Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 1, Ligonier, Noble County, 6 January 1949 — Page 2

A Page of Opinion:

ne LIGONIER BANNER

Vol. 83

This is our view: Looking At The New Year

Looking at the New Year Ligonier has much for which to be grateful, and much with which to occupy itself during the days and weeks ahead. Certainly the year can spell progress and happiness if the ties that bind become stronger and the heart for moving ahead beats with a steady pulse.

We would be remiss in our duty as a community newspaper if we didn’t present a program, which may be thrashed around in our various organizations, and out of the discussions come a concerted plan for the welfare of everyone.

Thru the Kappa Sigma Tau and the American Legion has begun a healthy project for the teen agers, which should not only be maintained but encouraged during the weeks ahead. We speak of course of the “teen-age dances,” that have proven so pleasant to the many who have attended. From our personal observations, it has helped round out the lives of these youngsters and should be continued.

The Ligonier Players should be look= ing to a summer of enlivened activities and this year should include the oldsters in addition to the kiddies. The continued support of the group’s play productions, membership applications and the City Council can make Ligonier the envy of Northern Indiana. The mothers and fathers of over one hundred and fifty children will give strong testimeny to the worth of last year’s program. The enlarged activities of the scout movement, both- boys and girls, is healthy and needs added adult support.

The Chamber of Commerce should increase the tempo of their plans to attract new industry to Ligonier . . . industry that employs men. Industry that will provide full employment for everyone in the community and stabilize its economy. Last year, a brochure was printed, at some considerable expense to assist this work, but the mailing of brochures js not in itself enough. There will have to be some work done by many men before the goal is reached.

One exceptional method of giving wide publicity to the community was started last year when the Chamber and the County Agricultural Department joined forces in promoting the Harvest Festival. It was a good job, but its full possibilities were hardly touched, and we recommend a joint committee from the Chamber, Rotary Club, American Legion and the County Agent’s office be formed immediately to delve into the potentialities of such an annual affair.

This area raises the finest potatoes in the country, and like Holland with its tulips and Van Wert with its Peonas, we could do with our specialized crops.

The American Legion Street Carnival and its “Kid’s Day” could be included in “Harvest Festival Week.” The Ro-

tary’s “Farmer’s Day” could come in that week. Crop judging, picking the Potatoe King and the Harvest Queen could culminate the week’s activities. There could be agricultural forums, the minstrel show of the Ligonier Players and the Halloween parade all included in the gaumet of activities. What a week it could be! And what wide=spread publicity could be given the one annual event. What all of these groups do individually could be lumped together in one big cooperative effort. Everyons would gain. _

Such plans cannot be set up for action in one week or one month. The time to plan is NOW, and we urge its consideration. :

Ligonier can be the city of cities. All -we need is enthusiasm and determination. ~

ne LIGONIER BANNER .~ Established in 1867 . Published every Thursday by the Banner Prinling Company at 124 South Cavia St . Telephone: one-three . CALHOUN CARTWR/GHT, Editor and Publisher Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at ‘quonhr Tadiana ;under the act of March 3, 1879, .19 ~ wooemsor . o ¥ Demooratic Editorial Association By - Advertising Federation of America

ESTABLISHED 1867

Thursday, January 6, 1949

Leisure is something to think fondly on when you are busy. When it pounces upon you without warning it is, believe me, no good. In fact, it is never to be hoped for again. .

I know from what 1 speak for I've been a victim of enforced leisure for over a week, and all the things 1 have said I would like to do if I had the time vanished from my thoughts like the air from a suddenly punctured tire.

I am sure it is no longer a secret that I have had, of all things, the mumps. Mumps, the child’s desease. The puiiing out of the face, which only time will cure, and which brings snickers instead of sympathy from all who view your plight. Even the doctor seems disgusted that one who appears of full maturity should find himself in such a predicament. =)

Frankly, it’s not only discouraging, it’s down right disgusting.

* One of the most talented men on my list of friends and acquaintances is also singularly shy. He does more creative things than even his closest associates know about, but I have been cautioned many times not to give credit by the mention of his name. So, of course, being a respecter of human wishes, [ have always refrained.

In the mail last week I received a get well card (I received so many nice cards that I could not begin to thank them via this column) which had a poem written on the back side that was tonic to my miseries no end. I print it herewith anonymously for, as I've said, this talented grocer insists on keeping his name out of print. P

‘lt wasn’t in the Banner\ But I heered you got the mumps Now that’s a funny manner To be gettin’ Hoosier bumps. It ain’t what I call fittin’ For a feller at this stage To be runnin’ ’round and gittin’ Things that is of childrens age. Just think of how your hat will fit The pickles you can’t eat And only eat a little bit ‘ Of any kind of meat. Anyway, I hope that soon The swelling will go down— That you will look less like a moon —A credit to the town.”

Well, there you have it: I’ve had my vacation unwanted and unenjoyed for over a week. It's time I stopped this childish nonsense and got back to work. Believe you me, there’s work to do.

The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless woes, turn us like tired children to the arms of divine love—Mary B. Eddy.

By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life.—Proverbs 22:4. sy e

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins; but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.—Matthew Henry.

Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only” serve to root the oak more firmly in the ground.— Hannah More. ' :

A truly. virtuous person is like good metal,—the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved.—Richelieu.

Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.— Madam Guizot.

_ Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influences to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.—Channing.

MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR by - Calhoun Cartwright

“AY/ ? QR 1 \ = | ~ c : @ f 1/.Phillipsr : : TNy werv np&:s YOUR ‘A’ PITCH? If &t isn’t one thing it's another. Now the United Nations is asked to call an international conference on the “A’” pitch. This is not a southpaw baseball maneuver. The “A' pitch is the basic pitch in music, and Dr. Hermann Zeissl, head of the Austrian delegation to the U. N. cultural organization, charges that almost no country is adhering to the standard pitch as established in 1885 in Vienna. ik Maybe at last here is a clue to what’'s really wrong with the worldl Has man grown careless about his “A’” pitch? o ’ Is the world in the shape it is in because of Sour Notes? —.— . . Is it possible that the cry, “Sound your °‘A’!” brings on trouble all over the earth?

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Dr. Zeissl says that the Vienna conference set the standard “A’ pitch at 433 cycles a second. Through the years it has been knocked around like everything else, it appears. Here in America, for instance, 440 cycles is observed in the best circles. In the ‘‘Sweet Adeline’”” and “Since You Were Sweet Sixteen” . . .it swerves all over the lot, from as low as 422% bid to 500 asked, we hear.

It is declared by Dr. Zeissl that the original tuning fork used to set the international ‘A" pitch and keep the world on key has been preserved in Vienna. He wants everything reset by it. It is not as ridiculous as it sounds (no pun). Nobody has yet been able to put the finger on what is really disturbing the earth so much.

It might very well be that trouble with the “A” pitch is it. Music hath charms to sooth the savage breast, the poet said, but the global music we have been getting hasn’t been doing the job, obviously. Savage breast soothing has declined 76 per cent in the last 10 years, our statisticlan reports. ,

Who can estimate to what extent defective ‘‘A” pitch is responsible for all that has happened to us since the early thirties? Hitler was a musicker in a sthall provincial way. Maybe he was away off the Vienna standard of 435 cycles to begin with.

This department is for an international conference, but fast. The thing must be looked into. How does President Truman stand? Has America an “A” pitch policy? Are we in -accord with England and France and Italy?

It it possible Russia has sabotaged the ‘‘A” pitch and is there in a pumpkin shell somewhere some papers that will show this up?

" When Vishinsky, Molotov. and Stalin clear their throats and sing *Mi-mi-mi,”” are they anywhere near the same key as the rest of us? Let's get to the bottom of this. (Provided, of course, it doesn’t cost too much. That's what we’re afraid of.) We look for a proposal for an American 1. A, P. P. C. (International A Pitch Preservation Commission) with unlimited funds. If we can help the world back to the Vienna “A” gtring standard by discussion, all very well, but, fair warning, no LOANS! ,

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In Remembrance

Lesson for January 9, 1949.

JESUS OF NAZARETH was the Unforgettable Man. All our information about him as he lived in "Galilee comes from four small e . booklets known as £ the Gospels. There ; ‘g% was a little more *° i+ about him in the e.. . # letters of Paul, and | * ® a few additional L 0 | sayings of his have &8 & been preserved in f | B papyrus fragments Co e in Egypt. But the R main source of our Dr. Foreman historical knowledge of Jesus is in these four Gospels. All put together they do not make a big book; but any one of them by itself is a gre:t book. s & & 2% : Who Remembered Him? IT BOTHERS some people to discover what scholars have always known, that our Gospels as we have them are based on earlier writings and spoken traditions. But this gives us an even better reason for trusting the reliability of these records. They were not made up for the first time a generation or more after Jesus' resurrection. They go back to the lifetime of thousands who personally knew Jesus. : The farther back scholars can trace the origins of the Gospels, the more historically ‘reliable they are proved to be. Some of the information worked into our Gospels came ~ from personal reminiscences; this is the case with large. parts of Matthew and John. In the case of Mark, the early story in the church was that ‘as a young companion of ‘Peter on missionary journeys, . Mark jotted down the stories which Peter told about Jesus. At any rate the Gospel-of Mark contains just the sort of things ‘that a man like Peter would be likely to remember, Luke himsel,

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a missionary doctor and great friend of Paul, never knew Jesus personally, but lived for two years in Palestine and gathered the materials for his Gospel while there were still hundreds of people there who remembered Jesus well. - _¢ = @ What They Remembered JOHN tells' us that it would be impossible to write down all” that was “then known of Jesus’ life. Out of the 400 days (at least) during which Jesus’ public ministry lasted, not over 40 are recorded, even in part. : Yet what these men did recall and record is enough to reveal a matchless Person. A fifth Gospel might enlarge our knowledge of Jesus; but it would not greatly change it. Jesus never wrote a book, not even a letter so far as we know; yet such words of his as were remembered have influenced the world. Jesus’ entire public ministry lasted a shorter time than it takes to go. through college; yet what he did has had a deeper effect on the world than the work of any university graduate in history. Jesus started no corporation, .no formal organization; yet out of his fellowship have grown the greatest institutions in the world. ,s s o Why They Remembered THE .STORY of Jesus was remembered and recorded by his followers partly because they could not help it. They could not forget him and did not want to forget him. One thing is true of all those who«lovingly cherished these memories of the Master: they loved and adored him. : No unbeliever ever wrote a Gospel. Pilate wrote no life of Christ. Even if Judas had lived, he could not have written one. Our Gospels were written by men of faith, for the purpose of calling out faith in others. ‘““These things were written - that ye may belleve that Jesus is the Son of God” (Johm 20: . W- N . In one sense aof the word we could write a better Gospel now, for today 19 centuries of Christian "experience are behind us, and those centuries are full of the doings of Christ through his church. The four Gospels tell us of what Jesus did in Galilee. But now we can tell the story of what Christ has done in Africa and Greenland and Australia and America. Reading the Gospels is interesting, it is im- - portant; but the reading has not it the bull’s-eye if it leave you, the _(Conrlght by the Internstional Cousell

Shooting at Cobb’s 367 THERE is a certain mark in baseball, and there are only two ballplayers now hanging around who have even a faint wisp of a chance to equal or beat it. The mark is Ty Cobb’s lifetime batting average of .367. Here is one of the greatest records that sport has ever known. : ‘The .367 is high enough. But when you figure this represents 24 years of play against the top . W pitchers trom al- § ¥ most three dec- & § ades, the picture PP W § takes on added '& 8 greatness. o R The two players T referred to are Ted 5: Williams of Sthe 't ®a. | Red Sox and Stan %%@@; Musial of the B. R BT Car dm ah. N eith er TY COBB will ever last for _ any 24 years. But each has at least a long shot, outside chance of meeting the .367 challenge by hitting from .380 to .390 for the remainder of what would have to bc a miracle career. You might be interested in selecting the leaders from past campaigns. Here they are— Ty Cobb—24 years, .367. Rogers Hornsby—l9 years, - 359.

Joe Jackson—lo years, .356. . Billy Hamilton — 11 years,’ 353.

Dan Brouthers, Ed Delehanty, Willie Keeler, Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth, Harry Heilmann, Bill Terry and George Sisler follow in order from .348 to .341. Lou Gehrig finished at .340, two points under Babe Ruth’s .342. :

Ted Williams, today, is slightly over .350 and Stan Musial's lifetime record to date is .345.

Ted Williams is 30 years old and should have -at least seven or eight good years left, The war cut into his chance for any longtime mark, and it also hit him just as he was approaching his peak. His average was .356 when he gave three years to the service. Musial is only 28 years old and should have 10 seasons left. His mark is .345. Both Williams and Musial could launch their - wiry frames on batting splurges and finish close. But it would -take miracle hitting. .

One thing to their advantage is they don’t have to hit against such pitchers as Johnson, Young, Joss, Walsh,- Wood, Donovan, etc. ; Joe DiMaggio is out of the race. Joe is now 34 years old. He has been around as an active pro since 1932 when he was with San Francisco, and that was 16 years ago. He can have only a few big years left and his lifetime average is only around .331.

So only the Red Sox and the Cardinal aceslhave any chance to mingle with the Cobbs and the Hornsbys, the Joe Jacksons and the Billy Hamiltons above .350. : 3 s % » Two Greatest Records

Ty Cobb set more records than an adding machine can handle in a day. But there are two that are almest unbelievable. The first of his incredible performances has already been named—that of finishing with a lifetime fiverage—taking in 24 years—of .367. Here are two leading examples. Hans Wagner and Nap Lajoie are stil remembered as two of the greatest hitters of all time. I saw both Wagner and Lajoie in the years of their prime. Both were masters of the ash. Yet, after 21 years, Lajoie’s all-time mark was .338 and Wagner’'s was .329. Here’s another angle. After 16 or 17 years, both Lajoie and Wagner began to fade away from their twin peaks. Baut, after Cobb had completed 20 years, his batting averages for the last four years were: .378, 339, .357 and .323—the last mark was in Cobb’s 24th campaign.. At the end of 20 years, Cobb’s mark was around .372. Cobb’s other high mark was just a. amazing Hans Wagner led the National league in batting through eight seasons. Hornsby led his league seven times, But, from 1907 through 1919, Ty Cobh led the American league in 12 out of 13 years. He led nine consecutive years, was finally stopped by Tris Speaker in 1916 and then came back to the front in 1017, 1918 and 1919, : -

In 1922, just 17 years after he reported to Detroit, Cobb made his final challenge. He batted .401 that year, but George Sisler’s .420 was more than the veteran could match. Check back and you'll find few ballplayers still around after seventeen major-league years. To find one good enough to pass .400 is something else again. There are a few records that will not he broken that anyone now living will ever know about. : One is Babe Ruth’s output of 714 hormpe runs. The other is Cy Young’s pitching record of 510 big league victories. The other two belong to