The Cedarville Herald, Volume 72, Numbers 27-52

Friday, July 22, 1949 The Cedarvilie, O. Herald He Cedarvilie , Herald A Republican Newspaper Published Every Friday by THURMAN MILLER. JR. Entered as second class matter October 31, 1887 at the Postof­ fice at Cedarvilie, Ohio, under Act o f Congress o f March 1879. Member—National Editorial As­ sociation; Ohio Newspaper Asso­ ciation; Miami Valiev Press As­ sociation. g B M B M a n M H a a B a a " Ed itoria l AROUND HOME Everybody agrees that mid- July presented the hest looking outlook fo r a corn crop in the memory of man. There is such a thing as too much corn—or there has been. As recent as the war- scarcity years seem it is hard to believe that surpluses are here again. . . Where to put the wheat this year has been a problem, too. The government under-writ­ ing loan price pleases producers, hut Uncle Sam’s graineries are bursting from last year’s crop. You have seen a recent detour map the Ohio highway depart­ ment edits? Improvements are under way everywhere, more than at any time since the war. IT IS FAIR TIME Believe it or not, you’ve torn o ff the leaf of the calendar that reveals the month the fairs begin. As always, our neighbor, Fayette county leads o ff with the opener — July 2G-30—and that’s next week I Greene county folk attend the Washington fair, and they’ll he t h e r e this year. Our own Greene county fair is billed fo r the first week in August, and August 2-5 is about 10 days from now. The old folks used to paint the buggy and grease the harness in getting ready for the fair, and it was a long day’s trip for most o f them. Preparation and travel time are both virtually eliminated nowadays. NAMING A FEW NAMES Joe Warner, a Massachusetts judge, refused to adjourn court fo r lunch at noon. Said he, “ Eat­ ing lunch makes people food ad­ dicts. “ I f the judge can make the idea stick we ought to pay o ff the national debt in a couple of years. . . Margaret Truman, Mr. Big’s singing daughter, regrets that she can’t say anything oi do anything or go anyplace with any freedom It’s the price of fame, Maggie! . . . Dorothy Rock- cliffe, Londoness, had to admit that she has four sets of undies. In London one suit is the limit. We’d think one suit of underwear, worn for any length of time in the kind o f weather we’ve had in Ohio, would sure he the limit! . . Willard Bitzer, Dorset sheepman, holds the high honors for develop­ ment o f that popular breed of sheep. The stdry of his success reads like a storybook. He started hut right, with two prize-winning ewes from livestock shows. Like produces like, and intelligent su­ pervision helps. Result: A Dorset flock that is first in the world. Peggy Poor, a New Orleans girl, has two companions in a 57-foot yacht in which they are going around the world. Some think the Poor idea may make the girls rich. . . Arthur Godfrey failed at everything he went at until he struck radio. Some folks think he’s a failure at that, but the bank passbook doesn’t indicate it. THIS STRANGE WORLD . . . full o f strange people! Like the ol’ feller, 82, down in Ken­ tucky, who walked 15 miles to get a marriage license to wed for the fourth time. He is 82 and wears a wooden peg leg. It may help to know that he lives in Democrat, Ky. (Maybe you know that the upstate village, on the 3c, out o f Mt. Vernon is called Amity, but its real name is Democracy.) . . A fellow started across the rail­ road track in Fostoria with a truckload of TNT. A train smack­ ed him, The truck and its cargo are probably settling down in the African Congo by this time, but the dirver wasn’t hurt at all . . . Princess ’LiTbetb and her tribe and train may not get to come to USA this year after all—the protocol, dontcherno, and all that stuff . . . while we sob out our sorrow! . . . I f you squeeze the toothpaste bulb and the stuff comes out green as grass, don’t be alarmed. It's the grass idea the chemist is aiming at. Chloro­ phyll is what makes grass and leaves green. It’s the point o f contact between the sun and vege­ tation. The dental scientist is trying to turn it loose on folks’ teeth . . . Abraham Lincoln rea­ soned that “ you can’t fool all the people all the time,” but it looks like it’s not hard to foo l * Working majority o f them. When Norwegian Ambassador Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne signed the treaty between the U. S. and Norway he ran out of ink. That’s easy to understand. A lot o f people mistake sound fo r sound reasoning. I f M. KEMitCrg l aflgroi SCRIPTURE: Psalms -33: 51, 88:5; ^DEVOTIONAL READING: I John 1:5—2:2. Right With God « / ■ tE v j r f Lesson f^r July 24. 1949 T RIGHT with God” is an expression which has been sometimes used by people. It Is not a coarse or cheap idea. It is the most important thing you can do. Think what it means: to be wrong with Gcdf That means to be o u t of harmony with his will, go­ ing “ across t b e grain of reality” as the old Greeks used to say. To be wrong with God means to p r> Foreman be a rebel against reality, to have the power of the universe working against you, and so to be headed for sure destruc­ tion. Wrong with God, you cannot win. Right with God. you cannot lose. To be right with God means to be in line with the purpose that runs through all things; it means in the simple language of the Bible, to live as a child of God. Mule or Man? •WHERE are two ways in which ^ man can come into line, so to speak, with God. One is by being whipped into it, and the other is by a free act of will. The poet of the 32nd Psalm begs his readers not to be like mules or colts (Ps. 32:9). These animals can be broken and controlled by their mas­ ters. But they do not understand what is going on, and if left to themselves they would never serve. They have to be caught, har­ nessed and driven. Bui God docs not want to treat human beings like that. Getting right with God is not a business of getting into harness, being beat­ en into walking on the right road. That is not God’s way. He pleads with us through his inspired poet: Be not as mules—be menl • * *. Facing Up to Yourself T HE short goad Bible word for be­ ing wrong with God is Sin. The very first step toward being right *with God is to see yourself as you are. No one ever went to a doctor till he at least suspected he was sick. No one ever went to school of his own accord- who thought he know everything. And no one v.ill come to God who thinks he is as good as he needs to be. When life goes hard with us, when everything about our life seems twisted and rotten, we make all sorts of excuses for ourselves, we lay the blame on our parents or our friends of the social and economic system in which we live (doubtless all these have a share in creating our troub­ les), but we hate to lock at our­ selves in the mirror of truth. This comes first: recognizing our own wrongness, not just weakness hut wrongness. When we reach the point where we can say with the Psalmist, “ Create in me a clean heart, Q God, and renew a right spirit within me,” then we are on the right road. * » “Hide Thy Face” T HERE are two things we never hear about in the Bible. One is that God never forgave anyone who did not repent, and the other is that he refused to forgive any one who did repent. But repentance is not merely regretting that a wrong was done; still less regretting being caught. Repentance, the kind the Bible describes (as in these Psalms for example), means a complete change of attitude, it means coming over on God’s side and seeing sin the way he sees it, seeing life the way he sees it. God’s forgiveness is not of the grudging, remembering, re­ minding kind. But condoning and forgiving axe still a world apart. Condoning means saying In effect, It Is all right, it makes no difference, you can go on sinning for all I care. Some human “ forgiveness” may be like that, but not God’s. His forgiveness is based on real re­ pentance,’ and the aim of it is to save the sinner frotn his sin. • * * Plenteous in Mercy T HE Psalmists saw clearly what kind of God we have. He Is not like the holder of a mortgage wait­ ing till the first time some payment is deferred gives him a chance to pounce down and evict his tenant. We are not criminals against whom God is a prosecuting attorney, try­ ing to pile up evidence against us. “ If thou shouldest mark iniquities, who shall stand?” We are children, lost and wandering children, rebel­ lious and disobedient children, but still children; and God holds open the door oi mercy. (Copyright by the International Cowt- cii ot Religious Education on behalf or SO Protestant denominations. Rclassed by WNU Jeannes, _______ CLARENCE J. BROWN Write* With a Buckeye I n C o fT o r r s s s - In his Economic Report to Congress last week, President Truman abandoned his demand fo r increased Federal income taxes on individuals and corpora­ tions anft backed away from bis previous .position o f demanding immediate action on far-reaching “ Social” legislation he had spon­ sored. It is understood the Demo­ cratic leadership will now press fo r the enactment o f only three Administration-sponsored mea­ sures before adjournment o f this session o f Congress. A modified Plan or Farm Program, continu­ ation o f the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, and increase of the minimum wage rate from 40 to 75 cents per hour. No further attempt will be made to repeal the Taft-Hartlev A ct at this ses­ sion. By a strict party vote, the House Committe on Agriculture ten days ago approved an Ad- ministration-snonsored farm bill which would put into effect a modified Brannan Plan to pay high prices to farmers fo r cer­ tain food products and sell them to the consumer at lower prices. The bill also carries a new for­ mula for figuring parity prices on farm products and a sliding scale o f from 1 per cent to 100 ner cent support for farm prices. The bill has been sent to the Floor for consideration this week under a rule which makes in order the consideration of a substitute bill which would continue the present farm price support law fo r an­ other year and postpone until January 1951 the effective date o f the so-called Aiken Law ap­ proved by the last Congress. WHEAT CROP OFF America’s wheat crop will be at least 200 million bushels less this year than estimated. Unex­ pected crop damage and light wheat yield have been encount­ ered In the Midwest, with the re­ sult that demand fo r storage space has been eased and the Secretary o f Agriculture has de­ cided not put acreage restric­ tions on the 1950 wheat crop which will be planted this Autumn. There is a world of difference between Truman’s fireside chats via radio and those o f Roosevelt. F , D. R. was an exceptionally able an convincing radio speaker. Tru­ man’s astounding argument that heavy Government spending and huge Treasury deficits will make the American people prosperous, happy and contented, has created much unfavorable comment in Washington and throughout the country. By adopting a Senate amend­ ment making the law applicable to all workers coming under the Wage and Hour Act, and retro­ active as to certain Longshore­ men cases, the House completed legislative action on a bill—now before the President—which will outlaw over-time pay on over­ time. The Supreme Court recently interpreted a 1938 law to permit over-time on over-time, contrary to the intent o f Congress. The new bill amends the old law so as to make Congressional intent crystal clear. TELEPHONE LOANS The House has passed and sent a bill to permit the Rural Elec­ trification Administration to make loans to cooperative or private telephone companies fo r esttf1 Wishing new,-or extending pres­ ent, rural telephone services. Be­ fore passage an amendment wap adopted to prevent competition with established telephone serv­ ice. The measure provides Fed­ eral funds may be loaned fo r as long as 35 years to cooperatives or orivate telephones companies to furnish telephone service to rural areas at a 2 per cent inter­ est rate. Inasmuch as the Federal Government will pay nearly 3 per cent interest*on the money it must borrow to finance this new activity, an amendment was offered to increase the interest rate charged on the Government loans under the bill from 2 per cent to 3 per cent, but the amend­ ment was defeated. More opposition has developed In the Senate to the ratification o f the North Atlantic Defense Fact than was originally expect­ ed. However, it still seems cer­ tain the treaty or Pact will be ratified, probably this week. When the legislation to author­ ize appropriations fo r the exten­ sion of the Marshall Plan or European Recovery Program was before Congress several weeks ago only stories o f its great suc­ cess could be heard. However, now, when the Senate threatens to reduce the acutal amount of money to be appropriated under the authorization by 10 per cent, the report can be heard on every hand that the foreign relations program has not been as success­ ful as_expected or hoped, and that American aid to Europe must be continued fo r anywhere from ten to twenty years in order to be effective. RABBIT IS NOT ERMINE The House last week passed a bill requiring Wain and truthful labeling o f all furs. I f approved by the Senate and the President many fancy trade names will he eliminated. Rabbit fur must be marked RABBIT, and used or re-worked furs, must be so desig­ nated—beginning one year from passage o f the bill. The time lag is designed to permit orderly change-over from present label­ ing. Indignation over the reported attempted of Defense Secretary Johnson to control official testi­ mony on the B-36 inquiry almost resulted last week in the Armed Services Committee of the House killing legislation for unifying and reorganizing the National Defense Establishment. The presi­ dent, former members of the Hoover Commission, and Con­ gressional leaders finally cleared up the situation so as to make possible the considering of a new reorganization bill next week' which would save at least a bil-, lion dollars a year in the opera­ tion o f our armed services. CORN BORERS FOUND A dreaded pest, the eomborer, has nut in his appearance in many Ohio fields, and is creeping into Southern Ohio. Usually the borer is found in corn that is planted early. County agents warn against' the borer and have methods of dealing with it., A DIFFICULT JOB OF OVERHAULING Good Clean Pasture Helps Poultry Men Home Grown Feeds Cut Operating Cost Good clean pasture and plenty of home grown feeds for your pullet crop pays dividends in more eggs, lower production costs and bigger poultry profits. The use of range shelters, range feeders and barrel waterers makes such a program easily possible. Missouri university tests show, that pullets on well-fertilized alfal­ fa pasture consumed 17 per cent less feed than birds on bare range. The pasture-fed pullets needed less feed for each pound of gain. Birds on clean pasture were healthier 1935-39 1948 # S 170 DOZ BOY*, J TON 90 OOZ BUYS 1 TON and more energetic. Mortality rate was lower and there were fewer culls. Out of 100 pullets at four weeks of age, 94 of the alfalfa- ranged birds later went into the laying house, compared to 70 of those raised on bare ground. Pur­ due university tests showed that ladino clover with corn and small grains provided a complete ration for laying flocks. Getting good pasture and a cheap and plentiful supply of grain is a matter of putting farm soil in shape to produce bigger yields per acre. For this you need a rotation in which deep-rooted legumes and grasses are keystone. You need to build up the organic matter supply via plowed-under legumes, crop residues and manure. You need to feed the soil a good ration of plant nutrients, so it, in turn, can feed the crops. In such a program, ferti­ lizer is an important member of the soil-building team. At current prices, eggs will buy nearly twice as much fertilizer as 10 years ago. It takes only 90 dozen eggs to buy a ton of 3-12-12 ferti­ lizer today, whereas it took 170 dozen back in 1939. Check Work Stock f m Owners of the 55,000 horses and mules on Maryland farms have been urged to “ check intake valves, remove carbon from the cylinders, and adjust the carburetor.” Those terms aren’t as mixed as one might think. Joseph M. Vial, extension animal husbandman, ex­ plained that a horse’ s mouth and teeth may be compared to intake valves on a tractor. The teeth need to be floated (just as the intake valve needs to be properly seated) if they are to meet evenly and let the horse chew his feed properly. Just as tractors are troubled with carbon in the cylinders, horses may have trouble with internal parasites. These may be removed' by any competent veterinarian and the horse will be a better worker during the coming summer. The carburetor on the tractor ad­ justs fuel supply to the work load. For horses, this is accomplished by getting them in proper condi­ tion before the heavy work load comes. Vial recommends this be done by “feeding the horse a hand­ ful of oil meal with his grain at this time o l year to keep him in good condition and by giving him as many, jobs to do as possible; such as spreading manure or haul­ ing logs." Other recommendations include: “Keep water in his cooling system, keep his tires in good condition by having him properly shod and see that his harness fits.” Lowell Fess Writes from the Legislature Last Monday night’s Session developed some opposition to S. B. 129, which provided more dis­ cretion in the operation of the Department of Public Welfare, subject to the approval of the Governor. The measure was de­ feated. However*, on Wednesday we reconsidered the vote and the bill passed with some five votes to spare. On Tuesday we passed bills authorizing the state to sell cer­ tain farm lands which are •no longer needed for experimental purposes; making uniform the milage allowance for all state em­ ployees and changing the name of the. Soldiers Relief Commis­ sion to the County Veterans’ Com­ mission. Wednesday was a big day. The Municipal Court bill was called up and there developed quite a controversy between the lawyer members of the House, and many amendments were added to the bill. The bill passed, and then the Senate refused to concur in the amendments and a conference committee was appointed to iron out the differences. This Was of special interest to our Municipal Court in Greene County. FINANCIAL BATTLE The real financial battle of the session broke when S. B. 43 came up for consideration. This was the key which controlled the s o -, called Youngstown Plan for fi- j nancing local governments. In explanation, the Legislature two years ago authorized the return' to the county of origin the in­ tangible taxes including deposits.1 There is no disputing the fact that this distribution brought a loss to local governments in 21 counties, but naturally the other 67 counties profited. Greene' County would have lost, under the Youngstown Plan, some $10,- 000.00 Naturally, I was against the proposal, and after a bitter fight the proponents succeeded in getting only 63 votes, when 68 were required. Another bill which was a part of the Youngstown Plan provided for a raise from the present al­ location of 12 million dollars for local government funds to 18 mil­ lion dollars. Since I am anticipa­ ting a sizable increase in the gen­ eral tax duplicate of every county, which will make available more money from local taxpayers, I felt it unwise to raise the state’s present contribution. This is per­ tinent, since it is a question whether the state could nay more without new taxes. We therefore proposed an amendment whieh would retain the uresent alloca-. tion of 12 million dollars; how­ ever, the. Speaker declared the voice vote lost, and the proposal failed. SESSIONS END The 98th General Assembly ended its working sessions at 1:45 a. m. on Saturday, without any particular blaze of glory on a splattered record which may ham­ per the Democratic party in the 1950 elections. In the facj: of an eeorfomic recession well under way. the Legislature, under the., domination of the Democratic party in both houses, wrote a chapter in Ohio political history which calls for the expenditure of $647,122,747 during* the next two-year period—an all-time rec­ ord for spending. An unofficial tabulation of the 307 new statutes enacted stresses the fact for the first time in history, the normal operations will embrace an over­ all expenditure of well over one billion dollars, including highway funds, liquor funds, various ro­ tary account, capital improve­ ments, and the payment of old age .pensions. Members of both houses return home with a cer­ tain skeptical feeling over the fu­ ture of the state financial pic­ ture and the strong possibility that the excessive appropriations may eventually force a special session to raise taxes to meet the state’s obligations. The wind-up came after we had established a record for the dura- •tion of a regular session - 198; legislative days. The official and j final ending of the session is se t1 for July 29th, when we will re- - convene to consider any “bills that I may he vetoed by the Governor. I list below the major hills passed by this session: MANY NEW LAWS Unemployment insurance max­ imum benefits increased from $21 for 22 weeks to $25 for 26 weeks. Workmen’s compensation bene- j fits inereaseed from $30 a week to $35. j Nfew Department of Natural j Resources set up to unify con-! servation activities. Gities authorized to replace slum areas with new housing. Election laws revised to per­ mit counting of ballots when the ballot-marking of a voter is dear. Lowered vote totals required to approve tax levies and bond is­ sues. to 55 per cent in general elections and 60 peri cent in spec­ ial and primary elections. Created commission to build and operate toll siiper-highwiiys. Allowed Christian Science prac­ titioners to charge for their serv­ ices. Required equalization of real property values for tax purposes. Increased state aid to local governments from $12,000,000 a year to $18,000,000. The major bills rejected are as follows: Fair employment practices com­ mission with authority to compel compliance. Appropriation of $27,500,000 for increasing salaries o f school teachers. Authorizing construction of a conveyor belt line to haul coal and iron ore between Lake Erie and Ohio River. Authority for Governor to re­ move sheriffs who fail to en­ force gambling laws. * Repealing Ferguson Act, which prohibits strikes by public em- Requiring statd officials and employes, and school teachers ta ployes. give loyalty oaths. To increase state’s profit os liquor store sales from 30 to 35 per cent.1 This will conclude my weekly reports on the activities of the Ohio Legislature. I sincerely hope that they have stimulated some interest in your state government and I wish especially to thank the Editor for granting me tin; use of his column. «**■, FARM PRICES DOWTN With the exception of meat, most commodity prices in Ohio dropped in June, over the May prices. Wheat was down an aver­ age of 18 cents a bushel and corn dropped 1 h. to $1.22. Hogs went up $1.30. A NAME THAT STANDS FOR GOOD BUDGET PLAN AVAILABLE ADAIR’S H F L O A O M R A E M N S S S Claibourne-McDermott Co. Phong. 2238 38Vi N. South Wilmington Farm Record Keepers Told of "Short Cut" “ It’ s easier to keep up than to catch up," advises Clara Leopold, extension home management spe­ cialist at the University of Nebras­ k a , to the home and fa^m account record keeper. Another hint, ?she says, is to keep a pencil attached to the account records. According to Mrs. Leopold, fii certain time each day should- b‘e* set aside to jot down the daily transst actions. DEAD STOCK Horses $4.00 Cows $4.00 According to Size and Condition CALL Xenia 454 Reverse Charges XENIA FERTILIZER E. G. Buchsieb, Inc. SELLING OUT all ladies’ and Men’s 2L- jewel BULOVA and BENRUS WRIST WATCHES $71.25 to $110.00 value special $33.35 no tax Also all waterproof 17 jewel MEN’S WATCHES $29.50 to $49.50 value Special 12.50 no tax B & B LOAN 63 W. Main St. Springfield, O. WATCH YOUR SAVINGSGROW *» % Individual Accounts Insured Up To $5,000 * . * * * . . - Current Dividend Rate 2% CedarvilieFederal Savings &LoanAssn. 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