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The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1951-07-19
ENJOY VISIT

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Polling
and son, Charles, Mr.. and Mrs.
Sherman Phelps have returned
from Detroit, Mich, where they
visited with Mrs. Phelps sister,
Mrs. B. M. Graham. They visited
the Michigan Zoo and Paye and
Cox egg grading plant.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1951-07-19
SPONSOR SOCIAL

The Belle Valley Mothers
club is sponsoring an ice cream
social this Thursday evening,
July l9, at 7:30 o'clock in the
lot next to Carnes garage in
Belle Valley. Coke will be sery-
ed with the ice cream.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1951-07-19
SEWERS HAND

Gerhard Kress, Caldwell,
severed his right hand, Friday,
when he caught it in a reaper,
harvesting grain. Eight stitches
were taken by a local physician
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1951-07-19
RETURNS HOME

Mrs. A. d. Studa and daugh-
ter, Susan, have returned to their
home in Burgettstown, Pa, after
a two weeks visit with her moth
er, Mrs. Clayton Mckee.
Evening star., 1951-04-15
Law Enforcement Gauge

Arrest records for 1850 tend to confirm the
findings of the Kefauver Committee concerning
laxity of law enforcement in the gambling field
Uniform Crime Reports, the annual tabulation
of crime compiled by the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation, shows that only per cent Of all
arrests reported last year were for promoting
permitting or engaging in gambling. The study
was based on 1ngerprints received by the FBI
from police departments all over the country.
The total of gambling arrests for the entire
Nation during the 12-month period was only
15490. Arrests for all causes reported by police
aggregated nearly 100000. There were three
times as many arrests for drunkenness and for
vagrancy and IL times as many for disorderly
conduct as for gambling. The figures are of
interest in connection with charges by Senator
Kefauver and others that local authorities in
general are apathetic toward gambling There
was testimony that this Indifference in many
communities was directly related to graft and
corruption in police circles and even higher up.
Already there has been Tightening up of
enforcement in numerous cities in the wake of
the committees inquiries. To what extent this
improvement in police work is temporary will de-
pend In large measure on the trend of public
opinion. # public indignation dies police apathy
is sure to return. Next years crime tabulation
will tell the story.
Evening star., 1951-04-15

men! What miserable old humbug
of world we live in! Society is cursed
with affectation, business is honeycombed
with dishonesty. the political world
abounds in duplicity and bribery; there
are sham ard pretense everywhere. The
life Of many man and many woman
Is one colossal lie. Cant, which Is a
whining pretense Of goodness. is the first
step on the pavement of the unreal, as
folks yield to the temptation to say
things which they do not mean. to ex-
press emotions which they do not feel,
to praise when they secretly condemn,
to give compliments when they are really
thinking curses.
The commercial market is flooded with
cheap limitations of real things, and the
counters are piled with synthetic mate
rials, from diamonds on down Even
electric lights are fashioned to pose as
candles in the sanctuary. But all this
is but symbol of the fraud perpetrated
in deeper realms indicating disastrous
moral deterioration.
A modern prophet has declared: "Our
social life is filled with deceptive imita-
tions Of genuine virtues and powers, so
that our present civilization glitters like
the window Of 5-and-10-cent store.
full Of cheap models Of genuine treas
ures."
Evening star., 1951-04-15
Cocktail Party

Your editorial describing one of the
favorite Washington scene screams
that fabulous institution, the mass-pro-
duction, assembly line, cocktail party
was terribly funny. There were few
birds you forgot to mention-the turtle
dove who snuggles UP to a mate (some
other woman's mate, that Isl, and the
Growing rooster who begins at sunset
rather than sunrise, to tell the world Of
his clever exploits on the governmental
battle front
One of the important points to res
member is to get there early, before rigor
to get across. Also, to walk in cold
sober. later, to room full of CLASSY eyed
mortis has set in. If you have any points
humans whom you thought had at least
ordinary intelligence, may be too much
for you.
Wouldn't Uncle Joe Stain be en-
couraged no end If he could get peep
into this sideshow Of the brains" run
ming our country? he would Immediately
cable back home to have all A-bomb in
stallations abandoned and just have
group Of stretcher bearers come over to
clear out the stiffs and take over! ~.
In.
Evening star., 1951-04-15

darts thrust into the bulls sides to irri-
tate him and to display the agility Of the
performers, no lanceS thrust into him by
picadors. Instead, the banderilleros will
deftly affix colored roSettes to the sides
and hanks of the creatures by means of
wax. Then, when the bull is properly
stuck up with these tokens Of the agility
Of the fighters the matadors will ad-
vance with traditional grace to the fray
and will proceed to 60 through the mo-
tions of the last assault with a real
sword. But he will not kill the bull. That
would be both cruel and extravagant.
When the psychological moment arrives.
the matador will touch the bull between
the shoulder blades, where he is supposed
to receive the fatal stab. and will there
deposit, as mark of skill, a waxed
rosette. as sort of seal Of finality."
All Of which would add up to nothing
irritating to humanitarians. But The
Star feared that the bull fight thus
portrayed will be about as representative
Of Mexico's national sport as baseball
game between 18 polite. gentle-voiced.
ladylike players, with an automatic UNI
pire, would be typical Of the. national
sport Of the United States"
The Laurel correspondent Of The Star
wrote to the paper on April 4, 1901, about
series Of musicales
Elterslie Seminary then being given by
MusicoIes the pupils Of Ellers-
lie. Seminary.
Among those participating in the pro-
grams were: Morton Shaffer, Margaret
Knowlton, Rosalie Walk. Susan Crom-
miller, Dottie Frost, Gertrude Petit. Ell
sic Baldwin. Evils Waters. Iris Ennis,
Alice Peters, Pauline Flannery and Edna
Petit. Does any reader know what be-
came Of Ellerslie Seminary? Perhaps it
still exists under another name. Maybe
Gertrude Poe Of the Laurel Leader is
prepared to answer.
Evening star., 1951-04-15

years ahead. Paula Edwards was max
ing her vaudeville debut at Springfield,
Mass. Charles Frohman had secured a
new play by Jerome K. jerome. Corse
Payton was producing Hamlet" and
Henry W. in Brooklyn Everhart, the
American hoop roller, had created q
sensation in London.
4
The Star for April II. 1901, reported:
"a reception of rare brilliance and social
Importance, followed
French Ship by naval and military
In Bdltimore ball, was given at the
French Embassy :.
last night in honor of the . >. officers
and cadets of the French training ship
Duguay Trouin, now at anchor in the
harbor at Baltimore. Jules Cambon, the
French Ambassador, was host, and the
guests invited to meet the visitors from
the French republic included the men,
bers of the cabinet, the members of
the diplomatic corps and prominent
officers Of the United States Army and
Navy, together with their families. :.
The ball began at o'clock. Supper was
served at midnight, when the festivities
were at their height. The cadets re-
turned TO Baltimore shortly after 2
o'clock" Among the ladies present were:
Miss Hay. Miss Root, Miss Wilson and
Miss Roosevelt
X
An editorial in The Star of April Is,
1901, read in part as follows: According
to plans now progressing
Bull Fights among the sideshow ex-
D For Buffalo hibitions at the Buffalo
Exposition will be repre-
sentation Of Mexico's national sport, the
bull fight. The projectors Of the enter
prise, feeling that it is necessary to
.counteract North American prejudice
against this cruel sport, take pains to
explain In advance that the game viii
be played humanely. There will be no
Evening star., 1951-04-15
Fifty Years Ago in The Star

Emilio Aguinaldo, the famous Filipino
insurrectionist, was declared to have
sworn allegiance to the
Aguinoldo United States in a state
Surrenders ment from Secretary Of
War Elihu Root, published
in The Star of April Q. 1901. .'The news
Of Aguinaldo's action" 1t was explained,
was contained in a cable message from
Gen. Arthur Macarthur, received at a
very early hour this morning" Subse-
quently, the Filipino rebels capture by
Gen. Frederick Funston was confirmed
The Star printed transcript of his last
proclamation, dated January II. He
employed exceedingly bitter language to
accuse the American "imperialists" of
"unheard-of cruelties and scornful vio-
lationS of the most elementary laws of
war;" Aguinaldo never has become
reconciled to the expansion Of the United
States into the Pacific. but few months
ago he was quoted as having expressed
approval Of American resistance to COM
munism in the Orient.
Show business was booming half
century back. The Star Of March 80,
1901. reported that
TheotricoI Madame Butterfly was
Notes such hit at Proctor'S In
New York that it was to
be retained throughout the season.
Clyde Fitch's Lovers Lane" was crowd
ing Manhattan theater. Mary Man
nering was a success in Janice
Meredith" and had three other plays
waiting for her when it ceased to draw.
TN the Palace of the King" had reached
its hundredth Broadway performance.
Robert McWade was preparing Ito tour
the country again in rip Van Wrinkle"
John c. Fisher had announced his ac-
QUESTION Of the American rights to '@The
Silver Slipper" Augustus Thomas was
writing q play for Harry Woodruff.
Ezra Kendall had contracts running two
Evening star., 1951-04-15
Debute on Art

The American people are becoming
more and more analytical in the field
of cultural pursuits.
This was driven home with q bang
recently while listening to a free-for-all
radio argument on modern art between
Stuart Davis and Thomas Hart Benton,
with Perry T. Rathbone "a fine example
Of the academic concept of culture and
calmness) trying to keep the train from
being blown completely of the track.
The argument between Davis. q first
rate dialectician but third-rate Modern
Capital "M'o artist, and Benton.
first-rate modern tsmall "m") artist
but only so-so logician. had all the
excitement of prize fight. And the
crowd loved 1t. The subject. incidentally,
was 'Does Modern Art Make Sense2"
To this observer. Benton stuck his
neck out by a head-on condemnation of
goth century art. and Davis expertly
but sadistically subjected him to- the
Death Of the Thousand Cuts" by chop
ping at him with nt-edged sword.
Why Benton didn't choose to offer.
himself as an example Of good, current
goth century American art remains
mystery. Among the American Region
alists treading closely on the heels of
George Bellows and John Sloan, Benton
is the most Expressionistic and. the most
abstract. Some Of his works more closely
resemble Kokoschka's than many Of the
numerous American imitators of the
Expressionist master, and their names
are legion. Benton's paintings have
meaning only In the light of the 20th
century and to art followers Conditioned
by Ryder. Cezanne and the "Ash Can
School,"
Stuart Davis preoccupation with Cub
ism and bizarre lighting is only Of
transitory worth.
But the amazing thing was the reac-
tion Of the audience. mostly working
people. Their questions to the principals
packed the wallop of careful observation
and study. Verify, Americans are max
ing cultural sense.
Gino j. Simi.
Evening star., 1951-04-15
L etters to The Star
Pen-nar1es may be used If letters carry
Driters' correct names and addresses.
All letters subject to condensation.

ability to read during these critical
times. They obey neither the inStruc-
tionS OF the trainers of the Constitu-
ton nor Of those who represent the
citizens in that Government, the Con-
gress. They obey the law of precedent,
which is law of diminishing returns,
process Of deterioration from the high
ideals of those fathers who founded
this as a land of freedom Of conscience.
The recent Kefauver hearings have
exposed deadly enemy which turks
within our gates, one which is more
to be dreaded than anything which is
held behind the Iron Curtain" From
these hearings we should be alerted to
our need Of a discipline within our own
land. We should understand the i'm
portance Of bringing back to crystal
clarity the channels Of the demands of
conscience. The citizens of this land
should appreciate that those who enlist
in the cause Of conscience and carry
their scrupleS as far as to volunteer for
jail sentences, as Robert Michener and
several other young Quakers have done.
have entered the lists as champions in
cause very precious to every American
to whom the heritage of individual
liberty is dear.
Every one does not appreciate that it
is only necessary for these young men
to sign their names to papers already
made out and they will be cleared of
all charges against them. A Connie
or one Of the characters we saw on the
stand at the Kefauyer hearings has SO
far lost all sense of individual conscience
that he will sign without thought. II
he gets nod from headquarters. These
young men, on the other hand, give first
allegiance to the rights of that con-
science which is the birthright of every
American. They refuse to sign away
that birthright. even though in conse-
quence they must suffer deprivation
from life and fortune. Our Congress
should find ways to administer such
resource Of courage so that 1t will min
lister to the higher type of patriotism
which 1t represents. These young men
should be delegated to serve in self
sacrificial capacities which the Com
mics dare not undertake. They should
be recognized as the front-line group
which forever gives the lie to the pre-
tentions Of totalitarian governments
anywhere.
Critic.
Evening star., 1951-04-15
Ernest Beyiin

The death of Ernest Bevin has not come
as great surprise. When he resigned as
Britain's Foreign Secretary little more than a
month ago, he was a man whose once-rocklike
frame had been visibly shrunken and wasted
by his long years of exhausting labor in behalf
of freedom. In very real sense, history must
remember him as soldier who fell in the semi
hot war after fighting tenacious and often
brilliant battle against the menacing forces of
Red totalitarianism.
After having served with great distinction
in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition cabinet
Mr.. Bevin-more than five years ago-became
the Attlee Labor governments Foreign Minister
From that time on, and until the day of his
resignation, he held unswervingly to q course
designed to make Britain key member of the
company of nations united in a common front
to check the Red tide to block the Kremlin's
effort to tyrannize what is left of the free world
to establish an effective system of collective
security and finally to achieve an enduring peace
in which peoples everywhere could work conf
derftly together to build decent international
society. Despite the fact that much incorporate
criticism was hurled at some OF his policies
particularly his attitude toward Israel and Com
munist China-he fought an exceedingly good
fight against the forces Of evil, and in that
respect he was the servant not merely of his
own country but OF every other country threat
ened by the Soviet conspiracy
Above all, Mr.. Bevin dedicated himself to
the task of cultivating the closest possible polit
ical economic and military ties between his own
country and ours. He did so because he saw with
clear eyes that such ties were absolutely essen
tial to the security and well-being not only of
Britain, not only of the United States, not only
of Western Europe, butsof the entire free world.
Now that he has gone, In a moment of some
strain in Anglo-American relations, it would be
well for everybody to remind himself that 1t is
imperative to keep on strengthening those
relations.
Evening star., 1951-04-15
Georgetown BicentennioI

A formal celebration of the 2OOth anniversary
of the founding of Georgetown should be an
occasion of Importance if only because it serves
incidentally to call attention to what Georgetown
Is nova lively, progressive, congenial COM
munity well-deserving of appreciation for its
present as well as for its past. OF course, there
was a settlement at the head of the Potomac
tidewater long before Georgetown Fair. was
authorized by the Maryland Assembly in 1751
The Indians called the place Tohogee prior to
the coming of the first white coloniSts. Henry
Fleete, an English adventurer, wrote of it in
1884 as being without question the most
pleasant in all this country and most convenient
. for habitation." He confirmed his good opinion
by remaining in the neighborhood for more
than a decade
4, Ninian Bean, Scot, arrived in 1703 with
o claim to 795 acres in the vicinity of what he
named "the Rock of Dumbarton," and his de-
scendants built houses on their property The
family still has holdings tracing back to the
original patent. Among other planters of the
eighteenth century whose influence has not died
out were George Gordon, Henry Wright Crabb,
John Needham, James Perrie Samuel Magruder
III, David Lynn, Andrew Heugh, Robert Peter,
John Murdock, Thomas Richardson, William
Deakins, junior; Bernard ONeill, Benjamin
Stoddert, Samuel Davidson, Robert Ferguson
and Daniel Reintzel. These men made perma-
nent homes in Georgetown and set an example
OF comfortable living which never has faded.
Just why the community was designated
Georgetown is mystery Some writers think
It was named for King George II, others hold
that it commentaries George Beall and George
Gordon. The facts probably never viii be de-
termined What matters is that the village OF
1751 proSpered consistently. 1t was famous
port by 1888, especially known for its shipments
of tobacco to Europe Robert Peter, often men
toned in old records as merchant prince"
and first Mayor in 1890, was but one of perhaps
fifty well-to-do businessmen. When George
Washington passed through" on his way to
New York to be inaugurated President, George
town was metropolis
Inevitably, it was overshadowed by the de-
velopment of the Federal Capital. But its dis
tinctive identity never has been submerged and
that is the particular value which is being
emphasized in the bicentennial observance.
Georgetown is separate civic entity, richly
worthy Of it's history and containing within itself
ample reason for confidence in its future.
Evening star., 1951-04-15
Spires Of the Spirit
On Being Real

sIf were allowed one single cry to
God" writes Katharine Mansfield In one
Of her letters. "that cry would be, I want
to be real She chose the prayer that
Is most sure to wing its way to the
very heart Of the Father God. For.
as the sweet singer Of Israel phrased
it long ago, "He desireth truth In the
inward parts"
No wonder that, turning from all the
sham and insincerity Of deceitful world
to the transparent. crystal Christ. Fran
ces Havergale. in ecstatic rapture at
the revelation, cried: Reality, reality.
Jesus Christ, find in Thee!"
There are those Of whom we are COM
PEELED to say: "They do not ring true;
they are human counterfeits." The world
has contempt for the hypocrite. the crook
In business, the quack in medicine. the
bribe- -taker In government. the false
prophet in the pulpit, the Uriah Heaps
In all realms of human relationships.
Unreality was the sin against which
the rebukes of the Man Of Galilee were
most unsparing. He was much more
concerned about hypocrisy than He was
about heresy. He uttered biting. blister
ing words Of inerciless severity when
He knew that facade OF pious respec-
liability was hiding the insincere, the
artificial, the make-believe, wearing
masks and donning the livery Of Heaven
to serve the devil in
~
There is stone carving in the wall
of Roslyn Chapel near Edinburgh de-
picting church interior, with fox
standing in the pulpit and rows of geese
in the pews. No one would have to
explain that glimpse of vicious camou-
f1age to Jesus, for He thundered against
the scribes and rabbis who, on the holy
day. logged up in ecclesiastical finery
and looked down on the worshipers like
foxes eying the geese with sinister in
tentions. To those who sat in Moses
seat on the Sabbath. making a parade
of plausible piety. Jesus said with burn
ing indignation: "Woe unto you hypo-
critics, for you devour widows houses
and for pretense make long prayers!"
How full Of frauds Is our modern life,
even as when Jesus was here among
Evening star., 1951-04-15
By Frederick Brown Harris
Minister, Foundry Methodist Church
Chaplain, United States Senate.

No Prayer Book is complete without
this petition: Lord, save me from in
sincerity, keep me from hypocrisy Make
me real" The Master Teacher knew
that there is no mirror like childhood,
with its utter candor and its discomfort
ting outSpokenness, to reveal and to
rebuke unreality. There is nothing like
child's clean eyes to puncture pretense.
One Of the reasons He lifted children
in the midst OF grownups was because in
the simplicity Of child Is the very in,
carnation Of candor.
Perhaps the most perfect picture of
the role Of childhood in a world so full
Of unreality is found in Hans Christian
Andersen'S tale of "The Emperors New
Clothes" It's tale of two clever rogueS
who persuaded the king that they had
produced a marvellous new sort of cloth.
They sang the beauties of its delicate
texture so eloquently that the king
became so befuddled that he could not
tell whether there was any cloth actually
there or not. When his majesty finally
ventured to parade in the supposed new
clothes, all the courtiers upheld the
fiction that his suit was made of won-
derfully woven cloth. when, as matter
Of fact. there was no material there
at all. The obSequious minds of the
members of the court echoed, eyes. Yes" !"
as the exclamation was raised, Notice
the sparkle of the sunlight on the cloth!"
But. finally, as the unclothed king
passed by. lad standing on the side
walk blurted out the brutal truth: "Why
he has nothing on at ALL"
Jesus knew that a little child has a
disturbing faculty of revealing frauds
that parade up and down the earth.
After we listen to all that He has to
say about unreality, as He pours His
scorching condemnation upon it, who
can doubt that there is no modern
prayer to which our Lord would utter
a more heartfelt amen than to the pun
gent petition of Studdert-Kennedy,
20 By Thy cross and passion, Lord,
By broken hearts that pant
For comfort. and for IoUe of Thee.
DeltUer US from can't?