Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 8, Ligonier, Noble County, 24 February 1949 — Page 2

A Page of Opinion: . ; e LIGONIER BANNER _ ESTABLISHED 1867 - | \io_l._B3 -~ Thursday, February 24, 1949 - . No. 8

This is our view: George Washington George Washington, whose birthday we celebrated Tuesday, was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, 217 years ago. ! He may have been less brilliant -than Jefferson and Hamilton, but in solid character and sound judgment, he towered like a giant. Character is the word for Washington. Men trusted him and followed his leadership, and so he was able to found our nation. : It was Washington who commanded the small and poorly equipped American Army during the Revolution. He held it together by sheer force of will. During most of the long struggle with Great Britain for independence, he engaged in one retreat after another. But he never despaired and he finaliy won a decisive victory. The period which followed the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown was one beset with political and economic troubles for the colonies. Exsoldiers full of bitterness and disillusionment pleaded with George Washington to become a king. The idea was as repungant to him then as it is to us today. He rejected it wutterly and finally. He became a statesman as well as a soldier and he presided over the convenE@on which drafted the Federal Constituion.

When it was time to choose a President under the Constitution, he was the unanimous choice of the electoral college and he served eight years as Chief Executive. -

If Washington seems like a remote figure to residents of this section today, he should not. He played an active role in the early history of this territory. He was the first statesman to see the importance of the land surrounding the junction of our three rivers as an outpost for the new Union. : The land was then held by the Miami Indians who had their village here. It was President Washington in 1790 who sent Gen. Johiah Harmer to lead an expedition against the Miamis. Harmar was defeated by Chief Little Turtle as was Gen. Arthur St. Clair, the next year. - . . Washington next chose his old miiitary colleague, the brilliant Gen “Mad Anthony” Wayne to execute the mission. Wayne trained his Army for two years. He moved against the Miamis in the Battle of Fallen Timbers in Ohio and in two hours of fighting he broke their power. Wayne advanced to the junction of the three rivers and built a stockade which came to be known as “Fort Wayne.” He remained here for six weeks. The fort was dedicated on October 22, 1794. Wayne then retired to Winter duarters at Greenville; Ohio, and forced the Indians to conclude the Treaty of Greenville which gave a large tract of territory to the United States. - Thus the land on which we live was secured through the foresight and persistence of George Washington, founder of the republic and its first President. —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.—David Mallet. —-_—.__Ofifi The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation.—Disraeli. : e e - By skillful conduct and artificial means a person may make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel be wanting, all is vanity, and will not last.—Goethe. \ "—_—o-——“-The surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we appear to be.—Socrates.

ne LIGONIER BANNER » Established in 1887 . Published every Thursday by the Banner Printing : Company at 124 South Cavin 8t Telephone: one-three j CALHOUH CARTWRPGHT; Editor and Publisher Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Ligonier 'udiana under the act of March 3, 1879. e MEMBEES OF: ~ B # Democratic Editorial Association O/ Advertising Federation of America L Ry hhhghdnflryofhmodot : e .

MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR ‘ b b Calhoun Cartwright

Man’s inability to live with man is the greatest factor governing our lives today, and starting at the top and working down it is that very truism that controls our thinking, our actions, our economy and our way of life. : ‘Because we have not solved the problem of living with each other, our nation is today spending twenty-three billion dollars a year in war preparedness. Five billion a year is going to European relief in the hopes of making friends, and abiding the building of their economy to withstand the threat of communism. Eighteen billion is being used to maintain our own military might. It doesn’t take a mathematical wizard to realize that with such expenditures alone upsets any free econmy, and will call for more and more controls as the days progress.

It is pardoxical that on the one hand we condemn government control, and on the other hand we support the measures whirh make it necessary. If there are those among us who think that we will one day return to the economic philosophy of the early 1900’s, they are either grossly misinformed or are unwilling to look at he facts as they now exist.

I have a friend, who on many such issues, disagrees with me thoroughly, sometimes violently, and who ‘calls my theories practical only when comes the millennium, but I have not wavered from my original premise that a world must be developed wherein men can work and play together; where equal opportunity exists for all who seek opportunity and where men to eat must work.

I do not say that such theories will ever be witnessed by this or the coming generation; I only say that until such are put into practice, there “shall be wars and threat of wars”, choas and unrest, hardship and pain. '

My friend says that living is too soft ... that only through struggle and hardship do men actually become men ...actually make contributions, discoveries, progress. History would prove that point if it were not for the fact that on the ‘other side of the ledger there is no. history. Certainly none can attribute the fall of Rome to soft and easy living. The fall of Rome occurred because war kept men from their normal pursuits and produced softness during the interim, when it was easier to lie around than get back into harness.

If by hardness, we mean that men do not work twelve hours a day, battle the elements by clearing new lands, struggle to amass security or fortunes, we have failed to see the economic and social change that brought about that con~ dition. I have said it before, and I repeat, that civilization’s surge to the west was not a matter of strength, but of weakness. Men left the complexities in search of the more simple. When the simple evolved to the complek, they moved again. It was easier to stand the strain of brawn tban it was the strain of mind.

Today, there are no mnew frontiers (as normally defined) to conquer. We are forced with the unpleasant task of solving our problems or be destroyed. The dreamer of yesterday is the realist of today. It is not a millennjal thought that men must discover a way of life whereby they can live with each other. It is not a dreamer’s “pipe dream’’ that men must devise a social system whereby to eat you must work. .. that every man should have the opportunity to make good_ for all that is within him. Say what you wish, we are living in a militarist state. As such, we must pay the piper. Paying the piper means governmental controls, unrest, lack of desire, fear, a feeling of hopelessness. I believe the “new life” can begin at - home, It can start in every hamlet and crossroad of the nation. It can manifest itself in a desire to fulfill the Christian principle, we say we believe, ie.,, “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” Throw it out the window call it impractical, call it dreaming or what you will. Onye thing you cannot deny is tge fact that the world is in a ess, and nothing in history to the contrary has proven workable for any period of time, e

@i : A/ I (: rHlLPhillips ¢ : : WKL service WARILY WE ROLL ALONG! Never underestimate the driving power of a woman on a longfistance vacation trip by auto. She will proclaim the ‘we-will-just-lake-it-easy’’ motif and subscribe jo all your notions on the folly of tonfusing a flivver with a jet plane. But let her take the wheel, and you ire in for a long interval of blurred andscapes, intricate weavings and nair-raising attempts to bounce over hill and dale, with minimum time »ut for deep breathing. :

We are back from the Southland convinced that the Little Woman is at heart potential material for the Berlin airlift. Our recollections consist largely of an unending series of cries such as ‘“What time do we get going tomorrow?” If we leave at dawn we could make Wallakapatiak,” “A few hours of nightdriving won’t matter’” and ‘Look at the map again; is it only another 400 miles we have to make in the next half hour?” : -— - Looking back, the journmey of some 2,500 miles seems to have been a battle for highway pri- ' orities, a ceaseless striving to pass slower-moving vehicles, a ' Jockeying for pesition eon four- . lane highways, frequent inquiries of “Do you smell something burning?” and a six-day denunciation of southern drivers who seldom do better than 20 miles an hour and fo whom our hat is now off in tribute and admiration. ) s, URIERG Our impatience with them was great for.a time. They move for nobody and, by all standards of northern drivers, they are practically parking with the motor running. The wife still thinks they would do better between given points by pogo stick. But we continue, three days back home, to have a sensation of having spent six days passing the car ahead on a roller coaster, It has affected us strangely. At breakfast our first day home we inquired anxiously how much further ahead of us lunch was. ; e At lunch we sought a scale of miles to measure the distance to dinner and see if we could find a shorter route. 5 s el A memory that lingers is of trying to read the metal signs marking great historic battle points in the Civil war from the auto window. All the way down the best we could do was to get the first three or four words like ‘At this crossing General Lee ... ”

It is good to be home. ‘‘What are you squawking about?” demands the Little Woman. ‘We stopped to eat and sleep, didn’t we?” (We are not so sure. Our impression is that we just reached out of the car window with a meathook and made a snatch at passing mules.) P.S.—She: insists she never did over 50 per hour, as permitted, and that we are just a high-wheeled cyclist by nature, 's* @ : : , NETWORK NOTE , Some work early, : Some work later, And some go on like ; > William Slater. * & » : CAUTION NOTE Ancestor worship is all very fine, S : But I’d hate to pray to some ; of mine. i

Ye Gotham Bugle & Banner Chet Clark, a rip-snorter on the harmonica, won first prize on Art Godfrey’s video show, but Guy Raymond in a hill billy bit was mighty funny . . . Boris Karloff has been having such dismal breaks on Broadway that we will bet he would jump at a new play in which he garrots six playwrights and poisons a dozen dramatic critics . . . “My Darling” from “Where's Charley?” is this department’s favorite musical number . . . We predicted that Margaret Truman, returning to the concert stage, is going to show an amazing development in confidence and charm . . , Brownie Leéach, horn-tooter for the Kentucky Derby, is in Gothath with Colonel Matt Wynn, youngest brother of Daniel Boone. ; : g

~ Walter Gieseking, the German pianist, it would seem, played the piano in this country entirelysby jeer. . : e b !

He is_the only pianist éver to give a recital while in midair. Had we had time toask a request number it would have been the Moonlight Sonatzi. ] 2e e ! It now seems certain that Rita Hayworth will be the bride of Aly Khan, son of the Aga Khan, richest man in the world, Never again will Rita be able to read a movie seript - and say, “But it's all so impossible.”” At least she won't be able to - but ber heart in it like she used to.

|STRICTLY BUSINESS by McFoatten » - SRR R ) ' \/ ' : D | SBd S/o | A= =\~ ' ' fi A\ ‘ D fflgfiw - \\ | : 7 . f\é‘ “' == . g% > \ —2% D ““""'l-ntg" ’$ B @ N\ gfg?‘:?.\ L"‘l’f-...mfi ‘T-///y / L ‘\q o N = ‘ : .;;'\° )_ s : / RS YA, “i o “Have you looked at the new washénl;"b‘;ar 9

% Veterans Information %

Veterans taking institutional on farm training under the GI Bill must submit reports of their 1948 earnings to their Veterans Administration Regional - Office by March 1, 1949, in order to continue receiving subsistence allowance, VA said thig week.

More than 5500 Indiana veterans are taking on-farm training, the VA said. Failure to submit the reports before the deadline may result in suspension of subsistence payments until such time as the reports reach VA.

The reports—covering income from productive labor only, for the calendar year 1948—will be used by VA as the basis for adjusting each veterans’ subsistesdce for the

[ RELIGIGN FOR THE MODERN WORLD

o A P '5.-‘~“~'i’-'-‘..’.\;Z:ilf:?:o,\'-:;:.’-:5:;:;:4-‘;“:::-»& SRR e o *fi,<,\*@~ eTy e AN R SRS RBl et vSI c-;.-.*""g‘-‘ssé-:-'-:;::3:-:f!<:::e<::::'a.1:<~:-:-' ?‘l'-‘l‘3%" B b s .'{;"6%::3\"::’-:::}-a":':‘:';'-"-f'§:"‘.'v R pr :;’?‘3"‘::l_‘ G s g N G TN . T )L L %l 25 ol P)gl pe Sl B SR 08l et g Ay Ry SRS g )el R vGt i ’:%?‘?&' % i%’ 3‘51% g R ‘%‘fi—a‘/ 2L P By Y] e B Ee s St frre R S| B P R R SRR P o e o sl e 3.2 B Wl2 e pea ) B S RN e‘-SR N R LR R S SR | e b k":,:_:g. Batidigecct St S Brasant IE - R R - ‘ ] %4| [T icternatonal Uniorn BT g B B iy e UL sncay School JLesons T 8 B --?m eVR LR R R ERRETH 4b g AN R R Y SR Rg RS AR SRS R ATIS R S

SCRIPTURE: Matthew 5:5-7. 13P4E4:-¥§)HONAL READING: Matthew

Ideal World - Lesson for February 27, 1949

ANY MAN with a revolutionary - new idea has to try to explain it. Jesus was no exception. As a young teacher of religion, he had to

answer the question which older teachers were bound to put to him: If your teaching is new, how can it be true? And if it is true, what can be new about it? This was a fair question. The Sermon on the Mount is Jesus’ answer fo it. The

main theme of that sermon is the kingdom of God, an ancient phrase but with new meanings as Jesus used it. We can say *‘The Ideal World” and mean just the same thing. _

* 3 @ The Right People

]'ESUS EMPHASIZES, above all, the kind of people who belong to God’'s Ideal World. This would be surprising to some modern planners. Communists think that if you can once'get a world in which every one has enough to eat and drink and wear, a world where nobody is poor {or everybody is as poor as everybody else, which is all the same thing), you will have the perfect world. Jesus would know this is nonsense.

But the fact is that even after you got your perfect social system, with perfect politics and perfect distribution of wealth, even a perfect climate and soil, you would still be nowhere near the Ideal World unless you improved your people.

The wrong kind of people will spoil the best kind of system. So we find Jesus talking not about systems but about people. \ ‘ . e st Is This You? wHA'.l‘. WE call the *beatitudes” . (Matt, 5:7-12) is Jesus’ eight

D T

current year 1949, Under the law, subsistence allowance will be reduced if a veteran’s monthly income from productive labor plus his subsistence exceeds 210 dollars a month if he has no dependents, 270 dollars if hes one dependent, or 290 if he has more than one dependert. The annual earnings report is based upon farm accounting records kept by the veteran farmtrainee as part of his course of instruction, In the case of a veteran operating a farm for himself under the training program, income from productive labor is computed by deducting from his yearly net Continued on Page 9

of the Ideal World. The right people are happy people, to begin with. (The word translated ‘‘Blessed’” is a regular Greek word for ‘happy.”) But the main difference between different kinds of people is not that some want to be happy while others do not; rather it is that they are made happy by different kinds of things:

Jesus’ ideal people are humble, not proud; they see their sins and are sorry for them; they are “meek’’—that is, they are not in a hurry tordemand their own rights; they do not merely admire goodness, they are positively hungry for it; they are merciful, not careless or cruel; they are pure in heart and not only in speech and act; they are not mere peace-wishers or peace-lovers (who isn’t?) but peacemakers; they are people who are brave enough to do what is right not only when it is comfortable and popular but even when it brings them slander and suffering. * & @ Salt : , : DO YOU really want an ideal world? The best way to begin is to learn how to be a citizen of such a world. Jesus used two interesting simple words to describe the kind of people he means. You are salt, he said, — you are light. Salt and light are old-fashioned things but they have never gone out of date. No one has invented a good substitute for either one. :

ST B R P i QR R B e ; 2333’.:532;’;,,.- S e e e Be RS SRR o SRR BEERCUOE G o R R R o g s Dr. Foreman -

So there is no substitute for a really good Christian. Living, here and now, like citizens of the ideal world to come, Christians are both salt and light. : ~ Salt because they give a taste to otherwise flat or bitter life. Salt because they keep human society from going rotten. This world is in a bad enough mess as it is; but what it'would be if all the Christians were removed from it at once, ~ene hates t{o think, :*s 0 ‘ Light .

AND LIGHT! Like salt, light ought not to be too noticeable. A glaring light is bad on the eyes, as too much salt is bad on the tongue. -So a Christian is not supposed to rub his goodness in on other people, so to speak. He is as_ indispensable as salt in bread-—and should be as inconspicuous. But light, like salt, if it is any good has to be applied directly, A strong light concealed in a steel tube does no good. Swishing the glass end of the salt-cellar around in the soup gives it no flhivor. The salt must get into the soup, the light must touch what we see. gll(%fmfigfigltossy éhcfué::fi)rr? ag‘onbaelhggu&

. ] o IC ' o 5 g A oy G I B CROANTIAND s . S B, A/CE 4Rt

The Joe Louis Angels AFTER ALL the hullabaloo, back and forth, a number of noncombatants are wondering just what Joe Louis plans to do about his title and his neturn to action. Here are some of the angles they are discussing here on the West coast: 1. LOUIS has no intention of returning to the prize fight ring. He is

using this talk to help his exhibition trip where he has been knocking over from $lO,OOO to $15,000 for each show. This is the easiest money anyone can make, using 14 and 16-ounce gloves. 2. LOUIS has no one to fight except. Ezzard Charles who

EaaTE T e R B e S : ” A-\“\ IS e e SR w B ~...o‘.m N - Y '.;,,-: 5 33? R Grantland Rice

doesn’t want to fight Louis. Besides, the 175-pound Charles would make Louis look like an elephant chasing a rabbit or a whippet. It wouldn’t be a contest. It wouldn’t draw $300,000. » 3. HERE IS the situation as it is today—Louis is through and there is no challenger to meet him. The heavyweight division today is at its lowest ebb in ring history. ' 4, (MINORITY OPINION) Louis is a professional fighter. That’s his trade. Why shouldn’t he pick up from $200,000 to $300,000 meeting some pushover? - " These are a few of the angles . Pve gathered recently, from such boxing men as Jack Dempsey and Abe Roth, the referee, . on down the line, : Louis is in a spot where he can get no credit for beating any of the heavyweights now gumming up the scenery. On the other hand, to be beaten by one of these alleged prize fighters would leave a large blot on his so-called escutcheon. The theme song with thousands is: *“lt isn’t what you used to be—it’s what you are today.” Any outsider advising Louis what to do is wasting his time. Louis will either do what he wants or what Mike Jacobs wants. Louis hates to pass up what looks to be the softest touch any champion ever faced. Mike can always use more money, no matter how much he has stuffed away through the years. As things look now, the Bomber probably would be the slowestmoving champion that ever defended a heavyweight title if he went to post again in June. His opponent will have to be a fairly sour specimen to lose. * & » s Jim Jeffries The old boy with the scythe can travel in a hurry. It hardly seems possible that 50 years have passed since young Jim Jeffries knocked out Bob Fitzsimmons. This was Big Jim’s 11th fight. He had been Jim Corbett’'s sparring partner before Corbett’s fight with Fitzsimmons at Carson City. And there are still vague rumors that Jeffries gave Corbett a heavy beating before Jim lost to Fitz, via the famous solar plexus route.

Sullivan, Corbett, Fitz and Jack Johnson have put on their traveler’s cloaks and moyed on beyond. But Big Jim is still here with us, hale and a trifle hearty after a bad paralysis jolt a year or two ago. Fifty years after he knocked out Fitzsimmons, Jeffries, now in his 70’s, is as bald as two doorknobs, but still a powerful looking citizen. When I first met Jeffries, back around 1902 or 1903, he could high jump six feet and run the 100 in about 10 seconds flat. He then weighed 212 pounds and he was as light on his feet as a featherweight,. “In some way,” Jim Corbett told me later, ‘‘Jeff has become a better boxer than I ever was. And nobody can ever hurt him, not even with an axe.” oFitz -broke almost every bone in both hands slugging Jeff in théir second fight, witheut even jarring him. “I might as well have slugged a bloody hydrant,” Fitz told friends ‘after the fight. Jim Jeffries, around 1902 and 1903, was a great a fighter as the game has ever known. He could hit you and hurt you—and no one could hurt him. - I saw him in 1910 training for the coming Jack Johnson party. He weighed over 270 and he was bald, fat and slow. He had been out of action for seven or eight years. The Jeffries of 1802 or 1903 would have murdered Johnson. The Jeffries of

1910 was a pushover for anyone who could breathe and move around. They still talk about Dempsey and Louis. I often wonder how either would have looked against the Jeffries that used to be. You wonder what shape their fists would have been in after a few rounds, There has been a long gap since the days Jim Jeffries was so good he had to retire. It was a joke to mention anyone having a ghost of a chance against him. He dominated his field more than Dempsey ever did—more