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This is our view: . - Brotherhood Week Before August 5, 1945 Brotherhood was a compelling moral concept that infused nearly every religion. It was a concept that through the ages had great power to attract the idealistjc and the dedicated. On August 5, 1945, it became more than that. It became an imminent necessity for the .survival of mankind. For man, with all his prejudices, his greed, his blindness, has today the capacity for total self-destruction. Only in the concept of Brotherhood is there any hope for human ligg on this planet. The idealist” preaching™ the brotherhood of man is today not the hopeless visionary. He has the only practical salvation for our children and our children’s children. All men are brothers. Or, if they are not brothers, then the doom of all alike is sealed. : - We have a brief time in which to learn this. A week is not long enough. It is a lesson that we must learn for eternity. : - —Marquis Childs

What Is A Newspaper? The modern newspaper has often been called a university whose enrollment—its readers — far exceeds the number of students at Harvard, Yale or:Princeton. That is a fair description. Certainly as an instrument of adult education it has no equal. It is also a supplemental ' school for young pecple engaged in regular educational work. Americans read the newspapers from the time they are able to understand the printed word. And what a variety of courses they are given! All of the important events of the day are recorded from sports to international conferehces on which peace or war may hinge. The newspaper takes its readers on a magic carpet to the United Nations, to the White House, to both Houses of Congress, to the Supreme Court, to the State Legislature, to the City Hall and the Courthouse. . :

Columnists and experts help the. readers to understand and interpret the meaning of what is going on in the various branches of their free Government. They also stimulate the citizen to think about the social, economic and political problems which affect his daily life from so many angles.

The women’s pages are a complete school in home-making, cooking, care of children, sewing, furniture arrangement and other domestic problems. The society pages tell what our neighbors are doing — for people are a never-ending source of interest to other people. The comic pages constitute a theater of amusement, romance and adventure which takes thedull edge off daily care.

A competent medical column is at the beck and call of those who wish to protect their health and a sermon is published to give spiritual solace.

Pictures by wirephoto bring faraway places into the home and staff photographers cover local scenes which readers are not able to see in person. No one who reads a good newspaper can escape being well informed, ‘mentally alert, useful as a citizen as well as entertained and amused.

The good newspaper is more than a university. It is a great market place where buyer meets the things which he or she wishes to purchase. Without the stimulation of advertising, America would never have become a busy, prosperous nation which it is today. Unfortunate are the nations which do not enjoy the benefits of a good free press. They lag behind in the march of civilization. o i —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette —__",‘"——"—"o————-———— It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong. A house built on the sand is in fair weather just as good as if builded on a rock.—Henry Ward Beecher.

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MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR by Calhoun Cartwright

Brotherhood Week is, of course, worthy of observance. It generally brings to the front many fine platitudes which, unfortunately, most people read ‘with tongue in cheek, but by and large it helps people to reflect, and that is good.

When I am forced to think of prejudice, I remember first about a man being crucified over two thousand years ago for daring to suggest brotherhood as a way of life. I remember the history courses which taught me that in the two thousand years that have passed since that crucifixion, over two thousand five hundred wars have been fought. Perhaps no place in the civilized world is there a family who does not point sadly to the loss of some loved one because of a war, and I wonder why those families have not learned the lesson of brotherhood. I wonder why they have not learned the futility of hate. It has always been an enigmas to me that men could desire to hurt rather than help. 1 wonder why? Forget brotherhood on a grand scale, where war would be eliminated, and bring it right down to our everyday little bitsy world and discover for yourselves how damaging is the philosophy of prejudice and hate. How wanton we are in our dislikes and expressions. How many times have you heard people say “I don’t like Joe Zilch or Mary Jones?” How many times when you have heard that said have they had bonafide reason for their dislike? ! Personally, the color of man’s hair or skin, his religion or his nationality has never entered into my appraisal. I have always tried to base my dislikes on principle. I do dislike Joe Zilch. He lies and cheats. I cannot believe him.

I cannot trust him. I dislike Mary Jones. She is bigoted and petty. She holds everyone up to disgust because they do not conform to her beliefs. She finds little things to criticize in her neighbors. I dislike Larry Cranafrance. He expresses to opinions without determining the facts. He broadcasts his opinions, untruthful though they be, to the detriment of anyone. I dislike Kattie Broom. She is unkind and malicious. She would rather hurt your feelings than help lighten your load. List the bonafide dislikes you pos= sess. Then determine whether they are found only in Protestants, Jews, Catholics, Germans, Japs, Negroes, Whites. You'll find every group has their ample share...every group has their virtue. You'll discover that liking or disliking people has nothing to do with their heritage. You’ll discover that in many instances you have no reason to dislike Joe Zilch or Mary Jones or Larry Cranafrance. :

The service you perform to your fellow man is the rent you pay for living. If you haven’t discovered it, read your histories, your biographies and watch your inner reaction by trying it. America’s greatest historian, Charles Beard, said that in all history there have been but four things taught, ie, “Whom the Gods destroy, they first make mad with power. : “The mill of the Gods grind slowly, but they grind. g

“The bee polinates the flower it robs. “In the darkest night, faith always finds a star.” | : As we pause to commemorate Brotherhood Week, we could well study these lessons, and determine for ourselves whither are we going. Booker T. Washington once said, “No man shall drag me down by making me hate him,” and I am inclined to follow him. It makes good sense to me. Does it ‘you? ™ 4 Let me end this column with a verse by Edwin Markham. It is a fitting reminder during the week we observe. “The crest and crowning of all good - Life’s final star, is Brotherhood.” _ Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part: there all the

4«@% ' 7 14L.Phillips AUTOS WITHOUT DELAY

It is predicted’ by several Detroit automobile makers that within six months it will be possible to walk into most agencies and get a car with positively no waiting. This will mean that the auto salesman will bother to get up out of his chair. The proprietor may drop that deep-freeze manner and start cultivating good-will again.

- We understand some salesrooms are already starting to rehearse the staff in shaking the head up and down instead of negatively. It ‘has been years since some :auto 'salesmen have had any practice in vigorous salesmanship. They 'have been specialists in discouraging customers. It is not going to be easy reconverting them into warm human beings dealing in a popular product. =

There will be plenty of cardiac trouble when people walk into agencies once more in this country and anybody shows a mild interest in them. And swooning will be nationwide when dealers call on the phone and “would you let us give you a demonstration this afternoon?’”

We anticipate the following dialogue in auto agencies: Salesman (rising affably) — Ah, good morning. Glad to see you. Customer (amazed)—Pardon me; I must be in the wrong alley. S Salesman — What makes you think so? - Customer — You’re cordial! You’re not resenting my entrance! This can’t be an auto agency. ; Salesman—lndeed it is. Have a chair! Relax! : Customer — Stop kidding. I - know no ice flow can melt that fast. Salesman—l'm not kidding. I'm happy to see you and trust I may interest you in a new car. Customer—Quick, an aspirin tablet! : Salesman—Certainly. Take a couple on the house. Customer — Two won’t be enough. Let’s get this straight. Are you really an auto salesman? : Salesman—Certainly. , Customer—And are you authorized by the boss to welcome a prospective buyer this way? Salesman—Yes, he is out of the icepack, too. What model would you like? ; ‘ : - Customer—You mean without putting my name on a list? Salesman—Exactly. No more lists. 4

Customer—That’s going to be a little hard to get used to. It .gives a man prestige to be on those waiting lists. I was on so many that, if by some miracle production had suddenly caught up with the demand, I would have had 15 new cars at my - door, Salesman—From now on you get a car when you want it. Customer—Right away? . Salesman—At once. Customer—With no political influence? Salesman—None. , Customer—No angles? Salesman—Not one. Customer—No Bonus? Salesman—Not at all. - Customer—What about my old ear? - !

Salesman—we give you a fair price for it and don’t even insist you trade it in if you can do better at private sale. (The customer faints.) : . 8 @

Two new types of phonograph dises are on the market, both operating "at different speeds. Neither can be played on the same machine or on the orthodox phonograph. The proper inquiry in the home now would seem to be, “Would you like to hear a new record or don’t you care to get mixed up in an engineering problem?’” - _ * 0 ; : Florida has never had such fun as it has been having playing up those newspaper photographs of snow on the orange groves of California. :

¢ ¢ ; A Detroit engineer says that a jet motor is mnear develop- . ment for automobiles. Folks along super highways had been under the impression they were . in use already.

:i 2 ¢ In a jet-propelled auto a lot of the charm rests in the fact you never know a traffic light has turned red on you except by rumor. i* % 8 ; “White House repairs may | mow cost four instead of one . million dollars.”—News item,

More Hollywood and New York restaurant men sat on that piano than we had realized. _* ° @ We wfet'e all for that pay increase for the President. :

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Elevenlmmortals Lesson for February 20, 1949 ]'ESUS believed in prayer, but he 'J did not usually spend all night at it. When he did, we may be sure »he had something of the greatest

importance on his mind. One of these occasions was the night before he selected the twelve men he called Apostles. He had thousands of disciples, crowds followed him wherever he went. But it was important to have a few with whom he

c%0.1d live as an intimate friend. So from the immense number of followers, Jesus sel§:§d twelve closest friends. Bef -that fateful morning no one outside their villages had ever heard of them. - But now their names are known—and eleven of them are honored—around the world. s & = Jesus Multiplies Himself A GOOD executive, Jesus multi- ‘& plied his own personality. K 6 A recent book has shown how Harry Hopkins during World War II lived in the White House as Roosevelt’s personal companion, having given -up his own gmbitions and living on1y to carry out the ideas of his chief. Without Roosevelt, Hopkins would have been little more than an inferior politician; and without Hopkins, many of Roosevelt’s plans could not have been carried out. He enabled the president to be in two places at once. So it was with Jesus, as Mark’ tells us. Jesus wanted those twelve to be with him, and then to send them out. ;

He wanted these friends to know him as the crowds, and his enemies, never could know him. He wanted these men to absorb his ideas and ideals. The word Jesus used for them was not his own invention; ‘apostle” was the word used all over the civil-

standing which bar the paths to brotherhood. ; The principles of brotherhood which animate the annual observance of Brotherhood Week constitute the 'véry essence of our way of life. They provide the basis for the spread of lasting peace, freedom, and respect for human dignity at home and throughout the world. Brotherhood Week gives us an opportunity as a people to rededicate ourselves to this high purpose. : ; Sincerely, Nelson A. Rockefeller

ized world in those days for an ambassador, a personal representative of royalty. All Christians are in the “‘apostolic succession.’”” If a Christian can truly say, “I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me,” then he is, as these men were, Christ’s personal representative. . % & . * Raw Material THE ASTONISHING thing about Jesus’ choice ‘of these twelve is his faith in them. Of course they had faith in him—who would not? But who would have faith in them? There was not a single ‘“‘outstanding”’ man in the lot. - Not one had what we would call a college education, not a man of them had held public office or was rich or famous for anything at all.

There was Peter, an ordinary fisherman, much given to profanity; there was Matthew, a crooked business man if ever there was one, for no publican could be honest and keep from starving; there was Philip, as stupid a man as ever asked a foolish question; there were James and John, loud-mouthed (Jesus nicknamed them the Thunder Boys — “‘Sons of Thunder’’), greedy fellows who could not be satisfied till they had elbowed their way ahead of everybody else; there was Thomas the born pessimist, the defeatist . . . What could have got into Jesus’ mind to select such men?

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P —and Judas Iscariot - THE SECRET of Jesus’ choice was this: He selected his men not for what they were or had been, but for what they could become, filled with his spirit, transformed by his friendship. It is so today, as always. The Kingdom of God needs men and women, but the raw human material found in or out of the churches is too shabby and weak to build anything like the kingdom of God. .. :

" Yet after all, it was never human weakness that has built the Kingdom. It is men re-born, re-made by contact and companionship with Jesus the Lord of men . , . Now as ‘then, Judas is among the Twelve. Jesus must have seen good“in Ju‘das, otherwise it would have been . mockery to choose him. But though ;that man was with Christ for just .as long as the others, heard what ithey heard and saw what they saw, ;he ended by being a traitor. “Twelve gimmortals”-—? Nay, but one is the immortal betrayer and suicide, ‘Why? The reason was in Judas, ;not in Jesus.

But he wants volunteers, never forced labor. The Christ of Glory can be served by the humble; but the free Christ can be served only by free men with open hearts. Judas may keep his heart shut if he will; Christ never forces his way in,

G'MA’IZ.% f RICE | Pigskin Previews THE MONTHS of September, October and November still lie some distance to windward. But things are happening now that will affect the coming autumn such as arranging football schedules. Especially the schedule that Notre Dame will face. It might be mentioned here that" Notre Dame, after all the hullaba--

100, did slightly better than all right. Southern Methodist, Tulane and North Carclina ' offer three of the. better games of the year. - Southern Methodist was Southwestern champion last fall, and prob-, ably will be again' this year with Doak

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‘ Walker and Kyle| Rote back in action. Tulane has one of the best teams in the South. Tulane and Vanderbilt look to be two southern leaders next fall. North Carolina will have the brilliant Justice and the able Art Weiner back, but there will be many gaps to fill. Carl Snavely will fill them well. He usually does. These three additions to the Irish slate are hooked up with a far stronger Navy team, Southern California, Purdue, Indiana, lowa, Michigan State and Washington—no easy march. This is better than the average schedule. It has no deliberate soft spots that so many others have. It will certainly be a total of eight hard games. Notre Dame, like Michigan, North Carolina and others, will lose good men and return good men. But you can gamble—if you like to gamble—that Frank Leahy will have a first-class squad with fast, hard-hitting runners and at least two good passers. You can also be fairly

sure he will have a good line, What about Army’s schedule? It has a number of soft spots, but it also has some rough-and-rocky bridges to cross. One of them is Michigan. That’s a sure thing. Others can be Stanford, Pennsylvania and Navy. - : But outside of Michigan, there is nc trouble ahead.. This forces too much pressure on the Michigan game. A defeat here can play havoc with either team’s final ranking—more with Army than with Michigan. Army will have. a fine back-\ field and uncertain line strength with such stars as Yeoman, Henry, etc., missing. Her ends will be her strongest point. Navy, again, has no chance to beat her schedule, the toughest in football. The 1949 menu includes, Southern California, Notre Dame, Army, Pennsylvania, Duke, Princeton and others of heavy -calibre. But the 1949 Navy squad should move well up in the year’s ranking. Oklahoma will be strong again. Bud Wilkinson has a winming grip on the situation with a team that can exchange class with anyone around. : ; * 2 3 lvy League Returns There has been a tendency in recent years for other sectors to look with a certain amount of scorn on Ivy league teams. Part of this was justified, although scholarship requirements in the league are well above the average, no matter what you hear.

As far as 1949 is concerned, the ivy-covered colleges and universities will have no apoligies to offer any section in the matter of football ranking. Last fall, Cornell and Darthmouth would have been an even match for most of the leading teams of the Midwest, South, Southwest or Far West. This will be true again this year. Few of the better teams in any section will have backs to match the Big Red or the Big Green. I mean such backs as Johnny Clayton of Dartmouth, a passer of the Bertelli type—or Frank Miller and Jerry Fleischmann of Cornell. Lefty James and Tuss McLaughry had two fine teams last fall. They would have been even bets against any team in the Big Nine except Michigan—which is favored over many. This néew season they can be joined by Princeton and Harvard. Princeton’s outlook is good. So is Harvard’s. Both can be first class. Brown can also move up. Pennslyvania is never weak. George Munger loses Chuck Bednarik and a few other good men, but if you keep track, year after year. you'll find the Red and Blue a rather rugged barrier. Columbia is definitely below 1948 form, even with the redoubtable Lou Little in charge, . Columbia is never flooded with 12 of its best men from a small genius of Lou Little to win »