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The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1951-10-04
Entertain With Picnic
Supper At Patten Home

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Patten
recently entertained a number
of friends with a picnic supper
at their home south of Caldwell.
Guests included Mr.. and Mrs.
George Hammat and children,
Mr.. and Mrs. Art Alden, Mr.. and
Mrs. Dean Patten and son and
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Young, all Of
Marietta and Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
McVay, of Caldwell.
The evening hours were spent
socially,
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1951-10-04
Friendly Neighbor Club
Holds September Meeting

The Friendly Neighbor club, of
the Dexter City community, met
at the home of Mrs. Osolene
Sailing on Wednesday of last
week. All members attended.
A delicious dinner was served
at noon by the hostess. The after
noon hours were spent socially
with contest prizes going to Mrs.
Mary Ramage, Mrs. Clara Sailing
and Romona Nau.
The next meeting will be held
at the home of Bertha Sailing on
October 10.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1951-10-04
ENTERTAIN WITH DINNER

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hesson en-
tertained with a dinner at their
home near. Macksburg, recently.
Guests were Mr.. and Mrs. Alex
Bettinger, of Middleburg; Mr..
and Mrs. Earl Mallett and sons,
of Hiramsburg; Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
Bettinger and sons, of Sarahs-
vile and Mrs. Lee J. McCool, of
Caldwell.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1951-10-04
SteUens-Nobbs Wedding Takes
Place Saturday, September 29

Miss oneita Stevens, of Harrevie and Henry Nobbs
of Marietta exchanged nupta double
performed in the of the First Methodist church,
of Marietta, Saturday, Sept. 20.
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs of
Haresve Mr. Nobbs is the of Mr. and Henry Nobb
of Crawford, N j.
Only members of the immediate families attendance
4:30 by Rev Black
Evening star., 1951-03-19
Thomas L. Stokes:
They're All Playing Politics
Just Name Ne Republican! (or Democrot)-
These Probes Can Involve Both Parties EosiIv

of trying to get favoritism in
RFC loans"
Like Tom Heflin about Demo-
Gratis, Senator Capehart kept
saying in effect: Name a Re-
publican" Like the Alabama
Senator, too. he got an answer,
as a starter, in q group of Re-
publicans, not just one. Senator
Douglas pointed out that a large
part of the $40 million RFC
loan to the Texmass Oil Corp,
which the committee investi-
gated, "was used to help pail
out three groups, namely, the
John Hancock Life Insurance
Co.. of Boston, the Massachu-
setts Mutual Co., and group of
Boston investors organized into
a peculiar kind of investment
group, whose names read like a
list of the blue -bloods of Bos-
ton"
II do not believe" the Sena-
tor added, that very many
Democrats could be found in
that list"
He explained that the COM
mittee had concentrated on the
Texas end of that which
happens to be the Democratic
end"-but he was sure that if
Senator Capehart wanted the
Massachusetts, end investigated,
Senator Fulbright would oblige.
There was much of the back
and forth, on and on, tit for tat,
like a bunch of deacons defend
ing their rectitude. It all could
have been shortened up and
much wind and Congressional
Record space saved if some phi
losopher, say like former Sena-
tor Henry Fountain Ashursr of
Arizona, had reminded the gen.
tlemen that you can't throw an
investigating committee around
here any further than you can
throw the Capitol by its dome
into any situation without hit
ting members of both political
parties. Politics is mixed up in
business and vice versa, and also
with crime. as is being aptly
demonstrated by another young
senatorial investigator, Estes
Kefauver of Tennessee.
There's much partisan contro-
versy now as to whether the
RFC investigation should con-
tinue. Republicans accuse Demo-
Gratis Of playing politics in want
Ing to stop it, and Democrats
accuse Republicans Of playing
Evening star., 1951-03-19
Constdntne Brown:
Soviets Not Prepared for War
Experts Here Believe Russia Won't Be Ready
For at Least l8 Months or z Years
Constantine Brown:

The consensus of Washington
officialdom is that the Soviet
armies are not yet fully prepared
to engage in war.
Military and political experts
say that Russia will not be
ready for at least another 18
months or two years. Hence the
need to speed across the Atlantic
Immediately at least four Amer
lean divisions and prod the At
lantic Pact nations to speed up
their military preparations.
The American people are ac-
cepting this evaluation at its
face value. It conflicts, however,
with the arguments advanced
by the State Department that
we cannot permit the Chinese
Nationalist troops to start di-
versionary operations in South
China lest we provoke interven-
tion by the Russians, who might
start Immediately a third world
war.
The two arguments SIMPLY do
not make sense together. If
Russia is not yet ready to fight
in Europe, where only a weak
curtain of Allied forces are
available, how can she afford
to start fighting in the Far
East. far from her main bases
OF supply?
We have been fighting a bit
ter and costly war in Korea for
the last nine months. Our main
difficulty has been the lack of
manpower. We have suffered
some $4,000 casualties so far.
Our allies. outside of the South
Koreans, have contributed about
10 per cent Of the American
forces. They have suffered pro-
portionate losses.
Since last November Gen.
Macarthur has been pleading
with his superiors in Washing
ton and the United Nations for
permission to bomb the Chinese
lines of communication and
military installations in Man
churia. He has pointed out
forcefully that so long as that
sanctuary" is left to the enc
my. the stalemate will con-
tinue.
He has also urged. with
wealth of indisputable military
arguments, that the 100000
trained Chinese Nationalists in
Formosa be permitted to land
on the long South China coast
and compel the Communist
high command to fight on two
fronts.
1t is true that only 10000
Nationalists are fully equipped.
But this country could, with
out impairing the Western Eu-
ropean preparedness program,
send enough war materials to
Evening star., 1951-03-19
T61Hy VlCE6ITOT6
Will Get Even With Dutch
Who FIeeced the Indians
Henry McLen1ore:

ROME am going to try to
get even with the Dutch to-
day for what they did to our
Indians when Peter Minuit
bought Manhattan from them
for "a bucks worth of the cos
tune jewelry that was all the
rage among the redskins in
1926.
Minuit's purchase stands as
one of the great steals of all
time, as anyone who tries to
buy Manhattan for that amount
will find out. I bet you couldn't
buy Manhattan for ten times
that today, not even If you
threw in a pair of second row
center seats for Guys and
Dolls"
I can't hope to avenge the
fleeced Indians completely. but
I'm going to do my best. It's
this way. We leave by Royal
Dutch Airlines today for
Amsterdam and home and all
the free baggage we are allowed
is the customary 66 pounds each,
but we have much more than
that, what with all the loot
we have picked up since we
left New York.
We could pay excess baggage
fees, of course, but un-
fortunately we are down to one
lonesome travellers check, and
there isn't branch of the
Morris Plan in Rome. And
even if there were, 7 forgot to
bring along my faithful CO.
signer.
So. we plan to try to get the
extra weight stuff aboard THE
Flying Dutchman" plane without
having it weighed. Nothing
underhanded. you understand.
That would be wrong, and I'm
getting to an age where the
wrong things do fret me more
than they once did. The extra
weight things will be out in
the open, and if the Dutch
don't notice them, well, that's
their fault.
One of the heaviest bits Of
loot we picked up is a handsome,
solid leather desk set. Jean is
going to wear it aboard on her
head as a hat. She baked at
first. but after we had rear
ranged the blotter, calendar and
letter opener to give the that"
a more spring-like appearance,
and glued down the inkwell so
it wouldn't slide off when she
nodded her head, she agreed to
wear the cowhide chapeau. After
all, Hedda Hopper has worn hats
much more ridiculous. and she's
getting along all right.
Eddie Brannick, handsome
secretary Of the New York
Giants baseball club. asked me
to buy him a pair of binoculars
in G&many. which I did. Air
Evening star., 1951-03-19
Prober Seeks Crime Commission
Kefouver to Ask Creation of 5-Mon Group;
Senator Rated Presidential Aspiront

the committees work, Senator
Kefauver also needs a personal
and political break.
Tennessee has many problems
that require his attention. AS
Supreme Court Justice Black,
a onetime master of the politi-
cal trade, used to say: The first
duty of Senator is to get him.
self reelected. Many care
less Senator has found that the
plaudits of the metropolitan
press were no substitute for a
satisfied constituency.
In Senator Kefauver's case,
his burdens are multiplied by
the fact that his colleague, Ken
meth Mcclellan, the 82-year-old
dean of the Senate, has been
more and more sloughing off the
senatorial routine. The result
is that Tennesseans with prob
lens unload them on thesjunior
Senator.
The Kefauver staff is above
average but. lacking private
funds. he cannot augment it to
any extent when he takes on
extra duties. Besides, the folks
want to meet the Senator some
times. too, and more time spent
in Tennessee is an imperative
not all the television can erase.
Mrs. Kefauver's people, who
live in Great Britain, are we'll
off, but not since the war began
have they been able to send her
Evening star., 1951-03-19

complete the rearming Of the
rest Of the Nationalist forces
for the type of war they can
wage on the Chinese mainland;
that is, raids in force and guer-
rilla actions.
Gen. Macarthur recently has
stated that under present cir
cumstances the stalemate in
Korea may continue Indefinite
ly. This worries neither the
Russians nor the Chinese. Quite
the contrary. So long as we
are Stalemated in Korea our
overall military position will
remain weak.
The Chinese can afford to
lose hundreds of thousands of
men. Human life is the cheap
est commodity in totalitarian
countries. But we cannot afford
to lose our men in an endless
police operation" American
casualties to this time represent
eight divisions, or Is per cent of
our total ground force.
With the exception of Turkey
none Of our allies intends to
send further troops to the battle
scene. Henceforth, we must
reckon only on American and
whatever additional South Ko-
can troops we can muster to
carry on the war in Korea. But
all this time the Chinese Ma
tionalists in Formosa, who are
anxious to measure their strength
with their Communist oppo-
nents, are being immobilized by
Washington.
Since last summer when the
Red aggression began in Korea,
a number of reasons have been
set forth why these available
forces should not be used in the
struggle. These proved worth
Evening star., 1951-03-19

politics in wanting to continue
it. Both are right.
It would seem that the thing
to do, now that it's been opened
up. is to adopt a firm bi-par-
tisan policy, bring it all out.
Texas Democrats and Massa-
chusetts Republicans and any,
body else, so that we can purge
ourselves cnce again-as is nec-
essary often in a democracy
drive the greedy rats out once
more and try to establish de-
cency IN government.
It would be a good idea, too,
to put on the record the helpful
things the RFC has accom-
plished, especially for small
business, to get the whole pic
ture, and to bring before the
committee those who have been
crying for abolition of RFC and
find out what are their motives
and whom they represent.
Let's get the whole story. all
the way around, and not over
look business In politics while
we inquire into politics in busi-
ness,
Evening star., 1951-03-19

Many long year ago-it was
early in 1924 - Senator Tom
C"Tom-tom") Heflin, Demo-
crat, of Alabama, of the fancy
vests and flowing coat-tails was
raving in the Senate one day
about the Harding Republican
Administration scandals involv-
ing lease of the Teapot Dome
tWyoming) and Elk Hills Cali
formal naval oil reserves to
private interests.
Everybody mixed up in that
was Republican. he shouted.
Raising his finger heavenward
in utter righteousness, he de-
manded:
Name a Democrat!"
The next day it came out be-
fore the investigating committee
that the late William Gibbs
McAdoo, Secretary of Treasury
in the Wilson Administration
and at that time leading candi-
date for the 1924 Democratic
presidential nomination. also
Mr.. Heflin's choice, was among
counsel for E. L. Doheny, the
oil man. who was being pilloried
by Democrats about the Elk
Hills lease he got from his old
friend. Secretary of Interior AL
; bert B. Fall. MIR. McAdoo pre-
sumably was representing q cli-
ent as a lawyer, but because of
his powerful political connec-
tions. that was odium enough
in the atmosphere of those days.
Democrats were doing the in
vestigating.
AL Of that came back in
listening to debate recently in
the Senate about the current
RFC expose which, inciden-
tally. can in no way approach
the Teapot Dome mess, as some
who know little about that
e. other affair are intimating.
("I was dere, Charlie!")
Senator Capehart, Republican,
OF Indiana, exuding all the Of
Tended dignity of which his
rotund figure is capable, was
prodding Senator Douglas, Dem
ocrat, Of Ill. The latter, in
stressing the fairness of the
RFC investigation and its
avoidance of politics, had said
that the chairman. Senator
Fulbright. Democrat, of Ark,
had leaned over backward, as
a matter Of fact. to protect the
members of the opposition Gre
publican) party who might have
been accused, justly or unjustly,
Evening star., 1951-03-19

less. We were told that we must
not permit Chang Kai-shek's
army to join the police action.
because the Chinese Commu-
lists would Immediately retail
ate by joining the North Ko-
reans. They have done so In
spite of the careful planning Of
the diplomats.
Now we are being told that
the Russians, allegedly unpre-
pared to attack the meager
Allied forces in Western Europe.
would pour their armies into
Korea and start World War III
if Nationalist forces are allowed
to help U. N. forces.
It is hard to reconcile the
arguments.
Evening star., 1951-03-19

financial aid. And there are
young children in the Kefauver
family to be looked after and
educated.
The Democrats have mixed
feelings as they contemplate the
end of the Kefauver hearings.
They are sure the Senator did
them no favors in the election
just past but they are COM
PEELED to recognize that he is
going to be one of their biggest
assets in the next one.
The current disclosures about
incompetence and improper in
fluence can only be countered
by some show of proof that the
administration could and would
clean its own house. In that
particular showcase. the Kefau-
yer committee CLEANS like a dia-
mond.
A slight touch Of envy may
UNDERSTANDABLE be included in
the picture. Senator Kefauver
has taken some long strides to-
ward the White House prize
coveted by all Senators; no
future discussions of aspiring
candidates can omit his name.
He has a big advantage also
over most other Southerners-
his is a border State that does
not force him into intransigeant
civil-rights attitudes. He can
pick his ground as the specific
issues arise.
(ReleaSed by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
Evening star., 1951-03-19
WhotWi|| History Soyof Truman?
1t Is True Thot 1t Takes Is Years to EvoIuote
Administration, But He Can Help With Deeds
Dovid Lawrence:

President Truman is right
len he says it takes 25 to 80
-;ars after a presidential term
evaluate an administration.
Iut that doesn't mean the con-
temporary verdict will necessar-
lily be altered by the passage Of
time.
Likewise, the popular impress
sion Of a quarter of a century
hence will depend on how the
history books tell the story. If.
as they did in the case of Presi-
dent Grant, they refer primarily
to his prowess as a general and
ignore the weaknesses he sub
sequently displayed in Office and
the charges of scandal that
arose, then it doesn't much
matter what the sins were-only
the virtues are emphasized.
But what do people remember
or forget about Presidents any
way?
They remember, for instance,
that Jackson was the brilliant
hero of the Battle of New
Orleans in 1913 and that he was
an independent, fiery character,
but they remember, too, as far
from worthy, his doctrine "to
the victor Gin politics. belong
the spoils."
They remember Lincoln as the
man who freed the slaves and
saved the Union. They forget
that he personally paid the ex-
penses of a delegate to go to the
National Republican Convention
to vote for him-if, indeed, they
knew it at the time.
They remember Woodrow Will
son not as the President who
led the world to victory in World
War I, but as the man who
broke down in health pleading
for a League of Nations sup
ported by and participated in by
the United States so as to make
the world safe for democracy"
Evening star., 1951-03-19

safe against threats from
tyrannical rulers and totalitar-
ian governments. If the United
Nations succeeds. Wilson will be
remembered as its progenitor.
Mr.. Truman mentioned Grover
Cleveland as among those Presi-
dents who are just now coming
into their own. What do the
people remember about Cleve-
land? What do the history
Books say? They quote more
often than anything else his
immortal phrase-"Public office
is a public trust"
Despite the fact that Cleve-
land came to the Presidency
through political machines-just
as did Mr.. Truman to the Sen
ate through the Pendergast
mSchine and later to the Vice
Presidency through the other
big-city Democratic machines
there was no question where
Cleveland stood when the issue
came up as between political
henchmen and the public inter-
est.
Mr.. Truman may well ponder
the phrase that made Cleve-
land famous and look around
him and ask himself if the reve-
lations about his friends and
cronies do honor to him as long
as he puts personal loyalties
above the public interest.
There's another President
Calvin Coolidge-who will be
remembered for what he did
when the Teapot Dome scandal
revealed that during the Re-
publican administration of the
man he succeeded-W w arren
Harding - cabinet officers had
become implicated. Coolidge
didn't hesitate a moment. He
didn't care about the reflection
which his action would cast on
a Republican administration
just a year before he himself
Evening star., 1951-03-19
Doris FIeeson:

Senator Estes Kefauver will
propose to the Senate that it
set up a crime commission of
five members - one each from
Justice and Treasury plus three
distinguished outsiders - to
keep Congress informed on the
drive against interstate crime.
He still hopes to close out his
own brilliantly successful in
Quiry March 81.
New pressures are being put
on him since the New York dis
closures, to seek fresh funds and
authority to continue his special
committee. He is resisting them
for variety of reasons, some of
great personal Importance.
A student of government.
Senator Kefauver does not be-
Ieve that a legislative commit
tee should be prolonged for
other than legislative purposes.
His committee already has in
hand the bills it wants Congress
to approve as a result of its
work.
The Senator stresses that he
and his colleagues are legisla-
tors, not detectives. They can
hold up a mirror to localities
and States which will reflect
the law-enforcement situation:
= they are not a substitute for
honest and competent police de-
partments and city halls.
After IA months of much
travel and long hours spent On
Evening star., 1951-03-19

lines will let passenger carry
one pair Of binoculars around
his neck, but not two, and I
have two, having brought my
own along on the trip for Alps
gazing, one of my favorite pas
times. I guess the airlines
figure that a man who likes to
look through two pair Of bin
oculars at the same time is
daffy and might start shooting
off Roman candles while in
flight.
How to disguise the binocu-
lars posed a problem, but I
solved it. I am going to wear
them inside my shirt where
their presence along with so
much natural, hard-earned bay
window won't be noticed. Call
that hiding, if you must. but
to me it is simply clever
camouflage.
A couple of embroidered
tablecloths I am going to
carry as handkerchiefs-over-
coat pocket handkerchiefs. If
this is revolutionary and starts
a new style-well, I'll be a
pioneer. that's all. Remember,
some brave man had to wear
the first plaid dinner jacket.
Jean isn't going to get cold on
the plane, that's a cinch. Plans
call for her to wear IL silk
blouses. one under the other.
She baked at that. too. but
came around when 7 proved to
her that if a woman looked
we'll IN one beautiful blouse she
figured to look a dozen times as
well in a dozen.
Distributed by McNaught Syndicate. Inc.
Evening star., 1951-03-19
would be up for another term.

would be up for another term.
Coolidge selected the best two
prosecutors he could find in the
country-Owen Roberts, a Re-
publican, who later became a
Supreme Court justice, and
Atlee Pomerene, a Democrat
and former United States Sena-
tor from Ohio. He told them to
go to it and prosecute and let
the chips fall where they may.
To him public Office was a public
trust and not a personal or
political trust. And the people
elected Coolidge in 1924 even
though the Republican Party
was tainted with one of the
worst scandals in our history.
The petty things do wash out.
The mink coats and the deep
freezers are forgotten in the.
long run-provided the man in
the White House turns out to be
not a Harding who. too. was the
victim of a misplaced confidence
in political cronies, but a Presi-
dent who makes his administra-
tion measure up to his own
standard of integrity.
And nobody can Justly say
that Harry Truman is devoid
of personal integrity. They may
say he did a great thing in pre-
venting World War III-if Is
years from now that proves to
have been the true measure of
our Intervention in Korea. But
they may also say some day
that he repudiated the doctrine
Public Office is public
trust"
All the other Presidents have
submitted their cases to history.
They can neither add to nor
subtract from them now. But
President Truman still has an
opportunity by a courageous,
impersonal attitude-expressed
in deeds, not words-to write
the history of his own admin
istration.
Reproduction Rights Reserved).
Evening star., 1951-01-30

warmer near the Arctic Circle in
Canada than in many parts of the
mid continent.
For the second straight day
temperatures dropped far below
zero in the Midwest.
The Weather Bureau, reporting
an official low of SO degrees below
zero at Lone Rock, in the Southern
Central part of Wisconsin. had to
use extraordinary measures to take
the reading.
Scale Extended by Calipers.
The official thermometer scale
at Lone Rock stops at As below
zero. Government forecasters
made a downward projection OF
the scale with calipers to arrive
at the official reading.
And it was cold and icy ano
wet over widespread areas of the
East. Colder weather was on the
way, forecasters said, for much
of the East and parts of the
South.
! Snow fell in Houston, Tex, and
the mercury dropped to 25. Tenn
peratures were below freezing all
the way to the Rio Grande Valley
The cold air missed only two
parts of the country-the extreme
Southeast and the Far West
forecasters said. The rest of the
Nation, they said, was feeling the
sting of the cold Canadian air.
Evening star., 1951-01-30
Weather
Continued From First PageO

Military highway and Nebraska
avenue.
Capital Transit ordered out Is
sanders, most of them to Con-
necticut avenue. Sixteenth street
and the hilly northeast sections
Trouble Calls Are Light.
Despite reports of cars slipping
and stalling, the American Auto
mobile Association reported a
lighter morning than usual" for
trouble calls. This probably was
due to the fact that the snow be-
gan after the downtoWn-bound
rush was under way.
The Highway and Sanitation
Departments had men and sand
ing machines standing. by in the
event more slippery streets de-
velop.
Riding the rim of a MidWestern
storm that sent temperatures as
low as So degrees below zero ir
Wisconsin, the snow began falling
first in this area from Rockville
and Gaithersburg to Baltimore
Later it hit the South, with Luray
Va, reporting a 3-inch fall.
Road crews were ordered out in
Western Maryland and warnings
were issued that most State roads
were open but hazardous.
On the weather map it was