The Cedarville Herald, Volume 73, Numbers 1-26

■ W ! •rtf5 •XZ .F r id a y , M a r ch 17 , 1 9 5 0 The Cedarville, O. Herald The Cedarville Herald A Republican Newspaper Published Every Friday by THURMAN MILLER. JR. Entered as second class matter October 31, 1887 at the Postof- Jke at Cedarville, Ohio, under A ct o f Congress o f March 1879. Member—National Editorial As* sociation; Ohio Newspaper Asso­ ciation; Miami Valiev Press As­ sociation. To Oust Pests An OSU entomologist told fruit growers of Greene county about pests and advanced meth­ ods of treatment o f trees fo r them. The meeting was held one day last week in the court house. m H BS. KEHMET8 j. F88EMAH a u d i t o r i a l h e l p i n g u s This is a small, but we hope helpful, community newspaper, dedicated to the service of the people who live around here first and to the county we live in and to the state, nation and world We take in all that territory in our desire to be useful and helpfd You’d he surprised how much help is offered us in this program of service to our corner o f the world. We get dozens o f letters—the long-envelope kind—a couple of wastebasketful every week — from folks who want to help us with our helping. They „want to tell everybody how to do every­ thing, from feeding the baby to poisoning rats. Bureaus deluge us with wordy letters that if we printed w e wouldn’t expect any­ body to take the paper. Govern­ ment-franked messages pour in, all cauculated to help everybody do everything. The one weak spot in it all is that not a word comes in on the old-fashioned, idea of the people helping thenx- and we are afraid out-moded, selves. Excuse us, now, please— we’ve got to run over and get the mail; if we don’t go now we’ll have to borrow a wheelbarrow an hour or so later. NOSE COUNTING Plhns for counting noses in America are getting under way. Exams have been taken. Instruc­ tions are being given. A week or so hence (or whence as the case may be) the tabulations will be tabulating. Thy are going to ask more questions than merely how many there are in the family, and if they keep any goldfish, and i f so why. One in every 10 will he asked if he makes over $10,000 a year. You may be the lucky one to he flattered, so when the doorbell rings go right in the parlor and welcome the vis­ itor. DIESEL WHISTLES Folks haven’t liked the diesel whistles on locomotives. They do the job as a warning signal. The harsh horns’ hooting can be heard for miles. That’s the pur­ pose of a whistle on a railroad engine—to warn people about the approach of the train. But the diesel toots have been disturb­ ing. Now there is a new kind of whistle being used. It is musical It has all the warping effects the present horns have, with none of their ear-bothering honking. The world is getting better. A FARMER TALKS Elwood is a Fairfield county fhrmer. Dovfpa in Washington he told a House sub-committee that Ohio wheat and corn farm­ ers are “ killing the goose that lays the golden egg.” He said that farmers of Ohio raised 60 per cent more wheat last year than their acreage allotment provided. “ Corn growers probably will do the same thing,” he pre­ dicted, “ unless something is done.” THE LENTEN SEASON Meditation and prayer accom­ plish things that are baffled by any other effort. Nothing can be so helpful to this distraught and troubled world as meditation anti prayer by the multitudes who people it. This is the season of the year when millions make prayer a special part of their lives. It is the only hope people have and life is drab without hope. PROF. DEWEY Gov. Thomas E. Dewey (Oh, yes, you dp, too remember him; sure you do; he’s got a mursh- tache!) may become president of ■Cornell University when he kisses Albany good-bye, Jan. 1, 1951. Well, his uncle John did right well professor-ing. A REVIVAL There was a time when old- fashioned preachers signaled during the arousement session o f the morning worship fo r “a- mens.” Nowadays, the studio aud­ ience is urged to applaud by a placard. History repeats itself. COULD BE Maybe these flying saucers mean Russia is tossing out sonje undesirables of China, A labor party orator has ha­ ranguing a crowd in London just before the recent election. “ I know a family o f 17 children— how do you account for that?” A voice came from the back o f the crowd: “ Free enterprise.” A fter seven years in a hospital Jane Froman, the star, can walk again. A picture shows her directing a chorus. Makes us who complain about a sore toe a bit aabamed, eh? S C n iP T ra R r A cts 21:?—2G-32; Ro- mr.ns 5:1-S: He'bwws 12:1-3: I Jchn 1. DEVOTIONAL HEADING; II Tur.o- thy 1:8-14. The Living Faith Lesson for March 19, 1958 M ANY a funeral sermon has been preached ever the Chris­ tian church, hut rcsr.ehaw the corpse never stays put. What keeps it go­ ing? AH sorts cf explanations have been given by unsympathetic out­ siders. Tile church twe are told) is an upper-class hcb'uy, or a lower- class opiate; it is a social club, it is a burial society; it panders to pride, or it is a perverse form cf self-tor­ ture; it is kept alive by a well- run organization. Such explanations do not explain. The „ truth is at heart ®r- Foreman quite simple: The church is kept alive by faith. What is Christian faith, the faith of the church? A study cf the Scripture for this week, or a broader search through the New Testament from end to end, will convince any impartial reader of the falsehood cf some of the notions about what Christian faith is. Some have claimed that it is nothing but faith in the Fatherhccd of God and the brotherhood of man. Let the reader try to find this in the New Testament if he can. If you had said this to an early Christian, he would hove replied along this line: Thai is just the problem—hew can we become sons of God? How can men achieve brotherhood? Others tell us that faith is belief in a series of doc­ trines. Let the reader search the New Testament and see if he cun Tind there anything about faith in a creed. Sometimes this notion takes another form —that faith originally was a belief that Jesus’ beliefs were true; in other words, that faith is accepting the "religion of Jesus.” Now the ehureh from the begin­ ning believed that Jesus’ thoughts were true thoughts; but faith v.as ‘ never a simple secer.d-I'.and ac­ ceptance of any cue’s creed, not even that of Jesus. The f.:Ith we find in the New Testament is none of these things. Still less is it faith in the saints, ir. l.Iary, or in an “ infallible” church. O * * Faith; Not About, But In . . . T HE FAITH that broke cut in glorious light in these early days of the church, and has con­ tinued shining down through the centuries, was net belief about any­ thing or anybody, it was belief IN Some One; ar.d that Some One was Jesus Christ. There is a simply astonishing variety of ways in which, he is spoken of iri the New Testament. He is Son of I.Ian. he is teacher and healer, he is the first-born of many brothers; ha is Priest and Sacrifice, he is the Propitiation, the Reconciler c f men ta Gcd; he is Master ar.d Lord, ho is the Word— that is, what Gaa has to say ta us; he is the Sen of Gcd, he sits on the throne of the universe, he will judge every man. To put it qv. te bluntly, the church believed (and still believes) in a* supernatural Christ and net only in a human Jesus. They believed in him as a teacher, as the Teacher indeed; but net merely as one whose teachings bad been inter­ rupted by an untimely death. They did not “ play down” fcis death, on the contrary they played it up, Christ crucified for ns Is al­ ways sirc»gly in their minds. But they were far from leaving him as it were on a crucifix. Any form c f Christianity that thinks of Jesus chiefly as a Christ­ mas baby; or a starry-eyed ideal­ ist; cr as a pathetic figure hanging on a crucifix is a perversion of New Testament ways cf thought. Everywhere in the center is the Christ who-“ v.as dead and is alive forevermore.” *. «.< * There Is No Other w YOUNG MOSLEM who became a Christian ar.d is very happy abcut it, was asked what it was that changed him, for Moslems are hard to change. It was not an argu­ ment, he said, it was the lives of some missionaries in Iran whom he knew. He wanted what they had—it was as simple as that. And he went on to say this: “ Christian­ ity doesn’t have much in theol­ ogy t h a t Mohammedanism doesn’t have. There is just one thing Christianity has that we didn’t have, nor anything like it: Jesus Christ." , That is what—that is who wins men today, and that was the secret of the early church, and that is the secret today of the living church everywhere: Christ alive by faith in the lives of those who love him. (CoSyxlght by lie International council of Religious Education on behalf of 40 Protestant denominations. Released by WNU features.) CLARENCE J. BROWN Writes a Buckeye I n u o n erre s s With the coal miners back at work under a contract with the operators which will run until July 1, 1952, both coal and indus­ trial .production are rapidly re­ turning to normal. Administra- . tion leaders in Congress have indefinitely postponed consider­ ation of the “mine seizure law" requested by the President. Pro- Labor Members o f Congress are insisting the Tecenfc coal strike situation proved the Taft-Hart- ley Act a failure. Other legisla­ tors are equally insistent the coal situation proved the Taft-Hart- ley Act not a “ Slave Labor Law” as charged; that the Pres­ ident failed to use the law in time; and that if any charges are made in the work stoppage endangering the public welfare. Numerous bills and resolutions have been introduced in Con­ gress to study the poduction and labor problems brought to light by the recent coal contro­ versy in the hope that a recur­ rence of such a situation may he averted. Fresident Truman left this past weekend in the Presidential Yacht Williamsburg fo r a three weeks vacation in Key West. The President spent nearly a month at Key West Naval Base at the Southwest tip o f Florida last November and December. He will be accompanied by a considerable portion of the White House staff and a retinue o f other public of­ ficials, as well as by two or three score news reporters and radio commentators. Senator Mundfc of South Da­ kota has introduced an anti-Com- munist bill which will soon be brought up for a vote in the Sen­ ate. The measure—patterned=aft­ er the famous Mundt-Nixon Bill o f the 80th Congress—would re­ quire registration o f all Commu­ nists'and provide means and methods fo r keeping a rather close check on their activities. The bill repealing all Federal taxes on oleomargarine—a, cen­ ter o f legislative controversy for a long, long time—cleared the Congress and was sent to the President last week. The House and Senate finally proved a con- fetence report on the bill after a year o f legislative maneuver­ ing. The measure not only re­ peals Federal taxes on oleomar­ garine, but also sets up standards fo r manufacturing, selling and serving oleomargarine, fixes pen­ alties up to $5,000 a day fo r each day of violation o f the law, and places responsibility upon the Federal Trade Commission fo r its enforcement. The previous week a similar measure to make Alaska a State * passed the House. Both bills are expected to run into heavy oppo­ sition in the Senate, where their approval seems to be in doubt. However, if the Senate passes the House. Both bills,are expect­ ed to run into heavy opposition in the Senate, where their approval sems to be indoubt. However, if the Senate passes and th Pres­ ident approves the two Statehood two bills, Alaska will become the 49th and Hawaii the 50th state in the union. Food fo r thought. Early last year the Canadian Government drastically reduced both excise and income taxes. The result has been a business boom which heav­ ily increased the tax income o f the Canadian Government dras­ tically reduced both excise and income taxes which are pro­ viding a Treasury surplus o f ap­ proximately one billion dollars fo r the fiscal year to be used to reduce the Canadian national debt, which now stands at $15 billion. Canada has a production o f nearly thirteen million people. The population o f the United States is estimated to he one hun­ dred and fifty million, and our national debt now stSnds at $268 billion. As o f January 31st, the Fed­ eral Government owned surplus agricultural commodities valued at $3,947,423,790. Included were nearly 7 million bales o f cotton; over a hundred million pounds o f butter; 275 million pounds o f dried milk; 25 million pounds of cheese; 412 million pounds o f lin­ seed oil; 261 million pounds of peanuts; 50 million sacks o f po tatoes; 627 million bushels o f corn; 475_million bushels o f wheat 347 million pounds of tobacco; 391 million pounds of rosin, and 76 million pounds o f dried eggs. By a margin of three votes the House refused to authorize the establishment o f a new Federal “ library demonstration” project which would hkve cost as much as $36 million. The merits or demerits o f the proposal were not discussed as much as the ques­ tion o f whether the Congress should authorize any new govern­ ment activity to be financed on borrowed money at a time when the Federal Government already has an annual deficit of more than $5 billion—and the House voted against the new project and additional financial commit­ ment. T h e Senate Appropriations Committee last week by a heavy majority voted to appropriate fo r the Federal Rent Control Admin­ istration only sufficient funds *to permit that agency of Gov­ ernment to end its work by June 30th, the date the present Fed­ eral Rent Control Act is sched­ uled to expire. George Geyer Dies A victim o f a heart * attack, George Geyer, 51, owner o f a’ restaurant in Xenia and another iu Fairborn, died in Columbus last week. Funeral and interment were in Xenia Monday afternoon. To Rebuild Church As a soecial meeting o f the congregation of* the- Congrega­ tional Church of Christ in Lees a.■ Creek Sunday evening plans were started fo r a remodeling o f the church building, with decoration and painting. The church is 75 years old. Next Season’ s Top Stars H UDDLING with a group of vet­ eran ballplayers and managers we finally steered the argument in the general direction of head­ line makers for. 1950. Who would they-be? From the American league you start right off with Ted Williams, Joe Di­ Maggio, Tommy Henrieb and such , pitchers as M e l Parnell, Ellis Kin­ der, Joe Page and possibly Rae Scar­ borough, Bob Lem­ on and Ed Garcia. In the national league y o u ’ had Jackie .Robinson, Stan Musial, Ralph K i n e r , E n o s Slaughter and such Grantland Rice pitchers as Don Newcombe, Preach-* er Roe, Ken Heintzleman, Howie Pollet and one or two others. “ There won’t be much change among the top bunch,” Frank Frisch said. “ Ted Williams still has a few big seasons left. DiMaggio has one or two after 18 years' in baseball. In the National league, Jackie Robinson will be hard to head off again. He has shown Mus­ ial and Slaughter, who are not getting any younger (who Is?), that both will have to have even bigger years to beat him. Some of the fellows out front last season may not repeat. Kinder at 35 or 36 is no kid. Neither is DiMaggio. For that matter Robinson will be 3i in January.” “ The younger fellow with the best chance is Don Newcombe,” an- oiher manager cut in. “ This big fellow has had less than a year in big league baseball and yet they are all talking about him. If we* are going to have any 30-game winner in 1950 it will be Newcombe,. He’ll he the best pitcher in either league.” What about Mel Parnell? Par­ nell is only 27 years old. He is with the best run-making club in either league. “ I’ll bet yon 10 dollars Par­ nell finishes a b o v e New­ combe,” an American leaguer cut in. “ 1 mean that he'll win more ball games.” The two r shook hands. “How can you tell?” another said. “Kell has a lifetime big-league av­ erage of .297. Ted Williams has one around .354. Yet Kell outhit Wil­ liams last year. “He won’t come within 25 points of Williams this year,” a Red Sox entry cut in. That led to another 10-dollar bet. “ And I’d like to bet that Stan Musial gets more M.V.P. votes than Jackie Robinson," some out­ sider said. “ Robinson is good but he isn’ t any Stan Musial.” There are not many Stan Musials lying around loose. After all, Musial is only 29 and he has known only eight big-league seasons. That's little more than a warm-dp. Or at least tit should be. - Other small bet3 made: Kin­ er to beat the 50-home-run mark again; Williams to hit over .350; Robinson not to lead j the N.L. at bat; Newcombe to | win 25 games. Two bets on Joe t DiMaggio to play in 120 games. | * • * Dyer and the Cardinals t Eddie Dyer, the crack blocking back from Rice some years ago, feels that his Cardinals are about due again. Eddie won the pennant his first year out in 1946. He fin­ ished second to the Dodgers in 1947. He ran second in 1948 and last year he was beaten on the final day by a lone game. "We’ll have at least four .300 hitters next season,” Eddie said. “ Who are they? Musial, 1 Slaughter, Jones and Sehoen- dienst. It's true that Jones and Schoendienst hit only .299 and .297 respectively last year but they’ll pick up those extra points sure. They are really .310 hitters. As a matter o i fact we have another good kid who should hit better than .300. His name is Ed Kazak, our third baseman. Ed hit .304 In 92 games last year before' he was hurt, This would give ua three infielders and two out­ fielders in the .300 or better class.” "What’s the doubtful side ol your outfit?” I asked. “ The answer is nearly .always the same," he said. “ Pitching. Last season we landed Lanier and Martin well into the season,” * • • For Double Platoon “ A .year ago I was dead against the double platoon,” Wes Fesler of Ohio State said. “ Since then 1 have changed completely. I'm all tor it. I believe these coaches who .dislike it haven’t given it a fair trial. 1 know 1 hadn’t when I was against it. Since then I'v e discovered most [of the players want -it, Thqt’s a .big reason for liking it. I know it | produces faster, better football.- 1 •also know it gives many mom-stu* |dents a chance to play football" WASHINGTON REPORT « BY SENATOR ROBERT A. TAFT I AM a member of the subcommittee of the Joint Committee on the economic report studying the problem of investment. Under our economic system, funds must be continuously pro­ vided to permit the/ steady expansion of commerce.and indus­ try, the development of new products, new methods, new plant and machinery so that we may provide more and more jobs and a better standard of living. My 3>.-...... ..................................................... own opinion (the committee has not yet made its decision) is that there is today a serious shortage o f mo n e y f o r investment in common stocks, eq.uity capital and new busi­ nesses, and also a shortage of in­ vestmentmoney for l o n g - t e rm loans to small business. True, there has been a tremendous expansion of in­ dustry since the war but most of it has been in the growth of existing companies by the re-investment of their large profits. Such profits, however, will not continue long in a buyers’ mar­ ket and they do not solve the prob­ lem of financing the few_.compa- nies which have been the principal cause of our past growth. . Both small and large companies have difficulty 'selling common stock. The reasons are. not far to seek. Tax rates are so high on up­ per incomes which provided most equity investment in the past that the well-to-do are better off in­ vesting in safe or tax-free bonds at low rates. For example, a man with an income of $50,000 invest­ ing in a corporation which earns 10 per cent would only receive about 2 per cent return on his money after taxes. A man with an income of $100,000 would receive only about 1 per cent. Investments in common stock are subject to double taxation, a corporation paying 38 per cent on its profits and the individual paying full in­ come tax rates on money dis­ tributed. There is still plenty of money saved in the United States, but it is saved by millions of persons with lower incomes who cannot afford to risk their-money. The result is a very poor demand for common stocks. A Federal Re­ serve Board survey shows that 69 per cent of all spending units were “ against holding” common stocks. It has become as unfash­ ionable to hold them as it was fashionable in 1929. * « * HPHE remedy for this situation rests partly in education which could be undertaken by the in­ vestment bankers. It also seems clear to me that dividends re­ ceived from a corporation’s earn­ ings already taxed should be ex­ empt from some part of the indi­ vidual income tax. I doubt whether w e can do much about the high taxes on upper incomes as long as we take 25 per cent of the national income for government expense. Therefore, we should find some way to Channel the savings of small savers into equity capital. Such savings seem to flow fairly freely into unincorporated business-retail stores, gasoline stations, and the like. But the large reservoirs of such savings are in savings hanks and insur­ ance companies, which tradi­ tionally have not invested in equities. Savings banks perhaps might be induced to make long-term loans to industry, but can hardly be ex­ pected to invest in equities. Insur­ ance companies are severely lirn- • ited by law, but I believe that some part of their reserves should be permitted to be invested in equi­ ties and should be so invested. TPHERE are various other plans x for channeling small savings into industry without the risk in­ volved in the direct purchase of a. common stock. It has been sug­ gested that we establish and en­ courage i nv e s tme n t companies which could spread the risk by buying the securities of a number of different small businesses. It has further been suggested that the government might insure some of these investments-or loans so that the amount of possible loss would be cut. Such venture capital companies also would have to re­ ceive the same taxation treatment as investment trusts do today. Others have proposed a system of special capital banks within, the Federal Reserve System, and still others would insure the long-term loans of commercial banks. There is a considerable demand from small business for direct government loans. As far as short­ term loans are concerned, J be­ lieve private banks will make any that are justified. I think we. must find a method of providing long­ term loans and equity capital, but I am opposed to direct government funds for this purpose with ail. its favoritism and inefficiency. 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