The Cedarville Herald, Volume 72, Numbers 1-26

Friday, February % 1939 The Cedarvllle Herald A Republican Newspaper Published Every Friday by THURMAN MILLER. JR. Entered as second class matter October 31, 1887 at the Postof­ fice at Cedarville, Ohio, under Member—National Editorial As* Act o f Congress o f March 1879. sedation; Ohio Newspaper Asso­ ciation; Miami Valley Press As­ sociation. T£e 'c^arvIHe, O'. Herald o f the executive are, and very re­ cently* the president helud his hand on significant verses in the Bible when he took a simple oath to uphold the constitution. It is a very simple matter to decide who is boss vfKjfti' nnd whom,, and bossing the boss *• -~vory American idea in m'any ways. Editorial FOR YOU ALONE Maybe you don’t know this, but tbe editorials in this column week after week are written for you personally. They do not ap­ pear in any other newspaper. Many newspapers used canned editorals, purchased from a syndicate, or clip from other papers. Most of them are well prepared j£o be sure, but they lack the directness of writings aimed for home consumption only. A great many people have spok­ en to us about this column. It encourages us. AND WINTER CAME At long last Old Pap Winter hauled o ff and swatted us. We had begun to wonder if he had lost track o f us, concentrating as he has been on California and the hard hit middle west. A January that broke all records for high temperatures succumbed in its final week to the Weather Man’s whim, but it wasn’t bad at all. If we had been given any winter weather eai-iier what we got finally in January would have hardly been called; winter. But when folks have gone in shirt sleeves and having the fire out is an everyday occurrence, even awhiff of the arctic causes us to shiver. STAGGERING Higher and higher appropria­ tions and larger and larger bud­ gets down at Washington make us folks bark home who have to foot the bills dizzy. Then right at home we face a new all-time- high budget of nearly a million dollars on county government. Some folks are wondering where the money is going to come from. Please don’t anybody remind us that we have the most modern printing presses in our office. Don't t-":*pt us!_ REPORTING TO BOSSES Our servant in the house, Lo­ well Fesf, is reporting to his bosses, the people o f Greene county, in a weekly news letter, which you have noticed in our paper. Mr. Fess is an intelligent man and has a background of experience that makes his ser­ vices valuable in the legislature. He knows what is going on. He helps make things go on. His bosses back home approve his telling them what the legislat­ ure is doing, and his part in it and his attitude towards it. IN A NEW ROLE Human Truman Began With business men And Senate men As a musician I f he can Make bacon Also ham Ten cents for workmen And thirty fo r porkmen He’s a magician, IT IS IN THE AIR The old almanac used to say, as the days begin to lengthen the cold begins to strengthen. The cold started its strengthen­ ing a little late this year; but let’s don’t remind the weather man or he’ll try to make up for lost time. As the winter weeks roll by the basketball spirit be­ gins to strengthen. Week after week contests point to apparent county winners, but always and it all adds up to a healthy competition that everybody en­ joys. SO IT ISN’T RED In the dear, dead days not quite beyond recall Alice Roose­ velt, TR’s gal who married Nick Longworth of Cincinnati’s pure­ bred social register, popularized. Alice blue by wearing a blue gown. Next came planet pacing Eleanor with her version o f blue. Now* the technicolor chang­ es. Margaret Truman blossomed out at the inaugural ceremonies wearing a, Margaret pink. Just so it isn’t Red! SUCH IS TRADITION Sweden’s venerable King Gus­ tav hobbled to his throne on -his own power, gurgled out a speech to the Riksdag, had a spell o f coughing and was carried away as {he multitude shouted approv­ al He is 90. We wouldn’t do a thing like that! Who says we wouldn’t? You mean you've for­ gotten so son ? THE IRON CURTAIN We hear a great deal about the iron curtain. The most sig-. nificant thing about it is that* it keeps things dark. Not only does the rest o f the world fail to learn what goes on inside, but those inside know nothing o f what goes on outside. It is a very short-sighted policy. And it will be short-lived. Darkness means ignorance. Intelligence comes with light. No. iron curtain can long exist. The masses behind it car, not forever be kept in ignor­ ance. The break will come from the inside o f the iron curtain, . as all such breaks have come throughout the centuries. NO BOSSING THE BOSS President Truman makes it very clear that he is the “ boss" and just as clear that he will not tolerate any bossing o f the boss. However, the constitution makes it very clear that the functions D r. F oreman k9 i Sft, u m m J, FOREMftK SCRIPTURE: Mark 1:14-15. 21-45; /Luke 4:16-30. DEVOTIONAL READING: Luke 4:40 —5;3. T e a c h in g R e l ig io n Lesson for February 6, 1949 S OME PEOPLE, strange to say, don’t believe in Sunday schools. Most North American Protestants do, because Jesus did. The word may not be found in the New Testa­ ment, but the thing is there; If Jesus did not believe that religion could be taught, then, he' was guilty of wasting much of his time, for he worked at teaching in season' and out of season. He was a product of the Sunday School, in a sense. During his childhood he would go to the synagogue school weekdays and especially on Sabbaths; we know that by the time he was grown it was his "custom” to at­ tend synagogue service. And In every Jewish com­ munity the synagogue was the place where for two hundred years and more, children and youth and older people had been taught the Word of God. If Christians today are faithful to Christ’s example, we also will keep at the job of teaching our religion to every child within our reach. «. * * Body and Soul H EADERS of the gospels will note that when Jesus went home from the synagogue on the Sabbath, his day’ s work was not done. He would spend hours, sometimes till, far into the night, healing people brought to him for cure. Jesus min­ istered to mind and soul. Jesus was interested in personalities, whole people, not half-people. Our minds have to be fed, but we live in bedies, and bodies have no little to do with personalities. Jesus was not content with teaching sick peo­ ple; he made sick people well. So the church today, if it is faithful to Christ’s principles, will consider people as complete personalities. * * * The Common People W E FIND that Jesus did not in­ sist on university audiences. Indeed, he never spoke to a univer­ sity audience. His teaching was always in the midst of groups of very plain people. There were great universities in those days, but it was not necessary for any one to be a graduate of one of them in order to enter Jesus’ school, or to understand what he taught. He taught the plain people plainly. In all our teaching we try to use the pupil’s language and to put our Christian ideas in the thoughts that the pupils can un­ derstand. At the best seminaries, young ministers-to-be are carefully taught how to put the great Christian doc- .trines in ways that the simplest peo­ ple can understand. Teaching over people’s heads is not teaching them at all. » * • God and Education I ESUS did not try to teach people carpentry, or arithmetic, or ge­ ography. No doubt he could have done so. But he had something more important on his mind, some­ thing which he alone could teach. He taught religion, or in other words he taught the truth about God, and about man, and abou^ right relations between God and man. So the teaching church, whether in the Sunday school or in the books written by its scholars or in its schools and colleges, when it follows Christ’s example, Is always teaching religion first and foremost. We do not believe that religion is a secondary issue, something you can "take or leave.”e * • Religion on Two Feet I ESUS did more than talk. He lived. His whole life and charac­ ter were saying more loudly and plainly what his words said. So the Christian church to­ day, when it is faithful to Christ, must translate into actual living the faith she teaches in Sunday school lessons, in catechisms and books and sermons. a \ What we do, as Christians, speaks •louder than what we say. Every ’Sunday school teacher needs to re­ member that what is said on Sun­ day is important, but what the teacher does on Monday is more impressive by far. The reason why Jesus was more effective than John the Baptist was that John, after all, was a Voice, while Jesus was a Friend. Are you who teach others about God simply a Voice? A pho­ nograph could do as well. CLARENCE J. BROWN Writes With a Buckeye In Congress That the GOP still has life was fully demonstrated at the meet­ ing of the Republican National Committee in Omaha, last week, where a lively battle took place over the ousting of Chairman Hugh D. Scott named by the the chairmanship , while fortv - Dewey forces at the Republican National Convention last June. Fifty members o f the Committee voted for the resolution to vacate the chairmanship, while fifty - four voted against it. In spite o f the fact a heavy proportion o f the Committee had been elect­ ed by Dewey controlld delega­ tions at the National convention last summer, Chairman Scott and his forces were compelled to pub­ licly repudiate Governor Dewey and his “me, too " campaign and to surrender control o f the Party Executive Committee, in order „o There is a new no-stall tur­ bine motor that weighs less than - 150 pounds and developed 200 i horse power. •It would make, a - good forward on the basketball team. _ During bis 12 years as, presi­ dent FDR traveled 354,384 miles: Better Care. Feeding Increase Hog Profits Improved Rations and Cleanliness Stressed Extra care for the brood Sow and her litter, with emphasis on clean­ liness and better feeding, will assure extra profits whether the herd in­ cludes one sow or a hundred. Proof of that assertion is con- . ... , , _c___ ,, tained in the experience of Joseph of cattle and sheep from the con- , q > t >_ 0f Kiatvillp Kas nation- rinon ennws and *■' -“ ryan 01 xnawuie, ivas., nation retain the Chairmanship. The re­ sults are considered by most po­ litical observers as a victory for the pre-convention support con­ trol o f the party. The loss of untold thousands tinued blizzards, deep sno s and extreme cold weather which have swept several Wstern _Stats_ r- cently is expected to bring high­ er meat prices several months from now. In many areas in that sestian o f lountry snow drifted more than twenty feet deep, mak­ ing it impossible to get feed_ to the livestock In the meantime other areas have had excessive­ ly high temperatures. On last Thursday in Washington the thermometer stood at 73, an al- time high, in comparison to the sub-zero temperatures which have prevailed for several weeks in the West, ' Democratic leaders in the Congress have been delayed pre­ senting the Administration’s House and Senate committees, labor legislative program to House and Senate committees. They have been forced to aban­ don their original plans not to hold 'hearings on the Minimum Wage and Taft - Hartley Act re­ peal legislation, and it now ap­ pears certain several weeks o f testimony will be taken by Con­ gressional committees on propos- to submit to the senate soon a ed labor law changes. President Truman is expected to submit to the Senate soon a proposed treaty fo r American participation in the so-called north Atlantic defense pact. If approved, congress will then be required to appropriate untold amounts, estimated to run into the billions, for the furnishing o f American manufactured war material to the governments o f western Europe. Military author­ ities are divided in opinion as to whether rearming o f these west- ally-known breeder and exhibitor of purebred Hampshires, who raises about 3,000 hogs a 'year, mqgt of them for market. Although O’Bryan raises hogs on a wholesale scale, he keeps his op- i m m M—Sfc * inussj r . O’Bryan with part of his herd of 3,000 purebred Hampshire gilts. eration on an individual farm basis as a means of injuring proper care. A program of better care and better feeding for sows and their litters, introduced on his farms in the fall of 1947, already has paid dividends, O’Bryan reports. With 100 litters last spring, he raised as much pork as he formerly raised from 150. J Early in the gestation period sows were given a special ration of 80 per cent oats, 5 per cent meat scrap, 4 per cent pelletized milk product and the balance either corn or wheat. Sows were sprayed and washed thoroughly prior to: farrow­ ing. Clean pens and a brooder for the little pigs also were provided. The sow’ s ration was changed when , the pigs were about two weeks old, ern European countries will in- cutti down oats tQ abo^ 40 per sure peace or bring world War . . a . * * III nearer. Many believe it im- and increasing poiaons of possible to defend western EJur- wheat or corn, ope against Russian manpower At less than two weeks of age if war should ensue. The United Nations has order­ ed the Netherlands to restore and recognize the government o f the so-called Indonesians Repub­ lic recently driven out of office by Dutch troops. Regardless o f whether the Dutch were right or* wrong, many observers won­ der why the United Nations, which failed to take action again­ st Russia over the rape o f Ru­ mania, the seizure o f Czechos­ lovakia, or the plunder of Poland is now taking such a firm position little pigs were started creep feed­ ing in a low pan or trough. Their ration consisted of 80 per cent oats, 4 per cent meat scrap, 8 per cent pelletized milk product and the bal­ ance coarse wheat. Pans and troughs were washed and disinfected regu­ larly. As the-little pigs grow, oats in tiie ration is reduced while com or wheat is increased to about 70 to 80 per cent. ; Summarizing theprogram, O’Bryan maintains that he had much strong­ er pigs at birth, with earlier, faster ‘Police .Force’ against the Netherlands. Can it and cheaper gains and a marked |e- be because the Netherlands is a Auction In mortality. small and weak nation, while ------------ -------- ■ Soviet Russia is big and strong? It now appears most likely that the drafting and induction o f men under the selective service act will be suspended fo r the dura­ tion o f the law, which expires in late June o f next year. However, it is believed the Selective Ser­ vice Act will be kept on the stat­ ute books as a standby fo r use in case voluntary inlistment drop o ff and additional men are needed to keep the Armed Services at fu ll force. In the meantime Con­ gress is considering an early turn-down o f President Truman’s suggested universal military training program, and the trans­ fer of appropriations requested therefor to the Air Forces. Early enactment o f legisla­ tion to continue exports control is expected. Under the present law which will be extended, the President—through the Secre­ tary of Commerce—can regulate or prevent the shipment o f the materials to foreign countries. While the law has not been used any too effectively, it will be o f benefit to retain it. White House repairs, which were originally estimated to cost a million dollars—a rather substantial sum—will probalbly run around six million dollars, according to the latest infar- mation received by Congress. While every American wants the White House properly preserved six million dollars is quite a bit of money to spend on repairing any dwellings—even if used by the President. The tragedy how beine unfold­ ed in China, and the complete Communist triumph which it at hand in that nation o f four mil­ lion population* can he attrib- (Copyright b y the International Coun­ cil ot Religious Education on behalf o f 40 Protestant denominations. Released b y WNU Features.) ^ Plenty of organic matter is a good "police force” for ridding soil of bacteria that cause diseases ,o f growing crops. R. C. Thomas, asso­ ciate pathologist of the Ohio agri­ cultural experiment station, esti­ mates that 50 million bacteria live; in a single ounce of soil Some-of these are beneficigl. Others are harmful to crops. The good WM rot the organic matter and release plant nutrients to build a ferine soil. The harmful kind cause pl£nt disease. Adding organic matter to soil iyiti help increase the good kind and, at the same time cut down the harmful bacteria population. Adding organ­ ic matter makes the soil a better home for the good kind so they Sourish and grow. Extracts from organic matter contain viruses that make disease - causing bacteria harmless to plants. tou i,ulu. A good soil management program uted to the sickening American increase the soil’s organic mat- sell-out o f the Chinese to the ter supply and help free the land of Russians at the Yalta Gonfer- disease-causing bacteria. ence in direct violation of pre- -------- :___ - ■ vious pledges made to China at C i;n 1. : nrt ‘ the Cairo Conference the great- wIUlKlIMj olTlUt ItBHlcUIlS est and most peculiar o f Amer- M a jO ! W h e a t D i s e a s e lean diplomatic failures. -n,—* „ ■ , Bunt or stinking smut remains a major wheat disease even though science knows how to control it, demonstrating the need for continual vigilance in preventive measures. Plant scientists recommend use of resistant varieties combined with treatment of the seed with a reli­ able fungicide. Where practical* the grower should avoid planting when the soil temperature favor* development o f smut in the soil. Some folks can remember when the only -picketing any­ body ever did was whitewashing the picket fence. Definition, — Income: That which can be lived beyond. It begins to look like the Fair Deal is going to be a Dear Deal. Lowell Fress Writes from the Legislature This report will cover legis­ lative activities for the past two weeks. The Senate and House of Rep­ resentatives met in joint session on Monday, January 17, to listen to the message from the Gover­ nor. While the message was quite lengthy, various items were dis­ cussed fo r consideration by the 96th General Assembly. The mes­ sage, as a whole, was more or less generalized without specific recommendations due to the brief period o f time which had elaps­ ed since the beginning of the new administration. Realizing the great interest in our county schools, I am quot­ ing herewith from the Govern­ or’s message on this subject: “ We all know that there has been an increase in the cost of operating and maintaining our public schools. The cost of equip­ ment, commodities, salaries and wages has risen. There are some impoverished school districts within the state that are suffer­ ing acute financial difficulty. Their needs are especially deserv­ ing o f favorable consideration from this Legislature. It is my hope that in this biennium, as always, we will be able to pro­ vide adequately for tbe public school system o f , Ohio.” In this connection it is well to call the attention of our cit­ izens to the .many requests that have started to come in for fin­ ancial “ assistance. The public schools want more state aid to the tune of $17,300,000 a year, plus at least $10,000,000 for new buildings and additions. The cit­ ies have already met and dis­ cussed their demands and axe asking fo r as much as $18,000- 000 a year more than they are now receiving. The counties want the state to assume half.the bur­ den of child welfare, an item which would run into several millions a year. The state uni­ versities need more money. The Highway Department needs more needs more, if for no other rea­ son than because of relief bills, money. The Welfare Department of which the state pays half and the local government half and are expected to be higher in 1949 and 1950. Conservation has been neglected for lack of funds and so has the work of the State health department. In addition to all this, state employees are due to get general pay raise. Governor Frank Lausche, upon taking office, found a surplus o f $55,000,000 left from the pros­ perous war time years. This mon­ ey will come in handy in finan­ cing capital improvements, but it should not be taken into ac­ count in estimating .the state’s ability to carry new obligations like increased state aid to the schools and local government which will recur year after year. In weighing requests for these recurring items the Legislature will have to be guided by their estimates of income during the 1949-1950 biennium and there­ after. We know already that the state’s income during the com­ ing biennium will be' somewhat less than during 1947 and 1948. During much o f 1947 the state was receiving the proceeds of ■several taxes which since have been handed over to local govern­ ments. Furthermore, most obser­ vers look for a decline in sales tax receipts. The consequence Is that the unprecedented demands fo r mon­ ey at a time when its revenue is declining or at least leveling off. This legislature cannot hope to meet all the demands which will be placed upon it or even to satisfy those requests which are recognized as legitimate. This cannot be clone, that is, without new taxes. Perhaps the most that can be asked of the legislature is that it study the requests as a whole, put aside any Which are unjust­ ified (if there any) and then grant increases on a pro rata basis. The schools, for instance, should he given everything they ask for if this means that noth­ ing will be left for the Welfare Department. The Legislature will be under pressure from lobbies, working in behalf of every request for money. The city lobby wants more aid to cities and cares very little for what happens to the roads and doesn’t give a hoot wants more money spent on whether school keeps or .not. So it goes. That’s what makes the task of a conscientious Legisla­ tor so difficult. He has to listen to all the special pleaders and then disappoint them all by doing what he thinks best fo r the whole state. On Tuesday, January 18, the House pehmitted its first intro­ duction of bills and a toal of 48 were inroduced. In accordance amended rules the speaker an­ nounced a new line-up standing committees and your renresent- ative was given) in addition to his assignment on Finance and Health Committees, an .assign­ ment on the Liquor Control Com­ mittee. The legislature adjourned that evening and convened on Monday, January 24 fo r the in­ troduction of bills and continued in session up to Thursday, Jan­ uary 27.'There have now been in­ troduced in the House 123 hills. Among the resolutions intro­ duced this week was one pro­ posing to require persons appear­ ing before committees to he sworn to state only true facts or suffer a penalty. Possibly the introduction is as far as this will go. Tuesday’s session brought lure trouble. The reference committee whose duty is is to refer proposed legislation to the proper stand­ ing committees for consideration, brought in a report which re­ ferred the oleo-margerine bill to the Committee on Industry and Labor. Since this is a city-eon- troled commieett the rural mem­ bers attempted through objection raised by your representative, to refer its consideration to the committee on Agriculture. How­ ever, the speaker, by a very .arb­ itrary ruling, hold the measure in the committee on Industry ahd Labor. The Senate has held one hearing on the measure and as soon as hearings are scheduled in the House yu will receive a re­ port covering same. Wednesday we considered an amendment to our rules by which upon a motion of five members, measures can be brought to the floor for a vote, o f . the whole House should any committee at­ tempt to withhold legislation from a vote for an undue period of time. This is a grievance of minorities of long standing and 'the debate gave Republican Re­ presentative Ray Carpenter, of Seneca County, a chance to air his views, which his own party last session had turned down, as the majority party. But, this year, being in the minority, thd Republicans supported his views and with the help of a number! of Democrats the amendment was accepted. Since there are literally scores of very controversial legislative problems already introduced which, by this rule, will reach the floor for a vote, we will find many members squirming cin- siderably when they have to vote “ yes” or “ no” , LAY-OFFS INCREASE Lay-offs in recent months are doubie what they were in 1947 for the same period. 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