The Cedarville Herald, Volume 72, Numbers 1-26

F r id a y , A p r i l 2 9 , 1949 The Cedarville Herald » Due to heavy demand from R television manufactures, glass b ( glass production is fa r behind in ,•j orders. Old television tubes are 10Sr lead; and discarded tubes y are considered valuable. A Republican- Newspaper Published Every Friday by THURMAN MILLER. JR. Entered as second class matter , October 31, 1887 at the Postof-J fice at Cedarville, Ohio, under I Act o f Congress o f March 1879. ^ it Member—National Editorial As­ sociation; Ohio Newspaper Asso­ ciation; Miami Valiev Press As­ sociation. The early-spring cold snap did no crop damage. Sowfe*5.-M L_ KEHHETB 1. fflREffAK Editorial SCRIPTUHE: Marie 11:1-11, 15-18: Lulio 39:23-4G. DEVOTIONAL HEADING: Matthew 11:23-30. Jesus Is King Lesson for May 1, 1919 ’ IS A SIN to tell the truth out of TAFT IN 1950 Already the stage is being set fo r the most important politic­ al campaign in America—the I9­ 60 election in Ohio. Senator Rob­ ert A . Taft plans to seek re- election. Labor and left-wing groups already are declaring their opposition to his candidacy and planning, openly, to spend millions of dollars to defeat him. Protestant creed, It is not always It appears to be the first instance good nor wise to tell everybody o f the issue being labor against everything y o u conservative elements in our k n o w . Keeping government. The acknowledged yoiir mouth shut fact that Taft is the .wisest, may -De one~ of bravest, best-informed members o f the senate, whose American­ ism and honesty, as well as his ability, are unquestioned even by his political enemies. How do you feel about it? So do we. OHIO’S TURNPIKE For a number o f years now Ohioans have been driving Penn­ sylvania’s “ Turnpike” with great pleasure and appreciation. Com­ ments on extension o f the high­ way across Ohio have been a who were thinking only o f util­ ity o f such a road and not of its cost or entangled problems. But the legislature has been wrest­ ling with it, and a thousand and one points are being made in op­ position to it. Pennsylvania al- Dr. Foreman the best things. you e v e r do. J e s u s himself k n e w how to keep a secret till time to tell it. He never uttered an u n t r u t h about himself, but for a long time he did not openly de­ clare his conviction, in spite of be­ ing pestered to say Yes or No about it. The question was: Are you the Messiah? This was the same as asking, Arc you the King? Jesus would not say Yes, because the mere word would be taken to mean, “ revolutionist” or "traitor.” But ready has one route, abandoned he would not say No, because he by a railroad that had done every- was a King; indeed of all men he thing necessary a half century had the best right to the title, ago to "get r igh t'o f way. Nice road. Very nroblemful. NAMES MAKE NEWS Albert Daniels, Greenfield, says that all the blame for the condition o f Ohio’s schools be­ longs to Governor Lausche— Sean T. O’Kelly is the new pres­ ident of free Ireland. Gegorrab, the name sounds right. . . N. G. Papa, who is 70, is walking from Seattle to New York. Any o f the rest of the “ papas” would be more than N. G. if we tried it. . Jim Phillips of Tulsa woke up to find a pyphon in bed with him. Politics is not alone responsible fo r strange bedfellows- . . Joe Louis is offered $50,000 fo r three exhibition bouts in Italy. Maybe we had better have our son give »p the idea of newspapering and start bouting. —> OUT-LEWISING LEWIS The Southerners beat John L. Lewis to the coal-wage question. They'called a halt until a wage contract is signed. This would have been Lewis’ move a fort­ night later. Cagey Old Eyebrows will have to think that one over. With coal piled up on all the docks and the domestic market sopped up, the producers chose the right time to nut up to John L. before he put it up to them, WE MUSTN’T KNOW. “ It pays to be ignorant” , a laugh, program on the air calls itself. It pays some people to see that the rest of the people are ignorant. We Americans exclaim against Russia’s policy o f keep­ ing the people in total ignorance o f policies. We think the .Russian people are abused. But look at us. Who remembers a very few years ago when even a whisper from any one that FDR didn’t look well was shushed as disloy- that the president was in perfect health filled every newspaper I Now it is revealed that he had suffered four distinct strokes, some o f them several years be­ fore his death, and at Yalta and Teheran his condition was crit­ ical. What people is being kept in ignorance, and by whom? WE ARE WASTEFUL People who have been brought up in other parts o f the world are utterly astonished at our wastefulness. Almost without ex­ ception an American wastes more than a resident of any other country uses. Our farming pro­ cesses. the use of the land; our destruction of timber resources, without restoring at least what was taken; in our food, our fuel, our living.” The time will come, some people sag, when we will have to correct''our habits. A better way to look at it is ac­ knowledge that the time is here. An item in farm-relief pro­ posals is $262,500,000 for new homes for farmers. What both­ ers us,is trying to figure out how much that w’ill leave fo r homes fo r newspapermen. Free Ireland now proposes to restore Gael as the official lan­ guage, but every Irishman will reserve a few choice words of English for use on Englishmen. News item: “ Japs fined fo r raising tobacco.” That’s before they even spit. Prediction: Truman may make a whistle-stop tour, urging the return o f the 80th congress. “Equality fo r all,” the Com­ munists* slogan, can’t he made to work in house-cleaning time, so long as father when asked to heat the rug, boats it down town. Even we ornery Republicans approve Truman’s objection to he photographed in his bathing suit. What became o f that “ man­ date” the people gave LIST. Royal Entrance TVUT WHEN the time came, Jesus " d i d declare himself king in a spectacular way. We know the story as the “ Triumphal Entry in­ to Jerusalem,” the story of Palm Sunday, now so fresh in our minds. Jesus lived in a nation of people who were familiar with the mean­ ing of symbols, both in word and action. When Jesus rode into the ancient capital where his fore­ fathers reigned, astride a mule colt, the people knew, and ho knew they would, know, that this was not just somebody riding a mule on a Sunday morning. In the history of the Hebrews, mules were the steeds of kings. King Solomon was crowned riding on a mule. There was a famous prophecy (Zech. 9:9- that: when Jerusalem’s great king should come, he would be riding on just -such a royal steed. So when Jesus rode into Jerusalem, the people threw their palm branches and shouted their welcome, not to 'the teacher and prophet, but to the King. * * •: Tears in Triumph |T WAS NOT altogether a vic- “ torious occasion. Jesus knew too well how cheap and easy “ dem­ onstrations” can he. In his mind's eye he. could see a cross standing outside Jerusalem, and in his inner ear he could hear this same dusty- throated m o b, n o w shouting “ Hosanna!” , y e l l i n g instead “ Crucify him!” Tears stood in Jesus’ eyes. But they were not tears for himself; he never wasted energy in self-pity. They were tears for that blind city, tears for its coming destruction — the city that did not Irnow the way to peace. * * * Master o f the Temple B OLDER THAN JESUS’ triumphal entry was what he did inside the city. It was one thing to claim royal rights over the nation; but at the temple Jesus’ claims reached far higher. It should be remem­ bered that in the eyes of.all Jews at that time the Temple was abso­ lutely sacred. It represented the dwelling-place of the invisible God. Now the priests at that time were more profiteers and politicians than priests. They carried on what to­ day we call a “ racket” in the sale of animals for, sacrifice and in changing the ordinary money of all countries into the local Jewish shekel (in which coin alone could temple offerings be paid). The racket was notorious; every decent Jew bated the priestly profiteers. But no one had ever done anything about it, for that would mean assum­ ing an authority over the temple that no man dared to assume. But Jesus took it on himself. His direct and even violent action in smashing the racketeering ring was a mark of something more than ordinary self-confidence. He laid claim to being no less^than the Master of God’s Temple. He was acting in the name of God and with the authority of God. Master o f Man W HEN THE CHRISTIAN church calls Jesus “Lord" and “King” today; we are making no claim for him which he did not make for him­ self. What we mean by these titles is that Jesus Christ, for us and for all men, is the authority above all others. . (Copyright by the International Council ot jRellgious Education on behalf « f ,10 Protestant denominations. Released hy WNU Features. , CLARENCE J. BROWN Writes With a Buckeye In Congress The proposed plan of Secretary of Agriculture Brannon to sup­ port farm prices at high levels and hold do\vn f oo l costs to the eonsur.wrs is being given cau­ tious gud rather skeptical con­ sideration by the Congress. Un­ der it the Secretary of Agricul­ ture would fix the prices to be naid the farmers, although farm commodities would be sold to consumers at whatever they -will bring—with the Government paying the farmers the differ­ ence. For instance, i f the Govern­ ment support price to the farmer on eggs is forty-five cents a doz­ en, and the price to the consum­ er is thirty-five cents a dozen, the Government would pay the ten cents per dozen difference direct to the farmer. On its face the Erannan Plan seems to guar­ antee high, prices to the farmer and low prices to the consumer of food stuffs. However, the tax- paying public would have to pay the cost o f these subsidises, plus administration expenses. In ad­ dition, the farmers, and possibly all processors, distributors, and retailers o f food stuffs, would be subjected to the strictest kind o f Government controls and regi­ mentation. There is growing opposition in Congress to the Administra­ tion-sponsored Bill—H. R. 2945— which would greatly increase most postal rates. Second-class rates on newspapers and maga­ zines would jump anywhere from two hundred to five hundred per­ cent. Third-class rates on books , and direct mail advertising would be heavily increased, while par*- eel post, or fourth-elass mail, lates would also be boosted. I f the proposed new postal rates are made effective, it is claimed practically all farm, fraternal, and religious publications, as well as many country weekly and small daily newspapers, will he forced out of business. Many nat­ ional magazines would also be forced to susperyl publication, with the larger magazines re­ maining having a virtual mon­ opoly. Libraries, schools, and direct mail advertising, would he hard-liife by the proposed increase in third-class mail rate increases. Parcel post users, nrineipally farmers and the business con­ cerns supply them, would be ser- J iously affected. The Post Office Department is a service agency for alt the people, and experience has proven when postal rates are too high Department deficits in­ crease. Every report reaching Wash­ ington indicates the seasonal Spring business upswing was not as good as hoped fo r or expected. Observers are now convinced a “ recession” is under way. Lay­ offs, shorter work weeks, pro­ duction cut-backs, and price re­ ductions have been showing up in almost every line o f indust­ rial activity. Car-loadings and re­ tail stove sales are down. Un­ employment is up. Farm prices are now about eighteen percent below the 1948 peak and will probably go lower. Farm cash income fo r 1949 is expected to be o ff five to six billion dollars from the 1948 alltime high. Leg­ islative action has just complet­ ed at the request o f President Truman on a deficiency appro­ priation o f five hundred ninety- five million dollars to meet un­ employment compensation pay­ ments to veterans up to July 1st. There are six hundred seventy thousand veterans receiving G. I. unemployment benefit nayments of twenty dollars a week in March which tells the story. At the request of the Warren County Museum we recently ob­ tained from the Congressional Library a photostatie copy of Vol.I, No. 13 of the Western Star, published in Lebanon on Friday, May 8, 1807. (Incident­ ally, The Western Star, is now published by the company of which your humble servant is the president.) The entire front page o f this one hundred forty-two year old paper* is devoted to a letter by Albert Gallatin, then secretary of the Treasury, to the Speaker of the House, pointing out the national debt of $67,727,- 756.70 on January 1, 1807, and to a bill before Congress for re­ deeming this public debt through the sale o f stock certificates is­ sued by the Federal Government some to bear six per cent inter­ est and the rest three percent. Another page o f the four-column four page paper carried the op- inoin o f Chief Justice Marshall of the Supreme Gourt in the case of the United States vs, Aaren Bun*, the Vice President, in which bond was fixed at ten thousand dollars. The 1807 copy o f the 'Western Star also contains some interesting advertisements. One was announcing the sale o f lots in the “ new seat of justice” for “ Champaign County” to be known as “ Urbana.” Another was announcing the receipt o f a “new and complete assortment of med­ icines” at Lebanon. A third was headed “A Good Teacher Want­ ed” , which proves our schools had a teacher shortage one hund­ red forty-two years ago, as well as now. Several weeks ago this office sent out to the farmers o f the Seventh District forms upon which farm bulletins could be ofrdered. thousands o f replies have been received and bulletins sent, but in a few instances our farmer friends who sent in the order forms failed to sign their name or give their addresses, So, if you have not received yonr farm- bulletins, please write us. Perhaps you are one o f those who forgot to give us the need­ ed information. Coal prices axe coming down. An electronity device has been perfected to measure as fine as one-quarter-millionth o f an inch. . F . E. Jones and associates have purchased the First Nation­ al hank in Jackson. Society item: The Duke and Dukess o f Windsor have been visiting mama In London. Ohio won the 1948 traffic saf­ ety citation. \ Pipe Dream on May Day Twine-Tying Baler Speeds Hay Harvest Made "Haylift" Work Possible in West Over the vast areas of the plains states where 1948’s unprecedented snows caused extensive suffering of both livestock and human beings, machines like the one shown above are beginning to be more appre­ ciated. , Not in the actual haylift opera­ tions, wherein grain for starving cattle and food for humans were dropped from airplanes, but in the preliminary phase of harvesting, without which the haylift would have been impossible. I fW p ff: The machine shown here turned out up to 7 bales a minute during the haying season of last year, add­ ing this tremendous output to the stockpiles of grain from which the haylift drew its supplies. Thus the machine helped to pro­ vide the thousands of “ bombs” of .baled hay with which fliers saved the lives of starving cattle in a great rescue operation. , Just a few years ago operation haylift would have been impossible. It was not until this machine was in­ troduced in the early 1940’s that farmers could put their hay into twine-tied packages automatically. Tomatoes Important While the average farmer knows the value of a garden and always sees to it that he has ample garden planted to run his family through the year, there are still some men who glean their living from the soil who don’t bother to plant a garden. The aim in gardening, at all, is to supply the household with vegeta­ bles—summer and winter; and the farmer who does this is always re­ paid not only with money saved and ■convenience of having supply imme­ diately at hand, but also by the - *"> V. nourishing value of home-processed foods. As family sizes and needs vary as much as individual tastes, the gar­ den should be as, variable as any- ■thing could be. Thus a garden be­ comes such an individual matter that the seed list for each must be individually worked out. However there is a principle in­ volved that is general -arid that is "planning.” Here is an example: ‘ The' tpmato is among the most versatile of vegetables to prepare for the table and returns the most for the garden space occupied. So, there must be tomatoes. Properly handled, harvesting may start July ,1 and tomatoes may be had fresh until several weeks after frost, or for about 120 days. At one and one- half servings a day, the fresh to­ mato amount should be about three and one-half bushels, as a serving for five persons is that needed to can a quart, a bushel canning 17 quarts. For the remaining 245 days, the tomatoes must come from cans and, allowing two servings weekly, 70 quarts are needed, or five bushels more. The total becomes eight and one-half bushels, or 510 pounds. A correctly-tended plant yields 10 pounds and 50 plants are needed. Ol these, 15 should be early (Break O’Day), and 35 late (Rutgers). Other crops may be worked out as carefully "based on family likes. New Variety of iHfalfa Officially Named Talent The, promising alfalfa variety known as French alfalfa in south­ ern Oregon variety trials has been officially named Talent alfalfa by the Oregon state college expert- ment station committee on new crop varieties, and seed increases are now underway to insure early commercial release of the variety. Talent was selected as the in honor of the community wherfc trials were conducted. ... 'ZS-30 The Cedarville, O- Herald the trouble was among the Dem­ ocrats, the Republicans enjoyed the discussion. However on the roll call, the motion was defeat­ ed. Nov,* it remains xv be seen what action the f.**r. 1 e will Sake on the matter, since Lie legisla­ tion has been hold up in the Sen­ ate for over two months. i have available 3or distribu­ tion to anyone that, li.ay be in­ terested, copies of ir.e Report of the Bureau of Code Revision, which contains the iirsl publish­ ed rules governing the revision t f law and the pr , v j e i new ar­ rangement and numbering of our Ohio Code, which has moved to be most interesting and instruc­ tive, particularly to members of the bench and bar. NEW TAX PROPOSAL The Guthrie bill proposes re­ peal o f the 3% sales tax and substituting a gross receipts tax. The Ohio chamber o f commerce opposes the bill, declaring it would mean an additional tax burden of 60 million dollars an- , nuall**. Lowell Fess Writes from the Legislature The big drive to break the pro­ gram of keeping the budget with­ in present estimated revenue and staving o ff new taxes got under way in earnest in the legislature last week. The first major move was a “ squeeze” hacked by the power­ ful school lobby, designed to in­ crease the state subsidy to equal $27,500,00, and to force the ad­ ministration to approve a gross sales tax -bill to raise the money. The “ squeezs” was manipulated in the Senate Education Com­ mittee, which recommended for passage the Guarrie-Daniels hill carrying the additional school subsidy. Three Democratic Sen­ ators joined with the G.O.P. Sen­ ators to o.k. the bill. The imme­ diate question now is whether the administration will be able to keep the sbusidy bill held” up indefinitely in the Senate Rules Committee, because it is certain to pass the Senate if it gets on the calendar Actually, this hill will do a great deal more than add $27,- 500,000 to the two-year budget if it is approved by the Senate and the House. Its effects on oth­ er appropriation demands will he such as to break the economy line to the extent of perhaps $50,- 000,000. The purpose of the in­ creased school subsidy is to give full-time school teachers a $25.00 per month increase in pay ($225.- 00 fo r the nine months school year) and make - possible pay raises also fo r non-teaching school employs. Granting such a raise to teachers will he certain to give added impetus to the drive for higher salaries for the state’s 27,000 employes on a “ cost o f living” basis, or better. An average 7.8% over-all^ in­ crease proposed by the State Salary Study Commission, now being studied by a joint legisla­ tive committee, would involve a- round $25,000,000 a year as a minimum. A large part o f this money would he furnished by the -federal government, which pro­ vides"funds for such agencies as the Bureau of unemployment Compensation, Health Depart­ ment. and others. It would not come*from state revenues, but it would, nevertheless, mean fur­ ther boosting of the budget to ­ tal. It would not require much of an'increase in the allocation to local governments to bring the 000,000 mark. That would- mean a $700,000,00 budget, approxi­ mately $724,00,000 as a matter of fact when the $24,000,000 ear­ marked by the Constitution for the retirement veterans’ bonus is ended. Everything taken into consid­ eration. the finances-tax battle in the Legislature is likely to in­ crease the bitterness and intens­ ity from now on. The outcome is in doubt, perhaps, but the power of the public school lobby and the pressure it puts on Legislators is not to be discounted. Monday night’s session passed three minor bills, one dealing with line fence disputes. The pre­ sent law provides that trustees receive a $1.50 fee for reviewing the controversial question which arises between neighbors over fences. The bill which passed the Senate provided for a $5.00 fee. Tuesday, your representative joined the facetiously-termed “grandmothers’ burial squad” which motored down to Cincin­ nati to witness the opening base­ ball game, and incidentally en­ joyed the hospitality of the Ham­ ilton County delegation which held open house at the Alms Ho­ tel for fellow members. Wednesday, the House passed Am. S. B. 94, which corrects the possibility of exorbitant charges on the business of those citizens who practice installment buying. The intent is to limit charges to 8%, with some extra service charge premitted on small obli­ gations. Am. H. B. 531 also passed with­ out a dissenting vote and af­ fects every industrial worker who is so unfortunate as to suffer an accident while in line o f duty. The measure would increase weekly benefits from $25.00 to $30.00, hike death benefits, make loss of hearing compensable, increase payment periods for loss o f a hand, arm, foot and leg, and give larger benefits to workers af­ flicted with silicosis. In addition to this, S. B. 142 was passed out o f committee Wednesday night. This will meet a .great deal of opposition when it comes up for vote by the en­ tire House, since it makes a pay­ ment of $30.00 per week fo r em­ ployes laid off. This, of course, is the unemployment compensa­ tion measure. 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