The Cedarville Herald, Volume 72, Numbers 1-26

*0 The Cedarvile Herald A Republican Newspaper Published Every Friday by THURMAN MILLER, JR. Entered as second class matterJ October 31, 1887 at the Postof-j fice at Cedarville, Ohio, under, j A ct o f Congress'of March 1879. Member—National Editorial As­ sociation; Ohio Newspaper Asso­ ciation; Miami Valiev Press As­ sociation. pay fo r super highways every­ where! M i F r i d a y ; K a r c E SH, 1 9 4 9 TEe Oetlarrille, 0 . HefaRf Col. Matt Winn, o f Kentucky Derby" fame, is 80 years old. Some folks have passed complete­ ly out at his show at whatever age they had attained when the race was over. Lr^2a S c V y S 1 -E f/BR . jU-HHEIH J. F 88 £lftjl ; Ed itoria l "WE BREATHE AGAIN With basketball prowess nar­ rowing down to a limited fi^m and with most o f us out of. the final games, we are beginning to breathe normally again. Not onljr is basketball a school sport but it offers everybody an opportun­ ity to share in its thrills. In is year, as always, it is being shown that the best teams come often from smaller schools. That’s what makes the sport so universally popular. “ Our boys” may win the high honors, the cups and tne glory, fleeting though it is, no matter what folks are speaking. PROUDLY WE HAIL When we told publisher friends at the state convention about the school news we carry in our paper they expressed surprise that we could get the kind we get, and we detected a bit o f envy in their voices. This makes us even more appreciative o f fine support our high schools give us, for no news­ paper has better school news than the one you are reading right now—thanks to splendid co-oper­ ation from the teachers and pub­ lic. WE ALL AGREE The governor declares flatly tHht every detail of expense in state government that can he whittled down or out must be considered and the saving made. Every citizen in the state, ex­ cept some one whose neck is nipped in the process, will heart­ ily agree with the executive. Government spending is entirely too great both in the state and nation. To be healthy, to say nothing of conducting good busi­ ness, all unnecessary spending be stopped. THE NEW CHURCH As the good folk o f Grape Grove do everything, they did it well when they dedicated the new church building recently. Fine people out there; and a fine place of worship is a tribute to their character and their resource­ fulness. The church adds to the value of the community, not only as a place to live but a good place to bring up children and to make them good citizens. Congratula­ tions, again, neighbors! THE NEW LOOK “ Why, you’d hardly know the the old place!” This is the news that’s going the rounds about the depot in the county seat. The old brick station was built for the Little Miami railroad in the long ago; then came the “ Panhandle,” and as* a junction the station be­ came more important. How long the old pot-bellied stove and the iron-bound benches had been in use only history could reveal. But the h a n d of Modernity has stretched out and dealt kindly with the waiting room. There is a brand-new stove, with televi­ sion attachment; a new floor covering as modern as day after tomorrow, inviting benches and new wall decorations. PRR means “Puzzle to Realize it’s the Rail­ road.” OUTLAW BOOING Many schools, big and little, are trying to rid basketball of the distasteful booing. Big plac­ ards have been placed in gyms here and there asking that there be no booing. In one of the coun­ try’s largest universities insists that booing stop. Good sports­ manship demands that players and spectators alike keep this in mind. It would be a great thing fo r the sport that has such fasci­ nation fo r the public could rid it­ self of this objectionable phase. INCURABLE The radio broadcasts some dope For every pain and pimple; For some of us there is no hope—< Our headache will be “ simple.” SOCIALIZED MEDICINE England is trying out socialized medicine. Free dogage without too much attention paid to the patient’s explanation of what ails him, or how his pa had it before him, is the system. To get an idea o f how it works all you need to do is remember how you stood in line and took your turn to get ration stamps for gasoline, and was told where to stand by a slip o f a girl! That’s the same idea. IT ’S A THOUGHT! One o f the big oil companies tells us that it costs the company nearly $600 every time anybody buys a new car. It would be so easy for ’em just to kick in a couple o f more times and buy us all a new car— but maybe the “ guv’ment” plans to do that in its cradle-to-the-grave program. That would hasten the program. NO TURNPIKES While everybody is delighted with the Pennsylvania turnpike, the 168-mile superhighway, con­ structed on a perfect grade and with grade crossings totally elim­ inated, yet Ohio’s legislators are certain to disapprove building an extension o f that fimous road across Ohio. The cost o f such a *highway runs into astronomical figures—almost like an estimate o f remodeling the White House! It is- a spilled-milk reflection to remind ourselves that even the interest on our war debt would SCRIPTURE: Mark 6 : 7 - 12 , 30 - 14 : Lake D e v o t io n a l r e a d in g : Matthew 10 : 5 - 16 . Leadership School Lesson for March 29 , 1949 f TAKES more than a call of God to be a Christian leader. It takes study, it takes work. The call is necessary, of course, but it is not all. Jesus set the church an example here as always. He called his Twelve; but he was not so foolish as to think that just because he had called them -they were all ready to go out and take the lead. Jesus put them through what Dr. Foreman may be called the first Leadership Training School in the history of the Christian church. Who Was Enrolled? T HE TWELVE Apostles were the training class. Not all Jesus* disciples were equal to it; perhaps some of them actually did not have the time. But these Twelve had al­ ready been set off from the others, not because they were better men, but in order to do more direct ser­ vice in Christ’s name. There was nothing formal about Jesus’ training school. It met wherever he was at the time—in a house, or by the roadside, or on a hill-top. There were no set hours, uo textbooks, credits or diplomas. Jesus kept it going to the very end, for even after the Resurrection, as Luke tells us (in Acts 1) he was still teaching his Twelve. What Did They Study? T HERE WAS no printed circular, no bulletin, no prospectus or catalogue. All the "courses” amounted to just one thing: learn­ ing to do what Jesus; was doing. To this day, that is the aim of all Christian training. Mark and Luke mention at least four things Jesus’ training-school students learned from him: preaching, healing the sick, feeding the hungry, and pray­ ing. It would not be quite true to say that part of what they learned was spiritual and part practical, for there is nothing more practical than praying as Jesus taught it, and Jesus never ministered to people’ s physical needs without touching their spirits too. * Many a person now in some hospital for the insane need not have gone there if he had had the help that a well-trained min­ ister can give. Ministers today are not taught how to perform miracles like the feeding of the 5,000; but knowing that people’ s physical well-being has a great deal to do with their spir­ itual welfare, the alert young Chris­ tian minister of today will be keen­ ly interested in Chiristian social ac­ tion. How Did They Learn? T HE TWELVE learned by doing. It is the only way you learn any­ thing of a practical nature. Memo­ rizing a textbook, memorizing rules, is not 1e a r n i n g. You have learned how to do a thing only when you can do it. Of course you have to see it done, first. A boy on the farm learns to be a fanner by watching his father and helping him. more than from school courses in agriculture, useful as they are. There Is nothing to take the place of apprenticeship under one who knows. So Jesus’ Twelve watched him, listened to him, helped him, before they were trusted on their own. *• « • W ill It Still Work? f HE METHODS Jesus taught are just as; effective today as they ever were. Not all churches nowa­ days follow his line to the letter; in fact, most churches do not. But the basic principles which Jesus drilled into his first traveling representa­ tives are still good. One is faith. Missionaries in the 20th Cen­ tury are required to take a great deal more equipment with them to their fields than one pair of shoes, one cane and an empty purse. Yet who can deny that shy missionary of any church, in China or in Korea today, must live by faith from day to day? Another of Jesus’ principles was direct contact.--People are not won to Christ chiefly by sermons from pulpits^but by in-the-home contacts. Ministers know this,'1missionaries know it; Sunday school teachers ought to know it too. Getting ac­ quainted with your boys and girls at their homes, and being a friend to them there, is what will give your Sunday teaching its greatest force and succe^g, (Copyright by the International Coun­ cil oi Religious Education on behalf o L M JProtest&nt; denominations. Released by WNU Features. CLARENCE J. BROWN Write* W ith a B u c k e y e 4 In Congress • The signing o f the North At­ lantic Security Pact is now sched­ uled to take -place in Washington ‘ the first week .in April- The P«,ct will not be submitted to the Sen­ ate fo r ratification as a treaty, as required by the Constitution, until after it has been signed by ■ the nations entering into it. Last wqek Secretary o f State Acheson submitted a rough draft o f the Pact to the Foreign Relations Committee o f the Senate in* exe­ cutive session. Other Members of the Senate who must vote on ratifying the Pact will not he ad­ vised a« to what it contains until after it has been signed. While the provisions o f the North Atlantic Security Pact are still considered a “ top secret,” it is rumored the signatories thereto will be bound by the Pact fo r a period of ten years; that the Pact may he extended an ad­ ditional ten years; tha4- the Pact may he extended an additional ten years; that signatory nations will be bound to defend any Pact nation attacked by an aggressor; that an attack on occupational troops o f any nation will be con­ sidered an aggression against such nation; that the United States will furnish certain mili-- tary supplies and other aid to its allies; and, finally, the Constitu­ tional requirement that only Con­ gress can declare war will be recognized, altho actually Ameri­ can entry into the Pact will bind this nation morally to go to war to protect the other signatories in case o f attack. President Truman spent, last week vacationing at Key West, Florida, while tired and angry Members o f the Senate continued the famous filibuster against a proposed change in the rules which would permit early, consid­ eration o f the Administration’s civil rights legslative program. Before leaving Washington he submitted to the Congress two messages in which he called for reorganization o f the National Defense Establishment and of the State Department along the lines recommended by the Hoover Com­ mission. Under the reorganization plan fo r the National Defense Establishment the Secretary o f National Defense would become in fact, as well as in name, the top man in our national defense setup, while the Secretaries o f War, Navy and Air Forces would become secondary officials action as assistants to the Defense Sec­ retary. H. R. 2945, a bill introduced by Representative Murray o f Tenne­ ssee at the request of the Post­ master General, is attracting a great deal o f attention both in and out o f Congressional circles. Un­ der its provisions- ■most postal rates would be heavihLircreased. Meanings, like things, change as time goes <Sn. For- inatan “ manufacture”^ means “ to makcj'. by. hand.” : / - The Clinton county Farm B t reau Co-op reported' business Til.’ ! excess o£.$2,48i;000 fo r 1948., /Tune" Your Pianft'.Mr, Presifteiitf vested . . :*r: '• Fi-s&Asfe-• •i.,r{ - -~i. “• : ‘J *? v. , . - ' '4**•**,*$■ . ** - ' • V ptT' ..ill 1 tsaii. Efficient Fertilizer Use Bopsis Yields Good Soil Management * Must ifiid. Plant.Food ^ Every ton of fertilizer can be" stretched: or used!more. efficiently; boosting crop "yields, at the same time. Many" farmers, s£ys Middle West Soil Improvement,, committee, use fertilizer as a“brutch. "-They try to make it substitute for good man­ agement practices! They put plant food in the soil \ without making sure the plant can send out its roots to use it. Fertilizer is essential. in ( giving the soil plant nutrients to feed crops. But fertiliser can’t do the whole job. It mUst be teamed with other practices that build and main­ tain soil structure and keep tHe top soil “ nailed down.” The soil meeds good structure so roots can grow and reach out for plant food.' Roots need air and wa­ ter to live.' -When a soil is packed down and tight, there is no room for the air and water needed by roots and plants for high'crop production. The way to build soil structure is to grow legumes apd grasses regu­ larly in the rotation. These legumes make a thick layer of good soil. YOU CAN S-PR-E:T-C-H c f YOUR f e r t i l i z e r cost o f postal cards would be in­ creased from one cent to two cents. Second class mail rates would be from two to five times higher that at present. T h i r d class mail would be increased from 50 per cent to 200 per cent. Fourth class mail rates would also he increased. If the proposed new* postal rates are put into effect many small newspapers and magazines will probably be forced out o f business, while others will have to heavily increase subscrip­ tion and advertising rates. It is charged the proposed increases in third class mail rates will ser­ iously injure business which must depend upon direct mail adver­ tising, and will interfere with the sale and distribution o f books. The Postmaster General insists the new rates are necessary to make the Post Office Department self-supporting. The postal serv­ ice, however, has actually been’ self-supporting fo r only a very few years in the nation’s history. Past experience has proven,that whenever mail rates are made too high the American people quit using that particular class o f postal service, with the result Post Office Department deficits are increased rather than decreas­ ed. The Treasury Department has just filed with the Congress a re­ port which should be o f great interest to those who belive the well-to-do are not paying their full share o f taxes. The report shows that only 4.23 per cent o f those paying taxes have incomes o f more than six thousand dol­ lars a year, but that’ this 4.23 per cent actually pay 51.27 per cent o f all income taxes, while the remaining 95.77 per cent o f all income taxpayers, pay 48.73 per cent o f the total income tax collected. In other words, out o f the fifty-two million six hundred thousand persons filing Federal income tax returns in 1942, two million two hundred and twenty- seven thousand paid more than one-half the total tax collected. Total income taxes collected fo r the year, the report states,was just over sixteen billion dollars. Ninety-four Americans reported in.omes of more than one million dullam each. Two prominent Members o f Congress died suddenly last week —Senator Melville J. Broughton o f North Carolina, former Gov- Private LHe of Bossy ’ In the current craze for dissect­ ing private lives even Bossy is not immune. The inevitable prober comes up with these statistics; Bossy grazes only seven and a half hours dally, regardless of how much feed she gets. She does<60 per cent of her grazing during daylight hours, 40. per cent, at night. She speeds five hours a‘ day eating at a rate of 50 to' 70 bites per minute. She chews her cud seven hours a day and spends 12 hours lyipg down, at nine dif­ ferent times. While; grazing, she' travels two and a half miles in jh e ' daytime and one and a half' at night. She drinks 10 times a day. Erosion Takes Alarming . Toll of Good Crop Land Efcosion is takingan* increasingly alarming toll of good crop land in the United States. Estimates by- the department of agriculture indi­ cate that about 100 milliop. acres of once *good- crop land 'have been ruined or nearly ruined for profit­ able cropping by erosion, another 100 million acres have been badly damaged and still another 100 mil­ lion acres are eroding too fast; ^ There are now approximately; 450 million acres of good crop land in the U. S., including acreage now in crops as well as aboht 100 million acres that need clearing, drainage, irrigation They add organic matter. Such soil has plenty of air space. Water soaks in quickly and more of it is held. Weak, scattered stands of legumes won’t build soil Structure. jF o r Strong, leafy stand? ap'd vigorous roots, the le'gtlmes^needl phosphate acdsperfashs^iaf cah'iW added in CpmmerciaLfertilizer.'jSetting "thick stands isn’t the,-whale story, .either. All these crops ean’t be cut for hay or graze close and still be expected to build the -soil. At least a part cf these crops must be-turned back to. the soil. - ; f. Lowell Fress Writes from the Legislature The law-making mill grinds slowly and the present General Assembly is no exception. After two months of work, the current legislature has sent only two bills to the Governor for his signature. However, it usually takes about two months for a new Legislature to settle down to business. Re­ gardless of how much speed the leaders desire and urge speed, the old Legislature mill just won’t get down, to work much faster, Clear line? pf thought arid action have to become fairly definitely established. The wise ones, however, ap­ parently have taken a somewhat different tack this season than usual to get controversial mea­ sures passed. Generally, these are kept in the background until the “ administration program” is well op its way to enactment. But this year some o f .the non-contro- versial bills have been brought forward first. . After working. 37 legislative days, covering a period o f ten weeks, this Assembly is appar- The biggest headache fo r the lawmakers hasn?t even been •touched constructively as yet. •That’s the problem of reconcil­ ing revenues the state will re­ ceive" and the appropriations the spending agencies want. The ad­ ministration’s budget and bien­ nial appropriation bill will prob­ ably not reach the Legislature until April. The budget was orig­ inally scheduled for March 15th. Changing o f the state’s fiscal year, which will involve prepar­ ing a budget to cover two and one-half years - 1949, 1950 and the first half o f T951 - may rea­ sonably be expected to c a u s e some delay . The initiated petition permitt­ ing factory coloring of margarine Was reconsidered on Monday night in the Senate, and passed 18 to 14, The fight on this ques­ tion was resumed in the House on Wednesday, when our Refer­ ence Committee gave the bill to the Industry and Labor Commit­ tee, which was objected to by opponents o f the measure on the ground that this Committee was prejudiced. I believe that this was a statement of fact, and I also believe thatv the same objection could be raised against the refex*- enoe to the Agriculture Commit­ tee where the opponents wanted or other improvement. AD but about 7% million acres of ernor o f that State, and Repre- ' this 460 million -acres'are' subject sentative Sol Bloom o f New York, to erosion, .unless proteetixe>m£as% iires are-saonted.^ v-S. 'A* Chairman o f the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Both suffer­ ed heart attacks. Informed sources are xegort- *ing that a number of changes: can he expected in President Truman’s official family within a few Weeks as a result of the expected resig­ nation o f the Secretary o f the Treasury Snyder, Secretary of Commerce Sawyer, and Secre­ tary of War Royall. Secretaries Snyder and Sawyer, along with Secretary o f Defense Forrestal, who resigned effective March Si­ s '! have been considered the Con­ servative members" o f the Presi­ dent’^. Cabinet. te , ^3$gpte ,; PlMtintfof Windbre Will Improve Farmstead Rapk«d,as ajnajor farpi$teadinb provement project,' planting' of a Windbreak around farm buildings not only’ improves the appearance of the farm but also saves fuel and gives wind protection to ‘the 'builcU' fags and livestock *. In addition to 4he f.regular >wtod< break on “the north ;and west fjffmed farmstead* many farmers -alsoc'ar* planting a garden .windbreak, south and wesf of the7garden. * A NAME t h a t s t a n d s FOR GOOD FURNITURE BUDGET FLAN AVAILABLE CARFF S hybrid seed corn HIGH YIELD Strong Vitality dally proven-best for Ohio farms. Your dunce of twenty-one early-to-late tested kinds. Our modem oi NEW OUTSTANJMNG HYBRIDS Ohio 3262—Ohto 32M—Ohlo<3147% OCVER .................. tionj have 'consufM^r produced' more. Legume seed is saeee. Play safe. We offer BUFFALO, RAHGSR, GBQSM or cramnort. ALFALFA, gxcellent strains o f BUD(CLOVER, indudihe CUMBERLAND and MIDLAND. ' j . ■ NEW HAWKSK SOY BEAMS Outyield and areas early as HIGHLAND, combining the good features ctf aU out- standlng kinds whoa'tonipared .to others of-like maturity.^ r t t i s t s s g s a g a & a a * - <- r i Complete HnetrMRtrza£%<>£*;v W. N. SCAR F F ’S SONS to route it. In the confusion re­ sulting from the vote which was first reported as having defeated the Reference Committtee by a vote of 65 to 64, it was found that one member’s vote had been incorrectly reported and the final tabulation was 65 to 65, or a tie, and the Speaker declared the mo­ tion lost. The fuss was continued Thursday morning when the Journal was read for approval, but after the parliamentary wrangle wag over, the bill was placed for consideration in the House Industry-and Labor Com­ mittee, where it Will rest for a short time. The other controversial mea­ sure we received from the Sen­ ate this week -is the Toll Road proposal. This is a decision which is. irrevocable. Most of our legis­ lation here can he changed by following Legislatures, hut if we pass legislation authorizing toll roads which will set aside a strip o f land 200 feet wide across Ohio with its divided highway strips made of cement, together with the necessary over-passing and un­ der-passing of existing free high- . ways,and,future developments in ' 'transportation, '-as exemplified by the conveyor belt system from Lake Erie to the Ohio River and would have in our state a real air transportation, should revolu­ tionize truck transportation, we unprofitable white elephant. I shall be glad to hear the pros and cons on this subject. Committee hearings were held this week on the hours o f female labor. I believe the 40-hour week is generally used in the factories in Greene County emuloying wo­ men, but I also believe there are certain firms and employers who have Worked out a satisfactory system where women work five 9-hour daysjor 45 hours per week, having Saturdays and/Sundays off, and are better satisfied than with a 44 hour week, four hours of which are worked on Satur­ day, would welcome your views on this problem. The Highway Committee last evening voted out an* amended driver’s license bill which pro­ vides for a three year’s driver’s or chauffeur’s license after 1959, and terminating on the individ­ ual’s birthday. This has certain advantages but the birthday ter­ mination is an innovation. O f course it will have to pass the House and Senate before it is final. The battle scheduled in the House over proposed fair employ­ ment prectices legislation has been postponed again. Right now the FEPC bill is being kept o ff the House floor by the leadership because they don’t think the nec­ essary 68 votes can be mustered for its passage. It is reliably stated that some amendments are being draSlfed, with the idea in mind of lining up a few represent­ atives who won’t support the bill in its present form. PRIZE MARE DIES Belgian mare, Jean Scott own­ ed by OSU died recently. The horse was nominated by the ag students as the 1940 May queen. DEPRESSION UNLIKELY S. C. Allen, president of the Cash Register company, Dayton, says that the present business crisis is merely a “ correction per­ iod” and that no major depression is likely. SAVEBYMAIL You May Open A Savings Account Here and Mail i In Your Deposits A t Your Convenience. Savings Pay Dividends And Assure Future Independence. Put Your Idle Money To Work For You! 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