Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 33, Ligonier, Noble County, 18 August 1949 — Page 2

A Page of Opinion: me LIGONIER BANNER ; ESTABLISHED 1867 ; _ W—-—————-—W&;—_———#—m

This is our view: A Need For A Revised Calendar The present calendar amended in 1582 to conform with the seasons was not adjusted in its irregular arrangement. This irregularity, with corresponding changes every year, is bringing untold difficulties, confusion and inconveniences in our modern life which are costly in government, business, econemy, agriculture, transportation, society, education and the individual.

Nations are being drawn more closely together with the airplane, radio, telephone and, automobile, with international trade, world economic conditions and a growing interest in the common welfare of man. This calls for a greater order, stability, harmony and coordination to be established in our various systems, notably that of the calendar. The calendar is indispensabie to all of us and nothing is planned or accomplished without it.

In adopting any change, experience has demonstrated that combining the best of the old with the best of the new, makes any transition ecasy and natural with a minimum of disturbance.

To bring order and stability into our present time system is a logical process that began in 1884 with the adoption of Standard Time, when the clock was planned on the 24 time-zones thruout the world and the International Date Line was fixed. The World Calendar completes that process.

This new and perpetual calendar, that survived a competition of more than 500 plans submitted to the former League of Nations, retains the convenient and easily divisible twelve months but apportions their lengths more evenly. It rearranges the ‘year into equal quarters and halves, removing the inequalities andArregularities of the present unsatisfactory calendar. The plan:

Every year begins on Sunday, 1 January. : '

Each quarter year has 3 months or 13 weeks or 91 days. In each quarter: the first month totals 31 days and begins on Sunday; the second month of 30 days begins on Wednesday; the third month also of 30 days begins on Friday. This arrangement recognizes a harmonious variety. Days and dates always agree from year to year. : Each month has 26 weekdays, plus Sundays. ‘ The week keeps to the familiar order of days - beginning with Sunday. Months have their irregular number of weekdays including Sundays. Every year has an even 52 weeks, plus the one or two new world holidays. Obviously, a system arranged on an orderly and stable basis with balanced and coordinated units, and affording harmony with variety, will exert a beneficial influence for all of us. Nations, governments, corporations, wholesale and retail houses, finance and transportation, education, home, church, and the individual—all will receive untold advantages with such a well planned and perpetual calendar in daily use.

Watch Yourself Hunting

The Indiana Department of Conservation is vitally interested not only in the conservation of the natural resources of the State of Indiana but in the conservation of human lives as the open season for hunting approaches. The word conservation, according to several dictionaries consulted, is construed to be the act of conserving. Thus, the Department of Conservation hopes that all sportsmen will be considerate while pursuing a favorite sport and that they will not only be careful for their own personal safety but will attempt to conserve the lives of other hunters who may be hunting nearby in a cornfield or in a spot where they may not be-plainly visible.

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MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR by Calhoun Cartwright

From the fingertips resting upon the keyboard of a typewriter come the ideas of a person newspaper - trained. Like the musician whose method of expression is by training and habit thru the use of the bow, key or valve, so with the newspaperman does the keys on a typewriter make his ideas more clear and concrete.

It, of course, goes without saying that the typewriter or violin create nothing in themselves, but thru their use do people better express themselves because of the habit they have formed by using these mediums of work.

I have mentioned from time to time that this, my column, is a luxury for me in which I reserve the right to express my thoughts. ‘

Well, several people have inquired from time to time into the background of my interest in organizations generally, and why I am not content to just “mind my own business” and let the rest of the world go by. I am sure that I answer them poorly in my varied verbal explanations, and so I am using this method, brought upon by habit, to clarify the subject in my own mind, and to see if after re-reading in the dawn of another day, it makes sense.

~ First, I know that men cannot live alone. They are dependent upon people to make their living, to pursue their vocational desires and to learn by observation and interchange of ideas the various arts necessary to their existance. :

But further, I am convinced that men can only find maximum fullness of living by joining and working with cther people. Further, they can reach a satisfactory goal in -the art of living only after they learn to give and take and to aid the process of cooperativeness among their fellow beings. Until they reach this plane of existance, they fail to find true satisfaction in their daily pursuits. Organizations (large or small) furnish them with the instrument for better living, and provide them with a vehicle of expression and an opportunity for fuller accomplishment, and thru the services they might perform for the betterment of the group do they as individuals within that group raise their own position. :

Now along the pathway are stumbling blocks, which are inevitable, but which must be surmounted. Isolationism is an ‘expression of defeat, lack of courage and fear and provides no answer to the problems confronted. : One thing certain !that should be learned in organizational work is the respect of others, their opinions and their talents. In other words, we learn tolerance and cooperation, and that is good. When an organized group finds tasks and responsibilities for the ‘major portion of its members, that organization becomes a strong organization. When this is noted in reverse, the organization remains weak, impotent and ineffectual. Men, whether they admit it or not, are consciously aware of it, seek creative outlets, and these are not always attainable in the routine of the workaday life. They then seek a place to find means of expression, and given the opportunity will generally make a contribution to the group to whom they have attached themselves. The group

that fails to allow this expression sinks, and is rebuilt only when it realizes the error of its way. : Then too, there is today more than at any other period in our history a need for men to build within themselves an inner authority as the yard stick for their conduct. By working and playing with others, they bolster that authority and develop it in the light of the lessons learned thru cooperative enterprise. i ; Therefore, I am interested in organizations because I see in them an opportunity to live a fuller life, and I am convinced that the small contribu« tion of the individual is repaid ten fold in“the course of his membership. Generally speaking, we live by the trial and error method and brushing close to the findings of our fellow beings brings us closer to the goal we are seeking without the uselessness of constant

n // % J%, AN =s * ' f LPhillips & TN srwm MISS PRIDGETT'S LAWN IN ANY PROLONGED dry spell there is in every community the man and woman who find an outlet for a full expression of their sense of sacrifice in all-out solicitude for the lawn. Here they make the ultimate effort, the grand fight, the supreme battle. Their heart bleeds for every blade of grass. They are shaken to the depths by the tiniest yellow patch. ® ¢ o : In our neighborhood Miss Arabella Pridgett is easily tops as the great lawn lover. In any moderately dry spell she can go to extremes, but in a real drought, when the reservoirs are low and the water supply critical, she is & study in devotion to the cause of the everdamp lawn. Then she becomes a first lady of the garden hose, a duchess of the sprinkler. The lawn is her first thought at dawn and her last at night. ® & @

Famous battlers for great human causes have shown less energy. Fighters to ease the plight of undernourished peoples have shown no greater energy. Yes, a water famine is threatened, families are urged to go easy, orphan asylums and hospitals have been cautioned to watch the outlets, but with Miss Pridgett her grass is a *‘“must,” with top priority. Lincoln showed no - greater concern for the slaves. 4 Clara Barton was no more zealous , for the sick and wounded. y;v, e @ : v,{,i She was marked. Her mother was frightened by a bare patch in a , green hall runner or something. % She has a bare-patch complex. '3); Were she with Noah in the flood, % she would have come aboard the ; ark with two lengths of hose and * two sprinklers. g;-\ ®& @ U

Her lawn is an astoundingly vivid j green when everything else in hollyhock heights is sere and drab. You can see her busy about it morning, noon and night, every fiber of her being astir over the thought one little blade may be thirsty. She is haunted by a fear of dry patch. One hose is not enough. Miss Pridgett has two. And her second love is the sprinkler. She likes the wide, full-throated, fast-revolving type. ‘When not watering the lawn she gpes window shopping for new automatic sprinkler models. - = ee 0 A grand canal mood marks her premises. “It Ain't Gonna Rain No More” is her theme song. She shoots the waterworks not only on dry hot days but even when it rains. Her faith in providence and . the elements is shaky. Let it rain all night and she is out there with the hose in the morning. Miss Pridgett’'s slogan is “The HOSE must go onl” ® & @ Yoo hoo, move the larger sprinkler over a foot, lady! There's a blade there that seems undrenched.

'® 0 o b Hitler’s yacht Ain’t so hacht; So whacht! ; In a visit to the Grille, once the yacht of der fuehrer, we are sure we should imagine that great nautical figure, that wonderful exponent of all fine sea traditions, rolling and pitching in a terrific storm and bellowing “All is lost! The microphone has been swept awayl” :® o o 1 go to the movies, and what do I get? : Romance and romance, and more of it yet. : : 1 turn on the radio, 1 go to a show— More mushing between a dame and a schmoe. 1 pick up a pulp or 1 pick up a slick— . Again it's @ rooster chasing a chick, I¥’s most revolting; it makes me ill—‘Cause I'm a Jack without a Jill. " =Tom Weatherly e o 6 0 The american association of university professors upholds the right of all teachers to be communists provided they keep it out of the classrooms. This is like saying it is all right to carry lighted match“es in a hay loft provided only good ‘will is shown toward the barn. - .eo e o

We liked Bill Vaughan’s crack in his K.C, Star column ‘“The woman scorned is now surpassed in fury by the babe who never even met ‘the guy, but shoots him anyway.” Bo O @ The active head of a yacht club is called a commodere. A commeodore is a cross between a humidor and a matador. He has to be kept damp like a humidor and bull-throwing like a matador. e @ o Being a commodore entitles you to wear a motorman’s coat, white duck pantsand acap. et oM There's good news in the eco- ' nomie picture. A slight slump is

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Hunting Commandments

It might be well to heed a bit of advice offered by the Sporting Armg and Ammunition Manufacturers Institute in the interest of keeping shooting a safe sport.

This organization offers what it terms the Ten Commandments of Safety in which it believes:

1. That every hunter should treat every gun with the respect due 'a -loaded gun. ; 2. That every hunter should

carry only empty guns, taken down or with the action open, Jnto an automobile, camp or home.

3. That every hunter should be sure the barrel and action of the gun are clear of obstruction.

4. That every hunter should always carry the gun so that the

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{ Singing, Shining

EVERY ATOM of the universe, said Calvin, sparkles with the glory of God. That is our thought for this week: In the created uni-

verse we can see the God who s more wonderful than all his works. The selected Psalms express four different aspects of God's’ creative powe r{ Psalm 8 brings out} the dignity and the glory of man, made to be master of the earth; , Psalm 19:

1-8 listens to the majestic music of sun and stars; Psalm 65:9-13 sees nature as a farmer sees it, in terms of sun, rain and crops; Psalm 104, one of the noblest poems in existence, celebrates God’'s glory in all things' great and small, 6 § s & 9 Mystery THESE inspired Psalmists saw a high truth: Nature is for man's use, in part, but it has also a value, & beauty and a splendor all its own; and it is one of the ways by which we can know Goa. What is true of nature is true, tar more, of the God who created all things. One of the thoughts suggested to their minds was the mystery of nature, ‘Even today, with all that science has discovered, there is mystery in the most elemental facts of existence. What is . light? What is life? What is energy? Where did it come from and what is the destiny of it A common grass blade performs miracles that chemistry has not yet initated. The mystery of nature suggests the deeper mystery of nature’s God. : s o 0 , Power il wE ARE beginning now to real- ' ize, even better than the Psalmists could, how much energy there is in nature. We have seen tragic evidence of the atom’s pow-

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direction of the muzzle can be controlled even if the hunter stumbles.

b. That every hunter should be sure of his target before pulling the trigger. :

6. That no hunter should ever point a gun at anything he does not want to shoot.

7. That no hunter should ever leave a gun unattended unless he has unloaded it.

8. That no hunter should ever climb a tree or fence with a loaded gun.

9. That no hunter should ever fire at a flat, hard surface or the surface of the water.

10. That every hunter should leave the jug at home as gunpowder and alcohol do not mix.

er. Now we have also found that while energy cannot be destroyed, it cannot be created by us, though it constantly changes form. ~ As the water in a power siation which has run through a turbine will not climb back up to turn the turbine again, so the whole universe (they tell us) is in the process of running down. : But how was the universe born, how was energy born, in the first place? How was the universe, so to speak, wound up? Scilence does not profess to know; but religious answers by faith: In the beginning, God .. . ; ® ® O Beauty THE writer of Psalm 104 was well aware that some parts of nature are useless to man; but he rejoiced in them none the less. Few of -his neighbors had any use for whales, for example, but he takes delight in the whale (he calls him Leviathan) just playing in the ocean. St. Augustine, in the same mood, says somewhere about things like wasps and spiders that if we could forget that they bite, we would be greatly awed by their beauty and the perfection-of their mechanism. Indeed, St. Augustine, in one of his prayers, calls God “Pulchritudo,” Beauty. Just as God is The Truth and The Good, so he is The Beautiful e o O

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Law : THE writers of these nature- ; Psalms (especially 19 and 63) were impressed by another fact about nature: its regularity. You can count on the sunrise, you always know which order the seasons will follow., Even things like earthquakes and tornadoes, which seem pretty unpredicable, follow laws of their own. Science has now shown this to be true on a cosmic scale. The stuff of which the farthest stars are made is just the same (only a lot hotter!) as the stuff in the rocks under your feet at this minate, " p.a oo o 0 ‘ The laws that ‘govern the-fall of a leaf or the shape of & raincant be.seen in the whirling of . _JeArs away. The Creator of all is not erratic, eccentric or capricious. ‘He is the God of Law, for from his infinite Mind come all the patterns, known to us or yet unknown, by which the vast fabric of the universe is woven. Mystery, Power, Beauty, Law: All nature, not only the stars, shine says, s : Ak “Forever singing as they shine, The hdnd that made us is divine.”

m What Makes Champions? THERE ARE TWO things that make a great or an unusual heavyweight champion. The first is his own ability. The second is a .éompetitor or an opponent who can help build the headlines. This is no alibi for Ezzard Charles. Charles might be the greatest heavyweight of all time, but how can he prove it with the present crop of challengers? Suppose we look back a few years. Jim Corbett had a Sullivan

to beat. Fitzsimmons had a Corbett to handle. Fitz had a Jeffries in the road and Jeff had a Fitz and a Corbett. Also a Tom Sharkey. And the old sailor was no squash. He could fight. Jack Johnson had

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Jim Jeffries for his build-up, although Jeff was then fat and partly bald. . Jack Dempsey, a great fighter, had the best break of them all. Jack, weighing 183 pounds the day before the Willard fight, had a 260 pound giant to face, a fighter who, after all, had won the title from the great Jack Johnson, After that Dempsey had Carpentier, the great French war hero, his abllity as a heavyweight far overpublicized. But the build-up was on. Then Dempsey was lucky enough to come upon the massive Firpo, the wild bull of the Pampas, the fighter who threw rocks. After Firpo the old mauler from Manassa had two other good breaks as far as crowds, excitement and reputation go. He had Gene Tunney and Jack Sharkey. Tunney was the dead game - young heavyweight just out of the war. He could box, punch - and take his share. He was badly underrated. So was Jack Sharkey on days or nights he wanted to fight. Which wasn’t too often. This Sharkey was the most temperamental fighter the ring ever saw. But he could box and punch — when he wanted to. Dempsey had all the fight game

needed—great ability to start with ~—a flaming - spirit—and at least tive opponents who could draw $l,000,000 gates. Dempsey was responsible for -the two great Tunney crowds. No one knows this better than Gene, although he added his share. It was entirely different when Tunney had to face his ring future without any Dempsey around. I think Tunney retired when. he did for many valid reasons, : $ o o New Order Now we begin to see what Ezzard Charles is up against, what any heavyweight champion might be up aginst. This includes Joe Louis. It is certain to work heavily against Ezzard Charles. ‘Tunney had a sorry lot te ~ face after Dempsey lost his second start. He had Sharkey, Risko, Heeney and one or two more. They were all terrible. Tunney picked Heeney, a short- " armed pushover. I know Rickard wanted Sharkey, who had lest to Risko. After Tunney had completed his operation on Heeney, there was nothing left—just as there is nothing left today—Sharkey, Schmeling, Baer, Carnera, Braddock—flotsam

and jetsam. Both Schmeling and Baer were dangerous punchers at times, Braddock was smart, game but all through—while Carnera was & 265 pound joke. Here was a spot in which no great heavyweight could have proved his rightful place. There was nothing but inferior fighters to face. Then Joe Louis came along. Joe Louis has been a great fighter. A hard puncher and a fine boxer but only fair on the receiving side where head punches have hurt him. Louis has never drawn one of the head ‘liners to beat. Most of those Joe stopped had been beaten by somebody else. Braddock out pointed Baer. Baer knocked out Schmeling. Baer wrecked Carnera, & joke from start to finish—Louis was forced to get his reputation from a second-rate group—headed by- Billy Conn, a light heavyweight. But Schmeling was the best fight. -er Louis had to meet through his career. ; § .0 0 ¢ 20 Game Winners > ‘As usual, the crop of 20 game winners will be quite thin this sea_are left and there are still only five of six pitchers who are in fairly close shooting range. The three with ‘%elman of the Phillies, Howie Pollet of the Cardinals and Vic . Raschi of the Yankess. fob of the year.