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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-08-15

Miss Marjorie Cowan, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Cowan and
Miss Martha Davis, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George Davis, both OF
Malta, left Tuesday for GAINESVILLE
where they are visiting Mrs. Pa
tricia Newman Morris.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-08-15

:}9c Pure Silk Knee Hose ---24c
25c Iisle and Cotton Hose -19c
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-08-15

Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Danford
left Sunday on a weeks motor trir
in Michigan. They will be accom-
panied home by their son William
Danford, who spent the summer
in a theatre guild in Bay Village
Mich
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-08-15

of Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Cowan and
Miss Martha Davis, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. George Davis, both of
Malta, left Tuesday for GAINESVILLE,
where they are visiting Mrs. Pa
tricia Newman Morris.
Raymond Adrean of Steuben-
vile joined his wife and daughter
Suzanne here Sunday evening, at
the home of his parents, Sheriff
and Mrs. L. B. Adrean. He was
accompanied home by his wife and
daughter. Mr.. Adrean is manager
of a Standard Oil service station.
Stanley Barkhurst. proprietor Of
the shoe shop here on South Ken
nebec avenue, who underwent an
operation for appendicitis al Me
mortal hospital, Marietta, Monday
of last week, was removed to his
home in Malta, Saturday, and is do
ing fine.
Mr.. and Mrs "Click" Osborne and
son David, are expected home soon
from San Francisco. Calf, where
they have been the guests Of Mrs.
Osborne's sister, DR.. Margaret
Brooks Jones, and family Nr9.
Sophie Brooks who accompanied
her son-in-law DR.. Jones and family
to California last spring. will return
home with Mr.. and Mrs. Osborne.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell w. Martin
and daughters the Misses Bertha
and Patricia Martin of Cleveland.
have been visiting in Malta for
several days with Mrs. Martins
mother. Mrs. Eva Niceswanger, and
other relatives. Miss Bertha Mar
tin plans to enter Ohio University,
Athens, this fall as a freshman,
Mr. Martin is teacher in a Clevc-
land junior high school,
Miss Marjorie Sheridan returned
Saturday from weeks visit in
Dayton with Mr.. and Mrs. Don
Warner. She was accompanied
home by Mrs. Warner, who will
spend the week with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Campbell.
Monday evening, Miss Sheridan en-
tertained at dinner her cousins, Ruth
Warner. Phoebe and Marthalyn
Sears and Galen Davis, after which
they enjoyed a theatre party.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-08-15

Edward Cable Of Athens county,
when arraigned last Thursday be-
fore L. N Seaman, j. P, charged
with indecent exposure, pleaded
guilty and was fined $40 and costs,
which were suspended, and he re-
tuned to his home
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-08-15

and wife of this county.
Miss Eileen Paisley, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Harley Paisley, OF
High Hill. and Edgar NJ Wilson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Wilson,
of Young Hickory, were united in
marriage last week, by Rev. J. H
Kinney, of GAINESVILLE. The groom is
a bus driver for the Meigs school
They will reside in Young Hickory
Harry Stull, and mother Mrs. c.
NJ. Stull Miss Eta Hurlbert and
Miss Nancy Self, OF Columbus, spent
Saturday here and called on friends.
The former who is supervisor Of
music in Cleveland public schools
spent the summer at his home in
Columbus, and attended O. S. u,
where he is working on his Mas
ter's degree. His school duties be-
gin September 3.
John Abel, of Marion, grand
worthy president Of the Fraternal
Order of Eagles, left Sunday for
Chicago, to preside at the national
convention, the last lap of an itin-
erary that has taken him an esti-
mated 10000 miles and included
visits to 80 states. since he began
his term as president. Aug 90,
1899. He has not yet made definite
plans as to what he will do after
completing his term at the Chicago
convention However, he will con
tinue in the order as chairman of
the board of trustees. Mr.. Abel
was state president in 1927. He is
a brother of c. w. Abel, route 376,
Morgan township.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-08-15
Children's
Sweaters

One lot children's size sweaters, sold
from SOC to 81. Out they go,
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-08-15

SOC RayOn fiOwered Dress Materials,
summer and dark cOlors for fall,
two day sale price ------------4Sc
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-08-15

$1.45 New Oil Silk ParasOls, two
days only, sale ----$1.10
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-08-15

Monday morning. A saving If
time is a factor with the Black
stone" washer. 1t chases the dirt
quickly-quietly- and
not hard on the clothes. Sold on
easy payment plan at Morris Hard
ware.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-08-15

$1.39 to $1.98 ladies' summer hats.
Look at this price, each -----1Oc
Evening star., 1940-04-06
Kensington Parkway

Montgomery County's parkway
dilemma, complicated by numerous
important factors, is the kind which
tempts hasty judgments and definite,
partisan decisions. But in view of
existing fiscal conditions in the
county any haste in assuming an
adamant stand is most unwise.
BY gift and purchase the county
has acquired land necessary to con-
tinue Rock Creek Park from the Dis
trict line as far as Garrett Park.
Some sections already have been de-
veloped and others, through w. P. A.
allocationS, are going forward. Last
year the State Legislature authorized
the county to issue seventy-five thou
sand dollars in bonds to extend the
work two more miles. Now the county
taxpayers association, driven to ac-
ton by mounting debts and rising
levies, has asked the county board
to use the bond money to retire other
debts, and a committee from Ken
sington has expressed opposition to
such diversion of funds.
While doubt has been expressed in
some quarters that seventy-flve thou
sand dollars will be enough properly
to carry forward the work contem-
plated, there is no question of the
civic value the parkway will con-
tribute to the areas surrounding
Rock Creek Valley. There is, like
wise, little doubt that, had conditions
such as exist today been brought as
forcefully to the attention OF the
Legislature as It has been to the
county boardsnd the taxpayers, the
Evening star., 1940-04-06
Suggests Plan to Put
Jackson in White House.
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
Who is to be the Republican nominee
for the presidency? And who will the
Democrats have as their standard
bearer?
Your guess is as good as ANYBODY
elses-and so is mine! And I am glad
Mr.. Editor, that the freedom of the press
permits us to write what we think.
I have always been a great admirer
OF President Roosevelt-even though
I am not one of the vast army of
Government employees, and I honestly
believe that he is doing as good a lob
as any man could possibly do! He took
Office under exceptional conditions and
practically saved our country from
revolution.
He has helped our youth by organiz-
Ing the C. C. C. camps. He has helped
our dependency in old age by the So
cial Security Act. He has insured Our
ife's savings in thousands of banks
Do you remember the step he took in
declaring a bank holiday" when he
first took office. and why he did it? He
has survived the severest criticism and
no doubt will go down in history as the
most unusual and exceptional, yet one
OF the greatest of American PresidentsI
Is there any sensible person In these
great United States who would be willing
to trade places with citizen of any
other nation in the world today? Let's
all thank our lucky stars that we are
right where we are.
Now here is the big question-does
Mr.. Roosevelt want to run for a third
term and is he going to do so?
Frankly, do not believe that he
wants a third term. I believe that he
sincerely feels that his ideas and plans
of administration are best for the preser-
vation of his country and that If he
could find successor who would prac-
tically continue his ideas that he, Mr.,
Roosevelt, would gladly step asideI
What one man, taking into considera-
tion age. ability, etc., seems to fill the
bill? In my opinion-Robert H. Jack
son! But could Mr.. Jackson win the
election? Is he strong enough politically
or are his capabilities well enough
known? I doubt it.
Mr.. Editor, make this suggestion:
Have Mr.. Roosevelt run on the Demo-
cratic ticket with Mr.. Jackson as Vice
President; then if elected, let Mr.. Roose-
velt resign, automatically elevating MIR.
Jackson to the presidency, with CordeIl
Hull taking over the Vice Presidents
job!
It's never been done, but couldn't it
be? JACK e. BROWN.
April I.
Evening star., 1940-04-06
Hurd-Won Victory

The Senate vote to extend the
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act for
three years marks truly significant
victory for the Roosevelt administra-
ton.
Coming in the midst of an election
year, it was to be expected that the
extension move would encounter stiff
opposition. But this opposition was
almost wholly partisan or sectional
in nature. The Republicans voted
solidly against the measure, presum-
ably in the hope of using it as a
source of ammunition in the Novem-
ber election campaign. Had the bill
been defeated they would have
sought to make political capital out
OF the resulting loss of prestige by
the administration. And now that
1t has been passed, it is fair as
sumption that they will seek to
capitalize the considerable, though
groundless, discomfort which the
trade agreements have aroused in
Lfle western states.
The Democratic opposition also
was largely symptomatic of the dis
satisfaction prevailing West of the
Mississippi River. This viewpoint
was a narrow and sectional one,
however, while the supporters of the
measure, granting that their own
constituents may have benefited
directly in some instances, were will
ing to look at the matter from the
standpoint Of national as against
purely local interest. 1t is in this
that the significance of the admins
tration victory lies-namely. that
tariff measure designed primarily to
promote the national interest has
been approved in an election year in
the face of vigorous sectional oppo-
sition.
In this connection it should be
noted that the action of Congress is
something of personal triumph for
Secretary of State Hull, who has
been the outstanding exponent of
the trade agreements philosophy.
The favorable vote was, in effect, a
vote of confidence in him, and a
tribute to the tact, skill, patience
and impartiality with which the
agreements now in effect have been
negotiated under his supervision.
With Europe plunged into war, it
remains to be seen whether Mr..
Hull's program will have any appre-
ciable effect in bringing the world
back to economic sanity. But this
much can be said: If, after the war,
there is to be anything approaching
a real peace it must be based on a
different system of conducting in
ternational commerce than prevailed
In large part of the world prior to
the beginning of hostilities, and MIR.
Hull's tariff-lowering trade agree
ments represent almost the only
effort currently being made in that
direction
Evening star., 1940-04-06

bond issue well might have been
profitably delayed for the present.
But the fact remains that the
bonds were authorized for this par
ticular purpose and were sold last
week. It is extremely questionable
If the money can be used legally for
other purposes, and certainly unwise
to allow it to remain idly on deposit.
Diversion of funds always is ques-
tionable matter, and one which fire.
quently leads to abuse. In this case,
while the park project may have
been ill-timed, its continuance ap-
pears the wiser course unless strictly
legal, economical means are found
to postpone it.
Evening star., 1940-04-06
Fortune Scorned

OIL, as the common phrase has it.
is where you find it," which is Just
another way of saying that it often
distributes its favors in unpredict-
able fashion. Frequently large rich
oil company will start out with high
hope, hundred thousand dollars
worth of brand-new glistening ma
chinery, a shining young geologist
fresh from Harvard and a choice
lease and then drill half way to
Chungking only to get nothing. At
the same time, bare hundred yards
away on an abandoned lot, some
bewhiskered old sourdough will get
busy with a dilapidated fifth-hand
rig, bought for five hundred dollars,
accumulated at the rate of a dime
a day, get down three hundred feet
and bring in enough oil to flood six
counties.
Even more remarkable has been
the experience of the residents of
Orland, California, who struck oil
without even trying. Each and every
one is part owner of large we'll,
and as If this were not enough good
luck, he has an individual pipe line
laid right into his house, so that all
he has to do to get oil is to turn a
tap. And yet, such is the perversity
OF human nature, they are not salts
fed, and are actually longing for
the day when the pool of oil, which
invaded the municipal water system,
Is exhausted, and they can once
more open their faucets and get a
flow of a comparatively worthless
huid-water.
Evening star., 1940-04-06
Underpasses Advocated at
Scott and Dupont Circles.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
I am prompted to write this letter by
your very commendable editorial In the
April edition of The Star, on the pro-
posed Scott Circle underpass and Massa-
chusetts avenue traffic in general Wash
ington for long time has been brand
ed by motorists from other cities as a
most difficult place in which to drive
car. They criticize our traffic regula-
tions and they become confused at the
circles where the north and south bound
streets intersect.
The new underpass at Thomas Circle
is beautiful example of engineering
design and construction work. 1t would
seem that the addition of like under
help to relieve the traffic congestion on
Massachusetts, avenue. Particularly would
stress the need of action at Dupont
Circle, where there exists one of the
most dangerous traffic hazards I have
seen anywhere in my travels. I refer to
the west side of that circle where north
bound electric cars have to worm their
way through the south and east bound
motor cars In other words, two-way
traffic is being allowed over what should
be one-way street. This condition was
partially relieved when the streetcars
running west on P street were abolished
and the difficult switching curve at that
point was removed But there still exists
a very dangerous hazard at this point.
The proposed system of underpasses,
coupled with we'll worked out timing
and synchronizing of the traffic control
lights at the cross streets should very
greatly relieve the traffic congestion on
Massachusetts avenue. Other cities have
very successfully used the one-way street
system and Washington could well afford
to give serious thought to this plan, too.
In the April issue you also printed
a very excellent picture Of the big fire
that destroyed large apartment
on o street several days ago. This pic
ture gives very strong evidence OF the
dangers and hazards to the city that
are caused by allowing unlimited and
all-night parking of machines on the
public streets. The cars shown in the
picture referred to must surely have
been a big hindrance to the Fire Depart
ment in fighting the flames. There is
lots of room for improvement in Wash
ington's traffic control regulations.
April 4. WILLIAM D. CASSIN.
Evening star., 1940-04-06

Navy has reached an all-time peace
peak of readiness. A great air de-
fense program is in full swing. The
Regular services, National Guard and
reserve forces are being brought to
new peace levels of strength and
efficiency.
This day of review finds an Amer
lea awakened to the dangers and the
responsibilities of the day; not fully
prepared for war but yet sufficiently
ready to give definite check to the
hopes of any possible aggressor.
Evening star., 1940-04-06
The Plum Tree

Imprisoned In the twilight, ghostly fair
AS mirrored image in the limpid air,
The plum tree shimmers in the fading
light;
And I-whc in the somber winter night
Have dreamed its acrid sweetness in INV
sleep
Awake now. breathe its perfume, thrust
it deep
Within my heart. Wild Joy its branches
bring,
First boughs to blossom in the Northern
spring.
Holding the perfect moment close, I
stand
While darkness falls: then with an eager
hand
strain to break the blossoms, reach.
Ing far
Then pin them on my breast with one
pale star!
- SOPHRoN1A FULLER.
Evening star., 1940-04-06
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TrdceUell.

Return Of the sunshine to Washington
for week, after long, long absence
made many persons realize just what
q hard winter the one just past had
been.
Doctors with influenza patients knew
better than most how much GONZALES
cence from such diseases depends upon
milder weather and plenty of sunshine.
When the few days of warm and
sunny weather came at last, 1t was pos
sible for the veriest layman to UNDER
stand the dependence of life upon the
sun.
Then there was veritable thawing
out, as 1t were, basking in the good
rays, proving once again that the Amer
ican urge, amounting to a vogue, for
sunshine, suntan, call it what one will,
Is based on real need.
X
The sun has always exerted a great
influence on humanity. 1t is nothing
new.
AS long ago as the ancient Egyptians,
and before, there was sun worship.
A marvellous description of this may
be found in "Akhnaton," by Dmitri
Merezhkovsky, published by Dutton in
1927. (We give the spelling of the au-
thor's name as given on the book. 1t
has been spelled many ways)
This description begins with Chapter
II, of Part II, with the hymn to Atom:
GLORIOUS is thy rising in the east,
Lord and giver of life, Atom!
Thou sendest thy rays and darkness fees,
All the earth is filled with JOY"
The trumpets blew in the still darken-
ed land to call the worshipers.
The author says:
THE trumpets sounded at every end
Of the city, arousing many-voiced
echoes in the mountains. Just as cocks
call to one another and crow to the sun
in the night, so did the trumpets call
at the hour before dawn while mems
sleep is like the sleep of death, as is said
in Atoms hymn:
Men sleep in darkness like the dead,
Their heads are wrapped up and their
nostrils stopped.
Stolen are the things that are under
their heads,
While they know it not.
Every lion cometh forth from his den,
Serpents creep from out of their holes,
The Creator has gone to rest and the
world is mute"
But the trumpet was wakening the
sleepers as the call of the Lord will one
day wake the dead, the Russian novelist
tells us.
"Old men and children, slaves and
free, rich and poor foreigners and Egyp-
tians, were all running to greet the
newborn sun, the god Atom
Something of this, after many CEN
turies, and in far land, was reflected
in the very smiles of Washngtonians,
during those days of real warmth and
sunshine, after the hard winter.
Merezhkovsky continues:
Heaven, earth, water, plants, ami
mals-all were still asleep. The town
down below was stirring like an ant
heap.
Evening star., 1940-04-06


dows, lamps were smoking on the roofs,
torches glowed in the streets filled with
dark crowds that streamed along like
rivers.
There was hum of voices rustic Of
feet, stamping of hoofs, clatter of wheels,
neighing of horses, cries of soldiers and
the ceaseless call of trumpets-the hymn
to Atom"
Humanity seems to change but little
over the centuries. The following de-
scription might be of gathering today:
People thronged In the seven courts
of the temple down below, on the pylons,
the staircases, the roofs of both tenn
pies; it was like living mountain of
people and the highest point of it was
one man-the king.
Akhnaton, whom history agrees was
fine king and man, is pictured by our
author as follows:
Il come to glorify thy rays, living
Atom, one eternal God!" he said, stretch
ing out his arms to the sun.
Praise be to thee, living Atom, who
hast made the heavens and the mys-
teries thereof" answered the High Priest
Merira, who stood at the base Of the
pyramid. Thou art in heaven and thy
beloved son Akhnaton is on earth"
Il show the way of life to all of you.
generations that have been and are to
come" the king continued. "Give praise
to the God Atom, the living God, and ye
shall live! Gather together and come,
all ye people of salvation; turn to the
Lord, all ye ends of the earth, for Atom
but He"
"The God Atom is the only God, and
there is none other God but He" an
swered the innumerable crowds down
below, and the call of thousands was like
the roar of the seas"
Other days. other ways, but almost
anybody during the recent warm, sunny
spell, could feel sympathy with those
old sun worshipers. After ALL they were
trying to find God
Out in the sunshine is the place to be.
The suntan addicts are right. There
Is magic in the sun, and some possibility
of harm, too, but one must use common
sense.
Let no one grumble again if the sum-
mer is hot
We can remember that it is sunny.
Common sense must rule, If that is
possible in world where it seems as If
this quality rules less and less every year
Can it be, as some say, that spots on
the sun cause the quarreling of brothers
with brothers?
We can refuse to believe it until it is
proved.
Until then, the sun represents for us
modern worshipers something of what it
did Of old, when the Egyptians sang:
"The earth rejoices and is glad,
All cattle Craze in pastures green,
All plants are growing in the fields,
The birds are flying DER their nests,
And lift their wings like hands in prayer;
Lambs leap and dance upon their feet;
All winged things fly gayly round,
They all live in thy life, o Lord!"
Evening star., 1940-04-06
Political Interference

Wendell Willkie, public utilities
executive, may claim to speak for
American business of every sort. He
has won that right by close study of
the problems of industry and COM
merce over long period of years. It
has been conceded to him by thou
sands of men and women who, still
believing in the profit system" as
opposed to socialism, have wanted
an advocate to plead their cause. A
public equally numerous perhaps
may resent his philosophy, but it
does not question seriously the
privilege to talk which he enjoys.
The current economic ills of the
Nation, Mr.. Willkie believes, trace
back to political interference with
the normal processes of business. In
an address yesterday before the Bos-
ton Chamber of Commerce he de-
clared: I'VE shall not provide Jobs
for the workers of America, new
products for the consumers of Amer
lea and new expanding industries for
the investors of America until the
dark legend against American busi-
ness is destroyed"
Possibly this may sound like a
threat, but Mr.. Willkie does not
mean any such thing. Instead, he
explains that, as he sees it, the husi-
ness interests of the United States
are powerless to meet the social
, demand made upon them under
prevailing conditions. "The dark
legend" he told his Boston audience,
has made it impossible for the
American businessman to obtain the
capital which he needs for his enter
priseS, to build the plants and to
employ the men required for ex-
panding industry" Politicians, he
charged, "brewed a kind of witchs
broth out of a pot of horror and
smeared it all over American enter
prise"
Even when the extravaganza of
Mr.. WILKES language has been dis
counted, there would seem to be a
measure of truth in his allegation.
President Roosevelt several years ago
conceded that business needs "a
breathing spell" He promised time
out" to that end and he appears to
have tried to keep his promise. Other
leaders, however, have been less rea-
sonable. The result is the destruc-
tion of confidence in business which
Mr.. Willkie deplores.
But the common sense of Amer
leans of all classes may be trusted
to assert itself constructively soon
or late. When the Republicans con-
vene at Philadelphia and the Demo-
Gratis at Chicago both may be ex-
pected to adopt pro-business planks
In their platforms Neither party
Will 60 into the campaign on an
antl-buslnesS crusade. To that ex-
tent Mr.. Willkie is justified. He has
put into words what many of his
countrymen are thinking. The no.
tlon that business people are less
honest, less worthy to be trusted
than politicians no longer has any
appeal to thoughtful citizens.