The Cedarville Herald, Volume 72, Numbers 27-52

The Cedarville Herald A Republican Newspaper Published Every Friday by •THURMAN MILLER, JR, Entered as second class matte? October 31, 1387 at the Postof­ fice at Cedarville, Ohio, under A ct o f Congress o f March 1S79. .Member—National Editorial As* sedation; Ohio Newspaper Asso­ ciation; Miami* Valiev Press As­ sociation. E d i t o r i a l FEUDAL DAYS AGAIN Lustily the cohorts sang and merrily, “ Happy Days Are Here Again,” only a few short years ago. The tune could he. the same, hut the words now could be “ Feu­ dal Days Are Here Again.” By blood and sweat and tears and millions of lives and billions, o f dollars feudalism was stamped out—and the feudal lord whose vassals obeyed his every order or lost their heads! And now a headline screams across the front pages, “ John L. Lewis Orders Miners Back to Work.” Will it all have to be done over again? NEGATIVEAPPROACH Ohio took a whirl at a very old and very futile sort of ques­ tion—promotion by forbidding op­ position. Industry learned the les­ son that promotion must be posi­ tive, not negative; that is to say a cause gains by its merits not by crying out against its oppon­ ents. Again the people have spok­ en their dislike of that sort of ap­ proach. ELECTION LESSONS Putting aside even the mention o f candidates, elected and defeat­ ed and issues won and lost, the significant thing about the re-„ cent election is that the people have the right, untrammeled and unhampered, to vote as they please. And that privilege should not be considered lightly. Very few of the people o f the earth have such privilege. Here there is no gun in the voter’s ribs, no Si­ beria, no concentration camp, no* dungeon—here are the booth the ballot and the liberty to use them in freedom; and liberty and free dom aVe the greatest blessings mankind can have. POLLSTERS ABSENT Did you notice the almost to­ tal absence of poll-takers who an­ nounced far ahead of the election its results? The clan seems to have passed out with the general election in 1948. And you also noticed how nicely we the people got along without them ? HOME GOVERNMENT It was refreshing and helpful to see the interest home folk took in the local election last week. In these days of looking to Wash­ ington and the federal govern­ ment fo r everything, from treat­ ise of faith to find that home folk shouldering the conduct of local affairs, and doing it with­ out direction or interference from Washington! THE PAYMASTER Glibly it is announced that gi­ ant corporations—steel and coal and other basic industries—are going to pay pensions to em­ ployes. But don’t read that as settlement of a dispute in which you have no stake. The fact is nobody has as much stake in the payment o f pensions o f employes as you do—for you are going to pay the pensions! A T A GLANCE A box head says “ Elections at a Glance.” Come to think, that’s about as much attention as most o f us give to elections, except at the immediate time they are be­ ing held. Qnizz voters privately and they will admit they often vote "at a glance” without any knowlege at all o f candidates or issues. Intelligent voting calls for more than “a glance.” REGULATIONS By the hunting laws of Ohio it is illlegal to shoot from, on or o ff a highway at game. How a- bout running over a rabbit? Or a pheasant flying into a wind­ shield and smearing his brains all over it ? Not only are these eventualities unmentioned in the Jaw, but they also would be hard, to get a game warden to under­ stand when he inspects yaur- bag limit. A WARNING . Pictures o f winning candidates on the fron t pages of newspapers are a warning to all boys who suck their thumbs or bite their nails* A man named Loveless adver­ tises a mule colt for sale. He must be. An exchange has a for rent ad that says, “ Downstairs bedroom, with sower.” Nightmare drawn? Friday, November 18, 1949 The Cedarville, O* Herald A DISCOURTESY ' No peace-loving housewife (which*means a. woman not play­ ing bridge at the time) who lives in town is going to serve color­ ed oleo to her cousin from the country. It would be safer to serve lard o f the lily-whitest sort. IS SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 55; 56:8-8. * DEVOTIONAL HEADING: Rom ani 10:1-13. God'sOpenHouse Lesson for November 20, 1949 Dr. Foreman r C IS A WARM chapter, this 55th of Isaiah. Some false ideas about God melt away fast when they are brought close to it. Let us take a look at some of these notions and see how they ■wilt in the light of God’ s word. Sometimes these notions are h e l d sincerely, sometimes they are mere excuses to keep from facing God. One of these mistaken notions is the idea that God has two lists; one is a list of people on whom he in­ tends to have mercy, and will save; the other list being a private one, of those on whom he intends to have no mercy and will not save. If your name is on the first list, line; but if it is on the second list, you are in a hopeless fix; for if God is not going to help you, who can? This is a terribly wrong no­ tion. It confuses the true God with some sort of sultan in the sky who ijas a “ social register” of persons he will admit to bis , palace. “ Use this invitation as your card of admittance.” No, it is not at all like that. If you really think that admission to heaven is by card only, then cut out Isaiah 55 and present it at the gate. Cut out any verse in the Bible that says. “Whosoever,"— John 3:16 for example—and pre­ sent that. God keeps open house, he does not employ butlers or strong-arm men to keep out the crowds, he wants all to come who" will. Do you want God? Then come. Are you thirsty for the living water? Then drink. It is as simple as that. • * • No Waiting , T HERE IS ANOTHER notion that keeps people away from God. It is a kind of shyness. It is the feel­ ing that maybe it isn’t any use hunting for God. It is the feeling a boy has when he is lost in the woods and has about made up his mind that there is no use in walking any more, he will just sit dbwn and wait till somebody finds him. ! It is the feeling that God may be sensitive, and doesn’ t want people coming bothering him. It is the notion that if God wants me, he will knock me down and drag me where he wants me to be. A man with a notion like that, of course, isn’t likely to meet with God. He spends his life paying Sod no attention whatever, not even think­ ing about him, perhaps. He may even go as, far as he can from .the Father's, house, believing that God’s long arm, like the long arm of the F.B.I. or the Mounties, will reach after him and get him in case God ever wants him. Now this is a ridiculous idea and a bad one too. Isaiah would not think it true for a minute. “ Seek ye the Lord,” he says. “ Call on God . . . return to the Lord.” “ Incline your ear and come!” This means you—if you will. But if you won’t, God will not force you. He forces no man. He wants willing obed­ ience, loving service, not slavery. God Will have no chain on you but the chain of love. God keeps an open house, not a prison farm. * * * No House Of Horrors ft NOTHER WRONG NOTION, for *»wh ich , alas, many a church member is parfly responsible, is the notion that the nearer we get to God, the gloomier we shall be. All the- talk abodt sacrifice and suffering for others, such as we were thinking o f last week, all the emphasis in the church .on the death of Christ, .all the solemnity of most church services, make people; -think; “ God may be, all right for solemn people, but not for me; I like life with, a smile.” ■Now that is just another mis­ taken. notion. The very persons who know the deeper meanings of sacrifice are just the persons who. don’t like tp use that word about themselves. \ In fact, it could be said that in general it is only Christians who have a right to be gay. Jesus him­ self, on the same night in which h e , was betrayed, spoke to his friends about sharing his joy to the full. Isaiah 55 is certainly no invitation to gloom. Joy, peace, the clapping o f hands are there. But how do we know Isaiah was right? There is only one way, and that is not to sit arguing about It, You never know What a party is like by staying at home. Do you really want to find out what, goes on there? Don’t be con- * tent to hear other* say, “ It's won­ derful!’* God’s door stands open. (CoswNsJit by the IatunStional Council o{R«Ii*lou* Education on be bait of, “ “ ' itant d*aomiaalJcn*. H«l«as*f 10 RroWiU ent JUTWNU y«atur*i. Government MayAddPork ToPurchases Uncle Sam, the biggest food holder in the world, is contem­ plating adding meat to his store­ houses. With hogs at the lowest price since OPA, it is considered not only possible but probable that he will include meat to his hoard to prevent a collapse o f the hog market. Meantime a nation-wide cam- ’ paign to increase the consump­ tion o f pork in all forms by more and more people has begun. “ We much prefer a strong consumer demand to government price sup­ port,” a prominent agricultural leader said. But viewing with alarm the situation that might easily in­ flict a catastrophe, government advisers agree, Uncle Sam will begin shortly to move all his eggs, milk, potatoes, butter and a billion or, so bushels of all kinds o f grain and bales of cotton a- round in his warehouses to make room fo r the hog meat he is go­ ing to buy—or father that you and I are going to buy, fo r we are Uncle Sam, even if we do let him wear the striped pants! TO HOLD REVIVAL'' A revival meeting in the Port William Methodist church is to start Sunday. Nov. 13, to contin­ ue through Nov. 27. Rev. John Devol is the evangelist. Rev. L. J. Sheldon is the minister of the church. HAS CRUSHED FINGER Andrew Dudash, eight-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Du­ dash, o f Fayette county smashed his right index finger in a door. After treatment by a Washing­ ton C* H. physician the fad was taken to Grant hospital, Colum­ bus, where surgeons were to de­ cide if the finger could be saved. HEADS NEWS WOMEN Miss Milderd Mason, popular Xenia Gazette news writer, is the new president o f the Ohio News­ paper Women’s association. She was elected at the meeting of the association in Toledo Sunday. . DANGEROUS MONTH November holds the record for the month with the greatest num­ ber of fatalities over a period of years. Precautions are suggest­ ed to make November, 1949, an exception. OCTOBER WAS WARM Records show that the month of October was about five degrees warmer than normal for the whole month. The range was from 26 degrees to 90 for various days. FEED COWS CORN “ Feed surplus corn to dairy cows,” is the terse advice of dairy-farm expert R. R. Starbuck at OSU. Back in the long ago farmers knew nothing else to feed cows, and the animals thriv­ ed on corn. Corn is a health-giv­ ing mixture, Starbuck ’advises. SENT TO MANSFIELD Convicted on manslaughter in the death of Elmo Bennett, Clar­ ence Dowler has been sentenced to 20 years in the Mansfield re­ formatory. The incident occurred in August in Sabina when Dowler struck Bennett, knocking him to the street causing a fractured skull, DAY OF PRAYER •Members o f the Port William, Lumberton, Bowersville and El- eazer churches united with' the congregation at Paintersville in a day of nrayer service. Hays 37TH CHIEF Lt. Col. Harold Hays, one time superintendent o f OSSO home, Xenia, and now head o f BIS at Lancaster is now chief of staff of the 37th division, Ohio Nat­ ional Guard. FARM FIELDS TAKE FIRE Tinder-dry fields on three southern Clinton county farms caught fire from the exhaust of a tractor. Neighbors and highway patrolmen and firemen from Wilmington fought for height hours- to beat out the flames. The raging blaze crept swiftly over the fields and the fire-fighters worked valiantly to save barns. NEW SPORTSMEN LEAGUE Clinton county is enlarging its sportsmen’s league and changing its name. Farmers and urban interests. A membership of 200 form an association for mutual residents are banned together to is sought. Carl Shanks, formerly o f Bowersville, now county super­ intendent of .schools, is the sec­ retary o f the new league. SECOND BARN BURNS A second large barn, nearly new and filled with grain and im­ plements, burned near Greenfield within 1|ie Week. Roy Duffield owned the barn. JOE HIESTAND DAY Nov. 30 is set as “ Joe Hiestand Day” fo r friends o f the famous marksnvsn. The Highland county man, famous the world over, is considered the greatest trap- shooter in the world.” « MILK UP ONE CENT Milk prices were hiked one cent a quart in Washington U* H. last week. HORSES IN BIG RACES Eddie Cobb owner-driver hi race horses had three horses en­ tered in the Hollywood Park races Saturday. The “ Golden Gate Pace” had a purse o f $50,000. U. B. BARN BURNS The third major fire 'in as many years destroyed a barn on the church-owned farm at the Otterhein home near Lebanon. Loss is estimated at $12,500. The home is fo r the aged o f the de­ nomination. Loss in the twopre,- Vious fires ran as high as $50.- 000. M L SHINING IN A DARKENEDWORLD The Coach’ s Happy Dream The coach looked up with a happy smile As he turned and he 'spoke to me -— "This is the greatest year I’ve known,” He said with a look of glee. "This is my finest jseason yet, Whatever th e old grads*say, And 1 say my prayers as l go to bed 'For what fate’s sent my way” GranUand Rice . . . . „ "Whaddya mean,” l said to him, ”With all those no good bums — You’ ve lost five games and you'll lose some more Before December comes.” 'T know that, pal, but remember this He said, with his eyes aflame — ”1 don’t have to play Minnesota, kid — And I don’t have to m e e t Notre Dame.” * * * What PriceBig Men? On a recent football excursion with Gene Tunney, Bernard Gim- bel and General Reed Kilpatrick a slight argument arose as to the value of weight and size. It was Bernie Gimbel’s idea that a player Weighing 190 pounds was big enough for anybody. “ How much better football players do you want than Boak Walker of SMU or Charley Justice of North Carolina?” ’’Gimhel asked. “ They stand at 165 or 168. Red Grange was 175. Jim Thorpe was around 180. I’m not a great believer in these 240 or 250 pound masto­ dons.” "It depends on how they can move around," General Kilpatrick said. “ If they can move, weight’s bound to help.” Kilpatrick was a 210 pounder at Yale—one of the all- time greats. Anyway the debate took us west­ ward to a pair of teams known as Notre Dame and Minnesota. Bern­ ie Gimlfel’ s side of the argument was right most of the time. But recalling what happened to Tulane and Ohio State we felt something like Steve Owen who saw Minnesota practice— “ I was glad I was on the side lines,” Steve said, “ at least 60 yards' away.” The men I happened’ to think about were Jim Martin, Leon Hart and tackle Bob Toneff of Notre Dame—Clayton Tonne- maker, Leo Nomellini and Jer­ ry Ekberg of Minnesota. Leon Hart, at the age of 20, is 6 feet, 4 Inches, weighing 245 pounds. Toneff at tackle is only 240. Martin at the other tackle is around 220. Minnesota goes far beyond this. Tonnemaker at center is only 240. A great center.. Nomellini, a tackle, is 255. Ekberg, the other tackle, is 255. So here are three linemen who have a total’ displacement of 750 pounds. And it might he mentioned that Martin, Hart, Toneff, Ton­ nemaker, Ekberg and Nomel­ lini can all move. There is nothing lumbering in their work. Hart of Notre Dame is as fast as most hacks. In ad­ dition to being a great end and a fine tackle he is algo an able pass receiver. I doubt that foot­ ball has another man quite as valuable as Leon Hart — 245 pounds of speed, experience and about all it takes. Imagine such fast backs as Wil- liamSi Sitko, Coutre, Gay, Swisto- wicz, Spaniel, Mazur and others working back of that crashing Notre Dame line? Or such backs as Bye, Gregory and others working back of Min­ nesota’s set of mastodons and mammoths, including one or two dinosauri — comparatively speak­ ing, of course? * * • Football’ s Big Gap * One. main trouble with football’s schedules is the big gap that often separates rivals. For example Cornell was 50 points better than Yale and Army was at least 70 points better than Harvard. Notre Dame could have run well over 50 points against Tulane, Army and Navy should have ex­ changed schedules these last two years. Army was equipped to face Navy’s schedule—and Navy pqulg have done extremely well with Army’s schedule. One of the main features of the year so far Is the rise of Captain Tom Hamilton’s Pitts­ burgh Panthers. They have beateu the team that heat Michigan. Here’s a nod to coach Walter Milligan who ha* turned in one of the season’* best jobs. And we might as well Slip anoth­ er chaplet of wild plum blossoms to Paul Bryant, Kentucky’s coach Paul Bryant is one of the best of the younger coaches. He is an old Alabama end, brought up under Frank Thomas, one of the masters At the Courthouse Seeks Divorce Charging cruelty Dora Dinne, Jamestown, has filed suit fo r di­ vorce from George Dinne. Mar­ ried in 1915 they have 'a 19-year old child. *'• Court Decisions Isidore Schell, et a l„ has been granted a judgment in the sum of $1,200 from Daniel MacEwan, et al. In settlement of a suit in court Leroy Wones vs. James T. Wories, the plaintiff has agreed to take property at its appraised value of $5,000. In the case styled Geneva Wil­ liamson vs. Charles Williamson sale’ of real estate has been ap­ proved. In Probate Court „ Charles F. Schneidker has beets named executor of the estate of Charles Eager of Fairfield. Mary Louise Ryan has been ap­ pointed executrix of the estate of Edward Lawrence Ryan, late of Xenia. WASHINGTON REPORT $ BY SENATOR ROBERT A . TAFT I meet many people who think that the foreign policy of the United States is determined by the Senate. They blame their Senators for the actions of our government abroad, or for its failure to act. But the truth is that the President and the State Department have almost cwnplete control over foreign policy. Under the Constitution the Presi­ dent Ms the . ^ h t ^ an* becauge ^ Russians may well negotiations with foreign nations and sign treaties to be ratified by the Senate. He claims the right to do almost any­ thing by execu­ tive agreement which does not require Senate approval. Stat- utca hoT’©---also given him com­ p le te cont ro l over the Ameri­ can Representa­ tives with the United Nations, so that he may commit, us to war even without Congressional action. Congress has the veto power on treaties and on the spending of money, but it is a power difficult indeed to exercise after the President has publicly committed this nation to a parti­ cular course of action. When We joined the UN, it was supposed that most questions of policy would b.e determined through the security council or the general assembly. That has not been the actual result. While I believe that the UN serves a useful purpose in pro­ viding a forum where issues are discussed, there are few impor­ tant policies which can be carried out over the Russian veto. As a result, we are generally by- ’ passing that body as in ECA and the Atlantic Pact. * * * tUR foreign policy today is dominated by the cold war against Communism in Europe. We are’ providing arms in a rather limited way ‘ to eight or ten European’ nations. Personally I feel that this is a waste of money and more likely to incite the Rus­ sians to war than it is to det^r them. I would have favored a Monroe Doctrine definitely inform­ ing the Russians that if they attack Western Europe they will find themselves at war with us. The Monroe Doctrine was one' of the most effective instruments for peace in the 19th Century, . and it never contained any prom­ ises of arms to anybody. I fear the Military Assistance Program figure that, if they wait until the arming is completed perhaps four or five years from now, it will be used against them in an aggressive war. They may .pre­ fer a war before Western Europe is prepared, Furthermore the whole program seems to me a contradiction of the ECA, which is based on improv­ ing the economic condition of the European people to prevent the spread of Communism. If those nations are now encouraged to spend their money on arms, it will decrease their standard of living. They must choose between guns and butter. The program is also completely inconsistent with the charter of the United Nations. The charter permits regional defensive agree­ ments, but certainly it did not con­ template an ‘ agreement under, which one great nation would undertake to arm half the world against the other half. + * * M 0W that the program has been T v adopted I hope that the money granted will be used for matters so clearly defensive that there can be no Russian fear o f military attack, We do not want to start an armament race which in the past has always led ultimately to war. I am very hopeful that the R u g ” sians do not actually contemplate a military attack. In four years they have not moved beyond the line to which we agreed at Yalta. I believe they are primarily relying on the spread of Communism by propa­ ganda and infiltration. We can win an ideological war between liberty and Communism if we first sell ourselves on the principle that liberty alone can bring peace and prosperity to America and to the world. But we can no longer give support to the plans of totalitarian govern­ ment in this country and apolo­ gize for the American economic system. If we*are true believers in liberty, I am confident we can spread its doctrines throughout the world, as we spread it once before following the* American revolution? • WATCH YOUR SAVINGS GROW * * » Individual Accounts Insured Up To $5,000 Current Dividend Bate 2% CedarvilleFederal Savings &LoanAssn. Cedarville. Ohio REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Margie C. Nared to Carl M. Jones, lot in Cedarville. Macie Hunter to Garnet and Sue Williams, lot in Yellow Springs. Lona McDoxman to L. Hersel Long, lot in JaniestoVn. ____ H F L O A O M R A ' E M N S S S Claibourne-McDermott Co . Phone 2238 38 Zi N. South Wilmington INDIAN PALM READER AND ADVISER MADAM RAY The greatest questions of life art quickly solved, failure turned to success, sorrow to joy, separated, are brought together, foes made friends, truths are laid bare. 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