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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-02-20

WANTEp-One ton green alfalfa
hay. Otway Shearer, Phone 5042.
Evening star., 1947-02-09
Among
the Authors
By CoroIyn Coqqins

Some men who should be good at
such things guessed Paul /. Well
mans weight at around 260 pounds
the other day. We were all making
progress toward weighing that much
ourselves when the question came
up at q luncheon in the Barberry
Room given for the author of 'The
Walls Of Jericho" upon his arrival
in New York. He had eaten his way
from Hollywood to the East Coast by
this time and looked happy as he
always does and couldn't help being
now anyway, with the sales on his
book Literary Guild assures.
DR.. Morris Fishbein sat nearby
so that overheard his remark about
quinine. He named it as one of the
drugs which had changed the course
of history and referred to It's being
one Of the few dramatic enough to
warrant a whole book such as 'The
Feverbark Tree" which M. L. Duran
Reynals wrote.
"As everybody knows, the lack Of
quinine," said he, twas responsible
for the downfall Of the Roman En-
pire."
81 did not know" we admitted.
II thought the lack of morals caused
their downfall" Others agreed they
had never heard about quinine af-
fecting the Romans either.
THAT is what they used to teach" "
said Fishbein, 'but now it is known
that malaria depleted the people so
that they had no strength. Quinine
would have saved the nation"
Evening star., 1947-02-09
Public. Library
By AItheo V. Howard

Branch Librarian, Langston Branch. Wash
ington Public Library.
The development of better un-
derstanding between white and Ne
gro Americans can be fostered by
reading the best interpretations of
the problems over which misunder-
standing arises. Where to begin is
often the question that confronts
one. Here is one answer. Relax and
read Color Blind" In her new
book, Color Blind: A White Woman
Looks at the Negro" Margaret Hal
sey dispassionately sets forth in bold
relief a study of the present and po-
tentia1 relations with the same hui
man understanding with which the
author directed the Stage Door Can
teen for servicemen. The delightful
style will captivate the reader be-
cause social truths are set forth
with humor and common sense.
Evening star., 1947-02-09
Kansas Is the Scene of Personal Feud
That Recalls Drama of Frontier Days

ing her; Algeria, the unscrupulous,
ambitious wife of Tucker Wedge,
and Julia, q woman lawyer who
loves David.
Mr.. Wellman, who has written
before about Western Kansas, deli
cately balances the political issues
against the personal rivalries. In
his analysis of how the winds Of
gossip and prejudice sweep through
a small town, he is shrewd and fire.
quently unf1attering. 1t is unfor-
tunate, perhaps, that he finds it
necessary to throw in quite so much
melodrama, but he does 1t presum-
ably to illustrate how a determined
politician will make capital of any
incident that can be twisted to the
discredit of his rival.
Although David, representing the
horny y-handed" as opposed to the
"smooth-handed" Is the underdog
throughout the long novel, he sur
wives private intrigue, public scam
dal, legal reverses and a bullet
wound in the stomach to win
through at the end. Mr.. Wellman,
who surveys the pettiness Of small
town politicos and State bosses for
422 pages, climaxes on an optimistic
note. Good will triumph and David
will 60 to the Senate.
Evening star., 1947-02-09
Opposite Views on the Role Science
Will Play in SoIvinq Future Crises

Both books are splendid IN def
milton and basic ideas. Mr.. Bryson
in his plea for freedom of choice
and decision writes as masterfully
as a constitution framer. A good
society, he insists, must make 1t
easy for men to shift their pattern
of 1oyalties and change must ever
be encouraged. He sees no reason
why the tenets of science cannot
be spread to social structures, with
no thought in view of making socie-
ties of the world uniform. He sees
in education a wedge by which the
traditions can be split by new
choices of action.
Mr.. Bryson AYERS that the big
gest section of cynicism for his
ideas comes from writer's who, he
says, prefer stabilized thought
emotion complex on the basis that
the more uniform such a thought
emotion complex is, the easier it is
to write about people and their re-
actions. According to Mr.. Bryson,
writer's feel no compulsion to ia
miliarize themselves with the Ian
guage of science which perforce
must be exact and stilted in order
to keep from misinterpretations.
Thus are two theories presented.
Mr.. Morgenthau would call upon
the scientist for advice but would
not be led by him. Mr.. Bryson
would give the social engineer" a
freer hand in the development of a
good society.
MIR. Morgenthau is associate pro-
fessor of political science at the
University of Chicago. He came to
this country in 1887 after a dis
tinguished European career as a
lawyer and professor. Mr.. Bryson
is teacher, author, lecturer and
radio speaker. He became pro-
fessor of education at Teachers Col
lege, Columbia University, in 1885.
He is also counselor on public af-
fairs to the Columbia Broadcasting
system.
Evening star., 1947-02-09
|SCIENIIF1C MAN VS..
POWER POLITICS
By Hans J. Morgenthau. Uni.
versity Of Chicago Press; 49,
SCIENCE AND FREEDOM
By Lyman Bryson. (Colnm.
bia University Press; $2.75.)
Reviewed by
HENRY LYON.

Solutions for world crises in the
future may come out of huddles of
scientists, but Mr.. Morgenthau
doesn't think SO. Scientists, he says
are not equipped to interpret their
formulas and discoveries in terms
of recommended political action
They are apt to make serious mis-
takes in the give-and-take world in
which everybody-including scien-
tists-are creatures of interest and
emotion. It takes higher order, a
different order, Of knowledge to
wrestle in this realm in which the
statesman can hardly be supplanted
Mr.. Bryson has written a COM
|panion book but one that has set
up limits for itself in a discussion
that seems to bear out the reverse
of Mr.. Morgenthau's arguments
Mr.. Bryson sets out to prove that
social engineers can successfully
tamper with culture (any alteration
in whatever is naturaD to bring
about planned results and to predict
what will happen under certain con-
ditions.
Mr.. Morgenthau thinks that re-
lance upon facts or social engineer
ing formulas can lead heaven knows
where, perhaps along paths ruinous
to the Nation. Well-meaning med
dlers in the political world of powers
competing against combinations OF
powers can well wreck the Nation or
leave it trailing badly in the inter-
national race.
Evening star., 1947-02-09
By John cIosett Proctor

mantels had been removed and
others substituted in their places,
Joshua Peirce, who erected this
building, was not only a foremost
and progressive nurseryman, but he
was also a very good financier and
when he died, his will disposed of
good deal of property, including
Linnaean Hill, which in his day was
quite likely a much more beautiful
place than it is now, for it must
be remembered that after the death
of Mr.. Peirce and his nephew,
Joshua Peirce Klingle, everything
was allowed to run down, and 1t
generally takes more time to restore
than it does to destroy.
Joshua Peirce is said to have been
born in Philadelphia about 1795 and
came to Washington at an early
date, and joined the Association of
the Oldest Inhabitants In 1867. He
died at Linnaean Hall, April IL,
1869, and was buried in Rock Greek
Cemetery, where his vault is correct
1y inscribed in large letters, u.
Peirce," and not Pierce.
He was the. youngest child Of
Isaac Peirce. His wife's maiden
name was Susan A. Coates, the
daughter of a Mr.. Coates, a cashier
in Stephen Girard's Bank of Phila-
delphia. She was a widow at the
time of their marriage and died
January 10, 1861, aged "a years. At
the time of Mr.. Peirce's death the
National Intelligencer said:
"Mr. Joshua Peirce, one Of the
Evening star., 1947-02-09

into nostrils and eyes. At the box
car door, the air was comparatively
cool and fresh. When the days toll
was over, Washingtons' future dis
trict attorney was caked with
cement, inside and out.
"I've been working on the rail-
road" the popular song that has
the same tune as Tom Clark's song
Of Texas, finds sympathetic soul
in Mr. Fay. The district attorney
can still remember the sweat, his
blisters, and his aching back.
MIR. Fay graduated with a crisp
bachelor OF arts diploma from
Georgetown in 1881. But he asked
to stay on "the Hilltop" switchboard
so he could pursue his legal studies
This he did.
A month before he obtained his
bachelor of laws degree in June
1885, he was in the Justice Depart
ment as lawyer. He took the Dis
trict bar examination in December
1884, and was admitted to the bar
Evening star., 1947-02-09
|WeH-Known Items
|Of RooseveItiunu
Given New Form
FRANKLIN D. ROOSE.
WELT, an Informal Biography
By Alden Hatch. Henry
Holt s. Co.; s3.)
Reviewed BY
JOSEPH A. FOX.

This Is described as an informal
biography" of the thirty first Presi-
dent. In large part, it Is a sketchy
rewrite Of the various items OF
Rooseveltiana which have become
well known since the early '30s
through constant repetition, plus
embellishments by the author, which
in a number Of instances are respon.
sible for inaccuracies regarding
people and happenings which more
extended research would have
avoided.
The material for the work was
collected in IA months, and Mr.
Hatch, 1t should be said, disclaims
intent of presenting a def1nitive
biography. That the Roosevelt era
and the man himself can be treated
adequately in anything short OF
analytical study is hardly open to
argument. Certainly the subject
does not lend itself to superficial
presentation. ~
An effective chapter is that deal
ing with the attack of infantile
paralysis which threatened Roose-
welt with hopeless invalidism, and
his gallant conquest Of the dread
disease.
Evening star., 1947-02-09
Fays Rise to Il. Attorney

In April, 1885. On May 1, 1885. he
got q job as an attorney in the War
Risk Litigation Branch Of Justice.
Before Justice r. Dickinson Let's
at District Court, Mr.. Fay tried a
number Of cases in 1937-8-9. In
later years, he had q couple of
criminal cases before Chief Justice
Bolitha j. Laws. He also conducted
several grand Jury investigations in
the District.
Wants Minor Cases Tried
In Municipal Court
In his new post, Mr.. Fay is in
terested In having the laws changed
so that minor cases viii not clutter
up District Court and take up the
time Of justices and juries. The
minor cases, he believes, should be
tried in Municipal Court.
AT $50 am. on q court day you
will find the new District attorney
in the courtroom Of Chief Justice
Laws, keeping wary eye on the
criminal calendar.
He is in and out Of courtrooms,
watching the progress OF cases. He
has had the grand jury section given
separate quarters in the Municipal
Court building. On Saturdays, the
same as any Of his assistants at
Municipal Court, Mr.. Fay can be
seen taking complaints over the
counter. His philosophy is that he
will not ask an assistant to do any
thing he will not do himself. And
that means working on holidays.
Periodic staff and other conferences
make a busy day for this energetic
official.
Spare time is at a premium. But
Mr.. Fay does have hobbies, includ-
ing bridge and golf. At the outset
of the war, however, he had to give
up golf. He has hopes of putting
it back on his calendar soon.
Mr.. Fay makes his home at 1924
Gloster road, NV. He was born
May 20, 1909 at Pittston, Pa, where
for years his father has conducted
a clothing business. On December
20, 1896, MIR. Fay married Miss
Dorothy M. Donovan, daughter of
William H. Donovan, prominent
Washington attorney. Mr.. Donovan
is a member Of the law firm of
Hogan, Donovan, Jones, Harrison 8,
Guider. The Fays have three
daughters-Dorothy Ann, 8; Mary
Lynn, 6 and Joan Carol, 3.
It's been long way up. Even
yet, Mr.. Fay can almost feel that
cement dust cloud in the box car,
where he worked as a NAVY"
But the door Of opportunity Is
still open for the willing in America.
Evening star., 1947-02-09
History Of Linnaean House

~ UsT who pays the rent, how
much and why. for the Lin
naean House in Rock Greek
y Park, may make interesting
news. But the chances are that
q bit Of history about this old estate
and its early owners may prove of
even more concern.
Linnaean Hill, named by Joshua
Peirce for the great Swedish botan-
ist, Karl Won Linnaeus, commonly
called Lime, is located in a part of
Rock Greek Park, and has been ever
since 1890, when this reservation
was transferred to the Government.
Linnaean Hill then consisted of
31817 acres, and was held in the
Evening star., 1947-02-09

name OF Joshua
Peirce Klingle, a
nephew by mar
riage Of Joshua
Peirce, who built
the old mansion
house a b o u t
1923, when the
hand was given
him by his faith
er Isaac Peirce,
W h o b u / ! t
Peirce's Mill, re-
stored a decade
ago.
Evening star., 1947-02-09
THE WALLS OF
JERICHO
By Paul I. Wellman. ~. B.
Libbincoft Co.; s3.)
&sCSAOWCA ~
MIRIAM, GUTENBERG

just before the World War, polit-
ical lines were drawn tight in Kan
sas-the wheat farmers against the
large corporations. Fightin 6
droughts and billiards., the farmers
also started organizing to fight the
vested interests who narrowed the
margin of profit on back-breaking
toll.
That is the broad canvas on which
Mr.. Wellman has painted in the
figure of David Constable, an ideal
ist fighting for the farmers. and
Tucker Wedge. a weekly publisher
turned politician. Although they
are the protagonists, the author
emphasizes the influence Of three
women: Belle, the stupid, blowzy
blond who tricks David into marry
Evening star., 1947-02-09
Are You Getting
Ready for Your
Retirement?
HOW TO RETIRE TO
FLORIDA
By George & Jane Dusen-
bury. (Harber s. Bros; $780,
Reviewed by
HUDSON C5RUNEWAID.


Reviewed by
HUDSON GRUNEWALD.
Maybe you hadn't thought of it.
But here, George g. Jane Dusen-
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your life!
Grapefruit and papaya trees In
your back yard!
And no heating problems.
When retirement day comes, just
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to Tampa, or Cocoa, or Wachula or
Kissimmee. If you're in doubt. the
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and you take your choice.
Folks from q other States who
have made Florida their happy
hunting ground tell you why they
left home and how they got way
down there. And they tell you what
social security, insurance, annuity
plans, retirement funds and Uncle
Ben's will had to do with 1t.
All you need Is a steady income.
The book tells you what to take
and what to leave behind; "how to
build or buy the right kind of o
house; how costs compare in differ
ent sections of the State; where
you'll find your kind of fishing,
what fruits and vegetables you can
raise" and where you can play
bingo outdoors or pitch horseshoes
and have the most fun for those re-
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Why wait?
Retire now and get going!
But get George g. Jane Dusea-
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Evening star., 1947-02-09
By WiIIiom A. MilIen

his senior year at Georgetown, he
began running the switchboard at
Tnirty-seventh and o streets NV
During the summers OF 1927-8-9
he worked on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad. His job was to aid in
pulling up the old railroad ties and
setting down new ones.
Mr.. Fay recalls that one Of his
worst jobs was on a hot July day
unloading a boxcar laden with o.
pound paper bags Of cement. The
heat was intense. Back in the car, he
kicked up a cement cloud that got
Evening star., 1947-02-09

ana maze py MS nephew, y. Felrce
Klingle, secured on part of square
1907 (between Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth and r and s streets north
west) amounting In all to $14, 100, he
left in different amounts to Abagail
Shoemaker, widow of David Shoe
maker. and her son, Abner G. P.
Shoemaker; Abner c. Simonton of
Elkhart. Ind, a nephew; Mrs. Fran
ces Shoemaker. wife of Edward
Shoemaker, and Elizabeth G. Ould,
wife of Henry Ould.
He did not forget his former slaves
and left to Jerry Gibson and Nancy
an annuity Of s48 a year, while the
following outright gifts were pro-
vided for: To Thomas Rhodes, $500;
Anthony Rhodes, $500; William
Beckett, $1,000; Maria Runston,
$400: Ellen Webster, $500; Charles
Eugene Rhodes, son of Charlotte
Rhodes. $500, and George Ruston,
son Of Maria Rhodes, $500.
Provided Site for
Founding Hospital
The northern moiety in square 20e
he left to trustees to hold for the
benefit of the children of Helen B.
Phillips, then wife of DR., James
Phillips.
One of the principal charities was
in leaving lots "a to 81, in the square
bounded by Fourteenth, Fifteenth,
r and s streets NV, to Will
liam M. Shuster and William H.
Clagett, in trust, to hold them for
site for the erection of hospital for
foundlings "to be erected by some
association, society or institution" !"
which he provided should not be
under the control of any one reli-
gious sect or persuasion. However,
the buildings were not completed
and opened until 1887. For many
years it was located at 1751 Fifteenth
street, on the land left for this
purpose by Mr.. Peirce, but in more
recent years this property was sold
and the hospital moved to 4610
Forty-second street NV. in 1929.
The Fifteenth street site is now oc-
cupied by st. Augustine's Roman
Catholic Church.
The residue of Mr.. Peirce's estate,
which included Linnaean Hill, he
devised to John B. Blake and Moses
Kelly. in trust, the profits to be
paid to his wife's nephew, Joshua
Peirce Klingle, for life, balance to
his children and the children of his
deceased children, If any, after his
death. And If he had no issue, then
two-thirds of the residue, as men,
toned, was to go to his own heirs
(the heirs of Joshua Peirce) and
one-third to his wife's next of kin.
After the death of Joshua Peirce,
Joshua Klingle took up his residence
at Linnaean Hill with his wife,
Laura T. Klingle, said to have been
Baltimore lady of refinement,
whose maiden name was Gay, and
who was so proud of her descent
from the Indian Princess Pocahon-
tas that she always kept hanging in
her parlor portraits of Pocahontas
and King Powhatan.
Without looking UP the facts re-
garding the ancestry Of Mrs. Klingle,
it may be taken for granted that she
was descended from the Indian
princess.
Joshua Peirce Klingle attended
old Columbian College, now George
Washington University, and received
his A. B. degree from that institu-
ton in 1851.
Evening star., 1947-02-09

W fLuUC OCSCCfGNCU.
oldest citizens of Washington, died
yesterday afternoon at his residence
at Linnaean Hill, near the city, in
the 18th year of his age. Mr.. Peirce
was well known to our citizens gen.
orally, having for many years been
engaged in the propagation of rare
trees and plants and was the owner
of a square of ground near the State
Department, which he used as a
branch of his nursery at Linnaean
Hill"
Mr.. Peirce left no issue.
His will is dated August %, 1867
but apparently was not signed until
October of that year, the witnesses
being James B. Dodson, Joseph W.
Nairn and r. Townshend Dodson.
The executors were John B. Blake
and Moses Kelly.
In this will he devised his estate
as follows: The notes held by him
Evening star., 1947-02-09
NEW GUIDE TO
RECORDED MUSIC
By Irving Kolodin. Double.
day 8 Co.; $3.50.

A revised edition Of former work
designed to assist In choosing rec
ords by comparing recQEdings Of the
same work by different artists, Civ
ing the price Of each and criticism
Of the mechanical fidelity Of the
Evening star., 1947-02-09
Structure Little Changed
Since Erection in 1928

Linnaean Hill is picturesque old
residence, fully in keeping with the
station of a country gentleman of
means. The walls are "a inches
thick and there is double-deck
veranda or porch on the south side
of the building, embellished with a
cast-iron railing of scroll work in
grape design, into which is entwined
a wistaria vine of considerable age
and beauty. On the north side an
addition was made about 1843, and
the difference in the stone then used
is easily detected when compared
with the original part of the build
ing.
Toward the top of the north front
of the house the date 1928" has
been carved which may be accepted
as the date of its erection. Even
today the stonework in this building
is in a remarkably good condition
and a stone arch over the main
entrance does not show the slightest
indication Of giving way.
Up to about IL years ago the walls
of this old building were covered
with g. heavy growth of English ivy
When the writer saw the old home
SOME years ago, the interior of the
building had undergone some re-
placements, but not enough to de-
tract from its age or to give it in
the least a modern appearance. Un-
fortunately, several of the original
Evening star., 1947-02-09

When Isaac Joshua Peirce.
Peirce decided this land to his son.
Joshua Peirce, on october 10, 1928
"for natural love and affection" the
estate then consisted of 81 acres, )
rods and % perches, and it soon be-
came one of the best nurseries IN
America, and it is further said to
have been the first general nursery
in the District of Columbia. Joshua
Peirce also conducted a nursery
within the city limits on tract said
to have included about 54 acres,
somewhere in the neighborhood of
where once stood the Washington
Hospital for Foundlings, 175l Fiji
teenth street NV.
Evening star., 1947-02-09
Den,onstrable Facts

How many times have you wished
there were some way you could i'm
press another favorably-get across to
him or her your ideas7 That thoughts
can be transmitted, received, and un'
derstood by others is now scientifically
demonstrsble. The tales Of miracw
lous accomplishments of mind by ths
sncients are now known to be fact
NOT fable. The method whereby these
things can be Intentionally. not aeci.
dentally. accomplished has been Q
secret long cherished BY the Rosicru'
Evening star., 1947-02-09
llon Gan Influence Others
With Your Thinking!

cians-one of the schools Of ancient
wisdom existing throughout the world.
To thousands everywhere, for CEN
turies, the Rosicrucians have privately
taught this nearly,lost art Of the prae'
teal use of mind power.