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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-30
BY HOWARD L. DUTKIN
star star Writer

Is parody an art form so in
dependent Of the subject which
It burlesques as to be privileged
against infringement Of a copy
right granted the original work?
The Supreme Court took this
question under consideration
for the first time.
On the eventual answer de-
ponds. to a large extent. the
future Of books. plays and films
that satirize more serious
works.
The case placed before the
court yesterday concerned a
Jack Benny television parody
on the movie. "Gaslight." en-
titled "Autolight."
Play 10 Years Old
The original play was writ
ten for the stage by Patrick
Hamilton more than a decade
ago. II was adapted for mo-
ton pictures bv Loew's at an
estimated cost Of S276.000. in
GLIDING screen rights. IL
starred Ingrid Bergman. Char
les Boyer and Joseph Cotton.
Following the Benny produce
ton. sponsored by the Amer
lean Tobacco Co. Loew's OBJ
tained q court injunction
against further showing Of the
burlesqued version.
In issuing the injunction. a
Federal Court held that there
had been a Substantial TAX
ing" Of material from the orig
inal play. Thus. II was ruled,
the copyright had been In
fringed. The ruling was afiirmed
on appeal.
Copyright laws stem from
Article OF the Constitution
which says In part:
Congress shall have
power to promote the progress
Of science and usd0ul arts by
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from all four directions early
enough to bring pupils into our
high school and late enough to
return them home.
AS a result, we had to use
rooms over what is now the Mar
quis Super-market. We then
started measures to build the
present high school. But the
towns around us began to clamor
to have their own high schools
enlarged and we decided we cid
not need as large a building as
we had planned so we didn't
finish the three rooms on the
north side as planned.
We had high school students
coming from Whipple, beyond
Whigville, Renrock and over
near Cumberland. A bond issue
was raised and a tax rate set to
take care of the debt
Then our surrounding grade
schools began to close for lack
of attendance. About that time
I went on the county board and
the state compelled the districts
of Ackley, Olive, DeVolld, Hun
key Dory and Dudley to be added
to the Caldwell, which increased
the tax duplicate so much that a
surplus of over $4,000 was piling
up in the building fund, each
year.
Some years later | went on the
Caldwell board, again to fill a
vacancy caused by the death OF
DR.. Gray. The above fund had
increased to $4,000 and the mat
ter of building the gymnasium
and auditorium came up.
We contacted the state depart
ment, cut the red tape and built
the building at a cost of $4,000
and there was no money bor-
rowed from the bank either.
AS to the location of the high
school building, l think that the
one the Caldwell board had in
mind is ideal and the very best
to be had. After talking to some
who know l feel sure that the
United school board committee
will also feel that this is the
ideal site for a consolidated
school.
Now word to this committee
that favors a consolidated school,
There is. no question but what
your influence was felt at the
Feb. 4 election and your work
has just begun. You must find
the right way to bring consolida-
ton before the public and push
it through.
Also a word to the Caldwell
board. Now that your plan has
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-02-13
Parker Wes'

Dear Editors:
The school bond was defeated
and nothing is settled except the
solution prepared was not salts
factory.
The need for prompt and
proper action is desperately
needed in both town and county
school systems.
Two things that I most often
heard by opponents of a united
school system were:
First: Let them solve their
own problems. That is none OF
our affair. In my last letter /
went into detail on this, so will
only say now that think it is
mutual problem and can only be
solved by mutual action.
Second: Let them come to us
We. will not go to them. Most OF
them will come to US finally.
| don't think they will and as
Al Smith used to say, Lets Look
at the Record.
When l first came on the Cald-
well board, we had two rail
roads operating. Trains came in
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In Woshinqton
,(ContinlIed from Page 81

Continued from Page 2-B)
not, arrived, T. would appreciate
knowing Of it so that your re-
quested bulletins and they have
quest can be traced. Occasionally
one gets lost in transit or at the
office to which I, and all mem
bers of Congress, relay the in
dividual requests.
Missiles and Men
Money for missiles and money
for men is not by any means the
complete answer to the problems
that face our nation as it enters
the Space Age. But one thing is
certain, that we need to do
something to stop the tremend-
Gus turnover that we experience
in our military ranks.
There was time when citizen
soldiers could be trained in a
matter of weeks and officers were
obtained from the families of the
Social Set. That was the complex
ion of many of the American
armies in the past. But it is not
true today. A pilot, navigator,
bombardier, missileteer and the
thousands of technical men who
assist them, require years and
years of specialist and technical
training. Thousands of dollars
are spent to train them. Once
these men leave the services for
better paying jobs in civilian
life, the loss to the taxpayer is
multiplied and the national de-
defense is harmed by the loss of
their experience. The nation must
face up to the responsibility of
retaining them by giving serious
and detailed study to pay scales
commensurate with the ability of
military personnel.
This, in essence is the recon-
mendation of the much discussed
Cordiner Report, if indeed, one
could summarize report Of this
| Importance in one paragraph.
The truth Of this proposition
extends to the various Reserves
and National Guards of our ma
ton.
In the next several months, an
| intensive study Will De made OF
this situation in the House Of
Representatives. Out of this will
come a bill which will be debated
in both the House and Senate on
the pros and cons of this pro-
blem.
| had the extreme good fortune
to visit an Army Reserve unit in
training last December. Here
were boys and men from all
walks of life, spending several
nights a month to learn technical
| mechanical and strategic matters
TO supplement our regular mill
tary force if the need should
arise. These men will respond to
further training not through
patriotic impulses alone, but il
the reserve pay scale is suffici.
emily inviting. Congress must
continue to find the point of bal
ance which will retain men oi
training and men of promise, and
at the same time guard the mill
tary appropriations agains
wasteful and irresponsible spend
| ing.
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fallen through, you must also
do something and do it fast or
you will be in deep trouble when
school rolls around next fall.
And finally, the school aues-
ton was not an issue in the
election when you were elected
as members of the school board.
Had it been and your position
been known, you might not have
been elected. So do not feel that
you have given a mandate by
the voters to do just what you
please but try to find out what
the majority wants done.
If a petition, largely signed,
is presented to you, give it care
full consideration, as it would be
the nearest to voting on it that
the people can do just now.
DR.. H. B. Hume
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MI. Ephrairl,

- MT. ,EPHRAIM - Mrs. Belle
Conner, 81, fell at the home of
her sister, Tuesday evening and
fractured her hip. She is now
patient at Guernsey Memorial
hospital, doing fine in a wheel
chair.
John Millhone has been dis
mi9sed to his home from St.
Francis hospital and Zola Will
liams from the Bethesda hospi-
tai to her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Menden-
hall and family, of Canton, spent
the weekend with Hazel Powell
and son, Earl.
Mrs. William Dagenhart, of
Cambridge, visited Sunday after
noon with Mrs. Luella Pringle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Powell
and daughters, visited Sunday
afternoon with Mr.. and Mrs.
Warren Miley and daughter,
Betty.
The WS.C.S. will have their
meeting and a Washington Tea
Thursday afternoon, Feb. 20 at
100 p. m. in the church
Mrs. Edith Williams spent Fri
day with Mr.. and Mrs. John
Chlovechok and sons in Cam
bridge
Mrs. Rodney r. Williams has
been dismissed to her home
after undergoing major surgery
in the Bethesda hospital, Zanes-
vile.
Mr.. and Mr.. c. w. Hall, of
Columbus, spent Sunday with H.
G. Williams and Mr.. and Mrs.
Rodney r. Williams and daugh-
ter.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-02-13
THE MAIL BAG
Dear Editor:

Dear Editor:
At 7:30 p. m. last Tuesday,
was disgusted, depressed and
resolved that l would never go
to the polls again.
You see we have three chill
dren in school and l was one of
the 563 who voted for the bond
issue. / had really worked hard
the last few days trying to make
others see that new grade
school was one solution to our
gigantic school problem.
BY Wednesday morning,
realized how wrong my attitude
was. Instead of giving up, l knew
what had to be done.
When DR.. Davis was hired as
our superintendent, he was
described to me as a "big man..
After meeting him, ! knew that
the description fitted his stature
but | doubt if that is what the
board meant when they said he
was big man.
In the next few months, he
will have the opportunity to
prove how ''big' he is. ! hope he
realizes that our only solution
now is consolidation.
He and the members of the
board have no alternative but
TO swing to the other side of the
issue and work just as hard for
consolidation as they worked for
the defeated bond issue.
We know that the members
of the school board are really
interested in the future of our
schools or they would not be
serving on the board now. They
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Tales of Olive
Continued from Page 2-B)


Stormbound due to high water.
He could not cross Duck Creek
at Gorby's Ford. This caused him
to obtain a room at the Widow
KS rooming house in Soakum
overnight. He died very myster-
iously during the might. Later
his body was placed on a pole
stretcher and carried on the
shoulders of the pallbears thru
Gorby's Ford, across Duck Creek
and thence over the hills to the
Old Sharon cemetery where the
body of this veteran remains
between the four stone walls of
this historic burying ground. He
himself had given the land for
this cemetery to the Sharon
community. A part of his farm
became the Village Of Sharon.
This is a matter of record.
Much about Soakum is con-
tanned in a Well-Written copy
righted book entitled, "Soakum"
by H. Edmund Danford, Cald-
well, Ohio, 1912. This highly
interesting story of romance and
adventure is filled with localisms
and descriptions of the mode of
living in early pioneer days. 1t
is also a magnified detailed
description of Soakum with
many actual names used for the
characters. This book is a store
house of folklore and history. 1t
required much research, magma
ton and ''know-how" on the part
of its school-teacher author who
taught in the Caldwell Public
Schools for apmber of years.
The Soakuin book was written
to preserve the history and folk
lore tales of a Noble county
settlement in pioneer days which
would have otherwise been lost
to posterity.
(To be continued)
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To the Editor:

To the Editor:
Now that the bond issue for
a new grade school has been
denied, something definite must
be done for the children. 1t is
bad enough to have the first and
second graders attending only
half day. But when it gets up
into the third, fourth, fifth, and
sixth grades, which will pro-
gressively happen as the increase
of children catches up with the
| available room, it gets to be a
positive menace to the education
of the child.
AS | see it, this bond issue
was defeated by two groups of
people: ID those who did not
want to pay for the critical
necessity of school room for our
children and (2) those who
| wanted Caldwell to consolidate
| with a part of the county for a
| new high school. believe the
first persons are SO careless and
Indifferent that they will not do
anything. But l believe the other
persons are sincere and will
work earnestly for their pro-
jects. 1t behooves them to be just
as drligent in providing places to
"ease the situation" for our grade
school boys and girls as they
have been in talking consOlida-
ton. We must actively cooperate
together for the sake of our
future citizens, the foundation of
our Christian democracy.
What to dc? l believe the
churches would provide rooms
where the children could have
classes. That has been done in
many places. A survey should be
made and necessary equipment
ordered soon, so the adjustment
could be under way next Fall.
Perhaps there are other places
that could be considered for
class rooms so our children will
not have to suffer scholastically.
Funds will be forthcoming from
the taxpayers for such tempor-
ary measures.
Something must be done and
you who read this, and agree,
are the only ones who can do
it. If you don't, it won't get done.
The biggest room in the world
is the "room for improvement"
and it is the only room we have
here.
Parker West
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-02-13
From Journal Files
p. Ten Years AGO

Mrs. Kate Leasure was re-
moved from her home at East
Union in the McVay-Shilling
ambulance, to the Marietta hos
pital for treatment for a frac-
tured hip.
Superintendent H. c. Secrest
represented Noble county at the
monthly meeting of the South
eastern Ohio superintendent s
association held at Athens, Mon
day morning and afternoon.
Miss Wava Williams, deputy
auditor for this county, attended
a personal tax conference in Co.
lumbus, Monday and Tuesday of
this week.
William H. Wehr, one of Cald-
wells oldest active businessmen,
is a patent in the Wheeling
Clinic, Wheeling, w. Va, where
he is receiving treatment.
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The Noble county commission
ers appointed Alden (Jimmie)
Tilton as head of the welfare
departmnt in the county at their
regular meeting, Monday.
A fire, which could have
resulted in heavy damage to
plant No. 2 at Cozier Container
Corpora ion, was quickly extin-
guished, Tuesday.
Dianne Mcdonald, four years
old daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Isaac Mcdonald, Jr., was severly
burned, Thursday afternoon, in
a home accident.
Twenty students, representing
all the first grade high schools
in the Noble county system, took
the annual senior scholarship
tests, given Saturday morning at
he Caldwell high school audi
torium.
Sylvester o. Highman, 54,
prominent and highly respected
merchant in Sarahsville since
935, died suddenly at his home
in that village, Sunday evening.
Mrs. Charles H. Meek, of
Summerfield, has been appointed
insurance agent for the Ohio
Grang Mutual Insurance Co.,
and will remain her headquart-
ers in Summerfield.
Mrs. George Forshey, 81, well
known resident of the Crum
Ridge community, died at her
home, Tuesday morning, follow
ing illness.
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SenecaviIIe

Mrs. H. A. Burns, of Cumber-
land, spent Thursday at the home
of her son, J. l. Burns and fam
lily.
Mr.. Bob Jacobs, of Lincoln,
Neb., visited the past week with
Mr.. and Mrs, Dallas Keller.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Brown
and granddaughter, of Columbus,
visited Sunday with Mrs. Jessie
Peach.
Mrs. Rose Millhone is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Paul Watson
and family, on Salesville route.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-02-13

Preliminary plans being completed for the drive
Sunday Feb 3d. under the
Demonstration councils in the IA townships.
Mrs. Gladys Seffens serving county
wide drive She today there had
supplies but they available
Caldwell.
The Home Demonstration clubs being
representative to the office pick needed supplies
Each community vii be thoroughly covered Feb
Heart Sunday is observed thruout Noble county.
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must realize that there is no
other solution to our problem
but consolidation.
1t is a countrywide issue now
and there is great deal of work
for all of us to do if we are
going to have a school system
that Noble county and Caldwell
can finally be proud of.
A Mother Who Changed
Her Mind Overnight
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Political Matters
And Otherwise
BY JESS S. HARRIS

Continued from Page 27B)
Should you be in the least in
terested in the erection of
another grade school building in
Caldwell, don't relax your ener-
gles; contact the members of the
local board of education. Always
maintain an interest in the kid
dies in all grades of our public
Schools-no matter what your
age may be.
The fact should always be
borne in mind that each of this
nations illustrious Americans
began his educational career in
grade school. That is proof
sufficient why each of our kid
dies should be given every pos
Sible care and advantage at the
beginning of their scholastic life.
And that's the reason this col
umnist is so enthusiastically in
favor of the erection of another
grade school building in Cald-
well, the present one being in
sufficient to care for the rapidly
increasing attendance. What
think you? This column is open
at all times for discussion of this
highly important matter; SO,
come on with it, 1t may not be
generally known to the younger
generations of today that the
late President Abraham Lincoln
before a CRATE fire at home, start
ed his education with the use of
a piece of chalk on the back of
a wooden ash shovel; erase and
then go over again.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-02-13

The congress on Monday
granted much additional money
to unemployed war veterans and
former government employees.
A commendable act.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-02-13

The weather on Monday of this
week was the coldest in this
area Of the present winter but
was not to be compared to that
Of fifty-nine years ago, on Feb
10, 1899, at which time the mer-
curry dropped to 40 degrees be-
low hero, almost into the bulb
of the instrument.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-05-29

A Good Shepherd

days ago the body of Peter Mugrage one 0
sheep He died in the old homestead
and his father before him born For IS years ne Veu
old homestead He added several hurore
eight hunoreo
wealth with His hands were empty
small white lilies that wild III he V
his flower He far more IN hat S
books other possessions
Of His wants few and simple ne
humble home removed from the maoe
of the great highways.
The thing that much about this man was the ac
sheep would him climbing the Mills
with bucket of salt and hundreds of sheep following hn IN long
hills They knew their Masters voice
and when he called
finds conentment in the simple things
certainly by the accunulation OF
other standardized wealth man might accu
ulate million land and be miserable failure as lar as
true wealth is measured
Napoleon world when he picked his
sword Nations fell before his marching like grain before
Yet who like Pete could sit the porch of his
humble valley surrounded by tumbe hills
and be peace with God and
That real wealth That possession beyond
Humility, contenment of mind understanding trea
beyond the reach OF gold Pete had these things and and
when his light body left his shy he simply went living
his spiritual associates bound by the ties created walking
the seemingly lonely trails of nature
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per month. Some of the proposals
would impose a needs" test,
others would make the award
irrespective of need, presuming
that both disability and need
exists.
AS any legislation is consid-
cred, one wonders what has been
done in the past. So | inquired
as to the pension policy of the
nation with regard to veterans
of former wars. I found that, in
each case, a general pension has
been awarded to veterans, and
that the usual period of lag has
been 40 years after the end of
the war. If the United States
follows its traditions, a general
pension for veterans of World
War l should one day become a
reality.
1t is my sincere hope that, in
the 18th District on Memorial
Day, 1858, many veterans of
World War l will appear and par
ticipate. in the various parades
and celebrations, and that great
volumes of grateful citizens who
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-05-29
Xxx The American Way

country and its future would
do well to get copy Of this
intensely absorbing book. 1t is
not a law book written for
scholars. 1t is written for citi-
zens; and it will not only in
struct, but surprise you no end.
| think it is a fair statement
to say that the troubles we are
now in-the appalling en-
tanglements all over the world;
the wild, almost frantic fling
ing Of American dollars around
the world; American soldiers
stationed in the far places of
the earth; the debts, the taxes,
the subversion, the hatredS-
could well be traced to the
dreadful assault on the Amer
lean system which was accom-
plished by driving from the
Supreme Court bench the
eminent men who adorned it
and filling it with a collection
of New Deal-Fair eal-"Mod-
ern" Republican politicians.
1t may be true that the
Courts grave assault en- our
constitutional system and the
shocking aid it has given to
the communist conspiracy in
America cannot be easily cor
rected. These blackrobed gents
have a hold on their seats from
which they are not easily dis
lodged. But, after all, the Con-
stitution does have in it a
clause which permits changes
in the Constitution itself. And
there is another clause which
permits Congress to curb a
runaway Court. Perhaps it is
too much to suppose that the
politicians who run our coun-
try will make an effort to
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-05-29
Build or Destroy

Many of us live from day to day in this
land of freedom and liberty without any
knowledge of our responsibilities to others,
especially when it comes to respecting the
rights and privileges of fellowmen. :
1t is regrettable that in Noble county we
have such group. At times it could be one
person or it could be several. The results of
this retarded intelligence or their lack of
ability to think or their complete disregard
for others rights is regrettable.
Trees are a creation of God. They are
creations of beauty and the great majority
of us appreciate that beauty and significance
as they are associated with the many aspects
of our daily life
- Several years ago, the county commits
sioners promoted the planting of many trees
in the courthouse lawn, which contributed