The Cedarville Herald, Volume 73, Numbers 1-26

*VVv >#«%. ^ i<_** £5*?*r****■.- $*& . *,-; ; "S •.-*• v-/- -- - J i* • M a y , Jan. 20, 1950 The Cedarvile Herald A Republican Newspaper Published Every Friday by THURMAN MILLER. JR. Entered as second class mattes October 3.1, 1887 at the Postof­ fice at Cedarville, Ohio, under A ct o f Congress o f March 1879. JJember—National Editorial As­ sociation; Ohio Newspaper Asso­ ciation; Miami Valiev Press Ai*- scdatlon. millions it has borrowed from RFC. “Why is all this 7“ the public is asking. Suppose RFC lets Lustron go broke what about ail the money already loaned to Lustron? Remember, it’s your money! Editorial RUSSIAN SATIRE Russians in Moscow are pack­ ing the theater where the drama, “ The Mad Haberdasher/' is be­ ing. played. The hero o f the play is a mid-west American who thinks he is Hitler because he has that kind o f mustache. The plot o f the play reveals that the “ Mad Haberdasher” failed in pri­ vate business, and then took over the project o f being war lord and dictator, succeeding Hitler. It made us hoppin’ mad to read it. You see, we don’t mind pokin' fun at Truman, but we don't want the Russians to do it. It’s like a family quarrel where the squab­ blers turn on anybody who inter­ feres. VERY APPROPRIATE The Democratic high command in Ohio suggests that the names o f Democrats appearing on the new ballots be printed in red. We think no hetter designation for a Democratic candidate than red ink. WE’RE PROUD OF US A look around and a bit of checkup shows that Greene coun­ ty was wiser than neighboring counties in choosing a site and ■building the county hospital. So far we’ve done it just right.' THE BEST DRESSED Now is the season when fash­ ion dictators give out the first team of dress-ups. A gentleman from Missouri heads the list. Sure he used to run a clothing store! And the duke-ess, Bessie Simpson as used to be, is a run- nerup. From what we hear the old gal’s even got runs in her ny­ lons. It‘s wonderful to live in a. country where freedom includes wearing the kind o f clothes you have got without giving a hoot about my well-dressed list. BY RETURN MAIL Somebody has invented a mail­ box that makes both trips to the house, leaving the boxholder nothing to do but .men it, take out the Herald and shoo it o ff the porch towards the road. Next — a mail box that will read the paper fo r you. THE REAL PERIL Many of us shudder at the mere mention of the “ Red peril.” Per­ haps the Reds do the same a- mount o f shuddering about us. Shudder No. 1 in America is the Red Ink Peril. . , five billions o f it next year, in addition to the billions upon billions already on the books, all in Red Ink. Don't smile about this; it is the most unsmilingest fact you have to face—the Red Ink Peril. STICK AROUND A BIT We're not sure just when we can give you a demonstration, but a famous writer recently said that “ sundials and clocks have ticked o ff man minutes since” something or other happened. What we want is to have you personally with us when we gath­ er ’round to hear the sundial tick! HI, SY, OL’ BOY! The United States has 241 of­ ficial cars in England.—News item. M’lord, when we official, we official, and it takes a lot of automobiles fo r us to do it. CHEER UP! Consider the seed catalog, how it comes in the dead o’ winter and v,'jth its promise of spring and abundance, forget thou the fo g and budget and deficits, md turn thou to thy hoe and thy plow in thy thinking. Selah. IT’S IRONY The New York Sun, a famous name in journalism for many generations, has been sold and is disappearing from the firmament. Ironically, the Sun, which advo­ cated capitalism and private en­ terprise as the American way lost out, but the Daily Worker (three days a week, that is) con­ tinues to flourish. A CHURCH FIGHT Very frequently a church squabble gets into the courts. There was the notorious Mt. Vern­ on, Ohio case, you remember, or fortunately may have forgotten. Now there's one in Brookville, Ind. The Hoosiers are at odds over a preacher, which is by no means a new issue. “ The main issue,” an AP report reads, “ is what the church shall be called in court.” Outside the court what it is called is common knowledge. LUSTRON AGAIN Lustron wants to borrow some more money from RFC. But RFC is saying “ No.” There have been more RFC loan than houses in Lustron's existence. Nobody has needed—maybe demanded is a better word—more money than Lustron, and explaining what be­ came o f it continues tor be the sec­ ond hardest thing Lustron has to face—the first hardest thing seems to be to get along on the SCRIPTUREt Acte 6:1—8:4. DEVOTIONAL READ ING : I P eter 1. 3-9. First to Fall Lesson for January 22, 195® T r o u b l e in th e church can start anywhere. Sometimes it starts with the women. That was the way the early church found it. The experiment in fellowship which they tried ran into snags, for not even the first Christians were p e r l e c t. T h e church in Jerus­ alem was in a sense inter-racial. Some were born and bred in Pales­ tine, a n d there were others from the outside, with Greek n a m e s , _______ _____ speaking Greek as their native tongue Dr* Forcman —Hellenists they were called. There was argument: Were the Hellenist widows getting their share of the church’ s help? • * * Committee Chairman T HE APOSTLES, being called on, refused to straighten the tangle- themselves. Let the church elect a committee, they said. First on-the list was a man named Stephen. He turned out to be most famous for being the first Christian martyr, but when he fell unconscious be­ neath that shower of stones, there died no ordinary man. To begin with, he filled the bill as chairman of that Com­ mittee on Grievances. Not many men, then or now; could fill all three qualifications the Apostles required: reputation, spirituality, and wisdom. It takes a very tactful man to settle a difficulty in which women are concerned; it takes tact to handle any committee; it takes tact to manage an inter-racial sit­ uation; it calls for wisdom to handle funds. • • * Debater S OME MEN THINK themselves bigger than their jobs. Some men really are bigger, and Stephen was one of these. He spilled over, so to speak; he had even more en­ ergy and ability than the job called for. We hear of him debating around the synagogue circuit par-- ticularly in the synagogues which were used by Jews from other parts of the world. We have no details of those debates, but we know how they always came out: Stephen got the decision. We can guess, from his great speech in the hour of his death, what his gen­ eral line’ must have been. Many Christians in Jerusalem at that time had little or no idea that Christianity was actually a new re­ ligion; even the name ‘ ‘Christian’* had not been thought of. They con­ sidered it a form of the Jewish religion. • • • Scholar S TEPHEN’S SPEECH at his trial (Acts 7) may sound dull to some now, but it was not dull to the audience. No man makes a dull speech on the brink of death. Further, it was that speech that got him killed. His listeners may not have liked it, but they certain­ ly did not think it dull! The beauty of the speech is that It reveals .Stephen’ s keen insight into the re­ ligious history o f his people. Speaking without notes, he. reviews the history of close to 2,000 years In a 10-minute talk, and yet brings out the main points. Only a real schol­ ar can do that, a man who is both historian and prophet. The most important peaks in Israel’s history were -God’s revelations to t h e m; and Stephen shows that these revel­ ations had never been tied to a house or a book* No institutions and no place is indispensable to God. The same God who had wrought new things in the past had now wrought a new thing in Christ. And the religion of thing in Christ. a a a Martyr * S TEPHEN'S AUDIENCE was not convinced. Seeing murder in their eyes, Stephen knew his time was short. In a few stinging last words he reminded them that mur­ der was an old story in that Tem­ ple. They had killed prophets, they had ’killed Jesus the “ Just One.” And ' how—* Now they dragged Stephen out and stoned him till he died. Well, you can atop a voice hut yon cannot stop an Idea. Stephen was first to fall, but not the last. To this very year Christ has his martyrs, men and women who will die rather than deny him. You can silence a man but you cannot silence truth. When the world goes against her, the Church should remember that now as then, "the blood of the martyrs is the visions of the Taft-Hartley Act in order to g e t the coal needed to- keep the American people warm tfaq nation’s railroads nmning and its industrial plants in operation. However, the President last week again insisted no emergency ex­ ists and refused to take action to enforce the Taft-Hartley Act. UncleSamConducts CropReportService Surrounds Compilation Of Data With Secrecy A question fthich pops up almost every time anyone talks with a farmer is: “How’s the crop coming 'alOng?’’ Of course, the individual farmer can only reply concerning the con­ dition of bis own, or his neighbor’s erbps, and he is as interested in the question of how the nation’s s*ed of the Church.’: CLARENCE J. BROWN Write* W ith a Buckeve I n G o n f r r s s s President Truman used twenty- seven thousand words in his an­ nual Budget Message to explain to the Congress why he wants $42billion 439 million to run the Federal Government during the coming fiscal year, which be­ gins on July 1st. He insists it will be necessary fo r the Govern­ ment to go into debt another $5 billion 133 million raised Inas­ much as he predicts the Govern­ ment will take in only $37 billion 306 million in the coming year. As a result the President stated the national debt will stand at $263 billion 800 million by June 30th o f 1951. The largest single item in the President’s budget is $13 billion 545 million for na­ tional defense—four hundred mil­ lion higher than this year. He es­ timates the Veterans Adminis­ tration expenditures will total $6 billion 100 million; interest on the public debt $5 billion 600 mil­ lion foreign aid spending $4,bil­ lion 711 million; , agricultural benefits $952 million; atomic en­ ergy $817 million, and Federal highways $504 million. In ad­ dition to his budget request fo r $425 billion for governmental operation next year, the presi­ dent has asked the right to let contracts and to authorize other expenditures totalling more than $7.5 billion—with the result that the over-all cost of Government next year may cross the $50 bil­ lion mark. According to figures recently submitted to the House Ways and Means Committee, the Over-all amount given to the States as Federal aid during the last three years has more than doubled. In 1946, Federal aid to the States and their political -subdivisions amounted to $645 million, in 1948, it was almost $1.5 billion, .lur­ ing the fiscal year 1948, Ohio citizens paid into the United States Treasury $2,665,707,099.- .00 in direct Federal taxes. Dur­ ing the same period the State of Ohio and its political subdivisions received back from the Govern­ ment at Washington, in the form o f Federal aid, $236,982,646.00. President ’ Truman has re­ quested that Congress boost pay­ roll taxes $3 billion a year to ex­ pand Social Security benefits and coverage, and to plan a compul­ sory health insurance program. Of course, i f the President’s pro­ posed compulsory health or soc­ ialized medicine program is put into full effect the cost is expect­ ed to run somewhere between six and nine billion dollars a year in addition to the three billions mentioned above. The Administration has an­ nounced its opposition to furnish­ ing aid, either financial or mil­ itarily, to the National Govern­ ment in China in its attempt to prevent the conquest o f the island o f Formosa by the Communist Armies now on the Chinese main­ land. Most American military leaders are said to have favored American aid for the protection o f Formosa under the same pol­ icy the United States^ has follow­ ed in helping the anti-Communist forces in Greece and Turkey. However, the position taken by the State Department, under the leadership o f Secretary Acheson, has the support o f President Tru­ man. The Secretary o f State spent three days last week before the Senate and House Foreign Affairs Committee in an attempt to explain State Department pol­ icies, which are claimed to have been greatly responsible fo r the Communistic victories in China. While many have been greatly re­ sponsible fo r the Communistic victories in China. While many o f the national legislators are ex­ tremely critical of the State De­ partment’s policies in the* Far East, the fact remains the Com­ munists control the mainland of China. The important question of the day is what the United States can do to prevent the spread of communism throughout the Or­ ient and the Pacific area. • The Senate is still battling M o r e T m c k i n a C om fo r t over the question o f repealing the y l . AIUCI“ “ 9 vOm iOH Federal tax on oleomargarine. I n ulOrO IOI t dlHlGIS This tax is o f course, actually an excise tax and many members of the Senate want to tack onto the measure a rider repealing a number of our war-time excise taxes. The Administration ap­ pears to be willing to repeal some of these war-time excise taxes, providing the Congress will, at the same time, vote a sizeable in­ crease in corporation taxes and thus actually increase the total of Federal taxes collected. The Administration will soon start, a drive fo r enactment o f a law probably the Sparkman Bill— to furnish Government housing, or housing aid fo r American fam­ ilies in the middle income grqup— those having incomes up to five thousand dollars a year, most of our citizens would he eligible fo r such Federal housing benefits— providing enough taxes can he collected to pay o ff the cost ‘ thereof. They believe in doing things up in real style down at the White House. It "'was announced last week that ten new constructed de­ luxe seven passenger automobiles with roofs sufficiently high to permit the wearing o f silk hats, have been ordered fo r the Presi­ dent’s use. A ll of these super- special cars will be equipped with bullet-proof glass and armor plate for protection purposes. Congressional mail and tele­ grams indicate the coal shortage is fast becoming a serious nation­ al emergency. Many members o f Congress have been calling on j the President to invoke the pro- OFFWITH THEOLD. ONWITHTHE NEW The Cedarville, O. Herald bills will reach around the globe, and require fewer than Truman’s proposed $42,500,000,000 budget. Well, thanks, Mr. Gotrocks, we can prove something by you, too. Pile up those 42 billion 500 bil­ lion bills you’ve got within you and note that they make a pile 15^00,000 feet high. Here’s -. our money back, sir, we, just wanted xo**sbow folks what Truman is talking about. And also if you care to spend §42 a minute, o r about $2,500 an hour, which would be about 24 new automobiles a day, for 2,000 years, which would keep you right busy, you would spend a- •bout as much money as “ Trillion Truman” proposes we spend next year. A pocket-size hotdog cooker is on the market. Suits will have to be made With a refrigerated pock­ et fo r carrying stock. INDIAN PALM READER AND ADVISER MADAM RAY The greatest questions o f life ar? quickly- solved, failure turned ie success, sorrow to joy, separated are brought together, foes made friends, truths are laid bare. Telli your secret troubles, the cause aui remedy. Advice on all affairs ol life, love, courtship, marriage, bush ness speculation, investments. Come and be convinced. 2512 VALLEY STREET DAYTON, QHIO J) The farmer is the actual re­ porter as crop census men -take notes. crops are coming along as is any­ one else—in fact more vitally inter­ ested than anyone else except other farmers. The only person who knows how the “ crop is coming along,”—that is, the nation’ s overall crops—is a mythical person, Uncle Sam; but he knows and he tells. His information is gathered from 41 U.S. crop reporting offices, com­ piled in Washington,, and released . on or about the 10th of every month as a service of the agriculture de­ partment’s bureau of agricultural economics. There are about 500 re- >ports made each year, and the far- *mer who follows these reports knows what is happening in the field of agriculture and he regulates the operation of his own fields ac­ cordingly. The farmers, themselves, are tiie reporters, having been sending in­ formation to the government ever since 1862 when crop, reporting be­ gan during Lincoln’ s administra­ tion. No pay is received by the far­ mers for this work, yet some of them have faithfully kept up reports for 40 years. Streamlined Baler WASHINGTON REPORT BY SENATOR ROBERT A. TAFT * H V ^ TUST before the first of the year, I expressed the opinion in an interview in Ohio that we should “hang on” to Formosa and prevent Communist occupation of Formosa, even though it involved the use of pur Navy. I did not'suggest the occupation of Formosa, nor the sending of any Army, or even the sending of our Navy. Our Navy is there, with bases within a short distance, and its ships, are between Formosa and China. Formosa is a hundred miles from the mainland, and there can be no crossing if our Navy makes it clear that ships’ carrying troops will not be al­ lowed to cross.. In fact, prob­ a b l y t h e r e ’ w o u ld b e no such attempt at all' if the Presi­ d en t made it perfectly clear that we do not intend to per­ mit Communist occupation of Formosa. Instead the President’s statement practi­ cally invites a Communist attack. The basis o f our foreign policy in the past three or four years has been to contain Communism where it is and prevent any single step of advance, because success in any such step is cer­ tain to lead to another step. ' We, therefore, Sent our military aid and our officers into Greece, although it might easily have in­ volved us in war. We have given military Rid to Turkey and to Iran. We have stood firm against Com­ munist advance in Korea. In un­ dertaking the air lift in Germany, we certainly risked war with Rus­ sia in order to maintain our posi­ tion in Berlin. This new, streamlined baler is typical of the engineering ad­ vances featured.on 1950 farm machinery. It is an automatic twine-tie pick-up baler mark­ ing the 10th anniversary of one- man bailing on American farms. According to tips from automo­ tive engineers, little pigs that go to market in trucks, and the farm­ ers who drive them there will soon be getting the most comfortable rides they’ve ever had in farm transports. . These engineers say the trend in most new models of trucks is to­ ward more comfort for the driver, with the aim of making his life happier—and also eliminating basic causes of accidents and dam­ age to cargoes. “ Virtually every phase of truck operation is now being studied by truck manufacturers in an all-out drive to eliminate many of the jerks and jolts and destructive vi­ brations that cause damage,” says W. L. Aiken, automotive engineer of SKF industries, incorporated. Innovations of many kinds, he says, are now being built Into trucks, with special “emphasis on ways to cushion both the driver and his load. New Milk Nutrient Found. Essential to Good Health A previously-unidentified nutrient In milk has been labeled—B12—and fouiyi to be essential to normal human beings. Commercial chemists recently Isolated B12 in crystalline |0rm from liver extracts and found that it Is the material that makes ihl* extract effective in treatment tof deadly. anemia. It was formerly labeled "Nutrient X ” The formas atili in an experimental stage, a IWE ARE asked to appropriate . billions of dollars to arm West­ ern Europe, although there is no evidence that at the present time the Russians contemplate any mili­ tary attack in that area. We have given notice to Russia by the adop­ tion of the Atlantic Pact that, if its’ troops advance across the boun­ daries of Italy or the American or British zones o f Austria or Ger­ many or Denmark or Noway, it will find itself at war with us. In one policy of saying to Rus­ sia, “ This far you shall go.and no further,” we have not hesi­ tated to risk war. There is hot the slightest evi­ dence that Russia will go to war with us because we. interfere with a crossing to Formosa. It is hardly possible to see how the Chinese Communists by themselves can begin a war against the 'United States, or why they should do so. In China for some reason,'the State Department has pursued a different policy from that followed throughout the rest of the world. There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that the proper kind of sincere aid to the Nationalist Gov­ ernment a few years ago could have stopped Communism in China. * * * TOUT Formosa is a place where a small amount of aid,, at very small cost, can prevent ■ the fur­ ther spread, o f Communism. Such action does not commit us to back­ ing the Nationalist Government in any prolonged war against the Chinese Communists. We can de­ termine later whether we ever wish to recognize the - Chinese Communists and what the ultimate disposition of Formosa shall be. As I understand it, the people of Formosa if permitted to vote would probably vote to set up an independent Republic of r nosa. The status of Formorr icre- fore, should certainly kept free for determination .1 the peace treaty has been written with Japan. Formosa must be legally of Japan, for it is difficult how the mere declaration President at Cairo or Potsc - an can change that status w a treaty. One thing is certain he Communists take over 1 sa, we shall have just as muc! r ’ . .ice of setting up an indepenc nt Re­ public of Formosa as we -iuve of returning the Western German provinces from Poland to* Ger­ many, We know that the Commu­ nists w ill give up nothing which they have occupied, and we do not intend to undertake an aggressive war to recover land the Commu­ nists have occupied. * It is suggested that any action in Formosa different from that of the State Department would an­ tagonize the leaders of India and Indonesia. The theory seems be that the way to stop Comm ism in India is to permit it to move into Formosa. That is an exact re­ production of the argument used in support of the policy of Munich. "P— ----------------- --------------:-------- ------- a part to see ( . the WATCH YOUR SAVINGS GROW v * Individual Accounts Insured Up To $5,000 CurrentDividend Rate 2% Cedarvile Federal Savings &LoanAssn. 'Cedarville, Ohio - /* A group of poets down in South America got rotten eggs and tomatoes as material opinion from the folks who heard the poetry. There, my countrymen, is a sentiment strongly uniting the Americans. The Ohio Farm Bureau has 213 retail stores, a report shows. And the new office building on North High Street, Columbus, Is noth­ ing short of towering and pala­ tial. Who remembers when farm­ ers used to be harangued by ora­ tors who insisted that they could rule the world if they would or­ ganize. If you happen to have on you 42 billion one dollar bills you can step right up and prove what a mathematician has figured out— that a stack o f 160 one-dollar Claibourne-M cDermott Co. 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