Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 12, Ligonier, Noble County, 24 March 1949 — Page 2
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This is our view: b Garden Planting Time = = Spring came suddenly and pleasantly this week, and with it came the display of seeds, bulbs and plants at the various hardware stores. : : It’s time to start planning now for the summer garden, and we s&ggest you start early if you have hopes fox succeess. ; Probably no hobby gives people more satisfaction, or opportunity for good health, as does gardening. It does people good to dig in the soil, but in addition to digging, there is the planting, fertilizing, weeding, hoeing, spraying and pruning. All designed to give you exercise under the health rays of the sun, and the pleasure of watching things grow into maturity. e Maybe you havn’t much skill in gardening (this writer is one of that group), but you can have fun and better health by trying. Start your plan now. ———-——o——-—_ Camping for Crippled Children The Indiana Society for Crippled Children offered camping to 200 crippled children in five locations in Indiana last year. Camping was therapeutic as well as recreational and every effort is being made to provide enough facilities to take care of all the physically handicapped children who could profit by camping. : Camp Millhouse, sponsored by the St. Joseph County Chapter, affiliated with the Indiana Society of Crippled Children, affords camping for approximately sixty crippled children. The children represent all kinds of disabilities. ~They receive therapy treatments as recommended by their doctors. Camp Millhouse is located at the corner of Poppy Road and Peppermint Lane, about five miles out of South Bend and was the first crippled children’s camp in Indiana. : The Marion County Chapter provided regular camping for physically handicapped boys and girls as well as day camping at Crossroads, their headquarters, for children whose handicaps would not permit them to enjoy regular camping. : : The Vanderburgh County Chapter held eight weeks day camping at Camp Optimist near Evansville for twentyeight crippled . children.
All children were sent to camp with their doctor’s written recommendation and camping is therapeutic as well as recreational. Twin Lakes Camp near Plymouth, Indiana, sponsored by nine Chicago Kiwanis Clubs, takes ten to fifteen Indiana children for the Society each summer. , : The Bartholomew Coutty Chapter used the facilities of the Christian Service Camp in Brown County through the generosity of the East Columbus Christian Church. ° The Society’s new Camp Koch at Troy, Indiana, overlooking the beautiful Ohio will almost double the camping facilities for crippled children in 1949. Camping is just one item of the Society’s ‘service program. Others are Medical Care and Treatment when not available for any other source, Eduecation, Tutors for the homebound, sponsoring of special schools, speech and hearing therapy, pre-school centers and assistance to physically handicapped college students; Reereational Programs including day . camping; and Training and Employment for the severely handi--capped including the homebound. . The Indiana Society of Crippled Children provides any needed service which does not duplicate the service of any other public or private agency. It all adds up to a project worthy of support. A .' Do your part — Buy Easter Seals!
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. by , Calhoun Cartwright It has always-been an enigma to me how simple things grow into complexities. An idea is born. It is a simple idea, perhaps taking the support of many to make it work. There is agreement. Then something happens. It becomes a big idea, problems develop, jealousies take root, criticisms both petty and large flower. . Where once there was unanimity of purpose there develops the strangling tenacles of effort at cross purpose. The weak fall by the wayside. The strong, depending on the degree of strength they possess, go on. When we look at history, we are astounded with these facts. Jesus Christ preached a simple sermon . . . a simple philosophy of life. From that simplicity has come over two hundred and fifty different denominations all saying they have the right interpretation of his beliefs for you to follow. The entire fabric on the Christian philosophy based on simple living hinders its actual progress thru complexities. It is strange. Generally, in the development of an idea, the “doers”, zealous in their quest of accomplishments, ignore the handicaps, the problems, seeing only the goal. The “non-doers” see the pit falls, the weaknesses. They criticize without oifering solution. They object to the “doers” perhaps by contrast, even fabricate problems to help defeat the thing, of which they actually might benent if finally accomplished. They help to make the simple complex. This has been the history of progiess from the beginning of time, yet truth marches forward. Tripped perhaps along its way, but rising again to carry on. : What man in his search of truth hasn’t been discouraged? What man in his quest of the “holy grail” hasn’t been forced to meet the dragon? wnau man with an ideal in view hasn’t been saddened by the malicious, the defeaters? Yet with it all, they keep on. why ? By chance, it might be their life . . . their destiny pull, if there is such a thing. : I remember an old colored preacher once say, when talking on much the same ' subject, “When the little dog barks at your heels, don’t notice him.” It is good for those who want to be “doers” to remember this. Falling back in defeat “will be many times worse inside, than stumbling forward against -odds." £ It’s an inner battle that each in his own way must win. _ I read the other day a book by Ray- _ mond J. Baughan in 'which he said, - “Our inner lives are battlefields. An endless struggle is going on inside us between the high and the low, our best and our worst, our passions and our principles, our fear and our faith. And ‘nothing much can be' accomplished m the outer world until a victory is won within. - 2 “The central problem of every man’s spiritual life is there inside himself. Whatever battle you have on your hands unique and private and unnoticed by the world as it may be—that is your stint. ‘Nobody else can win the victory for you. If you do not triumph there, nobody ever will. e ; “No mater what we face—discouragement or failure, tragedy or secret sin« or what you will—we have an access to such enemies of good. We can identify a deeper self that would rise up to fight ourselves with that. We can turn to that part 6f us where there are still possibilities. We can let our inner drums beheard — . . it “And let us be kind to one another. - For the other man is fighting battles that we know imot of” . It might be a method whereby the simple will not become complex. Where each in his own way can do his good. What sweet delight a quiet life affords—~Drumiond. - - - " . Ihmé‘fmwdmt ‘all the mis- . fortunies of men spring from their not
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LETTER FOR SPECIAL - DELIVERY Hon. Harry S. Truman, , Washington, D.C. : Dear Mr. President: . It pains me to note that you, who . over the long pull have seemed to 'me a horse-sense fellow who knew baloney when he saw it and who i didn’t like it thin, thick or medium, have now taken up that old cry ~about the newspapers being in a . deep plot against the people. Harry, 'you know better. | -t | ‘There are no full-page ads for ,our side,” you say in taking a dig | at the press. Now that is plain has"senpfeffer. All the page ads in opposition to your policies or acts 'in a year, if stacked end on end, would be completely lost in the ,thousands of pages which the 'American newspapers have de.voted to you in reporting your -speeches and your programs. The space devoted to any one of your | speeches in the papers of the country would swamp the total space consumed by all those full-page ads over a period of six months. The ads get into few papers; no paper fails to report your speeches to its fullest ability. - Few Presidents fn history have had a friendlier press. The note of kindliness is to be found, even in the criticisms. The newspapers go to great expense to give you every ‘break. It is doubtful if any occupant of the White House in 25 years has been more warmly treated by the newspapers of this country from coast to coast and from border to border, . _ | —O— At work or at play you get a million columns of newspaper space and any honest publicity expert in your own party would admit that the advertising is mostly good and that all the dough your opponents could lay a hand on wouldn’t be enough to get that much space for - their views. So you must be kidding when you say, ‘‘There are no full pages for our side.” —‘— ‘‘Selfish interests are on the job year in and year out, seven days a week and 24 hours a day. They work through the editorial pages, the columnists and the commentators they control,’”” you assert. ‘““They twist and misrepresent the measures the people voted for.” —o—- — Harry, may the press of America never be as unfair to you as you are to the press when you make a crack like that. The fact twisters don’t last long on any paper. No newspaper can misrepresent things long and survive. s & = In a <democratic country where a free press has men of all parties and beliefs running newspapers, you don’t expect -them all to be 100 per cent for everything you propose, do you? : iy i The press is one of America’s great institutions, Harry. It is mighty important to the American system. It is important to the Democratic party, the Republican party and any other party. To deliberately undermine its prestige, create an atmosphere of distrust in its fairness and foster the notion that it is a tool of the privileged few is bad stuff, Mr. President. In -every great crisis the press is a Number One Need. You’ve needed it, Harry. And you've had it as few Americans have had it “year in and year out, seven days a week and 24 hours a day.” I thought you knew. : Yours in surprise ELMER. ®¢ o : Cuff Stuff A -Walter Donnelly, slated as the new undersecretary of state in charge of South American affairs, used to work in the circulation department of the New Haven Register back home . . . Video does the darndest things. As for ifstance Sid Caesar’s use of that old Willie Howard skit on the interrupting waiter, with no credit or apology to anybody. And it was played on another program only a few weeks back . . / “Knock On Any Door,” widely proclaimed as a study in Juvenile crime and a deterrent, is just another. glorification of a hoodlum, ‘with ‘enough murders and stickups to keep a kid absorbed for WQEkI o- . ; ; 5 SEas ® o 9 3 Excluded| S ~ Fritz Kuhn, former Bund leader in America, has been freed by a ‘German court. His sentence was cut to two years—already served! And his property—of which he has none — was ordered confiscatedl can claim he didn’t even go to a _ Fritz announces he will now try to regain his American citizenship. He is willing, as we get it, to be ® good sport and pardon ug.
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Poems To Remember
BE THE BEST by Douglas Malloch If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill, Be a scrub in the valley—but be The best little scrub by the side of the hill; JBe a bush, if 'you can’t be a tree. We can’t all be captains, we’ve got to be erew, °
RELIGION FOR THE MODERN WORLD
e T BB E I bl ‘Wififi | BT S e B By DR NENWETH |, FOREWR 7_IB('I:%%IPTURE:_ Mark 7:24-37 Luke DEVOTIONAL READING: Acts 10:34-45, v The Race Question Lesson for March 27, 1949. lESUS DID NOT Know there was a race question. That is to say, there -was no question for him, though he well knew that his neighbors found the race problem a hot one. S All the germs of any SReE 3{ race problem, even of race riots, were 8. i . there in Palestine as W@éé k. in all of our world %‘: o : - First there was the feeling of racial S e superiority. .Few, if - - any, peoples think Dr. Foreman of themselves as an inferior race. Nobody would mind being kicked around if he thought he deserved nothing better. The Jews, to which race Jesus belonged, were no exception to the rule. They felt themselves the su™ perior of any race on earth. Same W we Two Sides of the Question IN JESUS’ time the“ Jew of Palestine was in the middle. - The Romans, having conquered the land, were top-dog in Palestine. With the Romans, the Jews saw the un-der-side of the race question. But there were other races, much less pure than the Jews, races called ‘“‘canaanite’” for want of a better name. These people were kicked around by the Jews, just as the Jews in turn were kicked around by the Romans. Looking at the Canaanites, the Jews saw the race gquestion from the top side. In Palestine the wounds of race guarrels were made worse by the vinegar of religious dif- - ferences. In those days it was ~ taken for granted: . Different race, different religion. | : Jesus’ neighbors and relatives in Nazareth, like most Jews, supposed that God would favor only the ‘““chosen people,” namely themselves. So the Jew’s resentment toward the Romans above him and his contempt of the Canaaniteg bed
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‘There’s something for all of us here,. : : There’s big work to do, and there's lesser to do, ‘When the task we do is the near. If you can’t be a highway,» then Just be a trail, If you can’t be the sim be a star; It isn’t by size that you win or -‘ you fail— Be the best of whatever you are.
by his conviction that they would all end in hell except his own race. : . $ ¢ What Jesus Did About It THE TWO STORIES in our lesson (see the Scripture references) show the astonishingly simple way in which Jesus walked straight through those walls as if they did not exist. He passed no resolutions, denounced nobody; he simpl y treated all races alike. He helped the Roman army officer and the Canaanite woman precisely as if they had been Jews. (By the way, his remarks to that woman should not be misunderstood as rude. She did not take them that way.” He spoke to her, we may well believe, with a smile, and she took him with equal good humor.) Jesus appreciated faith wherever he found it. He was the last person to fancy that all human beings are alike., But he was the first to give all an equal chance. He took people as human beings, .mnot as ‘“‘Romans” or Canaanites.” He neither cringed to the Romans nor bullied the Canaanites. He looked at all men and women with level eyes, seeing not their skins nor their clothes, but their hearts. / ¢ * What We Can Do oUR NORTH AMERICA is also criss-crossed by walls of prejudice—racial, political and religious. In Canada (for example) there is the friction between Canadians of French and those of English or Scotch descent; in the United States (not by any means confined to the South) between Negroes and white people, or between Japanese and white people; between the ‘‘old stock’ and recent immigrants; and so on. Those walls look pretty solid; but a Christian will find that if he follows Jesus’ example he can walk - right through them. Last winter a national interdenominational or.ganization challenged its 28 million members and through them the Christian world, with one of the most sweeping declarations of human rights ever drafted by an American church body. v Hitting at every type of dis~crimination—r acial, political, -social, economic, religious—the ~ to work for the creation of a non‘segregated soclety ‘““as proof of _ their sincerity.” L ~ Yet the real bréakdown of human prejudices, hatreds and contempts, with “the injustices growing out of these, does not come at one stroke degrees, as Christ-inspired individu‘als make their own bright doorways,
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Bill Dickey Returns | IN, THE SPRING of 1928 s fal, lanky kid blew into the Yankee stadium from Little Rock. He had arrived via Little Rock, Muskogee, Jackson and Buffalo. He was then 21 years old, 6 feet 2, weighing 185 pounds. When he was born in Bastrop, La., back in 1907, he was formally christened William Mal-, colm Dickey. The William Malcolm soon gave way to plain Bill. The point of this outbreak is that Bill Dickey, after a lapse of two
years, is back with the Yankees again as a catching and gtching coach, a ot where he has no equal The Arkansas Traveler has at least two distinctions. He is about as fine a quail shot as you'll run © across. And he comes close to be-
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ing the best all around catcher baseball ever produced. His main challengers are Mickey Cochrane, Gabby Hartnett and Ray Schalk. Or maybe Johnny Kling from old Cub days.
Other catchers have had betfter arms, or arms just as good as Dickey’s. Al of them were faster. Mickey Cochrane was a ball-of-fire where Dickey was serene and unruffled. Bill’s claim to fame rested on his hitting and the way he handled pitchers.
As far as I know, Dickey is the only catcher who drove in over 100 runs four years in succession—--107 in 1936, 133 in 1937, 115 in 1938 and 105 in 1939, In these four years Dickey hit 102 home runs. Smart pitchers have told me more than once that in a clutch they considered Bill Dickey the most dangerous man in baseball—and this wasn’t barring Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Greenburg, Foxx or Williams.,
Dickey remained with the Yankees from 1928 through 1946, when he returned to Little Rock for & two-year stay. He was lured back to the Yankees this last winter and this spring he will help Casey Stengel unravel two Yankee tangles—the catching and the pitching.
It these two snarls are ‘straightened out, the Yankees can be a dangerous outfit. If not, they won’t be. . If ‘the combined snarl and tangle can be handled, Stengel has the right man on hand for the job. s @ . Dickey vs. Pitchers *‘One reason I get such a kick out of catching is the chance to see Joe Gordon play second base,” Bill said some years ago. *‘He keeps on making plays that can’t be made.” : It was always a treat to watch the way Dickey handled his pitchers, especially the young ones. Atley Donald won his first 12 games pitching to Dickey. Now and then you'd see Bill stroll out to the box. The two would talk for a while and then Dickey would return to work. “What do you two talk about?” 1 asked. :
“Oh, I'd say what a nice day it was. Or ask him how the folks were. Something like that. And then suggest we had all afternoon and not to hurry. A lot of pitchers when they lose control or get in ‘trouble seem» to pitch faster and faster. ‘That's when you have to slow them down.” .
“ll never forget watching that Dickey stick his big glove under his left arm and start - for the box,” Roger Bresnahan said one day. Bresnahan was John MecGraw’s pick for the all-time catcher. ‘““You could almost see the pitcher seitling down. He was another pitcher after Dickey got through. Usually a catcher gets a little peeved or sore at a pitcher who can’f locate the plate. Not Dickey. This was his chance (o use his soothing syrup.” r must be admitted that Bill Dickey is a hard fellow to upset; mentally or physically. Bill’s philosophy ' consists largely in accepting the breaks as they come. The good breaks never lift him too high nor the tough breaks let him * down, “It doesn’t pay to get excited,” Dickey advises. “Why get worried?” Bill wouldn't know an alibi if he bumped into one. : Dickey as always carried a great admiration for Ted Williams’ batting eye. e : It is mgzueu that one Casey hanging around. If anyone can MYM%’!& low from Arkansas is the answer.