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This is our view: | Flag Day - The Ligonier Elks were fortunate in their quest of a speaker to obtain the services of Dr. Tennyson Guyer, whose wide experience on th platform qualifies him for the nomination of “Ohio’s most able speaker.” But more important was the decision of the organization to have their program open to the public. This writer for one hopes that City Hall Square, Sunday, June 20 will be crowd@ to the curb lines. . Today when we observe Flag Day and realize the crisis being faced both nationally and internationally, we are brought closer to the great lesson the history of our flag teaches. First it spells valiance for the heroed war dead, but to many it has an even deeper meaning. It relates the courage and virtue of a pioneer people. It describes freedom, integrity and opportunity. It explains why Dr. Carver could rise ffom slave parentage to highest acclaim in the scientific scrolls; why a Markham or Whitman could write cherished songs of freedom and beauty ; why an Edison could bring light to the world; how men can live together in peace, not war. , The challenge of the world today is told in the story of our flag. It is the challenge of understanding . . . the challenge of tolerance .. . the challenge of Christian living. Long may it wave!

They Should be of Presidential Stature Not long ago, Dr. George Gallup’s American Institute of Public Opinion asked interviewees this question: “It has been suggested that the VicePresident should help the President with administrative problems, se that the President would have more time to deal with matters of policy. Do you agree or disagree with this idea?” Eighty per cent of the persons interviewed agreed. Twelve per cent had no opinion. Only the remaining 8 per cent dicagreed. . Historians and politicians, even schoo!l children, know that the vice-presidency of the United States has been a governmental anomaly ever since its creation in the Constitutional Convention. " When John Adams served in that capacity during the first and second administrations of George Washington. jesters suggested that he be addressed as “His Superfluous Excellency.” Adam’s duties were largely limited to presiding over the Senate, and this has been true for the most part of other vicepresidents ever since—although some have regularly atténded cabinet meetings, have affected policy and haye even done administrative work. The suggestion that the second-rank=-ing officer in the nation be given some regular work, aside from wielding a gavel in the Upper House, is perfectly logical—and worthy of being put into effect after January 20 next. But even more evident is the importance.of selecting first-rate candidates for the vice-presidency at the forthcoming national conventions. ' Too frequently in the past, individuals of the caliber of Charles Curtis, “Sunny Jim” Sherman, G. A. Hobart, William R. King, and George M. Dallas have been nominated and elected. : And sometimes, through death of the Chief Executive, a John Tyler or a Millard Fillmore comes to occupy the White House. : Let it be remembered that, no less than seven times in American history, _the President has died in office and the * Vice-President has sueceeded. + 80, before we load our next Vice- - President, with: aintional duties, let us bhe certain that he measures un to the challenge not only of the vice-presi-dency but of the presidency as well. - . . The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette

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Thursday, June 10, 1948

More and more in our daily routine do we meet the problem of handicap, yet in all instances it is only thru the determination and will of the individual or a group of individuals that handicap of any kind is overcome. I was thinking in these terms the other day when an article written by an acquaintance of mine came thru the mail, and it made good sense. ‘I pass it along for your perusal. ' No observation is more accepted as a fact than that everyone who is born into this world is subject to limitations, - Everyone is limited by at least one handicap. It may be a handicap from birth or one which emerges from circumstances of life. It may be physical —blindness, deafness, bodily deformity or some chronic ailment. It may be mental—emotional—some event may have given rise to self-pity, a dominating fear, a feeling of timidity, an overwhelming loneliness, or any of dozens of feelings of inferiority which become prime factors in making lives less than they might otherwise be.

Everyone is handicapped; yet, some people wallow in theirs, while others rise to greatness in spite of theirs. Is there some magical key which some possess and others do not?

It would seem so when we learn that Beethoven composed his masterpieces even though deaf; that Milton composed his poetry even though blind ; that Steinmetz became a famous electrical wizard even with a deformity which he carried with him all his days; that Helen Keller was born without sight, hearing or speech. Nameless millions have borne their handicaps, Never having risen to eminence, they, nevertheless, have risen to be remembered with the happiest of thoughts because what they were amidst poverty, unhappy home life, illness with constant excruciating pain, amidst forced new lives which some sudden accident obliged them to live the balance of their days. :

Is there a magical key? There is, of course, and it is this: We, ourselves, must come face to face with whatever our handicaps are. We must choose to let them dominate us, or choose to dominate them. It’s as simple as that—in words. -

The thought is trite; and that, perhaps, is the reason so many give it little attention. It’s old stuff. But does that minimize its truth ?. Must a thought be new to have lifting power?

We can either accept.the possibility that the words can be transformed into action to work for us—or we can pass them by. It’s a matter of choosing; but in the choosing there is something we ought to remember. One way we allow handicaps to continue as handicaps; the other way we at least try to do something about them. ° - Beethoven, Milton, Steinmetz, Helen Keller—they emerged from their handicans because there was greatness in them. That greatness is of the same stuff of which millions of nameless souls are made. "Tis a greatness we all have—if only we would believe! v _ N Without earnestness ho man is ever great or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men: he mav be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. —Bayne.

There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory. —A. H. K. Boyd. : ; o - If a man takes off his hat in an elevator, it means he has good manners and hair. - : ; -——_'_'f'-_o——"————————— f - Instead of lovine your enemies, treat your friends a little better. What. has not unselfed love achieved for the race? All that ever was accomplished, and more than history has yet recorded.—Mary Baker Eddy.y_ . ’ Blessings are upon the head of the just.—Proverbs 10:6. R

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Veterans Lose Again wA.R VETERANS GOT ANOTHER KICK in the pants the other day when 23:.vice presidents of steel companies vetoed the allocation of 60,000 tons of steel for prefabricated housing. This means that veteran cooperatives, formed to finance prefabricated housing developments, will have to fold up or go in for the more expensive conventional houses, which most veterans can’t afford. The 23 steel vice-presidents are members of a so-called steel products advisory committee to Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer which passes on volunteer steel allocations under a law ‘passed by congress last year. However, the committee functions more like a little “supreme court” in determining who can buy steel. ' Also, it does more dictating than advising, apparently, for the commerce department had okayed the 60,000-ton allocation, a third of what the prefab industry requested for new low-cost homes. - ; . The steel moguls peinted out that prefabricated houses require four times as much steel as conventional homes built of wood, brick, et cetera. This explanation, however, is small comfort to war veterans and others who cannot afford conventional dwellings. American Veterans ‘committee has made a vigorous protest to congress about the steel magnates’ action.

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j e L Psychological Warfare U. S. DEFENSE CHIEFS haven’t + said so publicly, but one reason they have been so energetic in urging heavy rearmament is the fear of another Pearl Harbor. Vividly remembering how General Marshall was out horseback riding the morning of Pearl Harbor, they don’t want to be caught again. This is understandable. However, there is another kind of Pearl Harbor which may hit the U. S. this time. And U. S. defense chiefs will be just as guilty of neglect if they are caught napping. 'The most important, neglected chapter of war-prevention today is psychological warfare. You can call this propaganda, softening-the-enemy-from-the-rear or justy plain winning friends. But the real fact is that this job of selling ideas, of making the people of another country believe in you, of winning the Russian people over to the U. 8., has-become almost the most important phase of " modern peace and modern warfare. : ' Actually it boils down to the art of making it difficult for the 14 men in the Kremlin to declare war by persuading the Russian people that they themselves don’t want war. At present, the Kremlin can take Russia into war overnight and the people have nothing to say _about it. A ' An A-1 man, George Allen, has taken over this division, but he is still short of cash and barely had a chance to get started. - . @

Truman Wants No Advice REMINISCING WITH FRIENDS RECENTLY, Mayor David Lawrence of Pittsburgh, who is Democratic national committeeman from Pennsylvania, uncorked the following barbed comments: - “Back in the days when I used . to call on Franklin Roosevelt, he always made a point of asking me: ‘How are things going h} Pennsylvania? What are they saying about me?’ 5 “F. D. R. always wanted to know the score, especially about any trends in public opinion. But Harry Truman, while I admir his honesty and sincerity, neve:\ asks us questions like that. It isn’t that he isn’t interested, but he depends too much on a little "~ clique of White House advisers to tell him what’'s going on in the - country. And more often than not he gets bum advice. “When the Democratic national committee had its last meeting .in Washington, we expected Chairman ‘Howard McGrath to invite us to get our problems off our chests when we ‘called on the President. _ We thought that .would be. the first order of business, as it used to be in the old days. But nejther McGrath nor the President made a move to_ask us, Finally, some of - us spoke up on our own.:. : - “Yes, there's a big change at the White House,” concluded Mayor Kawrenpe; *“and I doubt that it's helfing the party.” - fa & @ @ i Marines Paint Houses . THE MARINE CORPS has a ~ great ’record-‘troﬁxv ‘the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli. But in Washington marine brasshats seem to think that enlisted men are to be used on such un- - heroic jobs as ‘barténdgi ‘and housecleaning. ' ‘war. The WW% over .~ For 12 hours a day they painted ‘the house of the assistant com-

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SCRIPTURE: Hsther, : ;)EVOTIONAL READING: Psalms 44: 1-8. :

Esther's Zeal For Her People Lesson for_me 13, 1948

GEORGE MEREDITH has a lines that runs like this, “God’s rar-’ est blessing is, after all, a good woman.” In this study of Esther.i

you may wish to] think of her primar- ; ily as a courageous woman—most people do, I guess. But back of her courage was a solid goodness, else she would never have been able to say, ‘‘And it I perish, I. per’Sh."‘ : One must read the Book of Esther, of course, to have any

grasp of this great story. It requires but a few minutes, and every reader will be richly rewarded. I have a lawyer friend, a prodigious reader, who tells me that once each month, for the past 50 years, he has read the Book of Esther. . e A QUEEN WHO WAS BRAVE. DANIEL, we agreed, was a brave ' person; but not more brave than (Esther. There is a verse in Hebrews 13:6 that serves admirably to interpret this first stage of Esther’s manifest courage, ‘“The Lord is my helper.” : - ‘We go to the palace in Shushan, where reigned Ahasuerus. His kingdom stretched from India even unto Ethiopia. His queen, Vashti, refused, §p conie before him when he had made a feast. As a result of this refusal, the king ordered young maidens brought before him that he might choose-a new queen. There was in the court a Jew, Mordecai, who had been brought there from Jerusalem. He had in his care the daughter of his uncle, a beautiful maiden, named Esther, Mordecai saw here a great opportunity, and he brought her before the king. She was chosen. This brief sketch accounts for her position. ;i* 8 : A QUEEN WHO HELPED o HER PEOPLE Sy HAM‘AN} who was next to the 4.king in authority, discovering that Mord--~n' was a Jew and was

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said, the less frequent payments will greatly reduce the danger of a policy lapse because of a vet—eran’s failure to make timely. remittances. ' The Veterans’ Affairs officer also took this occasion to remind vterans that the deadline foz‘j re—instating a lapsed G I insurance policy, without a physical examina—tion, is July 81, 1948. Two steps are necessary to bring the policy up to date. First, the veteran must file an affidavit that his health is as good as it was at the time of lapse, and secondly, he must pay two monthly prmiums. ’

not worshipping as daman had commanded, caused a decree to be issued which would put to death all the Jews in the kingdom. Mordecai, learning of this decree, sent word secretly to Esther, urging her to intercede on behalf of her people to the king. Here is the heart of the story. Space does not permit a detailed recital. Is is sufficient to say that Esther, though still in her early twenties, managed this delicate situation with such skill that the gallows which Haman had built for Mordecai turned out to be the instrument of death for Haman and his sons. Instead of the Jews being slaughtered, those who had planned the death of all the Jews lay dead. 7 : * & @ ESTHER RISKED ALL AND WON ALL "IF EVER there was a perfect iflnstration of staking one’s all on one great moment, Esther provides such illustration. ‘“Who knoweth whether thou art not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” said Mordecai as he bolstered her nerve. It is such a challenge as young people may be facing today -Obviously, the moment now confronting us calls for great faith and great sacrifice if this worldis to be saved from utter destruction. It may be that this situation calls for hitherto unknown tactics. And let us pray God there is somewhere an Esther. ). . * THE MESSAGE OF ESTHER _ WHICH leads me on to suggest ‘that racial hatred was never «ore bitter than at this moment. Unless the winds of God blow, unless some mighty manifestation of divine- intervention is granted, the world will break up on the rocks of prejudice and selfishness and am-. bition and all the forms and fashions of sin. ~ S ““God moves in a mysterious way, his wonders to-perform.” Let us pray that we ‘may early witness some mighty stroke of his mercy and deliverance, ere the night let down. - s * s @ R Ry g Copel Protestant denominations. Released by WNU. \l"ectnru.) e i S 2 ' Atomic Hope Terrifying as is the prospect of atomic energy running wild in the hands of a generation of men morally and spiritually unprepared to handle it, even more thrilling is the prospect of a Divine Will ‘subjecting even such a diabolic thing as the atomic bomb to discipline and con-

. wARREN WRIGHT, Calumet’s owner, Ben and Jimmy Jones, Calumet’s two trainers, were looking on ahead as the 1948 Preakness arrived. They had seen Calumet’s Whirlaway take the money-winning record away from Seabiscuit. They had seen the flashy Armed take the " cold cash collection away from both Assault and Stymie, only to have Hirsch Jacobs’ $1,500 claimer regain the lead in the race to be first to earn a million dollars in purses. Ben and Jimmy Jopes are not quite sure how the veteran Armed will come along. But both are pretty sure that whatever Stymie turns in, Citation will beat it, putting Calumet ahead again. With the Derby purse and over $250,000 under his saddle, Citation faces the Preakness and the Belmont. That will mean close to another $200,000. But that isn’t all. There is the American Derby at Chicago—there is .the Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs—there is the Suburban at Belmont—there is the $lOO,- ’ 000 Santa Anita Handicap—there is so much money on hand that rac- . ing can algnost match some of these radio programs where, I understand, they will give away entire states fairly soon. The big races on ahead for three-year-olds run from $40,000 to $lOO,000 and it is quite possible that Citation will finish his three-year-old career above the $600,000 spot. We talked with Ben and Jimmy Jones about this situation. The Jones boys are a ftrifle better than normally bright citizens. They would rather talk about what has already happened—or what might happen tomorrow—than about what might happen next month. They are not limb climbers. They have no use for limbs, except those limbs belonging to Calumet runners. “You made $1,400,000 or more,” I said to Parnell Ben a year ago, “how much will you make this year with Citation, Coaltown, Fervent, Armed, Faultless and your two-year-olds, two millions?”’ ~ “All I know is what we’ve won so far,” Ben said. Ben Jones counts no purses before they are collected and put in the bank. There is a rumor out that his two-year-olds will soon chase Citation and Coaltown off the tracks. It could happen. : $ 9 =

Baseball’s Upsets It may be that the cold, raw, windy spring has had more than a little to do with the odd aspect of the two big league pennant races. Something has taken place that has an odd, lopsided look. For example, if we owned a ball club and someone had offered us three pitchers, the odds are we would have broken both legs in a sprint for Ewell Blackwell, Hal Newhouser and Warren Spahn. Well, it so happens that the last time we looked we discovered neither Blackwell nor Newhouser was agmong the first 40 in his respective league. Both had been blasted and blistered, start after start, in the manner of a brace of rookies. Also Bob Feller had been chased to the showers two or three times. Looking over these morbid details we discovered the Athletics and Indians leading the league, and the Browns playing as well as any other team. They beat the Yankees in a game that was taken away from them by poor umpiring, as far as eyesight goes. This made a difference of two games for the Yankees and two games for the Browns. : K * R W hat Makes a Coach? Frank Leahy is a great coach. He also has the best material. Does Leahy make the material great? Or does the material make Leahy great? I’ll let you answer that one. There are at least two coaches 1 know who have the jump on Leahy or any other coach you can mention in the-way of what you might call ‘‘a favorable press.” Which isn’t unimportant. These two men are ‘Herman Hickman, now of Yale, and Bo McMillin, now of the Detroit Lions, Hickman and McMillin \have left two big gaps at Army and Indiana, where they have been big factors not only as coaches, but in the way of popular appeal. -In this season on ahead both Hickman and McMillin are heading for rough roads of travel. Hickman will need all of his art as a star line coach to give Yale a first-class line. The Blue has the backs, but the line material of other years is missing—none of those big guards and tackles is lingering under the ;, ucu:t: has many notches tv climb re his Lions are up with the Cardinals, Bears, Eagles and they still will draw a good press and hold the loyalty of thei¢ supporters for a year at least—whatAL S ain GL D eRT S T RSR SN TLhL et R s