Ligonier Banner., Volume 81, Number 22, Ligonier, Noble County, 29 May 1947 — Page 2

A Page of Qpinion: T s Che Lignnier Bauner

This is our view: i The Challenge of Shut-In’s - Day Governor Ralph F. Gates has once again proclaimed the first Sunday of June as Shut-in’s Day in Indiana. Pointing out the ever present responsibility to remember the civilian handicapped, the Governor has also drawn our attention to the new large group of disabled veterans who present a new challenge. There are two distinct varieties of shut-ins, and each can best be helped in a different way. Those chronic invalids, whose disabilities seem to indicate a liftetime of inactivity, require a very personal sort of remembrance. Personal visits, phone calls, friendly letters, gifts, flowers—all these help to make the existence of the permanent shut-in happier and more pleasant. A great deal of shut-in-ism is psychological. Many of those who are able to walk, plus a large number of those in wheel chairs and in bed, could lead much more active lives than they do now. Perhaps thousands of ex-Gls in veterans’ hospitals fall into this category. They fear so many things—the stares of the ill-mannered, the questions of the overly-curious, the inevitable embarrassing incidents. They get to thinking that they can face social isolation more easily than- these things: They reach false conclusions about mankind, who is essentially cooperative and considerate. Shut-in’s Day challenges all of us to help this group to overcome its fears. Taking them to church, for a drive, out to dinner—all this helps to show them that life is still exciting and filled with pleasant things, even for them. The challenge of Shut-in’s Day is yours to meet. .

Railroads Still Live in the Past The 10 per cent increase in passenger fares granted Eastern railroads. by the Interstate Commerce Commission probably was inevitable. \_ Whether the fare increase now granted will wipe out the deficit is highly problematical. There are many other factors which railroads must consider before they can feel assured of long term success. : _ Throughout the war years our railroads took a terrible beating. Equip.ment that had long been relegated to short runs or retirement was brought back into heavy duty. New equipment quickly aged and wore out under constant pounding and replacements were not forthcoming. Slowly, very slowly, new material is being put in use, but not fast enough. There have been wrecks—too many of them for the public’s peace of mind. Some probably are directly traceable t human failure, a factor difficult fo handle. Others have occurred because of old or faulty equipment. There is no excuse for that, ‘qi If railroads are to flourish and to handle the bulk of American travel the personnel must learn the true meaning of common courtesy. Too many trainmen today live in the dim past when a conductor who smiled was considered “a softy.” Too many consider themselves above the standards of ordinary human behavior. Conductors, trainmen, brakemen and others are employes who are hired to serve the public, the people who pay the fares. ‘Railroads which compel passengers carrying heavy luggage to board a train at one certain door and then search through several coaches to find seats are not awake to-the realities of today. Railroads which stop trains a block or two from the station and furnish no luggage service also are living in the horse hair sofa era. The public is tired of being damned. If the latest rate increase will remove the McKinley era thinkers from positiens of authority on Eastern railroads the public will gladly ‘pay. A kindly smile and a hefping hand would take the edge off those road bed jolts. Reprint from Fort Wayne Jurnal-Gazette

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MUSINGS OF AR ERITOR by . Calhoun Cartwright

As Mexfiorial Day approaches I can think of nothing more appropriate to print in my column than the following excerpt from a recent publication of an article entitled, “America Will Be Sacrifices.” I do not know the author’s name, but his thoughts bear repeating. To me they were a challenge for Memorial Day thinking. I pass it on to you. I will search Jerusalem with candles.— Zephaniah . “America will be sacrifices, or America will not be. America must be sacrifices, curing and ennobling our own American life; imparting health and hope to a ravaged world. Our sacrifices will take two forms. There will be obvious material disbursements of our wealth—money for schoolbooks in Tennessee; for mobile T.B. laboratories to fight the white plague wherever; for exchange students from Korea. These obvious external outlays will be debatable as to their amounts and scope and terms. Secondly, there will be the sacrifices necessary to achieve the inward spiritual evaluations which will be the sources of every material expenditure. These evaluations will require constant and undebatable sacrifice. We will save America, only if we are capable of these estimates of worth and duty. America will be the sacrifices of the whole gamut of selfishness laid aside in FACING THE FACTS SENSING OUR KINSHIP LOVING THE LORD. -

Our world-wide and national task is social redemption; we call it progress. Progress is the defense of society against frictions within and between nations. Progress consists of establishing mileposts of hope for men otherwise desperate with the delay of justice. Social redemption does not begin with all individuals. Social redemption begins with some individuals, ‘a task force. These three categories of actors seem involved in human progress:

I.The Pioneers: men and women with brains enough and conscience enough to lead off in the trek toward new areas of social justice. 2. The Followers: those who: know and care when the pioneers have revealed the way. 3. The Recipients: who don’t know enough to care, or care enough to know, how to be either pioneers or followers in unselfish effoert. In their dim unlighted way, they want what the T.V.A. brought to their Valley: They rejoice when the refrigerator and the electric pump hum with the labor-saving power from the far-off dams. But George W. Norris (the pioneer) and his colleagues (the followers), brought in -this new justice, this source of hope. The Recipients could not help; they are “those cared for,” always. Social redemption begins with the few who do not need it for themselves. Then it moves by inspired battle through the legislative mill or the national election. At last on the statute books, it redeems the lives of millions, the eared for. I saw UNRRA saving 3,000,000 Czechoslavak people from starvation; I often recalled,’ out there in Central Europe, that Amer-

ica’s share in that UNRRA program was at one time legislation hard fought - for and narrowly passing the 79th Congress. : America will be four grand trunk sacrifices, or America will not be. But America will be! America will live by ennobling life within and beyond her borders through these four sacrifices of her “Saving Remnant”’—a few men and women inwardly equipped to: : FACE THE FACTS : ; SENSE THE KINSHIP LOVE THE LORD ‘ SERVE THE CAUSE : I will search Jerusalem with candles —for such as these, : “ ... for wee must consider that wee shall be as a-citty upon a hill. The eis of all people are uppon us, so that if wee shall deale falsely with our God in this worke wee have undertakcn . . . wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world.” ; Thus John Winthrop writing of the promise of American life aboard the ship Arbella in Boston Harbor 300 years ago, at the dawning of the promise of that life . . . I will search Jerusalem with candlés—for such as these!” .

e ~ & 5 ,ulu,/;"l/,ln : ;oo { A LRI L 1 e Program for Greece . WASHINGTON.—Now that President Truman has been voted his money for Greece and Turkey, he faces the all-important question of exactly how he will spend it. Upon this largely depend two things: 1. Whether we have peace or war with Russia. 2. Whether Harry Truman is re-elected president of the United States.

‘Regarding the less important of these two points, it is interesting to note that the quarter billion dollars we are giving Greece will run out one year from now, just as the 1948 political campaign is getting hot. And if Mr. Truman has to come back to the taxpayer at that time and ask for more dough for Greece, then you can write it down as deflnite that he will be a one-shot president. If, on the other hand, the Greek program is a success, the so-called Truman doctrine may go down in history. And what’'s far more important, the peace of the world may be materially stabilized. $& @ v Keeps ’Em Guessing - Gov. Melvin Thompson of Georgia didn’'t learn anything about President Truman's political plans for 1948. when he visited the White House recently, but he eame away with a nice compliment for the people of his state. ‘ . Thompson, the man who finally triumphed over Herman Talmadge during the hectic days of two Georgia governors, left the door wide open for Mr. Truman to reveal his 1948 intentions. He reported that the Georgia Democratic convention had instructed its executive committee to send ‘a solid Truman delegation to the Democratic national convention next year. Truman grinned his appreciation, but gave no-hint as to whether he plans to run in 1948. In fact, he seemed more interested in international and domestic affairs. - “There’s nothing so unusual about our problems,” he commented. ‘““‘All postwar periods are accompanied by unrest and people clamoring for things they can’t get.” “You have had your own problems in Georgia,” Mr. Truman added with a laugh, ‘‘and I think the people of Georgia are to be complimented on the way they handled things. I refer, of course, to the famous battle of the governors.” 4 W " . ¢ . Making Democracy Live Mayor McKeldin of Baltimore . recently set aside one Sunday - as “Housing. Sunday,” during which Baltimoreans were urged to rent rooms, remodel houses and find homes for vetcrans. « « « Florida citrus growers have lowered prices to about onethird what they were at this time last year. , . . Citizens of Lockport, N. Y., and Pit{sfield, Mass., are building homes for paralyzed veterans. Last yeéar amputees were voted '‘automobiles by congress, but paraplegic veterans — those com- ° pletely paralyzed — have been largely neglected. . .". U. S. Army Mothers (Gladys W. Hughes, national commander) have about 25,000 members working voluntarily in hospitals - and otherwise alding wounded veterans. . . . Harvard university this fall will offer a special study of Russia, including the Russian language, Whether they are friends or énemies, it’s probably more important to know the Russians than anyone - else in the world. , S s&@ S $

Protecting the Marines A - hush-hush meeting between General Eisenhower and Marine Corps Gen. Alexander Vandegrift took place recently which may affect the armed forces merger bill. The marine corps commandant made such a two-fisted appeal to congress to prevent the marines being swallowed up by the army that Eisenhower sent for Vandegrift and asked him to talk things over. From a Leatherneck’s point of view, the meeting was not unsuccessful. Eisenhower made at least one major- concession: That the mission of the marine corps be clearly identified in the future defense setup and marines continue the amphibious operations which have made the corps famous for 150 years. . : Other points of difference discussed were: ' . 1. The marine corps shall remain a separate fighting force -under supervision of the navy when the navy is merged into the new department of national defense. Eisenhower said he would not oppose this. 2, The marine corps wants to be represented on the joint chiefs of staff in the new setup. Eisenhower refused to commit himself on this. 8, Vandegrift asked that the merger legislation provide for a marine occupation force for foreign dr.Sg » g 5 T ugfienhower “ vigorously opposed this latter point on the ground that occupation duty is strictly a job for

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* WHICH WAY THE WIND? A tramp slept in a farmer’s barn; That night he “hit the hay”. Next day he “hit” the open road— His practice day-by-day. Inquisitive, the farmer asked, “Tell me my man, I pray, Since you’re not going anywhere, You have no home, you say. “How do you know which way to go. >

FORGIVENESS IS CREATION - By Rev. Waitstill H. Sharp “Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those that trespass against us,” : _ Forgiveness is a two-fold creation. Forgiveness is a release into new life, not only of the forgiven but of the forgiving. Jesus was thinking of the gifts of forgiveness to the pardoner, when he said: “If thou bringest aught against thy brother to the holy place of God, leave thy gift before the altar .and go thy way. First be reconciled unto the brother whom thou hast seen; and then come and offer thy gift to the God whom thou hast not seen.” - The creation of the pardoner fol-

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By Ed Dodd

As you start out each day?” The hobo grinned a lazy grin, Szid he, “I’ll start that way; “'For, don’t you seé, my back will be i Toward the wind today.” And so he started toward the South The wind, it blew that way. One man will face a bitter wind, Since duty points that way; It matters not which way it blows, - This is his course today. s Another man, just like this tramp, Will go the other way; For him, life’s governed by the wind— ' “Which way the wind—which way ?” Me th_inks the difference in men, ~ Whether they go or stay, . May be determined how they mind The winds that blow their way. By Rev. E. C. Geeding, Kimmell, Ind.

lows after forgiveness. It follows for the father and the elder brother in the farmyard, welcoming the prodigal son; for David, the hunted fugitive, staying his sword hand in the cave over his sleeping king who had come intent upon his death; for Joseph on his throne, more of a prince after. he repressed his motive of revenge and bowed before the impulse of mercy. Jesus, shielding the magdalene from the stoning prescribed by the Law, was more the son of God than before he risked his life to defend hers and to bid her go and sin no more. The landowner as he parts with his servant in the Jubilee Year, is more of a man for setting his laborer free. Forgiveness carries a two-fold creative benediction. “The quality of mercy is . . .

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this session to the job it originally ‘'was called to do—set up an in‘'vestigating commission. - In so doing, the Assembly asked its Political and Security Committee to grant a hearing to ithe Jewish Agency for Palestine. The Committee is composed of 55 Inations., (The Charter does not provide for non-governmental representation before the Assembly itself) Dr. Abba Hillel Silver of U.S.A. representing the Jewish Agencg for Palestine, was heard in the first hearing Jewish people have received before a world tribunal. His was an eloquent appeal for a Jewish national home and admittance of European DPs to Palestine. At this writing, the Arab Higher Committee, - also a non-govern-mental agency, plans to appear to present its side, which will doubtless be Palestine for the Arabs only. e As for the investigating commission, the U.S. and Britain are asking that only neutral and uninterested countries be appointed, while Russia and Argentina are leading the faction which calls for Big Five representation on this commission. . _ By the way, Dr. Aranha is now +in the running for Prazidant ¢ ‘the regular session of the Geu‘eral Assembly in September. lOthers are Paul-Henri Spaak, of ‘Belgium, who presided last year, ‘and Jan Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. | : ALSO .., Plans are under ‘'way for United Nations Week, which will coincide with the ‘regular meeting of the Assembly in September. I had a delightful -ride up -along the Hudson River the ofher evening to Tarrytown, iwhiech has becn selected as the town to stage a model community .celebration for UN Week, September 14-20. Seated in an unusually pleasant dining room, high on a hilltop overlooking thz= twilight-covered Hudson, I heard discussion of plans of the business, labor, religious, medical, scheol groups—in fact the whole town—ifor the observance. Mayor Sterlin%Fisher, WIXQ is Director of the University of the Air for NBC, one of the active sponsors of the Week along with American Association for the United Nations, is spearheading the activi--ties in Tarrytown and Nortir Tarrytown , . . PICAO has become ICAQO, That’s because the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization has received the necessary ratifications by 26 countries, and has become a permanent, autonomous agency of UN, Its first meeting is now going on in Montreal . . . It's most significant in the trend toward democracy in the world, that there are now eight different areas ‘in Southeast Asia which are emerging toward self-govern-ment. Besides the Philippines, which have their independe-ice, tmd India, which is on the road, here are Ceylon, Noan:ir, Prenen, Indonesia, Korga ani Vi‘t Nara, which are rovizr iy o dirsc iz of self-coverny ~ !

twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.” ' Wherever a man shuts the door on an object of his forgiveness, he shuts the door on a source of his creation. There are areas in the world where hatred reigns as an historic virtue; these are the “border states” of the globe where such as the Hatfields feud with such as the Jenkses. The prides of each eclan are notches cut into their rifle butts recording their murders of their foes. Hatfields are curiosities; ‘they were once written up in LIFE, But no one has much use for Hat-

fields yet, for Hatfields are only now learning to forgive. They were great men—with a grudge and a gun. They are not very far along on the highway of creation. . . . No one has much use for Hatfields. So there are two cycles of creation at stake when forgiveness is . struggling to assert its still small ~ voice against the growlings of re--venge. When we forgive another for his sins against us, we are voting to continue a relationship. This _continuance of a relationship promises his disciple at our hands, and our discipline at his hands. Thus the creation of each at the hands of the other, ~ “And so, throughout eternity, I forgive you, you forgive me; _ As our dear Redeemer said, : This is the wine, This is the el . Next week: Rev. A. C. Underwood., = B . >

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