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i own lAIK^ Lititz and CRIME
Xdtitz has never been without
noticeable crime. Even in the days
of early settlement in the eastern
part oí the borough when regula-tions
were passed governing the
trespassing of young men in farm-ers
peach orchards, and a watch-man
was appointed to patrol the
village, petty thievery and misde-meanors
were rife. But Lititz has
never been known to the rest of
the world as a breeding place for
crime. It is only when Liti'z ap
pears on the front pages of news-papers
that we (begin to think of
the 'bare existence of crime in
town.
"When a few local lads are con-victed
and imprisoned, we begin
to think of the possible reasons
for such seemingly incorrigible
actions on the part of the sons of
Lititz. And we ground those rea
sons,« ultimately, in environment,
which is an empty term unless
fully understood. "We must admit
that iLititz is a good 'environment*
so far as the natural supplies of
good air and water are concerned;
The schooling system is admirable
in these parts, but would be more
admirable if all students were re-quirad
to graduate or attend class-es
until they have readied the
eighteenth year of life. But the
' fault is not in school- The fault
lies outside the school, outside the
church. It lies in the town gov-ernment.
Town council may not like it;
but they must admit that Lititz is
lacking in' several things, and all
these appropriations lie in the in-
' effectual organizations for yotith.
For example, there *sas a move-ment
afoot several months ago to
organize a Hi-Y in Utitz. It failed,
after a few.months of wobbly ex-istence.
Why? Some say the fel-lows
who seemed interested at first
lost all «oncern for the continua-tion
of the club. But can you
blame them. They probably felt
as if they were doing everything
without the good will and aid of
the town at large. Encouragement
in this burg is stagnant, and am-bition
is stifled in gossip and mis-interpretation
of an organization's
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Vol. LXI Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, January 19, 1939 No. 20
Local Farmers *;iti,z cZe"Fans
Win Bulk Of — "
* » * * 4 V^» jt i s getting to be a habit with
Q 1 O • the Lititz camera bugs to grab off
3 I 1 0 W I r i Z C S . all of the prizes in the Lancaster
n r iir«. o I «. J A ]' coLmaps et titmioo nntsh. > l o c a l photograph- Li. Ij. Wltmyer delected As ers won all of the prizes offered by
| „ J _ . . M««. M . J « A ! members of the Lancaster Camera
Judge; Mrs. Marlm A. |club only to repeat the feat this
Moore Is Honored ! week when they went in to the
¡city and were awarded the first
~ ~ \ five prizes from among a total of
Fanners living in the vicinity of 32 entrants.
iLititz proudly gobbled up a ma-! The first prize was won by Rob-jority
of the prizes awarded coun- J ert Kreider, of this borough, who,
ty farmers at the Pennsylvania ™t content with being the best
Farm Show which entered i t s pwhiont otghrea psheecro npdr easnedn t, thwierdn t opnr izteos
Presided
ance for the week
ing all records.
Mr* Jerry Adams
Injured Sledding
fourth day today with the attend-, „ , ,
already break- a l s o " F r a n k L o n g e n e c k e r a nd
| John Hiestand, both of Lititz, tied
' forthe fourth and remaining honor.
Of a total of 81 prizes awarded. Members of the club plan to
for the tobacco exhibits, 72 went t a k e a field t r i p Sunday afternoon
to growers of the county and 11. t o Donega Springs and Marietta.
of these to persons living within!
a short radius of Lititz borough, j
Lititz was further honored dur-j
ing the week when Mrs. Martin A.
Moore, of this (borough, was named
chairman of the credentials com-mittee,
and re-elected for the third
term during sessions of the Farm
Women's Convention.
D. G. Witmyer, of Lititz, was
one of the experts selected as a
committee of judges to grade the
large number of entries in the
poultry division.
J. B. Bucher, Lititz R. D. 2, was
elected vice president of the Penn
sylvania Tobacco Growers' Associ-ation
at the annual meeting Tues-day
afternoon.
A total of 1 head of Hereford
steers entered by the Red Rose
4-H Baby Beef club are on exhibit
and will be judged in the state-wide
competition today and sold at
public auction tomorrow afternoon.
Among members showing is J.
Lloyd Bomberger, Lititz, R. D. 3.
Eighty-one year-old J. H. Walk
er, of Christiana, veteran tobacco
grower, was the outstanding coun-ty
grower,, with four prizes to his
credit. While Walker won only
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Announce
Milk Price
Yielding to her daughter's plea
to taSe "just one sled ride," Mrs.
Jerry Adams, of 400 North Cedar
Street, was painfully injured here
last night when the sled was struck
by an automobile while traveling
down Cincoln Avenue.
Mrflv Adaims had been watching
her »-year-old daughter, Louise,
sled with others last night when
her daughter insisted that her mo-ther
take a ride with her. They
were half way down the incline
wie» the accident occurred.
Mae- Adams was injured about
the side and leg. Dr. D. C. Martin
was called and following a hurried
examination, ordered the woman
removed to the Lancaster General
Hospital where she was admitted.
The automobile was driven by
Paul Martin, Lititz R. D. 1, who in-formed
Chief of Police Kreider that
he tad no chance to escape strik-ing
the sled. The accident occur-red
at approximately nine o'clock.
The Federal Milk Market Ad-ministrator
of New York metro-politan
area has just announced
the price that farmers shipping
milk to New Work will receive for
the month of December.
According to the announcement,
$2.25 will foe paid for four per-cent
butterfat milk for the month
of December 1938. The plants
shipping ino New York from this
area are Honey Brook, Christiana,
New Holland, Oxford, Lancaster
and Mount Joy.
Seek Fund
To Fight
Paralysis
The drive to raise funds in Lit-itz
to combat infantile paralysis
got under way here this week with
a fine response, Samuel Nuss,
chairman of the committee in
charge, reported this morning.
According to Mr. Nuss, 50 per-cent
of the receipts from the sale
of tickets will remain in Lancas-ter
county. The entire proceeds
from the sale goes into the fund
with absolutely no expense incur-red
in soliciting subscriptions.
The committee includes: Bur-gess
Victor Wagner, Dr. C. E.
Lane, Rev. and Mrs. John Hersbey,
Postmaster and Mrs. Robert
Pfautz, Dr. and Mrs. H. K. Cooper,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Masser, Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Pierson, Dr. and
Mrs. M. H. Yoder, Charles Hoff.
Mrs. Mary Dengate, Mr. and Mrs.
Benjamin Forrest, Prof, and Mrs.
M. C. Demmy, Mrs. Helen Kreider,
Mr. and Mrs. Elam Risser, Dr. and
Mrs. Harry E. Bender, Mr. and
Mrs- Benjamin Leaman, Mr. and
Mrs. Richard P. Healy, Mr. and
Mr.s. Ray Mann, Mr. and Mrs. Wil-liam
Moody, Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Badorf, Charles Regennas, Miss
Marian May, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Eby,
Mrs. Sara K.- Jenkins.
Those who have subscribed to
date are as follows:
Rev. and Mrs. George B. Raezer;
Rev. Charles Schruefer; Rev. and
Mrs. 'Byron K. Horne; Rev. Earn-est
Hagen; Dr. William Stengel;
Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Light, Rev. and
Mrs. Truchses; Rev. and Mrs.
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"DER NE1 GUVENOR"
Well se hen endlich a'mohl der
nei Guvenor in si offis ga'du- Es
wore awe hoch tseit dos ebbes
ga'du iss warra a'mohl dart druv-va
un Harrisbarrig. Ovver des
sawga Olli mohl dos mer en nei'r
Guvenor in offis dunna.
Ich will huff a dos mer hen mohl
aen dos net yusht un sich selvert
und si parti denkt wun's uns geldt
ous daela gaed. Ich huff und mer'
dunna oll, dos ehr awe un de Busi-ness
leidt, iShoff leidt und de Manu-facturs
a'wennich mae denkt, dos
der ledscht hut dos dart drin wore.
Der druvvel iss evva g'west dos se
des geldt yusht ous ga'dael't hen
tsu de grossi parti karls. Yar und
noh hen se so feel mae ous ga'-
dael't dos ri cooma iss. Des kun
si laeva net so gae wun se recht
du wella tsu era Jobs und tsu da
unnra leidt.
Se sawga der ledscht Guvenor
dos drin wore hut en wunner-bori
grunkheidt g'hot. Yar wun ich
net letz bin wore des es Tox-fever. j
Se sawga mer des iss en shlimmi:
grunket wun mer's recht grickt. i
Und der waeg dos Ollis gonga iss
gookt^ awe so. Ich will net huffa
dos der nei de grunkheidt grickt,!
udder es kent yusht so shlim si |
dos es wore da'fore. Ovver mer,
huffa oll fer es beseht.
Wos mich wunnert iss eb der j
nei Guvenor awe so en Fleeg Shiff
hut fer in de weldt rum fleega und
olli ga'bud runner folla? Ich will
net huffa. Und ich glawib awe /net'
dos der nei nuch so gross iss Olli
wile dos ehr net rum lawfa kun!
und de leidt in de awega gooka. |
Ovver wun ehr a'mohl so gross
waart dos ehr maent ehr onus in
de luft rum fleega und nunner
gooka uf de leidt dos en in offls
ga'du- hen, noh iss es Widder tseit!
fer en change mocha. Well mer!
waarta now mohl a'pore yore und
Candidates Ready To Battle
For Votes In Record-Express
Ascription Campaign
Few Entrants Have Started to Secure Votes; Now is
Opportune Time lor Energetic Persons to
Enter Contest and take Vote Lead
Lititz Well
Represented
4t Inaugural
Delegation of More Than
75 Persons Represents
Boro at Ceremony
Senator H. J. Pierson, who had
the honor of being the first Lan-caster
countian in more than 100
years to preside over on inaugural
at Harhsburg.
Diehm Will
Dispense
Patronage
saena we es gaed. Ferleicht hen '
mer en guder und ferleicht awe1
net, des kenna mer nuch net sawga J
fun de pore dawg dos ehr drin iss.
"DER DEITSCH"
SPECIAL SERVICE
Longenecker to Broadcast
On Lititz Customs
A special service will be held
Sunday, January 29, at 7 P. M. in
the Coleman Memorial chapel.
Mrs. Paul Byerly, of Lancaster,
will give a talk on missions. The
chapel choir of the First Presby-terian
church, Lancaster, will fur-nish
special music. The public is
invited.
Penna. Dutch
Plan Dinner
LOCAL HISTORY BEE
(Editors, Note:
T« know iLititz you must know
its history. By means of these
questions and answers published
each week in the RECORD, you
can Increase your knowledge of
your town.)
(Answers on Page 7)
1. Who baked the first Lititz
pretzels?
2. Who was the first store keep-er
in Lititz?
3. What was the first Incorporat-ed
business in Lititz?
4. When was Linden Hall Semi-nary
founded?
6. Who operated the first lire
and ten cent store in Lititz?
Lititz customs, including the
Moravian Church candle light ser-vice,
the Fourth of July celebra-tion,
and. Pennsylvania Dutch
foods will be discussed by Robert
Long«necker from the Columbia
Broadcasting Studios in Holly-wood,
California, tomorrow night
on a program conducted by Mar-tha
Moore, news commentator and
forum director. The program will
be broadcast on the Pacific net-work
only and local radio fans
will be unable to hear it unless
their Mts are capable of picking
up West Coast stations.
Bob, who is a program director
for C B S , and Paul who is an
usher in the same station, enter-tained
Sam Rubrecht of Lemon
Street, last week.
Sam saw Joe-Penner and Joe
Brown broadcast and was taken
behind the scenes of several
programs. He made a record of
bis voice and had it played back
to him through loudspeakers and
said it sounded quite natural.
The sound effects machinery is
fascinating, Sam reports, particu-larly.
the means of reproducing the
sounds of trains. He saw how the
sound of walking on snow is ob-tained
'by crunching a bag of corn
starch, how the sound of a rattle
snake's rattle is made with an
electric buzzer, and how the sound
of elevator doors opening and
closing is produced with roller
skates on a small woden track.
A letter from Bob states that the
latest program to which he has
been assigned is the Gulf Screen
Guild show heard every Sunday
night from 7:30 to 8:00, Lititz
time.
Bob and Paul are frequent
guests of <Lum and Atoner 'of radio
fame and often ride the horses on
their ranch which borders the
ranches of Robert Taylor and Bar-bara
Stanwyck. To go to the
ranch they drive through the
country where "The Good Berth"
was made. According to Bob the
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There will be no heil Hitlers, no
Hoch der Kaiser and no Bunds—
just a lot of good wholesome fun.
This was the manner in which
Dr- J. L. Hertz this week described
the first Pennsylvania-Dutch pin-ner
to be held in the Malta Temple,
Lancaster, on or near April 20.
According to plans made this
week at a meeting in the office of
Former Attorney General Guy K.
Bard, the dinner will feature a
Little German band, Dutch poems
and Pennsylvania Dutch speeches.
Rev. Byron K. Horne was select-ed
permanent chairman of the
group and John L. Bowman, of
Denver, secretary-treasurer. Speak-ers
for the dinner will be selected
at the next meeting, February 6.
Committees for the dinner were
named, as follows: Dr. J. L. Hertz,
Lititz; Dr. R. W. Schlosser, Eliza-bethtown,
and Silas E. Bard, Den-ver,
program; Dr. P. M. Harbold
and Rev. T. A. Alspach, Lancaster,
place and menu.
Others attending were C. R.
Shelly, F. V. Heckman, J. G. Kel-inger,
(Lancaster, and Rev. W. R.
Knerr, Denver.
Any doubt that County Commis-sicmer
G. Graybill Diehm, a form-er
burgess of Lititz, would dispense
state patronage in Lancaster coun-ty,
was quickly dispersed at a
series of conferences held in Har-risburg
this week both before and
following the inauguration of Gov-ernor
Arthur H. James.
It was further revealed here this
week that any appointments re-commended
by Mr- Diehm will
have the backing of the Republi-can
County committee as a whole
and not any one faction of that
committee in particular.
That Mr. Diehm is recognized by
the incoming administration as
Lancaster county's Republican
leader was stated unequivocally by
State Chairman James F. Torrance.
Patronage will be dispensed to
the counties on a population basis
so that the total annual salaries
for the jobs are in proportion to
the county's population as com-pared
with the total state popula
tion. This will mean, for prob-ably
the first time in the state's
history, that the benefits thus de
rived will go iback to the counties
in exactly the same ratio as the
taxes collected to pay the cost of
the state government.
A committee to be selected from
the county committee will aid Mr
Diehm in interviewing prospective
appointees. There also will 'be
number of positions to be filled by
State Senator Henry J. Pierson
for the duration of the legislative
session.
SNAVELY NAMED AUDITOR
The Lancaster County Commis-sioners
this week appointed Christ
M. Snavely, this borougih, as an au-ditor
for the borough to succeed
Jacob Eshleman, who resigned foe
cause of his prior appointment as
property assessor. The county
court is expected to approve the
appointment today or tomorrow.
With more than 75 persons from
Lititz in the audience which jam-med
Harrisburg Tuesday, State
Senator Henry J. Pierson presided
over the inaugural ceremonies
which inducted Governor Arthur H.
James into office as official head of
the commonwealth.
Senator iPierson was the first
Lancaster countian to officiate dur-ing
an inaugural in more than
Century. Ignoring the pain from
an infected ear which kept him con-fined
to his home here over the
past week-end, Senator Pierson
conducted the ceremonies and in
troduced the new governor to the
cheering thousands of upturned
faces before him.
Going by train and by automo-bile,
a large delegation from Lititz
witnessed the parade and the
lengthy parade which followed for
the next five hours after Governor
James had solemnly taken the oath
of office.
A number from thte borough also
attended the Inaugural ball, proba-bly
the most colorful spectacle of
the excitement-packed inaugural
day program while others hurried
to the senate chamber to listen to
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Urges More
Scout Troops
For Lititz
HEAD OF MORAVIAN
CHUBCH TRUSTEES
DR, BENDER RE-ELECTED
Dr. Harry E. Bender was re-elected
president of the Board of
trustees of the Moravian church
at the reorganization meeting held
on Tuesday evening. Lloyd Hess
was reelected vice-president, Guy
Bomberger, secretary and Paul
Bomberger, treasurer. The other
members are Carl Workman and
Robert Yerger.
The need of a much larger Boy
Scout movement in Lititz was em-phasized
here this week by M. J.
Armstrong, of Lancaster, district
administrator of the Boy Scouts
of America.
A ¡borough of the size and activi-ties
of Lititz should possess an
organization of at least five troops
of 32 scouts each as well as or-ganizations
of Cubs, boys from S
to 12 years of age, and Senior
Scouts, boys over 18, Mr. Arm-strong
declared.
Pointing out the many character-building
aspects of scouting, Mr.
Armstrong urged local organiza-tions
to call upon their scouts for
any of various duties they can and
will willingly perform, in an ad-dress
delivered Tuesday pvening
before members ofthe Lititz Ro-tary
Club.
"The boy in that uniform may
make as many mistakes as the boy
without one and may do just as
many foolish things, tout it is a
real fact in life that the boys who
make good scouts are the boys
who forge ahead," he asserted. "In
a recent graduation the three boys
who won the highest honors in
their class were either scouts o '
had been scouts," he added.
Discussing the formation of
scout troops in Lititz, Mr. Arm-strong
declared that churches are have tried are surprised and de-among
the best and most perma- lighted. What some feared would
nent organizations to sponsor
troops. • - - • - - -~" ; - -
"We find that troops organize i
by churches attract the most young
men and are of a more permanent
nature than any other type of
troops,' he explained.
Today the first o fthose who
have entered as candidates in the
Lititz Record-Express's "Every-body
Wins" Campaign is printed
in display space of this issue. Be-cause
of the fact that only a few
of those entered have made small
reports, and have only a few vote®
to their credit, only the entry votes
of 10,000 are given, but starting
next week the vote standing, show-ing
each candidate's position la
the race will appear in every is-sue
of the Lititz Record-Express
until the close February 20. Can-didates
entered, and those who
enter should wage a vigorous bat-tle
for subscriptions during the
next few days to poll as large a
vote as possible in an effort to
make a good showing in the pub-lished
standing.
Those interested in this race
can look over the entries and pick
their favorite from the list—or if
there is not one entered whom yon
would care to support, send in the
name of some person you think
would run a good race and boost
him or her along the road to vic-tory
with your subscription.
The ideal time to enter and win
is now, as the first week vote of-fer
is still in effect and very few
h|ve started to work.
CANDIDATES FIND IT EAST
Those who have entered this
campaign as candidates and have
started their campaign are enjoy-ing
the affair immensely, and say
they are having lots of excitement
and more fun than a circus. It is
very easy to get that, all wh*
LITITZ GOLF CLUB
Members of the Lititz Golf Club
are planning to hold a stag party
at the Overlook Country Club
Thursday, February 9 at 8 o'clock.
An interesting program is being
arranged by a committee headed
by James Stopani, this borough-
C A N D I D A T E S
Below is the first published list of names of those who
have entered as candidates in the Lititz Record-Express
$600 circulation campaign, of which the first prize is $300
and numerous other prizes will be given away February
20th, 1939, to the ones securing the largest number of votes
through both renewing old subscribers and securing new
ones.
Because of the fact that only a few of those entered
have become active and reported results as yet, but starting
next week the standings will appear in each paper.
Those who have entered should make a vigorous effort
to secure as many votes as possible in order to place their
names way up in the published standings next week. RE-MEMBER,
this contest is of short duration and you can win
any one of these large cash prizes you set yourself to win.
They are worth your best effort and a little effort on the
part of anyone at this time will pay handsome dividends.
ANYHTING WORTH WHILE IS NEVER WON WITHOUT
EFFORT!
Can you pick the winners? Can you pick the quitters?
Thist list of contestants does not show the standings
but is alphabetically arranged :
Mrs. Ada Buckley - - - - Lititz
Chester Douple R. D. 3
Robert Eby Lititz
Mrs. Jacob Garber - - - - - R. D.
Anna May Graybill - - - Lititz R. D. 4
Erla Long - - - • - Penryn
James Long Rothsville
Mrs. Avery Myers - - - - - Lititz
Mrs. William Rawcliffe - - - Lititz
Winifred Sheaffer - - - - - Lititz
Mrs. Margaret Weidman - - - Lititz
James G. Zook - - . . . Lititz
CHICKEN PATTIE SUPPER
By The Sunshine Class of Bvan.
Cong. Church, Sat. Jan. 28, 1939,
from 4 to 8 P. M. Price 35c.
—Home-made Sausage, 28c Ib.:
Pudding, 22c lb; Beefsteak, 30c tb;
Hamburg. 19c Ib.; Frankfurts, 25o
Ib.; Whole Chucks, 19c and 20c
lb. LUTZ—Phone 9181-W. We
Deliver. adv.
CAMPAIGN MANAGER
LITITZ RECORD-EXPRESS
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Lititz Record-Express.
Please give the vote on this subscription to:
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Address ;
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be a task and a burden has turned
into a Jolly adventure, with «Hitt-ing
rewards so easily earned that
it seems too good to be true. Be-cause
of the fact that "everybody
wins" in this campaign. ,
Time for Work
The time for real productive
work is now here, and what fun
it is getting out among yo*r
friends and acquaintances, know-ing
that your efforts will be re-warded,
that you are doing the»
a favor by urging them to take
their home community paper.
Deay at this time will be costly
indeed, as the votes offered now
are the largest of the entire cam-paign.
At no other time "will a
candidate's efforts be so richly re-warded
in the matter of votes. It
is possible now to run up a huge,
vote with little effort and pave tke
way to final success. Therefore
the wise candidates will take ad-vantage
of the present votes
pile up the winning votes white
others wait to see who is going
to enter and who is going to work-
New Entrants Can Win
Why, right today, an absolutely
new person can enter this cam-paign
as a candidate and with a
handful of votes take the lead. It
can be done. Each one now enter-ed
seems to think "the others'* «re
doing so much, when in reality no
candidate has gotten a start. The
first one to start now, entered W
not, and make a systematic can-vass
will pave the way to finift
success. All are on even terms,
and effort is the governing factor.
A burglar alarm protected the
automobile owned by A. T. Sub-lett
of Belton, S. C„ until thieves
stole the alarm.
Calendar of Coming Events
Jan. 25—Smoker, Lititz Fire Co.
Jan. 26—Operetta, Fellowship
Hall, 8 P. M.
Feb. 8—A1 Aaaraaf Open House,
Amer Bldg.
Feb. 9—Father and Son Banquet,
Feb. 9—Lititz Golf Club party,
Overlook.
St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 6 p.m.
Feb. 20—Musical Comedy, H. S.
Auditorium.
Feb. 20—Linden Hall Glee Club
entertainment, Moravian Church.
Mar. 16-17—Jr. Class play at
High School.
Jan. 28—Supper, Cong. Evang.
church, 4 - 8 P. M.
(