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Evening star., 1949-02-08
BY. THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

@. When stamps were first issued were
they perforated?-B. F.
A. The first British stamps issued in 1840
werS imperforate so they had to be separated
by cutting apart with scissors. The issues
Immediately following this were also i'm
perforated. and perforations did not enter
into British stamps until the issue of 1884
O. Which President went through his
entire term Of office without single cabinet
change?-V. G. N.
A. Franklin K. Pierce. 14th President. who
was in Office from 1853 to 1857.
@. Is there any truth in the belief that II
. pedigreed female dog is once bred to
mongrel she will always thereafter produce
mongrel puppies?-E P.
A. The theory that a mating of pure
bred and mongrel animal will affect sub.
sequent matings has long been discredited.
Subsequent matings of a pure-bred bitch
to pure-bred dog, will produce litter
of pure bred puppies.
@. Is vitamin content lesSened when
oranges and grapefruit are prepared in the
evening for morning uSe?-1. A
A. The Bureau of Human Nutrition and
Home Economics says that vitamin C Is the
only vitamin in citrus fruits in appreciable
amounts, and in this kind of fruit is re-
markably stable. If breakfast citrus fruit
is prepared the night before. as time saver.
keep it covered for cleanliness. Recent
studies indicate that refrigeration is not i'm
portant in retaining vtamin c, but 1t helps
to retain freshness and flavor.
@. What kind of bird is "frigate bird?
~. D.
A. The frigate bird is a sea bird with an
immense whispered and unusually great
powers of flight. It has been called the most
graceful bird that sweeps the sea. It is
relative of the pelicans, and is also called
man-of-war bird. Frigate birds live in the
tropics all around the world. They are about
40 inches long, but their wings spread to
or 8 feet. The upper plumage is black with
4 metallic shine.
Evening star., 1949-02-08
Victor

He, on her loUe relying,
Has s,Dord and shield to TEND;
Armored for death-defying,
VII, conquer to the end;
In euery noble quarrel
He ,ciH stand up and fight %.
But, o, lay not the laurel
Upon his brolD at night
Though he comes plun,ed and sple1,dt6
With glory round him shed;
With. the long. battle ended,
And his grin, toen,en dead:
Remembering all that n1oued him.,
and brought hin, to renotDn-
Remembering one pho loved him,
Gtpe her the pictor's croton.
: ARCHIBALD RUTEEDGE.
Evening star., 1949-02-08
This, :" and That
By Charles Z. Trdcetrell

Out Of rthe dust bag of the years comes
Ea this long -iost story of diamond. /
The diamond out of an engagemeut r1ns,
at that. "
At the mention of engagement rings. the
hearts of millions of women stand still
The engagement ring occupies a place
second only to that OF the wedding ring
Losing either one, or the setting out Of
the engagement ring Especially the old
fashioned kind. held by series of prongs)
causes a peculiar feeling of loss.
When Mrs. Templeton Jones (remember
this was years ago. lost the diamond out of
her ring, she felt very sick about it,
She looked and looked, but she said moth
ing to her mate.
1t would worry him. she thought.
She searched the house over
She tumbled cushions She looked behind
chairs, under tables. in draperies, in all the
hundred and one places thing like dia-
mond might be expected to hide itself.
y
After all, there sometimes seems to be
something really animate about the in
animate.
They can do things, seemingly, of their
own accord.
They lose themselves. they veritably hide,
then pop UP at the most unexpected moment,
as II lmbued with life.
Mrs. Jones looked and looked, but it was
no good
The stone remained missing.
Old Temp Jones finally wondered.
What's become of your ring?" he asked
Mrs. Jones. no dissembler, said in an off,
hand way. "Oh, just left it upstairs"
Temp Jones said nothing.
This passage made the Missus search
longer and harder than ever before.
Now, there is an old saying, that at first
If you do not succeed, try. try again.
That is the way it goes. TRY. try again."
1t says, two tries, one is not enough.
Mrs. Jones tried. tried again.
And, sure enough, she found the setting!
Or so she thought.
She was as pleased as a chipmunk with
walnut.
She hastily took the stone downtown to
her favorite jeWeler.
She was all excited. pleased and happy
The man adjusted his eyepiece, took the
stone. and looked at it carefully.
Then he handed it back.
Il am sorry" he said. This Is not your
diamond. 1t is just an old spangle off q
dress
Well, that aoored Mrs. Jones.
She felt very bad about it all. She had
searched for month. had turned every
thing upside down, had found what she
thought was the stone
Now it turned out not to be the real thing,
after all.
She felt very weary. all of sudden.
What to do, what to do?
Keep on looking!
1t was good idea.
So she spent another month putting it
into effect. But time and trouble seemed
to avail little.
Two months had gone by.
It seemed impossible the stone would
ever be found
She said as much to a neighbor.
Did you ever think to look in the crease
where your davenport cover pokes down in
the back?" asked the neighbor.
Sure enough. when Mrs Jones looked
there was diamond
This, time. however. she wasn't believing.
She took the stone to the same jeweler.
and he looked at it carefully, and handed
1t back.
This one'" he spilled lis your stone"
Evening star., 1949-02-08
Pia Tassinari Identified

To the Editor Of The Star:
Glancing over the Thursday. January 20
edition Of The Star. see that on page As
there is picture Of the group OF stars who
entertained at the Inaugural Concert on
January 10. The unidentified woman who
is standing next to Ferruccio Tagliavini is
the tenor's wife, Pia Tassinari At this late
date don't know how this information will
help you, but there it is. LoRANE sCH1FF.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Evening star., 1949-02-08
~ Letters to The Star

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
tortter, although It Is permissible for
toriter knoton to The Star to use
a nom de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1949-02-08
Disasrees With Dance Critic

To the Editor OF The Star:
have read the review of the dance con.
cert presented by Martha Graham and her
company. as printed in your February edi-
ton. and signed H. McA. and I wish to ex-
press to you my great displeasure, and state.
why believe the criticism Is discredit to
your paper.
The reporter admits to no knowledge or
appreciation of the field Of contemporary
dance challenge the reporters knowledge
and insight into Shakespeares King Lear"
I challenge the reporters efforts to under
stand the representation. I most vehemently
challenge the reporters grasp of the serious.
studiously stark representation of the
"Medea" by Miss Graham in Gave OF the
Heart" and the nauseating attempt at humor
so out of keeping with the demeanor of that
particular work. If the reporter did not
approve of Miss Grahams Interpretation OF
angels Diversions I suggest he attempt
to portray his own experiences with angels
in any field of artistic work. In short. a
man who is only amused and amazed by
these leaps and bounds should certainly not
write a criticism of that work.
The injustice, as I see it. is In the refusal
to acknowledge the sincerity and effort Of the
dancer Countless hours Of concentrated
physical work. devoted pursuit Of the nAld
Evening star., 1949-02-08
Questions and Answers

reader get the answer to any question Of
fact by Writing The Eyenng Star 1nfornstlon
Please incose three l3l cents for return postage.
Evening star., 1949-02-08

British slave to nicotine seeks a cure
for the tobacco habit that you don't have.
to marry and that calls for no will power.
Evening star., 1949-02-08
Nazi Crimes Remembered

A>oAA Nh lACS 1NCIHSHOereQ
To the Editor Of The Star:
In reference to letter which appeared in
your paper February from cultured lady
ooJecting to the Jewish oppression of the
cultured Nazi musician. may straighten the
record?
Perhaps the cultured lady's memory is not
too good and she has forgotten what Ger
man culture did. The 5000 900 dead Jews
the dead Christians and the homeless Of the
world are all too vivid in my memory to be
forgotten only four years after German cul-
ture devastated this planet II we are to
forgive Dachau and Buchenwald 50
soon. what are the men who gave their lives
to make democracy more than just q catch
word to think? What are the disabled
men Of our recent conflict with German cul-
ture to think?
The cultured lady's concern for q Nazi Is
very touching. I, for one, am pleased to see
that this Nazi was sent from our country
without taking any of our money. Under the
guise Of fighting communism. Nazi culture
has in effect strengthened this system of
oppression to the point that we again are.
preparing to defend our precious heritage of
democracy.
Does the cultured lady believe that the
right to petition is not to be granted to the
Jews? If an American murdered in German
masSsc ere were to return to this country and
observe the bleeding hearts for the poor, op-
pressed Germans he would be amazed. I
know that it is wrong to condemn whole
nation for the acts of its leaders, but mem
bers of the Nazi party for all times must be
deprived of privileges which are accorded to
upright people. BENJAMIN B. BROWN.
Evening star., 1949-02-08
Discriminatory Rent Act

To the Editor of The Star:
Mass tenant evictions under the Tulsa
Plan" or landlord strike is not the
answer to the existing Property Control
Act" (better known as the Rent Act).
Isn't it strange. though, that the group
that has used the strike weapon" to such
advantage as to approach the Fourth round
of wage increases since 1945 is the one most
vocal in protesting the first round" of rent
increases by the very same strike method?
Free collective bargaining for all, except
the landlord"
I wonder If the United States Attorney
General will yell conspiracy" when next
there is another food, coal, telephone or
trucking strike.
Again repeat that with the removal of
rent control there will be housing surplus
in Washington. Remind me to tell you about
the prospective house buyer now occupying
q local Government subsidized 'low rent
house who wants to buy a $4,000 house
and has the cash to pay for 1t but (direct
quote): "Only when this good thing is
over" STANTON kOLB.
Evening star., 1949-02-08

to a degree unknown in the majority Of
ordinary work levels of the lay world, sin
cerity and self-criticism and striving for
perfection, cooperation between choreogra-
pher, set designer, musician and composer
and above all, the desire of these artists to
be received honestly and critically =. all
these factors must be worthy Of more con-
sideration than was shown by your critic.
ROBERT N. REA,
Lieutenant Gunior grade). United States
Coast Guard
Evening star., 1949-02-08

Sixteenth Street Bus Service
To the Editor Of The Star:
On behalf of the long suffering residents
of Sixteenth street. write to inquire how
much longer the Capital Transit Company
is going to get away with the inadequate
service it inflicts on these passengers during
the morning rush hours
Using my own experience as an example,
wait at the corner of Sixteenth and Ken
nedy streets between 7:30 and 800 m for
a Potomac Park bus. Frequently wait as
long as 20 minutes, during which time either
no Potomac Park bus arrives or loaded
one rushes BY. Yet during this wait see
any number of Eleventh and Pennsylvania
buses come along half empty!
Recently. called the public relations
Office of the Capital Transit Company to-
ask that the situation be remedled, and got
a glib and unconvincing answer. Apparently,
I was not the first to have called, since the
lady seemed to be thoroughly familiar with
the situation. Yet nothing whatever has
been done to alter the schedules so that
service might be sensible.
What is needed along Sixteenth street
and along many other thoroughfares as we'll
is suficiency of buses that are scheduled
with foresight and intelligence. Properly
scheduled buses would eliminate over
crowding. M r.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1949-07-14
WE MUST NOT FAIL

The present influx of families seeking homes in Cald
WE'LL resulting from the construction of the 26-inch
pipeline in this has brought to this community prob
lem that must be met The number estimated seeking
in Caldwell and immediate is reported around
hundred and fifty.
This is the communty's problem and many ways have
been suggested to bring about happy conclusion is
that after all is sad the only sensible solution remains with
the individuals comprising this community.
The solution is this wherever there is possible oca-
ton to house family conveniently locate trailer an
fort should be made to do The housing problem
met successfully if Caldwell home would provide or
make available rooms not in USE
The factor most evident at the present time that these
famies must live and consequently will put the local
business channels additional flow of money This
timatey will realize additional prosperity for ALL
AS gesture of goodwill Rasons Rexall drug store and
The Journal have volunteered their the comun
y as the contacts for the families seeking homes and the
local property So in the you have available
additional space call either business Rasons or The Jour
nal and give them what you have in the way available
housing facilities.
To render community service, now is the time for the
community to render itself fine service and demonstrate
its public spirit in the trueSt form.
Act now!
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1949-07-14

u1ilOIlCs :
According to the Secretary OF
Labor, Mr.. Tobin, himself, strikes
and man-days lost have been
greatly reduced since the passage
of the law. Mr.. Tobin testified
that in the 16 months between the
end of the war and the passage OF
the Hartley law, work stop
pages averaged 401 a month with
100000 man-days idle per month.
In the Is months following the pas
sage of the Taft-Hartley law, Mr..
Tobin reported that Workshop
pages had averaged only 259 a
month, compared with 401, and
man-days-idle averaged only 2,00O,-
900, a month compared with 7,5OO,-
900. In other words, work lost by
labor under the ft-Hartley law
was only one-third of what is was
during the Is months Immediately
preceding its passage.
And how have the labor unions
Jared under the Act? Union
membership has increased by
more than a million since the
passage of the law. At the end
Of two years experience with this
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1949-07-14

law, unions are stronger than
they have ever been before, SO
far as their power to recruit and
retain their membership is con-
cerned.
In the face OF. this testimony,
all the propaganda to the effect
that this is "slave Labor" law
seems a bit silly.
I IKE all major pieces of legisla-
- tion, the law has some defects.
The law itself set UP a committee
to consider amendments which
might be shown to be necessary by
the actual operation of the law.
The minority members of the
Senate Labor Committe after lis
tening to criticism on the part of
labor, management and the public
have proposed a revision of the law
with numerous amendments based
on those criticisms where they were
convincing. We propose to retain
most of the essential features of
the Taft-Hartley Act, but to cor
rect every subject of reasonable
criticism.
The Administration knows that
it cannot completely repeal the
Taft-Hartley law and has adopted
some features of the law, but if
the Thomas bill, the Administra-
tion's measure, were adopted it
would really take us back to the
one-sided Wagner Act. 1t would
relieve unions from responsibility
for their contracts and for the in
justices they do third parties by
secondary boycotts and jurisdic-
tional strikes. 1t would restore and
encourage the closed shop and re-
fuse any man a job who can't get
into the union, or doesn't want to-.
1t would outlaw many State laws
limiting closed shops.
It would relieve unions of re-
sponsibility for the acts of their
agents and go back to unioniza-
tion of foremen. 1t would abolish
the independent mediation service
and turn 1t over to the Depart
ment of Labor. 1t would destroy
the protection of welfare funds
and set up the National Labor
Relations Board again as one
sided government agency always
opposed to the employer, where
as we have tried to make it a
judicial body.
My belief is Congress will accept
those provisions of the Taft-Hart-
ley law which have proved their
! worth and desirability.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1949-07-14
BRIEFS OF TEN YEARS AGO.

Raymond L. Skinner, new su-
perintendent of the Caldwell
schools, and his family will move
next Saturday from Brilliant to
the Laura c. Okey property on
Lewis street.
Mrs. Anna Schafer, wife of
Joseph Schafer, prominent resi-
dent of the Dudley community,
was bitten by a hound dog Sat
urday afternoon in attempting to
get away from the ferocious ami
NAL, fell and fractured her hip.
Residents of Duck creek valley
are restoring order out of chaos
and estimating the damages to
their homes and crops from the
worst flood in this valley since
the summer of 1887.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Lorenz left
last Friday for Magnetic springs,
where they planned to spend the
ensuing ten days.
Births-A son to Mr.. and Mrs.
Dalton w h e aldon, Superior,
Wise; a son to Mr.. and Mrs.
Stanley Bates, Summerfield; a
son to Mr.. and Mrs. Taft McEl-
fresh, Marietta.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1949-07-14

The other night a bunch of us
were over at Judge Cunningham's
watching swell vaudeville pro-
gram on his new television set. 1t
came i'm fine, but just once, the
screen got little streaky.
Before the Judge could touch
the knob to bring it into focus,
old Windy Taylor starts fooling
around with the antenna connec-
ton. 81 can fix that!" he says.
Windy fixed it all right. He
stopped the show for us, and
Buzz Ellis had to come over and do
a $40 repair job. l understand
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1949-07-14

Miss Mayme Sealock, teacher
in the third grade of the Caldwell
public schools, and Miss Ethel
Pryor of Athens, Tenn, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. r. v. Pryor,
Cumberland street, left Tuesday
for a trip through the western
states to Los Angeles, Calf,
Seattle, Wash, and San Francisco
fair.
~
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul c. Brooks
and son, Wesley, recently of Chi
cago, Ill, are now enjoying a
tour of the western states. They
expect to visit with her father,
Jude Wheeler, before swinging
east to the New York Worlds S
Fair.
Deaths - Mrs. Sara h Ellen
Johnson, IS, Olive; James Waller,
80, Jackson township; Mrs. Alice
r. carpenter, ~, Lower Salem.
Charles Thompson, popul a +
druggist with the Ralston phar-
macy for the past three and one
half years leaves Caldwell, Satur-
day, July Is, for Bremen, where
he will assume the ownership
and management of his new drug
store.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1949-07-14

the Wagner Act.
There has been so much propa-
ganda against the Taft-Hartley law
that it seems worthwhile to recall
that this bill was passed twice by
q bipartisan vote in the 80th
Congress, overriding the Presidents
veto. A majority of Democrats as
we'll as Republicans in Congress
voted for this bill.
4 The act was passed for only
one purpose, namely, to restore
justice and equality in labor re-
lations and to eliminate special
privileges. 1t was not passed be-
cause of any hysteria nor because
of any prejudice against unions
on the part of Congress. In fact
it protects union security and
collective bargaining.
HOW has the act worked? After
Ii all that is the final test Of
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1949-07-14

legis a tion. So
far as l can see,
the Act h has
worked well and
it has entirely
sa fl ed the
people of tn e
United States. 1t
has provided no
substantial in
reference with
legitimat tie ac-
tivitie e s o t
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1949-07-14
DEADLINE IN so

DEADLINE IN 80
All eligible living veterans and
next of kin of deceased Ohio
veterans have less than a year to
file a claim. The deadline is
June 80, 1850, according to Di-
rector Leslie G. Scrimger. In
Noble county, 906 claims have
been paid, totaling $282, ,578.46
for an average claim of $311.90.
There have been 36 next of kin
paid here, totaling $13,688.67.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1949-07-14
|CAPPING the
CAPITAL
With BEN HAYES

COLUMBUS - Boneyparty
Stretchbury, one of the men
who petioned that Noble county
be formed, was the grandfather
of James Palmer, of Summer
field. But Mr.. Palmer, a Marion
township trustee, says it should
have been spelled Bonaparte
Stottsberry.
People were careless in spell
ing names 100 years ago. After
receiving Mr.. Palmer's letter,
dipped again into Watkins his
tory of Noble county. / hunted
for Stottsberry. / came close.
William Stretchberry was an
early settler of Center township
and in 1888 records was listed
as owning 40 acres east of Sar-
ahsville. Then there was a D. F.
Stottsberry who ran a general
store at Ava.
There we have four spellings:
Stretchbury,. Str e tc h b erry,
Stottsbury and Stottsberry.
Mr.. Palmer wrote: MY uncle,
William Stottsberry, enlisted in
the Civil War on the hillside
above Sarahsville. My grand
father was also n.the Civil War.
He owned the Snode farm near
Sarahsville".
MORE HISTORY-A. R. Boice
built the first hotel in Caldwell
and called it the Eldorado. This
had no connection with "Rado''
south of Fulda. The name of this
crossroads was Colorado. It was
once the tobacco-buying center.
Whigville's original name was
FREEDOM. Lexington was a
Marion township trading post
before Summerfield was estab-
lished. When the Sharon post
office was established in 1880,
two newspapers were delivered
through it. Peter Ackley receiv-
ed the London Pail Mall Ga
zette, and John Lyons took the
Pittsburgh Christian Gazette.
Among early newspapers in
Noble county were Noble Coun-
ty Patriot, The Investigator, The
Peoples Organ and the Cottage
Visitor. First blacksmith in
Caldwell was James Johnson. In
1875 Private Dalzell defeated
David S. Spriggs for the Legisla-
ture by only five votes. In 1877
the commercial salt well at
South Olive suddenly became an
oil well. 1t produced $50 barrels
of oil in 80 days.
Timothy Bates, the grand
father of Bethel Bates, Sr., was
a preacher and also ran a distil-
lery. In the beginning, services
were held in the distillery loft
with empty whiskey barrels US
ed as pulpit and seats. Batesville
was named for Rev. Timothy. An
early justice of the peace was
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1949-07-14
WASHINGTON
\ REPORT
BY SENATOR ROBERT A. TAFT

TINE Senate has been engaged debate for almost month
on the labor bill At this writing it is difficult to predict
with certainty what the outcome will be- But feel certain
Congress will not accede to the Presidents demand for
the outrkht repeal of the TafHarey law and return to