Ligonier Banner., Volume 80, Number 49, Ligonier, Noble County, 5 December 1946 — Page 2

A Pagg of Opinion: - Che Ligonier Banner

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This is our view: Au Revoir, Friend When Eugene Cummins and his wife . finally depart for the golden west they will leave behind in Ligonier a host of friends who will send with them their best wishes for a successful and happy future. r It is not an easy job to enter a strange city and set-up in business. It is probably even a harder job to take over the newspaper. First, the entire community must rally their support, for running a newspaper is a communal enterprise. Secondly, first impressions can be lasting, and the degree of success attained will depend largely on the manner in which the people “size you up.” ~ “Gene” was sized up pretty well if the kind things said about him are criterion, for in his quiet, efficient way he set out to .do ' a job. The intervening months saw that purpose fulfilled. The glimmer of a tear in his eyes as the final bill of sale was signed, attests his devotion to the Banner, and to the pleasantness of his stay in Ligonier. It will be au revoir and not goodbye from the many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Cummins when the day of departure finally arrives. , ____.,_——o_._—-————— : Why not, the Fdcts Facts recently released by the National Coal Association deserve publication in lieu of the prominence now given to coal mining and miners. In August, the average weekly earnings of bituminous coal miners was $62.87—a higher average weekly earnings figure than reported by any other industry in the United States. It was 161.18 per cent higher than in 1939. The rise in the cost of living between 1939 and August, 1946 was 44.6 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. . ; It has been said that the miners must work a 54-hour week because some mines work 'six days a week, but very few miners work all the six days. In June, for which government figures are available, the average work week was 42.9 hours. The standard work week in the industry is now 35 hours, and all the time worked over 385 hours is paid for at the rate of one and one-half. Why not, the facts? They will no doubt come as surprising news to many people. : : ,

More Interesting Facts

While we are fact conscious, the National Board of Fire Underwriters give out with some amazing figures. One out of every hundred homesis destroyed or damaged by fire each year. Every day, on the average, 110 stores burn. Fire strikes in 29,900 factories each year. The daily total of theatre, hotel and restaurant fires runs to 78. It all adds up to a total loss which may exceed $600,000,000 this year. Fire destroys between ten and eleven thousand lives annually, and here is the sad part of the tale: The American people could prevent something like 90 percent of all fires by simply exercising proper care with smoking materials, plus periodic inspections and repair of heating plants and electrical equipment. ; -

| Attention, Veterans The Veterans Administration reminded Indiana World War II veterans of important deadlines for benefits to which they are entitled. _ The first deadline affects an estimated 200,000 Indiana veterans who have let their G. I. term insurance lapse. They may reinstate this insurance on or before February 1, 1947, without a physical examination by signing a statement that their health is as good now as when their policies lapsed and by paying premiums for only two months. Deadlines for several other benefits will be set automatically when the President or Congress officially declares World War II ended.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:

Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscuire origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.—Bovee.

Ligonier Banner " Established in 1867 4 Published every Thursday by the Banner Printing s - Company at 124 South Cavin St. . Telephone: one-three ; - CALHOUN CARTWRIGHT, Editor and Publisher Ma second clul matter at the postoffice at Ligonier, Indiana under the act of March 3, 1879, Advertising Federation of America %&%xﬁmw’gm e

MUSINGS OF |3 | AN EDITOR A Cd / hOun ; | ;-'E'»:.‘;‘;‘?*"‘ %(%ﬂ Cartwright | _ 8

Musing is something a weekly paper editor is privileged to do after midnight when the last cup of coffee won’t allow him to be embraced in the arms of Morpheus. I say after midnight because the routine of the normal day doesn’t allow much musing until that hour. Perhaps a column of my own plus an editorial page is a luxury somewhat out of the realm of a weekly newspaper, but I am just old fashioned enough, and vain I suppose, to feel that Aan editor is not an editor unless he reserves a spot in the paper to sound off. During the course of a year such “sounding- off” can bring friends and enemies, but I for one am willing to make the risk in order to preserve the freedom of expression I feel is the bulwark of our American democracy. I must hasten to explain that sounding off in the Banner isn’t going to be confined to myself for beginning next week we will incorporate a weekly feature under the title “Opinions of Banner Readers”, and I expect everyone in this area to make use of this opportunity by speaking their piece as regular as the spirit moves. All in all I hope the columns of the Banner will continue to serve the community to the fullest, that the readers will find pleasure in its columns and that combinedly it will be a lot of fun.

I have been a bachelor for less than a week now (the family doesn’t get here until January), and believe you me I don’t like it. During the day it isn’t so bad, but at night its frightful. I wander around my three rooms like a lost soul, and if I didn’t possess a sense of humor there would be something pathetic about my attempts to make a bed, do dishes, mop the floors and dust the furniture. Never again will I ecomplain when my wife doesn’t have dinner on time. Never will I scoff when I am asked to take out the garbage, burn the papers or pick up my clothes. Why 11l even clean up the bathroom after myself without the slightest urge. Some wise sage says it takes two to make a home, and I’'m ready to shout that no truer words were even spoken. When I look back to my school days, and the enthusiasm I had for Schopenhauer and Nietzke, who preached bachelorhood as the only means of social progress, I blush with shame. Why those old codgers couldn’t have "known what social progress meant. Horace Greeley once said, “Go west young man, go west”. 1 say, ‘“get married young man, get married.” No man “can ever amount to a tinkers darn while single. Believe me, just a short week is all I’'ve needed to know I speak the truth. ,

It was my privilege last Sunday evening to attend the memorial services of the local Elks Lodge, which incidentally was one of the most impressive services of its kind T have ever attended. _ The officiating by Exalted Ruler Paul Roderick was well attended and in perfect taste, the singing of J. A. Leatherman a treat for anyone’s ears and the invocation and benediction by the Reverend Mr. A. C. Underwood well chosen and appropriater However, the address by the Reverend Mr. John Rollins was the high peak, and deserved the praise received by the gathering. Rev. Rollins was a substitute. He had been asked just twe days prior to the occasion to fill the shoes of Frank E. Coughlin, who was taken ill. Now, this is always embarrassing to both the organization and the man asked to substitute, but the speaker’s sly sense of humor saved the day, and he delivered as inspirational an address as you could hope to hear. 4N W 1 mused, after the meeting was completed, over the thoughts expressed by all the men, and realized what a great world this would ‘be if only half the world lived the full meaning of such convictions. - Charity, Brotherhood, Fidelity were the keynotes of the services .and the Reverend Rollins brought forth from Webster’s their meanings. I commend to you all a search in Webster’s for the meanmgs& of these words. It is nice to know that in the English language such words exist. It is nicer to know that in this world are men, who attempt to live their full meaning. Lo pas sl s ee e S S

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MORE DUPLICATION WASHINGTON. — President Tru_man is a sincere, hard-plugging advocate of unified armed services, but he should persuade his army to obey the policy of its commander-in-chief. At present the army is building a _ special wing to Walter Reed hospital at 12th and Dahlia streets in Washington which will exactly duplicate the navy’s. ; ke " This wing is to take care of the President of the United States. Simultaneously, the navy also has a floor of its Bethesda Naval hospital reserved for the President. It is all set to take care of him at any time.. However, medical officers have changed in the White House and a navy doctor isn’t in command any more. The army now runs the. show. ’ Roosevelt, always partial to the navy, ‘appointed Adm. Ross Mclntire White House physician. But Truman, who served in the army, selected Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham as White House physician. And of course an army doctor does not like to practice in a naval hospital. Therefore the army medical corps, wanting to avoid the humility of sending the President to a naval hospital, authorized a new wing to the Walter Reed Army hospital. . Thus, at the expense of theusands of feet of scarce lumber, tons of strategic metal and several thousand bricks, the special wing for the _ President is being built. * @ * * / U.B. VB. U.S.S.R. DEMOCRACY Secretary of State Jimmy - Byrnes has been telling the following story about the difference between democracy in Russia and the United States. ‘““An American soldier,” he relates, “was talking to a Russian - soldier in Berlin. The American said that in his country, he could go to Washington without a permit, go to the White House, wait his turn, get in to see the President and tell him that he doesn’t like American foreign policy. ‘That’s democracy,” said the G.L “ ‘That’s nothing,’ the Russian soldier replied. ‘ln my countiry I can go to Moscow, knock on the door of the Kremlin, walk in, wait my turn, see Stalin, bang on the desk and say, “Mr. Stalin, 1 don’t like Truman’s foreign policy either!” And nothing would happen to me. That’s real democracy.’” - ;** o , - SUPPRESSED REPORT While President Truman and other high government officials continue their enthusiastic support of the new Philippine government of President Roxas, there remain locked in the files of the White . House and Attorney Gen. Tom Clark two copies of a report which, it made public, has explosive power nearly as great as that of the suppressed Rogge report. The Philippine report was written by a special investigator sent to Manila last wiuter to determine what action should be taken against islanders who had collaborated with Jap occupation authorities. Inside’ fact is it pins guilt on nedtly all the leaders of the present Philippine ad- . ministration. Documentary evidence of collaborationist records of a large part of the present senate, cabinet and President Roxas himself is in- < cluded. i The charges include such criminal acts as aiding the Japs to wipe out patriot guerrillas, conspiring to _ seize food from famished Filipinos . for use by the Jap armies, in addition to the declaration of war against the United States in 1944. ~Although the vast majority of the . Filipinos hated and resisted the Japs, corruption spread through the top layers of political and industrial _-leaders. Result was that the justice department investigators recommended that the most important col- _ laboratienist clique be tried not in the Philippines, where it would be difficult to find a native court completely free of bias, but in San Francisco. 3 : Reason this recommendation was never acted upon, officials say, was largely Gen. Douglas MacArthur. A ey % _ Speaker Sam Rayburn doesn't. - want the job of minority leader. .. . - Southern congressmen are not en- - thusiastic over continuing the leadership of Massachusetts’ John Me- - Cormack and they have the votes to ~ but him in or out. .. . One fixture in jihord Meptavesety, the bouss chap- - in 1921, he was continued by the sol e e B ~ MERRY GO ROUND *‘“MM%@F _ last 20 years. . . . Retiring Speaker - Sam Rayburn tells friends that he' .et s e B T "of the aew smnaly cs formes tewyR eel e

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