Ligonier Banner., Volume 81, Number 3, Ligonier, Noble County, 16 January 1947 — Page 2

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This is our view: A Tip For The Chamber of o ‘Commerce * Of 239 new industries established in 51 Indiana communities since V-J Day, 75 percent have located in cities and ‘towns of less than 100,000 and 53 percent in towns of 25,000 and less.

These industries are employing 23,284 men and women with estimated annual payrolls totalling $48,846,140. These figures released by the Indiana department of Commerce and Public Relations should be extremely interesting to the citizens of the smaller communities for many of the new industries, now only in initial stages of their 'development, will probably add at least 12,000 additional employees by the end of 1947, with payrolls increased proportionately. Such figures show a trend on the part of manufacturers to locate in smaller cities, which means that live, awakened Chambers of Commerce are going to bid for their share of this business.

An investigation of this trend by the ;ggo(lilier C of C would probably pay dividends.

A Birthday Sixty Years Ago Sixty years ago today John B. Stoll, editor of The Ligonier Banner celebrated his 38th birthday. “John, you are a mere youth yet so to speak. Just think, we are fourteen years older. If you take care of yourself, you will have many ups and downs before Gabriel calls for you.” _ Billy Beane, who wrote the foregoing lived eleven years after that and J. B. Stoll lived forty-four years. Both were widely known throughout northern Indiana. Billy’s name was a household word in Elkhart county for many years and no man had more friends than he did. J. B. Stoll was the most prominent editor north of Indianapolis® In-1872 he ran for auditor of state and was beaten by 273 votes. In 1878 he ran for congress in the old twelfth district and was defeated by John H. Baker of Goshen. In 1882 he bought the Elkhart Democratic Union and edited it for a little over a year, when an opportunity came to acquire the South Bend Herald which he changed to The Times and which he edited for twenty-five years.

The Economists Are At It Again This time they perdict a depression but disagree as to its life-span and intensity. Twelve of the 13 business authorities recently polled by the United Press expect hard time to develop during 1947. Economist Roger W. Babson, who claims he called the turn on the 1929 market crash, anticipates a depression in 1949-1951 as bad as that of 1932. Other forecasters expect a minor recession which would bring prices to the 1945 level, a decline in the national income to between $llO and $l3O billions and unemployment of between 7 and 12 million. The big slump, they say is years off. : '

Dr. Paul Nystrom, President of the Limited Price Variety Stores Association, is greatly concerned over the growing inflation. He sees as the dominant factor in promoting additional inflation, the constant boosting' of wages and the labor unions’ program of substantially increased minimum wage.

Nystrom believes the Nation will witness the strange spectacle of inflation coupled with unemployment. This, he says, will develop from the fact that with wage rates lifted too high for the smooth working of our economy, employers will not be able to maintain full employment. The unemployed, according to Nystrom, will be taken care of by a gigantic WPA and the lowered production per worker may mean that we shall pass from a surplus economy to a deficit economy.

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For me the month of January has a great lure. It is the month I do my best gardening. You see, I'm strictly a winter farmer. In fact, during my many travels I have yet to find a more avid fan, in this healthy sport. Of course, I'm giving the month itself a great deal of credit, when actually it goes to the many seed concerns, who, either because of the lethargy of their mailing department or because they feel it the right time, mail out their attractive seed catalogs. : ._

_There was a time when I scanned the advertising columns of all the garden magazines and then requested their “free, beautifully colored 100 page catalog.”” Now that is not necessary. They remembered my name and address, and each year 1 get the new edition with nary a request on my part.

What a delight when they start arriving! I give each and every page . minute perusal. In my mind’s eye I see myself harvesting- the many new discoveries. (Each year, a new product from each company.) %

- Almonds that grow under ground, Peaches that grow on VillpS. Delicious vegetables that are either a cross between a cabbage and lettuce or perhaps celery and turnips. I shall be the pride of my family . . . the envy of my neighbors.

One year I discovered a pure white tomato. I built a window box. With loving hands I planted the delicate seeds. Did water and dirt sprinkled on my wife’s new rug deter me in my quest to bring to life this marvelous discovery? I am here to testify it did not. - :

Then came the transplanting season. I prepared a spot beside my home, where ongde beautiful petunias had grown. (Is it not silly-to grow flowers when such utility can be given to the limited soil?) Out of two hundred and forty-two seeds I had fifty plants.

Transplanting reduced the number to nine, and although the season was too short for all nine plants to bear fruit, I-did get a small basket of yellow tomatoes. And so goes most of my experimentation with plant oddities.

I myust admit at this point that my ardor is somewhat damped come spring, but with the aid of my grown son, I manage to get the garden spaded and the seeds planted.

When the hot July days roll around, my. desire to weed is nil, and it is only after long hours of nagging that I get my son to the task. e

When fall comes I get great delight in harvesting the crop. This I generally accomplish myself, although I should mention that plant lice, aphids and bugs run nie an even race. sk

Notwithstanding my summer experiences, January finds my Spirits high, and the damp, dreary, windy nights will find me snuggled in my comfortable chair picking out my seeds, charting my garden and preparing for the -harvest. The fact that I purchase enough seeds to consume a few acres never disturbs me. It does, however, disgust my wife.’

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Ne % . . yl/l, 'I. l*l.:[li 3 ;531) ¥EO- m' D | = i §"‘).)l M ’.‘_-, J . o ~‘~‘.'.‘ .‘!-‘.S’ﬂ. R T .!-'l—'.. BIG FARMS VS. SMALL FARMS WASHINGTON. — Inside fact behind the senate small business committee’s release of the report on small-scale and large-scale farming is that the feport had been suppressed for nearly two_years by big California land interests.

The very fact that the bureau of agricultural economics dared make the study was one reason the last congress cut its research funds. .The study so infuriated Representative Al Elliott, California Democrat and friend of the big farmers, that he has fought all appropriations for farm research ever since.

The study was begun in the summer of 1944, while Congressman Elliott was leading a fight. to repeal the old law by which no one could own more than 160 acres of U. S. reclamation larid. The study compared two towns in San Joaquin valley section of California’s huge Central valley—one, Arvin, is composed mainly of workers on large industrialized farms; the other; Dinuba, is made up largely of people who own and work their own farms. It was found that Dinuba, the small farm community, had two independent business establishments to every one in Arvin, the big farm community; that retail trade was 61 per cent greater in Dinuba; that 20 per cent more people were supported by the same dollar volume in agriculture in Dintba than in Atvin; that the residents of Dinuba had a far higher standard of living—better streets, garbage disposal, schools, parks, public recreation, more churches, participation in local government, two newspapers to one. ]

- The study was recognized by economists as of great importance, but the pressure of large farmers and landholders was too great. It lay ‘buried until it was brought to the attention of fair-minded Sen. Jim Murray of Montana, chairman of the small business committee. He determined to publish it. i &® * & { SURPLUS GRAVY The comedy of errors that led to discovery of more than two million gallons of high octane gasoline in surplus military planes sold to a Jefferson City, Mo., scrap dealer caused an epidemic of red faces at War Assets administration. : However, WAA_chief Gen. Robert Littlejohn and his aides would have been even more embarrassed had the whole story leaked out. Besides the 5,540 planes with their $700,000 worth of gas sold to the Missouri dealer, WAA also sold about 15,000 other planes, also tanked up with high octane gas. This fact, however, didn’t get out. In addition, dealers who bought the planes reaped a tidy windfall from costly radio equipment, motors and gears. _*s » . OIL SALESMAN LEWIS In the coal and oil trade, John L. Lewis is sometimes called: ‘‘The greatest oil salesman in history.” Here is the reason why: Railroad after railroad, unable to ‘afford costly tie-ups from coal strikes, now is converting from coal to oil. There was a day when the railroads, deriving a {remendous revenue from hauling coal, sided with the coal operators and the miners in opposing oil. But not now. The Boston and Maine, which, next to the Maine Central, pays more per

ton for coal than any other railroad, is switching to diesel engines as quickly as possible. The Jersey Central, which taps ‘the Pennsylvania anthracite. fields, also is going over to diesels. And the Pennsylvania, which runs straight through the best bituminous coal fields in the East, is laying in some diesel switch engines. : But the most interesting conversions are taking place on the Union Pacific. That road has long burned oil to some extent, but it also happens fo be the sixth largest coal pro--ducer in the world, with a production of 6,500,000 tons annually. “ The towns of Rock Springs and _Hanna, Wyo., are almost entirely dependent on coal mined for the Union Pacific. Today, however, those towns may become . like the skeleton mining cities of the gold-rush days. . v For, in addition to 800 oil-burning locomotives, the Union Pacific now is converting all mainline passenger trains to oil. In addition, their “Big Boy” freight locomotives, the world’s heaviest, are converting, together with 115 switchers and 45 diesel units. . L .. 'The Santa Fe also has just ordered ‘new diesel units. . MERRY-GO-ROUND L _ Gen. Mark W. Clark will be with_drawn as Allied commander in Austria immediately after the Moscow conference. He then will receive a new army post it the United States. - of Oklahoma, who lost out in the * Democratic primary two years ago WWWWWF@ e o N wAR e e e WEa R SeTR S RRe e e T

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Dear Editor: I feel certain that Ligonier readers would be interested in the activities of the Indianapolis Symphony program, and am sending this ‘letter as a contribution to your “Opinions” column.’ The first popular concert of the new year will be presented Sunday, January 19, at 3:00 P.M. in the Murat Theater. Composed entirely of waltzes, the concert will feature D‘o‘x.'is Stockton, Marimba artist, as soloist. This is Miss Stockton’s first appearance with the orchestra. -

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“CHARITY” Rev. Edward G. Mahoney, O.M.L Pastor, St. Patrick’s . “A new Commandment I give you-that you love one another, as I have loved you.” John 13:34. There is little doubt that our daily lives provide ample opportunities for practicing charity. With. such a variety of tempera--ments, diverse viewpoints and the differences in ages, charity is put to a hard test. St. Augustine says: “If only a few cranks were living, there would be little room for char-. ity; so God made many cranks to make more room for charity.” It is not the nature of charity to love others directly. It is not the natural liking which Christ demands of us. That is natural virture and subject to human attractions. Natural virtue is so selective _and so inconstant. Not so with the _charity of Christ. His love is indirect ‘and always supernatural. It -is indirect, for it loves Our Blessed Lord so much that this love overflows to others. And real charity loves all neighbors because it sees™ souls where .human love sees only faces. Charity knows that those souls are made to the image and likeness of God Himself. Like the charity of the Good Samaritan, it .goes out to the service of enemies ‘as well as to friends. That is what ‘makes it supernatural. The'love of God implits certain duties. Pirst there is duty of self. Tilrst and God and our neighbor %ﬂﬁﬁ%@w%% e i ik et

The orchestra - will open the “Popular, Waltz Concert” with Offenbach’s “Orpheus Overture”, followed by Delibes’ “Waltzes from Coppelia -and- Sylia”. For her first number Miss Stockton will play the “Moto Perpetuo” by Paganini, and the Tchaikovsky “Valse Sherzo”.

Several popular waltzes by Strauss will be presented by ‘Fabien Sevitzky and the orchestra including “Tales from the Vienna Woods” and “Artist’s Life.” A medley of popular Victor Herbert waltzes will follow. ;

Other orchestral numbers include Tchaikovsky’s ‘“Sleeping Beauty Waltz”; Godousky’s “Old Vienna”; “Valse Minature” by Fletcher; “Dance of the Hours’ by Ponchielli and “Danse Macabre”, a symphonic poem by Camille SaintSaens, which means “Dance of Death.’ T g

Mail orders can be sent to the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Murat Theater, Indianapolis 4. Indiana. ' : Thank'you, i . - - The Management

Christ taught us that the finest expression of- self is—strange to say—the sacrifice' of “self. The language of love is' sacrifice. Wherever there is, deep, abiding love; there is self-giving. .The second duty of charity is forgiving. It is not easy to forgive. Yet Our Lord enjoins us to forgive, as He forgave those who nailed him to the Cross. When He taught .us the prefect prayer—the Our Father—He prayed: . . . Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. . . s” The Our Father becomes a mockery on our lips, unless we practice as we pray. We expect others to forgive us for our faults; they have the same right to expect forgiveness from us. : - The third duty of charity is “Judge Not.” Recall the striking lesson in the gospel? The woman taken in sin is .brought before Our Lord. Her accusers would stone her to death—that was .the Old Law and that is human love. But Christ said to them: “He that is without sin, let him cast the first stone.” They went away one by one, for they were sinners. “Judge not and ‘you shall not be judged.” These are salutary words to alf of us. We are quick to censure others and slow to censure ourselves. Charity says: “Look to- thyself and correct thy own faults.” Let God—in His _ Finally, charity demands that we SO Tl B e % e e e R SR Wl sl Ael g

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RABBIT FEVER' TULAREMIA, or rabbit fever, as most lay people call it, is a jvicious infection acquired from various wild animals through the bites of blood-sucking flies or wood ;ticks which have previously fed ion infected animals. Too, it may |be acquired through bites of infected domestic animals, or from _drinking raw water in contaminated areas. Most frequently it .is found in hunters who have killed and handled wild rabbits or in ‘housewives or butchers who have dressed them. Eating inadequate1y cooked meat of infected animals imay also serve to transmit the disease. ~ : The disease begins with a small alceration of the skin at the point where some minor abrasion per mitted the bacterium to enter. Then follows enlargement of nearby glands, chills, high fever which may drop to normal at daily intervals, a skin rash and general involvement of the glands, with severe prostration and much pain. It may last for months., Tularemic pneumonia or other dangerous complications may cause deaths. About 5 per cent of cases die.

- Until recently the best treatment of tularemia was mostly preventive. Hunters were advised to avoid the bites of flies and ticks and to wear rubber gloves or some other form of protection when handling such wild animals as iLra bbits, muskrats, opossums, 'squirrels, quail, pheasants, etc., and to refrain from drinking unboiled water in infected areas. . Serum treatment brings relief ito some sufferers. More recently it has been shown that streptomy cin is a most effective agent in ‘controlling tularemia. -

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IF there lives the person who L doesn’t drool at the very mention of onion soup we don’t know him (or her). French style, Italian style —how it's niade doesn't usually matter. It it's seasoned well and brought piping hot to the table it’s sure to please. Because soups hit the spot more than ever these winter days, Nancy Holmes of the Best Foods kitchens suggests her own thick, creamy onion soup to warm you up from top to toe. Serve it as a luncheon dish with a tossed salad and desgert. Or don’'t you think it would mgke an excellent forerunner of & cheege souffle for dinner? Creamy Onion Soup 6 onions 4 cugs hot milk 8 tablespoons 6 tablespoons vitaminized flour . margarine 18 small =slices 1% cups boiling French bread water OR potato chips 4 bouillon cubes 2 tablespoons ' or dry soup grated ' powder : Parmesan style 1 teaspoon salt cheese

Sauté onions slowly in vitaminized margarine till yellow but not soft. Add boiling water with soup cubes or powder and salt dissolved in it. Simmer 10 minutes. Add 1 cup milk slowly to flour and stir smooth. Add to onion mixture with rest of milk. Cook until thickened. Cut small sized loaf of French bread very thin. Dry out in oven. Or use potato chips. Sprinkle with cheese and brown slightly. Float a few slices of bread (or chips) on soup and pass rest like crackers. Yield: 6 servings.

Space Savers for Travelers For .those 6f you who have trouble packing a week-end bag because of the shoes you want to put in, quilted cotton bedroom slides will help solve the problem. Since the soles are also made of quilted cloth, the slides may be folded up and tucked in any small corner of the bag. They are easily washed, phould be fubbed frequently, and need no ironing. : ik : Electric Wells . . Electric power for pumping oil wells was first used in 1802, in West Virginia. j

a virtue left to the individual. When we die, our bodies are encased in a coffin; but there is no casket to confine our influence. If it be good influence, what a tribute to our charity. If it be bad, what a sad legacy from wus who are bound to practice the greatest of - (Next week: The Reverend Ever-