Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 124, Decatur, Adams County, 25 May 1951 — Page 2

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National Spelling Bee Finals Tonight 51 Youngsters In National Contest Washington, May 25.-4(UP),— kids—33 girls and 18 boys -r-flipped, through dog-eared dictiqnaries for the last time today and got in line for the finals of the annual national spelling beet ' By nightfall, one will walk from the stage of the National Press Auditorium as America’s champion speller in 1951 The champion will win a 1500 cash award, a silver trophy cup and a weekend trip to New York, it \ ' F ' The .finalists, ■ representing 49 cities, all are grammar school students, ranging from 41 to 14 years of age. As nearly always is the case, the girls outnumber the boys. But that may not mean a thing. Last year, a boy . and a girl spelled they* Way to a tie, the flrat time in the event’s 26-year history that the contest knded in a draw. Colquitt Dean, Atlanta, and Dianna Reynard, Cleveland,\split honors after plowing through two extra lists of 689 words which the judges had drawn up on the spot. The 1951 spelling bee had three repeaters froft»\ previous natipnal finals;,Gail Mangeto, 13, representing the Passaic, N.J.. Herald-News; Layne Allen Longfellow. 13, the Portsmouth, 0., Times, and Billy Huffman, 14, the Waynesboro/Va., News-Virginian. . , 4 The competition is sponsored by the Scripps-Howard and 31 other dailies.

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The judges didn't expect a repetition of last year’s drawn-out battle. As the contest started, their checklist, carefully culled from Webster’s unabridged and Funk & Wagaalls dictionaries, numbered only 680 words. But the dictionaries were handy in case more words were needed—and to show unbelieving losers that they had missed. The three judges were veterans of the spell-downs; Mrs. Wilford L. White, formerly of the Harvard school of business administration; Dr. Belmont Farley, national education association press relations director, and William Harold Martin of the federal security administration. ' , Benson S. Alleman, formerly of American University, was the pronouncer. Charles H. Schneider of the New York Scripps-Howard office directed the bee. \ f 1 The judges made a new rule thia year to eliminate at least one nervewrecking phase of last year’s contest when three or four of the youngsters were'.disqualified for misspelled words, only to be reinstated when an obscure spelling of their word was found in the dictionary. r i -. The new rule flays the definition of a word provides its only correct spelling. Footnote variations at the bottom of the page don't count. Every finalist gets a prise—830 Q for second place; |IOO for third; 20 prizes of I s ® each, and 140 each for the other 28 contestants. Skunk Teo Curious Pittsfield, Mass—(UP)—An inquisitive skunk stuck its nose inTa a pint jar in Julius Campana’s yard and suffocated when it couldn’t j\et free.

[THE ’ International Undorm 3 Sunday School T -~wm» 3 SCRIPTURE: H Chronicles Pssim ISV: Jeremiah »:1-14; Ezekiel P«*ta Uti \ Displaced Persons Lessen |sr May 17, INI P-’»” are no 20th-century nov- *** elty. This displaced person has for centuries dotted the international landscape. We can define a displaced person as one who, unwillingly or unin-

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tentionally, la a long way from \ a home which no longer exists. A D.£. ;would,. usually go home if he could, but he can’t. His home has been bombed out, or perhaps his whole home town

destroyed. Perhaps \ Dr. Foreman he and his neighbors have been forcibly moved out by a government that wants some one else in their (daces. The D,P. is usually at first poor, in the nature of the case; a foreigner where he is, sometimes without even a native land to go back to, to say nothing of a home town. Perhaps the most tremendous uprooting of people in recent times has been in Korea, where war victims have had to move out by the million. LI ' "\ • • • The Innocent With the Guilty BUT THE story is not a new one. Back In Bible times< many of the Hebrews became D.P.’s. After the downfall of Israel and Judah, thousands of Jews were taken to the country along the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, there to fend for themselves as best they could. The Blbld writers always look rd an that experience as a punishment of the nation, and ae H was. But the experience illustrates a number of things. One is that the innocent often suffer with the guilty. Not all those who were farced into those long death-marches had been to blame for their country’s wrong-doings. Bad decisions of king and council resulted in personal disasters to thousands who had had nothing to do with their king’s bad policies or their aristocrats* debauched lives. • • • D.P.’s Taking Root ANOTHER thing to be noticed in the Bible story of .these Hebrew DP.’i is the way they took hold, wherever they were, and helped to build up the country and help themselves at the same time. They took root, in short, and even when later on their descendants were free to go “home,’* relatively few ever went back to Palestine. From that time to this, the Jews have been scattered over the wide world, living (where it has been possible) as local citizens of whatever lands they call their own. We can still read Jeremiah’s letter (ch. 29) to the D.P.’s from Judah, urging them to buy land, to lay out vineyards and plan houses and gen-' erally make themselves at home in Babyfoa. We read of an Ezekiel, owning a home and settling down in Babylonia. We find Daniel the boy as a page in the royal household of Nebuchadnezzar, and as a man rising to prominence and power. Many of the D.P.’s took their places among the best citizens of their perforce adopted lands. ‘ t D.P.’s In American History SO it has often been since. The United States alone owes a great deal to D.P.’s. The famous statue of Liberty is a welcome-sign to such people. The Pilgrims who came over in the Mayflower were D.P.’s, already twice uprooted. The Huguenot protestants, driven from France by official persecution, became top-level, successful citizens in England and America. Revolutionary troubles In Europe a hundred years ago brought to American shores Carl Schurz, for example, ■ \ fugitive from the police of two countries because he was a revolufionlst; here in America . becoming a top success in many fields: general of the army, minister to Spain, Secretary of the Interior, prosperous business executive, editor of great city newspapers, writer and 1 orator of international fame. Not all D.P.’s become famous; but many thousands of them, throughout the troubled ages, have been a blessing to the lands that sheltered them. So it may be tn our time, that as God has before now brought good out of evil, be may In our troubled world bring oven from the cruelties of deportation and homelessness again new understandings, fresh beginning, and an interweaving of many strands of humanity into a stronger fabric than before. (C»BjrrlzlM I»S1 Sr DlriaiMt «t CkrLtUa EUaoaUan, Natioaal CoodcH •f the Chnrehea of Chriat i» U>« baited States of AmerUa.rßetcaaod byJWNU Featarea.)

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Rural Churches 0 — »t. Paul and Winchester , U. B. Circuit Dale Osborn, pastor Ft. Paul: ' Worship and sermon. 9:15. f >’ Sunday school, 10:15. Prayer mooting, Wed. 7:30. \ Bible school starts Monday, 6:30 Phi, | V Winchester: - Sunday school, 9:30. \V 7 Clast meeting, 10:30. : 1 Worship and sermon, 7i 30. > ‘ Praybr meeting, Thur. 7:80. i Vacation Bible school will begin June 4, ; : s ;i ' 1 • UnlonYjChapel Evangelical United Brethren Lawrence T. Norris, pastor 9:30 Sunday school. Weimlell Miller, Supt., Warren Nidlinger, Ass’t.- \i I . 10:20 Worship service. The American Legjon, Veterans of Foreign Wars & the Disabled American Veterans organizations will be our guests for our morning service. Rev. Norris, the pastor, will bring the Memorial address on the subject, “The Supreme Gift.” Evening Service 6:45 Junior C. E., Shirley Workinger, Pres. 6:45 Idult C. E., Earl Chase. Pres. 6:4G Youth Fellowship, Veda

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Williamson, Prea. . , S A . special program in observance of rural life by the Adams county rural youth. Theme, ’•Working together for world understanding.” June 3 has been designated by the council of administration as cash day. A goal of 1,000 has been set, and this will bb used to plete the parking lot.. i«' 7 ” | J Monroe Methodist W. L. Hail, pastor ■ • 9:30, Moaning worship: A representative of the United Dry Forces of Ricljlana will be guest speaker 10:3TO, Sunday Schools 6:45, the MYFNd other evening service. Wednesday 7:80, serviced | Wednesday 8:15: Choir practice. May 28, Daily Vacation Bible School. 8:3(0 to 11:00. ' j j Teachers i Beginners, Mrs. Doyle lloffman Assistants: The Misses Jean Haines and Martha aiders. Phimary: Mrs. Vernon Riley. Assistants: The Misses Patty Beitler and Gloria Crownover. : ’ Juniors: Mrs. Clarence Rowdon, Mrs. Virgil Sprunger. Intermediates: Mrs- Lewis Mattax. Mrs. Everett Rice. Music: Mrs. Rollie Wable, Mrs. Rene Brandi. \ ; Dean, Rev. W. L HAII Closing program Sunday night June 10.

Rivarre Circuit U.B. Circuit L. A. Middaugh, pastor Mt. Zion \ 9:80 am. Sunday school. \ 19: go a.m. Class meeting. 7 p.m. Christian Endeavor. 8 p.m. Preaching service. 7:30 p.m. W<»dnesday, prayer meeting. ' , ' j . Pleasant Grove 9:30 a,m. Sunday school. 10:30 a.m. Class meeting. 1 7 p.m. Uhristign Endeavor. 7 p.m. Wednesday, prayer meeting. Mg. Victory 9:30 a.m. Sunday school. , 10:30 a.m. Preaching service. 7 p.m. Christian Endeavor. 8 p.m. Wednesday, prayer ingSL Luke Reformed, Honduras H. •H. Meckstroth, minister 9— Worship service. 10 — Sunday school. Monday through Friday 8:16-4; Kirkland Bible school. Craigville E. U. B. Circuit J. H. Nall, Pastor \ Tocsin Tile Singing Brands at 10:30 a, m. and 7:30 p- m. in the closing the evangelistic services. Craigville Sunday school 9:30 a. m. Lancaster Chapel Preaching service 9:30 su m. Sunday school 10:30 a. m. Rev. R. E. Vance will conduct

the third quarterly meeting of this conference year at 2:30 for the charge. \ Pleasant Mills Baptist Lowell B. Noll, Supt. 9:30 a.m. Sunday school. 10:30 a.m. Worship service. Address by Robert Schrock. (Mgj | 1 11 ■ cilery E. U. B. a Albert N. Straley. pastor \ Sunday School 9:30 a. m. in charge of the Superintendent Dale Beer. The lesson for the day is, “God Chastens ,HIS; People.” Morning Worship 10:30 a. m. with the pgstor preaching on the subject, “Precious Memories.” :

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1 * * I i i • * Uses Raw Onions For Bait, Bags Mess Os Crappies Kendallville,' Ind., May 25. — (UP) —A fisherman using slices - of raw* onion as bait has been pulling in crappies by the dozen at Sylvan lake, conservation officer Elmer Wiltrout reported today. . c He said Noble circuit court Judge Kenneath A- King snagged the fish on a fly' rod with onion sliced as thin as a blotter. < . “What I’m trying to figure out,*, said Bob Hoover, the man who Shuffles the officers’ reports, “Is whether the fish cries while it nibbles.” <