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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-10-19
KiIIinger To
Die On Nov. I6

COLUMBUS, . -tPD- Gerald
Killinger, 1S, convicted of COM
mitting murder for a friend, must
die in the electric chair Nov. 16
unless he is granted executive
clemency.
The Ohio Supreme Court has
refused to hear his appeal. Kill
niger was convicted of killing
Harold Mast, % of Medina on
Oct, Is, 1850. The prosecution
said Killinger killed Mast SO that
KillingeTs friend, NIX Amerman
27 could WOO Mast's wife, Randi
a 24-year-old Norwegian wal
bride.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-10-19

These enjoying The afternoons S
activities were: Don Alter, Don
Long, Dale Thompson, Dave Hol-
land, Bill Dildine, Gary Compton.
Francis Murray, Jim Murray,
Frank McKenney, Russell Stratton
and son, and r. L. Parsons and
Sonny
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-10-19
Frankfort Plays
At W. Jefferson

West Jefferson's Rough Riders
who lost to Bremen 1854 last
week, are scheduled to test their
skill against the Frankfort High
School gridders from Ross Coun-
ty on the West jefferson field
Friday night.
A number of the first string
players were out of last weeks
game at Bremen.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-10-19
Hoosiiers Need
Win Saturday

COLUMBUS, o., Up Take
from Coach Woody Hayes. Ohio
States football team isn't under
estimating the Hoosiers of Indi-
ana come next Saturday.
This is one Indiana needs to
get back near the top" Hayes
told his weekly gathering with
newsmen. and we're not under
estimating EN-" Then he added;
"A victory wouldn't hurt US,
either!"
Talking over Ohio's &c coa-
test with Wisconsin Hayes said:
I'VE were pretty lucky up
there. We have no alibi for not
winning. In fact, we feel that
Wisconsin, in allowing us to pick
up two fumbles and intercept two
passes, was very helpful to us"
I'VE are disappointed, of
course" Hayes went on, But
we are not discouraged after VIM
ming, losing and tying in our first
three games. We felt at the start
of the season we were being over
rated. Getting organized with a
new system and a block of new
boys is tough.
we have been suffering from
growing pains, and no team has
met three tougher opponents than
we have. Southern Methodist,
which we beat in the opener. is
looking better and better. There
are no passers like that Fred
Benners of SMU, and / still wake
up in a cold sweat when / dream
Of him. Every coach in the coun-
try is trying to map a defense to
stop the boy but he continues to
be phenomenal
The only thing wrong with our
offense against Wisconsin was
Wisconsin's defense. They had us
stepped pretty well We had a
lousy pass attack, gaining only
As yards with il. Our timing was
terrible on both our roll-out and
pocket passing plays.
I'VE suffered no serious injur-
les, and VIC were not out of con-
dition."
When Ohio and Indiana clash
in the buckeye horseshoe Satur-
day it will be televised as a
live show in an arear limited
by Philadelphia, Omaha, Memphis
and Milwaukee but ticket dircc-
tor Ed Weaver of the Bucks said
the telccast hasn't hurt the gate
He estimates a crowd Of $4,000
or More
End Ray Hamilton and backs
Vic Janowicz and John HAY suf-
fered minor hurts against Wis
consin, Hayes said, but he expects
them to be ready for Indiana.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-10-19

Others: Mansfield %, Youngs-
town East q, Warren %, San
dusky q, Youngstown South II,
Dover ID 16, Cincinnati Central
I'D Is, Niles Is, Toledo Waite IA,
Cleveland Rhodes 13, London 13,
Toledo Central 13, GAINESVILLE y,
Dayton Chaminade u, Struthers
IL, Canton Lehman 10, Harrison
10, Delaware 10, Cleveland
Heights 9, Washington c. III. 8,
Franklin 9, Alliance 9, Cleveland
Benedictine 9, Toledo Clay s,
Norwood 8, Youngstown Wilson
s, Cincinnati Country Day Z,
Lakewood 6, Toledo Devilbiss 6,
Madeira 6, Minerva 5, Loekland
Wayne 5, Ashland 5, Columbus
Central 5, Wintersville 4, Bowling
Green 4, Louisville 4, Dayton
Fairmont 3, Cincinnati Purcell 3,
Hamilton Catholic 3, Salem 2,
Warren St. Mary's ?, Newark 2,
Dayton Northridge 2, Elyria /,
St. Mary's l, Columbus University
!, Wellston. l.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-10-19
Parsons Is Host
To Ball Team

The winning team in the soft
ball league, Parsons Implement
Co, sponsored by r. L. Parsons
was treated to the football game
on Saturday September 10Th,
Ohio State University versus
S.M. u, by their sponsor.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-10-19
WHALES BITl!!G

ST. JOHNS, Mfld.-tR)-While
the northern whaling season does
not end until the middle of Oct,
one firm which operates six YES
sells out of Hawkes. Harbor, Lab
rador reports total catch of 270
whales up to the end of August
The same firm caught 237 in the
same period a year ago.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-10-19
SPORTS
London Raiders
Get IS Points

COLUMBUS, OPP Here's
how Ohio sports editors and radio
commentators rate the states
high school football teams after
last weekend's games,
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-10-19
] By DIVISION OF WHDLIFE

dent. Nine other hunters happen
ed in the line of fire when an
other hunter shot at game.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-10-19

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-04-02
This and That

into the lives of persons properly brought
up, as their mothers said.
Books that come to grips with life.
whether the reader likes that particular
stretch of life or not, are the books
which live, there can be little question
about it. The whole backward look on
the novelist's art, as English speaking
people know it, shows it. Even today
there is restriction of tom Jones"
though it's qualities seem pretty thin, in
comparison with some of our latest
novels
Theodore Dreiser's stories are still I'M
read by millions of Americans. He, too,
had personal outlook. based on his
raising in the lower levels of poverty
Booth Harrington grew up on better
economic level, and wrote happily of
what he knew. Both writer's are I'm
diana authors" but Harrington is known
as such, Dresser not at all; both men
explored what they found, and the
reading public liked one, but not the
other.
Whether a novel is readable or I'M
readable, must depend great deal on
what the reader brings to the works.
If stories of this type are revelations of
life, there still comes the question, How
much life does one know?
A further question each reader asks
himself, whether he realizes it or not, is
whether his own upbringing has not I'M
fitted him for certain classes of stories.
Often one somehow. is supposed to be
ashamed of this. So we find thousands
of4speople blowing through the latest
novels they do not really like, since no
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-04-02

that the committees have no right to
broadcast pictures of witnesses, would
they necessarily have the right to
broadcast their words? If a witness
is considered to be placed at an unfair
disadvantage by the knowledge that he
is being scrutinized in every living
room in the land. it might reasonably
follow that he should not be subjected
to being overheard, via radio, in all
those living rooms.
Finally. what of the reporters, and
that portion of the public which now is
able physically to attend the hearings?
1t is conceivable that a witness might
be entitled to take this ultimate posi-
ton before committee: II will answer
all your questions, but will answer
them only for you.'
In short. the real question which has
been raised as result of the television
debate Is whether congressional COM
mittees can force witnesses to testify
against their will in open sessions. Can
a witness who is willing to testify be-
hind closed doors be held in contempt
if he refuses to give the same testimony
in public? There never has been a court
test of this issue.
The instructive reaction of most
Americans to problem like this, of
course. is against closed hearings. We
are a nation of believers in letting in
the light. in cards laid on the table and
open covenants openly arrived at" This
is all well and good; it may well be that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-04-02
Life Held, SURVIVING
400 Below Zero Cold
French Scientist Asserts
Organisms Were Revived
By Thomos R. Henry

A claim to have reduced living or
ganisms to a temperature OF close to
400 Fahrenheit, only fraction of
degree above absolute zero which Is
the coolest possible to achieve in the
universe. is claimed by a French SCI
enlist, Paul Becquerel Of the French Ma
tional Museum.
From this state the organisms were
revived with no loss Of their germina-
tive powers They apparently could
be kept in the state indefinitely, he
claims.
The life forms submitted to this
treatment naturally were quite low in
the scale-bacteria, algae, fungi, MOSES
and grain seeds. What happens. Prof.
Becquerel says, is that protoplasm loses
its colloidial state, and there are no
chemical reactions.
He uses the experiments to uphold
the possibility of life on Mars which.
at least in the polar regions, where
the temperature would average between
80 and loo during the winter. Even
in the temperate zone the winter tenn
perature presumably sinks to an aver
age of somewhere between centigrade
and 40, although it rises to 80 or 40
in summer
The essential point is that the Or
ganisms treated with such extreme cold
must be quite simple, as life forms go.
1t must be possible to dessicate them
remove the greater part Of the water
in their bodies-without killing them.
Becquerel says that he has been able
to revive lichens with all the micro
scopic little animals usually associated
with them after they have been dried
out for six years.
His experiments, he claims. prove
the possibility that living things can
go through the intense cold of outer
space from one planet to another
even from one planetary system to an
other-without perishing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-04-02

Variety of opinions about works Of
art amazes one,
A famous English novelist, for in
stance, spoke of Emile zola's novels as
tunreadable.'
If "Germinal,' even in translation, is
unreliable, then there is nothing to the
art of story telling.
If the surge and push of that coal
mining narrative cannot be read with
interest by any literate person, then one
might as well give up.
The truth is that "Germinal." as well
as the others known around the world
are eminently readable by anybody.
They are not. Of course. in the genteel
tradition.
lola, no more than our own Dresser.
had any desire to be mice" Both rather
veered to the shocking side.
Perhaps most readers, at some stage
In their lives. need to be shocked a bit.
Perhaps not to the extent of being told
to throw overheard all they had been
taught as children, though.
Both naturalistic and realistic schools
Of novel writing find fresh opponents in
every generation, and war sets them of.
Out of each major conflict come stories
treating of men together in war, and
what they reveal is not delicate.
City crime is not delicate, either. and
those who write about 1t must come to
grips with facts, and must set down
what may offend. Country crime, too,
is not for bleating about in everyday
language It is best that we do not do
$50. That is where the well told novel,
with It's wen n,arshalled facts, may come
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-04-02
The Problem Is Where to Draw the Line
By Newbotd Moves, Jr.

TT SEEMS LIKELY that the whole
L question of congressional inyestiga-
tions, their purpose and function, is in
for thorough examination.
Television,s of course. has forced the
issue. AS result of the recent sensa- Il
tional proceedings before the Kefauver
crime investigating committee, the
courts must decide whether the legisla-1
tive pEoberS can require witness not
only to answer their questions but
also to answer these questions for the
entertainment and instruction of every
one In the United States who has access
to a, TV set. s...g
There are many eminent lawyers, in
GLIDING Government lawyers, who have
serious doubts whether witnesses in
these hearings can be punished by law
for their refusal to testify before the
television camera. They think man
who says to committee, IT will answer
all your questions, but I will not make
a public spectacle of myself in doing
so" probably can make good showing
when he is brought UP on contempt
charge. 81
The handwriting on the wall has been
pretty clearly recognized so far as a
television showdown is concerned. But
no one seems to have paid much atten-
ton so far to the much broader queS-
tons about the publicizing of congress
sional Investigations which are bound to
follow. now that the television question
has been raised. ~
For televiSion has not, in itself, al
tered the essential characteristics of the
r. - ~
seem too strongly favored with show
manship, this new medium is not to
blame. The show was there already.
Television has. to be sure, vastly en-
larged the audience. but that is all.
In other words, the only new problem
which has been posed by the televising
of the Investigations is a problem of
degree. Television has come as the last
straw, SO to speak. Witnesses now are
taking the position, II will not make
this much of a spectacle of myself"
But the point is that, in SO doing, they
inevitably raise the question whether
they are in fact required to make spec
tacles of themselves at all.
If the courts decide, for instance, that
a witness may not be required to testify
before a television camera, how will
they justify his being required to testify
before a news reel camera? The movie
photographers apparently need brighter
lighting than the TV people do.
What about still pictures? It seems
quite possible that witness might be
even more disturbed by having flash
bulb popped in his face at a tense mo-
ment than he would be by a television
camera operating unobtrusively in the
background.
For that matter, if 1t is established
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-04-02
Libel on Cats?

write you in the white heat Of
righteous wrath. In all the years that
I have been reading The Star, have
never had occasion to doubt your prob
ity, integrity or high moral purpose.
Nothing in the paper offended good
taste or intelligence. Something omi-
nous must have happened! I can no
longer trust your news. believe your
editorials or not suspect that the word
game is fixed. When my subscription
expires in 1884, may not renew!
Specifically I refer to the low canard
which forms the base of the current
action in DO" 1t is true that cats,
even as you and I, are aware OF the
stupidity of dogs. But no cat would
attack a poor. blind, defenseless dog.
Cats do. in defense of their dignity
or their young. beat off dogs 10 or 70
times their size-or paralyze smaller
dogs with glance-but are never given
to bullying or malice.
In conclusion must ask: Do you
now hold, or have you ever held, mem
bership in kennel club?
Warren Morse.
Editors Note: We refuse to answer.
on the ground that to do so might tend
to incriminate u.s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-04-02
The Mon Who Wrote With
Trees

Each year NTH April coming on
Matthew Butterfeld has gone
Through fields still patched NTH melting
SnoUS
To match his seedlings march in rot0s.
Each May in hills aboDe the totDn
He sets another hundred doiDn
And keeps his counsel, as he should,
A man Whose writings are in t0ood.
The farther pines are tall and green:
The lanes of spruce set in bettDeen
Make patterns tphere the fr trees s1uarn.
A guilt to keep a county todrnt.
On any day no1D, 1oith the sun
Getting the last deep-thdtDino done,
Matt ,DiH be passing, grey and straight,
TO bring his diary up to date.
Charles MoIom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-04-02
By Charles E. TroceweH

one is supposed to be ashamed Of any
thing anymore.
More adult readers will stick to the
types they honestly prefer. undeterred
by the famous author who says, of
book by another famous author. "Once
begun, you cannot put this one down."
Maybe not, but it is always possible
not to pick it up, in the first place.
Ones own lights are enough. ones own
preferences, ones own stock of ways of
looking at life.
This is reading by personal direction,
and it suffices for many. They have
not succumbed to the modern tempta-
ton of reading by direction. There Is
always some one to tell you what to read.
what to give your money to, what to
eat, etc. When 1t comes to so subtle q
fare as books, and especially in that
division known as the novel, there is no
better guide than ones own tempera-
ment. This may result In many fall
ures, but that, too is life: there is al
ways another chance, which means an
other book. Usually by, page 40 one
knows whether one is going to like it or
not! Unreliable" is a word mean
ing many things to many people. There
are no hard and fast lines, except in
the mind of the person who not only
thinks he knows it all but also wants to
be dictator at heart. We are all
threatened by dictators and compulsion:
let us not set up ourselves as small
tyrants in the reading line. and try to
compel others to read according to our
dictates. That way. reading unhappi-
ness lies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-04-02
Warming on Antihistomines

It is doubtful that any law could be devised
which would remove the dangers of self-medica-
ton by millions of laymen who dote on pre-
scribing for their own ailments. But when q
committee of the New York Academy of Medi-
cine issues warning to the public of the haz-
ards of antihistaminic preparations in treatment
Of the common cold the logical question is why
the law does not now prevent their indiscrimi-
nate sale. For it was not very long ago that
these preparations, supported by intensive adj
vertising campaigns became the rage Every
body seemed to be buying them, results depend
ing upon the patients own opinion Of the effect.
Why should we allow the sale Of preparations
that at least one group Of physicians now finds
dangerous sa4.,.
There is, of course. law But while the
law, administered by the Food and Drug Adj.
ministration applies to the labelling and the in
tegrity of the medicine put on the market, it
does not pass judgment on its efficacy. The
law does control the sale of preparations that are
toxic, or poisonous. But the toxicity can depend
upon the amount of the dosage When self
treating patient dscards the warnings on label
and begins to make guinea pig of himself, the
law-along with the medicine-can become in
effective. *9sE 49,
Some years ago there were many fatalities
throughout the country resulting primarily from
tons. This incident led to strengthening the
food and drugs laws. No new medicinal prepara-
tions can be shipped in interstate commerce
without approval by the Food and Drugs Ad-
ministration, which tests the preparation, seeks
medical and pharmaceutical advice and decides
on the labelling. In the case of antihistamnic
preparations, they were used originally in treat
ment for hay fever and other allergies. But the
law restricted the sale to those with physicians
prescription. The hazard, however seemed to
lie in the size of the prescribed dose, and when
cut down and properly labeled, the preparations
became available for sale without restriction.
Now the New York Academy of Medicine
committee finds that the preparations are "of
no value in the treatment of true colds and the
public should be warned of the hazards attend
ing their use." There are reports of death to in
fantS, commissions and other Ill effects resulting
from overdosage. There are estimates that at
least 20 per cent of people who take antihista-
mines, even in doses recommended on the label
will experience undesirable or dangerous re-
actions
Some of the blatant advertising of the anti
histamines has been correctly curbed by the Fed
eral Trade Commission But the public state
ment of the New York Academy of Medicine.
warning against use of the preparations, should
lead the Food and Drugs Administration to re-
view its own findings. We have come long way
in the protection of the public against dangerous
medical preparations, but we evidently. need to
60 little further.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-04-02
Navy Fothers

The Stars st. Patrick's Day identifi-
cation of John Barry as father OF the
American Navy" thus far has gone I'M
challenged. 1t is always appropriate to
re-examine the facts of American his
torical tradition which have given rise
to viewpoints that reflect wishful think
ing rather than substantiated evidence.
The question as to who was entitled
to credit for fathering the Navy first
arose in the early days of the Republic.
and John Adams came to grips with the
controversy In letter to John Langdon
on January IA, 1913, he referred to
Scottish-born John Paul Jones and John
Barry, native of Ireland, as those immi-
grants" and named John Manly as en-
titled to the distinction. Manly was
Massachusetts fisherman who at the be-
ginning of the Revolution had captured
four prize vessels from the British. He
subsequently faded into almost complete
obscurity.
James Fenimore Cooper, one of the
first naval historians of the Revolution,
when mentioning the names that have
descended to us from that conflict with
the greatest reputation, places Barry
second TO Jones. The Dictionary OF
American Biography" perhaps the most
comprehensive work by professional his
torians, devotes IS lines to the exploits
of Barry whereas Jones' career requires
approximately $50 lines. President
Theodore Roosevelt, writer of naval his
tory. at the. John Paul Jones COM
memoration at the Naval Academy,
April "a, 1906. spoke of "the Navy,
among whose founders the dead man
(Jones) stands first"
Born in the stone cottage of the gar
dener of William Craik, laird Of Arbig-
land, Kirkcudbright, Scotland, on the
Solway Firth, John Paul Jones has been
honored by the American Navy in man
ner beyond comparison. In the marble
floor around his tomb at Annapolis are
incised the words: HE gave our Navy
it's earliest tradition of heroism and
victory" @
The most recent of the biographers
of Jones, Gerald w. Johnson, has written
in 1.-The First Captain: 1.-THE concept of
attacking the British mind, rather than
the British navy was what sets
John Paul Jones apart from and above
such captains as Lembert Wickes, Con-
yngham, and Barry. AS seamen they
were his peers: as fighters they were his
close rivals as commerce raiders they
were. perhaps his superiors; but as
strategists not man of them was in his
class. n the United States Navy is to be
regarded merely as striking force, they
are among its distinguished ancestors;
but when it is viewed in the larger aspect
as a means Of achieving the Nations
purposes is, not merely as a COM
bat unit but as sea power-then the
man from Kirkcudbright is its 'onlie be-
getter'"
Without Displacement to the glory
and heroism of John Barry there are
other names In the naval history of the
American Revolution that should not 60