Ligonier Banner., Volume 82, Number 39, Ligonier, Noble County, 30 September 1948 — Page 2

A Page of Opinion: ne LIGONIER BANNER ' ESTABLISHED 1867

This is our view: . Passing School Buses . The lives of 245,000 school children are endangered twice each school day by motorists who do not know or who Jgnore ‘a state law designed to protect the entry or egress of school bus pas“sengers. Indiana has been fortunate in that collisions involving its nearly 7,000 school busses have been held to a minimum, but the possibility of a serious tragedy is ever present. ; A driver, upon meeting or overtaking a school bus which has been stopped to receive or discharge passéngers, is required to stop his car and wait until the bus passengers have alighted or embarked. Each time the bus is halted, the driver must operate a “stop” signal, extending out from the left side of the bus and plainly visible to other drivers approaching, from either direction. ; | - Fhe only exception is when the school ‘bus is stopped on a divided lane highway on which the unimproved dividing strip is 20 feet or more wide, in which case vehicles traveling in the lanes opposite the one oecupied by the bus need not stop. Drivers frequently complain that halted school busses are difficult to sec, State Police troopers report. Winter weather conditions often contribute to poor visibility. However, it is .the responsibility of the driver and school and township authorities to keep the bus exterior clean and the warning signal in good working order so that the vehicle can be easily identified.

Analyze Your Moods Did you ever wonder why it is that one day you can bear up under everything that can happen to you, and yet the next day be crushed into the depths of despondency by some little criticism or event? It is true, though, isn’t it? Some days you ean ride the crest of the wave. Captain of your own soul, nothing ean hurt. Other days, a single word of opposition whips you. Psychological research is helping to discover the answer. We are told that every person has a certain cycle of emotional energy. This cycle has its producing and expanding periods. When the emotional energy is at its peak, we are confident and ambitious—the spirit is “on the high.” When the cycle is “on the low” we are moody and pessimistic ahd easily hurt. If a person will keep track of his days—systematically charting his emotional attitude toward his world—he can discover his own individual cycle.

This is a good idea! It might help to understand why it is that some days those with whom we live are marvelous creatures, while other days they are the cause of all our troubles! None of us would deny, of course, that outward events play an important part in determining our moods. But the severity of our despairs is related with the stage of the emotional cycle. That moods grow from within is a fact. We would do well to remember this. The next time you are overwhelmed in spirii you would do well to anaiyze the feeling of defeat. Ask yourself-—how much is from without—how much is from within ? : —Arthur W. Olsen —_————eee e To cutivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.—Bovee,

~ Men well governed should seek after no other liberty, for there can be no greater liberty than good government. —Sir Walter Raﬁigh.

Discerning the rights of man, we cannot fail to foresee the doom of all oppression. Slavery is not the legitimate state of man. God made man free. - —Mary Baker Eddy.

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MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR by Calhoun Cartwright’

HERE AND THERE: A letter sent to our Son during his recent convelescence appeared to me the perfect antidote for gloom, and I should like to share it with our readers. The letter read in part, “Now Son, I presume you feel you had a tough run of luck, but let me tell you of the silver lining that you are yet to experience. I speak as a. fellow {racture-concussion beneficiary, for once when I was knee high to a grasshopper, I fell from a fence post and landed on my head and went to sleep for four or five days. When I felt better, all the good cooks ia town brought me the best of things to eat and all the pretty girls called on me. Then as I grew older and was called upon to do unpleasant things such as work or study, I would always develop splitting headaches, which of course was a direct result of this injury. Well, do you know that to this very day I cannet drive a nail, spell, paint, put up screens, do hard labor of any kind all because of that long ago accident ?”’

The Shelley Hammer Fund Drive went way over the top, which attests in capitol letters to the Community’s heart. No large city could possibly express itself with such unanimity. It’s a great tribute to the small towns of our nation. And where in any large community would the superintendent and coach of a school show such devoted interest as was expressed during the -critical moments experienced by two pupils of their school? And where would a theatre give of its entire box office receipts to the interests of one young man ? It is heartening, indeed, is it not?

Community activity is again picking up tempo with the Ligonier Players getting ready for their fall minstrel show, the Elk’s bowling league, the Ligonier Men’s Fellowship preparing to offer six bang-up programs for the en= tertainment of their members, the Rotary Concert Series, which begins. in Novembcr, the Fall Crop Show under the joint sponsorship of the County Agricultural office and the Ligonier Chamber of Commerce and the increased activities of the Boy, Girl and Cub pPcouts. There is plenty of activity planned for the months ahead to keep everyone busy, happy and occupied. That of course is the test of a satisfied society.

Our score to date, which we have been keeping on bumped fenders due to angle parking on Cavin St. since Labor Day, is fourteen. Multiply that by a modest five dollars per fender and you’ve got the cost of several new hats. Last week two children barely missed being struck while crossing the street between cars. When one or more or hurt seriously, then everyone will demand parallel parking. Would it not be better to lock the door before the horse is stolen ? If you happen to agree with this idea, write your councilman today. He alone holds the key to this problem.

Numerous inquiries have come to our office concerning the exact dates of the Rotary Club .Spongored Concert Artist Series. Here they are: : * The Alma Trio ... N ovember 4, 1948 Dorothy Humel, Concert 4 : Panbt December 9, 1948 Jeanne Welty ... ‘February 23, 1949 The Guilet Quartette _ March 10, 1949 All concerts will ‘be given at the United\ Brethren Evangelical Church, and we are informed that a few tickets are yet available.

Nothing is at lasf sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Abselve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. -—-Emerson. i What rven want is not talent, it is purpose; in other vords, not the power to achicve, but will to labor.——Bulwer. Lytton. : i I believe the true road to pre-eminent: success in any line is to make yourself master, of that line.—Andrew Carnegie. The most important thing for a young man is to establich a credlt-—-a, reputa.t Charagter—John D. Rockefeller,

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Vacation Wonderland GAITHERSBURG, MD.—Well, I had a swell vacation—at least until the pigs got loose. Before the vacation started I had studied road maps and dreamed up all sorts of tours. I figured on egoing out to see my daughter in California, and my wife’s aunt in New Mexico.” I bothered Karl Dickel about the best way to reach his hideaway in Ontario, Canada, and corresponded with Sumner Welles about a trip up to Baf Harbor. - But In the end I decided that, with real fireworks likely to break out in Berlin this winter, I ought to take a look at things beforehand, 80 I got steamship reservations for Europe and went through the red tape of an American military government permit to visit Germany. When the sailing date rolled around, however, I just didn’t get on the ship. I just stayed right at home and enjoyed the Maryland countryside. That's what I did during all of my vacation—just enjoyed my home and let General Clay worry about the Russians. Only time I left Maryland was to take two trips into the District of Columbia and one trip into the neighboring state of Dele'ware. ;

Staying right at home proved to be wonderful—that is, until the pigs got loose. Here are some of the things I did: Filled the silo. My son-in-law, who used to be a diligent silo-filler when he was courting my daughter, was absent this time; and even my radio agent, Jackson Leighter, never known to do a stroke of work during the rest of the year, carefully sprained his ankle just before silo-filling time. Went to Church. What with getting up at 6 a. m. Sundays to prepare a radio broadcast during most of the year, I don’'t get to church as often as I should. Especially enjoyed the sermon of Bishop John E. Hines of Austin, Tex., who preached at Bethany Beach, Del His Delaware neighbors tell about a car getting stuck in the mud outside the church and when several people brought planks to get it ouf, one man remarked: “If that board doesn’t do it, I’'ll go inside and get the pulpit.” . . . “Shhh,” - cautioned another, ‘“‘That’s the- - over there.” . . . “Yes,” was the reply, “and I'm the bishop.” i v s _ & @

No More Gorn \Decided not to plant any more corn. Having sat on the banks of the Potomac and watched thousands of tons of topsoil wash down from the cornfields of Maryland and Virginia, I finally decided to do my part by planting no more corn. : ;

Despite strip-farming and con-tour-plowing, both of which we practice religiously, any cornfield, unless on level ground, is beund to wash away the most priceless gift nature gave us—our topsoil. So, from now on, we are filling our silo with alfalfa. The ' farmers -of llowa, where the - ground is flat, can supply the ‘nation with corn. Met a gradually disappearing species—the country doctor. Young Dr. Garrett Hume got out of the army and decided he wanted to help his fellow men. by practicing where doctors were scarce. He hung out his shingle at Georgetown, Del., and has been answering calls on an 18-hour schedule ever since. So, in an age when more doctors gravitate to the city and specialized medicine, here’s hats off to the country doctors, like Garrett Hume, who stay out where distances are long, where fees are low and where people need them most. $ ¢ @

Pigs Get Loose L Most of the above were enjoyed during the first part of my vacation—before the pigs got loose. I might note in passing something obvious to most lady readers—that this stay-at-home vacation didn’t g 0 down too well with Mrs. P. After all, when you've kept house, cooked and planned meals for a year, it's only natural to want to let a hotel manager worry over the food and the servant problem during your husband's vacation. - However, Mrs. P. was a good sport, and, among other things, enjoyed her garden, especially ‘one plot of lawn she had worked hard to keep green and on which we sometintes played deck tennis. This is the point where the pigs came in. It was, of course, my fauli, I had seen them roaming around loose, and I had been warned by the lady who is . much righter than I am that they might descend on the lawn. However, they were such nice Iy enjoyed their freedom, that 1 . put off catching them for a day. That day turned the tide of my vacation. That evening the pigs decided to play deck tennis. I don’t know which of them won, but I know I lost. In 30 mifiutes that levn—pride of Mrs. Py heart—

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All-Time Best Seller

IF ALL the Bibles sold in one year by one manufacturer, the American Bible society, were piled on top of one another, flat—not end-

wise—that pile of Bibles and testaments would be 26 miles high. In 1947 that firm put out the astonishing total of 9,310,439 Bibles, - testaments 1 or portions. During | the first 125 years 1 of the society’'s existence, 305,579,217 copies of Scripture

were printed and sold by them, this would make one shelf 870 miles long. ; e & The Bible is the best selling book in the world. No other book is in its class. i Not to know the Bible is not to - know the most widely read book - in the world. The American Bible society publishes it in only 167 languages, but parts of it have been f{ramnslated into as many as 1,000 languages and dialects. & * . 2 Many Authors ‘ SUCH popularity must be de- ’ served. There are many reasons why the Bible continues to be, year

after year, the all-time best seller. But one of the reasons is its impressive variety. It is not one book, it is a library of books. Whatever your mood, whatever your need, there is a page in the Bible, somewhere, for you, ‘A Christian will try seriously to -appreciate the whole Bible and not merely one or two parts of it. Yet there is such variety in it- that invariably some persons are attracted by one feature of it while another feature makes stronger appeal to

Our studies these next three months will be in *“The Literature of the Bible” and each week we shall be noticing a different feature. This week we give a thought to the tremendous variety of the Bible, along with its underlying unity. LR : b LG e

I NEXT WEEK: ANOTHER BIBLE LESSON I

added amounts for adjlitional dependents. _ Veterans will have until December 1 to file their evidence provided their dependents were recorded in their VA claim folders as of September 1, 1948. These awards will be retroactive to- September 1, the effective date of the law; otherwise the effective date of the increase will be the date of receipt of the evidence. Certified copies of public or church records are usually the best and most easily obtained evidence for the veteran’s wife and children. Continued on Page 7

Many Types LOOKING through the Bible you find all varieties of literary types; you find poetry and prose; stories, essays, sermons, biogra phies, dramas; rhapsodies, love songs, funeral dirges and battle hymns. Here are pages as prosaic as a telephone book and here are pages more exciting than any fiction. Here are simple, straightforward ideas that a child can understand as soon as he understands the words and here are mysteries so profound that the world’s mightiest and boldest minds shrink back in. awe. The Bible is not like a piece of music played on one single instrument, like a tune on a piccolo; it is more like an immense symphony —the more often we listen to it, the more we hear in it.

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:s& ® 2 Many Times NO ONE knows exactly how long it took for the Bible to be written. Let us suppose that the earliest parts came from the pen (or stylus) of Moses, and the latest ~part from about 100 years after Christ (John and the Revelation). It Moses flourished around 1200 B. C., that would mean that the Bible was completed: 13 centuries after it was begun. .In 13 centuries much can hap- : pen, and much did. There is hardly any circumstance or crisis, there is - scarcely any time, however hum- - drum or “thrilling, which does not. “have its maich in the Bible. Its writers were inspired men; they knew God. But they also knew the times in which they lived, and thus can speak to ours, ;

54% 8 @ One Theme _ FOR all the vast variety of the Bible, there is in it a deep and lofty unity. It is bound together by its mighty purpose, which throbbed in. the heart’'s blood of every man who wrote a line of it. That purpose is to make God real to man, and to bring man to God. The writers of the Bible may have had their lighter moments, but they did not write these pages then, They wrote under the irre-

sistable impulse, born of the

Holy Spirit, to make plain to other men what God had revealed to them. ~ So as you come to the Bible, remember its purpose is not to make

you admire or revere it as a book; its great purpose is to be trans- . parent, a window through which you shall gee God. i (C‘op{ﬂ’glt bl the International Council of Religious Education on behalf of 40 Protestant denominations. Released by WNU Features.)

THE widest gap between college and pro football this fall will involve the financial side. The colleges should play to the largest crowds they have ever

known, all at tor prices and reduced expenses, if even part of the Sanity Code works out. The pros, due to the knockdown ‘and drag-out, cut-your-throat competition between the National and the AllAmerica. conference, can easily

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lead to a financial debacle. I don’t believe more than one, possibly two, of the A. A. C. teams can break even. At least four or five will take a drubbing that runs from $300,000 to $500,000 in losses. Cleveland, San Francisco and New York might break even, or make a little.

In the National league, the losses will be nothing like those in some A. A, C. cities, but due to much heavier pay-roll expenses, there will be few profits. ' The National league grabbed most of the college stars of 1947—Lujack, Conerly, Connor, Layne, Evans, Gilmer, Minisi—on and on. The A. A C. passed up the stars, although Chappuis must be rated one of them. | : . The Chicago Rockets, caught between the Bears and the Cardinals, two great teams, may take the heaviest financial socking. Possibly a $500,000 touch. The Brooklyn Dodgers, opening to 16,000 when they needed 30,000 to break even—badly beaten in their opener—may take the next dipping at $300,000 or $400,000. The National league is luckier in having such teams as the Giants, Bears, Redskins, Eagles, Packers, Steelers, etc., established in cities where they have been planted for years.

George Marshal of the Redskins is sold out in advance each season, although George and many football writers are not exactly on speaking terms. As long as Mr. Marshall doesn’t care, why should anybody else bother? He has a monopoly that also won’t make much money in this football war.

Tim Mara and George Halas have had the two richest franchises. They should have. They built up pro football. They’ve been on the job 27 years. There is certainly a place for two big leagues. But in many ways the new league ‘was badly arranged and badly directed as its $4,000,000 losses prove. What will happen, nobody knows. But it may not be pleasant reading for any stockholder in either league Tl\ze College Side On the playing side, the pros will have a great season. But the colleges will have an even greater playing season plus a far more cheerful financ®l side. This should be one of the top years of college football, no matter what section you turn to. The East faces one of its most interesting campaigns—Penn State, Army, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Columbia, Navy, Rutgers, Holy Cross, Villanova, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Boston College—on and on. Here Penn State is the team to beat.

Then move to the Midwest—look at what they have to offer: Notre Dame, Michigan, Purdue, Minnesota and Northwestern. Now to the Southwest: S. M. U,, T. C. U,, Texas and Rice. The South presents such teams as North Carolina, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, Alabama, Georgia. ! 1 can give you over 50 college squads along a high level—who will draw capacity crowds. For example, Southern California may win no title of any sort. But it will outdraw any pro team at least two_to one on the financial side. So will Notre Dame, Michigan, Ohio State and California. : Under the new Sanity Code, the colleges won't be involved in any expenses involved 'in building up their teams. This problem will be put up to the glumni. In the old days, some .football players would ‘‘die for dear old Rutgers.”” Now some rather wealthy alumnus will go broke for his team, whether it is in the Big Nine, the South, the Southwe®t or the East. Athletes Won’t Suffer

But don't let anyone tell you that any section has gone shy in taking care of its athletes. . Not by any university, or by any college, but by certain proud and rather wealthy citizens who might be operating from New York or Chicago or any other spot. . 7 The Sanity Code isn’t going to work perfectly. But it should help, At least there might be a reduction from the $5,000 and $lO,OOO paid to certain stars—in many cases more than the pros get. S Virginia’s refusal to adopt the N. C. A. A. Sanity Code has some‘what shaken the apple cart. One penalty is refusal to let the offender playan N. C. A. A. team,