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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-12-14
Impressive Rites Mark Installation
of Eastern Star Officers Tuesday

Bricker, Mrs. Joan Crothers, Mrs.
Betty Somerlot;
Program - Mrs. Pauline Wild
ner, Mrs. Alice Banks. Mrs.
Georgia Coleman, Mrs. Willella
Kennedy;
Ways and Means Mrs. Mil
dred Burns, Mrs. Marjorie Ohns-
man, Mrs. Avis Taylor, Mrs. Ro-
wena Creviston;
Examining Mrs. Mable
Thrall, Mrs. Flossie Mather, Mrs.
Lillian Coleman, Tom Beck;
Auditing Don Carmean,
Russell Noble, and Mrs. Hersey
Kennedy;
Registration Mrs. Clara
Dodge and Mrs. Minnie Graham;
Instruction - Mrs. Gladys Mac
Ivor, Mrs. Jennie Titus and Mrs.
Jane Beck;
Music Mrs. Hazel Evans,
Mrs. Vesta Hush, Mrs. Mary Ell
len Lewis, Mrs. Nina Noble, Mrs.
Elizabeth DeVoss and Clarence
Beightler;
Prompter Mrs. Christine
Guy;
Decorating Mrs. Joan Dut-
ton, Mrs. Maxine Baldridge, Mrs.
Ethel Galloway and Mrs. Jean
Sawyer;
Paraphernalia Mrs. Marg-
uerite Shearer. Mrs. Betty Som
erlot and Melvin Derr.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-12-14
Personals:

Miss Mary Westlake and Mrs.
James Price attended installation
of officers of Crown Chapter No.
8, in Columbus, Wednesday eve
ming. Several of their friends par
ticipated in the ceremonies.
= q
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert McAllister
of Marion were among the out-of-
town guests who attended install
lation of officers of Mary Chapter
No. 8 Tuesday evening, when the
formers sister, Mrs. Evan Holy
cross was installed as worthy ma
tron. They are former residents
lof Marysville.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-12-14

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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-12-14

his new address for the benefit
of his friends who may wish to
write to him. S-a Richard T..
Fogle ~571-65-81 U. S. S. Los An
geles CA l55 San francisco,
Calf.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-12-14
PAGE SIX
Foqle Transferred

Richard T. Fogle, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Gerald o. Fogle, Marys-
vile Rt. 4, has been transferred
from Great Lakes training center
to San Francisco. Following is
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-12-14

TNthe difficult years ahead, that new truck
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take it longer. So there are many reasons
you'll be wise to choose a GMCi
You'll get the constant diVidend of GMC'S
greater pulling power frack-bHW horse
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other engines.
And with that power goes the greater
stamina of GMC's rugged truck-engineered
frame. In practically all models, from n ton
up, you get such extra value features lat no
extra cosfD as Synchro-Mesh transmission,
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-12-14

The first radio license in the
United States was issued to a
Cincinnatian in 1911.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-12-14

Ohio's state highway system
covers 1880 miles, plus 70,688
miles in county and township
roads, and $500 miles through
cities, for a total of 89,078 miles.
Evening star., 1950-04-11
Glover Park Head Asks
MuItipIe Nominations

Thomas B. Scott, president Of
the Glover Park Citizens Associa-
ton. last night instructed q
nominating committee to bring in
a multiple slate for action in the
groups election next month.
There's all too much Of this
business of single states in citizens
association elections. and that's
not democracy" he said.
In other business, the group
heard Herbert P. Leeman, presi-
dent Of the Federation Of Citizens
Associations. tell how the Fedora
ton works and defend home rule
for the District.
The association also voted to
ask repeal Of the District personal
property tax.
The meeting was held IN the
Stoddert School. Fortieth and
Calvert streets NV.
Evening star., 1950-04-11
IA. U. Park Citizens Back
5.Day Week for Policemen

The American University Park
Citizens Association last night
supported a five-day week for Dis
trict policemen.
Inspector Clarence Lutz. chair
man Of the legislation committee
Of the Policemen's Association, ad-
dressed the group in justification
Of the change.
The association also:
Backed daylight saving time for
the District.
Reafirmed its previous stand
supporting the Recreation Board
In its conflict with the Interior
Department over use Of District
swimming pools.
Asked q stadium and indoor
swimming pool at Coolidge High
School.
Tentatively scheduled a banquet
on May 8 in the Westmoreland
Conversational Church when Of
ficers will be elected.
DR.. Daniel B. Lloyd, president.
appointed a nominating commit
tee to bring in q slate Of officers
at that time.
Graham Holland, a Coolidge
High School student and an anna
teur magician, performed for the
meeting in Hurst Hall, American
University, Massachusetts, and
Nebraska avenues NV, and Frank
S. Sanford described q recent trip
to Florida.
Evening star., 1950-04-11
Mount Pleasant Sets Up Realty improvement Until

the transfer Of Central High
School to colored students. The
transfer already has been ordered
by the Board Of Education.
Wilbur K. Swaney Of the Acct
dent Prevention Division, Ameri-
can Red Cross. gave an illustrated
talk on accident prevention.
w. Elwood Baker. president,
conducted the meeting in the
Mount Pleasant Branch Library.
Sixteenth and Lamont streets
NV.
Evening star., 1950-04-11

The Mount Pleasant Citizens
Association last night voted to set
up a real estate improvement COM
mittee for the protection and
enhancement" Of the association
area.
It was agreed the committee
will have authority to raise and
disperse funds IN the name Of the
association.
In another action, the associa-
ton reiterated its opposition to
Evening star., 1950-05-08
This and That !.

taken from the woods commonly take
two or three years to readjust them
selves.
That is why experts advise that home
owners stick to professionally grown ma
terial, though it costs more. It has been
put through the proper readjustment
already.
Wood soil is nothing at all like the
average home garden or yard earth.
The plant taken up too often is not
removed properly. with all due conSid-
Grafton for the roots, the time Of day,
and other matters.
Usually when one goes to the woods
for plants one is in hurry or ants or
mosquitoes cause misery, or one Is think
ing about the children coming home
from school, or wondering II the gas
stove was turned of.
One. in other words, is not an expert
plantsman or woman.
The scotsman who wants to sell ma
terials has put his life into such matters.
He knows. or at least he ought to know.
He takes small bushes and trees, and
grows them on, as they say. in the right
sort of soil.
Such plants. shrubs and trees have
become used to earth very much like
that found in an average back yard.
Dogwoodss have much the same prob
lens.
Their doing well" depends upon many
Evening star., 1950-05-08
BY Charles E. TroceweH

factors. including unknown matters OF
soil.
The last IL months have been hard on
all types Of plants, especially those put
in during the year.
Severe winter weather keeps dogwoodS
from blooming.
What one needs is patience-and per-
haps a little superphosphate to work in
around the roots.
It is not true. as sometimes believed,
that dogwood trees come in two sexes.
and that If tree doesn't bloom, 1t Is
because the right sex" is not close by.
ALI dogwood flowers are perfect" as
the botanists say: that is. each flower has
both stamens and pistil.
AS for squirrels and awnings. one
solution is to take the awnings down.
The idea Is to give the squirrels some
thing else to think Of. especially in
spring. when they are looking for nesting
material. Even II they seldom use strips
of awnings, they think they can. You
see, they are almost human!
After they have turned their attention
to tree leaves and branches. the awnings
may be replaced.
A cat Is nice to have for itself, but it
probably viii do little to keep squirrels
OF awnings.
Squirrels love TO bait cats. They often
hang head down from trees. suspended
by their hind claws, while they wave
their forepaws at cats and dare them.
with many an invectiye, to do their worst.
Evening star., 1950-05-08
The People Are Listening

If Gen. Marshall. in his letter to
Senator Tydings. intended to convey the
idea that there are no Reds in the Gov
ernnment or persons in the Government
exerting Red influence, he has made an
astonishing statement for a man of his
intelligence. This is what the headlines
said he said, though actually his letter
does not convey any such idea. 1t is
quite obvious that Gen. Marshall con-
fined his remarks to the allegation that
Owen baltimore was the architect of this
Nations Far East policy. The rest Of it
is the work of the newspapers.
However, it does not help matters any
at this late date for Gen. Marshall to
attempt to defend his Far East policy,
whether Mr.. baltimore was involved in
it or not. The cold fact remains that it
was miserable failure, and the princi-
pal reason for this failure was the false
premise on which the policy was based;
namely, that the Nationalists and the
Chinese Communists could be made to
work together in the same government.
something we have denied for our own
Government from the first. but which
the State Department conceived could
Evening star., 1950-05-08

abortion cases which turn up at hos
pitals, or in the Offices of reputable
physicians, are only the ones in which
something has gone seriously wrong.
Apart from the fact that few cases Of
illegal abortion are reported to police,
there are other hurdles to clear before
the criminal involved can be brought
to justice. Generally, there are no wit
nesses who are willing to testify. Those
who know the circumstances of the
operation usually feel, with cause, that
they are implicated in the crime.
Whether they result in death or not,
abortions are investigated by the homi-
eide branch Of the Police Department.
Capt. Flaherty. the head of that branch.
can bear witness to the fact that the
racket here is f1ourishing business.
The abortionists' calculated risk pays
off. The fees they collect range from
$50-which is dirt cheap-up to what
ever the traffic will bear, with the aver
age around 5000.
"A woman who's looking for an abor-
ton doesn't stop to argue about the fee."
Capt. Flaherty says. when she gets
around to making a decision of that
sort. she's desperate"
The people who profit from this des-
peration come from variety of profess
sions. with equally varying qualifications.
Some are physicians whose regulations
as legitimate practitioners don't provide
an adequate income. An abortionist
might be, or might once have been. a
nurse-or possibly butcher. No pre-
viouS experience Is required.
The customers also cover the whole
range of background and social condi-
Evening star., 1950-05-08
No Laughing Matter

It may be rather trite to note that the
prospect Of war today is far from a
laughing matter, but some one should re-
mind your columnist, Henry McLemore,
Of this fact. In one of his columns he
makes the fat statement that there is
going to be war and uses this assumed
fact as foundation for one of his usual
satires.
We certainly are in a tense political
situation. but If we resign ourselves to
the inevitability Of conflict. then pre-
vention Of war will truly be impossible.
This is no subject-matter for humor. 1t
is as much a step towards disaster to
build up in our minds. psychologically.
an accepting frame of mind towards war
as it is to blunder in foreign policy.
Henry McLemore might at least keep
his material within the present tense.
He should not flippantly assume as es-
tablished q situation which a number of
our leaders in both parties are trying
to circumvent and which all the people
must hope we can avoid. Humor has
its place. but let us not laugh ourselves
into another nightmare even worse than
the one we finished only five short years
ago.
Eli A. RuhinStain
Evening star., 1950-05-08

Sometimes one does get into pessi-
mistic mood about gardening. truly.
Here is family whose redbud is pink
instead Of purple. whose pink dogwood
never blooms, and whose awnings are
ripped by squirrels.
1--WE got q redbud bush out of the
woods last year." writes Mrs. G.. r. D.
of Second street.
"It seems to be pink instead of the
beautiful purple and am disappointed.
We have acid (oak tree) soil, but others
in the vicinity have purple blossoms.
els there anything can do to make
ours purple?
"Also, we have three supposedly pink
dogwood trees that have nary blossom
or button, though one Of them had few
the first spring, but they looked poorly.
You will see I am in a pessimistic
mood.
'"The squirrels have ruined our avn
ings. I saw them rip them UP seemingly
just for fun.
I'VE feel 1t is useless to recover the
awnings for the squirrels to destroy
again.
Would cat be help? My husband
thinks so, but I've noticed squirrels in
the trees scolding the cats nearby. and
the squirrels could perch on the awnings
and tear them and scold the cats.
II hope you can advise U.s."
h
Well, now, let's see.
Redbuds and other plant materials
Evening star., 1950-05-08

ment Of park authority by joint action Of the
two counties and Of the cities of Alexandria
and Falls Church. Such an authority could
acquire land for public use that otherwise might
be lost for park purposes because of residential
or commercial encroachment Some fine sylvan
areas already have been destroyed The COM
mittee points out that in all of the 45l square
miles embraced by the four Jurisdictions, there
are only 81 acres of public parks, exclusive of
the George Washington Memorial Parkway,
Federal project.
The time to plan and build a park system
is now, before the trees have been cut down, the
hills graded and the streams converted into
underground sewers. A little foresight today
can prevent mistakes which no amount Of money
and effort could correct in the future
Evening star., 1950-05-08
Letters to The Star :.

be made to work in China In other
words what was bad for us wasn't bad
for China. The fundamental nature of
communism was involved. Who in the
State Department or in the executive
branch of the Government was guilty of
such distorted and inconsistent reason
ing? Has any nation, other than COM
munistic nation, ever been able to work
with the Reds?
In this connection. it is strange thing
that during World War II and before,
there was patent expression: "You
can't do business with Hitler" The
Government gave Endorsement to this
axiom. and it reverberated through the
country. But you never hear any one
say, You can't do business with SCalin,"
although there is much more ground for
making the statement with regard to the
Communists than there ever was in con-
nection with Hitler. The objectives set
by both are the same: The subjugation
of free nations. The difference is that
we are now dealing with an inside job.
and the inside enemy is moulding and
influencing public opinion and conduct
ing an extremely subtle propaganda cam
paign-so subtle in fact, that apparently
honest and patriotic Americans like
Gen. Marshall cannot detect it.
Here lies our greatest danger and our
greatest menace. Under such circum-
stances, a cold war can be as dangerous
to our institutions as a hot one, and per-
haps more so since the people are not
awake and alerted to the subtle and in
sidious implications involved The moral
is that we should not protest against in
vestigations or attempt to obstruct them
until all the evidence is in, for there is
too much at stake. The people are listen
ing These things are above party lines.
In this year of our Lord. they involve life
and freedom as surely and as certainly
as does a hot war.
Evening star., 1950-05-08
Hold Your Hats

With the President off on his 16-State mon
political tour and with the Republicans Or
ganizing to. answer him speech for speech, those
who have some concern for our position on the
international stage can hardly be blamed if they
adopt an attitude of hoping for the best while
fearing the worst.
Mr.. Truman will make nine major speeches
and so or more Of those informal rear platform
appearances which proved so effective in the
1913 campaign. These talks will not be kid glove
affairs If the President is Sallying forth in the
role OF man with grievance, it can hardly be
said he lacks justification. Some of his troubles
have been brought down on his own head. That
1948 tour, which left the Republicans with their
hands full of political eggs that had been counted
prior to Matching, was conducted at the ward
heeler level. Mr.. Truman took the Republican
50th Congress along as his whipping boy, and
gave 1t a memorable beating Facts were not
permitted to stand in the way of political ad-
vantage, and if the Republicans have decided
to steal page from that campaign book, the
President can not hold himself blameless Mr..
Truman is also going to be made to suffer for
his Red Herring" complex in the early days of
the Hiss investigation. That has given the Re-
publicans an opening and they have, and will
continue, to make the most of it,
With all of this, however, there is something
publcans sent him off on this tour with series
of accusations, disguised as questions, which
they challenge him to answer. They want to
know why he refuses" the people further income
tax reductions, why he has permitted farm
prices to fall since the 1948 Republican Congress
was retired, why he is throwing American work.
men out of jobs by permitting surplus products
from Iron Curtain countries to be dumped
here, etc.. etc.
This is like waving the proverbial red flag
In a bullS face. "A President who had inherited
all Of the Self-restraint known to man would be-
hard pressed togwage p statesmanlike campaign
in the face of this kind of batting. And Mr..
Truman happens to be the possessor of a low
boiling point.
So, in all human probability, the campaign
OF 1850 will be as rough and tough as that OF
1913, and maybe it will be worse. This is bad
thing, from the point of view of the impact it
will have on our very critical international re-
lationships. But it cannot be helped. For the
next six months partisan politics in its most
virulent form will be the order of the day. The
country will have to hold its hat and ride out
the storm. This price is one that has to be paid
for free society, and there is nothing in our
political experience to warrant belief that we
will not close ranks again, once the election is
over.
Evening star., 1950-05-08
Abortion Is q FIourshing Racket Here
By Crosby S. Noyes

THE scene is the District Morgue.
Il Inside the tidy, red-brick building.
with roses growing around 1t. the hear
ing room Of the coroner is crowded. A
young man is sitting in the witness chair,
telling his story to q six-man jury
which has heard the story before.
In the next room. out of sight Of the
crowd. the young mans wife lies dead.
The voice is hating:
"I knew what she was going to do
She had told me about the baby. and
we knew we couldn't afford another
baby right now. Then she said she
had heard Of this man -
Abortion, in Washington, is a rare
crime. It Is rare, that Is, in the sense
that only six people were arrested here
on charges of criminal abortion last
year. But this kind Of yardstick is mis-
leading.
There is no law that is harder to
enforce than the law against Illegal
sbortions. The problems of the enforce
ment agencies start right at the begin
ming of each case and carry through TO
the final stages of prosecution.
Correctly speaking. the word abortion
means exactly the same thing as mis-
carriage. But when most people talk
about abortionS, they mean one thing:
An operation performed on a prospec-
tive mother, by herself or by some one
else. producing a miscarriage. Unless
the operation is performed by a physi-
clan, for medical reasons-when con-
tinued pregnancy would endanger the
patients life-it is illegal.
How many criminal abortions are
performed in Washington every year?
Nobody will give you even a guess on
the answer to that question. But there
is some evidence that adds up to a gen.
eral impression.
For instance, Gallinger Hospital Off
cials estimate they have about 400 cases
of abortion in the course of a year, of
which maybe 10 per cent are criminally
induced.
Gallinger is only one of Is hospitals
in Washington. 1t is the only one. ac-
cording to Police Capt. jeremiah
Flaherty, which makes regular practice
of reporting cases of criminal abortion
to the police.
But even at Gallinger. the system isn't
foolproof. Hospital Supt. Philip A. E.
Stebbings speaks of resistance to or
ders" on reporting abortions by physi-
clans in the hospital. "They don't want
patients subjected to police investigation
while their lives are in danger" DR..
Stebbings says.
The number Of abortion patients who
go to other hospitals or to private physi-
clans for treatment is anybody's guess.
The number reported to police from
these sources is negligible. And, of
course. it should be borne in mind that
Evening star., 1950-05-08
Northern Virginia Parks

Northern virginia's lack of an overall
program for park development is reason enough
for the creation of some such agency as the
proposed Virginia National Capital Park Au-
thority. The National Capital Park and Planning
Commission has provided Arlington and Fairfax
Counties with Federal parks and parkways along
the Potomac River, but there is need for a
Virginia agency in the Metropolitan Area to
work for the preservation of rapidly shrinking
wooded tracts, streams and other natural scenic
attractions.
citizens committee suggests the establish
Evening star., 1950-05-08
Science Aids the Police

That the lie detector has proper place in
law enforcement is well-illustrated by its sue
cesSful use in the Lansburgh double-murder
case. Although its field is limited under numer-
GUS court rulings, the device has helped in the
solving of many crimes. Most of these solutions
were obtained through sudden confessions of
suspects being tested-just as happened when
William Tyler was under examination in the
department store slayings.
The machine merely records on revolving
cylinder the fluctuations in blood pressure and
other physiological reactions to lying. The same
reactions could be detected, Of course, with
physicians instruments, but the psychological
effect of having the patient" watch his own
reactions would be lost without the visible re-
corder. 1t is in this ability to confront the
subject with teltale agitation of the recording
stylus when he answers question falsely that
the real value of the device lies
The suspect in the Lansburgh case volun-
teered for the experiment, apparently satisfied
that no scientific gadget could expose guilt. If
he had known that the lie detector has caused
stronger-nerved men than he to break down
under examination he probably would not have
made the mistake of agreeing to the test. Al
though courts have ruled out lie detector dem
onstrations during trials and have generally
barred testimony by experts in charge of tests,
confessions following such voluntary use of
the machine have been admitted in evidence.
Certainly there is no suggestion of the third
degree in the use of the lie detector on willing
subjects. The local police showed good judg-
ment in giving the device trial in the brutal
Lansburgh crime. 1t is good to know that Wash
ington police are making use of scientific aids
to law enforcement, in line with the general
trend throughout the country