Ligonier Banner., Volume 82, Number 26, Ligonier, Noble County, 1 July 1948 — Page 2
A Page of Opinion:
Che Linonier Bauner
Vol. 82
This is our view: Why Not Make It Simple? Once again the dreaded rabies infection is running rampant thru-out the State, and the Governor has been forced to declare a state of emergency. In Ligonier, the City Health Officer has met with the City Council in an effort to determine a course to keep this fatg:,a_]# gisease from presenting itself in our community. Their concern is well founded when we consider the alarming fact é% gtonlyione-fifth of the dog own“ers of the city have complied with the citsordinance and submitted their pets to ‘inmoculation. o - Just last week a child was bitten, and theré can be more. Perhaps the next child or person will be the first: rabies victim in our midst, and then we can lay our good intentions at the feet of their loved ones for solace. Sixty-six dogs were killed under law during the period of our quarantine. but more pe{s will fall before the job is done, if we do not recognize the seriousness of our plight and do something about it. _ . WHY NOT MAKE IT SIMPLE? Why not see that all pets are innoculated and tagged ? It is a simple, cheap procedure to obviate disaster. We feel the question of the week .should be, “Have you had your dog innoculated?” If the answer is no, every effort should be made to see that the law is obeyed. It’s a better plan than being sorry for something that could have been eliminated.
Safe July 4th Recipe
The most important ingredients in concocting a pleasant, safe Fourth of July holiday trip are generous helpings of Common Sense, Extra Care and Courtesy. Too often these vital items are left behind and tragedy is the result. Each July 4, several men, women and children are killed in traffic smash-ups. Others are victims of boating, swimming and flying mishaps. Still others are hurt in homemade fireworks blasts or over exertion, or overdoses of sun. Let’s stop believing that Independence day accidents cannot be prevented, and that loss of life and injury is inevitable by observing the following simple rules suggested by the Indiana State Police. 1. Be sure your automobile, airplane or boat is mechanically safe. 2. Start earlier, don’t hurry and observe all regulations. :
3. Drive defensively; be alert for the other fellow’s mistakes. »
4. Swim in obstruction-free water in the sight of others, and not until an hour after eating. ' '
5. Distribute the load evenly in boats: don’t stand up. Watch out for sudden storms.
6. Take the sun in easy doses. Wear sunglasses. ' 7. Fireworks are unlawful, an(f homemade pyrotechnics dangerous. 8. In case of an accident, ask the telephone operator to connect you with the nearest police or sheriff’s department, or State Police post. = - _
Persecution is the weakness of tyrants engendered by their fear, and love will cast it out. Confinue steadfast in love and good works.—Mary Baker Eddy.
Though men should rend your heart, let them not embitter or harden it. We win by tenderness; we conquer by forgiveness.—F. W. Robertson. : R e e . Beautiful is the activity which works for good, and beautiful the' stillness which waits for good: blessed the selfsacrifice of one, and blessed the selfforgetfulness of the other.—Collyer. e (e ’ ~ The best of all governments is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. —Goethe. e '
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Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, never made any speeches, and, aside from his letters, left no other written work of outstanding importance, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. ~ And yet, no other man’s ideas have had anything like an equal influence upon the institutions of the country. Of the Declaration, adopted 172 years Sunday (July 4), the document is full of Jefferson’s fervent spirit and personality and its ideals were those to which his life was consecrated. By the Declaration a state, for the first time in history, founded its life on democratic idealism. - Jefferson had unlimited faith in the honesty of the people; a large faith in their common sense; believed that all is to be won by appealing to the reason of the voters; that by education their ignorance can be eliminated ; that human nature is indefinitely perfectible; that majorities rule, therefore, not only by virtue of force, but of right. His importance as a maker of modern America can scarcely be overstated, for the ideas he advocated have become the very foundations of American republicanism. -His frank and earnest address, his quick sympathy, his vivacious, varied, informing talk, gave him an engaging charm. Beneath a quiet surface he was aglow with intense convictions and an emotional temperament. He was singularly sweet-tempered, and shrank from the impassioned politi‘cal bitterness that raged about him. His kindness of heart rose above all social, religious or political -differences, and nothing destroyed his confidence in men. He was an expert violinist, a good singer and dancer, proficient in outdoor sports, and an exceilent horseman. On the other hand, he never used tobacco, never played cards, never gambled and was never involved in a personal quarrel. He loved gardening and experimented with varieties and rotations of crops.
When he became President of the United States, Jefferson rejected all the pomp and ceremony of his high office. ' His dress was of “plain cloth” on the day of his inauguration. { Instead of opening: Congress with a speech to which a formal reply was expected, he sent in a written message. ; He would not have his birthday celebrated by state balls. Even such titles as “Excellency,” “Honorable” and “Mr”’ were distasteful to him.
Diplomatic grades were ignored in social precedence, and foreign relations were seriously compromised by dinnertable complications. One minister, who appeared in gold lace and dress sword for his first official call on the president, was received by Jefferson in negligent undress and slippers down at the heal.
Next to the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson’s most famous service to his country is the Louisiana Purchase. The Encyclopaedia Britannical ealls it “the supreme achievement of his first administration.”, - ‘
The Louisiana Purchase gave the United States Louisiana, Missouri, lowa, Arkansas, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Oklahoma as well as most of Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Minnesota—all at 3 total cost of four cents an acre!
This achievement, however, is not rientioned in the epitaph on Jefferson’s tomb. By his own choice, it reads simply, “Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of. American Independence, of ‘the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.” ;
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.—Rambler,
He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sub‘lime enjoyments of life—Lavater, Forgiveness ought to be like a cane celed note—torn in two, and burned up, so that it can never be shown against one.—H. W, Beecher, ' ‘
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liliteracy in America
IT HASN'T BEEN PUBLICIZED, but the census takers have unearthed the shocking fact that 10 million American adults cannot read or write. ~
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Yet congress, willing to spend billions to train young men for war has bottled up the 300 million dollar aid-to-education bill to train young men and women for peace. Georgia’s ' Democratic Congressman Don Wheeler has been begging for 218 of his house mates to sign a discharge petition to force the federal aid-to-education bill out of the education and labor committee
where it has been salted away by the G.O.P. leadership. But he has not been able to scrape up more than 43 names! .
Meanwhile, literacy in the United States has sunk fo an alarming low—probably lower than Russia. What the public also doesn’t realizse is that the nation’s 10 million illiterates over 24 years old are not southern Negroes, but many -of them na-tive-born whites. Official statistics show that 4,200,000 adults, who cannot read or write, are whites born in this couniry. Another 8,100,000 are foreign-born whites, whereas only 2,700,000 are Negroes. The remaining handful are Latin Americans and Orientals by birth. ! Furthermore, illiteracy isn't found exclusively in the South. For example, more than one million illiterate adults live in New York, another 696,000 in Pennsylvania and 462,000 in Illinois. However, 36 per cent of Louisiana's total population cannot read or write.
During the war, draft boards weeded out 350,000 young men who could sign their name only with an X. Of these, 150,000 were physically fit to serve in the army but were disqualified because of lack of education—a loss to the country of approximately 15 divisions.
Yet house leaders are not willing to spend a few million dollars on a bill already passed by the senate and which again would make America the most enlightened nation in the world.
Veterans Housing Bill MICHIGAN'S CONGRESSMAN JESSE WOLCOTT, who has been bottling up the housing bill, thought he would show he was not antiveteran by ‘calling two: witnesses to speak for the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He did this despite the fact that he had a telegram in his pocket officially repudiating the two witnesses. Signed by Merle Hopper, Michigan VFW commander, the telegram read: “George Lyle and Arthur Greig purported to represent Michigan department VFW on housing at your committee hearings. No one but myself is authorized to speak for VFW in Michigan on any subject before congress.” Deliberately ignoring this protest from the VFW commander, Wolcoit in effect deceived the public by putting Greig and Lyle on the stand to denounce lowcost housing for war vets. He also failed to mention that Greig and Lyle for a long time have been playing hand-inglove with the real-estate lobby im Detroit. However, Representative Hale Boggs of Louisiana, himself a veteran, did not let Wolcott get away with this. He asked Lyle if the national VFW was for public housing. Knowing the answer was “Yes,” Wolcott had the nerve to interrupt Boggs. But the Louisianan persisted: “I. insist on an answer to my question as to whether the national VFW has indorsed this bill—yes or no” Ll LYle finally had to admit that the Veterans of Foreign Wars favored passage of the housing bill and that he and Greig were speaking only for themselves, Chairman Wolcott looked very sick.
Army-Navy Unification THE GREATEST ARGUMENT in favor of army-navy unification was pooling of supplies. It was estimated that the taxpayers could be saved a lot of money if the army and navy bought their supplies together instead of bidding against each other. However, Secretary of Defense Forrestal, supposedly a businessman, hasn't even accomplished this —despite the fact that he knew from recent war experiences how great this waste was. The waste that has resulied from this lack of uniformity is astronomical. For example, 30 ‘were purchased by the army in 1942—enough to last for 10 years. Yet the following week another order was placed for 60 million types. As s resul, army ware-
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Mr. Uhl, Noble County Service Officer, advises veterans who lose subsistence, compensation or pen—sion checks tio notify the appro-— priate federal veterans adminis—tration regional office immediately. A veteran losing such a check should write a letter giving his full name angd address, his claim num-— ber and the date and amount of the check. He should also state what the check was for and the circumstanees surrounding its loss. . : On being notified of the check’s loss, the VA determines first if it may have been found and returned to the U.S. Treasury. If so, the check will bé re-mailed to the veteran. If not, the VA will request
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Micaiah, A Prophet of Israel Lesson for July 4, 1948
WE BEGIN a new series of studies this quarter—a series of lessons based on less known Bible characters that have much to X offer us. Such a SR character is found B 8 in Micaiah, about 1 8 whom we learn in I . ¥ & Kings 22:1-40. '% [ | Ahab, king of Iso 8 rael, planned an exA pedition to recover g 8 the city of Ramoth in Gilead, which the Syrians had taken. - He invited Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, Dr. Newton to join him. Ahab relied upon his court brophets to prediect victory; but Micaiah, the prophet of God, whom Ahab had shut up in prison, when he was summoned, at the insistence of Jehoshaphat, told Ahab the truth —the unpleasant truth—which subsequent events verified. .
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THE TRUTH
THE first blessing in the study of this obscure Bible character, Micaiah, is to discover a man who was brave enough to tell the truth when he knew it was unpopular. It is always the best policy to tell the truth, though there be many in today’s world who deny this principle. It is not enough to say that we will tell the truth because it pays. That is true, but it as’a byproduct of doing what is right. One must tell the truth because it is right to tell the truth. Men swear with their hand upon the Holy Bible trat what they testify is the truth and nothing but the truth. But, alas, such men often tell anything but the truth. They have been care-’ fully coached to evade the truth. Micaiah told the truth, because he was speaking for God. It hurt him, but it must needs be the truth he spoke to Ahab. *% » 2 TRUTH DISREGARDED Ahab scorned the words of Micaiah, and ordered him thrown back into prison. But scarcely had the prophet of God been thrust again into prisen, »»til Ahab wnas bleed.
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the Treasury to stop payment and take the necessary steps to reim-— burse the veteran. Mr. Uhl further states that should a veteran find his check after reporting its loss, he should notify the VA and hold- the check until he has been advised by the Treasury that action to stop payment has been withdrawn. Alaskan Highway The Alaskan highway is also known as Alcan, the Alaska-Canada the international hiway and “the road.” It was constructed in seven months of 1942 to supply airfields on the war-urgent flying route from the states to Alaska. Some 10,000 U. 8. army engineers and 6,000 U. 8. and Canadian ecivilian workers laid it at the average rate of eight miles a day.
Timely diagnosis of sores that refuse to heal has provided one example of the tremendous importance of discovering cancer while it still is in the cureable stage.
There are numerous symptoms. They should be studied, not with an attitude of creating morbid fear, but with the comforting realization that science often can restore health and preserve life.
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Men not only take their own lives in their hands wher. they disregard the truth, but, like stubborn Ahab. they bring grief to countless others. Had Ahab heeded the words of truth which Micaiah proclaimed, Ahab might have lived. Indeed, had Ahab heeded the words of truth, he might have recovered Ramoth, and more beside.
Truth may appear forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne, but time always proves a hard taskmaster to the man who regards wrong instead of truth.
&* 2 @ THE SOURCE OF TRUTH
GOD is the sourct of truth—all truth. If we miss this, we miss the lesson of the lesson. Note the werds of the golden text, “‘As the Lord liveth, what the Lord saith unto me, that will I speak,” said Micaiah. :
Let us remember that it was God speaking through his prophet. Ahab could not have doubted that Micaiah was speaking what God had told him to speak. But Ahab did notf want to hear the truth. He wanted to hear pleasing words that woulc encourage him in his evil plan. God speaks the first and the last word on every subject, because God is truth. *“I am the truth,” said Jesus. And he went on to say, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
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DISOBEYING THE TRUTH
HORRIBLE, indeed, was the pen alty which Ahab suffered for disregarding the truth. The way of the transgressor is hard—always hard. The wages of sin is death Be sure your sins will find you out Take down your cherished book: of history. What do-they say t« you? That the straight line of trut! is the only safe way in which ¢t walk. It is applicable for their dividual, for the family, for th community, for the nation, for eivi! zation. Thus every great prayer must b« “Thy will be done.” God’s Wil the way of truth. Micaiah declarc it. Every true prophet must decla: it. It is the only way to peace a: joy in this world. * * : g o iy B vPy Protestant denominations. Released WNU Features.) -~ On Believing . AR e All over the world now there is' reaction from the superficial ta! that it does not make much differ ence what a man believes. We have learned our lesson. What a man be lieves makes a world of difference not only in what he does, but what happens to him. i
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AS FAR BACK as 1934 the rampant spirit of the St. Louis Cardinals brought them the title of the Gas House Gang.
Their 1948 outfit hasn't a Dean aboard—*“Me and Paul”—a Delancey, a Pepper Martin, but it has much of the same spirit that has carried the team along so many yeals.
Spirit is almost as indefinable as color, but it lasts longer. It can become a heritage, which color can’t. »
As Eddie Dyer put it: “It was nothing but sheer spirit that carried our team from a bad last to second place last summer. When we lost nine straight games to sink deeper into the cellar there was every excuse to quit—especially as we had so many sick or injured men on the squad. But the team refused to quit and that gave me further proof it was about as game a bunch as I ever saw.
“We have many of the same
men on our squad this year that came from 10 games behind in August to win some six years ago. Marty Marion—Terry Moore— Stan Musial—Country Slaughter —Whitey Kurowski—some of our pitchers, although we’ve lost Lanier, White and Beazley from that 1942 squad. But the same old spirit is still there. “Remember last spring in St Petersburg, Ducky Medwick was the best-conditioned man in camp —and one of the best hustlers. A lot of years had passed since 1934 —but they couldn’t affect his spirit. I've seen too many of our men out there hustling when they should have been in a hospital. “Tll admit we haven’t the youngest team in the league, but it isn't too old. It still has the spirit of six years ago when they beat the Yankees four out of five World Series games. “This is still an open race. The big improvement in the Pirates and Phillies will make a difference. And the Reds no longer will be a soft touch with Blackwell back. It’'s a tough league in which to set up a winning streak. There are too many good teams and too many good pitchers in your road. This will be the toughest of all races.”
Disappointing Red Sox
Last year it was the Cardinals. This year it's the Red Sox. The Cardinals, a 3-to-5 odds-on favorite, still were trying to wiggle off the last place hook around this date last year.
The Red Sox would have been last at the quarter mark this season if the ignoble White Sox hadn’t been in the same league—the worst team in big league baseball. Yet the Boston ball club carries Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Dom DiMaggip, Johnny Pesky and Vern Stephens, rated among the best men in baseball. All this—plus Joe McCarthy.
: Yet for the first six weeks of the race this club couldn’t keep pace with the Browns, tabbed as the all-time jokes. It might be mentioned here that the home support given the Browns has proved again this franchise must leave St. Louis and let the Cardinals have an exclusive roost.
But this isn’t explaining the Red Sox. One answer is shoddy pitching, but this can’t be the only answer.. They did far better Ilast summer with about the same pitch--ing.
The Red Sox dropped from second place in team batting to fifth despite Ted Williams’ consistent hitting. Their first pitcher was in the 23rd spot in the league ranking, and they have only one regular who was above .500. But still they had the same staff as they had last year, plus Kramer and Kinder.
McCarthy Broods Joe McCarthy has nearly always been a winning manager. There is no other manager who broods as much over defeat. So anyone can see the miserable spring and early summer the Buffalo leader has known to date. Have his Red Sox dumped themselves out of the pennant race? That isn’t the problem now. The problem is—can they finish in the first division? Certainly none of this Red Sox misery can be laid to Williams. At last reports, Williams was leading the American league in individual batting and in runs-batted-in. He was second in home runs. He was well above his record of a year ago -and hot on the trail of Ken Keltner of the Cleveland Indians. It couldn't be Williams. But Doerr, Stephens and DiMaggio were not too hot. They are better than 250 hitters. Johnny Pesky is also more than 60 points below his normal average. The Red Sox have nothing like the team spirit carried by the Athletics, the Indians or the In many games, 8s If they stillLol R e i