Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 5, Ligonier, Noble County, 3 February 1949 — Page 2

A Page of Opinion: & . ne LIGONIER BANNER - ESTABLISHED 1867 : ‘ e

This is our view: ’ The Morton Fire : The Mogton fire was the most disasterous along Cavin Street in many years. But for the courage and ability of our fire department, it could have reached greater proportions. The men, who fight our fires at negligible wages are entitled to all the praise that can be given, but our City government could very well have had a serious mis= hap placed at their feet, and I believe now is the time for them to correct a continuous evil.

_ We speak, of course, of the lack of gas masks, which not only hampers the fighting of a fire, but presents great peril to the men who are putting them out. :

At times during the period of the Morton fire, the smoke was so intense that being on the outside was hazardous and getting into the building was impossible.

We are informed that repeated requests for gas masks have been turned down by the various City Councils. It is now time to lock the barn before another horse is stolen.

Concerning Youngsters A considerable amount of corcern regarding the plight of a portion of our youthful population has been prominent during the past week primarily due to the apprehension of the boys who broke into Hayes Home Store and Todd’s Service Station. This, coupled with an instance of illegal employment of prehigh school boys, and the illegal admittance of boys to an establishment designed for mature inhabitance only, has made the problem one for immediate congideration. .

Such problems should be cleared with as much rapidity as the law will allow, but it doesn’t correct the condition. Neither does it make it necessary to over-emphasize the plight of our youth or the state of juvenile delinquency in the community.

We believe that fundamentally, most kids in our midst our good. We believe further that juvenile delinquency inthe majority of instances is parental delinquency, and suggest that the example set by a western judge be given a try for he fines the parents. not the childen and his plan has been a success.

It was our lot during two war years to live in Wheeling, W. Va. There, a ten o’clock curfew is rigidly enforced on all unaccompanied children under sixteen. If -a child is found on the streets of Wheeling" after the ten o’clock whistle, he is held until the par= ents arrive to release him. Then the parents are fined, not the child. It has made possible the observance of the curfew in that city. : \ Children need the careful guidance of their parents. When the parents fail, it should be the parents who suffer, but far and beyond even the responsibility of the parents is the responsibility of the community. Children need wholesome activity. If they cannot provide it for themselves, the community must assist. Activity cannot be confined to one or two mediums for children have diversified interest in the same proportion with adults. It is our humble opinion that the Ligonier Players have a program worthy of widespread support. The place to help, change or add to their program is within the framework of the organization. It would seem to us that the dollar membership fee, and the few meetings held each year would not be too large a price for any parent to pay to see a plan for good, permanently established.

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"MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR. Calhoun Cartwright

The annual meeting of the Ligonier Players brings to a focal point the pur=poses and aims of this organization, which, at least in its formative period, needs further emphasis and a restatement of its principles. A

The entire idea motivating the organization is a simple one. It is designed to prepare and finance a recreation program that will best fit the needs of the maximum amount of children during their period of “growing up.” Every penny filling the Player’s treasury is, by order of the constitution, used to promote wholesome activity for the children of our community. It further directs this activity to be of such diversification as to interest and attract the largest possible participation. Last summer, one hundred and fortyfour youngsters actively participated in the ten week’s program conducted at the school under the leadership of Mrs. Emagene Bowen and William Thomas. It was a good program. It was the kind of a program the people of our comsmunity should have seen in action. What criticism that has been heard was from persons uninterested in the work being conducted, who took not the time to look in on the fun and instruction these children were getting. But last year’s program is over. It is time to look to another summer . = . to other years. It is time to envision a recreation program within our midst of such benefit that its premanency is assured. Such can enly be accomplished with wide-spread interest and zealous assistance. ;

To finance such a project, the Players group decided to add to the cultural advantages of the city by producing each year a series of dramatic entertainments. It was their hope that thru these productions people could give and at the same time be entertained. The response to their®offerings has been encouraging, and as the years go by, the quality of their efforts will increase in direct. proportion. Some day the Ligonier Players hope to have their own little playhouse. A small theatre where those interested can gather and develop to the fullest extent the creative ambitions they may have guried deep in the recesses of their eart. :

Everyone is not theatrically minded, but to those who are, an opportunity awaits them to further enrich their lives by participating in an activity that will relieve the possible humdrum of their everyday routines.

No one connected with the Ligonier Players has been seeking personal aggrandizement. No one has had an axe to grind or merchandise to sell. Everyone who has devoted time to its development has done so unstintingly and cheerfully. They have had but one goal in mind, ie., the building of a program for youngsters that would enrich and develop their lives. Their approach has been positive rather: than negative, and that is the way organizations build.

Such high objectivity is commendable. It is hard to condemn, and hard to fight, but it falls by the wayside if large groups of people are not actively working to see it succeed. -

Right now, the Ligonier Players needs full support. People in Ligonier should not wait for the knock on the door to give of their help; rather, they should volunteer. There is nothing to lose. With the proper aid and spirit, there is everything to gain. ;

Selected thoughts depend for their flavor upon the terseness of ‘their expression, for thoughts are grains of sugar or salt, that must be melted in a_ drop of water.—Senn.: o

To select well ar;long old things is almost equal to inventing new ones.— Trublee. St

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.—Samuel Johnson. e : R A thing is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learned.—

g | e 1 fl \/ 4}‘ yé /0 2 Hl.Phillips ¢ WNL servace HIGH COST OF WRITING No matter how high the costs of living were there was a time when you felt you could afford to mail a couple of letters. But now that ancient satisfaction is gone with the wind. .. i

The Forgotten Man’s last firm friend, the U. S. postoffice department, has walked out on him. New postage rates which went into effect the first of this year make a luxury out of correspondence. The stamp window threatens to get into the same class with the night club, the musical comedy and the new model auto. . v B

‘Rates on almost all types of mail are upped, with the special delivery stamp, which for generations sold for a dime, going to 15 cents.

Parcel post rates, money order fees and almost everything except run-of-the-mill letters and postal cards have been jumped. We heard a fellow at a stamp window ask, ‘““What’s the down payment and how much per week?’’ as he got the bill when depositing quite a load of mail yesterday.

We went into the postoffice with a bunch of special delivery letters and found ourself asking, ‘“Will you take a check?’” Getting a negative answer, we inquired: ‘“How’s chances of opening a charge account?”” That got us nowhere, either. :

It’s all very depressing. The postoffice department has for generations been one place which it was a comfort to visit when things were high everywhere else. It never made you feel like taking your trade some other place. '

To raise the mail rates was always accepted as bad politics sure to cost votes. But the politicians today know that the public has lost its capacity for indignation and that anything goes. Certainly the postoffice department lost money, but that was always ‘‘in the lease.” The very idea of the mail service breaking even would have been out of the question any time in the past.

But for the past few years the postoffice department has been spending so much money paying for new designs and issuing new stamps in new sizes, shapes and color schemes, that it really had to dig up some fresh dough. It is tickled silly with the new rates, as they will give it a lot of fun designing more new stamps.

The three-cent stamp on light mail still stands and postal cards and souvenir post cards will still be handled at a penny each. Why? They must be more trouble than any other mail, And a letter carrier has to take as many steps delivering a piecture of a bathing beauthy and a message as he does in delivering a parcel post package.

But it is that 15 cents for a special delivery stamp that gets us. You can send the message by wire for a few cents more. And the telegram is never left hanging around the postoffice two or three days.

Think' we’'re gonna have inflation in this country, bub? : *8 @ ‘ SOUTH PAWS There’s the story of the ol’ Southern Senator who, asked why he was slow in taking his seat for the state-of-the-union message, replied: “I'm waiting for Lefty.” e o Whittaker Chambers has been photographed on his farm milking a cow, It is good to see that he no longer works from the left side. , e That grounding of the Queen Mary is easily explained. All the sables and minks shifted to one side and caused a list which prevented accurate steering. i Belmont gets an extra seven days of racing this season. It is felt that the fans need an extra week in order to locate the horses on the straightaway there and determine when they are within the jurisdiction of this country. ; ' Re®B » 4 3 3

VANISHING AMERICANISMS—“We've saved up $5OO and are going ‘BO send Jumior through college”. i - “Let's give a bzguct forl the bossl”, ;' *I get 30 cmz > dclp’xm ”{or oggs 50 peys me to cg ons.” “All that worvies me is the real esm' ,M.II : Yol e - Can You Remember way back when nobody was especially unhappy if he had to walk four or five blocks? i ’

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Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor: o 5 Noble County Selective Service Board No. 59 at Albion, Indiana, has noted the falling off in number of registrations of the 18-year-olds. :

On investigation, the Board finds incorrect information has been circulated which has resulted in the failure of many to register.

The Selective Service Law under which the Board operates, provides that all men upon reaching the age of 18 years must report within five days at the Selective Board office at Albion and register. Our office is open Monday thru Friday, 8 a,m. to 5 p.m. By order of the Board. : Barbara Leatherman, Clerk

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Teachingßeligion " Lesson for February 6, 1949

SOME PEOPLE, strange to say, don’t believe in Sunday schools. Most North American Protestants do, because Jesus did. The word

may not be found in the New Testament, but the thing is there. If Jesus did not believe that religion could be taught, then he was guilty of wasting much of his time, for he worked at teaching in season and out of season. He was a product

of the Sunday Sechool, in a sense, During his childhood he would go -t0 the synagogue school weekdays ‘and especially on Sabbaths; we know that by the time he was grown it was his ‘“‘custom’ to at‘tend synagogue service. - And In eyery Jewish community the synagogue was the place where for two hundred years and more, children and youth and older people had)een - taught the Word of God. If Christians today are faithful to Christ’s example, we also will keep at the job of teaching our religion - to every child within our reach. - 3:s 8 @ Body and Soul ro ' READERS of the gospels will note & that' when Jesus went home from the synagogue on the Sabbath, his day's work was not done. He would spend hours, sometimes till far into the night, healing people brought to him for cure. Jesus ministered to mind and soul. Jesus . was - interested in personalities, .whole people, not half-people. Our minds have to be fed, but we live in bedies, and bodies have no little to do with personalities, Jesus was not content with teaching sick people; he madé sick people well. So the church today, if it is faithful to Christ’s - principles, will consider people as complete personalities. ? B g - .~ - 2000 % P

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Dear Editor:. ; ; The,\ Ligonier Ministerial Association wishes to take this means of expressing their appreciation to the High School and other organizations. for the splendid manner in which they have cooperated with the Churches in keeping Thursday evening open for church work, and especially as it relates itself © to the work among the Young People. It has been the thought for some time that the churches should do more definitely a constructive work among the Young People but it seemed difficult to obtain an evening at least partially free from other activities. The school Continued on Page 7

The Common- People wE FIND that Jesus did not insist on university audiences. Indeed, he never spoke to a university audience. His teaching was always in the midst of groups of very plain people. There were great universities in those days, but: it was not necessary for any one -to be a graduate of one'lof them in order to enter Jesus’ school, or to understand what he taught. He taught the plain people plainly.

At the best seminaries, young ministers-to-be are carefully taught how to put the great Christian doetrines in ways that the simplest people can understand. Teaching over people’s heads is not teaching them at all. ' * & B God and Education ]'ESUS‘digl not try to teach people # carpeniry, or arithmetic, or geography. No doubt he could have done so. But he had something more important on his mind, something which he alone could teach. He taught religion, or in other words he taught the truth: dbout God, and about ~man, and ‘about right relations between God and man. So the teaching church, whether ‘in the Sunday &chool or .in the books written'by its scholars or in its schools-and colleges, when it follows Christ’s example, is always teaching religion first and foremost. ‘We do not believe that religion is a secondary issue, something you can ‘“‘take or leave.” : %

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:$. . 3 : Religion on Two Feet : lESUS did more than talk. He lived. His whole life and character were saying more ‘loudly and plainly what his words said. - So the Christian church to- - day, when it is faithful to Christ, - must translate into actual living the faith she teaches in Sunday school lessons, in catechisms . - and books and sermons, ' What we do, as Christians, speaks. louder than .what we say. Every Sunday school teacher needs to remember that what is said on Sunday is important, but what the teacher does on Monday is. more impressive by far. ' The/réason ‘why - Jesus was more effective than John the Baptist was that John, after all,. was a Voice, while Jesus was a Friend. Are you who teach others about God simply a Voice? A phonograph could do as well. : wt SPSL e s Tntesnational Coun,

In all our teaching we fry to use the pupil’s language and. to put our Christian ideas in the thoughts that the pupils can understand. - ;

- l " RICE 4 I The Great Golf Mystery NO ONE YET has been able to figure out why most of the star golfers come form Texas. But that’s the way it is. .If. you don’t think so, look over the list—Ben Hogan, Loyd Mangrum, Jimmy Demaret, Ralph Guldahl (who won thé U. S. Open twice in a row), Byron Nelson, one of the alltimers, and several others who can score well. Imagine the pick of the country facing Hogan, Nelson, Mangrum S . and DPemaret in a

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golt scrap.at either ‘match . or “medal T e - It couldn’t be that ‘Texas developed a certain type of swing that was something better than the rest of the country. Hogan’s swing- and Nelson’s swing are totally un-

like —to look at. So is Hogan's swing as compared with Demaret’'s swing. Mangrum is closer to Hogan.

~ Nelson and Demaret are not full swingers. Hogan is more than a full swinger. His club head dips deep on the backswing and completes almost a full circle. His 137 pounds need this extra are.

Demaret is due for some better luck this good year of 1949, and, if he gets it, Jimmy can move right alongside of Hogan and Mangrum.

“I like Hogan’s swing,” Eddie %}oos, the well-known player and structor remarked the other day, ““because it is full, free and yet under definite econtrol. On the downswing you can see that club traveling for a target that seems to be a little to the right of the ling, the correct line, and he keeps both the left hand and right hand working to the finish. That means right-hand power and left-hand control, keeping the face of the club where it should be without quitting too soon.” :

The one main thing you notice among al leading golfers is the use of the head. The head anchors the swing. The chin is usunally “back and, as Alex Morrison puts it: “They all hit past the chin. Once the head moves or wavers, the result is usually sour. The swing no longer has an anchor.”

‘The correct use of the head, keeping it fixed, lis the most important thing in the golf swing,” Jimmy Demaret tells you. ' “Once the chin pops up or the head moves with the swing, you are lost. Anything can happen—except a good swing. It is in this way that you lose both power and control. The head ‘must groove the swing from a fixed and separate position.” : CE

The Stranahan Case _ - : Frank - Stranahan, the Toledo amateur, closed out the old year with a remarkable set of figures. Young Frank ran away from a strong field at a Miami tournament late in December. He is all set for the 1949 tour and he has fhe full respect of every pro golfer in the. field. - : : ~ “There is a, chance he may become the finest scorer we’ve ever known,” one leading pro told me. “He is. young, 'strong,. healthy, wealthy _and’ ' golf is the“garhe he loves: He gives-his full attention toit.’ ' :“Stranafian has fine s®ing “‘with’ plenty of power.: He will learn;.as he goes along, certain things in. concentration and determination. He'is a fine golfer now. In my. opinion, he will be a better golfer later ' on.” : A

. Stranahan Is still anxious to learn all he can. He not only wants to know how but why. He is willing to work and practice for hours at a time. He will give every club in his bag a thorough going over. It is for this reason that he has no distinet weakness., &= %

The Toledo star is something new in sport. Here is a young fellow with all the money he can spend. But instead of spending it, he gives all his time to golf—either practice or play. He follows the pro cir cuit from beginning to end—from Los Angeles ' through ~“Arizona and “Texas ‘ot through Louisiana into Florida and then up through Georgia and the Carolihas, = - 32 .3 g 4 " This'is a _fough circuit for - ... making ‘a living from it. But Stranahan takes no vacations— - not while there’s a tournament An sight.. - ‘ R His is today, beyond any doubt, the finest medal scorer in the amateur world, 'He has won -many big match-play fournaments — inudiog he British amateus—but ha has yet to win‘the U. 8. amateur