Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 31, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 August 1949 — Page 2

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This is our view: Prevention in Ligonier By the time this paper is delivered into the homes, undoubtedly the City will have been sprayed for flys or about to be sprayed. It is heartening, indeed, to see the speed with which the Rotary Club took over the supervision of this project, and the manner in which the people of Ligonier came forward with their donations to get the job done. Doctors know very little about the dreaded polio. They cannot say that ridding the cities of flys and insects prevents its attack. All they know is that possibly it helps, and anything that will even possibly help is worth the money and effort. They do know that waiting until the disease hits a city to carry out preventative measures is not only unwise, but unfortunate, and the will of Ligonier citizens to see the job through before an attack is good generalship. When a community takes this attitude in times of need and stress, it can’t be held down no matter what the problem. 2

Orchid Of The Week Our orchid of the week goes to Mrs. Don Freeman, her committee, and Mr. and Mrs. Billy Abbs, all of the Ligonier Players, who have so ably directed the summer recreation program this summer. This week, the summer program is culminated in the Derby race to be held Friday at 5 p.m. The race, jointly sponsored by Orewiler Chevrolet Sales, Inc., and the Players group is a fitting climax to an exciting season, which saw a happy bunch of youngsters have the time of their lives each week day of their vaecation. - The attendance rate maintained ‘an unexpected high average, and the comments of pleased parents have been testimony enough to the worthiness of the project. The bulk of the credit, however, is due the young people, who supervised the work. Bill and his wife were well liked, their program was interesting and diversified and they entered into the spirit of their duties with freshness and enthusiasm. It is a credit to the community that such a project can be supported, and it is the hope of this newspaper the funds will be raised each year sufficient to maintain the high quality experienced this summer. $

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- While in the orchid throwing mood, mention must be made of the ngw Scout house that was dedicated this week. It too is a definite credit to the spirit of the community for it was financed entirely from free will offering, both on the business street and thru-out the residential section. o

The committee in charge worked diligently in behalf of its construection. That their efforts will be rewarded in many ways as the years roll by is a foregone conclusion. We know it is the desire of the Scout groups that this fine house will be used and enjoyed by the entire community. We are of the opinion it will.

Individuals, as nations, unite harmoniously on the basis of justice, and this is accomplished when self is lost in Love —or God’s own plan of salvation.—Mary Baker Eddy.

Whatever is unjust is contrary to the divine will; and from this it follows that no true and abiding happiness can be gained by those who are unjust.— Stretch. -

-~ Men will find that they can prepare with mutual aid far more easily what they need, and avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides, by united forces.—Spinoza. :

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by Calhoun Cartwright Where is up and where is down has always been a problem to me. In fact, I’d like to have some kind soul clear the matter up (see what I mean?) for me. We normally go down to Indianapolis and up to Battle Creek, but I've had people tell me they went down to Goshen and up to Fort Wayne. We went up to Michigan City two weeks ago and then down to Chicago. Some elevator, eh? If you’ll just listen intently and read your mail more carefully, you’ll get either air sickness or -cloisterphobia. We're the up and downest bunch of people, in the middle west, ever known. Mother looks at the guilty expression on baby’s face and says “what have you been up to?” Is it any wonder that the child can’t answer, with his limited knowledge of this idiomatic method of expression. Why, I've known parents to whip a child because the youngster didn’t answer when asked what he was “up to.” The poor kid wasn’t being defiant; he was just confused. Think of the confusion in the mind of some child when asked to run “down” to the store. Tl'll bet a farthing the parent would turn into a rage if the child started down the cellar steps.

Some letters would indicate that most of us are tree dwellers and air= plane riders, for how many times have you gotten a letter from some friend which ended, “if you ever get up this way, be sure to drop in.” ' I mentioned at the beginning about “clearing up the matter,” but equally as common is the expression, “ if you’re up to it, I'd like to see you get the job done.” What an embarrassing question that could be to the foreigner, who has just finished years in the study of English. ; Of course, everyone has his “ups and downs,” but it would be better expressed if we said his “forwards and backwards.” Sounds silly, but it makes more sense, now doesn’t it? -1 could go on and on with this sort of thing if I were “up” to it, but I'm not so will close with a query we received in the mail this week, which went “If a doctor loses patients to a rival practioner, would he be justified in suing for allienation of afflictions?” < ws Ho m

Just over in the next column, I have written quite a few serious thoughts that brings me to the conclusion that a laugh might be in order, and here below I have gathered some of the newer “laughs of the week” from people in town that might, as they did me, tickle the funny bone. ° :

Leland Calbeck says, “The best place to spend your vacation is just inside your income.”

~Herb Galloway says, “that deflation is an ‘economic condition that takes the wind out of your sales.”

Fred Hendrickson avers, “there are more triangles outside the geometry books than in them.” :

Mayor Hire says, “one trouble of a depression at a time of a housing shortage is that there may not be doors enough for the wolves to be at.”

Don Freeman ingists that “of all the labor saving devices invented for women none has ever been so popular as a husband with plenty of money.

Jim Schutt says, “an economist is a man who has a Phi Beta Kappa key on one end of his chain and no watch on the other.” . il

He also observed that “in some .spinal columns, the bone seems to be lumped at the top.” : Gene Atz insists that “a night club is where they take the rest out of restaurant and put the din in dinner.” Bob Kidd says, “the only trouble with being able to read women like a book is that you’re liable to forget your place.” And who uttered this garden prayer {hqannot tell, but it went something like is: L : , “If 1, O Lord, divide the roots , And add, O Lord, the seeds, Wilt multiply, O Lord, the shoots... “If 1 subtract. the weeds ?” 4 '

ﬁ 2 ; LPhillips : ENL servem The Garble Sisters | “What a lot of exciting news there’s been lately! Alger Engel marrying all those women! Judy Palmer being found guilty of lying about that typewriter! And the attorney general suing the Yanks to make them break up DiMaggio!”’ “Yeah. And ain't thgt Engel a honey? What'll they do with him?” “The government may have to put back oconirols to stop operations like that. He has a good chance of getting free on one of them supreme court five to four elections. Look’ ‘what the court did in that lonely hearis case . . . they threw the oase out because there was no quorum present.” ® .0 ® ‘“l wish the high courts would agree on what is the law like the low courts do. When a girl meets a Russian agent in New York and she is carrying a bag loaded with secret papers from government tiles why should it make any difference whether she worked for the Carnegie library and took a rug from some auto dealer?” “It's like that trial of the eleven Communists in New York. They all deny they registered in Baltimore as man and wife and say that when they were arrested on that bus they were just getting material for a novel.” ¢ ¢ o ‘I can't see why President Truman named Perle Mesta to that supreme court vacancy anyhow when Wagner stepped out with Justices Palmer, Murphy, Musial and Waitkus dissenting.” “It -was all on account of the Taft-Hartkins law.”

“Where does that stand now?” “The part requiring anybody to answer yes or no has been * cut out but everything else is left in, including the agenda which lets both sides bring their own referee and puts the coal miners on a three day week.” Ae o o Ima Dodo says he read the verdict in the case but couldn’t find out whether Judy Coplon retained the custody of the microphone. e& o 5

The writer of this column does not claim to be the seventh son of a seventh son, but the following chapter from a book ‘by him, *“Private Purkey’s Private Peace” (the original and much.more apt title was ‘‘Peace, Wearing Purple Tights’’), published a few weeks after World War II ended, revealed distinct powers of prophecy. In the story, ~ Private Purkey ~ and several companions crashed a peace ~ conference in Paris, a feat duplicated In & way by Garry Davis a few weeks ago. And in ‘s chapter headed “Discord in the Dovecotes’” ye ed pictured the collapse of peace hopes, the friction between the great powers, etc. thusly: :e & o Months have now elapsed since the peace. And except for the lack of actual gunfire and bloodshed there seemed to be as much fighting going on between the nations as ever., A Hollywod movie ezar had in fact put in a bid for pictures of the peace conference thinking he was bidding for fight pictures. Representatives of Russia, France, England and the other nations on our side—brothers all—were standing toe to toe in many arenas, no punches barred, and not even bothering to go to a neutral corner after knockdowns, ’® & @ There were rumors that Anthony - Eden had come oyt of a council meeting with the ‘“‘Shiner of the Year,” that an American peace conferee had been seen rolling on the floor with a Russian brother, and that Big Three meetings were being opened with demonstrations in jiu-jitsu. The spirit of mutual distrust was rampant, The assorted peace committees and sub-committees were giving evidences of heading for the rocks and discord, and some of them were less inclined to try dynamite than to upholster the rocks for comfort. Tossing in the heavy seas of conflicting interests in small boats, they seemed at times bent on attempting to cure seasickness by resolution and plug up leaks by . amendment. They were good men, kindly and well meaning, in these postwar world huddles, but they were in omottheho_tspotaothmory. and it made them jumpy, ® o 0 _ “There is no need for any busi~nessman to seek assistance from any five-percenter to do business in Washington.”—President Truman, i - Wanna bet? i 0 0 A committee of New York théatrical producers es that urers be licensed to handle all ~then be made, we take it, for ex-

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Although the majority of Indiana’s notaries public are rendering an excellent gervice in the frce notarization of veterans’ World War II bonus applications, a small minority is causing some veterans undue hardship because of errors, Orville P. Bray, administrative officer of the World War II Bonus, announced this week. He stated that many applications for the bonus had been received to date without proper notarization. Some applications had not been notarized at all while many others were not completely filled out on the affidavit. Bray warned all officials administering oaths in connection with the bonus applications that every question in the notarization affi-

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Thank God for God! Lesson rmun 7, 1949

wHILE the little children are thanking God. for birds and bees and oatmeal, let us grown people rise and offer some adult

thanksgivings. Reading the Psalms of praise which are this week before us, we get the impression that these poets were grateful above all not for anything God had given but for God himself. Thank God for God! sings

through every line. Suppose there were no God? He is the Creator of all; without him nothing else can be. The nature of time and space, of molecule and atom and electron, the mighty power that holds all together; the emergence of life, of mind, the possibility of thought, of values, whatever is and whatever can be, is because he wills it so. That there is energy in the atom, light in the sun, refreshment in the rain and power in the lightning—that these things can be and that anything can be, we thank the God. ; s o o ; ' No Unrighteousness in Him SUPPOSE God were not good? A ! vast and vicious devil, his immense mind brimming with intelligence and malice, could perhaps have contrived a universe more enorméus than this corner of one “which is known to us. A creative devil—what pangs he could have invented to torture his creatures! It may be, indeed, that only on this earth is there rebellion against the Creator, and that elsewhere in God’s dominions all is peace. But suppose it were true that all the evil in the world was ordained by some Creative Hatred?—all the goodness in the world only an il lusion, a deception? nn Suppose it were the intent of some devilish maker of man fin-

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davit must be answered and properly executed. Some notaries have even neglected to place the official seal on the application and others have left off their title and commission expiration date.

The bonus official also stated that some applications had been received with the notarization affidavit filled in by post office employes, including postmasters and their assistants. It was pointed out that these officials are not authorized to notarize any statements other than federal government documents.

To date, no complaints have been received of any notary public trying to charge for the notarization service. According to Continued on Page 9

ally to destroy all his creafures, or worse still, to make every creature long bitterly for death but find none? Let us thank God for God: the God of mercy whose loving kindness endureth forever. ® & o He Knoweth Our Frame , LE’l‘ us thank God for his providence. He did not create and then forget us, nor give us so much freedom that we could destroy his majesty or bring to naught his mighty plan. Let us thank God for his infinite love and interest that spares and speeds us, his knowledge of our frame, his remembering even the hairs upon our heads. Let us thank God that being infinite he can have a care for the infinitesimal, and that not a sparrow falls to the ground without our heavenly Father. Let us thank God whose care for us is such that without his knowledge not the least of his creatures can fall asleep.

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there by his almighty decree. In spite of the chaos of men's unruly wills, in spite of we know not what rebellions in the spirit world, he sees to it that not one good is ever wholly lost.

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LE’l‘ US PRAISE God for his promise and for his faithfulness. That he has not left us to our sins nor given us up though long we scorned him; that his divine patience outlasts the hasty heart; that he spared not his own Son but freely gave him for our sakes; that none who come to him will be cast out; that the God who creates is the God who redeems, we praise him from a heart of love. Ap the Psalmist of old knew himself as one of the children of the Covenant, 80 may every man who takes God’s promises and makes them his heart’s own. 3 To take this God for my God ~this is the beginning and the ° end of religion. To step out on his promises as sn 1 bridge that stands secure above all the floods of eternity. : To trust in his faithfulness though all the race of man were liars; to look down the vista of the years without fear, knowing that the God of our fathers will be the God of each mcegedlnc race, that his mercy is everlasting to everlasting and that his kingdom ruleth over all—this is to know him, and this is life eternal. Thank God for God!

. From death and disaster we and the nation and the world have been saved, time and again, Frall is the oraft in which the human spirit lis launched through this pathless universe; yet it holds, and will hold, because the universe fis

k 3 N R/CE Raw Speed You speak of the speed of Coal town, or the speed Citation knows. You speak of the speed of the western gale when the young tornado blows. But there’s only one speed that matters, wherever the simooms rage, And that is the speed of the flying years that turns youth . into age. What Are Reflexes? ‘ “Just what,” writes L. M. P, ‘“are the reflexes you and other sporting experts (thanks) write about? Are they physical or mental? Why should they affect an oldtimer more than a younger fellow? Why are they so important? I would think that a veteran would have better reflexes than a youngor fellow.” Reflexes are merely team play between mind and muscle. For ex-

ample years ago, I was talking with Jack Dempsey. Jack was then about through. *“I know I'm as strong as I used to be,” he said. “I know I can hit as hard. I know I still can take a punch as well. But I'll tell you what makes

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me sore. I see a punch starting. I know where it's headed for. Six or seven years ago my chin or my head would be out of the way instinctively. But today too many of these punches hit me. Even the sucker punches. ‘““There’s another angle,” Jack said. “Six or seven years ago when I spotted an opening,” my fist lv;?g in that split second. Today whén I see an opening it disappears by the time my fist gets in motion. It is either blocked or it has moved out of the way. I don't believe many people know what this means to a fighter. It is only a matter of a split second. Maybe a fifth of a second. But it happens that way as you get older. The message from your eye or your mind travels slower to the muscle. Not much slower. But a fifth of & second means a lot.”

There probably never was a better instinctive puncher or fighter than Dempsey when he was at his peak. Or during those days when Dempsey was hungry. You might think that as you got older the message from eye or mind to muscle would travel faster. It doesn’t. As you get older nothing travels faster except the years. The only detail an athlete picks up as he grows older is experience. When Louis was working, after a fashion, against Joe Walcott, he would stalk the Jersey retreater and catch up with him. Then do nothing. Ten years ago, he would have knocked out Walcott in the first round, for Louis was a fast, hard puncher. But after his 10 or 11 years in the ring, Louis’ reflexes were shot. He could see his opening but by the time he had the blow under way, Walcott would be out of reach,

The same thing happens to ballplayers. The hitters can no longer follow the pitch ‘and get the bat working in time. Notice how many veterans are called out on that third strike, Ted Williams has the best set of reflexes in baseball Ted ecan swing a bat-on a fifth of a second’s notice—when the pitch is only 20 or 30 feet away. You don’t believe this is true? Ask Bill Dickey, who caught back of Williams for some years. On Being Hungry For several weeks inhabitants of various wayside inns around the world have been telling me this story. It concerns Walter (Good Time Charlie) Friedman, Carnera's original importer. Good Time Charlie’s dream is

now to locate a seven-foot chinaman or a seven-foot : Zulu—one of those who can high jump eight or nine feet. We questioned him about it recently and discovered Good Time Charlie feels that he has the answer to the next heavyweight . champion. . : ‘d keep him hungry,” / Charlie says. “Fd get him and 9 starve him. The trouble with ’ fighters today they are too 9 well fed. They have been able 7 fo make a good living outside of the ring. They eat too much. /‘ “Jack Dempsey was hungry when he was at his best. Tunney needed money when he forced himself to train for Dempsey, Joe Louis was hungry when he broke in, Willard was hungry when he started after Jack Johnson, Hun--Bty guys are hard to lick. il “That’'s what's the matter with * white fighters today,” Good Time Charlie continued. *““They are mé and overfed. So they have nom‘_,, *“A well-fed man seems to have thing fo fight for. i