Ligonier Banner., Volume 82, Number 51, Ligonier, Noble County, 23 December 1948 — Page 2

A Page of Opinion: - ‘ | ne LIGONIER BANNER ESTABLISHED 1867 " , Vol. 82 Thursday, December 23, 1948 . No. 51

This is our view: Let’s Look At Our Schools Indiana’s small high schools should be studied by the people in local communities before changes are made. Although the Indiana School Study Commission has found that the most urgent problem relating to reorganization of schools in Indiana involves the small High schools, the report emphasizes that any plan for combining these smali schools will necessarily be a long-time program. _ The Commission report strongly recommends making the county, exclusive of the cities, the unit for administering and operating schools, but it advocates that consolidation of schools is a problem for local determination. Preceding any program of reorganization of schools .%thould be a plan for a comprehensive study which will show where the permanent school centers should be located and which schools should be combined in the future. It is a problem which must be studied and solved in terms of the situation in each county and in each community in that county. he Commis-ion has found that In- ‘ 9 .1 os. 0: its schools v lohlil «.\A ; i;iioe;&:i\'\, Uillus (dicas) lov

i oAbt progiding at cov-.o_.icai cost bcecause the number of poplio 11 Jhose units 1s oo small. “It is impossible for an administrative unit to provide the minimum facilities and services needed for a satisfactory school program extending from kindergarten through grade 12 at an economical cost unless the area is large enough to include a minimum of about 1500 pupils or about 50 teachers,” the Commission report points out. All studies made on this problem throughout the country in the past 20 years have recommended 1500 as an absolute minimum, the Commission declares, and states that an area encompassing 3000 to 5000 pupils would be more desirable and would be less costly. :‘Educators point out that there is so particular advantage in having over 10,000 pupils in an administrative area. The Commission found that 99 per cent of the township school corporations fall below the 1500 minimum. None of the 77 school towns in the state has over 1000 pupils. - If the.county were made the unit for school administration and operation, only one county would have under 1000 pupils, and only two counties would fall between 1000 and 1500 pupils. On the county unit basis, only one county would have more than 10,000 pupils. It is time to give thought to the problems of our schools. There is a reorsailzaiion program needed to save woney and provide better educational faciticies. The Indiana Study Comwidssion performed a great task in bringing the conditions before the people. It remains for the people to put into action the conclusions for good this £eport recommends.

Modern American Youth

" Every so often ‘we read a blanket attack on “modern American youth.” Such articles do not impress us. The authors are not thinking about actual boys and girls, or young men and young women. They are thinking about an abstraction.

I'here are as many kinds of “modern youth” as there are individuals. Some are fine. Some are bad, even criminal. Most of them are middling as they have been in every generation. , Young people have always been subject to crivicism by those whose arteries were geiung a littie too hard. There has always been a conflict between the «vaiy wid thelr ewders. It doesn’t mean

.. 15 best to have faith in the yduth ve tiie country. On the whole, they genervaliy justify it. : —port Wayne Journal Gazette

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MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR : ' . Calhoun Cartwright

~ Never does the Christmas season approach that I do not, in the privacy of my own solitude, take stock of its meaning, its potential force, while at the same time try to determine for myself how much of this philosophy, 1 say I believe, weaves itself into my own practical living. If you are honest with yourself, and are not prepared for a shock, don’t ask yourself that question. The answers might not be pleasant. - Personally, I have always believed in the fundamental goodness of people. The Christmas season, times of emergency, sickness and sorrow seem to substantiate that belief, but with all such evidence, I am not unmindful of human frailty, which so many times submerges that fundamental goodness from even partial view.

~ Be that as it may, Christmas should be a time to reflect in addition to giving giits, and eating heartily of the bounty at hand. It should be a time not to make New Year’s resolutions, but to determine how closely we are practicing what we say we believe. . Are we “doing unto others as we would have others do unto us”? Are we practicing temperance in all things; tolerance to our fellowman, his ideas, his heritage; patience, charity and kindliness ? : : Christ, whose birthday we celebrate, said, “Why judge ye not of yourselves what is right?”’ Are we following that advice? Are we not afraid too many times to stand on what we know is right, because we fear the repercussions from those surrounding us in our daily lives ? Sl Can we ask the question, we who cele= brate the birth of Jesus Christ with such reverence and splendor, are we patterning our lives after Christian law ? You must seek your own answers to these questions, and upon finding them apply what solution is in your heart to apply. In that solution may come the answer to your inner problems, the plan whereby serenity emerges out of chaos If your heart bubbles over with the pleasure derived from this season of the year, take stock, and ask yourselves if such bountiness could not follow thruout the year. o ;

_ Frankly, I have learned that eompensations come only from within. They are not measurable in money, in glory or in praise. However, what 1 learned was not new. It was told to many two thousand years ago; it was told even before that time; it was told to many since. It is told in the Christmas story. That you or I must learn by experience does not negate the facts; it only makes the process slower. One thing of which I am certain is my wish for you and yours to have a most Merry Christmas, and a happy and joyous New Year. The application of the Christmas story will aid, in some measure, that wish to come true. If there is turmeoil in the hearts of man this Christmas Eve, and I believe there is, the answer might be found in a re-shuffling of values . . . in the practical application of the truth so simply taught by the Peaceful Prince from Nazareth. ~ !

: OF GIVING from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Then said the rich man, Speak to us of Giving. o | And he answered: You give but !ittle when you give of your. possessions. ‘ It is when.you give of yourself that you truly give. _ 5 ; For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear

you may need them tomorrow ? And tomorrow, what shall tomorrow bring to the overprudent dog burying bones in the trackless sand as he follows the pilgrims to the holy city? And what is fear of need but need itself ? Is not dread of thirst when your well is full. the thirst that is unquenchable? ietmaraiesineessteiesl{ ettt o i It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self-examiner.—Shaftesbury. . . _ Thinking, not growth, makes manhood. Accustom yourself, therefore, to thinking.—lsaac Taylor, @~

¥ rHlLPhillpr B NEED ANY WEATHER? | Weather forecasting now has become .a. business. Companies are selling predictions to railroads, communities, shippers, airlines andall sorts of corporations whose business is affected by weather. It looks like a good depression-proof business. There never can be a weather SHORTAGE. : , S A man in the weather industry need never worry over conservation movements, embargoes or federal control. ‘ e And Washington never can ration it}

John E. Wallace, a former army air forces major and ex-employee of the Washington weather bureau, started the weather forecasting sales service, and is reported swamped with orders. He says he takes it up where the regular bureaus leave off, and dopes out the probable weather in greater detail and over more specific areas. e ° > This is one- type of weather prophet who can't lose. He gets paid—win, lose or draw. o : We are sorry we didn’t think of this first. Imagine cashing in on the age-old question: “What're we gonna have, rain or snow?”’ : — e From the beginning of time people have been answering that one for nothing. It has been strictly a give-away program. : o And suddenly there arrives the rain, snow, sleet, hail and sunshine specialist, the tycoon of temperature changes, the mogul of cloud movements. e The man who started on a shoestring and worked up to a milliondollar industry now gives way to the fellow who began with an isobar and worked up to a mzior corporation. We await the radio commercial: “Do you suffer from unexpected weather? Are you among those people who get caught in the rain? Does snow enter your life without warning? Are you a victim of falling temperatures? Then why not write today for Never-Miss Weather Forecasts? Find peace of mind and nonchalance through knowing about blizzards instead of merely guessing. Yes-s-s-s-s, Never-Miss Weather Forecasts will take those wrinkles from your forehead, end those falling hairs, efface that apprehensive look from your eyes and send you outdoors every day radiant in the thought that you are prepared for anything from a shower to a typhoon. _ “And don't forget that you can win one of 500 amink . coats, complete with deep-freeze’ unit and muff, by completing the sentence, ‘I like to know whether it is going to rain or snow' BECAUSE .. .'”

:s* @ i WHY CINEMA REVIEW READERS GO NUTS

. “Lunacy in a family is not a fun. ny thing, nor does it seem fitting and tasteful as a matter to be treated as farce. Neither does a giggling half-wit seem an apt comic character. Somehow it just isn’t funny to see a pitiful affliction made a joke.”—Bosley Crowther on ‘‘Miss Tatlock’s Millions.” - e N “Far from being tasteless, ‘‘Miss Tatlock’s Millions” holds to a high level of fantastic humor. It is genera]ly delightful entertainment. Charles Bracket's idea of having a man masquerade as a half-witted heir makes for elegant nonsense.” ~—Howard Barnes. o ::e e 2 Dr. Edwin G. Nourse has been " named chief of an anti-inflation board. Is he a trained Nourse of a practical Nourse? T % »

/A commission has found that Washington could save 250 million dollars a year by merely buying supplies with a minimum of red tape, duplication and poor business —methods, Paper work on 1.5 million orders a year involving only $lO in each case cost the government _more than $lO for unnécessary letters, carbons, filing, duplication of effort, unnecessary- help, ete. That gives you an idea. : ¢ : ‘ ® ® 0( : During the shipping strikes we heard of a fellow who went to a travel agency and asked, “What's the best liner to take and not go anywhere at all for a long time?” We heard his companion asked for a deck chair on the sunny side of the mediation board. i & ® VANISHING AMERICANISMS: “The pco‘gh want @& change in . Washington. = r *Truman is s :eod man, bubs « 2 & "I¢'s al} done by eycles” L el *You wouldn's go against the __The new chief of staff of the Brit. ~ ish ‘army is named Slim. We will feel better if the head of any opposing force is a General Fatso,

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v Veterans Information %

All"¥eterans Administration offices in Indiana will be closed on Friday afternoon, the day before Christmas, it was announced today. The half day off will not apply to the Veterans Administration hospitals located in Indiana, however. They will be open as usual. ' -

Veterans Administration offices throughout the state will resume their regular hours Monday, D&'ember 27. The half day holiday was authorized by President Truman to include all government employees. :

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SCRIPTURE: Daniel 7; Revelation 1; 4:Bb, 11; 11:15b; 15:3b-4; 21-22. 3 131137VOTIONAL READING: Revelation

‘God’s V-Day Lesson for December 26, 1948.

EVERYBODY loves a fight, they say. But the underdog does not love it, and nobody loves one that goes on and on and seems to have

no end. The longest war in history is the war that mankind wages against everything that is out to destroy him. It is the war between man at his best and man at his worst, between the angel and the devil in mian himself. We

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seem to be the underdogs—and how tired we grow of it! £*% ® o God’s Fight THE’ Bible shows us that this -& fight is not one in which we human beings are left to defend ourselves alone. We have an enemy, Satan; and we have an ally, God. Whenever a man lines up against anything that is wrong, hateful, deceitful, destructive, and on the side of what is creative, just, brotherly and true, he finds that this is not a private fight, it is not even the struggle of mankind ‘alone, It is a cosmic conflict.

.God’s universe is not a neat garden in_ which only flowers grow; he has to work cutting down the weeds. His universe is not a realm at peace, with no - need even for police; treason is ~ -abroad, rebellion breaks out here and there. - The Greeks used to think that the gods never went to any trouble, they ruled without effort. But the Christian Bible tells of a God who does have troubles, who meets opposition and fights against- it. . * ® & Bright Books for Dark Times TWO’ books in our Bible bring this out in a startling way: ‘Daniel and Revelation. We have been thinking through three months now about various kinds of literature in’the Bible The kind represented by these two books s

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called ‘‘Apocalyptic.”” Scholars have discovéred a number of similar books, but these two are incomparably the greatest and were the only two to be admitted to the Bible. One feature of all apecalyptic literature is that it always appears in dark times, and its first readers are people down at the bottom of the heap, people beyond all human hope. Daniel, long before the time of Christ, and Revelation, two generations later than Christ, came as lights in a very dark world. The first of these books circulated when the Jews were hard pressed by Syrian persecutors, and when the other came out, the Christians were about to be crushed out of existence by cruel Roman emperors,

Observing what went on in those days, you might have thought the Jews, or the Christians as the case might be, had no prospects of surviving. But these books brought a brighter message: Have courage! God will not lose! .* ® ; A Code in Pictures l DANIEL and Revelation are : both hard to understand, and for the same reason. Their messages are framed not always in plain language ‘but in symbols. Hidden meanings abound. i . This had to be so; if one of these books fell (as ‘sometimes i they did) into the hands of the | persecuting agenis of the Syrian or Roman governments, it | would not get the owmer into | trouble, for the agent would ‘ hardly be able to interpret the | - strange language. !

All sorts of weird creatures and events move through these mysterious pages, and they often probably refer to persons or events known to the writers and the first readers: beasts with iron teeth and horns with eyes; a flaming throne set on a river of fire; golden vials filled with-the wrath of God; a red dragon sweeping the stars down with its tail. : ¢ O » God’s Victory . WE NEED not be distressed now at not being able to unlock all the code in which these extraordinary books are written. We can read them for their sheer beauty and force of imagination, for one thing, and we cannot miss their main truth. The bright picture of the New Jerusalem in Rev. 21, 2" is one of the loveliest and most comforting passages in the entire Bible. : g S B ei Rl & # ~ Features.) e e

S s . l " ' | oy : CRANTZAND RICE & s it

Scrub to Coaching Star PRACTICALLY every one of the long parade of great football coaches has come from good or better football players — Camp, Haughton, Rockne, Little, Crisler, Bierman, Neyland, Thomas, Hickman, Voigts, Yost, Heisman, on and on indefinitely. ' = ~ I can recall but one exception, ~ His name is Bill Alexander of Georgia Tech, one of the top coaches of all time. : Alexander headed north from the red clay hills of Georgia to accept

the accolade of the Touchdown club of New York. Today ‘he is Georgia Tech’s graduate manager, having turned over the coaching reins at Tech to Bob%y Dodd after directing the destinies of the Yellow Jackets for 25 years. But the important point is this—Alex-

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ander was never a college star. He was on the scrub team at Georgia Tech in 1907, 1908 and 1909 before he became John Heisman’s assistant in 1912. o Bill Alexander, physically, was never quite equipped to be a college star. But, mentally and psychologically and emeo- ° tionally he was far beyond most of the greatest players the game has ever known.

He knew football. He knew the physical side of football. But, better than_most, he knew the value of deception, of using speed to match weight and power. When John Heisman left Georgia Tech in 1920 to go to Pennsylvania, Alexander took over and set up a brilliant record for the next 25 years until -he turned over the job to Bobby Dodd in 1945. 5 In that time, Old Man Alex had won seven conference championships—he was named the coach of the year in 1942—and he had baffled and bewildered more rival coaches than anyone I know, with lighter, faster, smarter working material. It was lack of weight and power that bowled Tech over this year. .

Bill - Alexander is football’s leading philosopher. He has known the game from the front ~line for over 40 years. He has a marvelous sense of humor—an amazing understanding of values. : Here’s an Alexander story that goes back exactly 20 years @ 1928 and explains Alex: Georgia Tech was playing its final game of the season against Notre Dame.’ This game meant staying home or going to the Rose Bowl. ‘““How are things?”’ I asked. ‘“How would I know,’”” Alexander said, ‘I haven’t seen the team in three days. I've had 122 tickets to collect and deliver to old grads. Say, who’re we playing?’’ * * * The Four Horsemen There have been many stories told about the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame since they rode to victory over 20 years ago, sweeping the plains from Army and Princeton to Stanford at Palo Alto. You may remember their names —Harry Stuhldreher at quarterback, weight 154; Don Miller and Jimmy Crowley at the two halves, around 162 and 164; Elmer Layden at fullback, 162 .

Some of the main arguments that always break out when their names come up are: ““What did they all do? Who did the blocking? Who did the ballcarrying? Whe did the kicking? Who did the tackling?’’ This was undoubtedly the greatest pony backfield, pound for pound, in football history. The average weight was around 160 pounds. There wasn’t a man on the job at 165 pounds or higher, Yet it ripped, ran and passed its way from coast to coast with a series of victorious hrusts. One of the main arguments started when Don Miller, now a hightoned Cleveland judge, stopped me before the Army-Navy game a year ago and berated me soundly for picking him as a blocking back. - “I never blocked a guy in my life,”” Miller said with much indignation. : . 1 told this to Elmer Layden, . recently. Layden laughed. “I’ll tell you the truth,” he said. *“We all had to block. We all had our blocking assignments, even

bowling over the two ends, helping take out a fackle, or handle the secondary. ‘‘Stuhldreher was probably the pest of our blockers, but we had to, block. Miller, Crowley and I hagidled most of the running. Styifl. dreher did the passing, but we were more of a running team than a passing team. We all had speed. I could just shade 10 secomds—say 946 for the 100, and the others were about the same. I did the kicking.” Also the pass interference, I suggested. In -the Stanford game against Ernle Nevers ad others, Layden intercepted four or five passes, running two . interceptions