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This is our view: The Spiritual Bargain , This week the Ministerial Association started a campaign entitled, “See You In Church Sunday,” which is worthy in every detail. At the same time, we were writing the notice for the association, we came across an article written by Rev. Arthur Olsen of Toledo, which seemed to tie in with the project now being conducted in Ligonier. We are reprinting it for the consideration of all concerned.
Religion is inclusive of too much. to'be bound by a single definition; but whatever else it may be, surely it is what stirs a person to action in the direction of his highest devotions. And if a person is not stirred to action, his religion is less than it ought to be. If your eight cylinder automobile were hitting on less than eight. cylinders, how long would you permit that condition to continue? Getting less than full power, you would do something about it at once, would you not? Yet, how many people go through life with less than full spiritual power, never giv- §?§ a thought to doing something about it ?
When something is “off’ physically, they are apt to take corrective action. But that which is spiritual is so little understood that only a person who is alert to the importance of an adequate religion ever gives inadequate religion a thought as a possible cause of “low voltage.”
Religion is a factor in comforting and helping one to feel at home in his universe. But religion, too, is Spiritual Power. It is a dynamic. It is something which generates the feeling that one is operating on all cylinders. It is a power that feeds the spirit so the spirit moves in terms of “I can” rather than “I can’t.” And that affirmative may well be regarded as the test of whether one’s religion is the religion for the specific individual. ‘
What about that combination of bcliefs, feelings, inner urgencies, and all the rest which, combined, may be given the name “your religion.” ? Do they produce in you an impelling drive which moves you toward your highest devotions? Does your religion help you to face life’s conflicts with head up? Does your religion refill the cup which i 3 drained by the demands of your everyday? : "Religion can mean little or much. But when we give it a first place in the affairs of life, it becomes a tremendous be. The greatest labor-saving bargain factor in whatever victory there may that man has is the abundance of spiritual energy which can be generated from the tiniest amount of energy of just making a start. When we prime the pump, so to speak, the reward is a flow of energy. e ‘
One finds proof of this spiritual bargain everywhere. The person who gives the least to life somehow seems to have the least to give; while the person who gives the most somehow always has more to give. It’s the principle of the Parable of the Talents, of course... “For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken away.”
The fight for America’s heart It is disturbing to learn that for American men and women over the age of 35, the leading cause of death is one for which cures _are still being sought. But it is reassuring to know that this cause, the diseases of the heart and blood vessels, is today being attacked- with the diligence and ingenuity that medical science can muster. “Heart disease” has been a dread phrase for as long as most of us can remember. There is hardly a family in this or any other community from whom some member or friend has not suddenly been taken by what we have learned to call “heart disease.” The conditions known as high blood pressure and hardening of the coronary arteries, two of the leading causes of heart disease, are sadly familiar to all of us. And in
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MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR Calhoun Cartwright
There is probably nothing funnier than a man falling on the ice but I, for one, can testify it is also painful. A passer-by who might have seen me slip from the top step at my home into the air, and then land on my hip at the bottom might possibly have thought I was getting in practice for a clown routine in some amateur . circus, but such was not my intent. Frankly, 1 didn’t take the spill for even the dubious honor of providing some person with a laugh, although so long as I had the fall, I rather regret that no one was near to have enjoyed the humor it could have provided. : Such mishaps are daily occurances in the nomal routine of people’s lives with statistics proving that more accidents happen in and around the home than the the high and by ways. I, for one, would like to see something done about it and challenge the inventive genius of the nation to set their minds working. ~ For instance, why hasn’t the plumbing provided us with a slightly rough, corrugated bathtub that would make impossible those falls we read about with such regularity. Ed Wynn has
long suggested square tubs in order to eliminate the ring, but the plumbers just go along in the rut they’re in making round, smooth tubs that cause trouble no end. - I now favor an electrically constructed shoe sole that runs from batteries to wear in icy weather. This sole would immediately melt the ice at every step and prevent falling. It could also serve in wet weather by drying the walks, thereby eliminating wet feet and the subsequent cold. ‘ I could probably sit here for sometime dreaming up new things for the pleasure and ease of the normal individual, but most people would say I'm just a ‘“‘crack-pot,” and my energies would go for naught. What I am certain about is the fact‘l frown upon slipping on ice, but like most people, I’ll do nothing about it. After all, there isn’t much to do after the fall has occurred except talk about it. '
recent years, we have become constantly more aware of that major cause, rheumatic fever, whose concomitant heart disease is the leading fatal disease of youth and a major cause of disability - and death in later years. Yet, thanks to medical advance, it is no longer valid to say that these things have always been, so they must continue. Thanks in particular to the American Heart Association, the strong light of research and education is being
turned upon the. heart diseases and there is real hope among men in medicine that ways of prevention and cure can be found, probably within the lifetime of most of us. : The past twenty-five years have seen more scientific advance in the understanding of cardiovascular diseases than all the centuries gone before. New surgical techniques—the uses of such new drugs as penicillin, dicumarol, heparin and the sulfa drugs—have brought alleviation in several forms of heart and blood vessel disease. Equally encouraging have been other advances in heart therapy, bringing relief to -cardiac sufferers by showing them a way of working and living for more happy, useful years. The causes of the Big Three—rheumatic fever, high blcod pressure and hardening of the arteries, which are responsible for 90 per cent of all heart disease—still elude us, but it is
the hope of medicine that continued research will discover them. The American Heart Assocation embraces the heart specialists of the nation, the men of medicine who have made the significant advances, the men in whose hands we place the tools for further research. Associated with them are the nation’s leaders of science, of business and industry and education, devoted to the Association’s program to combat the heart diseases. The program calls for pubic support.. We can think of no cause in the public welfare that comes 8o close to all of us and so surely merits the grateful backing of every member of the community. When the “heart” program is brought to you this month, count the cost of America’s number one killer and—- “ Open Your Heart — Give to Fight Heart Diseases.” : Mrs. Ralph Duckworth, Pres. Noble County Federation
\/ o}‘ yé ¢ o ’ LPhillipr 3 ; : WAL geres THOSE INVENTIVE RUSSIANS - Pravda claims Russia flew an airplane 21 years before the Wright brothers’ Kitty Hawk flight. And Prof. V. Danilevsky tells the Soviet Academy of Science that the Russians invented the telephone, the electric light, the radio, the ship’s propeller and jet propulsion. ‘That leaves us with nothing but the zipper and the windshield wiper. =
We took these claims up with Dr. Elmer Twitchell and he says they are correct. “It was Russia that gave the world the submarine, the telegraph instrument, the moving picture camera, gunpowder, the talking machine, the safety razor, the electric ice-box and the first radio commercial,”” he declared. “I thought everybody knew!’’ i __‘__
‘“We owe the automobile to Moscow, too,” Elmer went on. “Henry Ford was really a Russian named Ivan Flivvercoffski. He got the idea of a low-cost car from Igor Modelteevich. Thomas Edison went to Russia as a spy and stole the secret of the electric light, the phonograph and the movie camera from a fur trader named Menlo Parkovich. Tom got into a meeting of engineers where no Russian was eligible unless he had perfected an incandescent bulb and two types of movie cameras. He escaped discovery due to the fact he wore a red beard and would yield the floor to nobody.
“At that time every Volga boatman was experimenting with a talking machine. Edison stole the idea of the spaniel in the trademark called ‘His Master’s Voice.’ It was really a Russian wolfhound.
Russia not only invented the telegraph but the first singing telegram was sent by one Boris Kolonovopopoff of ‘the Imperial Russian Opera. What we call the Morse code is Russian. The dots come from the old, old Russia and the dashes from the old, old, old, old Russia. : :
““As for the radio, Lenin’s grandfather had his own network, and one of the early radio radio features was a fellow called Arthuromov Godfreydovitch. They also had a team called Amosoff and Andyozoff. And Ella Fitzgerald says the Russians had the first jackpot program. It was called ‘Stop the Mujjik’.” -
Dr. Twitchell went on to say that his father remembered the time the Russians invented and flew the first airplane. ‘lt was invented by one of the early Marxists and was propelled by expletives. It had no wings. Marxists hated wings because of the suggestion of religion. They just used a tail, a forked one,” he said. _ :
‘“My . old man said the Russians couldn’t get their first Russian plane off the ground at first, but that a couple of pre-Soviet writers did it with an editorial. The plane stayed up only a few minutes. It could have stayed up longer except that the inventor and operator wanted to get down and denouce somebody,” Elmer concluded. * & » - WASHINGTON DIAGNOSIS ‘The couniry. is in splendid shape Good is the Union’s state; Our system is a booming one— So let us operate! 5 > No other system touches ours It’s busy, strong and fit — Hence it is quite apparent that - There’s something wrong with it. i 2 & » There was terrific irony in the last stage appearance of Willie Howard. It was only recently, in the tryout of a new musical. His big sketch was on the topic of hospital routines and he made his enirance on an operating table! No one dreamed that he was to die in one very soon. We saw the first performance of the new show, which was pretty terrible at that
time, and were puzzled by Willie’s lack of form. There was a marked difference in his appearance, too, and for the first time in our experience he wasn't funny. Little did anybody in the audience sense that Death was teaming up with him this time, a new and strange partner after long years of merry gong.. T ,*o 8 . The Pilgrims were a backward lot, : They seemed to slave and drudge it; : They fought the Indians without | a billion dollar budget. l - . i The early settlers were quite | quaint — £ i When Redmen came full swing, - They didn’t ory for guarantees Against that sort of thing, L : - 4 The Tories are calling the President Harry Delano Trusvelt, -
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Dear Editor: A profusion of boats and water craft accessories will highlight the 1949 Northern Indiana Sports and Travel Show which gets underway at Baer Field, five miles southwest of Fort Wayne, on February 25, continuing through March 1. _ The Indiana Air National Guard Hanger will be literally swimming with boats of every size, hue, shape and description. One complete row of exhibit booths has been set aside for the exclusive use of boat necessary for spectators to search exhibitors. No longer will it be every nook and corner for fear of missing a boat dispvlayg—they will all be in Boat Row. . At the moment the lineup looks
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Inevitable Critics Lesson for February 13, 1949
oNCE UPON a time, so the old story goes, there was a chameleon; a lizard that can change its color to match whatever it stands
on. They put him on a black cloth and he turned black; on a red tablecloth and he turned red; on a green billiard table and he turned green. Then some mean person set him down on a Christmas necktie
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—and the poor little : thing exploded. This is a parable of the person who tries to please everybody. It can’t be done—and it ought not to be tried. ‘“Woe unto you,” said Jesus, “when all men speak well of you.” . Jesus Christ himself did not please every one. Not even a perfect personality can be 100 per cent popular., Not that Jesus enjoyed rubbing people the wrong way. There was nothing perverse about him. He was deeply, sincerely friendly, and to lose any friendships must have been more painful for him than for us who are so selfish, Nevertheless he did make enemies,. he had his critics; and his followers may expect no better. . s, 0 » Misunderstanding Motives : ONE POINT on which Jesus met ¢ terrific opposition was his attitude toward the Sabbath. Repeatedly he or his disciples would do things on the Sabbath which (as Jews then understood the law) were quite wrong. % It was just that sort of thing _ that Jesus ran into, more than ~once, His enemies misunderstood, or at least misrepresented, his motives. : They claimed that he was ‘blasphemous,” that is, that he was deliberately making light of God’'s law. The truth was that he was acting by God’s highest law—the law of Jove. Helping people in need was
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something like this: Cabin Cruisers, speed boats, outboards (round bottom and flat bottom), rowboats, fishing boats, duck ‘boats, sail boats, canoes, both with and without motors. -
Accessories will include motors, oars, anchors, canoe-carrying yokes, boat carriers, boat covers, bow handles, boat piers, and so on, ad infinitum.
A continuous program, much of which is still being arranged, will feature the “Sports-Capades of 1949,” highlighted by Capt. Sol Solomon, world’s champion high diver. “Sports-Capades” will be presented each day at 3 and 9 p.m., with an extra performance on Sunday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. 3
more imporiant than keeping the letter of the Sabbath law. Jesus’ example may help us here. If our best motives are misunderstood, we have a right to explain ourselves, as Jesus did; but we are not obliged to change our ways to please those who persist in misunderstanding us. » ' t = . Stepping Out of Bounds ‘WEIEN Jesus healed the man with the palsy, it was not the cure his critics found fault with, it was his first saying ‘“Your sins are forgiven.” *“Who can forgive sins but God alone?” they said. In short, the Pharisees thought — some of them perhaps sincerely—that Jesus was stepping out of bounds, pretending to do something that he had no right to attempt and no power to accomplish.
Now Jesus did have both the right and the power to say what he said to that sick and sinful man. And he made no apologles for going beyond the limits his critics set for him, \ N So we too may sometimes be accused of ‘‘biting off too much,” of going beyond our powers or capacities. Our critics may be right, you know, though Jesus’ critics ned®r were. But how often - they -are wrongl If Lineoln had listened to his critics-he never would have left. his backwoods law office;"they did. not think *him-fit to-be president.If the Wright boys had listened fo their neighbors, they never would have flown an airplane, for who would have thought a couple of bicycle mechanics could do what so many scientists said was impossible? .
Are you sure you are right? Then go ahead, in God’s namel . ¢ & @ The Company You Keep lESUS’ friends got him into trou- . & ble, as Mark shows us. For one thing, some were the ‘“‘wrong sort” like Matthew the tax-collector. Then _his friends had an unconventional .kind of religion, they actually .seemed happy about it ‘instead of ;. gloomy like some of John’s disci“ples. Ana to make matters worse, ‘his friends ‘broke” the: Sabbsth laws much ‘as Jesus did. . All in all, Jesus’ critics complained that Jsus’ friends were a bad lot, and they judged him by the company he kept. But Jesus knew his friends better than his enemies did. He never gave up or loosened & single friendship on his orit-- “ ‘lcs” account. Some of his . friends gave him up, but he nev- . er gave them up. ; {m‘%"’fififgmm B 4 P tant denominations. Released e 7 Dandicnas : i X - VL S R
L Ik gmz%o ) LICE : : Yanks Well Equipped 8 . (CASEY STENGEL, the Professof, was caught in what looked to be deep thought. Naturally, he “was. thinking about the Yankees, since Casey and the Yankees will be all rolled up together this season. “Our outfield,” he remarked, *is well ‘set. The best. DiMaggio, Henrich, Lindell, Keller and others.. We. have a chance for good pitching
with Raschi, Porterfield, Reynolds, Shea, Page and a few more. . . “Catching — uncertain. Infield — can’t hit. We've got to find greater infield offense—more runs batted in. We were far in back of the Indians and Red Red Sox 1n that de-
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partment last year. Far back, as far as the infields are compared.” This led to a comparison of the five leading teams. It figured up like this: ' ' Cleveland Indians—Fine outfield; better infield; best pitching in baseball plus good catching. Stars such as Boudreau, Gordon, Doby, Mitchell, Bearden, Lemon and Feller. Plenty of power. “The Indians shape up as a very tough club to handle,” we said. *ls this about right, Professor?’ ‘““That is entirely right,”” Casey said. “A very tough outtit to handle, offensively or defensively. The team to beat—if you can.”
This took us to the Red Sox. High-class outfield headed by Williams and Dom DiMaggio. Even better infield with Goodman, Doerr, Stephens and Pesky. Ragged, uncertain pitching. Below Indians, Yankees and Athletics in this respect.
What about the Athletics? Fair outfield—fair infield. Both below Indians and Red Sox. Pitching high class. Might be better than last year — with catching, close to Yankees.
What is the Tigers’ ranking? Red Rolfe has a good outfield, terrible infield and first-class pitching. He must improve the infield, just as the Yankees must. Kell is a fine ballplayer. Should be better than he was last year. Red Rolfe is due to become a smart, hustling leader and will get more life and fire into his squad which has been a dead outfit. e s
Professor Stengel looked over this report. ' ‘I guess it’s abous right,”” he said “From what I’ve read and heard, we’ve got a job ahead in handling the Indians and Red Sox. Especially the Indians. They are strong everywhere. :
“If Bob Feller should happen to have one of his big years—one of his 20-game years—it might be discouraging. It will be a tough league this summer, Can you imagine a world-series winner being strengthened—improved? And quite a bit?" 5 $ * @ Help from Bill Dickey A ‘“We’'ve got plenty to do,” Stengel continued. ‘“We may need two or three infield improvements. This has been a good infield, defénsively, but a poor one offensively. - “I'm counting a lot on Bill Dickey. Bill can help our catching a lot. He is a fine teacher—a very patient type. He can also. help our pitching. Our pitching will need a Ilot of thought and work. Vie Raschi can be a ‘2O-game winner. He has the makirgs of a star._So has young ng Bob Porterfield, * "~ -~ “=roi@ . “Now about Shea. I know & _lot about him, I had him fnPort“land. He did a great job for us—and a big job for New York in 1947. I think he’ll do a big job again this season. *“Dickey will be a big help to all our pitchers. In his old 'days. with the Yankees he was a marvel with
young pitchers. He knew how to keep them calm and cool. Pitchers like Atley Donald who could win 10 or 12 straight. - £ “We'll have to get the best from every pitcher we’ve got. If we do, it will make ‘a killing difference. I know they’ve got plenty.” Dickey should be able to bring quick aid to a valuable piece of baseball property known as Yogi Berra. Yogi is a natural hitter—better than .300, and long range to boot. He has a good arm but doesn’t know how to throw to sécond. He can be made into a better outfielder than he is. The Yogi is a fine competitor, more than willing to learn. : Stengel has another badly-un-derrated ballplayer in Johnny Lindell. He is better than a .300 hitter who can also hit the big - one—the long one. He is a good outfielder with a good arm. He can play first. And he could be a useful pitciier, which he once ~ Lindell is one of the best -all--around athletes in the game. He is also one of the best all-around ballfor some reason, have never given