News-Journal from Mansfield, Ohio • 9

FREDERICK C. OTHMAN Change Due In Edicts WASHINGTON In ye good old days when I first came to Washington, prohibition had just been repealed and congress in its wisdom had made two decisions: A fellow downing whisky by the dollop is less likely to fall on his face and knock out his front teeth if he does his drinking sitting down. He doesn't have so far to fall. 2. He must not watch the bartender mix his drinks because there is something hypnotic about the rhythm of a cocktail being shaken, causing him to drink more than he should orter.

These edicts were a jolt to the keepers of the newly saloons. They ripped out their brass rails connection with WALTER LIPPMANN, now on vacation, will resume his column on Feb. regulation number one, because it was a crime to drink standing up. Anybody who didn't believe it got six months of sitting in the jail. Rule two meant in effect that bartender could look jovial until the moment he began mixing the drink.

Then he had to become an invisible man. There were protests, but congress would not listen. The barkeesp solved this one finally by erecting behind each mahogany counter a cubicle about the size of a phone booth. The mixologist received the order and popped into his stall. In a matter of minutes the drink he stirred in secret slid through a wicket, where the waiter swooped it to the fascinated customer.

IT WASN'T LONG before the WCTU announced a statistical survey, proving that Washingtonians drank more hard likker than tion simply anybody adits else in Americicate Theat the traffic through the mixing booths was heavy. Sometimes a bartender would disappear into his hole and not emerge all night. When finally he stumbled out, he was a weary wretch with gin, brandy and vodka splashed on him until he shied away from lighted cigarets because he was a fire hazard. These conditions led to carelessness, yes, and greed. Some bartenders used the same olive in a succession of martinis.

One cherry served for a number of manhattans. In some saloons the patron who ate these fruits and vegetables was regarded as an undesirable customer. The re-treaded olive and the ever-lasting cherry led inevitably to the glass that never got washed. My germs soon became your germs in a Washington saloon. It took congress five years to admit its mistake and bring the city's pallid bartenders, blinking, into the open.

All this leads up to a decision congress soon must make on ruling number one. How drunk can you get standing up? And how drunk sitting down? Wouldn't you fall down quicker, and hence imbibe less, if you had your feet twined around rail? Or would you be inclined to go to sleep and forget your whisky, if you were resting in a soft chair? Opinions difter. The three district commissioners are pondering a new law to make it legal to drink in the perpendicular. The congress will hold hearings on this important matter. WESTBROOK PEGLER Discusses Closed Shop SENATOR BALL of seems to have taken the floor for the time being on the subject of the closed shop and his proposal that the same be outlawed.

Like the lily white primaries of the and Jim-Crow, this is a thing, this closed shop, which came about as a desperate expedient to combat immediate inequalities and dangers, and doubt that it can be cured, suddenly, by any firm national law number of individual state laws except in states which are not strongly unionized. Ironically, but not strangely, for they are as inconsistent as a bouncing football, whose whimsical behavior Knute Rockne used to dwell upon in lectures to his battalions at Notre Dame, the bleeding-hearts of the late New Deal upheld the closed shop as angrily as they damn racial discrimination for substantially the same faults. The south went lily white and adopted Jim Crow in desperate circumstances. The white patriots, patriots to their own land and included the best people of the south, had been barred from the polls and from the rights of citizenship by hoteyed fanatics of the north, most of whom had taken an aloof and sedentary part in the long war, but now rushed, in as profiteers and fore-runners of our latterday AMG 'and UNRRA. THESE FURIOUS and greedy oppressors could not forgive the late rebels for having fought so well.

So, as a humiliation. in addition to other punishments, they were subordinated to the freedmen, most of whom were absolute illiterate and could be manipulated by the carpetbaggers. The liberated slaves could vote but the white war veterans could not and the poverty stricken rebels saw their government taken over by rascals from the north who operated through Negro puppets. That was the condition that brought about the Ku Klux rebellion and the Negro exclusion from the polls and social segregation. In theory, the open shop is ideal.

Its correctness has been conceded in slurred and furtive passages, even by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Madam Frances Perkins. But the closed shop practice and a condition whose sudden abolition by the enforcement of a national law would raise hell in American industry and, undoubtedly, cost lives. The closed shop was a method of compelling workers to join unions for their own immediate good -the good of them all. It was a way to prevent employers from bringing in temporarily distressed hands to undercut the going wages and to force the free-riders, or slackers, to pay into the union treasuries a fair price for the benefits in wages which the unions had won or claimed to have won.

IN A VERY SHORT time, however, a union card in a closed shop became a new version of the contract by which employers, long ago, tried to break unions through agreements with individuals. is a yellow-dog contract today, The closed-shop union workman has signed away his right of contract and agreed to live henceforth in the status of an "average" under severe discipline. He is not a man and an individual. He must not work any faster or better than the union allows him The closed shop developed its own iniquities as bad as any that ever existed under the open shop but more dangerous because it concentrated so much political, financial and human power in the hands of a few. The safe way and a feasible way is to trim those powers by laws which can be passed in the present mood of congress, which can be enforced and would be approved by the union members themselves.

These would be laws to reform unionism from the outside. I believe the rank and file would like these reforms because would injure only the personal and political interests of union bosses. They would not damage the unions or the workers in them. Do this and, in a few years, we might try an open shop law for perfection's sake and find that only a few individualists preferred to remain non-union, after all. (Copyright.

1947. King Features) WALTER WINCHELL Opposes Race Ridicule STEREOTRIPED caricatures, and odious ridicule directed against various races and creeds may seem like an innocuous offense to the the unthinking, but they have the most dangerous repercussions. Walter White (Sec'y of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) once related an episode which illustrates one of the byproducts of this practice: A distinguished Negro poet was invited to lecture at one of our great universities. During a lull in the dinner conversation the six-year-old daughter of the university's president asked the poet: "Will you teach me how shoot dice?" Startled, the poet had to admit shooting was not among his talents asked the child why she had selected him as her teacher. The youngster innocently and promptly replied: "In the movies, all Negroes shoot dice!" Several decades ago the Irish were the victims of malicious lampooning by comics.

The Irish tackled their problem by political organization. They boycotted and brought pressure against those who thought it was amusing to abuse them. They even established anti-stage Irishman societies, which expressed their discontent by rotten-egging Irish dialect comics. The result was many of those comics were driven from the stage or changed their routines. THE PERIL of comicism cannot be over-emphasized.

Some time ago, Movieville turned out an alleged comedy that used OPS Power Rate MANSFIELD NEWS-JOURNAL MONDAY, JANUARY 27, MUNY COURT MARKS UP ITS BUSIEST YEAR 3,598 Cases Handled to Top 1945 By 78 Per Cent. a in 1946, handling Mansfield's. municipal court had 598 cases for a 78 percent increase over 1945, the annual report prepared for city council by Judge H. H. Schettler showed today.

Previous high for a year was 973 cases in 1942. Total receipts from all types of cases during last year amounted to $63,630. Judge Schettler attributed the big increase in court business to the return of thousands of servicemen and women to civilian life, the city's growing population, and considerably heavier motor traffic. Total receipts of the criminal branch of court amounted to $62.917 from cases. Traffic violations last year totalled intoxication assault and battery, 107; speeding 565; unsafe operation, 123; operating a motor vehicle while uninfluence of alcohol, 97; gambling, The court handled two cases each of first and second degree murder.

606 Eviction Cases. Of the total of 606 cases filed in the civil branch of the court last year, 208 were forcible detention suits. However it was unnecessary to forcibily evict any of the families involved, the municipal judge said. Net income to the city from the civil branch of the court last year was $2,713. Total paid into the city treasury from both branches of the court and including a refund of $711 from the county law library amounted to $48,667, Schettler said.

'KEEP DOGS TIED' ORDER IS ISSUED Recent heavy loss of sheep in the neighborhood of Five Points, north Mansfield, resulted today in an order that all dogs within a and mile radius of Five Points be kept tied at on night. County Dog Warden C. H. Hill issued the order in reporting "three fine sheep" killed by marauding dogs Saturday night on the farm of Ira Bowman, Linn road. Hill quoted the state law in pointing out that farmers have the right to kill, at any time or any place, dogs "that run, worry, injure or kill a domestic fowl or animal." "A lot of sheep have been killed in that neighborhood lately.

Most dogs do their killing at night so this order is effective for the night hours. We've got to stop the damage," said. Two other farmers in the neighborhood have lost livestock. in the past two months and their losses have resulted in claims totaling $163 against the county. FPC MEETS TUESDAY NOON IN WOOSTER The Farmers Production Credit Association Mt.

Vernon will meet at noon tomorrow at the Memorial building in Mt. Vernon. Members will hear a report on last year's activities, hold a roundtable discussion on the farm outlook for 1947, and elect seven directors. Dinner will be served. A joint meeting of the Farmers Production Credit association and the National Farm Loan association of Wooster will be held at 8 p.

m. tomorrow at the Wayne Theater, Wooster. The annual election of officers will be held. Woman Strangled, Hidden In Swamp GARY, Ind. today questioned Frank Shawsky, 33, of Chicago in connection with the strangulation of his wife, Irene, 30, whose body was found Sunday in a desolate swamp near here.

The body of the attractive, well dressed woman, also of Chicago, was identified today by Mrs. Shawsky's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Wiebrecht. DELAY HONEYMOON HOLLYWOOD-(P)-Van Johnson, bobby soxers' idol, bride, the former Mrs.

Keenan Wynn, 30, married Saturday in Juarez, said today they will postpone a trip to celebrate their wedding until a little later. ILLNESS FATAL TO JUDGE COLUMBUS -(P) A ten-day illness was fatal yesterday to Charles T. Warner, 75, superintendent of insurance during the administration of Gov. George White from 1931-35. He was a former Franklin county Common Pleas Judge.

Dates to Remember Feb. 20 First half real estate taxes due. Jan. 30-March of Dimes campaign ends. Feb.

1-Deadline for' reinstatement of government life insurance for war veterans. Jan. 31 Semi-annual sales tax reports due. Jan. 31-Barbers' licenses expire.

1947 TELEPHONE 4251-6 OFFERS EYE FOR FARM-James Edmonds, 36-year-old partially disabled war veteran who lives with relatives near Ashley, has written a St. Louis newspaper, offering to one of his eyes for enough money to buy a small farm. He unable to work regularly because of a stomach ailment and doesn't want to be a burden to his family. He DAHLIA SLAYER TAUNTS POLICE LOS ANGELES (U.P)- -A person believed to be the torture slayer of "Black Dahlia" Elizabeth Short, tolay offered in a taunting letter, to surrender to police Wednesday. The letter, addressed to the Los Angeles Examiner, "appears to be legitimate," Homicide Capt.

Jack Donahoe said. A quick by police chemist Ray showed no examination, fingerprints. The card, mailed in downtown Los Angeles late yesterday, read: "Here it is. Truing in Wed. Jan.

29 10 a. m. Had my fun at police. Black Dahlia avenger." The note was scrawled in boldly-printed capital letters. It was written in ink on a penny postcard Donahoe said note might be the "letter to follow" referred to by the sardonic slayer last week when he mailed newspapers a package containing personal effects of the beautiful "Black Dahlia," whose mutiliated body was found Jan.

15. FIREMEN BATTLE WAREHOUSE FIRE CLEVELAND (INS) Cleveland firemen battled a stubborn three-alarm blaze today near the site of the disastrous 1944 East Ohio Gas company explosion-fire which snuffed out 130 lives in 1944. The blaze was in a new twostory gas company warehouse and meter repair shop only about a quarter completed. The building was being at a cost of $1,250,000. Firemen said that the blaze started when one of the kerosene heaters, used in drying out the concrete, was tipped over and set fire to the forms and lumber in the basement.

Florist's Father Stricken In Lorain Word has been received here by Charles L. Kafer, Mansfield florist, of the death of his father, Charles A. Kafer, 72, at his home in Lorain yesterday afternoon after a brief illness. Surviving, besides the Mansfield son, is his wife, Nina E. Kafer; another son, George of Parma; and one daughter, Mrs.

Susan Dalton of Lorain; and four grandchildren. Services will be held tomorrow at 2:30 p. at the home in Lorain with burial there. ORDER ACQUIRES LAND CINCINNATI (P) The SOciety of the Sons of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, an order of the Catholic priesthood, has acquired a 56-arce tract in nearby Forestville a seminary, first to be established by the society in this country. The order's general motherhouse is at Verona, Italy.

NEWFOUNDLANDERS NOW TRAP BEAVER ST. JOHNS, Nfld. (P) For the first time in 23 years the Newfoundland government has decided to permit the hunting of beaver, which in 1923 were threatened with extinction. The government, estimating that the beaver population now has reached 50,000, has decided to issue beaver hunting licenses to about 600 trappers. Each will be allowed to take 10 pelts, which will be turned over to the department of natural resources for marketing.

On delivery, the trapper will be paid $15 a pelt--the balance after marketing. It estimated that each pelt will bring about $40. PAGE NINE Third 'Mistake' Of This Driver Caused Arrest Motorist Al H. Clark of Cleveland was accused in a complaint on file today in police headquarters of having made a number of "mistakes." Two of the "mistakes" were stated clearly in the complaint: (1) almost running down a pedestrian at Third and Diamond streets last night, and (2) of "insulting" the pedestrian. A third "mistake" wasn't outlined clearly in the complaint but was indicated by the signature: "Police Chief Meade K.

Bates." Bates said he was crossing with the green light when Clark almost struck him. A "discussion" followed in which, Bates said, Clark "cursed him out." Clark was booked on a disorderly conduct charge and ordered to appear in municipal court Saturday, Owens Returning From Air Tour R. E. Owens, 320 Sturges avenue, is expected back from Florida tonight after having participated in the Sixth Annual Gulf Air tour to Florida. Owens was a passenger in a plane flown by Arthur D.

Schreck, Galion business man. SMITH, MORRIS NAMED AS RESERVE OFFICERS With Naval Reserve week under way in Mansfield, Lt. Cmdr. A. E.

Heiser of the Mansfield naval recruiting station today announced the appointment of the commanding and executive officers for the volunteer reserve Electronic Warfare Company 197. Lt. William R. Morris, 39, of Shelby, was appointed commandofficer, and Vere O. Smith, 31, lieutenant (jg) of Mansfield, was named executive officer.

is shown with his dog Bud. OTHER OFFICERS of the company, which is made up of five officers and 40 enlisted men, have yet to be appointed, Heiser said. Five platoons, each consisting, of still one to be officer organized. and nine Organized on a volunteer basis the company will utilize the equipment in the navy's proposed $300,000 armory, construction of which is scheduled to begin in March and to be completed in July. As openings appear in the organized reserve Division 195, members of the volunteer company will be able to fill them, Cmdr.

Heiser said. MORRIS, AN ATTORNEY in civilian life, was born and reared in Shelby. He was graduated from Bethany college in 1929 and from the University of Michigan law school in 1932. Returning to Shelby, he practiced law until he entered service in 1944. He was stationed at Hollywood, at New Orleans and, after a tour of duty in the Mediterranean theater, at Port Arthur, Texas.

He was discharged in 1946, and returned to his law practice in Shelby, He is married and has one child. He i is a former mayor of Shelby, Smith, a Mansfield Veterans Administration training officer, lives at 218 Fairlawn avenue. He was born at Pomeroy, and was graduated from Ohio university in 1939. Smith served on the faculty at Mansfield Senior high school where he was, for a time, faculty manager and an assistant coach. During his war service Smith served as communications officer with the first PT boat base established in the Philippines during the invasion of the islands.

LT. VERE O. SMITH LT. WILLIAM R. MORRIS FUGITIVE GIVES UP NEW YORK- (INS) -Carmine "Moody" Emmino, 22, one of the ringleaders in the wholesale break from antiquated Raymond street jail on January 2 gave himself up today to Brooklyn police.

He was the fifth of the nine escaped fugitives to be returned to custody. PACK MEETS TONIGHT ASHLAND The monthly meeting of Cub Pack 1 of Ashland will be at 7:30 p. m. today at the Grant Street school. R.

L. Schilling. cubmaster, will be in charge. Laff-a-Day GYM COPS 191. RING FEATURES SYNDICATE IN WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED 1-27 "Where do these gadgets go, Mr.

Johnson?" Up and Down The Street GOOD' FOR ALBUMS- The Mastersingers have "done themselves proud" with the attractive programs prepared for tonight's concert. The programs contain 65 advertisements of Mansfield business firms, a brief sketch of Mac Morgan, featured artist, lists of committee chairmen, ushers, board directors, and chorus personnel, brief outlines of four numbers and the composers, and a thumb-nail sketch of A. LeMoine Derr, chorus director, besides program numbers. CLEAN RECORD- No reprimands or prosecutions were made or fines levied because of short measures or weights in Richland county last year, Harry K. Koch, county deputy sealer of weights and measures, reported today.

The sealer found that 70 scales, of a total of 960, required major repairs during the year. Koch's annual report also shows that he sealed 1,200 weights without adjustment or repairs. He did the 40 liquid measures and 540 linear measures. Of 180 milk bottles, inspected, only 10 were too big or too little and only 10 of 90 oil bottles required rejection for inaccurate volume. One delivery of coal among 40 inspected was short, Koch reported.

Mrs. Robert Cruickshank ill at her home, 359 avenue west. Friends still chuckling over the birthday gifts Paul Eliot received last week. Mr. and Mrs.

George Imperio, former Mansfielders, writing from Hannibal, that they have purchased the Hannibal Tourist Court. The Missouri city was the home of Mark Twain. COIN COLLECTOR ORDERED TO BIS A 16-year-old Willow street boy, charged with breaking and entering homes in his pursuit of "coin collecting." pleaded guilty today and was sentenced to a term in the Boys Industrial School at Lancaster. Although charged only with theft of $25 from the home of Frank Mengert, 306 Taylor road, police officers who apprehended him said that he was involved in other thefts. Meanwhile, Roscoe Jones, 117 East Fourth street, charged with non-support of- his seven-month old daughter, was ordered to pay to the county Child Welfare department $7 per week for her support.

The department was asked to inspect the home of the girl's mother where the girl has been living. The case of Wilbur Shade, Mansfield, R. D. 4, charged with non-support of three children from 13 to 17 years of age, was continued until Thursday afternoon. Purse Loot Valued at $59 Police today reported purses containing cash and other valuables at $59.50 were snatched from the arms of three women over the week-end.

Police linked two of the purse-snatching cases to the same unidentified man. Kathryn Clark, 233 North Mulberry street, said her purse containing $7 was taken about 8:30 p. m. Saturday. She valued the purse and other contents at $30.

Helen Smith, 328 Prescott street, told police her taining $26.50 in cash, was snatched on Springmill street about 7 p. m. Sunday. A few minutes earlier, Josephine DiSalvo, 561 Daisy street, reported her purse containing 40 cents was snatched on North Mulberry street. Both women gave similar descriptions of the man who stole their purses.

GLASS IN GARBAGE? CITY WON'T TAKE IT Sanitation Supt. Al Strachan today ordered refuse collection crews not to pick up garbage that contains glass or tin cans. Strachan's order follows an accident last week in which Collector Jay Edwards suffered a severe hand cut from broken glass in a garbage container. Team Moves Ahead In Card Tourney The team of P. F.

Haley and Paul F. Cropper moved into first place in the Mansfield University club's bridge tourney over the weekend. J. H. Gongwer and Martin Brunner are in second place.

The weekly score prize went to W. E. Ullom and J. W. Archer.

Third session of the tourney will be held next Friday at 8 p. at the Mansfield-Leland hotel. LEAPS FROM BRIDGE HUNTINGTON, W. Va. Police today continued their search for a bald-headed man who three persons said leaped from the Huntington-Chesapeake, bridge after calling "tell my friends POLISH REPATRIATES WARSAW.

Poland -(P)- The government's repatriation office reported 309.888 repatriates crossed Poland's frontier between May 1 and July 31. 15 PERCENT SAVINGS SEEN BY OFFICIALS Board of Control Puts OK on New Five- Contract at Session Today. Mansfield board of control today approved a five year power contract with the Ohio Power Public Service company. Finance Committee Chairman Russel Porch estimated that the contract marks a 15 per cent reduction in the overall rate the city pays for power. The old contract was years.

According to figures presented to the board by OPS Engineer J. A. McDermid. the city's power bill will be reduced some $9,000 this year if it uses the same enount of power as in 1946. In 1946, McDermid's figures show, the city paid $61,747 for 4,996,313 of kilowatt hours of power.

Under the new contract, his figures show, wattage would cost $52,420. However, Service-Safety Director William W. Enlow said the city will probably use more power this year than last because it will need more to pump water. How much more power will be used "is anybody's guess," Enlow said. The board includes Mayor Roy W.

Vaughn and Director Enlow. It approved the contract, effective Jan. 1 of this year, following a meeting this morning attended by members of city council's utilities committee, City Solicitor Leslie K. Wagner and McDermid. Anderson Objects.

Utilities Committee Chairman James R. Anderson approved the contract, after energy arguing charge that was the too high. He said the contract was "not very satisfactory to me," adding, "I am not sure OPS has given us the best contract it could." After a lengthy discussion, however, he approved the measure and agreed to act as official witness to the signing of the contract. Councilman Porch recommended acceptance, stating that "I think it's as good as you can get. The city could go to court in an effort to procure a lower rate, he said, "but it would cost as much money as we're getting with this saving" under the new contract, he said.

Solicitor Wagner approved the contract and Enlow said that Councilman Nelson Swihart, A member of the utilities committee unable to attend today's meeting, had given verbal approval Saturday. The new contract is for power exclusive of that used for street lighting. Last year the city negotiated a new street lighting contract with OPS and it now gets that power free within $35,000 limitation. Power supplied under the new contract will be used mainly to operate water pumps. SPEED-UP SOUGHT IN POLIO CAMPAIGN In an effort to speed contributions for the March of Dimes drive, 1,000 additional letters were sent out today by the Delta Theta Tau sorority, W.

Harold McClellan, campaign chairman, announced today. Previously sorority members had addressed 6,000 letters to Mansfield residents, clubs and other groups. Although no statement available today Marshall C. Moore, campaign treasurer, contributions have been less this year than for the corresponding period last year, McClellan said. It is preferred that contributions be sent to Moore, in the Richland Trust building, but McClellan said he had made arrangements with Acting Postmaster Curtis L.

Ford to forward any mail addressed merely to the March of Dimes campaign. Americans as the victims of ridicule. When the cinema was unveiled in Buenos Aires a disgruntled audience tore up the theater in protest against the slanderous presentation of their countrymen. That incident did more harm to our Good Neighbor policy than reams of Fascist propaganda. The well -known comic's alibi that "people who laugh don't hate" doesn't stand up Eugene Talmadge bamboozled chumps with his bigoted wisecracks Huey Long also used the same routine'.

Many subversive rabble-rousers incite guffaws among their listeners via obnoxious racial humor And then table there news is photo the famed, showing trooper laughing out loud while an aged Jew scrubs the sidewalk. The fight against comics is as old as the battle against bigotry A British author named Barrow once wrote this: "Wit is proper and commendable when it enlightens the intellect by good sense, conveyed in jocular expression; when it infringes neither on religion, charity or justice, nor on peace; when it answers what is below refutation; when it counterbalances the fashion of error and vice, playing off their own weapons of ridicule against them; when it adorns truth; when it follows great examples; when it is not used upon subjects improper for it, or in a manner unbecoming, in measure intemperate, at an undue season, or to a dangerous end." That was penned in the 17th century! 4 FERGUSON HITS LAND DEAL BY UNIVERSITY COLUMBUS (P) State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson today leveled his guns at Ohio State university's expansion program and declared he would block any land purchases by the institution outside lature of Columbus unless the legisauthorized them. Ferguson said he was notifying the university board of trustees and President Howard L. Bevis of his plans.

His action, he said, was prompted by reports the university was planning to buy 3,900 acres near Marion, part of the Scioto ordnance plant, for use in agriculture and engineering instruction. CITED AS VIOLATOR Webster Bond, 30, was returned to Richland county from Akron Saturday to face charges of violation of probation. On probation out of common pleas court since last March, Bond, convicted of operating a motor vehicle without the owner's consent, was reported by Akron police as having been caught rifling autos in that city. A date for his hearing has not been set. BUTLER MAN HELD Carl Greet (alias Jimmie Greer), 21, of Butler, was arrested by sheriff's deputies Saturday statutory charge filed by Columbus police..