Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 21, Ligonier, Noble County, 26 May 1949 — Page 2

A Page of Opinion: ne LIGONIER BANNER i owmevs 70 ESTABLISHED 1867 ' Vol. 83 Thursday, May 26, 1949 i No. 21

This is our view: A Grand Summer ‘ From the looks of events to come, this summer should please all who must stay home and“find their enjoyment here.- - L Next week, the children will get started on what looks to be a banner year in summer recreational activities with a new event each week planned by the supervisors of the Ligonier Players’ sponsored program. *(See page 1) The band will give six concerts on the newly constructed band stand im the city square, the softball league will be in action twice a week, the junior baseball team will be home each Sunday to satisfy the baseball lovers, the Soap Box Derby will hold forth sometime in July, and the Legion carnival will again be coming up. Of course, topping the entire season off will be the circus which comes to Ligonier, Monday, June 13, something, in our opinion, that should be included in the summer program of every community. ' : With all the plans now made and with the lakes nearby for fishing, boating and swimming, it is hard to see why anygne would want to vacation away from home. Frankly, a brochure outlining our plans for the summer months would undoubtedly go far in bringing many vacationers to Ligonier.

It’s A Mistake 1. To attempt to set up your own standards of right and wrong. 2. To try to measure the enjoyments of others by your own. ' 3. To expect uniformity of opinion in this world. : 4. To fail to make allowance for inexperience. 5. To try to mold all dispositions alike. 6. Not to yield in unimportant trifles. 7. To look for perfection in our own actions. : 8. To worry ourselves and others about what ought to be remedied. 9. Not to help everybody wherever, however, and whenever we can. 10. To consider anything impossible that we ourselves cannot perform. 11. To believe only what our finite minds can grasp. 12. Not to make allowances for the weaknesses of others. 13. To estimate by some outside quality, when it is that within that makes the man. —Author Unknown.

WANTED: Safe Cars - Safe Drivers The Memorial Day holiday is coming up this week end and unless great care is taken by all drivers there probably will be many automobile accidents to mar the ocecasion. We+are greatly interested in the campaign sponsored by the National Safety Council under the slogan, ‘“To check ACCIDENTS, double check YOUR CAR.” No one should go on the highways with an automobile until he is sure that his brakes, lights, tires, and steering apparatus are in proper order. The only way to be sure is to have the car checked at regular intervals. In addition to this precaution, everyone should remember at all times that no car is safer than its driver permits it to be. : ] : The Safety Council propounds a number of questions to caution the driver. Can you honestly answer “Yes” to the following questions? - Do you know the traffic laws? Do you observe all traffic signals, signs and pavement markings? Do you wuse the proper hand and mechanical signals for turns and stops? - Do you drive in and turn from the proper lane? . - . ' i - Continued to Page 9 .

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MUSINGS OF ‘AN EDITOR by Calhoun Cartwright

Vaudeville iss coming back!. Trunks are being unpacked and old scrips are being dusted off by performers of yesteryear. Between Forty-second and Fifty-seventh on Broadway, conversationalists are agog with the possibilities of its return,-and all because the Palace, former Mecca of vaudeville, opened up last week with the two-a-day.

I have heard these optimistic remarks for the past twelve years, and have scoffed with each remark, but I, too have catight-the fever, and wishful thinking or not, am joining forces in the belief that (perhaps) vaudeville IS coming back.

I am basing my beliefs on several factors most prominent of which is the desire on the part of amusement seekers to more and more find their entertainment in three dimensional figures. One thing is certain . . . the movies, television and radio have never captured the thrill of seeing the actor before your very eyes; to feel the pulse of someone striving to entertain, to be enjoyed. :

Secondly, Hollywood has slipped in recent years, for-the calibre of products generally turned out these days is strictly sub-standard stuff and picking the “ten best” is a lead-pipe cinch compared to several years ago when movieland was at the top.

Actually, vaudeville never really died. Acts went on in various other fields with movie producers digging often into the lore of yesterday to build iheir films. : :

But those of us who loved variety must not be unmindful of a factor .thai helped bring about its demise, and warn. yon budding entrepeneur of the lack of quality found in the last years of variety shows. : ,

I can distinctly remember when seeing a bill of eight acts, coming away knowing that only one or two were worth the time and money spent in seeing the show. This unhappy situation will have to be corrected if a future is reopening for such type of entertainment.

Personally, I was a vaudeville fan at a very early age; and I have seen top performers in that particular field that many an old timer does not think possible. I recall those pleasant Saturday matinees when I got a ten cent seat (the last three rows in the balcony), a bag of candy, peanuts, or popcorn and felt I was in fairyland.

I can see those acts today as plainly as if it were yesterday, and 1 would make the trek weekly to Fort Waync today if I could find that great enjoyment back again.

I can remember ,seeing Walter Huston when he was a song and dance man, when Bert Wheeler worked his entire act from a pone position eating his lunch consisting of sandwiches and bananas, Chic Sales and his famous schoolroom act, Olsen and Johnson, the even-then zanies of the day, Roger Imhoff and his great act, “The Pest House,” Dancing Dotson, Owen MecGivney, the quick change artist who played a scene from “Oliver Twist” taking all the parts. I could go on and on, but that’s another story. &Vhat I'm trying to say is-that perhaps the time is ripe for vaudeville to come back into its own. Perhaps a new crop of budding performers are ready

to please like the masters of old. rerhaps the younger generation are tired of seeing only the two dimensional scene and will find their way to the treatres of the “live” stage. If all the “perhaps” in the book come true, it will mean a lot of work for a lot of people. Theatres will have to be reconverted, musicians will have to be retrained, performers will have to work a little harder and the smutty comedians of the Night Club ecircuit will have to clean their acts or go out of existance. ‘ The vaudeville theatre was for young and old. It was good entertainment, but it had to be wholesome entertainment. That, in my opinion, is the type for which we should be Py =

Y ﬂ ) ﬂ”é’% ' & ’ LPhillips CLOTHES CLOSET REFUGEES The case of the young New York man who lived in a clothes closet for 10 years and, upon his release, cried, “I want to go back in there. I don’t like it outside,” is not as unusual as you might think, : s This department has come into possession of the fact that there are numerous such cases. Elmer Twitchell, for instance, has a nephew, Pastrami Twitchell, who has not only been in a closet for 10 years, but has resisted all efforts to entice him out. ‘“He went in during Hitler’'s oratorical tirades over the mike. We nearly got him out this season, but he heard Vishinsky,” Elmer explained. ““Then he nailed up the door from the inside.”

Other cases reporied today, with statements by each follow: Thaddeus Swivelhead:

“Yes, I have been living in the top drawer of an old dresser for five years. I crawled in because of the depressing war news all over the world, After a little while I heard that the war was over and that peace had been declared. I came out, read the newspaper headlines and leaped back in again. I'm no fool.” :

Asa Z. Boogle, who has been living on a shelf in & basement panfry ever since 1943: ‘I climbed onto this shelf when the prices of everything began rising, with government controls helping very little. From time to time I peeked out and found things getting more unbearable. I am a fugitive from 75-cent cocktails, beer at 17-cents a glass, $4.50 steak dinners, 28cent gasoline, shrimp cocktails at $l.lO a throw, 90 cents for watered soup, the $1.25 raw lambchop delivered on the butcher’s block and people who call up to know what radio program I am listening to. Come out again? Why?”

H. K. G. Stuffinbox, who has been residing in a filing cabinet for ever so long: ‘lf you wish to talk to me, climb in. I refuse to come out for anybody. I consider that I am a sane, wise and highly judicious fellow. You and ‘all others who prefer the outside world in its present shape are nuts.

“The location of my home and my place of employment was such that I had to use the subways for north and south travel and buses for east and west. Once in a while when I went to a theater I had to get a taxi. I lived in an apartment where everybody kept the radio on all night. A room across the hall was occupied by an opera star who vocalized all day. Every few weeks there was an eleveator strike in the building. And in order to get to my job I had to cross nine picket lines. So I got into this filing cabinet and, mister, it seems paradise.”

- Jarvis P, X. Waffle, who has been living in a abandoned cello case ever since 1919: “I got in right after Woodrow Wilson announced America would make the world safe for democracy. I knew what that would mean. Now and then I get a pretty good line on what life is like outside this cello case and, boy, am I happy to be where I am! No flying saucer mysteries! No video comedians! No bop music! No radio jingles! No jackpots! They can't even get me interested in “Stop The Music.,” Jottings v There are so many daily changes in President Truman’s cabinet that it seems to us something should be done to number the players or abolish the two platoon system in government, ®& @ : . “John L, Lewis Hopes to Avoid Strike.”—Headline . . . Wanna bet? il Olympia flew to Churchill Downs by plane: It was just for practice. In his recent races the horse had trouble getting his landing gear down. : : ® & o How to slow up a letter: Put a special delivery stamp on it under present post office conditions. ;*e 0 : : - Milton Berle is to d 0 a pewspaper feature. This will give all columnists a chance to recall their jokes of the past 25 years. T e ee 8 S -Secretary Louls Johnson’s action in cancelling out the new super naval weapon was in response to 8 stern, “Louls, drop that carrier.” >oe ® S : “Secretary of \Commerce Sawyer administered the oats to his new chief aide, Cornelius Vanderbilt.” ‘—Journal of Commerce ~ ~ Come, come, boys, the setup in Washington isn't getting that badl ~ “The psychiatrist said that the bank looter was clearly a yictim of unbearable emotional conflicts coupled with a_form of latent immaturity. The man attempted to establish an impression of impor1y into debt without the stability to

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Poems To Remember

AS YOU SHAVE—LOOK AT YOURSELF Pray don’t find fault with the man who limps, Or stumbles along the road, Unless you have worn the shoes he wears, Or struggled beneath his load. There may be tacks in his shoes that hurt, Though hidden away from view, Or the burdens he bears placed on .your back, - Might cause you to stumble, too. Don’t sneer at the man who’s down ‘today, Unless you have felt the blow That caused his fall or felt the shame

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Prayer in Pain Lesson for May 29, 1549

THE SHADOW over Gethsemane is deep. We can scarcely see the tortured figure under the moonlit olive trees. If Jesus’ closest

friends, in that hour, were strangers to his soul, we canpot dare to penetrate all the secrets of that fateful hour. Yet while we cannot know all, we can know enough; enough to support us in our own time of darkness and of pain,

Mark uses very strong language to describe the state of Jesus’ mind in Gethsemane. The two Greek words he uses, translated in the King James version ‘‘sore amazed’ and ‘‘very heawy,” are translated by the Revised Stanard Version “greatly distressed and troubled;" by Goodspeed, “distress and dread;’” by Moffatt, ‘“‘appalled and agitated.” As our hymn says, *““We know not how, we cannot tell : What pains He had to bear.” Still, we do know of some of the burdens which weighed so terribly on Jesus’ mind and heart that night. : ® & Power of Darkness : ONE THING that must have troubled our Lord was lack of sympathy. Peter, James and John were comfortably asleep, evidently without the slightest notion of what he was suffering. But there was worse than lack of sympathy, somewhere in the dark city one of Jesus’ supposed friends, the man called Judas, was even then slinking through the alleys with murder in his heart. e ' Jesus well knew what was in store for him, He knew the :‘:‘ hedrin would call him a blas®® ~ phemer,’ he knew what the . Romans would do with him,

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That only the fallen know. You may be strong, but still the blows : That were hit if dealt to you In the self-same way at the selfsame time, : ; Might cause you to stagger, too. Don’t be too harsh with the man who sins, : _ Or pelt him with words or stones, Unless you are sure, yea, doubly sure, : That you have mo sing of your own; For you know, perhaps, if the tempter’s voice Should whisper soft to you, As it did to him when he went astray ; 'Twould cause you to falter, too.

once they gof their hands on him. Worse than this must have been the tragic sense of failure. : :

I would, but ye would not,” he had said in tears to this very city: a city full of enemies who should have been his friends, of unbelievers who should have believed, a city he loved, but which had nothing for him but tho¥ns and a cross.

All this was on Jesus’ heart that night—and as many Christians believe, far more. One of the most profound Christian thinkers has suggested that the heaviest, most painful shadow on Jesus’ white soul was the sense of guilt, not his own but for the sins of the world. s * @ X Blood and the Angel sO, JESUS PRAYED. Even in the cool spring night his forehead was covered with sweat, falling to the rocky ground like drippling blood. Never rose prayer from a more tortured heart. And what came of it? In one sense, the prayer was not answered. The cup did not pass from him, he must drink it to the last bitter dregs. The prayer did not remove the pain. Yet in a deeper sense, the prayer of Christ was fully answered. *“Not as I will, but as Thou wilt,’”’ he breathed. The prayer that sets one’s own will in line with. the will of God, whatever His will may be, is the prayer that always finds answer. At the end, there was not release, but power. “‘An angel came and strengthened him.” ® & S $ What Prayer Can De lESUS “LEARNED obedience by the things which he suffered.” (Heb. 5:8.) We can share his lesson. The hour of pain is not the hour to begin praying; those who have not learned prayer before, will scarcely know how to pray in a time of agony. Yet the time of pain is not the time to give up praying. When the dark hour comes, Jesus did not throw aside his faith, he prayed more intensely than ever before: Prayer does noét explain pain, much less explain it away. “ Prayer does not always get . rid of pain, even though in many cases the prayer of faith works cures where doctors fail. What true prayer does always is to set the one who prays in tune with the will of God even when that will is ~ Prayer does not bring us all the answers to the riddles of existence. It does bring power to bear what _cape, but it is always endurance,

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- Goav o ) . </ A Lesson from Sarazen THERE IS ONE badly-needed lesson in golf that the present generation can take from Gene Sarazen. This is the vital matter of time and speed. - It takes most of the modern golfing generation just an hour longer to play a round of-fpurnament golf than the stocky champion from 1922 employs. Sarazen moves along and wastes no time at all. Most of today’s leading players wear out the stop watch. They take

entirely too long to play every shot, especially the shots around the green. They turn a chip shot into an engineering ceremony. They turn a longapproach putt into a double engineering job as they survey every dip and roll of the green.

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1 have followed more than a few 18-hole matches that re- - quired over four hours of play. It is Sarazen’s idea that a twoball or three-ball match should be completed in two hours and 45 minutes. Here is Sarazen’s idea of playing his strokes. After the drive, he walks briskly to his ball. He sizes up the right line and the proper distance as he moves up. He takes about three or four seconds to make the proper club selection. Then he takes his swing. On reaching the green, stocky Gene takes out his putter and walks up back of the ball, not around it. He picks out the correct line as he comes to the ball. He is then ready to make his putt. There is no waste motion—no extra pressure on the nerves—no form of convulsion—and a most pleasant afternoon for the cross-couniry runners who follow the matches. Gene figures that with a twoball match the pair should get around in about two hours and 20 minutes. : “I'd be goofy, a nervous wreck, if I wasted as much time playing each shot as so many do,”” Sarazen says. ‘‘lmagine walking at a snail’s pace from your drive to the green, over 200 yards away, as I've seen several golfers do. Imagine taking seven or eight minutes to use up two putts. I would think that, after a few holes, many of these players would be hearing funny noises under their caps. I know my nerves would be in knots.

‘““One of the main reasons why I've been able to hang around for 27 years is the fact that I’ve saved my nerves by playing rather quickly. The longer you take to play a shot, the greater the pressure you put on your swing. ‘““Make your decisions quickly and definitely. Never have any doubt once you’ve reached for what you think should be the right club. And don’t half-hit or overswing. But above all, walk briskly and don’t take up too much time playing your shots. Especially around the greens.” —-.—— Getting the Jump , Quite recently, a pair of young men by the names of Billy Southworth and Leo Durocher were discussing the National league pennant race. Both agreed on one point, : “This is a good year,” both said, *to reach July Fourth a few games in front. For the team in front after July Fourth will have a better chance to hold a lead. “Why? Simple enough. The National league clubs are so wellmatched that it will be harder than ever to close up any gap. The others won’t let you. The eight clubs have never been as well-matched as they are this year. ; fFor example, if the Reds had Blackwell they would be just about as good as any team in the league. There isn’t much to spare from top to bottom.” i This was the expressed opinion of two of the league’s veteran managers—{wo of the best: in the game foday. Eddie Dyer told me, before starting North, that the league might ~ be less than 10 games apart at

the finish. That means from top to bottom. Eddie didn’t say it would be—he said it might be. I honestly believe that if the Reds had the Ewell Blackwell of 1947, they would be about even meney against any of the other seven teams. But baseball is full of breaks—injuries, accidents, mistakes, and team spirit, Some teams quit quicker than others do. '.ghey let the psychologi‘cal burden them over. They quit before they are heaten. This can be a battle of the gamest teams—the game teams against the quitters. it There isn’t too much differ--ence in playing personnel. No team in the National league ‘I was rather astonished,” Billy