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Evening star., 1949-11-08

the partyS re-
serve fund fell below $125 900. II
fell to 500, 900. He quit. His let
ter of resignation sadly contrast.
the situation with that of early
1948 when there was reserve
fund of 1892 900. In early 1948
it may be remembered. Republi-
can victory was deemed to be II
the bag
Well, it seems that nothing sue
ceeds like success. The latest re-
port of the Democratic National
Committee, filed with the clerk
of the House Of Representatives
September 10, says that what used
to be considered the poor mans
party had $515.611 on hand, with
outstanding debts of only $3,777
Dinner May Double Cash.
On December 2 the committee
expects to greatly microscopes
sibly even double-the cash now
on hand as the result of a single
dinner to be held in New York.
The dinner is to honor Vice Presi-
dent Alben Barkley and Speaker
Sam Rayburn, two of the party's
favorite characters, as well as to
collect the cash. It will be held
at the Waldorf Astoria in a din
ing room that seats 5000 and the
price per plate will be 500. Ac-
ceptances have been pouring in al
a lively rate from all over ths
country. Twenty governors hav.
announced their intention to At
tend.
Evening star., 1949-11-08
On the Record
True Conservatism Foresees Reforms
And Makes Them Before 1t Is Too Late

scribe the aristocratical view of
life expressed in noblesse oblige.
The trouble, however, is that not
only the word but the spirit is
lacking. .
Thus industrial leaders (and
their political spokesmen) attack
the welfare state. But what do
they propose as an alternative?
The universal trend toward
what John Foster Dulles calls
"statism" is due to a universal de-
sire for greater economic and So
cial security, arising out of real
human experience and consequent
fear Of unemployment and indi-
gent old age. neither of which rep
resents human dignity" These
fears push toward the ever
increasing expansion of state
powers and the evolution of So
ciety into bureaucratic collec-
tiviSm.
New Class of Bosses.
This column is as convinced as
Mr.. Dulles, Mr.. Hoover, or the
U. S. Steel Corporation that this
course will merely create a new
class Of irresponsible bosses and
parasites and evolve in the worst
case into dictatorship, open or
yelled, and in the best into stag
nancy.
But If the state Gin essence the
police power) Is not to assume
responsibility for greater social
security. who is to assume 1t?
The employed workers cannot
assume it, except by way Of the
state. In pressing for socialism
they are merely voting for a
change Of bosses, which is cer-.
tainly reflection on their present
ones. And the only way this
tendency can be diverted is If the
free forces of industry, labor and
society in general comparatively
solve these problems apart from
the Intervention Of the state.
Thus. in demanding that indus
try take responsibility for workers,
and take it on its own shoulders,
MIR. Murray is the conservative
not the United States Steel Corp!
Conservatism that opposes re-,
form is not conservatism, but
arterial sclerosis. True conserva-
tism is animated, not by q passion
for power. privilege and profits
but by the passion to preserve So
ciety. which is, perhaps, the
noblest passion Of man. It antici-
pates necessary reforms and
makes them, out of ethical con-
sciousness, and before It's back is
against the wall. And it does not
lconfound liberty with irresponsi-
bility or anarchy. When privilege
no longer equals duty, its days are
numbered. !.
Conservatism Revisited" by
Peter Viereck, Scribners, $2.50.)
Mslsassd u ths Dsu Syndicate, Ins.)
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excuse. AlCer
all. the portion of the globe not
occupied and little dominated
these days by the white race is
comparatively small. And other
people of color have made the
American Negroes cause their own
to a degree startling to the tray
eler.
Acres Of type are devoted to
Paul Robson, his outcries and his
riots, The testimony given by
Jackie Robinson in answer to him
may get printed but it is but one
interview, as Mr.. Robinson is
making his living playing base
ball while Mr.. Robeson's life is
dedicated to making Communist
propaganda. Obviously, the Com
munists happily do their bit to
spread Mr.. Robeson's story and
the Japanese made their wartime
contribution also when they were
crying Asia for the Asiatics," q
slogan that has not lost all its
appeal.
America Pays.
But one cannot answer Commu-
mist or japanese propaganda
when Harvard-educated Chi
nese tells Of being barred from a
Kansas City hotel or q Pakistan
official is described as having
been elected from New York
restaurant. America pays for
these experiences.
Nor are we deceiving anyone
into thinking that the question
LOT Hawaiian statehood is be-
deviled only by the Communist
Evening star., 1949-11-08
This Changing World
Masses of German People Won't Oppose
Any Russian Invasion, Observer Is Told

members representing II parties
and factions) to eventual partici-
patton in the. Atlantic Pact and
the Military Aid Program may be
summed up as follows:
If in the near future the Allies
indicate that they would like to
see Germany in a position to par
ticipate with armed forces in the
defense of Europe, we would real
ize that such move is prompted
only by the desire to increase tenn
porarily the defenses of the Rhine
line. and not the defenses of Ger
man soil.
I'm other words. we understand
from the few unofficial hints we
have received so far that German
manpower would be utilized only
for delaying actions. None Of the
European members of the Atlantic
Pact would ever permit Germany
to organize motorized divisions.
Foot soldiers without tanks and
armored equipment are mere can
non fodder these days. This we
know from bitter experience.
Small Arms Useless.
'Rearmament of Germany with
small and medium types of in
fantry weapons alone would be
useless and would merely contrib
ute to the massacre by the enemy.
1t would also subject the popula-
ton to even more ruthless treat
ment by the Fasteners.
J Neither France nor the Bene-
lux countries ever will permit the
creation of German tank divi-
sions, which alone would enable
us to start a counterofensive in
case of an attack. We, on our
side, would rather submit to an
invader than turn the remainder
of our able bodied men into can
non fodder for the defense-tem-
porarily-of nothing more than
the Rhine"
The German in the railway
coach. the Bierhalle and the coun-
try inn is less involved in his
thinking about the possibility that
he might have to fight once more.
His reaction might be summed up
as follows:
1--WE have had a bellyfull of
fighting and are through now. If
the Russians come in, we won't
like it but won't oppose them
either. We can't stand another
devastation. They will be on the
Rhine before you have had a
chance to load a gun. Thus, Ger
many will not become a battle
ground. except that we will have
to stand some more aerial war
fare. But there isn't much that
can be destroyed in this country
any longer by air bombardment.
If our politicians want to make
rash promises in order to curry
favor with the Allies that is their
business. I, for one, am through.
They can fight their war, but in
clude me out"
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strike for them. Some industries
have done SO for years and they
are the industries with lowest
labor turnover and fewest trou-
bles.
What this country needs, tc
keep 1t from slipping. by the pro.
cess Of gradualism, into the ser.
vile state, is a good, strong con-
servative movement and party. II
is precisely this that the Republi-
cans have failed to furnish anc
that industry. on the whole, ha.
failed to develop. Instead Of con.
servatives we have reactionarie.
|or 10th Century Gladstonian lib.
erals VS.. state-socialists calling
themselves something else.
Power and Privilege.
The essence Of conservatism L
the recognition that power ane
privilege entail obligation in ex.
actly equal proportion. One oi
our most brilliant and courageou.
young thinkers, Peter Viereck, II
his new book Conservatism Re.
visited" writes as q champion oi
conservative ideas. and I wist
every Republican leader in thi.
country Would read his book. HI
thus defines them:
The conservative principles pal
excellence are proportion ane
measure; self-expression through
self restraint; preservation
through reform; humanism ant
classical balance thes,
create freedom: a freedom bull
not on the quicksand of adoles
cent defiance, but on the bedrocl
Of ethics and law"
And, he adds, "the core ant
fire-center of conservatism
is q humanist reverence for tn
dignity OF man."
OF course. no one in this coun
try calls himself conservative
1t Is an almost forgotten and for
hidden word; and perhaps becaus'
| Of its semantic associations on,
should invent another word to de-
Evening star., 1949-11-08
On the Other Hand
Now It's Democrats Who Have Money
In Bank and More Where It Came From

Ihe money thus raised Will be
used to help finance the congress
sional campaign next year. But
that won't be the end Of the
money-raising. The winter and
early spring will see a rash of
those Jackson and/or Jefferson
dinners which have proved SO
profitable since their inception
and which reached their peak,
with a take of more than $400, 900,
in the dinner held in Washington
last winter. There is nothing, it
appears, so generous as a well-fed
Democrat.
This matter of money doesn't
offer the only revelation of what
happens to a party organization
as the result of a succession of
victories, on the one hand, or a
succession Of defeats on the other,
There is the matter of morale
The worst that occurs in the case
Of the winners is a good-natured
argument over who deserves the
credit and that seldom lasts very
long.
Losers Quarrel Goes On.
But the quarrel among the
losers over who is to blame goes
on and on. Mr.. Kemper, for ex-
ample, couldn't refrain from a
parting shot at his own party
members who support a bipartisan
policy in foreign affairs.
So we have a situation a lot Of
Democrats once thought they
never would live to see: Their
party better financed and better
organized than the opposition.
About the organization there can
be no doubt. The personal Or
ganization developed by James A.
Farley has been turned into a true
party organization that is now on
the job every week in the year,
working in close cooperation with
the party's titular head, the
President. The organization sup
ports the Presidents policies, he
supports the organization, in
the one most effective way-with
patronage.
It is because Of this organiza-
ton, as well as the memory Of the
lean years, that the party hasn't t
succumbed to its success and con-
tinues to run scared" as In the
case of New York State this week.
Evening star., 1949-11-08
us. on Defensive
Virtually Every Country Around World
Watches Americas Color Question

labor aspect. Hawaiians know
very we'll that the color problem
is raised in connection with their
hopes for statehood and that
knowledge is a stone tossed into
the Pacific. whose ripples spread
to the shores of Asia.
An Americans reaction of dis
may, irritation or a feeling that
his country is being done a great
injustice by this emphasis on the
color question is largely deter
mined by his own personal at
titudes. Certainly the situation
seems out of perspective to one
fresh from the great debates in
Congress on foreign aid and the
substantial votes by which
America has spent billions to put
the war-worn world, including the
vanquished, on its feet.
But foreign aid is being done
in the name Of democracy, and
United States failures in that fielc
are apparently considered fair
game. No United States official
can be found to laugh it off or
say it does not matter; they be-
lieve 1t matters very much.
"Voice" Helps Where 1t Can.
The one thing America cannot
afford to do, according to one
veteran administrator. is to think
Of the problem in terms of the
Negro at home. In his view, a
vital question of world foreign
policy is involved to which all
American thinking on the subject
must be keyed.
United States officials and the
Voice Of America are not lying
down on the job; they do what
they can. Another assist came
from the globe-trotting Town
Meeting Of the Air. which ef-
fectively featured Walter White
of the Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People.
A proposal that DR.. Ralph
Bunche. the distinguished Negro
who was Palestine mediator and
now works for the United Nations,
should be named Ambassador to
the Soviet Union has been put
forward by some United States
ENJOYS. including Averell Harrl-
man, rowing ECA Ambassador. Mr..
Hartman argued that DR.. Bunche
was well qualified and that his
appointment would dwarf the
Robson charges. The State De-
partment did not see it his way.
Evening star., 1949-11-08

ers is far less Constantine Brown.
agreeable than driving in Ameri-
can cars and travelling in first
class "Miteuropa" German pull
mani trains. which are reserved
for Allied military and civilian
passengers.
Neither are the second class
German hotels nearly as COM
Portable and clean as those which
are still under the control of the
Allied authorities. But for the
purpose of finding out what the
people in this country are think
ing the physical discomfort OF
visiting the Germans in their
own environment is outweighed by
the information to be gained.
Glad Troops In Reich.
Ever since the Allies undertook
the creation Of Western German
government and arranged free
elections for that purpose. the
German people have talked freely,
even when they realized they were
conversing with what they term
a former enemy"
In spite of statements to the
contrary by their politicians, they
are glad that American troops are
still in the Reich. They consider
them the best protection they
can have against a Communist
coup. either from without or with
in. The fact that American ci-
villain and military personnel have
adopted an almost friendly at
titude toward these defeated
peoples allows them to speak their
minds without fear or reserve.
"Ohne uns" {freely translated
Include us out") the overwhelm-
ing number of German parliament
tarians reply when they are asked
whether their people would fight
in the event of Western war
with Russia. The same reply
comes from their individual con-
stituents when the same question
is put to them. But while the
politicians reply is qualified. that
OF the individual is definite.
The opposition of Bundestag
Evening star., 1949-11-08

a man with a
good working
knowledge of
how to handle
gracefully hun
dreds of mad
dening aspects
Of modern life.
The books of
behavior now
a available are
invaluable II ali
a fellow wants
to know is such
t h in g S a S
whether to wear
Evening star., 1949-11-08

black or white nenr' "eIe"''s'
gloves when shooting pool with a
dowager. how to carve kanga-
roo. whether master plumber
takes precedence over an antique
furniture salesman when entering
a dining room, and if it is fitting
and proper for father to pawn
his daughters engagement ring
to be able to play good thing at
Belmont.
You Can't Shoot Him.
But what about information on
more vital things such as. for
instance, how to get a man out
of a phone booth when he Is
in the only phone booth available.
and has been in there long enough
to have grown beard?
Just what are you supposed to
do when the man in the booth
hangs up and you are saying to
yourself, THANK heavens he is
coming out at last" he yanks
out another coin and drops 1t in
the slot?
You can't shoot him, because a
silly law would get you in the
hoosegow for such an action. And
you can't open the door and bop
him on the nose, being as most
men who stay in phone booths
for hours are always big. brawny.
blue -whiskered cusses-or such
has been my experience.
I do wish that Emily Post Or
some other authority on behavior
would provide an answer.
And what about those wash
room faucets which you have to
hold to keep the water flowing
and which Richard Armour has a
little jingle about in the current
Saturday Evening Post? Too
many experiences with them will
run a man crazy. Confronted by
one of these taps, is it correct
to 60 out in the hall and sum-
mon help-someone to hold the
fool thing while you lather your
hands and then go out in the
hall again all soaped up and get
another helper to hold the tap
while you get the soap off your
hands? Or is it best just to tear
your hair, scream and rant and
jump UP and down until an
alarmed management promises to
put in more sensible devices?
Behavior In Elevator.
I also would like to know just
how to behave and what to say
when elevator operators (and this
is especially true Of department
store operators, all Of whom must
be inbred from sardine canneries)
jam so many riders in the eleva-
tor that a normal and necessary
function such as breathing be-
comes an impossibility. I don't
know how many times I have
suffocated between women's linge-
rie and bicycle parts, and furni-
ture covers and aluminium ware.
And I am sure everyone who
ever wrote a column would like
an answer to this one: What do
you say to a man, woman. or
child who asks why you don't
write ten or fifteen columns in one
day and then have two weeks of
nothing to do? I have been asked
this a thousand times, and I
know my behavior has not been
too nice. just kick the questioner
in the shins and break into big.
heaving sobs.
distributed by McNausht Syndicate. Inc.)
Evening star., 1949-11-08

The amazing
thing is that
the great In
dustries of the
United States
have not long
ago, and on
their own ini-
tiative, set up
pension and
other protec-
1--we plans 1W
their employees
without watt
ing for unions
to demand and
Evening star., 1949-11-08

Negro is we'll
q d v e r t | S e d ,
What it does
for him and the
extent to which
his battles are
fought by in
huential Amer
leans south and
north are not
well known.
Even where
the mitigating
facts are known
they are not
considered an
ovn,,co Affor
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Bv Doris FIeeson

A 1949 trip around the world
discloses an America on the de-
fensive on the color question in
virtually every country visited.
What it does to the American
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they would take
the trouble to
find out what
the masses of
German people
are thinking.
Slow travel
in third class
railway coaches,
while sitting on
wooden benches
IN the 1Oul al
mosphere cre-
ated by the
cheap tobacco
of pipe-smok-
Evening star., 1949-11-08
Bv Constantine BrosOn

BONN. Germany, (By Air
maiD Official and unofficial
American observers would gain a
more comprehensive picture if
Evening star., 1949-11-08

II a 3 PROVIDED
him with the
money to oper-
ate. ALI that's
involved appar-
emily Is a little
matter of $685.
900. He'd told
'em, says the
retiring treas
urer, James S.
Kemper, presi-
dent of q big
insurance COM
pany, that he
would resign If
Evening star., 1949-11-08
By L0weH MeHen

Shades of Mark Hanna and
Will Fl. Hays! The treasurer of
the Republican National Commit
tee has resigned because nobody
Evening star., 1949-11-08
BY Harry Honon McLemore-
Wants Book to Solve
Everyday Problems
Bv Henry McLemors

Books of etiquette are all right
as far as they go, but like the
dollar Of today they don't 60
far enough.
None have ever seen furnishes
Evening star., 1949-11-08
BY Dorothy THOMPSON

Now that the steel strike is
nearing settlement, we wonder
what the shooting was all about,
as far as the companies are con-
Evening star., 1949-11-08
Carduvell's
for Carpets

>. IS A TRADITION in the Greater Washington
Area! Most people would much prefer to make
sure of Quality FIRST! Price is important, too-but
only to the extent thot QUALITY is assured and
maintained. For that reason there is no compromise
with quality at CordweIIs. QUALITY COMES FIRST
ALWAYS!
In Stock At All Times, Not Only One Color,
But MANY SHADES OF ONE COLOR
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-04-21
Settlement

Rev. and Mrs. Frank S. Harder
and sons were Sunday dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Jess f. Steiner.
Rev. and Mrs. Carl Brown and
son David Allan were over the week
end visitors in the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Menas Ger
ber.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Butler and
son Ronald of Goshen, Ind, spent
several days in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hiram Geiger. Mr.. and Mrs.
Geiger took them back to their home
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Reichenbach
celebrated their golden wedding an
niversary last Saturday.
Martha Suter had the misfortune
of falling while going down the
steps into the basement of the
Grace church Sunday evening after
the rendition of the cantata and is
suffering a fractured leg.
The sacred program presented by
the Wheaton college choir at the
First Mennonite church last Thurs
day evening was well attended and
very much appreciated.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Schumacher
and daughters Pauline and Linda
and son, Frederick, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard DilIer and daughter
Kay Louise were Sunday dinner
guests in the home of Mrs. Mary
Miller and son Paul.
(Delayed)
Mrs. (Rev) John Neuenschwander
and daughter Ruth Ann of Popular
Bluffs, Missouri arrived here the end
of last week for a visit with rela-
tives.
Elaine Welty, student at Goshen
College, Goshen, Indiana is spending
her spring vacation at the home of
her folks, Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Welty
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Kohl, Jr., and
son, Kerry David of Berne and Mr..
and Mrs. Eugene Kohl and daughter
Candace visited Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. II. M. Kohl.
Wilma Augsburger who is attend
ing Browns University at Sloan
Springs, Arkansas is spending her
vacation with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Memo Augsburger.
Ideal weather the past few days
has permitted many farmers to so
oats and plant early potatoes.
The local Mennonite churches have
elected their delegates for the Middle
District conference which is to hold
its sessions at the Grace church in
Pandora, April 21-24.
ROLAND Burkhart and Howard
Howell are at present busy shearing
sheep in this area. Mr.. Burkhart is
also buying wool throughout the
season.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-04-21
STOCK SALES

For rent-Bulls: Shorthorn Here
ford, Angus and Brown Swiss. Ira
Moser. If
Beef sold by the quarter; also pork
half Or whole for your locker OF
home freezer. A to z Market. If
Cow owners notice-Service bulls
delivered Natures way is the best
way. All bulls Bangs tested. c. n.
Long & Son, phone Ada Red 1870. If
For sale-Jersey cows. J. c. Dep
pier, Bentley road.
For sale-Roan milking Shorthorn
bull l year old. Malcolm Ewing, A
mile west of Richland Grange.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-04-21
EVANGELICAL & REFORMED
CHURCHES

lHIklHES
V. c. Oppermann Minister
Emmanuefs:
$50 A. M. Morning Worship
10:30 A. M. Church School
The choir of the church will meet
for rehearsal on Thursday evening
at 8:15 p. NJ.
Catechism Saturday at 9:30 A. M.
Youth Fellowship meets Sunday
evening at 700 at st. Johns church.
Father & Son Banquet Thursday,
April 28th. Purchase your tickets
| ahead of time.
Joint Consistory this Thursday at
500 at st. Johns church. All mem
bers are urged to be present.
st. Johns:
$50 A. M. Church School
10:45 A. NJ. Morning Worship
Choir rehearsal Thursday evening
at 7:30. All choir members try and
attend.
The Joint Consistory meets on
Thursday evening at the church at
500. All members be present.
The Edith Lahr Circle will meet
at the home of Mrs. Henry Huber
on Thursday evening at 800 P. M.
All ladies are invited to attend.
Catechism Saturday morning at
9:30 A. M.
Youth Fellowship meets Sunday
evening at 700 at the church.
Father & Son Banquet Thursday,
April 28. Purchase your tickets
ahead of time.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-04-21
RED CROSS THANKS


The American Red Gross of Bluff
ton want to thank every contributor
and every volunteer who assisted and
solicited in the Red Cross Fund
Campaign of 1949.
A very special "thank you" to the
American Legion Auxiliary who con-
Quoted the campaign and deserve
praise for the devoted energy of
their workers.
The Auxiliary provided AZ solicit
ors as part of their project of the
Department Of Community Interests.
Mrs. J. S. Steiner
Chairman of Bluffton
Red Cross