Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 34, Ligonier, Noble County, 25 August 1949 — Page 2
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This is our view: ' Good Night! . Mr. DuPont, the dye and chemical potentate, predicts that science will provide future generations with a chemical sufficiently potent to eliminate the necessity for sleep and that man will ultimately command the entire twentyfour hours of the day instead of the present 16 or 17 . ..
Imagine the condition of the world if such a chemical cocktail could be shaken! Think of the additions that would be necessary to our museums to care for the exhibits of beds and mattresses, sheets and pillows, bedroom slippers and pajamas, alarm clocks and sleeping potions! Think of the plights of the manufacturers of these accessories, the hotel owners, the night watchmen, the makers of Pullman sleepers and hammocks! Sacre Dieu! the joy of living would be gone.
But then, of course, we see the brighter side: How we could laugh at the babies who sought to keep us from our sleep ... What joy it would be to be subject no longer to the raucous noise of snores, the terrifying panorama of nightmares, the cold feet in the middle of the back, the getting up on the morning after the night before, and the counting of innumerable sheep!
No, Mr. DuPont, we fail to see the point. Man in a creative mood will burn the midnight oil in spite of chemistry, woman in a recreational mood will dance till dawn on water or on wine, and babies will ery as well on milk. Your Utopia .bcomes redundant and your world would be a Hell. —York Trade Compositor.
How Much American History? How much American history do you know? Have you ever stopped to think about that? : Many recent surveys on the subject have pointed to the conclusion that, on the whole, our schools do not teach American history as well as they should and that our students leave the class rooms with an inadequate knowledge of what has happened in their country’s past. We know that there are exceptions. But if the charge is generally true, something ought to be done about it. How can the people of a country know where they are going, or where they ought to go, if they do not know where they have been? A mind filled with American history is sterile soil in which to grow foreign isms, but it is a rich soil in which to nourish the principles of democracy. A man who does not know the story of his own country is not well informed no matter what else he may know. That is particularly true in a political set-up where the people govern themselves. Abraham Lincoln is recognized at home and around the earth as the greatest man our free institutions have produced. He was born in Kentucky. He spent his formative years in Indiana, and then went on to a legal and political career in Illinois. He lived all of his life in our section of the nation until he was elected to the Presidency and went to Washington to take his office. : He never traveled abroad. He had very dittle formal schooling. Yet he was an educated man, because he educated himself. : Lincoln, better than anyone else, has stated in deathless prose the real meaning of this country. We all turn to him as the great authority. His style was the complete expression of the man. His views were great because he was great. : Any teaching of American history which does not make much of Lincoln is like teaching Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” but making no mention of the character from which the play derives its name. ‘ ) —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette.
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MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR e Calhoun Cartwright
Perfection, I suppose, is a goal to seek, but in some instances it works in reverse, which leads to a certain amount of wonderment when the subject arises. ;
I can think of one glaring example of the folly of perfection, and that example has made me extremely unhappy. I speak of the apple, which in my opinion is the noblest of fruit, but which has taken a terrific beating at the hands of the perfectionists. I stand on my rights as a free born citizen when I vehemently declare that our leading nursery specialists have perfected the flavor right out of the apple in the quest of fruit with “eye appeal.”
Can you remember back to the days of the Sheep Nose apple? I can; in fact, I can still recall the taste thrill experience when sinking my teeth into its delicious peel. Where did it go? I’ll tell you. It went into the perfection factory and came out a beautifully colored apple with absolutely no flavor. Go down the list of those glorious eating apples of yesteryear and you'll come up with the same answer, ie,, beautiful to look at, terrible to taste. My favorite apple, the Northern Spy, is being beaten out of its flavor. That wonderful little snow apple has gone, so has the Russet and Greening. Frankly, the uninteresting, tasteless and prolific Ben Davis would meet the com"petition today. _ ,
If Johnny Appleseed should come back today and start tasting the apples perfected: from the seeds he planted thruout the middle-west, he would probably be ‘“madder than a hornet,” kick his shins for starting something that others finished so poorly. Not being a fruit grower (although I am a darn good customer) I cannot come up with any answers to this unhappy predicament, but I charge you people with the proper qualifications to turn back the tide of progress and develop once again an apple with flavor . . . to heck with looks. .
Last Friday, seven members of the Ligonier Players attended a conference of dramatic groups in northern Indiana and southern Michigan at Pokagon Park. It was sponsored by the Civic Theatre of Angola, whose annual picnicreunion was held that same evening, and to which we guests were cordially invited. - In the afternoon, Professor Crowley of Northwestern University discussed the problems of the little theatre, and contributed greatly to the conference, but far more important to me than his speech was the fact that other towns and cities in the vicinity are trying to do the same things we in Ligonier are doing, and are meeting with much the same problems. ‘. I know that the meeting was an inspiration to each and every attendant, and if we left with nothing else than an assurance our efforts were being properly directed, the meeting was worth the time and effort.
One thing certain, uppermost in my mind, coming out of the conference was the unanimous belief that the little theatres thruout the country (there are over six thousand) furnish Americans with a creative outlet sorely needed in these humdrum days for both audience and participant, and that perfection of production was secondary to the overall good. With the exception of our group, none of the organizations represented had a purpose beyond the preduction of entertainment. Some had their own theatres and some were striving to obtain them. But all were seriously attempting to produce.a theatre that would be a pleasure and a source of pride for their community. It was another example of the growing desire in America to work ecooperatively for the good of many. : . Sometime within the next few weeks, it is hoped that our local group will announce a plan symbolic of its growth and stability.” When it is announced, it should prove another step forward in the cultural growth of the group, and should bring pleasure to an even greater portion of our population. @
£/ / AB/ % . . 2 ' USEFUL AUTOS ‘ THE latest trend in auto design is toward a pleasure car that can be transformed, presto, into something else. By little more than button pressing one model is converted into a truck or station wagon. Similarly, another model has a trunk compartment that can be made into something of a boudoir. We look for extensions of
the trend, bringing perhaps, the combination sedan, deep-freeze unit and rumpus room, :® & @ Elmer Twitchell, the eminent engineer, is at work on a design for flivving that will give the summer auto tourist a ocar to be known as the cabana special. You can drive it onto the beach anywhere, throw a switch and change it into a beach cabana with cock“‘l b‘ro ; ¢ o o Mr. Twitchell has other utilitarjan models in mind for Detroit including the following: 1. Fisherman’'s special. Here the back-seat area can be converted into a huge aquarium for live bait, with a fish well for the day’s catch. The car itself is aquatic and by a few wrist motions can be converted into a motor or sailboat. As an extra there is a sun lamp under which the fisherman can 101 l and lie to one another in comfort. ¢o o 7 2. The Loaf-a-Mobile. Here, by a remarkable use of engineering skills, an extension can be whisked from the back end of the car which becomes, as if by sheer magic, a patio with flowered walls and birdbath. A palm tree can be had in the deluxe model. Through this model the problem of having an auto, a beach home and a small yard is solved. ® & o S. The Kitcheny-Eight. Lives there an autoist who has never longed to whip up a meal en route? In this model Mr, Twitchell gives the world a roomy limousine in which the touch of a buiton transforms the rear of the car into a complete kitchenette with icebox, stove, pantry shelves, cabinets, etc. A compartment for live birds is included in case the owner wants a fresh chicken - dinner, 4. The 12-cylinder What-Fun, By a few manipulations, taking less than 10 seconds, this model, seemingly an ordinary touring car, is converted into a police car with all the traditional symbols and sirens. The mechancial devices which accomplish this change also slap a police hat onto the driver. There is no model as satifactory as this to operators in a hurry.
® & ¢ The Accordion-Kar, Here Mr., Twitchell bas semething which will be the answer to every autoist’s prayer. It is a model which folds up when the driver wishes to park it. All hands alight, a button is touched and the car contracis in the manner of an accordion wuntil #t takes up little more room than an umbrella. The car can then be left in hotel lobbles, home hallways, or even phone booths, ® & 9 (Note—Order this last one early. It is going to be hard to get.) e o 7 Race-Chart Stuff: Right Jab ... Often gets left. Trifle ~ ~ . . Not much. Swords Point . , , , Sharp. Shopper . . » . Apt to stop.. Laurel Road . . . « Plenty green. s¢ o ‘ ‘‘Have nice, black, lady’s suit worn three' times, size 52; will swap for maple sirup or maple things, JY 314 Mass.”—Yankee Magazine, : What would you say to taking some flapjacks used only twice? ®* & o “For Sale — Thoroughbred English Bulldog Pup, Price §75. Must make room for wife, three children, cat, rabbit and horse. 459 J.” Clinton, N. Y. ccmero ; .
And you know how cramped these modern bungalows are. ® o o “140 Base -Piano Accordion, Chimes watch, 388-caliber Colt automatic, 20-gauge shotgun, hockey -skates, diamond-studded Elks’ button to swap for outboard motor, JY 3815 IlL."—Yankee Magazine. Try cranking the Elks' button again; it may start, Tl ®& 9 > Ye ed hears that Olsen & John. son have received offers to quit Buick for Hercules Powder and ’M“PMWMQQOW‘ do Olsen & Johnosn do when - they encounter a quiet zone? .. . Maybe Mike Quill's excuse for those fast strikes is that his brakes don’t work. . . . A cutle from Carolina Beach won the Lion's beauty contest and is Miss Lion of 1949. ..« o m’. Mnlflm.? os 0
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RELIGION FOR THE MODFRN WORID
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God's Map for Me
Lesson for August 28, 1949
HOW did the writers of the Bible ‘think about the Bible? We can get part of the answer by looking -at our Psalms for this week. These poets already possessed a part of our Bible: the Law, some historical books, perhaps some of the Prophets. It was an incomplete Bible they had—but they loved it. They did not think of it or use it in some of the mistaken ways you may find some people thinking of the Bible today. They did not think
it was enough to read a line or two before going to bed every night. They did not think that having a copy of it around would bring good luck, or scare off demons. They said nothing about the Bible's being great literature. They ‘were not at
all bothered by miracle stories in Scripture; they believed them, and took them as evidences of the mighty power of God (see Psalm 105). They did not look on the Bible as chiefly a dictionary of Don'ts. They did not think of it as a Sabbath book, but rather as an everyday one, It did not strike them as a book of mystery. : .o @ The Psalmists’ Bible IN reading Psalm 19:7-14, it is in- & teresting to see how many different things the Psalmist says about the Word of God. He calls it by various names, but that is only because, being a poet, he likes to use several words for the same thing. As for Psalm 105, where else but in his Bible would the poet have learned that story of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and the deliverance from Egypt? - ' The reader of this Psalm will observe that the subject of most of the sentences is GOD. As ‘the poet reviews his people’s history, he shows that it is not _ ites, but it is God who brings
NEXT WEEK : ANOTYER BIBLE LESSON
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things to pass. *‘Man proposes but God disposes’ is a proverb which the writer of Psalm 105 would approve. Psalm 119 i{s known as an ‘“‘alphabetic” or “acrostic” poem. It is divided into 22 sections, each one exactly eight verses long. There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet, and in the Hebrew original of this Psalm each verse of the first section begins with the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Aleph; in the next section, Beth, and so on down to the last letter, Tau. ® & O The Book of God WHAT the writers of these Psalms ¥ gaid about the partly-done Bible 'of their times is of course even more true of the completed Bible which is our heritage as Christians. One thing they make clear is that this is first of all God’s book. They knew as well as we do that different human minds had 2 part of it, but for all that it 1s always God whose message comes through what they wrote. The Bible, properly understood, reveals the mind of God and the will of God. The Bible reveals also the doings of God. His story is the weaving of God's eternal decrees on the looms of time. Again, these poets see that the Bible is for man and about man. None of them thought of it as a gulde to heaven, bu rather as a road map or fo gulde us
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through the mases of this Psalm 119 stresses this wor and no other, as the world | which Ged’s light shines. The commandments of God are so many lengths of barbed wire to fence us in, rather road-signs to guide us on lite’s open highway. The Bible presents the “How" of living. It is God’s map for me. . ve & ° The Bible in The Heart THE SENTENCE: “Thy word have I hid in my heart” (Psalm 119:11) is the clue to. the right use of the Bible. When & Hebrew ‘writer says “heart” he means ‘something more than mere emotion. The word means character, what a man really is. A young Korean was learning the Serm,onthemmm slow work of it. When a missionary asked him about it, the boy sald, “I have to be slow, First I learn & verse, then Igo out and lve i, 1 can learn .the words In a few minutes; but It takes longer than that to live iB.” : That is the right idea. One verse, translated into living, is worth more than a chapter that never gehh‘m_m than the edge of the ra : ;
Braln Work wmcn IS THE MAIN factor in sport competition — direct thought or the subconscious mind? How much success belongs to quick
brain work and how much to intuition? To help settle this lissue, we called in the patriarch of brain waves, the same being John Kieran, who in his day was a high - class competitor at Fordham and who needs no
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further comment when it comes to a matter of brain action, ‘““The subconscious mind,” according to Kieran, ‘“‘does most of the work. The brain can't work with the speed needed to handle too many situations. For example & jockey has less than a fifth of a second on many occasions to decide whether he must go inside or -stay outside. A Ted Willlams will often wait until the ball is within 13 feet of the plate before he decides to swing—or not to swing. That is another fifth-of-a-second decision, “Some brains, of course, work faster than others. But there are few that can work with split-second speed in making a decision. Subconscious action takes over or intuition or whatever you want to call “'” Both Eddie Arcaro and Ted Atkinson bear out this angle in regard to racing. “I'll be moving up,” Arcaro said, “and suddenly there’s an opening to the left. I haven’t time to size things up. Your intuition acts for you—and sometimes your intuition can be wrong. You can use your brain in mapping out a race in advance. But once you get into fast action, you've got to depend a lot on your reflexes or your intuition, which are the products of experience. In fact, I think this is where experience counts most. I mean in -giving you the right intuition.” Boxing follows the same line. A younger fighter, in his prime, sees an opening and punches &t practically the same instant. Or he sees a punch coming and ducks. Later on, he is just as smart. His brain is just as good as it was years before. But his subconscious action has slowed down, his intuitive action has gone rusty—so he puneches for the opening too late or he doesn’t quite duck in time. Joe Louis, for example, had as good a brain in 1848 as he had in 1838, but though he kept catching Walcott in 1048, his subconscious reactions were too slow to land a knock-out punch. Applied to Golf “Now golf is a game,” J, Kieran continued, “‘that should be played with a subeconscious mind entirely. But it isn’t. The ball isn’t moving 80 there is the deadly temptation to start thinking— what club to use, etc. This is when the trouble begins.
“Remember that round Watis Gunn had in the amateur at Oakmont in 1925? I think Watts lost the first five holes, I know he was being murdered. Then suddenly he seemed to settle into a trance and he won the next 15 holes—ls holes in a row.
I talked to him later and Watts admitted he didn’t remember a thing that had happened in those 15 holes.
*‘T never thought of anything,’ he said. ‘I just kept swinging the club head. I was in a sort of mental groove.’
‘“There was certainly no conscious effort in anything Gunp did. He went sailing through until he met Bobby Jones in the final round where neither conscious nor subconscious effort was of any use. “Direct thought or brain action has certainly wrecked many a round of golf,” Kieran continued. “It a fellow could just step up to a ball and think about nothing at all as he swung the 'club head, scores would take a terrific dive.
*“Here’s another thought along these lines,” Kieran reported. “I've known a lot of baseball and football players. Many of these—not all of them—l wouldn’t call too .smart. I wouldn’t say their brains were too agile, although they had their share of good sense. I've seen these fellows make few mistakes. They were generally where they should have been. Some instinct seemed to guide them. I know it wasn't sharp thinking. Trying to Think . ; “On the other hand, I've known extremely intelligent players (I mean intelligent off the field) who always seemed to be pulling some boner or doing something wrong. Maybe they were trying to think in place of giving the subconscious side a chance. But there is very AT B : , competitive fnstinct can be wide