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tees in Washington. or the
sterile. half embarrassed at
tempts of allied of1icialdom in
Bonn to find some way to take
political advantage Of the East
German events.
For like the instruction it
supports, this international
workers action is a blow at
the heart Of Communist
doctrine: That communism
is the vanguard Of the world
working class movement, So
Wet Russia, the fatherland of
the world proletariat. and
that only communism offers
the end to exploitation Of man
by man.
The June II instruction be-
gan as a strike. It was not a
demonstration by the expro-
priated bourgeoisie. These are
timorous, unorganized, and
incapable Of initiating a mass
movement against the modern
state. Indeed, the Communist
movement has drawn its
leadership from this very class
not the workers and peasants
but derailed intellectuals, cof-
fee-house theoreticianS, dis
gruntled teachers, ambitious
journalists, faithless pastors,
and neurotic uplifters with a
taste for conspiracy. who have
never aspired to be joyful
workers in q Communist para
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Doris FIeeson:
Doris Eeeson
Now Eisenhower Faces Facts
Hard Reality of the Roll Call Proves to Reluctant President
That He Must Deal With BosicoIN Split GO.P.

The facts Of life have forced
the reluctant President of the
United States into recognition
OF the split personality of the
Republican party.
The President now knows py
way Of the irrefutable rollcall
that he has not won and can
not win a major victory in
Congress without the help of
the Democrats. Consistently,
the right-wing Republicans de-
sert him both in crucial COM
mittee votes and on the floor.
Democrats are already cap
italizing on this situation. For
example, Senator Kerr Of
Oklahoma, who will be up next
year. is skillfully harping upon
the refrain that the way to
secure the worthy detectives"
promised by candidate Eisen-
mower IN 1852 is to elect a
Democratic Congress next
year."
A revival of Citizens for Eli
senhower has been agreed upon
by the White House and the
Republican National Commit
tee as the best means Of rub
bling of Ike'S glamour on 1854
Congressional candidates.
In 1852 the Citizens were
organized on a Nationwide
basis and worked only for the
two national candidates, Pres
ident and Vice-PreSident.
Plans for 1854 enviSage a
checkerboard organiZa ion
which will concentrate on a
picked group Of Senate con-
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SSSteHInIs L1CVv1I
China Hears Moscow Overtones
Soviet Turmoil in Struggle for Leadership Has Repercussions
In Chinese Hope for Russian Military Assistance

the Elbe to the Pacific. The
OGPU, as the secret police
was then called, could handle
without difficulty the out
bursts Of discomfort within the
U. S. S. r. itself.
Now a major political crisis
affects not only Russia but all
the. countries which have been
subjected to the Kremlin's
power since the end of the
war.
Under these circumstances
the Soviet government will
consider itself lucky If it can
handle its domestic problems.
The long range plans aimed at
world domination will have to
be postponed since the Krem-
lin must fight for its own sur
vival.
There is little likelihood that
Moscow will be able to be Of
much assistance to China in
the immediate future and it
is certain that the alleged
promises made to the Peiping
government in the alleged
KY 10 dash 10 plan will not be
fulfilled.
Until the situation in the
U. S. S. r. becomes clear-and
this may take some time-the
Peiping regime will have to
rely in the main on its own
capabilities and on the diplo-
matte skill Of its leaders to
play the Western allies against
each other.
Chinese manpower remains
as large as ever. But in the
event that Malenkov is not
capable of imposing himself on
the Russian people with the
same speed and effectiveness
as Stain in the peaceful years
of the 30s the support in heavy
military equipment and planes
which the Chinese Communists
have been receiving from the
U. S. S. r. will dwindle to q
negligible quantity.
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Fletcher Knebei:
Potomac Fever

Ike rules that draft eigibles who become fathers will be
drafted The girls the becoming
days is the one becoming grandfather.
Maenkov and Mootov appear to have diagnosed the ills
of the Soviet Union bad Of IBERIA IBERIA.
Joe Mccarthy he'll his committee investigation
despite the wakout of three Democrats
quietly from pealng of church bells please
Ike Miss Frances Willis, veteran foreign service
officer Ambassador to Switzerland She's
appointments whose wasn't being millionaire
Koreas Rhee and Americas Robertson reach under
standing" in the truce quarrel The big rush
peace with the Soviet Union while there still is
Republican applaud President friendly
luncheon Ike the legislators buried their
differences-aong with their prediction promises.
It's agreed that Maenkov his power Russia
per Soviet CUSTOM the somebody eses-
his will follow later.
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Illinois. OF the % plants to be
disposed of, Is produce the
bulk Of rubber. that is, general
purpose rubber of the GR-S
synthetic type, with one butyl
rubber plant that produces
only a minimum amount. The
other plants produce conpon-
entS. OF the Is rubber PLANTS,
the Big Five rubber companies
now operate nine-two each
by Firestone. Goodrich, Good
year, and U. S. Rubber, and
one by General Tire. These
companies themselves have 81
per cent of the assets of the
rubber industry in the entire
country.
These and present operators
of component product plants
are the most likely purchasers
Of the synthetic industry, &C
cording to the RFC report on
disposal and its problems, and
testimony of RFC officials.
That alarmed Senator Douglas
and other Senators because Of
its monopoly implications. To
forestan such monopoly con-
centration, the Illinois Senator
will seek an amendment to
prohibit the Big Five from ac-
quiring more than one plant
each. He pointed out that only
as far back as 1947. the big
rubber companies pleaded nolo
contendere to an antitrust
suit. In order to give plenty
of time to try to bring new
operators into synthetic rub
Der. as happened in aluminium
previously. Sen Douglas also
will try to extend the time
allowed for submitting bids to
the board created by both
House ard Senate bills to dis
pose Of the plants.
This board would be COM
posed of three civilians ap-
pointed by the President, none
Of whom could have had any
connection with the rubber in
dustry after January /. 1850.
The board would be re-
quired to present its program
to Congress by June l, next
year. Congress would have a
veto power only on the pro-
gram as a whole, not on any
particular sale.
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Of the churches or the clergy
as to create doubt In the
loyalty of all. the damage to
our Nation is multiplied"
But would any fair-minded
person say that an attack on
less than three per cent Of the
members of one sectarian
group is the same as attacks
that "sweepingly condemn the
whole Of any group" Or can
it even be said that such an
attack is leveled at "a vast
portion Of the churches or the
clergy?"
It is conceded that the
Communists have tried to en-
list the support Of the Ameri-
can clergy especially in some
of their "phoney" peace moves
in 1851 designed to create
public sentiment adverse to
our rearmament program. A
committee Of the House of
Representatives on April l,
1851, listed in a public report
the names of All Protestant
clergymen as participants
in the Communist-inspired
peace offensive" Mr.. Mat
thews, in his article speaks Of
1000 who participated in that
move alone and says no IAN
guished cries" came at that
time in protest.
Mr.. Matthews also pointed
out that as early as March,
1947. before a committee of
the House of Representatives,
j. Edgar Hoover, director Of
the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation, testified as follows: II
confess to a real apprehension
so long as the Communists are
able to secure ministers of the
Gospel to promote their evil
work and espouse a cause that
is alien to the religion of
Christ and Judaism"
Should some committee Of
Congress find out exactly how
many persons in the clergy are
really involved in some of the
categories mentioned by Mr..
Matthews and the true nature
Of their activities? Should the
original manuscript of the
Matthews article be sub
poenaed to see to what extent
the transposition of sentences
gave undue emphasis and to
determine what changes in
emphasis, If any. were made
by the editors to sensationalize
it for reader interests re-
ported to some people on Capt.
toll Hill last week? Should a
man be punished for his views
publicly expressed before he is
employed by the Government?
Wouldn't that be a species of
"job-burning" and suppression
of ideas in a land Of freedom
of speech?
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tests and the 80-odd' congress
sional districts where members
of the House squeak through
by five per cent or even smaller.
AS before, the Citizens will
concentrate on the Independent
or the stay-at-home voter.
They claimed last November
that they brought This vote
to the polls for Eisenhower and
it is a fact that in virtually
every State he carried he won
by far greater margins than
the Republican congressional
candidates enjoyed.
The Citizens were also a
rousing financial success. They
raised so much money for their
doorbell ringing, TV and other
promotion, they turned back
dividend to their contributors
last year. The same tycoons
who underworld the 1852 VEN
ture, including New York
banker Sidney Weinberg and
philanthropist Jock Whitney.
are expected to pitch in next
year
This method Of backstopping
the regular organization is
new to the Republicans but it
has been used with great sue
cess by the Democrats. In
many States, especially in the
big cities, it has been increas-
ingly clear that the party name
has lost its magic, that people
will vote for a personality who
inspires their confidence.
Both political merits and de-
merits attach to a revival Of
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Matthews Is Victim Of Injustice
Mccarthy Aide Didn't in Fact Condemn American Clergy
And Is Punished for Views Held Before He Was Hired

available church statistics.
there are approximately ESQ.,
900 ordained clergymen In the
United States in Protestant
faiths. So 1000 would be
less than three per cent. Mr..
Matthews regrettably didn't
say how many were unwilling
dupes" and how many were
in the other categories. But
anyway. less than three per
cent of the total number Of
Protestant clergymen in
America is q relatively small
group. It is important to note
these figures because Of the
Nationwide notoriety given to
the Matthews article and the
wrong differences that can be
drawn from the exchange Of
kilograms between the three
prominent ministers and the
President. In a telegram from
these three ministers Of diff
ferent faiths - Protestant.
Catholic, and Jewish-to the
President is the following
sentence:
1.-THE sweeping attack on
the loyalty Of Protestant
clergymen and the charge that
they are the largest single
group supporting the Com
munist apparatus is unjusti-
fed and deplorable."
It would indeed have been
unjustif1ed and deplorable if
that charge actually had been
made by Mr.. Matthews. but
anybody comparing the above
with the exact language of
the magazine article will see
at once that he was referring
to a minority and that what
he wrote was given a distorted
meaning probably because of
bad reporting in the press last
week. He didn't attack the
loyalty of Protestant clergy
men," but pointed to a minor
ity, who, by their activities.
had been supporting Com
munist-inspired propaganda
in America. Loyalty" to this
country is not necessarily
abandoned by those who sup
port" Communist propaganda.
The distinction has been made
many times in controversial
cases.
President Eisenhower, in his
reply, fell into the same error.
He said in his message:
"Generalized and irrespon-
sible attacks that sweepingly
condemn the whole of any
group of citizens are alien to
America. Such attacks betray
contempt for the principles of
freedom and decency. And
when these attacks-whatever
their protested purpose be -
condemn such a vast portion
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disc, but commissar bosses of
the joyful workers.
Now these pseudo intellec-
tual commissars are the bosses
over nearly half the earth, and
a more self-righteous. ingrown,
blind. ruthless, hypocritical set
of joy-killing bosses the ex-
plotted toilers have never
known. For bread and beer.
love and fun, they have handed
out an ideology-along with a
ration card. a norm, and a
quota.
Workers, however, are not
biologists but hard-boiled
realists, for whom a lecture
is no substitute for a pay check.
Nor are they towards, these
men who do the hard and
dirty work of life-under-
ground in mines, cat-walking
Orders, fueling furnaces, tend
ing machines that may rip
away an arm, sowing fields
that droughts destroy, shovel
ing manure.
Their lives are hazardous,
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the Citizens for. Eisenhower in
a midterm election.
Candidates who can depend
on help and funds from the
Citizens can attach themselves
firmly to the President and
more or less detach themselves
from conservative Republican
leadership. This will be of great
help to men who must run
against such Senators as Paul
Douglas of Illinois and Hubert
Humphrey of Minnesota.
The conservative Republi-
cans in those States can con-
sole themselves by rejecting
upon the blow it would be to
the Democrats if such able and
articulate men were defeated.
They can always say also that
the conservative Republicans
will still enjoy a congressional
majority.
On the demerit side, it is
not easy to push independent
political groups without run
ming afoul of the regular or
ganization. The stresses and
strains not only appear in the
States but put the President
in somewhat anomalous po-
sition. When he himself is run
ming he can more readily rise
above any problems of a purely
political nature but in 1854,
the President will not be run
ming.
Republicans, as they survey
their narrow margins on Capt.
toll Hill. say that any chances
they take next year are a must
If they are to win again in 1856.
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their spirits robust, and life
can not exist without them
and they know it. Mankind
can live at some level without
preachers, columniSts, teachers
and commissars, but it can not
survive in the modern world
without those who produce
food, clothing, shelter. fuel,
light, and even water.
This is as much their CEN
fury as the 18th and 10Th were
the centuries of the middle
classes. If the new feudalism
of bureaucratic communism is
to be destroyed. they alone
will, or can, destroy it. For
they alone have the weapon
the withdrawal of their labor.
They alone have the tough
ness, spirit, and will to re-
SiStance.
That they forced a Commu-
mist police and army to act as
goons and strikebreakers is the
great showing up which always
precedes a showdown.
They have handed the Com
munist revolutionary cry to
the organized workers of the
free world: Workers unite!
You have nothing to lose but
your chainS!"
That is the historic signifi-
canoe of the revolts in Czech
oslovakia and East Germany,
Immediately grasped by the
trade union leaders in Stock
holm. grasped. you may be
sure of it. in Moscow. but not
comprehended - perhaps not
even really welcomed-by off,
cialdoms, whose unconscious
interest is to maintain or re-
store a lost status quo.
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Dovid Lowrence:

Here is q story that has in
1t factual evidence that has not
been printed before so in the
interest of justice to q man
who last week lost his job in
the Government without a
hearing it ought to be told.
First of all. here is the &C.
curate text Of two sentences
which should have been in
cluded in every news dispatch
written from Washington last
week purporting to describe the
controversy concerning some
Protestant clergymen and the
Communist inspired propa-
ganda campaigns in America.
But the text of these two sent
enceS were generally omitted.
They read thus:
1T hardly needs to be said
that the vast majority Of
American Protestant clergy
men are loyal to the free insti-
tutions Of this country, as well
as loyal to their solemn trust
as ministers of the Gospel.
In a sense, this overwhelming
majority is embarrassed by the
participation Of the minority
in the activities Of the most
sinister conspiracy in the his
tory of the world"
The foregoing declaration was
made by j. B. MatthewS-for-
merly a Protestant clergyman
and miSSionary-prior to the
time he was employed as a
staff investigator by the Senate
Permanent Investigations sub
committee headed by Sena-
tor Mccarthy Of Wisconsin. It
was published in the "Ameri-
can Mercury" magazine which
appeared on the newsStands
the middle of last month. It
was available to the press and
to the White House and to
Congress and to the three
prominent ministers who last
week telegraphed to President
Eisenhower about the matter.
But on what did they focus
their attention? They con-
centrated on the following SEN
tence in the Matthew article:
"The largest single group
supporting the Communist ap-
paratuS in the United States
today is composed Of Protest
ant clergymen."
A few sentences further
down in the same article as
published, Mr.. Matthews wrote
that during the last seventeen
years. the Communist Party
has enlisted the support of at
least 1000 Protestant clergy
men in the same categories-
party members. fellow travel
ers, espionage agents. party
line adherentS, and unwilling
dupes."
Now, according to the latest
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Black Watch Unit Shifted

PUSAN. July 10 (R.-Britaln's
famed Black Watch Battalion
left Korea today after IL months
with the First Commonwealth
Division. The Scottish infantry
sailed aboard the troopship En-
plre Fowey en- route to Kenya,
Africa, where native uprisings
have flared.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-03-19
Services Wednesday
For Sarah Lehman

Final rites are to be conducted
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 in the
Ebenezer Mennonite church for Mrs.
Sarah Lehman, 80, who died at 1855
p. m. Sunday in Bluffton Community
hospital. Her death was due to COM
plications arising from a leg frac-
ture suffered in a fall six months
ago.
Mrs. Lehman who resided in Rich
land township, three miles northwest
of Bluffton, was a daughter of Dan
iel and Katherine (Amstutz) King.
She was born in Putnam county De
cember 10, 1870. She was married
to Fred Lehman who died December
II, 1887.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs.
Walter Neiswander, Bluffton; five
sons, Jess c., Cleveland; Elmer G.,
Lima; Harvey c., Toledo; Roy, Pan
dora, and Villas Lehman, Bluffton
10 grandchildren and six great
grandchildren.
She was a member of the Eben-
ezer Mennonite church where serv-
ices are to be held. The Paul Diller
Funeral Home is in charge of the
arrangements.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-03-19

BISHOP c. F. DERSTINE, wide
ly known Bible teacher, and pastor
of the First Mennonite church of
Kitchner, Ontario, Canada, will con-
duct a Bible conference at the Eben-
ezer Mennonite church Sunday morn
ing at 10:30 and each evening Mon
day through Saturday at 8 p. m.
Presenting some of the great
Bible truths, some of his themes for
the week include, "The Plowman
Overtaking the Reaper" ," "Poise and
Power" "To This End Was | Born" :"
"Marred-So He Made Again, "Se-
cret of Spiritual Success" "The Man
With a Long Name" Bruised
Reeds" and "Seven Fundamentals of
Happiness"
On March 10th Youth for Christ
will have charge of the service at
the Ebenezer church. The public is
invited to all services.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-03-19
Africa Is Subject
At Final Session
Of Mission School

Charles Springer, Bluffton college
student and son of missionary to
Africa, made an interesting talk last
Saturday afternoon at the final ses-
sion of the Mission School conducted
for the past several weeks for young
people of the Evangelical and Re-
formed church.
Springer exhibited number of
curios from the far-away country
where he was born, and film strips
of African scenes illustrated his talk.
Franklin Scoles, president of the
young peoples group, presided at the
meeting, which was followed by re-
freshments served from table dec
GRATED in an African motif. Mem
bers of the adult committee in charge
of the refreshments included Mrs.
Wilson Mas, Mrs. Arden Baker,
Mrs. Arthur Schaaf, Mrs. Wilmer
Badertscher, Mrs. Dwight Frantz
and Mrs. Gerald Crawfis.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-03-19
BIuftOn Students
EnjOy Chicago Trip

Ten students of Bluffton high
schools physics class enjoyed an edu-
cational weekend trip to Chicago ac-
companied by their instructor, Ger
hard Buhler. They left last Satur-
day and returned Monday evening.
On the tour they visited the Mu-
scum of Science and Industry, Plan
atarium, Field Museum and the Ar
mour and Swift meat packing plants.
Those who were on the trip were
David Beery, David Gerber, Evan
Lehman, Robert Leiber, Karl Klas-
sen, James Green, Tom Bucher, Dav-
id Burkholder, Bill Montgomery and
Rodney Jennings.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-03-19
20 Youngsters
Enroll I'm Junior
Garden Project

Junior gardening will be a busy
occupation for Buttons small fry
during the coming spring and sum-
mer, for a report on progress of the
plan sponsored by the Mems Garden
club showed this week that more
than 20 grade school pupils already
have signed up for the project.
Applications for garden plots pro-
vided by the club still are being re-
ceived by the club, and other in
junior high or grade school interest
ed in participating in the program
are asked to contact Lorraine Basing-
er or Robert Ewing as soon as pos
sible.
Each youngster will receive a plot
about IA feet by IA feet in size
through the auspices of the Garden
club. In addition, the club will see
that the ground is plowed and that
preliminary preparation for seeding
is completed.
Vegetable and flower seeds will be
provided by the Garden club for each
participant.
The Junior Gardening tract will be
on the vacant lot, adjacent to the
Dean Niswander property on South
Main street. Plans call for the vege-
table gardens to be in the center of
the lot, with a floral border marking
the operations.
Each Junior Gardener will be
asked to exhibit at the annual Vege-
table, Fruit and Grain show of the
Garden club. Grade school and jun
ior high pupils may participate.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-03-19

Medina is known as Americas
Sweetest Town" due to the bee
raising and honey-making industry
centered there.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-03-19

The first newspaper in Ohio was
The Centinel of the North Western
Territory founded in Cincinnati on
November 8, 1898, by William Max
we'll.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-03-19

In December, 1908, William D.
Lepper established in New Lisbon
Der Patriot am Ohio, printed in Ger
man, which later was changed to
English with the title, The Ohio Pa
triot