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PAGE TWO THE LOGANSPORT PRESS, LOGANSPORT, INDIANA SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1956 THOUGHTS The Lord hath also a controversy With Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his according to his will'he recompense 12:2. We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours. Editorial Comment- May The Boy Grow Wiser George E. Sokolsky These Days THE DEMOCRATIC SPLIT The. Democratic party is numerically the majority political party of the United States, but it has failed in two' ehctions to For We Have Seen His Star in the East" This Changing World elect its candidate for president.

This is not due entirely to 'the popularity of D. Eisenhower or the unpopularity of Adlai Stevenson. Rather, it is possible to say that what Roosevelt held together many men are tearing as we know it today, is still but a small boy in the eternal scheme of things. He is sometimes awkward. He is prone to quibbling asunder.

a party of con- and fighting with himself and he has committed some fiicting groups and interests a- serious mistakes, as children often do. His growing pains round his personality. If ever often seem unbearable. there was a cult of Personality But also, on occasion, he has come through with anywhere in this world it vvas i in Roosevelt new deal. shining examples of his wonderful potential for great- There are several incompabi ness.

He is and will remain a very complex being, this i ements in he Democratic party cosmic child, but he's still growing. which are. vying for control of the On Christmas Day, the boy focuses a sizable portion national party apparatus: of his attention on a small Infant. Our lad may also FIRST, THERE ARE the so- catch in his focus astable compiete with straw and some animals. Or perhaps a desert scene, with a caravan speaker sam'Rayburn.

This ele- of camels bearing the Magi or possibly that star to the ment might be called the tradit East by which the caravan is navigating. ionalist Democrats who trace their But the important thing our mankind-boy will see lineage not to Roosevelt but to is the Infant, who some years ago brought a new Jefferson and Jackson who be- moral force into the world too SS icSS This young, awkward boy wont stop to look too cannot recognize that he's much too busy for that. And chances are he il tihe most impor an subject on not be affected too much by the seeing. earth is what their northern col- We are individual cells of this boy, this organism leagues call civil rights. They are mankind And as cells, we might possibly have the traditionally antagonistic to right to react in righteous indignation at the seeming ubHcans in their own states but outlook much of the orlanism-mankind-ha, SjjTta 5S But perhaps that is being too hasty our judgment.

proud of the new industrial de Perhaps a growing boy pausing ever so slightly to recol- ve i pmen i the south and fear the historic drama of the Christmas Infant is all that it may be impeded by some" we should hope for. of the socialistic ideas of their ji i i 4. colleagues who, associate them; Two thousand years ago we had not even this one selves with th Americans day. We have progressed, as far as that goes, by a whole Democratic Acfcion 24 hours. By Iong tenure is fchese Dem And some day, it is hoped, the boy will mature.

And, ocrats who are the senior mem- Democratic bosses in each city whatever god he may pray to, will embrace the essence bers of important Congressional who are assailed on all of the Bethlehem Infants teachings, namely, that Good committees and who possess the gides by these contending tect- 'and not Evil, nor Force, nor Riches will one day rule 8r IT" nc in jfew 1Hli M-CONU con- ne rac 1C al element, led oy Mrs. mankinds Hie. skis of these northern Democrats Anna Ros enberg K. Fin- Christmas, then, is the day we recognize our imma- who are a ffnj a with organized Mrs FranMin D. Roosevelt, 'turity.

And more, it is the day when we renew and labor or the more radical organ- hich has 'as its organ 'the "New sharpen our vision of the goal the Infant of the Stable izations in agriculture to whom Yo rk Post," is continuing to op' set ctr us that first Christmas night. the are bounden for their cam- pose carmine DeSapio's leader: Someday, the boy that is mankind will become a paign support Many of them be- ship The Liberal party which A nrf that thP hone of Christmas Iong to fche Amencans for sinificance man. And tnat is tne nope qi unnsimas. Cass County Historical Society PART 423 By WILL BALL THEN Con6iden ce of the people wnfttoce THERE ARE the local Sme Glances They used to be' of significance ocratic a Fabian socialis(; jn New York fe approaching organization which has thus far lh; at j. left of it will be been more noisy than effective, absorbed by the Democrats, it Many of these northerners come ot possible to find any Repub- from communities where "min- ii i an party in this city worthy of ority rights" is a burning issue, no te.

The content of ideas is TT rt real or synthetic, and Wiey weigh within the Democratic party and As to the menace expressed by the U.b.b.K. 01 questions ir re i a tion to civil the liberal Democrats include launching rockets on certain NATO (Pact) countries rights. Therefore, they are more Mayor Wagner Senator Her- if these rockets are used, they will not destroy our pow- entagonistic to thei Democratic bert Lehman who ceases to be a er of reprisal. Just as surely as night follows day, it colleagues from the south than Senator on January 3, but will is certain that we would retaliate and the Soviet Union they are to some Republicans continue to be influential. who havc also made cml nghts The New York Quarrel is char- WOUldDe destroyed ATn their central issue.

acteristic of the entire country. -Gen. Alfred Gruenther, retired NATO boss. There is another element a The professioMl leaders hip' in on mong the northern Democrats, an the whole traditional; the public Tomorrow maybe it (revolt) will happen in Russia, intellectual element, who believe leaders are New Dealers with We have to be prepared (for) that theoretically. JJ 31 would be a calamity if tendency to.

accept A D. A guid- fmJiPr Sovipt intelligence officer the Democratic art were split, a nce; the mass of voters do not Khokhlov, former boviet intelligence omcer now in Washington. distrust the Eisenhower ad combination of anti-Dem- ministration which they claim ocrats to win locally. Airman Of confused as to what it stands for. What is happening days to the hard-hit.

Hun- They are particularly antagonistic garian people shows with the evidence of blood how far to the current management of the IT. v. nn State Department and -look back the haters of God will go. to the Acheson reglme Jong strangely Missing ing appreciation. THESE DEMOCRATS are seek- LONDON Britain disclosed The girls say beauty comes before ng a bridge between north and Friday night a 22-year-old Royal don't care if the Suez Canal dries up.

It makes no dif- south, an intellectual approach Air Force officer known have ference to me about that canal. I think Miss Egypt is to current political problems that Soviet contacts has been missing lovely Of course we'll share a room. wi make tne art in Congress from his unit more than two -Iris Waller, representing England in international A sUtement from the Air Minis- beauty contest, on rooming with the Egyptian entrant. they i ar Nixon will try said he had been traced east. inevitably be fche Republican can- ward as far as Berlin.

didate for president, and they The missing man's name was want to defeat him. They would given as Flying Officer A. R. naturally prefer Democrat and Wraight. recognize that the dimensions of Investigation showed he went to the defeat of Adlai Stevenson must Berlin on a commercial airliner.

be due to something more than personal popuk-ity of Eisen- FARM AREA hower. They regard 4ie Democrat- Although the region around ic victories in state elections as Oslo Fjord totals less than evidence that at the grass roots of Norway's area, it includes al- the Democrats are popular but most one-fourth of the nation's that on a national level, they have farmland. T.M. S. 19i6 by Marge is a swell girl but she's too.

intelligent- she's so smart a guy can't tell her anything! Carnival T.M. n. us. on. by NEA Int.

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Puerto Ricans living in New York City eligible to vote? Ricans are American citizens, and are eligible to vote when they have complied with New York requirements. It's only human nature to get thrill out of parking what's left of the other fellow's nickel. Contract Bridge By Oswald Jacoby SOUTH DUCKS; UPSETS FOES WHEN WEST opened the nine of diamonds, in today's hand, it was clear that East had long diamonds headed by the king-queen West's lead was surely top of a doubleton. Declarer played the ten from the dummy and allowed East to hold the first trick with the queen of diamonds. This was a key play.

East couldn't afford to lead another diamond, for South would let it ride around to dummy's jack. East hit on the best return, a trump. South stepped up with the ace of trumps, his best play, and led his singleton spade toward dummy. West put- up the ace at once and led his remaining diamond, but school was out. South could win with the ace of diamonds, enter dummy with the ace of with the ace of diamonds.

West clubs, and discard the losing dia- would take the first spade with mond on a high spade. South the ace and lead his other dia- lost only one diamond, one spade, mond, allowing East to take two and one trump. diamond tricks. West would There would be a different story eventually take the setting trick to tell if South wpn the first trick with the king of hearts. Last week the writer received the following letter, which we think may prove interesting to readers of this column.

It is self- explanatory. "Through the kindness of Mrs. Carl Keller I have seen your interesting paper in the Logahsport Press of November 25. "Relative to your remarks on Taberville I would add that you are right. Humphrey Taber never married and died when about 20 years old, but I never knew he had a house of his own.

I thought he lived with his brother Stephen. "COLES STREET WAS named for the wife of Stephen'Taber. Her name was Deborah Coles; she was the daughter "of Stephen Coles, Stephen Coles came.to Fort Wayne in 1826 and entered land that is- now in Fort Wayne. It has all been sold except about 60 acres that my family now has. "At that time Cyrus Taber was living in Fort Wayne.

He met the Coles family on the road into Fort Wayne called "The Wayne Trace." They were stuck in the mud and Cyrus helped, get them out. After a long courtship he married the daughter, Deborah. Cyrus was a partner of my other grandfather, Allen Hamilton. Allen had a store in Fort Wayne, Cyrus moved to Logansport to- open a branch. It stood where the Barnett Hotel stood.

"I ONLY A SHORT time ago sold the last lot in Taberville that we owned. "I do not know much about the recent history of Logansport. but I heard in my childhood much of the early days there. I never heard mention of the Vigus house that your Society now owns, but I did hear much of Cy Vigus in talks of my father and a uncle. Allen Hamilton." To go back to the story about Taberville, to which Mr.

Hamilton refers; it seems that the proprietors of the addition, Cyrus Taber and Allen Hamilton, grand fathers of the man who wrote the above letter, bestowed family names on the streets of the new addition. Montgomery, the first street east of Burlington, they named after a son of Hamilton; Humphrey, as we reported in our original story, bore the name of a son of Cyrus Taber. Coles street, third east of Burlington, we learn from Mr. Hamilton's was given Taber's wife's maiden name. WAYNE'S' TRACE, the muddy road on which the Coles family was mired down, apparently waiting for Prince Charming to come along and rescue the daughter, was the road over which Mad Anthony Wayne brought his ous army to the Indian village of Kekionga, now Fort Wayne, after the decisive battle of Fallen Timbers, August 20.

1794. It parallels pretty closely the north bank of the Maumee river. U.S. 24 follows the same route, very nearly, from Fort Wayne east. Lots of history made along that road.

The Wabash Erie Canal parallels that route, also, although the natives over there call it the Miami Erie. Quite a little of the old waterway still holds water, with several of the old locks still in fairly good working order. THE CY VIGUS whom Mr. Hamilton mentions was a brother of Jordan Vigus, builder of the property now owned by the Cass County Historical Society. Both of the Vigus brothers, Cyrus and Jordan, were very prominent men around Logansport in the early days, Jordan died in 1860; Cyrus lived until about 1889, having 'reached the age of 95 when he passed on.

Mr. Hamilton may be correct in saying that Humphrey Taber lived with his brother Stephen in the home on the southeast corner of Second and Broadway that many readers will We have no information that he ever actually resided at the Market street location, but he certainly owned the ground, from Sixth east to the alley. It is altogether possible that Humphrey, never having married, and dying young, had lived with a married brother. The father, Cyrus, died in 1855, so, assuming that Humphrey had barely attained his majority at his father's death, he was only 7 or, 8 at that time. So it would be a natural thing for him to go into an older brother's home, especially if the mother had also passed away, as we believe was the case.

MR, in his letter that Humphrey died when "about 20;" his name appears in the deed records as purchaser and seller of real estate, which should mean that he was at least 21. The last entry we recall noticing was dated June. 1868. It is possible that he was just a baby at the his father and the first Allen Hamilton rlaid out the Taberville addition in 1853. We're forgetting something; the earliest date on a real estate transaction of his was 1866, which, if our surmise is correct about his having reached his majority before engaging in his family's favorite in real mean that he was born about 1845.

That would mean that he was about ten when the father died; still at-an age of which it would be a natural thing for him to go into his older brother's home. WE RECALL THE vacant lot on the corner now occupied by the Postoffice. There were no buildings on it, 'and the ground was several feet higher than it is now, perhaps five or six feet. Miss Mary Shultz, whose home is nearby, says there was a hole near the northwest corner, near Sixth street, which W. T.

Wilson told her marked the site of the Spier Tipton home. He evidently owned the entire half block from the alley to Sixth. SPIER TIPTON was the oldest son of General John Tipton, Logansport's most- eminent early- citizen. The General owned most of the land round-about, between the rivers, afld made most of the additions to the town after it was platted. In fact, we consider it most probable that he gave that Market street site to Spier and his wife, Sarah Ann, after their marriage in 1834.

Spier depended on him to a great extent as long as the old gentleman lived. Spier lost his life in the Mexican War, in 1847. Later Humphrey Taber bought and sub-divided the tract into 5 lots, all fronting on Market, and running through to the Wabash Erie Canal, now Erie Avenue. Present day maps show the sila as H. Taber's 1st addition.

So far as we know it was his only one, although if he had lived he probably would have done his share of developing the town. ALL OF THE GROUND jn the vicinity of Seventh and Market was originally much higher than at, present, except the lawn of Mrs. Keller's home, on the southwest corner. The oak standing there is undoubtedly one of the original forest trees. Oaks are of slow growth, and long lived.

The height of the stone wall at the Keller home indicates the amount of soil removed when the grade was lowered- a date now unknown, at leas', to this writer. It is difficult, at least for the writer, to realize how much of a change took place when the hills were cut down. THIS WRITER IS singly impressed with, the holiday activities from year to year. Recently we've been scanning newspapers of seventy-five years ago.The Daily Journal had eight pages day after day, the whole year through. The principal reason for that, perhaps, is that any increase in the number of pages was practically out of the question because they didn't have the equipment to increase the size of the edition without great expense.

But that isn't what we are trying to get at. We wouldn't decrease the business activities a bit; we're glad to see everybody prosper. We do deplore what seems to be. a lack of reverence, a lack of realization of just what Christmas is; of why we celebrate the day. As we approach the Day of Days this year, in this wonderful land of ours, may we remember that it is the birthday of One whose short life brought to a dark world a hope that still brightens the lives of those who believe in Him and the lessons He taught.

Merry Christmas! USED WASHINGTON'S TROWEL President Franklin Delano Roosevelt laid the cornerstone for the South Interior Building, Washington, D. using the same trowel used by George Washington when he laid the cornerstone of the Capitol in 1793. SCOTT'S SCRAP BOOK NORTH 24 AKQ.I7 10543 J103 A4 WEST EAST AA9653 A 10 42 VK76 V8 494 4KQ852 953 108 SOUTH (D) VAQJ92 A 7 6 Neither side vul. West North East Pass 1 A Pass Pass 3 Pass Pass Pass Pass SoutK 4V Opening 9 By R. J.

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