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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-07-03
BLUFETON PLANS
QUIET FOURTH OF
JULY OBSERVANCE
Airport and Trap Shoot, Buck
eye and Harmon Field Spots
OF Interest
Business Generally Will BE
Suspended; No Deliveries
Of Mail

With many local residents out of
town on vacations this week and
banging firecrackers banned by state
law, Bluffton is making preparations
to celebrate quiet Fourth of July,
Friday.
The swimming pool at Buckeye
lake, Harmon field anl local picnic
spots will be popular places for fam
lily gatherings, weather permitting.
The Bluffton Gun club will hold a
trap shoot in the afternoon at Cos
sard's filling station north of town
on the Dixie highway and there will
be a furry of interest in the after
noon at the Bluffton airport east of
town when planes participating at
the dedication of the Ada airfield
roar in for landings here in an Ada
Bluffton-Ada air race.
The 65-h. p. planes are scheduled
TO leave Ada at 3 o'clock with each
contestant touching down at . the
Bluffton airport before returning.
No Mail Deliveries
Business generally will be closed
for over the holiday and there will be
no delivery on mail on town or rural
routes. ...
The Triplett Electrical instrument
company suspended operations for
two weeks of vacation beginning last
Friday night and the Boss Glove fac
tory together with a number of local
business places, principally service
establishments, are closed for the
week. A rodeo which has been an
evening attraction here for the past
three years on Fourth of July was
dropped this year.
Busy Day for Farmers
Farmers, generally will take little
time off for the holiday, continuing
work in the fields, weather permit
ting, to help make up the weeks OF
time losA during the spring because
of rains.
Transformation of Bluffton's
Fourth of July observance to the
present "safe and sane" variety
started in 1910 when a municipal or
dinance was passed prohibiting dis.
charge of fireworks within corpora
tion limits.
The same regulation was contin.
ued in 1941 and the following year
a state law was adopted with pro
visions similar TO those incorporated
In Bluffton's code.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-07-03
Four BlufftOn Men Will Direct
Summer Program At Scout Camp

Program director at the camp will
be Donaldson Polling, of Lima, to
round out the staff.
More than $50 Scouts from the
Shawnee council, representing more
than eight counties, have registered
for the summer season at Camp De-
fiance.
Troop 56 will be at the camp from
July 13 to 20, with 20 boys in the
camping roster. The troop will be
accompanied by Assistant Scout.
master Robert 0berly.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-07-03
Residents Must Spray Own Premises
IF Town Is To Be Free Of Mosquitoes

The mayor also called attention to
pools Of stagnant waten and trash
piles where empty tin cans are filled
with water from recent rains. These,
he pointed out are excellent breeding
places for mosquitoes and should be
sprayed or eliminated.
In case of a vacant field or spray
ing situation too large to be handled
individually, the mayor says he will
cooperate if he is notified either at
his home by telephone or thru H. L.
Coon, street commissioner.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-07-03
Three new HOMES
ADDED TO TOWNS
BUILDING PROGRAM
Construction of Three Addi-
tional Houses Starts
With Clear Weather
Two Other Homes Started This
Spring Now Are Ready
For Occupancy

Revived activity in Bluffton's sum-
mer residential building program,
following a slump during unusually
wet spring weather, this week finds
construction of three additional
homes under way.
A new home being built on North
Mound street by Paul Wingate is un-
der roof, and work is being started
on foundations for two additional
residences.
The site of one is in the Berryhill
addition on West Elm street where
Lloyd Kroft, of near Ada, is building
on the lot adjacent to house erected
this spring by Amos Reichenbach,
Jr. The foundation has been COM
pleted and the framework will be
started this week.
Completes Excavation
In the other building program,
Lester Niswander has completed the
excavation for a house to be placed
at the corner of North Lawn avenue
and Vine street.
The location is on lot known as
the William Lewis property pur-
chased last spring by Niswander. A
house on the lot, occupied by Elijah
Kramer, will remain standing. Mis-
wander has been living on the lot in
a house trailer.
In the meantime, two homes start.
ed last spring have been completed
Harry Shrider, Jr., is occupying a
residence erected in the Matter addi-
ton on Harmon road, and Don Fru.
chey is moving into prefabricated
home completed in the Mueller addi.
tion on jefferson street.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-07-03
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Redick, Je-
nera, girl, Donna Elaine, Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. IRA Dukes, Jr.,
Rawson, girl, Jean Eileen, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Cronkle-
ton, West Mansfield, a boy, Joseph,
Thursday. Mrs. Cronkleton is the
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. L d
Fauver of Beaverdam.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-07-03
Breaks Hip In Fall
From Cherry Tree

John Moser, 50, received frac-
tured right hip when he fell from a
ladder while picking cherries at his
home on North Main street Tuesday
morning. He was removed to Bluff
ton hospital in the Diller ambulance
where his condition was reported
satisfactory Wednesday morning.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-07-03

Estate of the late Albert S. DilIer,
Ricliand township farmer is esti-
mated at $4,000 according to pap
ers filed in the Allen county probate
court, Friday. Of this amount $751;
900 is in real estate. His widow
Sarah, has been namd executrix.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-07-03
Church Here Closed
For RentOdeIing

Remodeling of the chancel of st.
Johns Reformed church is under
way with changes being made pre-
paratory to installation later of an
organ for which the contract has
been let.
No services will be held during
the period of remodeling which is
expected to be completed by the mid
die of this month.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-07-03
PHYSICIAN IMPROVING

Condition of DR.. NJ. r. Bixel,
Bluffton physician who is a patient
in the hospital here because of a
heart ailment is reported improved.
Evening star., 1947-04-24
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

Senate Committee on Labor he fought
in vain for the outlawing of the union
shop. He is hopeful that his proposal
will have more strength in the Senate
itself. However, the fact that the House.
which put through a much more
stringent bill than the Senate commit
tee measure, failed to include ban of
the union shop, is indicative of the
rough road ahead of this Ball amend
ment,
Prospects for reasonably quick action
by the Senate on the proposed labor
legislation seemed good today. Organ
lied labor, however, as represented par
ticularly by the American Federation OF
Labor and the CIO, is preparing for
bitter struggle to defeat the pending
bill. The Executive Council of the. AFI,
has voted a $1,50000c fund to be used
in this battle against labor legislation,
for propaganda of various kinds, includ-
ing the use of the radio. to build up
public sentiment and to make members
OF the Senate think twice before sup
porting the bill. The House passed its
labor bill by 3-to-1 vote, and unless
all signs fail the Senate will put through
bill, less drastic than the House
measure, but strengthened beyond the
provisions of the Senate committee bill.
The labor unions and their leaders are
looking to President Truman to come
to their rescue-and the big propaganda
fund voted by the AFL is an effort to in
f1uence the presidential mind as well as
the minds of Senators and Representa-
tives. A presidential veto of the labor
bill may well be effective-not in the
House, where it is believed a labor bill
can receive the necessary two-thirds
vote to override veto, but in the
Senate where the lines will be more
closely drawn. Many Senators are now
arguing that the Senate committee bill
as reported, would be approved by the
President-but that is extremely doubt
full
Evening star., 1947-04-24
repeated reference to 1t In at least
.twenty-seven additional dramas.

repeated reference to 1t In at least
,twenty-seven additional dramas.
On the other hand, Walter Bage-
hot justifiably says: "The author of
Coriolanus never believed in mob,
and did something towards prevent
ing anybody else from doing So
Shakespeare again and again shows
that he disapproved the many
headed" crowd. But the explanation
of his attitude is simple enough.
What he objected to was the tend
ency of the 4wavering multitude"
to follow false leaders-the Hitlers
and the Mussolinis of earlier ages
than ours. "Tfe fault" he declares
in julius Caesar, lis not in our stars,
but in ourselves, that we are under
lings." If that complaint were true
between 1901 and 1909, it may be
true at the current moment. Pray,
look toll"
Evening star., 1947-04-24
Forty-Niner?
Bp Dapid La,crence

From the New Orleans Times-Picayune
Statehood for Hawaii has progressed
through a unanimously favorable report
of the House public lands committee,
confirming a subcommittee recommends
tion brought back last summer. The
resolution introduced by the Hawaiian
delegate Is appropriately numbered, 1t
is pointed out, 49,
Congressional approval would be the
frst step in a probably long process OF
conversion from Territory to 49th State.
A State constitution would have to be
formulated, adopted by the voters and
approved by, Congress The House com-
mittee indorses a sort of fve-year mora
tor1um OF the question of State or Fed
eral ownership Of Hawaiian public lands.
1t seems to us the time has come to
take the plunge with respect to the
admission of this far distant unit. Presi.
dent Truman has urged it and Secretary
Krug of the interior department is an
enthusiast on the subject. Hawaiian
voters petitioned two-to-one in 1910 for
full status,
The decision should not be based ON
obligation, since so far as We can dis
cover there was no pledge In this con-
nection when Hawan's offer of annexa-
ton was accepted in 1898. 1t should be
based rather on performance, both as
territorial unit, and in respect to Its
populations loyalty to the United States
as nation and to democratic inStitus
tions. High tributes have been paid
on both scores.
AS for its position in United States
defense, the war department apparently
sees nothing to affect it one way or am
other, while Mr.. Krug believes state
hood would improve this position. @
Evening star., 1947-04-24
Tri-Power Ruhr Coal Pact

1Ile agreement arrived dt UCtWetu
the United States, Britain and
France on German coal allocations
is important from both its economic
and diplomatic aspects, though its
long-term significance should not be
exaggerated.
The most interesting feature of
the pact is that it was signed at
Moscow by the top representatives
of the three governments, during
the Foreign Ministers Council ses-
sion but excluding the Soviet Union.
That, in itself, was step charac-
terized by a member of the Ameri-
can delegation as "a diplomatic re-
verse" for the Soviet government.
This, of course, is something for
which Soviet diplomacy is itself
wholly to blame. The Kremlin has
tried to play both ends against the
middle. 1t has vetoed Secretary
Marshau's proposal to assign the
whole output of the Saar coalfields
to France and has similarly vetoed
the French plan for the Ruhr'S
economic separation from the rest
of Germany. In this, it stands with
the United States,and Britain, which
are likewise opposed to the French
idea. But the Kremlin likewise puts
spoke in the Anglo-American plan
for German economic reconstruction
by putting forward demands to.
which neither Washington nor Lon
don can reasonably accede.
Since the Kremlin is thus baking
everybody, the three western powers
are inevitably thrown together and
compelled to take common action
regarding their respective zones of
the occupied Reich. The tripartite
pact on coal deliveries should be
regarded as a first step in what
appears to be a logical cooperative
trend. But, in and by itself, it is
limited both in scope and in time.
This six months agreement estab-
fishes a sliding scale under which
France may obtain a somewhat
larger proportion of German coal
earmarked for export, as production
in both the Ruhr and the .Saar coal
fields increases. But those potential
deliveries to France by no means
satisfies Frances crying need for
coal in its program of economic re-
construction. 1t leaves the eventual
status of the Ruhr and the Saar
alike undetermined. Lastly, it does
not imply fusion of the French
zone with those of America and
Britain for economic purposes.
Nevertheless, it appears to be
clear warning to the Kremlin that
continued obstruction on its part
will inevitably draw the western
powers into ever closer co-ordina-
ton concerning German problems.
Furthermore, such coordination
should logically tend to occur within
the larger framework of a program
for the whole of Western and West
Central Europe beyond Moscow's
iron curtain" If Moscow wants to
avert this trend, it can do so by
reversing its own obstructive, self
isolating policy. No one else will
or can.
Evening star., 1947-04-24
Air Rescue Service

The arrangements being made by
the International Civil Aviation Or
ganization for a round the world air
rescue and search system are de-
signed to fill long-felt need in the
growing field of global air commerce.
Such service is natural corol-
larry of preventive safety measures
planned by the ICAO.
Officials of the new organization,
of which thirty-nine nations already
are members, have shown good judg-
ment in acting quickly to set up the
framework of the rescue network,
while planning long-range measures
to increase the safety of trans
oceanic air travel. The urgency of
the program has been demonstrated
in numerous recent accidents. Where
jurisdictional responsibilities are
vague or conflicting, the efforts to
locate lost planes and rescue their
passengers, if alive, should not be
left wholly to unorganized volun-
teers, handicapped by lack of over
all direction and coordination.
Under the plans being worked out
by Lieutenant Colonel Norman D.
Vaughan, head of the search and
rescue division of ICAO, the crash
of commercial airliner in any part
of the world, no matter how remote,
will bring into action regional search
and rescue teams equipped to oper-
ate in the particular area where the
plane is believed to be down. The
teams will be equipped with boats,
helicopters, gliders and even pack
mules or dog sledges, as the terrain
may require. Five of the ten regional
services which eventually will cover
the world have been organized and
are ready to function. Facilities of
member nations will be utilized to
the fullest, by mutual agreement.
Only Soviet Russia is excluded from
the plan, for the reason that foreign
planes are not permitted to fly over
Russian territory.
The international rescue service is
being instituted at an opportune
time. The series of air disasters of
the past winter aroused misgivings
on the part of the public that con-
cededly hurt airline business. The
Evening star., 1947-04-24

Senator Ball, Republican, of Minne-
sofa is going to the mat-in Senate
consideration of the labor bill-for the
right of employees to decide whether they
will join O. union or not Senator Ball
considers this fundamental if the indi-
vidual worker is to be a free agent. He
has offered an amendment which would
outlaw the union shop as well as the
closed shop. In union shop, nom
union worker may be employed, but by
the end of thirty days he must join the
union if he is to retain his job. In a
closed shop-Which is banned by the
labor bill recently passed by the House
and also by the bill reported to the Sem
ate from the Committee on Labor-the
employer may hire only workers al
ready members of the union. The
House and Senate bills permit the union
shop, provided a majority of workers
voted for 1t.
Since the right of collective bargain
ing has been firmly established in Fed
eral law-and is recognized by both the
House and Senate labor bills-it is
argued that the argument for closed
shop or union shop falls by the way
side: that neither is longer necessary
as weapon in controversy between
labor and management over wages or
working conditions. There is something
repugnant, anyway. about compelling a
man or woman who desires to work to
join an organization which he or she
does not care to join.
X
The Ball proposal. however. is anath-
ema to organized labor and its leaders.
The closed shop or union shop prevail in
many industries. And yet, as Mr.. Ball
contends, the principle involved is fun
damental. The strength of the workers,
however, lies in union, and labor unions
have been the weapon by which workers
have improved their condition over the
years. For security, the workers have
been compelled to surrender part of
their individual freedom. The great trou-
BILE, for the workers, in this more COM
plete organization today, arises from the
dictatorial power in the hands Of these
organizations. and particularly of their
individual leaders. They are compelled
to strike. for example, whether indi-
vidually they wish to continue to work.
They are bound round with rules and
regulations, established by the unions
and their chiefs.
Outlawing the closed shop, as the
House and Senate bills both do, reaches
one evil-it gives worker or would-be
worker chance to get job, even
though he is not a member OF a union
But under the union shop. this measure
Of freedom quickly vanishes-for to re-.
tain job the worker must join a
union. and If the union will not accept
him, out he goes from his work This
Is a tremendous power over the right
and ability of any worker to earn q
living
The Minnesota Senator has become a
crusader on the subject of protecting this
freedom of the individual worker. In the
Evening star., 1947-04-24
Shakespeare

The annual celebration of the,
anniversary of his birth is as good
a time IS any for a consideration
of the survival value" of. William
ShakeSpeare's works. So many
changes have occurred in the world
since he lived that it is fair ques-
ton as to whether his writings any
longer have the significance which
admittedly they possessed in his own
day. Henry and Emily Folger gave
their answer to the problem thus
expressed when they established the
library which bears their name. DR..
Joseph Quincy Adams, as director
of their institution from 1882 until
his unreasonable death last Novem-
Der. developed its original plan and
scope extensively through numerous
important accessions and through
many useful publications which he
personally edited. The work goes
forward under the present manage
ment of DR.. James G. McManaway.
But it remains a matter worthy
of inquiry as to whether Shakespeare
really is an artist and a philosopher
as much at home in the twentieth
century as in the sixteenth. Spe-
cifically, his book is subject to exam
ination as to the social and political
views preserved in it. Even a casual
reading of the plays will suffice to
convince any average person that
the Bard resented "the seizure of
sovereign power in a state without
legal right" On no less than one
hundred and seventeen occasions
does he employ the word "tyrant"
or its immediate derivatives in this
connection. He certainly hated to-
talitarian conceptions of govern
ment. The influence of the classical
schooling which somehow he OBJ
tanned is manifest In his echoing
of Aristotle and Plato concerning
relationships. In Macbeth especially
he indicts the moral faults of uSur-
patton and theoretically expedient
coercion. How much the same reac-
ton meant to him is proved by his
Evening star., 1947-04-24
Voice of America

There is a very conSlderaole oil
ference of opinion as to the useful
ness of the State Departments
Voice of America" broadcasts to
Russia and other foreign lands. On
the basis of all the known facts,
however, the doubt is one which
ought to be resolved in favor OF
continuing the broadcasts, the dis
tribution of the departments Rus
sian language magazine and other
associated activities designed to tell
Americas story" to other countries.
Consequently, it is disturbing to
learn through unofficial reports that
a subcommittee of the House Appro-
priations Committee has invoked a
point of order which kills a budget
of some $31,000,000 designed to
finance these activities throughout
the next fiscal year.
If this was done in the name of
simple economy, there is reason to
believe that it is of the penny wise
and pound foolish variety. The ac-
tivities Of the State Departments
Office of International Information
and Cultural Affairs-possibly an
unfortunate descriptive title-reach
into some sixty-seven countries. In
some of these, Russia particularly,
these activities are the only means,
however limited, of reaching mil
lions of people whose own govern
ments strive to prevent them from
learning anything about the real
facts of life in the western democ-
racies. If even relative few of
these can be reached with the truth,
that would seem to be of more value
to us than any benefit to be derived
from a saving of $31,000,000.
If the members of the subeommit-
tee were influenced by belief that
the OIC program is not achieving
any worthwhile results, that is an
other matter and one more difficult
to take issue with. However, the
weight of such evidence as is avail
able points to a contrary conclusion.
Both our own Government, and the
British government, have evidence,
such as letters from individual Rus
slams, which indicates that our
magazine and a similar British
publication are eagerly and rather
widely read in Russia. The Voice, of
America broadcast is in its infancy,
yet there is at least some reason to
believe that it is heard in places
which cannot be reached in any
other way.
In any event, this is program
which, as to it's merits, has not yet
had a fair trial The House prob
ably will uphold its subcommittee,
but the Senate is said to be more
favorably. disposed toward giving the
Voice of America and the Allied
programs a reasonable opportunity
to prove their worth. 1t Is to be
hoped that this is the case, and
that the necessary funds for the
program will be reinstated.
Evening star., 1947-04-24
Ours the Unhoppiest?

According TO DR.. Marynla r.
Farnham, a psychiatriSt, American
women are the unhappiest women
in the world. They are petted, PAM
pered, koWtoWed to, placed on a
pedestal, showered with gifts, given
charge accounts, and in general
treated in a way that makes them
the envy of nearly all their sisters
overseas. But still their hearts are
the heaviest, most woebegone, least
happy female hearts to be found
anywhere under the sun.
It is not clear just how DR.. Farm
ham has arrived at this conclusion.
Considering that the world is full
of an awful lot of women and that
nothing seems harder sometimes
than to find out how happy or un-
happy they are, maybe the Farnham
view is nothing but wild guess in
the dark-a sweeping assertion ap-
proximately as sound as the once
popular assertion that the earth is
fiat. But if it is true, then the men
of America must ask themselves
what they should do about it. Gal
lantry, if nothing else, demands this.
How bring sunlight again to the dis
consulate females among us? How
make them sing? How restore the
bloom to their cheeks, the smile to
their lips, the joy of living to their
hearts? Is it more pampering that
they want? Or have they perhaps
wearied of all that and yearn now
only to be dominated as in the days
of the primitive cave dwellers?
If American women are in fact
as unhappy as DR.. Farnham says,
American men chow happy are they,
by the way?) must certainly try to
do something about it. 1t is not an
easy problem. Until the right answer
can be found, the female heart must
be patient. must be understanding
must try>t to carry on somehow, and
could do lot worse than null over
these words of Horace: ''If thou art
sound in stomach, side, and feet,
the riches of king will add nothing
to thy happiness"