The Cedarville Herald, Volume 51, Numbers 27-52

Advertising sells three articles where you had only sold one before — lie who advertises realizes. No Business Is Too Big to Use Ad­ vertising and None Too Poor to A f­ ford using it. FIFTY-FIRST YEAR No. 44. CEDARVILLE, OHIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER l£, 1928 PRICE, $1.50 A YEAR NEWS LETTER FROMSTATE DEPARTMENTS COLUMBUS, 0.,—S e c t e t a x y o f State Clarence J. Brown has been a very busy official for the past several weeks in his varied duties of State Supervisor o f Elections. With his assistants he not only furnished elec­ tion supplies for the 88 counties of the state, which contain 8,769 voting pre- . cincts, but has been called upon scores of times fo r the interpretation of the laws governing the late primaries and the approaching election to he held on Tuesday, November 6 , Secretary Brown .will have a competent force on duty that night, with hrooins equipped withh long distance phones, so that the voters of Ohio may learn the cor­ rect result of the election at the earliest possible moment. * . *■ * H, J. Kirk, State Highhway Direc ■ tor, announces a contract letting for proposed highway improvements, on Saturday, October 13, at 10 o’clock A M. It involves the construction of eleven miles of state highway to­ gether with, several new bridges and approaches, the total estimate for same being $488,771.52. The largest job is a grade crossing elimination on the. Cincinnati-Dayton road, U. S Route No. 25, the estimated cost being $122,903,93. Some of the dates of completion of the work are set'as late ■■■ps. next June. It’s canning time at the big state institution managed by Warden Pres ton E. Thomas in West Spring street, otherwise known as the Ohio Peni tentiary. The tin shop is making.the cans, and peaches, preserves of vari­ ous kinds, as well as beans, beets, and other vegetables raised on prison farms are being canned for future use During the month of September the 175 employees in the dining room of the prison served 25,000 pounds of beef, 6,000 pounds of pork,. 6,000 pounds o f bacon and 8,000 hams. The chefs used 4,000 pounds of lard, 5,000 pounds pickled pork, 0,000 pounds of frankfurters and 800 pounds of butter. Five, thousand pounds of Lima beans were also consumed, 1.000 pounds o f and hundreds o f .pounds of coffee, tea and salt. The prison population today is within a few of 4,500. * * * October h &3 been designated as "No-Accident Month” in Ohio and employers hi the state are requested' to make a .special effort for accident reduction. In October, 1927, there were 86 fatal and 19,663 non-fatal ac­ cidents in the industries of the state. This month is one of the months when accident exposure is considered heavy. There is not the slightest doubt but that the figures quoted ‘above can be greatly-reduced by proper educational safety effort. Thos. P. Kearns, super­ intendent; of Safety and Hygiene of the Industrial Commission -of Ohio, urges hearty co-operation in this special effort. * * * Numerous traction lines in various parts of the state have been discon­ tinued due to the enroachment of motor transportation. The state Utilities Commission has aproved abandonment of service and trackage of the Columbus Rail-Light Com­ pany’s Gahanna lines and also freight service to Westerville. No application has yet been filed for abandonment of traction service of the Columbus, Newark & Zanesville lines, although interurban officials claim there has been no profit in the business. The light and power service of the com­ pany to private individuals however, is showing a profit and should the in­ terurban lines discontinue it would not effect the former. State Auditor Joseph T. Tracy'in issuing his annual report, states that the enormous bonded debt ,Of Ohio counties, Which now totals $950,812,- 288, is a bar to tact reduction in Ohio. The amount o f indebtedness is an in­ crease of $38,187,879 over the year be­ fore. Forty counties increased their debt during the year while 48 showed a decrease. One county, Trumbull, decreased its debt by more than half a million dollars. The county having the lowest debt was Vinton, it being $135,494. Cuyahoga County’s in­ debtedness is 28-16 j>er cent of the total indebtedness of all counties. COURT NEWS In the cose of Darrell Kline against George Crane and R, M. Pringle in Common PleaB Court, the court has ruled that the note for $1,676 awl chattel mortgage to secure it, were given without full consideration anc in defraud of other creditors. The court ordered it set aside ant; also ruled that proceeds of the sale of chattels now in the hands of the sheriff, as receiver, be applied toward the satisfaction o f creditors o f George Crane. “ Finding that tlje only consideration given for the assignment o f the $658 note to the defendant, R, M. Pringle, was $252.82, the court ordered that the note and mortgage be delivered to, the sheriff and he applied toward the creditors of Crane, with the stipulation, however, that Pringle be protected and paid $252.82 out of the proceeds o f the note and mortgage. Application filed in Probate Court, seeking to admit to probate the last will of J, O. Stewart, late of the vil. lpge of Cedarvllle, has been fixed for a hearing at 9 A, M. October 9. A judgment for $961.89 and fore- closure o f mortgaged' property has been awarded in Common Fleas Court in favor of The Home Building and Savings Co, against Calvin Null and Edith Null , Motion for a new-trial, filed by the defendant in the suit o f Margaret Davis, as administratrix of the estate of Charles E, Davis, deceased, against Frederick ■Gohl, has been overruled by the court, which instructed the plaintiff to recover a previous pudg- ment of $1,500 and interest. • ' Society Of Missions Meets In Springfield The thirty-ninth annual meeting of the Springfield District, Dayton Fresbyteriai Society of Missions, will be held in the Northminster Church, Springfield, Ohio, Thursday, October 18, 1928, Miss Florence K, White, pre­ siding. Morning Session-—10 ;00 O’clock Devotional Service, Miss Mary Piper, Northminster., Ten minute re­ port o f Presbyterial Secretaries. Hymn. Report o f Wooster Conference, Mrs. Paul Bowman, Covenant. Mission Study, Miss Irma Moyer, Troy, Lecture Plan, Miss Mary Garri­ son, Yellow Springs. Reading Circles, Mrs. A. E. Swaby, Clifton. Church School o f Missions, Mrs. Clayton Me-. Millan, Cedarville. Solo, Mrs. Harford, Northminster. Offering. Introduction of Mrs, Russel Buss- dicker, Reshfc, Persia. • Hymn. Luncheon, .35 cents, a plate.. Afternoon Session—1:30 O’clock Devotional Service, Mrs. Hi H. Beck, Dayton. Roll Call. Address, Mrs. Russell Bussdicker, Resht, Persia. ■ ■ Solo, Mrs, Messick, Northminster, Offering. ^ . Minutes, Mrs. A. C. Messenger, Xenia. Closing Player and - Benediction, Rev. John Bamford.' J RREENE CBONTT NOOVER-CDOPER CLI Fred T. Flynn was chosen chair­ man of the newly fawned Hoover- Cooper cluh at a meeting held in Xenia Tuesday evening. Miss Allegra Hawes, was chosen secretary, and County Treasurer, Helen Dodds, treasurer. The object o f the organization is to have, key-men and key-women in each precinct in the county. Judge John G, Belknap, of Stuben ville, a speaker from state head­ quarters, gave a talk on state and national issues. Dr. W. R. McChesney also gave an informal talk. Deputy Sheriff George F. Sugden, chairman of the Republican Service League, was present representing his organization. ' Attention was called .to the Repub lican Rally to be held at Clifton, October 26th, when Senator Charles Curtis, viee-presidentM candidate, Myers Y. Cooper, candidate for gover nor, and Senator S, D, F#ts will be the speakers, The meeting ps being held jointly with Clark county-Republicans. In the case of W. H. Boyd, doing business as. the Central Finance Co., Dayton, against C. A. Merz, 60 Maple St., Osborn,'by joint agreement o f the parties, the attachment and restrain­ ing order issued by the court instruct­ ing The Southwestern Portland Ce­ ment Co., Osborn, to hold all monies, due the defendant, has been' ordered dissolved,. Harvey E. Fulkerson has been ap­ pointed administrator of the estate of Nancy A. Fulkerson, late of Xenia, with bond o f $4,000 in Probate Court, Antioch Won First Game In Three Years Cedarvile College Yellow Jackets after holding victory over the Antioch squads for the pest three years, allow­ ed their neighbor# to take the honors in a football game at Antioch Satur­ day. The score was 31 to 6 . The local team picked up the lone score in the second period over the fumble * f an Antktch player, FOR RENT- 8 rooms. Furnished 4rt anfutwishad. MRS, O, E. HORNBY at $4,825 jn Probate Court. Debts, and o f administration total $688.30, eavihg a net value o f $4,141,70. As a sequel to an auto collision on the Cincinnati Pike, two miles south of Xenia, September. 29, William Schneider, 30, Xenia, has brought suit in Common Pleas Court-for $1,175 damages against Paul Wieman, 421 S. Hague Ave., Columbus, Schneider sets forth that ,he was driving toward Xenia and that the de­ fendant, traveling, in the opposite direction, tried ,to pass another car on the hillside, Schneider appeared over the brow of the hill and the collision resulted. Declaring his auto was damaged to he extent it was reduced to a worth­ less mass o f junk and that it was valued at $675, Schneider seeks re­ covery of this amount. The plaintiff also asks ,$500 for personal injuries sustained, asserting he was cut and bruised and had three teeth knocked out. « Attorney Frank L, Johnson repres­ ents the plaintiff. More Boys Than 'V Girls In Brilhol There are 7,090 children of school age in Greene County, according to an enumeratiofn. of ’■ youth between the ages of 5 and 18 for. 1928, drawn up by County Auditor R. O. Wead. .This number includes 8,614 boys and 3,476 girls. The estimated school population in Xenia city alone is 2,036, the report shows, ■: .Seven-year-old children outnumber children o f any other age between 5 and 18in thecounty, thereportshows. Following] is the ^numeration of children by age: Five years, 322, six years, 567; seven years, 678; eight years/653; nine years, 577; ten. years, 669; eleven years, 526; twelveyqars, yeara^ 483; seventeen years, 417, The school population-of the varir ous school districts in the county this year follows; Clifton Vil,, 155; James­ town Vil., 266; Yellow Springs Vil., 277; Bath Twp. S. D., 835; Beaver­ creek Twp. S. D., 574; Caesarcreek Twp. S. D., 208; Cedarville Twp. S. ])., 489; Jefferson Twp. S. D„ 320; Miami Twp. S. D., 80; Ross Twp. S. D., 221; Siivercreek Twp S. D., 194; Spring Valley Twp. S. D., 372; Sugarcreek Twp, S. D., 334; Xenia Twp. S. D,, 710} Xenia city, 2,036; Wayne Twp. D. (Y» urren County), nineteen. Alleging the defendant* has been quarrelsome and abusive in his talk without reason and on occasions it has been necessary to call in police to quiet him/ Alice Holbert has brought suit for divorce from Harry Holbert in Common Pleas Court. The plaintiff also charges the de­ fendant failed to provide for her since their marriage in Xenia September 19, 1925 and because of his conduct, she was compelled to leave him Janu­ ary 28,'1928. They have not lived to­ gether since that date, the petition recites. The couple has no living children, The plaintiff asks to be restored to her former name of Compton. J, H. Jones and Wilberforce Univer­ sity, are named defendants in a suit for $509.45 filed in Common Pleas Court by The. John Van Range Co, Miller and Finney are attorneys for the plaintiff, • No Change For Top On Springfield Pike Those who travel the Springfield and’ Clifton pike and those who reside on it must wait until next year before they can get rid of the unbearable dust on a style of road advocate by "Gravel Road” Charley Brand. The Clark County Commissioners took the matter up this week with State Highway Commissioner Kirk who held that a tar top could not be applied until some time next year. This is. not only disappointing to the traveling public but to the residents along the pike. FOOTBALL SCHEDULE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN The Annual Thanksgiving Offering Service of the Women’s Missionary Society will be held Sabbath at 11 A, M. We expect to have a Foreign Mis­ sionary with us to deliver the address. Mrs. Newton Shough has been em­ ployed as choir director in the U. P. Church. » Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Galloway and Rev. and Mrs. R. A. Jamieson left Tuesday .A. M, to attend the annual meeting o f Synod at Princeton, Indiana. PuM cSale Dates HOG SALE-Thursday, October 25. R. C. WATT A SON Gray MeCampball, Thursday Nov. 1, F. B. Turnbull, Wednesday, Oct, 21, The following is the completed foot-. Jail schedule of the College Yellow Jackets: * ' Oct. 13, Rio Grande, here. Oct, 19, Wilmington, There, Oct. 27, Kent State, There. Nov. 3, Antioch, Here. Nov. 9, Wilmington, Here. Nov, 17, Rio Grande ,There. Nov. 24, Open. CLIFTON AND Y. S. - ROAD TO BE WIDENED The county commissioners have a resolution to widen the Yellow Springs and Clifton pike to fifty feet. It is proposed later to improve the highway. The road will be viewed October 22 and the hearing is set for October 24, N O T I C E Notice is hereby given that the Shady Side Dairy, George Martindale, proprietor, has, complied with the law and has all milk bottles registered with Secretary of State, Columbus, and With the Clerk o f Court, Greene County, Ohio, and sale or use by any­ one for any purpose is absolutely pro­ hibited under penalty. Bottles regis­ tered "Shady Side Farm, Registered, Cedarville, Ohio. GEORGE MARTINDALE HOUSE FOR RENT— Mrs, Belle Gray. Coimty Teachejpg To Meet October 20 i .,f* ■ i.,'■■. ; The..meeting o f the executive com­ mittee of Greene CoOfaty Teachers’ Association was field fa the Court House, county department o f educa­ tion rooms, Saturday, October 6 . C. C. Eckman, of Clifton* chairman,’ and Loren Rogers, acting 'secretary. The invitation' to u p at Bowers- ville was accepted anjgfrthe date set for October 20 , at 10 Jsjfc. The pro­ gram for the day w&EaBpided in two parts', the forenoon jSSuted to a general assembly and JaRmonal' meet­ ings and the -afternocipfffe addresses by George M. Morriiamir&I school supervisor for Ohio an|fl|. W. R. Mc­ Chesney, president of^Boarville Col­ lege, music to be fullgijied by the Bowersville High 'S craEd Orchestra and other local talent, The plan o f meeti| f^ jjj? different points of the c o u f i t v .observe Conditions .am d .-^ l^H H h lp r fcu n . ifclgS will co| ^ Tlie next meeting after Bowersville will be held in Yellow Springs.in the liew high school building. Strange Malady Aifects Darke County Rabbits j % L. A. Kessler, Fort Jefferson, state forestry department employee, Mon­ day informed this paper that tests made by state fish and game depart­ ment officials o f rabbit In Darkg, county and surrounding territory had disclosed wide prevalence of disease. Kessler stated that this disease made the rabbits dangerous and un­ safe for human consumption, and urged local and county residents to be evtremely careful this fall; The disease which apears in the “ cotton tails1’ in-the form o f flesh sores and ulcers was first discoveerd in this section last fall aiid winter, when numerous Dayton residents were affected with a strange illness. The cause o f this sickness, which is extremely violent and sometimes fa­ tal, was traced to the infection in rab­ bits, which ,had been sent into Day- ton markets from country sections.^ quarantine was immediately placed into effect on rabbit sale, and un­ doubtedly this fall will again bring rigid restrictions. —Greenville Advocate. SCHOOL NEWS Lanier Game Cedarville met Lanier, Friday after­ noon, but the breaks seemed to be against our home team. In the first two minutes of play, Cedarville had the ball on Lanier’s five yard line, but a bad fumble lost Cedarville’s chance of scoring. The ball went back and forth until a successful pass by Lanier netted them a touchdown, which left the'score 6-0 at the end of the half, The (second half was like the-first, exceptf'tbat neither team scored any points. • ' . Cedarville seemed to have a bad day Friday, but the boys hope to re­ deem. themselves today when they play West Alexandria. We should like to see a large Cedarville delega­ tion at West Alexandria to help give the team pep and courage. * ’■ .* r TheHate of our cafeteria supper is October 16, and the serving begins at six o’clock sharp, . . ■* * * ■ This is the last week of the first ix-weqk period, and most of the stu­ dents are spending extra time in pre­ paring for tests. The .report cards will be handed out next Wednesday. High School Annual The Senior Class has entered into a contract to publish an “Annual” for our high school this year. We did not want to start anything which we could aot carry through, so a very satisfac­ tory arrangement has been made for twenty-four page “Annual.” This Is the first time such a plan has been vied in the high school, and we are counting on the cooperation of the community to help make it a success. • *• ’• The. Seniors are expecting the ar­ rival of their class rings soon, as .the order has been acknowledged by the company. Ticket Sales The sale of tickets for"the football and basketball games is in charge'of students under thp direction of Coach Rolfes. Marion Hostetler is general manager, and the following have been appointed to sell in the home rooms: Senior--------------- ______ Doris Printz Junior--------------- -— Nina Stevenson Sophomore —___________Jane West Freshman --------_— John Webster Eighth _____------- ----- - John Richards Seventh ---------------- Christine'Jones * * ♦ * The rooms in the,building'bift«&ri!i numbered systematically for the con­ venience of teachers and patrons. * * . * The Junior, class held a party at the home of Jeanette Ritenour last Fri­ day night . ' As most of them returned school Monday, we think no serious after-effects were felt, *■ ’ The Sophomore class went to the home of Dorotlia Corry last Friday after the fobtball game and held a weiner roast. / * * * The Seventh grade had their weiner roast on Thursday evening. Perhaps that is where the Sophomores got the idea. Rabies Found In Elder Corry Cattle Rabies wag discovered in a bunch o f feeding cattle belonging to Elder Corry of the Clifton pike last week and as a result four steers died. At first it was thought that the trouble was forage poison but when Dr. Leo Anderson was called he pronounced it rabies. A sample was sent to the State Department and the judgment of the ..local veterinarian was con­ firmed. Messrs. Corry and Jl E. Kyle as well as one or two others who when action was taken to organize handled the cattle hove been inocu - 1 the state againBt such a movement, lated against spread of the disease. I State politicians are determined to There ,is no way to determine where it remove all form of rural government developed or the source. Mr. Corry and centralize power in state boards purchased the cattle about five weeks ago.- The loss will be about $350 which will be paid for out of the dog tax fund. * TWP, TRUSTEES ANDCLERKSTO OPPOSECHANGE The plan of certain state politicians to abandon all form of township gov­ ernment will be opposed by the trus­ tees and clerks in the state. A meet­ ing-was- held- recently in Ashland, D., Organ Committee Visits Cincinnati The First Presbyterian congregation considering the installation o f a. pipe organ in the church some time in the near future. At a meeting of the congregation Monday evening a com­ mittee was appointed to investigate the matter. The committee comprises W , C. Iliff, Clayton McMillan, J. Mel-., vin McMillan, E. L. Stormont and ? m . Conley. The committee with Rev. W. Harrimnn, pastor, visited Cincin­ nati Wednesday where they inspected the famous.Wurlitzer organ: They also had the pleasure of hearing Miss Johanna Grosse at the console, one of the leading organists in this country, DEMOCRATIC SPEAKERS The Democratic Campaign commit­ tee is announcing the following Speak­ ers and dates for meetings in Xenia. Miss Mary McGovern will address, a meetihg of women in the Assembly Room in the Court House Saturday evening,- October 13 at 8 P. M. in Columbus far beyond the reach of the farmers. This move has been in the formation for the past two years and such a measure will go before the legislature next winter; All control of roads, ditches and the various needB of farmers now admin­ istered by the various boards of'town .ship trustees in Ohio will under the proposed bill be given over to powers where the public will have nothing to say nor cannot make an appeal with- ■ out a waste o f time in traveling and the probability of employing an at­ torney. For the past several years -the far­ mer has sit back and witnessed the power over tax rates and land valua-. tions invested in a Columbus board. With abolishing the township trustees there will be nothing left in the form of rural government and the. politi­ cians can force whatever they please on the land owner. Back of the move­ ment is the .desired idea of breaking up the hold of the rural people .on the government of the state. i M. W. Collins of the local board attended the Ashland meeting which was attended by several hundred per- . sons frpm over the state, Montana potato growers, faced with a big. crop and a surplus, are grading ■ , _ .. and packing carefully, marketing only Cong. Martin L. Davey, Democratic yety y ghp3t grade of potatoes, candidate for governor, Will speak m and •Jte« tog the rest on the farm, the Xenia Opera House Friday night, ■ jg SOUn^ marketing practice for October 19 at 7 Pa M* , |any qOKUnodity at any time. - mk AUTOIST PINNED IN AUTO UNDER FREIGHT CAR Rufus Hopkins, 21, residing on the Xenia*Jamestown pike found speed more than he could overcome when it come to stopping at a railroad cross­ ing oh the B. & O. last Wednesday, Before he could stop the auto was wedged under a coal car. A passer­ by noticed the accident but could not release Hopkins who was pinned in his car in the wreckage, The air brakes were pulled just as the train started to move and this brought the train crew to aid in releasing Hopkins, GLIFTON CARNIVAL The-. Clifton Community will give the third Annual Carnival for the benefit of the Week-day Bible School on October 26, So Never mind Hoover, never mind A1 Forget your Worry and your care Hunt up your best girl or your pal And something comic or quaint to hear Then come to Clifton as your best bet For the world hasn’t gone to the dogs just yet. MARY B. TOBIAS Chairman of Committee Rev. Harriman represented the Lyceum committee iin chapel Monday, and urged the pupils to attend the course. Hc^emphasized especially the first number, which is a lecture by Count von Luckner, on October 25th. Class Organization The Seventh grade organized as a class last week The following officers were elected:' President l __ ______ Dorthea Burba Vice-president_______ _ Edna Sipe Secretary _____*___ Loyd Mitchell Treasurer _________ Kenneth Barber Miss Hanna is teacher of the class. * * * Our Home Economics teacher, Miss Routzong, assisted by some of .her pupils, is serving/unch to the football squad on the days of the games, in order that they may he in condition. The annual “ Leaf Day” of Miss Stormont's grade is today. Each pupil brings in as many leaves as possible, and during the day makes attractive designs with them. * . * # Ralph Reed, who has been having scarlet fever, in his absence from chool has enjoyed the many letters and pictures sent to him by members of his class and by his teacher, Miss lughes. Ralph-is much better new. ■# * * Mrs. Wittenmeyer, the county health nurse, has been ^examining the children of the first, third, fifth and seventh grades. She has been kind enough to go about the neighborhood and visit in all the homes where she is needed. She has proved herself to be quite an active and beneficial citizen in our community, Latest in fall and winter clothing, furnishings, footwear for every mem­ ber of the family. Provide yourself and the family with winter clothing now and be ready for the break when It comes, O. A. KELBLE, 17*10 W. Main street, Xenia. Garage-Bums On Jackson Road Sunday The garage of Orville ShaW, Jack- son road, burned to the ground, Sun­ day night. The cause of the blaze is unknown, The building and the auto­ mobile were consumed. Mr, Shaw and wife had been in Springfield dur* ng tiie day and returned home about 10 P. M. Count Felix Von Luckner Wins Unprecedented Ovation Before Cleveland Ad­ vertising Club Members A “ Simple Sailor Boy” came from Germany to tell a thousand men and women assembled in a. big dinning hall at noon Wednesday, a story. It was an unusual story for at least two reasons. The story he told was writ- in deeds of valor. * Jt was unusual for the second reason that 10 years ago mention of the “ simple sailor boy’s” name over here brought forth imprecations whereas yesterday it brought cheers. Around here it is not infrequently that a man rises before a large group of men and women to tell a story. It is usually a story that has to do with economics or politics or sociology and more times than not it is a very in­ teresting . story. ' But the “ simple sailor boy” told an Unusual story in an unusual way under unusual cir­ cumstances. 1 It w ill,to a long time after other stories -about economics and politics and sociology have been forgotten that the “ simple sailor boy’s ” story will be remembered. The “ simple sailor boy” was the Count Felix von Luckner, It was be­ fore members of the Advertising Club and their guests in- the large dining hall of the Allerton Club Residence that Germany’s “ sea devil,” looking anything but like that, told M b story, And yet it was a gathering made up of more than Ad Club members and their guests before which he spoke. It was really before men and women Of broad-mindedness and tolerance and devout wishers for a world free from the war about which the “ simple sailor boy” talked and a world in which peace of everlastingness Would endure. Count von Luckner told the story of running the British blockade in the North Sea and the sinking of a num­ ber of allied ships and other incidents of Germany’s part, and his 6 v?n, in the late war, and altho the “ simple sailor boy” brought to mind many of the humorous aspects of those dark days and his smile Was frequent dur­ ing his story, it was apparent that it was a Berious business to him. And it was not surprising, therefore, that as he neared the end o f his story The leaned out over the speaker’s table with his great, muscular arms out­ stretched. He is a big mart, this German “ sea devil,” of massive shoul­ ders, of stem jaw, o f powerful move­ ments andJungs, of stern stuff withal the stem stuff you find before the niast. . It was in a great room that waa stilled of all human movement that this big-chested man, not a diffident, effeminate, delicate creature, hut a hewn of granite, so hard have they ,become through the years of his Sim­ ple sailoring, who stretched out over that big audience those powerful arms and said: “ It is not a dishonor to fight for one’s country. I am proud to have fought the war for my Country, But why war? How many of the boys of the nations who were fighting the war knew _why they were fighting.* I have' come to you as a simple sailor boy of Germany who fought the war for his country. “ I sank allied ships and I did what I could to help my people in their War, but I did not take the life of a • single American, boy in dojng so, be­ cause there was a mother of mine who prayed that I be returned to her and I knew that the mothers of-those other boys, in the war as enemies, were likewise praying for their safe return. “ lye are here for maybe 60 or 80 years. When we go we leave every­ thing behind us. We go into a m flnd we destroy all which is within sight. We pray to God,'who is not a German God, who is not an American God, who is not a British God, or the God of any nation hut a Father to all of us, that War will be done away with. I don’t know much about poli­ tics. I am only a simple sailor hoy, but I know war.” There was a taut stillness in the big dining hall for a fleeting second— a significant stillness, a stillness thkt comes over men and women, who have heard a man who speaks from both mind and heart and experience and when the “ sea devil” of Germany rose to his full height and concluded the telling of his story by saying, “ I have come not aB a sea raider today but a heart raider,” every man and Woman in the big hall rose in unison and gave to the “ simple, sailor boy’s” wish for a world shorn of human conflict their own wish. And to illustrate what manner o f man this was who told this story the “ simple Sailor boy” took {wo of our Cleveland telephone' directories and placed one oh the other, and by a tre­ mendous tug of his grpat muscled arms, ripped them down the center, and then tore them again and again. If you do not think that is a. physical feat which is seldom achieved, try it, provided the telephone company does not offer protest, and thus you will see the kind of a man this was who, having achieved his place as a war hero for his native land, urged upon his hearers to help the world attain peace. “- Cleveland Brass, Von Luckner came here tm the kc« I j » ; j great, powerful fellow, with *rm*.tur* course, Thursday, October 28.