The Cedarville Herald, Volume 73, Numbers 1-26

Friday, January, 6, 1950 The Cedarvile Herald _ A Republican Newspaper Published Every Friday by THURMAN MILLER. JR. Entered as second class matter October 31, 1887 a t the Postof­ fice a t Cedarville. Ohio, under Act of Congress of March, 1879. Member—National Editorial As­ sociation; Ohio Newspaper Asso­ ciation; Miami Valiev Press As­ sociation. Ed itoria l IT S OUR YEAR Philosophers keep telling us tha t life is what we make it, and tha t unless we put in we can't take out, etc. etc. Like recitals of catechisms such axioms become tiresome. AH we need to know is that 1950 is here, and what hap­ pens will for the most part be of our own doing. It’s our year. WE AND SPAIN Some say that we can’t be as­ sured of safety in western Europe without Spain being included in the negotiations and the plan. That means, they say, recogniz­ ing Franco-Spain, and much of what it is and stands for is the opposite of what we are and stand for. But American poliey, at least until recent years, was to stand aloof from dictating forms of government and nation­ al behavior of other nations. Of late we’ve been trying to run them, and none too successfully, but quite expensively. BEARING GIFTS “Silly!” exclaimed Mr. and Mrs. Average' American when they read and heard about the train- loads of gifts adoring subjects cent to Generalissimo Stalin. A front-page stpry on the newspap­ ers told of hundreds of gifts that poured into Washington to be de­ livered, to the occupant of the White House—who had gone to his home in Missouri for the Christmas week end. . .and Princ­ ess Elizabeth and her two-years’ now husband still receive wedding gifts almost every day. Who’s silly ? PENSIONS . Dr. Townsend, a bit tottery physically now, makes his annual pilgrimage to Washington to ad­ vise pensions for the aged. If he pays his fare, and we suppose he does, he might as well save his money. Members of congress have stolen his stuff. He’s a pi­ ker compared to pension propos­ ers already in Washington. COLD WAR A cold war is like a won’t- speak spat between two persons —it’s worse in some ways than hair-pulling. “A war of nerves” they call it. Nag, nag, nag, nag, —that has been the cold war me- diod, and nagging can be as bad as slugging. The main trouble with a cold war, like a spat is that it’s likely to get too hot to handle as it grows colder. THAT’S DOUGH, BROTHER A Detroit woman, whose hus­ band never thought she was much shakes as a cook, won $50,000 in a New York baking contest by giving her pastry a simple twist of the wrist which she can’t ex­ plain. Who doesri’t remember the best cook; in the neighborhood who never followed any recipe but “just stirred it up” when she. made a cake or pie. There Are musicians and painters and teach­ ers and writers—Oh, lots of folks —like that. AN OLD GAL’S BONES Out in California where most anything can be dug up (make it digged or dag if you prefer) scientists have unearthed a sir- cnian, a mermaid’s great-grand­ ma. It’s been 30 million years since the old gal used to slosh around out there. Zoologists say they are half human and half fish. W'e have some men like that nowodays—half human and half poor-fish. VISIBILITY We feel encouraged to go on. We have found out how fa r Pikes Peak can be seen with the (if you’ll pardon the expression) na­ ked eye. Better take your pencil and a piece of paper and write this down and put it in the glove drawer in your car—-when Pikes Peak first shows up you may be anywhere from 40 to 10Q miles from it, and that’s as close as anybody comes to figures of any kind nowadays. WHO CAN OBJECT?' Russell Long, who sits in the seat in the senate Huey Long made famous, has suggested that awards be given folks who can suggest ways the government can save money. He points out industry has* proved* the idea worth while. We waste mors than we spend, the senator declares. If the people set their heads to the matter of cutting expenses, and the country became economy conscious, we could lift oursel­ ves by our bootstraps. ■*V“V - m faftnuhona) Uniform Sunday School I.Mom SCR IPTURE : Acts 2:1-41. DEVOTIONAL READ ING : Jo el 2:28- 32. The Church Dynamic i — Lesson for January 8, 1950 T HE CHURCH Is not meant to be a club, a lecture-hall, a debat­ ing society, a rest home, a music ball, an entertainment bureau or a burial association. It has some­ thing to do along all these lines, of course. But the Church is meant to be a place and channel of power. One of the last things Jesus, the Founder of th e Church, said to his friends was: “Ye shall receive pow­ er when the Holy Spirit is come up­ on you.” Not—you shall receive com- ®r- Foreman, fort, or wealth, or insight, or any * other good thing, though all of them have their place. What Jesus highlights is power. Dr. W. M. Horton, in his little book on the Christian faith, asks: When is a church not a church? His answer is: When it has lost the Holy Spirit. That is a good New’ Testament answer. The early Christians could not have Imagined a church with­ out the Holy Spirit, because in fact there had never been one without him. It was the coming of the Spirit on that summer day in Jerusalem that actually made the church, in the first place. True, it was not made out of nothing. But suppose the Spirit had never come? What would have happened? Sooner or later the little band would have grown tired of waiting, would have given up faith in Jesus’ prom­ ise, would have drifted off one by one, and the Christian church would have died after it was born. * * * Tongues of Fire *|*HERE SEEMS to be something * mystic, mysterious and unreal about the Holy Spirit, to most peo­ ple’s minds. We read in Acts about the flaming tongues of fire, about the rushing mighty wind, about Christians talking In strange lan­ guages; and then we go to our own church and find there no fire, no wind; only ordinary English is spoken by everyday people, the same people we have been seeing all week. We get to thinking the Holy Spirit is just something in the Bible, some experience they could have away back yonder, but not here and now. After all, looking over the church from that day to this, and around the world at the present day, how many cases, authentic genuine cases • of fire-on-the-head or storm-in-the- church-house, do you find? Not many! Does that show the Holy Spirit is not here any more? We must remember that St. Paul met with much the same questions. Did a man have to speak in strange tongues to be sure he had the Holy Spirit? Foriunately, Paul stated in so many words what the fruits of the Spirit are: Love, joy, peace . . . Look up the rest of it in Gal. 5:22-23. You may take" St. Paul’s in- ■spired word for it: If you ever see a church, a Christian group, that te notable for love, joy, peace . gentleness, goodness, faith . . . you may he sure the Holy Spirit is there. Wc do not gather grapes from thorns nor figs from thistles, Jesus says. You don't have the fruits of the Spirit without having the Spirit. And that is Power. Said a great Austral­ ian preacher: Show me a church where the members treat one an­ other with more real love than the people outside the church treat one another, and you will find men crowding the doors of that church to get in. *' • « How Can We Get the Holy Spirit? W E CANNOT GET the Spirit by’ ” wishing ourselves back in the first century. We can have the Holy Spirit now, on the same terms as always. There are no new condi­ tions, no complicated rules, no ap­ plication blanks to fill out. Jesus said: God will give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Mm; Paul said: Covet earnestly the best gifts. In any church, if there Is even a small group who want the power of God in their lives, who want his power for the church, that little group can change that church and change the community. Power pastes through a wire when one end of it Is attached to a dynamo and the other cad to a ma­ chine that is doing seme work. Prayer-—that Is the touch with God. Service—that is the link with man. So power will flow through the Church when at one end it Is in touch with God, and at the other end it is doing something seal iQT human needs, < * - « . » • -Mr* CLARENCE J. BROWN Writes W ith a Buckeye In Gonvrsss The 81st congress began if s second session on Tuesday, Jan. 3 of this week, with President Truman scheduled to personally deliver his annual message on the State of the Union to the law-makers on Wednesday. Both the House and Senate met in the regular Chambers in the Capitol for the first time since last June, when repairs on the Capitol were started. The President is not expected to send his Budget Message to Capitol Hill before early next week. There is much conjecture as to what the budget total will be. Last year the President’s bud­ get called for $41.7 billion of Federal spending and the Con­ gress actually appropriated or authorized $43.5 billion. Most Ob­ servers believe the new budget will call for around $43 billion, despite some reports that it ray be lower than last year. Federal tax revenues for the coming year are expected to be $38 billion. While President Truman is a- gain demanding that.Congress re­ peal the Taft-Ilartley Act, it seems certain that he, along with almost every one else in Wash­ ington, knows the labor law will not be repealed or drastically changed. However, by reiterating his demand for repeal of T-H the President expects to make the. matter a campaign issue in 1950. Probably the President, ;s •following the same tactic in de­ manding the enactment of other controversial portions of his leg­ islative program. In the first 156 years of our national history, 32 Presidents from Washington down to Roos- velt — spent $179,620,113,645.00 to run the Federal Government, including all war expenditures, except for World War II. In a little over four peace-time years —from July 1, 1945, to Sept. 30, 1949,—the Truman Administra­ tion has spent $191,081,394,191, Since Sept. 30 a t least ten bil­ lion dollars additional has been spent. Think it over. For • first time since 1941, there are less than two million civilian employees on the Federal payroll—one million, nine hun­ dred eighty-eight thousand, six hundred. The drop has come as a result of the National Defense Establishment dismissing nearly one hundred and thiry thousand civilian workers by order of con­ gress, Back in 1933 the govern­ ment’s civilian employees num­ bered five hundred and forty-two thousand. For many years there have been separate appropriation bills for the different departments of the Government. It has been an­ nounced that this year there vill be but one over-all appropria­ tion bill to cover all Government­ al activities. Sponsors of the change hope it will reduce total government spending, but critics are fearful of “log-rolling” and more, rather than less, Spending. It now seems certain that many of the war-time excise taxes will be materially reduced, if not re­ pealed, at this session of con­ gress. Truman Administration leaders have recently been jock­ eying to take the excise tax re­ duction play away from the Re­ publicans who have been demand­ ing excise1 tax cuts for many months. But regardless of who gets the political credit, business should be helped and the cost of living reduced by the contemplat­ ed tax cuts. The 1950 census, the taking of which is scheduled to get under way April 1st, is expected to show the population of the United States hovering a t the 150 million mark. House and Senate members are protesting the Census Bu­ reau’s declared intention of ask­ ing citizens a series of questions regarding income from yarious sources. The congress may speci­ fically prohibit such questions as against Congsessional intent or purpose. The real purpose of the census is to fix population so as to reapportion representation of the various States in the House of Representatives. Ohio will not lose or gain House seats as a result of the new census, but is expected to retain its present 23 member delegation in the Hoose. The Administration is expected to find the Chinese situation an embarrassing “hot potato” in the coming session of Congress. Many legislators are asking why we * should be giving so much finan­ cial aid to Great Britain to help meet the Communist threat in Europe when a t the same time Great Britain is furnishing sup­ plies to the Communist fories in Ghna. The Administration may also be called upon to explain why the anti-Communist forces in China reieived but little of the aid voted them by congress. Some rather ,J?ig names and reputa­ tions may become tarnished a bit when the full story of China is told. Neighboring Washington C. H. closed 1949 with a treasury bal­ ance of over $15,000. “Virtually all bills are paid,” the treasurer New Selling System Aids Hog Producers Price Agreed Upon Right in The Pen Under a new system of selling hogs, buyers and salesmen at the markets agree on the price right in the pen before the hogs are weighed. Thus the old weight- schedule is being replaced by a pen-to-pen system of marketing, The buyer is given a chance to rec­ ognize quality and pay a premium for good hogs. Wheat Champions NEW DRIVER. FRESH The quality of this Chester White sow and litter is appar­ ent even to the casual observ­ er; but under the old. weight- schedule of selling hogs, breed­ ers who produce such quality stock would receive nothing extra for the added time and care they had expended to bring their hogs to such a de­ gree of excellence. The reason advanced for in­ creased interest in marketing is that the weight-schedule system fails to recognize the difference between hogs. It also fails to pay for true quality. Under the old schedule-selling, salesmen and buyers at a market would agree in the morning how many hogs each buyer would get. A schedule of process was set up according to weight. “Hogs was hogs” and the scales determined the price. But that system is gradually be­ ing abandoned. Under the old method, farmers judged probable market prices by estimating the weight of their hogs. A premium o f, 50 cents per hundredweight was. considered unusual at the market* although the real value of hogs of the same weight varies as much as $5 or $6 per animal. Such prem­ iums offered poor pay to the ex­ pert producer who raises top- quality hogs worth more money. Another reason for the new sys­ tem is the fear that if a better job of selling isn’t done, hogs may be sold on a dressed-carcass basis. This method of marketing (which Is used in Canada) is being ex­ plored by many farmers, coopera­ tives, agricultural experiment sta­ tions and studies under the federal research and marketing act. Many public market operators also are worried about the decline in vol­ ume of hogs arriving for sale at terminal markets. The C edarv ille, Q, H era ld ant’s infant daughter. AsksDivroce Charles Hurtt, Jr., is asking a divorce from Elsie, neglect. Asks Judgment 'Phil J. Campbell, New Jasper pike, seeks judgment of $111.32 from H. E. Harden, Smithville. N. C. DRAWN ON JURY The names of two Port William residents have been drawn for jury service in Clinton county for the JanuaiV term of court, Mrs. Charles Hiney for the grand jury and James Mason for the petit jury. Like the “candle in a naughty world,” as Shakespeare said it, Miss’ Armintrout’s good deed i; shining, and Christmas spirit i:; Port William is enhanced. WASHINGTON REPORT BY SENATOR ROBERT A . TAFT T HE 1950 session of the 81st Congress meets in a political atmosphere which is most unfavorable to constructive legis-. lation. This Democratic Congress has already rejected the major items of President Truman’s program which would establish in this country a labor-socialist state of the type in force in Great Britain. That program is the great issue before the coun­ try and every one realizes that i t f - Victor P. Rasmussen (left) and Max J. Rasmussen, of Cache coun­ ty Utah, did not know they would be national wheat champions when this photo was taken on their 4,000 acre farm, between Cache Junction and Clarkston, Utah. The wheat, which Victor Ras­ mussen is holding, is a sample of the crop from the 2,000 acres of wheat land, which is owned jointly by these two men and their brother Reuben, who was too busy farming that day to get in the picture. The Rasmussens’ wheat, which was hard red winter of the Cache variety with a test weight of 64 pounds per bushel, took first place in the 8th annual Philip W. Pills- bury judging for best United States wheat praised in 1948. The grain competed with 37 samples from 20 Other states when thg judging was held in Minneapolis, The Rasmussens rotate their wheat crop on 4,000 acres of Hu- irrigated land. They are the song .of Philip H, Rasmussen, who won the state and national Pillshury award in 194S. must go to a decision in the Con­ gressional election of 1950, and not in this Congress. It is probable that these ma­ jo r b ills , fo r p tje e co n tro l, allocation and rationing, gov­ ernment entry into b u s in e ss , Repeal o f th e T & f t-H a r tle y Act, the Bran- nan P la n , n a ­ tionalized med­ icine and uni­ versal m ilitary N training v/ill again be rejected or suppressed. If the Administration brings up the Taft-Hartley Act, the Brannan Plan or the socialized medicine proposals, it will be rather for the purpose of making issues in the election than with any real hope of securing their passage, Certain issues, however, should be and probably will be dealt with: First. There must be a revision of the social security laws dealing with old age pensions, a revision Which has passed the House and is now before the Senate Com­ mittee. I believe a comprehensive study of this proposal should be made on its own merits and in rela'*!>n to the many other se- cur' y systems now in effect and the new pension plans, of the coal and steel industries, with fuil consideration of the need - for adequate old age pensions balanced against the tremen­ dous. cost to the taxpayer and consumer. * * * CECOND, There should be a eom- ^ plete revision of the tax sys­ tem, but Congress may content itself with a. reduction of excise 'taxes and an increase in the cor­ pora lion income tax. The net re­ sult is not likely to be any increase in’ tax receipts, although the tax" burden may be made more equi­ table. , Of course, the ajjpropriation bills will have to be passed. There will surely be a strong movement for economy and perhaps a complete block on new spending plans. No doubt many features of the Hoo­ ver Plan will be adopted, but I would be surprised if any plan recommended by the President produces any substantial economy in present spending. Perhaps the most publicized battle on economy will be on EGA, where the dif­ ference between the sums pro­ posed will probably exceed a bil­ lion dollars. I am very much afraid that the net results of new taxes and new appropriations will leave Mr. Truman approximately the same budget deficit which he will have in the current year. I cannot conceive of any more dangerous permanent policy or one leading more certainly to economic disaster. rFHE third, subject which prob- ably will be dealt with is that of civil rights. Over Southern fili­ buster, it will be difficult to get cloture on the FEPC Bill, but cloture probably can be obtained- on the Anti-Poll Tax- and Anti- Lynching Bills. In this field also I am only guessing, because no defi­ nite poll has been made. If consistent with a balanced budget, I am hopeful that some steps’may be taken to approve in principle Federal aid to the states to enable them Nto do a better job in the fields of primary and sec­ ondary education and in public health. Health bills passed by the Senate and now pending in the House are those giving- aid to states to enable them to install a more complete system of child health inspection and a more com?, plete system of public health units, as well as one providing for a study of the whole problem of, medical' education to provide more doctors and other health person?, nel. I would rather spend- money in these fields than in any too lib­ eral dispensation of funds to foreign countries, When Congress has completed its task, I am inclined to think the Truman Administration will have io go to the people in November, 1950, on its program of a controlled economy and handout state with increased taxes to pay for it. It will almost certainly receive a vote of “no confidence.” Soil Check May Answer Slow Tile Brain Puzzle If tile-drained land is slow in drying, check the organic ■matter content of your soils before blam­ ing the tile 8ystem. Many tile litfe#' that worked well when, originally- laid are now hampered because the water can’t get through the sail; to the tile. You open your soil and* improve drainage when you crow well-fertilized deep-rooted legrnn'ig In the rotation and put back strati^ cornstalks and manure, •..*$ WATCH YOUR SAVINGSGROW % ' % Individual Accounts Insured Up To $5,000 Current Dividend Rate 2% CedarvileFederal Savings &LoanAssn. ~ ' C edarv ille, Ohio In Osborn—Stanley and Helen Scott Dallas to Rex T- and Paul­ ine Moorhead, lot. Keith S. and Eunice L. Wilson to John L. and Josephine Adams, lot. Janice and Janetta Knick to Robert Lee.Knick, 80.24 acres in Sugartree township. 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