The Cedarville Herald, Volume 72, Numbers 1-26

The Cedarviile Herald A Republican Newspaper Published Every Friday by THURMAN MILLER. JR. Entered as second class matter October 31, 1887 at the Postof­ fice at Cedarviile, Ohio, under A ct o f Congress o f March, 1879. Member—National Editorial As­ sociation; Ohio Newspaper Asso­ ciation; Miami Valley Press As­ sociation. Editorial THIS ‘N’ THAT It’s been a fine spring for fish- in*, anglers tells us. . ..Farmers find it easier to get men to do odd jobs than at any time since the w a r .. , Debates on the proper time to plant corn, indulged in by theorists, practical farmers and observers, never settle anything, but most o f the debater's admit that hitting the right kind o f weather is the biggest paid o f it. Farmers, who woi'k or write, ea­ gres that 1949 is going to require a lot o f belt tightening and sus­ pender-buckling to make ends meet. . . Another farmer observa­ tion, while we’re at it: Fanners and their organizations are try­ ing to defeat government hand­ outs. . . The Dieppe quintuplets, believe it or not, ai'o 15 year;: old, and are no longer cute babies, but more of the proportions of their squat mama, the mother of eight others. . . . i'ine little ladies, folk say, and still Attraction No. 1 with many visitors to Canada. . . “Happy Chandler*,” baseball gen­ eralissimo, has told Leo Durocher to “ keep still.” Nest the commis­ sioner will be ordering Niagara Falls, tc stop roaring. . .Ezzat Mohammad, who has a girl in his home town in Pakistan, where- ever that is, kissed her in public and was fined 60 cents. Not being able to reach Ezzy for an inter­ view, we take Drew Pearson’s place to predict that lie says it was worth every cent of it. CUFF NOTES 0 A Los Angeles hotel provides parking space fo r automobiles on its roof. Before long there won’t he narking space* even in the . ky. . . Newsprint production is up 9%, and consumption Is up a- bout twice that . . Cheer lip* farmers! That friend of the soil, Louis Broinfidd, has “ switched” to a certain brand of liquor, the advertisements ..ay. He’ll prob­ ably advise women, whom he ac­ cused o f being unpatriotic be­ cause they don't want to mix. color in oleo in the kitchen—he'll be advising them to switch to plowing. . . An atom bomb is a- boufc the size of a softball, but is a mite harder to take on the fly in the cutfield. . . A Cleveland man has invented a dial that works like a telephone dial to select favorite parages in the Bible. Does- ho guarantee not to get the wrong number? . , . . Princess Margaret has gone to Italy on a vacation, and the world is agog. Our Margaret has signed to sing, which is less expensive that a train load of trunks. . . Sally Rand is being sued for $7,- 000 by a man who says she owes him that much for fans. Has she “ switched” to Venetian blinds ? THIS IS DERBY WEEK. Octogenarian Matt Winn, the colonel of all Kentucky Colonels, is staging his annual top-shelf racing event, the Kentucky Der­ by this here cornin’ Sat’ty. By this time you’ve heard and read all the dope, none of which we hope is shot into any hoss. Greene countians are born with a cer­ tain germ of love of horses and racing in their blood, and while Confidential infnlrmatfyn about the results o f the race can be ob­ tained the surest way is to get the I-told-you-sos after the race is over. WHAT DO YOU MEAN, FREE? The president proposes govern­ ment measures making all med­ ical service free—spectacles, pills, hospitalization, trusses, ar.d who knows, galluses! Free, the man says! But the “ unestimated cost” (the president won’t even risk a guess at what the cost will be) is to be paid by a new 3f 1 pay­ roll tax and higher income taxes. So that will make it free— free like every other government service, with bureaucratic man­ agement. How much do you sup­ pose would be left of the 3% af­ ter overhogs had their fill at the trough ? YOU OWE YOUR SHARE Do you know what the govern­ ment has spent on farm products in purchases or loans? Want to guess? This will make is easier: Eggs, 50 millions (dollars, that i s ) ; hogs, 75 millions; pork, 100 millions; dried milk, 30 millions; potatoes (better lean on some­ thing strong) 200 millions; corn, lVs billions; wheat (estimated) 1 billion. Sales, are o ff, the govern­ ment says. And the eggs won’t hatch, nor the hogs wee-wee all the wav home! ELLIOTT ERUPTS Son Elliott has a fiery story in a magazine, lambasting the writer o f an article in another magazine who said FDR’s health was bad fo r a long time before his death. Elliott §ays ‘taint so! Why is this? MOVING IN—AND OUT Moving Jews .into the “prom­ ised land,” and forcing out Arabs who have lived there always pre­ sent a problem that even the ancients never tried to solve ex­ cept by the same method we used on the American Indians. Inflation is over, finance stu­ dents agree, and deflation will result in further price declines. Friday, aMay 6, 1949 SCAT, SAMMY! New trees are being planted on the grounds o f the statehouse in Columbus. Sammy Squirrel and his tribe .who own the place are rebelling. They gnawing the hark o ff the young, tender trees. Lob­ bying measures at the capito* gets in the blood. p r r i n n “* c 4S2 b .> BR. KE8SETS 1 F03ESAH scniPTirr.E: 11:27—12:4-1. DEVOTIONAL IvKADlNG: MarSs 12 : 1 - 12 . Jesus find Clitics Lesson for May 8, 1949 D URING JESUS’ last week, his enemies were firing at point- blank range. They were dead set to kill him; but they did not want to da that if t h e y could r u i n bim r " some other way. ; |j What they tried to 5|’ do was to make * him cut citix rascal cr a f. - bath. Mark’s shoe’s rw toc-k it. The first ticn t h e y asked sounded perfectly «.* i**. S . quo?- uMitflfe. Dr. Foreman fair. “ Where aid you yet your au- thoriiy?" As v;e ?..v. lust week, Jesus ha:! :imply trem- endous authority. W; \;:*i it fair to ask him vda-ze !:-.- f ?**> The tr-M-M? was t: :::t the men who asked the qua . :nns didn’ t want to knew. They to heckle Jesus. s.:.Iy wanted this fellow anyway? ha his start? what ; ke hz ve, where is Jus Jer never answered The world is full of just such license-hunting snoopers a s these. They tla not like it when a man succeeds. They partic­ ularly do not like it when a man succeeds without their help. family die; this question, bcee.u.- * he knew why they asked it. C.lcvh 11:27-33.) * * * Taxes I N JESUS’ TIME you could not vote either for more taxes, cr less. Yoil paid v.v.at the Roman soldier at your deoz raid to pay, and you were thankful not to ho poked in the ribs with Ins. sword while you were fishing up the mon­ ey. But no one dared to comp-lain. The Romans had some deep dank dungeons for people who com­ plained about high taxes. So the next question Jesus’ enemies ashed him was about taxes, or tribute, which means the same tiling. They thought they had Jesus on a s„v*t where whatever ha caul would put him in the wrong. Suppose he said: “ Yes, pay taxes by all means,” Then they would snarl: “Boot­ licker of the Romans- Traitor to your country!” But if Jeeus said, “No, don’t pay taxes,” then they would howl: “ Trees, a! Police?! Ar­ rest this man who defie s the Em­ peror!” Jesus’ answer was a mas­ terpiece, because lie not only did not dodge the hot question, he did not leave the questa i.ers a leg to stand on. (Mark 12:17). * <V Hairspliiters by Trade T HE CRITICS of Jesus wore hair- splitters by trade. Yet none "of them had ever been able to an­ swer another tricky quoitien with which they row expected to floor Jesus. “ Which is the greatest com­ mandment of all?” The ques­ tion had teen going the rounds for generations. The greatest minds in Jcwcry had wrestled with it. But it was a foolish question after all. ■Which, is tka m:y£ important brick is a wall? What r .ritl'.a cn a vclley-bali team is the ir.Gst important? What is the most im­ portant link in a chair.? An answer to these questions would scorn about as easy as answering that one about the greatest commandment. Jesus knew they were trying to show him up as a bungler, as a very poor ar.d amateurish hairsplitter indeed. But instead, he did what no one ex­ pected him to do: he answered their question, and answered it so well that it is one of the cornerstones of our religion today. ♦ * * How to Take Criticism T HE READER should consult Mark for the whole story. It bristles with practical thoughts, one of the most practical being how to take criticism. All of us can take it from our friends and families: we know they mean it for our own good. But criticism that is unfair, from people who want only to show us up for fools or to get us into hot water—that is hard to take. Jesus should be aur example. He did not let other people’s criticisms interfere with his work. He never avoided crit­ icism.: He did not “ twist the lion's tail, he did not deliber­ ately provoke criticism. But he would not claim exemption from what every one lias to stand, being looked over and rated by the people who knew Mm. He never broke his heart over what people said of him. He did not go around crying to himself. (Copyright by the Intematioaal Coun­ cil o i Religious Education on behalf Of 10 Protestant denominations. Released by WNC fea tu re s. .. ” CLARENCE J. BROWN Writes With a Buckeye In Confess Domestic problems have taken second position in official Wash­ ington to the discussions now Suing on between American and Russian diplomats over the pos­ sibility of lifting the Berlin hluckade. President Truman and Secretary of State Acheson are taking Russian proposals fo r set­ tling Berlin and German prob­ lems seriously. It is entirely pos­ sible bv the time this column ap­ pears in print Berlin will again be an open city with its block­ ade and the Allied airlift a thing o f the past. The situation in Chi­ na, however, has become more alarming, as Soviet Russia may he shifting her expansion plans from Europe to the Orient. Secretary o f State Acheson has asked a Senate Committee for one billion, one hundred thir­ ty million dollars to furnish arms and munitions during the next year to . the European nations which have joined the North At­ lantic Defense Pact. Some top military leaders estimate the total cost o f arming Western Eu­ rope against Russian aggression will run at least thirty billion dollars. As a result, many Sena­ tors are asking more complete in­ formation before voting ratifica­ tion o f the North Atlantic De­ fense Pact now before the Senate. For some time controversy has been raging over the Navy’s six- .ty-five-dhousand-ton plane car­ rier, planned as the largest ship in the. world to cost about two hundred million dollar’s. Laying the keel of this new ship, the U. S. S., started two weeks ago. Last week Secretary of.Defense Johnson suddenly issued an order- stopping its construction. John L. Sullivan, Secretary o f the Navy, immediately r e s i g n e d , charging the stoppage had never been discussed with him. In a bitter letter to the Defense Sec­ retary, Mr. Sullivan broadly hint­ ed plana were afoot to consoli­ date all Navy and Marine aviation into the A ir'Force, and the Ma­ rine Corps itself into the Army. This has been denied by Defense Secretary Johnson, however. A few days earlier Secretary of the Army, Kenneth Royall, resigned his post. For the first time in memory, the nation has ’men with­ out either a Secretatry of the Army or Secretary o f the Navy the last several days. ' Ten days ago the Federal Re­ serve Board again loosened con­ trols on installment "buying free­ ing from regulations all purchases under one hundred dollars and re­ ducing to ten percent down-pay­ ment requirement for purchases over one hundred dollars, except automobiles, and increasing the time limit on payments to twenty- four months. Then late last week the Federal Reserve Board re­ duced bank reserve requirements so as to make more than a billion and one-half dollars o f present reserve funds available for loans, credit requirements and making Reserve Board actions easing available more funds for hank loans, of course, in an attempt to bloster business and industrial activity, and to put the brake on the rapidly developing Truman depression. Senator John W. Bricker and your humble reporter last week introduced in the Senate and House identical bills to provide Federal aid to the States and the local school districts for the con­ struction of public school build­ ings and facilities. Under the bills the Federal Government would contribute, on the basis* of school population, from forty per­ cent to ninety percent of the funds needed for school construc­ tion, according to the amount o f money the local schools could pro­ vide. The bill specifieially pro­ hibits any Federal interference with, or authority over, the ad­ ministration, persorinel, mainte­ nance, or opeartion of any school receiving aid. The Federal aid provided would help meet the present shortage o f school build­ ings and would permit school dis­ tricts to spend their available fund from local taxes fo r oper­ ating expenses, rather than fo r meeting interest and sinking fund requirements on bonded debt for school construction, thus per­ haps making unnecessary the a- doption o f any permanent Fed- eral-aid-to-education p r o g r a m which might result in Federal eontrol^qf local school operations. The Bricker-Brown Bills calls for the expenditure o f two hundred fifty million dollars a year for five rears only as emergency aid to public school construction. Last week the Ohio Delegation in Congress were luncheon hosts in the Speaker’s Dining Room to twelve Ohio youngsters, winners in the American Legion ’ Essay Contest on the subject “ The A - tnerican Way—What Is I t ? ” Two winners were from the Seventh District—Miss Juney Fasick, high school senior o f Springfield, and Bobby Grear o f South Solon High, Madison County. The essays o f these young Americans were con­ sidered worthy o f insertion in the Congressional Record for Mem­ bers of Congress and the nation generally to read. Labor legislation which’ kept the House in hectic debate far four days last week is scheduled fo r further consideration this week. The issue involved is wheth­ er the Administration’s attempt to repeal the Taft-IIartley Act and rewrite the old Wagner Act into law shall prevail, or the sub­ stitute Wood.Bill, which would re­ tain all of the important provi­ sions of the Taft-Hartley Act with a few moderating changes, shall constitue the new labor law. Craig Rice, lady ‘ detective story writer, is suing a Califor­ nia store for $75,000 false ar­ rest, Store detectives thought she had taken the cake o f soap in *her handbag. She hadn’t. The Hoover commission on re­ vision o f the executive depart­ ment o f the government is con­ tained in 18 reports. $ Congressmen have had very little mail asking repeal o f the Taft-Hartley law. Wisconsin Grower Wins Barley Test Contest Conducted In Seven-State Area Vernon H. Moore, of Rock coun­ ty, Wisconsin, was named winner of the 1948 malting barley contest con­ ducted in seven, midwest states by the Midwest Barley Improvement Association. As an award for his accomplish­ ment, Moore received $1,000 in cash, a handsome trophy, ’and a special ribbon of honor, as well as an all­ expense trip to Minneapolis. DryCribCorn Farmers with corn in the crib are beginning to have a few ques­ tions in their minds. Some of the ‘ corn may be quite'high in moisture content and warmer weather will add to the problems of handling the com. W. H. Sheldon, agricultural en­ gineer at Michigan state college, says that wet corn will keep indef­ initely while frozen. The problem is what to do with the wet com that is still in the crib when warmer weather returns. One solution is to feed it out before the weather warms up. How­ ever, in many cases large quanti­ ties may be on hand and cannot be used rapidly. E x p e r i m e n t s in Michigan, Oh i o , Indiana, Mlinu's and Iowa, have shown that healed air can be used to dry wet com. Blow­ ing unheated air through the crib with a hay drier fan will not take out very much water, but it will keep the com as cool as the air and greatly retard mold growth. Fruit Jars Usable In'Fumigant Spray If the- garden plot is small,* J* c - Ford, Auburn Polytechnic Insti­ tute^ extension service garden spe-* cialist says, the correct -.amount of fumigant per row can hesl he CP' plied by using a fruit jar. .A A 10-or-20-penny nail hole should be made near one margin- of the jar lid through which t6>.pour the liquid. A somewhat smaller air hole is necessary near,the-;ppposlte. side of the lid. ------- ---- — . Vernon H. Moore (left) of Clin­ ton, Wisconsin, winner of the 1948 malting barley contest conducted in seven midwest states by the Midwest Barley Improvement . Association, receives his awards from Herbert H. Ladish, treas­ urer of the association, in cere­ monies held in Minneapolis. ' In addition to the regional award, Moore received the first Wisconsin state prize of $500, a county prize of $25, and state and county 'tro­ phies. In the final judging, Moore’ s Barley competed with samples from more than 125 carloads of the grain grown by contestants in the seven- state area. The prize-winning barley was of the Kindred variety, and was grown on 50 acres of Moore’ s 186 acre farm. The prize-winning barley was se­ lected by a ccunmiUcc of juugea which included representatives of the U. S. department of agriculture. Each farmer taking part in the competition was required to enter a full carload of barley,'or to join with not more than four other bar­ ley growers in making up a carload shipment. Only varieties of barley approved for malting purposes in each of the seven states was ac­ cepted in the competition. Samples from contest cars were used as the basis for judging the grain. Sons or daughters of cash prize­ winners who assisted in growing the crop and who were between the ages of 12 and 21, received special farm youth award prizes equal to 10 per cent of the cash prizes won by the parent. Lowell Fess Writes from the Legislature •This week followed the general routine, which is to consider more or less trivial legislation on Mon­ days and Thursdays, and more controversial legislation on Tues­ days and Wednesdays. On Tuesday, for the first time in history, an urban redevelop­ ment bill passed the House of Representatives by a vote of. 120 to 8. It now goes to the Senate where it is predicted it will al­ most as warm a welcome. Twice in the last four years the urban- dominated Senate has approved slum clearance measures, but they always died in rurai-domi- nated houses.' This particular bill did not provide for public hous­ ing; iq^a.ct, this legislation seems to me to enable cities to solve the.ir slum clearance problems with their own resources. The only objection some of us had was the percentage for floating bonds which is set at 55%. An attempt was made by amendment to raise this to .65%, but the amendment was defeated. There is another bill, H. B. 179, which provides for-'public hous­ ing with federal money. This has met with very strong opposition in the Taxation Committee, but was reported out from that com­ mittee by a vote o f 12 to 6. It will now go to the Rules Commit­ tee,and its passage on the floor .of th e House is problematical. Principal provisions of the ur­ ban redevelopment bill are that any city may acquire a blighted area by purchase, gift, or con­ demnation, and clear it for rede­ velopment under a plan adopted by the city’s planning commission after the City Council, following two hearings, has determined an area to be blighted. The bill specifically states a blighted erea is an area “ in which a majority of the structures is determined to the public health, safety, or welfare by reason o f age, dilapi­ dation, overcrowding, faulty ar­ rangements, lack o f ventilation bination of these factors,” and or sanitavv facilities, or any eom- if a majority of the structures “fails to conform to the provis­ ions comprising the building code relating to safety, health or sani­ tation” in the city. A Council must make provisions fo r tem­ porary relocation of displaced families and reimburse displaced families for moving expenses. The blighted area is to be bought ed by 55% of the voters. The by the city with general tax rev­ enues. or by a bond issue approv- cleared land is to be sold to “pub­ lic bodies” and any remainder sold within six years in accor­ dance with the redevelopment plan. On Wedneesday, after passing three bills, the very controver­ sial issue initiated by petition of the people—Amended Senate Bill No. 6—which provides for factory yellow coloring of oleomargar­ ine was up for consideration. This bill was debated for over two. hours and was finally de­ feated by a vote of 74 to 56, which came on a motion to table the measure. The bill showed a top strength of 59, but three of its supporters changed their votes at the last minute to be i n ' a position to move for reconsidera­ tion befeore the deadline next Monday night. However, the prospects for reconsideration are very dim. In vie wof this defeat, I understand that the sponsors of the petitions by which the bill was initiated plan on circulating additional pettions to obtain 70, 000 more signatures, in order to place the issue on the ballot in Ohio next November. This has probably been the most controversial issue to date before the General Assembly, and 1 know that my vote on this mea­ sure will not please all Greene county citizens. I felt sincerely that the dairy industry would be adversely affected should this bill become law, and therefore cast my vote against the bill. Other developments during the week included the introduction A NAME TH AT STANDS FOR GOOD FURNITURE L HUDGET PLAN AVA ILABLE ADAIR’S Buy Where You Get More For Your -Money That is the B & B LOAN 63 W. Main St. Springfield, O. OPEN EVENINGS Diamonds - Watches - Jewelry Luggage - Trunks - Suits Coats - Guns - Rifles - Reels Rods - Typewriters - Radios and Musical Goods MONEY TO LOAN TOO ! DEAD STOCK Horses $3.00 Cows $3.00 According to Size and Condition CALL Xenia 454 Reverse Charges XEN IA FERTILIZER E. G. Buchsieb, Inc. WATCHYOURSAVINOS CROW Individual Accounts Insured Up To $5,000 Current Dividend Bate 2% . CedarviileFederal Savings &LoanAssn. Cedarviile, Ohio of a substitute bill to replace the Guthrie gross sales tax bill in the Senate. This bill proposes to partially restore some of the 1c tax repealed a year ago and elim­ inate the use o f prepaid tax stamps. It would levy lc on sales from 15c through 49 cents; 2 cents on sales o f 50 through 83 cents, and 3c on sales of 84 cents to $1.14, and on up. It would re­ quire sales tax on cigarettes, beer, wine and liquor (all now exempt except liquor by the drink) and remove the px*esent exemption on casual sales of more than $100.00 Of the 39 mil­ lion dollars estimated additional revenue which this bill w o u l d raise, 6 million dollars would be In administrative costs. The tax­ es on liquor, beer and wine pro­ posed in the bill Would be in lieu of S. B. 99, which proposed a 50% increase in liquor license fees for the benefit of* local gov­ ernments. The controversial FEPC bill came out of the Senate Committee by a vote of 5 to 0, wkh several amendments, but none of the amendments changed the FEPC bill from the compulsory program to the voluntary educational pro­ gram. ’ The controversial turnpike bill was likewise renorted out of the House Highways Committee by a vote of 12 to 6. SHANKS WINS HONORS Carl H. Shanks, Bowersville native and for many years su­ perintendent of Clinton county schools, was made an honor ci­ tizen of Minnesota by winsome BeBe Shoppe, of Minneapolis. As “ Miss America” the beauty was in Wilmington last week. 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