Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 24, Ligonier, Noble County, 16 June 1949 — Page 2

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Flag Day

Each year the nation pauses on June 14 to observe Flag Day. In Ligonier, the Elk’s will hold their annual Flag Day Services in the City Hall Park next Wednesday evening, and the occasion should warrant the attendance of a large segment of our population.

It is well to consider our American heritage formally once a year. It is well to stop and give serious cognizance to the principles that have made America a great nation. A Flag Day ceremony seems to afford that opportunity. -

Aron Gilmartin, who will be the principal speaker, has a rich background in the study of human affairs, and should make the occasion a memorable one.

The High school band and the singing of Morris Reynolds will round the program out, which spells a profitable and pleasurable evening for those who attend.

A Father’s Ten Tenets

The National Father’s Day Commission recently suggested 10 tenets as a guide for fathers—a sort of creed which heads of families the world over would do well to heed. And were these 10 principles set as a goal and followed conscientiously and understandingly, the family mold would produce the strong girders so essential in the building of better homes and, ultimately, better countries within a world at peace. 1) A father develops in his home a deep and genuine appreciation of our traditions and institutions.

2) He makes his children feel secure. 3) He teaches his children that intolerance and bigotry have no place .in American life.

4) He develops in his home a respect for the character and accomplishments of other peoples of the world. 5) He shares in his children’s activities.

6) He sees to it that he and his family take an active part in communitly life. .

7) He is always available to help solve youthful problems. 8) He trains his children for leadership. 7 7

9) He strives to be the man his children think he is.

10) He teaches his children that our great material blessings are meaningless without the development of corresponding spiritual values.

The Future Of Atomic Energy

The human race will long be concerned with the problem of what to do with atomic energy.

But last week, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson gave his answer to an immediate phase of that controversy when he declared that “the military establishment has not attempted and will not attempt to take atomic energy away from civilian control and turn it over to the military.”

Johnson’s statement was clearscut. He said:-

“We have had no desire to handle the matter. We have none now. We want none of it in the future. We have plenty of jobs of our own to handle. I intend to see that this attitude is maintained by the military establishment.” At the present time, atomic energy is known for its use as a military weapon. Even so, the power which it represents is so enormous that it ought to remain under civilian control, for our Government is a civilian Government. All of the military forces are subordinate to the civilian authority. As a democracy, we intend to .keep it that way. :

—Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.

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Thursday, June 16, 1949

Seeing the publicity concerning Holgate, Ohio’s “Joe Brown Day” brought back to mind many an anecdote- concerning this now famous buffoon, long before the famous could be so placed.” You see, Joe Brown has always considered Toledo his home town and right« fully so, as he moved from Holgate when four years old, much too young to remember anything about the town which is now claiming him as “their very own.” I never knew Mr. Brown, although 1 must have passed him many times on my way to and from high school, which forced me to pass the home he whiled away his ‘“at liberty” hours when back home and broke. Although I have neverseen him other than on the stage or in the movies, I have gathered many a story about him over the years which 1 believe to be authenptic, ifrom stage hands, newspaper men and.old buddies, whose paths 1. have crossed from time. to time. _ . I have always admired the man with the wide grin far and beyond the majority of entertainment celebrities because of his ability to grow and the seriousness with which he has taken his protfession. I know he has never uttered an off color joke in his entire career; yet he remains one ot the tunniest men of an age filled with outstanding comics. At 57, he is still married to his childhood sweetheart (an example not too commonly found among movie colony folk). . Joe E. Brown ran away from Toledo when a very young lad to join the circus. He was roust-about, utility man, helper, acrobat, trapeze performer and clown, and speaks with bitterness of the cruelty thrown his way by the masters, who lorded over him. But bitterness or not, it gave him the background necessary to pursue a .career which has been colorful, successful and purposeful. After leaving circus life, he traveled in vaudeville for many years, but with the passing of this art, like many a performer, he went out of sight. He returned to Toledo intent on forgetting show business, and obtained for himself a job in the Willys-Overland factory. Two weeks later, he resolved to be “a bum rather than be tied to a life he could not lead,” and with his two week’s pay, hopped back into New York for one last look for a job in the business he knew. The very next day, the fates were on his side. While walking down the street, he was stopped by a friend who told him of a musical being cast that needed a man with his background. He applied for the part, got it and was an overnight success. The rest is history. What peculiar turns the deck of fate cards take is one of the intriguing mysteries of human life and endeavor. : Joe Brown performed super-human tasks during the war, entertaining troops in every corner of the globe. I was in the audience the night in Detroit that his son made a surprise stop to see his father on the way overseas. It was during the curtain call that the son was spied, and the scene was touching indeed. It became more touching when a week later the papers carried the notice of Joe’s son being killed in action. -

This loss was deeply felt by the elder Brown, but not enough to make him bitter or to force him into a.shell. He went on with even greater determination to bring what relief, what moments of levity he could, to the boy’s on the fighting fronts. His life has been exemplary, a tribute to his profession. He has been interested in the youth of our country, and in his own personal way, has made an outstanding contribution, B

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.—Vinet. :

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.—Anna Jameson. : S - He that resolves upon any great and’ good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it.—Tryon Edwards e :

MUSINGS OF - AN EDITOR

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TWITCHELL VS. DOUGLAS “About the only fellow who can get into trouble easily today in America is the one who believes in law and order, pauses for second wind now and then and believes there are limits to breach of the peace,” declares Elmer Twitchell, He has been going over the recent supreme court decision by a 5 to 4 vote against curbs on hatred, violence and rabble rousing tactics even when they bring on riots. : — : “It's the voice-thrower yelling for mob rule who gets an Oscar, a pat on the back, the green light and the embossed permit,” added Elmer. ; s “It was another one of those photo finishes due to a strong stretch run by Justice Douglas,” declares Elmer. “Bill, speaking for the majority opinion, sald the authorities have no right to curb speeches no matter how violent or full of hatred. He says that if Amerfoa is to be vital it has got to have the rabble rousers shoot the works, In other words, we have got to preserve our vitality even if we use our last ounce of strength. : —_— “We are leaning over backwards so far for free speech that those who stop at nothing to scuttle our freedoms are getting the right of way at all times. The demagogue, the earsplitter, the gasbag and the microphone bellyacher are getting a pat on the back, a license to operate with the throttle wide open and a kiss from the high courts. You would think they are the backbone of the country and that the enemy was the quiet, m%ghm. tolerant little guy who always kept his voice down, respected the police and wanted no tear bombs tossed at anybody. : — “The five justices held that no speeches should be curbed until it was clearly shown® that they might cause trouble ‘far above the public inconvenience, annoyance or unrest.’” eI And since the case in question was one which involved street riots, rock hurling, personal assaults and stench bombs, it would seem that these jurists classified such violence as | merely an inconvenience and an annoyance., 2 “The other four justices took the view that it is more than an inconvenience and a nuisance to find yourself flat on your puss with the mob trampling over your prostrate body. Justice Jackson pulled the rug from under the five justices by saying that if the highest court doesn’'t temiper its doctrinaire baloney with a little horse sense it will convert the bill of rights into a national suicide pact. He added that the majority opinion kicked the police in the teeth and fulfilled the most extravagent hopes of those groups which want to paralyze and discredit authority. He spoke my language. I don't like the idea of rabble rousing being played deuces wild, with all rules of fair play suspended and hatefulness the biggest pipe in the organ,” Elmer concluded. s O o . FORMULA FOR SUCCESS Be good, be careful, Watch your belt e And never bet 'Gainst a Roos-e-velt! ; . $ & B The lawyer for Judith Coplon, after hearing an FBI man tell of seeing Judith and her Russian: friend meet at Third avenue and 15th street, New York, asked, “Wasn't this a quiet place lovers might select to whisper sweet nothings?" . : Next to the middle of the street at Broadway and 42nd, it’s one of the most romantic spots in New York, counsellor. : Speaking of that German election, it must have been a novelty to Rus?‘iﬁr(x)s"to find somebody else voting RACE CHART STUFF ; Othelle . o « o« Must show “Moor” Rope»moo.o‘rmto : ~ Creamery , . » . Gone sour. _Dry Fly , ~ . Beat the Trout Gm‘mﬁbo...mm.dh. : kel :b S L hart Eisler has been forfeited. It was put up by friends of the alleged No. 1 Communist agent in America in good faith for his appearance, but to Mr. Eisler it is unimportant, as all money is capitalistic and all bail systems decadent. e : e 8 e oy ! A designer has come out with a_ s getting a hat to match that will lodk Sood witf an oubdoar: serial.

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Conquest of Death

Lesson for June 19, 1949

DOCTORS TALK about conquering death, but they never do. All they can manage is to put it off a little. In all the long sad story of mankind there is only one absolute conquest of death. It happened on the first Easter morning, and it was a turning point in the his- FEEEENEE""" tory of the world. ST The few lines about ’ - the Resurrection, in . = . our New Testa- Q‘? T L ment, would not S S cover the front page JIE T of this newspaper. We do not know all f we want to know. % : But those few lines Dr, Foreman tell us enough to ° set us singing, they are & solid foundation for a soaring faith. s & @ ' The Mighty Act of God WE shall be disappointed if we expect the Gospels to ‘‘explain’’ the Resurrection. If there is anything the stories show clearly, it is that the first persons who knew of the Resurrection were confused and shaken by it. The disciples had not expected anything like this, and they may not fully have understood what was going on. What they were sure of, what they could not deny, was first of all that Christ rose from the dead, and also that it was God who raised him from the dead. God had beaten the one unbeatable power — death. Death, the universal conqueror, turned out for once to be the conquered. € - It is only those who can believe in an all-powerful God who can fully believe in the Resurrection. |s& » : It Is The Lord e wHAT MANNER of person was Jesus, after that first Easter morning? There were some differences hard to describe, and in fact

WEXT WEEL : ANGTHER BIBLE LESSOR

From resting in a house upset, And little. pleasure we shall find Who leave a littered desk behind. Some seek to rest before they earn The rest that comes in proper turn, But first we all must pay the price, Must. work, and seve,- and sacrifice. Some seek to reap before they sow And say they own while still they owe. - :

not described, only hinted af. You notice that at times it was not easy to recognize him at first. Paul refers to Christ’s ‘‘glorious body’’ and surely there must be a glory in a person who has actually proved too strong for death to hold—a glory such as even Christ, before Calvary, had not shown. And yet—and yet, it was the same Jesus they had always known. . s & » No Ghost BY NIGHT, in many a ‘‘seance,” mediums profess to get in touch with the spirits of the-dead. If you could believe the spiritists, Shakespeare and Queen Victoria and innumerable other famous people, have come back and talked from beyond the grave. But the thing that makes the Christian church more than doubtful about such performances, is that somehow the dead-and-come-back genius is never a genius any more. Neither Shakespeare nor any other famous person has said anything worth saying through a ‘‘medium.” And even these feeble ghosts cannot endure the daylight. They have to come at night. How different were the comings of Jesus! There was nothing, weird or uncanny about ‘him. Around the supper table, or on an afternoon walk, or out on the lake shore undér the morning sun .. . never the poor mumbling ghost of a seance, never any stupid trifles from his lips, but words of truth and comfort whieh the church cherishes as among the best from our Lord’s mind. Jesus’ resurrection is not the story of the survival of a ghost, still less the mere return of a revived and..walking corpse, It is the story of a Divine Person who conquered - death, and who came back from that conquest in power and majesty, yet with all the tenderness, love and brilliance he had ever shown. : :¢¢ 0 ‘ ‘ Our Hope in Him PAUL (in I Cor. 15) makes it clear that our hope of life-beyond-death grows right out of Christ’s resurrection. The enemies of Christ would have given their right eyes to stop the mouths. of the men who told that story, and to prove it a lie. e But they could mnever do if. You cannot well stop people from believing what they have - our hope of eternal life is not Just & hope. ok -As Paul says, if that were all, we should be miserable men.

Filling the Gaps ONE CAN RECALL, looking back many years, how people began to wonder who were going to fill '‘the gaps when Hans Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Nap Lajoie had finished. Then there was Ty Cobb—followed by Babe Ruth. Ruth and Gehrig. No one could take Matty’s and Cy Young’s place. But Walter Johnson did. And after Johnson there was Bob Feller. It may be that no ballplayer can till the' gaps left by Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth. Or pere haps Walter John{;ﬁ £ son. No one has §9 B quite filled Hans e Wagner’s place at gR o : . »%%“ f. But with the Di- & @ Maggios, Ted, Wil- . liams, Bill Dickey, ke Bob. Feller, Hal s b Newhouser, Lou Boudreau, Stan Musial and a few Grantland Rice others, most of the - gaps are plugged. Ruth, Cobb and Wagner’s remain unfilled. But we have nmow come to a spot in the game that either Gen. Abner Doubleday or someone else invented where we have to look around for other gap-fillers. Bill Dickey is through as a player. So is Mickey Cochrane, another catching brilliant. Williams and Musial should have a few years more. They are two of the tops—maybe the best. But Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, Ewell Blackwell, Charley Keller, Whitey Kurowski, Marty Marion, and many more are nearing the borderline where the sign reads—‘‘Game Called.” It must be admitted there are not too many headliners left from the old guard. Ted Williams is the top man now. Musial is struggling in the grip of an early season slump. Newhouser is still pitching well, but he isn’t winning as he used to win. Blackwell, a great pitcher, has been struck down. He may or may not come along later on. Charlie Keller is now out in No-Man’s Land. No one knows when he will be back. Feller is a bull-pen pitcher. ‘““Where are the gods of yesterday?” So they are asking today who will take the places of Dimaggio, Williams, Feller, Musial, Marion, Newhouser, Boudreau and other headliners who will soon be over the hill. This makes one of the greatest guesses in sporting history. Who will be the coming stars to fill these gaps? For there will soon be many that will need plugging. Here are a few guesses—Al Dark and Earl Torgeson of the Braves; Ralph Kiner of the Pirates; Zernial of the White Sox; Jerry Coleman, Al Raschi and Bob Porterfield of the Yankees; Perhaps Larry Yogi Berra and Larry Doby of Cleveland; Ralph Branca and Sid Gordon of the Giants; Eddie Kazak of the Cardinals; Richie Ashburn of the Phillies; Cari.Furillo, Dodgers; Bob Chesnes, Pittsburgh; Johnny Groth, Detroit, and Roy Campanella, Dodgers. Tommy Henrich is one of the star ballplayers of the year. But Tommy is 32 years old and he has been a pro ball player for 15 years. So Tommy can’t "be included with the stars of tomorrow. Then you can watch Lloyd Merriman of the Reds,, a possible gap filler, Dick Kryhoski of the Yankees and George Kell of the Tigers are other possibilities—don’t overlook either. Enos Slaughter and Pee Wee Reese have come along too late for any future build-up—maybe Ferris Fain and Eddie Waitkus of the Philadelphia teams may prove the answer around first base, which has taken a heavy dip. Then we’ might take a look at all those $50,000, $60,000 and $70,060 bonus players— Johnny Antonelli of the Braves— Curtis Simmons and Robin Roberts of the Phillies—and a few others who have yet to prove how good they are. ~ It might be mentioned here that Bill Dickey ranks Yogi Berra as potentially the best catcher in either league. ‘‘Considering Berra in every detail,” Dickey said, “I'd take Berra over any catcher in baseball today. He is young, strong and ambitious, He has a fine arm ~ and he can hit.” . Dickey is extremely keen about the future possibilities of Raschi and Porterfield. He isn’t suggesting they can ‘fill the gaps that will be left by Feller and Newhouser, ‘ But he is sure they are much better than merely good pitchers. Gus Zernial of the White Sox, a giant Texan, has shown exceptional promise. He may move up to home-run star of 1954 or 1955. to be rated high in any future . el ~_Dom't overlook Dark of the ‘Braves. He is one of baseball's He may move in back. of Hans e e