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I <£' f. V 1 fev, m r i PAGE FOUR The Massena Observer Published every Thursday at Massena, New York, L. C. SUTTON y & COMPANY in Maa^na, New York, u Entered at the post office second class mail matter. <•• Subscription price $2.00 per year anywhere in the United States, payable in advance. Canadian «ub«cription« $2.50 per year strictly in advance. ADVERTISING RATES Display advertising rates made known on application for rate card. Legal advertising at legal rates. Obituary notices and poetry 10 cents per line. Marriages and death notices free. TELEPHONE NO. 110 Best Editorial Page The New York Press association at its annual meeting last week in Syracuse awarded first prize for the best editorial page among country weekly newspapers to the Massena Observer. The award was made on the contents of the Observer's editorial page as well as on its general Appearance. The Observer was awarded thhti prize} for its classified section and honorable mention for general excel- lence. : As the Observer is essentially a community news- paper, any glory that comes to this newspaper also comes to the community of which it is a part. Between 3,000 and 4,000 words 0f editorial com- ment are published every week hi this newspaper. A great deal of work goes into waiting these edi- torials, editorials which we hope 'reflect the opin- ions of the community at large, editorials that boost for improvements and which will make this a hap- pier and more prosperous section. ' \ Throughout the 45 years of the Observer's exis- tence, many honors have come to it. It has been complimented on its general appearance, its press work where great care is always tajcen to secure a clear print, and its many other features. But the staff is far more prouc} i to secure com- mendation for its editorial page th|m for any other part of the paper. This latest aw^jrd has come not solely by the efforts of the staff ^>ut also by the encouragement given by our. refers. It is an award to the entire community. f Boy Scout We^k The Boy Scouts of Massena aife joining with scouts all over the nation in celebrating the 27th anniversary of the founding of thfe movement in America. The celebration is being! held next week, February 7 to 13. ^ ';| : Upwards of a riundred boys of Jfassena are en- rolled in the Massena troops and excellent programs designed for training the boys in! citizenship are progressing. The boys play and the boys work, they meet regularly to play games and. 1 ; enjoy a social time together, they work to learn; the scout oath and laws and to do their daily goo'4 turn. No great charitable movement *jn Massena is carried out without the aid of these|junior members of the community.: They are on hand to help in every cause. During the depression years these troops helped in every way possible to relieve suf- fering, especially at, Christmas ti be. They were willing to spend a great deal of fcgne in delivering ^baskets of food and clothing to Ijihe needy, they helped, repair second-hand toys sol that less fortu- nate children could have a happy Christmas. Invaluable lessons have been lqirned by these lads under the capable) leadership oi Massena scout- masters. £ The worth of the movement throughout the na- tion in the past 26 years of the ^organization in America cannot be estimated. Dr.) James E. West records that over six million boys ^ave been scouts in the United States since the Organization was founded here. More than a million jmen have served in. onfe capacity or another to promote the move- ment. !i The Boy Scout movement, here a truly national instrument of sel is non-partisan—open to every class. The spirit of scouting is citizen you must care about oth tude among the six million boys a leavening influence on present The year just passed has been the history of the organization., ' have been connected with the movement. It is con- tinually-growing, reaching fatherland farther out to include boys on farms and in who have not previously had the longing to a scout troop. > On its twenty-seventh birthda; should pause to reflect on the gre|t good that has been done by the Boy Scout organization, the good that is being done today and the food that Will he done tomorrow. id elsewhere, is ucation which and creed and o be a good and this atti- certainly had society. banner year in Over 1,300,000 [jail communities Advantage of be- next week we THE MASSENA OBSERVER MASSENA, NEW YORK, THURgDAT, FEBRUARY 4, 1931 calamity and it disturbed over roperty damage, tficentrated along The unidentified Great National Disasters 5 Headlines scream about the losk of life in the flooded areas of the Middle WestfiwH* the world at Jaarge is. shocked as the totals go j&yward, touching 300 and 400 known dead. It is * \ is well that we should he grea such an appalling low of life and *Jhi* lops of life and property is the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, dead, many of them at least, ar|. being buried in irenches. We are horrified. | But while every newspaper was devoting its headlines and its pages to the disastrous flood, the National Safety Council added up. the long columns of figures of deaths in automobile! accidents during :936 and found the staggering ium of 38,500, or. i tbout 100 times as many as were drowned in the : lood waters or lost their lives though disease that ravaged th«t are*. ' j For every one .person who died? as the result of the floods in the Ohio and Mississippi, river •alleys daring the past ten days, 200 many of them horriWy man, deaths during the past year. i This staggering death total of fjrtslitie. in Ifaasenk village, a had a single fatality since 1980. taHty which occurred Saturday befog killed in a coasting were killed, in automobik includes two that had not with the fa- a little boy the record for Massena for the coming year dqfes not look any sieve, promising. . What is tie answer to this problem? What steps must be take* to reduce this toll of needless deaths? What is being left undone? In 19*4 the total was 86,000, fn 1485 it had in- to tWO, oP* thooaandja^atha. Btat tha ltt* i greater rate of increase. Anl I his * increase came in spite of the relentless campaign urged by every newspaper to decrease thia tpll. The National Safety Council conducted an f unprecedented cam- paign during these years and this campaign Btill goes forward at renewed 8tre|igth. It is a cam- paign for motorists and pedestrians to accept the responsibility to eliminate accidents. Reckless driving is accountable for many of the fatalities although in the twos accidents which oc- curred in Massena last year and in which two small children were killed, reckless jjr fast driving were not the causes. No charges were brought against the motorists. Coroner's inquests were held in both cases. ; No doubt laws will be passed to force automobile This, That and the Other Everybody is absent-minded at times but the best case of absent- mindedness that has come to our attention in a long time is the girl, apparently of high school age, who sat through an entire church ser- vice Sunday morning in a local church with the ear-muffs clamped tightly over her ears. Women al- ways wear their hats in church but this is the first time we ever saw anybody wear ear-muffs. The annual report of the Pots- 1 the past year. A total of 2,363 pa- tients were cared for. Patients admitted during the year num- bered 1,612, discharged 1,686, plus 548 \out\ patients. Ninety deaths and 173 births occurred at the in- stitution. Of number of manufacturers to cut down the top speed of auto- jdam hospital has been issued for mobiles. Many of the deaths throughout the nation were caused by driving at 80 or 90 miles an hour ori roads that were not designed for such enormous speeds. State speed laws will be enforced. All this may help in reducing the total to some extent. But it is the Observer's contention that the only way to get at the seat of the trouble is to require motorists and pedestrians to share equally the re- sponsibility of accidents. Most of the pedestrians killed are small children, as is the case in Massena. The great educational program^ for safety must go forward, it must be rigidly taught in the schools and in the homes. Parents and guardians of chil- dren must accept the responsibility as well as the motorists. Motorists must drive cautiously when they see children on the street, they must realize that chil- dren do not have adult minds, they must have their car under complete control and] be able to stop im- mediately. But these children on their part must be taught the necessity of sajfety, the hazardous practice of darting out from behind parked cars. It is not a question of cutting down high speed of modern automobiles, fools will kill themselves and their passengers driving recklessly at 35 or 40 miles an hour. It is a question of a well-rounded educational program with motorists and pedestrians sharing the responsibility equally. Illegible Signatures Next to an anonymous letter in our morning mail, we are most annoyed by communications bear- ing signatures which no one could read, says the Cornwall Freeholder. i This makes us particularly angry when the letter contains an invitation to dinner or some other en- joyable function which would lj>e to our physical, mental or spiritual advantage. [ It seems that illegible signatures are most com- mon among professional men. ; The average doc- tor's signature resembles one ot his own Latin pre- scriptions, and is about as readable. Lawyers scrawl their names so even their own clients fail to recog- nize them. Bankers, industrial heads and others write badly for a purpose, to ifoil forgers. Most clergymen write badly, for no good purpose. Gov- ernment and municipal officials scrawl their names as if they didn't care whether the recipient of the letter could interpret them. It is customary for the average stenographer in a business office to type the name of the Big Boss below his scrawl, which is very ^helpful to the puz- zled reader. Sometimes one mayj guess at the name by checking over the officers designated on the let- terhead. Too often the reader is left wholly in the dark. It is certainly a breach of courtesy on the part of any letter writer to so scrawl: his own name that it is illegible to the recipient of ithe communication. If those who write letters are incapable of writing their names clearly, they should at least be con- siderate enough to hav^ it typewritten or printed in block letters. It May Be Legitimate, But— House to house peddling may be a legitimate business. But we havje our djoubts. Too many strange situations\ have been brought to our atten- tion to make us feel friendly to this type of selling. A strange figure calls at your home with samples if alleged oriental rugs under hijs arm. He speaks with a peculiar accent. He asks for just a moment to show what he has. With an air of mystery he implies that there are reasons why these remark- able values can be offered. He njiakes some careful bservations while he displays his wares. He may be merely an advance agent for [a band of thieves. A young man calls who announces that he is working his way through ccliegjC He wants only small deposit in advance, th*p merchandise he offers will be shipped direct ftorn the factory. Frequently that shipment never arrives. Another demonstrates the unusual utility of some cooking utensils. The order is delivered, but when you make a comparison with the values your local,merchant offers you will find that you have paid well for everything you go1 He may be followed 1 y the that his firm sells so el eap becai ing for advertising. Tlds is most absurd of all arguments years, for compare the .peddlers' commissions of 40 and 50 per cent with the advertiiing appropriations of two and three per ce it, and oi« can answer that the cheap rice is due o ily to the poor quality. The house to house selling Mheme persists be- cause people do not like to admit when they have ben stung. They usual! r forget their losses, protect their pride and leave th< field opeja to racketeers. Our advice to the cit sens of Massena is to con- sider carefully every pi opositionj offered by one of these house to house pe Idlers. Don't let them into your home until you are convinced that they are honest. Don't buy their wares until you have an opportunity to compare 5 what they offer Vith what local merchants have to sell. who informs you it spends noth- ibly one of the have survived the A Real M )tor Danger This winter has alreidy shoirn a number of deaths from the carbon nonoxide fumes which pour from the exhaust of automobile*. They have oc- curred mostly during col it spells, when motorists are inclined to run the engii* for a few minutes before leaving the garage. | A few breaths of air containing two per cent of carbon monoxide will sause ui consciousness and death'within three or frar minites. The gas has no odor, taste or color, pie victim is paralysed be- fore he has realised danger. About 500 deaths a y«ar result from thta terrible gat, all of which are uiinecssary and result from carelessness or ignorance of its deadly effect. When an automobile is started in the garage it should be gotten out into the opei air immediately. If drfvfag, disaeUr and drink begin with the deaths, 31 occurred Vithin 24 hours of admission to the hospital. This shows that the Potsdam hospital accomplished a great deal during 1936 in caring for the sick of this area. But the financial report is not so encouraging. The average cost per day per patient was $4.14 while the average income per pa- tient per day was $4.03. deficit of $4,209.01 was A cash reported for the year. The total income for the year was listed at $68,856.01. The sum of $28,904.34 is outstand- ing in the form of bills receivable for the year. Uncollectable ac- counts were listed at $4,724.29. The detailed report from this institu- tion is being studied by the Mas- sena hospital committee. The great majority of these institutions show a deficit at the end of the year and it is a question of just how this deficit can be met. Massena needs a hospital badly but just what arrangements could be made to take care of the yearly loss that is inevitable? That is the big problem of the Massena committee. on conditions in the stricken area. Mrs. John H. Whaten has received a long letter from; her brother, Amos J. Fay, living on Price Hill in Cincinnati. The flood waters did not reach the residence of the Fay family but they told of condi- tions there. They were without heat or lights, not even a candle in the whole house < during several days. Richard Pickens, Massena, received a letter fr6m his mother, Mrs. Rosetta. Pickehs, of Frank- fort, Ohio. She visited here last summer. Flood waters did not affect that town although the rail- road leading to that place was washed away. She said that her brother-in-law and his family were staying with her. They live in Chillicothe, Ohio, 12 or 15 miles distant and happened to live in a section of that city which was flooded. When they saw the waters rising they got busy and moved out all their furniture. The water came into the house, then subsided. They spent several days in clean- ing up and moving back their fur- niture, believing that it was all over. But the flood waters came up again quickly and thi» time they did not have a chance to save their furniture. All was ruined. Trainload after trainload of refu- gees were being brought to Chilli- THE .MAIN Hi6HWV.£00<£ Like \A OAJEVVAV ROAO THEyfe ALL HEA THE FAI £ 6ZOMOS them, you can sell] them for old cothe to be dumped out there, jhat. Kind friends were doing all they could to take care of these refu- gees but it was a great problem. iron. The waiter was taking the order of a very pretty girj, who was ac- companied by a florid, podgy, mid- dle-aged man. Waiter—And hoW about the lobster ? Pretty Girl—Oh, he can order whatever he likes. These new women's hats doubt- less serve the purpose for which they were intended, (but they look like everything bulf a woman's It is indeed a pleasant feeling that Massena people are respond- ing so well to the call for Red Cross funds. A vast amount is needed. It is a thank offering in Massena's case. Only ice jams af- fect th» even flow of the mighty St. Lawrence. Every person should participate in the great program of rehabilitation of those people in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys. Farmer—Come oik. I'll show you how to milk a cow. Novice—Perhaps I had better start on a calf. ' Human nature is always puz- ] zling. We borrow a book from a. friend, read it at our leisure and | then days go by before we think of returning it. Then some ^nore days and weeks go by, we forget about it and when we do think _, , . . _ ,. about it again so much time has J^ onlv safe P lace *° K flatter elapsed that we are ashamed to i^!.. a 7 erage man 1S m hlS obltuar y return the book, hoping that the The Melting Pot friend has forgotten that he ever owned it. Many a book owner has an iron-clad rule that he will never loan a single volume from his li- brary and while his friends may resent this policy yet the owner does not lose a single book. If every reader of the Observer' notice. It is true that woman may be the \weaker vessel,*' but man is the one most often broke. The two hoboes were lying be- side a quiet stream^ First Hobo—Right now I would- n't change places with a guy who had a million dollars. Companion—How about five mil- lion? First Hobo—Not even for that! Companion—Well, how about ten million dollars. First Hobo—That's different Now you're talking real dough. Back Through Foyr Decades Years A B°> 1927 J. M. O'Byrne, manager of the Massena store of Steel's Consoli- dated, Inc., on Monday received orders transferring him to the Ithaca store/which is a promotion for him. Martin O'Hara, manager of the Malone store, has been transferred to Massena. William Alguire, port coal on the Great Lakes an. St. Lawrence rivei'. Mrs. David Sheets died at he- home on the Massena Point road Thursday morning. She was in Canada, September 2S, l,v:< are leaving their farm on the South Grasse river road and will make their home with their son, W. L. Smith, Cherry street. The farm, which has been in the Smith family for about a century, will be retained, however. Ray Mitchell, of been engaged by Syracuse, has the Massena Country club to act as instructor in golf at the club next summer. Francesco Sciorpino, A. R. C. A., the town hall and opera house for j an<J the past 21 years and nearly a i life-long resident of Massena, lied Tuesday morning, aged 70 years. '' Misses Julia Hourihan, Altihea Paul, Mary Whalen, Pauline Swift and Grace Kelly, who were trans- ferred this week from the faculty of Pine Grove school to Washing- ton school, were given a farewell party in Pine Grove school Thurs- day afternoon. and Mrs. Gustavus A. Smith Thirty Years Ago, 1907 _ ; prospects are now that an- , ,. .!other industry will enrre t,, \\-,< custodian of | „ , .r, * L \ ila> sena wi$h the opening of as the weather is favorarjp. The Rac- quette Foundry and Supply com- pany \a& been doi-i«- business at Potsdam 1 for some time and th.i business- has outgrown the quar- ters at that place, so they deter- mined to locate at Masser.a. Th< y have bought land on the line of thy Massena Terminal railroad near the talc mill of the St. Lawrence Filler company. John McLellan, an old and high- ly respected citizen of Mass. na, died at his home on Main street Saturday at the age of 87 years. He is survived by his wife and two sons, Rev. Norman McLellan and Hiram McLellan, of Massena. On February 4, 1907, Miss Mary O. Finley, aged 65 years, died at the home of Mrs. Jane Nelson Mulholland. Rev. H. R. MacMillan read his of Montreal, an Italian sculptor! [ resignation as pastor of the Bap- is at work in the basement of l tist church of this place at the Sacred Heart church on a statue i close of his sermon Sunday morn- of St. John the Baptist which will | im J- # e w 111 £° to Portage, be placed in a niche already pre- J a town of about 8,000 population, y pared for it on the south gable of the church. ^ »^———• Twenty Years Ago, 1917 The annual school meeting held at a substantial increase in salary. report of H. B. Russell, overseer of the poor, shows that he has expended during the past year the sum of $975. Permanent relief has amounted to $669.14 and Dentist (having teeth for small mind—they will grow again. Small Child—But will they be here in time for dinner? most difficult de- retiring for the night, deciding whether to swallow One of life's cisions: Upon ng, g h drawn several j the gum in your mouth, or stick it child)—Never iunder the bed, or just let it be at i rest during the night. An attractive personality js would go through his library and handicap to many men because it sort out those books he borrowed Shakes them lazy. and return them to their rightful i ' owners, it would make these book j Friend—When charity is needed owners mighty happy. This would I' m always the first to put my have been an excellent resolution for January 1. However, house'- cleaning time is coming and the ! there. hand in my pocket. Man—Yeah, and you keep it borrowed books found at that time can be returned. Book owners do not forget to whom they loaned books, they are just too polite to ask for their return, so those who think that the owners have forgot- ten or have not missed the vol- umes are doomed* to disappoint- ' ment. It is nothing short of petty theft to keep a borrowed book. Flood stories that affect people in Massena are very enlightening A wise wife always lets her hus- band have her own way. The enthusiastic young salesman of a hardware company was warm- ing up to his work. Seizing his prospect by the coat lapel he said earnestly: \Yes sir, these iron window sashes of ours will never wear 1 out. Once they're in, they're there for eternity! And afterward, if you have no further use for The merry old k{night of the road stood at the kitchen door with a his battered hat in his hand. Kind-Hearted Wonlan—Come in, and I'll give you some food. In a few minutes the tramp was up to his elbows in a hefty meal. As he ate, the woman remarked: i suppose your life fhas been full of many trials. : Tramp—Yessum. And the worst of it is that I wasi always con- victed. She—Foreign words are such a trial. Everybody pronounces them differently. My sister says \Anti- pathy.\ My cousin ;says \Anato- my.\ And my brotb,er-in-law, the lawyer, says \Autonomy.\ He^—But, excuse me, there is no analogy among these things. at the opera house last Friday ; has been iven to 1? rsongj mak . evening to vote on the two propo- in an average of $3y sitions, to buy a site and build a new school house, was largely at- tended and the outcome was that both propositions were overwhelm- ingly carried. The first proposi- tion voted on was the one appro- priating $125,000 for the construc- tion of a high school building, 224 voters favoring it with 97 against. The second proposition provided for the purchase of the Payne property facing Bridges avenue, per per- son furnished.' He expended $85.96 for temporary relief and in every case of this kind excepting one, it was given to destitute fanii'- lies where the head of such fami- lies was serving time in jail for drunkenness. (The relief bill for Massena in 1934 was around $100,000.) for $5,000, also the strip, of land ,' to owned hy Warren and Kirkbride for $1,200, the conditions being that the school district should deed Forty Years Ago, 1897 Will MeLellan left on Tuesday at Potsdam. Homer B. Bacon and J. I.. ... . , .,, - Dishaw attended the musical festi- this latter strip to the village for , val in Ogdensburg'last week. street purposes. This proposition j Mr and Mrs A p Bero r ,,_ was carried 187 to 50. j turned from their wedding tri;, V$L full page advertisement paidli a st Wednesday. They left Syra- for by 70 merchants and promi- j cuse in the snow storm last wet k nent townspeople; \Business vs. | Tuesday and their train becan.,' Booze. Make Massena, Louisville, j stalled in a snowbank near Rk-h- Norfolk and Brasher dry. Voteji aru i and they spent the night in No. Massena needs your help to jthe car with several other passcn- make'it a dry town in name and gers. fact. You are demanding better4n- schools, new bridges, improved streets, a new library, a public park and other public improve- ments. During the past year our police and courts cost $6,274.81 and 90 per cent of this can be She—Analogy? You see, you have still another pfonounciation NEW STYLE STRIKE POSSIBILITIES ' BROWN Copyright. 1037, New York Tribune Inc. OHLt HY HBS* ' OH A lAND BttDfc lOHPMrfKftDUs] traced directly to the sale of booze in this town and the three adjoin- ing towns. We appeal to your good judgment for support.\ The George Hall Coal and Transportation company is a new corporation organized last week at Ogdensburg with a paid up capi- talization of $1,500,000, to trans- THE RIGHT WAY By DOUGLAS MALLOCO I T'S a good old rule and it's good to follow, Not to call it .spring just because one swallow Has ventured north when the wind was blowing In a way no swallow has of knowing. It's a good old rule not to count your chickens s ; And be disappointed as the dickens, Not to be too sure, or be sure too early, In this strange old world, with its hurly-burly. But a much worse way is to look behind you, Ev'ry 4ay that dawns, ev'ry path you find you, When vou see some sign that the winter's leaving ; To shake your head and insist on grieving. The chicles may b*teh and may not be many, But some declare that there wont be any. •\ ' Yet to doubt all eggs* and to doubt *U seasons, is a much worse mis, and for much worse reasons. For, as for me* 1 would rather follow Hie first spring song of some fool- ish swallow And count some chick, though it never hatches, than to think this life is all rags and patches. rd rather think that the winter's over than to wait too long and to miss fiie clover. HI am wrong, on • dark or bright way, Then I prefer to be wrong the right way. • Douitaa Mallo» h.—W.VU S.rvie* ^ ' Professor's Wife—Here i» the doctor, dear. Professor Chilhrit (absent-mind- edly)—Tell him I cant see anyone today. I am too flU C. Caldwell, of Canton, was In town calling- on friends week. He is a candidate for she:* iff to succeed Sheriff Smith. Sixteen teams broke through t i e ice on the St. Lawrence at Og- densburg last Saturday but ai' were rescued. A new style cutter is seen is some parts this winter. By .in ingenious device the body of the- cutter is always level, no matter what obstructions are encounterid. and an upset is almost impossible. They are no more expensive than the ordinary cutters. f An American who had been e:.- joying the! sights and other thinjrs which London provides for tour- ists asked a passing policeman how he co^ild reach his hotel. \Stand on this corner and take bus 41 when it comes along,'' the constable told him. Some time later he met the man at the same corner. \What's the matter?\ asked the policeman. \ 'Sail right,\ said the sight- feer. \The-thirty-ninth bus just gone by; only got to wait for two more.\ ! Place 3Tour Insurance with MUTUALS S AFBTY ERVlCE Reliable PSBMCE Service 165E. MsinSt. Phone 44 M»lone,N. Y. Hi-Octane KNOCKS OUT KNOCKS It is all right for the girl* to •cquir* the bloom of youth, but 3! tkm when you switch to richer RICHFIELD ..?: , i*' !?••*\• j^m. : -i-.i
