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PAGE TWO TJIE SALAMANCA INQUIBER, SALAMAKCA, N. Y. EEII>AY, OCTOBER 4, 1940. S a I amanca I nquired . . MAPLES Issued on Friday by LEACH PUBLISHING CO. 7eIepbone 41 39 Atlantic St. Salamanca, N. Y. (MemOber of National Editorial Association New York Press Association Cattaraugus County Newspaper Pdblishers’ Association. Subscription rate $1.50 per year, outside the City of Salamanca, post age prepaid to any address in the United States. Advertising rates quoted on applica tion. Entered as second-class m a tter May 30, 1919, a t the post office at Salamanca, N. Y., under the act of M arch 3, 1879. Official Newspaper of City of Salamanca. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1940. Along the Line byJ^nS. I The number of students taking college and university courses had risen to something over 1,200,000 a few years ago, and it is probably more than that today. The great increase is one of the most marked changes in American life. Back at the beginning of this century, there were only 168,000 such students. Today there are prob ably eight such students for every one 40 years ago. One cause for this great increase has been the difficulty in finding jobs. Quite a part of these students would prefer to go to work, and need the money they could earn, but jobs. R ather than, lie idle, they de cided to go on with study, a wise de cision in most cases. The result is unfair to many young people of excellent capacities, who are frequently turned down fo r positions they are capable of filling, because they have no college training. The college diploma is not a password th a t admits to every pin nacle of success, or every prize in life. All these young people who are taking advanced study have a fine opportunity. They are coming in in tim ate contact with the wisdom and inspiration of the world. Of course if they give three thoughts to foot ball or the boy or girl friends, for every one they give to science and literature, they may not be such glorious examples of poiwer and in telligence when they come out. There are many people who could not de fine a theorem or a past participle who are wonderful organizers of work and business, inspiring toilers for the public good. If those youngsters in the lecture halls try haj’d to find out w h at hum an experience has to teach them over its 5000 years of recorded his tory, they are going out w ith a po>w- e r and capacity that will go a long way. On October 8 to l l , 1871, occur re d th e fam o u s Chicago fire, in which this terrible power of des truction shocked the entire world. On those four fateful days, 18,000 buildings w e re destroyed. The American people should never forget those dates. Usually the oc casion has been taken for an obser vance of a Fire Prevention Week. I t is a good time to think about fires, since so many of these blazes occur when people use their heaters and stoves for the first time in early autum n. They have perhaps forgot ten through the summer the precau tions necessary to secure safety from this peril. B etter listen to all the good suggestions the fire authori ties give out, as to how the cruel fire fiend can be kept away from our homes. It is a sign th a t the American people are the most athletic in the , world, th a t when a baseball team wins the championship of the United States, no one doubts they are the champions of the world. So when the mighty giants of the diamond twirl th e little sphere around those bases in the world series contests, they show themselves to have reached the top round of the ladder o f . sport, entitled to receive the plaudits of all who admire athletic power. Millions of boys and young men aspire to be ball players, b u t only a handful ever get in sight of parti cipation in a world series game. It calls for eyes and hands and brains w ith the speed of lightning. If these m en had lived 2000 years ago, the' pagan world would have bowed down to their power as if they were gods. < 170,000 Words on Card In an appeal to conserve paper, people of England were rem inded th a t Auguste Meunier, a Belgian, wrote 170,000 words on a p o stal card, while the average person puts down less than 200. Floor Covering Natives of South Africa are floor ing their homes with old newspapers ground to a pulp and mixed with Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jamieson of Great Valley visited Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Curtis Saturday night and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Ditcher, W. B. Smith of Ellicottville called on Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Brown at Cherry Creek, Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. James Musall and family were at Lockport, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Ditcher were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. H arris .at Ellicottville last week, Sunday. Mrs. Ted Ebert spent the week with her sister at BufEalo. Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Ditcher call ed on George Halstead at the Sala manca hospital Sunday evening. Eugeile Davis of Avoca and Mrs. Minnie Holts and daughter of Jasper called on Mr. and Mrs. F rank Franze, Sunday morning. Mr, and Mrs. Frank Franze, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hebner and family- attended the Golden Wedding Anni versary of Mr. Franze and Mrs. Heb- ner’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Franze, Sr, at Eddyville, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Harris and little daughter, Roberta of Ellicott ville and guests, Mr. and Mrs, Wash burn of Coryville, Pa. were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Ditch er, Monday evening. The Home Bureau took dinner at Cattaraugus, Thursday. The new members were guests of the old members. Twenty-two old and new members attended. Barbara and Helen Burdick spent Saturday night and Sunday with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Sikes at East Otto. W illiam Ebert is attending Bryant and Stratton Business College at Buffalo. Mr. and Mrs. Dewitt of Buffalo spent the week as guests of their sister-in-law, Mrs. George Dewitt at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Rogers. Mrs. Mary Hiller and Mrs. Anstice Rogers are spending a few weeks' with the former’s daughters at Buf falo and with her son, Dewey Hiller and family at Burt. Mrs. Anstice Rogers will also spend a week with Mr. and Mrs. A rthur Rogers at Ak- Mr. and Mrs. Enos Eddy cele brated their fifty-fifth wedding an niversary quietly at their home with their children and families and his sister, Mrs. Mina Sanders with them for a bounteous dinner at 6:30 There were 18 present at the festive board. Jimmy Morton of Ellicottville spent the week-end with his grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Razey. Mr. and Mrs. Edw. Rhoades and Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Hass of East Randolph visited Mr. and Mrs. Enos Eddy, and Mrs. Frank Franze on Wednesday. Mrs. Pearl Dechow of Pigeon Val ley visited Mr. and Mrs. Willis Haw kins, recently. Clyde Curtis was at Buffalo on Tuesday. Mrs. C. B. Sikes of E a s t Otto vis ited her daughter, Mrs. J. M. Bur dick and family, Saturday. W. B. Smith of Ellicottville spent Sunday and Monday with Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Ditcher. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Blendinger and family of Little Valley visited Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Ditcher Sunday evening. Balcoms Comers A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Graley Thompson on Thurs day, September 2th. Jesse Sharpe who was so badly in jured when he fell from a load’ of stalks is reported to be about the same. A killing frost was experienced here last Thursday morning; the mercury dropped to 28. Mr. Goran is having a new barn erected. Miss B ertha Chase of Belmont, Mass, spent Sunday w ith Mrs. Elva Gardner. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Nyhart w ent to Buffalo Thursday evening.to see his b rother in th e hospital. Mrs. Fred Gage attended the Home Day at Jersy last week. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Hewlett of Cottage spent Monday night at the W alter Loneasky home. Mrs. Maude Van W armer of Cherry Creek is spending some time with Mrs. Sadie Essex. Mrs. Edwar O’Reilley of Toledo, Ohio spent last week with her grand mother, Mrs. Emma Hand. Harold Dye found employment in Buffalo. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pollend of Buffalo were recent guests at the home of his brother Mr. and Mrs. Louis Pollina. Mrs. Ellis Nyhart and son W orth ■were recently in. Little Valley. Alice Davison is taking a few steps each day w ith the aid of sup ports. Dispelling the Fog Wendell Willki© has swung clear around the circle. He has made per haps as many speeches as an ca^ndi- date we ever bad. He has talked to great crowds and to little crowds, to respectful audiences and to audi ences th a t jeered him, and the coun-fcry ’has no clearer idea of what Mr, Willkie stands for now than it had when Wail Street dumped him on the nation as the man most likely to defeat Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. He has beaten the tom-toms against the advent of dic tatorship, assuring his hearers that ‘‘if you return this administration to office you -will be serving u n d e r an American totalitarian government before the long third term is fin ished.” We first heard the cry of Roose velt dictatorship during the Presi dent’s f irst term. It was adduced by the Republican strategists of that day as an argum ent for the election of 'Governor Landon of Kansas. The American voter paid no at tention whatever to the solemn w arning that we were on the verge of dictatorship. A fter th a t time he learned from the hideous picture of the European world w h at dictator ship really is. And Mr. Willkie’s re petition of .that same old shopworn theme has produced no more effect on* the American mind than did the spokesmen of his predecessor as an aspirant, who represented that the Kansas governor was the only pos sible means of averting despotism in these United States. W h a t kind of a dictator is it who could wait 7 years in the office of the nation’s chief executive to make the first step in the dreaded direc tion? Everybody who knows the man, or who knows the restrictions that hedge the President, also knows th a t you could not hand such a job to Franklin D. Roosevelt on a silver platter., They have witnessed his not infrequent struggles with Con gress to get measures passed that Congress didn’t want. It took him weeks of patient labor to get through the national legislature things as obviously necessary for the defense of cu r country as the D raft Bill, It took even longer to have embodied in the defense program the principle that the government should have the right to command adequate fulfill ment of the duties of production without giving industries the privi lege of charging the government all the traffic would bear. The platforms of the great parties have, ever since the last war, declared in favor of this protection, but that did not deter a goodly number of Republican Sen ators and Representatives from fighting the program .Mr. Willkie himself, while agreeing that it is all right to conscript the man-power of the country, developed a different idea when, it was proposed to make big business bear its share of the burden, •Considering the genesis of Mr. Willkie’s candidacy, it is not sur prising that he saw in the proposal an outrageous effort to cripple in dustry. The other day a group of mem bers of the House of Representatives wrote a letter to the President, in which they stated: “It is a m a tter of common belief among persons ■conversant with puiblie affairs today that privately-owned public utility ■corporations throughout the nation, particularly those engaged in the electric power business, are contrib uting through indirect and carefully concealed channels very large sums of money to influence the outcome of political campaigns.” The lette^r w ent on to state that the w riters had good reason “to believe that heavy expenditures from these sources have been made and are now being made in the States and the Congressional districts which we represent in an effort to elect men to Congress who will vote for the interests of the private utility corporations,” There were Republican and Farm- Labor signatures as well as Demo cratic to this letter. This is no surprise party. The util ities have always sought to cajole, coerce, or coax favorable legislation. Probably the mOSt shining exampk of such activity was furnished by the present Republican candidate for the Presidency himself in his deal ing with legislatures of various States. Despite Mr. Willkie’s constant clamor of the danger of dictatorship, that is the least •of the worries of the aggregation that nominated him and seeks to compass his election. Another of the vague generalities en which Mr. Willkie depended to sway h is,audiences is that the Pres ident 'Of the United States is the enemy o f business. He keeps telling his. audiences th a t if elected Presi dent business will be nurtured and encouraged and saved from ruin. The funniest part of all this is that bus iness in the- United States today is making greater profits than it was making in the height of the boom period that preceded the depression. In fact, numbers o f the g reat cor porations are earning bigger profits today than they did in 1929. If there happen-ed to -be a Repub lican administration in power today the state of the commercial and fi nancial world would 'be proclaimed as proof th a t the Republicans were the party o f prosperity, by the very men who a re now gloomily mourning over the terrible things that have been done. ^.Phikielfkii Hecori Burglar Trapped in Store Calls Police for Help An 18-year-old burglar had little trouble breaking into a Ballard store near Seattle this week. But he had to call on police to release him from the prem ises, it w as revealed. The ordinary routine of business at the B allard precinct station was disturbed early the other morning by a strange telephone call. “Hello,” said an excited youth. “Let me out of here!” “ Out of w here?” asked the opera tor. “ Out of the Penney store at 2232 M arket street, I’m a burglar. I broke in, but can’t get out.” Sergeant W, S. White and Patrol men E, W. Wymore and S. C. S tearns obligingly aroused the store’s m a n ager and accompanied him to the store. The m anager, F red Stroh, unlocked the door. The policemen took the youth to the city jail. In his confession to Detective Capt. C. V. Dailey and Lieut.-R, E. Murphy, the youth. Jack C, Lorin, “I figured the store would be a good place to prowl and got some wire from a building. Then I climbed up to the roof of the build ing from the roof of a show. “I took some glass out of the sky light and fastened the wire on a plank and slid down the wire to the store. I burned my hands on the wire, but got down all right. “F irst thing off I tried on some shoes, but they didn’t fit me. I went to the cashier’s cage and took about $10, I decided to beat it. But the wire was too slippery. I tried and tried, but couldn’t climb up to it. “I went for the back door, but it was barricaded and locked. The only way out was to sm ash a front door window. If I did that, though, the cops would hear it and probably shoot me as I came out. “So I returned the money to the cashier’s cage and telephoned police to come and get m e out.” Geologists Study Alaska For Possible Tin Mines A four-year search for tin mining possibilities in Alaska by the United States geological survey is now in its second year. The investigation is being made by Dr. J. B. M ertle, G. H. Cronin and R. R. Coates. The party is prospecting for tin in the regions of the York and Brooks mountains and prove a reported lode property in the Lost river area this year. Last year Dr. M ertle and a small party covered the extrem e western portion of the Seward peninsula, in cluding the areas in the vicinity of Tin City, Cape Prince of Wales and Potato mountain. Alaskan concentrates are said to contain a higher percentage of tin per ton than any other knovra con centrates. Nine white m en and a sm all band of cliff dwelling Eskimos comprise the only conapany produc ing tin concentrates in America to day, it is claimed. On the w esternm ost tip of Alaska, using E a r mountain and Lost river as a base and Cape Prince of Wales as aji apex, there is a triangle of treeless rolling tundra known to con tain tin, Casserite, or stream tin, w as dis covered in this area as f a r back as 1900 when A. H. Brooks, a federal geologist, advised m iners the heavy concentrate in their riffles contained tin. L a ter the York Dredging company and the American Tin Mining com pany installed dredges on Buck creek, taking out m o re than 1,000 tons of concentrate, 68 p e r cent p u re tin. Large Bequests The University of Pennsylvania received almost $1,500,000 in contri butions and bequests during the year ended June 30. The university said , tiiat a substantial p a r t of the money would be used to celebrate the 200th anniversary of its founding by Ben jam in Franklin. May Choose Death Estonians condemned to death n.ay choose an exit by the hanging or poison route, according to a new New Chemical Compounds For 1939 Reach 25,000 Organic chemists of the world made approximately 25,000 new chemical compounds in 1939, an in crease of about 6 per cent, says a report by the American Chemical society. Biochemistry, closely al lied to the organic field, basis of m a jor advances in modern industry, registered an increase in activity of 5 per cent. These gains were accomplished in the face of a general falling off of about one-half of 1 per cent in the published results of chemical re search owing to w ar conditions in Europe, it is explained by Prof. E. J. Crane of Ohio State d iv e r s ity , as editor of Chemical Abstract, in which the findings of the society’s international science reporting sys tem assembled. “Analysis of the statistics indi cates America’s growing leadership in chemical research,” the professor points out, “In the chemical age in which we now live the rem a rk able element carbon, as m anipulat ed by the hands of an increasing number of organic chemists, is tend ing to dominate both industrial and theoretical chemical research,” Pro fessor Crane declares. “We can be thankful that the dominance of pro lific King Carbon and his arm y of hundreds of thousands of compounds is principally beneficent.” “The interesting tendency of the compounds of this single element to assume a commanding position in chemical investigations has been particularly notable in the United States.” Owl Not an Intelligent Bird I. Q. Test Reveals From ancient Greek coins to mod ern fairy tales Judge Owl h as main tained a tradition of wisdom, skill fully hiding behind unblinking round eyes his m e ager I. Q, In truth he is astonishingly near to being a bird moron. This champion bluffer’s score on an intelligence test of what- every-bird-should-know would be shocking. Mr. Owl does not know how to build his own nest. He does not know what to eat. He does not know how to attack his prey. He does not know how to make love. The owl lives in the deserted homes of “ gophers,” prairie dogs, squirrel^, and woodpeckers. Some tim es he shares his apartm e n t with ’possoms and rattlesnakes. In the South a few rent from alligators. Occasionally he crowds himself into man-made bird houses whose green roofs and white porches appeal to his desire for city conveniences. But, alas, although his friends are many anfiong m a n and animals, he is a social outcast in birddom. Per haps it is because of his B, O. (bird odor) and even his best friends won’t tell him. An owl eats everything, and later regrets it. If he^ captures a fat mouse he will bolt it down in as large bites as possible and as fast as possible, bones, hair and aU. After he returns to the nest indiges tion sets in, and the bones and hair are disgorged in. the form of pellets. These pellets, often feathers, line the nest or-fall to vround below. Im p o rtant Ingredients for Motorist The modern motorist can set forth in any diredtion on this continent and be sure of finding everything good, without wasting tim e or money looking for these things if h e is equipped with the im p o rtant in gredients. There is a new guide on the m a r ket which consists of road m a p s for every state in the Union; for every province in Canada, Mexico and for 48 cities that is less biilky than a monthly magazine. 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Bromley is recovering from an attack of pneumonia. Owing to Other ailments, Mr. Bromley is un able to lie down in bed, so extra ill ness has been very trying for him and those who attend him. Robert Bromley has given up his work in the milk plant to attend to the farm Greydon Meyers was called to Jamestown, Monday for enlistment in the Army Flying Corps. He ex pects to be sent to Panam a to camp. Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Prince, Mrs. Alice Pritchard and daughter were in Niagara Falls, Sunday. ; Mr. and Mrs. H erbert Windsor and Miss Esther Manning of Fish Hill ■w^ere v isitors a t Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Howard’s, Sunday. Demont Ackler, who was in James town General Hospital for a few days, came home Saturday. Jerome Myers of Maples, milk-test er was at Floyd Meyers and Manley Howard’s the last of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Cramer and daughter, Virginia of Buffalo were guests of 'Mr. and Mrs., Bert Meyers, Sunday. Monday, Mr. and Mrs. G. Halstead of Salamanca were callers at the Meyers home. 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