The Cedarville Herald, Volume 72, Numbers 27-52

Friday, June 24, 1949- The CedarviHe 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 Act o f Congress o f March 1879. Member—National Editorial As* eociation; Ohio Newspaper Asso­ ciation; Miami Valles1Press As­ sociation. ant” had been making a round of 'family picnics. The old-fashioned boy who swtiched the buggy wheels on an out -o f -town rival for his girl has a grandson who lets' the air out of tires. t hsfs *** i International Uniform Sunday School Letsor.i iaM tsfe k e p i t b j . - f M i f W * E d ito ria l AROUND HOME A new telephone directory can get lost as easily as an old one, but it’s is easier to find. Don Barger is supervising the playground at Jamestown, and we hurry to say that it is in good hands. Don Barger is an insti­ tution in Cedarville. He helps in the printing office, and does his work there like he does 'every­ thing^—100 9r. Many o f our neighbors had their names drawn from the jury wheel for jury duty on the coun­ ty ’s murder trial set for July 18. From GO names the prosecu­ tor hopes to get the necessary 12. One of the churches had each father bring a son, bis own or somebody else’s son, to cburch on Father’s Day. That way the lad can see if dad really wore that necktie! July 4 brings another James­ town Bar-J rodeo show, in which the community takes a big in­ terest. It’s a 10 A. M.-to-all’s-ov- er program, and the neighbor­ hood folk will all be there. BRIEF COMMENTS The most un-American phrase occurring in the newspaper is “ John L. Lewis calls out his miners” and John L. Lewis sends his miners back to work.” The mater of a man “ caPjtfg o ff” his men and “ sending his men to work” was fought out and can­ celed as an idea some 800 years ago. die ages knew no commanding of men like we see it in the mid­ dle 20th century. GOP strategists propose a pro­ gram o f farm aid that includes development of farm products fo r use in industry, like grain to he mixed with gasoline. Most of the mixtures with wasoline at present result in ditching auto­ mobiles. Whatever the blundering and bungling committees do and say in Washington, the folks back home and students of his work and service will continue to be­ lieve that John Edgar Hoover has had few equals and no sup­ eriors in service to his country. HE’ S Stubborn President Truman is stubborn, that has been demonstrated time and time again. Very recently he declared emphatically, as he has before, that the furor against spies and subversives is “hys­ teria.” . He called, you remember, the trial of Communists a “ red: herring.” With evidence piling up, confessions o f acts o f espion­ age, undenied charges of secrets handed out to foreign countries— in the face o f all this the presi­ dent continues to speak of the people’s outrage against it as “ hysteria.” He’s stubborn, that man is. THE WEEK’ S LAUGH The hurryup plane trip a Washington official took to Tex­ as to demand that the governor refuse to sign the hill the Texas legislature had passed nullify­ ing the rent-control law in Tex­ as. What? Telling Texas! Why not nm out and; tell the Atlantic ocean to dry up and go back where it belongs—it would have been a shorter trip and just as practical. , DOCTORING CIO’s Reuther rises up to de­ mand that management, labor and government join in a unit­ ed effort to prevent depression. He says depressions are man­ made, and what man makes he cart unmake or prevent from be­ ing made. He says that unemploy­ ment is a result of people not having the price "to pay for manu­ factured products, and that the way out is higher wages, That’s what the man says! DEMAND SIMPLE CARS The public has begun to de­ mand a gadgetless automobile. Folks are tired of chrome and ex­ tras. Width, accessories, wild painty arc out of the public’s thinking and beyond its means. “Build us an automobile, with stress on simplicity, efficiency and comfort, “ the public asks. Meantime, economicsts agree that a low-priced line of cars might and give and upswing to the sag­ ging curve of the lines across the sales chart. The paper teels about a man, who trying to work up a,plot for a story, struck his wife with a o f the tale was the judge’s 90 days. General Eisenhower told Col­ umbia graduates that centreliz- ed power in our government is more of a threat than any for­ eign country can ever be. Every­ thing that is done fo r the people weakens them, and. everything they do for themselves strength­ ens them. Civilization, a sociologist pre­ dicts, will last 40,000 years. The way it’s headin’, prof? A Notre Dame pronouncement o f policy speaks o f its “ honest jealism .” AAnd not a dime paid fo r football: players! The prilosopher who advised making it personal) to “ go to the SCRIPTURE: Matthew 28:16-20; Mark 10:14-20; Luke 24:4S-53: Acta 1:1-14. PfAhr^ws 7**5 DEVOTIONAL READING: I Corin­ thians 1:1-9. He Lives On Lesson for June 26, 1949 Dr. Foreman W HAT IS JESUS, after all? A name in a book? A picture on the walls of churches? More than that! A historical character? Foun­ der of a great re­ ligion? More than that! He is the one and only Person who can be every­ where. He would he important i£ he had only lived; he is far more so be­ cause he lives on, But where does he live, and how? Christians would often feel lonely and discouraged, if it were not for one thing. They know Jesus prays for them. In long-ago times the High Priest of Israel used to pass beyond his peo­ ple’s sight into the silent Holy of Holies, and when he did, the people knew that in that sacred place he was bearing on his heart the whole people, the people whom he served. So the writer to the Hebrews, in the New Testament, pictures Jesus as the perfect High Priest, who has passed beyond our sight, beyond the beautiful blue veil of heaven, into the very presence of God, where he lives, now to intercede for his people who are ever on his heart. Jesus lives on today in the life of prayer which we believe is still his. No matter what comes to the Christian, he can remember that Ona is praying for him who is stronger than all the world of evil. “ Greater is he that is for us; than he that is against us,” said John the Apostle. « • • In His Book T UKE tells us that Jesus had to A* show some of his: friends his own picture in the Did Testament. His portrait is not very plain there, but in the New Testament it is very plain indeed. The Bible leads up to Christ, he is Its crowning, figure. The Bible is, so to speak, a frame for his picture. Many a person, in remote regions of the world, has become Christian just by reading about Christ in some stray copy of the New Testament. The reader be­ gins by reading about Jesus—then ti«pages come alive, and he meets Jesfcs, face to face. Jesus lives on, wherever the Bible goes. * * » In His People C HURCHES may argue among themselves about what Jesus meant by this or that. But there cannot be any argument about one thing. When Jesus left his friends behind, he gave them orders to go tell the world about him. “Make disciples of all nations . . . Ye shall be my witnesses,” A. shut-mouthed Christian isn’t much of a Christian. A shut-mouthed church is a poor sort of church. (Is it really a church at; all?) We do not believe that Jesus expected his followers all to become preachers. Indeed, we should, remember that all the first Christians were laymen. But they got results. One hundred twenty people grew to be three thousand, five • thousand, in a few weeks. What is the reason that 120 Christians today don’t win 3,000 converts? One reason is that you wbuld probably find those 120 Christians complaining that their church is “ vacant,” they don’t have a pastor. The early Christians mighj have thought that very funny. How can a church be vacant with 120 people In It? Christ lives in his church. » * * Into A1I the World C HRISTIANITY is the only relig­ ion that can stand transplanting into any climate. There is no other religion that can number its peo­ ple from the Arctic to the equator, and from east to west around the world. But this Is not an accident. It would not have happened by itself. Jesus; himself in Galilee walked wherever he went, and in all his grown-up life he did not walk farther from his birthplace than you could drive in an after­ noon. But he walks or every shore. Where ship and. camel and plane carry the: missionary, there goes Christ; where the airwaves carry his message, there is he. Wherever Christ- ! Ians go, Christ goes la them and with them. * He lives everywhere today where Christians live, he walks on Christ­ ians’ feet. Beside the four Gospels in print, there is the Gospel Ac­ cording to You. Does Jesus live in and through you? ' (Copyright; by the International Coun­ cil ot Religious EducaUon on behalf of to Protestant denominations. Released by WNU Features. ____ , CLARENCE J. BROWN Writes With a Buckeye In Congress The House last week approved a hill which will give increased pay to all those in military ser­ vice. The largest increase, both, in dollars and percentage-wice, will go to high ranking officers. The total additional cost will he hetter than 300 million dollars a year. A somewhat similar mili­ tary pay increase bill, which would have cost 40,0 million dol­ lars a year, was rejected by the House three weeks ago. After thirty days of bicker­ ing a Congressional conference committee has promised the dif­ ference between the House and Senate versions o f the bill which would give President Truman power to submit to the Congress plans to reorganize the Executive Branch of the Gogernmnet a- long the lines recommended by the Hoover Commission. Under the hill, which has been sent to the White House, either branch of Congress, by a constitutional majority, can kill any reorgani­ zation plan submitted by the President, but unless such action is taken within sixty days after it is submitted the reorganiza­ tion plan becomes effective. The Federal Government’s fiscal year will end June 30. A t that time figures will show our Government 6 billion dollars worse o f f than at this time last year. In other words, instead of a surplus o f 4.5 billion dollars—■ as o f last June 30—there will he a deficit o f about 1.5 billion. The deficit fo r the coming fiscal year, which starts July 1, is esti­ mated to run at least 3.5 to 4 billion dollars, and much more i f the Truman depression and the worse; or i f many of the Admin­ istration-sponsored bills now pending before the Congress be­ come law. The President’s budget for the coming fiscal year has already reached 42 billion 150 million dollars, to which will be added funds fo r European mili­ tary aid o f over a billion dollars, bringing his total budget fo r the next year up to 43.5 billion dol­ lars. The present Democratic Congress has appropriated more than 36 billion dollars and auth­ orized an additional 13 billion in expenditures, for the coming fiscal year, while its legislative committees have approved and reported out measures which will cost an additional 10 billion, if enacted into law. The 81st Con­ gress, which is pretty well con­ trolled by the left-wing element, will go down in history as the “ spendthrift Congress.” The left-wing groups in the House and Senate are expected to soon introduce legislation to put over a huge spending pro­ gram, which will include the con­ struction and operation o f fac­ tories and industries by the Gov­ ernment as a means of meeting eimilar bills authorizing the Government to make loans-for industrial production, or to con­ struct plants and go into comp­ etition with private industrial and business, were introduced last January at the request o f the Truman Administration, but at that time Congress was told such legislation was necessary to prevent run-a-way inflation, which somehow has failed to de­ velop. Most Washington observers are expecting the British Govern- me»t, notwithstanding official statements to the contrary, to soon devalue the pound sterling from $4.03 down to somewhere around $3.00 ox* less. The pur­ pose—to permit the British to better compete for world trade. Ineidently, American oil inter­ ests are complaining bitterly over Britain’s recent deal with Argen­ tina to supply all of that nation’s oil and gasoline needs for the next five years. American oil concerns had previously control­ led the Argentine market. World trade is growing highly compet­ itive with other nations taking over many foreign markets from American producers. Official figures released late last week by one of the Govern­ ment agencies show that during the month o f May unemployment in the United States increased by approximately 275 thousand- mostly in factories and indust­ rial plants. Despite statements to the contrary the situation is grave concern. Usually the num­ ber o f emplpyed persons increas­ es during the Spring o f each year, and especially May. The recent action of the De­ partment o f Justice in making am nfidential FBI information pub­ lic in connection with the trial o f a Government woman clerk charged-with giving secret data to a Russian official has created quite a controversy in Washing­ ton. It is understood that J. Ed­ gar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau o f investigation, has of­ fered his resignation to Tom Clark the Attorney General. Ru­ mor has it that Hoover is dis­ gusted with the way some Feder­ al officials have been playing “ footsie” with the radical ele­ ment. I f a show-down comes the Congress and the American peo­ ple will undoubtedly back Edgar Hoover and the FBI against At­ torney General and other Admin­ istrative officials. Accompanied by Mrs, Brown, your reporter spent Friday and Saturday at Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, where we went to law school more than a half century ago, and, as a member o f the official U. S. Bicentennial Commission, attend­ ed the ceremonies. marking the 200th Anniversary o f the fam­ ous University. MEN GROW 'BEARDS The men o f Greenfield are growing full beards to appear more r e a lis tic at the sesqni- cen ­ tennial set fo r September. COW INJURED A valuable Holstein cow be­ longing to F . L. Brown, High­ land county farmer, was struck by a hit-skip motorist and badly injured. Though the animal was dragged fo r several rods, the driver .managed to right his car and drive rapidly awav observ­ ers say. The Cedarville, O* Herald' 1 , < $ $ $ ! ) M r - Farm Buying Power Still Shows Gains Increase Well Above Cost of Living Rate The current drop in living costs has given the average city wage- earner approximately the same buying power today that he enjoyed in June, 1946, final month of OPA. Though the farmer’ s buying power has edged off with the drop in food prices ii is bumping against government price supports, and still shows a gain that is well over double the increase in the cost of living, according to a chart study of our ten-ye.ar-old war boom, made by the family economics bureau of Northwestern National Life Insur­ ance company. Ten years ago last winter you could buy a new four-door sedan for $825, sirloin steak was 39 cents a pound, milk averaged 12% cents a quart, and you could build a five-room modern house for around $3,000—but we had 10 million un­ employed. Then European rearma­ ment orders sparked our recovery MITWCOMlU **3AOO t93Q l94$tw> TOT*«00 ■ w y u * i « « f l.'4 Cu0k°'}9M raw ' ♦V 1339‘1940’ 1941'1942' IEMI11944' 194511946119471194& The above chart plots the course of the 10-year war boom. In January, 1939, America had 10 million unemployed and 44 mil­ lion at work. Annual net in­ come per farm was $702. Indus­ trial wages averaged $24 a week, an annual rate of 1,248. from a nine-year-old depression, the study recalls. After an even 10 years of recov­ ery, boom, inflation, and tapering off, the score stands as follows: Net annual income per farm 300 per­ cent higher—it was $702 in 1939, reached $2,915 in 1948, and had sagged to an annual rate of $2,800 by January, 1949. Weekly indus­ trial wages up 130 per cent—from $24 in January of ’39 to approxi­ mately $55 in January of ’49. Liv­ ing costs 71 per cent higher than 10 years ago, after nearly a four- point drop in the last few months. Finally, about three million unem­ ployed—a normal “ float” , as economists call it. Wage rates show ’a gain of 26 and a half per cent since June, 1946, while the cost of living index now stands just 28 per cent higher than" in that final month of OPA. The actual living cost increase has been somewhat less than 28 per cent, the study says, since the gov­ ernment index naturally makes no allowance for over-ceiling prices wlfich were general in the latter months of OPA; thus tha wage- earner’ s paycheck of today buys, him as much or slightly more than his paycheck of June, 1946, the study finds. . - . Percentage increases in worker paychecks do not reflect sharp ad­ ditional gains made in so-called “ fringe” payments during, the past decade, such as more vacations, holidays, sick-leave, pension pro­ grams; elc., the study points out. Poultry House Cleaner *p"*ssaas?8f;| I \ y ■*- * ■.ggfe- ■' * A superior poultry house clean­ ings method has now been found— cleaning with a high-pressure sprayer. As shown here, the high- pressure spray actually pulver­ izes the dirt and drippings and blasts them away. Food Ma­ chinery and Chemical Corpora­ tion developed the -sprayer that is doing the cleaning, it is said to do a better and cheaper clean­ ing job, faster and easier. Hormones May Limit Frost Damage in Tim# American apple: growers," usual­ ly hard hit financially by late spring frosts will soon be able to avoid that obstacle. A combination of tracers (radioactive atoms) and hormones may make it possible to keep apple buds dosed until the cold season has passed—thus saving the industry millions' of dollars lost ^annually through damaged fruit. A 'spray would be used to cover fruit and prevent freezes. ’ ff V& Tw iA fHilTxv ini lh/.W.*r.?T7 important Rending legislation* at other times demanded enact ment o f bills without consultin the leaders. The existing situa tion not only is such that it ha. offended legislators, but the' actually do not f e e l overt, welcome in the Governor’s Of­ fice. Also priding himself on his independence from political or­ ganizations and public officials, the Governor has carried it to an extreme this year in his deal­ ings, or absence o f dealings, with the Legislature, and this has caused the unusual condition we find ourselves in at the present time. Observers are agreed that the situation existing between the Governor and the Legislature has now developed to such on e x ­ tent that any substantial repair before adjournment is imposs­ ible. This week’s work opened with a violent debate on a proposal to provide for the dismissal of pub­ lic employes who belong to an organization which advocates tha overthrow of our form of gov­ ernment by force, violence,. of other unlawful means, and the proposal passed by a vote of lOf to 15, g1 Amoftg other measures consid­ ered was one pertaining to thei lowering of the vote percentage for voting bonds from G5% to 55(<>, which was passed by a very narrow margin, the vote be­ ing 69 to 46, with my vote no. Another proposal which nar­ rowly squeaked through was t permit boards of education ’ t pay the expenses of any employ for attending professional meet ings. This bill received 68 votes which is the minimum require to pass again I voted no. ~ Korea is planting over 200 mil lion trees. Lowell Fess Writes from the Legislature I have received a number of communications from citizens of Greene County desiring to know why the delay and apparent con­ fusion that seems to exist in our legislative halls during this ses­ sion. In this news letter, I should like to make some general obser­ vations. If the present 98th Gen­ eral Assembly achieves no other record, it almost certainly will go down in the books as one of the most unusual in the State’ s history. The fact is that unless it finally pulls itself up by the bootstraps and shows some sem­ blance of efficient management and capability, it also will be re­ called in later years as one of the worst. Now well into the sixth month of its session, the Assembly^—de­ spite its clear-cut Democratic majority in the Senate and its close majority in the House—has behind it nothing more than a record of utter coinfusion and lack of accomplishment. A t a time of the year when most General Assemblies have either adjourned for good or have been nearly ready to ge home, the present Legislature has not yet completed action on the very bills that must be enacted to de­ termine the pattern for state op­ erations for the biennium. These include the biennium appropria­ tions bill, the Additions and Bet­ terments bill, and the Sundry Claims measure. Nor has there been any sem­ blance of an’ agreement as to pol­ icy on a great many other press­ ing matters^ such as salary in­ creases for public school teach­ ers, and state employes, and the state’s tax structure, that is the question whether new taxes' must he levied. Where the fault lies appears to be clear-cut. In the iirst place,- the present leaders o f the majority in both branches of the Assembly are new in their positions. While they have been members or previous Assemblies, it is their first attempt a t act­ ually- guiding deli) l otions of the two houses. Overriding this in importance, however, as a contributory factor toward its sorry record, appears to be the peculiar relationship between the leaders of the legislature and the Governor. It is a proven fact that Ohio General Assemblies (and doubtless legislatures of all other states) fail to function efficient­ ly when there is no close liason between the executive and legisla­ tive branches. The reason for this is easily apparent. Members elected to either House of Repre­ sentatives" or the Senate come to Columbus anticitpating they will" spend four or five months in session here. They are not in­ timately familiar with the com­ plexities of their state govern­ ment. They expect to receive needed advice and help. There is only one place from which this help and leadership should he a- vailable, namely, the office of Governor, through which is fun- neled ^all the information thev need to do a.constructive and ef­ ficient job of legislatiing. As do all Governors, Mr. Laus- ehe outlined a legislative pro­ gram in his first address to the Assembly. But, as pointed out, that is not sufficient. What is necessary is a consistent close­ working liagon between the two branches of governments- The Governor did not establish that H F L O A O M R A . E M N S S S Claibourne-McDermott Co. Phone 2238 38 Vi N. South Wilmington DEAD STOCK Horses $4.00 Cows $4.00 According to Size and Condition CALL , Xenia 454 Reverse Charges XEN IA FERTILIZER E. G. Buchsieb, Inc. H H B H H B H H H H n i liason. 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