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Milford chronicle., 1947-12-12
Dog of a Pianist
Prefers Classics

NEW ORLEANS tP
Butch, a pup half Collie and half
Spitz, makes stab at playing the
piano.
Mrs. Frank Froeba, his mistress,
says:
How does Missile play piano@
He leaps to the stool, faces the keys,
places his left paw on the bass, his
right paw on the treble. and bang!
When Mrs, Froeba plays Loves
Old Sweet Song Butch lays his
head down to the right and beats
three notes over and over. in time.
"He, likes soft music and clas-
sizes" Mrs. Froeba says
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-12
Proeress II Liwhts

II was So years ago that Thomas
"A. Edison devised the first practi-
cal incandescent lamp. Since then
Improvement has followed Improve
ment. some dramatic and some pro-
sale, but all have had one result
> better lamp at less cost to the
public. The 60-watt incandescent
lamp sold for 40 cents in 1923: to-
days 60-watt lamps sell for only IL
cents and two Of them give the con-
ssurner as much light as he got from
three Of the 1923 lamps.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-12
Moscow Driving
Wolf From Door

MOSCOW (P) Large Russian
wolves which during the war multi
piled in the Moscow area to the ex-
tent that they became a danger to
livestock, are now on the run.
Hunting teams have been out on
the trail after the gray thieves, who
in one day alone and in one county
of the Moscow region, killed 20
sheep.
The Moscow Hunting Club has
sent out 54 hunters as constant OBJ
servers and set up 19 wolf-hunting
teams with 81 huntsmen.
The Evening Moscow" reports
that the huntsmen brought in 81
wolves to date. One team got -four
in one day.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-12
ssiikmaias were SAFE

Ii 1898 Jenner found out why
Enilkmaids did not catch sfnallpox;
they had had cowpox, a closely re-
lated virus. Both uiruses have been
seen fow Under the electron micro
scope and they. look alike. Cowpox
virus Is only feebly virulent in man.
yet when used as a vaccine. it stirs
up the forces OF resistance latent in
the body, after which the latter per-
sist in the system as an aroused
army o. defense against any subse.
Queht invasion OF smallpox.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-12
Use Of Electric Lights

Use of electric Illumination in the
United States has more than dou-
bled in the last decade. and today
America spends more than 200 mil
lion dollars annually for incandes-
cent and fiuorescent lamps. Despite
this increase. it has been estimated
that 80 million American homes
need four times as much light as
they now are using and 258, 900
schools need seven times more light.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-12
Boats Made Of PIvwooa

Uncle Sans much publicized as.
sault boats and demountable pom.
toon bridges were made Of exterior,
waterproof type fir plywood. Anna.
teur boat builders have constructed
more than 100000 plywood boats.
Tuna clippers. salmon seiners, troll.
ing boats. tugs and other classes Of
work boats have many parts of ply
wood including cabins. decks. bulk
heads and interior finish
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-12
Ancient Radiant Heat

Wealthy Romans living In Eng
land centuries ago built their homes
with dual walls with air space be.
tween them. Walls and floors were
made Of masonry material and an
open fire was built in the basement.
Smoke and heating air rose in the
space between the walls. Thus. first
floor and walls were heated, intro
ducing the first system of radiant
heating.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-12
Bandits Prey on Liners

CANTON -(P Banditry is 81
rife along south China's rivers tha'
speed launches, heavily armed witt
machine guns, now escort all pas
sengef ships sailing south out O
Canton
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-12
Home Gets Husband

TOKYO -(P)- A Japanese girl
unlucky enough to be homely can
get herself a man these days if
she's lucky enough to have a home
that wasn't bombed OUT in the war.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-03-05
THE TOWNSHIP TICKET

In the race for Township
Supervisor and Assistant Su-
pervisor w. G. Scheve as Su-
pervisor and Francis 10y as
Assistant Supervisor with
drew their names last Monday,
March 3. The voters will de-
eide on April LIST who is to be
the Townships Supervisor and
Assistant Supervisor.
The following will be on the
Township ballot: "Zion Har-
mony Party" Martin Ruesch,
Supervisor, and Edwin G. Pet
erson, Assistant Supervisor.
Moody Simpson, Supervisor
and C. Ruchti, Jr., Assistant
Supervisor.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-03-05
YOUTH FELLOWSHIP

For next weeks evening
service, Pearl Baurle has ar
ranged for Harold Retzke, a
Chicagoan and formerly a STU
dent at the Moody Bible Insti-
tute, to speak on the subject,
"Our Age of Miracles" Har-
old is known to some here in
Zion, and it is certain that
his message will be interest
ing and timely.
Pearl has also arranged for
LaVerne Edwards to sing two
numbers, and additional music
will be furnished by an instru-
mental quartette.
Every Christian is invited to
come and share in the Chris
tian fellowship.
Last Sunday evening, Frank
Scaccia spoke of his life, and
how Divine Healing through
Faith had been made real to
him. The story of his CONVEX
sion from Roman Catholicism
and instances of healing in an
swer to prayer stand out from
rich Christian service and
experience.
Beverly Wolf, Edith Mitch
ell, Clarice Kendall and
Jeanne McElroy sang 81 Walk
with the King" beautifully,
and Wayne BEEN did very
nicely in singing prayer Per-
feet"
Steve LaBelle arranged the
program and presented it nice
".
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-03-05
TIE TheOCrat

able break in the war of the
Allies and the plan was aban-
doned.
The Secretary said that the
document in which Lincoln
proclaimed freedom for the
slaves, along with other price
less records such as declara-
tons of war, peace treaties,
ct cetera, were gotten together
in Washington, had been pack
ed and Grated and were about
to be sent to Springfield.
Then came word of Allied
success in North Africa and it
was decided to wait on further
developments. Later as the
war continued favorable the
plan to transfer them was
abandoned and they were kept
in Washington. But the secret
was kept for reasons of Sc
curity and only became known
recently. According to Miss
Margaret Norton, the state
Archivist, the investigators
from Washington National
Archives selected the Illinois
building from the viewpoint of
it's construction such as the ma
terials which were used and
it's general all-round safety.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-03-05
ABOUT PARK LAND FOR
GARDENING

The Zion Park Board has re-
ceived numerous requests from
citizens who desire to rent var
ious parcels of Park land for
gardening purposes.
In submitting these requests,
please state the location accu-
rately, the use for which it is
intended and your bid for it's
rental. The board would like
to have these requests submit
ted prior to March 18th for &C.
ton at it's regular meeting on
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-03-05
u. S. GOVERNMENT
PLANNED PREPAREDNESS

How the U. S. Government
planned use of the Illinois
State Archives building here
as wartime hideaway for
such famous documents as Lin
coins Emancipation Proclama-
ton was disclosed in Spring.
field by Secretary of State Ed
ward J. Barrett. He said it had
been planned to store them
here because of possible bomb
ing of the national capital city.
Most of the nations famous
historical records are in Wash
ington. When, during the dark
days of the war, that city was
on the spot as a possible prime
target for enemy bombers it
was decided to remove them to
a safer place, and a number
of possible sites were consid-
cred by National Archives Of
ficials in Washington.
For a while mines in West
Virginia used by the Library
of Congress to store precious
legislative records were con-
sidered but disregarded be-
cause of underground mois-
ture. Finally the Illinois Arch
ives building was decided on
but just as the transfer was to
be made there came a favor
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-03-05

United Service China photo.
This happy lad is typical of Chinese
selected for electrical training in
a plan to enhance the lot of the
masses in China's bliehted areas
eh~~-,~Fa sr-eor, industry.
waiting Io1 the lights to go on.
Electricity also will power tex
tile machines now en- route to
Sandan from the United States.
Big Demand for us. Gear
The Chinese industrial program
has the active support of United
Service to China, through Indusco,
one of the American organiza-
TONS six China-aid agencies. All
Of the electrical and other me-
chanical equipment for the San
dan experiment, for instance, was
purchased in the United States
with funds provided by U. S. G.
The industrial program was
originated during the war and is
being carried on by small units
operating throughout China's in
terror. Before W day the indus
trial units supplied large quanti-
ties of textile, food and medical
supplies to both Chinese and
American troops.
Most of the units now are gear
ing for improved machine manu-
facture, and a visiting U. S. C. in
spector recently reported that the
demand for American equipment
is unusually heavy.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-03-05
THANK YOU

I desire to express sincere
thanks to the many friends for
their kindly words and deeds
during the past few weeks.
Their kindness is greatly ap-
preciated and will always be
remembered.
(Signed) JOE PEFLEY.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-03-05

time in history-but only after
Buddha statues was worked out
with a people who had not ad-
vanced to the stage of using a
wheelbarrow.
Scene of the innovation is the
epy, poverty-stricken oasis
town of Sandan, 1000 miles west
of Shanghai in Kansu Province,
which hundreds of years ago was
a fourishing stop-over for rich
camel caravans. Wars and trade
descriptions drained that section
of China of it's wealth and initia-
tive, leaving the people centuries
behind in their development.
Chosen as an experimental CEN
ter for the development of small
scale industry in China's most
neglected and forgotten areas,
backward Sandan is part of a
broad Chinese american sup
ported) program to raise living
standards and stimulate industry,
trade and a wider interchange of
goods beneficial to both the United
States and China.
Students From Famine Areas
First established was a school
which already has as students
more than 200 peasant boys and
other refugees from famine-torn
areas-noW undergoing, according
to observers, some of the most in
tensive and practical training
available in China.
Tho iy,i+io1
was machine shop-in a former
Buddhist temple. To make way
for the lathes, it was necessary to
remove some of the Buddha
statues. The Sandan citizenry was
upset by this seeming iconoclastic
act, SO to maintain good will, all
the Buddhas in the center of the
temple rooms were removed while
those against the walls remained.
To protect them a siX-foot white
washed wall was built, reaching
to their waists. Despite their tran
quill faces, It's said the Buddhas
are deeply shocked by such TWEEN
tleth century goings-on.
The Guests Electrified
For electricity's debut at the
school, last July 4, the boys put
on a play, and everyone in town
was invited. Hundreds attended,
but paid scant attention to the
play-all were entranced by the
cleaning light bulbs, whirring
electric motors and other strange
mechanical equipment.
Recently the school decided on
electric illumination for night
study. Each evening groups of vii
layers assemble at the dormitories
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-03-05
Wednesday, March 5, 1947

selections from the Bible. JOY
CHERTOFF and MARILY
GREEN have repeated the fol-
lowing:
The Books of the Old and
New Testament
The Twenty-Third Psalm
The Beatitudes
The Lords Prayer
Psalm 121
The Ten Commandments.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-03-05
BIBLE SCHOOL NEWS

During the past few months
the young girls in Zion Bible
School taught by Mrs. A. F.
Wright have been memorizing
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-03-05

that date.
Submit all requests to the
secretary of the Zion Park
Board at 1929 Sheridan Road,
Zion, Illinois.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-03-05
Electricity Is Introduced in Cobb Desert
To People Still Below WheeIburrow Era

Launched Amid Ancient Buddha end a Bvs-Eyed
Popuace, Program Seeks to Bring Industry to Neediet
Areas, E<pond Living Levels end chinu-U S. Trode.
YORK-American equipment shipped
in
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Books in Northern Europe

Hnltdor LdrnesS, Icelands out
standing younger noUeliSt. is q
dominating figure in the literary
scene of Europe. He is knotun
to American readers for "Inde-
pendent People," a mighty epic
OF the soil ,0hich 1Don its author
unanimous critical acclaim ,phen
1t tDds published last year. The
son OF a peH-to-do farmer Who
kneaO all the great Iceldnd,c
so0ds by heart, Larness is stepped
III the literary traditions OF his
homeland. His first major novel,
The Weaver Of Cashmere
brttten in 1925, expressed his dis
tHusiomment in Christianity aud
stirred up a controversy COM
parable to that provoked BY Sin
clair Le,riS' ELMER Gantrv."
Like other established authors in
Iceland. he receiues an annual
stipend from the government and
continues in his 7Uritings to er-
pound the theme of "Independ-
ent People, that "independence
IS better than meat" Mr.. Lar-
ness report on the current state
OF literature in Northern Europe
IS Wrttten exclusively for The
Star.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
New Danish Novels
And Literary Trends

There are several new novels to
be found on this years Danish
bookmarket, most of them, with the
exception of Martin A. Hansen's
The Thorn Bush. rather poor as
fables, and lacking in that sug-
gestive, spellbinding quality, so
frequently met with in Danish
poetry. Denmark had in the last
century two great Lutheran sec
tarians, one friend of the people
and an extrovert, Grundtvig, un-
known abroad, but still living force
in Danish literature and an in
spirer even of social writer's today;
the other, Kierkegaard, seclusive
student of his own navel and an
affected stylist, prophet of micro
scopic fame in his country, but
quoted as the last word in philosophy
in the Paris and Hollywood of 1947.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
A Country's Literature
Is Untransplantable

Now, why should the literatures of
the world be international? A small
place beyond the great world has
beauty all of its own; it is natural
that its poetry should be akin to it's
flowers. untranSplantable Let us
go to Denmark. You will see an
old castle, a prehistoric gravemound
with stones on top, a straW-thatched
barn, a coW-everything in green
and blue and gold; this is the most
beautiful sight in the world but it
cannot be moved to figure in a diff
fered place, neither can its poetry.
The poet Of Denmark is a young
blond maiden. she goes about
humming in Danish house -.
Excuse me for venturing to trans
late this subtle strophe of Kai Hoff-
mann from a language foreign to
me into another still more foreign.
But it might help to convey to you
my idea. The Danish lyrical tradi-
ton, akin to the fairy tale, is still
as strong as ever, through H. G. An
derSen this peculiar thing with
which Denmark has conquered the
world. The great lyric poet, johann
nes Jorgensen, a self -Willed Cath
olic exile for half a century, is still,
at 80 back from Assist writing poet
ry with his subtle personal touch as
enchanting as ever, new people are
coming to the fore, among whom
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Main Feature of the
Norwegian Book Market

Emil Ludwig once told me that in
Geneva in old days he used to 20
to the sessions of The League of
Nations. In this assembly there
was one profile that somehow
ecllpsed all the others: Fridthiof
Nansen. When he rose to deliver an
address on behalf of the starving
people of the world in his broken
English, the rest of the assembly
somehow seemed to dWindle into
lnslgnlflcance; or at least into some
thing not very remarkable. Nansen
was the Norwegian par excellence.
the Dovre-troll and the giant of
the endless ocean spaces in one
person, the northern hemisphere in
a human profile. You will meet
him every now and then. in every
corner of the world, this great. al
most superhuman type which can
be nothing except a Norwegian,
troll with the finest of human vibra-
tions inside. Nordal Grieg was
one. This believer in great human
destiny and fighter for freedom,
this intrepid voice from the dark
ness, troll. and at the same time.
the most lovable of men, disap-
peared in an air attack on Berlin.
His collected works are the main
feature of the Norwegian book mar
ket at present.
In Oslo, had a talk with some of
the leading representatives of Nor
Weglan letters, who told me that since
the voice of their Great Disappeared
was Silenced, nothing very remark
able was taking place in Norwegian
letters. The war had not helped to
bring forth any outstanding writer's
III Norway, no more than in anv
other country. AS rule literature
is one of the first things to get killed
IN a war. Many novels about the
occupation of Norway and a great
deal of prison literature has seen
daylight after the liberation, but
the public is losing interest in these
subjects. The authors take a great
interest in social matters, as a rule
with decided left tendency. There
is some eScapism too, and some
mlddle-aged writer's are at a COM
plete Standstill in their creative de-
velopment or have given up writing
altogether because of political dill
emma, a common occurrence every
where i'll our time.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Influence of American
Novel Is Slipping

Conservative and reactionary
ideologie5 are poorly represented in
Norwegian letters of today. Norway
has no writer comparable to the
Dale Mortin Korch. who for dec
AIDES has delivered the annual best =
seller about the sane and sound
ways of bygone days. although never
even reviewed in the Copenhagen
press. The lyrical output in Norway
is growing in volume year by year,
with tendencies almost equally
Evening star., 1947-12-07


understood as part of an environ
ment. This is just the case with
all true folk literature. Some of
the best literature in the world is of
parochial nature. Scandinavian lit
erature Of today seems to be destined
Tor home use rather than exoprt.
This has not always been the case
with the Scandinavians. About so
years ago Nordic names shone in
astral splendor on the worlds litera-
ture armament and still the names
OF BjornSon, Ibsen. Strindberg,
Brandes, and even Lagerlof, are
known to every student Of literature
the world over. Those names still
stand for bourgeois liberalism in
Europe. the fin de steele thinking of
the cultured world. The bourgeoisie
about the end of the century was in
ternational and open minded, and
the Scandinavians at that time were
reshaping their states on it's princi-
Piles. At that time the whole world
was interested in Scandinavian lit
erature, its great style, its altruism.
Evening star., 1947-12-07

Poul la Cour ranks as the leading
man in 1947, with a mind embrac-
ing all the subtleties of European,
especially French, culture of our
generation.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
New Novels Contribute
To the Epic Tradition

This year Brekkans Kamban's
novels on medieval themes are a
continuation of the never broken
epic tradition, not to forget Thorberg
Ihordarson S tetralogy about Sierra
Arni, cavalcade of the fossil,
story about a nonagenarian Ice
landlc clergyman still living, but be-
longing to some prehistoric age of
anlmlSm. obScurantism and pagan
Christianism.
To sum up, should say that even
under an Americanized standard of
living and working. the Icelandic at
the bottom of his heart is a scald of
kings and a bearded, seafaring hero,
sword in hand.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
The Sacred Book of the
icelanders Is the Saga

The SWedes are the only Scandi-
navlans prosperous enough to in
dulge in experimental literature:
they have even had the courage to
start some new isms such as FORTY
tallSm' and ''initialism" in the midst
OF a disillusioned world which con-
slders any new-fangled idea lust
another futility if not an outright
horror.
There is an old saying that goes
IKE this: "Timeo hominem unius
Eori' Il am afraid of the one-book
mani. The Icelanders are a one
book people. Their sacred book is
the Saga. The Saga literature of
Iceland, the only grand-style. nom
Christian epics of the Middle Ages,
is now, at the ebbing of romanticism.
as modern in subject matter and
form as anything written at present.
Books like The Story of Burnt
Mall and Snorri's Saga of King
Olaf the Saint" to mention only two
examples of this vast literature. are
by those who know, considered to
contain some of the best prose ever
written in the world. The Saga of
the 18th. 18th and 14th centuries
Is still the general reading of old
and young in Iceland, influencing
our lives and views and ways Just
as any sacred book its adherents.
The Bible. the Christian: the Koran.
the Mohammedan: the Greek clas-
sizes, the erudites
Evening star., 1947-12-07

divided between social thinking and
escaplsm.
The influence of the American
novel of the thirties is dwindling:
Hemingway is no more the DOM
lnant chord, the so-called American
hardboiled manner is here con-
sidered sort of prevented senti-
mentalism. AS everywhere in Scan
dinavia the authors reading at pres
ent is classical European literature.
Balzac, zola, even Dickens, and
the Great Russians from Gogol to
Cork. The heroic line of the mod
ern Soviet school meets little under
standing. Anything f1owery is bad.
Essentials without pathos is the
taste.
Swedish Writers Seem
Enotionally Repressed
A typical Swede is the cream of
the white race, tall stiff, blond. self
possessed, prosperous, the most
dignified type in Europe. perhaps,
with the exception of some obscure
mountaineers in the Caucasus.
Sometimes their ceremonious cour-
tesy diSconcertS the foreigner, CIV
ing him the idea Of a people who
have been living too long in some
kind of splendid provincial isolation.
But if you come nearer to them YOU
will find that they have a child's
heart. To judge from some of their
literary actualities they seem to be
an emotionally repressed race. They
q lyi,
sexual alterations, even touching
upon the -pornographic 1t is sig
nificant that the book which is TAX
ing up more place than any other
in the Swedish press this fall is
1var Lo-Johansen's 7OO-page novel
based on a psvchopathic sex theme.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
The Great Scandinavian
Classics of the Past

But where is the liberal bourge-
oisie of our time? Where is its
forum? Its high principles manifest
in art and literature? Anyhow, the
great Scandinavians have become
classics by now: thing of the past,
collecting dust.
We modern Scandinavians are
loath to think that we are less capa-
BILE of dealing with vital things in
a great way than our predecessors,
although We partly acknowledge the
loss of grand manner. We think the
fault might just as we'll be the
worlds. Despite all the talk it seems
that the world with the exception of
the international working class, is
disintegrating somehow, the enlight-
ened bourgeoisie of so years hence
'disSolving into parociial units, few
and far between. OF course, the
social literature is there. the social
iSt literature, the working class lit
erature. But it is not always in
trinSically meritorious from the
literary and artistic point of view;
in too many cases poor in form and
color though strong in enthusiasm
and pathoS and even heroiSm: lack
ing in flneSse as we'll as universal
appeal, sometimes it does not even
appeal to the workers themselves.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
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