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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-11-20

Sunday in the Columbus Grove Meth
odist church, Rev. A. A. Turner Off
ciating.
DR.. and Mrs. Milo Rice and son,
Robert, and Supt. and Mrs. c. c. Cox
attended the Ashland Wooster Col
lege football game in Wooster The
game was of special interest for the
party as the Rice's son, Richard, who
is a Wooster College student and a
member of the football squad, played
in the game until the last quarter
when the game appeared won for the
Wooster lads with a finish 41-0 VIC
tory.
The Bi-Centennial Club was enter
tanned in the home of Mrs. Clifford
Pierman Wednesday evening. The
main feature of the program was
Mrs. Arthur Schumacher's talk on
the subject Vacation Echoes"
Mrs. P. P Welty who is presently
at home with her son Wilbert Welty
and family in Dayton, recently spent
several days visiting friends and rel
atives here.
Mrs. c. D. Steiner suffered slight
stroke in her home early Sunday
morning. Her condition does not
seem serious and she is being cared
for in her home by Miss Mary Davy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milford Haas and son
Marvin and Mr.. and Mrs. Lue Leh-
man recently took a pleasure trip to
Darke and Montgomery counties. En-
route they stopped at historical Fort
Recovery where in 1885, the Ohio
State Archaeological and Historical
Society and the Works Progress Ad-
ministration reconstructed the fort
on scale one third its original size,
recreating the scene where in 1893
1894 General Anthony Wayne's army
built the fort. There is an original
pioneer cabin with it's four poster
rope bed and trundle-bed; spinning
wheel and antique kitchen. There
is the old oak-walled we'll used by
the garrison. There is a modern IL
brary and museum and many cabins
and buildings of interest to the tour
ist.
Mrs. Don Mcdowell entertained the
Advance Club in her home Saturday
evening November Is. It was the
regular November meeting and mem
bers answered to roll call by telling
of "a trip I'd like to take" Mrs.
Verna Rouse, a charter member of
the club, talked and showed pictures
of her recent European trip.
Paul Hilty and his bride, the for
mer Vida Diller, were pleasantly sur
prised when just before their we'd
ding ceremony they received a tele-
phone message of congratulations
from his brother Clair Hilty, who is
stationed with the air force in Guam.
A recording was made of the Hilty
wedding which was later sent to
Clair.
Miss Bonnie Grubb of Gilboa, took
first place in the Prince of Peace
Defamation Contest held in the
Methodist church. Her address was
entitled "There Shall Be Peace" by
Marilyn Eek. Miss Janet Styer took
second place with "John Doe and
World Peace" as her subject. Judges
in the contest were Miss Brenneman
and Messrs. Kieter and Raid, all from
Bluffton College.
Messrs. George Fisher, George
Mullet, M. l. Trostle and DR.. H. A.
Neiswander attended a meeting of
Defiance District Brotherhood and
Lay Activities in Paulding high
school auditorium Sunday night, No
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-11-20
Pandora

The Shaeffer family who have oc-
cupied the apartment in the Mrs.
Mary Bixel house, moved into their
new home in south Pandora.
Mrs. Verna Rouse and Mrs. L. j.
Lemley were guests at meeting of
Informal Study Club at the home of
Miss Edith Leinsetter in Leipsic,
Wednesday evening. Mrs. Rouse
gave a talk and showed some of her
Evening star., 1952-04-13
Prefubricoted Fox Holes

American ingenuity often has been con-
sidered wondrous thing. In fact until recent
disclosures that the Russians really invented
almost everything our capacity for improvising
something new and different was rated at just
about the top of the world league
It has been interesting, too, that some of
our most novel conceptions have come into
being under the stresses and strains of martial
activity. So it is not really surprising that the
7th Infantry Regiment in Korea has now
perfected prefabricated bunker, delivered in
kits to the front areas and complete with
manufacturers representative" to explain how
this zipped-in lining for hole in the ground
should be put together.
Unfortunately, there is an obvious weakness
about the whole project an oversight as it were,
in the failure Of the inventive creators to devise
a ready y-made hole. The assumption, supposedly,
is that there will always be GI and a shovel
available It is possible, of course, that by the
time Joe has dug his hole and fastened his
pin-up girls picture firmly to the earthen bank
he may not wish to be bothered with de luxe
interior.
Evening star., 1952-04-13
Fifty Years Ago in The Star .

and trained in the way they should go.
It is only few years since Dr. Marshall
of this State astonished the public by
bringing suit against a telephone COM
pany for hacking branches off some
stately trees because they interfered
with the Stringing or proper insulation
of it's wires. The courts sustained the
doctors contention that ancient trees
are treasures. The telephone company
will not soon forget the fact, for it was
compelled to pay smartly for the de-
Struction wrought"
On April 19. 1902. The Star featured
on its front page report of the install
lation of DR.. Nicho-
President Butler las Murray Butler as
mstolled president of Colum-
bia University. The
list of special guests" at the ceremony
was headed by President Theodore
Roosevelt. Speakers at the Inauguration
included: DR.. Charles w. Eliot of Har-
ward, DR.. Arthur T. Hadley of Yale. DR..
Francis L. Patton of Princeton, DR.. Will
liam r. Harper of the University of
Chicago and DR.. William T. Harris,
United States commissioner Of educa-
tion. The Columbia gymnasium was
elaborately decorated for the occasion.
The Star for April 81, 1902. told how
the Shakespeare Club had held its 33d
anniversary meeting on
Shakespeare April 10. lin celebra-
Anniversary ton of the birth of
William Shakespeare"
Assembling at supper at Freund's, BIS
Tenth street NV, the members had
heard Mrs. ]. Soule read paper en-
titled WAS Shakespeare Educated?"
Others taking part in the program were:
Mrs. w. Reid, Warren Young. Frederic
Seibold, Maj. Ira Black. Sam Clarke.
Jesse H. Whitaker. Maj. John Twee-
dale, Mrs. A. G. Adams and e. B. Hay.
president.
Evening star., 1952-04-13
Child Welfare

Please keep up your good work in ex-
posing to the world the shameful way
the Capital of this great country treats
its defenseless little children. Even
hardened criminal of teen-age has the
right to be treated as well as cattle are
treated. doubt if per cent of our de-
linquent children would have ever ap-
peared in court had they had the proper
housing. food and social security every
child born into the world deserves. A
child born and reared in dirt and
poverty can hardly be blamed for vent
ing its resentment in petty crimes. Even
an animal will bite when hurt, so why
should we expect child to submit
tamely to the unbearable situation in
which it sometimes finds itself?
Crime, of course, deserves punishment,
but treating child who has done wrong
as an animal of the lower order. COM
pelling it to live in gloomy. barricaded
f1retraps as bad as or even worse than
the very surroundings he tried to escape
from. without adequate food, no school,
ing. no play in the sunshine. no fun or
happiness, no love or kindness, is neither
Evening star., 1952-04-13

The society column of The Star for
April IA, 1902, contained an account of
the wedding of Eliza
bennett-Edson beth Jeanette Ben
Wedding nett and John Joy Ed
son at the East Liberty
Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh the
previous Saturday. Attending the bride
were Mrs. Thomas r. Hartley, Jane Ben
nett and Elizabeth Edison of Washing
ton. Harry Willard Reed was best man.
and the ushers included: Edward Dom,
jr., Frederick r. Parks, Arthur B. Hea-
ton, H. Leroy Mark, Emil Diebitsch,
Summer Robinson and John T. Garrison
Silk strappingS on spring gowns,
said the fashion editor of The Star on
April IL. 1902, "are almost
Foshion compulsory. They appear on
Note all cloth garments and are in
Scrolled patterns where that is
possible. The strappingS are selected
in shade of silk either one tone lighter
or one tone darker than the cloth of the
gown. Strapped borders around the
margin Of the skirt are favorite trim
ming and are in some Greek or foliage
design. Folds of silk or satin are also
decorative as a finish for skirts, and.
like the strappings, they must vary in
color from dark to light. A charming
effect was produced with this trimming
on the princess gown Of wood brown
cloth. Six moderately wide folds of
satin were stitched to the lower part of
the skirt. The cloth of the gown was
cut off at the shoulders and above this
was set yoke Of pompadour silk with
pale blue and rose pink flowers upon
cream tinted background. The collar of
silk was covered with q fiat application
Of guipure lace. band Of the same en-
circling the shoulders. The tendency
is to avoid strong color contrasts. Har-
mony is striven for in every detail Of
the dressmaker's art"
Evening star., 1952-04-13

Daniel H. Burnham, chairman of the
Park Commission and architect of the
proposed new Union
New Station, had fur
Union Stotion nished The Star with
two drawings of the
projected building, and they were repro
duced in the issue of the April II, 1902.
One showed the south elevation rising
above the plaza terrace, and the other
was a view of the waiting room. The
length of the total design was TOO feet.
the height of the top of the arched roof
80 feet above the ground. Classic ideals
of architecture were reflected in the
Burnham called attention to the fact
that the waiting room 245 feet by 1876
feet-would be "a magnificent place"
in which to hold an inaugural ball. The
building sRctually was constructed very
much as he viSioned it, and the Cooper
ating railroads took it over on Novem-
ber 17,1907: but no ball ever has been
held in the edifice, and there is little
likelihood that any ever will be.
The Star of April 18, 1902, quoted the
Pittsburgh Post as follows: Time
changes all things, and
Trees os time is changing the pub
Treasures lie and private estimate
of trees in this country.
When the pioneers came upon vast
wilderness the trees were as much op-
posed to their making comfortable live
lihoods as were the copperskinned saw
ages. They made war upon the forest
with more zeal than Judgment: they
slaughtered and laid waste. With such be-
ginnings of the people. their constituted
authorities have been slow to make laws
for the protection of mere trees. though
gradually the worth Of the latter have
come to be understood by many. Old
trees soon will be held. as they should
be. to be sacred. and young trees as
something to be encouraged, fostered
Evening star., 1952-04-13
Easter Thouohts

AS we enter the Easter season, the
thoughts of all true believers and fol-
lowers of Christ are gladdened by the
knowledge that we serve risen Saviour.
Jesus Christ made the supreme sacrifice
in order that we might have the Won
derful plan of redemption through his
death. burial and resurrection. Just as
Jesus conquered death and the grave,
SO may we overcome and rise above the
daily doubts and perplexities that assail
us. We can rise above temptation
through an abiding faith in Him. The
real meaning of the Easter season can
be ours through a personal knowledge
of Him. The bodily resurrection of our
Lord Jesus Christ is the keystone in the
arch of truth.
In a sense. the same limitless power
which brought Christ triumphantly out
of the place of death is available to
Christians today. We ought to be
power-conscious rather than problem
conscious. With our God, nothing is
impossible. Jesus Christ lives today in
the hearts of those who have partaken
of His mercy and grace.
C. F. Haughawout.
Evening star., 1952-04-13
Spires of the Spirit
Here and Hereafter

"Let us live in one world at a time"
is the good-natured comment of some
sincere folk who like to be thought of
as practical persons, with their feet on
the common ground. Without any tinge
OF cyniciSm they claim simply that they
are too much occupied with the kaleiGo-
Scopic here and now to pay much atten-
ton to the sweet bye and bye. They re-
fuse to be greatly concerned with Specu-
lationS about Immortality. Their philos-
ophy is, let us do our best in the IA
miliar here and then, when the sands
of life run out, greet the unknown and
the unseen with cheer
In his under Orders" William Sulli-
van speaks of so-called experts in the
art of living. whose council is that
since we can be sure of only one life
the best thing to do with it is to find
what we can get out of it," The thing
to say to that statement is that the
part of existence this side of what is
called death is not lone life; it is but
a tiny fragment of life. And, further,
it can be asserted that the passion to
get what we can out of that part of
life measured by. calendars and clocks
leads to spiritual suicide. It has been
pertinently declared that if one takes
the orange of life and Squeezes it by
power r-seeking or pleasure seeking or
place-seeking, or any other kind of self
ish seeking, he will find at last that
he has nothing in his grasping hands
but an empty rind.
Accepting only the now. Clarence
Darrow, the famous lawyer, declared
that "the outstanding fact Of human
life is its utter futility. The most salts
factory part OF life is the time spent
in sleep, when one is oblivious to exist
ence." That is a grim and gloomy de-
Scription of the here with no escape
into eternity through which stream
bright shoots Of everlastingness.
1t is the consciousness of everlasting
ness. the sense of the eternal, the assur-
ance that this mortal must put on
immortality, that sounds like trumpet
in the confident creed of that pioneer of
the here and that prophet of the here
after, Robert Browning. as he cries:
Leave now for apes, man has forever"
1t is the intimate relationship of the
here and the hereafter which led Victor
Hugo to insist that If. as some one had
suggested. humans are but as tadpoles,
he was at least the tadpole of an arch
angel.
The notwithstanding technique
decidedly was not the attitude of those
runners from the empty tomb in the
Evening star., 1952-04-13
Easter, 1852

Like all the casters that have come and gone
since the great story was first told of the stone
that was rolled away to reveal that Christ had
risen, this day, more SO than any other day of
the year, is a day of faith and hope. Together
with the ever-recurring miracle of Spring. it
fortifes and gladdens the heart OF every man
who believes that life is a rich and rewarding
experience full Of divine purposefulness and
that human beings, no matter how humble or
obscure, have far higher meaning than mere
bits of accidental flesh whose ultimate destiny
is dust and eternal nothingness-the grave and
the worm completely triumphant over an aimless
existence compounded of futile travail and
foolish aspiration.
It is against this bleak and sterile concept
that Easter in 1852, as always, bears witness with
beautiful faith-renewing eloquence. Christ's
victory over the tomb like Springs victory
over Winter, is answer enough to the super
materialism and super -cynicism that have come
to cheaper and corrode all too much of human
society in our time. The frost is not the end
of everything; nor is the grave. Along with the
seasonal revival of the earth, the story of the
Resurrection is story that says to man, Life
is stronger than Death, Good is greater than
Evil, Spirit is superior to Flesh and no mortal
should ever despair in days of trouble. After
the long, sad Lent, the stone rolls away and
implicit in the miracle is that people have only
to believe in themselves, and in their higher
purpose within the divine design of existence,
to survive the storms affecting them.
This is one of the more obvious meanings
of Easter. But sometimes it is good to dwell
upon the obvious lest its very obviousness OBJ
scure it. Certainly, in the present period of
dangerous conflict and tension-when man and
his world have at their disposal the means of
almost literal f-annihilation-this day, even
for those who adhere to no formal religious
creed, should serve as a heart-lifting reminder
that the simple virtues of faith and hope are
not pointless distractions but powerful forces
that can be used as invincible armor against
the evil loose among us.
Evening star., 1952-04-13
Pinoy's Victory

Premier Pinay has scored an impressive
victory in winning a lightning like series of 10
confidence votes in the French National As
sembly. The voteS-an bearing upon his un-
compromising program to stabilize the economy
of France in line with the country's heavy mill
tary commitmentS-do not insure that he and
his cabinet will now enjoy a reasonably long
tenure of Office In Paris, in these days. nothing
of that sort can be taken for granted from one
week to the next. Even so, although a crossed
fingers attitude is necessary, the political out
look there seems more stable at the moment
than at any time for many weeks past.
Besides calling for sharp cuts in civil ex-
penditureS and for vigorous action to check
and reverse inflationary trends, the Pinay pro-
gram is designed to enable France to finance
it's war in Indo- China, do its full share in. the
Atlantic Alliance and keep its overall economy
on an even keel Since it is a program that
rules out higher taxation and grants a pardon
or amnesty to all Frenchmen who have cheated
on their taxes in the past, it may seem to be
wholly inadequate at first glance. But the Pre-
mier himself has argued persuaSively for it.
In his vew one of its chief virtueS-in addition
to drastic economieS-is that it will markedly
increase revenues for two reasons, among others:
"a Because its amnesty provision is likely to
bring boarded wealth out Of hiding and ca be-
cause its tightened-up collecting procedure in
Evening star., 1952-04-13

radiance of the first Easter morning.
From them, the now got its significance,
its glow and it's sheen, because it was
part of the forever. Lifted out of the
dust and drudgery of their monotonous
lives they began to live every day as i'm
mortals. Life suddenly revealed itself
with a glory that took the Disciples
breath away and smote them to their
knees in awe and rapture.
X
Christianity reveals that the Here and
the Hereafter are not two different
spheres; they are parts of one design.
It is when the Here is isolated from the
Hereafter, the Now broken off from the
Forever, that life takes on the gray hueS
of futility, boredom and Illustration. The
Here without the Hereafter seems often
a meaningless mockery. cruel enigma.
sound and fury signifying nothing. A
penetrating. modern thinker has re-
Gently declared: Behind our work, our
friendships and our loves, behind casual
conversation and political judgments,
behind the numbing experience of de-
feat lie the beliefs upon which we are
betting our lives, the beliefs at the core
of our being"
There is no belief that colors life more
than the realization that here and now
eternity is set in the heart. A well-known
author. in the inscription for one of his
books, penned as lovely dedication as
I have ever read: "To my father. born
and bred in the vocation Of a farmer.
but who toiled in these fields of time in
the sense of the eternal" Here is
glimpsed an obscure man who, in the
Here. cultivated the good earth in the
sense of the eternal. sowed his seed,
Evening star., 1952-04-13
And the Madness of Crowds
By Bruce Borton

Some weeks ago I wrote on the
"three worst books" In order to quail
fy as constructive" I propose to give
an occasional boost to a good book.
picking out those that everybody should
read, and hardly anybody does.
I start with fascinating volume
published originally in 1841, and re-
Gently reissued by L. c. Page g. Co.
of Boston. The writer was Charles
MacKay, and the title, Extraordinary
Popular Delusions and the Madness of
Crowds"
The first chapter tells the story Of
John Law-the canny Scots banker
gambler who bamboozled all of France
with his fabulous Mississippi Co.
He persuaded the Regent of France
to give the company monopoly rights
to all the fabulous wealth of our newly
discovered Mississippi Valley. Right
from the start, the shares of the COM
pany shot up. In no time at all the
whole population of France was caught
in the madness of buying and selling.
Men woke up in the morning poor and
went to bed rich. Servants, dispatched
to cash in the shares of their masters.
found that the value had doubled while
they were on the way TO the DanK.
The street in front of Laws house was
so crowded with courtiers-dukes. car
dinals, princes. merchants, thieves and
prostitutes-that he had to have police
help to get in or out.
After about five years the boom sud-
denly collapsed. Every body was busted,
including Law. who fled to Venice and
died pauper.
The introduction Is by Bernard M.
Baruch, a great moneymaker. If you
asked him for advice, he probably
would tell you to sell when the multitude
is crazy to buy, and to buy when the
multitude is sure the country is falling
intosa bottomless pit.
In other words, always go counter
to 'the madness of crowds"
Copyright, 1852. King Features syndicste)
Evening star., 1952-04-13
Illustration for Tunisiu

There is certain logic, of course, to the con-
tention that a full-dress debate before the
United Nations Security Council on the French
Tunisian issue might at this time jeopardize
prospects for the success of direct negotiations
expected to begin soon between the two prin-
cipals
This, in substance, was the position taken
by the United States and three other nations
Greece, Turkey and the Netherlands-in an
nouncing they would abstain from voting on the
request OF an eleven-nation Asian-African bloc
for Security Council hearing on the matter.
Actually, the abStentionS have the same effect
as the BritiSh-French vote against considera-
ton, and they mean defeat for the Asian
African proposal
There is valid cause, however, to question
whether the potential benefits of this policy of
negation can balance the bitterness and disap-
pointment which it has created.
The foundation of this dispute is the Tuni-
sian desire for independence expressed through
a well-eStablished and strongly organized ma
tionalist party. The nationalist movement in
Tunisia has been in being since World War l.
1t draws its strength today from two principal
circumstances One, the relatively advanced
social and political status of the Tunisian Arabs
and, two, from the vitality of the independence
movement which has emerged in many coun-
tries, particularly in Asia and Africa since World
War II. It is movement which has gained a
substantial measure of that vitality from the
very principles for which World War II was
fought and from the idealistic enunciations of
the Atlantic Charter and the Charter of the
United Nations. 1t is an aspiration which is
legitimate, and although the timing and manner
of its achievement may properly be subject to
negotiated arrangement it can neither be
brushed aside nor suppressed by strong handed
methods
On the whole, the Tunisian movement has
been an orderly one and the support now being
accorded to it by the Asian-African bloc is fully
within the bounds of propriety and responsibility.
AS members of the United Nations, these coun-
tries are justified in turning to that body for
consideration of problem which they feel affects
them all, particularly when they consider that
the present course of the controversy contains a
threat to world peace and security.
While the big powers are obviously the con-
trolling members of the U. NJ. the organization
would have little meaning or purpose if the small
nations should be made to feel that it is not a
court where they may seek and obtain con-
sideration and justice. It is largely for this
reason that the denial in the Tunisian case is
regrettable and may be damaging in the long
run to Western prestige and influence.