The Cedarville Herald, Volume 56, Numbers 1-26

CEDAKYIU# HERALD, MAY 12, 1933 RECEIVER SOUGHT FOR LUMBER FIRM Appointment of a receiver for the Cedarviile Lumber Co, is sought in a suit filed in Common Pleas Court by Ira J. Fulton, state banking super­ intendent, in his capacity as liquidat­ ing agent for the closed Exchange Bank a t Cedarvillo. A hearing on the 11 “ Y e s s e s ” and no “Nos” The same thoughts must be going on inside a lot of men’s heads, for out of nearly a dozen men we have asked, “Do you think the new turn of things will send prices up?” . . . . everyone has re­ sponded with a YES. Newspapers are -talking it . . . . radio analysts seem sure of it . . . , and we just hope that our urging you to buy now will, take effect before the new higher prices be­ come effective. Hei e you are with a summfer ahead pf you . . . . and these values in front of you. Michaels-Stern! Suits, $19.50 Panama Hats .......... ....$3.85 Sailors ............ .*..$1.85 Collar attached Broad­ cloth Shirts ..... '.......—...98c 'Value jtfrsS C lothiers request will be held a t 10 a. m., May 11 . While the Cedarviile concern is not insolvent, the petition claims a re­ ceiver to take charge of the assets is necessary to protect a $3,9155.17 rfote judgment recovered Friday in Common Pleas Court on behalf of -the bank against Harry P. Thomas, S. N. Thomas, Dorothy T, Wright and Ancil V, Wright, doing business ns operat­ ors of the lumber firm. TESTS PASSED HwangHo Called ‘China’s Sorrow’ Tortuous River Has Cost Millions of Lives and Millions in Wealth. Tenderfoot tests tssed: Montgom­ ery West, knots; -Paul Wisecup, knots. Second class test: Montgomery West, scout pace; Leland Mitchell, scout pace, signaling and compass; John Peterson, tracking; Raymond Kennon, signaling; Ned Brown, signaling. Firs* class tests: Charles Whit­ tington, judging; Kenneth Barber, handicraft; Lawrence Williamson, nature. Merit badges: Lawrence William­ son, pork production and beef produc­ tion; John Williamson, pork produc­ tion and beef production; James An­ derson, life saving, swimming- and scholarship. These merit badges will be award­ ed a t the court of honor next Wed­ nesday night a t Central High School in Xenia. Second class badges will be awarded to John Peterson,’ Ned Brown and Raymond Ktenngp. A meeting was held Tuesday night; May 2, a t headquarters. The troop had court and Clark Post was found guilty of missing two meetings; He was fined for one absence. Ned Brown was likewise fined for missing one meeting. Peerre McCorkell to receive merit badges. Camping, first aid atul public health, civics and athletics, BimiiiiiiMliiiiiiiiiNiMiiiiiittiiiiiiianmiiimiiMiiiiiiiimtiioiii j . . L O A N S A N D . . . | I . . . I N S T A N C E . . . j | We Will Loan You money on Your § AUTOMOBILE { i Farmers’ Special Rate On | | , INSURANCE | |* A Saving Can Be Made on Insur- § | ance by Calling Us | 8 * I s . . • • ■ . . . 1 ! BELDEN & CO., Inc., f i Steele Bldg. Xenia, O. | 5 s I ' Phone 23 § SCHOOLNEWS . (Continued from flrat puce) school auditorium. “My Spanish Sweetheart” . The first of the Commencement events will b? May 18 and 19 at the Opera House when the high school students Will present, “My Spanish Sweetheart," under the direction of Mrs. Mildred Foster and Miss Carrie Rife. Senior Ranks Eighth-in. District At a special recognition assembly in' the Ohio State University Chapel,- Saturday morning, Frances Hutchi­ son, a member o f the C. H. S. grad­ uating class of 1933, received a certi­ ficate of honor for eighth place among the girls in the General Scholarship Test for Seniors in the Ohio State District. Frances won second place in Greene County. Other C. H. S. Seniors who ranked high in the county test were Joseph West, eighth, and Ruth Kimble, eleventh. In the school news last week, the announcement was made the “Byrd at the South Pole" and "The Sign of the Cross” would be given on May 27 and June 3. Due to' the fact that we are ■ unable *to secure these pic­ tures at this time for non-theatrical production, it is the plan to include them in the school picture program for next year. Only one more school picture after “Skippy” will, be, booked for this school year,' which will be on May 27. The picture for the latter date has not yet been selected. iiiRBiniiiimmiiHHmKmniiBiL^nnniii'n-jiinniu^ininiinninLntnnniiniiin New BarberShop Experience gained in both urban and rural barbershops and we strive to please all our customers. We invite ladies for hair bobbing and cutting. Bring the children in. Dan Prichard ■*;r i sT'* 'f Connoisseurs of sleep b * commefttaf travrfw is oiopcft on ta d cowfcrt. h « * y parfcr oar you will hear the Sfeton& Refolds spoken of in terms o f Iwfcst WtafcoryQU t a d often or todj, Skito*-St Nkfcfas comfort/ swrfcc cod e tts iw w v^ y o u .'.t i ...,.^ ’ U f o c * * , bayous morns with both, jtxwsr a x M f t o t f o m Sample rooms * 4 .'* * 6 Iflbfofanxws food in five beautiy. dfonct mams (Prepared by National Geofraphlc Bocl.ty, Washington, D. C.1--W.NU Service, W HILE Japanese military forces have advanced west­ ward in Jehol, bringing the upper Hwang Ho or Yellow river of China closer to international complications, life on the ’ tortuous stream has gone on In its own luim't- able way, The Hwang Ho is one of the most extraordinary rivers of the world. Its disastrous flooding has cost the Chi­ nese millions of lives und millions in wealth through the destruction of homes and farm lands, and. because of this it 1ms earned such titles as “China’s Sorrow,” the “Ungovernable,” and the “Scourge of the Sons of Han.” At times It has changed Its course over as much as 250 miles in a single flooding season. Today it empties In­ to the Yellow sea north of the Shan­ tung peninsula, but before 1852 it de-. bouched its loess-laden waters througli a, channel south of that peninsula. It is the second largest river In China, yet in ail its course, from its headwaters, high up in the Kunlun range, in Tibet,. all along its 2,500- mlie path to the sea, it is not navig­ able for steamships or other deep-: draft craft. Its course is alternately either too swift and broken by tur­ bulent rapids or widens and becomes too shallow and tilled with sand bars to allow the use of large boats. But over some 700 miles of its course, as it winds through Kansu Province and along the edge of Inner Mongolia, from Sining to Paotow, plies an' interesting rafts traffic that has been carried on for centuries. Chi­ nese literature confirms the fact that here the earlier Sons of Han 2,000 years ago were using sheepskin and oxhide rafts identical with those which one finds in use today. There are two types of rafts, one using as buoys inflated sheepskins and Jjie other large oxhides which are stuffed with wool and then tied up to keep them water-tight. The sheepskin rafts vary in size, accord­ ing to the use for which they are in­ tended, ranging from as few as 12 or 15 skins on the small one-man rafts to • as many as 500 in the large'freight rafts. For the large oxhide rafts some 120 hides are used.* Before being used, the raw oxhides are treated on the inside with salt and oil to preserve and waterproof them as- well ns keep them flexible. Air-Filled Sheepskins Keep This Hwang Ho Raft Afloat. Raw hides cost about $10 in the local currency ($2.50 gold) and are consid­ ered about twice as valuable after they have been properly prepared. Consequently, the large freight rafts are often valued at as much as $600 gold, but tlie hides are useful as buoys for three years and are then sold in the Paotow market for -shoe leather. ' Rafts Easily Mads. 1 Raft-maklng is a comparatively easy tasjc, To a simple framework of poles lashed securely together are fastened the hides or sheepBkins. Even the stuffing of the hides with Tibetan wool is a simple process, but when It comei to .inflating 500 Sheepskins on one raft before a voyage, that Is a Job! Without doubt, the industrious rafts­ men can make strong claim for the record in the windiest of ail ship launchings 1 The navigation of the rafts In the down-river trade Is entirely In the hands of. the Moslem Chinese, who form a considerable percentage of the population of the Kansu district. Life is not easy on the rafts, with all the contrasts of heat and cold and the strenuous labor Involved in manipu­ lating the clumsy transports through the rapids or in freeing them, once they have stranded on ft sand bar; hut these hardy raftsmen are a happy and friendly lot. The great, irregular, S-shnped por­ tion of the course of the Hwang Ho through Kansu and Mongolia, over which the rafts operate, is enrved for a large part of the way through the extensive loess-plain region. Here and in the Wei Valley, whose tribu­ tary waters are gathered unto the Hwang Ho about 40 miles west of I.atichovv, was the cradle of the Chi­ nese race;-lint through the centuries great quantities of loess, or sandy loam have been blown across these lands, submerging numerous cities and .making desert many wide areas which were once fertile farming dis­ tricts. Tills yellow loess, curried in suspension In the water, lms given the r.ver and the Yellow sen their names. Today there ure only n few fertile localities in the Hwang Ho valley, such as those around Lunchow and Ningslu. These are intensely cultivated oases that have been kept productive through irrigation, and In their dis­ tricts rafts carry on considerable lo­ cal transport «f vegetables, dates, wa ta rw riw , and grain to the city mar­ ket*. Tbs long-distance freighting on th* bugs rafts, however, is largely devoted to transport of quantities of wool, aklns, hides, and other produce lo t the Tibetan region down to the caravan center and railhead village >ot Paotow, whence these article: of (commerce can be sent by rail to Tient­ sin and ultimately find distribution to world markets. The majority of the large cargo rafts Start from Sining, some distance upstream on the Sining Ho, u tribu­ tary of the Hwang Ho; hut to.these are also added other cargo which leaves from the Important caravan center of Lsnchow, that lies on the historic “old silk road” between China, Turkestan, ahd the West, H a r d W o r k U p S trs a m . The rafts can be managed with com­ parative ease as they float down­ stream, but their great resistance and their clumsiness make it practically Impossible for them to be poled up­ stream, even in quiet water. They are token apart at the end of the voyage and the skins are carried back overland to the place of departure.’ In the springtime, as soon as the Ice has cleared from the river, which is frozen from the end of November to the beginning of March, the rafts ore assembled. Oxhide buoys stuffed with wool no doubt originated through the scheme of crafty raftsmen to “bootleg” wool past the customs officials and thereby escape duty. Today, although the au­ thorities know that It will be sold at the end of the trip, the wool still rides on down to Paotow,’ escaping all of the tolls and duties imposed on the other cargo, ^ Cargoes loaded, farewells said, the rafts push off on the first of the two journeys that are made each year, They slip past water wheels that line the river banks, which are raising water to the thirsty fields in the Lanchow region; then past the city’s walls, and under the only steel bridge that ,spans the river for many hun­ dreds of miles. Some fifteen miles below Lanchow, where the village of Hsiashultsu is perched on a rocky cliff, the current is swift and all hands are called to man the large tillers, bb the rafts head down through the granite gorge, where the river makes an abrupt curve and then follows a northwesterly course. All the way downstream to Chung- wel the raftsm’en must navigate through rapid after, rapid. Below Ohungwel the course.widens as it en­ ters the Ordos, and, except for the passage through; the fertile district ' around Ningsla, becomes a monoton­ ous passage through, desolate yellow wastes all the way to Paotow. Grilling Voyage. The great loop around the Ordos desert is a "slow, grltllng voyage dur­ ing the summer months, when the sun throughout tlie day b eatB down relentlessly In a blinding glare on the water and on the shimmering sand banks:* . . The raftsmen shore the tasks of guiding the craft,' repairing punctured skins, releasing the ungainly floats when atrandejl on jsand bars, and cook­ ing their meaner meals on deck; After weeks, bn the way, everyone Is glad when the rafts are brought safely to Paotow, the Journey’s end. The caravan* town sprawls on a barren, dun-colored hillside of sand, some little distance from the river. Low, squat adobe and brick build­ ings line the narrow streets and wind­ ing alleys that find outlet’ through the guarded gateways of the rambling city walls. Caravansaries and homes are concealed behind closed gateways und high earthen walls. Here, In the bazaars and in- the cases of Itinerant venders, the rafts­ men find many oddments of western produce for which they can bargain to take back to their families. Trains, that come whistling out to this out­ post, bring many things from Tient­ sin and Peiping marts that are not readily available farther inland. At last, when au of the cargoes have been turned over to. the wool and hide merchants, the rafts are taken apart and the hides folded up and packed on donkeys or camels for the long journey home by caravan. ST. PAUL A. M. E. CHURCH Miss Iriuaii L. Moore,* Minister ■ Senior Allen C. E. League, 3;30 p. Myrtle Wilks, Pres, m. Mr*. Mary V. Harris, Pres, 1 Wednesday, I n a c t i o n Evening Worship, 7:45 p. m. Special Pastor in charge, All converts a ie class. Sunday School, 9:30 a. m. Mr. Wm, address to mothers, by Mrs. Ler.ora requested to he present. Willis, Supt. Morning Worship, 10:45. by pastor. Junior Allen C. E. League, 0:00 p. m. Miss Cheney Evans, Acting Pres. Breaking an Apple Easy If Yon Know the Secret Have you ever seen an/me grasp an apple In his or her hands and break It cleanly In half without ap­ parent effort? If you have, notes a writer in the Washington Star, you’ll remember how strong you thought the breaker was, and how you wished you could do it. Maybe you tried it, and found your finger-tips digging holes In the apple, or possibly breaking It,, but the break never was dean, This stunt is like almost every other athletic feat—you have to know how to do It before yon can succeed. Then, when you know how, you have to prac­ tice. Here’s the way to break nn ap­ ple: Grasp the apple with both hands, closing your palms over. It, so that the lingers of onfe bnnd are pointing In the opposite direction from the lingers of the other, When you are holding •the apple this way your elbows should he pointing outward and your two forearms should make a straight line, (Jet the apple as close to your cheat ns possible, then roll your shoulders forward, getting your elbows ns far in front of you atr you can. Now roll your shoulders back, bring your elbows lti again, and twist the hands out. If you have gripped the apple tightly enough, you’ll find It has broken cleanly in half, and you'll be holding half lh each hand ! Carrington Lane of Wilberforce Uni-, Thursday, Scholarshipc u . Sermon A special invitation is extended to Friday* Bible class. Frayer all mothers and daughters. ing. Weekly Meetings, 7:30: j " ~ _ . . n Tuesday, Pastor’s Aid club. Mrs. Subscribe for 1HK HEKAi.u £& »& *** of chonxjterm o d ty o t d x m o m r ' /JOHH a M C I N N A T t LEGION POPPY SALE Mrs. Frank Hustmyer, Xenia, is to be chairman of the county committee having in charge the American Legion poppy sale that will be put on May 27. The poppies are made in hospitals by disabled veterans. 666 $1.00 De Witt’s Kidney Pills-BOc This Week’s Special a t Brown’s Drugs Mr. Henry Idding of Wellsvllle, O., visited here Thursday among his col- j lege friends. J LIQUID — TABLETS — SALVE €6$ Liquid or Tahtsts used Internally and 363 Salve externally, make n com­ plete and elective treatment for Colds. M«t Speedy Remedies Known Weikert & Gordon AUCTIONEERS For Dates Call Joe Gordon, Cedarviile, X. Registered Percheon Stallion LIABLE 168,471 Will make to season of 1933 a t my farm, the first south of Yellow Springs on Xenia Pike Weight 2000 lbs. A sure breeder, Strong in type and heavy bone and great muscular development; good action. His colts are all uniform. Pronounced by judges as a perfect Percheron. Try a season to this wonderful stallion. TERMS—-LIABLE will be trucked to your farm for service for $1.00 Cash fo'r each such trucking ser­ vice. Call Yellow Springs 242-R 13. FEE—$10 to insure Living Colt Fee due when colt is foaled. Owner parting with mare, will be held re­ sponsible for Breeding fee. Mare and Colt surety for breeding fee. Archie E. Peterson Phone, Yellow Springs 242 R 13 State Route 53 Graham’s 17 and 19 So. 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TheHerald Job shop Th r-ls-L'-n mi yo i *p iubj __w Frayn FI1 NE coi Icgndi of till major propel state. from of the reebnm tax pi propns,* action tee by man \\ mittec* consist': more resentai county, ative I county, progran scinded eommitt being Gunsett has been nouneed bills har s It T . re, The Bureau 1, 1933, $15,596, Brenan, eludes 1932, the sum disl $11,199,,' $4,397,37 of the to h ighw ay maintena The firs! net falli: with the of &5 p crease, h receipts Sena'toi of the 5t came out the prop of a stu transfer ' , v e » s The latte Warranto stated th and of th to vote tl and he th the refers James of soldier affirmed the Span past two former so sustained Without Would be under th. federal ec service in and the B ed in the < ed Robert! A majorit in Frank Roberts, John H veteran I the fort librarian of appeal a writ of state libr: the office was first under Gov continued Cox, Wil­ ing some again app 3, 1931 prizes ver ffiendatioi Wilson state libr; are beinp enaetmen: was estah Ohio Stal< i l i si Seeret ar office has all article' the depai years for the record The numl filed in history is GL Tuesday House, M: Recital v feature. Don't for evening. Opera Ho Depart me: $1.50 Week Etui 50c Whit Week Emi 1