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FOUR THK KVEXIXG INDEPENDENT. MASSILLON. OHIO TUESDAY. MARCH 17. 1936 THE EVENING INDEPENDENT (Founded 1863) Dally Except Sunday By The independent Company I suoscnption by earneri, Months $2.50.

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Entered at Pojtofflce, Ohio. Second-Class Matter or TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1936 GET THE TINCUP Expressions of opinion at a meeting Monday evening at Washington high school kit no doubt that local tax-payers and assessed property owners are divided over the question of the proposed river-straightening and flood prevention project in Massillon. Xo formal action was taken but property owners were informed that they could file protests with the officers of the district. Three of the outstanding reasons for against the adopted plan of of Mas-j sillon city, schools and private citizens are: although residing and project will and it will be forced to content itself by paying for the fiddler who presided at the other fellow's dance. Morally the system is indefensible.

Practically it is encouraged, Muskinguin district sub-divisions and citizen- therefore should join hands to speed through congress the measure providing funds for the pavmem of all assessments now levied. Such a course of procedure seems to offer the onlv hope of relief both from floods and assessments. Objections may be taken to the levies as filed as a means of protecting future interests but effort should be centered on obtaining from congress funds which are certain to go if they arc not brought to the broad valleys of the carawas and As long as the policv of the administration is in effect the Muskingum district is justified in at the door of the United States treasury, lineup in hand. HOW'S CROPS? BIG AND LITTLE CUSTOMERS The ratification by Canada of the reciprocal trade treaty between the 'United States and that country is another reminder of the importance of Canada in our foreign commerce. Tn comparison with our Canadian market, provided by about people of our own kind, all the markets of alien Asia are negligible.

In the decade from 1920 to 1930 sold Canada annuaMv nearly a billion dollars' worth of First, many persons carrying on business in the "flood zone" have either protected themselves or are protected by- natural conditions against flood and therefore feel that they should not be assessed. Second, many persons object to an assessment against Massillon city, schools and property owners of approximately $800,000 to be used in acquiring property and paying damages throughout the district when only approximately $240,000 is needed for that purpose in Massillon. In short. they claim that local tax-payers and property owners are to pay more for benefits to residents of other sections than to themselves. Third, many persons object to an arbitrary assessment for benefits on the basis of property- valuation.

They claim that many properties which would receive greatest benefits carry the lowest valuation. For that reason they believe that the $6,700,000 for damages and property purchase in the district should come from state and federal treasuries as did the appropriation for actual construction work. As previously published the benefits estimat- I goods, while buying from her a little more than half that much. In the same decade we were selling Japan about one-third of a billion, and buying from her more than we sold her. Meanwhile we were selling China less than haH as much as Japan, and buying from her marc than we sold her.

In other words, we had a great market and a big "favorable" trade balance with Canada and a small market and an "uufnvonible" trade balance with eastern Asia. Last year we sold China only $38,000.000 worth of goods, whose profit would hardly build one small cruiser. Yet many Americans persist in the old delusion that the Chinese market is profitable, important and worth fighting for. China is a vast, overpopulnted poorhouse. The Canadian market is immensely more worth fighting for.

Rut we do not have in fight for it. All we have to do is to be friendly and fair with our closest neighbor and best friend among nations. AERIAL TRAPPER ed to accrue to Massillon city, schools and individual property owners are $1,670.000 of which city, schools and property owners have been assessed 4S percent. Up to the time that the assessments were published, it had been generally believed that grants of federal and state funds would relieve sub-divisions and individual property owners of anything above a nominal levy. After the assessments had been made public was realized that to secure relief from floods taxpayers and property owners would be forced to go into their pockets for many years to come to pav the cost.

Massillon's hope of flood prevention without assuming a tremendous financial obligation now seems to lie in the success of Congressman Secrest of Caldwell in securing from congress an: appropriation to pay the beneficiaries' assessments throughout.the district, estimated at 700,000. Whether time remains before the adjournment of congress for consideration of an appropriation of such magnitude remains to be seen. The necessity for action however should stimulate efforts of prospective beneficiaries to bring about prompt consideration. Political sub-divisions and property owners in the conservancy district who have been assessed need offer no apologies for going to the federal treasury for their grist. Any criticism that might be offered on the grounds that they arc seeking special consideration for a limited group can be readily discounted.

Ever since the present administration took office it has sought special consideration for special groups. It has lavished gratuities and subsidies upon the farmers, the subsistence settlements, the veterans, the inhabitants of the Tennessee valley, the silver producers, bureaucrats and other groups which have possessed sufficient strength to command attention to their demands. Of all of these special donations the people of the Muskingum conservancy district ultimately will be required to pay' their share. They have every reason therefore to ask the same consideration that congress has extended to other special groups. It is to be admitted that the whole conservancy district project and the financing thereof smack of the spoils system.

Gratuities have been showered upon a comparatively limited section with liberality rarely before seen. But government has assumed the role of protector and provider for all who have strength to cry aloud and hold out their hands. While American philosophy protests against such procedure practice demands it. While denouncing the immorality of the spoils system states, cities counties and individuals hold out their palms. They offer opportunities to spend money to put men.

to work. They join enthusiastically in supporting the doctrine that it is possible to spend the nation out of depression. The Muskingum district should suffer no qualms therefore in going to the federal government for more funds. -It may be sure that if it does not obtain them the sponsors of some other The Arctic trapper who covers his trap line in his own airplane considers flying safer than walking for that purpose. On the trail a dozen things can go wrong, he says, such as losing your rifle or vour ax, or running out of food, or cracking up in a canoe or falling through the ice.

But in an airplane onlv one thing can go your engine. that is a point of view that might not be held bv everybody. It is true, however, that by using this up-to-date means of travel the trapper is able to include practical! the whole Arctic region in his territory. Me goes wherever furs are good, he says. He can traps and collect more furs in a out more season than My New York By JAMFS ASWELL From Independent Files the EDITOR To the Editor of The Independent: Here are some of the reasons why the Massillon citizens should slrimnl.v object to any river strainhtoutm; under the present plans.

We were told of what a wonderful Christmas package we were getting from the government. All we hnd to do was open the box and pick them out. All bargains were ours. But when it came to a show down, none of this was true and never was. I have been trying to tell the people this for three years.

The second reason: every property they want to tax is either no good and ready to tear down or has hundreds of dollars of back taxes, and thousands of dollars of first and second mortgages. Third reason: if we would put a dredge in this river and clean it out every school child knows that Massillon would not know high waters are, and ten per cent of the cost that the government is charging us would do the work. If Massillon people want to spend millions the government is requiring for the river straightening, we can take this same amount and movo every property in Massillon up in the dry and let the river roll on. I wish the citizens of Massillon open llu'lr eyes, and stop this under current. Hint is going on in Massilton, of irylntt to take over everything a mini has for taxes, or supposed to Improvements, which so far has been frost.

I fear there has been some one who hus put Massillon on a suckers list, nnd that is why so many fishermen arc slopping here. I appeal to the citizens of Massillori to get together, "gentlemen" and wake up Put Massillon back'where she was 10 years ago, when every prominent man in the United States had something nice to say about Massillon, and even would tip their hat to things that MassUlon has produced. Above all let us not be a laughing stock and a poor example to the rest of the world. If you want to involve yourself to thousands of unnecessary money and the responsibility of looking after the river, have a fool made of you, your children, your grand children and your great grandchildren then let this river project go through. But if you don't want 'all this worry, expense and responsibility kill it, as it should be dead.

JAMES E. OLIVER, Citizen of Massillon for fifty years and a heavy taxpayer. Massillon, March 16. Girl's Not Satisfied With Beau Virginia Lee Grumbles Because He Cannot Give Her Luxuries NEW YORK, March Medley: Wendy Killer, the dynamic young: lady from Lancashire, who is the principal reason for seeing ''Love on the Dole," exchanges weekly letters with her rich parents, arguing about whether she should stay on the stage. The SEVENTY YEARS AGO lecture will be given by Mr.

Wm. Finn, one of our well known colored citizens, on the subject of the emigration of people of color arid similar topics, Friday evening in the Disciple church. The lecture will commence by early candlelight. "Look before. you leap" is a good maxim to follow when you are planning to marry, as well as when you take other important steps in life.

The trouble often is that when you desire to marry, love blinds your eyes so that you cannot see very clearly, and so you leap.into the pitfall, without realizing the danger. DISCOURAGED sees his peril in wedding his presen 1 girl friend, but, being in love wich the girl, as he says, he probably doesn't see the matter in quite the "white light" that we outsiders do. Briefly, Discouraged is working and supporting his family. His job do'esn't pay very well, so he cannot afford to buy a car or take the girl friend to expensive places of entertainment. He does, however, take her to the movies and to dances.

She complains of his dancing, of his lack of an auto, and the fact that he doesn't take her to night clubs. The latter he says he doesn't believe her family would allow, anyhow. Dissatisfied "She is not satisfied with anything I do for her nor appreciate it," he writes. "She cannot get along Killers of Manchester. England, are wealthy textile folk and they have misgivings about 21-year-old Wendy taking to greasepaint too seriously Now Hollywood has beckoned guilefully and the letters are becoming heated.

I P' to tnc Freedmen aid society. The whisperers are giggling the rumor that George Jean Nathan dyed his temples dignity's sake. But for the cynical and realistic Mr. Nathan to do such a thing seems beyond belief. M.

Cain's middle name is Mallahan. if There was a Park Avenue family I know which bore the cold as long as possible and then decided to flee to Florida until the ice relaxed. On the day they departed New York smiled. A thaw set in and sunshine twinkled irom the spire of the Chrysler Building. It's always like that.

What has become of Dorothy would be possible by overland travel. It sounds easier than it is. Parker and her wry wisecracks? Scott Fitzgerald's description of futility lias never been equaled: "a feeling that I was standing at twilight on a deserted range, with an empty rifle in my hands and the targets down." That "invisible" glass in a Fifth Avenue jewelers still fascinates who stretch out investigating hands to see whether the gems are as unprotected as they look. An urchin stood before the window the other afternoon and murmured wistfully as I passed: "What I wouldn't give to test it with a brick!" "Rhodes," the new Gaumont-BriUsh flicker, is worth a peck, if for no other reason than the presence in the film of Ndanisa andmg, Kuma 0 an authentic chief of a wild African tribe, who A sum of more than S400 has been sent by local peo- Dr. Watson, president of the branch, forwarded the commission a box of clothing and 300 school books.

JlcClymonds is treasurer of the local society. THIRTY-SIX YEARS AGO Born, a son, to Mr. and Mrs. Emil Lux. Miss Minnie Kiihn is visiting her sister, Mrs.

J. Hemmeter, of Medina. Robert Emery has resigned as porter at the Hotel Sailer and accepted a similar position at an Akron store. with her girls cannot run caters to her friends because she them. If anybody and does everything she 'says they get along swell to-j seiner." She gots out often but shej wants me to stay at home or go toj her place with her brother.

I am very much in love with her, and she says she loves me, but I am inclined to think she does not." She may love you, in her way. Discouraged, out I am afraid she loves herself more. Her discontent ovej what you can afford to give her, her craving for luxuries and her attitude toward her girl friends, all tend to make me believe that she is not the kind of girl who would make a man. happy. If she was thoughtful and kind she would appreciate what you do for her and not worry you about the things you cannot afford, although of course it 's natural that she should wish you could have them.

I'm afraid, if you can bring yourself to make the break, it would be better to give her up. I can't think of anything more discouraging to a man than a wife who takes what her husband can provide with grumbling, always wanting things that he cannot afford. Or one who finds fault with him instead of loving and admiring him. Such a woman soon takes the heart out of a. husband.

Added to that, the type of person who always wants her own way and "won't play" without getting it, is to be shunned. Better look and not leap, with her. She doesn't know what real love is. B. M.

Did your boy friend keep his date that Saturday night? You say he was so late tn coming that you went out with another boy. If he didn't come at all, you were justified in going out. and he is the one to owe you the apology. But if you went out and were gone when, he came to your home, he has a right to be angry with you. as you should have at least 'waited was delayed.

As you have written and apologized, 'you have done your part. I don't believe I would go to his home, if I were you. It may be that he is tired of yo ir friendship and is interested in some one else, and if you went to see him you might be humiliated still further. Better wait awhile and try to interest yourself in other friends until he returns. At a meeting of the cbuncilmen of St.

John's Evan- I gelical church soliciting committee for funds for the improvements contemplated on the church, made reports. More than S3.500 has already been subscribed. places are not evervwhere available. Neither are was imported to England for the part. He is the the consolation prize.

smnsh hit of the piece nnd appears to have genuine act-1 ing talent, uncorrupted by drama schols or theories of miming. clouds hanging low, Governor's Island TWENTY-SIX YEARS AGO A farewell party was given at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Burd in honor of Mr. and Mrs.

Arlo Taylor who will leave soon for. Toledo where they will live. There were games and music and refreshments were served. Miss Cora Fitzgerald won the prize in a chocolate earing 1 contest and Mrs. E.

F. Davies received gasoline supply bases. There must be plenty of old-fashioned leg work between flights. Sooner or later there will be other flying trappers, followed possibly by a decrease in the number of pelts. It has been found before in hunting, for business or for sport, that the automobile and the airplane make the game too accessible and lead to excessive slaughter.

Drastic conservation measures may be required before long. Miss Cora Menuez. of East Main is visiting relatives in Cleveland. With war seems to be awakening from a doze. Soldiers salute officers mere smartly and colonels stroll here and there in a frowning meditation.

If Europe goes up in flame, I wonder whether we will be sucked in again. Saps rise up, of course, on every hand, to point out that Mrs. W. W. Webb and Mrs.

Fred Smith took part in a musicale at the residence of Mrs. A. W. Gilkinson, of New Philadelphia, Tuesday evening. Each played piano soles.

More than 200 invitations were issued for the affair. it's our affair. My prayer is that no war breaks out: YEARS AGO anywhere: and if it does, a double entreaty that Heaven rs Albert Halter and daughter, of Alemeda. "ive us sense enough to stay out cf it altogether. nut LIBERTY Patriotism blinds people to many things.

It is not surprising, therefore, to find so intelligent a woman as Olivia Rosetti Agresti. now in this country, apparently blind to the deadening effects of Italian Fascism. "It is liberty or death in Europe today," she complains. "That continent is an armed camp. And it is not Italy's fault.

You must be ready to make the supreme sacrifice if you desire Has she observed what Mussolini has done to Italian liberty, except for such privileges as he graciously gives Italian women who do his bidding? Where are the Italian patriots who stood for political liberty against the Fascist steam roller? In prison, in exile, in their graves. Fascism has done many things for Italy, but at the cost of what frec-souled men prize highest of all. BORDER COURTESIES American business men will be interested in a new bit of legislation at Ottawa. The Canadian government proposes, in its new budget, to exempt from import charges $100 worth of goods bought in the states by any Canadian tourist returning home. This will make more profitable business for American merchants and enlarge our export trade.

It duplicates a customs courtesy which our government has provided for many years to American tourists returning from Canada. Incidentally both governments are trying to make the passing of customs less of an ordeal for citizens traveling in either direction. This is a pleasant combination of sound national policy and good manners which other nations would do well to imitate. I note that the movie houses devoted solely to car- tcon comedies couldn't make a go of it, after a valiant strucirle of months. The animated cartoon is more not the spice of the program, but for all the charm of Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, a surfeit oi tbom quickly tires One of the reasons why Chaplin "Modern Times" was so effective, at least in the eyes of this commentator, was that it had its premier in New York along with a wild Donald Duck-Mickey-Mouse polo fantasy.

The human actors seemed a bit more grotesquely hilarious, as a result, and the pen-and-ink creations gained a spark of humanity. Answers To Questions By FREDERIC HASKIN A reader can pet the answer to any question of fact by wrltine The Evening Independent rnrormatlon Bureau Frederick .1. IT.iskin. Director, Washington. D.

C. Please endope throe cents for reply. Q. Are any of the states unrepresented by a distinguished citizen in Statuary Hall in the Capitol at Washington? M. A.

D. A. There are twelve States unrepresented by statues in the Capitol. They are: Louisiana, Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington and Wyoming. Due to the weight of the statuary, it has been found necessary to relocate many of the stautes in other parts "of the Capitol.

Statuary Hall now contains 36; Hall of Columns, 16; and various other suitable locations, 16. Q. What prison was called the Devil's Island America? E. H. A.

Fort Jefferson, Florida, which still ranks as the largest all-masonry fortification in the Western World. It was abandoned as an active defense in 1873, but during the Civil War it was the most dreaded of all Federal prisons. Shark-infested depths between the prison and the mainland cut off every hope of escape. Q. How many people visit the United States Botanic Garden in a year? T.

S. A. In t.lin riwl year, ending June 30, 1935, the garden had 116,806 visitors. Q. For what not of bravery did the late Mitchell receive the Distinguished Service Cross? M.

F. A. The citation was not for a single act of extraordinary heroism in the face of the enemy, but for repeated acts of extraordinary heroism in action while in France during the World War. Q. What kind of metal is used in the decorations on the Chrysler Building in New York? P.

M. A. The exterior designs of eagles, gargoyles, and acorns, as well as the 185 foot dome, are made of Nirosta, which is an alloy, of iron, chromium, and nickel that will not rust, tarnish or corrode. who have been visiting Mrs. Andrew Clark, of East Wai- left today for New York and will'sail Saturday on the Savoie for a six months tour of Europe.

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Taylor, of Mt.

Vernon, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Hopkins, of North Mill st.

Miss Ann Arment. of Hamsburg, is a guest of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Arment, of Terrace st. Cyclorama By C.

E. CHIDESTER Way back in the days of 1907 and 1908 when the city offices were located on the second floor of the Schworm building and our old friend, Mr. Henry Leahy, was a member of the then city board of control, we. as a reporter, hung out around the control board's office looking for news. There were the late City Engineer Harold Howald, George List and Joe Bast and some others.

The responsibilities of the board and engineer were not too least they were not heavy enough to prohibit a discussion and settlement of all the great questions of the day. The anniversary today of St. Patrick's day, revived memories of a in the board's quarters nearly 30 years ago. Mr. Leahy was known to have some reverence for St.

Patrick's day. He was awearin' the green. Perhaps that is what startd the discussion. It was brought to a sharp climax when Mr. Leahy boldly announced that it was not Italian or discovered America but a native of Ireland who sailed across the seas in a small boat and established a settlement on the coast of Newfoundland, some 900 years before Columbus was born.

Well, of course, everybody but Mr. Leahy laughed and said that his admiration for his race, was getting him down. Of course, needing a St. Patrick's day story that day were pleased to announce to a waiting world that all our histories, traditions and legends were without foundation in fact. Despite this expose of the fallacies of teachings, the announcement commanded little attention.

Imagine our surprise, Sunday evening, when over the radio from Bob Ripley the "Believe It or Not" challenger came the statement that there is available credible evidence that the Irish did sail the seas and discover the North American continent way bnck in the sixth century or thereabouts and that they did establish a settlement in Newfoundland. After nearly 30 years, Mr. Leahy's St. Patrick's day story has been partially verified. Some other ihings that Ripley told his audience were interesting; to wit: that St.

Patrick was net an Irishman at all but a Frenchman; that the shamrock is not of Irish origin and that the harp came from Asia. We ultimately may to truth about St Patrick. Lenten Meditations Tuesday. March Thwarts God's Purpose Read St. Matt hew Jerusalem.

Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen pnthereth her chickens under her wings, would not! and Sin thwarts God's good purposes. First. His purposes for the individual. Think what God might have done in you and through you. if from childhood you had obeyed His voice.

You might have gained holiness, the greatest converting force in all the I world. For men and women become real Christians as they are won by the drawing power of Christ working in other human lives. Then, His purposes for the world which He loved so dearly that He sent His Son to redeem it. Jerusalem, Jerusalem!" The seeking, sorrowing, hoping love, with which God pleads and never compels. "Is it nothing to you? Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the Ihings which God hath prepared for them that love Kim." Man's sm is what thwarts the love of God.

and delays the bestowal of His blessings on every race and nation. Diet and Health 3y LOGAN CLENDENING. M. ot "THE HUMAN BODY" SCIENTIFIC FOOD BOON TO "QUINS" Infants Are Thriving On Modern Methods Of Feeding Dr. Dafoe, the doctor of the famous Dionne quintuplets, continues to make good.

has reported on the care and feeding of these infants up until the present time. Remember that this is a unique event in the history of the world. Never before have all five human be- U.js of a single birth lived for as long as an hour or more. Here is group that has steadily gained in weight, health and strength, and bids fair to grow to adult life. All this is due to the application of modern scientific infant feeding.

I note on the chart that the foods which were used were as follows: breast milk, tomato juice and orange juice, viosterol, cod liver oil, iron prune juice, Dextri-Maltose, cereal evaporated milk, cooked vegetables, egg yolk, cooked fruit pulp, warm water, sugar and rum. There was very little rum and only for a few days, right after birth. This scientific treatment was accomplished, in spite of threats from all sorts of people and agencies who tried to impose all sorts of fancy and superstitious diets, and is a credit to the doctor and the health authorities of the Dominion of Canada. Some idea of what the doctor has been up against can be obtained from the following letter which he received: "I notice by the evening paper that you arc waiting on a lady who is mother of five girl babies. You sure have your hands carries away babies is diarrhea or summer complaint or looseness of the bowels the best cure I know is perfectly harmless.

"Get pure Rye Whiskey and pour one teaspoonful into a saucer. Take a clean pine sliver and set is on fire until it goes out. The dose for a medium sized baby (5-6 Ibs.) would be 1 drop, every 2 hrs. There ain't no poison in pure Rye Whiskey after it is burnt and I am anxious to see you pull through with them all. Tills is why I am putting you onto this cure." NOTbS On the Subject of Quintuplets "The fact that a woman has given birth to quintuplets is not absolutely unusual in itself.

Aristotle mentions the case of a woman who gave birth to quintuplets four times consecutively. The French physician Baudoin who made a special study of the problem toward the close of the nineteenth century mentions about one hundred such cases, and several new cases have been recorded since 904." N. Kazeeff in LTllustration Quins' Fortune $175,000 is the worth of the fortune of the Dionne quintuplets at the present time, as opposed to $27,000 a few months ago, announces David Croll, minister of welfare for Ontario, Can." Washington At A Glance By Charles P. Stewart, Central Press Staff Writer Insufficient Exemptions It was a bright-idea, but, in one respect defective; the expert did not, make his appearance until half or more of the club members already had filed their returns. He suggested that their copies be submitted to him, and many were.

In most cases it immediately was apparent that the authors of tile returns had overestimated their taxabh liabilities; they had not taken advantage of legal exemptions, deteriorations, et cetera..