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The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1947-05-22
Wilbur Maison Wages Strenuous Fight
Against Strip Mining In Morgan County

Editors Note: Wilbur D. Mat
son, editor and owner of the
Morgan County Herald, pub
lished at McConnelsville, is
waging a strenuous and effect
i've fight against strip mining in
that community, and county.
Strip mining in Noble county is
definitely headline news and its
operation has or will eventually
affect practically every town
ship here. The editorials should
be of interest to Noble coun-
tians and are being reprinted.
'aThe following letter of warning
on what may happen to the beauti.
full hills of Morgan county if strip.
mining is not controlled is from
Milton Ronsheim, editor of the Cadil
Republican. Mr.. Ronsheim, ex-rep.
resentative from Harrison county tc
the General Assembly, is heartsicB
over the ruin wrought by ruthless
coal barons, to what was formerly
the wealthiest hill county in Ohio
The letter and an editorial from the
Cadiz Republican follow. Following
the editorial is another interesting
letter on the strip-mining evil from
J. E. Conn of Plymouth, Ohio, for.
merly of Windsor township.
Evening star., 1947-02-04
TeIevision Era Duwns.

From the Topeka Capital.
Will television prove boon or
detriment to those who depend upon
crowds for making money? That is a
question which only time can answer.
Unquestionably, the world series base
ball games will become top teleyision
fare, as will the Rose Bowl football
classics. Heavyweight boxing matches,
provided Joe Louis ever finds any one
worthy Of his gloves, will rank high on
the program list. More important, how
ever, will be the daily offerings which
prove so lucrative now in other forms.
From the pocketbook viewpoint, Hol-
lywood may be hardest hit When peo-
pie can see a show within their own
living rooms, why 60 to the corner
movie? This is an argument, however,
which may not work out In actual prac-
tice. It may be that television will stim-
ulate rather than harm movie receipts.
It may be that it win create additional
on-the-spot interest In such sports as
baseball. No one can be certain until
television comes into general use.
Evening star., 1947-02-04

boys are the best in the world" he
insisted. He was sure Of 1t because
he had helped to train them and
equip them. Nor would he fail to
give his "boys" full credit for the
honors which came to him in the
form of repeated decorations and
citations. The "kids who do the
fighting and shooting deserve the
credit. he declared. Small wonder
that Admiral Mitscher was revered
by those who had the privilege of
serving under him. The Navy in
general, and Naval Aviation in par
ticular, have lost an outstanding
officer, advocate and friend.
Evening star., 1947-02-04
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

many instances, cope with either the
taxation or the regulations.
Mr.. Stassen maintained that small
businesses are "the red corpuscles SO
vital to the healthy arteries of American
enterprise He added, "The world
economic history has shown that ma
tionalization and socialization has come
when there has been complete consoli-
dation Of industry, and not when enter
prise is manifold and small in its units"
The decline of small businesses in
America during the war, he attributed
to the ALLEGATION of priorities Of mate
rial, the scarcity of manpower, compli-
Gated regulations and controls, the de-
parture of owners for. military service
and the urgent need Of concentration
of war production. In four-year Pc
riod, from 1910 to 1914, he showed 500,-
600 small firms went out of business.
In 1910 there were 3,307 900 small busi-
nesses in this country. This figure
dropped to 1888, 900. Since the end of
l1ostilities, small business has taken
spurt-and there has been an increase
of about 100000
But, said Mr.. Stassen, there are indi-
cations on every hand of difficulties Of
new business in endeavoring to meet
conditions. It is to help overcome these
difficulties that he outlined a program
which he said the Republicans should
sponsor. First, a special adjustment of
taxation on the first portion of business
net enterprise, to facilitate survival and
expansion Of small business. Sec
ond, revision of tax laws to per-
NIT small business to build up re-
serves and capital structure. Third,
simplificatien of governmental controls.
Fourth, correcting collective bargaining
procedure, so that small business is
not confronted with large number of
unions to negotiate with. Fifth, de-
centralizing the administration of gov
ernmental policies, and sixth, constant
vigilant opposition to all monopolistic
practice and unfair combinations.
Mr.. Stassen's warning is timely. Too
big business and too big labor, If per-
sisted in, can only mean in the end too
big government, and no real freedom
Tor aIlV Gre.
Evening star., 1947-02-04
Forward Labor Step

While it is true that the labor
management arbitration agreement
in the construction industry COIN
cides with the determined drive in
Congress for revised labor legisla-
tion, there is no reason to question
the sincerity OF this move-aptly
described by President Truman as a
notable step along the road to Ia
bor peace.
1t must be remembered that this
is not unilateral proposal by labor
forces which fear drastic restrictive
legislation. 1t is joint undertaking
by the American Federation of La
Dor and the Associated General Con-
tractors of America to guarantee
peace on the construction front by
easnest, cooperative negotiation. AS
such it merited the White House
launching which Mr.. Truman gave it.
Having thus been put in the ma
tional spotlight, it stands to reason
that both sides will seek ITO make
the plan work, lest one or the other
be blamed for any failure of their
own proposal A good place to be-
gin making it work would be Perth
Amboy, N. j., where fifteen hundred
carpenters walked off their jobs yes
terday because of sickness" The
sickness" was induced by dissatis-
faction with the progress of wage
negotiations.
A factor in the plans favor is that
1t is not something forced on
struck industry by executive or legis-
lative edict, but completely volun-
tary arrangement made in an un-
emotional atmosphere.
There are loopholes in the pact,
however, that could destroy its ef-
fectiveness if either party should
see fit to take advantage of them.
One is the veto" power which each
side reserves with respect to invok-
ing the services of the industry's vol
untary arbitration committee. But
once the two sides have agreed to
submit a dispute to their joint arbi-
tration board they must accept its
decision as final. Another escape
clause" prevents the board from TAX
ing jurisdiction in disputes arising
from organizing drives by union.
Thus, the arbitration plan will be
effective only to the degree which
the parties at interest are bent on
making 1t so. 1t is by no means an
extension into peacetime of the
antistrike, antilockout agreement
which was in effect during World
War II. If such voluntary arbitra-
tion machinery were to be set up
In other industries, however, the
prospects of industrial peace would
be much roster than they are today.
Such agreements still leave unset
tied a number of labor management
problems to plague workers, employ
ers and the Government-such as
jurisdictional strikes, wildcat walk
outs, racketeering by unscrupulous
union elements, utility shutdowns
and slanted labor laws. Construc-
tive legislation to deal with these
chronic irritants remains an urgent
need
Evening star., 1947-02-04
Admiral Mitscher

It is undoubtedly more than
coincidence that both members of
the remarkable Mitscher-M Mccain
team that revolutionized naval war
fare with it's fast carrier task force
strategy and tactics failed to reach
retirement age. Little more than a
year after the death of Vice Admiral
John S. Mccain, commander of Task
Force 38, Admiral Marc A. Mitscher,
who commanded Task Force SO, has
succumbed to heart attack. These
men were rugged fighters, as the
japanese found out, but the rug
gedness and the tempo of the daring
strikes which they led in the Pa
cific war were enough to shorten
the lives of even seemingly steel
nerved men of the Mitscher Mccain
tradition.
Admiral Mitscher was not be-
lated convert to aviation. He was
one of the Navy's real pioneer air.
men. He had been out of the Naval
Academy only few years when he
applied for pilot training and he be-
came the thirty-second naval Of
f1cer to win his wings. That was be-
fore World War I. The dream he
had, in those early days, of large
scale carrier warfare between fleets
out of sight of each other came to
grim realization in World War II,
with himself in leading role. And.
with Admiral Mccain. he succeeded
in perpetrating one of the great
strategic hoaxes of the naval cam
paign against Japan. This was the
alternate designation of substantial
ly the same carrier task force as No.
SO or No. SO, depending on which of
the two was in command at the mo-
ment. The baff1ed Japs were tricked
into believing that two great car
rier groups were roaming the seas
and the effect on their strategy and
morale was devastating.
But, to Admiral Mitscher's way of
thinking, there was no trick about
the individual successes of our flyers
when they came to grips with the
best that Japan had to offer. "Our
Evening star., 1947-02-04
Boy Psalm Book

When the Bay Psalm Book first
came from the press at Cambridge
in Massachusetts, in 1910, nobody
then living could have dreamed that
approximately three centuries later
single copy of it would bring
$15l 900 at, auction in New York. 1t
was not volume deliberately in
tended to be collectors objective.
On the contrary, it was designed to
serve a homely, common, ordinary
purpose. The title page indicates
that it was planned for the use of
average people, reading: "The Whole
Booke' of Psalmes faithfully Trans
lated into English Metre, whereunto
is prefxed discourse declaring not
only the lawfulness, but also the
necessity of the heavenly Ordinance
of singing Scripture Psalmes in the
Churches of God"
How many copies originally were
manufactured and distributed Is
any ones guess. The number prob
ably was less than thousand-just
enough to supply the places of
worship and the family homes of
the colony, with perhaps a few
extras to be sent back to England
as samples of what the Bay clergy
and the Cambridge printers could
do. Among the translators was the
Reverend Richard Mather, and his
personal copy, almost perfect in con-
dition, is in the John Carter Brown
Library at Providence. Two some
what damaged copies have been in
the Boston Public Library for sixty
or eighty years.
The copy sold in New York the
other day once was a property of
the Reverend Thomas Prince, min
lister of the Old South Church in
Boston. 1t likewise is believed that
he owned the two "hurt" copies
mentioned above. Rumor suggests
Evening star., 1947-02-04
Though Now

Though no1n the lantern and the lamp
are gone,
For lighting brighter than they could
produce,
Though nop no candle burning softly on
Effects tDtth dark its softly gracious
truce;
Though absent long from forest where-
in he
Dreto NTH masters hand tctngs Of
the tDild,
Renounctng all that fellotD1en might
see
Songsters on p1tom q ttse Creator
smiled
Still there is need for light. An Edison
Should noao emerge NTH light TOR tooys
,ohich Mould
Recall the soorld from near obliDton,
And make OF man noble brotherhood.
Wherein an Audubon, NTH his skill d't6
art,
Mtcltt dram nest of doDes toitfin mans
hedrt. EDWARD D. GARNER 4
Evening star., 1947-02-04

The Republican Party must constitute
itself the friend of small business-not
for the sake of the party but for the
welfare of the whole country and for
the future success of the American sys-
tenn Of free enterprise and free labor
former Gov. Harold E. Stassen OF Min
nesota and the sole-announced candi-
date for the COP presidential nomi-
nation in 1948, told his audience at the
recent celebration of Kansas Day at To-
peka. This celebration has long been an
important day in Republican affairs,
each year, for Kansas is in the very
heart of the Republican Midwest.
"I believe" Mr.. Stassen said, that for
the future vigor Of free economy IN
America and of high standard OF liv-
ing with individual liberty, it is essen
tial that our Republican Party in the
years Immediately ahead be the cham
pion Of small business"
The former Minnesota Governor, who
has announced he intends to do all he
can to bring "true liberalism" to the Re
publican Party, or the Republican Party
to true liberalism, made it clear he was
"A big country needs strong element
Of big business" he said, "as well as OF
small business. The most efficient and
effective mass production must come
from large industries. But we must
vigorously oppose all monopoiistlc prac-
tices of big business. We must insist that
there be big business to compete with
other big business and that the avenues
of small business competition also re-
main open.
"We must be alert not to permit big
business to dominate our Republican
Party. We must not permit major po-
litical power to be added to the other
great powers that are accumulated by
big business units"
Mr.. Stassen, in these last two SEN
tences, put his finger on what has been
chief weakness of the Republican Party
in recent years-a belief created among
the mass of voters that the COP is
dominated by big business. Justified
or unjustified, this Is the criticism the
late Franklin D. Roosevelt hammered
home.
The Minnesotan Is making bid to
take the Republican Party clear away
from the big business label. He will
be denounced by some of the standpat.
Old Guard Republicans as entirely too
radical although none Of them will ad-
NIT they wish to have big business DOM
mate the. Republican Party and
through the party, the Government. 1t
wouldn't be healthy politically.
Mr.. Stassen, however, was discussing
a very definite need in the economy Of
the country-the revival of small busi-
nesses. First, under the New Deal, and
later under war conditions big business,
big labor and big government. grew to
unheard of proportions in the United
States. Although the New Deal pro-
claimed itself stoutly against great con-
solidations Of business and monopoly tn
any form, its policies encouraged such
consultations, and made it tougher for
small business and new business to de-
velop, by its imposition of high taxes
and multiplicity Of governmental regu-
lations. Small businesses could not, in
Evening star., 1947-02-04
Narrow Roads Blamed

To the Editor of The Star:
1t is my opinion that the present Auto
Safety Campaign is being conducted
on the basis of an engineer building a
food control dam at the mouth of a
stream rather than at the head waters.
I think the real trouble is the unsafe
wagon-trail roads. Narrow streets and
roads, blind curves and intersections are
causing CONGESTION of automobiles and
80 per cent of all accidents.
The men who have managed and
those who still handle the millions OF
tax money collected for road and street
improvement indirectly are responsible
for traffic deaths and injuries because
they are inefficient.
Road and street improvement should
be our prime objective rather than
safety programs.
The progressive trend of our country
is for quick transportation. Our law
makers. enacting laws slowing up traffic,
are making the contested conditions
worse. A. r. MATHEWS.
Evening star., 1947-02-04
This and That
BIZ Charles E. Trace,Dell.

"CHEVERLY, Md.
Dear Sir:
What type OF bird house Is pre-
ferred by the bluebird?
"Is it the wren or more open robin
construction?
I'VE have an ideal location and would
like to try our luck.
"The whole family certainly does
enjoy your column.
Sincerely, E. G. G."
II n n
The proper bluebird house is made
exactly on the design of the wren
house, except somewhat larger.
The porch like type Of "house" that
appeals to robins, with front and both
sides open, would not do at all for
bluebirds.
The best bluebird house is made &C
cording to the following plan: Floor,
5 by inches; depth Cup and down, 8
inches; diameter of entrance, ~
inches; hole above floor, 6 inches, and
height of box above ground, 4 to 10 feet.
This latter is an important matter,
for research tends to show that house
placed too high will attract common
sparrows, whereas one put low will
keep them away.
Best placement of the bluebird house
is now considered to be no more than
4 or feet from the ground, preferably
on post or tree trunk.
Usually this seems woefully low to
the average bird lover. He pictures
predatory animals having an easy time
of it, and sometimes they do, of course,
but birds are used to attacks over the
centuries, and come out amazingly well,
all things considered.
Probably most builders of bird houses
place them too high when putting them
up.
Usually they picture the house in a
certain location, and mostly this Is too
far up.
The high place looks well. with good
background, and provided it is not
covered with leaves tas it SO often is
after the growing season starts, but
sometimes the bird desired prefers a
lower nesting site.
Cardinals song sparrows, catbirds and
many others nest unbelievably low, often
no more than a few feet from the
ground, in bushes and other ornamental
paintings, including hedges.
The bluebird is a shy hester in the
average garden. He prefers the deep
country, and there will nest, house after
house, along road, the houses being
on fence posts.
Bluebirds have taken over rural mail
boxes
They prefer solid support for the
house and like the entrance faced south.
Il
SOUTHERN BUILDING.
Dear Sir:
ION Sunday a friend and I were
standing on the porch of the Rock
Greek Golf Clubhouse when a mocker
appeared in some shrubbery nearby
and presented us with as fine a per-
formance-as one could ever hope to hear.
"It was raining fairly steady, and
while he f1icked@the raindrops from
his feathers he went through his regu-
lar repertoire but In muted voice
He was not more than Is feet away,
but you had to listen closely to hear
him. The notes were clear and beauti-
full and he seemed to appreciate his
attentive audience.
He kept is up for several minutes
and few away. This is the first instance
I ever knew of mocker singing In the
rain. Yours, ". 0. n.
Most birds viii sing in pleasant rain.
We have often heard the mockingbirds
doing it. English sparrows love to chirp
while the rain falls. But heavy down.
pour will silence all the birds.
Evening star., 1947-02-04
War Is No Burquin

Up to the end of 1946, according
to a State Department report just
submitted to Congress. the United
States disposed of $6.803 ,995, 900
worth of surplus war goods through
out the world. In return, 1t received
$3.50 ,558, 900, or roughly about one
dollar for every five dollars of the
original cost. Before all such trans
actions are completed, an addi-
tional $4,000, 100000 worth of sur
pluses will go the same way, and the
return will be quite as small, If not
smaller.
There is nothing surprising about
this. For one reason and another,
the surpluses have not been worth
keeping, nor have they been market
able at anything like cost prices. To
get back a dollar for every five in
vested is not too bad. considering
everything. Possibly we might have
been able to realize a little more
with better salesmanship. but not
much more. If there is any moral in
the figures, it is simply that war is
no bargain. War is waste. War is
what forces nations to write off
money losses as inevitable-like the
loss of blood, which is far more
terrible. There is not much to be
said or done about such things,
except perhaps to speculate over
how it would have been If there had
been no war anywhere and If all the
enormous wealth that went into 1t,
and all the tremendous productive
energy, and all the hard thinking,
had gone instead into the building
of better world-into vast crea-
tive program instead of into wild
nightmare of destruction and death.
Probably it does no good to mourn
over the might-have-been, but then
again, If men and nations would
contemplate it enough, they might
learn something from 1t. Along with
other things, such-as the atom bomb,
it might teach them at last the wis
dom of peace. It might teach them
that If they would spend only half
as much on peace as they have spent
on war, there would be no loss for
any one. but profit for all.
Evening star., 1947-02-04

that the $4,000 specimen is to go
to Yale. The publicity accorded it
conceivably may bring additional
examples to light. A test of the
authenticity of a copy may be dis
covered in the rhymed text of the
Twenty third Psalm, beginning:
The Lord to NEE shepheard is,
Want therefore shall not I.
Hee in the folds of tender -grasse,
Doth cause NEE downe to lie.
Evening star., 1947-02-04
Letters to The Star
Protests AgainstAny Compromise
AT Moscow Conference

AT Moscow Conference
To the Editor Of The Star:
Through the columns of the press the
public at large has been apprised of the
almost insurmountable problems which
confront our new Secretary of State at
the forthcoming Three Power Confer
ence at Moscow, called for the purpose Of
drafting treaties for Austria and Ger
many. Also, that Gen. Marshall will
be accompanied with staff of experts
aggregating possibly 100 in number.
But why should such conference be
viewed with so much anxiety and trepi-
dation when there is taken into consid-
Grafton the incompatible part which the
United States played In winning the war
in Europe and in winning the war
against Japan singlehandedly? Unbiased
history inevitably will establish beyond
a glimmer of doubt that while the United
States was maneuvered into both wars
without the remotest Justification, its
contribution in manpower, war supplies,
shipping facilities and money exceeded
that of its allies. Entering any confer
ence, having for Its purpose the settle
ment of principles Of permanent world
peace with such a background, ought to
give to the United States assurance Of an
observance of the humane international
policies which it has advocated without
any material departures being made
therefrom, regardless Of the utterly inde-
fensible stand taken by Russia from the
inception of the peace negotiations. Un-
less, therefore, General Marshall en-
barks upon the Moscow Conference with
firm and unalterable determination not
to make unwarrantable concessions to
Russia, it would be far better that he re-
NAMED at home. The American people
will have fought in vain If anything
short of permanent world peace is the
result of such a conference.
JOHN E. HOOVER.
Evening star., 1947-02-04

In connection with a recently pub
lished pattern advertisement it was
alleged that "any one can make this
dress in forty-seven minutes fiat"
If she bulges, it will probably take a
bit longer.
Evening star., 1947-02-04

The year 1947 marks the fiftieth
anniversary of the inception of the
movement to bring "Old Ironsides"
to the National Capital, where 1t
Justly belongs, and to create here a
naval museum to represent the
glorious maritime history of the re-
public. And this movement is just
about where it was back in 1897.