Ligonier Banner., Volume 82, Number 41, Ligonier, Noble County, 14 October 1948 — Page 2

A Page of Opinion:

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This is our view: | - Take Stock And Be Careful

Spiraling traffic deaths in Indiana brought a grim warning from State Police recently that the battle against highway tragedies is being lost. - A 42 per cent increase in persons killed in September lifted state-wide fatalities to 745 in the first nine months of the year, as compared with 787 in the same period a year ago. The sharp upturn slashed an imposing earlier 17 per cent fatality decrease to five per cent, which may be completely erased before the year ends if the trend continues. Statisticians disclosed 354 deaths during October, November and December would send the 1948 total to last year’s mark of 1,109. A total of 322 fatalities was recorded in the final quarter of 1947. -

“The decision as to whether Indiana’s traffic ‘record improves -or becomes worse rests with the people who walk and drive,” Lt. Blain Schang of the Ligonier post told this reporter. :

History-making advances have been made in the struggle to prevent traffic accidents, he said. State and local governmental units are attacking the problem more intelligently and vigorously than a few years ago, and hundreds of private groups are giving valuable assistance.

But the police official declared that “highway slaughter will decline only when drivers and pedestrians accept a personal responsibility to stop this waste of life and property.” -

Rural accidents claimed 534 lives in the first nine months of the year, as compared with 543 a year ago. A total of 211 died in urban crashes in the same period, as against 244 in 1947. - Last month’s 122 persons killed in traffic was the second highest monthly voll since 158 deaths in September, 1941. Last December, 128 victims were recorded. Records also show 1941 as the peak year in state traffic fatalities, with 1,478. : , 2 Let’s take stock and BE CAREFUL!

The Small Town Newspaper

The small-town newspaper is something that is all its own, a purely home product, and for that reason it has be= come an - American institution, an American “free enterprise” if . you please. It is the essence of free expression, for in the main, the country newspaper editor doesn’t know anything else or have any incentive other than to express his own thoughts as they are formed by the expressions heard on the streets or in the homes of his neighbors. To be factful, the small-town newspaper is edited, in part, at least if not in its entirety, by the average citizen, its policies sometimes dictated by those who hang over the backyard fence and discuss things that the editor.dare not print in his paper — things that, would’ tear the town wide open if given publicity as it is told over the backyard fence or by those who hug the store box on Main street — for they all know what should be in the home town paper, and frequently they know it all before it gets into print. &

That’s one thing that makes the small town newspaper valuable — to see if it was printed “the way I told it to you.” - Often, perhaps not frequently enough, it is not told that way, for if it was the editor would be languishing in jail while the formulators of the /paper’s policy would be hanging over the aforementioned backyard fence or hugging the Main street box in eloquent disputation as to why that durned-fool editor wasn’t sentenced to serve a life term in the penitentiary.

—Cromwell Advance

_ The true way to live is to bring to each duty that comes to our hand our wisest rthought and our best skill.—J. R. Miller.

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Thursday, October 14, 1948

- MUSINGS OfF AN EDITOR R : «Ca|hou2 Cartwrf’ght

A life’s ambition was realized last Friday when a very kind friend in Cleveland dug deep in the pile and came up with a World Series ticket for that 2 to 0 thriller played before some 80,000 people. : , I have been a Cleveland supporter for some twenty odd years and a week ago Sunday when they lost to Detroit I was ready to sell them back to the Indians, and I don’t mean Veeck, Inc. Naturally, their one game victory over the Boston Red Sox put them completely back 1n my good graces, and the very person who performed that feat was the man I I saw pitch on “Lucky Friday.” : This man Bearden of whom I speak is thedanswer to any manager’s prayer, and from what I saw, he will one day go on to become one of baseball’s greats. He’s a strong, handsome lad, with perfect control and a knuckle ball that has the batter swinging over the top of it with enough room in between to drive those proverbial team of horses. It was this same knuckle ball that made Sisti pop foul in the ninth inning of the last game and set up the double play that caused the Braves final downfall.

Perhaps one of the most amusing incidents of the game was produced by this same Gene Bearden, when he made the bat boy take his glove back to the spot where it been resting so he could pick it up himself. I have heard many tales of the superstitions of baseball men, but this was my first experience witnessing it in operation.

Boudreau is everything they say about him and more. He fields with precision, directs the play with authority and bats vicicusly. How he sends the ball whistling into the outfield will, however, remain a mystery for he gets himself in such a crouched position that even hitting the ball appears impossible. The Cleveland team is principally young, and their self assurance, speed and baseball know-how should keep them up at the \‘Foi) for several years to come. ; . 3

I am not such a rabid fan that I cannot see the worth of the opposition, and the Braves deserve credii ior having a good ball team and a very smart manager. Eddie Stanky, the half pint at second base, provides pleasurable watching and his ability at the plate was well respected by every member of the Cleveland team.

Aside from the game, I was next impressed with the size and beau::‘:“?/the Municipal Stadium. It is, of coufse, a huge structure, but I believe the fans, regardless of their seat, considered their view excellent, which attests to the mastery of its architectual construction. Seeing eighty-thousand persons gathered in one spot was an awesome sight, one not too easily forgotten. @ Being in Cleveland was a distinct pleasure. My artist friend, who works on the Cleveland News, was a gracious host, and seeing a large newspaper in operation minimized the headaches' we face in the weekly field. e

During the morning preceding ' the game, I had old home week with a man named Paul Hodges, who will one day be known in every nook and cranny of America for being a great television performer. Today, he is special events announcer, writer and master of ceremonies extraordinaire on the Cleveland television station. :

Paul and I fought the battle of Wheeling during = the last war, he in the Marines and myself in the Navy. We became good friends, and I've laughed more per square minute in his company than in any other given :or ungiven space of time, ‘ ~ :

That morning I got “the fifty cent tour” of the television station, meeting everyone in the place from the managing director to the boy who carries the cameras out to the operator’s car, 1 saw the control room, the news room, the broadcasting. studio, the dressing room and the Men’s rcom. But to top the day off in a bit of glamour, I was privileged to appear on a television program, and believe you me I told those ‘watching about The Banner and Ligonier in no uncertain terms. . - It was a great day in the life of a Country Editor, but between you and me ‘I was glad to get back. Cleveland is still a nice place to be from, °

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Dollar-an-Hour Man

WHEN' and if Harry Truman leaves the White House, he will have saved—up until 1948—just about $4,000 a year out of the total $75,000 annual salary which the people of the United States pay their presidents. In the year 1948, thanks to a Republican tax cut, Mr. Truman will save more. . ;

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* The President sat down with paper and pencil the other day and figured that his job as president had paid him only $1 an hour—up until the GOP tax cut. He estimated that, getting up early in the morning as he always does, he had averaged, 4,200 ’'hours a year on the job. After taxes and other heavy expenses of entertaining and travel, he saved $4,000 the first year and $4,200 the second—or about one dollar an hour.

However, in 1948, thanks to the Republican tax cut, his net income will be $12,000. . “And 1 vetoed : that bill,” chuckled the President.

Today Mr. Truman is out on the hustings trying to break through his usual wall of bodyguards, servants and secretaries in order to show the people his human side. The truth is, that despite the steady stream of callers Truman receives daily and the reams written about him, only a few close friends know the real man inside the White House. Actually, he is a lonesome man. Not many people know, for instance, that Truman keeps two large anthologies of poems on a desk by his bedside and, before dropping oft to sleep at night, likes to prop himself up in bed and read from the classics. '

His favorites are Shelley and Keats, but he can also recite at length from “‘Alice in Wonderland.’" One passage the President likes to quote is the Red Queen’s remark to Alice: ‘“Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place.” Truman also likes to read history —especially the biographies and autobiographies of his predecessors—because, he told a friend, “It is men who make history.”

Historlan Truman

Truman’s secret ambition is-to write the history of his own administration, but it will have to wait until his term is finished. “There are times when I make up my m . am going to do it and I start sembling my thoughts,” he confided to a - friend. “Then the pressure of work foroes me to drop it. There just aren’t enough hours in the day.” : - . i

He complained that the public never knows the true history of a period until long after it is past and sometimes forgotten. :

~ *““The trouble,” he grumbled, “is that people have to depend on Drew Pearson and the Alsop brothers for their information.”’ ot :

As a boy the President used to crawl out of bed at 5 a, m. to practice on the piano for two hours, and he still gets up early. He has more important things to do now. :

Presidential Peeve President Truman's pet peeve is the way Senator Ferguson of Micbhigan bas bandled the former war investigating commitiee. i “I built that committee into one of the finest on the bill,” the President complained bitterly to an associate. "Since Ferguson bas taken over, be made it into a garbage company.” |

Merry-Go-Round - | George Allen, - ex-White House jester, is reported pulling backstage wires to block the sale of the government’s Cleveland blast furnace to Henry Kaiser, George, a director of Republic Steel, performed one of the greatest political favors for Truman. He persuaded Eisenhower not to run for president.’, . . Joe Jacobs, a career man, will be new U. S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia, . . . The Republican national committee has hired Fred McLaughlin, highpowered “Boston public - relations man, to make a political survey in the so-talled border states. . . . CIO officials believe that Communist-con-trolled and left-wing CIO unions will split off from. the national organization by the end of 1948 and form an all-left-wing third party labor movement. N " : *&9 " e Under the Dome : . Down-to-earth Army Chief of Staft Omar Bradley isn’t the kind who will pull his rank—even on an enlisted ‘man. Not long ago a sergeant was assigned to help Bradley move some belongings to his new quarters. Instead of turning the job over entirely to the sergeant, General Bradley pitched in and helped haul the baggage himself. In fact, Bradley made eight trips, the sergeant only seven. .. . President Truman has told intimates'that if he's re-elected, ‘Secretary of the Army Royall won't’

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(Editor’s note: We are. printing in part, and against the writer’s wishes, a letter received this week from Rev. Harry A. P. Homer, beloved pastor of the Methodist Church in Ligonier, who left here late last spring. This liberty is taken because we know of the interest such a letter will engender thruout the community, and. we hope to be forgiven. Further, we are certain that answering letters might prove too much of a task for our friend, but certainly such will not be the case receiving them.)

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Life and Law

Lesson for October 17, 1948

YOU, friend reader, probably know less about what is in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers .and Deuteronomy than any other part of the : Bible. These. are FZiimmi-—='= the sections mostly i R ‘filled with laws— & @AR “Thou shalt . . . @ = s Thou shalt not.” SRem 0 You elther skip §§ & @ these entirely or B& 8 & you say to yourself, L ‘‘Well, that has . nothing to do with % me.” If so, you o ‘have been missing e one of the most interesting sections of the ' Bible. ; S . j Some of these old laws are dead; bué even a mummy can be interesting. Call them dead if you like; you still can learn a great deal about the times and the minds and -the customs of those far-off days by reading theé®laws which governed people’s daily lives. But it is hardly fair to call them dead. Rather, they have been honorably retired. That is to say, they were admirable laws in their time and place, and God’s will was learned through them. ¢ 2 ‘. ¢ @ g The Living Soul of Law . THERE are two ways of looking at any law, or you might say there are two sides of every law, the inside and the outside, the soul and the body as it were. The body, the outside, is the letter of the law; the inside or soul of the law is the spirit or principle of the law. : The body of the law, like the ~_body of a man, “ies; it is not intended to live on and on. But _ the soul of the law (if it has one; some don’t) lives forever, Take, for instance, that law in Lev. 19:9, 10. The body of it, the letter, says: “Do not be efficient in getting in your crops. Leave some wheat in the fleld. Leave some grapes on the vine. : ' . Today that sounds rather stupid, .on the face of it, and-no good farmer wopq pay attention to it Buk LRSS et 2 4 ¥ «;;f‘f”\

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days ago and told me of the serious accident of the boys in which your son was involved. She said that Shelley Hammer was hurt seriously and that he is now at the Riley Hospital. I sent him a card when I heard it. She did not state how seriously your son was hurt. I do hope that his condition was not serious and that he is getting along

It is nearly five months since we arrived in Florida. The second day on arriving, I had a bad spell of some kind and I have been practically disabled ever since. I have Continued on Page 9 ;

look at thé spirit of that law: the ‘wheat and the grapes were to be left for ‘‘the poor and the stranger.” There was then no Red Cross, no bureau of displaced persons, no traveler’s aid, no family service, no social security, none of our many modern agencies for the underprivileged. Those who had property were vbiddei to have a care for those who had none. i . The duty of society to see that " no one starves, the duty of all to help those in need, that is the . - living soul of this law, and it still breathes in laws of ;the 20th cenfury—laws of old age assistance, maternity assistance, pension plans and so forth. " The living soul of the Old Testament laws can be expressed this way: The leve of justice and the justice of love. The best and wisest laws today are those which give this. same spirit its fullest and most practical form. ’&® ® s Jesus’ Last Word - Ao THE Jews figured out that there were in all 613 separate commandments in all ‘the laws combined. They used to have interesting debates as to which of afl the 613 commandments was the most important. <2

They came to Jesus with that well-worn question. Jesus quoted only two Ilaws, one from Deut. 6:5 and the other from Lev. 19:18. Love God, love your neighbor, he said. All the other * laws depend on these two. ‘To this day, Christian thinkers are not entirely agreed as to‘just how far Old Testament laws may be binding on Christians. But all are agreed on two points: The basic principle of these laws is always good, and that fundamental principle is love. ; $ 3 » Love Is Not Repealed THIS is what Christians mean when they say that the laws of God are eternal. We do not mean that every law between the covers of the Bible can and should be used as the law of our land today. What we do mean is that the spirit of these laws is immortal, for the spirit is love, and love never has been repealed. : Show me a law which helps the strong at the expense of the weak, a law which encourages cheating and selfishness and fighting, and 1 will show you a bad law. Show me a law which encourages and helps .men to deal fairly with one another and to live together in peace, and I will show you a good law. Every law that helps you love your neighbor is a good law; indeed there is " something divine about it, for God _is Love. oy : RS o R e et Sl RAL Baersrnie. et oy S T e e I

THISA happens to be a world packed with trouble. There is a new trouble for each season — a rainy spring, a hot summer, a foggy fall, a wrecking winter. Now with another autumn here, with football moving in, some inter-" loper starts new trouble. ' It happens this way: ‘“Will you pick,”” he writes, ‘‘the most valu‘able lineman, the most valuable back, the greatest kicker, the greatest passer and the best pass-receiv-: er you ever saw?” The odd part of this complicated request is that it is quite a simple e ONle—with one or ¢ @ W two possible excep.Tß tions. 700 B No. 1. The great%¢k est lineman — The A.. vote here g;gs to @ Cal Hubbard of Cen- % W tenary, Geneva and ‘g“w several pro outfits. { B Fat Henry was a — great tackle—one of : the. greatest. GerGrantland Rice My Bl Bull dog Turner and Mel Hein were all great centers. Pudge Heffelfinger was a great guard. But Cal Hubbard was an entire line. ]

~ “Put old Cal out there to back up your line,”” Bo McMillin used to say, ‘“and he’ll stop a whole team. He is the most valuable player I evei saw.” .

- Cal is around 8 feet 5 or 6 inches tall. He weighed around 260 and he was both fast and shifty. He could kill off a running game better than anyone I ever saw. Cal was like a fast-moving mountain moving in on you, tackling at both ends and the middle. : £

No. 2. The greatest all-around back—Two men fit in this picture. One is Jim Thorpe. The other is Bronko Nagurski. Thorpe could rip his way through a line. He could circle an end. He was a good ‘passer and a good pass-receiver. He was a great defensive -back when he felt in the mood. «And he was the greatest all-around kicker of the lot —punting, place kicking and drop kicking. Nagurski Was Powerful Nagurski was g greater power back. He was also a great tackle and a star end. Bronko was the best all-around football player, including both backfield and line.play, that football has known. - No. 3. The greatest kicker—He has already been mentioned. Thorpe and Strong were the two best I've ever seen. Ralph Kercheval of Kentucky was magnificent. Sammy Baugh has been a great kicker for over a dozén years. :

No. 4. The greatest passer— It is at this point that one can - wander. off into the jungle. The choice gets down to two men—and if you know football at all, you know who they are. Gus Dorais, Benny - Friedman, Arnold Herber and Ace Parker were all fine passers among many more. Bui there are only two in that plateau country above the field. They are Sammy Baugh and Sid Luckman, I’'ve talked with. many a pro and run into many an argument that involves this pair. Baugh is a great kicker. Luckman is rated a better field general. But when it comes to passing you ean make your own selection. ) I talked recently with one of the best coaches in the National league. “For all-around team wvalue,” he said, ‘I would rather have Luckman than Baugh and Hutson combined. : ;

“I know how valuable Baugh is. I also know how valuable Hutson was. But in running a team, combined with his deadly passing, Luckman is the most valuable football - player I%ver saw.” Few Coaches Would Agree I might add that the coach referred to wasn’t George Halas but an eastern entry. He would also find few coaches willing to agree that Luckman was more valuable than Baugh and Hutson combined. This combination could wreck two leaguesg, o Both Baugh of the Redskins and Luckman of the Bears are heading for the sunset couniry at the “end of the road. They.-. - have taken heavy punishment ~ for 11 or more years starting with T. C. U. and Columbia. In " the way of exceptional skill and unsurpassable competitive spirit, they have done more for pro . football than anyone I’ve ever known, Sab il .

Harry Gilmer, Bobby Layne and Johnny Lujack have enormous shoes to fill when Sam and Sid decide to leave the fleld-—which may be in, 1949. No. 5. The greatest pass-receiver —Hutson of Green Bay. There have been many good ones. But only one Hutson. . : It might be noted in this connection, with pro football under discussion, that the All-America conference has turnedsin a good job in leveling the league by balancing