Ligonier Banner., Volume 81, Number 13, Ligonier, Noble County, 27 March 1947 — Page 2

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This is our view: Crippled Children Receive

The little boy in the picture is a victim of cerebral palsy commonly called spastic paralysis. He can not run like other boys and girls, he can’t even walk or stand alone. However, he is a regular boy with a keen mind and a desire to

go to school “like other kids”. Johnny had understood from some time that he could not go to school. He felt “left out” and different. He used to cry when his little sister started to school in the

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morning with her books under her arm, he wanted to go too. Fortunately, the School Superintendent in the town in which this little boy lives was so interested in seeing that all children have an education that he wrote the Indiana Society for Crippled Children with the hope that some provision could be made., The Indiana Society for Crippled Children is paying a licensed teacher by the hour to tutor Johnny along with another little neighbor boy who is his, same age. They are in the same grade and the spirit of competition and the companionship makes schooling lots more fun. Johnny’s mother made her sun porch into a school room. The Society has purchased suitable equipment for the teacher to work with and these two little boys who would otherwise be left out as far as education is concerned are keeping up with their local class.

Hundreds of homebound crippled children are receiving an education through the Society’s tutoring program. Every spring young men and women receive high school diplomas, some of them having gotten their education at home by tutors furnished by the Society.

A Word About Millersburg

We have added new members to our family, and herewith welcome our Millersburg neighbors to the fold. Naturally it shall be our continued aim to produce the best possible newspaper, for we believe strongly that a newspaper, whether daily or weekly, has a definite responsibility to fill. :

In taking up where Lawrence Cripe has left off our obligation becomes greater for he is a man respected and loved by the many who know him. If an eye infection had not made it impossible for him to co®tinue, he 'would still be at the helm of his paper. Because of this we cannot be jubilant. Too few men have found their chosen field, and revel in the problems that confront them daily. Few men ecan come to the time of retirement and look back with satisfaction on the means with which they’ve made their daily bread. I believe Mr. Cripe is one of those gler(li, and I know that leaving will be ard.

The present management promises its fullest energies to the fulfillment of its obligations. It also seeks the cooperation of the community in paving the way. .

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MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR ‘ by Calhoun Cartwright

~ If among our readers, a few aspiring writers are preparing to bud, let me herewith burst a few of the bubbles that you may know what lies ahead.

First, writing is just old fashioned hard work. It requires more stamina than most professions, and the heartaches and disappointments are manifold. If perhaps you are laboring under the misconception that writers work by inspiration, dispel the thought, for nothing is farther from the truth. To be successful you will go through the longest period of apprenticeship k‘r.lown among the professions, and with it all your effort can easily end in mediocrity. If you are to make a living you will slave over every word, and the discouragement therefrom will test your metal to the limit of its endurance. J. P. Marquand, one of Americg’s better novelists, professes a deep d?%like for the profession, and is able to accomplish results, according to his own admission, only after blood-sweating hours of mixed agony and despair. Rule number one therefore is work. Work regularly and in spite of feelings. Set up a schedule of hours and keep them. Make ° the typewriter sing even though the efforts are tossed to the wind upon completion.

Rule two is have something to say, and know whereof you speak. More aspiring writers have been left by the wayside for a lack of material than any other one reason. If you are high school age write about present interests. If you have lived your entire life on a farm don’t waste your time trying. to write about the pitfalls of the city. Don’t attempt to relate the idiosyncrasies of the idle rich if you have<ived your life in moderate circumstances. Don’t hie yourself to the shores of Tahiti if you have spent your days in the wastelands -of the west. Remember you will always write with conviction about the things you know, never about the things you do not know. There is a story in every minute of the day, on every inch of the land. Find that story, then write it. When you send your first manuseript to an editor don’t cuss him out " when he returns it, and swear it was never read. Editor’s are ever on the alert for new writers, but they, like any business man, take few chances with their business. It is safer to ‘buy from the established craftsman than to take chances on an unknown. Being human beings they generally follow this policy. This should not deter you in your ambition for that break can and does come. I have among my acquaintances a man who wrote forty-four short stories and thirty-seven radio seripts before one was accepted. Later he sold three-fourths of the previously rejected material. : . There are no short cuts, no easy road, no secret formulas. Writing is just hard ‘work. It requires the “patience of Job” and the tenacity of a bull dog, - -——-———_._o_______— ‘

Sunday I visited the Evangelical United Brethren Church. It is a beautifully appointed, restful place. Its walls give out a reverent welcome pleasant to behold. Its congregation, large and friendly, seemed at peace with the world, and I was happy in the experience. - : Rev. John Rollings, kindly, sincere and soft spoken, is the man I should like to describe if I were writing a play or a novel of a minister. His sermon offered, rather than admonished, the way of Christian living. It carried hope and was refreshing. I had just finished the Sunday paper filled with the strife and turmoil of a chaotic world, and was not conditioned to the peace that fills the hearts of many men. It was solace indeed to find a place where peace and humility reigned. o 7 Rev. Rollings spoke of the loneliness and anguish of Jesus Christ when he went to the Mount of Olives. He spoke of the loneliness and anguish most men experience sometime during their life’s span. He spoke of thie eomfartfﬂmiiy and friends can bring. Perhaps I felt it more deeply for I have experienced the _pangs of loneliness. I know of the charm mi{, family aud;éixia:d;a éhaveﬁn&tgg when these periods I ave ( escended scended upon me. 1 know of the TEos SECh Nowple things can hold. It is worthwhile to

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OBJECTIVES IN MOSCOW - WASHINGTON. — As a military man, General Marshall planned two great offensives. One was in 1918 when he charted for General Perghing the transfer of one million men from St. Mihiel to the MeuseArgonne front, plus 40,000 tons of ammunition, 34 hospitals, 93,000 horses, 164 miles of railway and 87 depots—all in a week’s time with no enemy aviator discovering it. The other was in the last war when as chief of staff he planned the historic landing on Normandy. These two offensives, great as they were, in some respects are not as difficult as the two great peacetime objectives which George Marshall as secretary of-state is attempting to win at the conference in Moscow. Those two objectives are: 1. A permuht peace treaty with the nation which has caused every major European war in the past century—Germany. b 5 2. The end of our present suspicious, chip-on-the-shoulder re- - lations with Russia and estab- . lishment of a permanent friendship with the nation which can be our most disastrous enemy. Both, obviously are interdependent. And if Marshall can win real friendship with Russia, the treaty with Germany will be much easier to perfect. ¥ . ®» * LESSON FROM LATIN AMERICA One of the great lessons learned from our Pan-American relations is the importance of teamwork. Prior to the good-neighbor policy we worked as an individual nation. We landed troops in Haiti, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. We banged Mexico over the head with diplomatic threats and mobilized troops on her border. Result: All Latin America disliked us. Then Sumner Welles sold’ Roosevelt the idea of being a good neighber, of sharing responsibility. So when trouble arose in the western- hemi- ~ sphere, the Pan-American nations solved it as a team. Result: Fewer mistakes were made and when they were made Uncle Sam didn’t get all the blame,. : : The British empire hitherto has operated on a unit basis. It didn’t worry about teamwork. Result: It is hurriedly liquidating ¥rts bf the empire and reaping bitter criticism in Palestine and Greece. Further result: The United States is asked

to share the financial responsibilities—and the headaches—in one of those countries without having too much to say about the things that cause the headaches. If we become the bankers for British-headaches, the pain and the blame can extend to Turkey, Italy, North Africa and all over the world. That’'s why we should take a leaf from the Pan-American good-neigh-bor book and let the United Nations get busy in Greece before it is too late. - @ & . DEFLATED DREAM Most interesting, though somewhat deflated political figure in the senate today is Robert A. Taft of Ohio, together with the “‘question: Will he achieve his long-cherished - dream of following the footsteps of his father up the front steps of the White House as President of the United States? Not since 1940, when energetic, progressive Wendell Willkie stole the: Republican nomination from under Taft’s nose, has he forgotten for a minute his ambition to duplicate the father-son presidential success of John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Viewing the 1940 Philadelphia convention in retrospect—after the trouncing FDR handed Willkie— Taft was not too unhappy about it. In 1944 he realized that FDR could not be stopped, and he was glad to let Tom Dewey and his Ohio GOP colleague John Bricker ‘‘take the rap.” The big chance for the Republican party, Taft figured, would come after the war. - The results of last November's congressional elections - definitely convinced Taft that he was “right. The next two years held his big chance for the presidency. After 1948 it might be too late. He has ‘played his cards accordingly. ~ Taft immediately put himself at the head of the Republican party as far as Capitol Hill was concerned. At first," Taft was riding high, wide and handsome. Today, his reins are trailing in the dust, He is scarcely riding at all. And what is especially depressing is that Tatt's reverses have come not from e S b U R e * ‘ﬁ . Fow people know it but a Hght S orhaaberi . S s 308 o in to see the senators perform?” o Now that he has left the RFC, igg&'&%@g‘g’%@y

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Dear Editor: : An all-time record attendance is expected this season at Indiana State Parks. Attendance last year almost reached the 1941 peak, and with new automobiles and new families for many Hoosiers, park superintendents are anticipating heavy traffic at all gates. ; Improvement in facilities has been nqted at several parks, in-

TASK WE CAN ONLY BEGIN - By Rev. Waitstill H, Sharp “The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a mustard seed, like unto leaven.” : And so, at this moment in history, is the Kingdom of Earth. Today we begin the task of World Commonwealth. The construction work is two-fold, as with every institution: Means and Ends. The creation of ideal Ends for world order concerns standards, hopes, concepts of human rights. The elaboration of Machinery for world order concerns committees, courts, assemblies of experts. There must be interaction between Means and Ends, a partnership of Machinery and Morale. For without Ends in view at the start, no Means are ever created. And without Ends in view all the way, no Means can be ‘'sustained. And, conversely, without ‘Means, no precedents are ever established to nourish the life of Ends. Machinery implements the Dream; the court of justice, the -free newspaper, the emancipated church, sustain the hopes of men for a new day. ... So our work is Weteld: . o 0 ~ Ours is a desperate ‘task. Ours is a task we can only begin. We

are ‘“out in the inventor’s shack” today, like Henry Ford in his little bicycle shop, and Bell and Edison and Pasteur in their lonely laboratories long before vast, world-fam-ous, highly-capitalized institutions had been named for them to recapture the heroism of the First Mile. Ours is a task we can only begin. And in this likelihood of al-ways-tense, unprecedented, prob-‘ably-unrewarded pioneering with world order during these next fifty years—in this solemn portent stands the deepest spiritual needof Americans today. For we are a _pragmatic tribe, restless until we see the results so precious to the American temperatment, so deep1y the source of American optimism, But there will probably be only meagre results of our world order planning during the lives of two generations. Our best hope is

cluding a new saddle barn concession at Tippecanoe River, land acquisition and a new group camp site at McCormick’s Creek, better bath house accommodations at Brown County, more boats and a new entrance at Lincoln and new free trail maps for all parks. : One thousand picnic tables constructed during the winter have been distributed for replacements and for additional comfort. : Our state parks are open the year around, but we have gate keepers installed only during the summer months. At most parks they will start collecting the dimes this weekend. Turkey Run, which opens March 29 will probably have its customary rush of spring flower lovers. Rosebud and dogwood will begin to appear soon at such famous spots as Brown County and Spring Mill. : Yours truly, ¢ - Kenneth R. Cougill, director : Division of State Parks

only to stave off a third world conflict for these next fifty years. Our day will see only the planting of the seed, and watering its tender sprouts, and shielding its cotyledons from the frost and the cutworms, Ours is the day to place the leaven of the World Idea amidst the mass of undisciplined sovereign relationships. Reinhold Niebuhr says: “We have been given the task of creating community in larger dimensions than anyone in two centuries can aceoplish.” This, therefore, is the hour of testing for every resource of morality and religion. I think now of my father planting a pine tree in the autumn rain. He was gray, and stooped with

years of college teaching, and in the last November of his life, but radaint then, as through all his fifty years, toward the promise of every living thing. He left a youngpine tree climbing toward the sky. He left me a deeply significant memory. The expression of the highest morality and religion is this: To begin a long-time process —good in. itself, like planting a tree, rearing a child, founding a college, a church or a settlement house—from which no profit will accrue to him who begins that process or protects it in infancy. The

most eloquent profession of social idealism and religious insight is this: To begin, but only to begin, a creative process—to plant a young pine tree in the rain; to give life away so that third and fourth generations may enter into joy. : » This is the day when we begin the final task of Commonwealth. The very life of all civilization is in play. But first at stake is the life-expectancy of our creative faith; if this survive first, then civilization will survive. For about all that you and I can hope for during these next fg ty years is the _prevention of andther world con--vulsion while dreams and devices are a-building; while precedents of - bearance and intelligence are rais-

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ing, indications seem. to point to Congressional approvul. This means that the U.S, which took a definite path away from Isolationism when it ratified the UN Charter, now

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travels even further on the road to building one world. As the President pointed out, we won't obtain the objective under the Charter of freedom for all peoﬁles unless we are willing to elp them maintain freedom’ against totalitarian movements. This is a historic era in our lives, as our country moves on broadening the scope of its foreign policy. James Reston, Pulitzer-prize-winning writer for the New York Times, points out that the President’s speech, while showing weakness of the United Nations in not being eqf‘lipp‘ed yet to handle the Greek situation, at the same time gives impetus to the drive to get military forces behind UN as provided for in the Charter. The Military Staff Committee of UN has not as yet been able to take action on the matter of forces.

ALSO . . . Dr. Bernard Drzewieski, (pronounced Jevieski) who is Director of the Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Section of UNESCO, recently arrived in this country for a speaking tour. I-heard him the other day tell of the condition of schools in his native Poland and other devastated countries. He cited not only the lack of school books but the roofless buildings in which students and teachers have to gather, no- benches, no blackboards and often one pencil for all. He said the children are beginning to forget the 3 r's. ... A very fine movement. for building good international - relations is being sponsored by the American Women’s Voluntary Services in

their Friendship Boxes.. Packed in ordinary cigar boxes, items such as pencils, crayons, and other thinf we take for granted, are furnished by members and friends for forwarding to devastated countries by AWVS. Aima Kitchell2 radio commentator, has been bringing to her microphone wives of UN delegates to tell how the boxes are received in their lands. . . . Some staff tgembers at the United Nations have been dissatisfied with salaries and allowances for those away - from home. They held a meeting one recent evening in the huge corridor of the Lake Success headquarters to get their complaints off their chests. Secre-tary-General Lie spoke, asking that they stop calling him a “tyrant.” (From Treliable indications, he is anything but that). Mr. Lie’s problem, which he pointed out to the employees, is simply a most limited budget. A good indication of this is shown by the fact that the entire UN budget for one year is $14,000,000 less than the annual budget of the Department of Sanitation for the City of New York. With this _budget, Mr. Lie must not only - take care of more than 2,000 employees but also operate an orgznization comprised of 55 memr nations that is strivindg to eliminate war and thus avoid expenditures such as approximately %100.000,000 for one -battleship. xpenses for meetings of the Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, Human Rights Commissioxz Atomic Energy Commission, an many other necessary commissions must be met out of the total $27,000,000 yearly budget. . . . PINHEAD SKETCH ... MR. FARIS AL-KHOURL Syria’s representative to the Securitg Council. Sixty-eight years old. Practiced ‘law in Damascus, and sttg‘ pointed Professor of Law at the Syrian University of Damascus in 1919—0 n leave from that post. Prime Minister of his country since 1944. Also President Board of Directors of National Cement gogiety andda WDireptor of tth; pinning an eaving Socie and member of Association of Graduates of High Scientific As~ sociations—all in Syria.

ing the walls of the Holy City, hope by hope, memory by memory, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little. The good rewards, the years of quietness and confidence forever, will come later, after we are gone. We are summoned to create, only by faith within ourselves today, the mood toward the world dream and world devices which later generations will find easy and rewarding. The bread will come back upon the waters—but after our time. We are planting a young pine tree in the rain. The time will come when it will cleavethe sky, to the glory of God and to the comfort of dren's children will play beneath the shelter of its boughs. ~ But this day we are planting a young pine tree in the rain.