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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-18

the Christmas program.
Sunday
$3.50 Sunday school, Joseph Thomp-
son, supt.
10:30 Morning worship
7:45 Christmas Cantata, From
The Realms of Glory, Frazee by
the Mixed Chorus.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-18
MISSIONARY CHURCH

hODErL It. 0eicns IaS1oF
Wednesday,
7:30 Prayer meeting
Sunday
9:3O Sunday school
1O:30 Morning worship
1880 Christmas program by child
ren of the Sunday school.
Everyone is welcome.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-18

1.-TWO miles west Of Bluffton)
Rev. Howard T. Landes, Pastor
Thursday
7:30 Prayer and Bible study
800 Choir rehearsal
Saturday
2 P. NJ. Children's Rehearsal fo
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-18
Friday night.

Public school students will return
TO their classes on Monday morning,
January 5; with college classes re-
suming on Tuesday morning, january
Is.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-18
COlOrful and Gay
Yuletide Season
Concluded from page u

erected the community Christmas
tree, is providing regular broadcasts
of recorded Yuletide music in the
downtown area, and last Saturday
afternoon sponsored the appearance
of Santa Claus here.
Santa was overwhelmed by a mob
of eager youngsters when he arrived
on Main street in front of the Christ
mas tree, and it required nearly 20
minutes for him to work his way
to the Presbyterian church steps
where he interviewed kiddies and
distributed sacks of candy.
Opening the musical observance of
the Yuletide, Handel's celebrated
oratorio, "The Messiah, was present
ed last Sunday afternoon in the
BIuffton High School gymnasium by
the Bluffton College Choral Society
to an enthusiastic audience of over
1900 music lovers.
Pageants Next Sunday
Christmas pageants and programs
will mark next Sundays services in
the churches of the town and COM
munity, a1tho in a few instances the
events will be performed on Christ
mas Eve.
Bluffton students were readying
themselves for their longest vaca-
ton of the school year, with classes
at Bluffton grade and high school
ending on Tuesday noon Of next
week. Bluffton colleges Christmas
recess, on the other hand, will start
with the close of scholastic work this
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-18
FIRST MENNONITE CHURCH

FIRST MENNONITE CHURCH
]. N. Smucker, pastor
Thursday
$3.50 Bible Study; High School
group.
8:15 Adult Bible Study group
Sunday
9:30 Sunday school, with classes
for all ages.
1O:30 Worship service
6:30 intermediate Christian En-
deavor
7:30 Evening service; A Christmas
program.
Visitors are always welcome to
these services.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-18
IN Ohe
Churches
EVANGELICAL MENNONITE

EVANGELICAL MENNONITE
E. ]. Shady, Pastor
Thursday
1880 ?. NJ. Prayer meeting and
Bible study.
$50 A business meeting for the
membership of the church.
Sunday
$3.50 Sunday School
1920 Morning worship
7:30 Christmas program
Evening star., 1947-05-05
House Unit Eliminates
Salary for SIS Clerks,
Judges Secretaries

The House Appropriations Conn
mittee today eliminated from the
judiciary appropriations bill q mis-
cellaneous salary item which pro-
vides for the wages of 518 law clerks
and secretaries to Federal judges.
The committee based its action
not on economy reasons, but on a
legal point.
In striking out the salary items
the committee said, .sThe judiciary
has for some time been aware of
the fact that the language as car
ried for some years Is not author
lied by law and the committee feels
that this item should have clear
cut enabling legislation before #
can be properly considered, =
Committee spokesman said a bill
to grant appropriations for these
salaries was pending before the
House Judiciary Committee and
that they expected Congress would
grant this authority.
Otherwise, the committees 1948
appropriations for the judiciary viii
not materially alter the present
number of personnel, committee
sources said. At present, 1888 per-
sons are employed in the Federal
judiciary system,
The recommended appropriation
Evening star., 1947-05-05
Landon School Alumni Plan
Annual Smoker Friday

Landon School alumni will launch
a drive for the school building fund
at the annual smoker at $3.50 pm.
Friday at the school, Wilson lane,
Bethesda.
The annual welcome to the ia
theirs of Landon boys will take place
May 1s when fathers attend classes
with their sons and compete with
them in sports. High light Of the
latter will be match featuring Gil
Bogley, national indoor and outdoor
boys champion, and Jack Yates, 1945
national indoors doubles champion,
against Dwight Collins, Landon ten
mis- coach and one of the fathers.
Commencement exercises will be
held at pm, June 6, with DR.
Thomas Parren, surgeon general OF
the United States Public, Health
Service, delivering the address.
Evening star., 1947-05-05

share that government, . governor
81 the British Broadcasting Corp.
asserted last night.
Radio, Miss Barbara Ward said,
win be the principal means by
which this mass education viii be
carried out and the American
broadcasting industry IS not meet
ing the responsibility involved.
IN an address at the annual din
ner OF the 18th Institute for Edu-
cation by Radio, the 33-year-old
BIC governor, one Of Great Brit
aims ranking economists, pointed
out the tremendous percentage Of
American radio time devoted to
soap operas and audience particle
patton program and commented:
II don't see how any one recog-
nizing the challenge inherent in the
democratic education Of mass
media can think they (radio) are
doing a good job. "
Carey Charges Discrimination.
Earlier, James Carey, secretary
treasurer of the CIo, declared labor
isn't getting fair treatment from
the Nations radio broadcasters
they practiced discrimination anc
abuse OF censorship.
Mr.. Carey was particularly In
sistent on what he described as the
unfairness of time allotments or
questions affecting the tough labol
| legislation now before Congress.
This legislation, he asserted. wa
written by the National Association
of Manufacturers. He accused
NAM of refusing to debate publicly
with labor leaders.
This was denied by John John
stone, from MANS public relations
department.
Fault Laid to Stations.
II labor isn't getting "a fail
i shake" said M. S. Novik, former di
4 rector of the New York City munici
pal broadcasting system, it's th'
fault of the individual stations.
"The fault does not lie, and neye
has lain, with the networks" MI
Novik stated. 1.-THE responsibilit.
rests squarely with individual sta
tons"
Labor has not saked," Mr.. Care.
said, "for the barring Of such ia
natical anti-labor commentators a
Fulton Lewis, jr.; H. v. Kaltenborn
Upton Close and Henry j. Taylor
despite their continual untruths con
cerning labor.
What we do ask is that com
mentators sharing difference view
points be permitted to air thei
views.
"But, look at the record. In tn
past few months such men as Johl
Vandercook, Raymond Swing, Rob
ert S. John, Frank Kingdom an.
william Shirer have either beei
taken off the air or their coverag
vastly reduced" Mr.. Carey declared
Evening star., 1947-05-05
BehIinq 10 Succeed Sachse
On Federal Power Unit

President Truman today nom
mated Burton N. Behling. now a
special assistant to the Federal
Power Commission, to be member
of the commission succeeding COM
missioner Richard Sachse.
Mr.. Behling will serve for the un-
expired term ending June % and
then the five-year term ending In
1852
Mr.. Sachse, Californian, Is re-
Evening star., 1947-05-05
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Evening star., 1947-05-05

Included 15oo 900 to cover cost Of q
move TO place referees ID bankruptcy
cases on 8 salary basis, ending the
old fee system.
The referees would be paid $1,000
to $4,000 q veal. Over period OF
years, Representative Stefan. Re-
publican, of Nebraska, said, it was
believed the new system would be
self sustaining. Under the old sys-
tenn some referees collected as much
as $40, 900 IN fees in year. the
committee was told.
Evening star., 1947-05-05
KesseIrina Verdict Waits

VENICE, Italy, May 5 GA
five-man British military court
which tried Field Marshal Albert
Kesselring, former German supreme
commander in Italy, on war crimes
charges announced today 1t would
have no verdict before tomorrow.
Evening star., 1947-05-05
District Coroner rs Speuk

Dr. A. Magruder Macdonald. Dis
trict coroner, will be the guest
speaker at luncheon meeting Of
the Northeast BnSinessmeIl,s Asso-
ciation at the Continental Hotel at
1880 pm. Thursday. .
Evening star., 1947-05-05

|tiring Oh account of III health. Hel
has been on the commission since
November. 1915,
Evening star., 1947-05-05
.BBC Governor Says
American Radio Fails
In lis Responsibility
a. 81. A,.oe;n,ed Proc

by fHe RsSotFoIeu f1sSs
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 5.-The
survival of free government rests
in the ability Of education to catch
up with preparing the masses to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-02-02
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: IT'S
FIRST HUNDRED YEARS
(vol. uID
By Philip Kinsley. (Chicago
Tribune; 49,
Reviewed by
HENRY LYON,

The 1sSo-190o phase of the saga
of the Chicago Tribune mirrows life
in the growing metropolis Of the
Middle West against a backdrop of
historic national and international
events.
Through the pages of Volume
III" move such figures as Eugene
Debs, william Mckinley, Dwight l..
Moody, "Hinky Dink" Kenna,
Frances willard, William Jennings
Bryan, Theodore Thomas, Oscar
Wilde, Admiral Dewey and Gen
eral" Coxey. Headline news rank
quite naturally is given the Worlds
Fair ans the war with Spain.
Author Kinsley was born in 1880,
reached, manhood during the span
of which he writes. Previous vol
umes covered the years 1847-65 and
1865-1880. The Tribune will celebrate
It's Tooth anniversary June 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-02-02
Technical BHNionce
Marks Anthology Of
Edward Newhouse
THE IRON CHAIN
By Edward Newhouse. Thar.
court, Brace; S2.5O.)
Reviewed by
1Av rADkHOT1v
VGVI6WCU ny
JAY CARMODY.

One of the deepest effects Of read
ing Mr.. NewhouSe's short stories is
the sense that authors who do not
have his technical brilliance should
not bother to write at ALL Since
that would play havoc with the pub
fishing industry, not to mention the
egos of lesser authors, 1t is naturally
too much to expect.
"The Iron Chain" a collection OF
% short stories, all but two Of which
appeared in the New Yorker, never
theless remains an anthology cal
culated to prejudice readers against
other venturers into this literary
field. MIR. Newhouse is obviously
a writer who not only has unique
style, but also the correlative gift
of using 1t with unfailingly ad-
mirable judgment.
1t would be easy to stick war
label on these deceptively simple
etchings from life. It also would be
unjust. In the glints of human ma
ture which the author OF 1.-THE Iror
Chain" pin-points so dramatically
the settings and dressing count fol
little. These are tales of people, ano
If they happen to wear uniforms anc
exist temporarily in exotic spots, the
consequence is minor. They act as
they do because their natures are
human and the author never finds
this so bitter that he cannot also
find 1t sad.
Obviously in publishing 1.-THE Iron
CHAIN" Harcourt, Brace feels he is
entitled to a much larger audience
than the one which reads the New
Yorker.
This is sound Judgment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-02-02
Bad journalism and Politics
In 18th Century America
|THURLOW WEED: WIZ
lard OF THE LOBBY.
By Glydon 6. Van Deusen.
(LiffIe, Brown g Co.; 81
neVlSWSQ Uy
w. II. HARRISON.

The subtitle Of this painstaking
and instructive biography is some
what misleading. Although Thur
low Weed made q highly profitable
thing Of lobbying, Mr.. Van Deusen's
searching study Of the man and his
era makes clear that that phase
of his activities was merely inciden-
tai to his career as boss Of the Wings
In New York State and editor OF the
Albany Evening Journal
Weed came up the hard way. but
as soon as he began to climb he
climbed fast. Albany and his edi-
.torship got him of to his real start.
AS Mr.. Van Deusen points out, the
man was q great admirer Of Benja-
min Franklin, but IF Franklin was
"a journalist first and politician af-
|terward, Weed reversed the order
The acquisition Of political power
became the master passion OF his life,
and in pursuit Of this objective he
became an adept In organization
and in the formulation Of party pol
icy" In pursuit of 1t, too, as a
molder Of public opinion, he did not
seem to worry much about "his
pronerless to coarse vituperation, his
mastery of the art of evasion, his
willingness to compromise his con-
science" II G
But these failings were not pecu-
liar to Weed. They were largely
characteristic of the politics and
journalism of his age-the heady
and turbulent decades that led up
to and spanned the Civil War and
its tragic aftermath. The Wing
boss-popularly known as the "Dic-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-02-02
Vivid Letters From Confederate Lines
Appear Untouched by Wartime Censors

censors, the fast-riding and fast
writing cavalryman from Lynch
burg obviously eluded them success
fully throughout the War Between
the States. He wrote letters almost
daily to his courageous and devoted
wife. Many were penned as the roar
of battle ragged nearby. Sometimes
his desk was a box in his tent, OF
a tree stump in a field covered by
corpses of dying men, or even
the saddle of his horse. All OF his
letters evidenced lack OF inhibition
about discussing past, present ano
future strategy in great detail-em-
bellished occasionally by frank criti-
tcism of some of his superiors.
In one Of the letters he told his
wife to save his correspondence, az
he intended it to be sort OF diary
which his children and grandchtl-
dren might read. He said he die
not plan to publish his letters "as 9
book" But In 1894 Mrs. Blackforo
decided to add some Of her let
tiers and comments to the collection
and publish them privately in 9
small edition. A public edition was
inadvisable, she felt, because some
of the letters stepped on the toes
of too many then still living"
1t. Comdr. Blackford, who served
with the Navy at Kiska, Tarawa anc
Saipan, felt that earlier considera-
lions against publication are M
longer valid, so, with some dele
lions and interpretations, he has
made a noteworthy contribution te
Confederate literature in this vol
ume. In some respects the book i
reminiscent of "War Years With
Jeb Stuart" by Capt. Blackboard
brother, 1t. Col. w. w. blackboard
who is mentioned frequently in the
correspondence.
Capt. Blackford's letters will be
Of particular interest to residents
of nearby Virginia for many Of. thu
experiences he describes took place
in such familiar places as Fall!
Church, Annandale, Vienna "a "hot'
bed of Yankees"). Fairfax, Manas'
sas, Leesburg, Middleburg, Culpepel
and Fredericksburg.
The letters give colorful side
lights on such rebel heroes as Lee
Jackson and Stuart. He considered
"Stonewall' a "roundhead" warrior
Iof rough-and-ready type, Whose
aloofness and mysticism he coule
never comprehend but whose inspir.
ing qualities as a military leader
he placed second only to those o.
Gen. Lee. Many new anecdotes
about Lee and jackson are to bt
found in this book. One does moi
have to be Southern sympatfizel
to enjoy these descriptive and in
formative letters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-02-02
LETTERS FROM LEES
ARMY
Compiled by Susan Leigh
Blackford (Scribner's; $751;
ICCFICWCU ny
REX COLLIER.

It is fortunate for readers Of this
interesting volume that Capt.
Charles Minor Blackford, Confed-
crate cavalry officer, did not have
to bother about censors. His grand
son. 1t. Condr. Charles Minor
Blackford, III, who edited and
abridged Capt. Blackford's colorful
letters for publication, must have
been struck, as he read them, with
the contrast between the security
restrictions of World War II and the
apparent total lack of them in Civil
War days.
If there were any Confederate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-02-02
Public Library
By GEORGE B. MoreIond, j
Washington Public Library

When Charles Dudley Warner
(not Mark Twain) said, Everybody
talks about the weather but nobody
does anything about it," he little
realized the great dams to be built
which would control floods and pro-
vide water supply for extensive irri-
cation projects. We have yet to con-
troll the precipitation of rains and
SHOWS but great strides have been
made in their even and effective dis
tribution once they have descended
upon the earth.
The amazing qualifications of the
building of a great dam are illus
trated in r. B. Simmons Boulder
Dam and the Great Southwest" D.
o. Woodbury. explores the same sub
ject from a different angle in his
Colorado Conquest" Representa-
tive storage and diversion dams con-
structed by the Department of the
Interior are described in the Bureau
of Reclamation's publication Dams
and Control Works" That not all
obstacles have been of a technical
nature is told in Rufus Woods 1.-The
23-Year Battle for Grand Coulee
Dam"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-02-02

tator"- born in 1897 and lived
until 1882. Mr.. Van Deusen's book
covers the greater part of this period
and touches on all the top issues and
personalities involved in Weeds ca
reer. Here we have the celebrated
Weed Seward Greeley partnership
interpreted in a. fresh light. Here
men like Clay and Fillmore, Van
Buren, and "zack" Taylor. are pa
raded in brief but Illuminating Wig
nettes. Here Lincoln and the House
Divided are presented effectively as
the somber background against
which Weed moved. During the
bloody struggle between North and
South, the Albany titan rendered
distinguished service to the Union
cause, but it was typical of him that
he also engaged in deals that were
officially dubious, to say the least.
The portrait drawn by Mr.. Van
Deusen is a sympathetic one. 1t
does not hide the faults Of the
man, but it does present him In q
friendly and understanding manner,
with special emphasis on his good
qualities, Of which he had more
than a few, including a warm heart.
Politician, journalist, patriot, mill
honaire, brimful Of energy and ac-
ton, more interested as he was in
the end than in the means by which
the end was achieved. his career
came close to epitomizing the
strengths and weaknesses, the &C
complishments and the failures OF
10Th century America"
MI. Van Deusen's concluding words
probably are about as fair and just
a. summation of Thurlow Weed as
could be written. AS editor and
Wing boss, he was in tune with his
times. America has changed greatly
since then, and journalism and poll
tics have changed with it-happily-
for the better.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-02-02
Fact Is No Stronger
Than This Fiction
THE CATOCTIN
| CONVERSATION
By Jay Franklin. (Scribner;
Reviewed by
JOSEPH A. FOX.

An imaginary conversation at
|Shangri-La, the presidential retreat,
between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Win
ston Churchill, Harry Hopkins,
Bernard Baruch and '.Putzi" Hanf-
staengl, Hitler intimate. BY Jay
Franklin, with an introduction by
Sumner WelleS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-02-02

THE ANCIENT MAYA, by syl-
vanus G.. Morley. stamford Uni
versity Press; SOD A famous
archeologist writes the authorita-
tive history Of Magyar culture. The
book is handsomely printed and
Illustrated with many drawings and
photographs.
THE TEXAS REPUBLIC, by VIII
liam Ransom Hogan. University
Of Oklahoma Press; So A social
and economic history of the repub-
lie which existed in Texas between
the revolt from Mexico and the
admission to the Union.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-02-02
Partially Weokens
Volume Approising
Pearl Horbor
PEARL HARBOR: THE
STORY OF THE SECRET
WAR

By George Morsenstern.
| (Devin-Adair; So &
The naval disaster of 1941 has
been investigated at least a dozen
times, mostly by boards and off,
Gals of the armed services. A joint
committee Of Congress finally I'm
derteok the task.
The findings of these various
groups are pretty well known by
now, though some of them were
suppressed during the war, and
others we're not made public until
the congressional committee gave
them light. But the whole under
taking was so complex, the evil
dence so confusing and contradic-
tory, the reports Of the numerous
boards sometimes made known in
such peculiar and fragnlentary ways
that it's doubtful whether even yet
many people have clear idea OF
the various verdicts. They un-
doubtedly know that most of the
boards blamed the Hawaiian COM
manders, Admiral Husband E. Kim
mel and Maj. Gen. Walter G. Short
in greater or less degree.
Mr.. Morgenstern has compiled q
mass of evidence, much of it intro
duced at the long congressional
hearings, and has drawn his own
conclusions. He writes clearly and
concisely.
Unfortunately, his book, as
contribution to current history, is
weakened considerably by the au-
thor's obvious bias. He seems to
have started out with the idea OF
proving that the late President
Roosevelt was the chief culprit. He
has proved it to his own satisfac-
ton. Nowhere is there a judicial
approach to the problem of weigh
ing this vast accumulation OF data.
Certainly there was evidence
enough mitigating the guilt" at
tached to the Hawaiian command
ers; ample testimony that WASH
ington officials failed to tell Ad-
miral Kimmel and Gen. Short what
they knew from intercepted jap
anese messages about the i'm
minence of war. But MIR. Morgen-
stern attributes this silence to "a
desire to do nothing that would
deter or forestall the attack which
would produce the overt act SO
long and so fervently sought" His
own conclusion, unsupported by
tangible evidence. Again, he says:
Pearl Harbor provided the Amer
lean war party with the means OF
escaping dependence on a hesitant
Congress in taking reluctant peo-
pie into war"
Unyielding isolationists and those
who blame the Roosevelt admins
tration for everything pad that has
happened in the last Is years prob
ably will agree with Mr.. Morgen-
stern. Others, no doubt, will want
a more impartial appraisal of Pearl
Harbor.
Mr.. Morgenstern has been MEM
Der of the Chicago Tribune's edi-
torial staff since 1899. During the
war he was captain in the Marine
Corps, directing combat corre-
spondents. G. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-02-02

brought h a v e
proved only in
terludes, W | t h
new wars al
ways ahead.
Thus the war
of 1889 . 1945
"has be en- in
preparation for
5000 ars. +"
Though tn e r e
were voices, that
Of Christ and
before Him those
of Buddha, Con-
flu ciuS a n d
I S aiah, telling