Ligonier Banner., Volume 81, Number 28, Ligonier, Noble County, 10 July 1947 — Page 2

A Page of Opinion:

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This is our view: Premium Lists For The Indiana State Fair Ready Closing entry dates for vegetables and flowers at this year’s Indiana State Fair have been extended one week to August 18, Orin E. Anders, Terre Haute, director of the agriculture-horti-culture department has announced. That date will be a week later than the entry closings for all the other State Fair departments. Mr. Anders explained that experience in previous years made the extension advisable and that the late growing season this year had justified the change. ' Premium lists for the department, which are now ready for distribution, show considerable reorganization as to rules and exhibits. Rules have been changed for the grain, farm and crops displays. For instance, Mr. Anders pointed out, the vegetable department has been rearranged so that the smallscale,- home gardener will have equal show chances with commercial vegetable growers. New fruit varieties also are provided for, with some of the old classes dropped. e Several improvements are being made to the Agriculture building, including a new concrete floor and replaced wiring and drainage systems. Work will be completed well before opening of the eight-day State Fair August 29. Except for vegetables and flowers, the closing entry date for the department is August 12. Premium lists are available by writing Mr. Anders at the State Fairgrounds, Indianapolis 5.

Government Supports DDT

Early fears that the widespread use of DDT would cause wholesale killing of honeybees and other pollinating/ insects, are now largely dispelled according to P. N. Annand, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. Department of Agriculture. In a recent address before the annual convention of the National Audubon Society, Annand said: | “Much has been heard about the toxicity of DDT to honeybees and other beneficial insects. To begin] with the apiculturists in the Bureau were concerned as to what the effe¢t might be on honeybees in view of th¢ rather severe losses that have ocdurred with some of the commonly used jnsecticides, particularly arsenicals. Sinc¢ that time, however, the concern has be¢n definitely lessened in view of obsexvations on honeybees in some rathet extensive crop-dusting experiments. Although the final answer has not yet bden made, it appears that DDT will be cdonsiderably less toxic-to honeybees thah arsenicals and that much of the early!lalarm with regard to the effect on honeybees may have been unwarranted. me rather drastic tests conducted in Texas, where open hives were dusted and where hives were placed along the margins of heavily dusted fields resulted in no appreciable damage to bees. Thege are some reports of losses to bees that were in flight while the DDT was béing applied. Such losses, however, coul readily be avoided by closing the hives during the dusting or spraying operation or by moving the bees for short] periods, if indeed this type of killing has anw serious importance. Some apiculturists are looking to DDT as a possible source of relief from the excessive losses resulting from arsenicals.” :

“There is another aspect to this problem. Because of the modern tendency to farm close to the fence rows and to cut down wooded and brush areas, and due to the terrific beating that both tame and wild bees have taken from arsenicals, this country is faced with the possibility of a shortage of clover and alfalfa seed. These crops depend on bees for pollination, and some areas which formerly averaged 12 to 15 bushels of clover seed per acre now grow only one bushel per acre due to lack of insect pollinators.

“We are confident, from a study of this problem, that DDT deserves the confidence of bee keepers as well as fruit growers and that it will fully justifyd itself as a superior -orchard insecticide.”

& & . Tigonier Banner " Established in 1867 Published every Thursday by the Banner Printing — Company at 124 South Cavin St. Telephone: one-three GALHOUN CARTWRIGHT, Editor and Publisher Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Ligonieg; Tudiana under the act of March 3, 1879. AP MEMBERSOF: o 4 Democratic Editorial Association “e 9/ Advertising Federation of America Qowst Printing Industry of America

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Thursday, July 10, 1947

“Tall Tale” Clubs have flourished through the ages. Some were formally organized, others sprang spontaneously around the coal stove, over the coffee cup or when the conversation of a group of people began to lag. No one group of men ever received the publicity for “Tall Tale” telling like the myriad fishermen throughout the world, and peculiarly some of their stories were actually true. In our morning Coffee Club we hear some weird tales, and every man who tells them swears by all that’s holy they are true, “One-fish” Scurlock, and “Nofish” Cartwright were sitting there one morning bemoaning their luck when Ed Bourie speaks up and tells us we don’t know the spots. : “Why, do you know,” he remininsced, “one day Bruce Schutt and myself were catching those big blue gills so fast we didn’t have time to bait the hook.” “If finally got so bad that as we’d pull them up we’d reach under the water and take them off the hook.” - “When we finally became exhausted from pulling them out so fast, we found we had fifty-three fish, and had to throw three more back in the lake.” “The peculiar thing about it all was the fact that some men we knew pulled up aside of us with nary a catch, and we had them anchor in our spot.. That night they came over and raised old ned, said they hadn’t worked as hard in years, and if fishing was always that successful they’d quit.” i We asked Ed if they had marked the boat to insure the next trip, but he was through talking.

Bill spoke up, and related an experience his Dad had back in Missouri, which he vowed was the whole, unadulterated truth. It seems his Pa was gO- - hunting one day down by the old creek with a double-barrel shot-gun that needed ram rodding every time he shot. He was sauntering along when up ahead to his amazement and delight he saw a flock of ducks that numbered five hundred if it numbered one. He started to take gim when over to the side five hundred wild geese moved in, and being closer he changed his aim “thataway.” Well sir, just as he was about to shoot he heard a noise by his feet, and lo and behold a deadly rattlesnake was singing the blues and preparing to strike. Bill’s Dad pointed the gun to the ground when out of the blue that double barrel exploded ram rod and all. One barrel flew up and killed twenty-seven ducks, the other barrel Kkilled thirtyone geese, the ram rod went down through the snake’s neck pinning it to the ground, and he was thrown clean dab into the middle of the creek. He sort of cleared his head got up and walked to dry land, and started to take off his boots. “It”s hard to believe,” said Bill, “but it’s the truth. There were eighteen rock bass in one boot and three trout in the other.”

While I was choking on a small swallow of coffee, Roy Ferguson changed the subject to farming, which sounded like an innocent way of getting us back to earth, but before we could get our breath he told us about a friend of his who raised the finest melons in the particular county in which he lived.

“He was'a lazy farmer if I ever saw one,” Roy recalled, “why, right in back of his home was the prettiest little hill you ever saw. When he bought the place the people before him had planted it carefully in beautiful flowers and grass, and it was a sight to behold, but the very first spring my friend had it plowed for farming, which made me half mad.” ] ;

“I questioned him in rather severe tone, but his only reply was to wait ’til fall, and proceeded to put the whole hill in canteloupe.” “Now right at the bottom of this hill was an outside entrance to his cellar, and getting to it after the planting was a hard job, although it never bothered him in the least.” - “Well, do you know- what happened when fall came along ?”’ T We all paused in breathless anticipation, and in chorus said, ““No”! “Why, he just opened that cellar door, and when the melons got ripe they just naturally rolled right into the basement stored for the winter.” “As I said he was the laziest farmer I ever knew.” : - Larry Haines and myself, being city slickers, just sat there with our mouths wide open, and were about to sally forth with a story of our own, when the crowd broke up. .

MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR

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Trade Secrets

No. 28

WASHINGTON. — Just a stone’s throw from the U. S. Capitol, in an inconspicuous three - story brick building is stored a fortune in technological war secrets.

They include the great bulk of the technical documents on Nazi war industries, removed from Germany for use by American industry—more than 400,000 microfilms of patent applications, blueprints, chemical formulas and other valuable technical papers, At the Moscow conference, these secrets were the subject of debate between Secretary Marshall and Foreign Minister Molotov, who knows all about the contents of the fabulous warehouse, and who told General Marshall that these war patents should be considered ‘‘war reparations.”” Marshall, however, claimed they were not reparations received by the U. S., since Russia has full and equal access to all of them. Which is true. In fact, the Soviet Amtorg corporation has been extremely busy making microfilm copies of these German technical data just a few blocks from the Capitol. Meanwhile, although Russia can get these secrets, 'small American businessmen soon won’t be able to do so—all because of the economy wave in congress. For RepreSentative Taber’s appropriations committee has cut off all funds for the commerce department’s office of technical services. The original $3,400,000 appropriation was cut to $1,700,000, then finally wiped out altogether. Strongest private pressure against the commerce department’s microfilming service for these German secrets comes from the National Association of Manufacturers, which claims that German technological inventions, patents, et cetera, can be obtained by translating German trade and scientific magazines.

NO ‘WHITE’ LIES

Talking to friends about the Russians recently, General Eisenhower remarked: “Dealing with the Russians is like telling your wife a lie. If you tell her a lie once, you keep on and it piles up until eventually she finds out. It’s much better to tell her the truth. Likewise it’s best to talk straight to the Russians.”

Watching for Tornadoes

‘ Tornadoes ' already have killed more people in six months of 1947 than in 12 months of any normal year. But despite this the weather bureau is likely to lose one of its best services in the past—volunteer weather lookouts.

This volunteer system was built up during the war to warn munitions plants of approaching electric storms, providing a valuable service. It has continued since on a volunteer basis in order to warn farmers and rural communities of approaching twisters. However, without the wartime patriotic motive, the service is deteriorating from public apathy, and worried weather officials would like to bolster the volunteer system with a slight appropriation from their budget. A nickel-nursing congress, however, says no.

CHOMP, CHOMP, CHOMP Gum-chewing monkeys are doing their bit for science in the field of bubble-gum research, They have been trained by the food and drug administration to chomp on different brands of bubble gum to determine whether it is causing scattered cases of mouth infection reported in Louisiana and Colorado. Food and drug now reportsno ill effects among the monkeys, so_you can go ahead chewing your bubble gum serenely.

Rescuing the West

The West coast can thank six senators inside the appropriatiens committee for restoring western reclamation and irrigation funds, previously slashed to ribbons by house nickel-nursers. Five of the senators are westerners: Knowland of California, Cordon of Oregon and Dworshak of Idaho (Republicans), and Democratic Senators O’Mahoney of Wyoming and Hayden of Arizona. However, one man equally responsible for keeping the reclamation program alive in the senate, after it was knifed by the house, was an easterner — farsighted GOP Sen. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, chalrman of the appropriations committee. : o - Bridges told a closed-door session of his committee just before the showdown vote: “I'm for economy, but I'm not for the kind of economy that will scuttle something as vital té the west as the government's proposed redlamation and irrigation .pron‘m.n :

BACK HOME AGAIN By Ed Dodd

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Poetry Begins At Home

One dollar each .week will be paid to the writer of the poem used in “Poetry Begins At Home.” A grand prize of ten dollars will be paid the person submitting the best poem between July 10 and September 10, 1947. A booklet of winning poems will be published after September 10. : — Rules of the Contest — _ 1. Poems must be original and written by a legal resident of Noble County. 2. Full name and address must accompany each poem, but publication of name will be withheld upon request. ' 3. Contestants .fiay submit more than one poem a week, but no poem must be more than thirty lines in length. 4..A1l entries must be in The Banner office not later than Monday of each week. 5. The dollar will be gsent winning contestant vach week following publication. . 6. A contestant must be 2a subscriber to The Banner. 7. The decision of the judge is final, .and all poems become the property of The Banner.

SERMON OF THE WEEK

By Rev. Arthur W. Olsen

WHEN LIFE HURTS US

Anyone who has lived any length of time knows that sooner or later life hurts us all. Anyone who hasn’t been hurt can ‘be quite certain that if he lives long enough, he will be. But an interesting point is this: getting hurt does not always result from life hitting us hard; often it results because life has been too soft. : There, to me, is one of life’s most important facts. As human beings we are made of such stuff that no matter what the pressures may be —hard or soft—as my friend Rev. Vivian Pomeroy put it, we tend to “sink to mere existence unless we put forth from within ourselves some power to match the outward pressures. . . .” Many a man has hit for the proverbial island life in the tropics, but because life is soft he decays spiritually. Many a man has been hit hard by life, and because he is hit hard, he goes to pieces. S : ‘What it all comes down to is just what my friend says: “There has to be an inner power to counteract the outward pressures.” Dr. Pomeroy quotes Phylis Bottome’s novel

TAKE MY WORD FOR IT! By FRANK COLBY Bell Syndicate.~WNU Features.

. HANDBOOK OF PRACTICAL ENGLISH * * @ Q. We need some Colby common sense in determining a point of usage. Our English class cannot decide whether to use a plural or singular verb following ‘‘what” in such sentences as, ‘“What we need (is? are?) more good textbooks.” We cannot find the answer in our school grammar.—Mrs, W. L. P, A. The rule is so involved that it would merely confuse you more if I quoted it. Instead let’s take another approach. :

Let us regard ‘‘what we need” as a noun-clause. It actually is the subject of the sentence, and expresses the idea of ‘our need,” which is. singular; as if we were to say, “Our need is for more good textbooks.”’ :

- FIRST PRIZE WINNER v FAITH Sometimes when you feel tired of Life, Tired of it’s sorrow, it’s turmoil, and strife. ' Think of the blind, the crippled and ill, They still face life with a determined will, To-them each day means another chance, ; That perhaps the Fates their life will enhance. : Tomorrow the light may come back to the blinded eyes. The crippled may walk—the sick may arise. . So—no matter how great your portion of sorrow, Always be willing to have FAITH in the morrow! _ - SRR

“The Crystal Heart.” A mother speaking to her daughter says: “I don’t want to bother you, but you canot live to my age and not know a little about life. Perhaps it would be a help to you to know that things ‘happen, however painful they are at the time, do nof matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters. That matters very much indeed, and it lasts always.” : There it is! It doesn’t matter so much whether the particular circumstances of life results in winning or losing half as much as the way we behave as the result of winning or losing. That is why, so often, there is failure in success, That’s why so often, also, there is success in failure. It’s not so much what circumstances do to us, as it is what we are as the result of circumstances. : I do not ask a truce With life’s incessant pain:But school my lips, O Loxd, - Not to complain. I do not ask for peace , From life’s eternal sorrow: But give me courage, Lord, — To fight tomorrow, : Next week: Rev. John Rollings

Or, to put it still another way, “what” is equivalent to “that which,” and ‘‘that,’ of course, is plainly singular and takes a singular verb, thus: That which we need R These sentences are correct: What Europe needs is food and clothing. What I expect is co-oper-ation and friendship. What we hope for is many years of Peace. What we bought was groceries only. Note also that in some construetions “all’ has a meaning that is equivalent to “that which,” as: All that we need is more good textbooks. All that we saw was pine trees. All that we hope for is peace and justice, Likewise, notice the singular verb in such constructions as: It is the Germans whom we defeated. It was the Romans who built the aqueduct, It ils they who sent us the books:

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New York .. . This is being written on June 26, the second anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charer in San] Francisco. And this afternoon, I . ' heard Henri e Laugier, the W e genial Frencoiy s . man Who iS ‘ASB 03‘%’5 : sistant SecreB o e tary - Gener:l i B for Social AfIS e fairs, speak of I S these two yoor- & TR, and of the op- ' § R, timists and pes- ' Eleanor Mitchet ~ SiMists wiio | smile or frow : upon the efforts of that pori . Referring to himself as a biclo- | gist—which is M. Laugier’s voention—he reminded the representatives of some 35 non-govern. mental organizations listenin: ihat the success of UN depend.. after all, on the mood of manthat the humor, head, heart ar: muscle of mankind reflect in th public opinion it brings to bear on UN. °

Just two years old—some live a 'lifetime in that span, others merely lay bits of groundwork for years to follow. In any two years from 1941 to 1945 any of us could have been classed in the first group—upheaval from peace to war, marriage, birth, death, all thrown together in helter-skelter fashion with generous dousing of, anxiety, tension, defeat, and hope.| Too many were forced to live too quickly in two years during that period. Let not the pessimists forfe us to live too quickly again.i Let not those who yell so loudly! about failures at UN be deafened by their own screeches and| blinded by their-own lack of; vision. The people are the mas-! ters of their living years in a' peaceful world_but not -in times of war. They cannot serve themselves a square deal if the instru-| ;ment to defeat war, the United ' lations, does not survive. And

i-ust as surely as if an eminent ‘>hilosopher, diplomat or statesiman had said this instead of me, v t's a fact. One high-ranking statesman did say that the UN is as old as the ‘willingness of the people to use it. Doesn’t that tell the story? After hearing the speech of ‘M. Laugier, who is still hobbling about on crutches because of his z?ccident last December, I looked through the current issue of the United Nations Bulletin which reviews the record for the two iyears. There were the Iranian iquestion, Greece’s problems, In‘donesian troubles, British and French troops in Syria and Leblanon, Corfu Channel incident, {and the responsibility for Trieste. iThere were disarmament, Atom[ic Energy Commission, Palestine, Franco Spain, and new members ladmitted. The International Ref_jugee Organization, though not iyet in being, was set up and can thandle operations for refugees iwhen UNRRA ceases next week. iEconomic Commissions for Europe, and for Asia and the Far ,East were brought into being for ithe “creation of conditions of istability and well-being;" and the International Children’s Emer'gency Fund was established to thelp millions of the starving and ragged. Tariff barriers, international trade, world health, narcotic drugs, international human rights, equality for women, trusteeship and permanent headquarters were on the agenda. % . Not all of these matters were settled nor are all of the agencies sufficiently established. But they have been begun “out of the darkness and give promise of a ‘brighteratomorrow. There is no light, however, and no brightness unless l;om.e one turns the switch. \We must all turn the switch.

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