Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 14, Ligonier, Noble County, 7 April 1949 — Page 2

A Page of Opinion:

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Vol. 83

This is our view: { Outlook For Farm Production

The Corn Belt Farm Dailies, publication of the livestock industry, predicts that the farmers of the Central West “will produce to capacity again this year.”. s -’

In an optimistic report, it says:

“Capacity to produce is stepped up; more acres are under cultivation; more and better equipment is available; labor is more plentiful; there will be enough commercial fertilizer, and it will be used liberally; new and improved crop varieties favor higlr aere yields; and the price” incentive is adequate with “the certainty of Government support.”

What happens on the farm is of interest to every city dweller. - Not only is the food which he eats raised there, but the farmers are good customers ot those things which the industrial centers make to sell. :

If there is prosperity on the farms, there will be prosperity in the cities. The industrial depression of the early 1930’s was in a great measure the result of an agricultural depression which began several years earlier. It is a mistake to call the United States an industrial nation. 1t is something far more and much better than that. It is both an agricultural and industrial nation. That is why we come 5o near to being self-supporting. —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette

Our One World

Monday was heralded by many thruout America as an historic day, for 1t was on that day that the Atlantic Pact was signed, but the degree to which it will be historic is not yet written. Most statesmen feel it is a great move toward insurance for peace, and it well could be if ambition is not one of its motivating forces. -

Senator Robert Taft expressed the opinion that the pact should be intensely and extensively studied before our Congress places upon it the stamp of approval, and strange bedfellows though it makes us, we are inclined to agree with him. -

It seems to us that the hysteria of the moment is not the time to make broad, far reaching decisions. And peculiarly enough there has never been a military alliance in the history of the world that has not ended in war. It is our ferwent hope that this pact will prove the exception. Today, we are prepared to spend over five and one-half billion aollars 11 European aid, fifty million was just voted to aid the non-communist forces in China and over eighteen billion to our military forces. Total these amounts with the cost of administrating the various agencies of that type and you have a stupendous figure. *A figure that puts to shame the amount we spent during the depression for the relief of our own people. These amounts must be raised from taxation and it is the little people that pay taxes. " :

It is also the little people that fight the wars, do the dying, sutfer the heartbreaks. . ,

If there ever was a time in the history of the world that adult thinking was needed, it is now. If there ever was a time when men needed to keep their heads and not be swayed by hysterical thinking, it is now. :

The responsibility of our government to its people and to the world is greater now than in any portion of our hisotry. We hope they can carry the load.

Cheerfulness is a friend to grace; it puts the heart in tune to praise God, and so honors religion by proclaiming to the world that we serve a good master. —Thomas Watson.

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Thursday, April 7, 1949

Accidents cause as many successes as thrift and industry combined, the American Magazine’s formula to the contrary, and ‘overyone in their experience knows of someone who has achieved prominence thru a seris of accidents and good breaks.

I don’t mean, that people who achieve success have not applied the thrift and industry rule, but that in itself does not seem sufficient. ;

Last week, as an example, a gentleman and his wife came into our office to place an advertisement in The Banner concerning a new soil discovered on their farm called “Black Magic.” With the order was an invitation to visit their place south and west of LaGrange and see for myself the miracle deposit they had uncovered. '

It was a happy two hours I spent with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Maybee last Sunday hearing their story and viewing the piles of “Black Magic”, which could very well spell success for them and an abundance of swell vegetables, grass and flowers for those who see fit to make use of their discovery. If you see the soil piled high on their farm, and examine its richness, you are first inclind to call it luck, but upon hearing their story, you are convinced that only by accident was the soil discovered, and further that said accident was the result of sweat, blood and tears.

Mr. and Mrs. Maybee have worked hard thru-out their entire life time, and finally decided to work even harder to provide a place where they could take life with the ease befitting a couple whose thrift and industry 'rightfully entitled them. They purchased twelve acres of wooded land, which had upon the property an abandoned school house. Here they envisioned would be their home,-and on the ground they hoped o clear would be the largest strawberry patch in Northern Indiana from which they could make their living.

Together they cut down the trees, sawed them into logs and burned the brush, roots and other debrie. It was back-breaking work taking long hours of energetic effort, but they accomplished their task. Then to make their land even more productive, Mr. Maybee who -had studied irrigation and water conservation all his lite, decided a“ditch was necessary at the rear of their property. ,

It was when this ditch was being dug they discovered their rich deposit of “Black Magic.” Here was soil so rich in potash, nitrogen and the phosphates that at first it seemed impossible. Purdue tested the earth and sent back an astounding report. Friends and neighbors exclaimed. What nature had been building up for years and years was discovered by accident, and success at last can well have come to a couple who had worked a- lifetime with more discouragements than solaces.

The Maybees are going to dig and sell until the soil is gone, but in the place from which it comes will be a lake of cool, pleasant water. It will be stocked with fish and when the day is done, two people can be seen resting from their labors in the sun along the bank of their lake that accident provided them. -

SCRAP-BOOK GEMS When making a bid for sympathy, don’t try to force your listener onto your side just fromy what you choose to tell. He may have learned the old adage —there are always three sides to a squabble, your side, the other fellows side, and the truth! o et { e Remember—the more you do the more you can do, and it is easier to keep going than it is to stop and try to get going again. But never forget that if life is to be effective you have to con‘centrate abilities to selected *tasks. Don’t try to spread yourself too thin. Don’t try to be everything to everyone, for that is a useless endeavor and it brings lessened respect even from those

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COLLEGE FOR CHEFS

No. 14

G. 1. Schools in cooking, menu planning, restaurant operation and hotel management are being conducted in various parts of the country, with one more or less affliated with Yale. "For this we give a lusty cheer. If there is one field in which plenty of education is needed, is it in the operation of the average American restaurant and lunchroom. The run-of-the-mill eating places of this country are presided over largely by chefs who are strictly grease-and-hot-flame boys.

Even the proper technique in frying an egg escapes them. Their idea of a good dinner is anything that has been in and out of a grease bath. And they can make coffee taste like essence of marine varnish. They got into the business on a bet, learned to cook by taking an elementary course in arson and kept their jobs because the boss ate elsewhere.

A college for chefs, cooks and stewards is a crying need. America desperately needs it. The customers are tired of being guinea pigs for apprentice ham-and-bean boys whose motto is, “If you can eat it without catsup, it’s our mistake.” e

There are ‘G. I. students from 38 states in the school at New Haven. The boys study cooking under experts and nobody who thinks two minutes are enough for a fourminute egg makes the team. No student with a fixed idea that any sandwich is tasty if well upholstered with faded lettuce finishes his freshman year.

We understand special attention is paid to the matter of chicken pies and beef stews and that the dean flunks any student who insists all a chicken pie needs to be irresistible is a slight segment of wing, one quartered potato and a boiled onion whipped in glue.

As for menu planners, ah, there’s a field! Take 150,000 middle-class restaurants in this country today, and 149,923 think the menu has been radically changed if the giring beans are left out. :

Dietitians? Yes and no. Personally, we think that.the moment a person gets a sheepskin as a dietition he or she thinks it is a license to skimp on all the essentials of lunch except eggplant and coleslaw. i

The course in hotel management is needed, too:” What a field! There are thousands of cities and towns in America where, except for one inn( if lucky), the hotels are run by sock peddlers hired to keep down expenses and operate wholly on the theory that the guest should bring his own plumbing kit, be able to tix a lock and make no complaint if he has to have the hotel physician immediately after ordering the day’s special. :

Three cheers and a tiger for that school up in the rarified atmosphere of Yale. - And we hope Harvard and Princeton will see the light, too. ¢ & Cuff Stuft ‘“Realtor” won a race at $43 in Miami the other day and Shudda Haddim is still knocking himself with reproachments. ‘‘Realtor! A name like that in Florida and I don’t know it's a sure hunch!” he cried. “Every third guy I meet this winter down there is selling lots! I can’t do any handicapping the night before this race on account of everybody on the porch is arguin’ over real estate. “That night '‘around midnight I get waked up by a phone call in the next room and some guy starts making an appointment to look over a sub-division. At ‘breakfast my three-minute eggs are done a half hour on account of the chef is tryin® to sell the dishwasher a bungalow cheap. And on the way to the track the taxi driver stops to point out his acreage! Yet there is this skinner ‘Realtor’ on the program and I let him go.” - o o o *“l wish those who judged me would be willing to risk their lives as I did."—Axis Sally, . . . How about a' medal for the heroic little woman? . ks e o » { : it is possible that those youths . who staged an old fashioned ' train robbery recenfly were raised on those western movies and got the idea nobody’s aim in a posse was any good. i®o o ! Two playboys pleaded guilty in New York to promoting a gambling party in the guise of charity. Jail terms are possible. A lot of Broad- - be amazed to discover that they can - striped suit and handcuffs in it.

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' Poems To Remember

WATCH YOURSELF GO BY

Just stand aside and watch yourself go by;

Think of yourself as “he” instead Of “I” ;

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ring true; v Confront yourself and look you in the eye,

Just stand aside and watch your- - self go by.

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SCRIgTURE: Mark 10. ’ 37DIF..‘V TIONAL READING: Mark 9:33

Range of Religion

Lesson for April 10, 1949

ONCE THERE WAS a farmer who owned a large farm. Its wide acreage was divided into pastures and fields and a garden and orchards and hoglots and chicken- FEGEEEET"""" yards and so on. SRR N But whenever any f one would ask the i farmer about some mif oo particular part of SR the farm, he would Sk = R answer, ‘“That’s et g not my business— S “\i that’s only the or- S—chard, it isn’t the Dr. Foreman farm;’’ or ‘“—That’s not the farm, that’s a flock of sheep,” or a rye field or whatever it might be. Of course such a farmer never lived, or if he did, he should have his head examined.

What Does Religion Cover? Y‘ET THAT FARMER is not a bit more idiotic than a Christian who, when asked about this or that activity or aspect of life,r answers, “That’s not religion. I have no interest in it.” Religion isn’t a little fenced-off pasture for lambs, a tiny garden plot behind thick hedges. Religion covers the whole farm, every bit of life from end to end. Jesus knew this very well. He never once refused to discuss anything on the ground that it was not religious. i He cast light on everything that touched him. He called his followers the “light of the world.” Not flash- - lights, shining in one narrow beam! Not flashlights, but lamps, set on a lampstand and ‘‘giving light to all who are in the house.” 4 \ : e 5 o : The Light Of God : A GOOD cross-section of Jesus’ * & methods and ideas can be seen in Mark 10, into which one chapter Mark packs his whole account of a number of weeks which Jesus spent

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your eye, Just stand aside and watch yourself go by. '

And then, with eyes unveiled to what you loathe— ' To sins that with sweet charity you’d clothe— Back to your self-walled tenement you’ll go With tolerance for all who dwell below; : The faults of others then will - Continued on Page 9

in the region called Perea. Observe the variety of situations which confronted Jesus. First there was a question about divorce. When they brought that question up to Jesus, he did not dodge it. He did not call it a personal matter in which he, as a teacher of religion, had no interest. He did not say it was strictly a matter for the civil courts. You may read what he did say in Mark 10. You will note that first of all he brings God into his answer. 7¢ S @ Religion And Little Children THIS CHAPTER includes the famous story of the little children who were brought to Jesus—evidently quite small children, for Jesus lifted them into his arms. We do not hear Jesus saying, ‘‘Children are too small for me to take any interest in them. Wait till they are older. What good can religion do these tiny tots?’”’ On the contrary, Jesus not only blessed them, but held them up as models for older people. Is your church following Jesus here? Is your church interested in the little children as much as it is in the ‘“‘paying” members? Or are the little ones shoved off into some damp corner of the church basement? In your state or province, do the Christian people take an interest in the children? Do children in your section get as good attention as pure-bred cattle do?

As Wide As Life THEN THERE WAS a question about eternal life. Of course Jesus answered that one, it was obviously a religious question. (Except that he gave it what some people even today would consider a not very religious answer!) Jesus went on to talk about money and the effect it has on a man’s prospect of eternal life. Jesus would be the very last person to imagine that a man’s bank account has nothing to do with religion. Some people to this day don’t like to hear a preacher mention money in his sermons. Well, such people might have been offended by Jesus, for he often preached about money and property. : - Then there was the question of ambition, the audacious request that James and John made of him, He had some strong re- - marks to make about that. And, finally at Jericho, not long before Palm Sunday, there was the blind: beggar Bartimaeus. Jesus did not say to him, “Health is no affair of mine. I cure souls, not bodies.” :

The College Influence THE ADDITION of Red Rolfe, the distinguished Dartmouth alumnus, to the list of big league managers, increases considerably the influence of the college mind on our national game. The list of college-trained managers now includes Lou Boudreau s gommee: 0f Illinois, Eddie . @ B . Dyer of Rice, Red g 8 “:ff?i‘-figz};si of Dartmouth P @.m&:-sscfi“f‘" and Eddie Sawyer : }Mvg« ® of Ithaca. This is g@fi% only four out of the L. " 16, but it's at least £ a lift from the old fii:;:;,;@ & days when Jake : § Stahl of Illinois and : the Red Sox was Grantland Rice about the -~ only collegian in charge of a squad. Stahl’s Red Sox beat the Giants in the 1912 World Series.

It isn’'t beyond reason to see Boudreau’'s Indians and Dyer’s Cardinals hook up in another world series. This, however, is no evenmoney bet. . In the American league, the Indians still have the Red Sox, Yankees and Athletics to subdue. In the National league, the Cardinals still have the Dodgers, Braves, Pirates and Giants to lasso and handle. The four college-trained managers must also overpower such non-college entries as Joe MecCarthy, Casey Stengel, Burt Shotton, Leo Durocher, Billy sfithworth, Billy Meyer and Connie Mack—a rather formidable troop.

What teams are going to win the two pennants, anyway? With nothing better to do under a hot, steamy sun, we began interviewing ballplayers—not the rookies—to get their angles. After all, they had played against these teams and ought to have some slant on the subject. -

Their opinions were quite in- ~ teresting. From American league camps, we found that about 65 per cent gave Cleveland the edge through stronger balance in pitching, hitting, outfield, infield and catching. There’s no doubt that Boudreau’s Indians are the best-balanced outfit in either league. They have what should be the best pitching staff, a fine outfield, a- strong infield and competent catching. £ . The other 35 per cent wemt 25 for the Red Sox and 10 for the Yankees. 1 rate the Yankees much bigher than this. They bave the best outfield in the league, if Joe DiMaggio is O.K. They bave the weakest infield of the three contenders, but powerful pitching possibilities. The Red Sox are only uncertain in the box, where pennants are won and lost;

Anyway, most of the American leaguers thought the Indians would win again. They thought so rather violently. They are probably right, as Boudreau is a smart, keen, hustling manager who is going to stand for no loafing. Joe McCarthy must get better pitching and Casey Stengel must get better infield play, improved pitching 9nd improved catching. Could happen.

The National League Vote The National league vote was even more interesting. We only had the Cardinals, Reds, Phillies and Braves to talk to. The.Giants and Pirates are too far away. So are the Dodgers in their madhouse at Vero Beach. All the Cardinals we talked to picked the Cardinals to win by some strange quirk. The Phillies and the Reds were split among the Braves, Cardinals and Dodgers, with the Braves slightly in the lead bécause of Sain, Spahn, Dark and Pete Reiser’s potential gifts. Also a fellow by the name of Billy Southworth, at least one of the great managers of all time. The National league vote found the Braves in front with the Dodgers and Cardinals almost equal. The Cardinals were rated a better team than the Dodgers, with toe much age against too much youth. In a series of five games, the Cardinals would probably win four. But 154 games was a different story. Here is a 1940-1941 squad facing a 1947-1948 squad—younger, sounder, with stronger legs and stronger arms. There is no such creaking and clashing of worn-out bones among the Dodgers that you hear from the Cardinal camp. The Redbird team must be rebuilt quickly, It is almost through—although still powerful and dangerous. They are a much better ball team than the Dodgers or Giants. But 'm not as well as the Dodgers can traOddly enough, few of the NaTuey Wced the. Plruies oves e account of Sain and Spahn, |