The Cedarville Herald, Volume 72, Numbers 27-52

Friday, Sept. 23, 1949 The Cedarville, O. Herald TheCedarville Herald A Republican Newspaper Published Every -Friday by THURMAN MILLER. JR. Entered as second class matter October 31, 1887 at the Postof- rice at Cedarville, Ohio, under A ct of Congress o f March 1879. Member—National Editorial As­ sociation; Ohio Newspaper Asso­ ciation; Miami Valiev Press As­ sociation. Editorial HERE’S HERE AGAIN 1 We saw a picture o f Santa Claus in a magazine ad the other day. When that ol’ feller's pic­ ture begins to show up me just surrender, that's all! The rest of the year isn’ t worth a nickel, so far as time is concerned, but it’s about 100 davs until he soots up the place in coming down the chimney, and 100 days of living in the USA and Greene county and among folks like ours make more than 1,000 years in the tents o f wickedness that dot oth­ er portions o f the globe. STOP FOR BUSES Remember—the life o f one child means more than all the time all the people in the world might save by hurrying. Which means stop when a school bus has stopped. No law on the hooks is more meaningful than the one requiring motorists to stop when school children are enter­ ing or leaving a bus. Children o f­ ten run around in front or be­ hind a bu3. Safety means waiting until the youngsters are o ff the road, or even in the yards o f their homes, before cars move. This is safety. This is reasonable. This is sensible. This is courteous. This is love of fellowmen, NEW BRIDGE IDEA Here and there a new kind of bridge is being installed. Instead o f the usual steel and concrete structures, corrugated iron tubes are used. As many tubes as nec­ essary are installed. The bridge can he short or long depending on the amount of water' that has to be carried under it. Motorists speed over these tubes, filled in with stone and dirt, ancl don’t know there is a bridge there. FLYING TIGERS There are other things in the air besides flying saucers that natives see by night and tele­ phone the newspaper office. Ev­ er heard of fiying tigers? The air is full o f them, in spots. (No, come to think of it, that would be leopards.) Just the other day a man in Dallas shipped a pair o f tigers, itty-bitty baby tigers, by airplane to New York. From the zoo. So, if some night you are seeing things in the sky, and if it happens to yawn or shake itstail, don’t get excited and call us—it’s probably just a “ tagger” taking a plane trip. THERE’S ALWAYS A LAW It’s a sad world. Just about the time you think you’ ve really got something, somebody throws A1 Sesslar, for instance. Good ol’ a derail and you’re wrecked. Take A1 had it all worked out. He was amusing folks no end, and inci­ dentally raking in nickels and dimes all ends. A1 is a Clovis, N. M., thinker-upper. There are horned toads in and around Clo­ vis. A1 managed horned toad races. Men and money, women .and more money poured in. Then came the strong arm o f the law, with a new statue making horned toad races illegel—from now on, that is. The past is the past, with proud horned toads that won, and somber horned toads that lost, and folks that bet on ’em in exact ratio. POPULATION IIP According to a recent report of the census bureau the popula­ tion o f the United States is in­ creasing 200,000 a month. July 1 estimates of the bureau gave the population at 149,215,000. ^ People used to refer to a “ stug- j gling young man.” Bue he’s ‘ stopped struggling. Unemploy- 1 menfc compensation is easier. ^ Earl Creek, a newspaper on our desk says, attended a family reunion—and went home out of bank, very likely. Definition—Bachelor, a man who never Mrs. anything, A friend writes about his lit-^ tie girl fishing for the first time.j She sat with the rest of the fam-1 ily holding a pole. After 15 min-J utes she got up, laid down the! pole and*said, “ I quit! I can’tj seem to get waited on!” It’s begun! The so-many-days- till- Christmas! But most o f usl can put o ff shopping just easily! 100 days before Christmas as] we can three days. There’s a school in New Jersey that teaches manners to dogs. The catch in it is that to teach a dog manners you have to know more than the dog, IMT" ’*»»* -W* Why can’t somebody invent an 11-foot pole so we can reach things we can’t touch with a 10-foot pole? And another thing—when is somebody going to come through with a plastic container to dump breakfast sawdust into ? When we try to pour it out o f the con-1 tainey. it comes in, it spills all! over from the sink to the ceiling. A clasified ad—uTobacco sticks.” So do heggarlice, HAS YOKE OF OXEN Willie Holton lives a t Decatur, Brown county village. He has a yoke o f oxen. He “ broke” and trained them. Present-day folk Took at them with wonder. Now and then oT> older person sees them with precious memories stirred. . KSHREI8 i. Dr, Foreman A newspaper says, “ Mercury )rops, Brings Out Covers.” O- iiging kind o f mercury to have *, 5 lid on cool nights. SCRIPTURE.: P s a l m s 23; 42 ; 48; 90* 121* 148. DEVOTIONAL READING: P s a l m 63:1-8. The Psalms We Sing Lesson for September 25, 1949 F ’ WOULD be a most unusual per­ son who on his; dying bed would turn to the 23rd chapter of I Chroni­ cles and not to the 23rd Psalm. If the reader will think, of his own favorite passage of Scripture, and then look them up in some edition which prints the Bible in a modern format, he will discover that his favorite p a s s a g e s are p r o b a b l y a l l poetry. • * ft- Poetry’s Power W HY the appeal of poetry? For one thing, it is vivid, It is in colot's, not severe black and white. It lives and breathes, at times it shouts, and it always sings. It Is true to say "The provi­ dential oversight of the Creator Is continuous and unremitting;’ * but it is more effective to say, “ The Lord is my shepherd.” It would be true to say, “ The evi­ dences of creative and bene­ ficent purpose can be seen throughout all the orders of na­ ture;” but how much more vivid is the 14Sih Fsalm, call­ ing on hall and fire, sun and moon and stars of light, to praise the Lord! Another secret of poetry’s power is that it is the language of emo­ tion. Professors and theologians may be saying the same things as the poet, and maybe even saying them more completely and accu­ rately; but what they say is less easy to remember. So these emotional Psalms will always appeal, even to the profes­ sor when off duty, because they make us feel religion and not mere­ ly think it. * ft' Pictures o f God S O IT IS no wonder the Psalms have been loved and sung all over the world. We are perhaps the only religion that has made so much use of another religion’s hymn book. Different though our faithp may be, Jews and Christians can sing from the Psalter with' one voice and heart. For centuries It was the hymnal of the Christian church. Indeed, up to recent years some l a r g e denominations would allow in public worship the singing of no other songs than the Psalms. ; Many of our best hymns and pop­ ular gospel songs, as we have al­ ready seen, are based on Psalms. “ Rock of Ages, cleft for me.” “ A Shelter in the Time of Storm," “Hiding in. Thee,” — they all go back to the Psalmist’s picture of God as a Rock (Ps. 42;9). The Psalmist was not thinking of a little rock In a cornfield. He was thinking cf some tall crag in the fierce hot landscape o f his coun­ try. A rock there is a landmark, it is a shelter against the blazing sun, people could live under its over­ hanging height. So God is the landmark of life, he gives direction to our ways; he Is the shelter on life’s . weary journey, he Is our safe dwelling. So with the many other pictures of God in the Psalms—he is light, he is shade, he is the guard on duty at night watching over the sleeping city (Ps. 121); he is a shepherd, he is water for the thirst­ ing soul (Ps. 42.) * * • A Model Hymnal F 1IS true that few Christians to­ day can use in worship all of the Psalms, without omissions or changes. It is also true that prac­ tically all Christian churches find that the Psalms, by themselves, are inadequate to express all there is in Christian experience, faith and ideals. The Christian hymn, entirely in­ dependent of the Psalms, has long since come into its own. And yet the Psalms remain the model hym­ nal. For in them beauty and truth are blended. This should be the ideal of all Christian hymn and song hooks. Some of onr modem “ hymns” as well as some older ones, are bad because they are no better than jingles, —doggerel, dbt poetry, and often sung to tunes better suited to a Juke box; and some are bad because they convey either nonsense or downright falsehood. But the great hymns, and the best hymnals, are those which like the Psalms of old, combine pro­ found truths about God and man, duty and destiny, with stately, stir­ ring and singable music, aglow with the beauty and power of words. (Copyright by th« International Coun- . ell or Religious Education on behalf of * 10 Protestant denomination*. Reiaaitd >y WKU I!*§t85«L . __ CLARENCE J. BROWN Writes With a Buckeye In Gonerress . In spite 'of the bickerings go­ ing on between union leaders and the steel industry, it is still hoped and expected in Washington that a steel strike will be averted. However, there is a growing fear in official circles that a coal strike is in the offing. Crafty and ruthless John L. Lewis has had his coal miners working but three days a week, producing only enough coal to meet Summer needs, but not enough for in­ dustry to store up a reserve sup­ ply. As a result Lewis will he in position, when cold weather comes, to cripple American in­ dustry and, if a strike is called, to enforce his demands fo r a new* ' employment contract. Eight important understand-^ ings or agreements were reached during the conference, which closed last week, between British Caradian and American officials in the effort to solve Britain’s economic and financial difficul­ ties. First: Britain will now be permitted to spend lier Marshall Plan dollars elsewhere than in the United States, as previously required. Second: Britain will buy less American oil and sell more of her own Near East oil to markets now supplied by this country. Third: British ships will carry more Marshall Plan and other American goods to Europe, and American ships less. Fourth: American synthetic rubber pol­ icy will soon permit Britain sell­ ing more natural rubber to the United States, probably at a high­ er price. Fifth: Britain will now be permitted to discriminate a - gainst American goods in the “ pound sterling” countries, mak­ ing more difficult the sale of American products therein. Sixth: American officials will try to lower tariff walls, if Congress will permit, so British goods can com­ pete more freely in this country with domestic commodities. Sev­ enth: America promises to buy more British tin for strategic stock-piling at the present arti­ ficially high price o f $1.03 per pound. Eighth: The United States dollars, furnished them as Amer­ ican Marshall Plan aid, for the purpose o f goods in Canada, while in turn, Canada will have more dollars with which to buy in the United States. As a sequel to the British- Canadian-American Conference, which closed early last week, of­ ficials of the World Bank and Monetary Fund, are now meeting in Washington with representa­ tives of many countries The chief topic of discussion is the devalu­ ation of foreign currencies to more realistic figures. The ex­ change value of the British pound sterling is expected to soon be drastically reduced from its pres­ ent $4 03 with the rumored new value to be $3.22. The French franc which fo r years was valued at 20 cents, or five to the Amer­ ican dollar, and is now down to .36 o f one cent, will probably drop to .30 of a cent, or to 330 to the dollai*. All European cur­ rencies are scheduled .to he de­ valued from 20 to 25 per cent, if present plans w o r k o u t . Strangely, the German mark, the Netherlands guilder, and the cur­ rencies of the Scandinavian countries, will continue to have the highest values in American money, outside o f the British pound. Official figures show there was a pickup in business and in­ dustrial activities during Au­ gust and a slight reduction in un­ employment figures. As a re­ sult there is more optimism in the business world, and great re­ joicing by, and much publicity from, Administration leaders. Dr. Nourse, Chairman of the Presi­ dent’s Board o f Economic Ad­ visors, along with many business leaders, predicts business activi­ ties fo r the balance o f 1949 will he good, but cautions it 'is still impossible to judge what eco­ nomic conditions will prevail in early 1950. Back in 1944, when war short­ ages o f oil existed and the fu ­ ture supply questionable, Con­ gress appropriated $6 million for government research .on the pro­ duction o f oil from shale, and established a reseach plant near the huge oil shale deposits at Rifle, Colorado. Now—five years later—comes the p :y -o ff. Gov­ ernment experts say they can now produce crude oil from shale at a cost as low as $2.20—and not over $2.50—iper barrel. Tbday crude oil from wells is selling at $2,50 per barrel. In the Color­ ado deposit alone there is enough shale to produce seven times as much crude oil as the total the United States has produced since the first oil discovery some nine­ ty years ago. The one Colorado shale deposit near Rifle holds twenty-two times more recpver- able oil than now contained in all the proven petroleum reserves of the entire United States. There are additional huge oil shale de­ posits in Colorado and other Western States. Several large oil 'companies have already esta­ blished experimental plants for the production o f crude oil from shale. Thus America’s future oil supply, at a reasonable price, seems assured. With huge suplies of processed pork in storage, heavy hog popu­ lation on the farms o f the na­ tion, and an indicated drop in the price of corn and other feed, the Department o f Agriculture has announced a change in its price- suppoTt program in an effort to escape the responsibility of main­ taining, as is seemingly provided by law, a fixed minimum price for hogs in individual markets. Under the new program the Gov­ ernment will attempt tto keep “ average” hog prices, on the farm, from dropping below the support level set by law. Under this new program it will be pos­ sible, however, fo r hog prices to go below Government price sup­ port guarantee in some markets, and above in others. A monthly and weekly price support guide fo r the different chief market areas is expected tot be issued by the Government. The’ average support price for top erade hogs, as set for September, will be $18.- 50 pe hundred, until the 24th, and $18.25 for the remainder of the month TEiEVISlOtt TREMORS Dairy Herd Spraying Will Yield Dividends May Mean $75 Etfiia Profit This Summer Spraying dairy aows with nie- thoxychlor to control blood-sucking stable and horn flies, may mean at least $75 extra profit this sum­ mer, according to H. B. Petty, in­ sect specialist In the Illinois col­ lege of agriculture. And the chances are good, he says, that profits from spraying may run much higher. Spraying dairy cattle is a big job for farmers, but it is one that should be done. Petty figures the potential $75 extra profit from spraying in this COULD BE! This story has trickled in from Canada. Daddy was teaching darling daughter to fish. The four-year old sat patiently hold­ ing the pole, baited hook and bated breath. She watched how daddy did it, or was ready to do it when Brer Bass finished his rehearsal of the funeral march past his hook. Suddenly the lass threw down the pole and said: “ I quit!” Daddy asked, “What's the matter, honey; don’t you like to fish ?” Straightening a pair o f pigtails on her shoulders, Mar—, the little girl that is, said: “ Oh, yes, I like to fish, but I don ’tseom to get waited on.” ) HAS AYRSHIRE HERD The Ayrshire herd of cattli owned by Vincent Freeland of Sabina has recently been classi­ fied for type by an official of the Ayrshire association. This makes 72 herds in Ohio that are classified. Read the Classifieds -- .. vsssuJz. i WHERE TO BUY B & B LOAN 63 W. Main St. Springfield, Q. BARGAINS GALORE LOOK IN OUR WINDOWS REPORT Spraying dairy cattle is a big job for farmers, but It will help build the type of clean, “ con­ tented” dairy herds such as that shown here. manner: You can get 15 per cent more milk up to September if you spray. This has been demonstrated by careful small-scale field tests. It is generally estimated that the average cow will give 1,700 pounds of milk during the four-month fly season. A 10 per cent boost — in­ stead of 15 per cent — would mean 170 pounds of milk for that time. For a 15-cow herd, that would mean 2,550 pounds of extra milk from fly-control. Figured conservatively at $3 a hundredweight, that’s just under $75 more in milk checks. And it costs only about 20 or 25 cents a head for spraying. Petty recommends spraying the Inside of dairy barns two or three times during the summer. He sug­ gests that the formula used provide for one pound of 50 per cent me- thoxychlor-wettable powder in two to four gallons of water to every 1,000 square feet of surface. Dairy cattle should he sprayed with methoxychlor every two to four weeks to control horn flies. The formula is one-half pound of 50 per cent powder in three gallons o f water and apply one quart to each cow. Old & New Today’s farm machinery la fast replacing the familiar rural picture of pitchfork and horse in haying time. With farm machinery in better supply than at any time in history, scenes like the Upper one are giving away to those depicted by the bottom photo. Haymak­ ing equipment like the auto­ matic baler, left, and field bald loader in the lower picture are cutting man hours In the hayfields as much as 75 per cent. Vitamin B12 Heralded In Hog Feeding Practice Will vitamin, B12 revolutionize' swine feeding practices? Michigan state college research­ ers don’t say it will, hut they’re finding that this new vitamin is doing some rather' remarkable things in swine feeding. They have foiind that It has growth stimulating properties for pigs and. wheh added to other- diets) in small quantities it results gains for dry-lot pigs. ,| BY SENATOR ROBERT A. T4FT C ONGRESS has just extended the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, which permits the President to make agreements with a foreign nation reducing the tariff on imports into the United States in consideration of a corres­ ponding reduction of American exports to that country. The difficulty with the program is that it gives the President almost unrestricted arbitrary au -" thority to reduce tariffs without any standard whatever in the law. This means that he could have power in many cases to destroy an American., in­ dustry by per­ mitting the im­ porta tion - o f foreign goods of low cost because of the very low wages paid for­ eign workers. It is a complete abandonment p f the legislative power of Congress with relation to the levying of tariffs. 1 do not favor the return of the old log-rolling process by which Congress itself undertook to fix tariffs, because that process pro­ duced tariffs that were unneces­ sarily high. I believe, however, that tariffs should be scientifically fixed upon some principle approved by Congress. Just as Congress adopts the principle of reasonable return on railroad property, and gives the Interstate Commerce Commission, power to fix the actual rates, we should state clearly the basis for American industry, agriculture and mining, and let the Tariff Commission fix the actual rates. Under the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, on the contrary, the'President, or rather the State Department, can reduce rates in a treaty with some other country as he'wishes, receiving in return a concession from the foreign coun­ try on American goods. But the moment that agreement is made every other country in the world gets the benefit of the American reduction without making any con­ cession itself. There is no recipro­ city from those countries. ■ The process is not really one ;of reciprocal trade, it is one of . delegating to the President the power practically to eliminate tariffs. Furthermore, most of the Concessions we get on naner to­ day are nullified because so many of these countries are short of dollars to buy American goods anyway. The President can reduce the rates to about 25 per cent of the statutory tariff. As a matter of fact the average rate on imports which carry a tariff at all is now only 13.6 per cent, almost negligible. * ft ft T HE so-called peril-point Amend­ ment was adopted in 1948 by the Republican Congress to require the Tariff Commission'to look into any proposed reduction and notify the President of the point at which, in its opinion, an American industry would be imperiled. It was a very mild amendment because the Presi­ dent could go ahead and reduce the tariff further if he sent an ex­ planation to Congress. I feel that* the Administration, and particularly the State Depart­ ment, is really in favor of complete free trade, and their real objection to the peril-point provision is that it suggests a standard in­ volving the principle of protect­ ing American industry and workers against unfair foreign competition. They are unwilling to admit in any way the principle that American industry may need some tariff pro­ tection. I believe that foreign competi­ tion should be permitted and en­ couraged, but it should not have the advantage of low costs result­ ing from payment of wages any­ where from one-tenth to one-half those of American workmen. At the present time, and during the war, we were protected by the high cost of manufacturing goods in Europe due to war con­ ditions and inefficiency, but this condition cannot continue long—• particularly if we give these countries * our machinery and know-how free of charge. 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