Ligonier Banner., Volume 82, Number 30, Ligonier, Noble County, 29 July 1948 — Page 2

A Page of Opinion:

The Ligonier Banuer

Vol. 82

This is our view:

A Fond Goodbye

Ligonier has been cloaked in sorrow this past week. A young father, a prominent merchant, a mother and an aged father all have left our midst. To their survivors begins the soultesting trial of readjustment. To - their survivors remains the task of accepting their passing in the light of mysterious reality and of feeding their hearts with the beauty of memory rather than the tearing agony of loss. :

All words of consolation from those friends standing by cannot fill the gap that has been rent, for consolation and adjustment comes from within, and time and heart are the only healers. Yet in those days in which despair takes hold, can satisfaction be found in the pleasant memories of a day gone by that will grow in beauty with each passing hour. . I recall a friend who had loaned to him a vase so rare and beautiful that with each passing day he became more sure it was his own. It rested gracefully on the mantel of his hearth, and he and his friends let not a day pass that they did not find pleasure and peace viewing its beauty. Then one day the rightful owner came to claim his vase, and my friend and his friends felt deeply its loss and were want to give it up. But call it a miracle if you will, as the days passed my friend began to see the vase in all its beauty and to him again it was resting there in all its splendor. Never came the dawn of a new day that he didn’t see the vase he loved so well for in his storehouse of memories it remained to bring him comfort and peace.

Our Recreation Program

A week from Friday, our summer recreation. program sponsored by the City and the Ligonier Players will come to a blazing close with Ligonier’s first “SoapBox Derby” ' It brings to a close a highly successful season of youth activity that should be heralded from the house tops. From the opening day to the present moment, over one hundred of our young pople have daily spent their-morning in wholesome, instructive recreation under most competent leadership. It produced for Ligonier the most all-inclusive youth program yet put into effect. It was made possible thru the unselfish energies of a large portion of our population, the result of an encouraging cooperative effort. To Mrs. Fred Bowen and William Thomas goes our orchid of the week for their apt handling of the program, their keen interest in young people under their supervision and their enthusiasm in pursuit of their duties. This writer for one hopes as ever vigil will be maintained to insure the annual operation of such a worthwhile project.

President Truman has led the GOP elephant to water. Can he make it drink? Mr. Truman’s message to the special session of Congress stressed legislation to combat inflation and to meet the housing shortage. " On the first point he advocated limited price control, an excess profit tax, credit controls, and standby power to ration “those few products in short supply which vitally affect the health and wel= fare.” He said that unless further shortages occur the rationing authority might not have to be used. He also asked for the right to limit wage increases where they might force a break in the price ceiling. . _ To expedite the building of houses he urged the passage of the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill. -~ : - How much of this extensive program will Mr. Truman get? It is already taken for granted that the Republicans will refuse most of it. That has been their attitude since he first announced that he would call a special session. L - —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette

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Individual, inadequacies are common realities in this and past eras for the human race has made slow progress in its quest of civilization. And because of this.slow process of development, our attitude toward the shortcomings of our fellow beings should be tempered with the oil of forgiveness and tolerance. That such is not the case, generally speaking, becomes the enigma of the Christian world and negates the very premise upon which most people base their living. If 'we could sum up the philosophy of Jesus Christ in one short sentance. it would be “Do urto others as you would have others do unto you,” but it takes no deep thinking to realize that this summation is not the guide of the Christian world. Neither-in our international, national or individual living do we exemplify this bit of wisdom given us so many years ago, yet we profess Christianity, and build great edifices to support that belief. Jesus Christ in his great wisdom knew that charitable living produced greater peace and serenity within the breast of the giver than it did the reciever. He knew that the way of life must be promulgated in its broadest sense . . . to include the greatest proportion of the people . ?Eto overcome the base, unworthy - desires that most people call “human nature,” and say “cannot be changed.” His fight was against greed, jealousy, selfishness, unkindness, lack of understanding and untruthfulness. He knew the great immorality lie in these traits, and he attempted to do something about it. :

That the Christian followers have failed to grasp these lessons is amazing, 13 it not ? e s

But a greater paradox is the damning attitude of the “do nots” to the “dos.” If you think such an attitude is not universal, look about you and thru the history books and see how the believers, the fighters for human rights have been persecuted by the very people who would have become the donees of their fight. To this I could never find explanation. Perhaps the knowledge of our inadequacies sets up a resistance to those less fortunate. Perhaps it is because it is easier to damn than put into motion the thinking processes that would overcome it, for discernment of the facts is always more difficult than the establishment of a snap opinion, and misinterpretation is less tiring 'to the brain cells than thorough interpretation. It becomes, therefore, easier to condemn than to support for eondemnation so often requires less ‘effort.

. -But being an “agin’er” is not always inertia; it often stems from the immorality I previously mentioned, and a peculiar manifestation of the ego that seeks negative support from the mentally tired.

Such problems consume the nation for as some sdge once said, “the cowards fight undercover, the brave in the open,” and tactically the former is hard to beat. 7o

What does all this mean? Does it give license to cynicism and despair, or does it bring understanding and courage? I believe it provides understand and patience, for it drives home the realization that good comes hard and slowly. It clarifies the statement “convoys move as fast as the slowest ship,” and those who have accepted the Christian principle become willing to wait.

A merely fallen enemy may rise vagain; but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.—Schiller. - - /

To an ‘honest mind, the best perquisites: of a place are the advantages it gives for doing good.—Addison.

If we find the job where we can be of use, we are hitched to the star of the world and move with it.—Richard Cabot.

It takes about 84 gallons of water to make one Lee Pre-Shaped hat. :

_ Before the establishment of standard time on November 18, 1883, American railroads were using about 100 different standards of time. ;

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Czar John L. Lewis Very few people realize what John L. Lewis has done to white-collar workers, to old people living on government pensions and to the rest of the labor movement. To get a bird’s-eye view of Lewis’. operations, you have to go back to the days of the New Deal when it was recognized that all old people in-the United States deserved some kind of security. Accordingly the social security act was passed, providing unemployment compensation and old-age pensions. ‘ Today these pensions have become most woefully inadequate, and one factor helping to make them so has been Lewis and his never-end-ing, inflationary demands for wage increases and miners’ pensions. For instance, when Lewis gouges a multimillion-dollar welfare fund out of the mine operators, the operators in turn pass the cost on to the oldsters and everyone else in the country, whose pension then becomes less valuable. Thus the miners become a privileged class set aside from the rest of the American people. Not only do they get three and four times the pensions given ordinary citizens, but other citizens have to pay for the miners’ pensions, ; Thus the widow who tries to make both ends meet on a meager government pension of $3O a month, has to help pay for the miner’'s pension of $lOO a month—because the increased price of coal is passed on to her. : _ ANOTHER THING: Lewis now can bulldoze wage increases for the miners- which certain other unions can’t. For instance, the railroads have their rates set by the interstate commerce commission. As public utilities they are not free agents to "decide what they will charge the public. : Actually, coal is just as much a public utility as the railroads. It is essential to the lifeblood of the nation. But while the railroads are regulated by the ICC; the electric power and gas companies by the federal power commission; and the radio, telegraph and telephone companies by the federal communications commission, the coal industiry remains unregulated. STILL ANOTHER THING: Private. industry cannot get together and conspire to fix prices. To do so violates the Sherman anti-trust act. Yet Lewis can get all the miners together from West Virginia to Utah, and from Ohio to Alabama, and present uniform demands on all coal operators, big and little, mechanized and unmechanized—without violating the Sherman anti-trust act. '

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PREDICTION: 1. The Supreme court in a: year or so will reverse its previous ruling and make labor unions subject to the anti-trust laws. 2. Congress, recognizing that the coal industry is just as much a public utility as the railroads will set up a commission regulating both coal wageées and coal prices. In other words, Lewis will kill the goose that laid his golden eggs. ; $ & @

- Some - White House advisers' are strongly urging the President to call congress back for a special session. ~ They tell Mr. Truman that he should insist on enactment of major legislation, such as the Taft-Ellen-der-Wagner public housing bill, which, though blocked in congress, was indorsed in the G.O.P. convention platform.

.Friends tell Mr. Truman that if G.O.P. leaders continue to block housing during the special session, he then -could charge them with failure to car- . ry out platform pledges. Other advisers, however, have told Mr. Truman that it would be wiser politically not to call a special session, but to let these Republicans stew in the juice of their congressional mistakes. : . Since the President plans to make congress his No. 1 campaign. issue it renominated, the latter is probably what he will do.

¢ & o 111-Fated Venture Harry Truman has taken a lot of ribbing about that failure in the haberdashery business. ~But the other day the President told on himself the story of how he had had still another ill-starred business experience—as an oil prospector. He told the story to Frank .P. Douglass, able boss of the-national mediation board, who called at the White House to report that he had nothing to do with efforts of friends to get him named secretary of labor. *“l can understand your position,” replied the President. “You know I was once in the oil business myself on a limited scale.” ' e « Truman grinningly related how he had had an interest in two ofl wells, both of which proved dry on the first deillingg. °© - & ‘“The project went broke ‘and my partners and I were forced to sell out,”” he added. i

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Veterans Administrator Carl R. Gray, Jr., today reminded veterans that July 31 is the last day for re—instatement of lapsed. National Service Life Insurance on a “com—parative health” basis.: Before August 1, an eligible vet—eran may reinstate any amount of term insurance—from - $l,OOO to $lO,OOO, in multiples of ssoo—re—gardless of the length of time it has been lapsed, and usually with—out a physical examination. He need only fill out a simple appli—cation form, in which he certifies that his health is as good as when the policy lapsed, and pay prem-— iums for two months. .

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SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 32:6-16; 36—37; 43:5-6. DEVOTIONAL READING: Psalms 83, ‘

Baruch, The Scribe

Lesson for August 1, 1948

BARUCH, whose name means “blessed,” was the grandson of Maaseiah, ‘“‘overnor of the city” under Josiah (II Chronicles 34:8), and his father, NerBUE IR iah, appears to have § been an official dure | ing the ‘reign of = & Jehoiakim. He was a A 7 | trusted friend of JerR & emiah (Jeremiah 32: O go| 6-15 and 43:5-6). Tra- | g’ | dition holds that » Baruch was carried : ; to Babylon, where he wrote the apocryphal ; “Book' of Baruch,” Dr. Newton and died in 574, 8.C., twelve years after the fall of Jerusalem. Our golden text for this lesson is found in Psalms 119:105, ‘‘Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and light unto my path.” & % » OUR BIBLE “THEN Jeremiah called Baruch, the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book. And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house ~of gxe Lord. Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the Lord in the ears of the people in the Lord’s house upon the, fasting day; and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of the cities,” Jeremiah 36:4-8. : " How did we get our Biktle? Through this simple process of God speaking through his appointed prophet, and by the faithful work of men like Baruch who served as scribes. e Ca B THIS SCRIBE Ol' LONG AGO ‘IN the introductory paragraph I sketched briefly the story of Baruch. He was a trained man, trusted and beloved. This he had to be, else God would not have ap- . proved Jeremiah’s selection of Baruch to copy what he was saying for God. And not only was he seLeeted to write down what God was saying, through his prophet, but h-

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than three months. Where the period of lapse is three months or longer, the veteran will be re—quired to take a physical examina—tion and qualify as an insurable risk, VA said.

More than 10,000,000 World War 11 veterans who currently have no NSLI in force are eligible for up—wards of $100,000,000,000 of this low—cost protection, VA added.

Mr. Max C. White, Contact Rep—resentative in Charge of the Vet.. erans Administration Contact Of--fice in Fort Wayne announces that their office will remain open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to assist vet—erans in filing reinstatements on Saturday, July 31, the final day for reinstating without a physical ex—amination. '

was used to proclaim the words of God to the people in the Lord’s house. Baruch was amanuensis," reader and distributor of the Bible —a distinguished role, indeed. Let us today be gladly ready to read the Bible to others, and to distribute and circulate the Scriptures wherever we may. Here I pause to pay tribute to the American Bible Society and all others, including the Gideons, who help to make the Bible known to all men everywhere. * % =% A MAN ON WHOM GOD COURTED THUS we see that Baruch was 4 a man on whom God counted. “His work was done well, and we read that, “When they heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.” Young people will do well to ponder this incident. In the varied contacts of young Christians in this modern day, we may be used of the Holy Spirit in making kmown the words of God in countless ways. Thus, like Baruch, you may be used of God to make known his will unto all mankind. _ 2 2 @ BARUCH, A COURAGEOUS SCRIBE bim , T’HE full context reveals the fact that Baruch exhibited courage as well as faithfulness in his service as scribe to Jeremiah. it was not an easy task. Nor will it be easy to fill our posts as couriers of the Good News. But it was a rewarding experience for Baruch. He served his day and generation according to the will of God. Mr. Henry Ford, Sr., believed in having a copy of the Bible near at hand wherever he might sit. down in his home. I heard him say once that he had a Bible on every table in his home. ‘I do this in order that 1 may reach over and spend a few minutes with the Lord wherever I may sit down. And I always cherish the hope that others will find it a lamp unto their feet and a light ~ along their daily pathway.” Let us give thanks for Baruch—the trusted friend who served Jeremiah, and thus served God. * o o o TETet o ez, O Protestant denominations. Released by WNU Features.) : ~ Conduct - Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral If it -is moral - at least there may be “hope for the world. If immoral, - th -e is not only no hope, but no ; prospect of anything but destruction of all that has been accomplished during the last 5,000 years. —Nicholas ‘Murray Butler.

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Salaries of Athletes THEY were talking about the money a professional athlete could make, and how much most of these athletes were worth. In the first place, among eight or ten old-time writers, in the discussion it was generally voted that the ring business was the most lopsided. This means that a few were far overpaid and the others were far underpaid. For example, Joe Louis has bowled over close to four million dollars for his 62 fights. Now four &m million dollars is FEEEEEEEE .4 quite a chunk ‘f’;&m more than any other contestant E& 7% could colleet s W from any other WM . Above that */ we'll say Louis | % gigispicked up 350 fgﬁ“i th ousan d dolla s GRRN e RIS for his last fight. -‘Babe Ruth That is about the pay that 10 of the highest-paid ballplayers would get for an entire season of 154 games. :

But after all, the fight champion collects because he can draw. When two balkclubs meet there may be 50 ball players engaged. When fighters meet, only two in the main event get any real money, and one of these gets most of it. After all, a contestant is entitled to get his part of the swag which his drawing power can earn. Babe Ruth was paid as high as $BO,OOO a year. He was actually worth more than double this amount to his team, the league and baseball in general. It would be hard to measure how much he actually earned. I've seen home teams drawing 1,500 a game jump to 33,000 when the Babe came along. Few Get Rich But, while Jack Dempsey, Louis and Gene Tunney have all collected huge amounts, and a few others have picked up important checks from the fight game, the vast majority get little except queer noises” in their skulls. It’s a tough game, if you make good. It’s a thousand times tougher when you don’t.

, Commissioner Eddie Eagen tells me there are more boxers than one might think who are - putling away from $50,000 to $60,000 a year. This is amazing when you figure the cut the manager and his helpers get. The fight game is' good only to the few. For the others it is largely a matter of scrambled brains. It is not a profession to be recommended too highly to the youth of the land. Baseball and football are the two best average paying games, especially in the higher circuits. Qddly enough, more than a few young stars who dabble in both sports have to make certain drastic decisions. Alvin Dark of the Braves was offered more to play football than he gets playing baseball. Dark picked baseball and the Braves. Charley Trippi tried out both games, and this season the exGeorgia star decided to give all his time to the Chicago Cardinals, leaving baseball flat. He found the combination too much to handle. Chuck Conerly of Mississippi. and Bobby Layne of Texas were two baseball stars. Both had bright baseball futures. Both picked football with the high guarantees now offered. Years ago, Walter Hagen ' could have been a noted big league star —one of the greatest in the game. Hagen picked golf and then proceeded to roll up a million dollars in a few years—which the carefree Haig promptly spent. Joe Gordon was an Oregon great at football before he switched entirely to baseball. Torgerson of the Braves was another football star who picked baseball for a moneymaker. There are many others I could mention. Ballplayers Last Longer One thing to be remembered is that one lasts longer, on a general average, at baseball than he does at football. The wear and tear isn’t S 0 ‘expensive. ' A big league ballplayer with . any particular merit should be good for 12 or 14 years. Few - football players last that long. The Mel Heins, Sammy Baughs and Sid Luckmans are scarce. Bob Feller leads both leagues in the way of a pay check at something like $85,000 a year, which, so far“ this dizzy year, Rapid Robert hasn’t come close to earning. Ted Williams is next, and Joe DiMaggio is third. They get from $60,000 to $75,000 and are earning it every day as two of the leading stars. Stan Musial gets nothing like these amounts, although the Cardinal brilliant is worth as much as any man in the game. There will be a big reshifting of values next year—up wm@ el e - Musial is drawing something like $32,000 this season, but at his pres~ent pace it he isn't a $60,000 eniry they have no ballplayers in the Na-