The Cedarville Herald, Volume 73, Numbers 1-26

®?2L, ' *S»rWp?i£^pfc i"Jr -*V v F f i J ’- ^ V . -l” ' * ” * ? V 4 .4? “ The Cedarville, O. Herald The Cedarvile A Republican Newspaper Published Every Friday by THURMAN MILLER. JR. Entered as second class matter October 31, 1S87 at the Postof­ fice at Cedarville, Ohio, under Act o f Congress o f March 1879. Member-National Editorial A s­ sociation; Ohio Newspaper Asso­ ciation; Miami Valiev Press As­ sociation. Nation’s Coal Pile Lowest in Years Officials o f several states are rushing in at the 11th hour to take steps to relieve the most drastic situation the nation ever faced as to coal. Coal piles, in­ dustrial and domestic, are at an all-time low. internahaul Under* ■>»»**' SundaySchool tewons S i DfL E d i t o r i a l TOURNAMENT Now is the season of tourna­ ments. Enthusiasm is blowing the lid off- Mouths and nerves and sinews combine to play and to help. Rooting is as natural for fans as it is for unrung pigs in the garden. It’s a healthy pro­ gram. Hard, maybe, and weary­ ing, but wholesome. Loyalty is a virtue that needs stimulation, whether it be for a job, a team or country. No team can win without other teams losing. “ That’s the way it goes,” as Mor­ timer Sm;rd says. The field house seems inadequate as a raft when, a liner sinks. Lines formed in miu- aftemoon. The persevering, su- perless but determined, stuck it out and were rewarded with seats to suit. Very American, this bas­ ketball game. Very. THE RED CROSS “ I wish I could help!” That ex­ pression is often heard when some one meets with misfortune. It is human to be kind. But it is hard, sometimes, to be o f help, much as one may wish to be. Calamities happen frequently. Very few persons can be on hand to help. But, fortunately, there is a way provided for us all to Lav e a hand in helping when mis- foitune falls. If fo r no other reason than the opportunity it afford,, everybody to have part in helping when things go wrong fo r persons or communities, par- ticlpa.irg in the Red Cross drive is appealing. Let’s makefrit 100 per cent participation in our town. ENGLAND'S MR. BIG Say what you will. Like him or dislike him. Winston Church- hill remains Mr. Big of the Brit­ ish empire, or what’s left of it. And the empire has no more de­ voted slave than he. Once he said “ I have no intention of be- ing a party to a disintegration o f * Ills Majesty’s empire.” And he hasn’t been. He is a fighter. Americans like a fighter—a fight­ er for democracy, that is. LUSTRON The Lustron company, builder of cornpltre re-hiences, is about to go nadir. The government has loaned the company $37,000,000. The company wants to borrow some more money- The govern­ ment; has refused. Nobody has been able to explain just why and how the company has failed with the c.qital it commanded. Many people think the Lustron idea was swaiid, and certainly many o f the houses it erected smacked o f modernity. Too complicated seems to be the answer; too many allied companies supplying ma­ terials; too much cost and too little actual pro.auction and sales. SPUDS AGAIN The potato subsidy came into the picture again last week when Scott' Lucas, the Democrat head man o f the senate, rose up and demanded that something he done about what’s going on. He says that potato farmers are using more fertilizer, planting rows closer together anti doing every­ thing to increase production in order to get a big rakeoff from the government. lie insists that strict measures fee taken to insure curtailment o f production i f sub­ sidies are to be continued. What he failed to bring out is that all subsidies are vicious. WINTER AT LAST It took Old Man Winter a good while to get around te dosing out his medicine but he finally did. Pushed out o f the picture fo r sev­ eral months, the brush oP feller hauled o ff and .-bowed his might last weh. But r.at too harshly; There was snow. Rains came in torrents. Sleet took its turn. The Old Man was trying. Meanwhile our neighbors who are in Florida are grinning for the first time— at us, that is. STILL ON THE JOB Perhaps “ still” is not the right word, for Winston Churchill is anything but still. Against a labor bureacraey he stoutly stands for the traditional govern ment o f His Majesty. Churchill is 75. Retired? Not “ Winnie!” The pitiful spectacle o f the once- proud monarch o f three-quar­ ters o f the globe, Briton, slip­ ping into a fourth-rate nation o f dictatorship by a gimme group— the impressive thing about that to us folk here in Greene coun­ ty, Ohio, USA, is the warning we should get from it- Whither are WE drifting? We do not see eye to eye with Churchill, but we can certainly sea the wisdom o f his stand and against the trend in his country. Light and heat from the moon are only one-half millirath as great as from the sun, but that little one-millionth can wetrk wonders on a park bench. SCRIPTURE: A cts 1508—18-22; I Cor- lntiiinns 5:9—6:20; I t Corinthians 6:11— 7:1. DEVOTIONAL READ ING : I Chron­ icles 16:23-29. Satan's Throne Lesson for February 26, 1950 ' I ,a lawyer’s expression often borrowed by other people. A law­ yer vvKo holds a brief for a man has been employed to represent him. It is his duty to present the man in the best light possible. Now we know about the early church at Corinth; from two sources: Luke a n d Paul. The book of Acts w a s w r i 11 e n, among other rea­ sons, to show that the C h r i s t i a n church, far from being a subversive movement as its Dr Foreman enemies claimed, was a benefit to the world. Of course this was true; but since this was Luke’s purpose, he naturally omitted as much of the church’s shortcomings as he could, and played up the good features. * ■* Church with; the Lid O ff Paul, on the other hand, writing to the church at Corinth (and to others as well), held no brief for them. He was not trying to praise them or to tell anybody how good they were, He’ knew them intimately; he had indeed converted most of the members. His letters to Corinth, from which our lesson gives a small sample, shows us a church “ with the lid o ft ” *. * * Where Satan’s Throne Is Y EARS AFTERWARD, another Christian writer said of another church that they lived “ where Satan’ s throne is." You might al­ most have said the same thing of Corinth. It was a large commercial city; people from everywhere tun­ neled into it. Like any city of this sort it had earned a reputation for wickedness of every kind—drink, liquor, gambling, women, cut­ throat business, rotten polities—it was all there. Even in the easy­ going Roman world. Corinth was notorious. Corinth was a sort of man­ made jungle, like our own great cities today. It made a sort of test case; If the church could succeed in Corinth it could succeed anywhere. If the power of Christ could make new men and women out of the denizens of that great city, there was no jungle, man-made or nature-made where Christ could not go. Can men and women be Christian in the midst of a non- Christian, even anti - Christian world? • * » Our Pagan World P AUL’S ANSWER, of course, is Yes: on One condition. You must take your pattern for living from Jesus, not from the world around you. The big problem at Corinth, which included all other problems, was the fact that the Christians there were acting too much like the people outside the church. Christians must be differ­ ent! insisted Paul. This Is not an echo of a bygone time. Our own world is a new Cor­ inth. Even Into the remotest village, the most Isolated farm, the world of our time pushes in, by radio, movies, maga­ zines and papers and advertis­ ing, even by schools and clubs. And it is a pagan world. , Take the movies alone, that fer­ tile source of most young people’s ideas. Hollywood’s idea of mar­ riage—a temporary affair till bore­ dom do us part; Hollywood's idea of a good time—liquor flowing 'free; Hollywood’s idea of success —an immense house with an even bigger swimming pool. Not that there are no good mov­ ing pictures; but in general what is made glamorous on a thousand [screens is anything but a Christian world. “ • •; • And Be Ye Separate ■pAUL KNEW it is riot practical * to have no contact with evil. He would not approve of Christians going into monasteries where they would henceforth see none but top- grade saints. Christians have, to live in the world, even if they live where Satan’ s throne is. But Chris*^ tians ought to be different. The world says: Drink makes no difference; men of distinction •all do it. The Christian knows better: Christ’s man of distinction will keep himself clean. The world says: Let yourself go, follow your impulses, look out for yourself. The Christian knows better: he is one bought with a price. We that are strong ought to help the weak and not to please ourselves. The world says: Do as other people do! (Copyright tar the International council ot Religious Education on behalf of 40 Protestant denominations. Released by WNU Features.) CLARENCE J. BROWN Writes W i t h a B u c k e v e I n C o n & r s s s - Nearly five thousand Democra­ tic big-wigs paid one hundred dollars ■&plate to attend the Jef- ferson-Jackson Day dinner at the National Armory in Washington last Thursday night, and to hear President Truman _castigate his Republican opposition. On Feb­ ruary 6th eleven thousand Re­ publicans attended a one dollar box supper and Lincoln Day rally here in Washington. Strangely the Republicans paid a Federal tax on each ticket to their party, affair, but Democratic spokemen insist no tax is due on their one hundred dollar-a-plnte dinner, as actually the dinner, was given free to ekeh person contributing $100 to the party's political war chest. President Triiman is having a hit o f a feud with White* House news correspondents over a pri­ vate interview he gavfe to a New York reporter a few days ago, in*which he “ explained” his fa­ mous “ red herring” statements in connection with the Alger Hiss case. While it has been the cus­ tom fo r Presidents not to give private press interviews, Mr. Truman insists he will give or withhold interviews^ to individ­ ual reporters as he sees fit. A move is on foot in Congress' to request, and, i f necessary, to compel, the President to ' turn over personnel and other depart­ mental records in connection with loyalty investigations. Congress­ man Velde o f Illinois, a former FBI agent, f said to be heading Up the movement to permit Con­ gressional committees to obtain full information from the Execu­ tive Branch o f the Government in connection with all loyalty in­ vestigations. Rumor has it that America is soon to be given another war scare. With various European countries now receiving Ameri­ can economic aid failing to co­ operate by adopting tariff and currency reforms, Director Hoff­ man o f the European Recovery Program is expected to make his appeal fo r further foreign aid funds on the. basis o f military necessity. It is also said that the Truman Administration feels additional expenditures fo r mili­ tary purposes will help meet the growing unemployment and a sagging economy which is ^ex­ pected to develop on the home front the latter part o f this year. In his Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner speech, President Tru­ man took another dig at the Re­ publican 80th Congress. He once more called it a “ do-nothing” Gongress and denounced the Re­ publican 1948 tax reduction bill which took seven million Ameri­ cans completely o ff the Federal tax rolls and cut individual in­ come taxes by about five billion dollars. This reminds us that since the second session of the Democratic 81st Congress began on January 3, only one unim­ portant legislative measure has been enacted and sent to the White House. Also that in neither session of the Democratic 81st Congress has there been any at­ tempt to repeal the Republican 1948 tax reduction bill, or to re­ store the tax cuts contained there­ in. A delegation o f Japanese of­ ficials, who have been touring the United States to study the Amer­ ican way o f life visited Washing­ ton last week and were received by high Government officials with considerable pomp and ceremony. I f we recall correctly there were quite a number o f Japanese of­ ficials studying our way o f life some rime prior to December 7th, 1941—Pearl Harbor Day. An official hoard o f the nation­ al CIO last week ordered the United Public Workers union ex­ pelled on the basis that the union followed the Communist line in its .activities. The United Public Workers is made up o f thirty thousand employees o f the Feder­ al Government—but, o f course, the huge majority o f Federal workers do not belong to it. As this column is being pre­ pared the coal situation still looks dark. John L. Lewis has twice ordered the miners back, to the pits, but most o f them remain out. The coal shortage has become extremely critical. I f no settle­ ment can be reached, or results obtained by Presidential action, Congress stands ready to* enact any laws requested by the Presi­ dent to meet the situation. For two consecutive*weeks the Republicans in the House have received cheering 'hews from mid- t e r m Congressional elections. Week before last Wm. B.' Widnall, ■ a Republican, was elected, by a better than two to- one majority over his Democratic opponent, to fill a vacancy in the New Jersey Congressional delegation,. Last week Wm. H. Bates, a young of­ ficer in the Navy, who was;there­ fore unable to make any ..cam­ paign, was elected on the. Repub­ lican ticket iit Massachusetts, .to succeed his late father, killedin -a tragic airplane accident, by a majority of nearly three to one; In both districts the Republican majorities were much greater than fo r many years. Another Member o f Congress died last week—Schuyler Otis Bland o f Newport News, Virginia, Chairman of the powerful House Merchant Marine Committee and dean o f the Virginia delegation in Congress. Representative Bland was a member o f the House fo r 32 years. He was; known as the father o f America’s present modern merchant marine fleet. He died o f a cerebral hemorrhage. 'Flu Rages in Parts o f Ohio MAYOR McGUP ByJohn Jarvis From alio ver Ohio- come re­ ports o f an epidemic o f .influenza. IP" Here and there schools have been * MEN ARE closed. Reports indicates that, the attacks are not. o t A serious na- Lure. . - , . , DEMANDING MORE DAYS MR. POUT. -rmY'tVE. lazy ! i never ASK THEM TO WORK OMANY LEGAL HOLIDAYS. Weight and Age S OME YEARS AGO I ran across an old friend. His* name was Keene Fitzpatrick of Yale, Mich­ igan and Princeton. One of the great trainers, K e e n e F i t z Patrick be­ longed with Mike Murphy o f Yale* and Pennsylvania. I would also like to add Mike Sween­ ey of Hill' School and, Yale. Murphy, F i tz- patrick .arid Sween- GranUand Rice 'Yer® « “ *« ot the best. So was Johnny Mack. The. Irish have it. Mike Murphy has been, dead a long time. What a coach, trainer and philosopher Mike was. Not too many remember . him. He was one of the all- time greats. Keene Fitzpatrick was another. Keene reported at Yale weighing 164 pounds. He weighed around 164 pounds at Michigan. He was around 164 pounds at Princeton. In forty-four years Fitzpatrick was never two pounds away from 164 pounds. I couldn’t tell you the number of times Keen® and I met and talked over this matter of weight and age. It is only in the later years I appreciated the logic and' philosophy of Keene’ s long­ time knowledge. Keene could coach and tram football, track, rowing and the art of living. “ I’ve never missed a day’s work In 44 years,” he said once. “ I’ve never been out of condition. There are times when I get upset by watching some of these young fellows from 19 to 23 years old report- . ing for football practice. Too many of them are overweight and soft from a summer that certainly wasn’t devoted to keeping in condition. At my age, over 60,1 could outrun many of them. I’ ve seen them come to early practice at least 25 pounds overweight. One man reported 85 pounds above his best weight. He was of little value most of the year. It isn’t hard to put on excess weight. In fact It is quite easy. But try to take it off and see what happens. It’s hard, slow work.” | “ A man of 50 or 60 should try to - keep his weight close to what it was at 25 or 30. He might be a few pounds heavier, but the difference] should be slight.” f There were more than a young fellows this past September who would have given more than a trifle to be in better shape when football’s practice opened. When you have to spend most of your time, lopping off 10 or 20 pounds the punishment more than. fits the crime. But it is twice as tough 20 or 30 years later. J • # * Tack Hardwick's Example Those who feel Tack Hardwick’s recent death more than anyone else are the Boston kids', * I have just had a-letter from one o f the head^men o f one of Boston’s leading boys clubs. “ I only wish,” he said, “ that every athletic star in this coun­ try could only follow Hard­ wick’s example. Here wa3 one of Harvard’ s all-time greats, living, when he cared to, in a wealthy, exclusive society. Yet he had been the most active member of our club for the last 28 years. No one had worked harder.* Tack came to almost every meeting to talk and mix with the kids. They loved him and he loved them. Not long ago 1 we had to have 27,000 folders that were badly- needed. Tack paid for them ali. With Tack It ' was all a work of love. Only two days before his sudden death, he dropped into the of­ fice. , ” Tve had a lot of lucky breaks,’ he said. ’But I can tell you this— I’ve gotten a bigger kick out of the little I’-ve been able to do for these kids than all the honors I’ve ever known wearing that big h on my crimson .sweater. I wish a lot of other former athletes would do all they could for this younger gehera- tion. We have, never given them a. break.” This comes from the Hard­ wick that 1 knew so long, if former athletes, former stars can’t help the lefts—no one else • can. The hoys certainly’get'lilt tie help from the politician*,.' whose main interest is a gov­ ernment pay check. ’ " "*. *" The kids today get their thrills from the stars of football, base­ ball, box.ng, golf, -tennis, track- ^etc; it has already, been proved that a b g part of juveai'e delinquency is u.;e to senior stupidity. Spert has done.,a fair shai;e |n (■•Cipng tas juveh:!V langle. 'if^has di. ,:e a b. .£„<■* r.iare than ahy-o’tber lorm of our tot-.a.’ organization.’ Lut toe raw f . a is thal th-£-;s0. ,-u:ud civil 2 iU;on we know today nas never a-..a. e:.»d the dus®i • it .--ok . i and Others' ve a.oeJ t« a of rtrtj i-tiia m xuiz r..aes* WHAT OTHER DAYS DO THEY '* WANT OFF * " r A t t n p o o d s m y , s r P A rm cK ’s m y & A i& m N e 's m ? ' ' AN&. MAY n £ i / f Racing to Be Fair Feature There will be four days of racing at Fayette county’s early­ bird fair next summer. Purses- will run over S12.600. As in the past, the headline event of the week will be the “ Blue Grass of Ohio” stake for 15 pacers. The purse for this event, scheduled for Friday of the fair, is $1,200. *Tournament, . Coal or No Coal Commissioner Emswiler of the] Ohio Athletic association pre-1 diets that the state basketball tournament will be carried out as scheduled for March, regardless of the coal situation. In Indiana it is said the tournament will have to he postponed if the mal crisis continues. WASHINGTON REPORT BY SENATOR ROBERT A. TAFT T HE L in coln D ay dinner sponsored by the Republican . Women’s Organization in W ashington was one o f the most enthusiastic R epublican m eetings I have ever attended. Tw elve thousand peop le w ere packed in to the U line Arena and thou­ sands m ore unable to get through the doors. At the same tim e, the R epublican members o f Congress and of the National Committee issued^- a statement of principles and ob­ jectives, a platform for the 1950 election. In general, it is a-forth­ right and defi­ nite prog ram , although lik e all party plat­ forms some sub­ jects are treated in generalities because of dif­ fe r e n c e s within, the party. But on many major issues, itis clear and .definite. It a p p r o v e s the ’ T a f t - H a rtley Jaw by name. It denounces Brennan Plan by name. It nounces Yalta and Potsdam. It few * Promises a reduction of spending and taxes and a balanced budget. It states the principal domes­ tic issue to be liberty against socialism, which is defined to include regimentation by the Federal Government, and bases its program of progress on lib­ erty and incentive. * T'HE Democrats have asked two questions: How has your liberty been limited? Where is the social­ ism? , .- ; Liberty has not yet been greatly limited, because both the Repub­ lican 80th Congress and the Demo­ cratic 81st Congress have blocked Mr, Truman’s program. But in one respect liberty has been seriously limited! Taxes are higher than they have ever been in peacetime, consuming 25 per cent o f the na­ tional income. - Since a large part o f these taxes is passed on into higher prices, the poorest workman or housewife is prebably^ paying at least 15 per cent of his or her income in taxes, directly or indirectly. The average for all people is 25 per cen t This means that men are not left free to spend the money which they earn by the sweat o f their brows on those things which they need and desire. The government takes it away from them and spends it on services which they may or may not want, and which they may or may not* get. If this tax burden were steadily increased, as- the Truman plans would require, it could reach a point where it was a complete depredation of freedom. In Eng­ land it has reached 40 per cent and brought about a condition of stag­ nation and austerity. LAFF OF THE WEEK f t 8 — "Father I'd Like You To Meet My New Friend, Marvin. He's Visiting The Rosser's Next Door." A NAME TH AT STANDS FOR GOOD FURNITURE EUDGfeT PLAN AVA ILABLE H F L O A O M R A E M N S S S Claibourne-McDermott Co. Phone 2238 38!/2 N. South Wilmington VWHERE is the socialism? It is in *’ the Truman program which Congress has rejected. ' The President has repeatedly demanded restoration of all the OPA controls, price fixing, wage industry and other businesses. He insists -on the Brannan Plan for farmers which proposes produc­ tion controls under which the gov­ ernment would tell every farmer what he can plant and what he cannot plant—how many hogs, beef cattle and dairy cattle he can raise. These two measures together would ip^an a complete govern­ ment direction of commerce, Industry and agriculture such as thqt Imposed by the socialist government of Britain, The President demands the so­ cialization of medicine, trans­ ferring the whole field of medical care to Washington, and extending it to give free government medi­ cine to everybody in the United States, including all those entirely able to pay for it. The Federal Security Agency in its current an­ nual report wants to have the national government take over all welfare activities. Then the President demands the repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. Nobody points out anything wrong with the law any more—in fact, the President is using i t ‘ himself. The labor pgople simply want to defeat gjl those who voted for the law so thgt they paq §pquire the same domination pvep the Legi§- lative branch that they haye over the Executive, The CIQ-FAg tq day is practically a socialist party^ and its program contains other features which Mr, Truman has not yet fully accepted. The issue in 1050, however, i§ whether they can get control of Congress as they almost did in 1948, If they do, we will have enacted into law the entire pro* grarn imposed on Britain by the labor-socialist government Of that country. 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