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Evening star., 1944-02-06
Seeing Life Whole
Rev. John Bailey Kelly, D. D.,
Pastor OF the Georgetown PRESBYTERIAN Church.

The world in which we live Is
growing bigger every minute, and
its problems more baf1ling. The more
we annihilate space and compress
time, the closer we come to the
previously unknown neighbors who
live thousands Of miles away. Isola-
tionism is no longer possible and in
dividualism has survived its USE
fulness. No man liveth unto him.
self in this age of world conflict and
postwar planning.
But 1t Is one thing to recognize
these facts and another to know
what to do about them. We are
baffled by the bigness of the prob
lens that confront us. How shall
we find our way into better world?
And how shall we organize the peace
SO that our children may escape the
errors Of their fathers which have
plunged mankind into an abyss of
woe? There must be better way,
but we will not find it while We are
wallowing in "the slough OF despond."
We need to climb the heights and to
see life whole, if we are to escape the
perils Of the partial view.
Intellectual curiosity has been
mans greatest asset. It has led him
on all sorts of voyages Of discovery
and has pointed the way to the pill
grimage for truth. Misised often,
and ignored with equal frequency, it
has nonetheless been the goad
that prodded him on to achievement.
1t Is the outstanding characteristic
of youth and the secret of youths
ultimate development. Education
makes its contribution, stimulates.
directs. controls. Youth, full Of
questions, seeks the answers where
it may, but mostly it turns to its
teachers. Happy the boy or girl who
finds teacher who can see beyond
the horizon.
All truth is filtered through per-
sonality. We learn from one another
and from the great minds OF the
generations that have gone before.
How important therefore is the per-
sonality Of the individual through
whom the truth is spread! The
depth OF his knowledge and the
breadth OF his understanding will
measure the world of those who get
their conceptions of life from him.
1t Is for this reason that modern
education lays so much emphasis
upon the training and preparation
Of teachers of our schools. In. this
respect we have passed through three
phases Of development. First came
the question: What shall we teach?"
Evening star., 1944-02-06
Sanctions Needed

1t Is peculiarly discouraging to
learn that $4,000 American work.
ers-men engaged in highly impor-
tant war production-should have
chosen this particular time to strike
as the result of a trivial jurisdic-
tional dispute.
A little more than a week ago this
Nation learned of the terrible suf-
fering Of the prisoners of Bataan,
thousands of whom are still in the
hands Of the Japanese. At this mo-
ment an American army is fighting
for its life in Italy. In the British
Isles thousands upon thousands of
other American men are standing
ready for their supreme effort of
this ,war-the invasion of the con-
tinent for the final test of strength
with the armed might of Germany.
And this is the moment that has
been chosen by $4,000 other Amer
leans, safe from the horrors of war
because of the sacrifices that are
being made across the seas, to go on
strike and defy their Government
to compel them to return to work.
These workers are members of an
independent union, the Mechanics
Educational Society of America, and
their grievance is that the Labor
Relations Board has ordered an
election to determine whether their
union or a CIO union shall repre-
sent 4,7O0 employees in a Toledo
plant. The independent wants to
continue representing these en-
ployes, and $4,000 of its members
have walked out on their jobs to
enforce that demand.
The War Labor Board has de-
manded that these men 60 back to
work at once. 1t is said that if the
strike continues the "full sanctions
and penalties" of the antistrike law
will be invoked. The board has
made threats like this before, and,
with respect to recalcitrant employ
ers, it has seen to it that drastic
sanctions were applied. If it is ever
intended to take comparable action
against union, there is an abun--
dance of justification In this case.
Evening star., 1944-02-06
Druestores Of 1854
From the Boston Globe.


Framed in drugstore at Beverly are
these Drugstore Rules, 1852:
"Store will be opened promptly at 6
am. and remain open until pm. the
year around. Store must not be opened
on the Sabbath day unless absolutely
necessary and then only for a few
minutes.
"Any employe who is in the habit Of
smoking Spanish cigars, getting shaved
at barber shop, going to dances and
other places of amusement, will most
surely give his employer reason to sus-
pect his integrity and all around
honesty.
Each employe must attend Sunday
school every Sunday. Man employees are
given one evening a week for counting
purposes, and two If they 60 to prayer
meeting regularly. After IA hours Of
work in the store. the remaining leisure
time must be spent in reading good
literature"
Evening star., 1944-02-06
Albright Controversy

The long and tedious controversy
over modern" as distinct from "aca-
demic" art appears to be coming to
a climax. A recent auction sale of
allegedly "too conservative" pictures
by the Albright Gallery of Buffalo
has had the effect Of sharpening
the traditional differences. I'm the
opinion of the gallery's Art Commit
tee" the works disposed Of were not
of museum quality" The impact Of
that phrase was utterly damning.
It meant that in the judgment of
responsible group of experts the
canvases in question did not merit
wall space in any public exhibition.
Living artists and their friends
naturally protested. Peyton Bos-
well, jr, editor of the Art Digest,
New York, challenged the proceed
ing with considerable ve.lemence.
The discarded paintings, he argued,
had been of museum quality" when
they were acquired and displayed
by the incumbent directors prede-
cessors. It was demanded: HAS he
any assurance that his successor
will not, in turn, hire an auction
hall to liquidate his choicest" The
answer obviously is: No. TASTES
do change" sometimes for the bet
ter, sometimes for the worse.
But Gordon Washburn, former di-
rector of the Albright Gallery and
one OF the persons involved in the
decision to sell the "outmoded" pic
lures, replies to Mr.. Boswell with
plenty of warmth. "I am not one
who believes that all works OF art
are good and that it is only ques-
ton Of time before they return to
fashion or appreciation after they
have suffered periodic eclipse" he
declares. II do not believe .. in art,
right or wrong. I believe in it only
when 1t is right" AS to who is to
decide the moral" issue, Mr.. Wash
burn prefers professional connois-
seurs with real power of discrim-
nation" He does not suggest a
practical solution of the problem
when, as occasionally happens, the
"authorities" disagree.
Meanwhile, Evelyn Marie Stuart
OF Chicago, with a woman's incisive
intuition, writes: People who set
themselves up as judges for the fu-
ture should consider the story back
Of the tremendous accumulation OF
Evening star., 1944-02-06

It was the question Of the curriculum.
When that was satisfactorily an
swered Cor reasonably so) we asked
the question: How shall we teach?"
and the science Of pedagogy was
born. Now we are asking: "Who
shall be the teacher7 What of his
training and equipment? And above
all what about his spirit and per-
sonality?" Said the dean of one Of
our Eastern colleges: II have In
terviewed hundreds and hundreds Of
former students returning to the
campus, and always have made 1t
my custom to ask them what they
remembered most from their COL
lege experience. Some recalled the
football games, and some the es-
capades of youth. A few remembered
their books and courses of instruc-
tion. But always before they were
through each Of them spoke OF some
professor whose personal influence
had fingered with them through the
years and whom they never would
forget"
When st. Paul was recounting
his early life and training, he did
not boast that he was graduate Of
the University of Jerusalem, which
was one Of the leading educational
institutions Of his day, but that he
had been brought up In Jerusalem
"at the feet of Gamaliel." The abid-
ing influence OF great teacher was
the outstanding memory of his edu-
cational experience. Great teachers
make great men. Loftiness of vision
and breadth of spirit are contagious.
The men of tomorrow, as they seek to
solve the complex problems of their
day, will be guided and inspired by
the memory Of those who had a
-arger vision than they themselves
had yet achieved. We ought to
pray that the teachers in our schools
and colleges be men and women who
have this vision, who can see life
whole, including its spiritual as well
as its tangible realities. What a
tragedy lies ahead of us if the men
and women of tomorrow know moth
ing beyond science, mathematics and
economics If they are to meet the
crisis which inevitably awaits hu-
manity in this troubled world, and
to lead us into a better tomorrow,
they must comprehend the spiritual
forces that determine the currents
OF human life. Above all, they need
to sit at the feet of the Great
Teacher, concerning whom it was
said that never man spake like
this man"
Evening star., 1944-02-06
Ancient Order

It has been announced in London
that Rear Admirals Alan G. Kirk
and John Hall of the United States
Navy have been awarded the in
sigma Of Companion Of the Bath.
This honor, given in recognition Of
their part in directing task forces
in the Allied occupation of Sicily,
Of course, is not unprecedented. 1t
has been conferred upon other
Americans in recognition of like
services to the United Nations. But
it Is a signal distinction, and per-
haps It's connotation ought to be
explained in ordinary language for
the public that reads on the run.
The American Society Legion of
Honor Magazine traces the origin Of
"the highest order of British
chivalry open to foreigners not Of
royal birth" to "the far forests of
Germany" where, it says, Saxon
warriors developed the rituals
by which knighthood would be con-
ferred in England hundreds Of years
later" A Frankish version OF the
ideals Of the fellowship thus an
GENTLY formed reads: ITO be willing
to conflict with any dangers or diff
culties in the cause Of virtue; take
care, both in words and actions, to
follow the maxims of prudence, and
on all occasions religiously observe
the rules of fidelity and honor"
Such Solemn obligations" were
undertaken only after long prep
aration" and assumed only in
ceremonies of sober dignity"
Exactly when the Order Of the
Bath was established is unsettled.
The famous chronicler Froissart
describes meeting of the knights
at the coronation of King Henry w
In 1899. Forty-six candidates, he
aff1rms, assembled at the Tower for
the sacred vigil preceding investi-
ture. Each Of them," it is stipu-
lated, "had his esquire attending
him, separate chamber and each
his separate bath, where the rites
Of bathing were that night per-
formed" At mass the next day they
were presented "long green coats"
edged with minever. Swords and
spurs likewise were furnished. In
modern times the assembly place
has been the beautiful Henry VII
chapel of Westminster Abbey. The
ritual Of sacramental bathing is
compared with ''baptismal rites to
signify the rebirth of the individual
purged from sim"
Symbolism may mean little In the
realistic modern world, but knightli-
ness still means something.
Evening star., 1944-02-06

antique furniture in New Orleans
antique shops" The finest pieces
got there through the dismantling
Of fine old homes of their Colonial,
Georgian and Empire mahogany to
make way for golden oak and Mis-
sion when these were modern"
Evening star., 1944-02-06

Two boys, playing hockey from
school, saw an open switch on a
railroad track and by prompt notifi-
cation averted a wreck and earned
a $50 War Bond apiece. Another
$50 bond should be awarded to any
one who can give the correct moral
to this tale
Evening star., 1944-02-06

Income taxpayers who next March
under the forgiveness" plan will
pay parts of their taxes for 1912,
1943 and 1914 all at once hope that
whatever they may do in the future
will never be forgiven.
Evening star., 1944-02-06
Relatively

From the New York Nation.
Everybody wants the cost Of living
held down, but everybody also wants his
own income pushed up. This mathe-
matical miracle would b too much for
an Enstsin, certainly for . Roosevelt.
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G. WHITE
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER 1: The story Of the famous
18th and 7th Bombardment Groups. OF
Lieut.. Col. Frank Kurtz and his Fortress
crew In the tremendous air campaign
that saved the day for the United Nations
In the Southwest Pacific. Lieut.. Kurtz.
who was pilot of the old Fortress. known
as The Swoose,' which escaped from
Clark Field, in the Philippines, tells OF
that fatal day when the Japs struck. He
pedals to the wreck of Old 80. finds eight
CHAPTER ii: Lieut. Kurtz tells how
orders to camouhage Old SO were coun..
fernandez: instead they were to load
bombs. Then he was ordered to Jerk the
bombs. reload with cameras and rush
the camoufiage. Preparations made for
taking pictures of Formosa. Someone
shouts, Look at that pretty navy forrna-
ton. The navy formation happens to
CHAPTER iii: Bombs hit the mess
hall. The Japs move off. They hear
another hum. ''P-40's." they think. but
the direction Of Corregidor The boys
duck back into their foxholes.
CHAPTER Nv: The pilots are given
their targets and towering above, the
on his first mission. Buzz Wagner IS
chased by Japs in his P-40. He meets
Lieut.. Russ Church and they bomb
Jap field Church fails to return. The
death of Colin Kelly.
CHAPTER v: Fortresses are kent in
the air to save them from the Japs.
Through some mistake someone opens
fire on them. Japs begin photographing
the place. No longer safe to sleep in the
barracks, cots are moved into a corn
field With no fighters left TO defend
them, evacuation begins. Lieut.. Kurtz
tells of last plane trip out in patched
up plane. Japs land light tanks at Apart.
Squadron commander Major Gibbs fails
to return from mission. u. S. forces fee
from Clark Field to Mindanao.
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Some of the Bluffton basketball
fans now have it doped out that
the Pirates would now hold the state
Class b basketball title if the team
could have had Hermann, ace
center, with them. Hermann, you
recall, was inducted into the army
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gines and recognize us as Flying
Fortresses.
''The country itself is as desolate
and sparsely populated as the worst
parts of West Texas and New Mex
leo, and the most important town
for a thousand or SO miles is little
Port Darwin, with seven or eight
thousand people, sitting there on the
rim of Nothing-at-All. 1t has wide
streets-like one of those Midwestern
towns built in the boom of the eight
ies-a good hotel which is subsidized
by the Qantas Airways and reminds
you of the one on Wake Island, a
band which plays in bandstand in
the park, and zoo with a few
emus, kangaroos, and koala bears.
No fresh vegetables, everything inn
ported in cans. There you have
Darwin.
"BatcheIor Field was about forty
miles back in the brush, and it con-
sisted of a couple of runways hacked
out of the mesquite (it was hard to
get tools for grading or dynamite
for stumps) and hangar run by
the RAAF.
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just before the tournament opened
and Bluffton lost to Lima St. Johns
only by a narrow margin. In the
state finals at Columbus, Saturday,
the Lima team was leading Akron
by a comfortable margin when the
st. Johns center was disqualified on
fouls and after the resulting sub
stitution Akron put the game on ice.
Nelson Steiner, Buttons Fuller
brush salesman was awarded a
trophy at a company sales meeting
in Ft. Wayne, Saturday for leading
states of the Midwest district in
sales for the past year.
Joshua Neiswander over at Will
Jamestown has renewed his subscrip-
tion for another year-but what we
wanted to say was that he is the
only one on our list of over 1000
who has been a subscriber continu-
ously since "Dick" Cunningham
founded the News way back in 1875.
Beverly May, three year old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Quentin
Diefendeifer of Cherry street is all
smiles this week since she has her
white coon back after several weeks
absence. The little animal, house
hold pet, was found Saturday morn
ing on the Homer Green farm in
Union township. Sighted by Ray
Peterson and Merritt Green proved
tame and apparently happy to be
back into human custody. 1t was
returned to the Diefendeifer home,
Sunday.
Byron Barney" Fritchie home on
week end pass from Great Lakes
Training station. He says it's a real
sight to see the boys streaming out
thru the gateway to the train the
minute their leave starts on Satur.
day-and it's back by midnight Sun.
day, or else-so there is just as much
of congestion on Sunday night tt
| get back before the deadline.
Garnette Foltz, civilian, never hat
any idea of being a cop-but now
it's T/5 Garnette Foltz, militar,
police, somewhere in England. Ane
by the way there's a lot of thing:
you have to learn to be an NJ 2. il
England-for instance there's tha
little matter of traffic going on ths
left side of the street instead of The
right side. Foltz is attached to al
air force base in England.
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Pleasant Hill

On Friday evening March 81 the
Quarterly Conference meeting will be
held at the Pleasant Hill church.
DIR. McCluer will be the evening
speaker. The public is invited.
Pre-Easter services will be held at
Pleasant Hill beginning Sunday even
ing April and lasting through Fri
day evening.
The Community meeting and the
w. S. c. S. meetings will be held on
April IL and April Ia respectively
! due to the Easter services.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Stratton
and family We're Sunday guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. O. l.. Stratton.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. r. Blosser and
family called on Mr.. and Mrs. Ly-
man Barnes and 10 Ann.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hess and
family of Findlay We're week end
guests of Mrs. Lille Fett and Miss
Nellie Huber.
Lucy Jane WInegardner was a
Saturday night guest of Sondra Sue
Huber.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Holman were
Sunday evening guests of Mrs. Cora
| Huber and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Jennings and
family spent Sunday with Mrs. Clara
Jennings of Beaverdam.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Fox of Blufftor
spent Sunday with Mrs. Alta Garal
and family.
| Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mefferd ane
Mr.. and Mrs. X. X. Huber attended
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PAGE SEVEN

the funeral of Mr.. Elmer Sellers
of near Cridersville, Saturday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Faze attended
the funeral of Kenneth Brewer of
Continental.
Maynard and Evan Steiner called
on Mr.. S. H. and Gordon Barnes,
Sunday afternoon.
The Pleasant Hill Sunday school
spent Sunday celebrating the birth
day of Superintendent Joy X. Huber.
Those enjoying the occasion were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hess, Mary
Nell and Billy, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Huber and Jimmy, Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Phillips, Mr.. and Mrs. Horace
Stratton, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Weav-
er, Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Barnes and
10 Ann, Mr.. and Mrs. S. r. Blosser,
Samuel D., Mary Jane, Lydia, Betty
Jean and Roy Dean, Victoria Nc
Carly, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Mef-
ferd, Mr.. and Mrs. X. X. Huber, Mr..
and Mrs. Russell Huber and Dale,
Mrs. Clarence Gleason, Mickey, Mar
lene and Danny, Mrs. Sarah Oates
and Don, Miss Claribel Owens, Mr..
and Mrs. Wilson McBain, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Huber, Mary and Edna,
Rev. and Mrs. Bernard Baughn and
Joyce, Miss Nellie Huber, Mrs. Lille
Fett, Mrs. Cora Huber, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Joy Huber and Sondra.
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W.N.u.FEAruRgs


altitude fast, ard then right ahead
of us we spotted big clunp of
trees-about sixty feet high. Well,
there wasn't time for anything but
a prayer, and not any long rambling
one either But Jack handled the
situation beautifully. He pulled her
nose up as high as he dared and
Just cleared those trees, and then,
cutting the remaining two motors so
we wouldn't have to climb out of her
in flames, he made as nice a belly
landing in a rice patch as you could
hope for. Just as the ground was
coming up at us hit the dome re-
lease gadget with my fist and it
rolled off, leaving that little hole you
can crawl out of quick if she catches
fire. But Jack set her down so
gently I hardly noticed the crash.
you've forgotten that one re-
naming Zero? Well, I hadn't, be-
cause it had followed us all the
way down. I crawled out as fast as
l could and started running away
from the plane parallel to the wing.
The funny thing was Bill Railing,
the co-pilot, was either stunned or
felt comfortable right where he was.
Anyway, he stayed right in his seat
while this Zero circled and then
came in, right along the line of our
wing just had time to fall down on
my chin and then it all happened in
a split second. The Zero's guns
opened up, so that the first slugs
began kicking up the dust about
, thirty yards away in straight line
just yard from my chin as she
went by with big wh-h-h-i-i-ish-
sh-sh-the slugs beating a tattoo
along the length of the Forts wing,
with old Railing dreaming away
there, all relaxed in his seat, right
in the middle of them, and, believe
it or not, the boy wasn't even
scratched! 1t goes to show it doesn't
make much difference which way
you run or whether you run at all. :"
within three minutes of the time
we crash-landed in the rice paddy
behind those tall trees we were sur
rounded by gang of Filipinos, all
waving the longest, sharpest knives
you'd want to see. But pretty soon
we convinced them we weren't jap
anese, so they all got helpful and
told us we were on Masbate Island.
| The chief of police produced little
pony, and with couple of branches
they cut we rigged up pretty COM
Portable stretcher for Sergeant Ju-
milo, the one who had the cannon
bullet in his leg; we had to get him
to doctor soon.
Because these natives wanted to
honor the American officers who
were fighting for their country, they
brought me donkey to ride. OF
course to have refused would insult
| them, and yet I didn't dream the
kind of deal I was getting into.
| The first half-mile wasn't SO bad,
and / even thought / was lucky
wasn't walking and getting sore feet,
like you do in the infantry. But
pretty soon / began to realize, first
just little bit, and then more and
more, that there are worse things
than having sore feet.
1--WE crashed on the fourteenth OF
December and on the twentieth we
bought an outrigger canoe for fifty
pesos, and hired natives to sail and
paddle us to the island of Panay,
with me getting chance to brush up
on my navigating. When we were
about forty miles from land noticed
the skipper of this craft of ours had
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crawled up into its nose and was
peering down into the water. Why?
Well, he explained, there were sup
posed to be lot of floating Japa-
nese mines here, and he thought it
would be all right if we didn't bump
any of them.
1.-The next day we landed on Pa
nay, and were told the American
forces were all ganged up down at
its southern end, and when we got
to them we reported to General
Chynoweth. Then we really were
in for it. Because it seemed the
old 18th Bombardment Group had
left Mindanao for Australia; SO they
grabbed us and attached US to a
Filipino Field Artillery regiment,
giving Jack Adams, Bill Railing,
and myself battalion to command.
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Shun Rain

Some flowers close up at sign of
rain, or even refuse to open at all
on sunless days. Portulaca, the
maiden pink and oxalis are ex-
amples.