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Evening star., 1947-02-21

they were moored almost within
stones throw of the heavily garri-
soned and fortified Albanian shore.
The Albanian contention that these
were Albanian territorial waters con-
travenes the l-established doc
trine that, in international water
ways. vessels have a right to follow
the deepest part of the channel even
though this may hug a shore.
Aside from those factual niceties
there is the issue of Albania's uni
lateral arrogation Of sovereignty
over the whole of a waterway which
has historically been international
in character. That challenges
principle in international law which
requires to be upheld. since it's
abrogation would upset established
usage in many parts of the world.
Evening star., 1947-02-21
Snowbound

Wnen IL comes 10 Delng snow
bound, few if any cities can lay
claim to having a better setup for
it than Washington. Yesterdays
storm furnished plenty of indis-
putable evidence.
Nobody in Washington was ade-
quately prepared for what hap
pened. That includes private motor
lists, the public transportation
system, the street cleaning authori-
ties and even the Weather Man.
Nature seems to have double
crossed everybody, sending ahead
of schedule a storm of unexpected
severity that by nightfall had the
city tied into knots. And it will take
several days of good weather to
untangle the mess.
Perhaps if snowstorms were more
frequent in these parts the city and
its inhabitants would be less help
less than they were, yesterday and
last night. Motorists not only would
have had chains but would have
taken the trouble to put them on.
With more advance notice (the
street cleaning people say the storm
hit five hours ahead of the warning
they received) the snow removal
forces might have been better or
ganized. AS it was, they were short
of equipment and men even when
they were able to swing into action.
The city cannot afford to keep a
full-strength standing army of snow
shovelers when the need for their
services is so infrequent.
On top of everything else, Wash
ington's street railway system was
not designed to operate efficiently
in such weather as prevailed during
the past twenty-four hours. A sub
way would have come in handy yes
terday. Our underground trolley
system with its slotted rail is fine
from an esthetic standpoint but it
is extremely vulnerable to snow and
s1eet. Motorists who preferred to
use the car tracks-sometimes be-
cause they were the only way out
of traffic janl-helped to clog the
rails and the trolley slot. Buses
without chains also added to the
congestion.
All in all, it was quite an expert
ence-one that Washington can do
without whenever possible.
Evening star., 1947-02-21
Postal Deficit Problem

While Congress may not see eye
to eye with the Post Office Depart
ment on how best to reduce the ris-
Ing postal deficit, the problem has
become so acute that some upward
revision of postal rates seems un-
avoidable. A mere retention be-
yond July next of the three-cent
first-class rate obviously would not
be a sufficient remedy. That move
would still leave the department an
estimated $283, 100000 in the red.
The postal deficiency is now more
than twice that of 1916. In 1945
the department just about broke
even and in 1914 it reported a $29,-
100000 surplus. Salary increases
last year, plus rising costs of sundry
maintenance and expansion items,
account for the mounting deficit.
With these drab statistics in mind,
the Post Office Department has rec
commended not only that the line be
held on three-cent letter mail rates
but that substantial increases be
authorized in a number of other
categories. Among the changes
would be one-cent boost in post
card postage, higher parcel post,
special delivery and money order
charges and increases of from one
half cent to three cents in second
class mailing rates.
None of these increases would
meet with popular acclaim, of course,
and it is probable that the depart
ment's recommendations will be
hotly debated at the Capitol. The
fact remains, however, that, since
there appears to be no way to
achieve any material economies in
operation, the users of the mails
should expect to pay their share of
rising costs. The second-class mail
ing rates, particularly, need to be
reviewed in the light of changed
conditions. They have never been
high enough to balance the cost of
the service, but Congress has ap-
proved this subsidy to newspapers,
magazines and other publications in
the interest of contributing to the
education of the people. without
the low rates some of the smaller
Evening star., 1947-02-21
Bankrupt Leadership

If nothing else will persuade them,
the remarks of Republican Senator
Morse, whose sympathy with unions
is not open to question, should con-
vince men like william Green and
Philip Murray that they are provid-
ing their followers with very
dubious quality of leadership.
Senator Morse, after listening to
Messrs Murray and Green tell the
Senate Labor Committee they were
opposed to all of the proposed labor
bills, warned them that some kind
of legislation is going to be enacted.
Expressing the hope that he would
be able to vote for good legisla-
tion," Senator Morse added, how
ever, that If the choice were between
no legislation and legislation that
goes too far, he would vote for the
latter. And he went on to ask:
What are you people in labor
doing? You're giving us no help
at all
This happens to be the fact. Pre-
sumably fearing that if they indorse
sound legislation they will be open
ing the door to that which is un-
sound, the top labor leaders have
fallen back on the old technique of
opposing anything. Furthermore,
except for the somewhat patroniz-
ing proposal by Mr.. Murray that the
committee arrange a meeting be-
tween himself and willie" Green to
discuss remedies for jurisdictional
strikes, these men offer no solutions
of their own.
Instead, they talk of banding to-
gether to fight labor legislation and
try to whip up their members by
alarmist warnings of plots to de-
Stroy the labor movement. This is
nohsense, but it has worked before
and the presumption is that Mr..
Green and Mr.. Murray are riding
on the hope that it will work again.
That, however, is where their leader
ship falls down, for in all human
probability some labor legislation is
going to be enacted at this session
of Congress.
Undoubtedly there are some men
In both House and Senate who would
like to destroy unions. The same
thing is true of some. people
throughout the country. But in
each instance these are minority
elements. The majority, in and out
of Congress, are determined to have
legislation dealing with abuses, but
they do not want to destroy unions
and they recognize the futility of
trying to do so. Because of this, it
is unfortunate that men like Mr.
Green and Mr.. Murray insist on pur-
suing course which plays into the
hands of the extremists. If they
were wise leaders they would take
the initiative in this matter and
come forward with legislative pro-
poSalS of their own-proposalS ade-
quate to deal with the abuses which
are as obvious to them as to anyone
else
Evening star., 1947-02-21
Editorial Appreciated
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
We have heard many expressions of
appreciation for your editorial in Sun
day Star Of February 9 on the old
Congress Street Methodist Church
and the purchase of it by Fifth Church
of Christ, Scientist.
These expressions have come both
from Christian Scientists and also from
others. We feel that we wish to tell
you of our sincere appreciation Of this
editorial.
We also would like at this time to
say We appreciate the absence of liquor
advertisements in The Star. To people
who have the Christian Science Mon
itor in their homes, they really are
glad to be able to have a local news
paper also which they caneread without
this type of ad.
Mr.. AND MRS. w. v. BUCK.
Evening star., 1947-02-21
Morthu Custis Washington
Mount Vermont

She 1ds the kind that toUed sun patterns
on the tUindo11 sill 4
And blossom scented winds that bleD
from, plum trees on hill
She loUed garden sUeet tDith thyme
and pennyroyal smell,
The fragrant stateliness OF Sphlor and
Canterbury bell.
She loDed kitchen, pantry shelues, q
stairtDay in the hall, ...~
Canopied beds, clone -pertumed chests.
and dorD1ers ptewing all y
The countryside of t1ell-kept fields aDf
the Potondc's course
And Woodlands Uhere the tDtld deer
tued among the berried eorses7
She loped the glory OF the daton,us
western star OF night, ID.
The loneliness OF supper things touched
BY soft candle light. -.,re,
She Ioped q pilldred portico. There Dhen
the hour pds dim, % u
She sat ,oith one she loped, and Quiessy
conyersed NTH him. .ons
ROSE MYRA PHILLIPS.
Evening star., 1947-02-21
This.and That
By Charles E. TrdceWeH.


Dear Sir:
Talking about the starlings, when I
lived in Baltimore We had $50 feet Of
lawn around the house.
when we had a plague of locusts,
years ago, one startling had nest in
the tree by my bedroom window. could
see right into the nest.
"The mother startling wore herself
thin, going away, bringing a locust
back, feeding it to the young birds. AS
soon as the baby birds had eaten the
locust, she would fly away and bring
them another.
This went on all day, and day after
day, until the birds could leave the
nest for their own food.
That was only one bird-just think
what many starlings could do to hun
dreds Of locusts.
1--WE may have plague of them again
sometime A startling eats two and
half times its weight in food every day.
Sincerely, A. r. G."
X n X X
Five billion birds in the United States
eat a tremendous number tons OF weed
seeds and inimical insects every year.
One ought not to call the wonderful
cicadas, or "17-year-l -locusts," plague,
however
They are mainly harmless, and when
let alone do very little damage to man
kind.
The year 1858 is marked for their
return, eagerly awaited by thousands
of sensible persons, who know that the
cicadas are one Of the real marvels of
nature.
A great many persons went COM
pletely out of their way to brand these
wonderful creatures as harmful, thus
demonstrating again how often the
mind of man creates trouble when none
really exists.
Their startling numbers, the fact that
they clipped many twigs off of oaks,
and that in few cases few small
trees died, combined to make the un-
thinking look upon them as a menace.
Plague, in any true sense, they were
not, though some householders, finding
hundreds of small holes in their lawns,
jumped to the conclusion that nothing
but harm could result.
Man is still superstitious. He is still
witch doctor at heart. He lives so
close to the dark, coming out of it and
going into it again, that he never quite
gets the dread of it out of his heart.
This showed itself plainly at the time
the cicadas were here. Children eagerly
competed to see how many of them
they could stamp to death.
Elders who should have known bet
ter made a great to-do about how the
insects were going to destroy crops.
All the time the innocent creatures
were simply enjoying the light and air
after their many years underground.
They came by their millions, and the
mighty roar of their voices was like
the sea.
We will never forget the thrill we
got, standing on Brookville road, listen
ing to the cicadas.
All the songbirds eagerly deserted all
other foods during those days to feast
on the "locusts."
You could not blame the birds, but
you could expect human beings, at that
time-although they didn't know it
about to lose their own millions and
millions in a great war-to. have had
pity upon these strange wayfarers from
the dark of the earth.
Let us be better, kinder the next time
the cicadas appear.
If we are, that, at least, will have
been some gain out of catastrophe.
If man has blown himself up by that
time, the locusts and the birds win
have to fight it out by themselves.
Evening star., 1947-02-21

rural papers might have difficulty
in surviving.
Governmental subsidies to the
press or any other group can be
overdone to the point of abuse, how
ever. Certainly all such subsidies
should be subjected to periodic
scrutiny by Congress, especially
when postal revenues are falling
hopelessly short of receipts. No
proper source of additional revenue
can afford to be overlooked in the
effort to restore the postal service
to a self-supporting basis.
Evening star., 1947-02-21
Why Why, Why? Asks Briton

From the London Daily Mail.
The British people ate less in the first
year of peace than they did in the last
year of war. They will eat even less
in the second year of peace than they
did in the first. Thus the government
presents us with one installment after
another in the never-ending serial OF
depression and deterioration in our
daily life. There is to be no relief for
the weary housewife-no extra proteins
or vitmins for the people who are ex-
horted to work harder and produce
more. Instead, they are promised less
bacon, less meat-except in cans-per-
haps less bread and butter, and less
beer. Why-why-why? This is the
question which beats insistently at the
brain of every woman in every queue.
There is no consistent or coherent an
swer. There never has been.
Evening star., 1947-02-21
Cooking Up Another?

From the Winnipeg Tribune. -
Isn't it about time we took new sur
vey of those sunspots that caused Hha
Ter. to see what they're up to?
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-01-02
AWARDS GIVEN
GRANGE UNITS

Union county Grange organiza-
tions came in for honors when
state awards and national recog-
nitions were announced by Jos
w. FIGHTER, master of the Ohio
State Grange, at the annual State
banquet held recently in Colum-
bus. More than 1000 delegates
Officers and members attended
the affair, part of the 74th annual
convention of the Ohio State
Grange.
Claiborne Grange, received ar
award for subordinate Grange
achievement. Glenn Davis is the
subordinate Grange master; and
Leafa Davis, lecturer,
Union county was in the bronze
medal group for membership gain
of one to 100 during the year, and
promptness of reports, and in the
bronze medal Juvenile award
group for gain in memberships
of one to 40. Mrs. Ellis Porter is
county Juvenile deputy, and
Thurman Skimore, county Po-
mona Grange deputy.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-01-02
BOY II. DIES
OF WOUNDS
FROM PISTOL
Services Held Today
For Freddy Dasher,
Victim Of Tragedy

Funeral services were held this
afternoon for Frederick George
Dasher, l2-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilford Dasher, of west of
Marysville. The boys tragic death
occurred in Grant hospital, about
IS p. m. Monday, shortly after he
had been accid dently shot
through the stomach with a %
calibre revolver which he and his
older brother, James, l8, were
handling.
The two boys had gone to the
orchard shortly after noon, Mon
day, intending to clean up some
dead brush, it was reported. They
took the revolver along in case
they might see stray rabbit
James carrying the gun in a hol-
ster. Freddy suggested that his
brother see how fast he could
"dray," and when James jerked
the gun from the holster, it was
discharged, the bullet going thru
Freddy's stomach.
He was rushed to Grant hoSpi-
tai and his condition at first was
not believed to be serious. He was
apparently getting along fine or
the operating table, it was report
ed, but suddenly died while the
doctors were working on him. Ar
tificial respiration and other e.
mergency treatments were of nc
avail.
Freddy was born in Paris town
ship, on Jan. %, 1929, to Wilforc
J. and Dorothea Rausch Dasher
who survive, together with his
brother, James, and two sisters
Mrs. Marjorie Dinkle, Ft. Wayne
/ Ind, and Rosalyn, at home.
: Services were held at 1:30 p. m
{ today at home and at 230 p. m
in Trinity Lutheran church, con
Quoted by the Rev. E. J. Goede
/ king. Interment was made in Oak
ldale cemetery in charge of Will
jam H. Faulkner, funeral direc
tor of Marysville.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-01-02
PROMINENT REDWOOD MAN
FOUND DEAD IN NEW YORK

Adam Edwin Shuman, aged 81
prominent Redwood man, was
found dead Wednesday evening
at Salamanca, N. Y. He was q
railway postal clerk and had com
pleted his run at that station
When he did not report to re-
turn to Columbus, his body was
discovered.
The son of Winfield Scott and
Mary Elizabeth Gatchall Shuman
he was born July 19, 1889, in
Wyandot county. Mr.. Shuman had
been a railway clerk for Is years
lie was d member of the First
Methodist church at Redwood,
the Railway Mail Association, the
Lions club, and was taking de-
grees in Blue Lodge of Missionary
Mr.. Shuman was married Nov,
26, 1914 in Upper Sandusky to
Leila Hartman, who survives
With his wife he leaves four
sons, Edwin H., Winterhaven,
Fla; Marion B., Redwood; Max
B., Mt. Clemans, Mich; A. E. Shu-
man jr., Portsmouth; two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Nelson Blue, Redwood,
and Patsy, at home; eight grand
children
One brother. Daniel, Toledo;
and three sisters, Mrs. Mae War
fel, Mrs. G.. j. Crates, both of Up
per SanduSky, and Mrs. Sylvia
Spiggle, of Marion.
Two sisters and one brother
preceded him in death.
Tentative funeral services have
been set for 2 p. m. Sunday in
the Hastings Funeral Home with
the Rev. Edward Brewster offic-
iating. Burial will be made in
Price cemetery in charge of Ed
gar Hastings, funeral director OF
Redwood.
Friends may call at the Shu-
man residence from Friday morn
ing until Sunday noon.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-01-02
M. H. S. MEETS BELLEFONTAINE,
FIVE COUNTY GAMES ON FRIDAY

Marysville high school will
meet the highly regarded Belle
fontaine high school team at
Bellefontaine, and 10 of the II
county teams will also see action
Friday night. County games
scheduled are:
Watkins at New California.
Broadway at Raymond.
Byhalia at Redwood
Union VS.. New Dover (Marys-
vile GYM.
Allen at York.
The Marysville high Monarchs
are in for a real battle Friday
night, according to all advance
dope. Bellefontaine apparently
has basketball power house this
season and has run rough-shod
over all comers SO far.
The Chieftans have plenty of
height, speed and general basket
ball ability it is reported. Most
of their opponents have been
Glass A teams from the west-cen-
trail of the state, where basket
ball is among the best, and seem
to dominate this section. The
Monarchs rate the under dogs in
this contest, but will be out to
give it their best in an effort to
upste the dope.
Of the county games scheduled
for this Friday, only the Allen
York tilt is not an official League
contest. Among the League bouts,
couple of real tussels are in
prospect.
Chief among these battles for
blood" is the traditional Broad
way-Raymond contest at Ray
mond. These two old rivals can
always be counted on for a red
hot battle before a packed house
On the basis of records to date
Broadway has the best perform
ance, but this game is one OF
those wherein all previous dope
can be disregarded.
Two well-balanced teams will
square off before each other ir
the Watkins-New Cally game, anc
the customers can expect another
thriller here. In the other two
League games, Redwood is ex,
pected to have little trouble with
, Byhalia, while Union should de
feat Dover without much trouble
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-01-02
: BLUESCREEK
BY MRS. GUY Alta

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Willard
Clevenger, Dec. %, baby girl,
Kay June, at White Cross Hos
pital, Columbus.
Mr.. Sell Hill and Mrs. Flo Cook
were married Friday afternoon
at Delaware, and were entertained
in the evening with a dinner at
the home of the formers brother
and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
George Hill. Mrs. Lottie Camp
bell, of Redwood, was also a
guest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Van Alta and
daughter, Ferne, spent Sunday
afternoon with Mr.. and Mrs. Row
land Bishop and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Hall and
son, William, spent Christmas
Eve. with their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Macken, and family, near Ostrand-
er.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Hall were
host and hostess to the Hall fam
lilies on Christmas day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Norris
were host and hostess to the
Clevenger families on Christmas
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Van Alta en-
tertained for their children and
grandchildren on Christmas day
There were 30 present.
Mr.. Paul V. Liggett, of Hamden
Ind, is visiting his mother, Mrs
Virginia Hicks, and Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Hull, of Pharisburg.
We wish to extend our symp-
athy to Mrs. Thomas Disbennet
and others, in the death of hel
brother, Ernest Bumgarner, Of
Watkins, and to Mrs. John Parrot
and others, on the death of hel
Father Mr.. Lee, Of Marysville.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-01-02

George Carney, proprietor of
Carter's sc to 81 store in South
Main ST., was installed as presi-
dent of the Marysville Kiwanis
club at the groups final 1916
meeting, held Monday evening at
Buffers. Mr.. Carney succeeds
William L. Coleman, who was
presented with the past presi-
dents pin by Judge Richard L.
Cameron, one of the clubs char
ter members and himself a past
president.
Other officers for 1947, installed
Monday, are Joe Lentz and Joe
Maxwell, vice presidents; Fred
Johnson, secretary; and L. G,
Brubaker, treasurer. Directors are
Worth M. Wagner, Charles B.
Mills, Rev. E. j. Goedeking, Row
land Bishop, Joe B. Myers, Will
lam H. Faulkner, Richard M. Fox
and Dale Overly.
During Mondays meeting, re-
tiring President Coleman's final
duty was to present pins to g
number of Kiwanians who have
not missed meeting for more
than one or more years. Recip-
tents of these awards were:
Attendance Awards
One year, Fred Gabriel, E. H
Hatton, Johnson, William H
Snodgrass, c. P. Wagner, Max
well and Faulkner; two years
Coleman, Vernon Swink and H
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-01-02
First Presbyterian Church
r. B. Sillars, Minister


Sunday morning mems Forum
and church school at $50 a. m.
William S. Hopes, superinten-
dent.
Sunday morning worship at
1890 a. m. The Sacrament of the
Lords Supper will be celebrated.
Westminster fellowship groups
will meet at the church Sunday
evening. The Junior and Junior
high societies will meet at pm.
The Senior high society will meet
at 6 p. m.
The group meetings of the Wo-
mems association will be held on
Wednesday. Group l will meet
at 2:30 p. m. with Mrs. Irwin Hen
ry, 232 w Fifth st. Group II will
meet with Mrs. Fred Gabriel, 504
w. Fifth ST., at 2:30 p. m. Group
III will meet at 8 p. m. with Mrs.
Lawrence Dolan, l2712 w. Fifth
st.
The Financial board will meet
! at the church at 8 p. m. Wednes-
day. Following this meeting, there
will be separate meetings of the
different boards.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-01-02
York Methodist Charge

Rev Charles E. Cramer, pastor
McKendree church-Two week S
evangelistic meeting will begin at
IL a. m. Jan. 5. There will be
services at 7:45 p. m. daily, in
cluding Sunday. Preaching will
be in charge of the pastor and
singing will be conducted by
Wesley and Jessie Fuller, Pitts
burgh, Pa.
Byhalia-Revivals will begin
here Monday, Jan. 20 with the
same song leader and preacher
in charge.
Bethel-Sunday school at 10 a
M. Young peoples meeting at 7:30
p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday
evening.