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A Page of Opinion:

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This is our view:

Cooperation and Democracy

The key to any successful project is cooperation. Without it, nothing succeeds. With it success is possible. Cooperation can be a forced operation such as was witnessed in Germany under Hitler, when people cooperated under stress of threat, or it can be freely given as was witnessed in the early stages of th American way of life when men bandeg together under a bond of common purpose and ideal.

- We have learned in America that any task for the general good must be prepared with a good foundation. The people must be sold, and when sold they will cooperate to see it through. Many times good ideas fall because they were not properly sold, and many times they have failed because people have not wanted to expend the energy necessary to see them work. . '

Everyone is sufficiently schooled in the theories of democracy to demand it in the course of their activities and when such theories’ are not put into practice, trouble results.

There is' a right and wrong way of doing everything. The right way seeks through democratic means the co(k))peration of the largest possible numers.

What this world needs is more cooperation, but it cannot be obtained by any other means than through the method of free opportunity . . . free thought.

Americans like to be sold. If an idea is worth having, it is worth selling . . . selling with all the vigor the salesmen can command.

Period Of Business Adjustment

During the next few months, the United States has an important transition to make. :

It must pass from the postwar industrial boom to more normal and settled business conditions.

- This change cannot be brought about by a few leaders in Government and in private life. The whole American family of 140,000,000 people must take a hand, because in this free democracy of ours, everybody counts. : . We must keep our heads clear and our hands busy and do the duties which lie nearest us. Almost none of the economic experts fear for the future. They simply believe that the time has come for a natural adjustment. Every individual must study to see how he can best make his personal adjustment. No one should stand up in the boat and shout. No one should make unreasonable demands upon an economy which is trying to steady itself. o It was inevitable that we should come to this period. The thing to do is to take it in stride. : Above all we should have faith in America which is sound, sensible and resourceful. This country demonstrated its genius in war, when everybody pulled his share at the oar. We can do just as well in time of peace, if all our citizens contribute their bit.

Let’s make this adjustment with a show of national maturity. —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette

The poet’s line, “Order is heaven’s first law,” is so eternally true, so axiomatie, that it has become a truism; and its wisdom is as obvious in.religion and scholarship as in astronomy or mathematics.

Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted geggls'e they take form in words and in e o 2

A small group of wise thinkers is better than a wilderness of dullards and stronger than the might of empires.— Mary Baker Eddy. Sk

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Thursday, March 3, 1949

MUSINGS OF — AN EDITOR by . Calhoun Cartwright

How peculiar do the mental wheels mesh and grind in their constant turning. _ : ' :

I am forever awed with the emotional hypersensitiveness of the human mind. Not so much in others (I have little tinfe to study my neighbors) but in myself. The course of personal events find me hot and cold, high and low, sane and not sane. I react emotionally from forces real and imagined. I know this, yet I have not found the key to evening the keel under sundry and all circumstances. I see injustice and I feel it. I see mistreatment and I feel it. Sometimes I mistake stupidity or lact of tact for malicious treatment, and I condemn or excuse according to my emotional state of the moment. : It is a frightening thing to realize how great a part emotions play in our everyday life, isn’t it? : : An upset stomach, lack of sleep, financial problems, marital unadjustments. Oh, on and on, all have a bearing on our emotional outlook. Philosophers tell us that when we reach that development in life where the emotions' do not play a part in our everyday routine, we will commit suicide. Perhaps we do not wish to be logical. Perhaps we do not have the know how when it comes to distinguishing the gcod emotions from the bad. If our emotions set up injustice, if they react to our own detriment, then perhaps we should do something about it. Today I am thinking in terms of our emotional lows, ie., that period in every month when things look dark . . . discouraging. ey -~ How many of us take cognizance of the surrounding conditions that might place us into these emotional lows ? How many have asked themselves the question when such periods occur, “Is my stomach upset?’, “Am I tired?”, ete., ete.. ’ If you are interested in making your own emotions the subject of experimentation, just write down the attitudes you experience on a slip of paper. Put that slip of paper away and forget it. Some time a week later get a good night’s sleep and then after a hearty, bleasant breakfast, get the paper out and read it. Ask yourself, “Was there logical cause for my feelings?” “Do they stand the test of factual examination ?” & 50 The chances are such a slip of paper will be quickly destroyed. There might be a tinge of shame connected with the reading. You will hope no one else gave your feelings the same careful scrutiny. You might resolve to watch for the next period, and try to do something about it. L —— When 1 first took over The Banner, I told our readers that this, my column, should be the luxury I would afford myself. It would be a place in the paper where I could say what I wish, in any style that might at-the moment be my fancy. I have adhered fairly carefully to that resolve, and luxury or not, it has been of great pleasure to me. I have always tried to place myself in the living room, or around the kitchen table of my readers, friends and family and talk as I might talk if I were there. I have looked upon it as a letter home, a letter to Tom, Dick and Harry who might want to hear from me, but who were neglected because of the busy routine of my - day. A e When I was working in a Michigan radio station, I became impressed with the approach one of the announcers took handling a particular recorded program. He talked in a folksy type to the people back home. It was fun to wateh him. He would actually take off his shoes, stretch his legs under the table and say just anything that came into his mind. He’d laugh and smile with the same genuineness that he might have shown had his family and friends been sitting there with him. His approach intrigued me. Tam sure his audience felt the same would convey that same feeling, although I must admit that I write it - Continued on Page 7 .

7 : /7 ’ \/ ‘% N / £} i LPhillips P d WNL oo Omen of Better Days! The five-cent cigar is reported back. It is creeping into the cigar cases of America again, and few things have made the country feel better. The nickel stogie stands as an emblem of a smoother-going life, uncomplicated by almost every known type of worry. It marks an era when men trusted one another, hated nobody to speak of, and never tossed all night, harassed by thoughts of taxes, assessments, new bites, etc. aeL The five-cent cheroot marked an age when you could know nothing about economics and still not be considered a hillbilly . . . a time when “‘index’’ was generally thought to be a mountain goat and when a ‘“‘spiral’”’ was widely accepted as some type of tropical fish. : s* ; , When the five-cent straight smoke reigned supreme the only tax a man ever had to pay was a $2-a-year poll tax, unless he owned property. Anybody who falked of income taxes was laughed off as a radical, a nut or both. The word ‘‘questionnaire’”’_hadn’t come into our language, tax forms were for landlords only. America was safe _from invasion, Mart Badger was selling shoes for $2 a pair, you could get a tailor-made suit fors3o (silk lined) and you could take the family to dinner for what it now costs to get a shrimp cocktalil. S You can’t think of the nickel stogie without recalling the days when only the village bum sneered at thrift, when hard work wasn’t jeered at and when a fellow wasn’t scuttling the labor movement if he went back to the office and did some nightwork, — It was a time when a fellow could meet his grocery bill without outside financing, argue for horse sense in_government, hold out anywhere for honest bookkeeping, advocate operation of government on a business basis and even denounce trick budget-balancing without fear of reprisals. —.- In the day of the nickel cigars ‘a spendthrift get no applause except in a saloon. Everybody thought economy was a good idea. A man always had some idea where he stood financially at any hour. Only gypsies lived in tents . . . If a man had the wisdom and frugality to save up enough money to provide for : his family after he kicked the bucket, he could determine without consulting a staff of legal experts whether they would get more than $4 of his estate. . Sl All life was sweeter when most of the ‘cigars in the showcases were five-centers and a 10-cent one was regarded as something of an extravagance. People let their major worries center on the common cold, the weather for Sunday’s picnic, dandruff, slippery sidewalks and how many quarts of soup could be made from a 10-cent soup-bunch. —.—— ' We toss a lid into the air at the five-cent smoke’s return. And we feel better now about China, the Russian war danger, President Truman’s policies, the crisis in South Africa and the world mess generally. Gotta match, bud? _* » @ Florida Report Shudda Haddim, reporting from - Hialeah, writes: “It is a good season with me so far, as I have only to walk back from the track about three days a week. Ldst year my average was four. “I am not getting rich, but I am having more fun as there is more room to get around. A lot of racing fans are out of circulation and are not sending in substitutes. Once I could sit near a mutuels window and see somebody I knew pass, but no more. I think it is because there are too many horse tracks. People - don’t have to come to Florida to lose dough fast no more. ‘I got a room in a private home with use of the family Racing Form cheap. And the eating problem is not so tough. Some lunchrooms are letting me look at the house tipheet free if I spend over 30 cents. I've never seen so many hotels as at Miami Beach. The gulf stream takes the chill off mortgage money by 20 degress, I guess.” g ’ PLe W X v r & spreading chestnut tree ‘The smith is being picketed __ The philosophy of the new Ameri‘can way seems st times to be ex~pressed in a wearisome, ““Whatever you are doing {t is tiring me out.” eTe s e ~_ Now that he is being allowed $90,000 a year for expense money the- - with the steak, =

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Lesson for March 6, 1949

ALL RELIGIOUS teachers of JeA sus’ time used parables. But the great difference between Jesus’ parables and those of his contemporaries, as Rabbi Klausner says, is Jiaiie. = ‘that his were re- (BT @ membered and§ W theirs were not. 84 4t People will remem- & @ ber a story who Sk 0 | cannot take in a lec- $& ture. Jesus almost S never told ‘“‘wonder- SEEEE & tales.”” His para- - bles are not in the Dr. Foreman least like Grimm’s fair¥ tales or Alice in Wonderland. Mostly they are about simple ordinary happenings, and practically always about living people or things. If you said “Kingdom of God” to the average religious person of Jesus’ time, he would have replied, “Oh, yes, that wonderful time! The time when these Roman soldiers will be blasted off the earth by the terrible breath of God, the time when every grape will yield barrels of wine and a single grain of wheat can be ground into bushels of flour ’—the Miracle Age!”” The Kingdom of God as Jesus proclaimed it,— God’s Ideal World — was some- ~ thing quite different from that. Jesus illustrated it not with fanciful ~ wild pictures, but with stories from real life, from the field or the farmhouse. : = The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of law, not of happen-so or ~of magic wands. Jesus was fond of comparing God’s Kingdom to growing plants. Every plant is a miracle, it is evidence of God’s creative power; but ' plants do mnot grow overnight, they grow by the laws which the creator made in them. 7 ’¢s . . | e ; . Wild Sowing G IAS WE SAW last week, the most ® & important feature of the Ideal | World, or of any world, is the quality of the people in it. So most of

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Jesus’ parables were about people, one of the most famous being this one of the ‘‘prodigal son.” (‘‘Prodigal” of course does not mean wicked or repentant, but wasteful, reckless with money or other things.) You could find many faults in that young man. One of them —the fault that nearly killed him — was that if he had a calendar he never looked at it. If you take a good loock at a calendar you will always ‘notice that there is another day aiter this one—another month, another year. But the prodigal never thinks about tomorrow, only about tcday. He sows his wild oats because he has fun doing it. He can say ‘“‘So what?”’ fast emough but he has never asked the question, *— and then what?”” Childish, isn’t it? Some people even argue that it is a good thing to sow wild oats, on the theory that the prodigal gets' it out of his system and is afterwards a better man, _ i o Nonsense! Is it better for your education to spend several years learning things wrong? lls it better for a garden to let it grow ‘up in weeds for the first three weeks? Is it better for a man’s health to spend his childhood years on a sickbed? That’s no more silly than to say that a man is morally better for having been immoral for a while first. e s 8 8 Prodigal Nation IT HAS EVEN been said that we have a prodigal-son . civilization. Our generation is preity busy sowing wild oats. We waste the natural resources of the earth. Drinking has become encouraged by law and made glamorous by the movies. We spend more on liquor than on schools. More money is spent on a single day’s horse-racing at a big track than a whole state or province spends on education in a year. The "ties of marriage have grown so weak, especially outside the Christian church, that it has not been long since one American city was boasting that its marriage rate had ‘“caught up with” its divorce rate! 3 & mise e Wild Harvest ats : T_HE PRODIGAL son in Jesus’ story went home—but he had to reap his wild harvest first. The modern prodigal, whether individual or nation, seems to misunderstand Jesus’ meaning. I God is thought of at all, he is pictured as a benevolent Being who after all doesn’t mind our enjoying our little fling. ‘‘He will forgive,” said Vol taire, *“that’s his business.” That 4s a total misunderstanding of God

Baseball Outlook ALMOST 21 MILLION spectators paid to enter big league ball parks last year. What will 1949 offer? An increase or a drop? Apparently, the astute athletes are not looking for any increase and they seem to be shy: about equaling the 1948 roundup. They are shying away from bonuses arranged on attendance figures. You can’t blame them. ‘ - The ballplayer can see a dollar or a paying fan about as far as any-

one else, including the owners. He recalls the American League had a race that is not likely to be duplicated with Cleveland, Boston and New York neck and neck or nose and nose at the wire. This meant terrific business for the three

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top teams and also for many of their opponents. It :sn’t at all improbable that some team, possibly Cleveland, will pull out several lengths in front and stay there. Or it may be the Red Sox or Yankees. But the odds are we’ll have no such hell-for-leather riding *down the stretch next September.

There is the chance, of course, g that the Athletics may improve and the Tigers might move abruptly into a challenging position “under Red Rolfe. This might make the bonus angle even better, but it isn’t an even chance and the player would rather let the club owner take the gamble. As a result, over 30 ballplayers are balking at terms, especially those terms involving attendance and gate receipts.,

What about the National league race? This can be closer that the American, what with the Braves, Dodgers, Cardinals, Giants, Pirates and the improved Cubs—a rather uncertain medley of scrambled talent. At this spot, the Dodgers and the Braves have the edge, but it isn’t a killing edge. Any one of five teams can win this‘race and most of them can also finish in the second division. Reports of winter injuries and ailments to Carl Furillo and Rex Barney haven’t helped the Deodger outlook, but the month of May is still a long *way off. - - But once again the earnest athlete doesn’t seem to be too interested in National league attendance, especially as it might concern a 1949 contract. We think he is right. Racing is taking a 15 to 20 per cent decline and the chances.are base- - ball will face a drop of a million or so, perhaps more. = It would be no surprise to see the total attendance slip from 21 million to 19 million this next season. $ & 3 Ben Hogan Ben Hogan had just reached the peak of a brilliant career when his accident cut him down for months to come. No other game could have suffered such a loss from the absence of one player. Ranking Hogan as a golfer of skill and a competitor of High rank, he undoubtedly belongs on level terms with Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen. And you can add Harry Vardon. Outside of Vardon, he was a more accurate club-swinger than any of those just mentioned. He had fewer bad holes. Both Jones and Hagen had to depend on brilliant recoyer-’ ies and marvelous putting to win their 24 championships. Gene Sarazen was a golfer of moods, of sudden inspirations and sudden depressions. - W 0 - ' : But none of this lot kept up as savage and as steady as- ~ sault on par as Hogan. As great as they were, neither Bobby | ~ Jones nor Walter Hagen ever were able to average 69 strokes for all their tournaments in a - YRy s " Hogan is as fine a swinger as golf has ever known. He has been golf's hardest worker, undoubtedly. Bobby Jones, a hard-worker himself and a most determined competitor, marvelled at Hogan's intense, unbroken concentration and determination—his willingness to take a beating and keep coming back. . galinaas : I bave seen Ben work for an hour on just one shot—over and over and over—from 00 yeards away, from 120 yards away. His idea was to get every approach shot dead. Few know the beating he took to __ Before the Los Angeles Open, ~ home. He was getting sick of ;wﬁﬁ*%*,ﬁ“*?} .. Sl SN R R T e e S el e e