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A Page of Opinion: e - @he Ligonier Banuner
This is our view: Fun or Tragedy— It’s Up To You
It’s Labor day week end, and .. . ° You're cruising along the highway, ready for a lazy day at your favorite fishing hole. You swerve to the wrong side of the road to pass a truck crawling up a *hill, and then are horrorstricken as you look up and see another truck swaying down on you irom over the crest. It’s no fun fishing with an aim and leginacast . . .
Or you're driving the family to the Qtate Fair. The kids chatter excitedly and you and the Mrs. exchange smiles. A county road intersection is partly obscured by high weeds in the corners, but you don’t slow down. Neither did the other driver on the intersecting road. Your wife wasn’t smiling as they wheeled her into surgery . . .
Or you’re tramping on the gas, trying to make up for a late start to the family, reunion. A sign warns “narrow bridge” but you figure you can squeeze past the green coupe. You can’t see the youngster on a bicycle just ahead until it is too late. You can only watch, helpless, as he disappears underneath the skidding wheels of your car. These tragedies could happen on Indiana roads this busy Labor Day week end. You can avoid them, however. Col. Robert Rossow, superintendent of State Police, suggests that “lives can be saved by careful, sensible driving.” Heed his advice, please! !
Tito Lives Dangerously
The struggle between Moscow and Tito of Yugoslavia may prove to be a long drawn out affair ,if Tito ilves. - We are not indicating that the Yugoslav leader is in poor health, but he is fighting with a ruthless bunch of men and he could get pushed out ot a window or have a bullet fired into his back. Tito is not a swell fellow simply because he is at odds with the Kremlin. He is a Red and a dictator—a chip off the Kremlin block. He has his secret police and all the rest of the Communist lay~ ou. He just isn’t taking orders from Stalin. . ' To deviate from the Moscow line is a capital offense so far as Stalin is concerned. Well, Tito deviated, and many informed observers say that he has burned his bridges behind him. That makes him a traitor to the cause, in Moscow’s book, and shooting is too good for such a one. -~ Tito was farsighted enough to have ‘his own secret police and as long as he can keep them loyal he has a fair chance of remaining ih the_land of the living. He also knows his Commies and that means he knows that every effort will be made to “get him.” He had to guard against the infiltration of Moscow spies and gunmen. He is not leading the life that a timid man would enjoy. He is not a very good insurance risk. People outside the iron curtain cannot help getting a certain satisfaction out of this internal revolt which provides a crack in Communistic solidarity. They hope the crack will grow, but are not putting too much dependence in it. The irritating fact is that but for the aggressive conduct of Russia since the end of World War 11, the world could devote all of its energies to reconstruction, progress and peace. Therefore, the Western nations wish Tito luck in his role as a counter irritant.
The man of integrity is one who makes it his constant rule to follow the road of duty, according as Truth and the voice of his conscience point it out to him. . ' —Mary Baker Eddy
No pleacure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-giound of truth. —Francis Bacon. e
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-MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR by - Calhoun Cartwright
Speaking of Books - By J. Donald Adams As I write , three serious novels are in the forefront of critical attention. Two of them, Norman Mailer’s, “The Naked and the Dead” and Graham Greene’s “The Heart of the Matter” appear on the best seller lists; by the time these words are in print, they will probably have been joined by Albert Camus’ “The Plague.” Partly because one of them is American, another British, and the third French, and also because, in various ways, they face the world in which we live today, ‘they may, collectively, as well as individually, have something to say to us. ;
.The American novel exhibits in marked degree the qualities which have dominated serious American fiction since the end of the first World War. It is written, first of all, out of a negative attitude; it chooses, with.a patent stacking of the cards, to play up the worst in human nature, to explain the individual completely by his background and to ignore his moral responsibility. Out of the sharply contrasting facets of American life, it picks those which reflect the most discredit. Like the “U. S. A.” of Dos Passos, the writer to whom Mr. Mailer owes most, “The Naked and the Dead” purports to embrace the length and breadth of the American social scale, geographically as well as economically. Actually it shuts out whole areas of American life—all those in which a people may take pride. 1 should in fairness interject here that Mr. Dos Passos were he writing “U.S.A.” today, could not .write as he did, but Mir. Mailer is still in his twenties.
There is power in “The Naked and the Dead”’—unquestionable power. 1t has ,like the work of Dos Passos, and like the work of most serious American novelists of the male sex during the last quarter century, a sharply pointed reportorial approach,- but like them again, it leaves out more than it includes, despite its length. Important as its reportorial omissions are, the vital lack is one which the British and French novels supply—the realization that the individual has a part in his own destiny. That realization is paramount in the novels of Graham Greene and Albert Camus. In “The Heart of the Matter” the responsibility is restricted to individual relationships—to the- implication of actions as they involve one human being with another without direct bearing on the effect of those actions upon society as a whole. In “The Plague” the burden of individual responsibility is widened to include the whole of mankind. But the accent in each case is upon responsibility of the individual. It is because of this insistence that both Mr. Greene and Mr. Camus have something constructive to say to us now, whereas Mr. Mailer is merely throwing up his hands. ‘ o : Recognition of the cancer that eats at the heart of contemporory American “fiction becomes more frequent day by day. A recent editorial in Life emphasized the need of novelists to re-create American values. It made the same point with regard to Mr. Mailer’s “The Naked and the Dead” as I have tried to make here: This young novelist’s reaction to war as he saw it in the Pacific was quite understandable, and that, it should be added, was something he had experienced at first hand and which he knew in the round. But the America out of which his soldiers came was something else again—an area in which his experience was more sharply limited. As the writer of the Life editorial ob~ served: “Our novelists no longer choose to write about American who enjoy their families or who take a pleasure in creating a business or who delight in painting’ a picture or molding a statue or indulging a hobby. They no longer choose to write about people who try to achieve ‘purposes either as individuals or in society. Almost universally our novelists divide into two categories: those who have deserted the present for a cloak-sword and full-bosom re-creation of the distant past, and those who have dedicated themselves to careers of [literary glumming”
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Dress Rehearsal for War
EIGHT MILES out of Frankfurt, Germany, at the Rhine-Main airport, is a place the G.IL.s call “Boom Town.” It is called that because a new town has sprung up overnight, with the carpenters’ hammers still making as much noise as the airplane motors—all because of the Berlin airlift.
One thing about this airlift which most people don’t realize is that it’s an air force rehearsal for future possible eventualities. And the top air people are quite candid about this fact.
Furthermore, if the diplomats succeed in raising the Berlin blockade, the air force does not intend to abandon its installations. Boom Town will stay right on—just in case the Russians tighten up their economic grip on Berlin once again. In .the briefing room at RhineMain, a pair of snowshoes are tacked on the wall—memento of the 54th Troop Carrier squadron based at Elmendorf fleld, Anchorage, Alaska. Those snowshoes are symbolic of the manner in which the air force has abandoned all other tasks in all other parts of the world to' break the Berlin blockade.
There might also be other symbols — from Albrook field, Panama, Bergstrom field, near Austin, Tex., and Hickham field, Hawaii—pilots assembled from all parts of the earth, getting experience in a theater where they may have to operate with life-or-death determination in the future. : That is why the army, in calculating the cost of the airlift, reckons only the cost of gasoline and supplies. The cost of pilots’ time, they figure, is a good investment. ¢ & @ Bradley’s Inspection Tour - BEST INDICATION that the western powers. don’t anticipate early hostilities in Europe despite the tense state of the Moscow talks is that army chief of staff,- Gen. Omar Bradley, plans an extended vacation trip. / General Bradley is combining vacation with business on a one-month tour of American outposts in the Far East. Although nobody will confirm it, it's considered likely Bradley will take to Japan another invition from President Truman to MacArthur, asking jthe Allied Far Eastern commander to come home and receive a hero’s welcome. MacArthur has indicated that if he returns home from Japan it will not be until after the November election.
Note—U. §. diplomats predict Russia's next zone of intensive operations will be the Far East—the area Bradley i 3 visiting. o :
Seek Small Town Vote DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMEN Melvin Price 6f Illinois and Frank M. Karsten of Missouri got a lec-, ture from President Truman on the importance of the small town vote. Calling at the White House, Price and Karsten assured the President of their support next November. Whereupon Mr. Truman gave them a homely discourse on the coming campaign. “I'm not worried about the election,” he said. ‘“We're going to win, that's sure. I know that’s sure because we're right and they’re wrong. “Im going to make it a rip- - snorting, back-platform campaign to what Taft calls all the . ‘whistle stops,’’’ the President continued. “Taft calls them: whistle stops, but I call them the heart of America. When they count the whistle-stop votes, Taft may be in for a big surprise. I think the whistle stops will make the difference between victory and defeat.” Mr. Trumap also expressed confidence that he would carry much of the farm vote. He said that Republican opposition to the world wheat agreement would play into Democratic hands. ; ““We have our biggest wheat crop in history,”” he said. ‘“The Russians have their biggest bumper wheat crop in history. The farmers know that if there isn't some agreement to protect them, all the farmers will be hurt. T am going to explain this to the farmers in the campaign.”
¢ ® 9 Condemn Housing Frauds ‘AN ALL-OUT CRACKDOWN on housing frauds against veterans was ordered by Atty. Gen. Tom Clark and Housing Expediter Tighe Woods at a conference of U. S. district attorneys from 21 key cities. : “] want you to put these housing frauds at the top of the list when it comes to prosecutions,” ordered the attorney general. it Equally vigorous was Woods, who has expanded his investigating force from 15 to 300 mem. -He told the district attorneys in - their closed-door session that while he would leave the legal _justification up to them, he wanted to emphasize the government’s moral obligation to do
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The United States Air Force will give special consideration to former aviation cadets whose flying instruction was ended by the curtailment of the program near the close of World War 11, Sgt. Merrill of the U. S. Army and U. S. Air forces recruiting service, announced recently. Capt. Clarence Odom and Capt. William Evans, representing an air force traveling team which arrives at the U. S. Army and U. S. Air Force recruiting station, located in room 320, Post Office Building, Fort Wayne, Indiana, September 7 and 8, 1948, explained that new quotas enable the Air Force to offer special consideration to young men who volunteered for flying duty during the war.
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Home Team
Lesson for September 5, 1948
HUSBAND AND WIFE: Team or tug-of-war? In times when more and more homes are splitting apart, it is refreshing to read the
story of one home that stuck together. We do not know whether these two ever had children; no doubt their home was happier if they had. But we do know their names. No one who ever spoke of themn mentioned one without
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the other. You could not think of Aquila without thinking of his wife Priscilla (or Prisca for short), or vice versa. They were displaced persons, but that did not keep them down. e e Family Trade Union LIKE ALL JEWS of that time, they had a specialty, a trade they had learned. In this case someone .had taught Prisca the same trade (or did she learn it from her husband?), so the two of them formed a sort of trade union. They were tentmakers, working not only in heavy tent-cloth but in the tanned skins of which many tents in that time were made.
Their home was a workshop, their hands were bent by long use of hard tools, very likely they initialed their produce. P & A tents were good tents. Their business was good, fer we know they always had room for another guest, for another hand at the workbench. That was one thing helping their marriage to stick. - . How many husbands and wives today are working teams? One reason why divorces are’ more common in cities than on farms is that the city man and . his wife seldom have any, work. . in common, while a farmer and . his wife are a working team in which each needs the other to ~ succeed. Find some work you two can share, even if it is. washing the dishes, and you
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“Under the new plan, men who had qualified as aviation cadets during the war and who either were awaiting assignment to, or aét»ually undergoing pilot training when the program was reduced in 1944-45, will not be obliged to take the qualifying examination now given other candidates. = These already qualified cadets will be required ounly to pass the physical examination to be eligible for pilot training provided they still meet the general eligibility requirements as to age, marital status and education” -the officers stated. : The air force team will be in Ft. Wayne, Indiana on September 7 and 8 and will seek to interest ~ Continued on Page 7
have something to help you hold together through the years. * % ¥ More Than Meals ANOTHER bond that held these together was their hospitality. They had a long list of friends, some of them distinguished. We know about Paul and Apollos and we hear of many others. But when Apollos stayed at their house, he was getting more than meals. If you don’t do more for a guest than feed him, he might as well be at a restaurant. If you don’t do more than amuse him, he might as well be at the movies. What those two did for Apollos was to give him ideas, bigger ideas, truer and better than he had ever had, about the Christian faith. No doubt Apollos enjoyed Priscilla’s lamb chops, but when he left that home he was not merely a well-fed man but one whose soul had grown. Here again is something for husband and wife today. What are youn doing for the people who come in your door? If they come for dinner you wouldn’t insult them with trash or poison. What do you give their minds. their souls? Poison, trash or food? ' 2 *x =%
The Church in Their House EVIDENTLY the P & A tents made enough money for Priscilla and Aquilla to have a spacious home, for we find Paul-in a letter mentioning ‘the church in their house.” This more than anything else kept these two together, a working team. You know in every church there are a few key people. They may not be conspicuous, but like the distributor under an automobile hood, if they are not there things do not run smoothly and maybe not at all. » Aquila and Priscilla were like that. Their church naturally revolved around them. This must have taken a good deal of their time, no doubt it cost them money, and it must have meant work. But if the church was in their house it was because they wanted it that way. It would be hard to believe that they asked for this so as to keep themselves from drifting apart; yet undoubtedly that was one effect of it. : The great majority of divorces are among people who have no connection with the church whatever. Many, of course, are of persons who are on church rolls somewhere. But how many broken marriages do you know among persons who are active - in Christian work? , ‘ s ae (Copyright bg ‘the International Council of Religious Education on behalf of 40 Protestant denominations. Released by WNU Péntores.). = . o 0
: s & l ’T CRANTLAND ’ L/CE o B TS WH.AT 'is the ruling factor in sport? There can be only one answer. It isn’'t the manager or the coach, who too often picks up entirely too much credit. It is always the material. It is the fighter —the football player—the baseball player. It is the fellow up front on the firing line. During the recent winter season, football went on a wild rampage in the shift of coaches. There were shifts all over the map—Navy, Michigan, Harvard, Yale, Washington and Kansas. : Then, in the middle of the baseball season, there was another
wild upheaval with Durocher going to the Giants, Shotton back to the Dodgers, Dusty Cooke to the Phillies—the earlier rumors that Joe McCarthy was through — reports of a family friction with the Athletics — trouble in St. Louis — trou-
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ble in Chicago—too many reports to follow. What too many people overlook is this: It is the material, not the coach or the manager, that has ‘the final say. Certainly, the manager and coach have roles to play—often important roles. But not even a Frank Leahy or a Fritz Crisler was ever as important as the material. No Leahy, a great coach, was ever up to a Lujack, a Connor, a Fischer, or a Czarobski. ' ; Of course, a big part of a manager’s job is to get the best material. That is also a big part of the coach’s job in football—and this goes for the colleges as well as the pros.
A winning baseball team needs that pitcher or that hitter—more than one of them. A winning college football team needs that passer, ball carrier and blocker.
The coach gets far too much credit for victory and far too much blame for defeat. The same is true of a pennant race. They pile too many olive blossoms on the winner and too many strands of poison ivy on the loser. ;
Many a big league manager has been made—and many a one wrecked—by the material he had. Don’t forget this in the build-up and the knock-over. .
Start of Passing ‘ The passing game in college reached its peak last fall. The colleges had Bobby Layne of Texas, Chuck Conerly of Mississippi, Harry Gilmer of Alabama, Johnny Lujack of Notre Dame, Tony Minisi of Penn, Ray Evans of Kansas, Bob Chappius of Michigan and many others. These have all moved over into the pro group. With Paul Governali, Sammy Baugh, Sid Luckman, Otto Graham, Glenn Dobbs and others at work, the passing game will reach another peak this fall. Who started the passing game? Here’s a contribution from Buck O’Neil, a lusty old-timer: “Dear Grant: ] was interested in your column on ‘Merrilat, end at West Point in the decades purpled by time. You spoke of Chicago and Michigan using the forward pass back in 1906, the year that the play was introduced : into football. *Chicago had a pretty fair sort of quarterback that year, fellow named Walter Eckersall. He was 145 pounds of wildcat, and he is the man—l believe—who caught Willie Heston from behind in one game between Chicago and Michigan.
-*No matter about that, but Eckie threw passes to Fred Walker, a fine end of the Maroon, and beat the vaunted Minnesota team through the air. Eckersall to Walker was one of the great pass ¢ombinations of their day and time. Ahead of His Time ““Glenn Warner had some great pass experts at Carlisle, and one of the earliest combinations was Mt Pleasant to Exendine and Gardner. Warner, always ahead of his time in coaching, developed the technique of sending linemen down the field with his ends to block out the halfbacks. The Indians were terrific in the air and, of course, their skill was attributed to some romantic bridge between the Indian and the- occult. ‘“There was nothing mystic about the skill of the Indians, ‘although guys like Exendine and Gardner, and that great lineman of the era, Newashe, who played end and tackle with ‘ equal skill and aboriginal ferocity, were really out of this world. The foundaiion of Car- _ *“Navy used the forward pass in ‘Harry Blodgett, a Middie halfback, told me that his orders were to “fade five yards and throw the ball