Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 26, Ligonier, Noble County, 30 June 1949 — Page 2

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This is our view: The Fourth —Fun or Feible Each year newspapers, radio stations, safety councils and public officials admonish July Fourth - pleasure seekers to use ‘caution .in their driving, swim-. ming, boating and all other vacation h.a%its, which include the -element of risk. ~.Each year the toll in death and human suffering remain proportionately the same, which leads this writer to the unhappy conclusion that admonishment is not sufficient. | I believe it is time to be hard boiled and define the terms of Fourth of July merriment in the terse manner in which they, of necessity, must be defined. Fun is the engaging in some form of merriment, while foible is a moral weakness. We believe the choice rests with these two words. Vacationers can have fun using good sense and caution or they can show moral weakness by having fun without caution and good sense. The tirouble with displaying lack of caution is the unhappy fact that innocent others often suffer. It is utterly useless to say “I'm sorry” or “I was wrong” after a catastrophe has occured. The time to make the Fourth a happy memory is by acting in good taste at every turn. ~ Your actions .. . your conduct will determine’ whether the Fourth will be fun or foible. We hope for all of you it is fun. ‘

Rabies Warning Issued

With the coming of summer weather, the Indiana Veterinary Medical Association issued this information concerning rabies (hydrophobia) and rabid animals. The disease is rare in humans, but is common in dogs, and can occur in. any warm-blooded animal. Rabies is most.common in late winter and spring. However, it may occur at any. season of the year. Contact with the disease may be made in one of two ways—either to be bitten by an infected animal, or to get fresh cuts or scratches soiled with the saliva from a diseased animal. :

It has been found that rabies in dogs is classified as either “furious” or “dumb.” In.the early stages of furious rabies, the dog usually appears normal or overly friendly. However, the animal is easily irritated by restraint. This accounts for the frequent bites to small children attempting to hold dogs. Later the dog becomes excited and will act vicilously towards other domestic animals.

In “dumb” rabies, the infected animal goes through a period of melancholia, which is followed by a period of hiding. During this time, there is no irritability or tendency to bite. Rarely do animals with his type of rabies act viciously. However, a person may be exposed to rabies in attempting to give the dog medicine. After the period of depression and withdrawl the animal enters into :a state of paralysis of the jaw and throat muscles. Inability to bark gives rise to the name “dumb”- rabies. Diffieulty of swallowing is present, and thick saliva drools from the dog’s mouth. Paralysis soon affects the animal’s legs, and he lies on his side kicking his legs rythmically. The eyes are glazed and remain open. Dogs and other animals affected by “furious” rabies are fearless; they will attack almost any -moving thing. However, they will seldom attack a person who stands still. ¥ bitten by a suspected rabid animal, the Association advises, to wash the scratched or broken skin area immediately with soap and warm water. Let the wound bleed freely. Then GET MEDICAL ATTENTION AS‘SOON AS POSSIBLE! -

The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be mdre.—H. W. “‘Beecher. :

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Thursday, June 80, 1949

NOTES WHILE “DAY DREAMING”: 1 have heard said no one appreciates - being helped, but who in a lifetime doesn’t seek out, cherish and require a helping hand? B If your enthusiasm, effort and interest in behalf of anyone or anything is not only not appreciated, but resented, it is time to find a place where such reactions will be in the ‘reverse. Time is too precious, that wasting it on those who do not wish it becomes not only useless, but sinful.

‘I belleve happiness is only found within; yet, materialistic gain sufficient to place a person outside the realm of want is important to that happiness.

Jealousy is the manifestation of a person’s own inadequacies. The degree is in direct proportion. .

The most detested result of a jealous person is the possible development of maliciousness. Such a trait, brazenly exercised, places that person in a gutter far lower than those described in French novels.

Everyone is actually several persons. Many see but one or two of those persons in their friends or associates. Perhaps it\\ is best. Who really knows anyone, anyway ? Who, actually, knows himself ? _

It is better to throw flowers than mud. Even your own hands benefit. They smell better and remain cleaner.

Feeling sorry for yourself leads to a lonely existance. Everyone is too busy with their own affairs to help you worry. The best rule of thumb is to be interested in the other person’s problems. It mnot only compliments them, but takes Yyour mind off your OWn. "

I wonder why the city doesn’t take steps now to remove the old band stand now that the mew stand built by the Band Parents Association is in use?

Friendships begin thru a mutual interest in the experience of others. New friends enrich a persons own experiences. When the tales have all been told, then friendship must exist thru the enjoyment of mutual search of experiences. So many fail because they cannot seek together.

Whether you would give credit or not, the most profound statement of the age was “we need only fear, fear itself.” How important that statement is today in light of our national and international complexities.

Some: people within the framework of The Ligonier Players, envision a little theatre of our own. Others seoff and jest at the idea. It's the difference between the tired and the untird, the hopeful and the disgruntled, the can do’s and the defeatists. People in the great land of ours have every right to their opinion, but ‘the ambitions and energies of one group should not be thwarted by the few are just “aginers.”

No organization remains verile that ceases to have and :exercise imagination. - When we ‘become satisfied, we slide backwards. In ithe words of our Flag Day speaker, “America was conceived and built by the imagination of courageous men.” So were all things good .So do they continue.

Never in the three years of operation has the recreation program received such enthusiastic support from the ‘parents whose children are daily having the time of their lives. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Abbs are to be praised no end. Most of those who are in close contact with the program are “doing just that. No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.—William Blake. '

MUSINGS Of AN EDITOR by Calhoun Cartwright

“ *\\_'\ "‘ - 777, : p @ i , Phillips e e THE GARBLE GIRLS... thing on Mickey Rooney for losing that bottle of uranium in that fight with Scott .Lucas over American aid to the' Taft-Hartley act?” ““It's an even bet. Mickey had no business giving that jug to Mrs. Whittaker in the first place, even for the honorary degree. By the way, what do . you think of MarLilienthal?” : Ao’ you?’” : 3 “Ch yeah. I read so many papers 80 fast. I can understand it in the Aly’s case because he is a Moslem but she is supposed to be a strict vegetarian and there is no evidence that when she got on that bus with the top secret documents he got on at the same time, anyhow.” 1 -.— *1 don't see why ‘Martha Brien got 80 -excited about it.” “She didn't think either of ‘em should have fled the country as stowaways.” = . i “Did you:read where Judy Hickenlooper admits having kept all ‘those Columbia library books?"” ~ %“Yeah, but they'll never convict Hickenhiss of anything, even in an extra -session. It was & mistake to give either of them free scholarm.n ' | “] get awful depressed the . way things are going. Truman . sOO lateito save Hong Kong, Fm afrald, oven with Stan Musial and Johnny Mise offer- . ‘tng to do i with 230 planes. . Beb Porterfield and Harry Breoheen ain’t doing so well with . thats Atlantic pact, either.” | “What's the Atlantic pact?”’ . “It's the one to keep anybody on our side jumping .to .the Mexican league without a passport and loyalty test.” : e “Do you ‘think ‘the ‘country’s facing s big slump?*” *You never can fell so early .in the season. The standing on Fourth of July is what counts. I think congress should vote for economy like ex-president Olympia recommended in the Capot zeport to General Symington.” “How are things going over there with the Big Six in Paris?” . “Prnie Durocher s causing trouble - and they've still . erossexamining Lee Shubert, but I think everybody will get pensions at the age of 45 before they .get through, unless Vishinsky gets back into the . lineup.” . “What's the matter with him?"” “He's got & spur in his left heel.” _ : -.- ' *“What're you doin’ for fun these m’n “Oh. I'go to the races and base: ball and the ‘movies. I loved Spencer Tracy in The Peter Pan Handl cap. And that pennant race between the Dodgers -and Potsdam was @& thriller. I thought for a time that Old Rockport would win.” e Mary I:.lnzuet at Stadium The Yankee stadium was hired the other day for an anniversary party ‘thrown for Mary ‘Margaret Mcßride, famous radio star. More .4han 42,000 jpeople attended. That's more than half the rival Yankee baseball clabs draw. : » P . It was s :sensational affair and ‘Miss Mcßride scored standing up. ‘lt wasn't necessary for her to slide, .although it iwould have pleased the fans mo-end. | e | And 1t ishe had had to slide | she could have done it. Mary | (Bappy) Mcßride has the base- | “ball spivt. She can hit and ! 4eld., No position is beyond | ‘hee, ¥ you take mote of the ' soountless: commerocials the lady . has delivered for dinner-table k -odibles you have to admit no- | ‘body has been more versatile | “pehind the plate” over so long | = peried. . g o . Mary is In her way a pitcher, too. -She has never had to be yanked off ‘the 'mound in her career ‘with the NBC club. Her greatest asset is her -control. There is almost no wind up in her delivery. Smoothness marks _her style. > -.. s " The dady is a good al-around ~player, too, Shortstop taxes her, “but ‘every :other position 1s duck-isoup-~and she will name the brand -0f duck sovp and tell you where to get it o R '~ Mary has » “chuckle ball” also, thut is the talk of the - ourve” 18 & wonder. She can T e ‘We never have known her to W% . o el oy ‘not’ be hurried. Her best ball is & sost ‘of “flodter.” Bhe throws it s oot s oy o Dol ~comes in smoothly and always cuts

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Poems To Remember

WILLOW This weeping-willow is still most quiet and beautiful; : It bends and breathes and swa‘ys To its brown brook and dewbright moss, wind-quivering All its long placid days. - Its gray-green trails of leaves droop down along, Curtaining, kindly-wild, They vlrere ‘a s»helicer, a little 'hiding-place for you Once, as a child.

I RELIGION FOR THE MONERN WARIT |

SR e G B S N LI e - 3L Pl Sunday School Lessons [l mscnm'mnz: Psalms 1; 33:12-15; 67; rgfivomxoum. READING: Psalms 145: Songs for All Hearts : T i CRES—— g ! Lesson for July 3, 1949 THE greatest hymn-book in the world is to be our study for three months. Not the oldest; that honor belongs to the Vedic Hymns of aneient India, _ Not the largest; _ GHENEN the hymnal of your S = k own church may ' % & easily be twice as S : large. But the J . greatest hymmn- B S book in the world . is the book of : poems was used as e the hymn-book of s Psalms. This col- Dr. Foreman Jdection of religious : the temple which was built when the Jewish exiles returned to Babylon. It was the hymn-book of ‘Herod’s temple, and we know our Lord used and loved it. It is in.deed the song-book of the Bible. It was the only hymnal which the first Christians used, for some time. Indeed the book of Psalms is probably the only hymn-book honoved and used by three separate -geligions—Judaism, Mohammedanfsm and Christianity. s & o 2 : How It Grew I.IKE all hymnals, this book of &8 Pgalms grew by degrees. It was- not written all at one time or by one person. David wrote some of the Psalms, how many(we do not know. The ‘“titles’” of the ‘Psalms were added by later Hebrew editors, are no part of the original Psalms, and are often inaccurate. ‘ : i It §s very likely that as much a 8 ‘s thousand years went by between the first of the Psalms fo be written, and the last. Every modern hymnal that is any good is in part a colleetion of the best of the old hymnals. So our book of Psalms, as it finally took shape, came from old--er collections. A glance through it in the American standard -version _ will show that in its present form it is made up_of five smaller books,

NEXT WEEK : ANOTHER BIBLE LESSON

Part the leaf-curtain. Come in the dusk again. Thig is the child once you. Know the .enchantment of that wliispering : Thrilled safeness that you knew. Let the cool trailers close you in. Curl down once more, Silent with ant and flower. Press your hands flat on the live‘ moss. i ‘ This place alone Is the real world this hour. -;Margaret Widdemer.

ending with™ Psalms 41, 72, 89, 106 and 150. Each book ends with a doxology and book V ends with a magnificent series of them. Sometimes the editors left in duplicates. Reading Psalm 14 side by” side with Psalm 53 will show that these two are exactly the same, only using different names for God. At least one of the Psalms is made up of ‘“clippings’’ from earlier Psalms: thus Psalm 108 is made up from Psalm 57:7-11 and Psalm 60:5-12. The Psalms were cherished and preserved generation after generation because of their heart-appeal. Our Psalm book has gone through centuries of sifting; many were dropped out and forgotten, but the best were saved and sung; and what we have is the cream of the best of ‘the singers of Israel. ® & @ Mirror of Man lOHN CALVIN called the Psalms the “mirror of the soul.” All the varied moods of man—hope, despair, triumph, envy, doubt, aspiration, loneliness, hatred, fear, irritation, patriotism, joy, bitterness, weariness, amazement, anguish, rapture—almost every emotion that can be felt toward God or man breathes somewhere or other in these Psalms. Since not one of the authors of the Psalms was a Christian, of course, we should not be surprised to find, here and there, expressions (for example) of hatred which are out of harmony with the spirit and teaching of Jesus. The wonder is that there is so liitle of that kind of thing. For every Psalm in which the poet says something cruel or hateful (e. g. Psalm 137:9 or 108:6-14), there are scores that breathe a spirit of gentleness and grace. For every note of despair (Psalm 88 is the only completely gloomy one in the whole collection), there are many hallelujahs of hope and gladness. ;so 0 ‘ Message of God IF the Psalms are so human, how can they be also God’s Word? Yet they are also, truly, a message of God. For they not only cast a divine light on the state of man's “heart, but they show what the life of man is when God becomes real. For God was real to each,poet who contributed to this great book. In - latter weeks this summer we shall be looking at the Psalms from varthe three typical Psalms, 1, 67 and 100, and as you ponder over each ‘one in turn, ask yourself: What does this show me about God?

m Another Yankee Angle THERE WAS A moment late last March down in St. Petersburg, when Casey Stengel was staring moodily into space. He had sensed the fact that Joe DiMaggio would be out indefinitee ly—perhaps for a o ® summer. Lindell o and Berra were R both limping. Charo o lie Keller was et g his old power. Yankee prospects % were about as dark 3 - as the mouth of a : railroad tunnel. GW u“ “So !ar a 8 running the team is concerned,” Casey said, ‘nothing can happen. I can’t be any big bust with my three coaches—Bill Dickey, Frank Crosetti and Jim Turner. Here are three great fellows who know their stuff. I know they are all for me. I've never seen three men work harder. They are the first on the field and they are the last to leave.” T Then Casey smiled. ‘lt means a lot to any manager to have the help of such men,” he said. ‘“They don’t make mistakes. I might—but they won't.” The fact is that Casey has made fewer mistakes than any manager I know this season. He has had his team hustling and working overtime, He has picked the right rookies. He has lost the tang his tongue once knew. He has Deen sympathetic in place of sarcastic. He hasn’t tried to be funny at . any man’s expense. He has been 8 member of his own squad, ¢ not ‘an outsider. Stengel has done a fine job. And as he says, he has had the services of one of the best coaching staffs baseball has ever known. _ Bill Dickey would be a helpful, soothing influence on any squad. Bill knows what it's all about and his advice is a big help. Frank Crosetti is one of the gamest infielders the Yankees ever had. He was always a hustling ball player. He has been a big help. So has Jim Turner, a 20-game winner with the old Boston Braves. Turner has turned in his full share. So Stengel was right in pinning a wild laurel blossom on each of his aids, It was a nice move by Stengel, a move other managers might not care to make, Casey has known enough team grief to sink two or three managers. But he has never shown any sign of losing faith in a club that has been the best in the league so far. s & Yankees Sans DiMaggio A day or two ago, I ran across a smart minor leaguer from other days. We began talking about the Yankees without DiMaggio. ‘““This reminds me,”” he said, *“‘of something that happened when I was playing ball. We had finished the season before in fourth place. But at the start of the next season we lost our only star. He had a broken leg and was out. So all the papers plastered us down in last place. “So we got together. We talked things over. We finally decided that even though ‘this lost player was good, he wasn't the entire club. We decided to go out and prove it. We fought and hustled harder than we ever did before. We moved into first place. The papers all said we wouldn’t be there long—not with our star missing. That made us hustle all the harder. I can tell you this—if we’d had our star, we wouldn’t have finished third. As it' was, we won the pennant.” ; The old ballplayer continued to ramble on. “There’s a good chance the Yankee ball club, subconsciously anyway, had gotten tired of hearing that Joe DiMaggio was the entire ball -club, After all, there were ‘Raschi, Porterfield, Byrne, Reynolds and other s—there were ‘Kryhoski and Phillips at first—there were Coleman, Stirnweiss, Rizutto, Brown and Johnson, \ ‘“There was and is a fellow named Tommy Henrich—close to DiMaggio in everything—there were Lindell, ‘and Berra, Woodling and ‘Bauer--not-even .a Cobb or a Ruth could have been the entire ball club with all these fellows on hand. Most of them are first-class ball players. They must have felt the inside urge to show they could also ‘“‘Here’s another thing. As good as Joe DiMaggio and Tommy Henrich together are—they were not as “Mack once told me that the pitchkb, W o e ~the Yankees had a fine pitchin Yankees had & w ; Peaeklaicunci . 3 ?,Z ) —'l"flg james—maybe more. !wim