The Cedarville Herald, Volume 72, Numbers 27-52

Fr The Cedarville, O- Herald The Cedarville 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 Marcb 1879. Member—National Editorial As* 'sedation; Ohio Newspaper Asso­ ciation; Miami Valiev Press -As­ sociation. F r id a y , Jun e 10 , 1 9 4 9 Is the government spending mon­ ey it doesn’t have mostly for what it doesn’t need. .Ouer^r Why can Canada re­ move all its wartime taxes and we can’ t ? Most large cities spend about a half million dollars a year fo r recreational facilities. CLARENCE J. BROWN Writes With a Buckeye 'In Congress w Internabocal Sunday Unitera School !.**ona m i B8. &EHH3ETH 1-ftHtEjWC Editorial AROUND HOME Our friend, the UP preacher in Jamestown, has told his con­ gregation and the ebmmunjity goodbye, and has gone to Rush- ville, Ind., to minister to the con­ gregation o f the denomination’s church there. Rushville. is the garden spot of the Hoosierland, and next to this part of Greene county, Ohio, is the hesfc in A - merica. Some folks underesti­ mate the value of the Lord’s ser­ vants in a community. Many folks do not. Friends of all denomina­ tions and good people everywhere wish the pastor success in his new field. The Bowersville corner of the county is brightened by the near­ ly-done school-house. That’s pro­ gress with capital letters. The bookmobile service in Greene county, if you don’t know, is second to none in the state. You’ll be proud to check the standing of your county as com­ pared to other counties in this very worthy enterprise. Our hoys, attended the FFA vo-ag congress in Columbus last week. It is of such fine young fellows as ours that the congress is made up. America and the world profits. Greene county farmers were turned out to pasture in our fields7last week, and profited by it. Hay, men, come again! Ernie Drake’s column of the 4-H club camp a fortnight from now et Clifton. Anybody who reads the schedule of events in which the teen-agers will parti­ cipate will give a hearty amen to the idea. Even persons who have never walked barefoot in a newly plowed furrow share something of appreciation of the soil, and everybody admires checked corn rows in Greene county’s fertile fields. “ Sod crops” soilmen agree pro­ vide the most food. In that fash­ ion the Bible writer spoke ,of the “Lord sending forth rain and watereth the earth.” Many noble elm trees, lifelong friends to several generations, have given up the struggle and died. Strangely, neighboring elms appear as hale and hearty as thev ever did. Somehow, an elm tree becomes a part of the lives of the folks who live with it. Two more Greene county dairy­ men have won distinction with their herds. Proudlv we hail. THIS ‘N’ THAT . It must be a cheery service to sit on a jury and hear testimony of a man admitting he used to lie and cheat and try to under­ mine his country and accuse an­ other man of lying. Our hand, Mr. Sawyer------ you say prices should he lower. You should run for president on that platform. Over in Clinton county some of the Granges held a “ rural life Sunday” despite the fact that a lot o f farmers prefer to go to town to the picture show, and let rural life run along by itself part of the time. Brazil’s president came to vis­ it our president, and beat him out o f bed by an hour*. Does Brazil have double daylight sav­ ings time? On one page of a news maga­ zine we read of three government men who chainrsmoke! through conferences. LSMFT-ing. “Mental cruelty” was the grounds the duPont gal present­ ed to get a divorce from FDR, Jr. He poured more o f the same on Tammany. Stalin’s son is to wed Molon- tov’s daughter, and the lad will discover the Molotov veto power, _Now financial loans to the na­ tions in the Atlantic pact are be­ ing urged as essential. But that do esn% surprise you, does it ? The B. & 0 . financial report for the first four months o f 1940 shows a distinct deficit in hand­ ling express. Mail receipts, on the other hand, are up. All in dn xect ratio to the new hike in ex­ press rates. The railroads are asking new fares, up But the 15’ c war tax is still on all nublic trans­ portation. Why? Rail travel posts more now than it ever did. The used-to-be gueen o f Italy says that the newsmen have “ lied about us.” Imagine thatl Depend upon this: Government will get into business more and more as the recession grows. There is a rumor that Defense Secretary Johnson will run. for president in 1952. There is also a rumor that he started the xu- . mor. Headline: Truman at His Wit’s End.” Just how far out on the limb is_ that ? “ Revision” is the word even the Democrats are using when speaking o f the Taft-Heartley law. Not too long ago .they de­ manded its repeal. More interest­ ing still is the desire o f author Taft to have his name o f f the law ; even more interesting is the SCRIPTUBE: Matthew 27:57-61; Mark 15:13-47; Luke 23:26-47; 24:1-6; John 19'23-37 DEVOTIONAL READING: Mark 15: 16-25. Why Jesus Died Lesson for June 12, 1949 r E; sir ....< Dr. Foreman H FACTS o£ Jesus’ death were mple. They are told in the four Gospels without dramatics and without tears. Yet the drama is there, stark and terrible; and only the hard of heart can read it with­ out tears. There is a deeper question than what happened. Why did It happen? ’The first Chirstians were forced to think about the crucifixion. They all knew it was no legend. It was so. But they were haunted, as, we are, t with the question. Why? Here was a "personwhose teach-! ’ ing was, t r u t h , >whose touch was ’ health, whose life was 1o v e. You would, have thought ’the world would welcome such a man, and give, him the highest honors in its power. But instead, all it had for him were nails and thorns and a cross. Why? If God, who sees all things, knew that even his Son would come to no better end than a ‘death of shame, why did God allow Jesus to: be born, much less send him into the world, the world where the cross was waiting? No Other End T HERE WAS, of course, “ histori­ cal reasons” why Jesus was killed. If we used the words “mur- defed” or “ lynched” it would he nearer the truth. Jesus’ death, from one point of view, was both a tragedy and a crime, and the Gos­ pel'stories show this. Jesus died be­ cause Pilate was a spineless man. Jesus died because the priests of Jerusalem saw that If this man won, they would lose, and they would commit murder rather than be defeated. Jesus died because the Pharisees had closed minds and would not listen to truth if they did not think of it. first. He died because Judas was a traitor, because his friends were cowards and even the best of them dared to show their faces only after he was dead. He died because the Jewish people had their minds set on one sort of Messiah, and, when Jesus turned out to be quite another sort, they would have none of him. Being altogether the sort of person he was, in that kind of world, at that particular time and place, you could say. as Jesus himself did, that the Son of Man “ had to" die. (Luke 24:26.) No other end was possible, There was no help for it . . . except to turn coward and hide; and it he had been capable of that, he would not have been the Christ we know at all. The Plan of God rpHEN was-Jesus simply a victim of circumstances? Was he no better than, a fly caught in fate’s ' dark web? Far from it. The Chris­ tian church has always believed, even before these .stories of the crucifixion were ever written, that the death of Christ was in the plan of God. In fact, it is at the heart of God’s plan for mankind. It is: by the death of Christ that God reconciles man and brings men back to himself. The Christian church believes and teaches that Christ died for us, that is, for you and for me. We believe that this was not simply Jesus' avVn idea, some­ thing God had not thought of till Jesus suggested it. a We believe that this was the in­ tention of God “from before the foundation of the world.” The God who is over all, works through all things, even very evil things, to make his love known. “That The World . . . Might Be Saved” M EN had long thought of God as living in far-off heaven, seated on a throne, high -and lifted up. A just and mighty God, one who can­ not be touched with any human weakness, a holy and, infinite Lord of the universe,—such a God men , knew. But on earth there walks and suffers a race of men who are slaves of sin, slaves to evil. How cap such a God help such men? Not by staying on his throne and hurl- ‘ ing down more curses. Only by do­ ing ‘ what men would never have guessed God would dare to do— come into this world, himself as a man, translating himself into the life of- man; putting his shoulder under the human load, even bear- The Senate has ordered a full- scale investigation o f the Atomic Energy Commission and its mem­ bership. Its chairman, David Lil- ienthal. is under special attack by some of his former supporters in the Senate. The investigation is expected to take three weeks or more and to dvelop consider­ able fireworks. The truth or falsity o f the ug­ ly Washington rumors over re­ cent decisions o f Na’tional De­ fense officials to concentrate A - merican offensive power in the gigantic B-35 bombers, manu- facturered by the Consolidated- Vultee Corporation, of which De­ fense Secretary, Louis Johnson, and heavy Democratic contribu­ tor, Frank Odium, have been of­ ficials, will he determined through an investigation by the House Committee op Armed Ser­ vices. Perhaps more important may be a decision by the Com­ mittee as to whether huge bomb­ ers are better military weapons than the more conventional ones, including naval fighting ships and airplane carriers. In the last few days o f the flight of Gerhart Eisler, a fugi- ive from American justice ,and convicted Communist leader, has been much in the news, as has also the Washington trial o f Ju­ dith Coplon, Government em­ ployee charged with turning ov­ er American secrets to a Russian agent. A t long last, the trial o f Alger Hiss, former high state Department official charged by a confessed under-cover Commu­ nist agent before the Houst Un- Ameriean Activities Committee with betraying this country, got under way last week in New York. Many members of the House Un-American Activities Committee, which has been quite inactive since the new Congress convened in January, are becom­ ing quite critical o f the present situation and are charging their Gommittee is not being permitted to function. The Truman Administration has given the bill to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act the right-of- way in the Senate, ev.en ahead of the North Atlantic Defense Pact. It appears likely, however, that the Administration’s re­ peal efforts will meet the same"' fate in the Senate as in the House. If the Senate passes any new labor legislation, it will be along the line of that favored by Senator Taft, retaining the im-. portant sections o f the Taft-Hart- Act, with some moderating a- mendments* The House is not ex­ pected to take up the issue again until after the Senate has acted. The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved an item o f a little more than five million dollars for* the repair and re­ building o f the White House a- long its present lines, using the original outer walls. This will cost more than to build an en­ tirely new structure on the sam.e architectural plan. The committee decided, however^ it was more important to save the outer walls o f the White House than to save money. With the business decline con­ tinuing, it now appears certain Congress will not increase taxes as requested by President Tru­ man. As a result, the Democrat­ ic legislative leaders have swit­ ched tactics and are now pro­ posing a nlan which would %re- quire corporations to pay most, if not all their taxes within sixty days after filing tax returns, instead o f on the present quart­ erly basis. This would require corporations to pay at least one and a half years’ taxes during the calendar year of 1950, and thus temporarily bring more money into the Treasury to pre­ vent a heavy deficit In a cam- , paign year. Republicans are charging the Administration with attempting a “ bookkeeping trick” t o "mislead the public. It now appears likely that be­ fore adjournment the Congress will pass legislation to legalize the “ basing point” price system brought into question by a re­ cent Federal court decision. For years many industries, including steel, have priced and sold pro­ ducts on a “ delivered-to-the-cus- tomer" basis rather than f. o. b. point o f manufacture. Following a careful survey, the New T&rk Times reports the average members o f Congress puts in eleven hours per day. six days a week, at his job—not in­ cluding time taken fo r campaign­ ing or political speeches. Repre­ sentatives average ten, and Sen­ ators fourteen, interviews per gressional mail runs from one day. The survey also shows Con- hundred to,one thousand letters daily, with four hundred the av­ erage. The death rate in Con­ gress runs nearly five times as high as fo r Comparable ages in private life. The Times also finds that the average Congressional office is both understaffed and over-worked—believe it or not. The House last week voted a pension o f §72,00 a month to all World War I and II veterans reaching the age Of 65 and hav­ ing incomes, i f single, o f less than $1200.00, or, if married, less than §2500.00 a year. A §80.00 monthly pension would go to 70 per cent disabled veterans under 5‘5 years o f age, to 60 percent SAVINGS UP The Ohio Savings and Loan league reports an all-time high in per capita savings. According to the league’s records every citizen of Ohio has on deposit as a savings §262,60. Defiance county leads- with a per capita, savings o f §775. * THE FRIGHTENED COAT-CHECK GIRL No Crystal Ball Needed To T ell Needs of Soil Tests Will Give Farmer Answer to Question You don’t need a crystal ball to tell you whether your soil needs A soil test will give you the yes or no answer. Where a deficiency exists, a test Will indicate how much lime your soil needs. County agricultural agents, vocational agri­ cultural teachers or agronomists at state colleges and experiment sta­ tions are glad to cooperate in making such tests. ; Testing is always the, safest course in applying lime. Some soils - have plenty lime. Adding more might be harmful rather than help­ ful to crop production. *8 YOU DON’T NEED A CRYSTAL. BALL TO FIND OUT THE FERTILITY OF YOUR SOIL JE K w CLAS** Una J sion was authorized. Another bill providing fo r - building regulations in the unin­ corporated portions of any coun­ ty met strong opposition on the ground that such citizens, most­ ly farmers, would be forced to secure permits before any ibunild- ings could be erected. The mea­ sured passed, however, by a vote of 68 to 48. „ Another proposal for institut­ ing a new state recreational bur­ eau which, supposedly would be in an advisory capacity, fo r re­ creational activities of the coun­ ties, met defeat, not only by one vote. I did not see justifica­ tion fo r this new-bureau with an initial, .cost pf . around §50,000. The. historyo f inaugurating these programs such as this means a continual higher cost to taxpay­ ers. Another hotly contested bill the same afternoon was the bill proposing to remove the inspec­ tion of hotels and restaurants from the state Fire Marshall’s under the supervision of the Health Department. While there are valid arguments on the change, I thought the great dan­ ger o f increased cost would raise the cost o f doing business materially with no greater pro­ tection to the public. This, bill was returned to the Juriciary Committee for further consider­ ation, which probably means it is dead. On Thursday’s session we con­ sidered eight bills. A11 passed wth the exception o f the one re­ quiring anti-fire ignition switches In the equipment fdrschool buses. As the majorty of us viewed the problem, we did not like the force feature, since we feel that if the school hoards want to buy these gadgets, they now have that authority, and the hill lost by being indefinitely postponed. To soils that need it, lime Is the keystone of any well-planned soil building program. Lime adds needed calcium. Lime boosts the efficiency of fertilizers. It neutralizes acid soils and makes possible the growth of sweet clover and alfalfa. These deep-rooted legumes add precious organic matter to the soil. But lime by itself cannot do the whole soil building job. It has to be supported by the generous use of phosphate and potash fertilizers, by plowing under deep-rooted legumes, by the return to the soil of •all possible animal manure and crop residues. ' Plowing Under Organic ^ MatterAids Oxidization ' Plowing under some organic matter in the field or garden is a good way of disposing of crop resi­ dues because the microbes “ burn,” or oxidize them. They do this slowly, yet the pro­ cess of microbial combustion of such materials may have disastrous effects on a crop planted soon after plowing, in which case it is said the crop was “ burned out.” Microbes need more than energy “ go” foods. They need the “ grow” foods, too, just as humans do. They do not demand that the nitrogen be given them in fhe complete proteins or the more complex compounds of this element as humans do; never­ theless, they are just as exacting in their needs for nitrogen, at least, in its simpler forms. Dr. William A. Albrecht, chairman of the department of soils. Univer­ sity of Missouri college of agricul­ ture, in discussing how soil microbes get their food, points out that they get it before growing crops get theirs. - $732 tu rk ey* Lowell Fess Writes from the Legislature Here it is the start of the first, week in June and the 98th Gen­ eral Assembly, is still with us, still moving in what might be termed a deliberate fashion; hut somewhat accelerated compared with past performances. T.’us Aveek saw the onening of the 22nd week of the 1949 stand of the law-making body, with no • great amount o f important leg­ islation behind it, but with much still before it to be done, if possible. The box score of the Assembly shows that the oleomargine bill is dead but headed for referen­ dum. The belt conveyor bill is done for. The turnpike bill is safely over; likewise, the unem­ ployment compensation hike. Ihe gross recipts tax bill de­ signed to raise many extra mil­ lions a year to finance schools and local governments, opposed by .the Governor, is doomed. The administration apparently has a- bandoned any prosnect of the Ragan bill to double liquor per­ mit fees and is urging a mea­ sure to permit local government to levy permit fees in addition to the state figures. The FEPC measure, shorn of mandatory provisions, is in a conference committee, with no ’ workable solution, unless one or! the other o f the two branches ; backs down. j By a narrow margin, the p r e -« primary convention Jblll squeezed! through the Senate, but there! now appears to be little hope of House concurrence. The prospect of better pay fo f state employes is envisioned, a joint Senate-House committee having approved the Salary Study Commission report cutting in half state job classifications and re­ vising th esalary scale upward al­ most five million dollars. The Seqate Taxation Commit­ tee refused to approve scaling down the 55% vote majority pro­ vision for municipal improve­ ment bonds. There are a great many im- portant- -measures -still -on-, the lingering list, ‘ In view: of the fact that Mon­ day was Decoration Day, we did not convene until Tuesday night. The first bill for consideration was Amended Senate Bill 206, which sought to,amend our elec­ tion laAvs. There were several very lengthy amendments offer­ ed during the general debate, which took up over one and one- half hours, and House members became so confused that a mo­ tion to return the bill for further consideration to the Judiciary Committee barely failed o f pas­ sage. Another motion to make further consideration of the mea­ sure a special order of business for June 30th at 2:30 p. m. did prevail, so that on that date the present election law, which is al­ leged to have invalidated the bal­ lots of over 100,000 Ohio voters last 'election (since the “ X ” mark­ ing was so inflexible that any other mark- which clearly indi­ cated the intent of the voters was not taken into consideration) will be up for approval. Another - bill attempting to make ticket scalping unprofitable passed by a vote of 91 to 16. On Wednesday, an attempt was made to close Sandusky Bay to commercial fisherman by a- mending a bill which, authorized Elwood Swanson of Turlock; Calif!, witli ]his grand champion turkeys at the Far West turkey show. The 24-lb. hen on the left was grand champion and sold for §30.50 a pound. The 41-fb. tom on the right was reserve grand champion and sold for §10.75 a pound. The birds were finished on a grain and mash ration to which pelletized milk product wa& added, ' ,v disabled veterans between 55 and TW e f o r l c S a n it a t i o n R o te 60, and to those50 percent dis- . W /eS IOCK O a illiaUO n w eiS abled between 60 and 65 years Credit for Avian TB Curb fa ct that Taft has proposed most- ing “ our sins in his own body op o f the changes in the bill? the tree” (I Peter 2:24). Deficit is looming large on the administration horizon. In case • M r o n M i VOU have -forgotten (as i f you to Protestant denominations. Released could forget!), deficit spending by WNU g *atur8av_________ old. Several "weeks ago the House turned down a, bill fo r much heav­ ier pensions payable to all such veterans at age o f 65, regardless of income. VET PENSIONS The House passed a veterans pension bill giving men who saw service in both world wars a §72- a-montjt payment. The Senate may defeat the pleasure because g£_ tjie expense involved, ■Professor F. E. 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