Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 11, Ligonier, Noble County, 17 March 1949 — Page 2

A Page of Opinion:

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This is our view:

Know Your Money

The need for increased vigilance against counterfeit money and those whemanufacture it is indicated by the secret service report for 1948. Victims of the fake money passers lost more than twice as much last year as in 1947. And a new threat was a rise in the amount of counterfeit bills smuggled into this county from abroad. Secret Service Chief U. E. Baughman reports that more than half -a million dollars in bogus currency was seized in 1948, and nearly $200,000 of it had been imported by agents of rings operating from foreign headquarters. Secret service investigators confiscated $323,828 in bad bills before they could get into public circulation, but nearly $200,000 additional was passed in banks, stores and in other places of business.

The secret service in recent years has conducted educational eampaigns designed to familiarize bank tellers, cashiers and other handlers of money with the distinguishing characteristics of good money. This “know your money” drive undoubtedly has saved the public thousands of dollars and made the counterfeiting racket harder for those engaged in it. During the war, counterfeiting activity fell off—apparently because the racketeers found easier ways of defrauding the public. Black marketeering was one attractive source of easy money.

Philosophy Of Disbelief

The forty-fifth anniversary of the first flight by the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, was observed throughout the nation, with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington formally accepting the famous plane which has been returned to this country after staying in England for twenty years. . At the time of the Wright experiments, nobody expected that the contraption would fly and when the news of the first flight got into newspaper offices, the spectacular story was disbelieved. One reporter, who almost witnessed the initial flight was Ora L. Jones, who admits that his assignment was to “poke fun at the thing.” Mr. Jones, who now lives in Florida, recalls that the last story he wrote on the assignment ended this way: “If the Good Lord wanted us to fly, he would have given us wings in the first place.” We call attention to the philosophy expressed by Mr. Jones because it has been the stock argument advanced by millions of people throughout hundreds of years. Practically every new device, form of treatment or bit of revolutionary information has been treated by the skeptics with the same philosophy, which has, no doubt, done the world considerable harm. | Mr. Jones is refreshing in his frank disbelief of forty-five years ago. This is rather unusual. As a rule, men like to recall the times they were right without admitting that they were, upon an equal number of occasions, emphatically wrong.

Last Of The Insull Empire Not every reader of this article will remember Samuel Insull, or the huge utility empire that he dominated some years ago. There was a time when the Insull regime led the pyramiding of holding companys which crashed ignominiously. The end of the empire came the other day when a Federal judge ordered two tons of documents destroyed and sold as scrap paper. They included old bonds, debentures, stock certificates, vouchers, receipts and cancelled checks. Incidentally, news articles point out -that creditors, with claims of $57,000, 000, were paid off at the rate of $9O a $l,OOO and that stockholders in the “empire” got nothing.

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Thursday, March 17, 1949

The other day, during a conversation between a friend and myself, he mentioned the necessity of cutting down his outside activities.

“Little did I realize how thin I was spreading myself,” he said, “until I started to list my extra-duties on a sheet of paper.”

“It did one thing. It convinced me I could do justice to none of them if 1 maintained my present pace,” he concluded. :

I came back to my office and followed his example with identical results. I realized I was spreading myself too thin, and for the benefit of all concerned I decided to rearrange my schedule accordingly.

I should imagine such a procedure followed by most active people would be revealing, the culmination from which would help all concerned, but I wonder how many people in a community feel it their duty to make a contribution to that community ?

Personally, I have always felt that the service you perform is the rent you pay for living, and each in his own way should determine how much or how little rent they should pay.

To begin with, each person must give full loyalty, energy and interest to the job which provides them with a living. Secondly, each person owes an obligation to his family that should be discharged willingly, thoughfully and intelligently Beyond these two necessary obligations there comes a third obligation and that is to your friends and neighbors. It is in this third obligation that many of us fall down either. one way or the other. As was said, if you activize yourself with .too many interests, you actually neglect all of them. But if you select carefully the activity where your talents will allow the maximum contribution, and then give of your time to the lirr}it, both the activity and yourself gain. :

What a hard lesson to learn, but how important. I am learning it after many years of heartaches, headaches and tiring energy cells, and I commend to others to study of this very problem.

But more important to me than the determination of what activities to eliminate is the determination on the part of many as to “what rent they will pay.” This I strongly believe is the secret of good community life, and I believe many an idea proven unworkable in practice, would have been successful had those persons possessing the talent to see it work, given their full measure of devotion to putting it into practice. What I am trying to say, and perhaps finally I can put it simply, is this: I believe everyone should find their niche in community life. They should give all the time their schedule will permit to that particular niche. Those who have too many activities should narrow them down to provide a more concentra= ted effort. We do not have too many things going on, we just have too few people taking over their share of the responsibility. ,

Finally, we should not condemn the man who assumes his responsibility, rather, we should encourage him. It would be a pretty nice cld world in which to live if everyone would do his share, and T’'m of the opinion that people would try if given half a chance; at least, it’s worth a try. ,

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.—Elbert Hubbard.

To be worth anything character must be capable of standing firm upon its feet in the world of daily work, tomntation, and trial; and able to bear the wear and tear of actual life.—Smiles.

Escape from punishment is not in accordance with God’s government since justice is the handmaid of merev. Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.—Proverbs 26: 27.

Always look ‘out for the sunlight the Lord sends into your days.—Hope *Campbell, ,

MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR

Calhoun Cartwright

s , \/ ofhe 5 ’ LPhillips ¥ WNL dervice TRUMAN AND THE TUB President Truman, in explaining the probable cost of around five million dollars to repair the White House, declared — ‘“My bathroom sagged so that I had begun to fear it would go through the floor.” 7 ie We can’t see why the President was alarmed. He would have been the first president ever to have fallen from one floor to another in his bath; it would have made history.

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For a cenfury there might have been signs in the White House: “President Harry S. Truman, 32nd President of the United States, Landed Here” or “On This Spot Harry 8. Truman Made the First Crash Landing

Ever Made in a White House Bathtub, Glider Type.” :

Had Harry kept his mouth shut, let the building deteriorate and bravely crashed through the floor in his tub, it might have been far from a calamity so far as his fortunes are concerned. People love the dramatic these days. They crave entertainment and action as never before. There on the groundfloor in his second-floor bathtub amid the rubble, his head unbowed, he would have won a new grip on the public. The picture might have taken a place beside Washington and the Delaware in water exploits. We can imagine some painter glorifying it with an oil entitled, “Truman Crossing the Dilapidated Beams.” ' ’

The accident would have given the people a new appreciation of what a president has to go through. It would have kindled a mood of warm sympathy and understanding. What man has. ever stepped into a bathtub without at least a fleeting fear of an accident? And how many have known what it is to take a tumble in one? Can you fancy their feelings for a President who had stepped into a tub . . . pow! . . . gone down a flight or two!

This is an era of rumor, gossip and suspicion; the story would have spread that the Republicans had undermined the timbers, and this would have increased pity for the President. From coast to coast, across mountains and valleys, over brooks and rivers, from log cabin to mansion the one cry would . have gone up: ‘‘How’s Harry?” The world would have awaited breathlessly the hourly bulletins from the White House:

10 A.M.—The White House morning statement read: ¢‘The President is doing well, but still suffering from his own amazement.”

Noon—The President is resting. His face is not so red by 10 degrees as was after the mishap. :

1 P. M.—Mrs. Trumar. was al-

lowed to visit the President this afternoon. She asked him simply, “It seems mighty funny to me that you and the tub went down two flights, but your bathrobe remained on the hook upstairs!”

2 P. M.—President Truman got a telegram from Thomas E. Dewey. It read: ‘I _join the bathtub users of America in my deepest gratitude that you piloted the tub to a safe landing and I sincerely hope you will soon be bathing again in the happiness and security which you have a right to expect from our country.” . , 7 _._ 8 P. M™—Henry Wallace was asked to comment on the President’s bathtub accident and replied; ‘lt was too far away for me to know the exact facts. All I know is that you hear of nothing like that happening in Russia.” - §P. M.—The doctors said they would permit the President to be interviewed by radio and television. ‘I only regret” Mr, Truman said, “that I have but one ceiling to give for my country.” ' ®oo : . A New Jersey court has ruled that a night watchman sleeping on the premises is entitled to overtime if awake- during his sleeping hours. If he sleeps during his waking hours, does the boss get a refund? f 28 * ¢ 9 I 5 { Ye Gotham and Ye Ban “Death of a Salesman’ is a deep-ly-moving tragedy, with few laughs, but there is a really big one in two lines. They come when husband and wife are arguing over another bill for a time-payment electric icebox repairs. “Once in my life,” says Willy, “I wish I could own something outright before it goes to pleces. Look at the guy next door. He's got one 20 ve~=~ ¢l aud

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Poems To Remember

(Editor’s note: The poem herein printed was sent to us by Mrs. E. Smith of Ligonier and was written by John Martin.) ' THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE In gloomy tones we need not.cry—“How many things there are to buy!” » Here is a thought for you and me—“The best of things in life are free!” The air, the sunshine and the sea, All gladness, beauty—these are free. Our faithful friendships, sympathy The joys of living—these are free. The budding blossom, stalwart

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Leadership School

Lesson for March 20, 1949

I'l‘ TAKES more than a call of God to be a Christian leader. It takes study, it takes work. The call is necessary, of course, but if is not

all. Jesus set the church an example here as always. He called his Twelve; but he was not so foolish as to think that just because he had called them they were all ready to go out and take the lead. Jesus put them through what may be called the

_ first Leadership Training School in the history of the Christian church. ; % s &% % =% Who Was Enrolled? _ THE TWELVE Apostles were the training class. Not all Jesus’ disciples were equal to it; perhaps some of them actually did not have the time. But these Twelve had already been set off from the others, not because they were better men, but in order to do more direct service in Christ’s name. There was nothing formal about Jesus’ training school. ! It met wherever he was at the time—in a house, or by the. roadside, or on a hill-top. There were no set hours, no textbooks, credits or diplomas. - . Jesus kept it going to the very end, for even after the Resurrection, as Luke tells us (in Acts 1) he was still teaching his Twelve. i ®&% : e . What Did They Study? ‘ TH_ERE WAS no printed civeular, ‘no bulletin, no prospectus or .catalogue. All the ‘‘courses” amounted to just one thing: learning to do what Jesus was doing. To this day, that is the aim of all Christian training. Mark and Luke - mention at least four things Jesus’ training-school students learned from him: r-.aching, healing the

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sick, feeding the hungry, and praying. It would not be quite true to say that part of what they learned was spiritual and part practical, for there is nothing more practical than praying as Jesus taught it, and Jesus never ministered to people’s physical needs without touching their spirits too. Many a person now in some hospital for the insane need not have gone there if he had had the help that a well-frained minister can give. Ministers today are not taught how,to perform miracles like the feeding of the 5,000; but knowing that people’s physical well-being has a great deal to do with their spiritual welfare, the alert young Christian minister of today will be keenly interested in Chiristian social action. ‘ < s & » : How Did They Learn? THE TWELVE learned by doing. It is the only way you learn anything of a practical nature. Memorizing a textbook, memorizing rules, is not learning. You have learned how to do a thing only when you can do it. Of course you have to see it done, first. A boy on the farm-Jlearns to be a farmer by watching)nis_ father and helping him, more than from school courses in agriculture, useful as they are, There is nothing to take the place of apprenticeship under one who knows. So Jesus’ Twelve watched him, listened to him, helped him, before they were trusted on their own. $ % i Will It Still Work? THE METHODS Jesus taugnt are just as effective today as they ever were. Not all churches nowadays follow his line to the letter; in fact, most churches do not. But the basic principles which Jesus drilled into his first traveling representatives are still good. One is faith. Missionaries in the 20th Century are required to take a great ~deal more equipment with them to their fields than one pair of shoes, one cane and an empty purse. Yet who can deny that any missionary of any church, -in China or in Korea today, must ~ - Hve by faith from day to day? - Another of Jesus’ principles was direct contact. People are not won to Christ chiefly by sermons from pulpits, but by in-the-home contacts. Ministers know this, missionaries know it; Sunday school teachers ought to know it too. Getting acquainted with your boys and girls at their homes, and being a friend to them there, is what will give your Sunday teaching its greatest force

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. 0" & ) GRANTLAND RICE s THE MAD PIPER Spring, the Mad Piper, is leading them back, i Boudreau and Feller and Gordon and Bauer, Williams, DiMaggio, Bearden and Mack, Dyer, McCarthy and Lemon and Sauer. . Southworth and Musial, Slaughter and Sain, ’ (This is a cinch without using the brain.) O ' Spring, the Mad Piper, is tapping his reed. Calling to Musial—Harry the Cat, : Kiner and Mize and the hardhitting breed, Blackwell and others who baffle . a bat. , Marion, Stephens and Pesky and Doerr, : (That’s quite enough-of this—- ~ why be a bore?) s¢ s E Spring Dreams of ’49 , AT THIS TIME last season, the following facts had been rather definitely established: The Red Sox and Yankees were to fight out the American League

pennant race with Tigers and Indians in fairly close pursuit. The Dodgers and Cardinals were to take over the National League race with the Braves always threatening. This seemed to be logical enough. No one knew anything about a kid pitcher named Gene Beard-

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en and no one could guess that Lou Boudreau and Larry Doby would improve to any such extent as they did. Also, no one could figure the -Cardinals would get such little help from their rookie crop, and the Dodgers would be scrarnbh'ng around last place long -after the- - opened. Now at least 10 clubs are indulging in early March dreams of October cash and glory. Here they are: . AMERICAN LEAGUE—Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Athletics and the Detroit Tigers. NATIONAL LEAGUE—Boston Braves, Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants and the Pittsburgh Pirates, with Chicago’s Cubs hanging around the outskirts. ~There has seldom been a time in major league history where so many ball clubs in both leagues could be rated with a healthy chance to win. Something unforseen can happen to scatter them apart, but they could also come to the wire under two blankets. : The best.ball club in the two ‘leagues looks to be Cleveland. The second best club should be the Red Sox. We are leaning heavily on that “‘should be’”’ adjunct. : THE BEST CLUB in the National League should be the Dodgers with their speed and youth, their quantity of strong arms and stout legs, plus their 1948 experience. But it will probably prove—to be the Braves again. ¢ If Billy Southworth’ could win a flag with Eddie Stanky out of action over two months and Warren Spahn afflicted with an off years (for Spahn), there is - mno particular reason why he should not win again with a few slight improvements and more help from these two standbys. Also, 1 have ‘a fair idea that Billy Southworth’s Braves will come north in April the best-conditioned team in the older circuit. Southworth overlooks few bets when it comes io getting the best out of what he has to work with. He wastes less time in his training campaign than any manager I ever knew. : : :*s 8 : ) A Dip Into the Dark" : With the first day of spring training less than a week away, we hereby climb out on the end of the limb of a palm tree which has no limbs to speak of. . - Here are our nominations for the early October roundup that may prevent us from seeing the Army- — - Michigan football game: ‘ AMERICAN LEAGUE—Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, Philadel‘phia "Athletics, St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox and the Wash-. - NATIONAL LEAGUE—Boston “Braves, Brooklyn Dodgers, St. New York Giants, Chicago Cubs, tion, if you care to, and save it s }&ma&%m{%@%m&“ o 8 (WIS