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The nf th. wMcl.tion endeavor to print only truthful classified spprecUte bavtag Its.ttenUnn called Joan, act conforming A THOUGHT FOR TODAY God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His foot: He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His Jeremy Taylor. Bureau Gambling 'Incident' Is Typical An interesting item on law enforcement, as it concerns gambling, is contained in the current issue of the Bureau The news story tells of the seizure of a truckload of gambling paraphernalia by Bureau County Sheriff Henry C. ZnA wihsspmient" arrest and conviction of the driver, a LaSallean.

tmMr r-nntaininsr S1.000 in gambling gadgets, in cluding punchboard prizes, was seized at a road junctions scarcely inree nines msiuc Of course what is interesting to most Bureau countians, and all others interested in good law enforcement, is the energy the Bureau county sheriff put forth in the arrest and prosecution of "out-of-county" or gambling gadget salesmen. Bureau county records contain a high percentage of these arrests. The alacritv with which Sheriff Keutzer responded to the invasion of an eastern neighbor is remarkable when viewed alongside the gambling picture in Bureau county itself. The gambling situation there is "bad," or so it was termed by Charles Fleck, chairman of the Illinois Liquor commission onlv a week ago. Had beagle-nosed Keutzer not been totally blind or deaf he might have seen the flashing of the pm-ball lights or heard the whirring of the slot-machine gears in his own back-yard.

The Bureau county newspaper contains another nn this Tiflrticiilflr rase. After confiscating the LaSal- lean's gambling goods, the sheriff's deputies "played out a large punchboard contained among the seized equipment, and found to their that it was meant strictly for "suckers. "The rlermties." according to the newspaper, put into the board, figuratively, and after taking all the punches and pulling all the tickets, netted exactly S12.50. The board's take," the news story continues, "would have been $85.50 to be split between the Doara operators. "The eternities the Daner stated (and this is amazing) "concluded that the board was really rigged to the but good.

Calloused as they (the deputies) are, their blood pressure rose because the percentages were so poor ior tne possmie piayers. The gripping picture of several and "calloused" deputies, sitting about a punch-board and "figur-ativelv" losing S85.50 is enough to raise anyone's blood pres sure. Particularly in view of the fact that organized gam; bung is near a moaern au-time mgn. One eains the inference that the cambling gadgets whir ring and blinking in Sheriff Keutzer's own county are of the "honest" type possibly ones that return a profit to the "sucker!" One could also nonder over the breakdown of our county law enforcement agencies. Why, for instance, was Sheriff Keutzer's "calloused" deputies so intrigued with the results of their gambling research on outsiders when they had a made-to-order laboratory in tneir own DacKyara Bureau county's law enforcement predicament is duplicated in many other counties in the state.

Links between county law enforcement officials and the gamblers are all too evident. This has meant, and will mean, the breakdown of local government. When local government falls into disrepute in the eyes of the voters, then the voters, as has been demonstrated in the past, seek a solution of their problems in the hands of a centralized bureaucracy. Good government, honest law-abiding government, begins at home. In other words, we have too many "calloused" deputies.

RUTH M1LLETT Take a Good Windup, Ma, Pitch Statistical Strike jazmc poll tin-, than to argue that John Smith nesting statistics always helps Mary. Cause Papa's house-broken the I retort to any specific case is: I -Yeah, and look at him. How A tr.e figures thus) vr' v. M.S per tent of v. no answered An.er..

do the dishes Mni.t ui pee of regularity. pi-n sometimes their own Dr. aktast; 38.7 per cer.t know how to cook a meal, and 42 per cent admit they scrub a floor now and then. there's a report Amei will probably read balp wltb tbs duties you. would you like to be married to HIM?" But just the statistics don't a lazy husband into mending his v.

avs. a wife ought not to let them make her feel she is suffering alone when she tackles a sink full of dirty dishes, without any offer of help, or drags herself out of bed to Ret a helpless husband's breakfast. Let her take another look at those statistic. It says 84.8 per rent of husbands do the dishes with somr Jegree of regularit I Once a year on Mother Day could be GENERALITY IS A DEADLIER So I'm afraid the American husbands who don't ever lend a hand around home are going to have some statistics thrown at them. The statistics will bf tempting to women there's no doubt about it.

It's much more shaming to announce that per cent of iar.ly. between a husband' degree of regu er i.r.e complaint in Fifty-three per cent nometimes hat the husband is get their own Probably around the when Mama is in the hospital having another baby. Thirty-eight per rent know how to whip up a meal. But how often do they demonstrate? As for those husbands who claim they scrub a floor now And then Well, a floor can get mightv dirtv Five Per Cent Inquiry Gets Open Hearing Washington, Aug. senate "Five Percenter" in quiry comes out from behind clos-, ed doors today for public hearings on whether improper influence has figured in the letting or government contracts.

ow and then. To set the stage for the prooe, the senate's special investigations subcommittee called Secretary of Defense Johnson as the first wit- The subcommittee wants Jonnson to outline the buying policies of the military establishment and to tell what is being: done to guard against "pull" playing any part in the awarding- or contracts. Middleman Got $1,000 After Johnson's curtain-raiser testimony, the investigators plan to hear the man whose statements touched off the inquiry. He is Paul Grindle, a Massachusetts fur niture manufacturer who has said he paid a midddleman $1,000 for help in seeking a government contract. Scheduled after Grindle's testi mony is a searching inquiry into the Tanforan race track case, xne subcommittee wants to find out iust how the track at San Bruno, got government approval for use ot scarce Duuamg mate-rials shortly after the war.

The hearings are expected to rur at least two weeks, capping six weeks of private preliminary vestisration by the subcommittee. The etoup has been looking into the activities of "Five Percenters" Dersons who charge a fee tor help in getting federal contracts for others. Their commission us ually is five per cent of the gross proceeds. Suspend Two Generals The subcommittee's probe al ready has led to the suspension of two army major Alden H. Waitt, chief of the chemical corps, and Herman Feldman, the quartermaster general.

In relieving tnem irom uuy temporarily, Secretary of the Army Gray said they had failed to exhibit judgment "expected of persons in their positions." The subcommittee is attempting to learn (11 whether anyone has tried to influence government officials in charge of buying or the administration of federal regulations, and (2) whether government officials have gone out of their vay to be helpful to anyone seek-ng favors. In a policy statement setting forth the purpose of the inquiry, Chairman Hoey (D-NC) said the senate group is trying to help the small businessman get government contracts without feeling he needs to turn to a five percenter for help. Vets Should Make Certain Records Okeh For reasons of their own many veterans entered service under an assumed name or gave their age incorrectly at the time of enlistment. The Illinois Veterans commission pointed out todav that veter- in this category probably have never stopped to think what will mean to themselves or their descendents in later years if their records remain unchang- No Penalties Fear of penalties has caused most of these veterans to leave their records in an incorrect status. They need have no fear because the government is as anx ious as the veterans getting the record straight.

A affidavit stating that they enlisted under an name or gave their age rectly is usually sufficient. The government is not interested in the reason for giving an assumed name or the wrong age. If the matter is not taken care the veteran is alive, the dependents may be deprived of import ant benefits later. Delays May Hurt Passage of time always makes proof harder to obtain. Such de lays may be costly to a veteran in need of benefits.

All service officers of the Illi nois Veterans commission a a position to assist in making the necessary affidavits for correction in their service records. In Whiteside, Lee and Ogle counties veterans should contact the rVC service office located at 24 E. Third street in Sterling. Streator Girl First LaSalle Polio Death 111., Aug. (AP) Mary Jean Guyon, 31, died of polio Saturday, the first fatal victim of the disease in LaSalle county this daughter of Mr.

ana Airs. Joseph Guyon of Streator, she died in hospital, seven polio cases have been reported in the county this year. AITTOMOTIVE HINT Unless the engine is started the and the cyl- don im- inders will not expand evenly. em depress causing unnecessary wear on the motor. Pope Pius XII.

DIXON EVENING TELEGRAPH In This Day and Age, Heathen Idolutors! Where we will wind up no one can tell. But if some of the new programs seriously proposed should be adopted there is danger that the individual soon wui be an economic slave pulling an oar in the galley of the State. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. There is no question but that we are drifting toward socialism.

And if we don't stop spending, that's where we are going to wina Josepn n. Aiarim Massachusetts. Chinese) are fighting in a what our friends opposing in a cold war. it supw them to judge the value of the fight we are making in the general war against communism. Premier Yen Hsi-snan or We will defeat Taft (in the 1950 congressional elections) at any cost.

AFL President William Green. The acts of the present Czecho slovak regime, directed toward the tvrannous domination of re ligious organizations by the police state, are clearly contrary to standards and as such are de plored by the United States. Secretray of State Acheson. I feel I'm accomplishing some thing not just sitting like that man in Cleveland. Jean Ellis of Revere, Mass.

who is sitting on a pole to protest high rents. The major decisions of our for eign policy since the war been made on the basis of an informed public opinion and over whelming public support. Those who rule by arbitrary power do not realize the strength behind foreign policy. Truman. We have had three rouds of wage increases in the past three years.

The country was assured that each was possible without price increases. (But) prices did increase so that the higher wage benefits were soon nullified, W. Steinkraus, presi dent, U. S. Chamber of Com- The Marshall Plan is like a dike around Europe.

If it protects Europe from the poisoned flood waters welling up from Moscow, it will only be at the expense of diverting the tide across Asia. President Li Tsung-Jen. Out Kansas way, folks don't bother to define why frendiy. Thev just are. C.

Hall, president, HaU-mark Greeting Card Oft McKENNEY ON BRIDGE Two Jump Bids Are Questioned 4k 1082 AK5 Dealer 54 3 A43 8654 By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY America's Card Authority Mark Warnow, the musical director of "Your Hit in at my office the other day. Mark had this job trom 1938 to 1947, then he took time off and created the Army show, "Sound Off." Now he is back on "Your Hit Parade." I wanted to find out how the ten leading tunes are selected. and I learned that it takes a stair of mathematicians to tabulate the songs played on juke boxes, the sheet music and records sold. tabulation service also keeps track of all the songs played on the radio stations throughout the Mark says it takes a lot of dif ferent forms of relaxation to keep his crew of 40 musicians happy Of course, cards play an import ant part.

He claims he is a poor gin rummv player himself. said the boys get into a lot of arguments in bridge and was plenty of argument on both sides on today's hand. South claimed that North's jump to four spades showed him a very powerful hand and he justified in bidding six spades. North claimed that South should have used the Blackwood bid or four no trump. Maybe he had something there.

When West opened the jack hearts, South won with the queen and immediately proceeded to discard his losing diamond on the third heart. East argued that his partner should have laid down the ace of spades first. However. I think that was a weak argument The jack of hearts looks like the natural opening and it was untortunate that East neia the ace of diamonds instead of the ace of hearts. Robbers Get S200: Do It 'Tough Way' 111., Aug.

(AP 1.000-pound safe was stolen from an ice cream company yesterday, second such robbery in than a month. Officials of the Thomas Flint Son company said the safe neld about $200 in cash and $1,000 in non-negotiable checks. A truck stolen at the same time was found six blocks from the firm. Meanwhile, a safe taken in June 20 burglary was found w. of open i -W.

POLITICS SO THEY SAY It is perfectly obvious that this session (of Congress) must set tle two issues, treaty ana arms, before it quits. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R) of Michigan. A larg-e part of mankind, which has not yet -been enlightened by Christian truth, shows in the moral and religious field clear symptoms of pernicious anemia. is no otner way oi curing this disease except with a great spiritual blood transru- Of what nationality was Felix Mendelssohn? A The famous composer, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, was born in Hamburg, Germany, of Jewisn parents.

The name Bartholdy was added when the family adopt- dthe Protestant faith. did the United States export Its first cotton? The first cotton shipped from an American port was sent to England from Charleston, S. in 1784. Who is the author of the song "Joe A There are many stories cerning the origin of this old ballad, which was so intimately 8 part of the life of the soldiers and settlers in the early days in California. It has been credited to Mark Twain: to a miner known as "Squibob;" to a minstrel, John Woodward: and to a man named English.

It was a popular song with Western regiments during the Civil War. What is the natural home of the peacock? A The iuneles of India and Ceylon are the natural home of the" peacock, which has oeen known since tne time oi ouiumuji- How many cities in the United States have never record- Key West, is the only frost-free city in continental Unit ed States. Dixon Township Is Improving Roads The F. Settle Construction Co. of Moline last week completed several improvements in Dixon under the supervision of Robert Scales, Dixon representative of the firm.

A section of about one mile on the Stoney Point road has been improved with black-top surface. The improvement was one of several to be carried on by Dixon township during this summer. On the Stoney Point improve 1 By I He know knows ment the township's program m- ludcd the reconstruction or which for years been an item Of consiaeraoie to the township. This wrs done bv Highway Com missioner Harry LaBarr and his force, who also prepared tne surface for the new covering. Several diocks oi residential section outside the corporate limits of the city, have also been improved by being mi.faced with black-top material Later the township plans provide for the surfacing of several blocks of streets in the Swissville section of Dixon township.

Centralia Names a Smith Family Typical 111.. Aug. The Centralia area will be represented by the Loy Smith family in the annual state iair family contest at Springfield. The six members of the Smith nicked bv a popuiar- It by the Centia- club at Johet which said it con- ha Sentinel. They live on route tamed about $300 in cash.

near here. Dixon, Illinois, Monday, August 8, Westbrook Pegler John Mmrmgon and tolls about him in today's column. It is interesting. (COPYRIGHT, 1949, KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC.) New It happens that I have known John Maragon, the Greek bootblack, as the Washington dispatches seldom fail to call him, for about 25 years. I think this mention of the fact that he wai a bootblack in Kansas City, when Kansas City was a very tough town as any alumnus of the Kansas (Jity star win ten you.

touch supercilious. It is as though bootblackery akin to burglary. It isn't, necessarily. I get bored by the pretentious rough-diamond affectations newsboys long ago ana came on to ride in chaises. I mean such as Jimmy Pe-trillo and Joe Bannon.

Mr. Bannon never tired of telling Palm Beach ladies that he once lived in the Brace newsboys home but forgot to say tnat ne was just a little tramp and sleepout with a good bed empty under his mother's virtuous roof on the west side. I sold papers, too. What of it? Everybody did, but it didn't mean that we were homeless i been i Hwtbrook Pealcr urchins. We liked to hop street cars and haunt saloons.

It was a form of public life. I met Johnny Maragon around the old Tampa Bay hotel, a weird heap built by old man Plant who shoved the railroad down and across from Jacksonville. It is a silly building with bulbous edema like inverted turnips muuniea on uh-. provoked and inexcusable towers, suggesting Turkish or Moorish predilections in the architect. It was headquarters for our invasion of Cuba in 1898, with gallant of ficers tripping over their swords and slapping their thighs with their gauntlets.

Ball Players' Joint I used to frequent the Tampa ay because it was close to the center of the Grapefriut and had an American plan that en the ballplayers couldn't get ahead of. It was wonderful. The people who ran it also ran a summer hotel at Poland Springs, and the whole staff moved with the seasons. The bellbov lion-tamers' uniforms and guard-mount came the guests would gather round to watch them cut the rug in forma- tions that made the West Point Corps look like a pack of draftees slouching off to Dix. The Wash ington Senators made their headquarters in the Tampa Bay and famuy circles was very domestic after Buck Harris, our manager, the Pennsylvania breaker-boy, married the daughter of Senator Sutherland, of West Virginia.

Mr. Harris actually had been a breaker-boy a nara-coaa mine but, like Maragon, the bootblack, he didn't go boasting how- far up he had come from under. It was a few years before he married that Bucky and Schacht went one evening. creased and greased, with a couple of bottles of bathtub ana oranges to call on two refined and I socially exclusive society belles in a secluded bungalow, way out. They let their taxi go and Al poked the bell and asked for Margie.

At that a man popped out from back of the lady who answered the door and let fly with a revolver. Bucky and Al went over the porch rail and fled separate ways through the palmettoes. They were a long time straggling back to the Tampa Bay where Clark Griffith, the boss, and Mrs. Griff and a lot of other characters and wives and the roxy bellhops awaited them. I think the assistant manager of the Tampa Bay had done the job of the suspicious husband with his wife lending her aid to the tableau.

I don seem to recall who had the idea. Maybe Johnny Maragon. Detective Job John had a job with the Burns Agency repossessing delinquent cars for some finance company. like General Motors Acceptance. He had a cast-iron gall, a pleasant personality and hands as big as a fielder's mitt.

Fingers bananas. Possibly from whipping that rag as a bootblack. Everybody UKed Jonn. Ana De-cause he always had a good car under him. replevined from some optimist who had driven south and quietly faded into the confusion.

forgetting his payments, was strongly attracted to him. He drove me to a lot of those points where other clubs were training. People would buy Florida tags but Johnny would come up with a de linquent car every lew days. A couple ot years ago i Degaii to receive ananymous notes cast er suspicion on Johnny. He had eone to Greece with the American state department mission wnicn supervised the election.

He had a pass to the hite House. Me naa gone to Potsdam with Truman. But I didn't come across him until a few weeks ago. What about all this Johnny Speaks Well, Johnny said, being from Kansas City's downtown streets, he naturally had known Harry Truman and naturally he had become acquainted with Harry Vausrhan. too.

And when the B. and O. invited him to go after jrovernment business which was going almost exclusively to the Pennsylvania. Johnny took the iob. He is naturally affable obliging.

I have seen many of his type around the fight bu: and race tracks. We call them hustlers. Johnny said that during his years with the B. and 176 congressmen and senators died, or some such number. In such events, congress always sends home the departed brother and Jihnny's job was to book them on the B.

and O. far as could be. Of the 176 or whatever the figure was, John Marsron snagged all but a few parties. His professional triumph came when the nooseveit runerai special ran B. and O.

from Washington to Linden, N. J. and from Linden back to Washington. I think he said the Pennsylvania got only 19 miles each way. He said that after the war he went to Europe to do some business about essential oils for a Chicago perfume company.

"What do you know about essential oils?" -What did I know about selling railroad tickets?" Johnny said. "Nothing. But I can talk and I can get around and make friends." But he did not go to Potsdam. No. No.

Mistake! Sure he had a card to the White House when he was v.ith the B. and but there was nothing unusual about that. Wouldn't you if you could? And he had given it up when he dropped the connection. Sure he could go and see Harry Vaughan, now a major-general and President Truman's aid, at his office in the east wing. Anything wrong about that They are old friends, aren's they? A Loyal Citizen The friendship with Mr.

Truman ripened when he was in the senate. An uneducated immigrant bootblack had shown the manhood and ability to make something of himself and Mr. Truman was perverse enough not to disown him. What guilt was there in the fact that Johnny was given a trip, a triumphant return his small personal way. to his native land interpreter tor tne Mission He was a loyal, anti-Communist American citizen.

That was more than you could say of some more ornate personalities who were wanting to go. And he could speak Greek. And if he did flaunt a treasured photograph of himself and Harry Truman, what would have been more natural? A runaway immigrant kid from little Aegean Greek island, not the island of Malta, by the way, a former water-boy of the Union Pacific construction gangs, later the personal friend of President Bill Jeffers, was back where he started forty years ago. He came baok with an official mission of the fabulous United States of America. Would you expect that he would keep the snapshot hidden? BARBS By HAL COCHRAN w'e could do away with all Razor blades are sold in some restaurants.

Oh, have they stopped using them to slice roast beef? Kids are getting paid again for picking cherries and having a Auto drivers wouldn't get near as many bad breaks if they didn't drive with them. A Minnesota girl married a po liceman who had once pinched her for speeding. She got a life sentence. Social IM WSituatomm SITUATION: You have an exceptionally good time at a party. WRONG WAV: Feel that if you say how much you enjoyed the evening as you leave the party your hostess will be convinced of it.

RIGHT WAY: Telephone your hostess next morning to tell her how much you enjoyed the evening before, or mention it again the next time you see her. Steel has been made from iron for centuries, but only in very amounts until about 100 years ago. ARCHIVE8 NEWSPAPER.