Ligonier Banner., Volume 81, Number 31, Ligonier, Noble County, 31 July 1947 — Page 2

A Page of Opinion:

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This is our view: Indiana Beaver Are Content on Kentucky Shore Twenty-seven Indiana beaver. have been transplanted © to - Kentucky, and they are very happy there. The animals were captured in the Kankakee river beds by John L. De Lime of the Kentucky Conservation Department, and the most recent information from Mr. DeLime indicates that the “displaced persons’ are conducting their affairs just as if they had been born on the South side of the Ohio river. The old Kankakee marshes once teemed with beaver, but after the dredging they disappeared completely, and Indiana was without beaver until the Fish and Game Division liberated 12 in 1935. Now, it is estimated there are between three and five thousand of the fur-bearers in the state. Even several of the strip mine ponds in Southern Indiana are supporting colonies.

Economy-minded citizens will bée glad to know Mr. DeLime trapped the beaver at Kentucky’s expense with Kentucky’s equipment.

More About Light

There has been considerable discussion of late concerning the inadequacy of our street lighting system, and without doubt there is merit to the criticisms being made. Generally speaking a well lighted city reduces the accident ratio, it aids business and gives the community a greater pride. Passing motorists will many times appraise a town on the condition of their lighting system, and nothing makes it look so sleepy and off its toes as a dimly lighted place.

But while we are on the subject of correcting these evils we should go a step further and get the job properly done. It has been the contention of many local business men that Cavin St. should be lighted all the way to the intersection of Route 6, and this writer agrees. It would also be well to see our electric signs at that intersection which point the way to our business section put into full operation.

It might be a worthy project for a combined committee from the City Council, Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club to tackle the lighting problems of the community, and then see that something is done about it.

Immunization Time

Within a few weeks the 1947-48 school year will start in Noble County. Has your child been protected against the diseases you most dread? “Protection preserves lives, promotes abundant health, contributes to more effective education and saves money for the individual concerned.” . :

Children should be immunized during their first year of life for Small-pox, diphtheria and whooping cough. The State Board of Health is urging adults to be wvaccinated for Smallpox along with the children. The diphtheria toxoid and whooping cough may be given together.

.. Diphtheria seems to be more prevalent. Two hundred and eighteen cases of the disease has been reported in the State since the first of the year. There have been 1057 cases of whooping cough and twenty-seven cases of small-pox reported in the state for the same period. Pre-school children are particularly susceptible.

School children should be immunized for the above-mentioned diseases before school starts. Please see your family -doctor. !

Your child and your neighbor’s child deserve this protection just as much as do the children of any other State. Do they get it ? If not, who is at fault? You fipfiit I are interested with this responsiHITY. <

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Thursday, July 31, 1947

A friend and myself" were having a friendly argument the other evening concerning the relative merits of natural and man made beauty. Perhaps it was a futile search into the realms of the esthetic, but it brought to light two poi}clts of view that might both be correct.

It was my friend’s contention that nothing can surpass the natural beauty of the hills, fields and streams, and although I was treading on shaky ground I opposed this theory in its absolute, for I am personally awed by the things man has done and will do, and the beauty 1 see goes behind the outward sight. 1 see the untold hours of creative thinking, the sweat and brawn of the worker’s might and the breath of humanity breathing its struggle to exist from every girder . . . from every stone. When I pass through Pittsburgh I fail to see the morning smog or the filth from belching stacks, instead I see the rise of man above the natural obstacles, and this to me is beauty. - _

When I visit New York my awe intensifies for there in all its glory is the Arabian Nights, the Anderson tales unfolded in one panorama of fabulous beauty. There the things dreamers dreamed about is placed before your eyes in stark reality. There men, the smart and the stupid, the strong and the weak fought against the complicity of natural ravages and came forth with accomplishment. Forgive me, this to me is beauty. _ - The little shack at the edge of town built by the ne’er do well, housed as it is with the improvisions of modern living has beauty in my eyes for it represents man’s energy, desire and fortitude. In his limited ability he has built himself a home, he has created a windbreak against the natural elements that would destroy.

When I hear a symphony I think of the genius God gave these men, but I also think of the fight a composer made to weave a few simple notes into combinations of beauty; of the conductor’s struggle which brought him to the place in his career when such notes could be interpreted and fashioned without discord by one hundred and thirty men; of the development found in each man which allowed him to work without question, as a unit, not going alone, along his merry way. ' , It’s the story of mankind with its constant struggle to survive, it kindnesses and honest thinking that finds me awed and becomes in turn a mark of beauty, and although I do not deny the beauty of hill and dale, stream and lake, neither can I put aside the beauty of which I mention. -

We thank our readers for the many kind letters concerning our new feature “Poetry Begins At Home”. We trust the insuing weeks will find the entries piling higher and higher. It would seem to us that writing a poem of so .short-a length would be an easy way of getting a dollar, and urge everyone, even slight‘ly disposed to try their hand. G

~ Our intention of printing these poems in booklet form should add impetus to the budding scribes of verse in this area and commend you all to try.

The peach has long been cultivated in China and was written about some 2,000 years before its introduction to the Roman world. . : There are approxjmately 65,000 sq. miles .of peat deposits in Russia. The next largest peat-containing country, Canada, has about 87,000 sq. miles of such deposits. Pebbles with crude markings on them were used by men near the time of the. stone age in playing games or in gambling. : ; Last year’s U. S. crop of alfalfa hay was estimated to be about 81,817,000 tons, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica 1947 Book of the Year. This was six per cent above the 1935-44 average of 29,886,000 tons. _ = There was an estimated increase of 10 to 25 per cent in the number of anglers in the United States in 1946, =

MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR

by ' Calhoun Cartwright

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‘Best Friend’ . WASHINGTON.—Soviet Russia is

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supposed to have the best spy service in the world. However, it can’t be particularly good, otherwise the politburo would not have played so completely into the hands of the U. S. on the Marshall plan. As it is, state department insiders admit privately that Foreign Minister Molotov has turned out to be the best friend of the United States. Two things worried them, one of which the Russians obviously didn’t know about. They were: 1. The possibility that Russia and its satellite states might - come into the Marshall plan, thus making it necessary for the United States to lend money to Russian areas—a policy previously vetoed by the state department. - 2. The fact that the state depariment neglected to clear the Marshall plan with Senator Vandenberg. This was what the Russians didn’t know about.

Had the ‘Russians known that Secretary of State Marshall had failed to get a congressional OK for his plan to put about 20 billioh dollars of U. S. cash into Europe—over a period of four years—they might have put us on the spot by letting all the Russian satellite countries participate. : For nothing would have raised more howls from t{ght-fisted congressional leaders than to advance money to Yugoslavia, a nation to which we previously had stopped aid when it shot down U. S. fliers; or to Bulgaria where members of the American legation staff are kept almost as prisoners, or to Hungary which has just kicked out a democratic-elected premier in favor of communism. e

‘GO NORTH’

Congressman Lemke of North Dakota has a new version of Horace Greeley’s old cry, “Go West, Young Man, Go West.” Lemke, who is interested in populating Alaska, advises, “Go North, Young Man, Go North,” He wants to see the scanty population of Alaska boosted by two million within 30 years. Otherwise the Russian radio will confinue claiming that Alaska should go back to Moscow.

That Man Again The weatherman may have some effect upon Secretary of State Marshall’s foreign policy. For the past five years bumper American crops have permitted us to dominate the world food situation —and thereby somewhat influence its politics, But now, bad weather ~at home plus good weather in Russia may partly reverse this situation, : .

Although the American wheat crop will be a record-breaker, other American grain crops are down. Unofficial studies of the world wheat situation made by the agriculture department indicate that Russia’s wheat crop affo will be greater than ever. ’ In fact, Russia, for the first time since before the war, should be able not only to end bread rationing at home but also to export about 300 million bushels of wheat abroad. The Russians also are expected to bring in a rye crop of some 840 million bushels, whf€h should give them a surplus of about 100 million ‘bushels with which to play power / politics. ' » * %

A SICK WORLD

A friend visiting Albert Einstein at Princeton, finding the great physicist in bed, expressed regret that he was ill. Replied Einstein: “I’'m sick, but that does not matter. But the world is sick, and that does matter.” Einstein says that he witnessed military mass-mindedness approach in Germany; now he sees the same thing coming here.

Air Pilots’ Pay ’ ' The government has been ducking one factor which some -civil aeronautics officials contend to be a root cause of recent air crashes—namely, pilots’ pay. - Last year, during the TWA strike, the public got the impression that pilots receive fantastic salaries—between $15,000 and $20,000 a year. However, the only pilots who earn such pay are those who fly the oceans. In the U. S. pilots earn a base pay of from $lB5 to $3OO a month — which they . get- whether they fly dr not. The real money comes from the number of hours they spend in ‘the air. Therefore, it & pilot is to make a high salary he has to spend a maximum number of hours in the air, Sometimes this leads to taking chances, v Airlines have contended they might not get as much work out of pilots if they pald a guaranteed annual wage, but, on the other hand, . some civil aeronautics officials believe that there wouldn’'t be as many crashes if pay scales were changed. o ‘ - Truth is that airline pilots get grueling training before they qualty, have to maintain sharp physical standards, earn every cent they

BACK HOME AGAIN

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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 — Noble County. - 1. Poems must be original and written by a legal resident of 2. Full name and address .must accompany each poem, but publication of name will be withheld upon request. - 3. Contestants may submit more than one poem a week, but no Poem must be more than thirty lines in length. 4. All entries must be in The Banner office not later than Monday of each week. ’ 5. The dollar will be sent winning contestant e¢ach week following publication. . 6. A contestant must be a subscriber to The Banner. 7. The decision of the judge is final, and all poems become the property ‘of The Banner.

MARY’S SON He was so small, so precious and

THE OTHER FELLOW

By E. C. Geeding

. Jesus challenged Peter to follow Him. Seeking an alibi, Peter asked, “Lord, what about this man ?” This was, obviously, a natural thing for Peter to say, since he could not bear to be challenged to a life of Christian service, while John was allowed to stand idly by. It seems much easier to concern ourselves with the other fellow’s, business than to assume our share of responsibility in a given matter. Three persons are usually involved in any like situation: myself, the other fellow, and my Lord. It may come as a surprise to many church people that Jesus concerned himselfk for the most part, not ‘with prayer, not with man’s relationship to material things, but with man’s relationship to his fellows. Read His prayers, His parables, His sermons; read the Golden. Rule, the Sermon on the Mount, the Great Commission, and you will be forced to the conclusion that Jesus was concerned more with man’s relationship with his fellow- - men than about any other thing, save perhaps man’s relationship to God. = s S : :

TO ME THERE WILL ALWAYS BE THE OTHER FELLOW: The Christian can never escape this fact. That we are social beings no one can deny. God never intended we should live to durselves. We cannot dodge the moral responsibility involved. The last six of the Ten Commandments were given as a guide for social conduct. Jesus came, not to destroy these commandments, but to fulfill them. v Cain was not seeking information when he asked, “Am I my brother’s keeper ?” Rather he was acknowledging his moral responsibility in the matter of a human relationship, Rationing of sugar, gasoline and other things was based on the principle that others had needs equal to our own. - Man’s first duty, in the realm

By Ed Dodd

so swWeet The lowing cattle kneel down at His feet, - The wondering shepherds looked at Him and saw The light about His head; they gazed at Him in awe. : The looked upon the Wise Men standing there ‘ They knew not whence they came or even where. . They saw the lovely Mother, calm, serene, : - Was she a child of this earth, or a dfieen, Of Heavenly regions none had ever seen? Now Mary holds her Child close to her heart, . Could Mary see the day when they must part? g Did Mary see the cross He’d have to bear : Upon His shoulders with no one to share? - Yet now, she holds Him gently in her arms : Her Eldest one, safe from the world’s alarms, # But Mary’s eye’s see for along . the way o ’ The way that He must tread which leads to Calvary. ' —Luella Lake

of human relationships, is to keep out of the other fellow’s way. That is he must not be a burden to society. He must keep out of the poor house, out of the asylum for the mentally deficient, out of jail. This is man’s minimum responsibility to society. But he must not be satisfied with this. He is morally bound to produce more than he consumes, since there are many unfortunate and irresponsible souls that do not meet the minimum’ requirements—are a liabilty instead of an asset to society. :

TO THE OTHER FELLOW I

AM THE OTHER FELLOW:

When Dr. W. P. Minton served as Foreign Mission Secretary of the Christian Church he was sent to Japan to review our mission field there. One day he said, “It occured to me that I was a foreigner—‘a stranger in a strange land,’ and that the Japanese were natives.” To the Japanese, Dr. Minton was the other fellow. Some of the uncomplimentary things we think and say of the “Foreigner’” he may be thinking and saying of us. For after all we live in “One World” and this living together, as we shall come to do more and more, is a -“give-and-take proposition. “Wad the power ah gift a gee us to see ourselves as others see .7 ‘

AND THEN THERE IS GOD: If we could eliminate God from our reckoning it would be compartively easy to eliminate the other fellow—to free ourselves from any moral responsibility where he is concerned. We could tare down our old barns and build greater and take our ease. Hitler -was consistent. He ruled God and the Bible out and so could take the sword and eliminate all who chanced to get in his way since he had no moral compulsions, no restraints as to the well-being of his fellows. It is we who are inconsistent since we take the Bible in one hand and the sword in the

A D (i gTN g T el

and YOU

New York . . . Genocide—-it’s an old crime but a new word that you've probably heard mentioned here and there, It is to groups of people what homicide a 5 D e s:l'— e | son —in other f* % | words, the dei struct 3}’ 1; of P | groups U=’ R R o beings, S e e originaS e = tor of the word g, . ¢ and the author ' B of the United -2 Jleanor Mitchel Clde Hesolution, Lemkin, spoke t Dri o haifl:i spoke to a few of us informally out at Lake Success the other day. The room in which we sat had walls that didn’t quite reach the ceiling and the ringing of telephones and transaction of business being carried on in neffihboring secretariat offices could be heard—-gst when there was a brief lull the profound guestions put to Dr. Lemkin, therwise, everybody in the room was inspired with hope over this subaect, and telephone bells co 'Efisenetrate the deep interest in this matter of making an international crime of, as the UN official paper put it, “the destruction of racial, national linguistic, religious, or political groups.” Dr. Lemkin, on leave from Duke Universig to help UN concerning genocide, is a professorial, kindly-looking gentleman who has spent many I{g‘arss studying the question of killing out or destroymgmpeoples and the resultant stifling of spirit and culture. He placed great emphasis in his short talk on cultural genocide, pointing out that people exist through their spirit — “remove that,” he said, “and you have only robots.” He mentioned this as he described the three kinds of genocide that are included in the Draft Convention for the Punishment and Prevention of Genocide. Now, that’s a long, importantsounding name, and important it is, but ilt simply means that it’s the paper drawn up which will serve as the basis for international law for all member nations to adopt and put into effect upon

(ratification. This paper will be submitted to the General Assembly at its meeting in September—last year's session of the Assem’bly recommended its greparation. { Dr. Lemkin described “genocides” as included in the draft ‘convention. One is phf'sical geno‘cide, which is the killing of peo- | ples, directly or indirectly, and 'the other is biological genocide, ' which can- be described as a method of potential killing through sterilization, separating of the sexes or obstructing mar;riage. The third, of course, was cultural genocide. - He frankly admitted that the instrumentalities of enforcement ‘was the crux of<the whole matter —once nations have ratified such a convention and made it the law of the land, there is still the matter of making it work. Public opinion will plag a strong part here, just as public opinion has created laws that make it mandatory to punish a murderer —to Eunish the man who commits omicide.

i There are many legal ramifica{tions to the question of genocide, ibut the Nuremberg tribunal recoglnized it as an international crime jand that sets a precedent to go jon. Assuring man of his right to {live is part and parcel of the UN iCharter, and punishment and pre{vention of genocide as law would Ibe a concrete step forward. ALSO . . . The second regular lsession of the General Assembly convening on September 16, will have 38 items on its agenda, according to the present count. It is expected that the Assembly will ibe in session for about 7 weeks. o The UN is making provisions for two ex-Gls operating a gasoline station on the side of the new ’UN headquarters to get into business again, The two boys objected to giving up their place, but not only is UN helping them find another, but is also arranging for a loan to set them up again. In the gmeantlme UN is lettini them stay on rent free . . . Spea ;gg of the headquarters, the Assembly will have to work out a treaty with the U.S. at the cominlg session on the matter of inviolability and immunity of members on the East River site, -

other, and then seek to reconcile our actions with the war program. Some day we may learn that Christ and War cannot be reconciled since He “came not to destroy men’s lives but to save them” while the primary purpose of war is to gain its ends by the destruetion of all men and things that stand in the way. Since there is a God there is a moral order, and since there is a moral order we cannot consistently sponsor any measdre that brings discomfort or destruction to our fellowmen. Every time I hear the “Personal Liberty” plea I know somebody wants to have his own way irrespective of the wellbeing of his fellows. : Here is a prayer all of us need to offer—— o » “Others, Lord, yes, others— May this my motto be: . Help me to live for others, mmymyfi?}fermmvw . Next week: Rev. Edward Mahoney, - -