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Friday Evening1, December 4, 1912 LAFAYETTE JOURNAL AND COURIER Dorothy T)tx Says Journal and Courier THE JOURNAL FOUNDED 1839 THE COURIER. FOUNDED 1831 NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS By PAUL MALLON By Jimmy Hatlo They'll Do It Every Time Registered U. S. Patent Office PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY). AT JOURNAL AND COURIER BUILDING.

SIXTH AND FERRY STREETS. LAFAYETTE. INDIANA HENRY W. MARSHALL Etiitor-In-Chief HENRY V. Publisher ENTERED AS PECOND CLASS MATTER AT t'OST OFFICE LAFAYETTE.

INDIANA Mall subscription rates Indiana and Iroquois County Illinois: Ont year. $4.00: six months. J2.50: thr3 months. $1.50. Delivered carrier.

10c per week. Mail rates In Illinois Michigan. Ohio and Kentucky $5.00 per year. In all other states. $6.00.

NOTICE Subscribers wishing addresses changed must give old as well as new address. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES3 The Associated Press ts exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all Dews dispatches credited to it In this paper and also the local news tempt to prevent our landings in North Africa and did not inflict really heavy losses in spite of the great number of targets offered them. Adequate escorts of armed ships wre provided with the transports and even those sunk did not carry many of our fighting men to the bottom of the sea with them. The record of our convoys across the Atlantic shows that with sufficient armed escorts the edge of the submarine attack can be blunted. The trouble is that the united nations today have not enough naval vessels to protect all merchant ships along all the vast distances where supplies must be carried to our armies and those of our allies.

This is the one chance left to Hitler and he is taking' advantage of it. But the expanded building programs promise soon to increase the number, of our armed ships. Past experience shows that when the submarines are forced to attack in the presence of naval escorts they fail to do great damage. A PROMISED HOLIDAY Christmas Day will be the first full holiday" since the United States entered the war. War Production Director Donald M.

Nelson says that "on the birthday of the Prfnce of Peace we should all rest from the production of the weapons of war." pumished hereto. LET'S WELCOME GIRL BABY The stork has recently brought a bundle from Heaven to some young- friends of mine, but, alas, like so presents, it isn't what they asked Santa Claus for. It is a girl instead of a boy and they are bitterly disappointed. Hence, there are wails and lamentations instead of fireworks and wassail. Of course, they will get over their chagrin in a day or two and think their little daughter the sweetest and dearest thing' in the world, but the incident calls attention anew to the strange and incomprehensible fact that the girl baby' generally gets a cold welcome from her parents, whereas the boy baby is received with shouts of joy.

Furthermore, this opinion is shared by the. general public. Warm and hearty are the congratulations that are poured upon the father and mother of a son, but even the doctor is apologetic when he has to break the sad news that the newcomer is nothing but a girl. And the most that the family and friends can do is to summon up a falsely cheerful it-might-have-been-worse attitude which says, as plainly as words, she might have been twins. Yet such as the inconsistency of human nature, that although the great majority of parents want boys instead of girls when they are their own children, when childless couples adopt a baby they nearly always pick out a girl.

You wouhi think that when they had a chance to select the kind of an infant they wanted, instead of having to take whatever Nature wished off on them, MEMBER WIDE WORLD FEATURES Abound the office the. STW iiST PHYSICAL EFFORT IS TYPEWRITER FOR ME A fM fS TOO MUCH FOR HER. SO CAM CLEAN IT I sjmaA tfn? THE IMPRESSION OF PLEASURE. Jf it BEINKx "TOO DELICATE. TO 4 1 fk BUT-SOU SHOULD SEE HER.

MOVING THE. FURNITUK.E. AJ MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION 4011 Telephones 4011 (Distributed by Kin? Features Syndicate, reproduction in whole or in part stricfly prohibited.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. A gigantic crucial battle for control of the air over the Mediterranean is now in its first phase.

This battle will determine the fortune of our invasion of Africa, and may require weeks. No wise general tries to go very far these days without air power. To do so would waste troops. Hitler met our first landings by moving great quantities of planes into northern Tunisia, Sicily and Sardinia. He drew them from Stalingrad, central Germany and every point, but particularly from Bulgaria (where it now appears they had been placed in preparation for invasion of Turkey), and from southern France (for a corf-templated invasion of Spain).

It was obviously necessary then for us to establish air bases, to ship fighter planes in from Britain and the U. S. (you cannot fly fighters that distance), to establish gasoline supplies in great quantity in short, to get an air screen overhead before moving our land troops further. We are getting that now. When German planes are driven from north African skies, the next step will be to pulverize their bases in Sicily with our bombers, chase them from the straits and open the way for invasion of Italy.

Typographical Union "No. 64 states that all printers employed in the Lafayette Journal and Courier composing room are union members. RENSSELAER PASTOR FINISHES TRAINING FOR NAVY CHAPLAINCY power, with all our heart. Fill us with zeal and fervor in our workaday life that we may not give way to weariness of the body, the spirit or the mind; but rather that we discourage our obligations and task as best we can, that our energies and our efforts may yield fair fruits. Through Jesus Christ, Our Lqd, Amen.

Day by Day By Charles B. Driscoll Rev. M. L. Booth Home on Furlough.

Jasper Soldier Met Hero's Death. Legion to Church. RENSSELAER, Dec. 4. Graduating last Sunday at Norfolk, with 24 others and winning the rank of chaplain, the Rev.

Morton L. Booth, on leave from the pastorate of the Rensselaer Presbyterian church, has arrived for a few days' furlough, after which he will go to New York for assignment to active navy duty in that area. Rev. Booth left here Sept. 25, and has been in training since that time at Norfolk.

Thursday afternoon Rev. and Mrs. Booth went to Union Mills for an overnight visit with his mother. "Open house" was held for him this (Friday) evening, from 7 to 9 at the manse, with members of the congregation and friends invited. Sunday he, will participate in services at the local church.

HERO'S DEATH Lloyd Williams, the fourth Jas It will be well worth what it costs in reduced output to observe Christmas in this spirit. Even while all our energies are bent on making war and winning the war, the ultimate objective peace on earth must be kept in sight. We cannot accept our. enemies' philosophy that war is glorious and peace decadent. The message of Christmas stands firm against this dictator-made doctrine.

It will be the plain duty of American industry to make up the time lost through keeping Christmas a holiday, but it can be done, Mr. Nelson assures us, if a day of rest renews and increases energy for the work to be done a bigger job than we have ever faced And it is a good thing to know now what the WPB policy will be toward the keeping of Christmas. There can be extra effort before as well as after to justify setting war labors aside on a day long ago dedicated to peace on earth and good will toward men. ZINC MONEY The argument about small coinage seems to be ending in a decision to make steel pennies coated with zinc. It probably doesn't matter much except to collectors, but there will be natural curiosity about them for a little while.

No more copper is available, and the billions of pennies now in circulation may be called in soon and melted down for war use. The zinc-steel penny will serve as well as any other substitute. The real marvel in this connection may be the fact that there are still going to be pennies. Some alarmists, have been so sure of inflation that it almost seemed, for a while," as if there would be no more use in this country for any coin below a nickel. As it looks now, nothing very serious is going to happen to any of our currency, Sure, Americans, crave action.

When they are paying 80 billion dollars a year, they want something for their money. -V Civilization seems to be a process of making more and more reports to each other about everything. In the past we have always relied upon ambition to get us places. Now it takes a card as well. NEW YORK Thinking out loud: Harry Hansen, the book critic, on his way to his office from Grand Central, carrying his little leather book-container that holds the day's quota of reading matter and Harry has turned author again himself, with his book, "Chicago River," a fine picture of his favorite town on Lake Michigan Oklahoma Burton Rascoe, who has been writing theaters while John Mason Brown has been having an operation.

Brown celebrates his hospital with a brief book, "Insides Out" It is more subtle and less hilarious than Irvin Cobb's famous "Speak they would grab off the lusty boy babies. But, on the contrary, the demand is for fragile little -feminine numbers. Whether or not this is because women, who are behind most of the foster parenting, want something with golden curls that they can tie blue ribbons on and dress up in furbelows and play with as they did their dolls is not known. But any of the Child Finding societies will tell you that girl babies go like hot cakes, whereas it takes real salesmanship to get rid of a boy baby. Of course, in the countries where there were historic titles to be inherited and estates went by the law of primogeniture, it was logical for boys to be preferred to girls, but even this advantage seems to be going into the discard, as the prognostication is that after the war titles will be ten cents' a dozen and nothing will be left of ancestral estates except the mortgages on them.

In a democracy where we all are traditionally born equal, no matter what our sex, and where every babe is expected to stand on its own feet, no such reason for giving the preference to boys ever existed, unless it was to be found in the ancient belief that girls were a financial burden on their parents, while boys were an asset. But the modern girl has knocked that, theory into a cocked hat. Susie doesn't sit at home nowadays and do tatting while her poor old father goes out and works himself hump-shouldered to support her. On the contrary, as soon as she finishes school, she hustles out and gets a job and it is her Old Man who chucks his job and spends his declining years in the poolroom, or listening to the radio, while his daughter brings in the bacon. In the great majority of families it is the girls who get going sooner than the boys.

Taking it by and large, for, of course, there are exceptions to every rule, girls are a far greater asset to their parents than boys are. In poor families it is the girls who bring home their pay envelopes unopened to Mother, who takes all their earnings as her right and gives them back only a little change for spending money, while the boys keep theirs to do with as they please. It is the girls who help Mother with the housework and take care of the younger children after their hard day's work at the office, while: the boys sit around and read the comics. It is the girls who fix up the house and buy new furniture, never the boys. And it is the girls who take care of Mother and Father when they are old and helpless.

In practically every home in which an old man or woman has the warmest seat by the fireside, it is the wife's father or mother whom the man of the house is supporting, not his own. As an old-age insurance policy, a family of daughters beats the Townsend Plan all hollow. And as a source of pride, daughters are a preferred risk to sons, because in these days every woman has a chance of becoming famous, or marrying a millionaire, thus giving parents a double opportunity to brag about how their children turned oul. So, considering these things, let's warm up our welcome to the girl and give three cheers to the stork when he leaves one on our doorstep, even if we had our hearts set on a boy. ing of Operations" So it is not well enough to be at his law office and attend to other duties.

SPECIAL SERVICES In accordance with a request from department executive committee all members of the American Legion and auxiliary will attend church services Sunday, Dec. 6, commemorating the first anniversary of the attack on Peail Harbor. Members will meet at the Legion hall at 9:15 a. and attend the services at St. Augustine Catholic church.

St. Joseph college official government weather report showed that the thermometer Thursday morning registered seven degrees below zero. This is the coldest report of the present winter. HOSPITAL NOTES Jasper county hospital notes: Births: To Mr. and Mrs.

Marvin Kesslinger, of DeMotte, twin sons; to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Beough-ter, of Rensselaer, a daughter; to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Williams, of DeMotte, a daughter.

Eugene Petz, of Fair Oaks, entered for medical attention. Milton Merri-man, of Morrocco, and Patricia Moore, of Rensselaer, entered for surgical care. Dismissals: Mrs. Bess Griggs, Mrs. Dossen Byrd and son and Eugene Petz.

WOMEN'S SOCIETY The Women's Society of Christian Service will meet at 2 Tuesday in the Methodist church auditorium. A Christmas program will be presented which will Include organ numbers by Mrs. M. D. Gwin, devotions and a Christmas story.

Gifts for the Christmas box for Gary Friendship house should be brought to the meeting or sent to Mrs. Snyder. The executive meeting of old and new officers will be at the home of Mrs. J. J.

Hunt on Saturday at 3 o'clock. The West Jordan Sunshine club met with Helen Jordan, assisted by Blanche Morris and Geneva Patrick. It was voted to make a donation to the American Legion to help their project of sending the home paper to every Jasper county boy in service. The De-. cember meeting the the club will be a Christmas dinner to be served at Jordan school house on Dec.

10 at noon. Husbands are invited. seems that Charles B. Driscoll is in the Navy. Anna Stabl, Greenville, Ohio, sends me a picture of him, taken as he was about to ship out of San Diego on convoy duty He's a good-look per county war casualty, lost his life in action with American troops while resisting attempted landings by Japanese on New Caledonia, in the southwest Pacific.

He was killed Nov. 19, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carry Wil ing. lad, -former football player at Fairview, and surely a credit to the tribe.

I don't know that liams, of Pleasant Ridge. we're related, but I'll claim him as a cousin, anyway. Pvt. -Williams, 23, was born near Kniman and the family later My personal choice for the best editorial of the year is this brief RIGHTS OF READERS So-called "small town newspapers" invariably are. close to their readers, so the action of representatives of 1,000 of these papers in joining the defense against the government's suit that charges the Associated Press with monopoly has a phase that might be overlooked.

These newspapers have an unusual stake In the Associated Press case. They comprise the bulk of the co-operative's membership, and represent every party and creed. Lacking the facilities for news gathering on a national and world-wide scale that metropolitan papers can, if they desire, provide, their reliance on the unbiased news service of the Associated Press is more complete than is the case with the larger papers. The smaller newspapers are many of them without competition in their communities; often eighty per cent or more of their readers see no other daily newspaper. This puts a heavy responsibility on the shoulders of the They want all the news; they want only accurate news.

And both publishers and readers have learned that the AP credit line means accuracy, reliability, and fairness. The readers themselves know they may depend upon the Associated Press for factual reporting free from bias or propaganda. It is the cause of these millions of readers that the publishers are presenting in championing the cause of the news service now under attack. LESSONS IN BLITZ Can a nation be conquered by air power alone? Germany couldn't do it in Britain, although the luftwaffe bombed its cities nightly for a period of ten months starting in the fall of 1940. What happened is described in the official story of the civil defense of Britain "Front Line 1940-41" which has just been issued in London.

All told, 43,667 men, women and children were killed and 50,381 seriously injured, under circumstances of unimaginable horror. London was bombed for fifty-seven consecutive nights, the casualties in that city alone amounting to 32,900 killed or seriously hurt. In no British city was any one safe. Yet there was no "panic; the whole population stood firm; all city services were maintained. Water, electricity, railroad service, food supplies, gas service, police and firemen, all functioned with little interruption.

What died in Britain during the long blitz was not the will to war, but the will to accept any peace short of unconditional surrender. Britons were presented with a choice between servitude and death and common sense was mingled with courage when they refused to consider slavery. If bombing from the air could not conquer Britain, can it conquer Britain's enemies? The question is highly technical, but it is also one, of hope and common sense. Britain, as a member of the united nations, is not carrying on war to enslave anybody. As has been witnessed in North Africa, the banners of the united nations bring food and freedom wherever they go.

These are Italy's alternatives to attacks from the air. In time they will be the alternative offered to all but the guilty minority of Germans. We have a weapon that the nazis long ago discarded: the ordnance of mercy and goodwill ENTRAPMENT FIRES Human errors repeat themselves. Wars and other catastrophes seem to recur in cycles. We do better with epidemic diseases as man's knowledge spreads; but the most primitive peril of all seems to grow with civilization.

With all our controls, and campaigns, we still have devastating fires. The most fact, perhaps, is the simplicity with which such disasters occur, the casual ease with which they happen. A cow kicks over a lantern, and a city is destroyed. A tiny blaze in a crowded building, and several hundreds people are burned to death. The most discouraging thing about the Boston night club holocaust is that it should have repeated the famous blunders of the Iroquois theater fire in 1903 in Chicago.

In both cases the furnishings were highly inflammable; in both the exits were inadequate. The trapped victims could not get out. Simplest precautions in both cases could have prevented grim tragedy. Panic was present, of course, but that was to be expected. Terror always freezes reason.

Public places are safe only when the conditions which produce panic do not exist. Not only must there be adequate exits, but everyone, at all times, must know that they are adequate. Similar fire-traps may exist in a thousand other places in the country. Every city should be on guard against them. THE U-BOAT MENACE We are making progress in the fight on A complete re-making of America would result, if Mr.

Roosevelt goes through with the idea of limiting all personal profits to $25,000 net after taxes. It is a new idea and no one seems to be thinking about the effect it would have on the average taxpayer, worker or business man, but someone had better start. No one cares about the rich. They will get along on their but the question is what the limitation will do to the average man and the as a whole. All the progress that has been made in America has depended upon investment, risking money for the chance to get more.

When the government says no one can get more than $25,000 not even to pay 75 to 90 per cent of the excess into the treasury in taxes, how many new ventures will be made to furnish employment and good wages and good working conditions? Certainly no one hereafter would invest a million in new or old enterprise, and no one who already has an income of $25,000 net will take any more investments or contribute in any way to national economic welfare. No one would spend a million dollars to make a "Gone With the Wind" movie, for instance, and that much money would be lost to workers. Real estate promoters of new areas would have to watch the limit before investing. There might be no more Miamis built or Detroits built up. New inventions that have brought this country to the front would likewise become less attractive.

Only small investments would be sensible. What would it do to the Du-pont, Ford and Chrysler enterprises (and that whole type of top U. S. business already established?) The Duponts would certainly have to unload General Motors stock, the bulk of which they own. Who would buy it.

No one who already had investments returning him $25,000 net. And who else is there to buy such large blocks of stock? The price of stocks and bonds would depreciate from such a condition, hurting the little fellow more than the rich. Certainly there would be no future rayon, cellophane and all that large scale investment development in the future America, because it would not pay, Hundreds of thousands of workers (mostly union labor) would find these opportunities closed. There are ways of getting around everything. Possibly every big existing business enterprise in the country would try selling stock to the small wage earner again baby stock, perhaps.

Ownership might become far flung and diversified, which would be good, if it did not destroy personal business management and ths initiative which alone has made this country successful above all others. The effect of limitation on salaries that has Jbeen made already, can be seen when the -movie actors make their one or two" pictures a year and quit. What will happen when investment quits? Who will be helped? What will happen to American productive enterprise, the superior quality of which is enabling us to win the war because other nations cannot match it? Who will build the factories of the future? Where can the treasury get the bulk of its money hereafter, unless it increases the taxas on all the rest of us who are not rich to replace the taxes lost by this limitation? Who would be helped? Does not this well-sounding political move involve the most revolutionary reform ever mentioned by the new deal Could anyone possibly get any good out of it, except the communists who originated the idea many years ago not to help anyone but to prevent our successfully capitalistic democracy from beinc successful, so they could ge-. -ontrol? Who else wouM be helped? Out of the Past one from the Worcester Gazette, sent me by Anne French, violin teacher, of Warren, A correspondent wrote to the New York Times suggesting that inasmuch as meat is no longer plentiful, and is needed for our armed forces- and allies, people should restrict themselves to one pet. Many families, was was suggested, feed good meat to several dogs.

You can lay a safe bet that the idea came from some sour-puss who detests dogs anyway, and who never knew the joy of having a good dog. The fact i3 that when and if the meat situation is such that there isn't enough for dogs of the kind of meat dogs eat the government will say so. There is still, fortunately, enough food for our dogs. They may not get choice cuts, but they don't mind. As for liquidating dogs to conserve the meat supply, the idea is savage and outrageous.

mea. no one e'e 'rants, and if there isn't enough of that, your pet will understand. That's what makes him a pet and distinguishes him from a certain kind of human being. 10 YEARS AGO TODAY IN THE JOURNAL AXD COURIER Prof. R.

B. Abbott, of Purdue universUy, and Shirl Herr of Crawfordsville are inventors of a device which employes the phenomenon of re-radiation to detect minerals hidden under ground. Recently the two men visited western Pennsylvania to search for the army stores buried 177 years ago in the wild country near Union town by General Braddock, English warrior after he had been ambushed and mortally wounded by the Indians and French in 1755. They were successful in locating the long hidden supplies of cannon balls and other material. Mr.

Abbott presented part of the relics to Tippecanoe County Historical museum. A new song, "My Heart Still Calls for for -which the lyric was written by Mrs. Lila Swaynie, will be introduced and broadcast for the first time this evening over WBAA. Dean A. A.

Potter, Purdue engineering executive was elected president of American Mechanical Engineering organization of members. moved to Tefft, where he graduated from high school in 1933. The family moved to South Bark-ley township four months ago. Lloyd was one of the county's earliest selectees, leaving here Aug. 12, 1941.

He arrived in tha south Pacific last March and the last time he was heard from was on Oct. 30. Surviving besides the parents are two brothers, Vernon, in military service at Fort Leavenworth, and Donald, at home, and three sisters, Mrs. Oscar Putman, of Rensselaer; Miss Vera Williams and Mrs. Ruby Poisel, of Medaryville.

Mrs. L. D. Hoshaw received a letter from her husband, Lieut. Hoshaw, of Camp Wallace, Thursday, in which he states that he has completed his preliminary tests and training and is ready to start work in the training school.

Classes are to begin next Monday. COMES ON VISIT Pvt. Ewart Merica is here for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Merica.

Pvt. Merica, who in civilian life was an attorney in Cleveland, is now in training in the air force at Bowling Field, Wash, D. C. He enlisted at Fort Benjamin Harrison July 4, and has been at Jefferson Barracks, and Fort Logan, before being sent to Bowling field. Beginning Thursday and continuing until March 1, rural mail carriers out of Rensselaer will' begin their rounds one hour later, at 9 a.

instead of 8. The reason for the change is because of weather conditions that frequently delay arrival of morning mail trains. Attorney George Reed is confined to his home with an attack of influenza. He is improving but DIRECT FROM THE PEOPLE (Communications aent to tht department ahould be limited to -300 words and must carry the writer xitrnature and address. The written nnt typed i name will not I1 used neeeiarilv hut must nrrnm-pany the letter Anonvmoue letter not itd USO GRATEFUL Editor Journal and Courier: The executive committee of the United Service Organization wishes to express appreciation to -you and your staff for your assistance in giving publicity in the Journal and Courier to our U.S.O.

recreational program. We realize that during these war times you have many demand on your time and receive numerous requests, such as ours, for publicity. For these reasons we are doubly grateful to you. May I personally express my thanks for your kindness. Sincerely, Mrs.

Walter M. English, chairman. A DELICATE PROBLEM DEAR MISS DIX: Here is a very delicate problem that confronts the girl in our office: One of the head women, and one who has a lovely personality and is liked by everyone, is most offensive to be with because she apparently never bathes or washes her clothes and one cannot sit near her without feeling a wave of nausea. How can we get her to take an interest in her person without hurting her? OFFICE GIRLS. ANSWER: I think that the only possible way would be to write her an anonymous letter.

Probably she would suspect that it was those who had to work with her who wrote it, but she would never know exactly who. TTou might enclose that famous advertising slogan for a bad breath remedy that says: 'Things that even your best friends won't tell, you." Good Riddance Those citizens among us who felt that members of the German-American bund might conceivably be loyal Americans at heart have a lesson to learn from the trial of Charles William Soltau, the 33-year-old Indianapolis man convicted here recently of draft evasion 'and sentenced to five years' imprisonment. Soltau's testimony was brazen. He told the court that he and his parents and all his grandparents except one were born in this country, he conceded that they owed everything they have to this nation, and yet he insisted: "We owe a great deal to our German blood." This is the insane doctrine that has led this world into the bloodiest war of all time, the doctrine of the "master race" which the bund was determined to bring to the United States. Federal Judge Robert C.

Baltzell expressed the sentiments of every decent American when he said: "I have never seen a more contemptuous fellow in this court. I am going to sentence you for five years and I am going to do all that I can to see that you serve as much as possible. Take him out!" Indianapolis Times. v- GROWING PAINS By Phillips That's telling it all in a few lines! And I hope some dog-haters who have been writing to the papers about the meat-rationing have crawled into dark corners after reading it. In England, which must import nearly all its meat through oceans swarming with U-boats, there is plenty of meat for pets.

In this country, which produces many times more meat than all its people can eat, we won't need to kill our faithful pets to save meat. Speaking of food reminds me of a woman in our town who is riding the crest of the wave. She is Miss Christine dietician. For years she has been feeding regular hotel patrons baked potato peelings, apples with the skins on, and all kinds of vegetable dishes that are good for them. She makes these dishes so palatable that she never has to preach to the customers.

She never distributes leaflets, explaining how good whole wheat bread is. During the last two years she has. transformed the once-bleak restaurant of the Wellington hotel, on Seventh avenue, into a crowded resort of epicurians. Her soy bean cutlets are becoming famous for meatless days. AMA BUYS UP NUT CROP SAN FRANCISCO, Dec.

4. (UP) The Agricultural Marketing Administration has plenty of nuts and not of the kind that you have to nut in quotation mrrks. More than half of the national crop, which it bought up, of 18 million pounds of walnuts, almonds, pecans and filberts were produced on the Pacific coast, it announced. 23 YEARS AGO TODAY I2i THE COURIER Lafayette representatives with Battery across the seas in the big World war, captured a German spy. According to a story told by.

Sergeant Sherlock, the man was taken somewhere in France and could not give a satisfactory account of himself. It developed that the boys by their promptness arrested a spy who was seeking information concerning troop movements. Coach Justin Moloney will start work of training the Purdue basketball squad for the season's schedule this afternoon. Moloney succeeds "Piggy" Lambert who is director of athletics at Camp Taylor, Louisville. Ky.

Purdue university won all firsts on Shorthorn steers and highest honors on fat cattle. Won grand championship on two-year-old Merry Monarch. This grand success attained by the local institution represents an achievement of years of work. "The Military One-Step" is the latest creation in dance steps. Soldiers in all cantonments and camps are dancing nothing but the new step.

It was introduced in Lafayette by Prof. P. M. Allen. 50 YEARS AGO TODAY IN THE MORNING JOURNAL Ground was broken Monday for the erection of the E.

P. Knight company's elevator at the Three-Mile switch. "Ole the great Swedish dialect comedy, will be presented at the opera house this evening. Ben Hendricks has the star role. At the home of her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. James M. Reynolds, Miss Geneva Reynolds entertained a large party of friends yesterday afternoon. The occasion was to honor Miss Helen Jeffries, of Cincinnati. In September, Alex Maharry of the Wea shipped a mare to Hillsboro, but it never reached its destination.

She jumped out of the car before it reached Hillsboro. Tracers found her yesterday in Ohio hale and hearty. Hi I WA i ClC.fcS-..Cl.:. gkoAay In God We Trust Quotable Notables "The labourer is worthy of his hire." Father in Heaven, put away from us, we beseach Thee all sloth and inactivity of body, mind and heart. Kindle within us, we pray Thee, the fires of vigor, of pmbition to serve and to be useful of anxiety to be worthwile and to do good.

Strengthen our weakness so that whatsoever our hand is put to doing, we may perform it earnestly and sincerely, with all our will, with all our enemy submarines, but that does not mean the end of the menace is in sight. Last week the navy reported the loss of 11 united ves LONDON Prime Minister Churchill warns Italy it will be the focal point for devastating aerial attacks: "It is for the Italian people to say whether they want this terrible thing to happen to them or not." WASHINGTON President Roosevelt on the seventh anniversary of the Philippine commonwealth pledges: "We shall drive the Japanese army out of the Philippines to the last man." sels with 150 seamen killed or missing, in the western Atlantic alone. "He sayg we can't join until we're seventeen shall we it down and wait?" The U-boats were defeated in their at.

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