Ligonier Banner., Volume 82, Number 37, Ligonier, Noble County, 16 September 1948 — Page 2

A Page of Opinion: o Che Ligonier Banmer

This is our view: There’s Good In Giving A generous community is giving. of their finances to aid and assist a young man, whose misfortune’ exceeds their misfortune. With the giving comes an inner satisfaction that words cannot explain. ' | ;

< ‘A man named Jesus Christ told the people about this feeling two thousand years ago, and commended them to practice it, and we today follow that advice when the occasion demands, and are happier for it. :

In two weeks our first Community Chest will get underway, and again the chance to give will be presented to us. With its presentation will come a systematic method by which we all can budget our giving and everyone will benefit. The necessity of multiple drives will be eliminated. Time will be saved, and the procedure will be less trying to our patience. This year the fund concerns principally the problems and organizations of our youth, but as the year’s roll on, we will find even greater uses for this “one time” giving.

Had we previously established the Community Chest Fund, it woud not have been necessary to build the Shelley Hammer Fund for the money would have been there.

The community can well be proud of their generosity, but with it walks the inner reward. Giving to others is soul refreshing. It pays the sort of dividends waorth receiving.

When your Community Chest caller sees you, don’t “give ’till it hurts” but GIVE.

A Big Vote Is A Healthy Vote President Truman is said to be urging his campaign strategists to do everything in their power to get out a big vote next Fall, on the theory that—based on past performances—a big vote wiil spell victory for the Truman-Bark-ley ticket. :

Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York the Republican standard-bearer, also is said to desire a record turnout—believing that there is a definite GOP trend this year, and that he and his runningmate, Earl Warren of California, will benefit from fuller participation by the sovereigns.

The largest vote ever given a presi= dential nominee in American history was that of the late President Roosevelt in 1936. The figure was 27,476,673. The largest ever given a Republican was Wendell Willkie’s in 1940. It was 22,304,755—0ver Dewey’s showing by nearly 300,000 and over Herbert Hoover in 1928 by more than 900,000. Four years ago, in the last presidential election, the grand total for all parties was a fraction above 48,000,000—considerably below the result in 1940, due chiefly to the fact that many Americans were away from home in the service of their country, and hence found it inconvenient to cast their ballots. ‘

Others had followed wartime industries far from there previous places of residence, and either were inligible on one ground or another or were not interested enough in their great heritage of self-government to rgister in their new locales. _ : It is to be hoped that, in this year of 1948, more men and women than ever before will avail themselves of the precious right of franchise. ‘ Let both President Truman and Gov. Dewey have their wishes, at least insofar as the size of the electorate is concerned. : For, regardless of the identity of the next chief executive of the land, the American nation and th'e American people as a whole cannot avoid benefiting from wholehearted participation.in government by our citizens. —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette

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MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR by Calhoun Cartwright

From time to time during the past year and one-half, I have given my column over to other writers, whose message seemed to me particularly enlightening or inspirational. Today, I ran across an article written by an, acquaintance of mine, which seemed particularly appropriate at this time, and I wish to pass it along for the help it might give you.

“My friend was nearing the limit of endurance. She had been obliged to cope with one problem after another. Now sh had reached the state of mind when she simply had t 6 have an answer to the question of life’s meaning.

What is life? Why do we struggle on and on? Ils it the Great Dilemma? Is

there any Great Meaning to life in general?

Does anyone really know ? I don’t. But this I do know: All of us, without exception, have wthin us the ability to create our own meanings. What does it matter about life in general if we can find meanings in life’s specific situations?

For all ordinary purposes, it is enough' that you and I shail know that we have been born and that we are here on earth. 1t 18 enough to recognize that we came into being through the powers ot the Great Dynamic and that only through the Dynamic operating in us does lite as we know it in terms of a God-con-ceived Plan, we have a part to play in human-conceived plans; and that, at the moment, while we are here, they are the valid and legitimate realms of all our hopes and aspirations. g

In the sight of God a thousand years may be as yesterday when it is past, butc In our sixty, seventy or eighty years, short as they may seem, we have plenty of time to make our lives full of meaning and to see meaning everywhere.

See meaning in the faces of people, in the trees, in the rain and sunshine. See meaning in every motion and movement, in every word and act of those who are near and dear. Life, then, will be worth living. - :

. Must we look beyond to some great Unknown for meaning? How foolish when the answer is close at hand! If we will, we will find it in the hopes and strivings, tears and smiles, of those who surround us all the day long.

Create meaning in whatever you see, whatever you do, wherever you are. Do that! and the Great Dilemma will transform itself into the Great Challenge.”

Sometimes it is difficult to think it SO, but we are living in a time when it Is. great to be alive. We suffer hours of despair as it appears that strife only is in the air. It’s discouraging to follow events—one day pledging ourselves to the ideal of United Nations, the next being party to undermining the ideal of the day before. We offer halleluiahs one moment to the theme of One World, and sing lamentations the next to the reality. of two worlds. A gleam of light one moment is shadowed the next by clouds of gloom. g ¢

But the truth is that we live amidst world revolution. It’s not just a matter of Russia versus the United States. It’s deeper far than that, People’s minds and hearts are in revolt; they are demanding their just rights. In nation after nation they keynote is: Who shall have control over the minds and souls of the masses —the state or the church? The battle for educational control of the masses is basic. Fail to understand this, and you have no real basis of understanding.

Such thoughts as these disturb, perhaps. And we, like the populace of Isaiah’s time, say: “Prophecy unto us only what we like to hear.” But if we carry that unwillingness. to listen to disturbing forewarnings, ‘we are stupid. Atomic and bacterial war looms. The modern Isaiahs are warning. But if we listen ot the right prophets it will not be war. For tool ong, labels with their emotional upsurgings have blinded too many. Perhaps if we will listen to what we prefer not to hear, we will know what is true, and that truth will keep us free,

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Editor’s Note — While Drew Pearson is on vacation, the Washington Merry-Go-Round is being written by his old partner, Robert 8. Allen.)

Political Kettle Boils

THE long-simmering political kettle has reached the boiling point.

On the national stage, the cooking started when Harry Truman and Thomas -Dewey formally squared off before Labor Day audiences. Simultaneously, a number of equally exciting and significant state contests were joined. To the smart politicoes, these local battles are second in importance only to the ‘‘big top’”’ melee. For the politicoes know that what happens in these state arenas will profoundly * affect not only the national contest but also the shape of things afterward. S :

The control of congress, of powerful organizations in key states, and, in the event Mr. Truman loses, of the national Democratic machinery, are at stake in these tests. Intensifying the concern of the political generalissimos are two factors: The great body of ‘‘undecided”’ voters, manifest in every important poll; and the spectacular upset of Memphis Boss Crump by crusading Rep Estes Kefauver. To the professional politicoes, these two items spell uncertainty. Anything can happen. The general public is itchy and new and fresher-sounding voices have a strong appeal - ¢ & o

Rank Surprise High-ranking officers are in for a surprise when the report of the advisory commission on service pay is published. The commission will recommend increases for enlisted men and junior officers, but none for the top grades. In fact, they actually may face a pay cut in the recommended elimination of tax deductions and certain allowances. : A previous committee of generals and admirals had recommended pay boosts for all ranks, with the top echelons getting the biggest increases. Defense Secretary Forrestal didn’t even bother to send this report to congress. Instead he appointed the civilian commission to make a new study.

¢ ¢ ¢ 5 Shipping Ban Violated The U. S. still ig shipping vital war material to countries behind the iron curtain. And these shipments still are being made with approval of the commerce department’s office of international trade. This is the agency that formerly was headed by William Remington, leading figure in the Russian ‘spy” disclosures of the house un-American activities committee, : This astounding trade still is going on despite the administration’s announced policy of banning it, despite the warlike aggressions and provocations of Russia and also despite the world-wide furor over the congressional revelations and their attending fantastic ramifications. This column definitely has established the following 'facts regarding the continued export of war potentials to Communist-ruled countries: The OIT has secretly issued a license for export of a large quantity of ball bearings and steel balls (for the manufacture of ;bearings) to Czechoslovakia. This license was issued to the Overseas Mercantile company, N. Y. Satellite Czechoslovakia is today one of Russia’s major munitions producers. The great Skoda plant has been converted entirely to military output. fl Further, ball bearings are a key essential in the making of war goods. Two of the most costly air force raids into Germany during the recent war were for the purpose of knocking out ball-bearing plants. : s

An official of the Overseas Mer- ' cantile company admitted that the ball bearings being shipped to Czechoslovakia could be used in war preparations. : - e & o = Eye Poppers In Budget Preliminary budget estimates _submitted by the army and navy for next year are eye-poppers. The two services are asking for approximately flve billion dollars more than the 16 billion dollars congress voted them thig year. The navy wants more than 11 billion dollars and the army more than 10 billion dollars, . This stupendous 21 biiljon dollar total does not include air force estimates. They are still - 0 come and are sure to be not less than 7 billion dollars. ~The 1849 budget is -already in preparation. It will be submitted to the new congress in January by President Truman, whether he is re-elected or not. If they win, G.O.P. leaders privately are planning to’ demand a voice in preparation of Mpbuadget. . o

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7 Reviews For Reading 77

RAINTREE COUNTY : by Mrs! Cleo H. Wood I not only enjoyed “Raintree County” but was absorbed in it. It is without doubt one of the most beautifully written books I have ever read. _ The construction and composition is most unusual. I loved the choice of words, construction of paragraphs, continuity of chapters, development of characters, figures of speech to draw the pictures of the background and scenes. His style flows and undulates like the river he idolizes and I floated along with it. : Of course, it reveals Cockridge as a sensualist and the book is completely one of the senses. -

- RELIGION FOR THE MODERN WORLD

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“FOR A BETTER CITY” is a .Bood slogan. No one would think of objecting to it. If the great city of Ephesus, capital and metrop-

olis of the wealthiest and most thickly populated province’ of the Roman Empire, had had a chamber of commerce, no doubt they would all have been in favor of a Better City. There would be no argument about _that.

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The question is: What makes a city better? Four different ideas on that line—two very bad ones and two good ones—ecan be seen in the story of Acts 19. : You should read the story itself before looking over these comments. Because we are beginning toward the end of the story, with the very lowest and silliest of the four ideas how to make a city better. It is a very simple idea: Just “holler,” yell, make a demonstration. Make it long, make it loud, and the city will be the better for it. For two mortal hours that absurd mass-meeting kept the uproar going: “‘Great is Diana of the Ephesians!” i : A curious thing, the mobmind. If something is true, how can noise make it truer? If a thing is a lie, how can all the shouting in the world make it -respectable? But the mob-mind thinks that if a thing is said loudly enough and by enough people, it is bound to be true. So that theater-full of fools wasted a good afternoon shouting a lie into the deaf blue heavens. It did Diana no good. “She was as dead as Marley’s ghost, she had never lived, in fact. It was no use drumming up the decibels. Do you know people who think they can make your town better by shouting about it? It won’t work. You can make a town or county famous if you shout long enough; but you won't make it better.. = : o.* » o

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To me it was not sexual so much as-sensual, and was used more to illustrate the gradual evolving o!f nature, all nature, not only that of man. In so many books, an author will sacrifice either his characters by accenting events or vise-versa but he (Lockridge) blends them with the background until they become an integral part of the whole. I loved the characters and think the “Perfessor” priceless. To me, it also tells that }e had experienced the whole gamut of human emotions except one. Joy, sorrow, love and ecstasy, frustration, ‘hope, fear, pain, fulfillment, success, failure—on and on, but the one sensation yet to be ex- ' Continued on Page 9

THE' SILVERSMITHS there in Ephesus had another theory. The way they looked at it, the big thing is money. They used to make money selling their little silver shrines. Now this fellow Paul had come along, persuading people that hand-made gods are no gods at all, and the trade in ‘‘sacred” trinkets had fallen off. It looked like a bad year for the silversmiths. To make things better, they decided, they needed more money. More business! More production! The fact that what they produced was not only worthless ‘but actually harmful, did not seem to bother them. Do you know people like that, today? ®* % % Abiding By the Law THE TOWN CLERK of Ephesus had a simple idea, vastily better than these other two. He saw no sense in the mass meeting, he seems not to have been taken in by the silversmiths’ croccdile tears. If anything was wrong in Ephesus, he said, the courts were open and trials were open, and trials could be held. We have laws—let us live by them; that was the gist of his idea. That is not bad advice.

All honor to the honest ser- " ants of the public who now as then give their best efforts to seeing that good laws are made and well enforced. * * B Changing Lives SPEAKING OF LAWS, there are three kinds of people in the world. One kind will not obey the laws whatever they are. These are the criminal classes. A second kind say -‘“inside the law’” but they never advance a step beyond them. A third kind, too rare, will go far beyond the law’s requirements in personal living and in social helpfulness. , Now Paul had been in the city of Ephesus for some months, and he had nothing to do with the laws of that city. Yet what he was doing was more effective in making that city better than anything the courts could have done. For what he was doing was nothing less than changing lives. ““The trouble with people is that they’re people,” and the busi- _ ness of Christianity first of all is changing people. It is no use hanging out the slogan “For a Better City” unless you are working for better people, A tree is no healthier than its roots, and a community’s roots are the characters of her people. And from St. Paul’s day to this, the one and only organization which sets out to change people from the inside, is the Christian church. fEr s & @ ‘ot.( mflqfifii ?du?:uo? ~on ;n&mnncg Protestant denominations. Rohen:' by WHY Tooude, 0o

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LOU PERINI, the Braves president, has at least stirred up quite an argument. «‘As you may remember, Perini wants the two big leagues made into two bigger leagues—and he has something on his side. How can baseball point with any deep pride to its big league roster

with such cities as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Baltimore, Buffalo, Houston and several other swiftly growing centers of population still waiting on the outside? Los Angeles is on its way to 8 or 10 million people. It is already one of the big cities of the

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country. Both Los Angeles and San Francisco are sport-minded, far beyond the average. “You’ll see 95,000 at the Rose Bowl party and some 10 miles away 70,000 at Santa Anita on the same day. Los Angeles, in a major league with the proper park, would challenge New York, Cleveland and Detroit for attendance leadership. So would San Francisco. There are other cities that would outdraw many of the present big league group. Perini suggests two 12-team leagues. This might be better than a third major outfit, which the Pacific coast wants, and some day may get. : Of course, the present .top minor leagues would outhowl a © coyote if their leading cities were ripped away. They would be entitled to a record squawk, but sooner or later there must be a change. Why should fans in certain cities get major league ball, while fans in other much larger cities get the minor league brand? Football is an entirely different matter. Football followers .in far smaller cities get a chance to see as much good football—probably more—than New York does. Big stadiums, or stadia, are scattered all over the map from California ~“to New England, from Minnesota to Florida and Texas. The football fan can see fine football in 40 or 50 localities. But there are only 12 major league cities, and at least 6 of these 12 are falling behind other population centers. The showdown will arrive some day, and those running the two big leagues might as well get ready for the shock. ® & Mental Action Sports What game demands quicker - mental action than any other, meaning -split-second decisions that lead to either winning or losing? ““I don’t suppose I'm qualified to speak of many other sports,”” Ted Atkinson told me, ‘‘but I can’t see how any other contest can call for quicker mental action than riding does. “On any number of occasions, in a hard race, there comes a spot when you must make a - split-second decision. For example, you must get through some way. You see an opening. If you can make it you may win. If it closes, you probably are licked. And you haven’t got a half second to make up your mind. :

“Eddie Arcaro says it calls for instinct more than it calls for any considered judgment. Not even a fast thinker can do much thinking in a fifth of a second.”’ Atkinson is one of the star jockeys of all time. He .is a great rider, smart, dead-game and above everything else a fine sportsman. “You “never hear Ted complain about any mount he is given,” Hirsch Jacobs said one day. ‘‘He simply goes out and does the best he can—and you always know he has given the horse the best ride in Ted’s system.” Every other trainer and owner will tell you the same thing.

‘I suppose boxlr:xg demands flash decisions,’”’ Atkinson said. ‘‘When the reflexes are working, the boxer sees an opening and starts his punch at the split second. But there’s one big difference. The boxer has .only one opponent to watch. The jockey may have 8, 10 or 12 opponents in one race. They come at him from the inside and the outside. There may be someone 10 lengths back of you riding down the stretch and coming in a hurry. 2 Jockeys Make Errors “A jockey can make a lot of mistakes,”” Ted continued. ‘‘There’s one I try not to make. That’s .taking anything for granted. That’s why I like to ride a horse out. You can’t help being beaten by a better horse. But you don’'t like to think you were nosed out by a horse you should have beaten. “Yes,” Ted said, “a lot of things can happen in a horse race. You can lose four or five lengths on some small mistake—or some bad break of luck. But from the moment you're off and under way, you