Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 10, Ligonier, Noble County, 10 March 1949 — Page 2

A Page of Opinion:

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This is our view: " The Concert Series

The Guilet String Quartette appearing 'here Thursday evening marks the close of the first season of concerts sponsored by the Rotary Club of our city, and soon we hope plans will be made for next season. _

The community is to be congratulated on the wholehearted support given this project for it places Ligonier in a class with cities many times its size, and is an indication of the cultural level attained by its citizens.

It is the opinion of this paper that Rotary was fortunate in obtaining such high-grade talent for so little money. Each concert would bring triple the admission price in metropolitan areas, and the comments generally have placed the talent on a par with the various series sponsored in surrounding communities.

The New York Herald-Tribune called the Guilet group “one of the great string quartettes of the century.” It is a mark (})lf distinction that they are playing ere. ‘

5 Points For Youth

Benson Ford, 29, second grandson of the late automobile builder, Henry Ford, recently outlined five areas of challenge for the young people of his generation. In a talk before the Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce, he declared “some of the jobs ahead of us” are: 1. Learn to think politically—to understand the public interest. 2. Approach the eternal problems of peace, security and tolerance with fresi viewpoints and vigorous, new solutions.

3. Strike a better balance between the moral and the material in our daily lives. 4. Think internationally—learn to speak the languages of other people, literally and figuratively. 5. Improve our methods for distributing goods to match our supremacy in producing them.

The Debt and Russia

Here are a couple of reasons why the United States wants peace and not war: First, the national debt is now $253,000,000,000. o ; Second, the annual interest on the national debt costs $5,000,000,000. Most of the debt represents money spent on the last war. We should not forget how important it is to have peace. The national debt is now larger than the annual national income .Sure, we are the richest country in the world, but ‘war can break us.

Let there be no mistake. Our country does not place dollars first in counting the cost of war. Human lives and human suffering are most important. Russia may or may not want war. But we are sure of one thing. Russia wants to do everything short of war that she can to keep the United States spending money and more money.. Russia is deliberately trying to make conditions which will bring a depression to this country. The Soviet Union hopes that the cold war will bankrupt us. If Russia really wanted peace, a lasting peace could be made in a short time. It is her uncompromising attitude which make American diplomats feel as if they were living in a haunted house. - —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette

Penalties may be delayed, but they are sure to come.—H. W. Beecher. When the late J. P. Morgan was asked what he considered the best bank collateral, he replied; “Character.”— Ramsay MacDonald. / :

The object of punishment is threefold: for just retribution; for the protection of society; for the reformation of the offende¥.—Tryon Edwards. > Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.—Lord Halifax: ;

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Thursday, March 10, 1949

What I said in fun once about the need for a Gourmet Anonymous patterned after Alcoholic Anonymous has now gained serious proportions, - and I'm looking for some stalwart friends to help the thing along.

Briefly, my theory stems from a desire to cut down the calorie intake, but with a pronounced awareness that I need help. I took my cue from Alcoholics Anonymous because they produced the only suceessful plan for curing alcoholics that has yet been devised. Fundamentally, they work on the theory that the affliction is a disease that needs patient curing, that help must be provided, that in helping others you help yourself and that swearing off should not be more conclusive than the next twenty-four hours. In other wor%s, when a man decides to swear off drinking, he does it for that day only. He doesn’t say, “I'll never take another drink.” He says, “I won’t take a drink today.”* Of course, this pledge is renewed each morning.

Now it seems to me that such theories apply exactly to we sufferers of the cream puff, chocolate eclair and potatoes with gravy. We are afflicted. When we swear off for good, and then ten hours later, bang goes the diet. But if we would swear off for that day only; if we had someone to help us and someone to help, it would be easier.

Seriously, the geriatrician (the specialist dealing with the aging process in man) has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that overweight people die younger than those of normal weight, They further prove that people maintain their usefulness and energy to the ripe age of eighty providing they maintain a proper diet and follow some rules of decorum in their daily living.

Today there are more people suffeiing from malnutrition than is generally known, and such cases are not confined to the under privileged. People in the fifty and sixties have been given new leases on life by Geriatric Clinics through first curing their ills and then starting on diets that will maintain good health and energy.

When you reach the age of forty, you start the downward trend. That downward trend would not be apparent if certain rules were faithfully observed, and the most important rule is diet. Everyone from forty upward needs calcium, iron, and protein. They need it in liberal quantities, and they need it from the natural foods that adorn our table three times a day. When people reach the age of forty, they require less calorie intake than the younger person even though their work is comparable.

One leading geritrician says that two quarts of liquid a day is a must, but I wager that few people follow that rule. He further suggests that each day’s menu contain one glass of milk, lean meat, an egg, green vegetable and table vegetable. He also suggests that everyone get a calorie chart and measure out their daily intake.

Now no informed person can dispute the findings'of these clinics, which base their conclusions on years of research and study, but few people will do much about it even when they know the truth.

What do I propose? It’s: simple. -1 propose \we start a club for those who would like to enjoy good health for the balance of their life. I propose that this club get the necessary charts, articles, ete., for periodic study. In place of a member of the club presenting a paper on “The Customs of the Fiji Islanders,” they would present papers cn subjects pretaining to good health and livine. Each week this club could hold a luncheon meeting with a model bill of fare adorning the table. Menus for the month could be distributed. Those of us who suffer from “stuffadosicia” cbuld seek the help of others. ' Well, I'm not going to start the club, be its president or serve on a committan. What I will do, however, is join, and do my share of digging out material. It might be fun to see how we all feel after a year of using our heads in place of our stomachs to guide our daily steps. on the path of life. —_— e

MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR

by Calhoun Cartwright

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~ Is there anything screwier than expressing indignation over the Cardinal Mindszenty outrage, with its threat to religion everywhere on earth under communism, and then taking it on the double to the polls to vote into office leaders who are not wholeheartedly for the American way? :

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, not eternal telegrams., Americans must wage this fight at the polls not at the Western Union offices. Ballots, not wires or postcards are Uncle Sam’s first line of defense if he is really indignant over that Hungary trial and wants to make sure that no court routines of that type ever come to America. :

If I were a congressman I would answer all wires with a ferse, ‘“‘Received your telegram urging me do something. Fine- idea. What are you doing besides sending wires? Are you by any chance among those millions of easilyfooled folks who by word, deed or vote make the way easy for the Communist routine in America? Don’t answer too fast. Sit down and give your conscience a good checking up.” _

This country’s Number One Loons are the boys and gals who think they can stop the ‘reds’” and ‘‘pinkos’’ by Western Union instead of by an all-out determination never to support for any office (government, labor union or chowder club) any candidate who has a smile for the Kremlin way. All Russia laugh up its sleeve at that kind of hypocrisy. They love it afid count on it. And they have been getting it from plenty of telegram senders.

You can’t stop by wire an evil which you are not trying to stop by your own love of country and mental alertness. It makes no sense.

- I don’t mean to lay off telegrams of protest against persecutions .of the church and defiance of all the rules of human justice. They help. But you’re just performing in a squirrel cage if you rush off a wire of indignation in the morning and dash off in the afternoon to vote into office some crumb you know very well is the type who might play footsie with Pal Joey.

There is no percentage in yelling for the eradication of rats and at the same time voting for looser storage of sharp cheese. : Yours for a little horse sense, ELMER TWITCHELL ¢ & 9 Cuff Stuff Ima Dodo has a cold and says she thinks”she sat in the Atlantic Draft. s e Herbert Hoover is in Washington striving for a little economy in government. This establishes him as the country’s foremost optimist. s Secretary Acheson says Washington is sympathetic toward China in its present plight, but will not issue a statement on it. Anything Uncle Sam might say now, in view of the many changes in attitude, would seem Chinese to all. ; e We heard a fellow complain that there has been such a slump that ' a fellow can no longer make a dishonest dollar, ; . L . King George will name a royal commission to look into gambling in Britain. A rumor has reached the Palace that wagering on the horses, dogs, etc., has been going on around ‘the empire, : ‘ ),e s 9 e Ye Gotham Bugle & Banner .. Ye ed was a little late getting around to the smash-hit “Kiss Me Kate.” . .. What baffles 'us is how . the same noodle that produces “Wunderbar” and “So In Love,” the latter of which we think will rank with Porter’s top all-time melodies and lyrics, could turn out the ~ out-of-bounds lyrics in all the other * numbers . . . They ain’t just blue, buddy, they're right from under the damp linoleum .., worse than ~any honky-tonk song. = ; e e

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Poems To Remember

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SCRIPTURE: Mark 5; 6:31-44; Luke 7:18-23; 19:1-10. ‘ DEVOTIONAL READING: Matthew 25:34-46. ;

God's Signature

Lesson for March 13, 1949

IN A STRANGE city you may suddenly need to be identified. Some suspicious clerk wants to know if your signature is genuine. It is a

fair challenge, for too many liars are in circulation. Jesus himself had to | furnish identification. No less a person than his old friend John the Baptizer had grown uneasy. Are you the One we are looking for,” he inquired, ‘‘or shall

we look for some one else?”’ Jesus’ answer to John was not to discuss the theology of the Incarnation, or anything of that sort. He just went about hig_usual day’s work. In the course of that day he cured a good many sick people, and preached to some very poor people. “Now go back,” he said, ‘“go back and tell John what you have seen and heard.” What those men saw * that day was what Jesus at another time called the *‘‘finger of God,” the genuine divine signature. Jesus wrote no book, no letters even; he wrote in action, and his acts were the handwriting of God. It is important to see where Jesus underscored that writing. It is true, his healings were what we call mira- " cles. But Jesus did not even - mention that feature. What he asked John to notice was simply this: the blind see, the lame walk; lepers are cured, the deaf hear, ‘the dead are raised, and (as a climax!) the poor hear good news. The signature of God, in short, is not -sheer power; it is using what power one has, to help people in. trouble. That was the sort of person Jesus was. : ¢& @ : Not By Bread Alone i : THE EXPRESSION, ‘‘needy peo- & ple.” nowadays suggests people

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And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise; - If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; = If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same: If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make & trap for fools Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop to build ’em up with worn-out tools; Continued on Page 7

who haven’t enough {0 eat or wear. Jesus helped such persons; but he knew well that men’s needs go beyond well-cared-for bodies. There was the poor man from the graveyard, for example,—he was happy erough. He didn’t want clothes, and he was strong enough to steal all the food he could eat. All he wanted, in fact, was to be let alone. But Jesus knew that what he needed above all was a sane mind, a mind no longer run over and trampled by a regiment of devils. When Jesus got through with him he was clothed, but that was not the best part of it. He was in his right mind. So God’s signature is not only written in a sound body, it is in the sound mind. Again, at Jericho when Jesus invited himself to dinner with that pint-sized tycoon, Zacchaeus, Jesus did not go just for the meal. He went because he knew that Zacchaeus needed something. :

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We do know that after dinner Zacchaeus was a changed man. He was going to give back every dishonest penny, with interest; and since he could not locate every one he had cheated, he was going to give away half of his holdings for the benefit of the poor. What Jericho needed was a new administration, an honest one; they needed slum clearance; and Zacchaeus was going to give it to them. But first of all Zacchaeus had needed a new heart—and Jesus gave him that. Again it was the genuine signature ‘of God. & o : We Too : 2 ALL AROUND us is a troubled world. Some men, seeing it, infer there is no God. Others conclude that if there is one, he must be bad or weak. The truth is that the signature of God is not to be found in the evil and the confusion of the world. It is to be seen wherever freedom is/standing against slavery, wherever truth is pushing back ignorance, where diseased bodies are being healed, where sanity replaces madness. : More people would believe In - God if they could see more of the handwriting of Ged. Do you want to help? , - We cannot always do things as simply as Jesus did. Curing the diseased is not for us a simple matter of saying, Be well. A Christian woman, distressed by what she had learned of the plight of the insane in her backward state, was asking the head of the state hospital (himself a church officer), *What can we Christians do?” “Get behind the legislature,” he said. e

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@ GRANTZAND RICE Brain Vs. Brawn Is it better fo be bigger or be smarter? : Is it better to have brawn or carry brains? Would you rather be a wrestler or be Einstein? (Who draws the bigger money for his pains?) Would you rather be a Plato or a fighter? Which quality will help you best to thrive? : Would you rather be a muscle or a thinker? ~ Well, m satisfied to be almost alive, Can it be that brain at last has supplanted brawn in sport? That while the race is to the swift, the battle is no longer to the strong?

In checking over midwinter disbursements of the laurel and the olive, the awards of ‘erowns and coronets by various clubs, boards associations, chambers of commerce etc. -we discovered the startling fact that weight, power, strength, and displacement had been

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rather rudely shoved aside. - Brain at last returned to its ruling place in the eyrie and the big hulk is stranded on the beach. For example, we might as well start with football. Who drew the big bulk of .the . awards? The answer is quite simple—Doak Walker, Charley Justice and Frankie Albert. Walker, of S.M.U., weighs 165 pounds. Justice of North Carolina weighs the same. Albert of the San Francisco 49ers is around 160. This is on the light side of a game that has been taking on weight year after year. We read now about lines that average 225 pounds from tackle to tackle—or 223 pounds from end to end. We read of backfields that average 187 or 191 pounds. But most of the post-season glory was awarded to athletes below 170. This meant they had . to be intelligent and mentally alert. I’ve seen more than a few 220 or 230-pound guards : and tackles who were fast, buf not overburdened with any mental weight. Some of them were swell linemen just the same. It was an amazing ' thing for Frankie Albert, a wolverine amang the«mastodons and mammoths, to get so many votes. In addition to his smartness and his skill, Albert . has always had, from his Stanford ‘days, another qualification so often missing. This is stamina. You can also add ruggedness. ’ i » » In Other Fields, Too - Football isn’t the only game that enters this consideration of brawn versus brain. Baseball hands most of its laurels to Lou Boudreau, another 165-pound entry. . In the past we’ve had Cobb—lBs pounds; Wagner—2oo pounds; Babe Ruth—22s pounds; Lajoie — 200 . bounds; Hornsby—l9o pounds, and Joe DiMaggio—l9s pounds. Stan Musial, running close to Boudreau, is in at 170 pounds and Cat Brecheen won’t pass 155. Track follows the same ideags. Two highly-crowned and laurel-embossed trackmen last year were Harrison Dillard and Mel Patton.. Dillard is on the smaller side. Patton is slender. : Neither goes in for surplus weight. Young Bob Mathias, a well-built kid, is one of the few brawny ones to make the grade. What about boxing. Last year not one heavyweight got within ten kilo--meters of having a purple toga thrown across his shoulders. Louis? - Walcott? Charles? Nothing doing. Most of the awards went to Ike Williams, a lightweight, Sandy Saddler, a featherweight, and Marcel Cerdan, a middleweight. - . Cerdan, the Erenchman, led the pack and drew most of the decorations for stopping Tony Zale, a tough guy to stop. Nothing above a middleweight was even mentioned—no light heavyweights—no heavy“weights. And in the latter di- . vision, it may be several years before anyone comes along to act as a standout. : What about golf? Prior to his automobile accident, 137-pound Ben Hogan was the acknowledged champ—one of the best that ever Slhe wpf stil 4, is another gt w 142:pound class. Hag- - en weighed 185 pounds. Bobby Jones bracket, . Nelson is a 180-pounder ; W£m‘% ~ But Hogan and Mangrum are two - back ck to the days of Bill Johnso: sy stlßpounds.