The Ironton News, 1929-04-24

States as in Great Britain. In many oti our great cities murder can ap apparently - parently apparently be committed with impunity. At least 50 times as many robberies in proportion to population are com committed - mitted committed in the United States as in Great Britain, and three times as many burglaries. Even in such premeditated crimes as embezzlement and forgery our record stands no comparison with stable nations. No part of the coun country, - try, country, rural or urban, is immume. Life ana property are relatively more un unsafe - safe unsafe than in any other civilized coun country - try country in the world. In spite of all this we have reason to mide ourselves on our institutions and the high moral instincts of the great majority of our people. No one will assert that such crimes would be committed if we had even a normal respect for law and if the laws of our country were properly enforce^. * In order to dispel certain illusions in the nublic mind on this subject, let me say at once that while viola violations - tions violations of law have been increased by inclusion of crimes under the 18th. Amendment and by the vast sums that are poured into the hands of the criminal classes by the. patronage of illicit liquor by otherwise responsible citizens yet this is but one segment of our ''roblem. I have nurposely cited the extent of murder, burglary, rob robberv, - berv, robberv, forgerv and embezzlement for but a small percentage of these can be attributed to the 18th. Amend Amendment. - ment. Amendment. In fact, of the total number of convictions for felony last year less than 8 ner cent came from that source. It is therefpre but a sector of the invasion of lawlessness. What we are facing today is some something - thing something for larger and more funda fundamental - the - mental - the fundamental - the possibility that respect respectfor - for respectfor law as law is fading from the sensibilities of our people. Whatever the value of any law may be, the enforcement of that law written in plain terms upon our statute books is not in my mind, a debatable ques question. - tion. question. Law should be observed and must be enforced until it is repealed bv the proper processes of our de democracy. - mocracy. democracy. The duty to enforce the laws rests upon everv public official and the duty to obey it rests upon everv citizen. No individual has the right to de determine - termine determine what law shall be obeyed and what law shall not be enforced. If a law is wrong, its rigid enforce enforcement - ment enforcement is the surest guaranty of its repeal. If it is right, its enforcement is the quickest method of compelling resnect for it. I have seen statements published within a few davs encour encouraging - aging encouraging citizens to defy law because that particular journal did not ap approve - prove approve of the law itself. I leave com comment. - ment. comment. on such an attitude to any cit citizen - izen citizen with a sense of responsibility to his country.

Life and pronertv in the United States are relatively more unsafe than in any other civilized nation in the world, President Hoover told the members of the Associated Press in an address April 22nd., at the an annual - nual annual meeting in New York City. Mr. Hoover declared that a solu solution - tion solution of the problems of enforcement , and obedience to the laws, both Fed Federal - eral Federal and State, is more vital to the preservation of American institutions than any other question before the country. Record of C^iino Contrasted. President Hoover cited figures to show that more than 0,000 persons are lawlessly killed every year in the United States, or 20 times as many in proportion to population as in Great Britain; at least 50 times as manv robberies in proportion to pop population - ulation population as in Great Britain and three times as many burglaries as in that countrv. "No one will assert, he said, that such crimes would be committed if had even a normal resoect for law and if the laws of our country were pronerly enforced." President Hoover called attention to the need of vigorous reorganization of the nation's law-enforcement me mechanism, - chanism, mechanism, declaring that nrocedure now unduly favors the criminal; that the judiciary needs to be strengthen strengthened; - ed; strengthened; that the method of assembling juries needs revision and that justice must be more swift and sure. The President Said: - . . I ask only that you weigh this for .yourselves, and if my position is right, that you support it - not to support me but to support some something - thing something infinitely more precious - the one force that holds our civilization together - law. And I wish to dis discuss - cuss discuss it as law, not as to the merits or demerits of a particular law but all law, Federal and State for ours is a government of laws made by the peonle themselves. A surprising number of our peo people, - ple, people, otherwise of responsibility in the community, have drifted into the ex extraordinary - traordinary extraordinary notion that laws are made for those who choose to obey them. And in addition, our law-enforce law-enforcement - ment law-enforcement machinery, is suffering from many infirmities, arising out of its technicalities, its circumlocutions, its involved procedures, and too often, I regret from inefficient and delin delinquent - quent delinquent officials. We are reaping the harvest of these defects. More than 9,000 hum human - an human beings are lawlessly killed every year in the United States. Little more than half as many arrests fol follow. - low. follow. Less than one-sixth of these .slayers are convicted, and but a scandalously small percentage are adequately punished. Twenty times as many people in proportion to popula population - tion population are lawlessly killed in the United

the installation will cost $35,000 to $40,000 in addition to the cost of power or maintenance. Now is the time to act 'f the city is to save $35,000 or $40,000. Picture Ironton with bright boule boulevard - vard boulevard liehts, all poles of ornamental iron, painted the same color, placed the same number of feet apart on Second Street from Lawrence to Adams; on Third Street from Law Lawrence - rence Lawrence to Adams; on Center Street from the river to the Post Office - on Park Avenue from N. and W. Depot past the Court House on Fifth Str., and on Vernon from the Bridge to Fourth Street. Such a uniform light lighting - ing lighting system would make Ironton look like a live, wide awake progressive city. The opportunity is here for such a lighting system, and the Chamber of Commerce is back of it. Messrs Henry Heider, John Daueherty, J. J. McCain, and R. S. Goldcamp, the Chamber of Commerce Committee have Petitions for the signatures of the property owners. Every property owner on the streets named should be ready to sign when the committee calls. The City Council is in harmony with the movement, and a committee composed of George Spears, F. G. Leete and H. M. Stanley are co cooperating - operating cooperating with the Chamber of Com Commerce - merce Commerce Committee in every way poss possible. - ible. possible. No property owner should hesitate to sign. Those who rent property can increase the rent to cover the addi additional - tional additional cost of light. The additional cost would not increase any rent over $5.00 a month, and there isn't a store in Ironton's business section but what would be benefited to the extent of $50 a month by increased business to have our streets bright as day all night long. It would not only increase business, but would afford protection against burglars. The boulevard light lighting - ing lighting system would make Ironton as i attractive as any city in the valley, and change the expression "an old fashioned town to a modem city." The News feels certain that the banks, and every progressive busi business - ness business firm in the business section, named are many homes and residences ter lights which cost in the neighbor neighborhood - hood neighborhood of $5 a month to maintain, will sign the petition, but in the section named are several homes residences, which perhaos the owners will hesi hesitate - tate hesitate to sign the petition. The installa installation - tion installation of the lighting system will in increase - crease increase the value of this property for business nurposes. According to a ruling of the City Solicitor, it requires 70 per cent of the signatures of the property own owners - ers owners before the cost of the improve improvement - ment improvement can be assessed against all the property owners.

The estimated numDer oi viaitois were about three hundred and many were surorised at the modern system now in vogue in the high. fc j1; When Dad was a boy, and attended the little Red School on the hill, it was all one room, and it is pretty hard for Dad to understand just how one has to have a building with 40 rooms and go from room to room to get their education. But Dad was shown all Monday night, and he seem seemed - ed seemed well nleased. Of course Dad went to the ole swimmin' hole in the creek in the summer time to learn to swim, and he didn't have to have steam heated water in a tank like the mod modem - em modem youth. As for basket ball, Dad got his exercise driving the cows out of the com and carrying weeds to the pigs. Manual training, ah, there was where Dad had it on us all. was wnexe , ... . He knew how to use an ax and saw make stove wood, and he knew how to guide a T'low better than most moderns know how to guide an auto automobile. - mobile. automobile. _ , ., . And now let us step Dad aside foi Mother. Mother, when she was sweet sixteen, wore a calico dress and was just graduating from pig pigtails - tails pigtails to hair-pins. She didn't have to depend upon the teacher to learn do domestic - mestic domestic science. She knew how to milk the cows hitch Old Dobin when she wanted to drive to Sunday School, and perhaps the modern girl knows more about fancy bathing suits and swimming than mother ever knew, but that's about all. Well, whether you agree or not, to make a long story short, Mother and Dad, Pa and Ma, and grown-up brother and sister all enjoyed then thenvisit - visit thenvisit to the Ironton High School Mon Monday - day Monday night. Many had been there be before - fore before to the entertainments in the auditorium, to the games in the gym, etc but to go over the entire build building''and - ing''and building''and not miss anything, one al almost - most almost needs a guide. Guides for the evening were mem members - bers members of the National Honorary So Society. - ciety. Society. They assisted the visitors in locating the various rooms and teachers in the building. They were - Laura Boyer, Albert Bradv. Anna Rae Clark, Helen Daniel, Marjone Hannon, Dorothy Lambe, Alfreda Long, Mildred Loyer, Kenneth Mc McKee, - Kee, McKee, John Moulton, John Taylor, Ida Mae Walton and Anna Wolf. Miss Schroeder was at the inform information - ation information desk in the auditorium box office to help parents locate any student. Following the class sessions the Parent Teachers met in the audi -

-U ' V' ry'y W'. It was learned by the News yester yesterday - day yesterday afternoon that John T. 'Andy'An 'Andy'Andrews, - drews, 'Andy'Andrews, popular I. H. S. Instructor and former backfield star of the Tanks, that he would not be an applicant for the position as Boy's Physical Direc Director - tor Director at Ironton High School in the 1929-30 term, a place he has held for several years. Andy, whose home is in Brazil, lnd., stated that he had made busi business - ness business plans, and would be located in the East, probably in New York City. He will carry with him the best wishes of many friends. As a football star, Andy performed with the Tanks for six consecutive seasons, 1922-1927 inclusive, and at all times, played heads-up, clean and high class ball. He weathered the stormy sessions of the Tanks during their periods of ups and downs, and it will probably be a long time before we see another man come in from the outside, of his own choice, and see six years of ac active - tive active service, as a Big Red athlete other than the original Tanks. Andy came from Brazil, lnd., to Ashland, Ky., in 1922, and was locat located - ed located at the American Rolling Mill com company - pany company in that city. He heard of the Tanks before coming to the Tri Tristate - state Tristate country, and looked up Bill Brooks and "Shorty" Davies at his first opportunity. He came to Iron Ironton - ton Ironton in the high school, and since that time has been connected with the faculty in the capacity of physical instructor, and head of the Boys' Physical Education Department. Several players were brought from Ashland to the Tanks with Andy, and they played a big part in the early success of the club. They were Bill Friel, former Vanderbilt star, HankeB of Marshall, Blevins of Centre College and Fayne Grone of Georgetown. That big factor in football, "grit" was spelled in capital letters where Andy was concerned, for he had plenty of it, and gave his all that the Big Red might chalk up the victory. In 1924 he received a bro-1 ben leg in mid-season and^came back to the next year for his best perfor performance. - mance. performance. Since 1925, the road of the Old Tanks has been a rocky one, and the curfew has sounded for all. However, there is an end to every everything' - even - thing' - even everything' - even a Tank career. To Andy Andrews and his educated toe goes the credit for pulling many ft gatne out of tbe firs, when tt

A committee from the Chamber of Commerce, after much preliminary work, are placing the proposition of boulevard light3 befpie the property owners in the 4owrf town business section, and are asking for signatures on a petition to assure payment on the maintenance of these lights until such time as the city can find money to pay the lighting bills. No other city in this vicinity has ever had such a -liberal offer as has been presented this city by the Ohio Power Co. for the installation of this modem lighting system, and for this reason, Ironton must act before the power company erect their new noles and wires in the business section, which is a part of their general plan now under way of rebuilding the entire system in Ironton. The Ohio Power Co. have offered to install the lights, fixtures and everything free, and only ask the city to maintain the lights by paying the power bill, which will be the same per light as now charged for the street lights. Such an offer is made at this time only "because the power company have a large force of men and trucks here, and will be spared the expense of rewiring the business section, which they expect to do with within - in within a few weeks. Other cities have paid thousands of dollars for the installation of the lighting system, in addition to,.the cost of maintenance,'The Chamber of Commerce have been working on this proposition for months. One company estimated the cost of installation at $40,000. Another big electric com company - pany company gave an estimate of $35,000. Last vear the Ohio Power Co. did not submit an estimate, but now that the lines are being i--built the company of-fers to install the system without cost. After taking the matter up with numerous city officials, the Chamber of Commerce find that the only way to finance the proposition is by assess ment against the property owners same as for street improvements. The City Engineer has gone over the streets named, cr.d it is estimated that the cost of maintenance ner year will be 62 cents a front foot. This figures about $30 a year for a 44 foot front. The News believes, that within a year after the City Manager plan of Government is organized in Ironton, that the Manager will find a way for the city to relieve the property owners paying this lighting expense, but if the matter of instal installation - lation installation is put off until then, the city will lose the free offer of the Ohio Power Co. to install the system, and

. seemed as if it would be lost. Prob Probaly - aly Probaly the most spectacular feat per performed - formed performed by "Dink" as he is known by | many, was back in 1922, when the i Tanks defeated the Huntington Boo Boosters. - sters. Boosters. That particular day was attended by beautiful football weather, and the charm of the day was climaxed by Andy's skill. With only two minutes to play, and the score stand standing - ing standing 9 to 7 against the Tanks, the Tanks moved the ball down to about the 40 yard line with a long pass, and a neat run. Just a matter of seconds remained, and then it hap happened. - pened. happened. Andy's signal was called, and dropping back of the 40 yard stripe, he booted a drop kick squarely be between - tween between the posts, and the game was won, 10 to 9. Andy's punting and kicking of field goals on, many other occasions stood the Tanks in good stead. A drop kick from a hard angle on the 47 yard line at Cincinnati, against the old Potters is included among the more prominent feats of his gridiron career. Discussing the football side of Andy's period of residence in Ironton is just halfe the story. Never was there a harder worker in the face of all problems for the wel welfare - fare welfare and the advancement of the boys who have been placed under his care in the physical education class classes, - es, classes, whether it be in the pool, on the gym floor or out on the athletic j field. Andy, in the language best suited for this case "knows his stuff," and ' when he is gone the coming term will be missed. In conclusion, it can be said that Andy Andrews is a gentleman of the first rank, a clean sport and lover of clean sports, a square-shooter and a man who will make good anywhere he chooses to locate. Charles Jones, secretary to Gov-| emor Myers Y. Cooper, will be the speaker at the annual commence- j ment of the Hanging Rock High School on May 3rd. Supt. W. C. Paul was very fortunate in getting Mr. Jones to address the students at Hanging Rock, and no doubt many IrontonUma will attend the commence commencement. - ment. commencement. Judge A. J. Layne will be Hie speaker at the commencement of the Black Fork high school on Friday ******

Hundreds Viewed Halo Around the Sun Tuesday Hundreds of Irontonians turned sun-gazers Tuesday, and those who | could stand the light, viewed the sun surrounded with a vari-colored halo. | Now there was nothing unusual a about - bout about the sun wearing a halo, states the United State Weather Bureau, but it was unusual for anybody to be able to see it. The halo viewed yesterdav is caus caused - ed caused bv the sun's rays shining through ice, particles at very high altitudes. The moon last night also wore a halo, and was seen by the many in interested - terested interested observers, who were await awaiting - ing awaiting the time when they could view the halo without any great diffieul diffieulMANfMlSTERS - MANfMlSTERS diffieulMANfMlSTERS WILL ATTEND THE MEETING HERE __ Two Day Session of Miami Association Opens at the Congregational Church Today at 2 p. m. The 74th. annual meeting of the Miami Association of Congregational Churches and ministers opens this morning at the Congregational church for a two-day session. Rev. Herbert F. Lomis, Cincinnati is Moderator and Alberto C. Shattuck, Cincinnati, Register. Cincinnati, Hamilton, Springfield, Newport, Ky., Ceredo and Hunting Huntington - ton Huntington W. Va., will be represented. Besides the regular delegates from the churches, it is customary for nei neighboring - ghboring neighboring churches to send a delega delegation - tion delegation of young people for the dinner on the closing day of the Association Meetings. On this occasion delega delegations - tions delegations of young people from Ceredo and Huntington are expected. We have definite assurance that each church will be well represented. Ev Every - ery Every member of the local congregation is most cordially invited to the sup supper - per supper on Thursday evening. Also every [young person who has been connected with the Young People's organization whether he is a member of the church or not, is most cordially invited to be present. The meal will be served at a nominal cost of fifty cents.