The Yellow Springs American, Volume 2, Numbers 1-14

X v \ \ The Yellow Swings Amenc-** VOL. 2, NO. 13. YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 7 CENTS PER COPY Mandamus Action Against E lk tion Boai rannum Case Lions Sportsmanship j Banquet Honors ! Athletes Tlit* Lion* Club, Tuesday nl"ht sponsored 1 U> third nnntml Sports­ manship Banquet for the Bryan High School Basketball Team, at. the Elementary School Auditorium. IM . LIONS Sl’OItTMANSlilP BANQUET—Bryan Hi Basketeers arc honored by the Lions with a banquet featuring Dr. James Hull as guest speaker. Seen at the speaker's table, 1. to r„ Mrs, Wilbur Deaton, Wilbur Deaton, Lions president, Mrs. Bruce McPhnden, Bruce McPhaden, toastmaster, r "- Jam*”! mill and Robert Gower, Bryan HI School coach. (Ladlc.v Harris Photos) 1 James Ratliffe, Jr. Visits Friends Mr. James Raturrc. Jr, visited I CAPT. LEONARD SEE Guest speaker for the occasion was Dr. James R. Hull, Columbus, who spoke on the Influence of sports on j one’s later life. Dr, Hull Is a former All-American basketball player from Ohio State University. Coach Robert Gower introduced each of the team members indi­ vidually, Honored were: Players: Capt. Leonard See, Bill Mcfferd. Harold Blackwood, Ron Fisher, Doug Williams. David Hull, Jolly Blxler. Ron White, David Black* . wood, Dan O'Onra, Darrell Dawson, Arils Tolkmanls, Allan Mercer, Clifford Henry, Mark Velaey, Robert Acton, Ja y Bradley, Sigmund Knem- eycr. Cheerleaders: Judy McNutt Nancy Acton, Sue Anderson, Ann Hoffman, Iris Hunter, Linda An­ derson. Manager: Keith Sheridan. Scorekecpcr: Fred Judd. Timekeep­ er: Lloyd Benham. Capt. Leonard Sec spoke thank Ing the Lions Club for its intern,t In the team. Dinner was served by the Pres­ byterian Women with Mrs. Herbert Wise In charge of the arrangements Tables were decorated by Mrs. A. C. Swlnnerton and Mrs, Charles Mcl- llnger who used the High School colors - blue and white, Flowers were arranged by Howard Brown, Rev. James Byrne | To Be Installed iAt St. Paul’ g ’friends in Yellow Springs Tuesday I < night. Mr. Ratliffc is vice president I The Rev. James O, Byrne will bo. Q1K( secretary of the Cincinnati j formally installed ns pastor of St. (Enquirer. A few years ago he wrote • Paul Catholic Church on Sunday «a MriM of arllc]es exposlng Corn- afternoon a t 2:00 p. m. F ath er; munlsm in Ohlo, These aft(cles lcd | Byrne succeeds Father Antony who to thc establishment of the Ohic was transferred to Greenfield. | Installation conducted by Varley, dean deanery. County Garden Show April 8th The annual Spring Flower Show for members of Greene Ofounty Garden Clubs will be held a t thc United Presbyterian Church, East Market St., Xenia, Thursday, Apr. C The theme chosen for this y ear« show is 'Spring's Awakening". The six classes of arrangements art*. "Heralds of Spring”, "Spring Beau­ ty", Spring Time”, Raster Mbrii" "Easier Parade’^ "Easter Party.' Doors will open at 8 n.m, and a r­ rangements are to be In plate by 10:30 when Mrs. V. F, Fredricks nf Urbans will begin Judging which will be done orally. The afternoon program Is sch­ eduled to start at 1:30. Registration to begin a t 1:30 p.m. A talk will be given on 'Basketry.” Garden Club members arc re. , quested to bring plants for a plant sale. All plants should be wrapped, . labeled and the price marked on them. Pitsticks Hosts To Cornwells Un-American Activities Commission, ceremonies will bc| Before coming to Yellow Springs Monsignor Martin : he was guest speaker In Sprlng- of thc Springfield field before award winners in this ; year’s Chamber of Commerce-spon- The Rev. Jerome Bartel and th e ' sored Industrial safety contest, Ills Rev. Vincent Rollers, friends of the J speech defended McCarthy probes. Rev. Byrne, will be present for th e . termed the senator “merely ex- InstaUntion. ! pression of loyal American people.” Formerly procurator a t Purcell j When asked to comment on the High School, Cincinnati, Father * n a to r t conduct, Rktliffe said he Byrne has also served In Cincinnati • *ia<* neycr been able to find any of as assistant pastor a t St, Patrick’s ■^hose named by McCarthy as having Church, St, Francis DeSalcs Church Communist affiliation « not hav­ ing some Red tenencles.” . Pleiaf GuiHy? TO THE EDI and you did not print, the most im- Mnrch 30, 1854 portant 'current political fact about Dea,‘^ r s: 1 | him, which is that* the Russians If you ore tS t, you will print this bate his great dynamic theory ol letter and yot?wlU print it In full resonance. Your open letter to him in all three o f your newspapers, j was a stench In 'the nostrils of You have m«le repeated m isstate-'decent citizens. You said that he n columns an d ’ would "find out hoar it feels .to get particularly IgWyour personal col-1 run out of Yailo* Springs.” That umn about Cm u u n ism a t Antioch1 IS vigilanteIsm, m „ you know, and College. j about the only help you* can expect First of all,flit’s separate the his- on that Job is from those Russians, tory from to*|§urr»nt situation. In ‘ to-whon\ you are welcome. And how the late IMM^Ond during World, <hd you come to get on th lt side War II therfjfwere a few Com- j the cbmmunjst problem? munists a t AtgUoch. Most ' of these' You say th a t there ought to be an were made a matter of record some Investigation of Antioch College to time ago, liaving been menttoned1t hrow out toe Communists,end toe in a Congresional hearing. Their “fellow-traveling bums.” There was * a r d > A , names have bijpn printed more than once. And it okru fair to ask why you warm up§the old story again, especially slncg^they have long since left the CoUepa, unless your,* pur­ pose is to sm eu Antioch an Ohio Commission which Un-American Activities held hearings over the post three years. The Com mission considered Antioch along with a lot of other subjects, and President McGregor testified before There werefcommunlst# also a t ! that body a t some length. But toe Wright Field a t th a t time, and some and a t the Church of the Nativity. 1% is a native of Qlynwolxl, Ohio. May 1st, Lion’s Rose Day Saturday, May 1, has been desig­ nated a:, the third nnnunl Lions To Western College Faculty members of the local high school have* been Invited to be guests on the campus of West­ ern College for Women in Oxford Club Rase Day, Roses will bo sold * {.viday and gaturday. for $3 00 per dozen. j as a part of the 100th nnnlvcr- Pfoi eeds from this sale will be j sary celebration of tho founding of tired for various community pro-j Western College, a symiwslum on je; t:; Including tile purchase of an Audiometer, a sight tester for the public schools, for buying equip­ ment for thc patrol boysf and to finance Appreciation Day for the fine work of the patrol boys, The Club hopes to sell 500 dozen flower.# the question, ’The Responsibility of Higher Education for Interna­ tional Understanding,” has been set for 2 p.m, on April 3 in Pressor auditorium. The symposium Is oped to alt interested, with special in­ vitations being extended to high school counselors and deans. William E. Hcssler of the Cincin­ nati Enquirer and of the WLW i World Front panel will moderate Easter Egg Hunt To Be Held Mrs, C. a Adams, Whiteman S t J ^ e discussion The four members , . , , , . i of the symposium panel represents, announced mis week plans for thci , , , , . , „ . , _ „ Hr* their backgrounds, the United forthcoming’ annual Community. . „ „ . . ' , Council Easier Egg Hunt. I t will be * ^ > held Thursday, April IS, a t 2 pan,,; .........., ............... , , ' , , f Other events arranged for thc 11 *i ^ a C i | entertainment of the campus visl* and Including the third grade, are! ^ lncludc r m n . of them lived In Yellow Springs, During the Vfar our country was allied with Russia, and we were cooperating in to Communism for obvious purposes. I would assume that as a patriotic, citizen you along with the restjof us joined in that cooperation. (Sf you didn’t, you owe ft to us. I think, to tell us Just how you avoided th a t patriotic duty.) What, the}, about the period after 1845? You have mentioned three names. First, Oliver Loud. Mr. Loud promotes and defends a number of political fantasies, but I have some/ddubt th a t you will find him a Communist, I can as­ sure you thotfhis position Is regu­ larly under |jattock a t Antioch (where* .we h!we<*free enterprise in opinion, and 'hot one set of tdMs Second, Arthur Steinberg, the Mr. X of thc Canadian spy case. Igor Gouzenko, who broke this case, thought the Russian agents didn’t get much out of Steinberg. W rit­ ing of Steinberg In Cosmopolitan magazine in 1847, Gouzenko con­ cluded, " I suspect that, he did not turn out to be one of the great spies of modem times ” Mr. Stein­ berg was hired by Pels Institute as a research man in genetics, and college was not investigated. Have you read the. hearings, and can you understand why? And do you propose to go over toe head of the government? From reading your pages I get an entirely Inadequate sense of Communism. You seem to think it anything which disagrees with you— which is^entirely too inclusive to have any meaning. 1 don’t get a much clearer Idea of McCarthyism from you, either. To me McCarthyism Is Communism turned inside out. The Senator learned most of his methods from the Communists. I t’s O. X. If you think otherwise, but don’t moke a white knight out of him. You say ’no one has ever* trotted out this ’innocent’ character who. has been ‘perMrated’ and 'onfoMy tojured' Annie Lee Moes on TV. You thlnk they didn’t see this poor old colored woman who d ld n t eveh'knoirabout communists, let alone be one, get­ ting a rotten* deal from McCarthy? You are Ignorant, Mr. Shupef and you are un-American In not giving people a square deal (n your newspaper. You don't know An­ tioch. And you don’t really know Yellow Springs or Greene County, either. If I am mistaken about your in two years he also taught one , .. . course a t Antioch. In late 1947 his lKn™ nc? : 'fJ 0U ^ m°re application for a full-time teaching Mc° ^ job a t thc College was turned down, ""-American ArtivU es C o m m o n , , . , , ,7 r, , , * Mand the rest of us; if you know and he left Yellow Springs In June, s ts . , . . . ' . . . . . . .. . . . . the names of persons a t Anuocn 1848, Why don t you ever print facts , w . , , . . , . __ _ ... .. . . , who arc Communist today, let’s have * r i , , . them. But don't go on throwing Third, Linus Pauling, who Is not , . , ___ - a . , _ . . . i mud and Irresponsible charges a t an Antiochian and who was not, nsl - . ___ __ ’ Ant och to serve political purposes you mistakenly suggested, consider, od fo r the Antioch presidency. You th a t have nothing to do with Com­ munism. listed Dr. Pauling as a Communist* frenter, which was more nearly true ’ PAUL BIXLER, several years ago than it is today* Antioch college, Yellow Springs, O. Now read "llovin” with Ralph Shape on Page 2. ir.illed U' participate It Is esti­ mated th a t 500 to C00 children will lake part. The public Is again asked to con­ tribute generously to this communi­ ty project. Mrs. Adams asks that she be contacted !£ additional information l.i needed concerning donations, etc Her phone number is 7*8451. Date Set For Girls’ State The eighth annual Buckeye Girls’ State Will be held on the campus of Capital University, Colambus, CL June 19 to June 27,1854. Buckeye Girls’ State IS one of the outstanding Americanism and Cit- ,izenship training programs in Ohio for our youth. The 1854 quota IS nbWfilledWith over 500 applications. Each high school junior chosen to attend Buckeye Girls' State is Mr. and Mrs, Arthur P itttlck: sponsored by or through a local (Martha Jane Cornwell) were hosts' unit of the American Legion Auxlll- Baturday to Capt. and Mrs. O. II j ary, Cornwell and daughter, Patsy, of} Qualifications required for at- Frankfort, Ky, • tendance a t Girls' State ate: Capt, Cornwell, former chief of! scholarship, character, leadership, the Xenia Police Division, Is capt- interest in history and A&erlcan tin of Kentucky sta te Police and government. Each girl must be ap-: teaches a course in police science proved by the superintendent or Sng, with Miss Edrle SclHck, soprano r, graduate of Uie Eastman School of Music, as soloist, a campus tour, ahd an informal discussion period with Dean pdward W. Pohlman .to coasider problems dealing with preparing high school pupils for college e n tr a n t, and to give the guests more detailed information about toe new program of inter­ national education which will open at .Western next September. Hollister To Go Qn Leave . ara, the committee was Urged to ) continue add extended the plan Iff 1954, [ Mr. Hollister, a Quaker, hr i Barrett Hollister, professor of member of the Velio# Springs Political Science and Associate to monthly meeting of th e Religious the President a t Antioch Colleffc, ’ Society of Friends. He h i i served has been granted a two-year leave}tm the exicUtSfe board 6f the S ir- of absence to aerye as European ‘ vice Committee and, since 1858, has director of the Leadership Confer- >been chairman of the committee once sponsored by the American ? governing Its Ohio-Mlchlgan Re«l- Friends Service Committee, j onal oftce. Announcement of his appointment: Before assuming hts present post „ .. . was made this week in Philadelphia tion a t Ahtloch, Mr. Hollister was While these men and women arc; M Hoskins, Executive! Dean of Students - and •Associate o , ,h , « * » . » . P , * * * , D l,« « r . H , . U « b - ! tlon. ing fellow a t Syracuse University MV. Hollister will begin hfe' Euro-| f°r two years where he dtd graduate pean assignment on August 1st with I work in pollttcat science headquarters in Geneva or Paris.! Administration, He recelred^ms * J . Ho becomes the second Antioch! deP;ee from Anttoch_ In ^ professor currently on leave to work! & (w * ™ with the Servtee Committee. Morris D‘ trom Syracuse. will be their former high school! students, now enrolled at Western College, ...... ........ % - ------ - Legion Auxiliary Business Meeting j Twenty-six members of the Am­ erican Legion Auxiliary were pres Keaton, Antioch pastor and Profes- ent a t the Legion Home, March 24; » r of Fhlioeophy and Religion, has when the Auxiliary held its regular, been serving a s lieod of mission for —....ti.,.. ilu nm n lu tln e ii wnrir In land adminlstratiori a t the Unlver ilty o f Kentucky in Lexington. They stopped in Yellow Spring# ute to Columbus where Capt, Cornwell attended a reunion of principal of her school. In on# weeks time these young citizens of Buckeye Girls' State campaign for office, file petitions, learn to cast, ballots, hold office, ine Gun Company, ISCth to - j elective and appointive, make their of the Rainbow Division, n own laws and assume their respon- War I unit, a t F t. Hayes slbllitles as active participating eiti- ‘ Auxiliary will be held in the home Hotel oWr the weekend. sens of this mythical 49th state. j of Mrs. Iris Shinkfe on April 38. monthly meeting. Business for tire evening included: Reading of. reports from various committees. * ^ Decision was made to Install tlie (£ m line Into th e Legion Bfeme'with c j.^^iproceed^from the’ .ro6ant‘ dln- * mer^and fadSon shdvft * r VMlqus Welfare - p ^ b t e .were * on and*;Ore being- riurfled' Opt,* Poppy Day was discussed and #11 be, coming up«ooon. ’ nominating Committees were ap­ pointed and elections for the £01tf« Ing year' scheduled for June, . The next regular meeting of the the organization's ork i Germany since July 19W» In the past, leadership conferen­ ces for Individuals in positions of public respom&Uliy have been held In v Clareim, - Themes have been “NattiSnal Interest and International | S y M klMilty” and "The Changlnp ^K fe of Dtpkxnacy in an I n l e r d ^ ^ B f t world,” . Ralph B u n ^ ^ o r th e United Na­ tions and ClWwifi’-Whlte. President of Haveriord^ chairmen -of BPbait^l an d | a t t e n d ' - i s w w w were co- «^s conference. nte Included -•Benttsts. and il affairs. ifSfvthg seiitin k J? Motion Choir Leads * Vesper Service » #• . The* biotion chplr.wlll lead a ves­ per service a t Central State College. Wllberforce, Ohio, on April 1. Selections Will Include T Is Mid­ night," "The Lord’s Prayer," "Cor- lnthlt ns 1.1$ " and Life and peath .” Drv Edward R. Miller, Antioch College pastor and associate profes­ s o r o f ’Philosophy and religion, will will be the reader; Henry Garda, organist, and Andrew Parke, soloist, Members of the Motion choir are: Anita and Doris Bean, Barbara Beal, Eleanor Wise, Gabriele Kencht, Joan Shoemaker, Dtantha Whitmore. Marian Wingfield and Beverly .88t»h» . ^ Eastern Star Annual Inspection Ethel Meyers, London, Deputy Grand Matron Pro Tem of District II, was the inspecting officer at the annual inspection of Antioch Chapter No. 445, Order of the East em Star, held March 27. Present were 140 people including 60 guests. Worthy Matron apd Patron were Jeanne and Scott Goodfellow, Enon, Anna Ark of Enon served as Assoc­ iate Matron. Due to the illness of Fred Ark, John Arthur, also of Enon, was present as Associate Patron Pro Tem. In addition. Worthy Matron and Worthy Patrons present were Nell Slusher, Neal No, 522, Springfield; Olga S. and Rayne W. Junk, Sterl­ ing No. 74, Mt. Sterling; Ev.\ Shaffer, Kellie Counts No. 481, Sedolla; Martha Young, New Car­ lisle No. 423, New Carlisle; Virginia and Harold Kelley^ Aero No. 536, Fairborn; Rachel Finney and Arthur Cultlce, Oedarvllie No. 416, Cedar- vllle; Gladys Rickets, and Clarence Schaffer, Aldora Ncf 262, Xenia; Ruby and George Dixon, Urbans No. 530, Urbans; Mary Jane and Boyce Moore, Jamestown No. 141; James- town;Dianne and Walter Burns, Elisabeth No. 56, Plain City; and Jane E. Mills, Grand Representative New Hampshire, Cedarville. Punch and cookies were served following the Inspection. pi Tagged as “Unlawful, Warranted, Arbitrary, & Capricious” The battle over the right of Donald W. Brannum to a place on the Democratic ballot May 4th has taken a new turn with the filing of a mandamus action against the Greene County Board of Elections. In the petition for a writ of man­ damus, the action of the election board in throwing Brannum off toe ballot Is described as ’unlawful, u n ­ warranted, arbitrary and capricious” and a "gross abuse of discretion on the part of ahd Conduct” of the election board. The dispute grew nut of an argu. ment as to the right of Donald W. Brannum, Yellow Springs, to be a candidate for election to the non- salaried, position of a Democratic Central Committeeman from Miami Township. H ie Board of Elections doe# not deny that the "declaration of can­ didacy of B rennpn was regular and in conformity to statutory require­ ments and a# such had been ap­ proved by the Board and certified.” Furthermore, it Is admitted th a t no protest has ever been filed with Uie Board against Brannum’s declara­ tion. Under the Ohio law, protests against the candidacy of any person must be in writing and must be filed not later than , , , the eight­ ieth day before the day of the primary election," The time for toe filing of a protest has obviously long since passed, It was pointed out by Marcus Shoup, attorney for Brannum. , I t is admitted th a t Brannum reg­ istered as a Republican in toe 1852 primary, However, Shoup pointed to the applicable section of the Ohio Code as evidence to st this action on the part of Brannum does not, under the Law, disqualify him. The Code section reads as follows: "No per­ son shall be a candidate for nomina­ tion a t a party if a t the next pre- M d ln t primary election he register­ ed or voted as a member of a dif­ ferent political party.” Fainting out th a t Brannum is not candidate for nomination. At­ torney Shoup Insisted th a t the fore­ going statute could not be stretched to cover the case of a candidate seeking election. "Brannum Is seeking election - not nomination,” Shoup reminded the election hoard, “and It Is hot proper to read something into the statute whiei| Is non-existent." Notwithstanding the evidence presented on behalf Of Brannum, the Board of Elections, on motion of Prof, John Sparks, of AnUoch College, unanimously voted to duly Brannum the right to be a candid­ ate for Committeeman, in addition to Sparks, Board members present were John Neatoertbm Xenia attor­ ney and political leader, Karl Spahr, of Fairborn, and Paul Ferguson, of Spring Valley, As a result of the Brannilm dis­ pute, It was revealed th a t the Greene COilttty Board of Elections has filled to comply with the Ohio la# governing the printing of bal­ lots. The Ohio Code "makes It the mandatory duty of th e Board of elections to cause such ballots to be printed and ready for use on th e sixtieth day before the day 6f such primary tdeetSoh in order to edinply with the requirements concerning abaent voters* ballots." "We say, without any hesitancy/’ Shoup declared, "that the Board Has not complied with -these very de­ finite obligations as required by statute/*' * Unless the action of the election board Is overruled by court Order, Ben Katon, will be unopposed for the position of Democratic Central Committeeman In gfi*ml Township, A Benjamin W, Katon was listed in)0hg the signers of nominating petitions for the pro-Communtst (Wallace) Progressive Party i few years ago. Hew Cour»e Offered At Antioch • - * . A new field of concentration cen­ tering about the family and cut­ ting across departments will be offered a t Antioch College begin­ ning In the fall. To be called "The Family: Personality and Society”, toe core of field courses will be In the departments of psychology, sociology and anthropology, home economics and education. Such a field will not only “be helpful to students In planning their own future family life" but will also prepare tor graduate work leading to such positions as case workers, marriage counselors, teach­ ers of family relations in college and high schools, or family spec­ ialists with such groups as Juvenile and family courts, churches, wel­ fare departments. Mrs. Marjorie East, associate pro­ fessor of home economics and chair­ man of the new field, In outlining the field’s opportunities pointed tc Increased possibilities for graduate study, "There are now several universi­ ties offering graduate specializa­ tion in the family and it seems to be a growing field/’ she said, “Such a major has been offered a t Col­ umbia Unverslty since 1947, About half the students there are men, half are women, A similar kind of program Is developing at the Uni­ versity of Chicago with the Family Study Center.” Mrs. East added that about SOper cent of Antioch women students are enrolled In the four departments concerned and many of them have been trying to work out some such croes-fleld pUn. T h e students who chose this field of concentration will find their co­ operative work experience impor­ tant, under Antioch's study-plus- work plan, for using and testing in action the theories and principles studied in classes.” Studenfe'ln the field will work in such institutions as settlement houses, clinics, governmental agen­ cies and schools. With the Introduction of the new field, the previous psychology major In "Marriage, Family and Communi­ ty Living” will no longer be offered. Friendly Gardeners Invited To Meeting t Ohk» Federation of Garden Ip Wilmington April 9 to be The Friendly Gardeners have been Invited to a third district meeting of the Clubs held In thc Clinton Ootinty Court House a t 10 am . Lunch wilt be served a t the General Denver Hotel. Bpeaker of the morning will he from the Columbus Pork at H omo . Pfc. Allen Williams . Died Suddenly Pfc. Allen Williams, M, of North High St., died suddenly Monday In Camp Atterinuy, 2nd. Pfc, Williams had been in the UJ5. Army for six years. Two years of th a t service was a t Camp Ater- bury. He had been stationed prev­ iously In Japan, Surviving are his widow, feusle, two children, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G arnet Williams, all liv­ ing a t toe High Street address. The body will be brought to toe Yoder Memorial Homo, ^ t . ~ ■ • • V