The Cedarville Herald, Volume 67, Numbers 27-52

I / ■Sf American* f o r America —America For Americans # ♦ * « * * * * w m e o m i SIXTY-SEVENTH YEAR .No. 42, l \ HtfPENiGS IN WASHINGTON By CLARENCE J, BROWN Member of Congress Six months ago it was predicted in .(his column that most food rationing requirements would be lifted shortly before the election. Last week of­ ficial orders, went out from War Mo­ bilize^ James F. Byrnes, with offices in the White House, making jams spreads, soups and practically all veg­ etables point free, effective Septem­ ber 17th. This despite the fact food processors say there will be a short pack of commercially canned food's this year. Practically all meats are expected to be made point free within the near future, probably before e- lection. Blue food tokens will no longer be usable* after October 1st; while-blue stamp values for certain canned .fruits will be changed mater­ ially. James*W. Swafey, 7% Died Sunday James W. Swaby, 78, well known farmer who resided on the Clifton and Yellow Springs pike, died Sunday after being ill but one day. Born in England, he came to Greene County in 1882 and was engaged in farming in Clark ad Greene Counties most of his life, Hd was a member of Clifton Presbyterian Church and served as an elder more than thirty years, Surviving are another son, Maurice South Vienna, R. R. 2 ., a daughter, Mrs. Samuel Stewart, Springfield, R, R. 5; two brothers, Alfred near Ce^ar- ville and Arthur, Springfield, R. R. 4; six grandchildren and one great-, grandchild. His wife died in 1912. The funeral was held from the Littleton-Yoder Funeral Home Tues­ day afternoon with burial in Clifton Cemetery, The service was in charge of Rev. Malcolm Harris of the Clifton Presbyterian Church Cladc Republicans " C ED A R V lu J OHlb, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBR 15,1944 £**.*&'' D » .* A U — t n w n . u Will Be Hosts Reconversion plans, to meet the coming peace in Europe, are being rushed to completion by many gov­ ernmental agencies here in Washing­ ton,.. J, A. Krug, the new acting head of WPB has announced once the war in Europe ends American industry will be turned loose to resume peace­ time production and begin the man­ ufacture of civilian goods as each in­ dividual concern may see fit. Krug predicts the reconversion o f American industry will require much less time than originally estimated, and that passenger cars, washing machines, refrigerators, and many other similiar products, of which there has been such a great shortage, will appear on the market within 90 days after peace comes. War Manpower Commissioned McNutt has . announced manpower controls- will be lifted as soon as Ger­ many collapses. A real storm is brewing in and out of Congress over a series of state­ ments by Administration spokesmen indicating many men .will be held in after peace comes as a part of some Bort of grandoise'social and economic planning. General Hershey, the Di­ rector of National Selective Service,! made a speech the other-day in-which he said no man should be discharged from the Army until he had a job waiting at home. Other high officials have broadly hinted the best way- to avoid a post-war unemployment prob­ lem will be to keep American youth in military service for a long time after hostilities . end. Republican Presidential Candidate Dewey is de­ manding veterans of the present war be discharged as promptly as possible, following the coming of peace, with only volunteers being used for the 'policing. Of occupied countries. The whole .question may become one of the vital issues of the 1944 campaign. The Army last week made public demobilization plans/, similiar to those outlined in this column recently, ’ whereby -discharge priorities will be established based upon length of ser­ vice, amount of foreign and battle service, marital and family status and "finally military needs. Demobiliza­ tion centers are being established re­ gionally over the country so service men will be mustered out near their own’homes. The demobilization cen­ ter for Ohio men wilj be located at Camp Atterbury in southern-Indiana. This office will have available fof distribution to local* Red Cross Chap­ ters, veteran's and civic organizations, as well as public officials, within the District a limited supply of pamphlets containing information as to the right and Jbenefits World War II veterans may receive upon return „to civilian life. The title of the pamphlet is, *Yopr Rights and Benefits - A Handy Guide for Veterans of the Armed For­ ces and Their Dependents," Because of the small number of these booklets njade available jt will be impossible to fuipsh them to individuals, hut only to, organization or public officials who write us promptly. President Roosevelt and Prime Min­ ister Churchill Will get together some­ where on the North American contin-' ent, probably in Quebec, within the near future for the purpose of dis­ cussing European peace -settlements and to fix future cooperative action in Pacific theaters of war. ft is rumored the President may forsake his role as Commander-in-Chlef (from Which the political benefit originally expected has net been derived) and participate in the meetings And con­ ferences only as President or the civilian head of the American govern­ ment, Most Washington observers believe the projected Roosevelt visit to London and Paris, so much in tho news a few weeks ago, will not ma­ terialise, probably because of-health reasons, The Byrd Committed of the Senate (CoNxiNin® O h F a « w Form), PURCHASE XENIA HOME Mr, and Mrs, Ollie Williamson, Ce- darville, have imrehased -a five-room cottage a t 315 South Collier, street, .Xenia fi’om Mrs. Marie.Trechter, Cin­ cinnati, and will move there about December 1. . > -BUY WAR BONDS TODAY Republicans in Clark County -will be hoots for an all-day meeting of party members in the Seventh'Congression­ al District that will be held in Mem­ orial Hall on Thursday, Sept. 28, Miss Margaret E. Baker, state central com­ mittee woman in charge of arrange­ ments, announced Tuesday. Among speakers who will be heard the official opening of the Republican campaign in this district are Mayor James G. Stewart of Cincinnati, can­ didate for governor; Mrs. Robert A. Taft, wife of the Ohio senator and Congressman Clarence *J. Brown, who will serve ias toastmaster a t the ban­ quet. The day session will sta rt at 10:30 a. m., open only -to women, who will hear talks by county chairwomen of the district- Luncheon will be served at 12:39 p.m. Mrs. Miriam Yeazell, candidate for Clark County Recorder on the Republican ticket, is president of the Women's Republican Club in Clark County. Supper, served in the hall, will precede the evening session at which speeches will be heard. Ticket arrangements will be an­ nounced later. Mrs. Harlen McMillan of Mason City, Iowa, visited last week with her brother-in-law, Mr. and. Mrs. Clayton McMillan. FOR PRESIDENT THOMAS E. DEWEY Note—The following editorial is from the Cleveland Plain Deal­ er and gives its reasons while that Democratic paper will support Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican candidate for president in prefer­ ence to Franklin D. Roosevelt We know of no Republican editor that •could write a clearer editorial in the support of any candidate for any office regardless of party than what the Plain Dealer editor has done. It has been commented upon by hundreds of daily papers and we have yet to find adverse comment except from the Dayton News, which has no use for anything political or economic unless it was tinged with “pink” or at least had the shade of Stalin “Red”, » Because i t is no use to win the war and lose the America that we love, the Piaindealer supports Thomas E. Dewey for the presidency. Give us four years more of Roosevelt and we shall have a totali­ tarian socialist country. The most important single task before the people of the United States is to rebuild a free, sound and solvent America. * Every thing else must be subordinated to that rebuilding, immed­ iately the war has been won. - Unless a free and sound America Is restored in^the early future , this nation will not only lose-the.peace, after a brilliant military vic­ tory, but it will also be unable to accept its responsibilities for main­ taining the peace of the world and for showing to less favorably situa­ ted nations and peoples the way to freedom, to security and to the. good life. " * The United States of American was founded on the broad prin- . ciples of freedom and the dignity of the individual. From George Washington, to Woodrow Wilson this nation was major custodian of ‘/the principles which have made me free." Qur forefathers fought and won the' Revolution in behalf of those principles. Woodrow Wilson led. us into World War I to reaffirm them: Franklin D. Roosevelt, in turn, committed us a new to those principles when-Iate in the 1930s a tyranny more cruel even than that of King George III ; or of Emperor Wilhelm II threatened again to destroy free .institutions throughout the world and. to subordinate in­ dividuals everywhere to the state: Inevitably the exigencies of a global war have limited sharply the freedom of the individual. By the same token they have markedly al­ tered the character of our political institutions and have imposed upon business and industry many of the totalitarian techniques we haye sol­ emnly pledged oursdlves to destroy. . But unfortunately these statist trends are not entirely the result .of wartime necessities. Some of them are deep seated in the philos­ ophy of the New Deal For eight full years before'Pearl Harbor the present administra­ tion bad'played fast and loose withsopne of our most saefed liberties It had restrained here-and restricted there, and*under the guise of e- mergency had sought, and is still seeking; to create and perpetuate a one-party state. As a result the nation today is confronted with a fateful decision. Will it turn back to the faith of its fathers, will it reverse the trends of the last dozen years, or w i l l i t change permanently the course of American'history and the traditions of more than a century and a half by continuing down-the road of disintegration to statism and dictatorship? America must choose and it must Choose on Nov. 7, The choice it makes in tha t fateful election will not be primarily a choice between Democratic and Republican parties. Even less will it be a choice between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Thomas E. Dewey, It will be, in fact, a choice between a free democratic America, an America with the destiny of human liberty, and an America in which neither free political nor free economic institutions can long survive, In the record-of the Roosevelt, administration from March 4,1933 4 to this date wilt be found nothing to support the thesis that, in the event of his re-election in November, President Roosevelt would re­ verse the course of the last dozen years, would take steps and adopt policies designed frankly to encourage, private initiative and promote private investment, or would in any wise turn away from the policies which have made government an active participant in employer-em­ ployee differences instead of an impartial umpire, and the president idol of Sidney Hillman and,hls C. I, O, Political Action Committee- One will search the -records of the last dozen 1 years in vain for evidence to support s belief that a t the earliest possible time after the the Idol of Sidney Hillman and his C. I, O, Political Action Committee, end' of the war President Roosevelt,, if re-elected, would .move to de­ mobilize by the huhdfeds of thousands the civil servants now on the pay rolls, and to deflate a federal bureauracy, largely leftist in phil­ osophy, which would perpetuate itself if it were Able. Certainly it was not with such a deflation of jobs in mind that the boss-controlled big city machines dominated the convention that nomi­ nated Roosevelt for a fourth- terin, and selected as.his running mate a product of one of the most selfish and-corrupt of these machines* Neither in the, record of the Roosevelt administration before the war nor in such of its plans for the postwar period as have come to public attention is there any suggestion of a course of action which would put the nation's finances in order by economy in government- and restoration of a sound fiscal and monetary system. . It is a significant fact, and-a disconcerting one, that the democratic platform adopted a t Chicago with the full approval of the president,’ - no doubt, makes not a single reference either to a public debt which , will approximate 250 billions, when the next president of the Uhited States is inaugurated, or to the maintenance o f the stability of 'that na­ tion's currency. v . ' On the other hanfl, plans and projects for the reconstruction per-' (Continued qn Page Two) Ministers Put Oh Spot By CIOPoHtieal ' I .* Action Commttee Here is something new that reach­ es religious leaders as Well a t labor leaders as coming from the ‘‘Religion and Labor Foundation, 105 Carmel st., New Haven, Connecticut. It is called the “Action Ballot” when those who receive it can vote “confidential” or permit themselves to be quoted. The political-situation with the var­ ious aid societies of the group that has captured t h e Democratic iparty,, has brought out many new move­ m ents Read over the list of questions both religious and labor leaders are asked to sign: The voter can mark Yes, No, In Doubt, I Have Done This or My local Situation prevents PRICE, ?1.50 A YEAH Mrs.;J. P. WhiteTo * * Be Guest Speaker 1 Employment And meiit— ■' * Security Corn- Will- you support a guaranteed an nual wage for all who are willing and able to work, by: Speaking publicAlly?. Distributing literature among the members of your •congregation or union? " Cooperating with committees work­ ing on postwar problems of transiton and reconversion? Will you work for a comprehensive federal social security system that will adequately protect all our people ? Post War Problems— Will you, after the war, support the legal and ethical right of labor to bargain collectively ? , To strike and picket? To engage in political action? WU you call for the creation of local state and federal’ planning boards through which pldns can be made for full utilization of our natural resour­ ces and manpower? Will you support the Farm Security Administration and the extension of its service throughout all needy rur­ al areas ? Will you vigorously support the right of: The churches to be heard at the peace table? Will you work for a federal inter- Labor to be heard at the peace ta­ ble? Will you through public statements, public meetings, and letters to your representatives. .support ,legislation calling for: - Private enterprise with a minimum of government regulation ? Private enterprise closely supervis­ ed and regulated by the government? Public ownership and control of the, basic instruments of production; e.g. coal, minerals, waterand electric pow­ er ? Will you work for increased social ownership and democratic Control thru the extension of the Cooperative Movement? Will you work for an integrated power system, socially owned and controlled but closely related to local educational, social and economic needs along the lines of the TVA? • Will you join a local fellowship of clergymen and labor representatives to get acquainted and to work on the problems of mutual concern ? If the situation 'presenfs'’the need, will you try to secure the consent, of your church or synagogue officials to offer your church, parish house or synagogue as a place for: Union' meetings ? Classes in workers education? Forums a t whiqh all sides of indus­ trial disputes are presented? A continuous Religious-Labor pro­ gram through which church members and trade unionists can work togeth­ er?* . • Will you join a church or synagogue of your choice and actively support your clergyman in a social action pro­ gram? If a c tu a tion develops in which a bona fide religious body needs a place to meet for religious expression, wilt you encourage your union to offer its hall? Will you offer .your service as an instructor in workers education ? Will you, if opportunity offers, be­ come a delegate to a union (to a min­ ister's association) and - thus help-to develop understanding and coperation between the church and labor? Will you. strengthen democracy in' your ,union (church) by insisting on full membership participation and re­ sponsibility? . Church Youth and L abo r- Will you teach the young people in your church to respect jobs in mills, mines and factories, and all other use­ ful labor; as having essential dignity and worth? Will you recruit and train young people in your congregation for labor movement activities? Will you encourage the. whUe-coliar young, people in your church to sup­ port labor and identify themselves -with ap#/ropriate unions? Will you,join.with Negroes And oth­ er minority groups in fighting dig- (CkwmNuwp OH P a « * Fotm ) MRS. JAMES P. WHITE Mrs. James P. White, Pittsburgh, has accepted an invitation to be pres­ ent a t the 100 th anniversary of the organization of the United Presbyter­ ian congregation of this place to be held October 6-8-9. Mrs. White is the wife of the late James P. White, who served as pastor of the congregation preceeding ■Rev, R. A. Jamieson, D. D., present pastor. , The eyent opens.Friday night with a banquet dinner a t seven o’clock „in the church a t which time there will be reminiscenses by visitors who were former members of the congregation us well as by the oldest in point of membership. Rev. Robert W. Ustick, D. D., Springfield, will be toastmas­ ter following the evening dinner. Dr. O. H. Milligan, Pittsburgh, a former pastor and the only living ex­ pastor will have a part on the speak­ ing program on Sabbath along with other representatives of the denomi- ination. . > "Kick-Off’ Dinner For War Fund A “kick-off” dinner to open official­ ly Greene County’s 1944 War Fund campaign has been arranged for Mon­ day night, October. 9 at; the Masonic Temple. The quota assigned this county is $31,000. Contributions of $29,500 were obtained in a similiar drive last year. Ira D. Vayhinger, president of Ce- darville College; will direct the cam­ paign for the second straight year as general chairman. Charles Carroll will be. chairman for Xenia and James D. Adair will head the special gift committee. Committee chairman in each of the county’s townships and villages will be foamed' later. The drive will .continue for two weeks, ending ^October 23." Of the total goal, the chest fund committee hopes to raise $20,540 for USO and other war relief agencies. The remainder will benefit four local organizations, the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, Soldier’s Service Club and East Side Service Club, ' • , . Mrs. Julia Morris - Died Sunday Mrs. Julia Morris, 69, wife of George Morris, died a t her home on Cedar st., Sunday night at 11:45 after an illness ot five years. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Kennon, and was bom in Henry County, Virginia, November 9, 1874. She was the last member of her immediate family. She was a member of the Methodist Church. Surviving besides the husband see* a number of .nieces and nephews. .' The funeral was held from, the Nagley Funeral Home; Xenia, at 2 P.M. Wednesday with burial in North Cemetery. LOCAL STREETS ARE GIVEN TOP DRESSING The Johnson Company, Wilmington, has been giving several local streets a coating of binder, and stone which not only preserves the street but’adds much to the appearance. Council has adopted &program of pfirmenant ini- provement of streets rather than the old method of patch here and there. Other streets will be coated probably year depending on finances; CASE APPEALED Convicted in the court of Mayor H« H. Abels, on a charge of operating an auto while Intoxicated, Robert Tucker has appealed the case to Greene Coun­ ty common pleas court. Tucker was fined $150 and costs and sentenced to SO days in jail by Mayor Abels, fol­ lowing the second of two jury trials. A jury deadlocked a t tho first trial and found Tucker guilty a t the second trial. a ^ n g p ^ S f » ont % A> Drake,' Co, Agricultural Agent FLY FREE DATE OCTOBER I . The fJy-free seeding date for wheat for Greene County is October 1 While late wheat* seedings last fall gave the Hessian fly a real setback and the fly population is the" lowest since 1918, farmers are urged to ob­ serve the fly-free seeding date and keep down the damage. By delaying seeding until October first the wheat will be small 'until after the adult fly. stops laying eggs. USE FERTILIZER ON EVERY WHEAT ACRE The necessity of providing favor­ able places fo r the seeding of grasses and legumes and the desirability of having A'crop which can be pastured or a part of it cut for hay or silage next year if necessary are additional reasons for adequately fertilizing every acre of wheat this fall. Following soybeans 300 to 400 lbs per acre of 3-12-12 should be applied, Following corn on light colored soils, 350 pounds per acre of 3-124:12 is, recommended. On dark soils, fallow­ ing com 2 - 12-6 or 0 - 12-12 if a legume was plowed down for corn may be applied at from 300 to 350 pounds per acre. / DUAL ROLE FOR CEREAL CROPS Because of the drought and re­ sultant feed shortage the cereal crops and wheat and oats, will have to do double duty on Greene County farms next year. Wheat and oats provide the cheapest and most easily produced pasture,- silage or hay to . meet the emergency situation , we will likely have next spring. The cereal crops also' supply a good place to" obtain new meadow seedihgs. Soybeans seeded next Spring can also be used for hay. And the same goes for sudan grass, plus the use of sudan grass for paisture. The dis­ advantage to these two crops is that it is not possible to get meadow crop seedings started in them and also the pasture and hay they supply, is not available until late in the summer. Louis Dimn Celebrated His 100th Birthday; Once Kentucky Slave Louis Dunn, born in slavery in Fay­ ette County, Kentucky,, reached his 100th birthday, Thursday. He and: his ,pv>ih€r were sold |a t ope time ifor $800. ’After he was freed he came to Ohio m 1866 and has resided in or near Cedarville ever since. tWell do we remember Louis in our early years vvhen he resided on the Columbus pike in a log-house on land now owned by Lewis Lillick, and that was more than fifty years .ago- Louis has always enjoyed the con­ fidence of his white associates as well as colored and he has no need to be ashamed of the life he has lived in. this community. For many years he was a deacon in the local Baptist Church. His family has all passed on and he resides with his sen, .George, a veteran of World War I. No Local Option For S. Valley Township SOYBEAN DEFOLIATION PERMITS EARLY HARVEST The removal of soybean leaves, near the end of the growing season with out killing the plant or harming the beans enables the beans to be harvest­ ed. earlier. The artificial defoliation is brought about by applying from 75 to 100 pounds of defoliant per- acre, with a duster. The material is com­ posed mainly of of nitrogen and lime and in no way is injurious to the soil. Some of the advantages of the ar­ tificial defoliation are that beanB can be harvested and stored a t an earlier date, permits earlier seeding of wheat, makes-combining easier, and permits seeding of the later maturing higher yielding varieties. <- *■ ALFALFA NEEDS ROOT STORAGE Alfalfa is likely to winterkill if it’s pastured or cut for hay in September or October. However if'-hay or pas­ ture is needed badly, alfalfa can*be cut or pastured after, the first of November. During the next two months, the alfalfa plant is storing food in its roots. After the food storage is complete, the alfalfa plant tops can be cut or pastured without damage to next years production. A top dressing of from five to eight tons of manure per acre to replace the plant tops will nerve as a protective mulch. BROMEGRASS WITH ALFALFA Bromegrass is the best available grass to plant with alfalfa for pro­ ducing pastures. I t.is also a good grass to seed with alfalfa for hay. I t grows better than, timothy and con­ tains more protein* Bromegrass is a perennial and spreads from underground root stock to form a dense sod. The roots go up to six feet into the soil making for better than average cold and drought resistance. REBUILD WAR WORN SOIL Since soil requires upkeep and re­ pairs just as farm machinery does, farmers would be wise to sta rt im­ mediately to rebuild the fertility of their war-worn soil, The wear and exhaustion caused by heavy war time crop demands has reduced its fertil­ ity and productiveness, The addition of nitrogen, phosphorous and' potash to the soil, coupled with more exten­ sive- planting of legumes and grasses are the chief means for restoring soli to its normal fertility* ' PLENTY OF TURKEYS THIS YEAR The forecast of 85,660,0l>0 turkeys to be produced In the United States this year would set a new high record and would be 8 per cant more than last years crop, Ohio's turkey production is expected to be 919,060 Mrd*» «A inareaee of S per cent over 1948** (Continued on Pag* Thtap) The petition for a local option elec- . tion in Spring Valley township was uled* out Tuesday by the Board of Elections based on a ruling by Pros­ ecutor Marcus Shoup that the peti­ tions were not properly drawn. The Village of Spring Valley is now. dry but the petitions did not exclude the village which is in the township. The signatures were approved by the board in July. ' A number of special issues for t a x ' levies and bond issues will be submit­ ted to the voters. Osborn will ask .approval of a $30,- 000 bond issue to finance expension • and remodeling of the municipal building. Jamestown asks for an extra tax levy of two mills for three years for ... operating expenses. - Xenia city four mills for five years for school purposes. Miami township three mills for five years for school purposes. Clifton, five-mills for five years for the schools. Jefferson township one and one half mills fdr three years. Cedarville township, three mills for five years; Xenia township, three mill for five years for the schools. Rev. Malcolm Harris Called To Indiana Rev. Malcolm Harris, pastor of the Clifton Presbyterian Church, has re­ ceived a call to the Lima Presbyterian ’ Church at .Howe,Ind., and the congre­ gation will vote on his release Sun- * day morning. He has been pastor four and one half years. The Clifton U; P. Congregation is also without a pastor, Rev. E. O. Ral­ ston, recently accepting a call in Gary,' Indiana. FORMER ERVIN PROPERTY TO BE SOLD SATURDAY The Saft property, Xenia ave. form­ erly the D. S. -Ervin homestead, will be sold at the Court House Saturday morning at 10 o'clock under fore­ closure proceedings. The HOLC representative states the government has been unable to con­ tact Saft here or in California where he is supposed to have gone. SUCHER GIVES UP GHOST The Sucher Packing Co(f, Dayton, an old -established firm that has been supplying most of the meat for local stores in that city, informed its 250 employees Wednesday that the firm would go out of business on* Oct 1* The statement is that they could not operate under New Deal OPA rules and give its patrons quality merchan­ dise. About a year ago the Burkhard Co* discontinued business for the same reason. PUBLIC SALE G* E. Little will' hold a public sale on his farm 3 miles south of'Bowera- ville when, he will sell0a quantity of farfii machinery; W. S. Shoemaker A Sons will hold a sale of 63 head of dairy cattle^ Fri­ day, September 29 on their farm 'near, Pitchin. Details for both sales are« in-this issue* ' DRAMATIC RECITAL St Paul A. M, E. Church will pre­ sent Rev. C. Dixon In a dramatic re­ cital a t the Church, Friday evening, Sept. 16th. EVANGELISTIC SERVICE Thiel' Church Uf God wijl conduct evangelistic services Sept, 17 to Get. 1, with Evangelist Rev. A. P. Cain of Springfield conducting the meeting*. Special music will' also b* p a rt of $hi program*