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PAGE TWO Kirby Page, Author and Lec turer, Conducts Spiritual Retreat at College 23,000,000 Defense Workers Likely to Create Problem After War Vast Unemployment Problem Seen In Post-War Period By Speaker What to do with the 23,000,000 workers engaged in national defense industries will be one of the prin cipal post-war headaches, according to Kirby Page, internationally known author and lecturer, who addressed sessions of a two-day spiritual re treat held on the Bluffton college campus Friday and Saturday. About 200 registered delegates from surrounding colleges and churches were in attendance to hear the series of six lectures delivered by Kirby Page on religious and so cial questions. 23,000,000 Workers A research commission instituted by President Roosevelt inquired as to the number of workers engaged in industries now in or shortly to be in operation exclusively in de fense production and the estimate given to the president was 23,000,000 workers, Page stated. After the war the country will find itself in a dilemma. To keep the workers in their present posi tions would bankrupt the country and to dismiss them would cause an unemployment problem of the most serious proportions. Dictatorship Joseph Martin, the Republican Na tional chairman, has stated that an economic breakdown of such a ser ious nature will likely be the war’s aftermath that an indefinite dictator ship will follow, Page pointed out. Some assumptions concerning the present war can be stated as fol lows: 1. That it will grow larger and last a long time. Winston Churchill has estimated that it will take until 1944 for the democracies to win the war. 2. There is every evidence that the United States will soon begin to shoot. 3. Military experts estimate that it will take 10,000 huge bombers to win the war for the democracies. Milk This means an air force of about 50,000 bombers to provide replace ments and training. United States is rapidly approaching this figure. Starvation These bombers together with the British bombers ■will bring devasta tion upon Europe. The hunger blockade will bring starvation to countless millions. Even at the present time there are 300,000,000 people in Europe seriously underfed according to an estimate of former President Herbert Hoover. A further profound effect on American life will be taxes of stag gering proportions. In England at the present time 50 per cent of all the income is going to maintain the war. Inflation Inflation is a likely consequence of debts getting out of line. Page was in Germany at the time of the period of inflation and pointed out that an American dollar bill would buy six trillion marks which nor mally would buy only four or five marks. In this period of despair Hitler came to power, not because he was a brilliant orator who pursued the people against their better judgment but because he was able to crys tallize the German public opinion more efficiently than anyone else. Consequently the majority of the people were back of Hitler’s pro gram, Page pointed out. Spiritual Resources The speaker concluded his re marks with some suggestions as to how one could avoid some crushing effects of the war. 1. Learn how to live in a Tstorm. In the crisis that will follow Amer ican participation it is important to be prepared for the eventuality. 2. Transform the home into cen ters of spiritual power. Spiritual resources must be called on to weather the storm. 3. Repair friendships on a high level of spiritual life. There must be fellowship in thought, prayer and action. Notice! Whip Cream Choc. Milk FAST AND ECONOMICAL, TOO! Look at the features you get in this beau tiful Model B-fiO. Exclusive Rodiantubo Unit* 18% fatter, 15% more effi cient, much more econom ical. Each unit hat 5 prac tical cooking speeds. With the present war already cost ing much more than the last one and devastation more complete, it will be necessary to call on the re sources of religion to withstand the shock, the speaker stated in conclud ing his remarks. Due to increased costs of production, it is necessary to raise dairy products as follows: Gallon—10c Quart—He Pint— 6c (same) Pint—32c i/2 Pint—17c Quart—12c Pint—7c Coffee Cream will sell for 14c per PL Hv-Grade Ihtirv Hofstetter Hairy Ultra-Modem Fluo rescent Lighting Big, Thrifty, Even Heat Oven Thermizer Cooker High-Speed Broiler Cook-Master Oven Control Lifetime Porcelain, inside and out —And Many Others! Meed-Getter Pve Ever SeenJ* Frigidaire Electric Range Buy Now it today's low prices A MONTH Come in, see a demonstration of the many beautiful Frigidaire Electric Ranges C. F. NISWANDER Authorized Frigidaire Dealer Bluffton, Ohio One-third Million AAA Funds Paid In District Parity payments to Allen, Han cock, Hardin and Putnam county farmers for the 1940 Agricultural Adjustment Administration program aggregated more than one-third of a million dollars, it was learned this week. Checks amounting to $363,395.20 were distributed to farmers resid ing in the four counties in this area. Putnam county received the larg est payment, and that for Allen was the lowest. Hancock county ranked second, and third. Hardin county was by. counties in this reported as follows: Distribution district was Putnam, $122,104.12 Hancock, $92, 946.87 Hardin, $85,216, and Allen, $63,128.21. Ohio farmers received a total of $4,824,072 in parity payments, and the nation-wide aggregate was 3205, 834,629. No payments were reported in the six new England states. Although preaching the gospel ill remains the principal work of issionaries, there are many other pcs of activities on which atten be concentrated if the to be successful, accord- must ing to Miss missionary West Africa, whose letter ceived this week by a number of Bluffton people. Hannah Bracy, Bluffton in Angola, Portugese was re- Miss Bracy is the sister of Jesse and Homer Bracy of Bluffton and has been engaged in mission work in Africa for 18 years, on furlough about a returned to Africa on a Norweign freight She was home year ago and the Tiradentes, boat. the gospel a Besides preaching missionary must know how to build houses because the natives under stand the construction of only the crudest of shacks. A new law stip ulates that all buildings on mission grounds must be of either stone or burnt brick. One of the teachers developed a method of making brick and tile from a special clay found in the region. Believed Earth Round Columbus believed that the earth was round instead of fiat and that the shortest way to the east would be to sail to the west. For years he tried to secure money, ships and sailors to test his theory. Men laughed at him, children poked fun THE BLUFFTON NEWS. BLUFFTON,| OHIO Mt. Cory HighWUl Stage MMl Play\ Qn “Two Minutes to Gc football comedy will I the senior public spe Mt. Cory high school auditorium at that November 4. players, Max Clymer, Junior Treese Missionaries Must Develop Efficiency In Many Fields, Bluffton Woman Writes announcer, Richa 1 erner.I The government a agricultural instruct the mission stations, to learn adaptat. methods to African geographic conditn stated. It In addition md must have a kno" 1 and the treatment dispensary is maint, gola station where with their thousan ments. Also it is i instruction in read so it is necessai schools Miss Bracy Occasionally Miss lages where white been seen before an group is regarded a In time it grows rather irksome to be regarded as a spe zoo and to be eyed Nevertheless mis carrying on with many converts have cause through the the many-sided mis the letter stated ir Columbus Day Celebration Sunday Commemorated By Three Continents Celebration of Columbus Day Sun day called attention to a Friday morning, the twelfth of October in 1492, when three ships sailed close to a little island in the West Indies, and the leader of the expedition went ashore and claimed the land for Spain. For 18 years this son of an Ital ian weaver named Christopher Co lumbus had been dreaming and hop ing to accomplish the finding of a short route to India and he was there, so he thought. Yet things were not as he expected. Where were the riches of Cathay and In dia? Where were the cities of gold, pearls and spices? at him and he i “the stranger i cloak”. sailed back ii Spain. He v report to th Here he was covered who glory to Spain Now more later the U the date of serves a holi keeps it and the seaport in South Amlerica Three cont paying a tri Italian weai faith, couragP’ poets will schools, Fri Ohio poetr teachers wil Ohio poetry o”, an exciting be presented by taking class of! Allen county’s greatest fanning 1 in the school I even^—annuai COrn husking con place, Tuesday,! Football coach, Robert Powell hisl half miles northeast of Gomer. wife, Wanda Montgomery superin-| Entry in standing and shocked tendent, Ralph Stei Edith Stuber her gomery a senior, Ima Jean Mont-1 fall are Donald Searfoss, of Harrod, gomery reporter, Mary Steinman football captain, Richard Hermon Harold Dunlap, member of team, Loren Steiner also! Route 2, shock corn contest winner on team, Robert Haas football can-1 last year. didate, Lehr Jay Reese cheer lead-l This year’s ers, Myrtle Steinman, Lucille Shaf-I in a two-acre er drum majoro. Nonna Jones brid N-608. assistant coach, Jem Jordan new! Winners in student, Carolyn Moyer football! gomery superin ner a neighbor,! corn contests closed on Tuesday, son, Clair Mont-1 Among those who will compete this referred to as the threadbare presented to the The plan was royal heads of a number of countries! all of whom refused him. Finally Queen Isabella of Spain agreed to finance the expedition from her own kingdom of Castile. It was almost impossible to get a crew but one was assembled by releasing prisoners and debtors from the jails. Land Sighted of sailing during had difficulty in in line, land After 36 days which Columbus keeping the crew finally sights over. The an accornpl stood out straight west than any shij To the work ents. was was was fact The voyage of Columbus act and one had ream hedf Columbus had sailed 2,000 miles farther had ever gone before, he gave new contin- th of March Columbus nto the harbor of Palos vas ordered at once to ie court at Barcelona. hailed as a great had brought honor and riches. On the 15 dis and Expedition Secojnd out- expedition was soon time consisting of 171 OB not provide such ling and after a rebel w colony Columbus was A second e fitted, this ships. This pleasant rea lion in the ne sent back to house still Valladolid tl unaware of co very that Spain in chains. In a own to visitors in great voyager died the really great dis he had made. than four centuries States celebrates tis discovery. Spain ob iday on the date. Italy flags are hung out in of Genoa. Ten nations observe it. inents keep this holiday, ibute to the son of an ver, a man who had and perseverance. Ohio Poetry Day the poems of Buckeye stressed in Bluffton iy, in week. present their Emphasis observance of AH English some phase of classes. For All Mankind Freedom of land, Freedom of sea. Freedom for man This U. S. A. must always be. J. J. Luginbuhl Hardware Beaverdam, Ohio. A Subaltern A subaltern, in English military parlance, is a commissioned officer below the rank of captain. Allen County Corn Husking Contest I test and farm machinery show— The following cast nounced by Miss Olive directing the production: I Sugar Creek township, one and one- has been an-1 be held this Saturday on the Obee, who is! J- G. Vandemark and Son farm, in 1940 standing corn w'inner and Columbus Grove contests will be field of Indiana held Hy- the county meet will Giailt Locomotive Goes Thru Bluffton ern missionaries edge of medicine of diseases. AI A giant, 400-ton locomotive built ained at the An-| by the Lima Locomotive Works the natives cornel passed thru Bluffton last Saturday i and one ail-1 on the Nickel Plate railway, enroute jecessary to give I to Grand Rapids, Mich., where it ing and writing! will be placed in service on the Pere y to maintain! Marquette railroad. pointed out. I Eleven similar locomotives are un- Bracv visits vil-l ^er construction at the Lima plant, eople have never I an^ be delivered within the next id the missionary! montb. quite a novelty. I Each en£ine weighs more than 400 I tons, has eight driving wheels a 84- cciman from the! ’ncb piston stroke and carries 245 constantly. I P°unds of steam pressure. ionary work is new vigor and been won to the presentation of iionary program, conclusion. Bluffton’s Present And Proposed Tax Rates requires that n be given at is necessary agricultural! may be obtained by subtracting the village levy from the total. climate and!-------------------------------------------------- the letter) y Fl w Ww tea »awB be eligible to compete in the Ohio husking contest on October 23 and 24 in Champaign county. Judges for the show will be Lloyd Bosher, Kenneth Peltier and Clay Miller. Weighers will be I. H. Ma son, Clair Patterson and Cloyd Leh man. Floyd Griffin will be time keeper, and Frank Musselman will be official starter. Members of Richland Grange will serve lunch. Several thousand area farmers are expected to attend the affair, if the weather is favorable, the husking contests chinery show, those have an opportunity new Ohio hybrids grew in test strips on the Vandemark farm. 1 Bluffton—-Present Rate Bluffton—-Proposed Rate In Out Total In Out Total County ........ .. 3.25 .65 3.90 3.10 .70 3.80 Township .. .35 .00 .35 .30 .00 .30 School ........ .. 4.20 5.80 10.00 4.90 6.20 11.10 Village .... .. 2.20 .85 3.05 1.70 2.20 3.90 ■■.... I In addition to and farm ma attending will to see how 20 1 1 Total .......... .. 10.00 7.30 17.30 10.00 9.10 19.10 Rate for that part of Richland Township in the Bluffton School district Hearing on the petition will be held this Saturday in the court. I &Jb'*■: K| W I Biwl Living Room Suites tyeatuAsuUf BgUmh, ani JlcauJUjame Waa-i Ga/UMUfl Everything for the modern living room—solid walnut End and Coffee tables and an unusual selection of new table lamps just in for our fall trade. Basingers Furniture Store THURSDAY, OCT. 16. 1941 —__ Richland Twp. Asks Transfer Of $2,000 Permission to transfer $2,000 from the Richland township general fund to the township’s road and bridge fund is sought in a petition filed last Wednesday in the Allen county com mon pleas court. Filing of the petition was author ized by a resolution passed by the trustees Sept. 27. It was pointed out that the transfer was necessary for the purpose of maintaining and repairing roads and bridges in the township. Allen County Farm Output To Be Hiked Allen county farmers are asked to hike 1942 production of eggs, milk, hogs and potatoes in tentative pro duction quotas announced last week by the Ohio Agricultural Defense board at Columbus. Farmers of the county are asked to supply 12 per cent more milk than in 1941 eight per cent more eggs 14 per cent more hogs and 10 per cent more potatoes. other Han eight Percentage increases for counties in this area include: cock, 11 per cent more milk per cent more eggs nine per cent more hogs Hardin, 11 per cent more milk eight per cent more eggs seven per cent more hogs Putnam, 11 per cent more milk 10 per cent more eggs 28 per cent more hogs. Hardin county is asked to decrease its potato output by six per cent. Shirts for Sailors Shirt factories of Derry, Northern Ireland, will make 500,000 shirts for sailors. Melville D. Soash, M. D. The Commercial Bank Bldg. Bluffton, Ohio X-RAY FLUOROSCOPE Telephone 254-W D. C. BIXEL, O.D. GORDON BIXEL, O.D. Citizens Bank Bldg., Bluffton EYESIGHT SPECIALISTS Eyes Exmined Without Drops Office Hours: 8:30 A. M.—5:30 P. M, MUNSON R. BIXEL, M. D. Office Hours: 8:30-10 A. M. 1-3 P. M. 7-8 P. M. Office, 118 Cherry St. Phone 120-F Bluffton. O. 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