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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-09-25
Aspiriins For The
Teachers
BY HAMPTON OSBORNE

Poor old school teachers (and
young one, too) have many and
varied headaches and heartaches
while at their humble task of
trying to impart a little knowl-
edge to the children. They, of
all people, deserve a little SYM
pathy and an occasional bouquet
to make their lives bit more
bearable. They are said by many
Of their wards to be a grouchy
old bunch with which to deal.
Well, maybe they are. I can't see
why they should not be unless
an angelic temperament has been
bestowed upon them.
All their problems are by no
means found in the arithmetic.
Most are not SO easily solved.
Many would require the patience
of Job and the wisdom of Solo
mon to be able to arrive at
wise and proper solution of the
problems at hand.
A young teacher has my indy
ing sympathy; knowing well the
woes which lie in his or her
path. Many patrons expect the
same results of beginning teach
er as of those whose years have
been seasoned by experience.
Many young teachers do better
jobs than many of the older ones
who rely on their past reputation,
which is not as good as they
think it to be.
Home life has much to do with
the teachers problems. I have
often had pupils under my care
with. whom I became very vexed
until I learned more of their
home life and their problems. If
the parents lie, they need not ex
pect their children to be very
truthful; if they steal, the chill
dren will most likely steal; if
they use foul language, so, in
most cases, will the children.
We, the teachers, have these
home-hfe ''ghosts" before us con
stantly, and have to teach the
pupil to make other and better
adjustments. If home life in all
cases was good the teacher would
have little trouble with the chill
dren.
Many parents believe their
children in preference to older
people and let the children know
it. This attitude will lead invar-
iably to trouble and will strain
the relationship between teach
err, pupils and patrons. If patrons
would alwas understand that
there is very great possibility
that their child is in the wrong
(See back page)
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-09-25

Mrs. Rufus L. Keel and son
and Mrs. Kenos Childress, from
Coalwood, w. Va, spent last
weekend in Clintwood, visiting
Milton Keel and family and Mrs.
Augusta Odle.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-09-25

Henry Bunch of Darwin was
seeing friends on the street here
Monday,
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-09-25

Elder Ford, good citizen of the
South of Cumberland, dropped
in Tuesday to renew his sub
scription to The Herald.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-09-25
REAL ESTATE TRADING
BRISK DURING MONTH

The following real estate trans
fers have been recorded in the
Clerks office during September:
Vonda Cochran to Merville
Cochran, rs acres on Cranes
Nest River, consideration $1,000.
Martha Jane Moore to L. My
ers Mullins, tract on Pound Riv-
er, consideration $4,000.
Raymond Keith to Margie and
Eva Mullins, SIS acres on Cranes
Nest River, consideration $500.
Ida E. Davis to Ebert Whit,
Is acres on Georges Fork. Con-
sideration $500.
Obie Stanley to Martha STAN
ley, 9 acres on Buffalo Creek.
Constellation $412.
Virgie Gouge to Clyde Dotson,
tract on Cranes Nest. Considera-
ton 5000.
Hattie Phipps to Marylin Null
Inns, half acre on BARLEY Branch.
Consideration $1,000.
Grady Fleming to Stuart Bak-
er, 5 acres on Caney Ridge. Con
sideration $4,000.
Curt Wallace to Bithy Wallace
q acres on Skeetrock Branch.
Consideration $500.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-09-25

Uncle Daniel McFall, of the
Pound River section, was a call
err at the Herald office one day
this week..
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-09-25

Renew Your Subscription
Evening star., 1947-11-26

at the Naval Academy as a sort Of An
napolis version of the old British naval
custom Of Splicing the main brace"
nautical term for strengthening ones
spirits with strong drink. It's original con-
vivial origin, however, became clouded
with an aura of mystery and suspicion as
its members rose In rank and prestige
Those who were outside the magic circle
resented their failure to be tapped" and
such resentment easily fed the imagina-
tion of officers who felt that they were
not being advanced as rapidly as they
deserved to be. or that they were not
getting good duty"
The investigation showed, however, that
while some high-ranking officers were
Green Bowl members in their academy
days, many others were not Moreover,
the society apparently became only fond
memory to most officers after leaving
Annapolis. That the Navy Department
for so long period shut it's eyes to the
obvious violation of regulations which the
existence of this secret order constituted
is inexcusable 1t has been source OF
contention that should have been elimi-
mated long ago.
Evening star., 1947-11-26

has now eliminated in the recent Soviet
note charging Iran with hostile activity
- incompatible with normal relations
between the two nations"
On the other hand. Iran had strong
encouragement from the United States.
The American Ambassador, George v.
Allen, declared publicly that the Iranians
could rest assured that the American
people will support fully their freedom to
make their own choice" Less encouraging
was the attitude of Britain, which has
been rather equivocal, in contrast to its
vigorous support Of Iran last year.
At any rate, Premier Qavam has just
rejected the Soviet note as unreasonable, !"
declaring that he has fulfilled his part Of
the bargain and that the ultimate decision
was rightfully made by the Iranian Parlia-
ment There. for the moment the con-
troversy rests. The next move is up to
Moscow
Evening star., 1947-11-26

imagination-all that is gone now.
For the thousands of displaced persons who
have entered this country, that is part OF
a past whose pain returns only IN night
mares, in a sudden catch OF the breath when
a boxcar rolls swiftly by In the night or a
doctor holds up a test tube filled with 1nno-
cent vaccine or face in the street looms
large and frightening in its resemblance to
ghost pushed far down into the unconscious
ness.
For, who can live without forgetting? But,
who can forget enough?
On the ashes of pain and fear and lonell-
ness, the displaced person is trying to build
another life He has come to America with
out possessions, without any close personal ties
usually, without country that he feels he
can call his own. In most instances he Is
the last remaining member of group that
once had in it people called father and sister
and son. He may be brought here through
the corporate AFFIDAVIT of a welfare agency
which takes responsibility for his rehabita-
ton and takes the place of family and friends.
Hope-And His Two Hands.
He does not need support very long. The
human impulse to survive goes deeper than
the desire for the proverbial bread 1t is 3
desire to survive as a person who can work
and live with some dignity again.
To achieve his rehabilitation, the displaced
person brings only hope and his two hands. A
dentist from Germany, supplementing his
training with required orentation courses In a
Evening star., 1947-11-26

Personal Impressions OF Famine
10 tn. Editor Of The Star:
These people here are slowly but surely
starving to death-every one, not just few
This Is the view of Mrs. E. P. Hoagland, an
Arlington woman recently arrived In Germany,
expressed in letters to friends in the Pershing
Drive Christian Church. Mrs. Hoagland re-
Gently joined her husband, a captain in the
United States Army in Germany, with her
four children. Her letters have contained con-
siderable detail about the food situation and
in her latest letter she mentions the address
recently by DR.. Frederick E. Reissig, Il Have
Seen Their Faces
IT, too have seen their faces" she wrote.
''The blank, helpless, hopeless expression that
is terrible. They are all hungry, with nothing
to live for-the Americans are their last hope.
We say they started the war and that is true,
but this mass of people were carried on by the
Nazi current and now they are helpless. home
less and without food or clothing and the food
situation is the worst.
II have been here just short time, Of
course, but I'm not eXaggerating the situation
at all. I met fine woman recently who told
me that year ago she would never have asked
for food. but how it was to point where she
must. 1t has been eight years since these
people have had proper food. Everything is
rationed-there just isn't enough food to go
around" C. E. PLANCK.
Evening star., 1947-11-26
These New Pilgrims
Europe's Displaced Persons Find in America New Hope
"a Place to Begin All Over Again
By Erich Maria Remarqne
who Was one of Them.)

Pennsylvania University, works as a busboy in
a hospital cafeteria. A Polish lawyer preparing
himself for his bar examination in California,
runs an elevator in Los Angeles apartment
house. A 52-year -old widowed mother intent
on a college education for her children, trims
hats in New York millinery shop
They are not defeated They never have
been. The bounded and the prosecuted have
always stubbornly refused to die. Tortured
trapped, degraded to level of sheer animal
existence, the urge in humanity that is man has
always refused to be obliterated:
The prosecuted peoples Of the world march
through the pages of history in long pro-
cession of blood and tears. They have been
nailed to the cross, stretched on the rack, beat
en- until all that was left of life's pulsation was
raw flesh whimpering uncontrollably between
spasms of unconsciousness. They have by turn
been terrified, desperate helpless, and brave
beyond all limits of mortal endurance. The
human being, 1t seems, can stand great DEAL
They have wandered over the weary earth
OF Europe, tired, restless, searching for peace,
seeking some single purpose in which to be-
leve. They have found it in their own driv-
ing need to let the dead bury the dead, their
unbroken will to reach out for life, their hope
made dogged indeed by bitterness, that the fu-
Haven-And an Offer of Help.
To those who come here, America is the
shining cup-bearer. With thirst almost fever
ish in It's haste, they drink deep of her bounty.
Within q week after arrival, most OF them have
applied for United States citizenship. Within
two, they have registered in a school to learn
English. Within three, they are working at
some occupation. And America offers them
not only haven; it offers them help, too. From
the moment of their arrival there is the organ
ization of United Service for new Americans to
guide and advise them till they find their roots
again.
Roots! The sense of belonging somewhere,
of being able to grow again from their own
entrenched beginnings into a certainty-that
is what they seek And so they plant themselves
deep into the soil of their adopted country
Ask any displaced person what country he
comes from; he will tell you he is an American
now.
And what does the displaced person offer
to feel, to suffer, to hope. to work. to aspire
- He is Of that common clay that has made
civilization out of the earthworm and the
jungle. 1t Is enough.
The displaced persons Thanksgiving may be
strange to American eyes. 1t is thanksgiving
for SO many little things-for the feel OF the
bread in the hand, for the sound of child's
free laughter in the school yard, for the sight
OF the sun that rises every morning 1t is i'm
portant at night to know with some degree of
assurance that one will live to see the sun the
next morning. 1t seems to be not much
1t is everything. They did not have it for many
years. They have 1t now. They say thanks
for 1t with all their heart
(Dstributsd by North American Newspaper AIIisnce)
Evening star., 1947-11-26
Ending q Silly SquobbIe

Senator Cain and Representative Dirk
sen, thanks be. have brought an end to
the absurd squabble over the NauonaI
Guard Armory. Their intercession had
become necessary. Both the Commission
ers and the National Guard command were
conducting themselves more ike small
boys than grown men, throwing comments
at each other instead Of getting together
and deciding how best to operate the
Armory in the interests OF the people who
paid for 1t and who own 1t, the people OF
Washington.
Legislation probably will follow the out
line of the informal agreement reached
yesterday. The building should, of course,
serve as an armory for the Guard. But 1t
should also meet the need, in Washington,
for q great assembly hall, operated as an
auditorium, an arena for sports events
and as a meeting place for some OF the
national conventions which can utilize It's
floor area for their exhibitions. 1t should
be operated, as far as possible, as a business
undertaking that will produce, through
rentals, some return on the local taxpayers
large investment in the structure.
That was the idea behind the whole
undertaking. 1t was the idea behind the
legislation authorizing acquisition OF the
land and construction OF, the building.
That the building when completed, would
become the property of the National Guard
and be utilized to produce revenues for
the Guard at the whim OF It's commanding
officers never entered anybodys head 1t
is costing the local taxpayers lot of
money-about 1000 a year-just to
maintain this building. Any revenue from
its operation should be used to reduce that
cost, or turn 1t into a profit.
In connection with the legislation, con-
gressional committees should find out why
the District Building failed to provide exits
In numbers sufficient to meet It's own regu-
lations for large assembly halls. Either the
designs for the building or the regulations
are at fault. The result is to cut the legal
audience capacity far below the figures
that were being talked about when the
building was completed. Any official in
competence in this connection should be
exposed To correct 1t is going to cost the
public more money.
Evening star., 1947-11-26

The German born author OF "AH Quiet on
the Western Front "The Road Back"
Three Comrades "Flotsam" and, more
recently, arch OF Triumph" had to flee
Germany But he arriued in this country in
1889. Others, OF all faiths and many nation
nlittes, came later-and more tragically.
They are the ones ,uho are still coming today
to America, 1Dhich, more perhaps than
filling any OF their urgent material needs,
offers hope. They are the subject OF this
Thanksgiving message, for they are the ne,D
Pilgrims.
The number A10s546 scratched with the
hot point Of a needle into the skin of the
forearm, while bemedaled Gestapo men casual
ly paused to choose one out of 10 to march
Evening star., 1947-11-26
Seed Time and Harvest

An old man sits IN his corner BY the
tDindo1D
Watching the flight OF birds across the SKY,
The falling of Leaves and the somber
beauty OF the hills.
The room is friendly and toarm;;
He senses the holiday stir In the household.
Delectable tragrances creep through an
open Doorway
Shining and eager, a little girl dances IN
TO tell OF the Uonders In the kitchen.
She climbs to her grandtather's lap
And feels for mint II, his pockets.
When she has gone, the old man opens
his Bible,
Broods phile ouer the toell-loued .oords:
"Seed time and harUest-"
Falls to dreaming of other Thdnksotutngs,
Boyhood by the rtuer, the long, bright days,
The dear, remembered faces.
Late sunlight pierces the clouds and rests
on his thin wsite hair
INEZ BARCLAY KIRBY.
Evening star., 1947-11-26
Stars, Men and Atoms
Poisoned Animal Blood
To Aid Fight on Insects
Agriculture Bureau Discovery Ma!
Help in Control of Plaques
Bv Thomas r. Henry

ny 4 VUV"S ~ 44H"V
\The blood of experimental animals can be
made a deadly poison for mosquitoes, human
body lice and probably other disease-carryins
insecticides.
This discovery, just announced by the Agr1.
culture Departments Bureau of Entomology.
may constitute one Of the greatest forward
steps ever taken toward control Of some Of
the most devastating plaques Of both men and
animals.
The procedures still are highly experimental
and no tests have been made with human
beings. Announcement of the discovery was
made reluctantly since the department for
years has carried on q campaign against quAck
nostrums advertised to protect picnickers from
chiggers or dogs and poultry from lice. All these
have been completely without value and some
were decidedly harmful.
Repeated Tests Made.
The observed effects of the new drugs how.
ever have held up through repeated tests.
One OF the few animals other than man at.
tackled by the human louise, carrier of typhus,
is the rabbit. 1t was found that 100 per cent
OF these insects were killed when the rabbits
blood contained as little as Ave millionths of
the animals weight Of a chemical known as
pivalyl-indanione. Doses as slight as a fiftieth
OF this amount fed regularly day after day
allowed the rabbits to gain weight and to build
up in their blood a reserve of louse poison
that killed the lice for two months after the
feeding had stopped.
With such tiny doses no poisonous effects
on the rabbits we're observed but these may
show up later
The blood of rabbits to which had been fed
equally minute amounts of a new chemical
known as benzene hexachloride> was equally
poisonous to mosquitoes, carriers of yellow
fever and malaria 1t also was definitely poi
sonous to the rabbits, but the animals survived
accidental doses several times larger than
were necessary
Synthetic Chemicals.
Both the new chemicals are synthetcs de-
veloped in the departments search for new
and more powerful busting Insecticides
large number of other substances were tested,
but none OF them proved as effective as the
two mentioned.
The research work is being carried on by
Drs. E. F. Knipling, R. c. Bushland F. H.
Babers, G. H. Culpeper and E. S. Raun at the
bureaus laboratory at Orlando, Fla
The research workers emphasize that their
tests indicate little relationship between the
effectiveness of an insecticide as a contact
poison and its effectiveness when taken in
ternaly. Closely related chemical compounds
showed widely varying effects, both on the
rabbits and on the parasites This is regarded
as an encouraging feature since 1t opens up
the field for the development of new compounds
that will be more poisonous to the bugs and
less poisonous to their victims.
Tests with human beings will be attempted
only after the poisonous properties of the chem
icals are thoroughly tested with q variety
Of animals.
Evening star., 1947-11-26
A Loss to the Veterans

1t is unfortunate that Veterans Admin
istrator-Designate Carl r. Gray is to be
deprived Of the services of DR.. Paul r.
Hawley, able medical director of the Vet
erans' Administration. The resignation of
the former major general and chief sur
geon Of American forces in the European
Theater of Operations confronts the new
administrator with the task of picking
suitable, successor to an outstanding key
man in the organiza ton. 1t will not be
easy to find a man measuring up to DR..
Hawley's unusual qualifications.
Coming to the Veterans Administration
after notable service under General
Eisenhower, DR.. Hawley announced his
determination of seeing that combat vet
erans received postwar medical care fully
as good as that which their country
afforded them in wartime. That they were
not getting that sort of service was evi
dent from the complaints which were con-
stantly being filed with the agency, with
veterans organizations and with members
Of Congress The complaints were aimed
both at the quality Of medical treatment
and the inadequacy of facilities.
Medical Director Hawley set about i'm
proving both. BY sponsoring hospital
construction program which provided up
to-date facilities close to the large medical
centers of the Nation, he not only i'm
proved the layout of plant and equipment,
but interested top-ranking physicians and
surgeons in the program.
In pressing his plan for erecting new
facilities near cities, where consultative
services of specialists are available, DR..
Hawley ran into considerable opposition
from politicians promoting projects for
their own localities. But 1t is to DR..
Hawley's credit, and to that of Admins
traitor Bradley. who strongly supported his
medical director, that the welfare of the
veterans won out over patronage or other
petty politics. DR.. Hawley's successor,
therefore, will have the advantage of in
heriting a modernized and growing hos
pital system, with a staff Of medical
experts never before matched in the
history of veterans care.
1t is to be hoped that he will be able to
retain the services of the fine staff which
DR.. Hawley has built up. The best induce
ment for them to stay would be continu-
alton of the Hawley policy of seeing to it
that Americas war veterans receive hos
pitalization in modern buildings with
latest equipment and qualified staffs-free
of interference by those who would exploit
the veterans program fer selfish reasons
Evening star., 1947-11-26
New Postmaster General

President Truman has made an excellent
selection in naming Jesse NJ. Donaldson to
succeed the retiring Postmaster General,
Robert e. Hannegan.
Mr. Donaldson, first from postal ranks to
head the department, comes to the
cabinet with background of more than
forty years Of Federal service, covering q
range from small-town clerk and carrier
to top administrative posts here. In
Washington where his present assignment
is First Assistant Postmaster General, he
long has been recognized both in and out
of his own department as an able official.
The appointment, which unquestionably
will receive Senate approval, also marks
at least temporary diyorcement from
politics OF the Office of Postmaster General
which, under both Republicans and Demo-
crats has come to be regarded as the par
ticular province of the party's national
chairman. 1t Is just possible that with
this precedent, future administrations
may see fit to head what is essentially a
business establishment with some one ex-
perienced in it's workings. Certainly good
practice would dictate this, especially since
a long step was taken to rid the depart
ment OF the patronage incubus by passage
few years ago Of the Ramspeck-
OMahoney Act giving postmasters per-
manent status.
Mr.. Hannegan, who, because of ill health,
stepped out Of his dual role recently by
relinquishing the party craftsmanship, re-
tires to private life and a venture into
professional baseball with high praise from
President Truman for more than five
years Of devoted service" After function
ing as collector of Internal Revenue in
Missouri, and later as commissioner of
Internal Revenue, he was Mr.. Truman's
first cabinet appointee