1950-02-16; Saline Observer

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SIXTY-SEVENTH YEAH NUMBER 20
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN
THURSDAY,  FEB.  IP. 1950   FIVE CENTS PER COPY S2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
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Weatherman
Takes Mean
Advantage
Old Man Winter grabbed hold
of things around this section of
the state Monday and blanketed
it with a heavy fall of snow and
then proceded to wet it down
with rain that continued through
most of the day Tuesday. Trees,
laden with ice, fell across power
and telephone lines and electrie
service was out at -Manchester
nearly all day Tuesday.
State .. and county roads were
kept open and traffic was not
particularly hazardous. In the
city, it has been rather messy.
Highway, plows clear the center
of the streets, shoving the snow
and slush toward the curbs, leaving a bank for oars to head into and become "stuck." Occupants
of the cars stepping out, step
into a soaking mass up to their
knees.
Tuesday morning saw branches
of trees littering the lawns and
Clarence Fritz, N. Ann Arbor
street, was awakened about 2
a.m. Tuesday when a large tree
split in two and crashed and narrowly missed crushing his automobile.
Water backing- un in the sewers in the east part of town
caused the usual amount of distaste and discomfort which always accompany an excessive
amount of rainfall, and on Tuesday night the flood gates at the
Ford Dam were opened and al-
^^wed to raise the level in the
which was already in-
Are You a Ten Percenter or On The Long End?
Why Not Try?
"Happy Birthday
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^xy roads, already in " a
condition, are in some
lassable, it is said,, as
many of them receive little attention from file County Road
Commission, it is also said.
Benton School Pupils
Visit Museum
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We visited .the museum in Ann
Arbor last Friday. We were met
by a docent, who told us many
interesting facts about the different things as she showed them to
us. We wexe especially interested
in the exhibit of, the Michigan
wild animals because we have
been studying .them/ Among other things, We liked the skeletons
of the dinosaur and mastodon,
the birds, the live gila monster
and the live wolverine.
We are grateful to Mr. and
Mrs. A. Wiedmayer, Mr. and Mrs.
C. -Roehm,, H. Handy and our
teacher,- Mrs. * Kazmaier for providing the transprtation that
made' possible this very interesting experience.
:—The Pupils.
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Tuesday 9 O'clock
Bowling League
Team Standings
W       L
Ed's Grocery 59       25
Five   Points    52        32
Saline Hatchery   46       38
Trinity  _  36       48
Farmers i    31       53
Gross Implement 28       56
Next Week
Alleys l-_, ITive Points and Ed's
Groeery; alleys 3-4, Farmers and
Trinity; alleys 5-6, Saline Hatchery and Gross Implement.
No gain; top three teams all
took three points. Next week
should produce a good match witn
Ed's Grocery and Five ' Points
rolling each other.
Four were in a tie for third
place for individual single game
and Frank Deede took care of
that with a nice 228 gante.
F. F. 4. Speech
Contest Here
FJF.A. boys of the Chelsea,
Manchester, "Clinton and Saline
schools will meet in Saline Tuesday, February 21, in a speech,
contest. -
Five Entered Apprentices will
he given their Fellowcraft Degree
next Tuesday night by Saline
Lodge No. 133 F. & A. M., and
on Tuesday, evening, February 28,
the Master Mason Degree will be
exemplified! ; ■;» ■*..■"• ■ ._ \ :
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The Saline Girls' Basketball
team will go to Dexter* tomorrow
afternoon to~play a " game that'
was tpostponed TYtesaay due to
bad weather,   ...
In the year 1900, William Jennings Bryan challenged the republican administration, and to
catch the western vote, the republicans nominated a, hero of
the Spanish American War,
Theodore Roosevelt, to run as
Vice-President with President
McKinley.
That fall I was attending
school, and at the republican
rally, scores of students earned
$2.00 by donning a rough rider's
suit and riding a horse in the.
parade. Next day they earned
another $2.00 by riding for the
democrats.
In my civics class were a number of foreign students who
called themselves "observers".
They were sent here by their
governments to learn, about this
country. They were teachers,
reporters; writers, etc., and each
could talk several languages.
They studied hard and absorbed
their teachings Hke a sponge
absorbs water: I cultivated the
friendship of these foreigners
and learned far more from them
than from my professors. For
example, one Jap told me something like this: we teach our
children to "observe",—-to take
note of things. If a 12 year
old boy helps you build a house,
he can build another just like
it, he knows how many nails
are in each board. If our engineers help build a factory,
boat or gun, they can duplicate
every detail of it. We also teach
them patriotism. When Japan
becomes a great nation, we will
be a great people! Here in the
States, children aren't taught to
observe. Most high school graduates don't even know the number or kind of trees that grow
in their own door. yard. They
know little about their government. That is why your diplomats are such "easy pickings".
A Turk explained about the Dardanelles and Russia's hunger for
that gateway. I was told of the
surplus of human beings in India, where a recent famine that
took a million lives "didn't do
any good because there were a
million babies born during the
time." A student from Persia
told me, in confidence, that he
belonged to the royal family—
he sure was a prince of a fellow.
Some Russian Jews told of'that
vast country. At the .close of
the term,.these foreign "observers" knew twice as much about
our country as any American in
the class. They knew about our
national, state and county government; how taxes - were assessed and divided among school
'districts,  townships,  cities,  etc.
They were 10 or 15 years older than I, nevertheless, I was
ashamed of my ignorance when
talking with them. These 'observers" told me the following:
1. Only 10% of humans are
creatures of logic; 90% are
creatures of emotion; 10%
sometimes think; 90% just
drift.
2. Americans, having had
freedom given to them, don't
appreciate "their citizenship; only half of them vote.
3. Of the half who vote 40
percent vote a straight republican party ticket and 40 percent vote the democratic party
ticket; these party votes cancel
each other. Four percent belong to some smaller party, so
the remaining 16 percent of
votes, or only 8 percent of all
citizens, really choose the officials. This 8 percent are the indifferent, ignorant, wishy-washy
kind who can be influenced by
such campaigns as was staged
last fall.
Sportsman's
League To Hold
Public Party
The Tri-County Sportsman's
League will hold a free euchre
party at their club house on Friday evening beginning at eight
o'clock, and will award three
prizes.
The purpose of the party gathering is to determine whether
it will .he feasible to hold a euchre tournament later. The party
is open to the public, and according to Secretary Ray Kruse,
friends, neighbors, wives and
children are welcome and there
will be free coffee and doughnuts
served).
TO THE MORE THAN-SIXTEEN MILLION,
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
BOYS AND MEN WHO SERVED
ME SO WELL DURING THE
PAST FORTY YEARS.
these "observers'" purvey. It
has also convinced me that there
has been little change in our
political set-up.. Only 10 percent of people think; 90 percent
still drift. Half of bur people
are too mentally lazy to prepare
themselves to vote an intelligent
baliot, so they just don't vote.
Eighty percent of votes cancel
each other. About 4 percent
belong 'to smaller parties and
16 percent of those voting, or
8 "percent of our citizens,—the
indifferent, ignorant, shiftless
ones, choose our officials. Our
President and Vice-President
are not chosen because of their
ability as statesmen, and fourth
and fifth rate men. fill our congressional halls.
The democratic party is now
doing what the socialist party
was advocating fifty years ago.
The republican party is little
more than an opposition party
with spineless leadership. The
word "Democracy" has been
warped and twisted to mean
many things. We brag about
our great Democracy and bring
pressure on other nations to follow our lead, while one labor
boss can upset our economy and
bring stagnation to our industry. _ j
This nation, is a Republic!
Russia calls herself "the peoples' Democracy.". We elect officials and they administer our
government, or are supposed to.
On our right are Fascists, who
Want the government to- control
business. On our left are Socialists, who want the government to own all business. Farther to the left are Communists, *
who want the government to
own the individual citizen, body
and soul. People are promised
that if they will surrender all
their constitutional rights, this
clique will make "every man a
King." When Fascism, Socialism, Communism, are 'reduced
to their least common denominator, we find "cliqueism", a
small clique ruling by means of
a dictator'. Socialism has many
stages and is called by many
names such as "Planned Economy", "welfare state", "security from cradle to the grave",
etc. It is a sort of a creeping,
paralysis that is sweeping over
the world. The word Democracy should not now be used when
describing our nation. This is a
Republic!
Friends of mine came home
from War I crippled, shell-
shocked, and insane, only to
have our officials spend our
tax money to build public parks j
and bowling alleys in Germany.
Other friends suffered and died
I in Europe, Asia and Africa in
4. The electoral college makes j War H, and then when the re-
it possible for city bosses to de- \ ports were pried loose, (facts
liver 51 percent of a state's vote, are not all known), we found
to his party, and that means'that our. allies were sold down
that all the electoral -votes of the river and all our bargain-
that state goes to that party., ing rights for the freedom of
Neither the democrats nor re- mankind were surrendered to
publicans seem anxious to be rid' Russia. The crime at Teheran,
of . the system, because both Yalta, and Potsdam has placed
parties make. use of corrupt. one hundred eighty million
political machines. " I (180,000,000) people in slavery,
5. About 80 percent of yourTand we are wasting billions
congressmen are fourth or fifth \tighting a lost cause.
rate men, and your . President -j- What is the remedy for the
and Vice-President are chosen mess we are in*? •■ There is just
because of party loyalty or vote- one remedy; that is to dissolve
St. Paul's Church To
Have Father And Son
Banquet ;Tues. Night
St. Paul's Church will have its
annual Father and Son Banquet
next Tuesday njght. Activities will
get under way at 7 p.m., witn
the banquet served by the fl_a-
dies' Aid and [Women's Guild of
the church. Allen Wiedman will
serve as toastmaster for the occasion. A feature of the banquet
will be the movie, "Jerry Pulls
The Strings." Awards will be given to the oldest father, .the youngs
est son and the father with the
most sons present A committee
consisting of Glenn Weber, Willard
Hartman, Nelson Watling and
Waynard Car^ #$„ directing, the.
planning for the event. Miss Lu~
ella Larnbarth is serving as ticket chairman.
has. a people lost its freedom,
unless the PRINCIPLE OF
FREEDOM was first smothered
beneath some "Personality". We
have seen this smothering process in action since 1932.
The blue flame of publicity is
our best ammunition, and the
small town newspapers are the
best weapons to nse it effectively. These newspapers are part
of the community and, grow as
the community grows. They
must publish what wdll'help the
community, or-dose the patronage of its substantial citizens. If
you are a ten percenter who
thinks, why not call- others, together, and through, your different organizations, ask your
editor to publish reports- from
"observers" which, are now
availably? Start with "The
Road Ahead" by John T. Flynn
from the February "Readers
Digest". Then follow with
facts that will checkmate the?
nropaganda flowing from the
Bureaucrats in Washington.
The city council of Ypsilanti
has moved to end the curse of
the immoral rent control dictatorship: This action put our
Governor "on the spot" where
he is resting comfortable and
serene. Let's put the blue flame
of publicity under that "spot"
and watch results. There are
enough ten percenters in this
country if they will forget their
party polities, and uphold the
"PRINCIPLE OF FREEDOM"
through cooperation with their
local newspaper, to overthrow
the Socialism that ;now threatens our freedom. Why not call
your editor, or better yet, Bend
him some "copy"?
Henry Eugene Bradley,
Ypsilanti.
Movies Of Youth *
Group At Camp To Be
Shown At Banquet
General chairman of plans for
the annual Fathers' and Sons'
Banquet at Federated 'Church,
Jdhn Schild, will show pictures at
the banquet of the activities of
Federated young people at Youth
Island during the past year's
camping season. Mr. and Mrs.
.Schild with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hinkin, were chaperones accompanying the young people to
the site at White Lake near Pon-
tiac.
Other numbers on the program
include a piano solo, "New
Spring," by, Lange, to be .played
by Albert. T. Jewell, of Cheyboy-
gan, who will also be accompanist for group singing led by Harold Brown. The toastmaster will
be Max Collins and toasts will be
igiven by Kim Jacobsen and by
T. fM. Clay of (Lansing. The main
speaker will be Capt. Al Wistert,
of .this past year's University of
Michigan football team.
D. B. Grubb is in charge of
reservations and the committee
serving the dinner is headed by
Mrs. Hugh Austin and Mrs.
George Austin. Decorations are
being arranged by- Mrs. John E.
Miller, Mrs. Dwight Reynolds and
Mrs. Arthur Jacobsen.
Saline Scouts Plan
Camping Trip.
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At 8:30 a.m., February 25th,
Saline Boy Scouts will leave for
Camp BSTewkirk "where' many of
them will have their first experience at over-night camping.
While at camp they will have an
opportunity to prepare four meals
and to participate in other activities which are being planned
to make this the highlight of
■their, winter camping experiences.
Patrols will be formed next Monday night and will be given a
chance to work as a team on
this occasion. The Troop will return to Saline in the afternoon
of Feb. 26th.
Each Scout must bring a permit from his parents on Monday
night, stating that h'e has their
permission' to attend, and a fee
of 50 cents, 10 cents of which
will be used to pay for the use
of the camp facilities and 40 cents
for supplies.
Christenson On
National Health
Insurance
Reo Christenson, political
science student at the University
of Michigan presented the case
for National Health Insurance in
an address before the Saline Rotary Club, Thursday. It was a
most comprehensive and lucid exposition of the subject and the
speaker had his facts, his data
and references ready for any questioner, and while one may have
disagreed with the underlying
principle involved — Compulsory
National Insurance—the speaker
was very compelling in his argument in its favor.
Every move that has ever been
made along the route of social
progress has been bitterly contested, he asserted, and predicted that compulsory national
health insurance would come into
force eventually.
Christenson, who is working on
his Doctor's Degree in political
science, did his Master's Degree
thesis on the British National
Health Insurance Act and has
made extensive study of the Social Security Act. He was introduced to the Club as the guest
of Ed Warner, who was program
chairman for the day.
Meet Tonight To
Consider Organizing
.Beginning Band
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Parents, students and others
interested in a beginning band
to' toe organized in the Saline
school, are invited to attend a
meeting of prospective new band
members tonight at eight o'clock
at the school. The High School
band will play several numbers
and a slide film will be shown
and musical instruments will be
displayed. Time will be set aside
for questions which may.be asked in regard to the program, instruments or eligibility. The meeting has been called due to results of a musical aptitude test
taken by .the students during the
past week. Special invitations are
extended to students of the seventh, eighth and ninth grades who
scored average or.above average
on this test. The meeing affords
opportunity for the instructor,
parents and students to discuss
the measure and method of organizing a beginning band.
Special Lenten
Services Start At
St. Paul's Church
Roger Luther Hamlin, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn. Hamlin, was
baptized in St. Paul's Church
Sunday. Sponsors were Mr. and
Mrs. Sidney Sommer of Toledo,
Ohio.
getting power,., rather. than.„fqr
their>ab_ity as •statesmen. ,.• ■'_,
the. army of 90 percent    non
rthinkers and;-enlist.them with
Fifty "years of impersonal-the 10 percent who sometimes
non-partisan . observation, in j think. Then teach all these to
wfiich^hayeneveF surrendered think in terms; of, THE PJJINi
iS a political' party br made a CTPLE OF FREEDOM, instead
"deal", with a politician, has of "Party" and "Personality",
convinced me of the-accuracy of History teaches us that never
The "American Legion Assurance
Company of Michigan announcement on page 6 and 7 of this paper
is sponsored by
Deede Radio & Electric
and The Saline Observer
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on behalf of the Veterans; and
them dependents in this^-areal. •
A special series of mid-week
Lenten services will begin, at St.
Paul's Church on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. During these
worship periods the pastor will
use a slide projector to center attention upon a religious painting
which has portrayed some significant aspect of the passion story.
Included in this series slides of
the following masterpieces will
be shown: Soord, The Lost Sheep;
VanDyck, Christ and the Tribute
Money; Prell, The Corruption of
Judas; Armitage, The Remorse of
Judas;. Brown, Christ Washing
The Disciple's Feet; Harrach,
Peter's Denial; Ciseri, Ecce Homo.
The Brownies
Valentine Party
The Brownies had a Valentine
party last week Thursday,. There
were 27 members and four guests
present. Games were played under the supervision of Jane
Klueter after -which refreshments
of a Valentine layer cake, cupcakes, candy and ice cream were
served. The refreshment table was.
decorated with Valentine and Valentine place cards, and Valentines
were exchanged. On behalf of the
Brownies and leaders we extend
our heartiest thanks to Mrs. Walton for use of her third grade
room, Mrs. Olen Wanty for letting us use the "Home Ec. room
and Mrs. Gordon J. Prout for
baking' an additional supply .of
cupcakes. The party turned out
to be a success due to cooperation of all concerned.
—Mary Ann Bieniek.- .
The Darktown Minstrel Show,
produced toy the Junior Chamber
of Commerce, played to two full
houses here Tuesday and Wednesday night. It was a tremendous success and made a big hit
with everybody who witnessed the
show.
Pat Roesch, as interlocutor, in
topper and tails, directed the
program with great aplomb, and
as the curtain went up the chorus
of forty voices was singing "Ala-
bamy Bound," winding up with,
"Roll on You Mississippi, Roll
On." Marge Layher, in a beautifully pure soprano voice, sang
"Summertime"   most   effectively.
With two exceptions the Minstrel Show was entirely local talent, Mary Valiquette of Ypsilanti,
tap dancer, and Hugh Walton,
record pantomime artist. They
•were very good..
There were six end men in the
cast, George Irelan, Russ Hughes,
Mike Gallagher, Mike Strait, Oliver Steiner and Jim Beal, and
they, lent a lot of "color" to the
scene. Taffy Michalke and Erwin
Schmid did some fine two-itone
singing while Doris Robison. and
Luther Dicks took an old-fashioned walk under a dainty parasol.
Taffy Michalke makes three appearances during the show, wearing different gowns for each appearance. She has poise, vivacity
and charm and a delightful voice
and is one of the show's big hits.
The' Gleason Sisters, Peg and
Mable, appeared in two numbers,
"Birth of the Blues," and "What's
the' Matter With the Moon Tonight?" They received an ovation. They have talent and artistry, coupled with good voices, and
their portrayal of fearful concern over "What's the Matter
(With the Moon" was very well
done:
Ken Rogers and Lefc Robison
and Katy Lou artd M21ton -Hartman put;-* on a couple of tickling
skits and Pat and Kay Roesch in
"Baby, It's Cold Outside" were
among the more sparkling numbers in which most everyone on
the program excelled, including
Vera Low in an Hawaiian Hula
dance.
Bud Layher in, "Lucky Old
Sun," poured out his heart in a
Beautiful tenor and Mike Strait's
deep, resonant* bass did full well
with' "Old? Man River." Russ
Hughes soloed the "Dark Town
Strutters' Ball" to his^lady friend
at the, other end of a telephone
connection, when Ken Voltz' "Lazy
Bones" and saxaphone solo, and
Bob Hill and L. B. Meyer with
banjo and bones, and Al Wied-
man's "I want a Great Big Fat
Gal," and Nona Sehmid's, "Old
Rocking Chair,' mixed pathos and
tears with jig-time rythm.
A. large number of local men
and women took part in the
.chorus, whichf wound up the program with the opening number,
"Alabamy Bound," and to them
and to Mrs. Robert Merchant,
who directed Darktown Minstrel
iShow, much of its success can
be attributed.
Marilyn Fosdick was at the piano as accompanist, and played
during the interval before the
curtain went up. Roland Goltz
and Vic "Haines, as colored ushers,
got pinched by the" chief of police, who handcuffed the pair and
led them away. They returned
shortly, with the officer's stick,
his whistle and 'handcuffs."
Saline Bows To
Chelsea 27-22
The Chelsea Bulldogs remained in second place in Huron
League competition Friday, having won their fourth game of the "
season and having but one loss.
They trail the Milan Big Reds.
Saline still remains in fourth
place with three wins and two
losses..
During the game played here
Friday, the Chelsea team took tht
lead in the first, quarter and did<-
n't have much trouble de-ending
it-the-rest of the .way. Only once
in the thh-d quarter did Saline
come two points behind Chelsea's,
lead l_rl(5. The game was unusually calm with exceptionally few
fouls called on either' team. In
the last four minutes of play
Chelsea did a fine job of freezing
the ball, not trying to make anymore points. Scoring honors went
to .Jack Burmeister with 9- points
for Saline and Bob Vogel of Chelsea with eight."
The little Hornets beat the Bull-
pups in a preliminary game 33-
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Members of St. Paul's Youth.
Fellowship were entertained by
the: neighboring Youth Fellowship
of Bethel Church, -IFreedom ;Twp.
on Sunday^Ve^nhiigv - goltowingf ^
devotional' period the-group -snared a Valentine party.
'Sheila Louise Girbaeh, daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gir-
..baqlvvwas ^.baptized" 'in-St;--Paul's
^ph._rch~ Sunday^-"V-ipoi-hfes being
"Mr:- an_"M__: Clarence Girbaeh
of Saline.