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Evening star., 1950-10-21
EvangeIistic Crusade
Al Nazarene Church

A Today evangelistic crusade
will open in the First Church of
the Nazarene at 7:30 pm, We'd
nesday, and continue nightly
through November S.
The evangelist will be DR.. Don
Householder of Los Angeles,
Calf.
The Rev. Roy F. Stevens. pastor
of the church. Is the chairman
Services will be held nightly at
7:30 pm. and will be open to the
public.
Evening star., 1950-10-21
metropolitan Baptist

"The Challenge of the Cross
will be presented at the Metro
politan Baptist Church, Wednes-
day at 7:45 pm. The play pictures
the Cross and the meaning of the
death of Christ for the world
The public is invited.
Evening star., 1950-10-21

speak at 8 pm.
tomorrow a t
the National
Pre- S b y terian
Church. He is
also pastor of
the Westmin-
ster Pre- S b y
terian Church
Of D ay t o n
Ohio,
He was elect
ed to head the
General Assem-
bly, at the 162d
meeting, held
at Cincinnati,
Ohio. last Nav
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-05-01
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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-05-25

Walter Otte, local Christian High
er Education Year appeal chair
man.
This splendid response attests
to the deep interest of the peo-
pie of America in their church
supported institutions of higher
education said DR.. Rees Edgar
Tulloss, Springfield, appeal gen.
eral director, in message to the
Church.
"This first continent wide ap-
peal by a denomination for its
schools will doubtless be fol-
lowed by many others, for the
Church in America is aware that
Christian higher education con-
stitutes one of our greatest bull
warks for the defense of religion
and our American way of life, y
DIR. Tulloss said.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-05-25

son.. Dick of UrbanaA spent Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. d. p.
Smith.
Mrs. Lucy Kenfield, of Urbana,
and Miss Doris Kenfield, of Col
umbus, were here Saturday and
attended the funeral of Mrs.
nellie Hess.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Oberdier re-
turned home Saturday from a
weeks business trip in Indiana.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Keeran
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-05-25

nominations "a colleges and SEM
inaries in the United States and
Canada.
Incomplete returns from 81 of
the U.L.C.A. synods give a total
of $4,508,432 already subscribed.
Nine of the synods have passed
the 100 percent mark. First Eng
lish Lutheran Church has met its
quota lao percent according to
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-05-25
FACE SIX

With more than S412 million
reported raised, victory seems as
sured for the United Lutheran
Church in America S6 million
Christian Higher Education Year
appeal, George w. Dittmar, pas
tor of First English Lutheran
Church, announced.
Goal of the appeal is for S6
million in 1950-5l for the de-
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-05-25
Mayor's Office Hours

From now on until Sept 1,
Mayor c. L. Kingsmore will be in
his office in the City Building at
10 a. m. each day. Anyone wish
ing to consult him may do so at
that time.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-05-25
> Woodstock

~ AA~A SASN DAA hAAAAAAI cAb iii AAOAAAN
recently. Friends and neighbors
called and she received many
flowers and cards.
A family breakfast was enjoyed
at the home Sunday honoring
Mrs. Kennedy. Completing the
party was Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Still
ings, of Columbus, Mrs. Mabel
Buckley and Harry Kennedy.
Announcing Engagement
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gray, of
Fountain Park, are announcing
the engagement of their daughter,
Mary May, to James Keeran, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Keeran, of
Urbana Rt, 3. Miss Gray is at
tending Woodstock High School
and Mr.. Keeran was a graduate
of Salem in 1945. No date has
been set for the wedding.
School Trips
Mrs. Beulah Connor took her
9th grade pupils to Columbus,
Wednesday, where they visited
Ohio State University, Museum,
Broadcasting Station WOSU,
stadium and enjoyed a picnic
lunch.
Mrs. Marion Stanley and the
5th, 9th and 7th grade pupils
went to the Ohio Caverns where
they enjoyed a trip through the
cave and a picnic lunch. Mrs. Don
aid Henry, Mrs. John Deere, Mrs.
Norman Brust and Mrs. Dick Lin
coin accompanied them.
In Hospital
Anita Turner, daughter of Mrs.
Miriam Turner went to Col
umbus, Monday and will under
go appendectomy at White Cross
Hospital, Tuesday.
Surprise Party
Mrs. Walter Gray planned a
surprise party for her daughter,
May Mays, 10th birthday at her
home in Fountain Park, Satur-
day evening. A pleasant evening
was enjoyed and Mary May re-
ceived many lovely gifts. Refresh
mentS were served and Marion
McMannis baked delicious
birthday cake.
The guests were Marion Nc
Mannis, Dick Westfall, Nancy
Gleason, Bill Brock, of London,
Betty 10 McCarty, Ned Bahan
and James Keeran, of Urbana r.
r.
Mothers Day Service
Rev. Homer Gleason gave the
Mothers Day Service Sunday. The
Angel and Junior Choirs pre-
sented special Mothers Day mus
ic directed by Mrs. Joseph West.
In memory of her mother, Mrs.
Harold Clark had red carnations
given to each mother attending
church. This was at the end of the
service and was very impressive.
Mrs. Nellie Keeran was the
dinner guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Rob-
ert Kerran, in North Lewisburg,
Sunday. Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Westfall and family, Mrs. Moore
and daughter, Frances were also
dinner guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thurman Warner,
of Utica spent Sunday afternoon
with Mrs. Warmers mother, Mrs.
Lena Woodward
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Stillings, of
Columbus, and Mrs. Laura Ken
nedy, of Mechanicsburg, were
dinner guests of Mrs. Margaret
Kennedy and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. James McMahill
and son, Donald, of Cincinnati;
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Bradley and
daughter, Marilyn, of Marion,
were entertained at MIR. and Mrs.
Harry McMahills, Sunday.
Mrs. Edith Schewenke, of Ma
rySville, spent the weekend with
Mrs. A. r. Connor.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Hildreth
were Sunday visitors at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. William Hildreth,
in Columbus.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carson Haney
spent Mothers Day with Mr.. and
Mrs. Guy Coffey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Fetz and
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-05-25

and daughter have moved to De-
troit. Mr.. Keeran runs a Grey
hound bus out of that city.
Evening star., 1950-11-12

Quoted a survey Of the canal
system under the auspices Of
the Iraqi government, and re-
ported that the canals could be
restored for a sum slightly in
excess of $50 million. Iraq ap-
piled to the United States for
the money, but was refused.
Recently Iraq has decided to
earmark a portion of its oil
royalty for the purpose.
Reconstruction Of the canals
may well improve the prospects
of peace in the Middle East
since the work would drain off
an important percentage of the
100000 Arab refugees from
Palestine who now remain in
camps scattered over the Arab
nations from Egypt to Iran. It
should do a lot for Iraq in
directly as well. The climate
would be affected within a few
years SO that this ancient ma
ton with its magnificent his
toric ruins could easily become a
major tourist attraction. Ma
tional health would be improved
and poverty decrease in a coun-
try of greener pastures and a
better diet.
Certainly Iraq's political posi-
ton would be enormously i'm
proved as her population and
prestige increased and, while
the grandeur of Babylonia may
not return, there would un-
doubtedly be a condition de-
scribable as a reasonable fac
sinnile" of IT,
Evening star., 1950-11-12

which had a double wall, and
awaited the siege. It was not
long in coming.
Within q week, Hulaku's
horde had thrown a Gordon
around Baghdad and their can
non and flame-throwers were
Immediately put into action
against the ancient walls of the
city.
1t is believed this was the first
time in history that artillery
was used against a walled city.
After 10 days the Caliph gave
up, and the portals of the Tails
man Gate were thrown open
for the old man and his two
sons. who slowly descended the
ramp and walked into the
Mongol camp where they were
instantly slaughtered. Hulaku
then entered Baghdad and put
to the sword over 10000 men,
women and children. There
after. the Mongol and his horde
proceeded across the Great
Syrian Desert toward Aleppo
and Damascus.
Behind Hulaku was a ruined
nation. The Mongols had de-
destroyed the canals as they
marched. The drainage system
was choked, the dams broken
down. Like Babylon, Baghdad
was in ruins. Within a decade,
the moving desert had crept
over the Fertile Crescent of the
Land of the Two Rivers-and
1t was no more.
1raQ suffered a further drain
Evening star., 1950-11-12
By O. M. Green

shoals along Its course; its
flooding is due to excessive rains
and the melting of snow in
Tibet. But the great river can
be as capricious as any. In the
past century it has changed its
whole channel near Chinkiang
over a stretch of several miles,
and Silver Island, by which the
British fleet anchored in 1642,
is now a hill surrounded by rice
fields.
In India the Kosi, which flows
down out of the glaciers of
Everest and Kinehinjunga into
the Ganges, has swung it's course
east and west over an area 70
miles wide several times in the
past 200 years, making large
deserts by the sand it deposits
in Nepal and Bihar.
Natural Reservoirs
Here is an Illustration Of the
variable behavior of great rivers.
The Yangtze and Mississippi
raise the level of their beds as
they rise and scour them out
again as they fall. The Rio
Grande and Colorado do exactly
the opposite. The Yellow River.
under the impulse of a freshet
from Tibet, can scoop a hole
in its bed 80 miles long and IA
feet deep. Elsewhere it may
build a sand bank equally pro-
digious.
The simplest protection
against floods is obviously to
build dykes for which in Asia
inexhaustible cheap labor is
usually available on the spot.
Some of these dykes, built in
bygone centuries take ex-
traordinary directions, even at
rightangles to the river. The
reports to ECAFE do not wholly
i1ldcrse the modern engineers
passion for straight lines. But
they make one curious point: A
motor road along the top of a
dyke adds greatly to it's strength
since the noise Cor perhaps vi
bration) of motor cars frightens
away the burrowing animals
which honeycomb and under
mine the banks.
Reservoirs for superhuous
flood waters are a valuable in
strument. There are natural
reservoirs such as the Tungting
Lake, south of Hankow, which
it is hoped to surround with
dykes and movable dams. so that
flood waters can be stored and
let out gradually for irrigation
in times of drought.
A new system invented dur
ing this century is the multiple
purpose reservoir" for flood pre-
vention and to store water for
power as well as for irrigation.
Such Is the Beht reservoir in
Evening star., 1950-11-12

Morocco, completed by the
French in 1888. The French
have further schemes of water
conservancy with which they
say "by the year 1000 not a
drop of water that falls on
Morocco will be wasted"
Soil erosion and deforesta-
ton also occupy large space
in ECAFE's studies. Through
these twin evils great empires
have fallen into oblivion. Per-
sia, Mesopotamia and North
Africa are ghastly examples of
deforestation and excessive cul-
tivation.
Copyright. London Observer Foreign
News Seryice)
Evening star., 1950-11-12
Soviet Seeks Full Lorder
By Tom Whitney

MOSCOW. - Apparently little
noticed outside the Soviet Union,
the U. S. S. r. now is in the midst
of execution of a vast agricul-
tural revolution.
Soviet government plans for
agriculture and rural life now
being put into effect throughout
the country are aimed at: Cd A
vast increase in supply of food
stuffs and of raw materials for
industry and 90 Radical trans
formation of all sides of rural life
and economics.
This Soviet agricultural revolu-
ton" has many aspects. 1t is
impossible to discuss or even list
them all in a short article, but
here are some of the more impor-
tant things which have been done,
or are in the process of being done
in the Soviet countryside:
Farm With Electricity
/. During this year a movement
has been carried out to merge
small and very small collective
farms into larger collective farms
which will each have a greater
ponulation. greater area of land
to work, and greater resources.
In some districts about Moscow
and Leningrad, the total number
of collective farms has been re-
Guced by up to two-thirds. h1
other districts such as the Ukraine
(where farms were generally
larger) the results of this have
ben considerable. 1t is stated
that the merging of the small
farms into larger ones paves the
way for greater mechanization and
efficiency and q richer cultural
and economic life for all farm
members.
2. Closely related to the move
Evening star., 1950-11-12

ment for larger farms is a longer
term movement to replace on
large collective farms small iso-
lated individual villages with large
well built rural cities with popula-
tions of UP to as many as 10000
people and all the cultural and
economic conveniences of modern
urban life. Some of these cities
are already in an advanced stage
Of construction.
8. Along with the movement for
more mechanical agriculture is
the drive for use of the brigade"
system of labor organization
throughout the collective farms
Of the country. The brigade is
more adapted to machine agri-
culture.
4. Throughout the country COL
lective farmers are building their
own local power stations, using
water power resources when they
are available. Where they are not
available they use local fuel re-
sources. In some cases farms are
being hooked into major urban
circuits receiving their power
from big plants. The rural elec-
trif1cation movement sponsored by
the government and party is
aimed at providing every farm
household and every collective
farm in the Nation with elec-
tricity in five or more years. It is
not just matter of providing
electric lights for homes although
this is important, but of electri-
f1cation of all farm processes, even
plowing. Experimental electric
tractors already are being used in
certain large areas. Eventually it.
Is hoped to put all farm mech
anization on an electric basis.
Evening star., 1950-11-12
Asio|s Rivers Have UnpredictobIe Ways

LONDON.-From time to
time Western readers are
shocked by reports of catas-
trophic floods in Asia. Recently
there were the worst floods in
the Punjab for SO years, wiping
out houses, goods, crops and
cattle in thousands of villages.
Or, a little further back, there
were reports of the Yangtze
running S feet deep through
the streets of Hankow and form
ing lake over hundreds of
square miles in Central China.
For Asia there is no greater
evil than the uncomfortable
eccentricities of her huge rivers,
which will be the subject of q
conference at New Delhi. start
ing next January, prompted by
the Economic Commission for
Asia and the Far East and at
tended by scientists and engi-
neers from all the world. A
mass of reports of the deepest
interest has been prepared for
the conference. There certainly
is no doubt what ought to be
done.
The conditions that produce
floods are not alike in any two
countries, not even in different
rivers in the same country. The
building of embankments,
dredging and the cutting of new
channels have been used to
control rivers from the dawn of
history. In Mesopotamia in an
cient days, If the local people
neglected to maintain the dykes
of the Euphrates, and breach
occurred, they were ruthlessly
hurled into the surging waters.
Always rivers remain a law
unto themselves. On the lower
Mississippi 13 cutoffs have been
made to straighten out curves
and thus facilitate control. But
the river struggles ceaselessly
to get back to it's old channel
and must be watched day and
night.
Yellow River Wild
The Yellow River, "China's
Sorrow" has changed it's course
five times in recorded history,
with untold destruction of life
and property. Flowing through
the soft, almost dustlike soil. of
Shensi Province, the Yellow
River carries out to sea every
year 1890 million tons of silt,
which is twice as much as the
next worst river in the world.
AS dykes have been built to con-
tain the river. its level has risen
until in parts of Honan (the
next province to ShensD the
Yellow Rivers bed is as much
as 16 feet above the level of the
surrounding country.
The silt carried by the
Yangtze is responsible mostly
for continual shifting Of the
Evening star., 1950-11-12
Corner
OnCoins
By Ted Hommer

librorion, Amerieon Numismotie Association
There seems to be a fad right
now among collectors and nom
collectors to hoard rolls of uncir-
culated coins-mostly cents and
nickels.
This may be a good way to
save money, but whether the
hoarders are apt to make a lot
Of money within few years is
open to argument.
Coin dealers have been follow
ing this practice for years, to
protect themselves from being
caught without "sleepers." Sleep
ers are coins that for some reason
or other become worth far more
than face value within a few
years after being minted.
Any one, for example, who put
away a roll of 1909 Lincoln cents
from the San Francisco mint
could realize a big profit today.
For an investment of so cents in
roll of the coins, he could
probably get $125 to $3.50 today.
That's a nice markup. II the
1e09's cents also have the initials
VDB at the bottom OF the tails
side. the coins could be sold for
So to 50 each to collectors.
If some one found a roll Of
1877 Indian cents in his attic,
the 30 coins could be sold for $35
TO $40 each if in uncirculated
conditional $40 to $40 in fair
to fine condition. A roll of 1885
Y OF Liberty head nickels in un-
circulated condition would prove
a nice find, since these coins
would bring up to $40 each
even worn ones are worth $4
to $40.
Finding a few rolls Of these
scarce coins would be fine for
the seller and would not upset
the market. But If some bank
'lnearthed a small safe filled with
them, and put them on the mar
ket, the price would drop.
Evening star., 1950-11-12
Ivy City Fairgrounds
Seventy Years Ago Races and Exhibits
Drew Crowds to Tract Near GuIIuudet
By John CIoqett Proctor

distance to the northwest Of
Gallaudet College, close to the
Washington branch Of the Balti-
more g. Ohio Railroad, and per-
haps less than 1000 feet from the
old Brentwood road.
The main building was one
story brick structure surmohnted
by a cupola. The interior was
painted in red, blue and gold. It
was 800 feet long and 100 feet
wide. and the height from the
central portion to the flagstaff
was 120 feet. Over the north
door, which was the main en-
trance. was a bandstand, fanked
on either side by retiring rooms.
There was an agricultural hall,
200 by rs feet, the color scheme
for the interior including dark
brown, light gray and sky blue.
Grants Horses There
One Of the principal features
Of the fair was the stock display.
Gen. Grants two Arabian horses
attracted unusual admiration,
being in the charge of Maj. j. K.
Leavitt, an old turfman. They
were named, respectively. Linden
tree and Leopard. The latter was
9 years old and weighed 900
pounds. Lindentree was years
old and weighed 750 pounds. They
were sort Of gray in color, un-
broken, and were full Of fire.
On the opening day, President
Hayes and member of his cabinet
attended for a while and partook
Of luncheon and saw the races,
the track having been completed
some days before.
For several years, at least. some
Of the best horses In the country
raced on this track. On October
6. 1880, st. Julien trotted an ex-
hibition mile there in 2.211a, and
the half in 1.131a. Two days later
he made an unsuccessful attempt
to beat his own time.
The Patterson tract, also in
this vicinity. which originally ex-
tended from the Gallaudet College
grounds on the west to about
Third street on the east and from
Florida avenue on the south to
Patterson avenue on the north.
was selected as a camp for soldiers
during the First World War and
called Camp Meigs.
Evening star., 1950-11-12

Of manpower during the wars
of the Crusades, when, four CEN
turies later, the Turks attacked
and added Iraq to their empire
as they had previously added
Egypt. Oar ul-Islam, the Mo-
hammedan world, now was CEN
tered at Istanbul instead of
Baghdad. The Turks feared the
Arab resentment of their over
lordship, and the Iraqi canals
were left unrepaired. In 1917.
the liberating Arab armies
under Col. T. E. Lawrence and
Sheikh Feisal broke the power
of Turkey in Arabia, and Iraq
was on the road to freedom,
although under a British man
date.
Bright Possibilities
Independence was finally
achieved in October, 1882. Iraq's
Oil fields were under British
financial control and remained
so, but there is substantial
royalty paid annually to the
government which forms the
major source Of income. Dates.
wool and cereals are other ex-
ports which support the present
population of about 100000.
King Feisal, the grandson of the
old sheikh. is still minor and
the country is ruled by Prince
Abdul'illah, his uncle, whose re-
gency expires when the young
King attains his majority.
Shortly after independence, a
British engineering firm con-
Evening star., 1950-09-22
By J. A. O'Leory

Congress may complete action
today on the SIT billion defense
appropriation bill and the SAT
billion increase in taxes as leaders
continued to drive for adjourn
ment tomorrow.
If President Truman vetoes the
Communist control bill, both
houses also will be urged by
hackers of the measure to over
ride the veto before going home.
Administration leaders hope to
convince the Senate today it
should accept the discretionary
House substitute for the Senate
move to stop economic aid to
any nation which lets war-poten-
tial goods be shipped behind the
iron Curtain.
Senator Wherry of Nebraska,
Republican floor leader. author of
the rigid Senate ban, was unde-
cided this morning whether to
take the House compromise, or try
to make it stronger.
The administration won d close
decision in the House late yester-
day over Republican efforts to
keep the substance of the Wherry
amendment. The test vote was
167 to 149. This blocked a Re
publican substitute, which was
only slightly different from the
Wherry amendment.
Since most members wanted
some limitation on trade with
Russia and her satellites. the
House then adopted, 286 to 80,
the compromise offered by Rep
resentative Cannon, Democrat, of
Missouri. The substitute vests
discretion in the National Security
Council to decide when trade be-
tween Western and Eastern Europe
is conflicting with the interests
of the United States.
Some lawmakers feared the
time lost yesterday during an IL
hour fllibuster by Senator Ma
lone, Republican, of Nevada.
against a bill to ban interstate
shipment of slot machines, may
keep Congress from adjourning
this week, but the leaders still
believe they can get through.
While the Senate is settling the
fate of the Wherry foreign trade
issue, the House will be giving
final approval to the interim tax
bill.
If the Senate takes the Cannon