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This is our view: : ’ Parking Meters And Streets Now that our City Fathers have decided to install parking meters on Cavin St., the flood of pros and cons will begin making their rounds. That each side will have valid arguments is a foregone conclusion, but the fact remains that Ligohier has an acute main stem parking problem, and meters seem to be the answer. They have been the answer of untold cities thru-out America, and the Council, in our opinion, is to be commended on their courage in taking the bull by the horns and following suit. But the problem does not end with the purchase of the meters. They must be policed without favoritism. They must be made to function or their worth will be naught. Until the purchase price is paid, the City will receive but fifty percent of the revenue, but then the entire proceeds will go to the treasury, and it is the hope of this writer that the money will be used to aid the very people, who foot the bill. By that we mean that the motorist be given a break by being afforded smooth streets over which to travel. Most of our streets are in a deplorable condition raising havoc daily with tires and springs. Pigeon St., a well traveled thoroughfare to name but one, is im= possible to drive without multiple bumps. If the motorist is to pay the bill, they should get value received. Repairing our streets would be fulfilling that principle. ———o——.——.——A Story In Figures Some interesting statistics crossed our desk this week that tell a story in bold letters. In '1946, the American people spent nine and one-half biliion dollars for liquor, eight billion for recreation, seven and one-half billion for automobiles, three and one-half billion for tobacco, two billion for personal care (Barber, beauty shop, toilet articles, etc.) and one and one-half billion on religious and welfare activities. It was our intention to elaborate on these figures with ringing words, but we leave the appropriate words to you. An astounding story, isn’t it? et L s e e L Working Wives Woman'’s place used to be in the home, but often today it is wherever she can find a job that will help augment the family income. - This is shown by figures which the census bureau has just issued, revealing that the wife in every tenth home in the U. S. A. is working at a full time job outside her home, and that, in one family in every four, the wife is earning at least some money, through a part time job. Economic necessity is largely responsible for this situation, although in part no doubt it is due to an increasing realization that there is more to life than staying home and keeping house. Aside from the need for helping pay the grocery bills, thgre are wives who find great satisfaction In being able to help assure their own economic security. In cases where this is purchased at the cost of neglect, either of children or of household- duties, the price is too high. But the changing times bring new concepts of family relations and the statistics reflect increasing public acceptance of the working wife, who today in many cases is that not from choice but necessity. This is probably true in a great many instances among couples newly wed and seeking to lay the economic foundations for a home and family in the future. To get a good start in such a case, two incomes are often not just desirable but essential. , : . —Elkhart Truth Texas is the only state of the Union that may divide itself into five separate states. : :

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Thursday, August 26, 1948

Poday, thru the mail, I received four cards from six Ligonier friends (two sets of very sweet sisters doubled up) that were very much apprciated. I say “appreciated” advisedly for they were greeting a birthday I had decided to skip, and had been keeping very quiet. Nevertheless, the birthday is here, and apparently people know about it so now I can tell the world, although I am sure it is of very little interest to anyone other than myself. The total number of years that has passed since the doctor said, “it’s a boy” remains an item of personal concern, but a guy named Pitkin, who at one time taught at Col-~ umbia, wrote a book about it and for the life of me I can’t make it seem possible that life has speeded so rapidly past my eyes. “You’re only as old as you feel” has been a saying for many summers, and I am beginning to believe its wisdom for I’ve seen the mornings when I thought Methusalah and I had much in common. In retrospect, I stili recall my youthful outlook on age. When 1 was fourteen I told friends I was fifteen. I kept this up (particularly with the girls) until I had reached the ripe old age of twentyone, which to me was the crowning glory of a lifetime. This of course, was nineteen hundred and something B.D. (Before draft when young men according to our m.ilitary minded, become of age at eighteen,, and are no longer entitled to the glorious freedom of those three years of growing up.) When I was twenty-one I knew all there was to know, believed any person beyond the age of thirty was an old fossil'and with no lack of modesty and a great deal of impatience I was prepared to remodel the world along difrerent lines. It was during that year that I applied for my first newspaper -job, and learned my first lesson in public relatigns. I had written a paper in my sociology class in college that had received an A, and for which I was very proud. It won me a place on the oratorical team, and when those blug moments would pass my way, I wo&ld bring out this paper and again all would be well . It was quite a treatise dealing principally with American imperialism and the ‘“phoneyness” of World War I slogans. Believe me, I gave America hell in capital letters. In defense of this piece, | must say my arguments were well documented, but it wasn’t conforming with “what the well dressed men were wearing.” You see, 1 didn’t know that. 1 was filled with idealism, zeal and fortitude and the truth as I saw it was the only important consideration. Well, before I go on into the night, let me continue with my search for a job. I was interviewed by an editor of a daily paper in a neighboring "city, who left me with the feeling that soon I would begin my career, but first he must see some samples of my work. I went home and started to spend my first week’s salary for didn’t I have tucked away in my files this proudful paper? Needless to say, I lost the job. No doubt this editor had visions ofloging his circulation, tying up his staff in myriad difficulties and getting -booted from the Country Club. I learned then that truth, when combatting opinion or tradition, can be a nasty thing ... a thing better left unsaid . . . an upsetting vehicle in the stream of prejudice or patterned convention. I Jearned then that time alone cures evil, and I begn to realize that wisdom comes (if it comes at all) with age. I lost my zest for the immediate revolution against cruelty, intolérance, cheating, lying, unkindness. I remembered a man had been crucified for suggesting it centuries and centuries ago. ! ! It’s funny what a typewriter will do. I started out with the idea of developing the truth behind the statement that “you’re only as old as you feel,” and look where I landed. I wanted to show that people can stay young a lifetime if they will master their will. That keeping young is a matter of outlook, and tﬁt . those who maintain their quest of accomplishment stay young. I wanted to 'show that a century ago there were less ‘than 800,000 Americans over sixty-five, WWWME are ten million and that ﬁxmm;gm This increase makes it Mhé r people, and with their consideration will come

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Trouble in Red Army REPORTS have leaked out through the iron curtain that an anti - Communist movement may have sprung up inside the Red .army. G : According to uncensored reports, anti-government tracts have been circulated among Russian soldiers and have éven shown up on the streets of Leningrad. Pamphlets published by ‘‘anti-Communist organization in the Red: army” also have been picked up in Vienna which is partly occupied by Soviet troops. Meanwhile, Lt. Gen. Kuzma Romanovich went so far as to complain in an article in the Soviet Army Journal recently that discipline has sunk to a new low. He demanded a tightening-up against laxity in the army. Uncensored diplomatic advices also indicate that the Russians are reaping political repercussions in eastern Germany. One bloc of Germpan Communists has appealed boldly to the Soviet military administration to abandon the Berlin blockade. As a result of this unrest in the Soviet zone, Russia has ordered a .purge of the Russian-sponsored Sociglist Unity party and one of the party leaders in Saxony, Herr Schliebs, bitterly castigated some of his co-workers at a recent conference in Bautzen. One reason for the unrest in the Soviet zone has been a general economic breakdown. . “After three years of systematic exploitation,’”” a report from Saxony says, “conditions in the eastern zone have reached their lowest standard yet.” ¢ & 3

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The Hobo Basket Rough -and - tumble railroad men have been passing a collection basket from freight train to freight train across the country to.raise money for crippled kids. Dubbed the ‘“Hobo Basket,” it was started on its journey six months ago by three southern railway yard clerks in Birmingham, Ala. Other trainmen transferred the basket from caboose to caboose until it had traveled through most of the 48 states. Now it is heading back to Birmingham in a basket pasted with messages from hardened railroad workers and with more than $B,OOO inside.

Potential Ailr Lift The vitriolic battle- over the 70group air force has been prefty well forgotten. However, biggest proof that Secretary for Air Symington was right and Secretary of Defense Forrestal wrong about the importance of air power is being demonstrated around the clock in Berlin today. However, without detracting from the magnificent job being done by ' the air forces over Berlin, now might be a good time to demonstrate army-navy coordination. It happens that the navy has -the biggest air freight carriers of either branch of the service . =the Mars flying boats. Now operating to Hawail, they carry 35 tons each, about ten times the cargo of the DC-3s, mainstay of the phenomenal air lift inte Berlin. e Flying the_ short 200-mile hop from Hamburg to Berlin, the Mars boats would need little gasoline, therefore could carry more than 35 tons of freight. They also would have the following advantages: Greater lift per gallon of gas; fewer planes in the air corridor with less traffic congestion; the trip from Hamburg to Berlin (200 miles) is less than the present flight from Frankfort to Berlin (300). So the navy might get a little practice at unification by augment- . ing the army over Berlln{ 5 * 33¢ & » A : . o North-South Football ' Champ Pickens of Montgomery, Ala., the man who is trying to build up North - South understanding . through sports, once had to solve a complicated problem involving President Truman’s home state. Pickens stages a football game every December betweén an allstar team from the North and an all-star team of the South. One year the question arose as to whether the University of Missouri was in the North or the South. . A hot debate followed, partly ' because the star Missouri player was named Jefferson Davis ~and the South wanted him on its ‘consulted the map, he found that = gt.mmmn home town of . W rsity, was north of the Mason-Dixon line; so Jefferson ~Davis came to Montgomery, -and played for the North. - Pickens has organized, the Blue ~and Gray association to, which he ~charges $1 membership and which iwmmmﬁwww : ~mote North - South understanding. ~ With the proceeds he plans to build 8 football stadium as a shrine to

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Lesson for August 29, 1948

DO PEOPLE always do what : they know is right? You would think so; but they don’t. It is strange how many excuses people

~can think up to get . out of doing what ' they know in their ~ hearts they ought to -~ do. . But not this man Ananias. He was a - shining exception. There are three Ananiases in the New Testament, and this one makes up for

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the other two. One of the others was. a rascally priest and one was a famous liar; but this Ananias, another of the “‘unheralded’’ characters from the Bible, is famed for going when God said, “Go.” We know nothing much else about him, but this is enough. ,* % » No Wonder He Hesitated" - IT WAS just after the conversion of Saul. At the time of our story, nobody had ever heard of Paul, only of Saul as he was then called; and nobody heard anything good. He was a bitter, ruthless man. He had no use for Christians. Extermination was his only answer to the Christian challenge. The name of Saul brought terror. On this day of our story Saul had been only three days a Christian. He had had nothing to eat all that time, and he was said to be blind.\ You may be sure that Christians stayed away from him. His Jerusalem cronies had no doubt given him up as crazy; but no Christian would go near him either. At this point our Ananias had a vision: The Lord told him to go to Saul and lay his hands on him in help and blessing. . Naturally Ananias held back. This was a dangerous man, said he. But again the Lord-in the . vision said, “Go,” and Ananias _Suppose Ananias had said ‘“No”? That might have changed the whole - course of Christian history. How? ~He could have thought of many an’ *_éxgdsig;%;; “Aren’t there other men.

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who can baptize Saul as well as I !can? . . . This whole vision may be ~ only a mistake . . .”” And so forth. But not when it became clear to him that this was God's will, Ananias went, though he still did not like it. : How is it with you? When . you know what you ought to do, what is the first thing you think of? How to do it, or how to get out of doing it? , * * » Taking Orders From God HOW CAN we tell when it is really God who commands us? Most Christians today are suspicious of visions, and well we may be. Too many crazy things have been done by people who saw ‘‘visions’’ for us to trust such- experiences very far. : ~ One way in which God’s orders come to us is in the Word of God, particularly in the words of Christ. For example, take one of the hardest things Jesus ever said: “LOVE YOUR -ENEMIES AND PRAY FOR THOSE WHO PERSECUTE - YOU.” That sounds tough. It is tough. But it is a command. ~ Yet don’t most of us leave that ‘command in the closed Bible and act as if the words had never been said? That brings up another question. Is it likely that Ananias became fond of Saul all-at once? Hardly. Ananias could not have liked the man; there was then nothing about him to like. We know from Paul’s own words that people generally were not attracted by *his looks. Yet Ananias, who could not have liked Saul, much less been fond of him, went and called him ‘‘Brother”’ and gave him his start in the Christian life. ' : ** @ - Do You Know a Saul? NOT FAR from where you are sitting at this moment there may be someone like Saul. He is a Christian, but a new and (so far) poor one€, maybe. Someone nobody believes in, someone you scarcely know. It may be a child out of ~some low-grade home; it may be an ex-drunkard (not so long over it) or an ex-convict even; perhaps someone who has actually done you a wrong. : : \ But this person may be just where Saul was, needing a friend. God may already have touched his heart, all he needs now is the human touch of a Christian friend. Maybe you can’t love him, can’t even like him; but if he is a human soul God loves him. If you can help him, then you are his An‘apias. You know what you ought to _do‘.; wil you do Ry .

IN WHAT competition does the competitor or contestant take the roughest punishment? Is it football or boxing? Steeplechase riding or water polo? Long-distance running, such as the 5,000 meters, the 10,000 meters or the marathon? Rowing, baseball, tennis or basketball? We put this discussion up to

Tommy Armour, the able golfing Scot who, in his day and time, won the U.S. Open, the British Open, the P.G.A. and more minor tournaments than you can mention. “Just what form of punishment do you mean?’’ Armour

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asked. ‘‘Physical punishment, mental punishment or nerve punishment? They are all entirely different.” “What form of punishment is the hardest to handle?*® I asked. - “Physical, punishment, such as you get in football or boxing, is the softest punishment,” Armour said. ‘“The toughest to handle is mental or nerve. Ever have a live nerve in a tooth extracted?” “I think I can see just what you are leading up to,” I said. “I think it is a' game called golf.” ‘“For a change you are correct,” was the silver-haired Scot’s answer. “It is golf. Ask Bobby Cruickshank, who before he came over here, was the best lightweight fighter in the British Isles, the best soccer player and one of the best golfers. Not overlooking four years in the Black Watch from 1914 to 1918.” ; Bobby Has a Reputation No one can pay a tribute to Cruickshank, now pro at the Richmond Country club, that we don’t double and redouble, no matter what the game. “A knockout punch doesn’t hurt,” Armour said. ‘“You can take a hammering now and then that won’t help you, but it is only physical. Soon over. Football is the same. Few football players even feel pain when in play. They don’t know they are hurt until later. I'll bet most of them suffer more from nerves—and I don’t mean nerve—than from getting hurt physically. “But football isn’t as tough as golf and I think Joe Louis will tell . you the same about the fight game. I'll bet Louis has suffered more in a number of golf matches than he ever suffered in the ring. Why? Nerves, “I don’t think Louis ever suffered anything from nerves in a fight in his life. But I can promise plenty that he’s taken quite a beating in nerves at golf. Louis doesn’t mind a pretty fair bet. And he's quite a good golfer, But some of these boys in golf are hard to take.” y*“The punishment you take in golf on an-off day or through - a tournament is the worst you get-in any game. Did you ever get ‘the yips?’ The ‘yips’ are nerves that blow up in your wrists when you are playing chip shots or putting. The nerves simply explode and you can do neothing about it. You can ask Walter Hagen or Bobby Jones, two great putters. “I recall a $lO,OOO tournament I played in. I had a good lead through the first three rounds. Then I got the ‘yips.’ 1 three-putted eight greens. I missed seven putts from two to three feet out. I figured each one of these putts cost me $3OO. “I would rather have been knocked down six times by Dempsey or Louis. I would rather have been run over by Bronko Nagurski. 1 took more punishment in the last round that any fighter ever took in a ring. Nerves Prevent Sleep *‘Bobby Jones won 13 national titles. But I'd like to bet no one ‘ever took more nerve punishment. It took him seven years to win his first chalgpionship. He couldn’t sleep at night or keep food on his. -stomach on numerous occasions. Jock Hutchison couldn’t eat or sleep ‘through an open. Neither cou]d I ..J don’t think Hagen ever bothered too much about anything.” : 1 recall one occasion in an amateur: golf championship, one of the _entries was an all-star college tackle—around 220 pounds. He was a good golfer and he lasted through ~ Wednesday. But he collapsed on - Thursday and just missed the hos_ital. His nervous system blew up. ‘He was in 2 bad way. He never _played in another tournament. - The roughest part of golf is - Is your own. No opponent has Wm&ﬁﬂ T, (NI el e Kook yo¥ ¢ Ai&%v:#* N be m@*ﬁg%ﬁ%w*yﬁ%%rgw;m : uﬁ {g;. o 3"» ’ ?‘ “:"1 B >,4? ‘e e.:;‘