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1 1 SEX THE DAILY' JOURNAL- GAZETTE AND COMMERCIAL- STAR, MATTOON, ILLINOIS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1958 THE VOICE OF THE GREATER AREA Editorial Opinion The Daily Journal- Gazette CONTEST AND COMMERCIAL STAR Consolidated 1919 MATTOON JOURNAL JOHN COMPANY R. MILLE City Editor AN EMPER, Production ED CUMMINGS, General Entered a second class matter at Mattoon, under the Charleston Mattoon, JOURNAL OFFICES: Representatives, fork Office, North Michigan Detroit Office, Weekly Gazette Estabil to 1866. Daily Journal Eatabitabed to Member Illinois Daily Newspaper Inland. Daily Press Association, Ulinois tising Executives Association and February 1906 1 9 Post Ottles the net Mares The Bullding, Evenings except Sundays and polidaye. PARR Rational Chicago Otfice, Advertising New Center Butiding, Weekly Consolidated Jan.

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(Tomi Kelly, The Associated Press to entitled all the local De printed to this patches. TERMS OF Daily by carrier, week Daily by mail, sone 1, one rear Sis months Three months One month exclusively use for reproduction a SUBSCRIPTION If You Fail to Receive BEFORE Your Paper PHONE (3 p. m. Sat.) 5656 STATESMAN OVER POLITICIAN If Abraham Lincoln's character depended upon some of the descriptions made about him by well-intentioned speech makers, he'd probably have never. even won a political office in Sangamon county, much less the national presidential election.

We realize Lincoln was one of those rare individuals in human history, whose character has many admirable facets to explore and emulate. But to separate the sum total of the man into so many component parts makes him less human, and consequently less great, than he really was, First and foremost, Lincoln was a God-fearing American pioneer. He knew the worth of sweat and toil in farm labor. He didn't like work and was even inclined to shirk it-like most the rest of us. The lonely forest and fields of Kentucky, Indiana, and prairies of Illinois were companions conducive to meditation or philosophizing.

He was gregarious man by nature and liked nothing better than to 'sit for hours and spin yarns with good-natured, companions. One facet in Lincoln's character, that many Lincoln Day orators gloss over, is that Lincoln was a shrewd man-but still a man of principle. He'd never have made a success in politics if he didn't know how to play the game. Dr. Charles H.

Coleman, authority on the Lincoln family in Coles County, gave an interesting description of Lincoln the politician and statesman at the High Twelve Club luncheon in the Hotel U. S. Grant Tuesday. He said that Lincoln was willing to sacrifice his own interest if it meant the good of the party. Dr.

Coleman explained this by telling how the Republican Party was started here in Illinois. Lincoln wanted to run for the U. S. Senate just as the Whigs and Anti-Nebraska Democrats in Illinois were consolidating under the Republican banner. The Anti-Nebraska Democrats had a favorite son, who also wanted to run for office.

Lincoln was wise enough to realize he couldn't win with just the support of his Whig friends and to fight the issue might split the newly formed party. He stepped aside in that election and had the unanimous approval of the whole party in the next election. He was willing to compromise on issues where it was necessary for party consolidarity, but he would not and did not compromise on matters of fundamental principles. It is precisely this that made Lincoln a statesman. Dr.

Coleman pointed out the Mexican War Issue as an example. Lincoln felt that the Democratic administration agitated the issue to open new territories in the southwest for slavery. The South's legislators were also fomenting the war issue. Lincoln denounced the plans for war, but supported the actual fighting after the war had begun. As a politician, it might have been wiser to let the matter take its course without committing himself.

To Lincoln, however, the extension of slavery was a matter of fundamental principles. During the interim between his election and inauguration, Lincoln also showed his statesmanship and political astuteness. He was willing to make certain compromises about slavery in the States where it was already instituted and even willing for an amendment to be made to the Constitution concerning inter -state traffic of slaves among the States where slavery was legal. He didn't condone slavery, and the intention of this compromise was to hold the Union together and avert Civil War. But he would not tolerate the extension of slavery in the new southwestern territories.

Before his re-election as president, when it was quite obvious the North would win the war, Lincoln also demonstrated his statesmanship even against disunity in the Republican party. He mised some of the party opposition by making a change in his cabinet, but he would not compromise in his policy of toleration and sympathy with the rebellious South. As Dr. Coleman stated: Lincoln hated slavery, but he didn't hate the slave-holder; he hated secession, but didn't hate the secessioner. He had a policy of reconstruction of the Southern Confederation that showed his great humanity, or Christianity.

In a. speech at Independence Hall, on Feb. 2, 1861, Lincoln summed up his whole political career, we believe, when he said: "I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and if it the pleasure of Almighty God, die by." His life and political career demonstrated both parts of his statement. LOVERS' DAY There's the cliche about young men's fancies turning lightly to thoughts of love in spring, which, by the calendar, is still several weeks away. But Mattoon area folks are getting ahead of the season this week.

Already the mailmen's sacks are bulging with messages of love and buffoonery. Of course, it's Valentine Day we speak of, which comes Saturday. The missives of love are directed to wives, husbands and sweethearts. The buffoonery comes from the gagsters who delight in sending comic Valentines to someone whom they suspect of having a low boiling point. Cartoons and verses about most every occupation are being received this week--the senders keeping their identities fully concealed.

On the serious side (and what is more serious than lovers?) we are told the greatest number of Valentines of the romantic type are mailed by the fair sex. Men find it easier to buy a box of candy or send flowers than to face the half smiles of the clerks behind greeting card counters while selecting a Valentine with sweet nothings printed on it. Anyone who has 'visited Mattoon's shopping district in recent days knows, of course, that Valentine Day gifts aren't restricted to candy and flowers. Window displays in the "hearts and arrow" offer everything from hardware to clothing. Abraham Lincoln Down In History Among The Truly Great Men By GEORGE E.

SOKOLSKY (Copyright, 1953) The month of February gives us three to those of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Edison. Edison is inadequately understood in this generation when genius lost in the lust for equality All men are equal only in the mercy of God and they should be in the eyes of the law. Beyond that, everybody is unequal and different and such genius as Edison appears upon this earth surprisingly and without explanation. He is largely responsible for our environment. His inventions altered many of our social institutions and habits, particularly home life.

He freed our women from the bondage of motorless home labor. Yet, he was not what we would today call an educated man. He held no degree from a university. He wore no Phi Beta Kappa key. He had not been chosen to perform experiments; he did what he chose and experimented with what he had or could borrow.

The risks were his: the benefits are for mankind. Abraham Lincoln came of as simpie people as Thomas Edison did. His father, Thomas Lincoln, was casual worker, a hired hand, who wandered about looking for job. Orphaned- when a small boy, be was put to work as child. There is some record of him as a worker in Elizabethtown, Ky, digging a ditch and helping to construct mill dam.

It would appear that he earned as much as 75 cents a day. He helped to build a flatboat and to take it down to New Orleans, navigating the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in 1806. He got enough money out of that trip to marry Nancy Hanks. Thomas Lincoln was a carpenter and a farmer. During the whole 'of our history, men will debate whether Washington or Lincoln was the greater President, but few will ever question that Lincoln possessed a quality of genius that is outside the bounds of politics or economics or private success.

It is the quality of goodness found in a few souls whom men worship as of a moral stature beyond the usual. Lincoln bore on his shoulders the woes of Kind and suffered for their sins. One need only gaze upon his face, his lined, homely, magnetic face to recognize that here is the rarest of human qualities, goodness, the goodness that appears in Christ, Gotama, a Tolstoy, Ghandi-the goodness of the inner man who loves mankind and God and who guides himself by natural law. "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. Somehow one thinks of Micah when he said: and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" The quality to.

think in universal, eternal terms, to reduce oneself to the the smallness that man must be in boundless universe, and yet to speak in the grandeur of a reverberating goodness that lifts the spirits of all men who hear the words and remember them -that quality comes to few. It came to Thomas Lincoln's son, Abraham, who grew up on a farm without the aids of wealth or mechanical devices or even a formal education. Yet he drank into his soul the teachings of centuries and prepared for the few years when he would face calamity, not at all for himself, but for great nation whose chosen leader he had become. Why Lincoln? Why Thomas Lincoln's son? Why the child of hired hand, a carpenter, a farmer who raised pigs and cattle? Who knows God's wonders and how they come about? In Lincoln's day, in the big cities were great families with long pedi- Who GIVES BLOOD? "EVERYBODY!" answered hospital nurse, Dorothy Newman, when the question was put to her at a local Blood Donor Center. "Veterans, businessmen, stenographers, Yes, everybody shares this great experience together.

"The reasons? 'An older brother in Korea' a buddy lying forgotten in a hospital Here' a housewife who heard 'it would be needed in case we were suddenly That's what they say when they give blood." YOUR BLOOD may go to combat area, a local hospital, or for Civil Defense needs. But wherever it goes, this priceless, painless gift will some day save an American lifel NATIONAL BLOOD PROGRAM 1 GIVE BLOOD NOW Call Your Red Cross Today! CONTRIBUTED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY The Journal-Gazette Which do you think was the greater President, Washington or Lincoln? Mrs. W. L. Taylor, housewife, 801 De Witt "Now, that's really question.

I've always held them about equal. Washington helped to form the Union and Lincoln preserved it." Mrs. H. C. Vincent, housewife, 2813 Champaign "I would say.

Lincoln. The fact that he freed the slaves seems important to me." Mrs. Ray Walden, housewife, 3505 Western "That's a hard question. I debated that one time and I took Lincoln. But of the two and of the times I believe Washington was the greater.

He had to make beginning there and Lincoln could see his problem." David Pygott, city mail' carrier, Rural Route 2. Mattoon- "I believe Lincoln. I always thought he probably was more sincere and honest. He had a rougher row to hoe than Mrs. Howard Pyle, housewife, 3224 Moultrie "I'm a little partial to George Washington.

-I'm from over in Pennsylvania--about 80 miles from Valley Forge. I don't know whether that could have anything to do with it." Current Comment PASSING SCENE (Asheville, N. Citizen) The man down the block had face as long as a Democratic officehoider's sigh. "Look here," he said, pulling out 8 calendar: "Three Friday the thirteenths in 1953." We looked there and observed sadly that things are not always what they seem. In Epping Forest, England, a large stag led a charge of 25 deer against an automobile.

The automobile was knocked off the road and the stag, maybe, was found carrying a fender home on his antlers. In Rome a member of the Chamber of Deputies introduced a bill to ban the manufacture, importation or sale of war toys in Italy. In Newark, N. a woman was assessed $16,916 in back income taxes. Her occupation: Panhandler.

In Philadelphia the city signed contract to place advertising on parking meters, maybe proving the power of auto-suggestion. In London Mathematician Lancelot Hogben devised a series of radio messages which he believes ought to draw a reply from Mars, saying it would be a good idea to have a chat before start sending rockets to the Martians -who didn't pay us that courtesy with their flying Trade Conference Set MANILA (P)- Italy, Hungary and Finland are seeking admission to special conference of the United Nations Economic commission for Asia and the Far East in Manila next month. The conference, will deal with world trade promotion. The United States, France, Great Britjain and the Netherlands are sending delegates to the meeting. are regular members of ECAFE.

JACOBY ON BRIDGE By OSWALD JACOBY Written for NEA Service. Today's hand was a rather sad experience for one of the players, but it infistrates the kind of reasoning that is necessary for good bridge playing. East thought that he had made an unfortunate guess, but he had actually made a very. bad play. West opened a trump, and therefore deserved whatever happened to him.

"As I mentioned in yesterday's article, a' trump opening lead against a small slam is almost' invariably a horrible defensive maneuver. South wop the first trick with the jack of spades and immediately finessed dummy's jack of diamonds. This was not a bad idea, since the diamond finesse would have to be risked sooner or later. Declarer wanted to take the finesse immedi- USING BAD PLAY RUINS ANY GAME NORTH (D) 4.995 Q4 103 Q106 WEST EAST 874 4632 J7532 108 Q94 K7532 SOUTH 104 VAK96 North-South vul. North East South West Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Opening lead-4 ately in order to give East as little information as possible if the finesse happened to lose.

As it turned out the finesse did lose to East's queen of diamonds. East now had to decide whether his partner had the ace of hearts or the ace of clubs. It seemed like sheer guess, and a heart return seemed "safer" to East. This, of course, was duck soup for declarer. He could draw the trumps and discard a heart and a club on dummy's long diamonds.

East was guilty of very poor reasoning. 'The danger was that South had only a singleton or doubleton in either hearts or clubs. East had to lead that short suit in order to find his partner's ace. East should have worked out this problem correctly. If South had only one or two small clubs, West would have three or four clubs headed by the ace.

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0 He knew. the ways of men, for he Had known both weak and strong. He thought the proud should clearly see The line 'twixt right and wrong. Were Lincoln here with us today (And would that it could be) "Fight on for liberty," he'd say, "Till all mankind is free." Copyright, 1953, Edgar A. Guest) Thoughts THURSDAY Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.Matthew 28:19.

It is not the business of Christianity to provide an organization for the world but to infuse the spirit of Christ into the organizations of the world. Dr, Fred Fisher. had only one or two small hearts, West would have 'seven or eight hearts headed by the ace! If West had such a freakish holding, he would either bid the hearts at some time or at least would lead the ace of hearts to begin the defense. Since West had failed to bid hearts or to lead the suit, it was clear 1 that he did not have this freakish holding. Hence it was impossible for South to have only one or two small hearts.

On the basis of this reasoning. East should have returned a club after winning his queen of diamonds. This would have defeated the slam contract. You'll bid like an expert after reading Jacoby's Point Count Bidding booklet. Send 25 cents in coin with your name and address to Oswald Jacoby The Daily JournalGazette, P.

O. Box 438, Midtown New York 18, N. Y. Want Ads Pay! LITTLE LIZ Parents usually find the most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that they no longer belong to it. NEA TO THE EDITOR Editor, Journal-Gazette: Your editorial in Monday's per concerning the inhumane treat'ment of the truck load of horses was excellent and timely, It is high time legal steps are taken to prevent such occurrences in the future.

Much credit 15 due to the who stopped the driver and to Ray Foote of the Humane Society. I am today, sending a check to the Humane Society to help in their good work. HARRIETT ROSE SHAPER. Editor. Journal-Gazette: Please permit me this opportunity to express my appreciation fo: the wonderful job you and your staff did in making the 1953 March of Dimes a success.

I can say without qualifications that The JournalGazette was one of the most important instrumentalities contributing to the success of this drive. As you 80 well know, DO fund raising drive can hope to succeed without the support of the local newspaper and certainly I am proud to say that the 1953 March bf Dimes received your' whole-hearted support. At no time during this drive, did you or any of your staff ever fail to provide us with the means to inform the people of the community about the different events which were to take place. I am sure that everyone is aware of the notable public service you have performed in this respect and which you always perform in 'all- civic undertakings. Again, wishing to thank you for the fine job you did and with kindest personal regards, I remain, Yours very truly, JOSEPH R.

SPITZ, Licensed to Wed Robert D. Butts, 26, Mattoon, and Mrs. Mickey Sue Freeman, 21, Evansville, Ind. grees, families of wealth and cultured living. Already States was rich in vast institutions of learning where one not only learning but position and the mark of gentility.

Abraham Lincoln enjoyed none of these advantages. In fact, he had nothing but himself to depend upon and that faith in God which he applied as love for main. He understood the nature of sin and the glory of penitence and the righteousness of forgiving those who could not know the wrong they did, or they would not have done It. How few men have gone down in history with the appellation, good! of them, Lincoln is among the truly great. Ten Years Ago Today Feb.

12, 1943. Curtis Pryor, 34, of Indianapolis, a former Mattoon resident, WAs seriously injured in the Big Four Railroad yards in Indianapolis where he was employed as a switchman. Herbert Becker of this city and Miss Hazel McKim of Lamar, were marriage in Syracuse, recently." Mrs. H. C.

Kast, 75, 5, of Newport, a former resident of this city, was instantly killed in an automobile accident at Williamsport, Ind. Mr. Kast was seriously injured in the accident. The sale of the Diamond Packing Plant here to the Stewardson Packing Co. of Stewardson, was nounced in this city.

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$1 DOWN WEEK Bina 1623 Broadway Mattoon Answer to Previous Puzzle Lincoln's Birthday DAGO MOLE AMID 0000 NOT HORIZONTAL VERTICAL TRACE 1 1 Retinue LAC 0 Lincoln was 2 Go by aircraft AD born in a log 3 Unclothed 4 Feminine SMOG 6 He was U.S. appellation ON President 5 Seine during the 6 Vehicle CON OMON DODO War 7 Yellow bugle RODS SOON 11 He was plant prolific a 8 Loathsome 23 Growls 41 Sailors 113 Deep gorge 9 Arrow poison 24 Trees 42 The dill 14 Printing 10 Not as much 25 Greek portico 43 Bones mistakes 12 Polynesian 26 Planned 45 Hastener 15 Papal capes chestnut journey 46 Chief god of 16 His term as 13 Western cattle 28 Toiletry case the Eddas President was show 29 Dispatch 47 Roves idly filled with 18 Onager 30 Large plant 49 Ventilate 20 Violent dread 36. Amusements 50 Powerful .7 was the 21 Type of fur 37 Health resort explosive nickname of 22 Boisterous 40 Famous 52 Novel one of his player English school 53 Age sons 119 Eyes (Scot.) 20 Pesterers 24 Flower 127 Quickest 131 Tempest 32 Mother 16 33 Mohammedan nymph 134 Dried plum 135 Ceylonese garments 38 Nullify 31 39 Harvesters 41 Philippine 33. peasant 44 Entangle 35 .45 Swine 48 Handled 51 Lake in New York state 45 54 48 exudates 51 52 55 Nymph of the 55 sea 56 Begin 56 57 Cautions.