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Vol. 83

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Tragedy Strikes

Tragedy again struck with sudden fury last Thursday morning when Barbara Atz was taken from our. midst through drowning, and the heart of a city goes out to the parents left to struggle on. How she fell into-Syracuse Lake will never be known. It is most probable she was knocked unconscious, otherwise she would have picked herself up from the shallow water in which she had fallen. :

No explanation can be given to those bereaved and left behind, but out of their veil of tears must come the realization that life is not completely in our hands. Its twists and turns astonish and beguile. Man wonders and searches, yet finds no answers. Perhaps it is best we do not know, and yet no all consuming consolation is found in that belief.

The beauty remaining in our storehouse of memories is.the reward for the stamina to carry one. Sad though we be, through our tears comes the smile of the memories that ever remain.\

We Need More Of This

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt has just wen the first American Award in Human Relations, offered by the Bureau ot Intercultural Relations. i

Nothing seems further removed from the warm, vivid actuality of friendship between people than the abstract term ‘“human relations.” Yet those who have seen Mrs. Roosevelt fighting the battle for human rights in the United Nations, unyielding before Russian pressure yet always openhanded toward her opponents, undeistand a little better the sort of human relations our world of hostile power blocs needs so badly. \

When whole peoples, as well as single individuals, are eligible by their acts for such an award, the world will have moved a long way toward peace.

—Christian Science Monotor

The Ever Lengthenig Shadow

In 1929, federal spending amounted to less than two thirds of the personal income of the inhabitants of California. By 1947, federal expenditures were approximately equal to the total personal income of all the inhabitants of California, Washington, - Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and about four fifths of Texas. :

Federal expenditures amounted to $l2l per family in 1929, $250 in 1938, and about $984 in 1948.

Remember that these figures represent the spending of the federal government only. When state and local government spending is added, the stotal amounts to some 30 per cent of our national income. In other words, the American people devote. nearly one third of their working time and effort to supporting their wvarious governments.

—New England Letter, published, by The First National Bank of Boston

The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still. —Bowes.

Crime and punishment grow out of. one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.—Emerson. e

A good character is, in ail cases, the fruit of personal exertion.—Joel Hawes,

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Thursday, April 14, 1949

THIS AND THAT: The two Tennessee boys, who are searching for the Fulks Lake turtle, have forbidden anyone to watch them in their attempts to locate the monster for fear that someone would get wise to their methods. Can’t say as I blame them. Finding five hundred pound turtles is something you wouldn’t want too many people to know how to accomplish.

Talking about turtles, now LaGrange County has come up with its monster. It was reported this week an oversized beaver has been sighted in one of their lakes. = Preparations for the summer vacation trade are moving at a rapid pace. ' -

Those who missed “The Three Musketeers” missed out on a swell chance to forget their troubles and feel the tingle of good, old fashioned romance. Gene Kelly isn’t the jumper or great lover that Douglas Fairbanks was, but he runs him a close second. Personally, I enjoyed the trip into -the land of Oz. Escapism is one of the isms I've always supported. :

While on the subject of movies, it is regretable to me that Van Heflin isn’t given a better break in film selection by Hollywood. In my book, he is one of the top performers in the film colony.

Frank Wiley erected the first television antenna in town, but he will have to hurry to have the first set. It is reported that Jim Hull expects to have his set in operation soon. ;

Television will undoubtedly run around FM and take the place of AM as we know it in a very few years. Purchase of sets by the consuming public will hasten the advance of television programming, but right now the prices are too high to meet the pocket book of the ordinary Mr. John Q. Public. Ligonier will be somewhat off the beaten path, but with South Bend and Fort Wayne both contemplating the erection of stations, we won’t be left out completely.

The Ligonier Players have voted a sizeable sum to the summer recreation program, and the committee headed by Mrs. Don Freeman have the go sign of getting together a program that will attract the kiddies this summer.

Plans are now underway to form a DeMolay Order in Ligonier under the sponsorship of the Ligonier Masonic Lodge. We hope they are successful for the DeMolay organization has made great contributions to the communities in which they have been organized. Boys - joining this order are not required to be relatives of Masons, but Masons give them the support needed to keep the wheels rolling. ;

Richard Downing and Quentin Stultz, Jr., did themselves proud Monday evening when they addressed the Rotary Club on the subject, “Rotary and World Peace.” The judges had a difficult job in determining ‘a winner and picked young Stultz after long deliberation. Win or lose, both boys deserve much credit for their time and effort so seriously given. : :

& GRS T, ¢ R R ee el i o The “Sets for “Blue Belle” will be strictly uptown, and the production committee is going full speed forward in getting them completed. Two sets comprise the scenery, but they change rapidly and often. At no time has this committee been forced to develop such precision in their work, and Ligonier will be proud of their creative and technical efforts, A

Li\fe Magazine might possibly do a feature on the fortheoming :Players show if a phone call from their Detroit office materializes into reality.

Joe Leavy has been humming one of the Chorus tunes continously since the last rehearsal of the group, which is the test of any good musical production.

MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR

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PURKEY ON ATLANTIC PACT

No. 156

Ex-PFC Oscar Purkey, veteran of the last war, feels better after

reading the Atlantic pact, but he still thinks it’s smart to keep mothballs in his uniform and not swear off canned eggs for life at this point. ‘ Lo

. “If the world was in its right mind, in fair health and not so jumpy, this Atlantic pack would be okay,” he writes, ‘but you got to remember that it is in the same shape as Alcoholics Anomnibus holding a street-corner huddle when a liquor truck turns turtle in full view. /

“At first I think this Atlantic pack is not serious on account of it is not accompanied by no news that six blocks along First avenue, New York, is to be torn down to make way for a headquarters,” his letter continues, “but I find it is on the level and the matter of a official address will be took up later.

*“The swell thing about getting eight out of a dozen nations together like this is that at least it ends the day when they would not go far enough out on a limb to give each other their right phone numbers. They now agree not only to do this, but each one promises to answer the phone, no matter who is calling or how hot is it.

“] am sure the pack is a good thing on account of Henry Wallace and the Daily Worker and Russia is giving it the old elbow. If Henry was for it, I would be pretty suspicious. The way it shapes up to me is that with England, France, Canada, the United States, Belgium and those other nations on my side, I can afford to let Henry stay on the bench.

‘1 can’t quite figure out what the Atlantic Pack does to the UN. Everybody says it does nothing serious, but my common sense tells me you can’t have two police departments on the same job in the same spot without some difficulties here and there. I hope they work okay together in this case, but one of ’em will want the star’s dressing room maybe and there is apt to be some professional jealousy., If the friction don’t start a new war, I will be satisfied. :

“All this Atlantic Pack does is to provide an agreement that all the nations outside the galvanized-iron draperies will consult together if any enemy starts playing rough. Personally, when the shooting starts I'd feel nervous if my side were just to confer on the matter. In the next global war, the sneakpuncher is going to have a awful head-start on the boys who go into a conference first. But I guess our side will find a way to perfect the jet-propelled huddle so that there will be only a few seconds of elapsed time between the attack and the answer.

‘*“The western nations in this Pack may seem a little too gentlemanly for comfort in a global crisis, but it looks to me like this time they are with Stonewall Webster or Kayo Henry or whoever it was that said we have got to hang together or wire the newsreels men to photograph us all hanging separately. Anyhow, the news about this Atlantic pack has done me some good. I' ain’t taking so many aspirin.” O O Cuif Stuit “Boys Wear Reported off This Winter.””—Headline ; . . And the girls seems to be overdoing it a bit, ® & @ Railroad trains are now being made so glamorous and comfortable that it is pretty distressing. A fellow is compelled to travel all the way out of town and back without getting a decent chance to develop a mood of deep irritation. .; ¢ & Shudda Haddim is sick again. This time it’s over the fact a horse called “Day’” won at Guifstream at $23.40. “I would of had him,” he weeps, “except when I'm looking at ‘'em in the paddock somebody starts hummln‘g ‘Day is done.’” ® o . Alaska proposes to tax women who do not get married. In -those cold climates, i‘t payfto be realistic. :* o : Ye Gotham Bugle & Banner - Howard Cullman has a piece of “Kiss Me, Kate,” “Life With" Mother,” the *“Mad Woman of Chaillot,* “South Pacifie,” “Mr. Roberts” and “Death of A Salesman.” He got ‘into *“angel” busi“once.a script reader for Metro and ~an editor of Stage magazine, He inplays oo bis own they were flos).

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Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor:

As mayor of Michigan City, I cordially invite the people of Ligonier to see the . International Friendship Gardens, located 1% miles east on U.S. 12 and to hear the musicals which will be conducted on the Gardens’ island stage this summer.

Something new has been added to the Gardens this year. Associated Bulb Growers of Holland sent 250,000 tulip bulbs to America, and they were divided among three famous American gardens. The Friendship Gardens here got a share. They have been planted profusely in beds throughout the Garden’s area. e

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Heaven Is Real

Easter Lesson for April 17, 1949

HEAVEN IS just as real as Chicago. More so, because Chicago will in time cease to be, while heaven lasts forever. A few atomic bombs, a whiff of some new plague, SEEESMESETTTT can make Chicago (e :':':iéffz"‘. k. vanish; but no § - atomic bomb can @ . ‘touch heaven. The §¢w & & e pity is, so few S 8 = Christians really be- Sl =8 lieve this. We can L get mail from Chi- S cago, but who ever § g heard of mail from pr. Foreman heaven? : Walit, though . . . there is mail from, heaven, and you have it there in your Bible. If you accept it for what it is, the Word of God, then it is the Word from heaven. To be sure, it does not tell us much about heaven. If you were actually tra~veling to Chicago, you would not begin by studying a street-map of that city. What you would need is a 2 map of the roads between.- ' .So the Bible is not a guidebook to the ‘‘City Four-square;” it is-more of a road-map to help " us find the way between here - and there. Nevertheless, the Bible does assure us that heaven is real. o .Christians have many reasons for ‘believing in the reality of the future life, and some of these may not be _in the Bible; but the best reasons are there. i* B @ Jesus Believed It WINIFRED KIRKLAND has truly sald that Jesus did not simply believe in immortality; he lived it. Jesus would never have called this world or this life trifling or unimportant. But all around, under and _over and through this visible world, Jesus was aware of ancther. He lived and acted as a citizen of both worlds. He talked of life after death —or for that matter, of his own life ‘before his birth—as calmly and naturally as you would speak of next week or next summer. S

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~ “Tulips on Parade” is the first event of the Garden’s season, and ‘will be held May 7 to 29. Next is the Gala Opening Performance July 16; Lucille Manner, soprano, July 23; Music Festival July 30; Opera “The Mikado” August 6; and a color travelouge “Wings Over Vikingland” August 27.

Here in Michigan City, we are proud of the International Friendship Gardens and the beauty of their lovely acres. We’d like you to come and see. In a neighborly spirit of helping to boost the midwest, I am ' - Cordially yours, Russell G. Hileman, Mayor of Michigan City, Ind.

Christ Is Risen MANY PEOPLE feel it would be easier to believe in the future life is someone who had been across the line of death would return across that line to bring a message from the beyond. So they attend seances and they listen to tabletappings and go through all manner of weird performances in order to get a word or two from someone who has passed on. But all the time we do have a record of a Return. Indeed it is The Return. We call it the Resurrection. The message of Easter is not summed up in songs about some ‘‘Beautiful Isle of Somewhere;” it is in these three words: *‘Christ is risen!”’ : He did not return in darkness, he was not under the control of any “medium,’”’ he did not make himself known by ghostly hauntings. He was seen at supper-tables, he spoke to his friends on a mountainside, he came to fishermen on a spring morning by a lake shore. The earliest Christians: doubted some things; but few doubted that the Lord was risen indeed. .o %8 T Heaven Begins With God THECURE for the troubled heart, Jesus said, is faith in God. One of the strongest reasons for believing that the future life is real, is the nature and character of God himself. Jesus said as much once, in an argument with men who did not believe in immortality: ‘‘God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” H we were God’s paper dolls or toy soldiers, he might weary of us as a child wearies of its toys, and sweep us all into destruction witheut’ a moment’s thought. But if we are truly his children, then when life’s evening comes, he will call his tired children home. : e Eternal Life has two sides, _ the heaven-side and the earth- - side, The church has never believed that simple immortality is the same thing as the heavenly life, : : S A Judas, when he dies, goes (as Peter sadly said) ‘to his own place.” A Judas carries out his own hell with him. But a man like Paul, or any Christian who has been at home with God here on this earth, when at last death comes, will, as Whittier said: ' “Find himself by hands fa(Copyright by the International Coun

Billy Southworth’s “Cousin”

A YEAR AGO a hustling second baseman by the name of Eddie Stanky asked the Brooklyn management for an increased stipend or paycheck. Brother Rickey promptly traded him to the Braves and thereby: helped move the same Braves into first place. Stanky did more than his share in whipping Al Dark, a fast, intelligent, : ~ natural ballplayer = @ into pennant form . " before Eddie was AR hurt. The Braves g left the Stankyless 1 Dodgers far in the % BN There is now a o chance that Branch Rickey is pulling a repeater, He is on ' his way to being Gragisst Bioe pifty Southworth's “‘cousin.’”” Seme time back, Rickey sold another Dodger star, Pete Reiser, to the same Braves. Reiser is jubilant. So is Southworth. “I don’t think I ever felt better * Reiser told me the other day. “My legs are fine again—and so is my arm. I'm running into no more walls. I'm up to full weight—lBo pounds.” It might be noted that Reiser was only 30 years of age on’ St. Patrick’s day, sharing this date with Bobby Jones.

Reiser is in his prime. I saw him play third in a recent spring ~ training game and make four beeline throws to first, even rocking the stalwart first baseman, Earl Torgeson. Pete was burning the ball across.

*“l have big plans for Reiser,” Southworth told me, “I mean if his arm is O.K. I'm not worried about his legs or health. He is not only a fine ballplayer, but a great hitter and a natural competitor. He can help us more than you might think. Pete has known more than his share of raw luck. The tide is about due to turn the other way. If it does, the Braves will look even ' better than I think they are—and I'm not selling them short. : ‘“Watch that Torgeson at first. He might be the best first baseman in either league this season. Sain and Spahn are my stand-bys, but Vern Bickford has improved sharply and Bill Voiselle will be quite a help. Stanky is again in top condition. His cracked ankle is O.K. I have a fine-looking young catcher in Paul Burris.

“My club is much better than it was last year. It has to be. Every team in our league is stronger. At least most of them are. For example, the Cardinals and Pirates will be better, and the Dodgers, with all their fast kids, is no club you can ever loaf against. ; “But I still honestly believe we have enough to win for Boston again. If I didn’t think so, I certainly wouldn’t say so. But this is going to be a scramble.” ® * * The Most Improved Team The most improved team in either league, probably is part of the Philadelphia Story. The Philadelphia Story in baseball has been a rather sad one for some time. But Connie Mack revived old dreams last season, and not only the veteran Connie but many socalled fairly-smart people believe his Athletics have a pennant chance this new season. Not second—not third—not fourth—but first. ; Just as big a story is the chance the Phillies have. They are too young to win any pennant. But smart baseball people tell me they can finish second or third. They probably won’t. But they look like a big league ball club on a rampage. :

They have a better outfield than either the Braves, Dodgers or the Cardinals in Del Ennis, Richie Ashburn and Bill Nicholson. They have one of the best infields in either league with Eddie Waitkus at first, plus Puddinhead Jones at third. Their catching is only fair. The Phillies represent the story of the unew National league. They can finish second or seventh. They can finish seventh and still be almost as good as the 1949 pennant winner. - They deserve support from their fans, for here is not only a good ball club, but an interesting one. 1 had a long talk today with my favorite pitcher. His name is Ewell Blackwell of the Reds. In 1947 Blackwell was far and away the best pitcher in the game—not barring Feller, Newhouser or anyone else. Working fBr the lowly Reds, he won 16 straight games. He pitched a no-hitter and came close to another in his next start. Working with the Yankees or Dodgthree or four. He might have won B