Ligonier Banner., Volume 82, Number 45, Ligonier, Noble County, 11 November 1948 — Page 2

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This is our view: ; ~ Town Meeting Tonight “Town Meeting Tonight” is a familiar cry in the annals of American history. It speaks democracy -more clearly and more forcefully than most any grouping of words because it is democracy in action. ] , Monday evening at Rotary Guest Night, a capaciy crowd participated in a panel discussion that, from all reports, was enthusiastically received. In fact, many have expressed a desire that such an activity become a permanent project within the community and that, in the face of a national hysteria over communism and fascism, is a good sign. No democracy can crumble when the people in that democracy are actively participating in the formation of its policies. The town meeting is one method of keeping abreast. Monday night’s discussion -regarding the United Nations did many things, uppermost, of course, was its stimulus to thinking. . People in the audience were divided in their opinions of whose preséntation was more logical. Many had opinions contrary to any of the speakers on the platform. The fact that division did exist proves the point. When Americans can sit around the table with their differences of opinion and calmly fight them out, there is hope. The cry, “Town Meeting Tonight” is atn encouraging cry. Let us not drown it out. :

~ The March of Dimes The Kendallville Elks Lodge recently learned the local Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis needed a child’s size wheel chair. The organization was quick to seize the -opportunity to ask permission:to furnish it and the device has- been received and now is in use. Following the example set by the lodge for itself in such work, the ‘best equipment of its kind was purchased and will be available for a long life of usefullness _beyond the benefit of the present case. : . Some years ago the local lodge, in cooperation with the Elks Lodge at Ligonier, purchased an “iron lung” which has been in continuous use for the past several years at the Riley Hospital for Children at Indianapolis. The efforts of the Kendallville Elks Lodge is greatly appreciated by the Noble County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, and formal acknowledgment and thanks are being conveyed to the lodge in a letter from Glenn E. Thrapp, Chairman of the local chapter. Each year the local Elks Lodge has sponsored the March-of Dimes ball and turned the receipts into the treasury of the local chapter. The March of Dimes has proven its worth, and a charitable America will see that it continues. _ Discovery The precious things require apprenticeship. One does not know their meaning all at once. Not for a long time does he arrive at their full truth. One learns at first to see, and then to weigh, and then to recognize; then deeper yet, must learn to feel the passion of the worth. A man loves what he takes pains to find out and what resists His search, what he must wait for breathlessly and risk his all to get. e ' —Raymond John Baughan You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself.—Froude. - -———-———O——-—_—_ The essential factors in character building are religion; morality, and knowledge.—J. L. Pickard.

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- For some time I have realized that what I personally needed most in this life was an eighth day in the week, but I have been lost in my efforts to find a method to put it across. Now comes the election of a brand new Congressman, Edward Kruse, Jr. who might be my hope for he will be new in Washington, and proposing such a plan might conceivably make him a sensation.

Can you picture the possibilities of this eighth day proposal? I can and I like them. First and foremost, it would give everyone a day to catch up whether it be on their sleep, work, hobby, reading, eating, playing or fishing.

In Ligonier, particularly, it could help unravel the duplicity of meetings, and eliminate the necessity = of making a choice as to which meeting we would attend. ot

Tasks. which 'normally take us two days to complete could be stretched into two days and one-fourth. The pace of living would simmer down, and tho hustle and bustle of getting nowhere would be minimized. Everyone today says they’re in a hurry to get there, but seldom do they know why. With this extra day they could take their time. If what doctors tell us is true about the strain of modern day living on the heart, then the eighth day in the week could conceivably lengthen the life span.

Congressmen would have more time to write their constituents, and adjournment day would never be such an eleventh hour problem. Why, our President could get off to Key West: with greater ease. P :

The United Nations would have more time to sit around the table and thrash out its problems. Newspapers would have one more day before deadline. Why even the radio could take a breather and become more leisurely. Just think how relieved the writers of “Mary Foster’s Other Husband” would be to have two periods in the week ‘when crisis making is not a must in their routine.

Of course there would be a problem of what to call this eighth day in the week, but that shouldn’t be too difficult. A friend of mine has suggested “Funday,” which is a good name, but Im not arbitrary on that part of the- - I thought of “Heyday,” “Newday,” “Peoplesday,” and ‘“Luckday,” but : much would depend on the spot such a day would be allotted. If it followed Monday, we could call it “Blueday” and eliminate “Blue. Monday.” If it followed Friday, we might call it “Bake- . day.” You see that finding names would be an easy job. Frankly, I have found that Sunday is no longer the Day of Rest and I’'m inclined to favor “Restday,” and woe be unto the man who would ask me to attepd a meeting, join with a committee, be on time to anything or visit his uncle, aunt or grandmother. Regardless what they called it, to me it would be “Myday,” and “Myday” I would keep it until the cows come home, : L

Happiness is a human desire, worthy and well founded. Read what Ray Stannard Baker says about it in a portion of a chapter in his new book, “Great Possessions.” Quite an idea, I thought. “As I was crossing the fence into the lower pasture (returning from a tramp in the marsh on an early spring. morning), I met my neighbor Horace. Horace is an important man in this community.. He has big, solid barns, money #a the bank, and a reputation for hard headedness. I amuse Horace. “Been in the brook?” he asked, observing my wet legs. “Oh, T've been for a tramp . . . to see how the spring was coming on,” [ replied. : ; e “Hm-m,” grunted Horace . . . often get out as early as'this? And do you. find things any different' now from what they would be later in the day ?” “Horace,” I said, “I know what. you are thinking — that I've been wasting my time beating around down there in the swamp . , . You think I'm an impractical dreamer, don’t you?” e A little dry gleam of humor came in’ his eye. “Ain’t yar” S : . Continued on Page 7 .

VNG s, V ON - | T ol | e Highway Tax Evasion AROUND the army's Pentagon, largest office. building in the world,. winds a network of modernistic macadam highways which have now betome the center of one of the capital’'s most interesting hush-hush income tax scandals. For the men who built the highways, W. J. “Doc” Hardy and F, McKenzie Davison of the Arlington Asphalt company, apparently did not feel they should pay full taxes on the profits they made from Uncle Sam. In fact, treasury agents who finally caught up with the pair, estimate that they quick-changed Uncle Sam out of $500,000. Probably that explains a yacht, a home in Florida and a new mansion in Virginia. However, the two Virginia constructors have been frantically pulling wires on Capitol Hill, especially with Virginia’s Sen. Harry E. Byrd, and for a time it looked as if their tax case was stalled. Some of the tricks used by the Virginia asphalt kings to duck income taxes were just as devious as the cobweb of highways they built around the Pentagon. s For example, they made- out checks for several thousand dollars to W. W. Thomas and S. M. Redd, contractors, who later gave . T-men affidavits that they never received the checks. o What Hardy and Davison did was forge endorsements and cash the checks themselves, then deduct the amount of the checks from their income-tax returns. ® & 8 Cadillacs and Mansion 7 The two kings of Virginia Asphalt also made out other false invoices and vouchers which they deducted from their income taxes, and juggled funds carelessly between their private accounts and the company’s -account. Both Mrs. Hardy and Mrs. Davison received a ‘week{y salary of $75 from Arlington Asphalt, though not seen working for the company. ; Hardy also used workers, paid out of company funds, to help build his palatial new Virginia mansion; while Davison drives Cadillac and Lincoln automobiles, both owned by the company. He keeps another company Cadillac at his winter home in Miami. Queried about this, Davison replied: : ; _ “You’d be surprised at the company business we have. in Florida.” ‘To investigate Hardy and Davison, the bureau of internal revenue sent six agents simultaneously to grill key witnesses. As the T-men closed in, Hardy and Davison hurriedly hired a tax attorney, I. William Stempil, formerly of the bureau of internal revenue and who knew all six agents personally, But Stempil got nowhere. v $ & @ Byrd Goes Into Reverse Then the Arlington Asphalt owners pulled their ace card and called on Senator Byrd for help. J. W. Barton, partner in the Subsidiary Coal company, boasted that Byrd would “fix’* the case; but when this careless talk got out, Barton was called on the carpet by Hardy and Davison and a denial was issued., - That began a rash of strangely conflicting stories. When tax attorney Stempil learned Hardy and Davison had been seen going into Byrd’s office, he admitted they had consulted Byrd about their tax troubles. Davison, however, said his call on Byrd had nothing to do with taxes. o : Later, confronted with Stempil’s statement that taxes were discussed with Byrd, Davison revised his . statement and explained they had gone to see Byrd ‘“principally about another matter,” but had talked about the tax case. iy Yet Byrd nimphatically'denied any knowledge of the case. Queried by this column about his talks with Hardy and Davison, the senator from Virginia snorted: 2 ‘ “l 1 never met them, I never even heard of them.” : Next day, however, Senator Byrd’'s office telephoned to say that the senator’s memory had been bad, that he had talked with Hardy and Davison, though he refused to help them. -

Treason Exposed! On November 1, 1947, Drew Pearson exposed one of the strangest {reason cases of the | war—that /of an air force lieutenant, Martin James Monti of St. Louis, who had stolen a U. S. plane, flown from India to Italy and deserted to the Germans, Thereafter, Pearson charged, Monti had enlisted in the elite SS corps and served in the Nazi | army. Pearson also revealed that Monti as of that date—November army! Recently, however, Lieutenant Monti was formally inin New York on a charge of _ | treason for becoming an officer in the elite SS corps. @ = |

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Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor: B Your rural subscribers should be pleased to know that with the tally of entries still not completed, the forthcoming International Live Stock Exposition and Horse Show had already drawn entries frem 32 states and five Canadian provinces. ‘The show is set for Saturday, Nov. 27 for an eight day run through December, 4 in Chicago. e - Entries for the individual livestock classes closed Monday, and the final count promises to make this year’s show the largest in the history of the Exposition. Entries for the International -Grain and Hay Show closed November 10,

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SCRIPTURE: Amos 5:21—6:6; 7:10-17; Micah 4:1-5;. 5:2-4; 6:6-8. DEVOTIONAL READING: Isaiah 55.

Voices of God

Lesson for November 14, 1948

“WHAT became of our lost : mules?’’ That is the kind of question which prophets once upon a time were expected to answer

(I Samuel 9:1-10). Some people - still have this notion about prophets in the Bible, as if they had been gypsy for-tune-tellers, tea-leat readers or astrologers. They. were nothing of the sort. It is not possible to open the Bible to the books of the

prophets and read history-in-ad-vancge, finding out when the next war is coming and when the end of the world is scheduled. - If we could really use the prophets of the Bible in this way, then any reader of these books could write history. accurately in advance; but no -one has done this yet. - » 3® & % Hired Man and Aristocrat THE ‘genuine prophets, whose writings make up so much of the Bible, are something far loftier than mere fortune-tellers. They are authentic voices of God. Because of the way they spoke, the timeless truth of what they said, they are God’s spokesmen to our own times . as well ‘as to their own, and to all . times. e " The Bible prophets were not “professionals.’”” They had no churches to support them. No: . . regular meetings were arranged ' for them. You never would have ' read in the Jerusalem Journal, if there had been such a newspaper, that the Rev. Dr. Isaiah would preach at the temple at 11 a, m, and there would be spe- ' cial music. Few ever knew when or where a prophet might speak. : , ~ No one knew beforehand where ‘a prophet might come from. Amos, for example, was a hired man from ‘a sheep-ranch. Micah was a small- _ town preacher. Isaiah was a highly ~ cultured citizen of the capital, in-

| NEXT WEEK: ANOTHER BIBLE LESSON

and for the fat carlot competition, November 20. - Illinois so far has the heaviest representation with exhibitors from 58 counties.of the state having registered entries. for the show. lowa is next - with 51. Thirty-four Indiana counties have ‘been heard from, and Ohio to date “promises exbibitors from twentyeight counties. ; o Entries represent a territorial expanse from Ontario fo Mississippi and from = New England -te California. Many new areas of the country are being heard from as ; : Continued on Page 7 '

timate with all the important peo- | ple. ‘Ezekiel was a trained priest, loving ritual and pageaniry. Jere--miah was a lonely, hunted man, living often in jails. Daniel was a member of a king’s council, wealthy and ‘famous. They were all kinds of men, these prophets, but one and all, they were God’s voices, pleading, warning, teaching all who would hear. - » * o ¢ Their Times and Ours HUMAN mature is always much the same. One man alone, or one man with another man, or-a man with a woman, or a man in a crowd—in the Eighth century before " Christ when Amos preached, or now in the 20th century affer Christ, the same sort of situation brings out the same temptations, the samesins.. The prophets often sound quite modern, but that is ‘only because the human race is so old-fashioned. The prophets looked about _them and saw a_ world much " like our own. They saw people spending more- than they could afford;.they saw wealthy women dressing in competition with one another while poorer women starved; they saw crowds of business men attending religious services on Sabbath mornings and spending the rest of the Sabbath figuring out how to * cheat their customers on' Monday. - . : g The prophets lived in evil times and they brought the judgment of God to such times—then, now and always. : s : ®* » : * : Sins of Society v , IN AN American-fown there was a lynching one Saturday night.. The- - morning:there were four ser- - mons in the fourlittle churches of the town; but not one of the preachers had-a word to say about.that . Iynching or any lynching ér about the . causes that produce such™ crimes. Voo o ‘The prophets never would have missed an opportunity like-. that. They were not afraid to speak out, even when they had the whole community - against them. = > L * * LD What Does God Require? ° =lB easier to say “Don't” than A “Do.” .It is easier-to criticize +than to construct: But the prophets . did not stop with warnings. They ' have given us a pattern for living, - which Micah summed up in those _ matchless, inspired words: ‘‘What - doth the Lord require of thee, but'to * do justly, and to love merey, and -to walk humbly with thy God?” e -, Everything that is good, in _public life or in private, is in- / gmh “those 22 ‘words, © - m ; ‘i’a?%’.’ﬁﬁ;?&ﬁu”w e T e WS TN B i

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IN _THE general collision of the World Series and a new football season, a crash between a budding cyclone and a dying tornado, several baseball details have come up for inspection. One is that Casey Stengel, as good as he is, isn’t going to win any pen-

nant or run second with the team Bucky Harris carried on his back—largely aided by Joe DiMaggio. Everyone knows that Bucky Harris wasn’t fired for inefficiency. He was fired because he is a friend of MacPhail’s. In our book it was a stupld move, as Bucky has

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always been a high-grade manager and the type of man baseball needs. The selection of Casey Stengel was- a smart move, following a dumb one, which doesn’t often happen. Stengel is also a high-grade manager who knows his trade. But there won’t be as many laughing stories written about Casey in 1949 —not with the job he has ahead. Cleveland, the best team in baseball, won the 1948 world series. The Indians should be the best team in baseball in 1949 and should win again—unless the Red Sox can locate a few pitchers. Then it would be different. The Yankee farm system has bogged down in recent years, | ~ and no matter how Stengel hustles, he doesn’t know where his players are coming from. He needs one outfielder, three infielders, a catcher and three pitchers—all good. ‘This makes a total of some eight ball players, good ball players, better ball players than most of those he has except DiMaggio, Henrich, Lindell and Raschi. Yogi Berra is a useful fellow to have around. v Infield Lacks Hitters j Last season Stirnweiss and Rizzuto drove in 82 runs. Gordon ‘and - Boudreau drove in 252 runs. Stephens and Doerr drove in 250 runs. . We are speaking now of secondbase combinations. Rizzuto and Stirnweiss were a brilliant defensive team. But they were so far behind Stephens and Doerr, Boudreau and Gordon, there was no comparison. You could trace at least 10 games, in a nip-and-tuck race to this missing clutch hitting. Maybe 15 games. -

The Yankee infield, plus er.ratic Yankee pitching, kept the Yankees from winning by 10 or - 15 games. There was certainly no outfield to match Joe DiMaggio, Tommy Henrich, Lindell, Keller and Berra. They drove . in over 400 runs, far more than the Red Sox outfield hammered e Here 'they are: DiMaggio, 156; Henrich, 100; Berra, 98; Keller, 45; Lindell, 55.. Total: 454. What about the Red Sox? Williams, 128; Dom DiMaggio, 85; others, less than 80. Far below the Yankees. So was Cleveland. The Yankees had the outfield. e v 2 * » Outlook for 1949 - The middle of the 1948 football season seems to be a somewhat early date to be discussing the September finish of pennant races for 1949. But no one can be arrested and shot for trying. «° The two American league teams fo beat in 1949 should be the Cleveland Indians and the " Boston Red Sox. They have, by far, the better infields, which are the basic strength of a baseball team, especially the play. around short and second. There isn’t a chance the Yankees will have anything to match Bou.dreau and Gordon or Stephens and Doerr when you consider both"the _offense and defense. Both sets are standouts. i " Cleveland has the better of the pitching with Bearden, Lemon, Feller and Gromek. Neither the Red Sox nor Yankees have a dependable. pitcher. The Tigers still have pitching. possibilities, but little else. .The Athletics can finish fourth or fifth—no better. Majeski and Joost ‘are hardly likely to be as good as they were this year. Both were .extra good. : . 'The Yankees only streéngth is in ‘the outfield—the section, headed by Joe. DiMaggio that carried the rest _of the team — DiMaggio, Henrich, “Lindell, Keller and Berra. Keller’s “Cleveland’s outfield is only fair Bed Sox could use new.pitchers. .and Dog:mhtve&s‘:;n::or 1949 iipovaiatale it athos Woes i the two best pitchers in their league E’gmhﬁ : Ww%* VY. e