The Cedarville Herald, Volume 68, Numbers 1-26

c m u & m u jgiEALP, FxnM.Yi A f t i t iff, t*tf T H E G B D A E V I L L E H E R A I O KARLH BULL . - — — EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Aa*W.ii «d* »**»••*» AW*.* * 0 *** Y*IW *»**- i » * t *h« Port Office. ^bedarville, Ohio, Oetobtr 81 ,1887 , * » second clssamstter. FRERAY, APRIL 27, 1945. , U iE WORLD’S GREATEST CONFERENCE The greatest conference in the history o f the world nations for the noblest purpose is in session in San Francisco this week. It is natural that forty-six nations would be represented after a war such as lure have witnessed. In that gathering we have men and women o f all religious faiths and some with no con cern of even their Creator. The great object is to plan or devise some form o f structiure that would give the world a permenan; peace. There will be a wide divergence of opinion on some issues. There will be issue such as the tariff and free trade. There is to be that “ good neighbor* policy which has been promised and will be respected as long as the Henry Wallace cow continues to produce and deliver that quart of milh daily to a world pop­ ulace. This brings us up to the propriety jof our nation playing banker for the world, or mixing our good money with the bai from the bankrupt countries. As long as we play, the role o f Santa Claus, there will be much interest in the movement for world peace. , , , . I f we insist on keeping some o f the Pacific islands for basis for military weapons, then we Ourselves have thrown the Atlan- ic charter overboard, if it ever existed. If we get tangled in the Russian-Poland situation we will find ourselves later in the midst o f a religious tangle. The American people are willing to give aid to the unfortunates in European countries but we must have all promises and pledges made in open court for the benefit o f the world for future generations. There are. some signs o f secret promises having been made at former conferen­ ces not open to the public. Some o f them as far as this nation iigconnected may have been buried with the dead. We do know somebody did some funny work in setting up the scheme by Which nations would vote. If it was agreed to previously how could.it be changed by one man on this side of the world? We may hear more o f that later as the conference proceeds. If we get.a plan for future peace, it is time to adjourn and go home and-forget about the free milk, the world bank and who is to be or was to be president o f the.world, which should include the universe and that includes ‘Mars. We have hopes of a permen- ant plan for peace being devised but there will not be such a plan if all these other issues are to be injected. If so in time probably in bur generation more trouble will burst forth. SHALL WE REVERSE OURSELVES? The question o f a pre-primary convention to nominate a list of candidates for all political parties, is before the public at this time. Back in the days of the constitutional convention campaign'the open primary was hotly debated. It was regard­ ed a “ reform” measure to defeat political, boss control. In those days we recall a--number o f prominent names, some o f whom have passed on. There was Donahey, Cox, Fess, and many of the leaders o f both political parties demanding adoption o f the open primary to defeat bossism. At that time George B. Cox "was the Republican leader in Hamilton county.. Being a win­ ner time after time in his county and for the state ticket he was the bad boss o f those days. Be that as it may the convention adopted the open primary pledge and we have had it ever but it'seems now to be an obstacle to getting good candidates to run for public officer At present Mr. Cox wants to return to a convention nomi­ nated candidate for the primary, Donahey and -Bricker, both threer-time governors and yet popular do not think it is the thing to do. Probably Mr. Cox wants to shut put the Martin L. Davey type o f candidates. Republican leaders do not seem to be much concerned over the issue. A Woman Voter’s League thinks we would get lily white candidates. It has been our observation that no county, state, or municipality ever gets a higher type of citizenship for a candidate than the electorate that does the votings Handpicking candidates behind a hotel or. public hall door is what was charged against George B, in his day. Now the reformers o f that day want to reverse themselves and go back to the “ good old days.” There has been a'demand for lifting municipal govern ment out of the mire by using the ‘commission’ form of govern ment. It has bteen tried in hundreds o f towns and cities and a lot o f them have gone back to the old federal plan. If the voters are asleep it makes no difference what form of government you have to elect public officers. We have done some casting about to get sentiment on this issue but as yet find few followers in either o f the dominant parties that want to give up what we have. Gov. »promises the .public he will stage one of his old time fights to defeat the convention plan. NATIONAL PLANNING Does national planning conflict with individual initiative? Does it mean the throttling of private enterprise? These, are great questions. One o f the immediate difficulties is that so much o f the national planning has been by men who frankly state they Wish to upset the American tradition and go forward with a program of state ownership, o f collective farming, and o f a systeimof industry with no profits. A good many of these idealists are. open and aboveboard Communists. They admire the Russian plan o f society, appar­ ently overlooking the fact that plan needs an iron-fisted dicta­ tor to impose it upon the people, Probably they are willing to provide the dictator. Yet, if there is one thing more than an­ other which the American people cannot endure, it is dictation. * Our proverbial philosophy is that one' man is as good as another. So if in any way national planning smacks of Com­ munism, it wiirnot.be acceptable. But plans that can wisely direct and suggest greater individual effort, or that can open new avenues fo r enterprise, wilt.be welcome. In other words, we are Willing to be shown, but hot to be bossed. No one is go­ ing to drive us. And if these national planners think they can use the war emergency to put over communistic notions, they had better,think again. We are willing to do everything to win the war, but when peace comes we expect to return to our nor­ mal ways. —Cincinnati Enquirer Gov. Frank J. Lausche backs up-his Agricultural Director. John T . Hod- son, in his refusal to accept responsi­ bility fo r enforcing OPA meat con­ trol regulations in Ohio. Hodson has told the OPA he had no authority or manpower to enforce federal laws or regulations. Since then Ohio courts have held that cities cannot pass even ordinances to enforce OPA* rules and mandates. Gov. Lausche more than. that says he will not permit state funds to be used fo r support o f the OPA. The OPA is a New Deal poli­ tical machine fo r political purposes. The public is the goat—all it gets is radio propaganda about the black - marketand statistics as well as pic­ tures o f what the system itself has created. The OPA appointees get the fa t salaries out o f your Income tax payments. ■Members o f the Osborn Rotary Club at a recent meeting took a se­ cret ballot on compulsory military training fo r all young men between the ages o f 18 and 21. The result was 21 against compulsory military train­ ing; 8 favorable and five undecided. The same test was made to include girls the same as boys and the vote was 27 “ No” ; Two voted “ Yes” , and two were undecided. T no M&mm tAvor?-ts QVJtSLCOANSO 9KM N CAN W A X B M W i We have watched comment on this issue in various groups and as a rule those that have no sonB o f military age or none at all are usually for the compulsory. The great majority o f federal office holders favored the proposal because the New Deal ad­ ministration backed it. The leader o f those favorable is no longer here and you will probably not hear much more about it. The Communistic element was fo r it because the plan was to force all boys, and girls if they were included to take an educational course that would lay the ground work fo r Communism . A ll religious leaders opposed it on that ground. The same can be said fo r educational leaders. The American Farm Bureau Feder­ ation and other farm organizations have been preaching a doctrine that the nation would, face a serious food shortage unless the New Deal lifted the ban on farm machinery repairs as well as new machinery. Farmers must have more help also if the crop expected to be planted is harvested. All the farmer gets is statistics, crack pot farm planning and a lot o f New Deal poetical hokum. He is pictured the nation over by the OPA and other bureaucratic, chinless pin-ficaded stooges,* as the real and only black market operator. He is asked to pro­ duce more and more to hold down the price by, overproducion. He must sell in a New Deal price market or go to jail. When the farmer adopts the platform o f the CIO ha will go on a “ sitdown strike' and let a scarcity market envelope the nation. Then and only then will the followers o f the New Deal quacks come to realize that there is more than one side to the food production problem. The farmer has as much right to a $1? a day in­ come fo r his eight hours as.-has the CIO worker backed by the New Deal. It may not be long until you as a hog or cattle feeder will be told just when and where you^will sell your stock. The New Deal has adopted from the first the very same plans Hitler and Mussolini forced on their people. Sen. Wm. M. Boyd, Cleveland Dem., proposes to increase the pay o f solons as well as elective state offices. The Democratic New Deal spirit still pre­ vails fo r the Sen. will not likely have to pay any particular large amount o f taxes to raise funds fo r the salary grab. Senators and Representatives now receive $2,000 'a year fo r about six months work in the two years, or $4,000 fo r the six months work if no extra session is called. Boyd is one Democrat that does not believe in freezing public salaries fo r himself or other office holders. He only wants to freeze the taxpayer. He would pay members o f the legislature as follow s; Senators, $3,000 a year and Representatives, $2,500 a year, Other salary increases would be $5,000 more fo r the governor who is now in the $10,000 bracket, Lieuten­ ant governor $600 more or $3,600; secretary o f state, auditor, treasurer and attorney general from $6,5(ft' to $10,000, Wfe are wondering how Go\t$ Lausche, Dem«, will act on this bill if it reaches him? He opposes the new bill increasing pay o f school teachers. What a glorious chance to do some­ thing popular with a veto pen? What a death penalty Will be written fo r any and all Republican members that vote for the Democratic salary boost! Political news is hot this week as it tolls o ff the ticker tape. Take a look at this message: ‘‘The Methodist Church has bent an official greeting to President -Horry S. Truman—the first time the church has dispatched such a message since the1 inauguration o f George Washington.” Bishop Les­ ter Smith, said the resolution,‘ adopt­ ed by the Council o f Bishops Confer­ ence in Chicago, “ welcomed President Truman Jto his high office and pledge you the allegiance and co-operation o f our church,” Then think o f one e# the oldest and strongest fraternal or-^ ganizatioRs that made a rule to for­ get the name o f the occupant o f th e 1 chair but not what the chair repre-. sented officially. When history Is Written, the record is usually quite different than what you read in poli­ tica l eulogy. We recall the first in­ stallment o f eulogy o f a great man a number o f years ago. H istory wrote a chapter o f a champagne party over in Paris when the good old U. S. was called upon and did pay $55,000 dam­ ages when a celebrant threw a shoe through a famous chandelier, made o f more than 10,000 pieces o f prism glass, History o f any event is not written in a day. Have you signed your coal ration card? The New*Deal-is regimenting you once more. This .time you regis­ ter fo r coal but we do not find where the guarantee is that you will get any fuel, what kind it will be, Ohio hill, Kentucky or West V irginia? Even the price is not guaranteed.' The New Deal took over the mines the day before the miners and owners came to an agreement. “ Ants in his pants” Ickes, having been dubbed the fuel boss, found an obstinate set o f miners on his hands. They refused to go back to their jobs on his order and o f course there was no coal being mined. New Dealers do not mine un­ der ground, they operate on top at the federal cash box; John L. Lewis after the agreement was signed by all concerned, notified his men to go back to work The men followed or­ ders from their boto. They pay John $150,000 salary. “ Ants in his pants” gets $15,000 out o f your income tax. -The WLB, the OPA and other New Deal bureaucrats must yet pass on what coal is to cost. The miners and operators say 25c more on a ton to all users. Or no coal. That being the ultimatum, the bureaucrats are in a huddle trying to word a statement to keep public blisters from showing, either-while standing or sitting down. ' We had a call several dayB ago from Elmer Smith,, field agent fo r the Greene County War Board. His call was in connection with *an editor­ ial relative to farm labbr piracy that has become prevalent in this and oth­ er counties, Mr. Smith under direc-. tion o f the board makes a survey o f farms for units o f production where a laborer is within the draft age, In this particular caS^ Mr. Smith says he and his board were acting fo r the draft board in Guernsey county where the farm hand was originally a res­ ident and where he was registered. Under selective service rules, or from some other source farm labor within the draft act, is frozen until the board releases him. Mr. Smith exhibited the reports o f his survey on both o f the farms, the one where the draftee was then employed and the one where, he afterwards went/ on whose author­ ity, that is a mooted question. We were informed the survey was made in February on both farms and that each farm owner signed the survey. The irritated farmer says he was not told the purpose o f the Burvey or who asked for it nor did he ask fo r it. He had no suspicion it pertained to his hand and never knew until Sunday, April 8th that the man was leaving that day, The farmer says the hand when asked why he was leaving said, “ under orders o f the War Board” . The hand moved that day to a farm a few mileB distant. Now we find if one farmer wants to take a “frozen” farm hand from his neighbor or any other farmer, he must make request and get permission o f the draft boferd and that information is relayed to the War Board and then comes the sur­ vey from which the draft board that had been queried finally acta. Just who is responsible or who aided, leg­ ally or not in the new system o f “ pi­ racy o f farm-labor”, we leave that to the reader, If any other farmer has had a similar experience, or one dif­ ferent, we would like to haVe the story. The farmers o f the county are entitled to it, Dispatches Tuesday state 150 mem­ bers of the AFL union at a war gun j factory in Chicago walked out on a strike that day because John Nechis- I tak, resident o f the local union had been inducted in the Army. Months ago Roosevelt issued a decree that all union'organizers were exempt from the draft and necessary fo r the pros­ ecution o f the war. Last week a long list o f Greene county boys were in­ ducted in the Army and many more took their preinduction medical ex­ amination. More than fifty percent o f these young men were directly en­ gaged in farming, yet members o f a union in a war plant walk out-because ono o f their number was inducted, I f ! we take a look ,at (its name and into the family history the chances are his fam ily came to this country to seek the liberty our men are dying fotf on the soil he left. Then* we must not forget the 8 6 ,0$ young Yellow Bern" ocratic New Dealers on the govern­ ment payroll as essential to winning the war, Slackers,everyone o f them, Many relatives* 6 f prominent Demo­ crats and New ' Dealer ; holding high up positions in fhe nation, I f there is a Republican hey in that list o f yel­ lows, he evidently lied to escape army service also. A il this reminds us o f some Civil War history in Greene county when you eotald “ buy yourself” out o f army service. Who is there that can name a Republican that Ernie Pyle in the Pacific: •U. S. Builds tJp Strength For Knockout in Pacific ' Okinawa Landing Like Putting 1 Foot in Enemy's Kitchen Poor " By Ernie Pyle (EDITORS NOTK:—ErnU Pyle's column* wiU continue to appear in this news- pop*r for n few week*. Dispatches far these releases have been cleared by the censor* end some may be an route from le island where the famous war correspondent met his deathJ OKINAWA.—Qur War with Japan has gone well in the last few weeks. We are firmly on Okinawa, which is like having your foot in the kitchen door. Ernie Pyle Our wonderful carrier pilots have whittled down the Jap air force daily. Our anti­ a ir c r a ft fr om ships and; from sh o re b a tte r ie s has plugged Jap fliers fo r die high­ est ratio I've ever known from ack- ack. Our task forces h a v e absolutely butchered the on­ ly Jap task force to put -to sea in many months. B-29s are hitting Ja­ pan with fighter escort from Iwo Jima. Airfields are springing up on Okinawa. We all say we sure are. glad we are not in the Japs' shoes, One main question asked over here now is, “ How long Will the Japs hold out?” There are aU kinds o f opin­ ions, but actually nobody knows. We don’t know, because no one in his right mind can- pretend to un­ derstand the Oriental |manner of thinking. They are unpredictable. They are inconsistent, j As one of­ ficer said, “ They are uncannily smart one day, and dumb as hell the next." Their values are so different from ours. The news broadcasts from Tokyo and Shanghai are an exam­ ple. These broadcasts are utterly, ridiculous. During our first week on Okinawa they constantly told o f savage coun­ terattacks when there weren't any. They told o f driving a large part of our landing forces back to the boats and far out to sea, when actually . they fired only a few shots onto the beaches. On DrDay plus four, they broadcast that despite their counterattacks we finally succeeded In landing 6,000 troops.- The truth is that by sun­ set of the first evening we had an incredible number o f scores o f thou­ sands o f Americans on Okinawa! The crippled Jap air force cannot do us anything but spasmodic harm from now on. ’ And their navy needn't ever be considered. If you could le e the colossal naval power we have here you could hardly be­ lieve your eyes. It’s one o f the most Impressive things I’ve seen in this war. We have plenty o f troops In re­ serve, and new convoys o f supplies have already begun to arrive’ just as we finished unloading the origi­ nal massive supply fleet. Converting Mnnd Into Big Base ■ On Okinawa the m ajority o f the Japs are on the southern tip, and in considerable strength. The north­ ern area is being combed and a few scattered ones mopped up. There is tough fighting in the south and it will remain tough to the end. I’ve heard some officers say the south end o f Okinawa may turn into another Iwo Jima. That w ill mean heavy casualties on our side, but the end o f Okinawa is in­ evitable. And while the army’s 24tb corps of infantry is doing that job , the rest o f the island apparently Is wide open for us to develop and we are doing it with our usual speed.. This island has everything we could want in such an island. There- ls plenty o f room fo r more airfields, room for roads and vast-supp ly dumps and, anchorages for ships. And the civilians from whom we had expected trouble are docile and harmless. O f course, Japan’s vast land arm ies are still almost intact. But if it does come to the great mass land warfare of continental Europe, we now are able to build up strength for that warfare right on the scene. There is a fighting spirit among us, People are conjecturing about the possibility of the Pacific war ending sooner than we had ever al­ lowed ourselves to think, For years h looked endless, but now you hear people talk about be­ ing home by Christmas. Soma real­ ly believe they will, Others have their fingers crossed, but they are more hopeful than ever before. Instead o f a war weariness, there seems to be a new eagerness among oyr forces to sweep on and on, and wind the thing up in a hurry, * e • The bulk o f the battle o f Okinawa is being fought by the army—my old friends, the doughfoots. This time the marines- had it easy, and by the turn o f circumstance the arm y is the .one that has the job to do. But my self-assignment on the Okinawa blitz was to write about the marines and that’s what I con­ tinue to d o ., I landed with the ma­ rines, crossed the Island with them, and have been living with them amidst fleas, mosquitoes, goats and a few Japs, hiding under bushes. So naturally I want to tell you about them. ■■■■■■•- Marine corps blitzes out here have all been so bitter and the marines have performed so magnificently that I had conjured up a mental pic­ ture o f a marir^ that bore a close resemblance to a ‘man from Mars. I was almost afraid of them myself. Find 9 Mariner Human, After All I did find the marines' confident, but neither cocky nor smart-alecky. I found they have fears, and qualms, and hatred for war the same; as anybody else. They want to go home just as badly as any soldiers I’ve ever met. I found them good, human Americans. They are proud to be marines. They wouldn’t be in any other branch o f the service. Yet they are not arrogant about it. And I found they have a healthy respect for the infantry. One day we were-sitting on a h ill side talking about the infantry. One marine spoke o f a certain army di­ vision—a division they had fought beside—and was singing its praises. “ It’s as good as any marine di­ vision,” he said. “ What was that you said?” a lis­ tener cut in. The marine repeated it and em­ phasized it a little. Another ma­ rine stood up and called out, loudly; “ Did you hear what he said? This guy says there’s an army division as good as any marine division, He must be crazy.- Haw, haw, haw !’ ’ And. yet other boys chimed in, ar­ guing very soberly, and sided with the one who had praised the army division. / • • . * ■> Before I cam e into the field, sev­ eral marine officers asked me to try to sense just what the marine spirit is, just what causes it, and keeps it alive. In peacetime when the marine corps was a small outfit, with its campaigns highlighted; and every­ body was a volunteer; you could un­ derstand why marines felt so su­ perior. But since the war the marine corps has grown into hundreds of thousands o f men. It has been di­ luted, so to speak. Today it is an outfit o f ordinary people—some big, some little, -some even -draftees. It has charged, in fact, until marines look exactly like a company o f sol­ diers in Europe. Yet that marine corps spirit still remains. I never did find out whal perpetuates it. They're not neces­ sarily better trained. They’re nc better equipped and often not as well supplied as other troops. Buf a marine still considers himself a better soldier than anybody else, even though nine-tenths o f them don’t want to be soldiers at all. • • • The marines are very cognlzanl o f -the terrible casualties they’ve taken .in this Pacific war. They’re even proud o f that too, In a way. Any argument among marine units Is settled by which has had the greatest casualties. Many o f them even envisioned the end o f thd marine corps at Okinawa. If the marine divisions had been beaten up here as they were on Iwo Jim a, the boys felt it would have been difficult to find enough men ol marine corps caliber to reconstitute all the divisions. They even had a sadly sardonic song about their approach to Oki­ nawa, the theme o f which was, “ Good-by, Marines!” LEGAL NOTICE MPPf LookHardfor SnakesonOkinawa I’ve mentioned before about our fear of snakes bsfore we got bore. AU the booklists’ and literature given us ahead of time about Okinawa dwelt at length oh snakes. They told ua there were three kinds of poisonous adders. Well, I’ve kSpt a closa watch and made a lot of inquiries. And the result is thst In the central part of Okinawa where we’vs been there are just practicaUy no snakes at all. Our troops have walked, poked, sprawled and slept on nearly every square yard of the groynd. And in my regiment, for one, they have teen only two snakes. One was found dead. The other was killed by a battalion surgeon, coiled Into a gallon glass jsr and sent to the regimental command post as a souvenir. “bought” his way out In those days? A review of some of that history would be good reading for sooallsd New Dealers in this county. WANTED— Farm manager for sWell dairy herd, No field work, House and privilege*, Permanent. William Woodmen, R 6, Springfield, Ohio, BUY WAR BONDI PFISTER HYBRIDS XxceUeni quality Genuine Pfjster Hybrid Seed Corn etUl available. 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