Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 18, Ligonier, Noble County, 5 May 1949 — Page 2
A Page of Opinion: , e LIGONIER BANNER : e ESTABLISHED 1867 3: o VoL 8 Thursday, May 5, 1949 "No. 18
This is our view: Mother’s Day Each year on the second Sunday in ‘May, we celebrate Mother’s Day, and each year we pause sufficiently long to say something about that day of the yeariddedicated to the Mothers of the wWorld: -
- Historically, Mother’s Day started in 1904 when Frank Hering, editor of the Eagle’s national magazine, suggested it while giving a speech in the Old Opera House in Indianapolis. The Eagles Lodge took up the suggestion, and eventually it was given Presidential proclamation. From that day to this, it has been the occasion for sermons, speeches, editorials, and (perish the thought) money making. . But whatever might be said against this day, it shall never overshadow the good that lies deep within the meaning of such a dedication.
Whatever good men say of Mothers cannot do justice to the love, sacrifice and guidance given the children of the world. - If Mothers could rule the world, their sons would never be maimed or killed thru the instrument of war. There would be no thieves, blackguards or scoundrels. Men would honor their neighbor and cherish their friends. Men would practice, not give lip service, to the very basic tenets of Christianity, for where in the world is a Mother who doesn’t hope for her children a life of peace, happiness and serenity? In the hearts of men is a gratitude inexpressible for their Mother’s love and guidance. Never does perdition cross their path that from their lips doesn’t come the unheard cry, “Mother, had I but listened to you.” ' Yes, it is a grand day to observe. It is a day that should take its place with the great holidays of the world. It is a day in view, in retrospect, the great key to successful living . . . the unselfishness and humility of a Mother’s love.
Investigate The Lobbies
At long last it appears that the way will be opened shortly for a Senate investigation of lobbies.
Such an inquiry was indorsed by President Truman even before the Eighty-first Democratic Congress met in January. During his successful election campaign he had revealed and denounced the operation of highly financed lobbies .against his program in the Eightieth Congress, and this was followed up by introduction of a lobby investigation resolution early in this Congress by Sen Kilgore (D-W. Va.) The Senate Judiciary Committee was expected to consider this week a report recommending approval of this resolution and an initial appropriation of $50,000 from a sub-committee to which the resolution was referred, consisting of Sens. Kilgore, McGrath (D-R. 1) and Wiley (R-Wis.). The investigation if approved by the committee and the Senate, -would be conducted by: & judiciary sub-committee. .
In its explorations the inquiry could well try to find out if a sort of superlobby is now operating here, that is, whether there is an interlocking connection among various special interest lobbies, either understood or formal, to assist each other in fighting the Truman social welfare program.
A Newspapers Duty to the Public To acquaint the people of the community with conditions as they exist. To acquaint them with what other communities are doing in the field of civic planning. To awaken them to the possibilities of their city. i To create within the people the civic pride which will eventually turn these possibilities into realities. To fight through a program once it has been formulated. : . g —Pittsburg Post-Gazette
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MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR by Calhoun Cartwright
If the warm spring air gives you the idea that a vacation would be wonderful, start counting the funds in the exchequer, and then see the boss about getting a few days away from the grind.
If you’re in the position that I find myself, you’ll discover that in spite of your strong desire, neither the bank book or the boss will permit its fulfillment.
This unhappy condition brought me to wonder if some means might be devised whereby vacations could be pleasant and at the same time without cost, and I believe I have the answer.
Why not just quit work for a month and pick about five friends thruout the country to visit. Naturally, you would.. have to appear.. oblivious to a dirty look or two, and your ears would have to be deafened to the whispers, “how long do you suppose they are going to stay ?” but all in all, it would be a cheap way to cover the country side., When your host starts telling you of the amount of work he has beiore him, you can feel certain he has been harangued by the. hostess, and it is time to leave, but certainly that shouldn’t come about for at least three days. When it does you gayily shove off to the next victims. Why 1 can imagine a person making his living in practically that manner by staying on to the very limit of the hosts’ endurance, and then borrowing enough mcney for gas to the next stop. You can bet they would consider the loan cheap enough. In fact, I can even picture their glee to be so overwhelming that oil might be in-~ cluded in the borrowing amount.
Along the line, someplace would be the necessity of clothes, but by giving yourself a high-faluting title, you couid draw twenty-six weeks unemployment compensation each year, which should be sufficient for the annual output -of clothing and incidentals. As you know, the unemployment compensation law covers those for whom work cannot be found, and if you happened to be an expert on the development of spring mushrooms, it would be hard for them to find you employment if you made your application early in the fall.
Naturally, you understand this is all in jest, for I'm certain that the majority of us prefer to keep our friends, not lose them by making them the vietims of such a plot. It does have interesting possibilities though, doesn’t it?
Custom is a remarkable thing, but it also works in reverse, a fact that was forcibly brought to my attention this week. It seems that with graduation near at hand, it was necessary that our Son prepare a list of the people to whom he should send announcements of this graduation. We were progressing quite well when John Q. Custom hit us on the chin, and we were forced to stop and regroup forces. :
The beautiful, engraved announcement has a more sinister connotation. It says, according to -old man Custom in that invisible print between, the lines, that the receiver of said announcement should rush out to the nearest gift shop and purchase something befitting the ocecasion.
We concluded that was not the thing to do, and so many of the announcements originally intended for friends here and there will occupy their present resting place atop the piano until cleaning time, and then be thrown unceremoniously in the basket. Now that to me is wrong. I think it~ right to tell your friends of your impending glory, and to hope they would present themselves .to the exercigses which—-display the accomplishments of twelve years work. . | “No gifts allowed” would be entirely outside the realm of good taste printed at the bottom of the announcement so the predicament remains. » It is my-humble feeling that many a custom needs brushing off, and that to me is one that could head the list.
As in the floral kingdom odors emit characteristics of tree and flower, a perfume or a posion, so the human character comes forth a blessing or a bane upon individuals and society.
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'MEDICINE AND THE DERBY Churchil Downs, one of the old“est race tracks in the land, it is announced, is to be run for the benefit ‘of the Louisville medical college. The Kentucky Derby has left many a man sick at the finish, but this is the first time anybody at the track thought of doing something about doctors, —— : The track is run by the famous Colonel Matt Winn, always a man in green, seldom a man in the red and now for the first time appearing as something of a Man in White.
The colonel is a smart, colorful racing genius, but up to now had not been associated with a bedside manner and a stethoscope. If you saw him with a little black bag in hand you were under mno fllusion it held plills, capsules or oint- . ments.
It has never been recorded that he was coupled in the betting with “Dr. Kildare.”” Observing him as he watched the crowds pour into the Downs for the Derby, we never got the impression he was thinking about what to do for the medical profession rather than what to do for Churchill Downs,
However, it will be strictly O. K. to see horse racing advancing the cause of humanity. It will be a great conscience soother for Derby addicts. Their alibi for the long trip and the Derby hysteria can now be, “Can I help it it I want to see ambitious medical students get a chance?”
He will feel better coming back from the Derby, too. If his bangtail finishes out of the money, he will have the satisfaction of realizing that Louisville Medical college (by Matt Winn-Ballyhoo) ‘‘finished strong and will bear watching.”
We can picture the wide influence of the school of medicine on the Derby, and vice versa. Churchill Downs will probably be redecorated in white enamel, with a nurse at every mutuels window and an intern in the hot dog stands. Fans will have their temperatures taken before and after photo finishes, stethoscopes will be used to detect suppressed tips.
There will be special windows where fans may get a sedative. And if his inside information proves cold, there will be heat treatments on the mezzanine, G
“Ladies and gentlemen,” we can hear the track announcer say, ‘“the horses are on their way to the post to advance the cause of medicine and correct diagnosis. You have only five
‘minutes in which to help a student get through college.”
Similarly, Louisville medical college professors will be alloted official colors or ‘‘silks,” classes will be opened with “Boots and Saddles” and on the day of exams there will be a morning line and Ilate scratches.
Life can be wonderful! But we hope no student will be flunked for bad behavior at the gate and ‘“‘quitting when challenged.” And let’s have no dean of the medical school - thrown out of ‘training for a ‘“‘popped osselet.” ®@ o . Please Do Not Disturb I live in a disgraceful rut, A thing to'be deplored " By fierce, ambitious people, but Im not the least' bit bored. Margaret Fishiack >eo o 3 “Corn Found 4,000 Years Old in New Mexico”—Headline . . . . So they have video there, too! * o o Shudda Haddim ' had a perfect set of hunches the other day. Noting it was the day of the signing of the Atlantic pact he selected “Dawn of Peace” which won at Gulfstream at 11 to 1, and *“Silk Topper’” ‘and *“Ocean Brief,” 'winners at Jamaica, the former at $60.60, Never were hunches more perfect. (P. 8.: Yes, but at the last minute f:rudd; Haddim got switched on all ee.
® ¢ o In-Towa a cow with a wooden leg is a record milk producer. Why not? She is hardly in the best possible shape to oppose the idea. ® o .0 Ye Gotham Bugle & Banner Tickets for “South Pacific” are sold out 80 far in advance that record prices are being offered for seats so far back they’re in the North Atlantic. . , , Peter Donald says the toughest thing about the way Europe puts the bite on Uncle ‘Sam is that she does it with leaselend teeth. ~ ~ . Johnny Coy says ~that during recent Cultural conference hubbub he kept calling it the wumxwm oik
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Poems To Remember
THE GREATEST BATTLE THAT EVER WAS FOUGHT The greatest battle that ever was s fougiit— : Shall I tell you where and when ? On the maps of the world you will find it not: ‘ It was fought by the Mothers of Men.
Not with cannon or battle shot, With sword or nobler pen; Not with eloquent word or thought From the wonderful minds of Men. : :
But deep in a walled up woman’s heart, : : A woman that would not yield; But bravely and patiently bore her part, Lo, there is that battlefield. :
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Jesus And Critics Lesson for May g: 1949
DURING JESUS’ last week, his enemies were firing at pointblank range. They were dead set to kill him; but they did not want to
do that if they could ruin him some other way. What they tried to do was to make him - out either a rascal or a fool, or: both. Mark’s story. shows how ' Jesus took it. : The first question they . asked sounded perfectly
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fair. ‘“‘Where did you get your authority?”” As we saw last week, Jesus had assumed simply tremendous authority. Wasn’t it fair to ask him where he got it? ‘ The trouble was that the men who . asked the questions didn’t want to know. They only wanted to heckle Jesus. : The world is full of just such license-hunting snoopers as these. They do not like it when a man succeeds. They particularly do net like it when a man succeeds without their help. ‘Who is this fellow anyway?
Where did he get his start? what family does he have, where is his diploma?”” Jesus never answered this question, because he knew why they asked it. (Mark 11:27-33.) * s s Taxes IN - JESUS' TIME you could not vote either for more taxes, or less. You paid what the Roman soldier at your door said to pay, and you were thankful not to be poked in the ribs with his sword while you were fishing up the money. But no one dared to complain. The Romans had some deep dank dungeons for people who complained about high taxes, So the next question Jesus’ enemies asked him was about taxes, or ‘tribute, which means the same thing. They thought they had Jesus on a_spot
NEXT WEEK : ANOTHER BIBLE LESSON
No marshalling troops, no bivouac song, No banner to gleam and wave; But oh these battles, they last so long— : From babyhood to the grave. But faithful still as a bridge of stars ‘ She fights in her walled up town; Fights on, an on, in the endless wars, Then silent, unseen, goes down. Ho, ye with banners and battle shot, With soldiers to shout and praise, I tell you the kingliest victories fought : Are fought in these silent ways. ‘ ~ —Joaquin Miller.
where whatever he said would put him in the wrong. Suppose he said: ‘‘Yes, pay taxes by all means.” Then they would snarl: “Bootlicker of the Romans! Traitor to your country!’’ But if Jesus said, ‘No, don’t pay taxes,” then they would howl: ‘““Treason! Police! Arrest this man who defies the Emperor!’ Jesus’ answer was a masterpiece, because he not only did not dodge the hot question, he did not leave the questioners a leg to stand on. (Mark 12:17). »*» Q . ) Hairsplitters by Trade THE CRITICS of Jesus were hairsplitters by trade. Yet none of them had ever been able to an-
swer another fricky question with which they now expected to floor Jesus. 5 ‘“Which is the.greatest commandment of all?’’ The question had been going the rounds for generations, The greatest minds in Jewery had wrestled with it. But it was a foolish question after all. : Which is the most important brick in a wall? What position on a volley-ball team is ‘the most important? What is the most important link in a chain? An answer to these questions would seem about as easy as answering that one about the greatest commandment. Jesus knew they were trying to show him -up as a bungler, as a very poor and amateurish hairsplitter indeed. But instead, he did what no one ex_pected him to do: he answered their question, and answered it so well that it is one of the cornerstones of our religion today. Sl e ' How to Take Criticism , THE, READER should consult Mark for the whole story. It bristles with practical thoughts, one of the most practical being how to take criticism. All of us can take it from our friends and flmfiies: -we know .they mean it for our own good. But criticism that is unfair, from people who want only to show us ‘up for fools or' to get us into hot water—that is hard to take. ‘Jesus should be our example. + He did not let other people’s criticisms interfere with his work, He never. avoided critfcism. He did not *“‘twist the lion‘s tall, he did net deliberately provoke criticism. But he would not claim exemption from what every one has to stand, being looked over and rated by the people who knew He never broke his heart over what people said of him. He did ‘not go around crying to himself.
Hope Springing Eternal . [’l‘ HAS been said that hope springs eternal in the baseball player’s breast until around June. Then it begins to wither and fade. But hope sprang with greater alacrity in April than it has in some years, At least it was springing in more places. ' For example, after a rabid discussion as to whether the Dodgers,
Braves or Cardi-. nals were to be the selected sons of, swat this season, we ran into Art Rooney of Pitts--burgh. Art Rooney owns the Pittsburgh football franchise. He also has a few: horses and he is also interested in. baseball as a fan. “Braves, Dodg-'
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ers or Cardinals?” he said. ‘“Lis-' ten, the entire population of Pitts-: burgh has picked the Pirates to win. I agree with them. Pittsburgh: is much stronger than it was a year ago.
“Murry Dickson will make a difference of 10 games. Bob Chesnes will be even better. Kiner is' due to hit better. You can also make a note that Pittsburgh will outdraw every team in the Nation-: al League as it did a year ago. I. mean the Giants, Dodgers, Braves and Cubs. , ?
- “And I'm not being comical or funny when I pick Billy Meyer’s bunch on top. I don’t believe everybody in Pittsburgh can be wrong.” In the course of the next hour or so, wandering here and there, we ran into seven experts who had been in Florida. Here are their selections: two for the Deodgers, two for the Braves, two for the Cardinals and one for Pittsburgh.
The Giants? Since this crop of selectors had come up from Florida, they knew nothing about the New Yorkers. But Horace Stoneham and Leo Durocher are being quoted to the general effect that Giant pitching will be quite sufficient, coupled with the power that Giant bats hav& carried. This means that at least five teams have the ‘“hope eternal” torch blazing these April days.
And you can be certain that the Cubs, Phillies and Reds will supply more trouble than usual, especially if the Reds can shove Ewell .Blackwell into the picture. Even without the human pine tree, the Reds are an improved collection of ballplayers. With Blackwell and Vander Meer working, the Reds are a menace. !
Here in April we had five National league ball clubs who believed they could win the flag, and three others who believed they had a chance to move up and win their share of games.
At this spot, the Dodgers, Braves, Cardinals - and Pirates are closer than two Scotchmen. The Giants must show they be}gng with this group.
The National league mix-up this season can be one of the closest races among more teams than any scramble either league has known so far. It could be that way if you study the eight teams that will soon get down to serious work, The Trouble with ‘IFS’ The main trouble with *IFS” is that they seldom work out any too well. Bob Feller is a big IF in Cleveland, but Feller is getting along. Even Boudreau is worried over his ability to keep his curve or his fast ball burning. Lemon and Bearden have yet to prove they are 20-game winners over a period of time.
Joe DiMaggio and the Yankee infield have yet to prove they are up to pennant-winning play. This, of course, means DiMaggio’s afflicted heel. To have this heel in shape all season would be a big boon to baseball in general just as much as it would be to the Yankees. DiMaggio has been too brilliant a star to be missed without 'mourning. No one can say, this far in advance, that the Red Sox pitching staff will be any better than it was a year ago. Joe “McCarthy’s spring attitude makes you think everything is 0. K., but Hughson, Harris and Ferriss still have to prove they are the pitchers they were in 19486, :
Billy Meyer is more than worried over Pittsburgh’s full and firm belief in a pennant year. In a race such as the National League has on hand this season, Meyer knows his team c¢an play good baseball and finish fifth. He knows the number of good breaks any team needs to win in a race of this type.:
Billy Southworth knows he will need a better Warren Spahn than the left-hander was a year ago. So many rumors of dissension will not be inclined to help his club. Any outfit that would turn against Billy Southworth can’t be pennantI once asked Connie Mack how much of a part luck played in a pennant race. “Less than 8 per cent,” he said, “over 150 games.