vided by government trained experts but the denominations involved are paying the other expenses of feeding the young men and other expenses not yet clearly defined. The government has been very friendly and cooperative in the es tablishment of the camp, Rev. Unruh stated. This particular camp was constructed to accommodate 200 young men but there probably will not be that many at the camp in the immediate future, it was pointed out by the committee. Other members of the committee working on plans for the camp in clude: Dr. J. A. Huffman, formerly of this place and now dean of the school of religion at Tabor univers ity Rev. Harry Yoder, graduate of Bluffton college in the class of 1932 Dr. Harold Render of Goshen college and representatives of the Defence less and Amish branches of the Men nonites The group will meet again at Goshen in the near future to further facilitate plans for getting the pro gram into action. horses to Bluffton and disposed of them at public sale. Only the finest type of horseflesh was offered at the auctions, and most of those brought here were imported or choice native Percheron and Bel gians. As a consequence Bluffton also be came well known as a breeding cen ter, with the result that many ani mals were shipped from the town in succeeding years. Prices commanded by horses in those days are indicated by a re port of one of Roth’s sales in 1914 when 23 animals were sold for near ly $8,000. America. The rise of Mennonites in Switzerland and their spread over South Germany is also covered. Of special interest locally is the ac count of migrations to Pennsyl vania in the early eighteenth cen tury and the subsequent spread across North America. Observe Silver Wedding Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Russell Huber cele brated their silver wedding anniver sary last Saturday. They were ried on March 29, 1916, by W. H. Lahr. mar Rev. home Supper guests at the Huber Saturday evening were: Mrs. Noah Niswander, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Niswander and son Lyle, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Brookhart of Cairo, and Miss Margie Peterson of Ada. Mr. arid Sunday dinner guests included Wm. Girod and Mrs. Erma Montague of Van Wert, Mr. and Mrs. John Huber of Lima, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Huber of Beaverdam, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Coon of Gary, Ind., Mrs. Maude Coon and Mrs. Marion Boyd and children. Afternoon callers were: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Huber and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Huber of Ada, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Phillips. In late afternoon the couple left for a short visit with relatives in Portland, Ind., years ago they moon. where twenty-five spent their honey- home- Monday even- On returning ing they were surprised by a large group of neighbors and friends and given a rousing belling. The group also presented them with a beautiful floor lamp. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Willard Jennings and family, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hilty, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Lung, Mr. and Mrs. Orton Stratton, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Luginbihl and family, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Glea son and family, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Huber, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Brauen and family, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Jennings, Mrs. Lillie Fett, Miss Nel lie Huber. Mr. and Mrs. Otis Fett and daugh ters, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Zimmer man and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Herr and family, Mr. and Mrs. Karl Huber, Mrs. Cora Huber and granddaughter, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Stratton and family, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Reichenbach and family, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Huber and family, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Clausing, Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Trout, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Salter and fam ily and Mr. and Mrs. Chancey Spal linger and family. of a gradtf Agriculture, to assist in Through employment ate of the College of Ohio State University, the development of new sources of farm income, encourage sound meth ods of keeping farm accounts, and to promote wider interest in the many helpful services available to the farmer at a modern bank, the Farmers National Bank of Salem is pioneering a suggestion of the col lege’s rural economics department. Precautions against farm accidents especially with the busiest time of the year just ahead, will generally be worth much more than they cost. Bluffton Co Announcement of the election of Miss Lucille Tschantz, Bluffton col lege junior, to the Y. W. C. A. presi dency for the year 1941-42, was made at the annual Geneva banquet, Wednesday evening, March 26. Miss Betty Amstutz, retiring president, made the announcement before ap proximately one hundred “Y” mem bers, faculty wives, women teachers, and mothers as they were gathered semi-formally, in the Ropp hall din ing room. Also announced was the election of Magdalene Qyer, sophomore, to the vice-presidency Evelyn Hilty, junior, to the treasury and Mary Alice Howe, freshman, to the sec retarial position. Mrs. A. C. Burcky was reelected to fill the capacity of advisor and counsellor. The Men’s Gospel team held an evening service at the Berne Men nonite church, Berne, Ind., Sunday. The quartet comprised of John Boehr, Pandora Robert Sommer, Middlebury, Ind. Leonard Metzker, Roaring Spring, Pa. and James Habegger, Berne, Ind., rendered sev eral Easter selections. Leonard Metzker spoke on the subject, “The Challenge of the Cross”. The Men’s Gospel team is send ing two quartets among the Men nonite churches during spring va cation, April 3 to 14. The churches to be visited by the first quartet are Grabill and Kouts, Ind. Flanagan, Normal, Congerville, Hopedale, Pek in, Peoria, Summerfield, and Tis kalwa, Illinois and Fortuna, Mo. Also, a broadcast of their program will be given over station WJBC in Bloomington, Illinois, at 3:45, April 5. The Pennsylvania churches to be visited by the second quartet are Napier, Schwenksville, First Phila delphia, East Swamp, Deep Run, Souderton, Allentown, Lansdale, Sau con and West Swamp. Dean J. S. Schultz plans to accompany the quartet West and Dr. I. W. Bauman will go East with the second group. Richard Czerwonky, virtuoso, com poser, and conductor of international repute, will appear in the Bluffton college Chapel, this Wednesday evening, at 8:30 p. m. to present a program of violin music. His ap pearance will complete the series of concerts sponsored by the college Conservatory of Music for the school year. Bluffton High Spring football practice started on Monday night. The call was issued by Coach Dwight Diller to Junior high boys as well as those of senior high school. Early sessions will be devoted largely to fundamentals. A unit from the United States Zoo logical society entertained the stu dents at an assembly meeting Mon day afternoon. Various animals of J^orth, Central and South America w’ere demonstrated. The animals are being carried for exhibition purposes to various schools in specially con structed cages. Exhibits were: Ant eater, porcupine, coati, weasel, otter, badger, skunk, monkey and others. Sheriff William V. Daley of Allen county will be the speaker at the Hi Y club meeting to be held in the club rooms, Wednesday night. Every Hi Y member will bring another boy from the school as a guest. Election of officers w’ill tak place at the meeting of the Future Home Makers of America, Thursday night. Every member is requested to bring a picture of herself, it was stated by Doris Garmotter, president of the or ganization. Extensive preparations are being made by contestants for the district solo and ensemble contest at Ada, Friday. Representatives of the National Youth Admnistration conferred with Supt. Longsdorf the fore part of the week with reference to work for out of school youth. To be eligible a youth must be: 1. Ages 18-25. 2. Out of school. 3. Unemployed (if working, not more than 100 hours a month). 4. A United States citizen. Two films will be shown this week at the high school. Ireland for social science classes and Years of Progress in the science classes. Announcement of the cast for the senior play, “The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come” was made this week by Prof. P. W. Stauffer, instructor in speech. The cast for the play is temporary and the characters may be changed as the play progresses. The cast follows: Chad, the Little Shepherd, Ray Nis wander Nathan Cherry, Harold Sant schi Betsy Cherry, Frieda Vande mark and Olive DeCamp Mellissa Turner, Marjorie Stratton Caroline Dean, Helen Soldner Old Tom, Dale Grismore Major Calvin Buford, Har lan Swank Miss Lucy Buford, Doris THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO ege Notes Dr. Harold Bender. Dean of Goshen college, addressed the Chapel service, Wednesday morning. His subject centered around the theme, “Behind the Scene in War-Torn Europe”. Dean Bender is prominent in Mennonite European relief activ ity. He has just recently returned from Europe from an inspection tour. Dr. Bender will also address the Peace Action club this Wednes day night at a meeting open to the public. Bluffton college faculty members entertained the Bluffton high school faculty at a program in the college Chapel, Monday right. The one-act play, “Things,” directed by Profes sor P. W. Stauffer, was the main at traction of the ring, with Profes sor R. A. Lai. Professor A. C. Schultz, Mrs. l. nore Myers, Miss Alta Schrock, Edna Ramseyer, and Miss Della Krehbiel taking the parts. Musical selections by Laurence Burkhalter, Pau Emmert, Miss Ann Rollins, and string ensemble were also inch on the program. Miss Katherine Moyer was chair man. After the am, refreshments were served in the Musselman li brary reception oom. Miss Agnes Amstutz, in go decorations used the East me, and centered her arrangen around a large Easter rabbit i blooming crocuses. Bluffton college will commence its spring vacation at 4:00 p. m., Thurs day, April 3. After a week’s rest, students will return to their work Monday afternoon, April 14, at 1:15 p. m. to complete the school year. Members of the Peace Action club have planned several activities for the very near future which they hope will bring them and the college as a whole closer to the vital truths for which they stand. Tuesday evening, April 1, brought Don Smucker, midwest secretary of the F.O.R. to the college campus. He spoke to the college Chapel in the morning, and also addressed the Peace club that evening. Work on the college arboretum will be done as a part of the club’s spring work project. Several days will be spent in helping treat the section to bo planted in Applachian trees, so that the soil will be similar to that which is found in the natural habitat of those trees. School Notes Gene Garmotter and Wanda Dillr. Thanky,. Fairy Bronson Nellie Hunt, Blit ye Steinman Richard Hunt, John Stettler Margaret Dean, Harriet Biome, Stage manager, Bet tye Murray. Gerald Augsburger and Genevieve Hankish will act as alter nates. The art classes are experimenting in wood-burned craft and are produc ing some very attractive decorative pieces, under the direction of the in structor, Mrs. Russell Lantz. Nine members of the Red and White basketball team received their latters at an assembly meeting Fri day. Receiving letters were: Clyde Fisher, honorary captain Roger Howe. Robert Cooney, Russel Gratz, Norman Beidler, Pete Schmidt, Don Clark, Richard Gratz and John Her mann. Managers awards were received by James Clark, James Stonehill and Al bert Ingalls. The cheerleaders, Mary Jane Worthington, Doris Dunifon and Marcene Stonehill, also received awards. The class basketball tournament is now o cupying the attention of the students with the various classes cheering on their respective teams with much enthusiasm and gusto. Two tournaments are being held, one each for both boys and girls. The games are played over the noon hour. Members of the American Govern ment ass attended a jury trial in the Lima Common Pleas court, Tues day. The group made the trip to Lima in a school bus under the super vision of Dale Reichenbach, student teachei from Bluffton college. CA Head Elected At Bluffton College HI Miss Lucile Tschantz, junior from Dalton, has been elected Y. W. C. A. president at Bluffton college for the coming year. Elected to assist Miss Tschantz are Magdalene Oyer, sophomore of Bluff ton, vice-president Mary Alice Howe, freshman of Bluffton, secretary Evelyn Hilty, junior of Pandora, treasurer and Mrs. A. C. Burcky, advisor. Other cabinet members will be named in the near future. The new cabinet will function during the last month of the school year, as sisted by the old cabinet. Largest Owners With 299,000 acres, the Ecclesias tical commission is now believed to be the largest private land-owning organization in Great Britain. Richard Czerwonky, concert violinist, who will appear in the Bluffton college chapel this Wed nesday night at 8:30 o’clock. Noted Violinist Is Here This Wednesday Richard Czerwonky, noted violinist, will appear in concert at the Bluff ton college chapel this Wednesday night at 8:30 o’clock, it was an nounced this week by Prof. Russell A. Lantz, head of the music depart ment. Virtuoso, composer and conductor of international repute, Richard Czer wonky has just completed his twenty fifth year of distinguished perform ance both here and abroad. Born at Birnbaum, Provinz Posen, Germany, he studied first with Florian Zajic, later with Andreas Moser and final ly with the great Joachim in Berlin. Mr. Czerwonky made his debut un der that master in 1906. The year following his debut, Mr. Czerwonky toured Germany, France, Sw-eden, Holland, Russia and the other Euro pean countries. The season 1907-8 found him in America as Assistant Concertmaster of the Boston Sym phony Orchestra. His earliest pub lished works date from about this time. College Announces Y. M. C. A. President Alvin Beachy, junior from Fair field, Pa., was elected to the presi dency of the Young Men’s Christian Association following an election by the club held in the chapel at Bluff ton college Tuesday. Assisting Beachy in directing the organization will be Leland Lehman, sophomore from Berne, Ind. Lehman is majoring in Business and Econ omics, a member of the Varsity De bate squad, and the A Capella choir. Charles Lemley, junior from Pan dora, is treasurer, and Royal Thom as, freshman, secretary. Dr. Ramseyer Talks To Marion Teachers At a meeting of the public school teachers held recently at Marion, Ohio, Dr. L. L. Ramseyer, president of Bluffton college, gave an address concerning visual education. The entire purpose of the conference was the discussion of visual aids in junior high school education. Merits and problems of micro-projection, opaque projection, lantern slides, and motion pictures were considered. Other speakers on the program in cluded Dr. Edgar Dale, of the Bu reau of Educational Research, and Dr. William Hart, of the faculty of Ohio State University. College Lettermen Taken Into Varsity In a very impressive meeting, ten athletic awrard winners were form ally inducted into the Men’s Varsity “B” club at the college Monday. The program consisted of individual talks by the new members, and a short period of questioning, which was conducted by the regular members. The new members are: Charles Truax, Robert Heiks, Duane Tway, John Thutt, and Harold Lehman, w’ho received awards for basketball, and Eugene Basinger, Lloyd Huns burger, Melvin Eshelman, Richard Wenger, and Don Amstutz, who won awards in football. Following the induction program a short business meeting was held. Plans w’ere discussed for the intra mural track meet to be held the first week after vacation. A committee consisting of Myron Brown, Evan Soash, Herbert Fretz and Richard Wenger, was appointed to conduct the event. All college men are in vited to participate. BEAVERDAM INFANT DIE§ Sherrion Pierce, six-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Pierce, died Friday at the home of her parents in Beaverdam. Funeral services were held Sunday, and burial w’as at Delphos. D. C. BIXEL, O. D. GORDON BIXEL, O. D. Eyesight "Specialists Office Hpur»: 8:30 A. M—5:30 P. M. 7:30 P. M—8:30 P. M. Citizens Bank Bldg., Bluffton Francis Basinger* D. D. S. Evan Basinger* D. D. S. Telephone 271-W Bluffton, Ohio In the medieval church observance, Lent was a season in which the faithful begged God’s mercy for themselves and were therefore ex pected to show mercy to others. Money saved in fasting w’as dis tributed in alms, laws forbade crim inal processes, rulers released pris oners, slaves were set free and ene mies became friends. It also was a season fraught with mourning, hence festivities of all kinds were strictly taboo and mar riages were prohibited. Eating flesh meat, eggs arid milk during Lent was forbidden in early England not only by ecclesiastical, but also by statute laws until the time of William III. Heavy fines and imprisonment were imposed up on violators. Action of the Anglican church and affiliated groups have brought the present Lenten observance. Moderate abstinence in the use of food, and an intermission in gayety and pleasure There’s the story of the little man who wasn’t there—but it’s the nar rative of the little girl who wasn’t there that is furnishing the latest mystery on the Bluffton college campus. The eerie episode occurred the other night when a Bluffton man was walking thru the campus and he was stopped by a young woman who asked if he could tell her the time. Pulling his watch from his pocket he peered in the dark to see the hour and on looking up found him self alone. The girl, whom he did not recognize, had vanished without a sound. One month is the life of the aver age milk bottle, according to Paul Detwiler, proprietor of the Hy-Grade Dairy Co., who pointed out that breakage of milk bottles is the larg est single loss item in the business, amounting to a minimum of $200 annually. Stated in other terms the average bottle is good for about 35 trips, ac cording to the law of averages. Breakage occurs at both the home and the dairy but far more frequent ly in home handling, Detwiler stated. Replacement necessitates the pur chase of 275 to 300 bottles every month. Bought in gross lots quart bottles can be secured for seven cents each with pints costing three and one-half cents and half pints costing two and one-half cents. Also contributing to the head aches of the dairyman is the custom er who lets the bottles accumulate. Recently Detwiler was called to the home of a customer who had 87 bottles stored in his basement. Often he is called to various homes where he will find 50 or more bottles for him to take away. Seldom heard of to the laymen but nevertheless very important to the milk industry is the bottle exchange man who calls at regular intervals to collect the foreign bottles of every dairyman and to return his own THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1941 Spring Lenten Season Has Long History Dating Back To Year 840 is recommended. The purpose is to make available more time in religious reflection, contemplation and public devotions. Lent in these days is a fast of 40 week days observed by the Roman, Greek, Anglican and some Protestant churches. The Anglicised word “Lent” is de rived from the old Anglo-Saxon “Lencten” or spring. Episode Of Little Girl Who Wasn’t There Is College Campus Mystery Altho originating in antiquity, Lenten observances took on a set schedule in the year 840 when the date was definitely fixed for all Catholic Christendom. This period, previous to the commemoration of Easter, extends from Ash Wednes day to Holy Saturday, inclusive. As Sundays are not days of fast ing, this gives the full complement of 40 days, established as an analogy between Lent and the 40 days’ fast of Jesus. It also corresponds to the 40 days spent by Moses and Elias in the wilderness. Life Of Milk Bottle Is Little More Than Month, Local Dairyman Reports Nothing was before him but an empty cinder path and behind him only space—and the strange experi ence was followed by a quick exit. The encounter occurred about half way between Ropp hall, the girls’ dormitory and the Musselman li brary according to the local man who avers it is true. BRING COLOR TO FLOORS Armstrong Quaker Rugs for Spring $ I® A movement was started early this year to have lights installed by the municipality on that part of the campus. However, City Solicitor Francis Durbin in an opinion ruled that it would be illegal for the town to install and operate public lighting service on private property. Stu dents also voiced objections to the proposal. bottles. The local dairyman pays the bottle exchange man two cents for the local bottles and receives one cent for the foreign bottles which he collects. Empty bottles collected by Det wiler on his milk route represent dairies from many parts of the country. How bottles from as far aw’ay as Washington ever get to Bluffton is a mystery. Hy-Grade bottles have been collected by the bottle exchange man rather frequent ly in Chicago. Various devices have been tried to reduce the bottle loss but so far nothing has been very successful and the problem still remains one of the knotty ones that dairyman are con tinually discussing at conventions and other get-togethers of the trade. Melville D. Soash, M. D. The Commercial Bank Bldg. 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