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SATURDAY, MARCH 9. 1939
HELPING THXMSELVES
The agfreathre sales effort under-
taken by sereral Battle Creek mer-
chants for this month la more than
an ordinary commercial event.
The purchasing of much new
stock and the scheduling of an un-
usual spread of adyertlslng combine
to make an extraordinary appeal to
More than this, however, the ef-
fort fits In with the activities which
are underway, as the federal recon-
struction program, the automobile
Industry's splash of new models, the
American Legion's national employ-
ment drive.
The local merchants are acting in
tune with these movements and
with the feeling of new confidence
which is spreading through the
country.
They are in time, too, with good
business judgment. Aggressive, en-
ergetic, forward going policies are
far more likely to break through
the economic resistance than re-
trenchments and inactivity.
The merchants know they are
able to offer standard goods of high
quality at the lowest prices in
quarter of a century. They are
wise In making a tremendous ef-
fort to display these extraordinary
buying opportunities to ss many
as possible.
Naturally the merchants are in
business for business, no less than
everyone else who is working for
his living.
But, In trying to help themselves
the merchants are helping many
cithers In many ways—through the
money they put out In wages to
their employes, through the money
they spend for the new goods
which they have bought, through
the money they bring into active
oocstructive circulation and through
on the instant. There are
ways of keeping money In drcula-
tion other than spending it. But
the good done by keeping dollars
moving has been well shown by the
Prosperity DoUsfrs this paper sent
on their way. They have occasion-
ed rejoicing. wherever they have
traveled.
•This paper paid out three dollars
duly marked. All three have now
passed out of this community—one
was heard from in Detroit, the
other day—but the point is that In
the brief time they have been espe-
cially held in public attention, the
three one dollar bills have done
good work. The business actually
traced to those three dollars, as a
matter of record and not of guess
work, amounts to the tidy sum of
9260. As was indicated in the news
accounts of the travel of the dol-
lars. two other labelled dollars were
put In circulation. They too must
have traveled well and far.
"On the basis of what the three
one dollar bills are' actually and
precisely known to have accom-
plished, pretty vivid measure of
what all the dollars in this com-
munity could accomplish if kept
freeely on the move, is plainly in-
dicated.
"If the three dollars which have
been going hither, thither, and yon
had been hidden away, the 9260
tum-over .they have accomplished
would not have been occasioned.
Not only would there have been
lacking the $260 turnover, but there
would have been occasioned a chill
on other dollars that might have
been inspired to move. , Every mov-
ing dollar inspires some other dol-
lars to get busy.
"Not on congress, not on eastern
bankers, not on committees here or
there, but on the mass of people in
the United States now gainfully
employed, depends the coming of
better times."
Today's opportuni-
ty to get wealthy:
Invent an automo-
bile that will slide
into a parking space
sideways.
sted solution of the grade
g situation: Have President
Hoover recommend to all the rail-
road directorates that they include
in 1032 budgets adequate sums for
pairing cartoonists to paint funny
pictures, cartoons of the day and
travel scenes on the sides of box
cars. This would serve to divert the
attention of impatient waiting mo-
torists at lowered railroad gates.
Of course it would be expensive, but
a little figuring will convince the
most skeptical that vast saving
would be affected in electrical cur-
rent used to honk automobile homs
while trains are passing.
Ripley remarks that a strong
man made a million dollars
standing still. Perhaps there is
something In holding a bank up
on a street comer all day. •
the demonstration they give of in
telligent. progressive business
leadership.
Tho cause of many of the trou-
bles of the last two years has been
a disposition to look to someone else
for help. Recovery was greatly
hampered by this tendency. The
merchants, in moving to help them-
selves. are showing the road to
business health.
BLOW. BUT THE ONLY WAY
Judge John J. Maher of the De-
troit recorder's qourt said in an ad-
dress at Ann Arbor the other night.
"Traffic courts and traffic police-
men can do little to solve the traf-
fic problem without the cooperation
and help of the public."
The public, the Judge said, is
calloused to traffic dangers.
The Judge was speaking from ex-
perience in handling many traffic
cases In his court. His opinion
confirms the belief that the passage
of more laws will not reduce the
number of traffic accidents.. Uni-
formity of traffic regulations as is
being sought now by Michigan and
other states would eliminate some
confusion. Better enforcement of
existing laws would reduce the
number of accidents somewhat.
But, the highways will not be
made safe through legislation. The
very ones whose irresponsible driv-
ing is aimed at in legislation are
the very ones who ignore regula-
tion.
The slow process of educating
drivers in simple courtesy is the
only way the motor toll can be re-
duced materially.
ANOTHER KIND OF CRISIS
Charles H. Judd, dean of the
school of education at the Univer-
sity of Chicago, in an address be-
fore a National Educational asso-
ciation meeting in Washington the
other night, said the increase in
school population during the last
few years had ci^ated a greater
crisis than that arising from the
nation's economic conditions.
The increase, he said, was due to
"forces originated in an industrial
system which has substituted ma-
chines for human hands and has
become so complex and exacting
that it no longer desires the labor
of young people."
This may be a crisis and a
greater one than that arising from
economics but It is not one which
causes discouragement. It is a
crisis in progress rather than a
crisis of regression.
An increase in the school popu-
lation means an enlargement of
educational opportunities and a
further spreading of enlightenment.
This will mean advancement.
Naturally the increase will make
problems. Facilities will have to
be expanded. Perhaps methods of
teaching may have to be revised.
The revision, however, can be
made and will be iflade.
No one will be disheartened be-
cause larger numbers are coming
under the constructive influence of
knowledge and learning.
QUOTATIONS J
(trpHERE is no crisis in Europe.'
—George Bernard Shaw.
• • •
«T HAVE no fear for the future of
A the railroads."—P. E. William-
son, president of the New York
Central.
PROSPERITY DOLLARS
Informed of Battle Creek's Pros-
perity Dollar plan, the Lansing
State Journal started a Lansing
Prosperity Dollar in circulation two
weeks ago. The Prosperity Dollar
here, it win be recalled, did 950
worth of business in six days of
circulation. The editorial comment
of the SUte Journal on its Pros-
perity DoUars is of interest and fol-
lows: .
-Where are our three wandering
boys tonight? The State Journal
asks this in regard to three little
iron men who buckled on shields
bearing the slogan. "I am a Pros-
perity Dollar" and sallied forth to
slay the dragon that plagues the
realm. Modem knights—all three
of them.
"A nation-wide effort is being
made these days by the Citizens
Reconstruction organization, headed
by Frank Knox of Chicago at the
instance of President Hoover, to
teach the very lesson The State
Journal's Prosperity Dollars have
been teaching. But it may be
doubted if the lesson can be made
any more vivid than the Prosperity
Dollars have made it.
•The lesson, of course, is that
every person employed—and by far
more are employed, or at least gain-
fully occupied, than not—should put
tile money they receive back into
circulation. This need not mean
a person should vend all be
OTHER EDITORIAL
OPINION
Cheer up; you might have
been the man with the great,
5 awning building which was to
ave been filled with ice this
winter.
A brown thresher, of the bird
variety which usually doesn't ap-
pear in these parts, was noted near
Lyon Take . yesterday. Let's see,
when is the official opening of the
straw hat season?
Some hot news from the
marble sector indicates that
Canucks are ruling supreme but
cloudies are coming up fast.
One father tries this one on his
seven-year-old. Each night as the
boy goes to bed the father draws a
picture, with his finger, on the bov's
face. The boy must remember the
picture of the night before and
when he relates it, the picture is
supposedly erased with the flat of
the hand. Then comes the new pic-
ture. Sometimes there are fleecy
clouds on the forehead. Sometimes
rain comes beating down across the
face. Sometimes the mouth is a
lake, the nose is a mountain and
the eyes are stars. And at the con-
clusion each night there is the in-
evitable surprise. One day it was a
sand bank where a crop was grow-
ing right in the sand. The sun
shone by day and rain fell by night.
And the crop grew marvelously fast.
The vines sprang up. And soon
there was the crop itself—and the
surprise. It was a peanut.
The
bition
again
nothing.
Literary Digest prohl-
poll probably will prove
that straw votes prove
The war between Mr. Winchell
and Mr. Bemie seems a tossup thus
far. Mr. Bemie had accused Mr.
Winchell of attempting to get a Job
as janitor in the white house so
that he might dig- up some more
Hoover dirt. Mr. Winchell said that
he understood Mr. Bemie had called
him a nincompoop but could scarce-
ly believe this as nincompoop Is a
three syllable word.
A Battle Creek man with an
analytical 'mind observes that*
,the kidnap note spelled the col-
onel's name "Linberg" but the
writer was sufficiently up on his
orthography to spell "accord-
ingly" right.
Congress seems to believe
that it is the bears that are just
around the comer.
A fratemity man home from Ann
Arbor says this is a pretty trying
time in the fratemity houses.
"Rushing" for the best of the cam-
pus crop of yearlings is on. and the
guileless freshmen are dined and
dated on this season with particular
devotion by the house members.
The economic stress is felt by every
house budget and it is imperative
in many a house that the quota of
new members be filled. So the most
eligible of the freshmen get bound-
less free meals at the various
houses, are treated with tender care
wherever they may go, and there is
little in the house to indicate the
dire doings soon to follow on their
being pledged.
MOSCOW STYLE SHOW
From the Lanslnsr State Journal
Spring is Just around the comer.
Spring is coming too in Russia and
in Moscow. Spring will be later
there, but it must truly be on the
way. because the news is Moscow is
Peculiar, isn't it, that so far
in the near east situation, no
one has said anything about
b-.-'—n China.
planning a spring style show.
The spring style show in Moscow
is to be quite different from spring
style shows elsewhere. The dif-
ference between the Moscow style
show and the style shows elsehere
—say style shows in Lansing, for in-
stance—will be about the difference
that exists between say the state of-
fice building and the sheds where
tnfe street cars are housed.
THE NEWS USED TO BE
Style shows as commonly under-
stood seem to take their hint from
the lilies of the field, or Solomon's
"ladyfren" Sheba, Anyway, they are
sprightly and colorful and in pretty
much every way in step with spring.
Schools these days have style shows,
and no matter how simple the style
show, the first consideration may be
to go into the fields and find a
wood violet in some moist, sunny
but not too windswept a comer,
and from that violet take the hint
of simplicity and the color scheme
of the design. /
But over in Moscow, color and
line are to have no part in the style.
People with feeling for color and
deftness with line are not to have
particular part in the Moscow style
show. Considerations of color and
design are not to count for any-
thing. Concentration is to be solely
on considerations of hard service
and sanitation. -«
Service and sanitation are not bad
considerations in themselves, but
there is something more. Begin-
ning back at the time when cave
folks began choosing loin skins, they
chose the best looking skins they
could find. Almost from the dawn
of creation, clothes have been an
outward sign of an inward grace.
The clothes of the Moscow style
show are intended to express a dead
level of life for the masses. The
Moscow style show is to show the
way to mass production in clothes
for the masses. Nothing is to be
conceded to grace. The clothes of
the Russian are to teach from day-
break to nightfall, and maybe in
the waking hours of the night, that
there is nothing to like save some-
thing to eat. something dull and
serviceable to wear, and something
of shelter. The Russian style show
is to teach that animal existence is
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BeFO«€. A , illustrates
the effect of radiant religion upon
those v*io possess it. By his sim-
ple faith he stands out in strong
contrast on the one hand, to the
mob that could net see the Light
and, on the other, to the crowd
that saw it unclearly. Faith is a
SATUKDAT,
(Eastern Standard Time).
Indicated.
liata subject to chanse.
4*4^—WKAT-N
7 JS—Laws that gafesuard.
7*0—AUce Joy.
7:45—^toldbersa.
8 K)0—Concerts Program.
8:30—Kadio in Education.
V :uo—Pryor'a Baud.
Saturday Nisht Club.
10 .110—Dan CO Hour.
11:09—Marion Harris.
11:16—Alice Joy (Bepeat).
11:30—Budy Vallee.
12:00—Balpb Kirbery; Coon-Sanders'
. - Orchestra.
348.0—W ABC
7:00—Political Situation.
7:16—Bing Crosby.
7 UM)—Guy Lombardo.
7:45—Morton Downey.
8 .-OO—Piano Team.
8:16—Lyman's Band.
8:30—Hoosier Bditor
8:41
tt:00—Ban
9 --SO—Lambert and Hill pot.
9:45—Arthur JarretL
10:00—Public Affairs Institute.
10:30—Skllkret Orchestra.
10:45—Jack Miller.
11:00—Bedman Orcbestra.
11:30—Madriguera'a Orchestra.
11:45—Madriguera's Orcheatra.
12 DO—Guy Lombardo.
12:80—Stern Orchestra.
S94.5—WJZ-NBC—760
7:15—Sonata Recital.
7*0—Coon-Sanders Orchestra.
81)0—Dsnser Fighters.
8:30—Selvin's Orchestra.
9DO—Wdnr Minstrels.
9*0—First Nighter.
10:00—Russ Columbo.
10:15—Snoop and Peep.
10:30—Hollywood Nights.
10:45—Piano and Organ.
11:00—Amos 'n' Andy.
11:15—Slumber Music.
11*0—Jane Froman Orchestra.
U :45—Dual Organ.
12:00—Bines Orchestra.
12:15—Agnew Orchestra.
Television
WtXAO—tOOOko (W1BO—SOOkc)
6 DO—Audiovislon (lorn.)
9 DO—Variety (1 hr.)
New York, Mar. 5.—(*>>—Broad-
casting is going to try out Its idea
of the revolving stage in Radio City.
Instead of a platform that turns
around, it is proposed to set up a
studio, described as the largest in
the world, around a central control
roOm, with the studio itself divided
into four sections. Microphones will
lead to a mixing panel so that each
unit can be cut In the chain sep-
arately. or one or more blended to-
gether.
This studio is to extend through
three floors, and is intended for
elaborate dramatic productions and
television broadcasting.
1/ Arlesienne; 11:
violinist.
have
completed for the
Congo air route, one of the
in the world. The line is to
through Paris, Algeria, the Sahara
Desert, and French Equatorial
Africa. It is hoped to start freight
service next spring and follow with
passenger service a few months lat-
er. The route will have 10 regular
and 51 emergency jUHBtDg hm*
^ , matter, primarily, of personal ex-
o P ^L!f rVer ; Wh0 l- ience; and can be quickened to
Cairo 11 * subpoena in a 960,000 activifcv. onlv In the secret nlarps
rental action, was not kissed.
Large ice fioes in the North At-
lantic off the Grand Banks, which
he interpreted to indicate an early
ONE YEAR AGO—(Taken from
the files of the Enquirer and News
of Thursday, March 5, 1931.) — Gov.
Brucker signed the capital punish-
ment bill, and this act will in all
probability launch a controversy
that may overshadow all others In
the general election April 6. — W. J.
Smith will give a 20-minute talk on
party affairs this afternoon to the
third biennial convention of the
republican women's federations of
Michigan. Calhoun county's full
quota of delegates will attend the
republican state canvention in Kal-
amazoo tomorrow. — Dr. Walter F.
Martin of the Battle Creek Sani-
tarium has reached Panama on his
southern cruise and in a letter to
his co-workers at the Sanitarium
tells that the medical institutions
which he helped plan and organize
in the south 10 and 20 years ago
are still thriving. — Nine Battle
Creek girls are competing tonight in
the first of three preliminaries in
the blossom queen contest. They
are Evelyn Van Wodmer, Ruth Dan-
forth. Vena Smith, Sonia Anderson,
Fleurise Puller, Yvonne Walton, Eve-
lyn Grace Brown. Helen Ruth Ben-
ford and Alberta Linstead.
which will be given by the Ampico
Reproducing piano. — Radio sets
are having such wide popularity
throughout the country that man-
ufacturers are from two to six
months behind with their orders.
Gordon J. Thomas, 12, son of Mr.
and Mrs. James M. Thomas, 256
Maple, is believed to be the young-
est radio operator In the city. —
Some of the older residents of Bat-
tle Creek remember the old 40-foot
sail boat which was the first and
only boat at that time for public use
on Goguac lake. One boat, the
Taglawanda, was a double-decker
and there was often dancing on the
deck.
spring in Greenland and Labrador,
were /reported by Capt. Theodore
Buch, of the liner Deutschland. on
his arrival in New York Friday.
Captain Buch encountered the ice
Tuesday about 1,000 miles from New
York. He said he sighted a num-
ber of "gfowlers," or small icebergs.
The board of directors of the
Michigan Real Estate association
met in Lansing Friday to pass on
recommendations of the legislative
committee on matters of concern to
the forthcoming special session of
the s legislature. The committee,
headed by Frank Piper, of Detroit,
presented its suggestions following
a meeting Thursday.
Four centuries ago Brittany was
definitely annexed to France dur-
ing the reign of Francois I and this
anniversary will be celebrated next
May with picturesque fetes in all
Breton cities and fishing ports.
The "while-yon-wait" service
now has been applied virtually
to the divorce field. Bettering
Nevada and Arkansas with their
90-day residence divorce laws,
the state of Chihanhau. Mexico,
has one to get a divorce in one
day.
The generosity of the Lansing
police has assured a continued sup-
ply of Sunday ice crfeam for needy
children at the Lansing Children's
Home. To cut expenses, the wel-
activity. only in the secret places
of our spiritual solitude. So it was
with that certain man at Lystra.
Faith begins as a matter between
each self and God through Christ.
Not until it has been stirred, and
then established in the soul, does it
come naturally forth to shine as a
beacon before men.
Prayer: O God, our Father, help
us to keep closer to Thee. When
we are lured by the fascination
of crowds, let Thy spirit hold us
fast. When we begin to follow
the blind who lead the blind, let
r Thy Light draw us back into the
pathway of. Thy Truth. Grant,
we pray, that our trust may re-
main simple and steadfast; so
that always and everywhere we
may be faithful to the high call-
ing to which we have been call-
ed, through Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amen.
OPEN
TONIGHT
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TODAY
IS THE*
iRLD WAR
BRITISH SHIPPING LOSSES
• On March 5. 1918. the British
House of Commons was informed
that losses to British shipping
from submarines had averaged
70,000 tons weekly In January and
80,000 tons weekly in February.
United States troops in the Lor-
fare department decided to elimi-' raine sector repulsed a German
nate the delicacy from the Sunday
menu. Learning of the action, the
police department underwrote the
expense.
Albert O. Osterle, plant superin-
tendent of the Peerless Cement Co.
trench raid after a short skirmish.
American losses were slight and
no prisoners were taken by the
Germans.
Rumanian and German troops
stopped fighting as news of an ar-
TEN YEARS AGO—(Taken from
the files of the Enquirer and News
of Sunday, March 5. 1922.) — The
Enquirer and News radio receiver
was set up and timed in for the
first time last night, and all went
well and a good program was heard 4 attendance,
from several different cities. But
when someone from Chicago began
to talk on the income tax, the set
refused to work. — March 6-12 is
Xmpico week; that is there will be
concerts every day of the week at
various points in th£ city, sponsored
by various organisaUoos of the city.
TWENTY YEARS AGO—(Taken
from the files of the Battle Creek
Enquirer of Tuesday. March 5. 1912.)
— Prom Jackson comes word that
the Michigan united Traction Co.
has leased the M. U. R. for 99 years,
and the work of improving the road
will begin at once, and service in
Battle Creek will be materially Im-
proved. — Elmer S. Pace, foreman
of the Enquirer ad setting depart-
ment. and one of ihe best known
and most popular printers in
part of the state, was struck by a
Grand Trunk engine a mile
west of Pennfield, near his home,
about 11 o'clock Sunday morning
and instantly killed. — The 30-plece
Elk's military band gave a benefit
ball in the Elks temple last night at
which nearly-^00 couples were In
The funds are to be
used to secure summer uniforms for
the band. — 8. A. Howes, former
president of the common council,
was appointed to fill the place of
Alderman Will A. Monroe who re-
slgnea because he has decided to re-
main with a saddlery company in
Cleveland.