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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08
DON'T INVITE AN OIL SHORTAGE

Once again last year substantial additions made to the
crude oil and natural gas of the nation The oil
Jumped 252bs $4,000 barrels against 2464Q4a9 900
barrels the beginning Of q5odospte output during the
year Of Dab 77b 900 barrels.
There's lot to this story than the figures tc The
business Of finding underground tremendously
expensive both lime and money Aerial seveys ep the
oil geoogt locate promising territory but further information
ust be gathered aboousv by ground exploration Even with
exhaustive cminary work SO per cent of he exploratory
wells drilled in this country last year dry holes
Since 926 Congress has recognized the unavodab high costs
81 development peculiar the oil industry and provided for
ihar part through fhe exemption from Of
n cent the oil producers income Now shortsighf
cd effort step Federal Treasury officials have pro-
posed that this depletion allowance be cut per cent This
that tho operations who account for of the
nstons wdcatins would be forced TO cua exploration
activities The incentive TO produce the key This couny
world leadership oil production would be vastly reduced We
would be inviting oil shortage which would quickly be follow
tion
As is awavs The when competitive profeekne
Pses stfed we offered quaek remedy regulated
scarcity TO the benefit of one and at GREAT peril to the
military and industrial power of the nation.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08

OUR IDEA OF FRUSTRATTON would be to
spend lot Of money on clothes, shoes and other
niceties and then be judged the ELEVENTH best
dressed person In the United States.
BACK IN THE OLD DAYS, sharp salesr1anshp
was an aceepted thing and many new business
man got the worst Of it If he didn't watch his
step. Take the fellow who opened new grocery
the first thing our friend purchased for his
new store was barrel of nutmeosi
BEST HUMOROUS CARTOON we've seen late
" is one which pictures three drunken Eskimos
arms about each other singing "I hate to see
that evening sun go down.
AN INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE book
let has been sent Us by the New York State De-
partment OF Commerce. Titled, New York State Va
catlonIands." il contains color pictures and de-
scriptlve material the Empire state You can
get a free copy by writing the New York state
Dept. OF Commerce, Albany NJ. Y.
FRIEND OF THIS COLUMN sent us clipping
from an old Columbus paper A grocery ad lists
the following; Chuck roast 12c; Prime sirloin
steak, 22c Short ribs, 10c and Pig foot soIse l5c
THE latter We wouldn't care for If they gave it
away
LOT OF PEOPLE WERE ALERTED last week
on big wind which was expected to blow this way
Don't know how It all got started but local tele-
phone operators were busy making frantic calls
on 100 mile-an-hour breeze which might have
levelled everything in Madison county. Operators
didn't call us and we suppose that they didn't care
whether our office got blown away or not At any
rate, the breeze rumor caused plenty of comnotion
hereabouts. 1t veered off and struck at UrbAna
and other towns north of here and did consider
able damage reports say.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08

THIS IS THE TIME of year when the kids pray
for bad weather-a at least until the last day Of
school, We remember that nothing is tougher on
stoodunt than balmy day. Nothing is worse than
a 1th period study hall when the temperature is
80 and the sun beaming down. An old fly buzzng
around doesn't help matters either.
PROBABLY HAVE USED This before but we
get little tired of hearing about the virtues cf
Southern cooking and, so, we'll tell this one again
nasmuch think Northern cooking to b every
bit as good native of Mississippi told a
friend from Nome, Aiaska-"When An was
youngun, all used to sit down to meal OF
blackeyed peas turnp green's fat-back, urts and
gravy, corn pone and then top II all off with A
sweet t-potato pie and apple.pan -doWdy. Man,
oh, man, sick ALL the time.
FROM ALL THE TALK we presume that the
modern house contains only two things--a breeze
way and rumpus room Our experience has
taught us that rumpus room is the least likely
to succeed and breezeway Is usually glassed In.
Another thing we always wonder about is why
the builder always prices his houses in terms such
sixteen-fve instead of the plain sixteen thous-
and five hundred Boiled down on your loan you
must face facts and the bank never says sixteen
five but uses the plain figures. This lingo Ii
mystery to me Like d price of Nine -Ninety-Five,
it is just to keep from saying Ten Dollars" ollf
loud!
AND, THEN THERE'S THE ONE about the fel-
low who went to the Kentucky Derby placed a bet
the nose of every horse took his seat In the
stands and started yelling "Come on, sufnp-
thinl"
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08

before existing records show.
Col. David McKell, past presi-
dent of the Ross County Historical
Society, says the stone ties in
with recorded facts.
Pierre LIE Moyne, Sieur D.
Iberville, is called the first great
Canadian. He established the first
Louisiana near Biloxi in 1899. He
made two trips to Louisiana and
history doesn't record his route
on the second trip.
The unreeorded route the Sec
ond time Is causing chillicothe
historians to speculate that per-
haps Iberville came down the ST.
Lawrence River. down the Scioto
River to the Ohio and then down
the Mississippi.
Young Sanford will get small
sum of money and a five-year his
torical society membership.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08
Governor Gets
Commentator

The Presbytery of Columbus,
composed of over 18 thousand
members, 81 churches and SO
ministers at its April meeting
adopted the following resolution
commencing Governor Frank j.
Lausche on his fight against
gambling:
Whereas the insidious under
mining influence of gambling in
terests in our land uncovered by
the investigation of the Kefauver
Committee have caused a serious
breakdown of moral standards in
our nation and ere threatening to
corrupt private and public life
in both large and small COM
munities; and
Whereas these undermining in
fluenceS have been and are op-
Grating in the communities of our
state often being shielded and pro-
tected by unscrupulous public of
ficers; and
Whereas these influences often
operate under the guise Of reli-
gious and charitable causes or in
stitutions giving seemingly plaus-
able excuses that proceeds go to
religious and charitable enter
prises, therefore,
Be it resolved that Columbus
Presbytery meeting In session on
this oath day of April 1851 at the
Mifflin Presbyterian Church, Ga
hanna, Ohio, hereby commend the
Honorable Frank j. Lausche, Gov
ernor of the State of Ohio for the
fearless and aggressive manner
in which he has labored to curb
this public evil and to rid our
communities of corrupt public Of
ficers."
A. w. WRIGHT,
Stated Clerk
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08
Stone May Prooe White Man S
Earlier Visit To Chillicothe

CHILLICOTHE, o. Up, A
schoolboy skipping stones across
the Scioto River has turned up
what may be Chillicothe's histori-
cal find Of the century.
The find itself is a small slab
of sandstone about "a by 1913
inches On its face is Inscribed:
"Coloniee Franchises 1899. LIE
Moyne Sr. D-I5vle."
Below the the initials Il. p"
and "P. L.
Pearl M. Sanford, 16-year-old
Sophomore at Southeastern High
School, found the tablet April %
on a gravel bar while he and two
friends hunted for q lost bill
fold.
If it is genuine and local
historians believe it is the
tablet indicates white men visited
.he chillicothe area many years
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08
BY Hal BOYLE

NEW YORK-lF1 - Practice
puts by the poor mans philoso--
pher:
Are American girls better look
ing this spring?
An informal poll at our office
watering trough disclosed that
everybody thought the girls were
more beautiful all right, but for
varying reasons.
They're rounder," said fell
low who likes 'em plump. winter
feed must have been more plenti-
full this year"
They're more slender" said
fellow who prefers 'em thin.
It's probably some new type
out-of-sight armor they're en-
cased in. 1t doesn't let them over
flow so much"
Nope, you're wrong, object
ed another. It's just that you can
see them more like nature made
them. They don't wear those
circus tents like they did a couple
of years back"
Il think it's because there aren't
SO many of them walking around
like ducks" remarked a fourth.
mot so many wearing those flat
footed slippers that make them
look like they were hiking off to
dance in a ballet"
It's because they are more
intelligent wisdom always
makes people look better, even
girls" insisted the office optimist.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08

I admire the human race. l do,
indeed. Everybody is busy run
ming US down, these days, for the
mess they say we have made here
and there and everywhere. Pshaw!
That's short-range stuff, a worms
eye view of our world. Over the
marching and abundant centuries,
we haven't made any mess. Far
from it!
We have done and are doing
a better JoD rnan anyone has any
right to expect. We're all right.
From the beginning, we found
ourselves alone in a vast universe,
and not only alone but the only
living thing on this planet which
could realize its loneness. We
realized it, gave it a good close
look, and then turned our at
tention to making something prac-
tical and useful out of an un-
precedented situation.
First Of all, we found for our
selves a Light, a God, and we
got a sense of direction, a goal
to work toward. This was pretty
clever of us, if you think of it
carefully.
We proceeded to set up stand
ards for our living together. Early
in our experience we made the
revolutionary discovery h t
gentleness and kindliness were
more practical than brut e
strength. No other species has
ever found that out and used it as
a model and practical code of con-
duct.
We h1ve IN actual fat no one
we need answer to, beyond our
selves, and yet we observe our
ideal standards in remarkable de-
gree. We are honest and trust
worthy one with another SO that
il is the exception, it is news,
when we commit q theft. We are
decent 80 per cent OF, the time,
when we could easily be vile. With
silence and mystery behind US
and ahead of us, we make gay
little songs and whistle them, and
our feet keep jig time to them.
We look life and fate in the eye,
and smile. I like that, and / adj
mire the people who do it.
Alone among all living things,
we have discovered Beauty, and
wc cherish it, and create it for
eye and ear. Alone among living
things, VIC have the power to look
at our environment and criticize it
and improve ii.
Finding it necessary to live to-
gether by the millions, we Great
ed for ourselves governing systems
covering vast geographical spaces.
Now we actually have the thrill
ing and terrific idea of world
government. Q global government
10 bring justice to white and black.
to Eskimo and Afril.aEder, rich
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08
WATERWORks OFFICIALS FORM
GROUP FOR CIVILIAN DEFENSE

CANTON, o. Waterworks
superintendents of 10 northeastern
Ohio counties have formed their
own mutual aid group for civilian
defense.
The superintendents have been
meeting once month to familiar
ize themselves with each others
operations.
The iGea is that in case of
emergency, we can't go out and
recruit laymen who would be of
any help to us" A. z. Ransom,
Canton water superintendent, ex-
planned. so we are banding to-
gether for mutual aid involving
both equipment and manpower."
If a city were bombed or
suffered other disaster, those of
us nearby could send skilled men
to close valves, by pass broken
mains and get the water system
Dack III operation.
I'VE have equipment that might
be valuable too. For instance, sew
eral of our trucks are equipped
with valve-closers which operate
from a power takeoff. Some of
the smaller departments do not
have these, which means we could
save them lot of time and eff
fort"
At a meeting here, attended by
35 water department heads from
80 communities, inventories of
materials and equipment were
exchanged. These will be kept up
to date so that officials in a
stricken city can know where to
send for aid.
Canton's distribution system has
inspected and maps were present
ed showing vulnerable points, To-
cation of valves and other import
ant information. The visitors were
shown exactly what information
would be available to them if they
came to Canton to aid in an
emergency.
Also inspected was the Canton
Departments two-Way radio
system, with its IT mobile units
in cars and trucks, two walkie-
talkies and a remote control dis
patch unit.
Leaders of the group give cred
it for It's organization to Wendell
Ladue, Akron water department
superintendent. The next meeting
will be May Is in Youngstown.
The Youngstown and Mailoning
Valley sanitary district operations
will be DISCUSSED.
The superintendent represent
departments in Medina, Summit,
Stark, Mahoning, Trumbull, Port
age, Wayne. CuJahoga, Lake and
Colunbfana Counties.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08
Today In
Washinqton
By The Associated Press
GMna&n

9&UAkG
Considers S43O, 100000 M
emergency appropriation bill I'll
A. NJ.
Armed Services and Foreign Re-
lations committees question Sec
retary of Defense Marshall at
closed-door session of firing of
Gen. Douglas Macarthur and far
eastern policies % AM.
Banking Committee calls ad-
ministration officials to testify on
revision and extension of emer-
gency defense powers 60 AM.
House
Debates Agriculture Depart
ment appropriation bill I'll AMI.
Banking Committee hears de-
fense mobilizer Charles f. VIII
son on extension and revision of
the Defense Production Act GO
A. M.
Ways and Means committee
considers tax bill 60 AM.
YESTERDAY IN
WASHINGTON
Senate
Passed by voice vote and sent
to the House a bill to provide
for Importation of Mexican farm
laborers.
Armed Services and Foreign
Relations committee heard Sec
retary Marshall start defense q;
administrations for eastern poi
icies and custer of Macarthur.
House -
Considered minor bills.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08
AMERICAN GIRLS LOOK
BETTER THAN EVER!

You're all crazy" grunted the
office cynic. They look better
to you because you're all year
older yourself. The older you
get the prettier they look darn
life anyway
Well, whatever the reason, girls,
the verdict is unanimous: You
look prettier this year than ever.
Personally, I like stories about
children. Here's a couple from
the surburb:
A school teae-ier, taxing her
third grade pupils over the hurd-
les of grammar, had brought them
TO the problem of punctuation
marks. They found the apostrophe
particularly difficult to under
stand.
'Apostrophos, .postrophes," COM
planned one little glrl. That's
hard to pronounce. Why don't
they just call them flying COM
mas ?"
and doesn't that m axe wonder
full ccmmonsense?
The father of a ten-year-old re-
Gently received a telephone call
from one of her pre-teen-age male
schoolmates asking his daughters
hand in marriage
The startled father fought that
request down firmly.
We'll, then, can | take her to
the movies Saturday." asked the
small determined voice at the
other end of the wire. We're
all going"
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08

and poor, not because any tribe
is powerful and can exact justice,
but because we have conceived
and created the ideal of justice
and plan it for all men. This is
great. This is not the act of a
little animal, or a mean animal.
This is possible only to a great
animal. We think in global terms.
We inhabit a star, and we know it.
Finding that we have to work
to stay alive, we work with ability
beyond imagining.
Out of the earth we take food,
and improve that food year by
year; we take heat, and light,
SO that darkness which lay upon
the face of the earth is dispelled
by man-made light. We enjoy all
the myriad products of our I'M
paralleled ingenuity.
Every morning the necessity for
the days work faces us. And we
60 and do a days work, with an
overall average effectiveness and
perseverance that is amazing, con-
sidering many of the jobs.
OF a persistence, a daring and
ingenuity impossible to surpass,
we find ways to move easily under
the water and through the air.
Now we speculatively eye our
neighboring planets. 1t should as
tound no one if a man one day
begins to move among these plan
cts. How shall I not admire such
a creature? Daunted by nothing,
his horizons constantly recede, the
territories of his possession and
use expand and expand.
Whenever he comes to an i'm
passable obstacle, an apparently
final barrier, he goes tc work at
it and, in due time, surpasses it.
If he has limits, I do not see where
they are. I do not think he has
limits. / think he is child of the
universe who inherits eternity.
think he is wonderful, I am his
devoted partisan, and I am proud
indeed to be one Of him.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08
SONS VISITS HERE

John A. Marrah, S. A. has re-
turned to Great Lakes Training
Center for an indefinite time after
spending a Ia day leave with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. P. A. Mar
rah, Western Avenue and other
relatives.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08
FRACTURES HIP

Edward Dooley fractured his
left hip in a fall at his home on
Liberty Street, Monday. He is a
patient in room 234 Mercy Hos
pital, Springfield.
Mr.. Dooley fractured verte-
brae when he fell New Years
day, and has been Ill with pneu-
monia during the winter.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08
tcoPY DEADLINE FRIDAY NooNl

Science TInl Grange, open meeting FRI May II at
Fairfield Boosters Club election of officers We'd May at
Somerord Community Club home Mrs. George Myers 1890
luncheon Thurs May 10
Bake SAFE Sat- May Il, * of Hail. p NJ Midway
Presbyterian Church.
PN Council home of Mrs Gilbert Mossbager Monday
May q.
MadiSona Rebesah Lodge meeting, Thurs, May TO-
Mother Daughter Banquet by Class
Methodist Church. Wed, May 8.
Mother Daughter Banquet by Guild Presbyterian
Church Wed, May 9.
Sew-So meeting home Turvy, Thurs May 10
Circle No Methodist Church. picnic home Mrs James Smith,
Mon, May IA at 4:30 p.
WSCS Newport Methodist Church. election auction
basement, Thurs, May 10, p m
WSCS Plain Church bake sale Robinson Grocery Sat- May
12
Lafayette WCTU, meeting home Minnie Hull Thurs May
10 at p. m
London Delphan Society meeting home Mrs Jesse Chance
Mon, May IA at 1890 p. m.
Happy Needle Club meeting Jesse E Chance
assisted BY Mrs f. J. Nielsen Wed afternoon May 16
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08

This newspaper dedicused public service and public
wcfoe end has he duty and responsibility OF providing
nfcrmccn and cuidunce which eseno sound
judgment Distinguishing truth from which vu TO
q healthy end vigorous democracy.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08
LPF Men Give 81
Pints OF Blood

Eighty-two pints of blood were
donated by men of the London
Prison Farm when the Red Cross
Mobile unit visited the farm Fri
day. Nurses were: NJ. Eckstein,
E. Grove, r. Martin and B. Beau
mont
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08
'SWe're All Rightr' And Riis
Writes 4 Book About Us

Reproduced here from William Ris book
Copyright
ne.l used by permission or the eopyright owners:
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08

slayings. Bourne was arrested
July 27, 1888. and sent to Ohio
Penitentiary Nov IL, 1893.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08
Calendar For The Week
BY George

NOTE This feature H regularly and oi be Published
zach Monday and Tuesday The FREE Please send
bB Friday for events taking place the oUn0 tOeek
Cory submitted before Frdcy noo deadne Thank Yoai
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08

Our God and soldier adore Just brink OF ruin
befor danger past both are alike requted God 10
forgiven, and the soldier sIghted. Unknown
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08

Charles Terry. 191 South Oak
Street. entered Veterans Hospital.
Dayton Sunday for treatments
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-08

OUR IDEA OF FRUSTRATTON would be to
spend lot of money on Clothes shoes and other
niceties and then be judged the ELEVENTH best
dressed person in the United States
Evening star., 1951-06-22

ing the porch removed at tn,
same time.
3. Have mail forwarded or de.
Ilivered to neighbor.
4. Don't pull the blinds. Or
Iif you fear damage to furniture
and rugs from the sun, pull only
the blinds on the sunny side ot
the house.
5. Call your police precinct, in.
form them of the length of youl
absence from home and where you
can be reached. Your name and
address will be entered on the
precincts vacant house" book
and regular checks of your house
will be made each day. The
police may not be able to prevent
your house from being robbed
but they will have immediate
knowledge of the crime and will
be able to make the place secure
again.
Capt. Tolson said neighbors on
both sides should be told of your
intended visit and asked to call
police Immediately. If they hear a
noise inside your house or see a
suspicious person lurking around.
Recently. he said, a detective
investigating a theft in an unoc-
cupied house asked the next-door
neighbor if she had noticed any
thing.
"She said she saw some man
ring the front door; wait for a
time, then go around and ring at
Evening star., 1951-06-22
Cab Driver Is Injured
|
In Collision at Penfaaon

A four-car accident on the Pen
tagon grounds near the Boundary
Channel Bridge this morning in
jured a taxicab driver and snarled
traffic for a brief period.
The cab driver, James w. Har.
ris, IS. colored, Of Fairfax, Va.
was taken to Emergency Hospital
for treatment of a chest injury.
Police said pickup truck driven
by Samuel Boatwright, so, of Es-
mont, Va, went out of control and
swerved across the highway, col
liding with the cab. The taxi was
knocked into an auto driven by
Edward T. Hogan, Annapolis, Md.
who was en- route to a doctors
Office with his 3-year-old daugh-
ter.
A fourth car, driven by william
Ellis, a salesman for the Ouris-
man Chevrolet Co., crashed into
the other cars shortly after the
original accident, police said.
Evening star., 1951-06-22
Senate Action Sends Pay Bill,
|OtherD. c. Measures to House

Rhode Island, with an appropriate
deduction because teachers are
employed only 10 months in the
year.
Under present law, teachers may
take leave only for pressing per-
Sonal emergencies" The bill would
allow a teacher to take three days
of leave in any school year ''for
ANY purpose, upon giving timely
notice of intended absence under
rules by the Board of Education.
Under another Senate passed
bill, persons applying for a mar
|riage license woule be required to
present certificates showing they
do not have syphilis.
other bills passed by the Senate
and sent to the House would:
Provide an orderly procedure for
disposal Of dangerous weapons
seized in the course Of a lawful
arrest. or following a lawful
search.
Permit the District to exchange
land for land abutting District
owned land. where in the judg-
ment of the city heads such ex-I
change would be to the best
interests Of the city.
Make trespass on public prop
erty subject to the same penalties
as trespass on private property
Prohibit the sale in the District
Of rockfish weighing more than
Is pounds to protect the species.
Evening star., 1951-06-22
Scheele Assures District
FIuoride Supply Is Ample

DR.. Leonard L. Scheele, surgeon
general of the United States Pub
llic Health Service. yesterday re-
assured District Health Officer
Daniel L. Seckinger that there is
a sufficient potential supply Of
Ifluoride to treat all public water
supplies.
He said the Public Health Serv-
ice is negotiating with the Office
|of Price Sterilization and the Ma
|tional Production Authority to OBJ
tain for the manufacturers a
selling price and enough addi-
tional equipment to spur increased
production.
DR.. Scheele wrote DR.. Seckinger
in reply to a request by the Dis
trict official for information on
reports that fiuoride compounds
are in short supply.