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Evening star., 1940-06-04
Citizens Urged to Start
"March Of Dollars"
To the Editor Of The Star:


The greatest tragedy of all times now
going on in Europe is having it's reper-
cussions in the hearts of all red -blooded
Americans.
It's true we do not wish to send our
men to the battle front if we can pos
sibly avoid it, but there is a way we can
help the brave men who are fighting our
battle as well as their own
Our President has asked Congress for
money with which to defend our country
and I, as World War veteran, advocate
that We as patriotic Americans imme-
diately inaugurate a plan called "The
March of Dollars
There are millions of us who can send
to President Roosevelt 81 or as much as
we can spare.
We must not overlook the true fact
that fundamentally important part of
our own defense is in sending all the
aid we can to the Allies-our gifts could
serve that end.
Let's begin now and send all we can
to the White House before it Is too late.
May 81, PERCY T.. BROWN.
Evening star., 1940-06-04
carried on the ferry Is

automobiles carried on the ferry Is
inadequate.
The commissions rate reduction
order was accompanied by one fixing
a $1,038,000 valuation on the ferry
company's property. AS the company
sought $l,90O,000 valuation, pro-
test is anticipated, especially in view
of the fact the firm probably will
seek larger sum If the State should
purchase its property. The Public
Service Commission presumably did
its best to render an equitable ruling,
but it is apparent that neither the
company nor the public is likely to
accept its orders as satisfactory.
Evening star., 1940-06-04
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trdce1Dell.

work before any one is interested In
anything. We are all constantly ex-
posed to thousand and one interests,
with only few of them really taking"
We see stamp addict poring over his
albums, and we say, Eyes, stamps, very
interesting-when do we eat?"
The aquarium enthusiast strikes the
average person as about the ultimate in
something or other.
What! Fool around with little fishes!"
Then, on bright spring morning, one
decides to dig little pool in the back
yard.
After it is done, something seems lack
ing-a couple of goldfish, to be sure.
And fish fan" is born. When fall
comes, the goldfish are taken indoors
after which succession Of tanks appears
In the living room, dining room, kitchen
and even upstairs, until the owner seems
to have established pet store
That is what real interest will do for
you. Every one knows how it is. 1t is
something which works in all fields and
walks Of life. 1t is not confined to pets
at all, but works its magic even more
in books, music, art.
1t is always some one thing, or event,
which opens ones eyes to a particular
interest.
In birdland, it is often just the moving
to the suburbs.
Suburban living will open even the
most obdurate eyes to some of the won-
ders of the great outdoors among which
the birds must be counted as perhaps
the chief.
Next to he fresh air and the sunshine,
that is. How wonderful is the sun, yet
how often we forget it.. Surely, the re-
cent gray winter, and rainy days, showed
many persons that sunshine, is, indeed,
among our chief wonders.
And that clean smell of fresh air-how
good it is, but how easily missed, espe-
cially if one is inclined to studious ways,
and is by no means athletic.
Il don't know what to do outdoors"
such one says, sincerely enough.
Well, do nothing, just sit, if necessary,
but get out if you possibly can.
Fresh air and sunshine, together con-
stitute the greatest tonic in the world.
We all know that, theoretically, but how
many of us put it into practice?
We know one resident of nearby
Maryland who has increased his lunch
bill from 10 cents to 45 cents simply by
sitting in the sunshine for two or three
hours a day.
He looks and feels 100 per cent better.
without one drop of medicine He had
known about fresh air and sunshine all
his life, but had not tried them for a
long time
1t Is the same with birds.
thousands of persons have still To
feel their magic presence, although thev
have been surrounded by them all their
lives.
Evening star., 1940-06-04
"HYATTSVILLE. Md.

Dear Sir:
I've been getting a great deal of en-
joyment from reading your articles in
The Evening Star these past two months.
Before that I hadn't even noticed there
was such column in my paper.
Until this spring we have always
had chickens. dog, or cat to take bits
of bread and other scraps.
But one day, one of our boys left
piece of bread on the back porch railing
and we saw big squirrel sitting there
eating it, SO we started leaving bits of
bread for the squirrels.
Then we began to see sparrows, STAR
ings, blue jays, robins cardinals, and
now for about week Mr.. Tanager and
his wife have been coming every morning
and I have walked right out on the
porch and he sits there on the railing
watching me and doesn't move.
His wife is more shy. There has also
been tiny black bird with gray breast
and a crest on his head. 1 don't know
his name; and slightly larger brown
bird whose name is unfamiliar to me.
Daddy, our six boys cages to 22) and
enjoy tiptoeing to the back door to
find out If our tanager, or perhaps some
new bird, is on the porch.
To-day we found Mrs. Cardinal sit
ting on nest in the brush along the line
fence. Sincerely, O. F. C"'
Interest in the birds and the quieter
things Of life often creeps up on one.
Suddenly, before one knows it, one has
an entirely new Joy in life
Then one wonders how it ever hap
pened that so much enjoyment was
missed before.
1t is so with flowers, particularly such
blooms as those of the gladiolus. Thou
sands of persons with perfectly good
eyesight look at these, and yet actually
never see them. Somehow they have no
interest in them. Not having it, in
peculiar sense, they really fail to see the
wonders of these flowers.
One day they happen to look into
florists window, where a great vase of
Picardy is displayed.
All at once, almost in flash. the
gazer says to himself, "Why, didn't
realize gladioluses looked as beautiful as
those spikes there!'
And new glad fan" is born.
So it is with birds.
All of us have seen birds all our lives,
listened to their songs, and read about
them, now and then, without necessarily
finding them creatures of supreme in
terest
II you were to ask the average person
II he liked birds" no doubt he would
say he did, without once caring a whoop
about them, or really finding anything of
peculiar interest in them.
The magic touch must get in its good
Evening star., 1940-06-04
The Flag Salute

The decision of the Supreme Court
upholding the right of Pennsyl-
vania school board to require public
school children to salute the Ameri-
can flag daily, at the opening Of
classes, is not to be looked upon as
weakening the stand the court has
taken in defense of civil liberties.
In this instance the regulation,
imposed without exception on all
pupils to encourage respect for the
flag as the symbol of national unity,
was challenged on behalf of two
children affiliated with the religious
organization known as Jehovah's
Witnesses, who were expelled from
school for refusal to participate in
the rite. They contended it violated
the tenet of their faith based on the
Biblical injunction against worship
OF craven images" This plea was
upheld by the lower courts and the
school board appealed.
The question thus posed for the
Supreme Court was whether such an
avowed religious belief was sufficient
to exempt the holders from a COM
mon exercise with their fellows
which those in authority deemed a
proper means for strengthening the
attachment of the young to the in
stitutions of their Nation.
Speaking through Mr.. Justice
Frankfurter. eight members of the
court said that the requirement was
conSonant with the general good;
that it served to foster the spirit Of
national unity which is the basis of
national security and that it did not
abridge that freedom of worship
guaranteed by the Constitution.
In effect, the court was reaffirming
and applying a rule of reason" to
the doctrine of civil liberties. In this
case, the majority did not feel that
the facts made out a substantial case
for impairment of religious freedom,
and it was for that reason that the
regulation was upheld. But the
ruling does not mean that the safe
guards against impairment of free
dom of worship have been relaxed
in the slightest degree.
With customary vigor, Justice
Stone dissented. declaring the re-
ligious convictions of the children
were violated by the board regula-
ton, and that other methods are
open for inculcating the loyalty and
patriotism from which national unity
springs.
Evening star., 1940-06-04
Cooperation

Lift up thine eyes, o laggard Earth.
Declaring Heavens point a sign
OF countless stars together held,
A unity of law divine.
Each star in its appointed place
Dims not its light nor seeks release
To mar the power of unison
That holds Universe in peace.
The friendly stars, a wondrous whole.
With patient purpose steadfast glow:
In silent harmony they march
AS one. while aeons come and 70.
A perfect order CLEANS for thee,
o laggard Earth. Lift up thine eyes.
To keep thy place among the stars,
Behold a pattern in the skies.
MARGARET THORINGTON PRESTON
Evening star., 1940-06-04
Test of Justice Should Be
Rule in Legislation.

To the Editor of The STAR
In all the pages of history 1t has
been evident that statesmen and diplo-
matists habitually have ignored the de-
mands of justice. They have believed
that the decalogue applied to the con-
duct of men with each other but not to
the affairs of nations. Since the begin
ming of time it has been assumed that
governments could covet, steal and kill
with impunity, exactly as the German
government is doing today. AS a matter
of fact, however, wrong doing by
Evening star., 1940-06-04
Bombing Paris

When the first World War began
IN the summer of 1914, it was antici-
pated that the Germans would attack
the capitals of Great Britain and
France. Such assaults had been
threatened, and the promise shortly
was fulfilled. Within a fortnight a
Taube appeared over Paris and
dropped a bomb which wrecked a
butcher shop and killed two civilians
employed there. The death of these
pioneer victims of Prussian barbar-
Ism prof1ted their murderers little.
Probably, the sponsors of the crime
regarded it as merely experimental
in character. During the months
which followed, aerial bombardment
OF London as we'll as Paris became
habitual. The result was largely
psychological. 1t made the peoples
Of the Allied countries fighting
mad" The same effect was achieved
by the operators of the prodigious
cannon known as Big Bertha" an
instrument of destruction created,
theoretically, to devastate the French
metropolis. 1t projected shells sew
entyfive miles, but it did not demol-
ish the morale of the French nation.
The danger of more systematic
bombing of great cities, however, was
not ignored by those charged with
their defense in the period between
1918 and the outbreak of the second
World War last September. Will
Irwin, an American newspaperman,
wrote in 1921 this prophecy of hor-
ror: "A better way of breaking up
the resistance of the rear would be
to exterminate not the human Paris
but the physical Paris. That could
be done IN one gigantic confagration
started by inextinguishable chemicals
dropped from a few aircraft. The
method is practicable even now, in
the infancy of chemical warfare;
and the military chemists of Europe
are experimenting further along
these lines. Such a campaign, of
course, would not be confined to
Paris. although Paris, as a center
for the brains of war, as the most
vital knot in the railway web and a
great factory city, is eminently i'm
portant. It would be aimed also at
Lyons and st. Etienne, great manu-
featuring cities; at Marseilles, Cher
bourg, Mvre and Bordeaux, the great
ports, at a hundred little cities which
do their part in making munitions.
Imagine Paris suddenly be-
come a superheated furnace in a
hundred spots; imagine a swift rush
OF flame through every quarter;
imagine the population struggling,
piling up, shriveling with the heat;
imagine the survivors ranging the
open fields in the condition of starv-
ing animals"
Mr.. Irwin's vision now is being
Justified. The events of yesterday
and the events of last week prove
that his expectation was susceptible
OF reallZaClOn. he 'dreamed true,
and contemporaries mourn his &C
curacy.
Yet the struggle between the total
itarian Nazis and the democracies
cannot be decided by the willful
wrecking of whole communities of
innocent men, women and children.
Certainly, government might be
terrorized into surrender and the
aggressor might claim a triumph;
but the fruits Of victory could not
be gathered by the conqueror. That
has been demonstrated in China,
where Japan has gained nothing but
burnt earth" and the undying
hatred of population which, despite
its losses, continues to increase in
numbers and in pressure cover.
Evening star., 1940-06-04
Poems Printed in Star
Win Appreciation.
70 the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Your corner of poetry is great COM
fort to many of us. I know those who
seek it out eagerly upon first opening
the paper. AS for myself, I am keeping
scrap book of these poems, some of
which recall with particular enjoy
ment. Among these have been Flight"
Inez Barclay Kirby; Rain Barbara
Schmitt Whitney; "The Happy House.
WIFE" H. P. Stoddard, and more re-
Gently, THE Argonaut," Eleanor Fay,
and 'The Whitest Lamb Branson
Blake. A READER.
May 28,
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Aid for Allies,


Aid for Allies.
70 the Editor Of The STAR
am in complete accord with your
editorial on aid for the Allies" appear
Ing in The Evening Star Thursday, May
30. MARIE G, FULLAM.
May 30.
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WASHIN GTON, D. C.
TUESDAY June 4, 1910
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-11-07

The annual farmers institute will
be held at Community hall, We'd
nesday evening, Nov u, and all
day, Thursday, the 14th The speak
ers are Mrs. Hilles Martin of Be
thesda, and Mrs. H. E. Stout of
Holmesville. A program of music
and speaking is being planned. Off
GERS of the institute are Delmar
Harlan, president; secy-treas., Jes-
sic Barclay; hostess, Nellie Derwac-
ter. The following committees
have been appointed: Music, Doris
Frame, chairman, Gladys Shilling,
Delmar Harlan, Ruth Shilling, Ron
aid Barclay; decorating committee,
chairman. Freddie Roberts, Stella
Pyle, Edith Suites, Mack Moore,
Orry Pyle, Corwin Frame; dinner
committee, chairman, Hattie Frame,
Doris Drake, Jennie Frame. Pearl
Ellis, Winona Drake, Hazel Proctor,
Margaret Frame. A basket sdinner
will be served at noon on Thursday.
Everyone is asked to please bring
their own table service A cordial
invitation is extended to all.
Several in the community are
victims Of bad colds.
Miss Gene Devol of McConneIs-
Vile was the guest of her sister,
Mrs. Dorotha Drake, several days
last week, while her parents, Mr..
and Mrs C. l.. Devol were visiting
relatives in Indianapolis, Ind.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-11-07
Newton Ridge

Mr.. and Mrs. Stewart Mcfarland
of Pataskala, spent the week end
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Howard White.
Paul Orwig of GAINESVILLE spent
the week end with his grandpar-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Luther McKib-
ben.
Several from here attended the
farmers institute at East Windsor
last Thursday.
dren Bobby and Alice are spending
some time with her father, Charles
Newsom.
Mrs. w. E. Henery spent Sunday
with Mrs. Maggie Henery, of Stock
port.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Harry Henery
and daughter Hilda and Della
Bowles attended the teachers meet
ing at Athens, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Daugherty
and children of Marietta spent Sun
day at the Howard White home.
Rev. and Mrs. Sees were Sunday
supper guests at the Nan Sherwood
home
Billie and Joan, children of Mr..
and Mrs. Jerry Griest, are i'll with
chickenpox.
Mrs Anna Thompson spent Satur-
day night with Mrs. Luther McKib-
ben.
Mrs. Nan Sherwood is slowly i'm
proving, but not able to be up and
Allie Bailey has not been so we'll
and only up part of the time.
nd M,rc INaltnr Clifford on6
daughter Martha visited Mrs. Aman-
da Smith and Charles Williams, OF
Pennsville, Sunday afternoon.
There will be a social at Newton
ridge grange hall Friday, Nov. Is.
Proceeds for the farmers institute
Plenty of eats, good time, and
everyone welcome.-Adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Harry Henery and
daughter Hilda spent Sunday at the
home Of Mrs. Eva Mellor, of Column
bus.
Birthday Celebration
A very enjoyable family gather
ing was held at the home of Mrs.
Eva Mellor of Columbus. Sunday,
in honor of the 10th birthday OF
Mrs Nettie Sherwood of New Lex
ington. At noon a pot luck dinner
was served to which all did justice.
The afternoon was spent in visiting,
Those present were Mr.. and Mrs. c.
S. Sherwood and son Edwin, Mr..
and Mrs. Oscar Sherwood, the hos
tess Eva Mellor, and daughter Ed
ma Mae of Columbus; Miss Jean
Mellor of Little York. Ind; Mr. and
Mrs J Harry Henery and daughter
Hilda, of Malta; the guest of honor,
Mrs. Sherwood, and daughter Ada,
of New Lexington. Mrs. Sherwooi 4
and daughter Ada are former resi-
dents of McConnelsville.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-11-07
Page Five

The Townsend meeting will be
held Friday evening, Nov 8, in the
l. 0. 0. F. hall. There will be a
program of readings and special
music. Each family please bring
sandwiches and pickles.
Howard Jones and Olin Davis
were business visitors at GAINESVILLE,
Monday.
F. B. DeWeese left Monday for
Lewisville, where he has employ
ment
| Mrs. Dorothy TripIett and two
sons of Chesterhill spent Monday
with Mr. and Mrs. C. o. Graham.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Williams and
1 daughter of Orryille. were supper
guests Saturday evening of Mr.. and
Mrs. EIwood Mercer.
Mrs. w. M. Newton and Charles
Kennard of Malta, We're recent
guests of Mrs. LYDIA Newton and
son Glen.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Dougan
and two daughters and Mr. and
Mrs c.. S. Hiatt were dinner guests
Sunday of Mrs. Lucy Dougan and
family.
Mrs. LYDIA Newton spent Sunday
with Mrs. Edith Harkins.
Mrs. Frank Van Fossen was TAX
en- to Good Samaritan hospital at
GAINESVILLE, recently, where she will
be given treatments and X-ray for
gall bladder trouble
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Hall and
three sons and Mrs. Vera Click and
two daughters of Killbuck were
week end guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jesse Williams.
There will be preaching services
at the Church of Christ. Sunday
morning and evening, Nov. 10. Ell
der Arthur Thomas of GAINESVILLE
will be the speaker.
Mrs Fred Williams was hostess
to the institute speakers, Mrs. Ros-
selet of Hillsboro and Mr.. Manahan
of Defiance, Tuesday and Wednes-
day
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-11-07
HlIIcreSt

Mr. and Mrs. c. H. Phillips re-
ceived an announcement of the
birth of daughter to Mr. and Mrs
Peter Davis (Inez Montgomery of
Mingo Junction on Oct. 27, named
Charlotte Ann. Mrs. Davis spent
some time at the Phillips home be-
fore her marriage.
Friday visitors at the Vernon
Mrs. Claire Hawkins, and two sons
of Marietta, and brother r. M. Will
liams of Bartlett.
Mrs. Grace Walker of Stockport
and Mrs. o. v. Hanlin and daughter
Ida, attended the 14th district con-
vention of the Christian churches
of Ohio, which was held at Beverly
Church of Christ, Wednesday of
last week. A number Of able speak
ers were present. Rev. VIM. Ed
wards, missionary from Bolenge,
Africa. who with his wife and son
were rescued from the S. S. Athena
on their return trip to this country,
was the principal speaker Others
were Gaines Cook, Cleveland, state
secretary; Mrs. c. H. Hamilton,
Oberlin, sec'y Of women's work and
former missionary to China; w. Ell
bert Starn, Cleveland, state direc-
tor of young peoples work, and
others.
Mrs. Ivan Ball and daughter Mar
ian spent Saturday and Sunday
with Mr.. Ball who is employed at
Columbus, and with their son Doug
las, senior student at o. S. u. Mr..
Ball accompanied them home.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. c. Long and son
Leighton OF Chesterhill, were Sun
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-11-07
Hickory Ridge
Birthday Surprise

Sunday being the birthday OF
Henry Best, little birthday sur
prise was planned for him, and
pot luck dinner. Those present
were Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Best and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Medley
and family Mrs. Mary James and
children, Mr.. and Mrs. Dallas Kane
and Mr.. and Mrs. o. T. Clark and
Kenneth Benjamin. The same ev-
ening friends and neighbors gath
cred at the home of Mrs. Vesta
Best to surprise her for her birth
day and they both were success.
1t too was a pot luck supper. Those
present were Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Medley and family, Mr.. and Mrs. 0.
IT. Clark, Mrs Mary James and chill
dren, Kenneth Benjamin, Mr. and
Mrs. Jesse Embree and daughters,
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Best, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Robb, Mr. and Mrs
Harry Harlan, Mr.. and Mrs. Gus
Abel, Mr.. and Mrs. ''Jum" Moore.
All returned home at a late hour
wishing them both many more hap
py birthdays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pearl Daniel and
daughter moved Tuesday of last
week to their new farm, recently
purchased.
John Medley and family spent.
Monday evening at Frank Medley's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Embree and
daughters spent Sunday at Harold
Fullers
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-11-07
East Bloom

The next PTA meeting will be at
Tunnel Hill Friday evening, Nov. &.
The following program will be Civ
en-: Community singing, led by Mrs.
BUrcher, Edith Greer, pianist; ma
rimba music, by Dwight Richard
son; talks, Mrs. Corinne Ralston
and Atty Francis S. Doudna; con-
test, Wilma Ickes and Dorothy
Gibeaut. Refreshments will be serV-
ed. The meeting will begin prompt
ly at 1880.
Curt Richardson and wife and
Mary Barkhurst spent Friday in
Columbus.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. C. Stewart and
daughter Erma were Sunday visit
ors at G. H. Robinson's, near Rose
Vile
The Eureka club ladies and their
families enjoyed a wiener roast at
Tunnel Hill, Wednesday evening.
Quite a number were present and
a pleasant social time was spent.
Mrs. Isolena Betz of GAINESVILLE
and Claribel Richardson were guests
at the Ed Roberts home, few days
last week.
mel Hill Thursday night and all day
Friday, Nov. IA and Is. "A good
program has been prepared. Every
body welcome.
Miss Katherine Greer spent the
week end with Verna Daugherty
near Stockport.
Dale Bucey and family spent
Sunday at Mrs. w. A. Greer's.