The Yellow Springs American, Volume 1, Numbers 1-22

1 PAGE TWO YELLOW SPRINGS AMERICAN •vwiar* Thursday, September 17,1953 t r YELLOW SPRINGS AMERICAN Dedicated to iirrservln* and promoting the American Way at Ufa PUBLISHED EACH WEEK BY THE GREENE COUNTY PUBLISHING COMPANY SUBSCRIPTION RATE ------ ------------ ----------------*2'M P**" Yetr Advertising rates upon request VACANCYCAUSEDBYVINSONDEATH The death of Fred M. Vinson marks the passing of an able and conscientious jurist Speculation has al­ ready arisen as to who might be appointed to fill his vacant seat in the Supreme Court, On the whole, Am­ erica has been fortunate in the caliber of the 13 men who have occupied the post of Chief Justice. The Unit­ ed States has produced a large number of very able jurists. The same cannot be said of the American system jurisprudence. The English, from whom we borrowed our system, usually speak of American justice with tongue In cheek. It is not that the machinery is wrong, but the operation. We have come to regard the letter of the law above the spirit and intent. A particular case in point happened several years ago. A game Warden in the discharge of his duties was shot and killed in Southeastern Ohio. The alleged kil­ ler was arrested and tried in accordance with legal procedure, Through a technicality, which had nothing to do with his innocence or guilt, he was set frep- Ac­ cording to the provisions of the fifth ammendment to the Constitution he cannot be tried again. In the eyes of the average citizen, there was a gross miscarriage of justice. If the alleged killer was not guilty lie should have stood trial so that his in nocence was proven. The supposition exists that he was guilty and resorted to a subterfuge to escape the pen­ alty of his misdeed. If he was guilty, then a potential killer has been turned loose upon society. The American public is responsible for this low state of jurisprudence which was actually a miscar­ riage of justice. By his indifference, the average citi- izen approves indirectly of such miscarriages, • • • • THEAMERICAN’SCREED William Tyler Page, Clerk of the House of Rep­ resentatives, wrote the American’s Creed in 1917. It was subsequently accepted on April 3, 1918, by the House of Representatives on behalf of the American people. This Creed is just as pertinent today as when it was written. “I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the peop- ple; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sov- erign Nation of many sovereign states; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. "I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love i t ; to support its Constitution; to obey its laws; to respect its flag and defend it against all enemies,” • • • l . 2NDAMENDMENT The press and radio of today contains many ref­ erences to invocation of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Actually only one phrase of a relatively long paragraph is invoked: “ Nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,” The fifth amendment is but one of ten of the original Bill of Rights, Rarely is the Second Amendment ever mentioned, This Amendment is short and states: "A well-regulat­ ed militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,” Sccmmingly our founding fathers considered the right to bear and keep arms sufficiently important to place It near the head of the Hat. By implication, it con­ veys the ihought that such* is the right and desire of each of us, The thinking of people today seems to have strayed from this concept, By curious coincidence, the Swiss people seem to have implemented this fundamental concept to full extent, Literally every male between the ages 16 and 6G belongs to the militia. Each man is issued a rifle he keeps at home and keeps in readiness, Not only thnt, but he practices with it until nearly every Swiss can qualify as a sharpshooter. He has a definite as­ signment, in case of emergency, and knows exactly where he is to go and what he is to do, There are no conscientious objectors, Looking at Switzerland’s long history of neutral­ ity, in the midst Of war torn Europe, it would appear that their system has considerable merit. The provis­ ions for such a system exist under Amendment Two of our Constitution. Perhaps our situation is sufficient­ ly different that such a system is unnecessary. How­ ever, our liberties are sufficiently important to us to guard our Second Amendment as well aa our Fifth. REDS ANDOURCHURCHES Last week’s papers carried the headlines “Form­ er Red says 60’0 U. S. Clergymen Are Secret Commun­ ist Party Members.” This seems an appropriate time to call the at­ tention of all who have missed it, to the article “Reds and Our Churches” by J. B. Matthews in the Ameri­ can Mercury magazine, which dedicates itself to the task of enlightening its readers on Communism, its dangers, and possible methods to combat it. The Mer­ cury editors have contacted the nation’s outstanding authorities who have knowledge, integrity, and, above all courage, on the subject of Communism. In his article, Mr. Matthews speaks of “the Peop­ les Institute of Applied Religion •— a Communist school sponsored and subsidized by Protestant clergy­ men, which published a handbook saying ‘true religion uses the class struggle as the most effective weapon of constructive social change in a class society.’ ” Present headquarters of PIAR are located in Hel­ ena, Ala, The Attorney General of the United States listed the PIAR as Communistic and subversive. Its di­ rector is the Rev. Claude C. Williams, a Presbyterian minister expelled by his congregation for party activ­ ity. He admitted some years ago to a Communist Party membership card. PIAR disseminates Communist propaganda a- mong preachers in rural communities. Director Wil­ liams wrote one of his local leaders with reference to a PIAR conference to be held in St. Louis, Mo.: “Can I depend on you for 10 real hill-billy, honest to God Bible preachers for institute? Will pay oil (automobile operative costs) and keep as promised, and am sure (I) can get you on the pay-roll,” The pay-roll refeired to the pay-roll of the Home Missions Council of North America. It was one of the most ijnportant Protestant church bodies in America. It has been made the Division of Home Missions of the National Council of Churches of Christ in America, According to Williams the Home Missions Council of North America made cash subsidies for work of the Peoples’ Institute of Applied Religion. Christian dedi­ cated dollars have gone to support the dissemination of Communism and subversion among rural clergymen A partial explanation of the reason thousands of clergymen have collaborated in one way or another with Communist-front apparatus may be found in the vogue of “Social Gospef” which infected Protestapt theological seminaries more than a generation ago. According to the Arftericnn Council of Christian Laymen, 122 W. Washington Ave„ Madison 1, Wis., in its leaflet “Shall Our Churches Teach Christianity or Communism,” ’Every major denomination has with­ in it so-called "social action” or “social Gospel” groups which teach Communism-Socialism under the pretense that it is practical Christianity, A T LAST lh» gardening season * * is about ovar. And I can't say I'm lorry, Thl* year my wife started out jwith the Idea of railing vegetable* .to can and feed ua all atimmer, In- Ulead of the usual. amaU plot to putter about In and enjoy. I In AprU I spaded ground until | my back was almoat broken. She, ,of course, stood on the sidelines and cheered me on when she wasn't screaming, at ma to break up this or that clod. I must admit she helped me with the string when I was ready to mark off the rows. After that I took over again. I finished planting In early May. I had a Uttle over a week of rest before the darn stuff started coming through the ground, With It came weeds. For the rest of May tnd June I hoed and hoed and hoed. In July we began to have a few things to eat from the garden, but I still hoed end boed, even In my dreams. |, Then, during the first of August | ithe garden reached Its peak of pro- l IducUoa Everything was fine until ’one day out comes the wife with a floppy bat on her head, some kind of gardening outfit which I learned later set me back $38.95, gloves and a big basket. “Why the rigT'' says L "I'm going out to my garden to f t t a few vegetables.” says sho. “Did you say MY garden?” "Why yes, so 1 did,” says she. "Jumpin' catfish." 1 yelled and started slashing at bean vines, to­ mato plants, cabbages, etc. She fled In terror to the house shouting for grandmother to come and stop the slaughter. They Just can't understand why t should get so angry when she said MY garden. That's Uks s woman, sn't It? , , , YOU DON'T LOVE HE S i By N o r m a n D i s h e r 4 ^ ispvARLING?” U "Ye*. dear?” Bffl dropped kls paper and looked across at hi* wife, "What la it?" "Darling, do you really tove me?” The email blonde head tilted to owe aide and the light blue eyes locked at Bill with that sad. S t Bernardlah expression. "Of course I love you. We're been married five yeare now. Isn’t that proof enough?" "But 1 mean do you really lore me like you uaed to before we were married?" "Yes dear, certainly," BIB turned heck to hie paper and wondered what In the deril gat Into women some times. Silly questional "BUI—BILL!” "What do you want and do you Bare to shout so loudly?" "Watt why don't you Hate* to met BUI Wilson you're getting to be a good-for-nothing husband. I am a paper-widow, that's whet You think more ef that old place i f paper than you da ef mel” "Now bowoy—” "Don't, now honey me, Pm get- Mng efek sad tired of sitting here night after night while yen stick yeur foes In the paper," "But dear, t only wanted to reed the apart page. New that'* nothing la get excited about. Ia It?" "Nothing to get excited about, he says, Now would you like It If I lust eat here and eewedi" "But Marty, that's not true." "You're tired of me end you want to get rid of me, well let me tell you a thing or two, Milter Wil­ son--" Marty atarted to cry. She lumped up and Sod Into the kitchen. "Oh for Pate's sake Martyi Orew up!" Bill shouted as he Sung the paper te the Soar and stomped out ante the porch "Heiy smokes," Bffl mattered. "If I . treat her nice she’s sue- pidoue, If I treat her mean! I’m a bully. Sometimes I wonder if it's worth HI" file' thoughts went heck te the time when he'd met Marty at i skating party, She was the nicest girl there. A pretty Uttle pug- m ud l» htondsL Shea had -skated together for awhile and then Bill had asked If he might take her home. She wouldn't go at first, but after they became better acquaint­ ed she decided he was a nice fellow and she let him escort her borne. So he’d taken Marty home and kissed her on the front porch. She was surprised, but she wasn't ex­ actly mad about It, Bill grinned to himself when he thought of their Brat real date and how they'd gone on a picnic and It had rained. He thought of hit pro­ posal and bow happy her mother and father had been when they found out about If, Ha laughed when bp thought of their wedding day whep Ns frisnda hid kidnapped him end he was late getting fp the ebureh. Marty was certain *b» would be left waiting on the church •tepcj she was afraid he’d get cold feet and beah out Ha turned and opened the front door to walk back into the front room but he ran Into Marty who bad a suitcase in her hand and a furious look an her feed. "Look out, raa leaving.” was aQ she said, "Hey! Walt a mtmite," BIB told her, "You're doing nothing ef the eert!" "Yea, i am. You don't love me, you don't pay any attention te me, ao I won’t atay." She tried te get around Bill but he reached out and took the suitcase from her haind, put It down on the step*, picked her up, and carried her Into the front room. He eat on the armchair, placed her serose his knees, and spankad her aoundly. She cried and ahouted and Screamed until Bill fat her go. Theft he kissed her tenderly, She fought a little and than relaxed. "Oh Bill, you de love me, den't you!" "I certainly do. New go apetaira and put that suitcase hack where you got It and behave yourself." "1 don't have te," ifarty aetefc- ered, ‘it's empty," Bill started to t u n her eve* Me hues again but thee decided te Mas I!# ..... ■ - fe. < Bov. Robert R. Harper C c H tn tl fo r C b riitio a i. L o tt o * fo r September 20 1 Titm t 2i 7 * 1 J t M L GoUem Text! Tttmi 5: If. As the representative of Paul, Titus was sent to Crete to organise the churches there, and Paul wrote to encourage the young man In his difficult task af dialing with un­ ruly people. It was, first of all, necessary to Titus to be an "ensample of good works." A man cannot lead others In high things If his own life is not a pattern of the things he declares, "Do as I say and not as I do" Is a pltiabla declaration on tha part of anyone giving advice unto others. Then Paul Instructed Titus to urge upon the people subjection to the powers that wera over them, to be obedient to rulers and to all in authority. In general, this Is good advlca. Good rulers are not a ter­ ror to doers of righteousness, but a terror to evil doers. Govtmment, In Its origin and authority, is from God. And If la Christian duty to be loyal to the established govern­ ment. The people wera also to be ad­ monished to abstain from disputes that were likely to create division and strife, To put away atrife could be attained through faith la the iAlulae Quiet, " I R EM EM B E R ’ lYTHIOl&TMfltS - - - - — —- - ------------- ; Frees Margrel Permseek, to ■Creme, Wisconsin! 1 remember when I was If year* old and worked ,W» a knitting factory for 91.80 a Week, Later in a candy factory for C M ' $ week, The girls wore ester and bloomers down to the ftakles. yip had fpng hair to our waist liny, so wp wort qur balr up jwith Mir rpu* celled ”««*" and abeyt M loftC belrpini fo hoid | | In fdeeg* Out costumes consisted of sky-scraper hate, velvet Mgh bui* len rtam, tong cotton stockings, fong sleeve dresses with high neck Rosa, and tapes h> the ankle. In Mote days women did not smoke s* dare go Into e tavern. •' * e f w o An Off Timer! ( can re­ member when w* did not have raotsl L.chela end tube. We used washtube and had to bo eareftd the! the staves did not warp. We vise need a cedar churn vv*d cadar buckets. Wo used wood •si1fuel. s e a r«em Mrs. Jaila Shaw, Ormnd- vine, Michigan; I remember aa a vl.ee seeing men to spear fishing A night Oft the front of tha heat Hoy pirt an Iron container aw- a le. A fire war built In the Jgn- iciner with plecat ef pine to for- Jah light MsliftiNm te Me eefewH te rtc nit riMr. CeemH r r»M a«r*° v», ftes aa, riMUtfi, kn UM i j This i« your p t |» r help ut to builil it up into something! SUBSCRIBE NOW1 ..IMPORTANT NOTICE... ! e TO ADVERTISERS AND SUBSCRIBERS I e o | This i 3 to notify that all ads must be in our Office *1 [ no later than S o’clock TUESDAY EVENING this \ | also applies to news items, i w m j No ads qr news items will be accepted after this ; ; hour. . . If so requested they will be run the fol- ! • lowing week. I e to **. : AH advertising should be mailed direct to our I • office of publication at the address shown below: ' : • .>.. S I The Greene CountyPrinting Co. | • CEDARVILLE, OHIO 1 • * SV- ’• l FOR NEWS ITEMS: call the office nearest you, I I listed below: . ; : • : FOR YELLOW SPRINGS — 7-7740 ' j j FOR CEDARVILLE — 61711 j j FOR JAMESTOWN — 4-9031 WBI'V M ONEY AND figures have been 2*1 making the news In Washing­ ton for the past week or so. Some of the news was good and some of it bad. The bad news for the public was the fact that the nation’s living costs increased for the second straight month. Higher prices for food, rent, medical care, gasoline and motor oil were cited by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as the chief factor in the cost-of-living Increase. Living costs reached a peak last November, from which they de­ clined during the winter. They be­ gan rising again In the spring and early summer and reached t new high In mid-June The mid-June figure was 114.5 .per cent of the 1947-48 average. The latest Index, reflecting mid-July prices and es­ tablishing another record, was ; 114.7. . r . j « The good news for the nation * was the announcement by Treasury * Secretary Humphrey that the U, S, ‘ has reached the turning point to- j ward a balanced budget. He an­ nounced the government will spend I 972,100,000,000 In the fiscal year * 1954 and have net receipt* of $08,- USOOJMOiXM). u will Wind ua the year with a deficit of $3,800.000,0(k and a national debt of $271,- 100,000,000. These figurei mean that the ha tional debt will be $1,900,000,001 lower than the administration pre dieted tn July. The new figures place the budget almost tn balance next July SO considering straight cash Income to the government and cash outgo • • • ft The government also on nounccd that the public paid s record amount of taxes in the last fiscal year—$89,887,000,000. Total collections were 7.2 per cent higbei than In the previous year, Corporation taxea increased by the smallest percentsga of-any classification. Corporation* paid In come and profit* taxea amounting to $21,467,000,000 in fiscal 1952 a $21,595,000,000 in fiacal 190. The Increase in personal income and employment taxe* was I0.| per cent Individuals paid 931.739, 000,000 In 1952. In fiscal 1M3 they paid 937.255,000,000.'This made to dividual tax payments too Mgfeet singls source of revenue. * Manufacturers paid 92 .299.000,00( in excise taxes In 1953 and 99,1*9,' 000,000 tn 1953, Alcohol toka* totaled 93,7fiLQflP,OQ0_ ______ f D a l e C a r i e g i e AUTHOR OF HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START UVINf, W HEN It seemed evident that her husbimd. Tod Kuntzslman, 4101 Cass Street, Omaha, Nebraska, would be drafted, Mrs, KunUelman " jays they discussed it as sensibly at possible and decided that aside from the fact they would be apart, things wouldn't be too bad. Their two children were of school age; her mother lived with them so thcro would be her companionship. They were buying their borne and by renting a room and with the allotment she would receive from the Government they could live com­ fortably and still meet the payments on the house, plus their Insurance obligations. Then Just a month before Tod received his "official greetings" something happened they hadn’t bar­ gained for. TO Mrs, Kuntzelman It would be any­ thing but a blessed event. She was afraid and she Im­ agined things that eouidn't possibly ever happen- Physically she wasn't ill a single day, but mentally •he had some pretty rough times. Finally came the day when they cabled to Pearl m CABNEG1B y J R E S S I O N A L Q—Aatde from PrealdeaUal and VI m Presidential caagMate*. wh« 4row toe largest vale ever ca*t fer aft todlvldaal ruaning fee paUto eMoe la tola MMtoryf A—A c c o r d i n g a gtudy by Hep, Gordon U McDcnougt) lR‘, Calif-), Sen, William F, Know]and <R„ Calif.) holds that distinction, Un­ opposed by a major party, Knowtand received 1,992,449 vote* fog Senator in 1952. , , ( Q —Cempared te Preetdent Elsenhewer, hew enccesefal waa former i President Tnunaa la wlaaing faverable acllea ea Ms prepeeeta to j Ceftgreaa? ) A—President Eisenhower racked up a success score of 72.7 per esfnt oa bis 44 proposals to the first session. During his last six years in office, Mr. Truman won favorable action on 43.9 per cent of his legislative requests. Bi-Have say ef Ae rarrent pettHena to dtechargo R m w eemmHteee '' from cemMerstlea ef bill*, In arder to force them to toe Beer, reaad- ed ay alee# le too required 219 afgnatarref A—By unofficial counts, the petition on the Townsend Plan old-age peon •ion bill leads with 183 signatures. The House does not reveal aa • official tolly but reports are that five other discharge petitions have f from 17 to 115 signers each. Although filed during toe first session, j the six petition* will remain alive throughout the second. One, how-! over, seems dead for all practical purposes unless a special session | of Congress Is convened before January. It concerns a bill to Ad­ vance personal income toft reductions from Jan. 1, 1954, to July L saae I - —- ■-___ l - ... -it.- i u - i - . - 'i J ’V Harbor that they bad a new liitle daughter and all was wall. j - Two months later the baby was brought borne. By then Mrs, Kuntxsl-- msn had regained strength and bad begun to realize that little bundle in her arms was not the hardship she had Imagined, but one-of tbu greatest blessings she has ever known, A large percentage of the gap' her husband had left was filled as she was kept busy from 9:0fi in toft , morning until 10:00 at night, Since then when troubles come her way, she refuses to worry, Shd if certain there is a Supreme Being who knows better than she what l«| best for her, t i