davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-01-20

snare allOcated TO ONO under a
formula for determining the
ultimate distribution of the Fed
eral tax burden.
"Ohio's share in the cost of the
1856 budget, Mr. Wolfe pointed
out, remains at a high level as
compared with the post World
War II low year in fiscal l948,
but is considerably below the
total for fiscal 1854 and much
less than in fiscal 1853, the high
est year of peace time spending
in our history"
Federal expenditures rose
from $33.1 billion in fiscal l948
to peace time peak of $74.3
billion in fiscal 1853, then drop
ped to $678 billion in fiscal
1854, and are now estimated at
$685. billion for the current fis-
cal 1855.
Net budget receipts for fiscal
1856 = estimated at $500 billion
= will be almost so per cent
higher than the SAILS billion
total in fiscal 1948. Recent ex-
pirations and reductions are re-
flected in the decrease from the
all-time high of $64.8 billion in
budget receipts in fiscal 1858 and
$64.7 billion in fiscal 1854 Re-
ceipts in the current fiscal year
are now estimated at $3.50 bill
lion.
The estimated deficit of S2.4
billion for the fiscal year 1856
which begins next July l COM
pares favorably with fiscal 1858,
when the deficit was almost
$9.5 billion. The Federal govern
ment wound up the last fiscal
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-01-20


Wilde and A. S. (Taylor) Bivens
as incorporators.
The first capital stock was
100000, later increased to
100000, then to 100000, then
to $l,000,000 and today it has
been increased to $4,000, 900. The
purpose of establishing the in
stitution was to loan money on
real estate only to shareholders
with which to purchase real
estate, buildings, repairing
homes and otherwise
AT the time of the formation
of the company there were 1877
shareholders, one of whom was
this writer and, insofar as known
he is today the only living one
thereof. At this time there are
1864 shareholders. AS of Dec
ember 81, 1854, this company
held Gal first mortgage loans in
force on real estate, with the
total amounting to Sl,977052.42,
an increase of $3.50, ,476.l1 over
the year 1853. Available cash and
bonds now on hand S531, ,371.58.
A dividend of 212 per cent was
declared for the year 1854.
At the time of the instituting
of this organization there was
but one other financial institu-
tion in Noble county-that of the
Noble County National Bank, of
which the late Judge William H.
Frazier was the president.
The office was first located in
County Auditor Walter d, Gull
berts office in the old court
house, later removed to the
rooms over the now Home res
taurant, still later to the build
ing now occupied by the Schafer
Coffee shop and finally to its
own building on the southwest
corner of the public square,
which the company purchased
soon after the liquidation of the
Noble County National Bank.
In the beginning the number
of shares subscribed for totaled
500, with cash payments amount
ing to $l15.50 and the first loan
was made TO Ezra Caldwell, of
Caldwell, this latter being grant
ed on March %, 1885.
The first meeting of the share
holders of the new institution
was held on March 7, 1885, at
which time members of the
board of directors were elected
as follows: Wallace II. Cooley,
John M Amos, Stephen Mills,
Sr., John Emmons, John w. Tip
ton, Jr., A. Carey Okey and
Patrick J. Kane; later the Of
ficers elected were: Wallace H.
Cooley, president; Oliver T.
Wilde, secretary; Walter D.
GullDeTt, treasurer, ana JOnn
NJ. Amos, solicitor.
From time to time many 9TH
er shareholders were elected as
members of the board of direc-
tors and officials, but all, save
those of the present, have been
removed from life by the hand
of death. This writer was elect
ed to the board of directors early
in January, 1905, and has just
finished a half century Of service
thereon, half of which time he
served first as president and
then as chairman of the board
of directors. So went the earlier
years Of this gigantic financial
institution Each monetary de
posit and each savings account
is now insured up to $4,000
The annual meeting of the
shareholders Of the organization
was held on Monday evening of
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-01-20
ENTERS ARMY

William Bill Startling, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Startling
of Macksburg, has enlisted in
the U. S. Army and is stationed
at cambridge, Md. His complete
address is as follows: William
Gilbert Startling, Sr., 469-54O0,
Co. 8, 41st Bait, 4th Reg, R.T.C.
U.S.N.T.C., cambridge, Md.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-01-20
Caldwell Building And Loan Company
Completing 10Th. Year OF Operation

The Caldwell Building and Loan Company the close
Oh It's SEVENTEEN OF highly successful financial business
career with exceedingly bright for the future
early in the 1885 that the organized
corporated the 18th February with Walter
wallace H Cooley Stephen Mills A MeCoy Oliver
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-01-20
Federal Budget OF S61.4OS Billion Would
(osi Ohio Taxpayers $3.77 Billion In IS

Out Of the estimated total expenditure BIZ
lion proposed for the fiscal year budget submitted to
Congress by President Eisenhower today
ONO would be $377 billion according E. W.
Evening star., 1955-05-08
Gretchen FiinIetter Comedy
Gets Downright Hilarious

lovers, as the woman is not
split in her allegiance in thirds,
quarters or Sevenths."
The husband Charles, how
ever, is proof against such
lures. "One of the beauties of
being married as long as we
have is that we do not have
to be so personal about it
any more" he says.
Most of the time our hero
inc is merely rueful about her
problems. Sometimes, how
ever, she is downright hilari-
Gus. There is a description of
a visit to an Army post that
is superb satire. One reader
was particularly enamored OF
a visiting Senator's wife who
iron-handedly immobilizes the
lower-ranking ladies with her
exhibition of needlepoint.
THE Senator likes to look up
from his papers and docu-
ments and see her needle
flashing in and out. 1t is
feminine"
Such bits make one hope
that Mrs. Finletter, who knew
Washington well as the wife
OF Air Force Secretary Thomas
K. Finletter, will some day at
tempt the novel of the Cap
itol scene that has never yet
been properly done.
M. Meg,
Evening star., 1955-05-08
Maybe We Take Too Much
For Granted Over Here

vocal, intolerant minority may
deprive America of some of
her valuable unorthodoxy.
Other findings: Community
leaders are inclined to be
more tolerant than the rank
and-file; businessmen more
than labor leaders: men than
women; young people than
old; Northerners than South
erners; religious folks than
the not-so-religious.
People are most concerned,
the survey found, about their
personal economic and health
problems. World affairs con-
cern only 8 per cent.
But Americans are a race Of
optimists, the survey showed.
Most people-87 per cent
expect to be better OF in the
next few years.
Why did so many people
watch the Army-McC Carthy
hearings2 It had spectator
appeal, DR.. Stouffer thinks,
like the World Series, or O good
TV whodunit. But most Of the
onlookers made no connection
between the Senate caucus
room PROCEEDINGS and their
own lives. EARL II. vOeS.
Evening star., 1955-05-08
Livening Up
The Old Love
riongle
YOUR DAUGHTER IRIS. BY

YOUR DAUGHTER IRIS. BY
Jerome Weidman. Double
day; $3.95.O
The letters that Iris Dodd,
a simple Bronx girl, writes
home from England in this
novel are enough to keep any
mother awake nights. Readers
aren't likely to lose any sleep
over them though.
From the moment Iris dis
embarks at Plymouth with her
brilliant" doctor husband, she
has troubles-physical, marital
and social. She doesn't want
to worry Hubby. He's there
in England to perfom a haz-
ardous operation which, if Sue
cessful. could make him the
Salk of the heart disease field.
So, instead, Iris tells her
troubles-in detailed letters
to her Ma" back on fremont
avenue.
Dear Ma" each chapter
opens; each closes Your
daughter Iris" The letter
device is not only tiresome; it
makes you wonder about the
heroine. She says pointedly
she's just a plain %girl-an
ex-stenographer who married
Martin Dodd, the boy-with-
a-medical-mind next door. But
much of the time, for a girl
admittedly baff1ed by people
and postures English, she does
a too-professional job Of
describing them. The girl
who pegs the clipped accent
and communicates spirit as
well as facts of a Bronx-on-
England situation isn't really
telling all, you feel. Author
Weidman c'I Can Get 1t for
You Wholesaler seems to
take the pen out of Iris hand
at crucial moments and carry
her letters along in his own
way. His sense Of a good stu
alton and his fast pacing pump
some energy into a tired love-
triangle plot. But Iris, as q
character. suffers from his
facile handling.
DORIS KANTER.
Evening star., 1955-05-08
IT'S ME, 0 LORD: The Auto
biography Of Rockwell Kent.
(Qodd. Mead & Co. S1nl

biography Of Rockwell Kent.
Dodd, Mead & Co.; $100
Rockwell Kent is a gifted
painter, printmaker and il
illustrator, lecturer and writer.
He is also a rugged individual
ist and a festless adventurer
who has travelled extensively,
with a penchant for seeking
out remote and lonely places
ALASKA, Patagonia, Green
land) and. of course, more
conventional destinations in
Europe and elsewhere.
l1ls incident-f1lled life, his
versatility. his career and his
interest in people make his
autobiography absorbing read
ing. MIR. Kent paints words
as well as pigments, and his
portraits" of relatives and
friends. teachers and fellow
artists. the famous and anony-
nous, along with his descrip-
tions Of places, and narration
OF happenings, are all vivid.
The book Is handsomely illus
trated with nearly 300 exam
pies Of his work.
With Disarming Candor
He has always had strong
convictions, is blessed with
enviable self-confidence and
in his seventy-odd years has
probably lived more as he
wished than most people are
able to do. He has been more
changeful in the fields Of
marriage and romance, than
in career and politics. He had
his share of troubles, finan-
cial. professional and senti-
mental. He writes informally
and conversationally about all
these facets with disarming
candor.
His successful use of the
conversational style of writ
ing is based upon his flair for
language as well as graphic
arts. The book is full of
quotable remarks. Art being
essentially an embodiment of
human personality, was no
more to be accepted or rejected
upon the authority CT others,
than are friends Or overs to
be chosen on a psychoanalyst's
advice"
Where We Differ
Throughout the greater part
Of this book, the reader will
be generally in sympathy with
Mr.. Kent. also with his So
cialist ideals, and with his
disturbing faculty" through
out his life, Ito be troubled by
the woes of Others" and to do
what he could to succor them.
But some readers. like this one,
Will probably reluctantly part
company with him when he
gets into his stride on his
political beliefs and activities
in the last rs pages or so.
He saw with great clarity
the menace of fascism. But he
has severe astigmatism with
regard to communism. He was
one OF 40 Americans who went
to Paris in 1949, to attend a
World Conference for Peace"
and the next year was in q
smaller American delegation
TO Moscow, thence to the
stockholm Conference. OF
Evening star., 1955-05-08
THE DINNER PARTY. b
Hrnfnhana

AAAD DA4NANGN hh1 4 by
Gretchen Finletter. (Har-
per & Bros; So
This ingratiating comedy of
manners is in the form of a
diary kept by a woman who
says there are only two de-
mands made on her: "To raise
children and to raise money"
She is somewhat better of
than legions of ladies on whom
similar demands are made
she has a country house and
sometimes two in help. Even
so. the shock of recognition on
certain universal details will be
felt on almost every page.
Her heroine, who could be
herself if this were not billed
as fiction, is forever involved in
simply coping. Her husband is
writing a book; her eldest
daughter brings home a solemn
beau who tells the husband
that there has been no con-
versation in the Western world
for 200 years" A second daugh-
ter has an alias and fantasies;
a third just tags along. In ad-
dition, there is the neighbor-
ing gentry and q footloose
sister who whirls in like a hur-
ricane calling for alterations
in the house and letting fall
such gambits as the following:
"Childless couples are the real
Evening star., 1955-05-08
COMMUNISM, CONFORMITY

COMMUNISM, CONFORMITY
AND CIVIL LIBERTIES. BY
Samuel A. Stouffer. Double
day; $4)
At the peak of the Army
Mccarthy hearings last sum-
mer, Ford's Fund for the
Republic launched a high
priced public-opinion survey
to find out how many people
were concerned about COM
munism or civil liberties.
The answer: Less than /
per cent.
Due to the superior method
of sampling used, the results
are believed to be pretty au-
thentic.
Harvard Prof. Samuel A.
Stouffer may not have been
surprised by the results, but
he was appalled,. He thinks
the press. radio, television and
leaders in local communities
should try to develop more
interest, especially more in
clination to tolerate minority
views. He fears that the
widespread indifference might
someday be taken advantage
Of. He also fears that the
Evening star., 1955-05-08
DAVENPORT GIVES
SCIENCE FICTION
HIS SCRUTINY
INQUIRY INTO SCIENCE
FICTION. BY Basil Daven-
port. Iongmans; $2.5O.)

1NaO1nI AN1O SCkENCE
FICTION. BY Basil Daven-
port. Nongmans; $2.50.)
The story is told of a
young man, about to commit
matrimony, who asked his
family doctor to recommend
a book which would tell him
how to get the most out of
marriage. The physician,
sager and saner than most
of his ilk. told the youth,
IF you need to read a book
about it. you'll never enjoy it
very much"
So it is, in this reviewers
opinion, with science fiction.
A critique on this literary
genre hardly needs to be
written, but since one has
been written, 1t is just as we'll
that the author is at once
literate and we'll qualified.
Mr.. Davenport, a Book-of-
the Month Club staff mem
ber, has been on the fringes
of science fiction for years.
In 1858 he edited and wrote
the foreword to an Ameri-
can edition of Olaf Staple
don'S works.
In the present 87-page
critique Mr.. Davenport un-
dertakes to explain" science
f1ction-a job as thankless
as trying to explain Charles
Addams' cartoon about the
ski tracks with the tree in
the middle.
The best thing in the book
is a check list which would
be of interest and help to
anyone mildly interested
and not too well read-in the
science fiction field.
WILLIAM HINES.
Evening star., 1955-05-08

stalls, ColumniSt Ruark'S big,
blood-Soaked novel of the Mau
Mau rebellion was offered to
Book of the Month Club sub
scribers as Maytime greeting.
For the first time in history,
though, members got a notice
of a dissenting opinion-that
of Judge Amy Loveman-along
with their order blanks.
A review of reviewers from
coast to coast reveals that Miss
Loveman, while not alone Is
one of a small minority. Out
of 18 reviews sampled, Is
most of them warnings to the
squeamish-were for, and only
three against.
Take Your Choice
In one New York newspaper,
it was an interesting question of
which edition do you read. The
daily reviewer of the New York
Times, Orville Prescott, called
Mr.. Ruark's first novel, "the
most loathsome novel I have
read in nearly Is years of re-
viewing perverse and nau-
seating"
But the books Sabbath re-
viewer for the same paper,
John Barkham, saw it as "a
high-voltage shocker at the
very least an astonishing vir-
tuoso performance"
Mr.. Barkham's opinion was
the more widely echoed.
Here is a sampling:
Wilmington News: LET no
one be misled by the some
times superficial newspaper
columns he writes, this seems
to be a different man entirely,
a writer who is certainly the
peer of Hemingway"
Miami Herald: "A stunning
book"
Savannah Morning News:
-". A powerful and frighten-
ing document"
San Francisco Chronicle:
a.. A broad and vivid pano-
rama of life among the whites
in East Africa"
Hartford Courant: g. If
the reader has a strong stom-
ache and an adult mind, the
novel is a compelling one :"
Washington Star: ". At
times a revolving story
But how could it be other
wise?"
On the other hand, Van
Allen Bradley in the Chicago
Daily News called it a mon
strous miscarriage of literary
justice gross and ineptly
handled. l have rarely
read a book so offensive to
good taste"
And Virgilia Peterson in
The Reporter: :. what raises
your hackles against an other
Evening star., 1955-05-08

Of every reader interested in
the political cross-currents of
the 1930S is part of Our
Time: Some Monuments and
Ruins Of the Thirties" by
Murray Kempton (Simon g.
Schuster; $4.)
Mr.. Kempton, who says he
belonged for a little while to
the Young Communist League
and later to the Socialist
Party, now is a columnist for
the New York Post. AS one
who long ago was disenchant-
ed with communism, but did
not swing to the extreme right,
and no doubt still accounts
himself an ardent liberal. he
! writes with admirable detach-
ment and fairness and with
a sharp sense of irony.
People of the Thirties
His book deals with per-
sonalities, in the literary
world, in the New Deal Gov
ernment and in some of the
unions, particularly with per-
sons who at one time or an
other embraced the thorny en-
chantress of Moscow. He opens
with a perceptive sketch of
two men who started their
careers in the '30s and cul-
minated them in a blaze Of
publicity in the late '4Os-
Whitaker Chambers and Alger
Hiss. Mr.. Kempton's chapter
on the Hollywood Ten, who
went to jail rather than dis
close their political beliefs, is
especially enlightening. He
knew most of them, some in
the days when they espoused
the Marxist theater in New
York. They were Communists,
he says. but their mission to
Hollywood was a failure
they were never able to in
fiuence the movies for which
they wrote, and they had to
settle for turning out con-
ventional stuff and taking out
their revolutionary ideals in
meetings and raising funds
and in quarreling among
themselves.
Mr.. Kempton draws these
characters and many others
with quiet irony. Most writer's
who have tried to describe the
influence of communism in
America have written with in
dignation and exaggeration,
in one direction or another
which have weakened their
theses. Mr.. Kempton escapes
this entirely. He does not ac-
cuse the congressional COM
mittees concerned with sub
version of supressing free
speech and thought-he
merely prods them with a sa-
tirical touch now and then
nor. on the other hand. does
he charge the assorted left
wlngers he portrays with being
spies for Moscow. 1t is not
without humor and not with
out pathos that he reflects on
their lives and their thwarted
careers. He has done an ex-
cellent job.
Evening star., 1955-05-08
ALife-Size, Self Portrait
Of q Noted illustrator

these expeditions, Of Russia
and its representatives he
writes with great enthusiasm.
In view of his above-men-
toned active sympathy for
suffering humanity, one won-
ders how he reconciles with
theoretical communism, the
sacrifice by their ruthless lead
ers of millions of today's peo-
pie. who have just as much
right to a good life, as the
people of some misty future.
r. S. B.
Evening star., 1955-05-08

fessional artists organization,
will be held at the National
Museum in June. Entry blanks
and detailed information can
be obtained by writing to Lila
o. Asher. 2034 Tunlaw road,
Washington. internationally
distinguished painter Max
Weber will be a one-man jury
to award prizes. The exhibi-
tion is open to all artists in
the Washington area, and all
members Of the society, wher-
ever they reside. :
Evening star., 1955-05-08

Printmakers of North and
Central America, invited to
submit work made within the
preceding year. entered a to-
tai of 1921 prints, by SOB
artists. The jury of admission
selected 1875 prints by 1874 art
lists of the United States, Can
ada, Cuba, Mexico and Puerto
Rico. Jurors were Roderick
Mead of Carlsbad, N. Mex;
John Muench of Westport,
Conn, and Andre RACE of
New York City, all well-known
artists.
Prints in modern idiomS
predominant: About two-thirds
Of the 173 by United States and
the three from Canada. Nearly
all from the Latin American
countries are representational.
The use of color is increasing
As per cent of the total in
this annual. Block prints (wood
engravings, woodcuts and lino-
leum cuts) lead the show with
a total of IA; metal plate in
taglio prints (engravings,
etchings, aquatints, etc.,, 65;
IS Autographs. 18 serigraphs,
and l each of several other
media.
Washington Artists
Samuel Bookatz ID. CO and
Donald Uhlin (Greenbelt,
Md are the only Washing
ton area artists represented.
In view of the fact that re-
cent prints by local artists ex-
hibited during the past sea-
son, have surpassed in inter-
est and technical competence
not few of those from other
cities included in the 18th
Pennell show, one can only
wonder what Washington en-
tries were rejected.
The facet of the 18th Pen
nell show which impressed me
the most is the number of
abstract and semiabstract
prints with varied textures
playing important roles in
effective compositions, some
Of them heightened by
unusually beautiful colors.
Among the best are Letterio
Calapai's swirling earth-red
"Subterrania," John Hannah's
Modification P &c." Misch
Kohn's "Kabuki Samurai,"
Paul dacre's superb
Flight" Isabella Markets.
Astoria" and Harold Todd's
cockf1ght.
Outstanding for color as
well as texture are William
Harrison Larkin's "Sun Flow
er" and Dean Meeker's "Picto-
graph" its beautiful gold
and copper printed on silver
paper. Arthur Thrall's semi
abstract Bottles" seem as
monumental as skyscrapers.
Other facets of the 18th an
nual will be discussed later.
Under Freedom
Three hundred years of
Jewish life in the United
States is illustrated and SYM
bolized in a special exhibition
Under Freedom" in the foyer
of the National Museum,
Evening star., 1955-05-08

comes from a gallery organ
lied three years ago to offer
exhibition opportunities to
young, unknown painters.
Since then they have exhibited
the work Of 1877 artists, IS Of
whom had not previously
shown in New York.
Evening star., 1955-05-08
READING AND WRITING
But Did Ruurk Write
Something of Value?
BY MARY McGRORY

Outside of Hollywood which definitely thinks the big
question did Robert Ruark write something value he
wrote Something of Value" MGM planked down record
100000 for the rights but reviewers there have
been several unmistakable
Something of controversy before to the book
Evening star., 1955-05-08
ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS
National Print Show
On View at Library
By FLORENCE S. BERGMAN

The 18th National Exhibition Of Prints Pennen Show
opened last Sunday at the Library Congress- to four
months This important annual sponsored by the Library
memorial to Joseph Penne eminent graphic artist whose
beque nearly 80 for the purchase modern prints
and Whisteriana. makes the exhibition possible.
Evening star., 1955-05-08
THE GREAT AMERICAN MYTH
How Deeply We Love
The Goddess Success
By CARTER BROOKE JONES

Horatio ger jr writer who quenched the early literary
thirst OF nearly American who
or the early part Of the century longer read His
books found the attic grandfathers faded
effects fororny unSold the
hand book stores But their influence fingers
Evening star., 1955-05-08
Open Annual

The SD annual exhibition
Of The Society Of Washington
Artists, the city's oldest pro-
Evening star., 1955-05-08
All, Tristesse

Another first novel this sea-
son caused considerable fuss
and dissent. That was "BOn-
jour Tristesse," the story of
a precious French junior miss
who cold-bloodedly set herself
against her fun-loving fathers
second marriage. Some peo-
pie thought it was a scandal
Gus performance, others found
it dazzling.
But opinion about the au-
thor herself, it seems, is unani-
nous. Min e t e e n-year-old
Francoise Sagan is having
what her countrymen would
call 'un success tou" in New
York. Reports drifting down
say that the town is at her
feet. Says a possibly biased
source, her publisher, "She
charmed everyone with her
politeness, her reserve and her
modesty." They apparently
thought she was cute, too.