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VOL.LXI Lititz, Lancaster Co., Thursday, February 23, 1939 No. 25
Grace Garber Wins The Record-Express Campaign
BURKHART'S
Town
WHAT'S DOING I
SPORTS DEPT. Lititz High
School enters another league race
this rear, after a fair season. Al-though
the immediate opponents,
Rothsville and New Holland, have
turned in more enviable percent-ages,
we still pin our hopes on the
local Red and the Black.
The THEATRE: The local cine-ma
palace offers a top-notch pro-duction
this Friday and Saturday:
'Idiot's Delight', in which Norma
Shearer and Clark O&ble wave the
flag« of glamour. The original
play enjoyed a considerable run
on Broadway, due, perhaps, to the
fine work of Alfred Lqnt, and Lynn
Fontanne.
Next weekend we shall he offered
a continued adventure of Thome
Smith's Mr. Topper, in the produc-tion
'Topper Takes a Trip', starr-ing
Connie Bennett and Roland
Young.
BOOK DEPT. 'The Yearling', by
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, still
heads the ranks as the bestselling
novel on the market. "Because", a
New York publisher says, "it is
the cleanest book on the shelves/'
The non-fiction parade has been
topped -by Van' Doren'8 'Benjamin
Franklin' for some time, and small
wonder.
Destined for the high-bracket
is the issue of Sherwood'«
'Abe Lincoln in Illinois'. Broad-way
has capitulated to the charnr
of this drama for the past several
Weeks. Now everybody can enjoy
the reasons for such enthusiasm.
(Price 2 dollars).
MUSIC: Massanet's 'Manon' will
'be broadcast from the stage of the
Metropolitan Opera House on Sat-urday,
beginning at 1:55 P. M.
Also on Saturday, Arturo Toscanini
will conduct the NBC Symphony
Orchestra in the last concert of
the present aeries, . . . The pro-gram
will consist of several selec-tions
by Richard Wagner. (10:
11:30 P. M.)—Overture to 'The
Flying Dutchman'; Prelude to Act
III from 'Tannhaeuser'; Prelude
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Camera Club
Wffl Exhibit
Winning Pix
The March meeting of the Litis
Springs Camera Club will be held
the first of that month. At this
meeting prints from the last Litiz
competition will be exhibited and
Special feature of the meeting
the winners announced,
will be a discussion and criticism
of the prints .by Mr. John Fritz,
Commercial Photographer of Lan-caster.
Anyone interested in photogra-phy,
is cordially invited to attend
this meeting next Wednesday at
efgftt o'clock.
The prize-winning prints will be
placed on display in the club win-dows.
Lititz again took top honors
from Lancaster in the latter's
Camera Club Print Competition on
Monday night, Fefb. 20th. Both llnrt
and second awards were given to
prints by Bob Kreider. His photo-graphic
study of the girl with
skiis, titled "Betty", was selected
as the best of thirty prints enter-ed;
His portrait, "John" ran a
close second in the number of
points awarded.
FARMERS ATTENTION!
Black Harness Oil—90c Gal.
Trimble Hardware
Have Music in Your Home. Buy
A Piano. Used Pianosf25.00 up.
Save Money—buy at Home.
Young's Music House
Lititz Plaque
To Be Placed
In Sacramento
Local Citizens Will Pay
Tribute To Career of
General Sutter
A bronze plaque will be placed
at the base of an elaborate memor-ial
to General John A. Sutter in
Sutter Fort, Sacramento, Califor-nia,
as a historical tribute from
the people of Lititz, if a plan en-dorsed
here this week succeeds.
The- plaque will constitute one
of three, the first of which will be
placed in the Sutter memorial by
the Native Sons and Daughters of
California, while the second is to
be placed at the memorial this
year by representatives of the
Swiss government.
The proposal that the people of
Lititz send a plaque to Sacramento
to be placed in Sutter Fort was
made here this week by Harry E.
Bender who announced receipt of
an invitation received from Arthur
S. Dudley, executive secretary of
the Sacramento Golden Empire
Centennial exposition. At a meeting
of the Lititz Chamber of Com-merce
Tuesday evening, the plan
was formally endorsed and Mr.
Bender was authorized to notify
Sacramento officials of this action.
After costs of the plaque are de-termined,
a drive to raise funds
here will be launched.
The Sutter memorial and plaqt.e
will 'be dedicated during the Gold-en
Empire Centennial being held
from May 1 to September 15. It
was hoped that at least several
representatives from Lititz will be
able to accompany the plaque
westward and attend the ceremon-ies
in which Lititz has such a
close historical connection.
Sutter Fort, one of the most in-teresting
historical shrines of the
west, is sittated in the very center
of Sacramento, capital of Califor-nia.
The Sutter Memorial, which
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World Day of Prayer
The World Day of Prayer will
be observed by the Missionary So-cieties
of the Churches of Lititz,
Friday evening February 24th., at
7:30 o'clock, in the Lutheran
Church. The theme of tlfe service
will be: "Let Us put Our Love in-to
Deeds and make it Real." Mrs.
Hepp of the Moravian (Society will
have charge of the meeting. A
moving picture on India will be
shown—presenting persons and
scenes in keeping with the study
book, "Moving Millions." Every-body
invited and urged to attend
the service.
Fine Program
4t Banquet
Of L O.O. F.
Sportsmen
Nominate
New Officers
Sixty five New Members
Join Association At
Meeting Monday
SPRINGS COMMITTEE WILL
£LECT MEMBERS TONIGHT
Thé Lititz Springs Committee
will meet this evening at 8 o'clock
in the basement of the Moravian
Sunday School building for the
purpose of transacting important
business. This will include the
election of two members to the
executive committee, Dr. Harry E.
Bender, president, announced.
Two hundred and twenty four
members and wives attended the
annual banquet of Lititz Lodge I.
O. O. F., No. 1050, held on Tuesday
evening in St. Paul's Lutheran
church. This is the largest num-ber
ever attended a banquet of the
order.
• An interesting and varied pro-gram
was presented by the com-mittee
including, W. Martin Hess
chairman, Carl Reedy, Carl Foltz,
Edward Grosh, James Maize, John
Reifsnyder and Herman Reedy.
Mr. Maize, the Noble Grand, in-troduced
Dr. Joseph W. Grosh,
who served as toastmaster. The
toasts were interspersed with
jokes, group singing and accordion
music.
Col. Daniel B. Strickler, of Lan-caster,
delivered the address of the
evening. He spoke on "National
Defense", considering three points,
the intelligent thought of every
one, our national or foreign pol-icy,
our military setup-
He cited that United States
stands eighteenth in the size of
her army while Germany has twice
as many planes as any other na-tion
and controls all the radios in
South America, Japan bought land
for "agricultural purposes'' in' Cen-tral
America which would control
the canal zone and our oil hold-ings
have been seized in Mexico,
all of which weaken our power as
a nation.
He ended with the challenge, are
we prepared to protect the things
we want?
Mr. Hess, who is the first dis-trict
deputy Grandmaster to be
elected .from the local lodge, an-nounced
the activities for the
summer, among them will be the
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SWISS BELL .RINGERS
Dr. Stengel and E. L. Garber
fake Cruise To South America
The custom of taking a Mid-Win-ter
vacation in the form of a
cruise, has gained two new adepts.
Dr. F. W. Stengel and Mr. E. L.
Garber. They will board the M.
V. GEORGIC, of the Cunard White
Star Line on Saturday, for an 18-
day cruise.
Marcel Segal, Director of Wheat-land
Tours, Lancaster, who ar-ranged
passage for Dr. Stengel and
Mr. Garber gave an outline of the
interesting itinerary that will be
followed.
Leaving New York February
26th, the M. V. GEORGIC will
reach St. Thomas, in the Virgin
Islands on March 1st. After spend-ing
the better part of a day there,
she will then set sail for the Island
of Martinique, one of the French
possessions of the Antilles. St.
Pierre, which was completely de-stroyed
by the eruption of Mt. Pe-lee
in 1902 will be sighted on. the
morning of March 2nd. Passeng-ers
iprill land, and begin an auto-mobile
drive through gorgeous Val-leys
and over winding mountain
roads, disclosing magnificent pano-ramas.
They will then reach the
capital of the Island, Fort-de-
France, with its truly French at-mosphere.
It was there that Em-press
Josephine, wife of Napoleon
was born.
Trinidad is next to be reached.
On March 3rd, a stop will be made:
Sixty five new members joined
the Sportsmen's association at the
meeting held on Monday evening,
according to the report of Lin-neaus
Roth, chairman of the mem-bership
committee. This gives the
organization a total membership
of two hundred and fifty six mem-bers.
Elmer Bomberger, the president
was in charge of the meeting
which was held in the fire house
and was attended by forty three
members.
Clarence Eckert, chairman of the
game committee reported, twenty
rabbits liberated, which had been
trapped in the county, five crates
liberated which had been received
from the west; twenty six bushels
of grain distributed to the wild
life in this vicinity which was sup-plied
by the state game commis-sion-
Christ Koehler, chairman of the
entertainment committee reported
one hundred and fifty persons at-tended
the ox roast held recently
and gave a financial report of the
same.
Mr. Bomberger appointed the
following auditing committee, Guy
Buch, Lititz; Pierce Brandt, Man-heim;
George Harding, Millway.
Leroy Bare, regular forest fire
warden, asked for volunteers to
help fight lies, fifty men gave their
names to be called in emergencies.
Several members of the Mt. Joy
association were present and
spoke. Mr. Vogel gave an account
of pheasant raising. He said, ex-periment
proved that the birds
cared the least for tomatoes of al-most
any food given them and
would often let them in the pen
two or three days before they were
touched".
The nomination of officers re-sulted
in the following, Elmer
Bomberger, president; George Ro-yer,
vice-president; Abram Her-shey,
secretary; Howard Keener,
Christ Koehler, and Guy Buch for
treasurer.
Leo Luttringer, editor of the
Games News, a monthly magazine
published by the game commission,
will be in Lititz on Monday even-ing,
March 20 and present moving
pictures of wild life. The public
and especially the farmers are in-vited
to see these pictures.
FULL-BLOODED NAVAJO
AT U. B. CHURCH SUNDAY
at Brighton, on the northern side
of the Island. An auto drive will;
then begin, visiting en route the
famous Pitch Lake at >La Brea.
The lake is of particular interest,!
since it furnishes most of the as-'
phalt for the Western Hemisphere.1
The drive is through San Fernando,
and St. Joseph ancient capital city.
There exists in Trinidad quite a
large colony of Hindus whose vil-lages
will be passed. Port-of-Spain,
the capital will then be reached.
It is a very picturesque city.'
Driving through the Santa Cruz
valley, over the Saddle Back, into
the Maraval Valley, passing through
tropical plantations of cocoanuts,
cocoa and grapefruit, and bamboo
gro(ves.
The beautiful little island of
Grenada is next to be visited.
Cruise members will view its fresh
water lake 1800 feet above sea
level, after passing through some
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Jim Begay, a full-blooded Nava-jo
Indian boy, will appear at the
United Brethren church here Sun-day
evening at 7 P- M. Begay is a
native of the Navajo Indian reser-vation
in Arizona and is o con-verted
heathen shepherd boy. He
was educated at Binghomton, N.
Y.
Jim will appear in full Indian
war costume and will speak upon
the subject of "What Christ Means
to Me."
ODD FELLOWS WILL
CONFER DEGREE HERE
A large attendance of Odd Fel-lows
is expected Monday night
when the Lititz Lodge, No. 1050.
will confer the third degree to
candidates from all Lancaster
County lodges.
$600 Is Paid To Four
Winners In Big Campaign
Big Concentrated Circulation Gained in Contest
Benefits Advertisers—Offers Best Newspaper
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Osterhouse,
Swiss Bell Ringers, will present a
Sacred Concert Wednesday even-ing
at 7:30 o'clock at the Lititz
United Brethren Church.
These two young people have
had a wide experience in the field
of Sacred Music, having appeared
in over 800 churches and colleges
in most of the states of the Union.
Also, they have broadcasted from
43 Radio Stations.
They will present a diversified
musical program of Swiss Hand
Bells, "Musical Glasses", "Musical
Saw", Trombone, Guitar, Piano-accordian,
Readings, Song Service,
Chorus Singing, solos and duets.
Seats are free and all invited.
Silver offering will be received.
Taproom Evil
Censored At
Meeting Here
Means of further controlling the
"taproom evil" were sought at a1
regional conference of the north-ern
Lancaster county district of
the W. C. T. U. Thursday after-noon
in St. Paul's Lutheran
church, Lititz.
Mrs. J. Harlan Landis, Lancas-ter,
chairman of the legislative
committee, said Assemblyman Ba-ker
Royer plans to sponsor legis-lation
seeking more local control
of taprooms and a consequent re-duction
in their number!
Members of the organization,
participating in a discussion, urg-ed
a bill which would permit a
local option vote in any district in
any year, and asked whether local
option could be made to include
the elimination of state liquor
stores in districts voting "dry."
Sentiment was also expressed in
favor of prohibiting the "block
booking" system of buying motion-pictures,
inasmuch as the system
compels theatre proprietors to take
inferior pictures along with good
ones.
Miss A. Virginia Grosh, county
president of the W. C. T. U„ said
the year was an outstanding one
because of the organization of two
new branches, in Leola and Bain-bridge,
and the activity of other
branches. There will be a state-wide
mass meeting at Harrisburg
March 14.
It also was announced that Clin-ton
M. Howard will come to Lan-caster
in May; there will be W.
C. T. U. institute at New Provi-dence
Saturday, with a medal con-test
in the evening; and that on
February 28 there will be motion
pictures in the Bainbridge High
school on temperance.
The life of Frances Willard was
discussed by Miss Hattie Gehman,
FARMERS ATTENTION!
Black Harness Oil—90c Gal.
Trimble Hardware
—Hjome-made Sausage, 25c lb.;!
Pudding, 18c lbBeefstead, 30c lb;
Hamburg, 19c lb; Frankfurts, 25c
lb.; Whole Chucks, 19c and 20c
lb, LUTZ—Phone 9181-W. We
Deliver. adv.
Play Bingo at the Firehouse Fri-day
Evening. Win The Big Mara-thon.
Your old furniture re-made to
look like new at Beck Bros. Fur-niture
Factory 24« E. tMain St..
Lititz.
C. H. Hunt
Addresses
Lititz Group
That the democratic form of
government in America will fail if
ruthless politics is not driven out
of governmental life and quickly
replaced by common-sense and
businesslike government was de-clared
here Tuesday evening in an
address delivered 'before members of
the Lititz Chamber of Commerce by
C. H. Hunt, of the State Chamber
of Commerce.
"In the past few years we have
sen certain elements of labor
itself—usually Instigated by some
radical with foreign Ideas—defeat-ing
labor itself with unnecessary
strikes which have halted busi-ness,"
Mr. Hunt declared. "The
time has come when all phases of
our Industrial life must work in
harmony if we are to survive.
"The present state of affairs is
largely due to a do-nothing atti-tude
on the part of many leading
citizens. This do-nothing attitude
must end. In this day of spitting,
spuming and fuming, mudslinging,
back-biting, lying and intrigue;
jingling of rattles of every make
and hue, blowing up and casting
loose balloons of every variety and
color; waving of all kinds of flags
before the stars and stripes, the
making of fantastic, unkeepable
promises must end.
"This is the time to get back
with our feet planted firmly on the
rock base of common 'sense and
our minds, hearts and souls again
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Grace Garber, of Kissel Hill, was the first prize win-ner
in the 7-week circulation "campaign of the Lititz
Record-Express, judges of the contest announced Monday
night after a careful check of the votes.
Victor Wagner, burgees
New Subscribers
new
last
lists
With the great number of
subscriptions added in the
seven weeks to the mailing
of the Lititz Record-Express, there
may be errors in names, initial,
addresses or expiration dates. We
would appreciate your notifying us
at once of any necessary correc-tions
in the addressing of your
paper.
The expiration date will be
found following your name on the
top of the first page. Owing to the
many hundreds of changes of ex-piration
dates to be made, especi-ally
from the reports of the last
two weeks of the campaign, it will
require some time to complete
these in our mailing machine type
list So please allow us several
weeks to effect the changes, then
if not correct, advise us if this
date does not agree with your
record of payments.
We will appreciate any help you
can give us in getting your copy
of the Lititz Record-Express.
MOTORIST ARRESTED
Charged with speeding over an
intersection, William E. Smith,
Lititz, R. D. 2, was arrested Sun-day
night at Second and Broad
street by Chief of Police Clarence
Kreider. He will 'be given a hear-ing
bfore Justice of the Peac J.
B. Herr.
Local Woman
to Lead Group
In Tax Study
A Lititz unit of the National
Consumers Tax Commission, a na-tional
tax-study organization of
women, will be headed by Miss
Hannah Weitzel, of East Main
Street, it was announced today.
Her appointment was made pub-lic
at the Chicago headquarters of
the NCTC, by Mrs. Kenneth C.
Frazier, commission president, who
welcomed her as "a leader in this
non-political movement to arouse
tax-consciousness among the na-tion's
women."
Mrs. Melville iMucklestone, a
past national president of the
American Legion Auxiliary, is
NCTC vice president. The drive in
this state is led by Mrs. James B.
Scott, of Philadelphia, the com-mission's
Pennsylvania national
committee member and Mrs. Her-man
H. Mattmann, of Philadelphia,
the state director.
Campaign Comes
To Successful Close
Seven weeks ago the Lititz
Record-Express launched a big
circulation campaign for the pur-pose
of obtaining wider and a
massed circulation in Lititz and
surrounding territory. Now that
it has come to a successful close,
we are pleased to announce that
results have been most satisfac-tory.
All that had been hoped for
has been accomplished. There have
been hundreds of new readers add-ed
to our already large circula-tion
list. All contestants have
been awarded their prizes or if
not being among the prize win-ners
they drew 20 percent com-mission.
We feel sure in saying that the
contestants who took part in this
subscription drive and who are
sponsible for making it a success
will not hesitate to join us in say-ing
that they have received noth-ing
but the fairest treatment from
beginning to end.
We are indeed grateful for the
satisfaction expressed by the win-ners
of the major prizes and by
all contestants for the fair and
impartial treatment they received
throughout the campaign.
Our thanks are extended to the
candidates, judges and to all
the friends who so loyally sup-ported
them.
At this time we feel that we
should welcome tjie hundreds of
new subscribers and to extend to
them, as we have in the past to
all our readers, a cordial invita-tion
to visit our plant in Lititz
and to use our columns as a
means of expressing their perso-nal
views or comments on all -af-fairs
of interest in their communi-ties.
At all times we welcome
constructive criticism of our news
and editorial policies.
It is with pleasure and \ride
that we announce to cyir advertis-ers
that with the addition of the
great numbers of new readers, we
can unquestionably jffer them the
most complete coverage ever af-forded
them In the areas repre-senta
by the Lititz Record-Express.
of Lit-itz,
Elser Gerhart, president of the
Lititz Chamber of Commerce and
Paul Bomberger, cashier of the
Farmers National Bank, in their
judge's statement, announced oth-er
prizes as follows; Second prize
of $150, Chester Douple; Third
prize of $75, Robert S. Eby; and
Fourth prize of $50, Miss Winifred
Sheaffer.
Statement of Judges
We, the undersigned judges, ap-pointed
to have supervision of the
$600 circulation campaign of the
Record-Express, concluded this
date, and who acted as counting
judges, and auditors, certify and.
state that we have this date made
a careful count and check of the
votes earned and deposited in the
campaign ballot box and find the
results to be as follows:
Fire prize -300.00
Grace Garber 23,254,500
Second prize $160.00
Chester Douple 1«,732,000
Third prize 175 00
Robert S. Eby 7,236,500
Fourth prize $50.00
Winifred Sheaffer 4,586,000
We further find that the candi-dates
whose names are given
above received the numb'f of
votes given opposite ,thtn _ —
and we declare them winners of
the prize indicated above.
It is our belief that the cam-paign
has been conducted in a fair
and impartial manner to everyone
interested and concerned.
Signed:
Victor Wagner, Judge.
Elser Gerhart, Judge.
Paul Bomberger, Judge.
The Lititz Record-Express,
Lititz, Pa.
February 20th, 1939.
The many new readers added to
the circulation list of our news-paper
affords our advertisers the
most complete coverage ever af-forded
them in the areas repre-sented
by the Record-Express.
Free-Yohr
Wun es free-yohr wedder coomt,
Und de luft iss seez und g'sundt,
Sainsht der Yuckel und de Betz
Drous rum sharra we der gretz,
Mit em recha in der hond,
Uf em oldta tswilva lond.
Grudda grodla ous em grundt
Wun es free-Yohr wedder coomt,
Und der shnae gaid oll aweck
Und der kawder lawft im dreck,
Und de menner sin um brutza
Wile de weiver heiser butza.
Wun es free-yohr wedder coomt,
Iss de bowerei ferlumpt;
Eb de Johnny-jump-ups bleeya
Gane de nuchber's leidt un'a
tseega,
Und de wunza sin um tsook;
Und de mmomy setzt de glook.
Wun es free-yohr wedder coomt,
Waart der basum-shteel gajumpt
Bi em porra, wun de Meck
Net tsurick gaed uf der Jeck;
Und ae pore ferlonga buggers,
Peddla shtinglch shad und suckers.
Oh, ml hartz glupt dos es brum'd,
Wun es freeyohr wedder coomt,
Und ich shpring frei in de hae,
We en shofebuck mit der flae,
Wun ehr em gore-hissligk bump'4,
Wun es free-yohr wedder coomt.
"Der Deitsch"