Ligonier Banner., Volume 81, Number 12, Ligonier, Noble County, 20 March 1947 — Page 2

A Page of Opinion: e The Ligonier Banner

This is our view: Futility Of Conferences

From Dr. Henry C. Link’s new book “The Rediscovery of Morals” comes ideas worth the consideration of every American and The Banner has chosen a few excerpts for the perusal of its readers.

“One of the great bromides and falla»ies of our time is the belief that any quarrel can be settled if the disputing parties will get together and discuss it over the conference table. In the realm of industrial conflict, the conference method has become the universal panacea. The result has been more and more disputes and more and more bureaus to mediate such disputes. Accepted as an instrument for creating class harmony, this method has become one€ oi the most potent factors in aggravating the class struggle and every other form of conflict.

The essence of the prevailing conference method is not discussion but compromise. It is the mechanism of appeasement which substitutes expedients for morals. It is a method of bargaining in which power is substituted for principles. Issues are not settled, they are merely postponed or glossed over by a temporary concession or a high-sound-ing verbal formula. Now we have gone so far as to put our trust in the eonference method for achieving lasting peace. Possibly the church should not participate in industrial, political and international disputes, but they cannot ignore the moral aspects of such disputes. It is their duty to proclaim, dogmatically and intolerantly, that no conference which lacks basic moral principles of right and wrong will arrive at decisions conducive to harmony. It is their duty to affirm that no amount of talking or bargaining which ignores the ideals of justice and fair play can hope to achieve permanent peace.

The churches cannot contribute to social harmony unless they insist that cerfain principles are not subject to bargaining or arbitration, either by management, labor or government.

About their creeds, forms and rituals church denominations may differ and be tolerant with impumity; but on basic morals affecting the conflicts between races, classes and individuals, they must agree or lose what is left of their influence. :

The weakness of organized religion today lies not in the variety of its denominations and creeds but in its lack of moral unity and certainty. ;

The greatest and most immediate task of the churches is to resurrect and to reinterpret the universal morals of personal and social conduct.”

The Easter Origin Lent—the word now describing the period of fasting observed by Christians preceding the celebration of Easter—originally meant spring. The word'is of Teutonic origin. From the beginning, Lent has been considered an essential part of the Easter celebration, which comes as a day of rejoicing after a fast commemorating the death and burial of Christ. -

Such fasts have always - varied in rigor according to the country and people observing them, occasionally meaning complete abstention from food and drink for a stated length of time. Pre-Easter fasting was required by civil, as well as ecclesiastical law in England during the Middle Ages. The law was enforced until the reign of William 111 in the 17th century.

Originally there was much confusion as to the exact limits of the Lenten period because the early Christians had chosen the time of the Jewish Passover as the date for celebrating Easter.

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MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR by Calhoun Cartwright

Blue Monday, and I must begin the day with an apology. Three weeks ago I resolved to go to church each Sunday, and then in my best reportorial fashion recorded my impressions in the coming issue of the paper. I believe my excuse is good, but it all adds to the fact that Sunday I failed in this resolve. It shall be restarted with the coming Sunday.

“Musings,” Being a column in which I allow myself the privilege of sounding off, and which you, naturally have the privilege of reading or not reading, shall be consumed this week with strictly personal impressions.

I have long been intrigued with the word “success”. Through the ages, and in different strata of society this word has taken on many hues and meanings. Christianity has tried to teach us that a successful man is one who has mastered the art of living with his fellow being honorably and with tolerance. Followers of Mars have linked success with viectory in battle. The scientific mind measures success in terms of accomplishment, the politician in terms of power and the great mass of Americans in terms of financial gain. / _

Peculiarly most humans resent the struggle for sucecess in others, but are willing to hop on the band wagon once it is realized. This resentment stems in most cases from a strange form of insanity called ‘“‘jealousy”, which possesses most people to a degree. The degree is generally determined by the rung of the so-called “Ladder” the individual has reached. The nurse is geldom jealous of the doctor, the stage hand, the actor or the private of the general, but within the sphere of every man’s accomplishment comes the pangs of jeal“ousy, and it causes more general unrest, more sadness, more. uncomfortableness than any psychological reaction known. Few like to admit that a jealusy or a series of jealousies consumes them, but the facts are there, protest though they may. Basically such reactions undoubtedly stem from the struggle to exist, and the world has not yet learned the secret of existing through the full force of their combined efforts. When and if that day arrives it will be a wonderful place to pass the mortal days. You nor I will see it. We can struggle for it and gain satisfaction therefrom if we believe in the worthiness of the propogation of the spirit. - If most people will set their goal for success on being honorable and tolerant they can experience the glow of satisfaction such success will bring with comparative ease. If the will is strong the goal of accomplishment can be reached, but the upward path will be strewn with heartaches and failures for fellow human beings will offer stumbling blocks along the way. If the goal is financial the intensity of the struggle will depend upon its size, and success will be determined not only through effort, but conditioned by breaks, luck and other factors. j

If the goal is military or political every base element in the human race will be thrown across the road. Success will afford compensation of a varied nature, and the -struggle to maintain that success will be frought with obstacle after obstacle.

Choose which course we may, the job is difficult, but in my humble opinion worthy of the effort. Worthy of the efforts if we place any value on the schemes of things. \

Christians of Jewish origin ended their fasts on the “14th day of the moon at evening” with Easter following at once, without regard to the day of the week. Gentile Christians identified the first day of the week with the Resurrection, disregard the day of the month. The disparity was settled by the Council of Nicaea.in 325 when it was decreed Easter would be kept on Sunday. L But, althoggh some of the earliest peoples agreed that Easter Sunday i 8 “the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox,” (April 6th this year) the custom of observing a Lent of six weeks ‘and - four days, comprising 40 days of fasting, excluding Sundays, developed very slowly.

ey I'l4//11.‘ : MERAY-GI ’T D J[ b § i g -!}:', _‘.(“(.:‘. e e e ,n;';. 3 GREEK SITUATION SERIOUS - WASHINGTON.—ImpartiaI diplomats returning from the Near East report that the American dilemma in Greece is even more serious than the long-faced story which General Marshall gave to congress. They report: 1. That the Greek countryside is now almost wholly in the hands of Greek guerrilias, a situation almost as bad as when the Germans held the towns and the Greek guerrillas ruled the couniryside.

2. That MElf a million extra people have fled to Athens to escape guerrilla fighting. 3. As a result of the veritable civil war and the influx into the cities, the fields have not been cultivated nor crops collected. 4. If British troops were withdrawn, the government of King George II would fall almost overnight. =

Unquestionably Communist agents from Yugoslavia and Albania have been pouring men into Macedonia and to some extent into Greece proper; so that if the British army were withdrawn, the risk of a Communist government in Greece is considerable. o However, it also remains a basic

fact that the overwhelming majority of the Greek people—probably 70 per cent—are conservative, homeloving farmers who want to be left aldhe by both extremes. Essentially they are individualists and democrats—bitter enemies of Communism. :

Furthermore one out of every eight Greeks has been in the United States or has relatives here. Their real ties are much more with the United States than with Russia or England. 3 2 * » * VETS’ HOUSING CRACKDOWN Home buiiders who have been defying federal regulations on veterans’ housing had better start consulting their lawyers.

Certain builders in the Denver and Cleveland areas are being haled into court to show why they have failed to file sales reports on housing begun before controls were lifted last December 24. This housing, numbering more than 350,000 units, still is affected by price controls and veterans’ priorities. : Furthermore, the Renver and Cleveland cases are only curtain raisers to a nationwide crackdown on builders. OPA compliance officers have evidence that there have been widespread violations, with the result that many vets have been gypped. < . - » . FREIGHT CAR SHORTAGE ! The current tragic tie-up of the nation’s economy because of the freight car shortage might have been saved if the railroads had taken the advice of Washington experts. It was never published at the time, but two years before the war J. Leonard Replogle, former Republican national committeeman from Florida and expert on the Baruch board during the last.war, gave -the railroads a blumt prediction of things to come. = Testifying before the Stettinius board on national resources necessary for the impending war, Replogle warned that the country would need 400,000 new freight cars to handle wartime economy. He told the board that many of the cars now in use were old and would not bear un‘der the wear and tear of war. He urged a government loan to finance 400,000 new cars.

This brought loud and vigorous protests from the American Railway association. Their spokesman, the late J. J. Pelley, replied that the railroads were in good shape and needed no new cars. Nothing was done. Result: Critical steel had to be diverted from building freight cars during the war, » ¢ =B TRUMAN MEETS BUREAUCRATS There has been no official an- " nouncement about it, but President Truman has quietly started a unique practice. He has been visiting different government departments to meet their staffs and discuss various problems with the personnel. He is the first president in many years to do this, Bt Truman started the idea when he told Secretary of the Interior ‘‘Cap” Krug that he would like to come to lunch at the interior department. Delighted, Krug arranged a small, informal lunch with 15 key interior department officials present. Many of them had been in government service 20 years, but never had seen, much less talked to, a president,

They are the men who keep the wheels of government running no matter who is elected. ¢ » 8 CAPITAL CHAFF Harold Stassen is expecting big things from his present two-month globe-girdling tour. He hopes to get enough ammunition from talks with Stalin, Attlee and other European leaders to make plenty of political hay for his next fa]l's speaking tour when the GOP 48 sweepstakes hit the home stretch. . . . Col. Jay Cooke, Philadelphia banker -and former GOP chairman who is accom. panying Stassen to Europe, wants to be secretary of the treasury if

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Dear Editor: It is a pleasure to write in my first letter to the Banner on something that I believe is of great importance and advantage to our community.

In a discussion last week relative to the number of Water softeners used in this town the following conclusion was reached: If the amount of money that is used to supply and maintain the “few”’

softeners that are in operation in the homes of this city was actually invested in a CITY WATERSOFTENING UNIT, the entire

'SERMON OF THE WEEK ¢

A BIBLICAL CONCEPTION OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE - By Rev. Everett Reynolds , Read Col. 1:9-24 : Note particularly the eighteenth verse, “And He (Christ) is the head of the body, the church:— that in all things he might have the preeminence.” Why do people go to church? Why do they support it with their time and their money? Is it not because they want to be saved and go to heaven? : ~ Many people are all twisted in their idéas of Christianity. They seem to think that it is just being morally good, and this conception is preached from pulpit, radio, and press; but it has no foundation in the Scriptures. : - What is the Bible idea of a Christian? Just to name a few: 1. In faith he is a believer.

Too many professed Christians are unbelievers. They have more “don’t believes” than they do “do believes”. They say I don’t believe this or that is necessary to salvation, or to Christian living. Christianity is not negative but positive. It is positive faith in God and in Christ, his Son. It is absolute faith in the Bible as the word of God and the all sufficient rule of faith and life, so far as Christianity is concerned. This logically leads to the next point that the Christian:— e 2. In heart is obedient.

. If we don’t believe a thing is ‘necessary or essential, we don’t do it. People refuse to do certain things, even though it is commahded, because they don’t see any necessity in it. . .1 am often asked, “Do you believe in baptism, or the Lord’s Supper?” My answer is always “No.” I believe in Christ and I obey his commands, not because I believe in them, but because I believe in

city could benefit by that fact instead of the chosen few who could afford a pfivate unit. ,

My proposition is this: Why cannot our Chamber of Commerce get a movement under way to obtain the said unit for the City Water Works? The cost?—yes, it would be fairly large, but payment could be made gradually by small taxations of a dellar or so to every family on the regular waterbill during the process of a year or so, and pay for the needed unit.

All would benefit—even from a soap angle over the period of a yvear. No one, rich or of medium standards, would be burdened, and ALL could benefit. I would be the first to assist such a movement! Have you tried to buy even a small unit for family use? Have you tried figuring the costs of maintaining that private unit? It have—and I own and operate one. Indeed a city unit would be beneficial to me—but also to the hundreds of families that don’t know what it is to use REAL water. Sincerely, J WK

Him. One who loves Christ and believes in Him will be obedient unto Him (see John 14:15-21). 3. In character he is a saint. In the King James New Testament we see the titles “Saint Matthew”, “Saint Luke”, ete., but

these are not the only saints. All Christians are ‘saints and priests (see II Cor. 8:4; I Peter 2:5-9). 4. In relation he is a son. Rom. 8:14, 15. Paul here says we are sons of God by adoption, and as such we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. What a glorious thought. 5. In conflict, he is a soldier.

Paul said to Timothy, “Suffer hardship with me as a good soldier of Christ Jesus” and in Eph. 6, he describes the Christian soldiers armor. s

Many things are required of a soldier, but above everything else he must be loyal. And to be a good soldier of Christ demands loyalty to Him. To be loyal to Him we must be loyal to His church for which He shed His blood. No one can be loyal to Christ and disloyal to the Church; for they are one and the same. “He is the head of the body, the church” Col, 1:18-24.

So after all, Christianity is not what we “think” or “believe”, but what is the Biblical conception of the Christian life? Next: The Reverend Richard Bowersox. :

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and women in floor-length Igowns, topped by wraps of furs. I tried to carry my pre-war jacket casually, and just let the. lining—which is silky and fancy-looking —show, The outer side is definitely not ermire or sable. .

- One thousand people were there, including the Club members wha are American correspondents hav-« ing served overseas. W. W. Chaplin, whose voice you have probably heard many times, wasg toastmaster. I had expected to seq a middle-aged man but he turned out to be a tall slender blackhaired young chap —the same -voice but not looking as he sounds, He introduced Senator Austin who is doing such a statesmanlike and sincere job of trying to build international understanding between West and East through the UN! He said that “collective security depends upon American military and economic strength” and urged that we have universal military training to help provide this. He also said that we just must “seek to avoid hysteria” and that we “do not need to fear anybody,” but rather our job is to try to remove fear from our minds and the minds of other peoples and “rgplace it with confidence.” en. Austin was followed by the new rage of the railroads, tq use a v&?v slanl&y description| Robert R. Young. Mr. Young made a speech that was popular because he knows how to turn a neat phrase. He, speaking on international relations and some inadequacies of the UN, expressed his opinion—that privilege and right we all love. But Mr, Young is an exgert in the field of railroads and not in collective security and/or the United Nations, As a result, his speech, which was unfair to UN in several respects, seemed to leave Sen. Austin and many aqther informed guests conipletely cold. Edward R. Murrow, that capable and well-liked Columbia Broadcasting System executive who received loud applause upon being awarded a Certificate of Merit by General Courtneti’ H. Hodges, brought this pungently to mind. Mr. Murrow. accepting the award for himself and some colleagues ‘similarly honored, closed his brief remarks by saying “I'm tired of war and I'm tired of oratory.” He glanced in the direction of Mr. Young and left the dais. Mr. Murrow’s words were also po&ular. Hector McNeil, Britain’s head delegate to the Economic and Social Council, reminded us again of the straitened conditions in his country today when he told of a cable from his wife that day. It read: “Coal and coke arrived today. Much love, Sheila.” Mr. McNeil said when he left England his wife and }\;oung baby were in their home that was completely unheated. :

Among_ the people there were Richard Tregaskis, Robert Considine, J. P. McEvoy, Dorothy Thompson, Admiral Thomas Kincaid, Sen. Chan Gurney, who also spoke, ‘Margaret Bourke - White, James L. Kilgallen, Larry LaSueur, Cesar Saerchinger, et ce~tera, et cetera. PINHEAD SKETCH ... DR. OSWALDO ARANHA . .. Brazilian Delegate to the Security Council i'nd presiding - officer for March. - Tall, grey-haired and 53, Speaks five languages fluently. Foreign Minister of Brazil from 1938 to 1944 when he broke with President Vargas, who had been an pld friend of revolutionary days. Wife and two daughters with him, two sons in Brazil. eLSO . . . Two new assistants to Sen. Austin are Maj. Gen. Frederick H. Osborn, former director >f the I & E-Army service, who will be American deputy to the UN Atomic Energy Commission, and John Ross, of the State Department, who will serve as administrative assistant to Mr. Austin. . . . Secretary-General Lie has proposed the setting up of a UN committee_to study the Palestine problem. He is awaiting replies from the Big Five on this idea.

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The setting was the famous Waldorf-As-toria Grand Ballroom with its two tiers of boxes overlooking the main floor fhat was filled with candle - lit tables and men in tuxs or tails;