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The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1960-05-05

Mr.. and Mrs. Harley Dillion
and daughter spent Saturday
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Bill Johnson, of Caldwell route
Recent visitors of Jewell Wick
ham, of Caldwell, were her son;
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wickham and
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Robinson and
son, Rickie. !
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1960-05-05

Soap in hard water combines
with the minerals, calcium and
magnesium to form an insoluble
curd. This curd clings to clothes
making them gray and harsh.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1960-05-05
card or what have YOU.

card or what have you.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ted Hickman and
family were weekend visitors of
relatives in Sarahsville.
understand Joan Dreher Of
Community hospital in Cam
bridge, was to have her tonsils
removed on Monday. We wish
her speedy recovery.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1960-05-05
BEAVERS ARE RELEASED IN COUNTY

Pictured above 48 pound beaver that brought to
Noble county from Ashtabua Thursday It. along with So
pound female which is expecting young will be placed in the
easfor of Duck creek by Noble county warden Cetus
Carsey, and Frank Brown of Morgan county.
With these two included there will be total eight
beavers in the waterways being Seneca lake
lake last Friday
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1960-05-05

The Caldwell volunteer fire department and the Belle
Valley unit called the home Virgil Archer Ava
Thursday 214 The flu
heated and resulted fire which confined second
floor of the home.
The damage estimated be approximately 5000. A
few of the boys from Ava Brick plant first arrive
the and they maintained bucket brigade Belle
Valley squad arrived. =
Evening star., 1960-03-23
DORIS FLEEsoN
No. 2 Topic: Nixon's Choice

These men feel betrayed
but, luckily for him, do not
appear to be centering on
any one candidate. They feel
no emotional attachment to
the ambitious House Repub-
lican Leader, Representative
Charles Halleck. They
acknowledge that Senator
Barry. Goldwater might be
too concentratedly conserva-
tive for the general palate.
The Senator, incidentally,
is getting rid of his aggres-
sions against the state of the
world and possibly Of his
party with a newspaper
column which is picking up
customers. including the Los
Angeles Times. It's heading is:
How do you stand. sir?" 1t
is a fair guess that few Re-
publicans standing for elec-
tion this fall will give him
the answers he obviously feels
are the right ones, at least
not out loud.
The Vice President, whose
opening gambit at public af-
fairs so often is I'm con-
troversial. but my wife is
not" is unlikely to prefer a
controversial running mate.
A Governor who has led a
more sheltered life, away
from the Washington storm,
might be helpful. But Repub-
hcans today are short Of
Governors in big and small
States.
Evening star., 1960-03-23
Street Light Plan
OKd in Principle

A six-year plan for improv-
ing Washington's street-light-
ing system was approved "in
principle" yesterday by the
Commissioners.
1t would cost the city about
$450,000 a year to carry out
the program. The District
now is spending about $500. 900
a year for lighting improve
mentS.
The plan, recommended by
the Highway Department, sets
up lighting standards for three
clasSif1cations-r e dentialI
streets, arteries and freeways,
and business and commercial
streets. No recommendations
were made for Georgetown, the
Federal monumental areas and
the area under study by the
National Capital Downtown
Committee.
The brightest lights would
go on business and commercial
streets. The next brightest
would be installed on srterials
and freeways, and the dim
NEST in residential areas.
The six-year program is to
go into effect July j, 1861.
Evening star., 1960-03-23
RALPH McGILL
Tragedy in a Mules Death

do. 1t was a struggle. The
economists put their pencils
to paper and came up with
the conclusion that the mule
was obsolete as a unit Of
energy. He could no longer
compete with machines. And
they were right.
But here and there they
hung on-the mules and the
obscure Matt Ushers Of agri-
culture in transition. De-
feated, lonely, with nothing
much ahead of them and
nothing in the years gone by,
they toiled on together.
So when the old mule died,
Matt Usher, in his loneliness,
thought it over. And having
done so he wrote a note.
weighted it down with a rock
on the path, and walked
down to the pond where he
so often had taken the mule
to drink.
MY old mule is gone, I am
drowned in this pond"
Evening star., 1960-03-23
rIEEI1tIvt VVITTL !.
Honesty Not Induced by Laws

Mr.. Khrushchev with a new
code" They will ask him to
adopt an agreed pattern for
International behavior"
The complaint is that Mr..
K. now and then departs
from the spirit of interna-
tional good will by saying bad
things about the West. But
would it mean anything at
all If he took some pledge?
If he really wants an East
West settlement he will guard
his tongue, on the whole. If he
doesn't want one, ten thou
sand signed pledges not to ut
ter upSetting words wouldn't
be worth one Khrushchev ko-
pek.
Finally. there is this: Many
years Of watching politicians
at close hand have convinced
this columnist that, speaking
generally, the more a public
man shouts about his ethics"
the more reason there is to
keep a sharp eye on his &C
tual performance.
Evening star., 1960-03-23
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Englands baby prince is given four names-Andrew
Albert, Christian and Edward. Fast country The boy
hasn't even heard of bar yet and already he's
firm.
Things are so confused in Fde Castros Cuba that the
governments left hand doesn't know what the left
hand is doing.
Washington is worried about RuSsa's new atom ban
proposal 1t has suspicious features the least of
which is that we thought it up in the first place.
The Air Force aboshes KIP GIs It's the modern
Air Force; all work on manuals-and no manual work.
An eectronic brain Is matching Washingtons cherry
blossom prncesses with escorts You've of data
processing. Well, this is date processing
U.s. information Boss George Allen we've finally
convinced the Russians we're well fed clothed housed
Now all the White House has to do the Demo-
Gratis.
Evening star., 1960-03-23
DAVID LAWRENCE

While everybody is looking
the other way at disarma-
ment conferences and the gy-
rations of presidential candi-
dates, a piece Of political sab
otage is going on in Wash
ington that could be danger
Gus to the economy of the
country in the immediate
future.
The sabotage consists of a
deliberate interference in the
Treasury Departments man.
agement Of the public debt.
The interference is coming
from a group Of so-called lib
erals in the Democratic Party.
Whether it's partisan poll
tics or sheer demagoguery,
the fact is that the Treasury,
which has the job of refund
ing billions of dollars of debt
each year. is stymied by the
refusal of the Democratic
Party in Congress as a whole
to cooperate with a Repub-
lican President. This is a big
price to pay for the privilege
Of having a divided Govern
ment.
Certainly the right to de-
termine what interest rates
the public will pay for long
term or Short-term securities
belongs to the Treasury De-
partment, which has to watch
carefully the most compli-
Gated factors of the law of
supply and demand in the
credit markets of the coun-
try. The Treasury feels out
the market carefully and
pays the rate it believes will
attract investors.
But the Democrats in Con-
gress have put up a road
block. They insist that the
Treasury may not pay more
than AZ per cent for securi-
ties that mature more than
flve years hence, but that
the Treasury can offer as
high q rate as it wishes for
securities that are repayable
In five years or less.
This means that the Treas
Evening star., 1960-03-23

not to mention of hotels and
taxis to cover Los Angeles
fabled distances, that chance
is exceedingly remote. Also,
influential party leaders are
united. whatever their per-
sonal preferences, in insisting
that no such donnybrook
should be allowed to mar
what they think are their
bright chances in November.
Republican discussion about
Mr.. Nixon's running mate
discloses, as might be expect
ed, considerable tension and
jockeying between the vocal
right wing and the rest OF
the party. The second faction
is by far the largest, but 1t is
not homogeneous. 1t contains
liberals by conviction, the
so-called practical politicians
and a lot Of younger Repub-
licans who are tired of the
old battles and want to shape
q winning organization.
The Vice Presidents grow
ing difficulties with the Re-
publican right wing in Con-
greSS suggest that it may
press strongly for greater rec
ognition by way of the vice
presidency. Mr.. Nixon al
ready has notified it publicly
that he intends to stick to the
more progressive high road
in his campaign.
Evening star., 1960-03-23
S. WHITE
Codes of Behavior for Public Officials
Described as Likely to Be Futile

All kinds Of bad behavior,
ranging from television scan
dals to the intermittent
international nastiness of
Nikita Khrushchev, have
produced hopeful proposals
for improving what rather
grandly is called public ethics.
The reformers' purpose is
to guarantee mems goodness
by new codes" or by hav-
ing them sign papers an
nouncing their honesty and
decency.
This correspondent has
news for the promoters Of
this kind of ethics. 1t is news
based upon long experience
in watching public affairs.
Their reforms will come to
worse than nothing. The
only result win be to increase
hypocrisy. For the notion
that honesty in government
or in television or college
exams or selling real estate
can be assured by new for
mulas is as silly as it is we'll
intentioned.
II a public man Is honest,
he is honest. He will be no
more honest if he adopts
somebody else's handmade
code" or even If he consents
to wear on his lapel a large
celluloid button reading II
am an honest man-abso-
lutely." There are. after all,
certain codes to live by that
are far older and more au-
thoritative than some Sem
ator's private creation. One
is called the Ten Command
mentS.
And If a public man is
dishonest, it is simply be-
cause he is a crook at heart.
1t is not because he has
neglected his lessons in ethics
from reformist Senators or
club ladies. All shortcuts to
making public men honest
are absolutely useless.
And they spring from con-
fusion. For illustration, Sen
ator william Proxmire of
Wisconsin has recommended
that it be made a crime for
a lobbyist" to give a law
maker a cigar or a drink Of
Evening star., 1960-03-23
Specializing With Economy Charged
To Group Blocking Action on Interest

ury is deprived Of its power
to deal effectively with a re-
funding Of the tens Of bill
lions of dollars of the ma
tional debt that come due
each year. 1t is frustrating
for a government which has
so powerful an influence on
world credit, and on interest
rates throughout Europe es-
pecially, to find itself ham
pered in these delicate and
vital financial transactions.
The damage, of course, is
largely within the United
States. Home-building is in
for serious setbacks. and this
could affect the entire econ
omy and be one of the
factors that bring on an eco
nomic recession. The Ma
tional Association of Home
Builders is worried. First 1t
was against the interest
change. but now it has sent
out a letter to its members
urging all Of them to write
to their Congressman at once
to give strong support" to a
change in the interest rate
ceiling "at the earliest pos
sible date" Commenting on
this, the Wall Street Journal,
in an editorial yesterday, said
in part:
When the Treasury was
forced to borrow its billions
on short-term notes alone,
short-term interest rates
went skyrocketing. Last fall
the Treasury had to pay S
per cent for notes maturing
in less than five years. So,
not unnaturally, people who
had money in savings banks
and building associations at
much less interest drew out
their money and bought the
Treasury notes.
Hence. the home builders
discovered that the Treas
ury's unavoidable financing
activities are draining money
out Of the very institutions on
which we must rely for mort
Evening star., 1960-03-23
Politics and the National Credit

gage credit And they con-
cluded that If the Treasury
isn't permitted to meet the
going interest rates in the
long-term market, where it
can spread its debt around,
we are all going to suffer
severely
so there you are. Those
who refused to let the Treas
ury deal sensibly with the
realities Of the marketplace
have brought about the very
thing they professed they
would avoid"
The liberal" Democrats
now are saying that, because
in recent weeks interest rates
generally have shown a tend
ency to decline, this is a vim
dication of their viewpoint.
But the effects of the blow
dealt to the Treasury in its
. power to handle borrowings
fexibly will not be so easily
removed. The present decline
is temporary, and it may
even be the precursor Of a
downward trend in business
due to the Illustrations in
home-building.
Senator Prescott Bush of
Connecticut, Republican, a
former investment banker,
told the Senate yesterday the
business world sees this prob
lem as nonpolitical. He added:
II say to my friends across
the aisle that they're a new
set Of gamblers. They're
speculating with the national
credit. It's a reckless thing
that they do. They're specu-
lating with this issue because
they think they've got a hot
political issue. 1t is most
dangerous. I beg them to
drop this and give the Treas
ury a free hand"
Conservative Democrats
agree with Senator Bush, but
the so-called liberals seem
bent on interfering with the
Treasury's operations-some-
thing that could spell eco
nomic trouble for America at
q fateful time in her history.
tcOpyriEht, 1ee0
Evening star., 1960-03-23

voters against these three sam
Piles Of extremist literature
They are being peddled by over
jealous small printers"
Fair play demands that we
reject such fallacious and hys-
terical tracts even If there is
some truth in the Details" he
said.
Mr.. Archer praised the Post
once Department for leaving
the mails open Ito all express
sions Of opinion that do not
libel candidates specifically. i"
He asserted political censorship
is not the answer since many
sober pamphlets" now being
circulated are asking questions
about the relation of Catholic
policy to the United States Con-
Stitution and the traditional
policy Of the separation Of
church and state"
Evening star., 1960-03-23

whisky. Examining the thing.
what is its reality? First, If
any lawmaker is so cheaply
corrupt that two ounces Of
bourbon will buy his vote. no
new code" could possibly
make a good man of him.
There is one remedy and one
only: Let the voters get rid
of him.
Second. nearly everybody
interested in government is
a lobbyist at one time or an
other in the sense that he
wants to see some bill passed
or defeated. If, therefore, it
be a crime to hand a Senator
a cigar, would not a ciga-
rette be evil, too-or for that
matter even a civil good
morning? Such a salutation
might well be designed to
influence the Senator's think
ing.
Moreover, the reformist
craze invariably gets out of
hand. The new chairman of
the Federal Communications
Commission, Frederick w.
Ford, already has had to
issue cautions. Cleaning up"
anything that really is wrong
with this supervisory agency
over TV is fine. But to put
upon the commissioners such
restrictions as to shut them
OF from all real contact with
the men Of the industry
would be absurd.
For, as Mr.. Ford has
pointed out to Congress, un-
less a regulator can mix with
those he is supposed to reg
ulate he simply can't have a
clue as to what they are up
to at any given time.
And as to international
ethics, the British - whose
sense of humor is usually
more active-have now SOL
emnly decided to approach
Evening star., 1960-03-23
GO. p. Vice Presidential Issue Found
Close Match to Democrats Question

SAN FRANCISCO.-wash-
ington has begun to notice
that the second favorite topic
of visiting firemen is Vice
President Richard Nixon's
probable choice of a vice
presidential candidate to run
with him. Topic one, of
course. is the question of
which Democrat will survive
the Los Angeles fracas in the
top spot.
Investigation discloses that
the resolution Of the second
question Is proceeding almost
as fevefishly in private as the
first is in public.
The Vice President so far
seems to be listening a lot
and talking as little as pos
sible. He has a ready-made
escape hatch for avoiding
commitment to any person or
faction in the fact that the
Republican convention takes
place after the Democratic
one. Thus he can very prop
erly say that Republicans
need first to know what can
didates the opposition will
field.
1t is always possible that
the Democrats might still
be balloting when the Repub-
licans are ratifying their or
ganization choice. But with
the high cost Of television,
Evening star., 1960-03-23
Catholic Critics
Hit Anti
Voting Literature

A predominantly Protestant
organization which has been
critical of Catholic policy in
the past today denounced three
anti-Catholic pieces Of litera-
ture now being circulated in
Wisconsin and elsewhere as
"fallacious and hysterical."
The three items were listed
by Glenn Archer, executive di-
rector Of Protestants and Other
Americans United for Separa-
ton Of Church and State, as an
alleged autobiography of Maria
Monk in a Montreal convent, q
pamphlet on the assassina ton
OF Abraham Lincoln, and a
fraudulent oath Of the knights
OF Columbus.
Mr.. Archer warned American
Evening star., 1960-03-23
Concert Set
On New Organ

Virgil Fox, organist at the
Riverside Church in New York,
will play the first concert on a
new $4,000 organ'at BIS pm.
tomorrow in Columbia Hall of
the Washington Missionary
College, Flower and Carroll
avenues, Takoma Park, Md.
The new organ was designed
especially for the chapel in
Columbia hall by Joseph White
ford, president of the Aeolian
Skinner Co., South Boston,
Mass. The pipe organ has a
three-manual draw-knob con-
sole and two balconies on either
side of the organ house the
25 sets of pipes.
The concert is sponcered by
the Choral Conductors Guild
of Washington. p
Evening star., 1960-03-23
Southern Farmer Dependent on Animal
Finds Suicide His Only Way Out

mule. As others before him
have done, he learned, in his
loneliness, to talk to the mule
as they worked together
through the long days Of
plowing, of cultivating, or
harvesting. And there was
always communion, even
though the mule was silent.
There is something of a
mystery about the mule. He
is a hybrid, without pride
in ancestry or hope Of pos
terity." but he has sense like
a man, The horse is a silly
fool which will run back into
a burning barn because it is
a symbol of safety. A mule
will break down a door to
get out.
A horse will work until he
breaks down. A mule has
sense enough to stop when he
is tired and refuse to bulge
until he feels like it. Those
whose daily lives have been
shared with a mule know
that the mule listens and
understands. And though the
city dweller will scoff, such
men get back an answer
from the mule.
So it was in bygone days,
before the boil weevil and
the machines came, that men
sang and talked to their
mules in the fields and there
were companionship and mu-
tual trust between them.
The machines came
the wondrous. miraculous
machines. And the mules
began to go. Even on the
rich Mississippi Delta, with
its legends Of mules and
men and cotton, one began
to see the grain elevators on
the fiat horizon. And here
and there were corrals of old
mules, with the scars of har-
ness on them. sold to the dog
food factories and waiting
for death. The machines took
over. (We don't know yet
whether we shape the ma
chimes or they shape u.s.
But the little man the
one-gallus farmer, he and his
mule held on. They had to.
There was nothing else to
Evening star., 1960-03-23

On a small farm outside
Clinton. N. c., the body Of
Matt Augustus Usher was
recovered from a barn-lot
pond near his weather. beaten
house.
On a deeply worn path
from house to pond neighbors
found a scrawled pencil note:
MY old mule is gone," it
said, Il am drowned in this
pond"
The rest was silence.
Two days before Matt
Usher's old mule had died.
For some 20 years they had
made crops together. In the
process they had shared the
experience of growing old.
There had been a commun-
ion between them-as there
always has been between
those who have borne burdens
and shared the secret sorrows
of life. Mules and small
Southern farmers have been
closer partners than man
and horse or man and dog.
For the small farmer the
mule was his one indiS-
pensable possession.
The wife and the children
knew that without the mule
there would be no burrows
plowed, no seed drilled, no
wood and water hauled, no
cotton taken to the gin, no
way to get to the general
store. And they knew that
on Sundays there would be
no church but for the mule
hitched to the buggy or,
more often, to the wagon in
which the straight kitchen
chairs had been placed. This
was luxury. The family could
ride along the lazy serenity
of the dirt roads. with an
umbrella raised If the sun
was hot, and attend church
miles away.
The mule was the social
link. Without him there
could be no visiting on Sun
days or the winter days when
the crops were laid by. On a
small Southern farm the
mule was the center Of life.
Matt Usher had only the
Evening star., 1960-01-10

six probable contributing fac
tors:
/. Limited experience Of the
crew with the type of aircraft.
The plane that crashed was a
Lockheed Electra, which had
been in service on American
AirlineS only IL days.
2. Faulty approach technique
in which the autopilot was used
to or almost to the surface.
8. Erroneous setting Of the
captains altimeter.
4. Marginal weather in the
approach area.
5. Possible misinterpretation
OF the altimeter and the rate
of-descent indicator.
8. SenSory illusion with re-
spect to height and attitude
resulting from visual reference
to- the few lights existing in
the approach area.
The planes first officer, the
flight engineer, one OF the stew
ardesses and five passengers
survived. To date. 63 bodies
have been recovered. Two of
the victims still are missing.
Five days after the crash,
the Federal Aviation Agency
raised Electra landing mini
NUNS as a precautionary meas
ure. The restrictions were lifted
upon the installation Of conven-
tional three-pointer altimeters.
Evening star., 1960-01-10

was a freshman, following the
Christmas holidays.
The family attorney, Robert
Hoffman. said a girl believed to
be Gamble telephoned Decem-
Der 80 to say she would return
the next day. She did not an.
pear. however.
Miss Benedict's mother, the
former Josephine Benedict.
died Of an overdose of sleeping
pills in 1916. Her father, DR.. j.
Douglass Sharpe, a psychiatrist,
signed away his legal one-third
of the estate after his wife's
death, but later tried unsuc-
cessfully to revoke his action.
The girl and her brother,
Douglas. 1e, have lived with
their grandmother since their
mothers death.
Miss Benedict made her debut
last December 81 at the Cotil-
lion Ball here.
Evening star., 1960-01-10
Remington Heiress,l8,:
Believed in EIopement

NEW YORK, Jan. 9 (AP)-
Detectives searching for Gam
BILE Benedict, 1S-year-old heir
eSs missing since December 81,
said today they believed she
still was in the city-and pos
sibly married.
They said the heiress to the
Remington typewriter fortune
had been seen here several
times with a man about IS
years old during the IL days
since she left her upper East
Side home.
Also, checks drawn on her
bank account have been cashed
in the city since December 81,
they said.
The police theorized that Miss
Benedict may have eloped.
Detective 1t. William Nevins
said neither the family nor the
police knew the identity Of the
man.
He said the man seen with
her was described as well
dressed, about S feet Z, weigh
ing $50 to 155 pounds, with
dark hair and a swarthy COM
plexion.
The police declined to say
where they obtained their in
formation that the couple had
been seen.
At least eight persons have
been questioned regarding dis
appearance Of the girl.
Her grandmother, Mrs. Kath-
crime Geddes Benedict. said
Gamble vanished from her
home the day after a dinner
dance given in her honor. Mrs.
Benedict is the widow Of Henry
Harper Benedict, former presi-
dent Of the Remington Type
writer Co.
Miss Benedict did not return
to Briarcliff College, where she