Ligonier Banner., Volume 82, Number 33, Ligonier, Noble County, 19 August 1948 — Page 2

A Page of Opinion:

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This is our view: ‘ Budgets Are Here Again The budgets are here again. Governmental units—county, township, civil and school city and towns, and libraries —are publishing for the information of taxpayers and others what they propose to spend during 1949. That is bringing local government right into the homes of the people, so all may know how and why we levy taxes and where the money goes. , Few pri\?ate persons make budgets and fewer live up to them. But our public officials are compelled to make budgets for the conduct of the public business and they are compelled to live up to (or down to) those budgets. This is an important fact and one the people should understand better. These budgets are being made more understandable to the ordinary citizen now than they were some years ago. They show, among other things, what was levied for the past three years, so that comparisons may be made. If there is a big difference, the taxpayer can look for the reason for the difference. He does not need to go to the court house or trustee‘s office or to the school board to find out what the matter is; he can read it right in his home in these pub= lished budgets. That is the fine thing about the publication of these budgets each year. They give the taxpayer direct and intimate information about his local government; information which he ought to know. There is no doubt that the preparation and publication of these budgets have saved our taxpayers thousands of dollars and will continue to do so. Savings have been made because of the great care necessary in preparing the budgets and in the public scrutiny which they are sure to receive when published. They represent your official’s report to you, the taxpayers, and are important.

Watch For Fake Eye Doctors

The fake eye specialists’ racket is not new, because it was worked in 1928, 1940, and again in 1946. Here’s how it operates as described in Prairie Farmer: - These crooks travel in pairs, and work on elderly people outside of town, usually where no telephone wires lead into the house. The approach is a simple offer to sell eyeglasses at a low price. However, as soon as the intended victim begins to listen, Crook No. 1 “discovers” a shocking symptom in the victim’s left eye. It just happens that out in the car is the great Dr. Whoosit. He brings the doctor, who condescends to look at the eye. He finds it afflicted with a terrific condition, maybe a cataract, but an especially bad kind with ' a long name. If not treated at once, it will cause total blindness, maybe insanity, he says. It can be cured by “radium” quickly and painlessly, but it’s expensive and must be kept a secret. The “operation” consists of putting some drops of a gelatin-like solution in the eye, then after a few minutes, triumphantly lifting out a piece of rubbery film supposed to be the cataract. Then they put on the bite for as much money as they think they can get. This was seldom less than $5OO, often nearer $l,OOO. - Then they get away fast. Of course, the entire operation is a fake, worth nothing. Yet, these confidence men have taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from their vietims. Publicity is the best cure. If any such approach is made in your neighborhood, get all the facts, get the auto license number and description and report at once to your sheriff,

The first American to engage in meat packing was William Pynchon of Springfield, Mass., who in 1655 started to drive cattle to Boston. ° el ot ———— The first grapevines in Europe were planted on the Rhine River by the German King Ludwig in 842 A. D. ,

Ligonier Banner . Established in 1867 Published every 'n:-;x—nday by the Banner Mnlln. Company a? 124 South Cavia St. - Telephone: one-three ‘ s 5 —— CALHOUN CARTWR/GHT, Editor and Publisher Entered as second class matter at the postolfice at Ligonier Tadiana under the act of March 3, 1879. £ale® . wmemson _“‘* 3/ Advertising Federation of America

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Thursday, August 19, 1948

HERE AND THERE: Our four more recent travelers to the northern fishing grounds, Adrian Biddle, Walter Schrock, Carl Slaymaker, and Don Freeman unknown to each other brought a ham for the week’s outing, and spent the week alternating between fish and ham on their bill of fare. They returned Monday in time to-enjoy the fine ham dinner served the Rotary Club at Koon’s Restaurant: Now they have formed the anti-ham club and are collecting dues at the rate of one sirloin a week.

Clyde Eubank is about off the crutches that have been assisting him for the past two weeks in his meanderings around town. Unaware that everyone comes to a period in their lives when baseball is a game to watch, Clyde jumped into a vacant position two week’s ago during the Softball tourney and sprained an ankle. “Age, I am told,” said the efficient production chairman of the Ligonier Players, “is a state of mind, but I’m against it if this ankle is an example of the practical application of this axiom.”

Recently a local merchant purchased a supply of worms from a youthful solicitor, whose advancement in arithmetic had not taught him the multiplication tables. He figured he should get a penny apiece for the worms and without paper or pencil, decided that his one hundred and fifty worms should bring him fifty cents. The merchant reluctantly paid this amount with the understanding that if perchance the seller found he had overcharged, he would later refund the difference. But here is’ the ‘moral of this story in all its heart rendering details. The purchaser togk the worms home and placed them in a pail. In the morning, the worms were drowned. He had placed them in a pail of water.

A new play was conceived Saturday night in Ligonier at a gathering on Main St. The title “The Editor Snores”, conceived before the plot, brought forth creative dialog that® was worthy of a Noel Coward. A production date was not set. .

We were surprised to see the condition of the bunks afforded the 4H members at the Kendallville Fair grounds Saturday when we made our first trip to the Noble County Fair to witness an afternoon of poorly matched running races. The boy’s sleeping quarters had a dirt floor and the girl’s was but one degree better. No mattresses were provided and the facilities were exceedingly poor. If a poll were taken, it would undoubtedly prove that a County Fair’s emphasis should be directed toward the youth, but such could not be the case here. In spite of the fact that citizens of Noble County pay a per capita tax to maintain this fair, the County officials or the people have little say for it is owned by a closed corporation. This is undoubtedly the reason for its many inadequacies. : ; 2 - — ———-O——_— ‘We were pleased to see the Ligonier Chamber of Commerce show, their faith in the 4H members of the county by purchasing a steer at the Auection last Friday. Such gestures indicate that our local business men are appreciative of the trade a farming community brings them. , :

The Ligonier Community Chest is getting ready for its initial sendoff, and from the comments around the community, it will fill a long absent need. Not only will it reduce the number of fund raising campaigns unsually’ eonducted thru the course of a yeaf, but it will furnish a medium whereby contributions are equalized throughout the entire city. , The administration of the funds collected are in good hands and from the ; donations will come a great deal of good from which the entire population will benefit. It also has possibilities of even ‘doing greater good than is at present contemplated, and as the years go by it will act as an agency for community welfare of the highest order. .. Ideas which may seem “crack-pot” given snap judgment will, in the light of clear thinking, prove worthy and the Community Chest can be the oxganization to sift the

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Hershey's Draft Plans NOT all the details have been released officially yet, but Lewis Hershey, selective service director, gavea brief report on draft plans to a closed-door session of the senate-house armed services committees recently. ‘He told the solons that the .selective service machinery would be ready to process the first batch of draftees by October 15, but -estimated the second call would not come before January 1. Hershey told the senators and congressmen there was strong pressure—at that time—to start drafting 19-year-olds first, since they were not ready to settle down and would be less likely to be upset by army service. , The two armed services committees, however, argued the opposite. Unanimously they agreed that' the 24- and 25-year-olds should be taken before they passed the eligible age. This was later decided. The selective service boss estimated that 9,000,000 youths were available for the draff, but only 1,386,000 would be eligible under the loophole-riddled plan for deferments, Of those who will be caught, the bulk are under 22 since many of those over 22 served in the recent war. The number eligible for the draft in each age group was broken down by Hershey as follows: 25-year-olds, 8,000; 24-year-olds, 15,000; 23-year-olds, 19,000; 22-year-olds, 22,000; 21- - year-olds, 222,000; 20-year-olds, 475,000; 19-year-olds, 635,000, 2 & o Race for Uranium Most encouraging sign on the atomic-energy horizon is what the Russians now are doing in Saxony. Low-grade uranium deposits are found in this southern German state and the Russians have been working feverishly to mine them. They have been usifig a great deal of labor and going to great lengths to scrape up this uranium, which is so low grade that in Canada it would be ignored. The fact that the Russians are - taking all this trouble over such poor quality uranium in Germany obviously .means only one thing: ‘They don't have any worth-while uranium of their own in Russia. ¢ & ° Corporation Gravy While the cost of food to the housewife has zoomed, here is what has happened to the dividends of big corporations. The~ filgures were presented recently by plain-talking Democratic Sen. Joe O’Mahoney of Wyoming, as compiled from official reports: Profits of 100 corporations after taxes: : 1940—51,875,000,000, 1945—51,943,000,000. . 1947—53,730,000,000. : O’'Mahoney also cited a Federal Reserve Board report, stating that business profits this year will exceed the dizzy high of 1947. Pointing to individual corporations which have shared in this bonanza, he reported that General Electric company now is making profits in excess of 20 per cent of net worth, General M0t0r5,19.9 per cent, U. S. Steel, 10 per cent. The 1647 proﬂts of General Electric, ‘before taxes were paid, were five times greater than its 1939 profits, O’'Mahoney charged. Meanwhile, he declared, wage increases have been obliterated by inflated living costs, as .evidenced by the fact that American consumers are paying 37 billion dollars more for what they buy' this year than in 1846. s ¢ @ Cabinet Pains President Visitors who called on President Truman at the White House after congress opened, found the chief executive hopping mad at some of his top executives. He was particularly irate with Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall, Undersecretary of the Army Willilam H. Draper and the army’s chief of staff, Gen. Omar Bradley., ] Mr. Truman sald he was fed up with Royall and Draper for - . their sabotage of White Housé policles. Draper’s policy of re- . bullding Germany at the expense of her neighbors and Secretary Royall’s inept handling of afmy racial discrimination The President was more hurt - than angry at the way his fellow Missourian, General Bradley, had reaffirmed sefregation and * the army caste system 24 hours after his commander-in-chief had issued an executive order curbing segregatlon. - = e i a 8 e o W _ One reason air chief of staff “Tooey" Spaatz retired from the i get s side. For the first ﬁ*‘m# W”WWWW . ﬁ-mwaﬂ tions, “M ¥ e W*“Wgﬂm%

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‘The chances are good that Hoosier harness race fans will get to see Demon Hanover during the running of the Grand Circuit pro—gram ‘at the Indiana State Fair, Sept. 3-10. Demon Hanover, owned and driven by Harrison R. Hoyt of Bethel, Conn., joined harness racing’s immortals when he romped to a straight heat victory in the famed Hambletonian Stake at Goshen, N.Y. He is one of 26 entrants in the $6,000 Governor’s Stake for 14 class trotters at the Indiana fair and harness race authorities say they have every reason to believe the Demon will be on hand. The Governor’s Stake will be the No. 2

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Religion: Hand-Sewn Lesson for August 22, 1948

THE NEIGHBORS didn't know what Tabitha’s ideas were. She never went down in history as a great thinker What church she at-

tended, whether she ever took part in a prayer-meeting, what her spiritual life was like, the neighbors did not say. But they cried when she was dead. She was a good woman, they knew. When Simon Peter came that way,

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they did not tell him about Tabitha’s prayers or her peace of conscience. No doubt she had these. But what the neighbors brought in to show how good their friend had been, was — ‘“‘coats and garments.” All made by hand, her hands; made for her poorer neighbors, f,widows. In those days widows were not protected by life insurance, social security or annuity plans. They could not go out and earn big money in factories, To be a widow, as a rule, meant to be in need of help. Too many of them starved. So Tabitha spent her-time making clothes for the widows of her city. ¥ %% Full of Good Works TH-E BIBLE says she was “full - of good works:"”” It does not say she was full of faith or full of love. Just full of good works. We can be pretty sure the faith and love, the religion, was there, but it was the good works that people noticed. _ Religion in Tabitha’s house was translated into the language of coats and skirts. Religion always has to be translated into something we can understand. Religion uses words, of course; books full of them. We cannot get along without them. They stand for something. But where cerned, we cannot stop with ‘ et . ; ”w : M'lwm You Back? TQERE UST have been a num-

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feature on the program for Tues—day, Sept. 7. : Among the other entrants in the Governor’s Stake is Sidney Hanover, recent winner of the $25,000 American Trotting Championship at Roosevelt Raceway. Sidney Hanover 'is owned by L. L. Herrin of Charlotte, N. C. A half dozen Indiana owned horses also have been nominated to match strides with Demon Hanover and one of them is Peaceful Abbey, owned by W. J. Arbuckle of Indianapolis, which took down top money in the Governor’s Stake last year. Topping the program on Tuesday will be the Horseman Stake for Contipued on Page 9

Joppa, but the only one who seems to have been ‘worth a miracle to bring back to life was this woman, Tabitha, or Dorcas. Her life was over, yet it was a life worth living again. : How many people would be worth bringing back to life again? How many funerals would the neighbors want done in reverse? Not many, maybe, but if the neighbors voted at each funeral, as they did at Tabitha’s, on the question, “Do we want this person back again?” they would usually vote for people like Tabitha, whose religion was all hand-sewn. * ¥ =% What Is Service? ' : SERVICE IS a word much used in Christian circles. We even have the world around us using the word. Department stores, government agencies, radio manufacturers, filling stations, all offer service. The trouble is that much of this is something for which you have to pay. And much so-called service is simply mending something that was not done right in the first place. Tabitha’s service was of a different kind. It was genuine doing for people who couldn’t do much for themselves and who certainly could not do anything in return. Even among Christians, when we think of service we set our sights sometimes too high. We think of Telemachus, who stopped the brutal sport of gladiatcrs murdering one another on Roman holidays. We think of great missionaries or settlement workers, or Christian statesmen like Gladstone or Kuyper. All honor to such men and women; they inspire us all. Yet they discourage us, too. For these great Christians are ‘special” people; they had outstanding talent, some of them even genius. They had opportunities given only to a few, opportunities that do not come in every one’s lifetime. :* * 8 ’ Religion in the Hands ‘ WE SHOULD REMEMBER this Tabitga or Dorcas. All she had was her hands and some pieces of cloth. Her only opportunity was a poor city filled with poor people. Her only talent was one most women have: Plain sewing. ~ Yet the Tabithas, the Dorcases, make the backbone of Christianity. They are the salt ~of the church, the salt of the : earth. In your own town, in _Christian religion is loved and | respected, it is not'because of - the famous preachers; it is because of the humble doers, the _ goes to thelr hands. e ‘f

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IS THERE a limit to speed for a man or a horse? Can the human or the equine frame carry just so much drive before it starts to crack? We put this query to Hirsch Jacobs, one of the finest conditioners in any sport, one of the best horse trainers of any given decade. “To set a record,” Jacobs said, ‘‘one must have a fast track. That

means a hard track. Setting records on a fast track is dangerous. It has wrecked many fine horses.. I would say there is a limit to how fast a horse can run before he cracks up. Especially if he is after records over a hard, fast track.” This reminded me of a story that Charley Paddock

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once told. ' “Just at the time,”” the World’s Fastest Human said, “I was at my peak. I had just tied the world’s record .at 9 3/5. I knew I could do better. I was set that day at Los Angeles in a Southern California meet. I broke in front. I was flying at the 50. : ‘“Around the 80-yard mark I knew I was headed for at least a 9.1 for the 100 yards. I knew the record was mine. Then the calves of both legs began to shiver. I felt all my leg mus- " cles pulling apart. The thought - suddenly hit me that I was on my way to being a cripple. I felt my legs were breaking up over this hard, fast track.' I pulled up—and still finished in e 5 “I couldn’t run again for weeks. The calves of both legs were extremely sore, and strained.”” And don’t forget that Paddock had two of the strongest looking legs anyone ever saw on a track star. , Limit on Speed ‘1 realized then,” Paddock told me, ‘‘that as we are developed today, we are €apable of handling only so much speed. I mean our muscles and our ligaments. In the course of evolution and development someone will run the 100 yards in 9 flat. But not now.” This was proved when Mel Patton ran 100 yards in 9.3 and wound up later with cramps. Patton was moving into the danger zone, due entirely to excessive speed over a hard, fast track. He was finding out what Paddock had discovered years before. ‘“How does this sound?” 1 asked Jacobs. ‘lt sounds 100 per cent sensible,” Jacobs said. ““You can’t drive either horses or humans over fast, hard tracks into records without paying the penalty. Which is a breakdown. What do the owners want—a record or a sound horse? Jacobs claimed Stymie for something like $1,500 and turned him into a million-dollar probability. The racing game is packed with fine trainers. We could start with Ben“and Jimmy Jones. We could * bring you Maxie Hirsch, certainly one of the greatest. We could call on Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons who knows horses betier than horses know themselves. A great trainer. There is Honest John Partridge, who has been a fine trainer for 50 years. Most of these are veterans. Ben Jones, Fitzsimmons, Hirsch, John Partridge—able, smart, can take you back more years than you can remember. Young Trainers Are Good There are any number of younger trainers on the job—Johnny Gaver of Greentree; S. E. Veitch of C. V. Whitney, one of the best, and several more. But I also like the training methods of Jacobs, who wins his share of races without any $50,000 or $60,000 investments in young talent. Jacobs is a condition man. Con_dition to me means so much more than anything else. A champion must have many things. But above ~all he must have condition. Joe Louis had little condition in either his “first or second Joe Walcott fight. Walcott kept in condition. “But he was a second-rate fighter. - As a result, Louis, rated one of the best of all the heavyweights, - was far behind Walcott after 25 consecutive rounds. = iy - When Louis’ legs began to put on weight you knew what happened. He was far over the top. =~ " “Condition,” Jacobs tells me, . “isn’t a matter of pigeons, ~_ “What are the main qualities?"" 4 %ﬂ‘ S W Ciaie ave the hines- 6 Wk fon. A e Jacobs il T ek & R e g S Seviiag sl iy