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Vol. 83

This is our view:

What’s Good About Business

That minority of pessimists who al= ways try to see the dark side of the business picture would have us overlook the fact that there are nearly 60,000, 000 people employed in civilian jobs and also the fact that the national income is.at the $200,000,000,000 a year rate. Perhaps it will displease the pessimists that the textile and shoe industries are now showing an upturn. The heavy goods industry is also due for improvement in some lines, if there is no steel strike in September. ‘The accumulated inventories are being liquidated and will have to be replaced. , All of the known facts add up to better business'ahead, and that is what the country wants. ‘The whole recovery program can be helped along by a psychology of confidence. Pessimism always acts as a brake on progress. There is no denying that many people have felt the pinch of the readjustment from the postwar inflation to a normal peacetime economy. But that is no reason to paint the picture dark. Those who have felt the pinch are anxious to get back to work and they know as well or better than their more fortunate neighbors that a bad psychology is not going to help them. Business goes ahead when it is optimistic. No one can dispute that. » —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette.

Watch Stunt Flyers

A minority group of aircraft pilots engaging in buzzing at low altitudes, especially in northern Indiana resort areas, will be the target for broader enforcement of the state’s reckless flying law, officials of the state aeronautics commission and State Police announced this week.

The departments conferred on the problem of low flying after reckless aircraft operation resulted in the death of an Indiana pilot and his passenger at Lake James. The pilot was buzzing a row of cottages at a low altitude when the plane crashed in the lake. C. F. Cornish, director of the Indiana Aeronautics Commission, and Arthur M. Thurston, State Police superintendent, both reported they have received numerous complaints from vacationists concerning planes buzzing cottages, fishermen and boatmen at resorts. :

“All state troopers have been instructed to arrest any pilot observed flying recklessly,” Supt. Thurston asserted. Maximum penalty confronting violators in Indiana is $250 fine or six months imprisonment or both. Colonel Cornish pointed out that positive identification of the aircraft must be obtained before enforcement agencies can prosecute reckless pilots. Every aircraft flown in the United States has some type of numerical identification on the underneath side of the left wing, he explained. These numbers should be reported to State Police by persons witnessing low flying incidents. : State Police maintain a file of all aircraft based in Indiana, making possible identification of owners within a short time. Registration on out-of-state planes is on file in the Civil Aeronautics %drginistration division in Washington, The aeronautics commission and State Police repeatedly have cautioned pilots against low flying, the primary cause of most fatal light aircraft accidents. The public can help by reporting these infractions.

Since nothing is settled until it is settled right, no matter how unlimited power a man may have, unless he exlercises it fairly and justly his actions ‘will return to plague him. ' —Frank A. Vanderlip.

The cultivation of the moral judgment is the crucial need of civilization. - —Dr. Torrance Phelps.

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Thursday, July 28, 1949

- MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR _ ; by Calhoun Cartwright

If any reader finds him or herseif in the same predicament as I, forced to take vacations on Saturday afternoon and Sunday only, I can suggest one trip that, in my opinion, will top ninety percent of the two week sojourns. We left Saturday around 3 p.m. for Michigan City, where the International Friendship Gardens are located, and ‘where each Saturday evening throughout the summer, concerts of the highest type hold forth in their beautiful and natural outdoor theatre. Entering the Friendship Gardens is like emerging from the blasts of a Tibet storm into the imaginary Shangri-La so impressive is the beauty that unfolds itself before your eyes. The road leading to, the gardens narrowly winds thru a dismal wooded area overgrown with underbrush and scrubby trees. The tall trees, so thick the sun is never seen, produces an eerie feeling that «ends in relief when at last you come to a clearing where cars are parked, and civilization seems once again in evidence. But not until you have passed thru the outer gate do you realize the magnitude of these Ilovely gardens. Here, hidden among the trees, are acres. upon acres of veritable fairylands, beautiful weeping willows, stately pines, the crystal clear waters of a babbling brook, flowers of every hue and description ali woven into many and various patterns representing the gardens of the world. How such breath-taking beauty can be described on paper is beyond-my ability to comprehend. I walked awestricken for what seemed miles thru natural, but man-made, splendor. Here men must have slaved to keep so trim -the flower beds, lawn and hedges. A Thoreau or Burroughs would have thrown off their wraps and remained forever. As the concert time approached, you find yourself sitting in a natural amphitheatre facing a stage, seperated by a lake of cooling water, whose backdrops are willows, pines and flowering shrubs. - We heard Lucille Manners in these surroundings sing with a quality befitting the setting. It was a most pleasant experience. Sunday we spent our time at the Railroad Fair in Chicago, where certainly the peace of Friendship Gardens was not apparent, but where ‘equal magnitude of display was found. If you are thrilled by the history of transportation, then no one should miss this gigantic spectacle. Particularly should no one miss the panoramic pageant entitled, “Wheels A Rolling,” produced on the mammoth stage whose background is Lake Michigan. . This ghow is worth many times the price of admission, and tells with. great color and dramatic import the history of American transportation. It is exciting and realistic. Its story, interspersed with music, dancing and comedy, made the hour and eight minutes sitting under the broiling sun most passable indeed. e

For those who might be interested in the programs yet to be heard at the Friendship Gardens, we herewith list the balance of their concerts: July 30, International Music Festival. August 6, “The Mikado.” August 18, The Chicago Ten Piano Symphony. e August 20, The opera, “Rebin Hood.” August 27, Travelog, “Wings Over Viking Land.” : The time for these concerts is 8 p.m. and the admission is one dollar. —— e All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is &trong: he who doubts is weak. —James F. Clarke. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. —Abraham Lincoln. Today’s greatest danger may be a blessing in disguise if we meet it with intelligence and econviction. —Roy L. Smith. e e The men who succeed best mrguhhc life a{ueg gyhogg who take vitzléom kof

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CANSWERMAN' & Q.—Miss Sapho Hosley, Cos Cob, _ Conn., writes in to find out if there is such a thing as a lawn mower with self-ejecting extra blades, and, it so, where she should throw the old ones. A.—An engineer in Cleveland Ohio, is said to have invented a look-sharp-feel-sharp-be-sharp lawn ~ mower with a pack of 10 blades. We forget his last name, but his first name is Esau. Old lawn mower blades should be thrown off a bridge, never put in a medicine cabinet. Q.—Edgar Woofbaum of Delaware Water Gap asks, “How many hairs are there on the back of a bee, and is it true a bee likes them parted in the middle?” A.~There are sald to be 234,582 hairs on the back of an adult bee, provided it has never had dandruff. Drones part their hair in the middle. Busy bees have no time to bother about such things. ; e& @ 2 ‘Q.—A lady in Minneapolis asks: ‘“How many turns does a waltzing mouse make per minute, and is food a factor?” A. — According to the last quarterly report of the Waltzing Mice Research Bureau, these creatures average three turns per second. This is sometimes slowed down by mice cutting in during the waltz. A pastry diet is bad, too. Q.—A mother in Hoboken, N.J., asks: “Is it true that tattooed women are barred from Miss America contests?’’ ‘ A.—No, but there seems to be no demand-for them. The rules .are, however, very broad. A woman in Derby, Conn., dyed her skin red, white and blue, and only lost the victory in a Miss Barber Pole of 1948 contest by three lengths. Q.—A seamstress from Tallahassee, Fla., writes to ask: “Can cornsilk be used to stuff a sofa?” ~ A.—Yes, cornsilk can be used, and it is good fun, too. Short lengths of cornsilk make it more exciting. Golden Bantam corn is best. Some people have done wonders*stuffing sofas with lint collected from black pants. : ® & @ Q—A man in Baltimore, Md., asks: “Will a halibut live in captivity, and where can halibut bowls be bought?” ; A.~—A man named Krossshiemovitoezosky in Butte, Mont., once kept a male halibut in the bathtub of his home for seven months uynder the impression it was a salmon. The barracuda is preferred as a house pet if what you want is adventure. Q.—A young woman in Houston, Tex., wants to know who invented the clamrake? A—l'm glad she asked that question. The curator of the International Clamrake Museum and Oyster Fork Institute says it was designed by an Englishman named Zilch, patented by two Frenchmen and built by a Canadian clam trapper. This makes it a Russian invention, & ~ (Send in your question to our answer man and get the important facts of life cleared up so you can go on about your duties.) UNREST ON CRUSOE'S ISLAND (‘“Unrest is reported. sweeping Robinson Crusoe’s island in the South Pacific.”’—News item.) Crusoe—Friday, you don’t seem co-operative today. What's wrong? Friday—l've been Friday long enough. I wanna be Thursday. Crusoe—Why? -Friday—lt shortens the week. - Crusoe—Come, come, 'you must be joking. s Friday—Not at all. I may even want to make it seem shorter by having my name changed to :-Wednesday. e Crusoe—We're the only two men on this island. We've been getting along famously. You've been my right-hand man. Friday—Yes, but I feel a pull to Crusoe — Not here, surely. ~We've been very happy togeth~er, have we not? ; ‘ Friday—There must be a capitalistic plot behind it somehow. I'm so happy it must be wrong, one way or another. : " ¢ ¢ Crusoe—Now run along and fetch me some coconuts, . _!'!riday-'-'l'here you go exploiting me S : ; Crusoe—Look, we are both in the same boat. How could.one exploit ~ the other? » : ~ Friday—lf I had a copy of the ~ Daily Worker I could tell you. This - Island is 30 remote I don’t even get Pravda, L : ‘ e e e e Baduid b -up is the best possible, there being -Wl B e

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You are richer today than you were Yyesterday...if you have laughed often, given something, forgiven even more, made a new friefid today, or made stepfiing—stones of stu;mbii-n‘g blocks; if you have thought more in terms of “thyself” than “myself,” or if you have managed to be cheerful even if you were weary. : \ ; You are richer tonight than you were this morning...if you have taken time io trace the handiwork

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i PSS s R R .y vk 4 e DD C N L SRR iae coailiee o U PR e el R E R R e | G VR SCRIPTURE: Psalms 34; 37; 46; 91; JA3B:3, 7a; 143:8, : DEVOTIONAL READING: Isalah 26:1-10. : : Lesson for July 31, 1949 EVEN if you do nothing else with this lesson, it will be a good thing to learn by heart some of the Psalms of Trust which have been selected for your study this week. They are far too rich to be treated in one column. * e o A Who Can Trust in God? - PSALM 34:16-22.) Not every one has a right to trust in God, ThoSe who do not believe in him, do not love him, work against him,

try to break down and corrupt those who do believe in him — these need expect nothing at his hand. But there are ‘ three classes of persens who are encouraged to put their trust in God. One is the: *‘‘contrite,” the repentant, those who

sincere}y wish to be cut free from their sins—these can surely trust in God for forgiveness. One who cannot trust God for forgiveness has no right to trust him for anything else. Then the ‘righteous,” as the Psalmist calls them, have a right to trust in God. \ If that word means only the perfectly and altogether good people, it would leave all of us out, But in the light of the Bible as a whole, the righteous are those whose dominant desire is to love and serve God. Their service 1s imperfect, their love is far from perfect, and no man is without sin. But if you can say with Peter, *“Lord, thou knowest that I love thee,” . then you have a right to trust in God. Also the broken-hearted can safely trust in him. Whoever else may break your heart, God will not. He is the great Mender of hearts. For the little sorrows there may be lesser comforters; but the real heartbreaks only God can cure.

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of God in the commonplace things of life, or if yoni have learned to count out things which really do not count, or if you have been a little blinder to the faults of friends and foe. . - You are richer if a little child has smiled at you, and a stray dog has licked your 'hand,. or if you ’ have looked for the best in others and given others the best in you. —Author Unknown.

Why Trust God? PSA.LM 87 gives one answer: The _.opposite of trust is worry, and worry never did any' good at all. Worry eats into the mind, casts no light, gives no strength, solves no problems, worry makes any trouble worse. Then the writer of Psalm 34 gives another reason for trust: he had tried it. If trust in God were simply a doctrine of theology or a theory of preachers, not many people would take it seriously. Trust is really passed on by a kind of contagion from heart to heart, If there are not more people who know what trust means, it is because these who have known have kept it tfoo much to themselves. It would be a wonderful stimulus to most churches to have a little “cell” of people who would really agree to trust God every day. -e o o When to Trust in God oNE of Dicken’s famous churacters used to make a great point of ‘being cheerful under the most un-cheerful circumstances. “Anybody can be jolly when everything is lovely, he said. There’s no credit in not worrying when there’s nothing to worry about. Although the writers of the Bible, one and all, " trusted in God, not one had an easy life. Read Psalm 46, for example; it gives a picture of a world much like ours of today, shaken to its foundations, torn by wars, a desolate, discouraged world, It it made sense to trust only under bright skies, religion would have perished long ago. : For What Shall We Trust God? NO ONE PSALM puts the whole truth in one nutshell. It you read Psalm 91, for example, by itself, it would seem to prove that it you trust in God you will never die a violent death, nor an early one; but too many saints (and indeed our Lord himself) had died early and violent deaths, for us to take Psalm 91 in that way. Trusting in God does not mean he will give us long life. It means he will give us strength to match our days. - It does mean he will give us all we need. It does not mean ‘we shall be shielded from troubles. It does mean he will save us from troubles greater than ‘shall have strength in owr . souls (Ps, 138:3). " Which is the greater thing—to be .a weakling wearied by a straw’s . weight, or to be one of God's ath~letes, able to bear the worst the ~ world can pile on?

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@hosts of Yesterday ' I WONDER IN what far off rings Jim Corbett’s spectre waits om view? : Where Jefferies books and old Fitz swings : Or. Lowis spins bis follow through Wbc;; is Jack Dempsey’s crashing 8 : As Tunney bolds the foe at bay? Still looking through the fogs and mists 3 ; Where are ghosts of yesterday? | ® o o The Ezzard Charles Rating Since the melancholy spectacle in Chicago known as the N.B.A. heavyweight championship, various experts and noncombatants have been busy attempting to rate Ezzard Charles, the winner. The best rating would seem to place Charles somewhere between the post-Tun-ney and the pre-Louis period. It is difficult to make any clear cut estimate since he was facing an opponent who refused to fight, the same being Jersey Joe Walcott. Charles is a better boxer than Max Baer, Primo Carnera and

Jim Braddock. He is no better a boxer than Jack Sharkey or Max Schmeling happened to be. He can’t punch with Baer, Braddock or Schmeling. That post-Tunney, preLouis period was a sad one for the

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fight game — especially the heavyweight game. This new era, now rolling in, will be just as sad or possibly even sadder. The winner of the Charles—Woodcock vs. Savold contest won’t require much on either side. This is Just as well since neither side has much to offer. At the very best, such a meeting should be worth perhaps a $lO top, if you happen to have $lO you don’t need. There is po complaint about the N.B.A. calling the CharlesWalcott fiasco a championship fight. It was a terrible fight to watch from start to finish. Jersey Joe Walcott started at a rather brisk pace but, after the . second round, suddenly decided that he was through for the evening. He had collected three pretty fair purses in a row and he had been around 19 years. He had squeezed about all he could out of mediocrity. You can’t keep on making lemonades out of one lemon. Certainly the heavyweight situation doesn’t want any more of Jersey Joe Walcott. This recent show was one place where the promoters had to work without any working material. The fight mob for years had been accustomed to fellows like Dempsey, Tunney and Louis who could box and also punch. Tunney was no stick of dynamite but he could cut you up apd hurt you. The fight mob had become too accustomed to Joe Louis to start cheering for an Ezzard Charles or a Joe Walcott, minus any part of personal appeal. Or even impersonal appeal. Charles was at least willing to fight, while to Walcott the thought of hitting someone or being hit was decidedly abhorrent. Walcott would have been an ideal soldier in the War of the Roses. s O 9 More About Charles Charles is a serious, earnest young fellow who is a good boxer and who is willing. But he is never overanxious. He is careful. He tried to make a fight of it but his punching was too feathery to make him dangerous. Charles is not much of a puncher, even with a fair shot at some antagonist. Here was Walcott in front of him for 13 rounds and yet Walcott emerges without a knockdown or a scratch outside of _a split upper lip. This isn’t the type of fighter who is going to revive the lagging tight game and start the multitude cheering loudly. For all of that Ezzard Charles is very likely the best heavyweight fighter left in the He should have mno great trouble handling either Wood- * ~cock or Bavold. Woedcock never was very much and Savold is well over the hill. Charles lacks any touch of fire or flame. He is merely a prétty good workman who is involved with inferior material, Louis has been through for several years. His title was worth at bitious fellow who could learn how to-box and punch.’ The inducement The ring mmmmm six years in which to develop jus who, RW would Bl g v- e % ’fi‘*@”fi;@m n