The Cedarville Herald, Volume 72, Numbers 27-52

t ' iippiss -.■ 'V. f "S f < < Friday, October 7, 1949 •Hie 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 A ct o f Congress o f March 1879. Member—National Editorial A s­ sociation; Ohio Newspaper Asso­ ciation; Miami Valiev Press As­ sociation. , .Editorial OCTOBER October, “with meadows brown and sear,” is here with what the poet called “melancholy days.” A ll around you folks are telling you how they like fall, how they enjoy the pretty trees and the bracing weather. Of coarse win­ ter can’t be fa r away when frost comes. Winter means indoor,', heated houses, heavy clothing, anti-freeze and non-skid chains, and cold noses and bor.echiiling rain. But to those who have the happy philosophy o f living their lives with a deep appreciation of each day as it conies, October has delights that can not be put into words or a newspaper column. Happy are those who greet Octo­ ber as a period o f joys, unlike any other month brings. POLE SITTING Shattered is the word for the flag-pole escapade at Cleveland. Charles Lunica climbed a pole, declaring he would sit there un­ til the Cleveland Indians were in first place. With his favorites, last year’s pennant winners, sticking in Hole No. 4, with the odds against any further climb Upward, Charley came downward. The fans showered him with prizes, from an automobile to a softer bed than the pointed pole had made fo r 72 da-s. In addi­ tion Sir Charles is now king o f the pole sitters, holding the pointed-stick record. Whatever that means to him and the world! BOMBS BOOMING The talk is all about bombs. Russia has the A-bomb, or claims ■to have it. There was an explo­ sion over there recently that folks feared might have been a bomb demonstration. It might have been a button bustin’ o ff Stalin’s britches over some an­ nouncement o f a discovery o f his, like the steamboat or some­ thing. The more folks that have the A-bomb the less chance there is o f anybody using it—we hope. DICTATORS Let a nasty dictator so much as show his mustache in a beer par­ lor, or poke his bald head from around a spaghetti joint and we grab our guns in one hand our billions in the other, and o ff we go with an Unconditional sur­ render document in our inside vest pocket. But when some fel­ low frowns at us behind very shaggy eyebrows and cuts o f f our heat and light and power we shrug our shoulders and sigh. Just what is a dictator, and when should a dictator be slain like a dragon, and when tapped gently on the arm and told in a whis­ per that he ain’t actin’ very nice ? PUBLIC WORKS Public works contracts, let by the federal government, states cities and community govern­ ments, went to an albtinie high In Julv. Five hundred million dollars worth o f building was bargained fo r that month. It doesn’t look like a slump is in sight. The niee thing about it is that this work is starting be­ fore we might have to start it. MACHINERY Have you done any side-walk superintending o f road-building ? Watched men and modern machin­ ery we mean. Time was when men and mules did it all. Man- operated and mule-drawn scra­ pers tediously moved dirt, made fills, but both balked at moun­ tains and bogs. Today huge ca­ terpillar tractors with special de­ vices fo r moving dirt pick up a carload at a single bite, and base and surface o f paving are laid mile on mile at dog-trot speed. They call it the machine age. Rightly. WHY IS THIS? One o f our boasts is that all men are equal, or at least were created equal as the philosopher- statesman framed our national attitude towards folks. But in one single issue o f a city paper this editor saw five pictures of European royalty, and only three home-scene natures on the page. A prince is ill( and his estranged w ife visits him; the sister o f Mr. B ig o f Egypt is to wed; the Bri­ tish princess has learned a new jig , etc. etc. We like it ? Sure! The Israelites, remember, con­ strained Aaron to make a golden calf while Moses was away. The veep. Barkley that is, got a medal from congress the other day. It cost $2,500. But it has only $450 worth o f gold in it. So, i f the ol’ feller has to hock it to get the St. Louis gal a fur coat, maybe, the medal situation in general is going into a tail- spin. Senator Cain from Washington state .has a brand new idea, and that’s new3, brethren.! He has some time yet on his contract with the folks at home to do their senating fo r them. But he is toy­ ing with the idea o f resigning and running against the candi­ date who is un fo r re-election. He would expect Washington folk to raise Cain, and though th li’s the fondest thing most folks is o f, they might not, just to be as screwy as he is. You know, do you, that Gover­ nor Lausche turned down' flat the demand from Washington that he run against Senator Ta ft in 1950? And you know what he said? That he was much more in favor o f whjit Taft stands fo r than what his opponents stand fo r ? But we suppose you knew. *' "V »j| L'nofsrni Z'*r.i»v ScF^ci \~ scra ^rst. mmm t SCR IPTURE ; Isaiah 1:10-20; Jere­ m iah 7. • _ DEVOTIONAL READ ING : P a s I m 24:1-6. Seven-Day Religion Lesson for October 9, 1949 E MPLOYERS don’ t care much for letters of recommendation signed by preachers. Not that they think preachers are dishonest. The employer is glad to know where the chap is. on Sunday morn­ ings. But he would rather have a letter from somebody who sees him every Saturday night and Mon­ day morning. • • • Religion Won’ t Keep Sweet b y Itself t T IS a temptation as old as * religion, to put it on one side of a wall and life on the other. But the prophets showed, once and for all. that God has literally no use for religion which has been dissected off from life. Religion w h i c h is kept, apart from l i f e turns s o u r and b a d . In Isaiah's t i m e , everybody knew there w a s something wrong Dr. Foreman with the country. Isaiah’s diagnosis was shocking: Religion is our principal trouble. God. is tired of it. What? The pious people would exclaim. Look at the crowds in the Temple every holy day! Listen to all the prayers, count the number of tithers. If anything is wrong with our country, it can’ t be religion! But religion it was. • * * Why God Was Tired w CATHOLIC priest would shock everybody should he call Vat­ ican City “ Hell’s Half Acre.” Isaiah shocked his fellow citizens by calling Jerusalem “ Sodom and Gomorrah.” Those cities were the worst places the Hebrews had ever heard of. They were so bad the Lord had to destroy them by fire— not Id good people could be found there. The prophet fol­ lows up that first shock by an­ other. Every single expression of organized religion comes under the prophet's lash. Sacrifices and offerings Cv.Il), attendance at the sanctuary, ob­ servance of the Sabbath and other holy days (v. 13), church gather­ ings, corresponding: to our rallies and conventions Cv. 13), even prayers (v. 15). Put that into modem terms: at­ tendance at church. Bible reading, tithing, praying—if that is all, then all is no good. It may be religion, and of course it is one kind of religion; but r.ot the kind Gcd wants. Indeed, Isaiah says God hates it; he Is “ fed up” with it (vs. 11). What was wrong? Isaiah tells them that, too, in short simple words. “ Your hands are full of blood.” Oh, the people would protest, we are not killers, we don’ t lay a hand on anybody. Isaiah goes on to explain: seek judgment (i.e, justice), relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow*. You don’t kill outright, you churchgoers, he would say, but you are so indifferent to justice in your city, you take so little in­ terest in the people at the bottom of the heap; that people die here, widows and orphans die, simply because no one cares. * » • What Makes a Town Worth Saving? A LAS, nobody did care. One hundred and more years went by, and Jerusalem came close to its end. But nobody thought that disaster could strike. The belief had grown in every one’s mind that the Temple of the Lord would forever Insure the safety of the city in which it stood. Bat a young prophet, Jere­ miah, preached a sermon on the same theme as Isaiah’ s (Jer. 7) It is not the temple that will save you, it is not church attendance that will bring you the favor of God. As the men of Jerusalem looked back to the great days of Moses, they thought of the sacrifices and offerings, the tabernacle and the rituals and all the pageantry and paraphernalia of a picturesque religion, as the great thing that God had given them. But God remembered it other­ wise. Jeremiah even says (with understandable exaggeration) that God had not said a word about sacrifices and offerings; the Ten Commandments, with all they im­ plied, were the main thing. What God looks for, back of all our church attendance and Bible reading, is “ justice between a man and his neighbor.” A place where that can be found is a good place. (Copyright fcy the International Coun­ cil o i Religious Education on behall of 10 Protestant denominations. Released fey WNU r a atuw a. CLARENCE J. BROWN W rite* With a Buckeve In ConPress I f the current “ stoppage” in the production o f coal continues until late October, at which time the coal shortage w ill become serious, the President is expected to order the Attorney General to ask for a Federal Court in­ junction under the provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act against the John L. Lewis group. The Truman Administration is expected to announce a rather lengthy list o f tariff reductions, made under the authority o f the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act some time in October. The new lower tariff rates or import du­ ties on foreign goods are expect­ ed to take effect early iri 1950. The House early last week pass­ ed a bill to give the nation’s 500 thousand postal employees a flat salary increase of $150 per vear. The next day the louse passed another measure giving 885 thousand Civil Service em­ ployees o f the Government out­ side o f the postal service an aver­ age pay boost o f $113.57 per year, with a ceiling on Civil Serv­ ice salares set at $15 thousand annually. The Senate later in the week approved both measures. The Senate also voted to amend a previously-approved House hill so as to limit pav increases (riven 212 top-flight Federal executives to not over 50 percent salaries. Cabinet members will have their pay increased from the present $15 thousand to .$22,500 per year. Early last week, over strong Republican opposition, the House voted to accept Senate amend­ ments to increase the amount au­ thorized fo r the foreign arms aid to the full amount originally requested by the President—$1 billion $314 million. Later both the House and Senate voted to adopt the Conference Committee report on the bill to authorize spending approximately $3 bil- ■ lion $800 million fo r economic aid to Europe under the Marshall Plan—$45 million fo r aid to Greece and Turkey; and $912 mil­ lion fo r military and relief pur­ poses in the occupied areas o f Germany, Austria, and Japan— more than five and one-half bil­ lion in all. The reaction in Washington to the President’s recent an- nouncemeht o f Russia’s develop­ ment of an atomic bomb has been mixed. Some are predicting it means an early war an atomic bomb attack on Washington with­ in six months. Others contend Russia’s possession o f the bomb makes world peace more likely, for war will become too costly in loss o f life and property for all involved. "Still others believe that the President’s statement relative to the Russian atomic bomb was timed to force quick Congressional approval o f his foreign ai*ms and economic aid hills. Reports are reaching the Fed­ eral Government that the hous­ ing shortage is about over, ex­ cept in small homes. There has been a marked drop in the con­ struction o f homes costing more than $10 thousand, with prices o f old homes down sharply. How­ ever, liberal Government credits and rediscounting o f mortgage paper seem to assure the con­ struction boom will carry on through 1950. The question whether the cost o f employees' pensions should be paid entirely by the employers or jointly by management and workers, and not the actual a- mount of money involved, has created the deadlocks now exist­ ing in many labor-management disputes. Many economists believe employee contributions to any pension fund are necessary to prevent unrealistic demands in the future fo r increased retire- . ment pensions. Farm leaders are being quietly told by Government officials there will be less foreign demand for American wheat, pork, lard, cot­ ton. and other farm prifciuets in the future than has existed dur­ ing the past several years. British workers are beginning to feel the pinch o f a controlled economy in a socialized state as a result o f the devaluation o f the pound sterl;/g and last week’s order o f the Labor Government freezing wages. Taxes on British businesses have also been in- increased and corporation divi­ dends restricted. Navy officers are under strict orders not to volunteer any in­ formation or to criticize National Defense policies in giving testi­ mony before The Armed Services Committee o f the House this week when the investigation of the B-36 bomber contracts is resumed. _ In the “ strictly rumor” depart­ ment:—It is being whispered a- bout Washington that one of the agreements reached hetween Brit­ ish and American officials at the recent Washington conference on Great Britain’s financial and eco­ nomic dilemma was that the United States is to return to the gold standard as soon as the re­ percussions. from the devaluation o f the British pound sterling have died out—probably within the next three or four months— with the price o f gold to be fixed at $45 per ounce. Also that this action will be followed by an American loan of a billion dol­ lars or more in gold to Britain to support the pound sterling at $2.80, following which the Brit­ ish will also return to the gold standard. You know, do you, that the “ mandate from the people"that Truman got from the people, as he tells them, was hist about 26% o f the voting populace o f USA? Who gives mandates, and by what percentages ? POLIO INCREASING There were 28 cases o f polio added to the growing list o f Ohio’s patients. The additional cases came in one day—Monday o f this week. There is no denying that the people are afraid—afraid o f a lot o f things, o f debts. Dun & Bradstreet, the calm, cold-blood­ ed, factual students o f everything that has to J o with, business, say that the outlook fo r the future o f business is very good. So cheer up! The Cedarville, CL Herald SITTER MEDICINE Wingless Chickens Cause Speculation Impact or Industry Studied by Growers Foultrymen a n d consumers throughout the United States are still speculating on the degree im­ pact on the poultry industry of the development of wingless chickens. Peter Baumann, Des Moines, Iowa, a veterinary-supply sales­ man, hak raised a flock of 400 such chickens and has proclaimed loud­ ly that they are the “ nearest thing” alive to famed cartoonist Al Capp’s “ shmoos.” Baumann said he had spent 10 years developing the wingless flock, and that he expects the breed to set a new trend in chicken raising. He pointed out that the wingless chicken has a thick layer of white meat where ordinary chickens have wings. Baumann said he had kept his ') — - >•*"*»*: J A® .*£-• • h i m e vT l $ B I T T E R .STUFF , B u t ip i %A V £ t o P o > t ?' e r e G o e s f fiV .W .N .S.1 IQttAPtlD I A t the Courthouse Seeks Divorce Rnchelle H. Jenkins, Xenia, has petition for a divorce from Mar­ ion B., a resident o f Columbus; * neglect. Partition Ordered Partition and sale o f real es­ tate is ordered in the case of *Charles G. Finley vs. Mary E. Finley. Estates Appraised Estate of Lucie Walker, net value $8,141.83. Estates of Rich­ ard Birch, net value $1,944,68. Estate of Marry Curren, net val­ ue $1,467.41. In Probate Court The will of Kittie Gentner has admitted. B. U, Bell, adminis­ trator of the estate of Richard Birch, authorized to sell real es­ tate. Auditor authorized to ap­ praise realty in the estate o f Walter Henry. 7 n d i a n " p a l m r e a d e r AND ADVISER MADAM RAY The greatest questions of life are quickly solved, failure turned to jsuccors, sorrow to joy, separated jure brought together, foes made friends, truths are laid bare. Tells your secret troubles, the cause and remedy. Advice on all affairs of life, love, courtship, marriage, busi­ ness speculation, investments. Come and he convinced. 2512 VALLEY STREET DAYTON, OHIO For those who dislike chicken wings, Peter H. Baumann, of Des Moines, Iowa, has come up with wingless chickens. He is shown here comparing the Wing­ less chicken (right) with an ordi­ nary chicken (left). chicken breed a secret because he wanted to be sure it was a success. He studied animal husbandry at Iowa State college and asserts his wingless chickens are not a “ freak.” A freak does not reproduce, he argued. The ancestors of this new breed of chicken, Baumann said, came from Texas. He was traveling through that state in the 3Q’s when he acquired a light Brahma rooster and a white Minorca hen. Each bird had only stubs for wings. He bred them, he said, and was astounded when the hen hatched wingless chickens. He then began experimenting and breeding. Baumann reported that at first he got only three or four wingless birds out of 100 eggs. Now, he said, about 95 of every 100 chicks have no wings at all. Some of the others, he said, have stubs or a stub on one side and a wing on the other. WASHINGTON REPORT BY SENATOR ROBERT A . TAFT T HE President has announced in effect that the Russians’* have made and exploded an atomic bomb. Just what kind of a bomb and whether they can make it in quantities is still unknown, but we realize even more than we did before that sooner or later it is possible they may drop bombs on the Unite®States. Certainly it can be no surprise to our military to me completely ..in . Eases Farm Chords Wagon unloaders are among the latest electrical devices to be developed for farm chore use. Most fypes are still in the experimental stage, but many sections of the country already are nsing them to a large ex­ tent. In Wisconsin, for ex­ ample, 5Q per cent of the farm­ ers who have forage, harvest­ ers also have electric wagon unloaders. Under o r d i n a r y circum­ stances, a three-ton load can be handled with an electric unload­ er by one man iu five minutes. Cost of operation Is low, with power provided by a % horse­ power portable motor which ean be used on ether farm ma­ chines when not Connected to the nnloader. revelation that Communist agents „ were scattered throughout our government during the "war and "were able to col­ lect and send to Ru ssia much valuable infor­ mation. . Nevertheless the news forces us to rev iew c r it ic a l l y our foreign andmili­ tary policy. Far from being an additional argu­ ment f o r the Military Assistance Program, it seems to me to be an argument against it. With Russia having the atomic bomb we can hardly expect the small .countries o f Western Europe to stand up against Russia, which means that the arms we give them may well be found in Russian- hands and used against us. However, the Military Assist­ ance Program has been adopted, and it is now important that most of it he directed towards installa­ tions in Europe which will helj) detect Russian airplane attack and serve as an auxiliary to the de­ fense of the United States against * such attack. The bomb emphasizes above everything else the necessity of, building up an all-powerful air force. The only possible defense is a complete control of the air. If there is ever a third world war, it will be won by the nation who can most completely domi­ nate the air. * * * .Y ITE should' build up our air » * force again to 70 groups and direct all our present activities to­ wards ai,r warfare. We won the second World War when we had secured complete domination of the air over ’ Japan and Germany. Mastery of the air must he the aim o f our entire military policy. Ob­ viously we must not relax the scientific development in the manu­ facture of atomic bombs. To meet the threat of Russian atomic warfare, small contribu­ tions to European military forces. Obviously our defense must be closely integrated with that of Canada, and no doubt we shall need some bases in other parts of the world. For a long time I have urged that we send an ambassador to Spain and extend loans to her through the Export-Import Bank. To please the Socialist govern­ ments of Europe our State Depart­ ment is refusing to speak to Gen­ eral 'Franco and takes the lofty moral position that he has a gov­ ernment where freedom is sup­ pressed. Hardly any 'argument could, be more foolish. We are sending an ambassador to Russia where freedom is even more sup-* pressed. f Spain is not a threat to the peace of the world in any pos­ sible sense. She is openly anti- Communistic. She occupies a position which in Russian hands might be the best base for bomb­ ing the United States. If we are going to have air bases on the other side of the Atlantic, Spain is one of the most important locations. * S D OES the Russian possession of the atomic bomb make a third world war more likely? On the whole, I do not think so. I cer­ tainly do not pretend to understand the Russian mind, but for four years they have shown no intention of making a military advance be­ yond the zones of influence in cen­ tral Europe and Manchuria allot­ ted to them at Yalta. They appear to feel that Communism is bound to conquer through propaganda and infiltration. F u rth e rm o re , under present conditions I cannot believe that any people would de­ liberately begin a third world war, because whether they expect to win it or not they must fear the tre-. menJous destruction to their own cities and their own people which would probably result. But, o f course, we cannot take any chances, . We must constantly, improve our air force and our air defense,____;_______ Narrow Poultry Houses Give Way to New Style D. D. Moyer, extension poultry' specialist at Ohio State university, says the narrow type poultry house 15 to 20 feet deep is giving away to houses 30 to 40 feet in depth, built long enough to house 500 and more birds. Moyer cites a number of advant­ ages in the new style, housing. Wall space is cut down, heat loss re^ duced, cleaning is easier and it Ja less trouble to move equipment. WATCHYOUR SAVINGS GROW V » Individual Accounts Insured Up To $5,000 Current Dividend Rate 2% Cedarvile Federal Savings &LoanAssn. ° ’ Cedarville, Ohio* . .( WHERE TO BUY B & B LOAN 63 W. Main St. Springfield, O. BARGAINS GALORE LOOK IN OUR WINDOWS H F L O A O M R A E M N S S S Claibourne-McDermott Co. Phone 2238 18 Zi N. South Wilmington DEAD STOCK Horses $2.50 Cows $2.50 According to Size and Condition ” Small stock removed promptly CALL Xenia 454 Reverse Charges XEN IA FERTILIZER E. 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