Ligonier Banner., Volume 81, Number 15, Ligonier, Noble County, 10 April 1947 — Page 2

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Farewell, Friend

From our midst a friend has been taken, and the community mourns with justifiable sorrow. During the short period of our being in Ligonier we came to know and revere George Brown, whose warmth and kindliness had spread its contagion beyond the limits of the corporation for many long years. No greater compliment can be paid any man than to say he is a gentleman, ever vigilant to maintain a high standard of Christian living. No greater solace can rest in a storehouse of memories than to know a father has left a heritage of honorable living. George Brown spent a life time in a community he loved. He saw the friends of childhood grow into manhood ang pass on to the great beyond, and thoug his ‘sorrow might be deep he wore not his heart upon his sleeve, for the ways of life were understood and respected. As the days pass by the memories left by one so kind provide the solace for their loss, and immortality become reality. : Over the mantel of a friend hung a beautiful picture. A picture so full of the beauty of life that each passing day brought warmth and pleasure to those who gazed upon it. The picture had been loaned to my friend for safe keeping, and as the years wore on I am sure he believed it his own. One day the rightful owner came to claim his picture, and with tears in his eyes and anguish in his heart he gave it up. The owner left, and the mark upon the wall where hung the picture was blank, and brought sadness, to my friend. But one bright day he looked upon that spot and to his dismay the picture was back in place, emitting all the pleasure and comfort it had held those many years. My friend once again was happy for the memory of that picture had been restored to his eyes, and he saw it though it were not there.

The Cancer Drive

The current drive for funds by the Cancer Society is another worthy cause about which many pleasant things can be said. But we all know that.

We also know that only through our contribution can science work toward eradicating this cruel killer. The national goal of the American Cancer Society is $12,000,000 which will be spent for service, research and education and no money could be given to a better cause. : ' It seems, however, we are fighting a forest fire with a water pistol. The statistics on cancer are frightening. Seventeen million persons now living in the United States will die of cancer under present mortality rates. The need of public education is enormous, but no greater than the need for expensive and exhaustive research. : : In the waning days of the Seventyninth Congress a bill was defeated that would have provided a fund for national cancer research, service and education. Its proponents logically argued that any nation which could spend billions in finding the secret of atomic fission should be willing to spend a relatively small amount in aiding mankind. Logical, but futile. There is no alternative but to contribute generously and willingly to the cancer campaign.

—Reprinted from the Journal-Gazette

THOUGHTS FOR- THE WEEK:

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.—Spurgeon. :

The Bible is the learned man’s masterpiece, the ignorant man’s dictionary, thedwise man’s directory.—Mary Baker Eddy. :

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.—William H. Seward.

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The cracker barrel club was having itssnoon meeting when Joe Purvis came in all out of breath and asked if anyone had seen Gus Crumpit. Course no one had seen him for Gus wasn’t a member of the club, and besides most of the boys looked down their nose when Gus did, by-ehance, come around. ‘ : - Clem Hofer spoke up, “Don’t know he’d be welcome if he did show his face, a critter as ornery as he is.” » “T an’t got time for arguing,” Joe retorted, “but if I don’t find Gus before ;:he bank closes I stand to lose ten dolars’” ' George Cranstraw, who generally listens and says little, pricked up his ears and with his eyes still half shut said, “Might’s well lose it one way as ’tother. Ten dollars don’t buy feed for a banty hen these days.” ““Tain’t no time for politics -George Cranstraw, and besides ten dollars is ten dollars, and I don’t aim to lose it.” Most of the boys figured that Joe was starting to pull one of his gags, and they refused to ask any questions, but Joe looked worried, and was just going to leave when George raised up again and said, “Better get Nord Jones if your needing legal talk, Gus Purvis ain’t read but one law book in his life, and that had to do with marriage.” “Nord’s in- North Jefferson, and I can’t wait,” Joe pleaded. “Gus’s better'n no lawyer at all.”

“That’s a legal question,” piped up Brand Payton, who’d been snatching crackers with such rapid regularity that it had been hard for him to enter the conversation. ' Everyone got a chuckle out of Brand’s remark, but Joe couldn’t see the humor. He turned abruptly and started to leave, but returned when Brand shouted, “What’s up Joe.” “T'll tell you what’s up, “ifen I don’t make a claim against a check I've been holding and get her to the bank I might lose it.” “What makes you think Gus’ll get it fer you?” George asked. “He’s a lawyer ain’t he ?”’ “There’s some question on that score, but fer the sake of argument we’ll say he is.” - I remember once when I was selling washing machines that Al Ferghiemer blew into town and ordered one. Course I took a down payment, and sent the order in, but for sgme goldurn reason the washing machine didn’t come.” - “I don’t suppose a day went by that Al didn’t write or call long distance wanting to know about his washing gadget, and I .was about to the stage of having him taking it and, doing what he pleased with it, when I got a letter from the company saying they’d had labor trouble and would be shipping it as soon as the smoke cleared away. Well, I set right down and wrote Al a letter telling him the deal, but it didn’t seem to impress him. He jes kept on writing me or calling me long distance.” ' Finally one day I was a setting home reading the paper when Al drives up in front and staggered up to the front door. I seen he was drunk so I went right out on the stoop and met him “Yhalf way. He was all upset I could see, and the first thing he said was to either give him his washing machine or return the down payment.” I tried to pacify him, but weren’t no use, so I just closes the door and goes back to my reading.” - B Well, he must of stood out front talking to himself for fifteen minutes, but he finally leaves, and weren’t long before he calls me onh the phone and says I'm stealing his money and had no intentions selling him a washing machine, and that his wife is raising old ned cause she wants to start using it instead of washing by hand. Do you know, I felt down right sorry fer him, but I couldn’t produced that washing machine if hed a come at me with a gun. I told him to see me in the morning when he was sober, and then I called the factory manager and asked him about the machine. He told me it was shipped, and I felt better.” G The next morning I hadn’t been down town ten minutea when Al ‘came across the street with ! ~\fis anwfig,ym were scowling with all their migh night” ~ Gus busted into the room and wanted to know if I was samtosiwflm his down payment, and I said no. Well sir, he might near exploded and started

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SCIENTIFIC BEDFELLOWS It’s not making the front pages, but significant hearings are being held before the house interstate and foreign commerce committee for establishment of a national science foundation. In view of frantic atomic experiments abroagj these are important. :

Originator of the science-founda-tion idea (providing federal funds for research) was West Virginia's able senator, Harley Kilgore. His bill, which set up a board of nine men appointed by the President and confirmed by the senate, was backed by the White House and many scientists. Key to the Kilgore bill was the provision that all discoveries made through the use of federal funds be made available to the public. However, the bill now before the house interstate and foreign commerce committee, introduced by reactionary Congressman Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, is carefully angled in another direction. It provides that a board of 48 $l-a -year men from private business shall administer the funds allocated to the national science foundation. And most significant is the fact that the Mills bill provides no safeguards to prevent assigning patents and processes to the big business groups which these $l---year men represent. : Kilgore’s bill was passed by the senate last year, despite the open opposition of the National Association of Manufacturers, which wanted its members to profit from govern-ment-endowed research. : However, the NAM did succeed in bottling up the Kilgore bill in the house and now is trying to substitute the big business-authored Mills bill in its stead. ¢ & = DEMOCRACY AT WORK MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK DEPARTMENT: The Virginia Press association is bringing two French journalists here for a threemonth tour to get acquainted with

the United States. Charles Sans and Girard d’Orgeville are the working newsmen who will make the trip. Credit Miss Daphne Dailey, editor of the Bowling Green Caroline Progress, with the idea. . . . The American field service, having done a great job as volunteer ambulance drivers during the war, has taken on a peacetime job—sending American students to study gbro‘,. with a reciprocal arrangement for foreign students to study in the USA. . . . Upon the death of Harold D. Smith, ex-budget director and a great public servant, his family asked. that friends not send flowers, but donate the money to cancer research. There are now 180,000 deaths annually in the USA from cancer, yet its origin and cure are still unknown. . . . The Bronx veterans’ hospital is building a swimming pool dedicated to the four chaplaing — Protestant, Jewish, Catholic — who gave their lifebelts to soldiers on the sinking transport Dorchester and went down praying that there might be more good will among men. The four chaplains were Father John P. Washington of Newark, N. J., Rabbi Alexander Goode of York, Pa., the Rev. George L. Fox of Cambridge, Vt., and the Rev. Clark V, Poling of Schenectady, N. Y. . @ @ L TAXING HOLLYWOOD It hasn’t been officially annouriced but the treasury department is all set to collect several million dollars ' from Hellywood stars and film executives who cleaned up huge sums by paying capital gains taxes rather than income taxes on picture profits. What happened was that when income taxes zoomed, the film people hit on the idea of organizing separate corporations for single pictures. Then after each film was produced they liquidated the corporations and paid a capital gains tax of 25 per cent instead of .a personal In- ~ come tax of 80 to 90 per cent. One of the single-picture men was producer Sam Goldwyn, who last fall learned that the treasury intended to collect the difference between the income and the capital gains rates. Goldwyn announced that he would go into court to uphold his right to pay at the lower rate. Following this it looked like the treasury had backed down. However, the treasury now has ironed out all the legal kinks and bills for back taxes now are going out from the Los Angeles office of the. bureau of internal revenue. s« Hollywood drug stores will do a booming businou in aspirin. Se e e . Adm. Ernest King, retired commander of the fleet, is writing his ‘memoirs in “From Argentia to Wbmfimeh the Atlanmhwm% b“*; ”w%‘\ great pleture-record of the war, bas

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Dear Editor: . ! Would not this be a crazy world if we called upon the lawyer to remove our appendix or the doctor to furnish® our legal advise? But why not? Both possess brilliant minds, good educations and some experience.: Still, we would M- agree that such a world would be crazy indeed if ‘we followed such a pattern. Yet, right at this moment the world is following this plan on the most important matter of our time. While seeking peace on earth, and perhaps goodwill toward men, we are also talking and possibly planning World War 111. This planning for peace is being done by men, no more qualified than the lawyer to remove an appendix or the doctor to settle matters of law., The peace is being planned by men of brilliant minds, but lacking in the one important detail—experience. - ‘Wars are started and declared by statesmen, not military men. ‘Wars are won by military men, not statesmen. Who is more quali-

JESUS, AND THE RESURRECTION ; By Rev. Dennis Holliday _ Read Acts 17:15-34 “Then . certain philosophers—encountered him (Paul), and some said; —He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods; because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.” Acts 17:18. The story of the Apostle Paul’s visit to the ancient'city of Athens, is an interesting one. 1. 'While Paul waited in Athens, for Silas and Timothy to arrive, his spirit was stirred in him when he saw the whole city given to idolatry. As he observed the city he saw idolatry on every hand. It has been said that there were more idols in Athens than in all Greece besides put together. Also, that there were almost as many gods as men in Athens, This grieved the heart of Paul. He recognized that in the heart of man is the ca_pacity to worship God. He knew these images were an attempt on the part of man to satisfy that longing to know and to worship the true God. But man’s thoughts ‘had become perverted, and degraded. Not knowing the true God, they made gods, yes many gods. ~ While in Athens, Paul did not remain silent. He bore his testi‘mony of Jesus Christ daily. He

fied to draw the plans for peace? In my opinion it is the man with the experience. After a few years of seeing, feeling and living war, the thing these men most desire is peace. They are willing to give or take to preserve the peace they fought to gain.

I cannot possibly imagine men planning another war after seeing their buddies die in the Solomons, Africa, France, Italy, Russia, Germany or a hundred other places.

The American delegation meeting with other nations to lay plans for peace /should comprise a few of the men who braved the hell of the Pacific, the Bulge; men who fought across the sands of Africa and into Italy; Sailors, whose ship went down gom under them; Airmen, who saw the flak bursting in their eyes. It should comprise mothers and fathers, widows and orphans, brothers and sisters of men who died in actien.

Allow us for a moment to imagine this delegation meeting with a similar group of Russians. Russians, who defended stalingrad; drove the German Army across Russia, Poland and back to Germany. Can anyone conceive of such a meeting discussing anything but peace on earth goodwill toward men? GI Joe and GI Ivan have the same desire, i.e., to live and let live, to build and not destroy. They know the horrors of war and pray only for peace. Does anyone have a better idea? What do you think GI Joe? Bill Scurlock

went to the central market place where all classes of . people gathered. There he preached and_‘tpld them of Jesus and His resurrection. : 'We are told that, Paul preached Jesus and the resurrection. I am sure he had plenty to say if he preached Jesus. To tgll of his supernational birth; his supernatural death, for he died for our sins, and not for his own, for he had none of his own. No other person ever did this.. Paul ecould tell of his supernatural resurrection; death could not hold the Lord Jesus Christ, he is alive forever more. 2. When Paul spoke of the resurrection, the peof)le invited him to speak in the midst of Mars' Hill, the place where the great thinkers of that day set forth their ideas. Paul began his message there by recognizing that these people had a longing in their hearts to worship. This was evident by their many idols. Among the many idols, altars an?ftemples’, Paul had found one altar with the inscription, “To the unknown God”. Paul said, Whom ye ignorantly ~worship, him declare I unto you. He is the true God, the Creator. ‘He s Lord of heaven and earth. all men everywhere to repent; be-

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Washington, D. C. . . . I don’t know of a more stirring time to be in the nation’s cag(i’tal than now, what with the iling GreekTurkish situation, reciprocal trade : hearin is B brewing, the @ . . Lilientha] SenTR ate debate S :1}:;1 . smoldering, and T ot .. reports from o &%%@ g the Moscow 4 8 R~ Foreign MinisWS W ters Meeting &4% 1 . steaming into ?:::é:;:r,-_,:-' 1:1‘ %wn dail g or Mitchel is is prob- _— ‘ ably one of the most momentous times in the history of our country—momentous particularly as we are faced with the decision of just what shape our new international policy will take. So many comments are being made that the President’s request for immediate aid for Greece and Turkey serves to by-pass the United Nations. While on the surface this may seem to be the case, the important factors to consider are the urgency and immediacy. of the need for help to Greece, and the youthfulness of the United Nations. Just as first aid is administered until the doctor can ‘be brought in, so is the United States anxious to give “first aid” until the United Nations can cure. And even while the U.S. is applying its healing powers, it is important that the curing abilities of UN be called upon. Many leaders are urging that wherever possible, the U.S. take the initiative in bringing UN policy to bear upon the GreekT'urkish situation and that the U.S. long-range policy toward this problem be handled through UN. This simply means that the U.S. must do what is necessary for immediate solution but that the UN be. called upon to take over as soon as possible. I rode past the White House today en route to the offices of the = National Committee on Atomic Information, located near the Mayflower Hotel. My cab driver happened not-to be a 'f'ruman fan and without provocaticn ‘blasted away at me, swearing rather profanely in giving his lopinion. I was most happy to reach the NCAI offices and leave 'the bitter cabbie—sans tip. (By ithe way, while it was a pre-war practice-to fly the U.S. flag over the White House when the President was at home and bring it down during his absence, wartime security practice. of flying it during all daylight hours has been continued. (nterestingly .enough, the only place where the ‘U.S. flag flies after sunset is over the Capitol here in Washington.) At NCAI I found the staff in ‘preparation for a tour of many of the states and towns with an atomic energy exhibit prepared by the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore. This exhibit graphically shows in panels—some of which are seven feet high—what atomic energy means and can mean to the average citizen. The Tesponse in Baltimore was so great and the audiences so largz for the exhibit and accompanying movies on the subject, that the NCAI was offered this educational :means for use in other parts of the country. It will next appear in Philadelphia and then head for the Midwest. : . This column has told you something of the NCAI before. Its educational efforts as a medium for public understanding of atomic energy continue. A clear.ing house established by sixty national organizations, it represents a total] membership or more than the adult population of this country. It prints literature and holds public meetings on the social and scientific implications of atomic energy. PINHEAD SKETCH @ . . SIR RAMASWAMI MUDALIAR . .. President of the Economic and Social Council Associated with UN since its Inception, having served as India’s chief delegate to the San Francisco conference. !Is 60 years of age, married and thas three sons and two daughigr:. ‘Lawyer by profession Prim: Minister of Mysore, province in India. Holds hoiorarv title of Diwan, Bahadur, K.C.S.L

cause he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; in that he hath raised him from the dead. 3. When Paul spoke of the resurrection of Christ, it divided the people into two classes. Some of the people mocked him, and ridiculed the idea of the resurrection of the body. We find some people ‘like this even today. But there was another group of people, who heard Paul speak, and they believed. They believed and also associated themselves with Paul for further instruction. They became Christians, they became children of God through faith in Jesus Christ. One of these converts was, Dionysis, a man of distinction, a member of the council. A woman was saved by the name of Damaris, and others. _ God’s command to all men every‘where is to repent; turn from sin, and -believe his Word. Read your - Next week: Rev, A. H. Miller.