Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 4, Ligonier, Noble County, 27 January 1949 — Page 2

A Page of Opinion:

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This is our view: March Of Dimes

We were pleased to receive the announcement this week of the March of Dimes },@ance to be given Saturday evening by the Eagles of Ligonier, and although by law such functions must be limited to their membership, we heartily commend its support.

Frankly, we are disappointed that a more all-inclusive fund raising program was not instituted within the community whereby the-maximum support for this worthy cause could Rave been derived. ' :

The March of Dimes has enjoyed as efficient an administration as any national fund raising program to date, and the need for the funds probably falls in the very upper bracket of needy causes.

Kendallville goes all out holding both a dance and the unique “SnowballScrewball” golf tournament. Other cities find time to develop this project, and it:is our humble opinion that we should do likewise.

What remains for us is to individually place our dimes in the various recepticles placed in the stores to the fullest exent of our abiilty. The dividends might be directly returned. .

First Woman Doctor

The 2,159 women who were enrolled in medical schools in the autumn of 1948 have reason to follow, with a peculiarly personal interest the ceremonies with which Hobart and William Smith Colleges and the New York Infirmary are honoring the memory of Elizabeth Blackwell, America’s first woman physician. It was on Jan. 23, 1849, that Elizabeth "Blackwell graduated cum laude from Geneva College, now Hobart. Eleven medical schools had turned her away. Even though Geneva had accepted her after some pressure had been applied by the student body on the faculty, her course was anything but smooth. Hospitals denied her their privileges. In Paris, whither she went to complete her training, she met with opposition; for in La Maternite, an institution devoted to the instruction of midwives, she had to do much menial work. She fared better at St. Bartholomew’s in London, where she came under the stimulating influence of Florence Nightengale, her friend and mentor for life. From this European experience sprang the determination to practice in New York’s lower East Side. Dr. Blackwell opened a small dispensary and at night sought out the poor who were too ill to visit her. Thus was the groundwork laid for the New York Infirmary for Indignent Women and Children, which eventually included a medical school, where women were trained both as physicians and nurses, and also America’s first visiting nurse service. The infirmary was established in time to meet the government’s demands for additional nurses who were needed in the Civil War and who became the nucleus of the Sanitary Commission and hence of the United States Army Nursing Corps. ' To keep the memory of Elizabeth Blackwell green, an impartial board named by New York Infirmary will annually award citations to women who have achieved pre-eminence in medicine. This year’s citations will be awarded at a convocation of Hobart and ‘William Smith Colleges to ten leading women doctors of the United States and Canada and one each from England and France. In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell was unique; in 1949 there is no difficulty in finding women who have profited by her crusading and who rank with the best men physicians in clinical and laboratory research.

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Thursday, January 27, 1949

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MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR N Calhoun Cartwright

Last night I completed my musings, which my critic across the table rejected as untimely, and leaves me with the job of writing along different lines this column for the week.

Now frankly, that is a hard thing to do for generally it takes me several days to develop an idea sufficiently in my own mind to put it down on paper. Going thru that process even to writing it, and then finding it unacceptable is disappointing to say the least. Most writers agree that the subconscious does most of the work once the mechanical process of writing gets underway, and the subconscious only operates when seme place along the line there has been some thinking.

I read recently an article in which Somerset Maugham was interviewed on the subject of writing and he corroborated with most writers in the belief that writing, above all things else, is very hard work. First, a writer must have something to say. Second, he must write within the range of his experience or he becomes hopelessly lost. I have often read stories of aspiring writers, who labored under the mistaken notion they must create something far beyond their range of experience, and of course their efforts failed. It is silly indeed for a person who has never been out of the State of Indiana to write a story about the people living on the Fiji Islands, yet that is done every day with its consequent failure. Third, writers should develop a style that is simple, one which contains the essential facts in understandable language and of sufficient interest to hold the reader page by page. s

We, who find our time limited when it comes to things we must read, often find the job of selecting more difficult than the reading. We want interest, entertainment, stimulus, education and authenticity all under the same cover, and the job of finding it is not easy. I suppose that is why so few new authors come to our attention readily. We are satisfied with what a previously read author can give us, and we' shy away from taking the chance, with our limited time, on the new star. Then too; the marketing of written material is definitely at the mercy of the editor, who must make money. He buys what he thinks is the mood of the moment, and even directs established writers in building books, articles, plays and poetry along the pattern he has decided is, for the moment, saleable. For that reason, seldom can a new writer break into the field with something different or differently told. The top flight writers write as they wish, and their name gets the book published and gold. To the beginner, this is not an available luxury. If you’re sick and tired of the historical ngvel by this time you can blame yourself for making them popular enough that an editor wants to buy them in order to keep he and his firm in business.

Betty Smith is one if the few exceptions in the past few years to defy the trend of the times, and come up with something entirely new and refreshing. That her efforts made oodles of money is not enough example for the publisher to take too many chances with the unknown author. :

You see what the subconscious does. I had no idea of making this a disertation on the novel or writers generally. I started to tell about the mechanics of writing, and have almost used up the allotted space, which may or may not be good. :

I have from time to time thru the period of my life sat down and labored over creative work. I started a play long before the war that could not be completed because my theme became outmoded and, I suppose, unpopular. -1 have carried a radio script around in my pocket for several years that everyone, including some buyers, say is good, but it has never been sold. From all these limited experiences, I have come to but one conclusion. Writing is hard work. It demands patience, stamina, and perserverance in addition to talent and mechanical know-how. I am trying to write a play in collaboration with another man at the moment, but the desire, I find, is not enough. . s Continued on Page 7

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RESOLUTION TROUBLE .

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With the new year well in its stride, Mr. Elmer Twitchell today reported that his new leaf turning, so bravely undertakeh a few days back, has run into a stone wall. Today he found himself picketed as unfair to organized leaf turners.

Mr. Twitchell claims that he had hardly turned over a new leaf before he was cracked down on, with heated contentions that he could not turn over a new leaf singlehanded, but must put on from one to three helpers. ‘

It seems that even the Leaf Turners are organized. Mr. Twitchell was notified almost immediately after making his brave New Year’s resolution that (1) he has violated the

rules by not submitting his new leaves for a vote, that (2) in all cases where more than two leaves are to be turned the work must be shared and that (3) he must pay exira for this assistance. A Y

“I got notices from the American Federation of New Leaf Turners, the Committee on Organized Good Resolution Makers, the National Association for the Substitution of Good Habits For Bad and the National Association for the Substitution of Good Habits For Bad and the National Federation on Changes %‘Personal Conduct,” said Mr. “Twitchell, ‘“‘all asking where I got the idea I could turn a leat on my own. e

“All my new leaves were ruled null and void and I was notified they would remain so until I agreed to turn them all over again, using two helpers—one to assist in the actual work of turning over each leaf, the other to assist in the c?ily work of keeping each resolution. This second helper insisted on the five-day, 40-hour week, which would leave me with no outside assistance in keeping my good resolutions Saturday and Sunday.

“Furthermore, I am at my weakest in keeping resolutions between 6 p. m. and midnight and would have to pay overtime for all help after 4:30.

‘‘Well, I argued that I had always done my own new leaf turning, boy and man, and could not afford help; but I was picketed in no time as unfair to organized makers to good intentions. I appealed to the NLRB and it sent up a committee last night to go over the whole matter. I made a poor impression before it because, in the confusion and excitement, I had forgotten what new leaves I had turned over and was all balled up. ie “I4don’t know just where I stand today, but I think I am licked. I just heard a jurisdictional dispute has cropped up. Somebody has claimed that I lack jurisdiction in my 1949 resolutions. It looks bad. I may forget the whole business and go back to my 1948 habits.”

Shudda Haddim is still moaning low because he missed the recent Tropical Park $2,386 daily double, with Sue’s Special and Little Mattie, the latter, winning at $254.90. “And I have the hunch!”’ he weeps, “I trip over the bathmat that merning, which I know means sumpin’. But I dope it out to mean Mattie Girl, which comes in a bad third and I miss Little Mattie entirely, I tell ya racing is crooked!”’ '

Ye Gotham Bugle & Banner ' Something of a wonder man in his way is Irving Caesar who reached the hights of a Carnegie hall appearance the other day with his program for arousing the interest of the small fry in tolerance, safety and health through songs. Caesar had a new idea and he stuck to it. It may bring him a fortune. Hope so . . . One of the first jokes ye old ed everheard in a theater was that old crack, “You look like the feller who once sold me an Essex,” and darned if Phil Silvers didn’t use it on his video show a few nights ago . . . Dunninger’s last mind-reading ‘feat was to read the headline being written by a Philadelphia editor almost 100 miles away and he did it! . , But in greeting Bobby Lunn as a prelude to the stunt he called him “Jimmy."” !% 8 8 Speaking of horses, a horse called Hash Night won a race in Florida the other afternoon. The chartmakers probably reported that it showed plenty of everything and lofked like a repeater. - i % &8 g Arcbmct.} report now tbd‘tbzm House is a far greater wreck than we “bad supposed ofxrd that it may cost 10 million dollers to make it safe for ,1 mmidioa.- - That goes to show what ~of movie people and night club protflmflflgopm Doing in.

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Poems To Remember

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‘Yet Without Sin' Lesson for ;:n:ary 30, 1949

YOU will never feel the current if you never swim upstream. If you are a drifter through life you can hardly know what the . word ‘“temptation” S A means. And Jesus PP B was no drifter. If . ”f‘*é” i purpose, devotion B @ = to God, a noble b i mind and a pure f- = heart could set a B man free from all i would have been that man. But he Dr. Foreman el 'Bis' Satiiites tions all the same. After the great day of his baptism, when the heavens opened and he felt the Holy Spirit as plainly as a bird from the sky alighting on his shoulder, we are told that he was “‘full of the Holy Spirit.”” Surely no temptation could reach him now! Yet the Spirit led him to the wilderness where Satan waited for him. s & » The Devil Is Smart SATAN is a persistent devil. He never takes No for an answer, he will be back again with the same temptation in another package. It was so with Jesus. We must not think that Jesus was tempted to low and ugly sins. People are tempted on the level where they live.

' After the Baptism, if not before, he was fully awake to the fact that he was God’s beloved Son, that it was his responsibility to begin the ‘‘Kingdom of God;” he knew he had a position and a power that no one else on earth had ever had. The problem was: How should he use this position and this power? ' Each of the three temptations in the wilderness had something to do with that problem. Two of the temptations, at least, were not to do anything wrong in itself. Each time Jesus was tempted to choose something less than the best. And choosing less than the best, when the best can be had, is sin.

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And finds infinity even in a flower, : But there is something that 1s _greater still: The strength that slumbers in heroic will. : Yes, there is something greater than them all— : It is the high translunar strength that streams : Downward on man at some imperious call : And gives him power to perish for his dreams. : ’ —Edwin Markham

All Temptation Sounds Good “TURN stones into bread,” the tempter said. And why not? People were hungry all around; Jesus grew up in a land where most people were lucky to get one square meal a day, let alone three, Jesus would be the Divine Leader of the Kingdom, the Founder of the New Age. Why not make it the Age of Plenty? Why not abolish hunger from the earth? It could be done; it sounds good. So does that other temptation — ‘“Throw yourself down, _ the angels will see that you are not “hart.” Perhaps many worshippers at the Temple expected that the Messiah, God’s King to be, would fly down out of a cloud.

Then : that temptation which seems at first reading so ridiculous—f£all down and worship Satan. It was not so ridiculous as it appears. What did Jesus want but to. be King of Kings and Lord of Lords? What difference does it make how we attain our ambitions, it we only reach them? All other world - conquerors had achieved th-ir pinnacles of power by ‘‘worshipping Satan,’” that is by using violence and trickery. But Jesus, being full of the Holy Spirit, knew that mnot everything that sounds good, is good. : He saw clearly-that not even he could bring in the Kingdom of God . simply by feeding people, or astonishing them with aerial stunts, and still less by using those ancient methods of the world-conquerors, the tools of Satan, violence and lies. 2 . s & ° ; Defense Weapon . - - JESUS met his great enemy and begt him down with a single weapon. Every time, Jesus comes out with a quotation from the Bible, incidentally always from Deuteronomy, evidently a favorite book with him. We have the same weapon at our disposal today, and more besides. ~y v There is nothing magical in a Scripture quotation. The point is not that Jesus had memorized these verses so that he could quote them; anybody could do that even without believing & word of them. - > . What Jesus did was to make - of his mind, actually his own con . victions. Do you really want 1o rise Jesus did: make God's ideas your itself against the keen edge of n‘:ufi.w m% S Couscil - of . tfi- on ‘l'ohtl ; ::

Famous Baseball Duels

IT HARDLY seems possible that in in less than two months severa thousands of ballplayers will be headed for the sun again, south or west. : : In the meanwhile, the hot stove league is getting hotter now that football is packed B away where it P belongs. And one g stove league ; & the argument in£"W & volving Tris Speakf® ' B er and Joe Dig, - Maggio. Here’s one leading example: “Dear Sir: The B other night we sat Grantland Rice sround and, after the inevitable late-hour discussion of the comparative abilites of Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey, naturally the chitchat switched to the alltime ' baseball team. One man averred that there should be a place for Joe DiMaggio. That he is such a great star that it seem ridiculous to bar him. ' *“lt was pointed out that currently, and for the last 20 years or more, the all-time outfield has been made up of Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and Tris Speaker, and which of those three could a fellow toss out in favor of DiMaggio, no matter how great Joe is. It was said we could throw out Speaker, that uld Tris had been only a great fly- ~ catcher and that he didn’t really rank with Cobb and Ruth and DiMaggio. :

When I got home, I got out the record book to look up Tris’ records and I am convinced that DiMaggio is forever locked out of the all-time outfield. Surely, no one questions the rights of Cobb and Ruth and, after a bit of study, no one ecan query the right of Speaker to the center field spot, either,

‘“Now look. In the 22 seasons, embracing 1907 through 1928, all Tris did was average .344 at the dish, in 2,789 games and after 10,208 times at bat, during which he got 3,515 hits. Only TCobb, Rabbit Maranville and Hans Wagner went to bat more than 10,000 times. The only others in the history of the games who hit safely more than 3,000 times are such stars as Cap Anson, Cobb, Eddie Collins, Nap Lajoie, Wagner and Paul Waner. Even Ruth didn't make that category.-

“The only others to top his lifetime batting record were Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Dan Delahanty, Billy Hamilton and Willie Keeler. Ruth is two points back. Think of the other greats who couldn’t bang .344 in their careers, and Tris did it for 22 years! !

‘‘He’s in the book for hitting 50 or more doubles in five different years, showing his amazing speed, and a knack of taking the extra base that DiMaggio has. He leads in the matter of two base hits, with 793. Aside from those figures, Speaker ‘also shares the record for most assists from the outfield in one season—3s. He once was guilty of perpetrating a pair of unassisted double plays in a season, and his mark of foar triples in his three World Series stands alone. “I'm sorry that DiMaggio can’t make it, but the book won’t yield. Speaker was good. It says so. Caswell Adams.” ¢8 = : Speaker vs. DiMaggio The. Speaker-DiMaggio duel is a tough one to analyze: In addition to being hard and timely hitters, both were great outfielders. On the defensive side alone, they were better than Cobb and Ruth. Both had better arms than: Cobb and both were faster than the Babe.

Speaker had a better chance to show his all-around ountfield ability than DiMaggio. He played in the day of the dead or at least deader ball, This gave him a chance for a much longer range, :

Speaker was a star at going back for a ball—and so is DiMaggio. Both could also come in. Speaker was a master -at fielding ground balls, perhaps the best in baseball.

No one would be more dangerous in a pinch than DiMaggio has Lteen —with men on bases, waiting ‘o ke driven home. I doubt that DiMaggio can ;ever reach Speaker’s all-time batting mark of .344. Few have ever passed this set of figures.

Connie Mack has the idea that there shopld be new baseball rankings every 20 years since so many things change. This is a good idea. DiMaggio then would certainly head the new order—dating back to 1920 or 1925. Or possibly beginning with 1930, when Cobb and Speaker were through — when Babe was fading—when Wagner and Collins