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Evening star., 1946-04-29
Letters to The Star
A True Authority on Starving
Says Food Is But a Symbol

Says Food Is But a Symbol
To the Editor of The Star:
Half of us are starving. The other
half are eating. Our leaders are trying
to make us realize that we should help
each other to live.
speak as an authority on starvation,
having spent three and half years In
Japanese prisons where we had TOO
calories day for long period and
never more than an average 1900.
Instead of feeling injured, I feel
strengthened by the experience. But
if had thought that we were being
starved because our own people
wouldn't feed us, would have gone
mad. So we must decide for ourselves:
Are those other starving ones our people
or not?
But food is only symbol. The real
tragedy is that in this crisis, when we
must build one world or destroy every
thing, we are deaf to the anxious words
of our leaders. We have been deafened
by the slogans, creeds, superstitions
and hypocrisies that have been
preached at us by pulpit, press and
forum. So now when they cry: "Wolf!"
we don't even listen. We have lost
faith in leadership because leadership
has lost faith in truth.
Expediency has been our god. The
true leader is so magnetized by truth
that he cannot lead in any other direc-
ton, elections or no elections. If our
leaders will only be true, we will follow
them through heaven or hell. But if
they don't start now, it is going to be
hell! And 1 don't mean maybe.
B. G. CHYNOWETH,
Brigadier General AUS.
Evening star., 1946-04-29
Down East Cuisine

To the Editor Of The Star:
Uncle Zeke, soliloquizing. speaks his
piece, uncompromising; he gets stern
and sour-looking when you mention
Southern cooking whats it good fer?"
he will query. "All their braggin' makes
me weary. Why, I'd ruther set and
whittle than to eat that kind of vittle!"
Take their cornpone and fried
chicken-dry as chips and not .wuth
lickin'! Grits and gravy don't favor
and their seafood's lackin' flavor. When
it comes to food, I'm cranky" brags this
undiluted Yankee.
If you want a meal fer thinkers, get
a good fresh mess of tinkers, Maine
potatoes, mashed and fluffy, with some
biscuits, hot and puffy. Then to end the
dinner sittin', juicy apple pie is fittin'.
AS fer all that Southern culch-you
jest throw 1t in the gulch!"
RAY H. EVERETT.
Evening star., 1946-04-29
Wants Presidents Powers Cut

To the Editor Of The Star:
On April 2l, The Star published a
column by Raymond Moley He wrote
that Congress must regain its legisla-
tive freedom, saying:
Since Mr.. Roosevelt was inaugural ted
in 1888, % of these 80 policy making
laws were passed. OF these, were
President-made, was Congress made,
and l3 were joint product. - And
yet, the Constitution provides that:
All legislative power shall be vested in
Congress of the United States The
fact is that 70 per cent of the effective
legislative power has been taken over
by the executive"
Some folks recall reading in the An
nails OF Congress" a legislators address
delivered when the people were greatly
disturbed over the French Revolution.
On February 27, 1898, that Congress
man said: Some gentlemen called
themselves supporters of government,
and others they termed destroyers of
government, disorganizers. srs When
gentlemen spoke of supporters of gov
ernment they meant. he believed. sup
porters OF the executive branch of gov
ernment; so that person acquiescing
IN every measure of the executive was a
supporter of government; whilst those
who dlsapproved of any executive meas
ure were destroyers of government.
This doctrine alone was sufficient to
Nf
consisting of several branches, and to
blend all the powers of the Government
IN the executive. In this case, the
Government of this country could not
long remain free Republic, but would
become an elective monarchy, and the
whole power of the Government would
be in one mans hands. He could not
conceive that the people of the United
states could think this a proper ground
upon which this Government ought to
rest. 1t was self-evident to him that
our Government ought to consist of
three branches, the President, the
Senate. and the House of Representa-
tives."
During the French Revolution Con-
gress did not merge our Army with our
Navy on account of the fear of an elec-
tive monarch.
Now what should Americans do when
we have been made aware that we have
an elective monarchy? Americans should
question everything the President does
And why can't Congress limit to two
terms the Office of President? And re-
move the Presidents powers to issue
executive orders, directives and DEGREES?
Americans are no longer threatened
by the Axis powers
DAVID r. MIDDLETON.
Evening star., 1946-04-29
This and That
By Charles E. Trace,UeH.
Otis PLACE NE.

Ne
Dear Sir:
Recently was cooking breakfast
and happened to glance out of the
window and saw on the back fence
what first appeared to be young but
adult-acting cardinal
THE bird was joined by another
bird just like him, then three more
appeared For about three minutes they
stayed in the yard and next door yard
and in the alley, flying back and forth
from tree to fence, but never flying
to the ground
They appeared full grown, but very
small not as big as, or at least any
bigger than, a sparrow.
They were pretty, soft but color
full pinkish, with rose head. I have
looked through our bird books and pic
lures of birds, and from the pictures
they appear to be the pine grosbeak,
but did not notice the beak and some
how thought they were larger.
'Since we have lived in our house
Quilt on what six years ago was
the Monastery corn field we have
seen Baltimore orioles, wild canaries,
indigo buntings and many others that
we did not know before, and we're
sure of from the pictures. but never
bird before that was definitely rose
colored.'
Sincerely, G. H. c."
II X X
These birds were not pine grosbeaks,
which do not come here, but purple
finches.
The last report of a pine grosbeak
locally was in 1888, and that was not
authenticated.
The purple finch is beautiful bird
which looks as if he has been dipped
in pokeberry juice
1t arrives here usually in February
and usually sticks around for a month
or more, often coming to feeding
stations in the suburban areas.
The purple finch is definitely rosy, in
the ancient sense of rosy dawn. The
word purple, in relation to him, takes
in that old Roman idea of the purple
dawn, really deep rose colored dawn
These fine finches stay here until
April 10, on the average, but some have
been seen as late as May 20.
They fly north, breeding in Penn
sylvania and northward through Can
ada. The nest is usually placed in
conifers. 1t is an open-work affair, not
very well made, OF grass, roots, strips
of bark, and often is lined with hair
often from rabbits.
1t resembles chipping sparrow nest
but is much larger.
From four to six eggs are laid, green
blue, spotted with shades of brown, lilac
and even bits of black
The male purple finch does not sing
here, but in the North, at nesting time
He has fine song, which he often de-
livers as he flies into the air as high as
500 feet, and then circles down to the
very spot he left. He also likes to dance
around the female. singing his song. ir
this instance definitely a love song.
Evening star., 1946-04-29
Booty in the Far Eust

The receipt by our State Depart
ment of belated Russian reply to
our second note on war booty" in
Manchuria emphasizes another of
those issues between America and
the Soviet Union in which there ap-
pears to be sharp difference of
opinion.
The kernel of the dispute lies IN
the Interpretation of the phrase,
war booty" The meaning generally
accepted in recent times among
civilized nations is that war booty
consists chiefly in equipment and
supplies belonging to-, or earmarked
for, the use of the fighting forces,
taken by the victor during wartime.
1t is this Interpretation that our
Government has had in mind with
reference to Manchuria after Soviet
Russia declared war against Japan
at the eleventh hour and overran
Manchuria. This apparently was
also the Interpretation of the Chi
nese government when it negotiated
its agreement with the Soviet gov
ernment, at about the same time.
However, all available indications
are that the Soviet Army of occu-
patton has Systematically stripped
Manchuria, not only of all property
belonging to the japanese govern
ment, whether of military, naval
or civil character, but has likewise
carried off to Siberia virtually the
whole of the vast industrial plant
that had been erected in Man
churia during nearly half century,
whether under Chinese or japanese
auspices. Every foreign observer
who has had so much as a peek at
the situation there, despite Russian
secretiveness. agrees that the Red
Army has picked Manchuria as clean
as the proverbial bone
1t was this situation that our State
Department had in mind when it
addressed its first note to Moscow on
the subject last February. This note
having been ignored by Moscow, the
department sent second note early
in March; and it is this missive to
which Moscow has replied, after
some six weeks delay. Although the
text has not been made public we
are given to understand that it is
regarded by the department as
vague and inconclusive. What our
next diplomatic move may be is
uncertain. This may be one of the
matters which Secretary Byrnes will
take up, at least informally, with
Foreign Secretary Molotoff at the
current Paris meeting.
incidentally, it should be noted
that a dispatch to the Moscow
Pravda, official organ of the Russian
Communist party. received from its
correspondent in Dairen, Manchuria,
charges that the American military
authorities in Japan are systemati-
cally looting that country and send
ing back to the United States a
stream of gold, silver, diamonds,
platinum, industrial equipment and
art treasures This certainly does
not correspond to the facts as they
are known here.
Evening star., 1946-04-29
Echoes Dean Swift
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
1t is astounding, incredible! only 80
foot patrolmen on the streets of Wash
ington!" (The Star, front page, April
24) Why, sirs, have walked the streets
OF this great city day after day and
never seen even one 6-foot patrolman!
Where does the Police Department sleep
these 80-footers? No wonder there is a
shortage of woolens if our guardians Of
the peace are all that big! And how
about butter? Do they have priority
on this precious golden grease? think
an investigation by Congress is in
order. Dear editors, please explain about
these Brobdinagians.
ROSSEL EDW. MITCHELL.
Evening star., 1946-04-29
While Millions Sturve

S 1oeCoG QeFclOpIIleIlCS IN JllS
Governments famine relief program
do nothing to dispel the belief that
confusion on the higher levels is
seriously hampering the effort to
aid the millions of people threat
ened with starvation.
Ten days or more ago Herbert
Lehman, former UNRRA director,
said that this Government was not
doing all it could to meet the threat
OF mass starvation. His view was
that the voluntary food conservation
methods heretofore relied upon by
the administration would not be
adequate and that we would have to
come to long-range program of
food control with rationing and
similar drastic methods.
At his press conference the next
day President Truman took issue
with Mr.. Lehman. Without queS-
toning the sincerity of the former
JNRRA head, Mr.. Truman never
theless said that Mr.. Lehman was
mistaken, that this Government was
doing all that could be done. Last
Friday Undersecretary of State Dean
AcheSon apparently sided with the
critics of the voluntary program. If
widespread unrest, with consequent
danger to our occupation forces, is
TO be prevented, he said, much more
drastic action by the Government is
necessary. Emphasizing that he was
announcing a personal view, Mr..
Acheson declared that the Govern
ment should go and take" wheat
off the farms if necessary to get food
to the famine zones quickly.
Tho following day Secretary of
Agriculture Anderson, just back
from tour of the wheat belt, said
that the Government had no thought
of requisitioning wheat from farm
ers order to make up deficits in
food Nhipments. He said he is conf
dentl there will be "a springtime
food of wheat to the elevators"
when the rush of spring work on the
farms is over, and, furthermore, that
the Governments offer-of a bonus
of 80 cents bushel for wheat de-
Ivered. prior to May 25 will enable
us to meet our export goals between
now and July l.
With such diSagreements as these
prevailing among the officials head
ing fp the famine emergency pro-
gram, it is not to be expected that
the ordinary citizen can have any
settled opinion as to the suficiency
of the effort being made by this
Government to get food to the starv-
ing. 1t is fact, and an undisputed
TACT, however, that we have not been
meeting our export commitments.
It is also a matter of common
knowledge that the people of this
country could easily do with less
tood than they have today. In this
situation, if the need of food in the
famine areas is as great as it has
been represented to be, it is difficult
to understand why the administra-
tion has not resorted to the more
drastic measures advocated by Mr..
Lehman and Mr.. Acheson. Are we,
in this land of relative abundance.
fddling while fourth of the human
rare StarVeSo
Evening star., 1946-04-29
Dipper at the Well

A dipper at Uell is a friendly thing.
Splitting linpid GOODNESS in silUer drops,
Over it t,Do friends may pause to talk
OF gentle things like lambs and co1Ds
and crops.
A dipper at a ,DeH is cupid's aid,
For over it her eyes may call to him,
And lips too young and tremulons to
speak
May ledpe a kiss upon Its shining
brint
A dtpper at d toeH Is meant to be
A gaugtn1 rule to measure kindness
by.
A greeting. q handshake, a crystal ,Dord
Spoken to any stranger passing by.
ALMA Robson HIGBEE.
Evening star., 1946-04-29
Supports OPA Against Money

supports OfA Against Money!
To the Editor Of The Star:
Your fine judgment in printing Mrs.
S. j. Litzinger's letter is most sincerely
appreciated. Her plea was representa-
tive of so many of us housewives who
are under the severe strain of rising
costs but small income. The OPA is
not only necessity; it is a protective
arm around every man, woman and
child.
In fact, If our congressman insist on
overlooking the needs of the average
American citizen, and continually play
into the hands of the interest groups
representing the money" in our coun-
try, the indignation of every one of
us will rise against them. The people
want the OPA. MRS. C. SHAW.
Evening star., 1946-04-29
BY Their Right Names

fTom the OttaWt JOURNAL.
Our dictionary defines bandit as a
brigand and a brigand as "a member
Of a robber gang living on pillage.
blackmail, ransom, ETC." In modern
usage it is applied to every thug who
holds up candy shop or robs hen
roost. If we called them thieves and
robbers 1t would be more fitting their
professional rank.
Evening star., 1946-04-29

Most of us did not think that for
mer WAC Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby
could possibly look as we'll in civilian
hats as she did in her kept, but she
does-perhaps even better.
Evening star., 1946-04-29

Who remembers the days when
there were collisions in streetcar
aisles between two, and even three,
gentlemen leaping to their feet to
offer their seats to ladies?
Evening star., 1946-04-29
But He Hadn't

From the Boston Globe.
When Jacques Cartier sailed up the
ST. Lawrence River in 1884 and dis
covered a series of rapids, he thought
he had reached the coast of China.
Evening star., 1946-04-29

ter with strict impartiality. Ger
tainly the Advisory Committee is of
such a caliber as to merit public
respect and confidence in its flnd-
ings on this or other subjects.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-03-14
Special Session To
Re Called After May Z

A special session of the leglsla-
ture will be called after the May
primary election as soon as the state
learns what it will have to pay for
Fletcher General Hospital, Gov
Frank J. Lausche said today but
Noble county won't be there.
Law making without representa-
ton is the condition in which Noble
county finds itself since George
Mckee, Democrat, resigned seVe al
months ago to accept a job which
pays him $2640 per year.
The army will be out of the Cam
bridge hospital by March Is or 2o
and it will be surplus property in
the hands of the War Assets Corp
by March 81, the governor said.
Gov. Lausche said that he hoped
the state could move some mental
patients in to Fletcher while nego-
tiations were being made. He en-
phasized that the state would ask
the federal government to freeze all
equipment at Fletcher so that 1t
could be purchased also and the IN
stitution taken over intact.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-03-14

divided ! interest.
Clyde and Emma Wheeler to
Frederick Wheeler. Caldwell. Lot
l43. Undivided ! interest.
Clementine and George Kinnen to
Robert and Helen Taylor. Maple
Heights. Lot 2, 3, and 4.
Michael Kusnerak to Arthur r.
Fogle. Florence Addition.
Roscoe and Esther Shafer to
Harry and Bernice Semon. Caldwell.
Lot 145.
Jerry Bird, deceased, to Edna Bird.
ct al. Terrace Addition. Lots 10 and
20. Undivided J interest.
Geneva Porter, ct al to Edna Bird.
Terrace Addition. lots 19 and 20.
The Caldwell Building & Loan Co.,
to Arizona Daley. Ava. Lot 6.
Arizona Daley to Ruthelean Dali
ey. Ava. Lot 6.
Pearl Tilton ct al to William Her
bert and Cora R. Linger. Jackson
township.
Clayton Mckee, sheriff, to Law
renee King and Lloyd /. Wingert.
Jackson township. 278 acres. $4,000.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-03-14
AAA NEWS
FOR
NOBLE COUNTY

Individual farm acreage allotments
of hurley tobacco in Noble county
for 1916 will be reduced by 10 per
cent below 1945 in accordance with
a recent announcement by the U. S.
department of agriculture of a de-
crease of a similar amount in the
1916 national marketing quota, it
was stated today by w. w. Archer,
cha rman of the county AAA COM
mittee. The reduction, he said, was
made possible through a recent
amendment to the Agricultural Ad-
justment Act of 1888 and is con-
sidered advisable at this time in
order to bring supplies of hurley
tobacco more nearly in line with
demand.
During the past two years we
have seen available supplies of bur
ley tobacco increased by approx
mately 200,000,000 pounds because
of the record crops of 1944 and l945",
he declared. "Many hurley producers
have experienced sharp drops in the
prices of some grades of the l945
crop and have expressed thsir favor
of a reduction to prevent accumula-
ton of a tremendous surplus of bur
ley, such as we saw several years
ago..
The reduction will result in a total
national acreage allotment of 5oS,OOO
acres, compared with allotments of
$4,000 acres in 1945. If yields are
normal, and if growers again plant
about the same percentage of the
allotment as they have in the past,
the 1945 crop of hurley should
amount to about 498, 100000 pounds.
as compared with approximately
603, 100000 pounds produced IN
1945.
Mr.. Archer also announced that
the new legislation increases the
rate of penalty imposed on tobacco
marketed in excess of the farms
marketing quota to 40 percent Of the
national average sales price during
the preceding marketing year. On
the basis of a seasons average price
of 40 cents, the penalty rate in l94o
would be 16 cents per pound, IN
stead of the 10-cent penalty IN Ell
feet in the past.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-03-14

furlough at his home here.
Frank Longfellow, Mrs. Bertha
Wamer, were Marietta shoppers
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry MILESTONE
were business callers at GAINESVILLE,
Saturday.
Supt. and Mrs. Ray L. Curtis Wis
tied relatives at Summerfield Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Wharton Jr.
and daughter Jean, of Burgettstown,
Pa, visited her mother, Mrs. Hattie
Brown, over the weekend
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Clark and
daughters of Brennan, visited over
the weekend at the home of his
mother, Mrs. Barbara Clark
Those remaining i'll are: Mrs. A.
J. Ranger, Patty Warren, Jimmie
Kemp. George Morris and Mrs.
Nellie Kemp.
John w. Swain GIN &c of Great
Lakes, Ill.,, received his honorable
discharge from the armed forces
after serving several months in the
South Pacific. His brother, Dick
Swain, received his discharge from
Indian Town Gap, Pa, ha ing ser
we'd overseas. He saw service in
Austria, Italy ard Germany. Their
other brother, Joseph Swain, is at
tending naval training school at
Great Lakes training station. he
also saw service in the South Pacific.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-03-14

ing to Mrs. Juanita Bates.
Those present at the meeting were
Mrs. Florence Carter, Mrs. Freda
Cutler, Mrs. Virginia Ward, Mrs.
Dele Thomas, Mrs. Helen Watson,
Mrs. Gladys Wickham, Mrs. Juanita
Bates, Miss Helen Spence, Mrs. Mat
Gulick, Mrs. Rose GuIick, Mrs. Yer
ma Cutler, Mrs. Nettie Martin, Miss
Sara Carpenter, Mrs. Amanda
Spence, Mrs. Jeanette Franklin,
Mrs. Lena Franklin, Mrs. Minnie
Danford and Mrs. Jennie Danford.
Announcement of Meeting
The second meeting on the refin-
ishing of furniture will be held in
the basement of the First Methodist
church for all folks who are inter
tsCed in Caldwell. The date for this
demonstration is Thursday, March
Ia, at 1920 a. m. No arrangements
for lunch are being made.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-03-14
British Bride Likes
All of Noble County

Mrs. Everett Mallett of Berne, the
former Sylvia Victoria Goodall, of
Leisceter, the Midlands in England,
is definitely enthused about Noble
county and completely satisfied with
everything she has seen to date.
The British girl and Mallett were
married Oct. 7, 1914. She landed in
New York February II, 1946, hav-
ing made the trip on the Queen
Mary, and was met by her husband
in Canton.
Mrs. Mallett said that she and
the other brides arrived in New
York at night and were completely
bewildered by the bright lights and
tall buildings" You very seldom
see a neon sign, except in London,
so Mrs. Mallett was rightfully i'm
pressed when she saw every other
store front glittering with neon
lights.
Boxes of chocolates just aren't
seen in England. Mrs. Mallett was
the first to admit that we are way
ahead of the English people in our
way of living and she wouldn't go
back. In fact, she said Il haven't
even had time to get homesick."