The Cedarville Herald, Volume 68, Numbers 1-26

f a M a y i u * i w i a l p , m m % a * * j l w , i m l PS S!? T H I C E D A K . V I L L E H E R A L D K4KUEC W 1U ,------------------ EDITOR AND POTUSHER MaaH» '»l>l»Mwua UStaNtUl * m * c .; OW* «#*»***« A»oe.! MU*1 Vsllw Em*. AW Entered at the Post Office, Cedarville, Ohio, October 81,1887, as second class matter. FRIRAY, APRIL 18, 1945, FARMER STAGES A UTTLE PIRACY FOR LABOR * Mr. A. is a farmer on the Townsley road. #* Mr. B. is a farmer on the Columbus pike. , Mr. A. has a hired hand or tenant that has worked for him a year or so^ aiding in feeding, cropping and general farm work. The tenant is Mr. C. Mr. A. has been paying Mr. C., $18 a week. He has also furnished free electric light and coal in addition to two hogs a year. ‘ Of course Mr. C. has had all the garden he could tend for his family use. In addition, Mr. A. purchased Mr. C. ah au­ tomobile, permitting him to pay for it at the rate of $1 a week, Throughout the year Mr. A. and Mr. C. worked together in -harmony, one was genial to the other. Mr. A. plans his crops for the coming season, in the expec­ tation that Mr. C. was to remain with him as nothing had been said or done to giye Mr. A. anyother thought. If there was in­ tention of leaving Mr. C. had said nothing. If he wanted more money or an interest in the farm, he had not asked for it. Last Sunday .Mr. C. did not show up for the morning feed Mr. A. made inquiry and was told that Mr. C. was leaving that day as the truck was on the way. Mr, C. does not give Mr. A even an hour warning. Upon questioning Mr, C. says he has been turned over to Mr. B. by orders of the Greene County War Board. Mr. C. is of draft age . and registered in Guernsey county and here by deferment. It developes that Mr. B. has been doing a bit of labor pi racy to get Mr. C. He has had the right arm o f the left wing element of the New Deal to aid in the raiding act. Under ordi nary dealing, man to man,.Mr. B. would have followed the “ Do Unto Others, as You Would Have Others Do Unto You” policy and informed Mr. A, that he would like to bid for his tenant, By doing this there would be no underhanded trick pulled. But Mr. B. was probably blind to the fact that he was also by this trick undermining other farm labor, in his community as wel' as in the county. Mr. B. has laid the foundation for farm labor to use him, and others of his kind, to pry under other farmers where relationship may at the present be pleasant and profit­ able to both. Labor is not dumb. It now only needs leadership for organization as is other labor. The farmer probably before the war ends, will deal with labor just as the coal operators deal with John L. Lewis to day, Mr. B. has contributed much to developing this situation. From comment we get among far­ mers who have learned how Mr. B. plowed under Mr. A. he has not increased his sending in a farming community. Mr. C. of course has shown genuine ingratitude and unfair­ ness in ignoring open and fair dealing with his benefactor. Yet, he is o f draft age. He may have been under pressure of threat from the War Board. His position was and is delicate. He can be reported to his-drpft board in Guernsey with a full report o:' the treatment to Mr. A. The War Board by this action might also be in a delicate position for the case can be reported to the Ohio State Selective Service authorities. . Mr. C. evidently has not given consideration to the understanding o f gratitude. Here is where a stretch in the U. S. Army might give him a bit' more moral backbone to play the game fair and square. There could be a reasonable excuse found why Mr. C. was tempted to do what he has. There is no defense Mr, B. can offer. His own act convicts him in his manner of dealing with his fellowmen.. In no sense will he be the gainer. Mr. A, must reduce his crop, acerage knowing it is impos­ sible to get efficient help. By sale he can reduce his 36 head of cattle and dispose of his 250 head of hogs. It matters not how much food is produced under New Deal bickering. The whole affair smacks o f the tradition of the . New Deal, deceit, de­ ception, traitorship and wilful being have been handed down to be fabricated in community life all over the nation. No long­ er do we have the confidence in and between one another as was once an American tradition. We are reaping what has been sown the past twelve years. Think o f the foundation be­ ing laid for your own sons and daughters! SHOULD NEVER FORGET When we read of the victories of our armed forces we are delighted and rejoice but with our delight and rejoicing is a feeling of sadness. We rejoice because we think that each vic­ tory meahs one more step has been taken towards the surrend­ er of our armies and the end of the war. Our sadness is because we think of the price that has been paid for the victories, the high price of fine young men killed and wounded; of men un­ dergoing great hardships and facing great danger, of cities de­ stroyed and land waste, of innocent men, women and children bring in want and privation, From the dawn of civilization to the present time there have been wars, Intervals of peace have been short and there has hardly been a day that some where in the world men have not been fighting and killing each other. And still men prate o f being the only intelligent beings, With new inventions and the discoveries of science each war becomes more destructive than the preceding war but wars continue to be waged. The present war is the most destructive and includes the most coun­ tries of any recorded in history. Man lacks much of being civi­ lized. you can do what you pleasa with the' little red discs. WIIMIIIIIMWIlUIIMIItWIBMIWMWtIMWMMHIIIMlIMjlllllMlWHIW Food is the topic o f the day. If you want a real discussion on food juBt mention it to a retnmed yeteran that has been around one of the FDR Pri­ son camps for both German and Jap­ anese soldiers. The public a few days ago was told o f the New Deal feed­ ing German prisoners in this country ham and egga on Easter, when our own boys did not get that fare all over the globe. Millions o f American civilians did not even smell ham from the neighboring kitchen let alone get a taste. Just because the German prisoners had ham and eggs and the same bill of fare at the White House is' no reason to believe the whole na­ tion was on par even with a mili­ tary prisoner from a country charged with starving- our boys as prisoners, Red Cross workers, and even little children. .Yes, food is a big topic for discussion in the nation as well as for iend-lease, . You must tip your hat to Mr. John L. Lewis, head of the. coal miners in the nation. The Welsh educated theo­ logical student has just won a decis­ ion that will get his union members J1.30 per day. Success makes him the biggest man in the nation as he is 3 mployed, and paid $150,000 yearly, .0 represent the miners. It might be i good idea for Uncle Sam to take John L. on for a four year term. He night save the nation a few , billions in debt and keep the country safe and sound financially at least to keep the itiiners in modern homes. It would not be likely that John would let the sheriff sell the nation out for repud- ation o f the national debt. Several days ago a minister related hearing a noted speaker discuss certain eco­ nomic problems in which he referred to the coal miners situation. In the group, were one or two mine operators and at the conclusion o f the speech at the question period one mine oper­ ator arose and stated his business. He informed the speaker that for himself he would rather do business anytime with John L. Lewis than anyone in Washingtoql There was a hush over the audience. There was a hush over the speaker that soon became speech- ess, or nearly so. Practically all men give lip service to their belief in peace and claim to hate war. ' But all history gives a record that iri some land in every generation there are men who attain high positions who are so greedy for power, are so ambitious for the expansion of their country, so desirous of increasing their in­ fluence and prestige in the world that they plan and make Wars. In some countries a man becomes the ruler who sees him­ self as the conqueror of the World. It is not long before such a man forces war on other countries and the people of his coun­ try follow his leadership. The final result is always the same, waste, destruction and death with the people of the ambitious ruler the greatest suffers. But unfortunately for the world it is a comparatively short time until another man with similar ambitions attains power. In the midst of this great war the people of most countries are sick o f war and devoutly desire peace. It would seem that finally the lesson has been learned that war brings suffering, sorrow and waste; that even the victors lose in a war. But it will be only a few years until persons now Unborn will be in6n and women. All they will know of war and its waste and destruction will be What they have read and been told. Will they blindly follow gome ambitious ruler who dreams of con­ quering and ruling the world? We hope not but history teaches that they will. Plans are now being made for a permanent peace in the World. Let us hope and pray that these plans will be success fai. And we must never forget as we rejoice over victories that men are dying and being mained to win these victories. We are paying A terrible price because men with visions o f ruling the world gAined positions o f power. Our children and our child­ ren*# children must Be taught that all are losers, even the vic­ tors, in A war. -News-Herald, Hillsboro The bakers let out « yelp in1 the big cities, The high point value on but­ ter has greatly reduced the sale of rolls o f all kinds for millions like,but­ ter on them. Oleo has taken the place in some homes for spread but hotel. and restaurant men. say the public demands butter for rolls, coffee and hot cukes. .The bakers have appeal- ed to the butter interests to join in a fight to have the red points reduc­ ed. Congress worries over complaints of kinds o f business as well as from citizens over OPA control over foods. This is a lot of wasted time. Congress' can if it will, start impeachment pro­ ceedings against the cheese-box dip­ lomat from Hyde Park that is respon­ sible for loading the government with all brands o f cranks, crooks and in ' tellectual misfits that have so far es­ caped the insane asylum. But Con­ gress will not act because the major­ ity is under the control o f the mis- fits= a product o f what you may or nmy not have voted for last Novem­ ber. Dr. Arthur Morgan, Yellow Springs, has taken sharp issue with the FDR proposal to construct government dams on tfie Missouri for another TVA system. Dr. Morgan construct­ ed the Tennessee Valley system, and is an authoritive engineer. However, the Roosevelt family owns large in­ terests, in General Electric that builds electric power equipment has -had contracts with the government that reach the millions of dollars. Each river power, dam for generating elec­ tricity is big business for some one and rich picking for the company that must declare dividends. Dr. Morgan does not regard the Missouri suit­ able for such dams. We have traver­ sed the river for several hundred miles through some o f the western states. It is our guess ' it would be necessary first to construct a chan­ nel deep enough fo r a motor boat. The river is wide enough and covers thousands of acres without hardly a bank on either side. In as much as FDR is an engineer on spending other j people's money he probably has a vis- , ion' o f a differet kind o f engineering than what Dr. Morgan has in mind. Dairy interests have won an im­ portant decision when a legislative committee at Golumbus voted 4 to 3 to turn down a proposed bill that would permit the sale o f colered oleo as butter in the state. -The manufac­ turers used the argument that oleo was churned in fresh skim milk and this aided the sale and demand for tnjlk,. The fact is that skimmed milk is a by-product in creameries .and a large part*of it goes into the sewer. There is no food value in churning concoction of substitutes in milk with no cream. No claim jean be made that oleo has the food value o f butter. To permit the sale o f colored oleo the dairy interests would have a new for­ midable opposition. As things now stand the New Deoil gives all favors to oleo manufacturers over butter in the manner o f ration points. At the time when we hear about food shortage and how much butter the armed forces must have, and how little they get according to boys who return from overseas, we learn the sale o f creamery butter has almost reached a standstill. You can go in­ to most any store and get all the but­ ter you want—if you have enough o f the Roosevelt red (Communistic) discs. Merchants say people do not ask for butter like they once did. At present their is no limitation on how much butter you can purchase at one time. The public has the money but not the Roosevelt red "pennies". The dairy interests will take the rap with a lowering of the price of cream and whole milk.to the farmer. Every radio broadcaster spreads the news about the black market and the shortage-of meats, Included is the shortage o f poultry. Blackmarket for everything, even whiskey. It is all a part o f the planned setup o f the New Deal to cover bungling and for breaking faith with farm production and prices. The hatcheries are busy turning out baby chicks, Everybody is urged to go into the business once more. That creates a glut later oh and down will go the price u . rOPA The chicken feeder will find himself once more the butt o f a joke. When the hatchery season is over it is pre­ dicted the government will take most o f the 3 lb, and over fries and leave little for civilians. That means a shortage o f eggs for winter laying, For a, few Weeks the "culling' will put sohie did hens on the market but the government wants them. The next predictigp poultry dealers are making and based On reports out o f Washing­ ton, will be commandering o f all eggs this fall and winter for lend-lease, If the American Consumer that is now ' biting bis lip from anger over tbe food shortage can get consolation as the picture presents itself today, he ’ is welcome to his owh view whether' he gets meat, milk, butter or eggs for tho family table. The majority o f the people voted for planned economy. Tho majority, and the minority alto, must eat the best way possible but What has been boiling under cover for weeks has broken into a real sore and “the public Ift in on the situation. Weeks ago it was proposed to con­ vert certain lands in Beavercreek Twp. .into a lake covering about 1,200 acres. This week some fifty farmers met at Beavercreek School house and or­ ganized for united effort against the plan that had been backed partially by local sportsmen in the county. The group organized as - follows: S; H. Harshman, president; Ralph Kendig, vice president; Miss Betty Brill, sec­ retary, and Albert Ankeney, treasur­ er. . The organization opposes the plan because the territory, has been the home o f families 1 for several gener­ ations. That such land would be tak­ en out of- production when food was needed. That sons o f many are now in the armed service and want to re­ turn to their native heath. It has been reported other organizations in the county, will be asked to join iti the protest. The next meeting o f the group will be Friday, April 20 at the same location. ANNUAL MEJ5TING NORTH * . CEMETERY ASSOCIATION The annual meeting o f tho North Cemetery Association will be held at the mayor’s office Monday -evening, April 16th at 8 o’clock. All members are urged to be present. J. C. Townsley, Pres. NOTICE!—Just received a load of Roushe's 939 Hybrid Seed Corn at my farm on the Reid Road. Please call at once as there is a limited supply. Dial Cedarville 6-2201, ARTHUR HANNA Xenia Theater Friday— Saturday Twin Thrilt Days! SCREEN THE CLIMAX' W ith Susanna Foster Turhan Bey Boris Karloff Sun.— Mon.— Tues. * fcmte Pyle With die Navy: Marines Land on Okinawa W ithout Battle Casualties - Leathernecks Show Nervous Tension as Zero Hour Nears By Ernie Pyle . „ OFF THE OKINAWA BEACHHEAD—(By navy radio).—This is the last column before the invasion.. It is written aboard a troop transport the evening before we storm onto Okinawa. We are nervous. Anybody with any sense is nervous on the night before D-Day. You feel weak ana you try to think of things, but your mind stubbornly drifts back to the awful image of tomor­ row. It drags on your soul and you have nightmares. _____ LBGAL NOTICE Ernie Pyle But those fears do not mean any lack of confidence. We will. Take Okinawa. Nobody, has any doubt about that. But we know we will have to pay for it. Some on this ship will not be alive 24 hours from now. • * • • We are in'convoy. Many, many big ships are lined up in columns with our war­ ships escort on the outsides. We are an impres­ sive sight—-yet we are only one of many s i m i l a r , convoys. We left from many different p laces.. We have been on- our way many days. - .We are the biggest, Strongest force ever to sail in the Pa­ cific. We. are going into what we expect to be the biggest battle so far in the Pacific. Our ship is an APA, or assault transport. The ship itself is a war veteran. She wears five stars on her service ribbon-—Africa, Sicily, Italy, Normandy and Southern France. -She wears .the Purple Heart, Bronze Star and Legion of Merit Silver Star. She has fared well on the other side. We hope her luck holds out in the Pacific. We are carrying marines. Some of them are going into combat for the first time, Others are veterans from as far back as Guadalcanal. They ate a rough, unshaven, compe­ tent bunch of Americans. I am land­ ing with them.. I feel I am in good hands.. « • » I’ve shared a cabin with Marine Maj. Reed Taylor o f Kensington, Md. He is a Guadal vet and he jokingly belittles newcomers who weren’t through "Green Hell.” The major and I are sort o f two o f a stripe and we get along fine. We have tee nicest cabin either o f us ever had at sea. And we’ve taken advantage o f -it by sleeping away almost the whole trip. We’ve slept day and night. Sb have many others. There is a daily argument on ship whether or not you can store up sleep and energy for the ordeal ahead. ’ The doctor says it’s non­ sense—that you can’t store up sleep. Life on Ship Found Rather Dali En Routa Our trip has been fairly smooth and not many of the troops were sea­ sick. Down in tee holds the ma­ rines sleep on racks four tiers high. It isn’ t a nice way to travel. But I've never heard anybody com­ plain. They come up on deck on nice days to sun and to rest and to wash clothes, or lie and read or play cards. We don’t have movies. .The ship -is darkened at sunset and after that there are only dim lights. The food is good. We g e tn ew sev e ry morn­ ing in a mimeographed paper and once or twice a day the ship's of­ ficers broadcast the latest news over the loudspeaker. They've kept us informed dally of the progress of the Okinawa bom­ bardment that preceded our land­ ing. Every little bit of good news cheers us. Meetings are held daily among the officers to iron out last minute de­ tails of the landing. Day by day, the uterine troops are fully briefed on what they are to do. Everything we read about Okina­ wa stresses that the place is lousy with snakes. It’s amazing the num­ ber of people who are* afraid of snakes. Okinawa- "snake-talk” crops into every conversation. On tee last day we changed our money into newly manufactured "in­ vasion yen,” drew two days K ra­ tions, took a last bate, and packed our kits before supper. We had a huge turkey dinner and, say, we have steak and eggs for breakfast, “ Fattening us up for the kill,” the boys laughingly say. At three o ’clock on tee last after­ noon there was a celebration of the Lord’s Supper. It was the afternoon before Easter Sunday. A lot o f us could not help but feel the tragic irony o f it, knowing about tomor­ row’ s battle, You wouldn’ t believe it. And we don’t either. It just can’t be true. And yet it is true. The regiment o f marines that I am with landed this morning on the beaches of Okinawa and were abso­ lutely unopposed, which is indeed an odd experience for a marine. Nobody among us had dreamed of such a tiling. We all thought there would be slaughter on the beaches. There was some opposition to the right and to the, left of us, but on our .beach, nothing, absolutely noth­ ing. We don’t expect this to' continue, of course. A marine doesn’t fool himsejlf like that. Certainly there will be hard fighting ahead and we all have our. fingers crossed. But to get the firm foothold we have, with most of our men ashore and oiir supplies rolling in, is a gift for which we are grateful. • • • This is Easter Sunday morning. It is a- beautiful one. One of the marines, after spending months in .the tropics, remarked a while ago, “ This weather feels more like American weather than anything since I left home.” It is sunshiny and very warm. We had heard it would be cold arid many of the boys wore heavy un­ derwear. Now we are Sweating and regretting. I wore two pairs of pants, but I am about- to take off one of them, -j . . Marines Equipped for Every Eventuality We are dressed in green herring­ bone combat uniforms. Everybody made the trip in khaki and changed this morning aboard ship. The men left their old khaki- lying on their bunks and they’ll be collected by tee navy, cleaned and used to clothe prisoners and our own casualties who have lost their clothes. Oh our ship we were up at 4 a. m. We had done dur final packing of gear last night. We brought ashore only what we could carry on our backs. When we put on our new- green fatigues, one marine re­ marked, "The latest Easter s t y le - herringbone twill.” My schedule for landing was an early one. I was ashore a short time after the first wave. Corre­ spondents were forbidden to go be­ fore the fifth wave. I was on the seventh. ' I had dreaded the sight of the beach littered with mangled bodies. My first look up and down the beach was a reluctant one. And then like a man in the movies who looks and looks away and then suddenly looks back unbelieving, I realized there, were no bodies anywhere—and no wounded. What a wonderful feel­ ing! In fact our entire regiment cartie ashore with only two casualties. One was a marine who hurt his foot get­ ting out of an . amphibious truck. And the other-was, ^.of aU things, a case of heat prostration! And to fulfill the picnib at­ mosphere, listen to this— Aboard ship we had turkey dinner last night. So this morning they fixed me up with a big sack of tur­ key wings, bread, oranges and ap­ ples. SO instead o f grabbing a hasty bite of K rations our first meal ashore, we sat and lunched on tur­ key wings and oranges, * • * There are low chalky cliffs on this island. In these cliffs- are caves. In the caves are brick colored urns a couple of feet high. And in these urns are tee ashes of many honor­ able 1ancestors. Our bombardment had shattered many o f these burial vaults, What our guns missed, tee-soldiers and marines took a - precautionary look into by prying off the stone slabs at the entrances. In front, looking out to sea, stands our mighty fleet frith scores of little black UneS extending to shore—our thousands and thousands of land­ ing craft bringing more men and big guns and supplies. And behind me, not two feet away, it a cave full o f ex-Japanese, Which is just the way it should be. What a nice Easter Sunday after all. ‘Extended Action Bill* Goes Into Effect Meal hours, instead o f being at 12 and 6 o’clock sharp, were changed to tun from 11 till 1, and from 4:30 to 6:30, so that men on watch could trade off and dash in tor a bite, The captain never left the bridge. Cither to eat or sleep, When you came into your cabin, you found your bunk had been made up with a “ flash sheet’,’ around it, That ib a black rubberised sheet, to protect you from bomb burns which may fall on board ship, Everybody was issued "flash gear.” That consists o f several items—a thin gray hood that cov­ ers your head and hangs down over your shoulders; a white cloth on an elastic band to cover your nosd and mouth; isinglass goggles tor your eyes; and long gray cloth gloyeS with a high gauntlet, P F IS T E R HYBRIDS Excellent quality Genuine Pfiater Hybrid Seed Com still available. It is drougth resistant and high yisld- tog, Order year seed hofr. James B, Hamer, Phone 1827W3, Xenia, R S. RHEUMATISM 777 Come to Browns’ Drugs Cedarville, O. 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