Ligonier Banner., Volume 81, Number 36, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 September 1947 — Page 2

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Hungry Peoples Require More American Wheat The pressure of world food needs has caused the Department of Agriculture to call upon farmers to seed at least 75,000,000 acres to wheat during the next year. This is 5,000,000 acres more than the 1947 goal and about 25,000,000 acres more than that usually planted in the years before the war. In calling upon the farmers to produce more grain in order to keep up shipments to shortage areas, the Government postponed its plan to urge farmers to retire over-worked wheat land to grass, pasture and other noncrop uses for the sake of soil conservation. Government experts had to increase their demands because of the deterioration of world food prospects. It is believed that considerable assistance must be given to war devastated areas until the fall harvest of 1949. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson cautioned farmers in dry land areas ‘“against plowing up sod lands not suited for sustained farming or planting wheat on land that should lie fallow.” The Agricultural official was taking note of the possibility that a new period of dry weather might produce another epidemic of dust storms over Southwestern plains.

WHAT THEY SAY WHETHER RIGHT OR WRONG Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister to Czechoslovakia, referring to his Government’s withdrawal of acceptance to Paris Conference: “Any talk of threats or an ultimatum against Czechoslovakia is silly.” e { ) e, ¢ Bnghat Chimy Bey, Egyptian official, iscussing life in the U. S.: “In order to live like a gentleman, I had to spend between $75 and $BO a day. Life in Egypt is easier and simpler.” — e e Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., U. S. Senator from Massachusetts: ‘ “I think it utterly indispensable that members of Congress should know the outside world at first hand.” — e , Edward J. Downey, retiring after 44 years’ service on a railroad: ~ “Mostly they’re a pretty fine bunch that travel on the trains, with only an occasional grouch here and there.”

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MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR by Calhoun Cartwright

I have decided to reprint in musings this week a story I wrote a year ago, and only this month published in, “Salute” Magazine. It is the story of a fine man, a man I was privileged to know and enjoy. His story was always interesting to me, and I was pleased of the opportunity to record it. . On a hot July day in the year 1910, Captain Jesse P. Hughes ascended the steps of the Cincinnati Art Institute. He was master and pilot of the packet TACOMA, a well known steamboat of the day, and for the first time in twenty years was leaving the river to receive a summer’s formal training in the hobby closest his heart. _

“TI had been careful not to reveal my identity at the school, but word got around I was attending, and the reporters began pestering me,” he recalled. When it was generally learned that a steamboat captain was studying art, the value of the course ceased, for the young students surfeited me with questions about the river, and many residents came to the school thinking me a curiosity. I couldn’t get any work done.” But the great amount of work Captain Hughes accomplished over the years is told in some sixty drawings, which graphically outlines the history of steamboating, the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. .

He was born on an Ohio River faym, and at the age of eight began drawing, but it wasn’t until years later that his talents took definite form. First, were the days learning the river, learning to be a pilot and then a master. o River men say you are born to the river, but the apprenticeship is long, tedious and severe. Captain Hughes began his training at the age of fourteen, and worked back breaking hours without compensation. When he finally reached the place in his career where his services demanded pay, he received the then satisfactory amount of thirtythree cents a day, and swelled with pride when his employer began to compensate him at the rate of three dollars a week. At the age of nineteen he hired out to Captain Gordon C. Greene, the man who remained his employer and associate for thirty-three years. It was aboard the H. K. BEDFORD, the first packet boat of the later successful Greene Line, that he studied the river and took his first examination for a pilot’s license. When later he became master and pilot of the TACOMA, a sternwheeler in which he shared ownership with Captain Greene, Jesse Hughes had .won the admiration of river men from Pittsburg to New Orleans, for in all his forty odd years piloting the Ohio, Mississippi and Tennessee he had never had a serious mishap. He had “started out with the intention of being careful, and had fulfilled that intention. Fifty-five years of successful steamboating is record enough for one life, but the modest, philosophical and shy Captain Hughes was not satisfied in just taking his turn at the wheel or on the bridge of his boat. He spent his off hours quietly recording the history of inland waters and the romance of a way of life that was to vanish in the course of evolving events.

His diaries, stacked neatly in an ordinary packing box, relate his daily impressions beginning with the year 1890. “When I first started keeping a diary there were no books. to be bought, - 80 I made mine from the smooth, white paper in which our bread was wrapped,” he said. I always went after the loaves, and was very careful not to wrinkle the paper. It was an easy job to fold them carefully and make into a book with needle and thread.” , ‘ I still have every book, but. about twenty years ago I started another book in which I use one page to transfer the highlights of the previous year.” ‘ Can’t say it would be too interesting to angon‘e but myself, though,” he concluded. D ¢ - Captain Hughes began to make his first maps 8f the rivers in 1896, and now has seéveral books, which chart in detail the waters of the Ohio, Mississippi and Tennessee. Over the ag'ears these maps have been used to advantage by many prominent pilots. “Dnrinﬁ the war 1 loaned my map book of the Ohio River from Pittsburg

1111511’51’1!/115. \!' ol EARS [ R (Editor’s Note: Robert 8. Allen, Washington columnist, is guest conductor of this column while Drew Pearson is on vacation,) Battle of the Movies WASHINGTON. — Insiders are wagering the 'British labor government will ease its tax crackdown on U. S. movies. Reason for this optimism is a trump card U. S. film-makers have been waving threateningly behind the scenes at the Attlee regime. This counterblow is a ban on the importation of British films into the U. 8. A move of this kind would hit the British yvery hard. Last year, they derived 22 million dollars from U. 8. moviegoers; this year's estimate is around 30 million dollars. The threatened ban is not an idle gesture, The eight largest studios in Hollywood have urged such action on Eric Johnston, film czar, it the British government doesn't come td terms. The producers already have outlawed the export of pictures to England. ® ¢ @

President a Fatallst Biggest secret service headache in guarding President Truman is his insistence on traveling by plane. The secret service #s very uneasy about this; constantly is trying to figure out ways to keep Truman on the ground.

Reason they’ve had no luck is his fatalism, He has an unshakable view on that. He explained it to a friend. “When your number’s up,” the President 'said, smiling, “it makes no difference whether you are in a plane, a train, an auto, or a skiff. If it’s up, it’'s up and that’s that.”

¢ ¢ O A Vory Wise Man Kim Ho, leader of the Korean legislative assembly, bas made a profound discovery. He bas uncovered what makes governmenis go round. He explained it o Maj. Gen. Archer Lerch, U. S. military governor of Korea. 5 bwc“?omcd,” said Kim Ho, “shat it takes a lot of talk to rum a governmens.” ¢« s @ Tragic Problem Like the weather, everyone talks about the tragic disp¥ced-persons problem but few really do anything about jt. President Truman and Secretary of State Marshall repeatedly and urgently pleaded with congress to open the door to some of these helpless war victims, But all congress did was to authorize junketing committees to go to Europe to ‘“investigate the situation.” \ The senate committee, headed by Sen. 'W. Chapman Revercomb, W. Va., is getting ready for an early departure. As part of his preparations, Revercomb is hiring ‘‘experts.” Under serious consideration by Revercomb is Percy L. Greaves Jr. Greaves is a formger associate of Merwin K, Hart, head of the virulently isolationist national economic council, and author“of a Hart - sponsored pamphlet titled “‘Operation Immigration,” that denounces labor, D.P.s, and certain racial groups.

vi. iCaves s a 10IIjel associaic of Merwin K, Hart, head of the virulently isolationist national economic council, and author “of a Hart - sponsored pamphlet titled “‘Operation Immigration,” that denounces labor, D.P.s, and certain racial groups. * & @ No Parties Permitted The Hollywood and other party revelations of the senate war investigating committee raised a question of whether it is possible to eliminate such malodorous activities in connection with wartime contracting. It is a matter of record that it was done in World War I by the navy department under forth. right Secretary Josephus Daniels. The resolute North Carolinian stopped the practice head-on by the simple expedient of forbidding it. . Wh“ the Ut 80 m‘“" b“ gan preparing for the conflict, Daniels summond Admiml MoGowan, in charge of navy purchasing, and said, ‘I advise that neither you nor any member of your staff accept favors or invitations of any kind from bidders on navy contracts. 1 think. you should go to the length of not even lunching as the guest of anyome doing or seeking to do business with the “v‘n s Admiral McGowan heartily agreed with thl.a goncy. # . Proves a Very Busy Talker Tall, friendly Attorney General Tom Clark got himself smash headlines throughout the country with ‘his announcement of a justice department. probe of high prices. But the moot question arises when the amiable Texan will find the time to In recent weeks, he has spent much of his time traveling about the mmmm-mm ' “‘Wmﬁu partial list of ggmmwnﬂm in San Francisco; ceremonles in Wa ton; Elks’ &mmmmm Port-

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Poetry Begins At Home

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TWO LITTLE FROGS Two little frogs a milk can shared The can was full and deep.

\ERMON OF THE WEEK

GOLDEN TEXT: “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil.”—l Thessalonjans 5:21-22, While written centuries ago, the words of Solomon, the author of Proverbs, have a striking message for us today. . They give a remarkable insight into life and the true -value of things, declaring that dishonesty is bad business and that integrity of character is essential to happiness and favor with God and man. The word ‘“honesty” brings to mind & variety of thoughts to a variety of people. One author suggests that because each person is reared and trained differently from all others, conceptions of moral principles vary and this fact accounts for a large part of the ‘wickedness in the world. For a definition of the word, we go to Webster, who defines ‘“honesty” as the quality of being hone‘st. Going back to the word ‘“honest,” Webster defines it as “upright, just

sincere, honorable, equitable, fair righteous, chaste, frank or open.” Therefore, honesty involves fair play, justice, truth, uprightness, trustworthiness and every other quality of noble character. To state that dishonesty is the opposite of this is not to go deeply enought. Jesus taught that if the spirit of honesty was not in the heart of man, even though all his known works and deeds were apparently honest, he was a dishonest man. In the parable of the talents, Jesus taugh® the depth of unfaithfulness when he contrasted the man who had the one talent with him who had two talents. To him ‘who was faithful, his lord ‘said, “Thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things” (Matth. 25.23).

By Ed Dodd

To put it mildly they were scared, Quite scared enough to weep. One little frog gave up the ghost And to the bottom went, ~ The other frog would make the most : Of his predicament. He fought and kicked, and kicked and fought, And kicked, and fought "and kicked; Although at times he was distrought, He soon his trouble licked. For, by his kicking, he had churned A pat of butterfat. Then soon enjoyed the rest he'd earned ' By sitting on the pat. Come, learn a lesson from these frogs: ‘ : : Do not lie down and die. Give up the ghost, go to the dogs But make an effort—TßY! Do not be satisfied to quit When trouble comes your way, But brace right up, match wit with b And work, and fight, and pray. The man who faces up to life : » Refusing he to quit, Eventually will master strife Atop his troubles sit. :

He who is honest in the little things of life can be trusted to be honest in the larger ones. Are we as people losing our sense of moral integrity? Surely, one of the needs of our day is a consciousness of the wrongness of dishonesty. Clifford P. Morehouse declares: “In the Middle Ages most European coinages were 8o debased as to be virtually worthless. Counterfeits were rampant; coinsg of silver or gold were pared and mutilated. When the North German merchants came to England to do business in the reign of Edward I, they introduced their own coins, which were of uniform weight and excellence. The merchants were known as ‘Easterlings’ and their money came to be known as ‘sterling.’ Even today one looks at the back or base of silver utensils to see if they are warranted ‘sterling.’ It is a mark of excellence, a guarantee of integrity.”

“We need some kind of ‘sterling’ mark to guarahtee integrity in our human relationship. The currency of business and social intercourse has become so debased that without it one cannot rely. upon another’s words. The best ‘sterling’ thark in human relations is the Christian life. A Christian’s word should be as good as his bond. Are we always careful to safe-guard that warranty in our own dealings with friends and strangers alike?” Dighonesty can be practiced -in every relationship of life. One can even be dishonest with one’s self by doing those things which are harmful to mind and body, or living on a plane lower than one’s possibilities, ‘doing less than one’s best. Dishonest practices in business are rampant. Black market transactions, during and since the war, have been indulged in and patronized by people who should “have known better and have made

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the U.S. delegate, Herschel V. Johnson, has now introduced a resolution ordering Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia to stop any help being gven in the fight ggamst the Greek government. r. Johnson said further that should this resolution be vetoed, the matter will be taken before the General Assembly, where the force of Rublic opinion can do much to help resolve questions. He referred to U.S. participation in collective action under the Charter should the General Assembly not make progress on the matter, This was construed to mean under Article 51, which provides for collective action in case of armed attack upon a member of UN. o .

“Now to the Secretary-General's annual report which each year is made gmor to the meeting of the Assembly — this time convening on September 16. Trygve Lie in this report did not present a flowingapxcture because he faced acts that progress is necessarily slow. He recognized accomplishments as well as stalemates, and concluded by saying, “I am more than ever convinced that the United Nations can and should be a place where the combined common sense and determination of the peoples will find its voice and take a real part in the framing of, the future of mankind.” \ ALSO . .. Members of the UN' Secretariat and of the Security, Council are t&mg to get a bit of i vacation. Theré are so many| matters piled up before them, however, that they may not be able to before the Asseinbly convenes. . . . Secretary-General Lie and Warren R, Austin are among

those from UN who have gone to Rio de Janeiro to attend the in-ter-American deiense conference. Ambassador Austin has for the .gast couple of weeks been at his ome in Vermont, where he has a tremendous. orchard. One tree there has six different kinds of %pples grafted to it. . . . Clark M. ichelberger is now in Euvr--e where he is attending the annal meeting of the World Federution of United Nations Association. His barber in New York who has been cutting his hair* for several years, insisted that Mr. Eichelberger have a haircut at 6 a.m. the day of his departure. In this wayv the barber figured his cusiomer would not have to use the tonsorial ability of anyone else whil> on his trip. . . . The new executive secretary of the- International Refugee Organization is William Hallam Tuck, of the U.S. Mr. Tuck is working in the Geneva office now. . . . The conference of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to consider long-range projects to increase food supplies and improve rural conditions the world over, meets

in Geneva on August 25. The U.S. will be represented by Norris E. Dodd, Under-Secretary of Agriculture. There will be four Congressional advisers as well as several farm and food exgerts in the U.S. delegation. . . . The Security Council has invited a representative of Indonesia to sit around the table while its difficulties with the Dutch government are discussed. Now that the UN cease-fire recommendation has been followed, the solution to their differences is beingrtaken up. QUOTE FROM THE CHARTER. .+ . “Decisions of the General Assembly, on important questions shall e made by a two-thirds magorxty of the mambers present end veting, ... Dec'sions on other auestiors ~he'l be made by a majorti‘&y oy the members preseni and votiv-

it more difficult for those who were determined to remain honest. Solomon calls attention to a practice that was in common use in his day and which, in too many instances, still exists—that of cheating by means of dishonest scales. Government inspection makes this a risky operation but there are some business men who still manage to cheat their customers through faulty scales, short cuts and scant measures. A Christian business man cannot afford to take that which belongs to another. He not only hurts himself but he hurts the cause of Christ and the work of the church of which he is a member. : Dishonesty in speech is also a matter to which we must call attention. Solomon speaks of “lying lips” and states that they “are an abomination to the Lord.” Spreading false reports and gossip are the pastime of some people, who do not realize that this is sin. A person whose word cannot be relied upon fs not appreciated even by people who are like him, or her. Another way to be dishonest in speach is to imply_or hint a thing noprtel R eA e R