Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 35, Ligonier, Noble County, 1 September 1949 — Page 2

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Vol. 83

This is our view: A Feorthright Governor

Unquestionably Governor Schricker is receiving the plaudids of Democrats and Republicans alike this week for his forthright. statement last Saturday nite concerning Brig. Gen. Harry Vaughan, the presidental aide.

“The President of the United States has too many responsibilities to be embarassed by a playboy who deals in deep freezes,” the governor said when suggesting that Vaughan should resign.

This was not a remark to aid political climbing for the ire of the President could very well be manifested in a denial of federal patronage, but our Governor was interested in the truth rather than politics.

' This writer for one agrees with the governor, but feels even stronger in the matter. We think the President should fire him. Further, we do not feel that a friendship loyalty should be the means of a cover-up. The General betrayed his friendship by conducting himself in a manner not befitting the high office he holds, and deserves little consideration. 2

- In these critical times, our government should not be encumbered by the weak. Undoubtedly history will record President Truman’s loyalty to friends of mediocrity his most glaring weakness.

Labor Day Safety

The last week end holiday of the summer is at hand, and Supt. Arthur M. Thurston, of the Indiana State Police, takes note of the expected heavy Labor Day travel by warning motorists to drive with common sense, extra care and courtesy over the four-day vacation period. Last year, 18 persons were killed in Indiana traffic smashups, and 470 others were hurt. A total of 841 accidents were reported in the holiday period a year ago, with the faster speeds in the rural district accounting, inupart, for a higher death and injury toll. e 2 :

_ This week end State Police troopers, city police and sheriff’s officers will be on the job to guard against bad driving, but the greatest preventative effort must come from the drivers themselves, Supt. Thurston points out.

Travelers are advised not to leave their safety-mindedness at home. State Police records show that last year’s Labor Day toll included men, women and children who were involved in boating, swimming and flying mishaps, or who suffered the ill effects of over?;firtion, over-exposure to the sun, and falls.

The Dignity of Man

Bills of human rights are springing up fast these days.

A committee of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe now meeting in Strasbourg has drafted an 11-point bill of right for Europeans.

It outlines the freedoms which are taken for granted in this country. : Any organization makes a good start which puts these things on paper. But that is not enough. They must be honored. ,

America has a Bill of Rights which is honored. Russia has one which is completely disregarded. .

The United Nations several months ago became active in this field. Some of its leaders are sincerely trying to impress upon member nations the observance of this code of freedom. They know, however, that a long campaign of education is necessary to make such a program effective in the backward countries which have no such traditions. Little by little, the doctrine of the dignity of man is edging forward.

Ligonier Banner

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% Thursday, September 1, 1949

I heard a man remark recently that “the trouble with the Church today is the unfortunate fact that it has so few Christians in it.” - '

At first, this sounded more fictitious than factual, but the more 1 thought it over, the more I began to agree with him. It is true that people today are not living by Christian law . . . it’s too hard.

MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR by Calhoun Cartwright

It’s too difficult to turn the other cheek; to do unto others as you would have others do unto you; to personify gentleness, kindness, thoughtfulness, helpfulness, patience, justice and charity Yet if these things are not a part of a person’s philosophy and personalit)' they are not living by Christian law. If a person does not observe these ! laws of behavior, how can he feel himself different than the professed nonChristian? The answer is simple. He cannot. : ' ; e

If people fail to recognize the weaknesses in others because they too have weaknesses, how can they understand the Christian story, or how can they benefit by it? : Have you ever known a Church, whose congregation was pulling one hundred percent together with a common purpose, patient to each others whims and ideas? I haven’t. I see division, quest for authority, inability to understand the position of those who disagree, and believe me this is not peculiar to any one organization whether it be a Church or a Sorority. Frankly, I do not condemn *these faults with contempt, for the way is hard and we haven’t learned.

Then too, today the authority of the Church is slipping. It is n? the criterion of ethical behavior, and people are groping. But I do not blame this entirely on the people. I blame it on the leaders who have talked in riddles in place of understanding. Who have thrown out words and phrases we couldn’t understand, and made no attempt to see that we understood. I blame it on the leaders, who have failed to recognize the mental and spiritual evolution of man and continue to preach things we cannot and do not believe. . I have heard the word “sin” all my life, but only recently did I have it explained to my satisfaction. This explanation was simple. I understood it. “Sin is the failure of men and women to live up to the fullest extent of their potentialities.” ' Many. will disagree with' me, but I firmly believe that today we must develop an inner authority that moulds and develops our ethical behavior. That man_as an entity is the most important development in the history of our world, and as such should be recognized ail;l(:iod studied and developed and unders = 5 <

Jdesus Christ presented a tremendous challenge to his followers when he said, “What do ye more than others?”’ When people do not do more than others, they are failing in their obligation to a preachment they say they believe, and that, in my humble opinion, is the crux of the problem. ’ ‘ We must have a redefinition of the things we say we -believe. Then, upon agreement, live up to and practice that which we profess. | ' We must place more emphasis on human beings and by doing so, we see the other side, we improve our side, we eliminate hate and destruction, we obliterate the two greatest pestilences of world history, class and war. Of course, it isn’t just that simple. Perhaps it 'will take another two thousand years:to attain it, but the course of action is fairly well defined. At least we can do our bit by trying.

We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of Labor by Capital, or of Capital by Labor: and also that there should be no stifling of Labor by Labor, or of Capital by Capital. —John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.—E. L. Magoon.

I have always thought the -actions -of men the best interpreters.of their thoughts.—Locke. :

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‘NO STARCH’ $ uTEEY STARCHED my shirts again,” we said to the wife. *“Well, don't say it so accusing--Iy,” she replied. “I didn't do it. It's the laundry.” ; “But the laundry has been told again and again not to -put any starch in ‘em,” we said. “I'm all in from repeating the word ‘No starch’ to it said the- “ What does the laundry say?” “It says ‘O. K.l No starch.”” “And back it comes starched in technicolor, with the collars on summer shirts as hard as lawn-mower blades, and the cuffs so hard you have to button them with a chisel and hammer, Why don’t we change laundries?” we moaned. * “Hah!*” snorted the missus, “Change ‘em and what do you get?” “More starch,” we suggested. “Exactlyl The laundries or the laundry workers are in a great national conspiracy in restraint of soft collars and cuffs. They are in a secret soclety dedicated to the use of starch. Their motto is ‘You'll take starch and like it!"'* . ¢ ¢ ° We resolved to investigate. We spread our shirts among different laundries. Our routine was the same at each laundry. “Does this laundry do shirts without starching them?’* we asked. “Certainly. All you gotta do is specify you don’t want no starch, mister.,”” : “I.so specify. Do you want it in writing?” “Naw. I'll put a note on it ‘no starch.’ Then it goes through and comes out with no starch.” ; “I've been puiting notes ‘no starch’ on my shirts for years,” we sald, The laundryman looked surprised. “I ocan’t remember that,” he sald, ““Are you sure they came back starched?” “Look at my neck, You think those red circles are from rope?” we demanded., .

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.*Some laundries are careless, you know how it is. With us when a customer says no starch he gets no starch. We got a system.” “What 1s 1t?” : / “We have a starch department and a no-starch department. All the stuff that don't want starch goes to the starch department. Also we got a starch superintendent and a no-starch superintendent. And on top of that we got starch and no-starch classification clerks and inspectors. Here's something else, we don't use much starch anyhow, even if you ask for starch.” “So these shirts will come back with no starch then?* “You can take my starch—beg pardon—my word for it."” “Positively no starchl” “Positively!” : The laundry came back in a few days. We felt confident and carefree as we opened if. Then we leaped through the second ; story window, : *I know,” called the wife, looking out, “Starchl® “Starch,” we admitted, crawling zo:n the shrubbery, cut and bleeg,-_

VIDEO AND EDUCATION College courses by television are now being announced. We suppose the grads will win iceboxes instead of diplomas. e’ And get minkskins instead of sheepskins. . —— ; We can see it all now , , . the baccalaureate by Howdy Doody. e But a lot of people have felt that our educational system flickered too much as it is. -—-*——- : Personally we feel that eduoaticn hasn’t been dramatic enough, A jsckpot could have helped us through ancient history, And we are positive that we would have done better under our professor if they had introduced puppets in . the Latin, French and mathematWe just had to get an education, such as it was, by study, We had no outside aerial. o ke : : e But now we are entering an era when ignorance may be easily attributable to the fact that the set lacked a “booster.” Y e / oo @ , = Your education may become » little dependent on fuses and you may find that your low ] ~ e e e o Ira Hirschbaum, former education and now a video official, Hunter college will make the first tests in video education, with hismmm«m\vm be M ,;:‘-W, on the & pleture, ol

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“These illustrations aren’t modernistic enough!”

Letters to the Editor

“The USO has been reactivated, at my request, as an essential element in the development of our. national security;” said President Truman in a recent letter to Harvey S. Firestone, President of the National ‘'USO Board. ‘ This letter also stated that “The USO is continuing to finance Veterans Hospital Camp Shows, which, with all of the resources of show business, are bringing professional entertainment on a regular schedule to 100,000 veteran patients in 120 Army, Navy and Veterans Hospitals across the country.” -

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i O _ PEVOTIONAL READING: ‘Pahlm 73: 18, 12-13,

What Is Justice?

Lesson for September 4, 1949

EVERYBODY is in favor of justice but not everybody knows what justice is, Justice is more fundamental than democracy. If we believe that democracy is the best form of government, it is only because .we believe that justice can be better secured in this way than in any other. _ ® 9 Justice is as old as God Since for :at least 3,000 years: historians, : ?bnficiims;«, - philesophers ° and theologians "= « & have been wrang- FEE SRt ling over the memf : g .: % ing of justice, you = . won't learn the last St 3 word. about it mere- = & ly by studying one B S Sunday school les- JEE & son. But this is the place to remind T ourselves: that jus- SN tice as . an ideal, py, Foreman and demoecracy as.. .. e ‘a means of reaching that ideal, were not born yesterday. ‘ Labor Day will recall the . . _great services rendered to democracy by the organized “workers of the world, for ex“ample,” in the push’ they have - woation. But democracy is older ‘than the labor movenient, is older than July 4, 1776, is older .. than the Magna Charta, is older than the Roman empire, in " ““Lgt Justice be done even if - " the skyrcaves in!” . . % and democracy go back “to the ancient Hebrews, the people ‘who wrote the Old Testament. It ‘was written in their laws, preached by their prophets, sung in' their Psalms. But of course they did not invent it; They proclaimed it; but justice is' older than the human race. The whole Bible and not only. the Old Testament teaches that justice is rooted in the nature of God himself. No unjust person can be called godly, T 3 2 § W TR i et "

NEXT WEEK : ANOTHER. BIBLE LESSON

“The USO is still the serviceman and servicewoman’s ‘home away from home’. Today, the USO and cooperating agencies are maintaining over 150 USO clubs, lounges, service centers and area projects. Nineteen of these are serving our armed forces in "Alaska, in Germany, China, Italy, the eastern and western Mediterranean areas, Guam, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Canal Zone, The future USO program, based on actual need, requires 242 clubs and service centers,” continued President Truman.. " .. Sincerely yours, = C. A. Tevebaugh.

Songs of Justice OU Psalms for this week give us some valuable light on what justice is. Some people think that it everybody were rich, that would be justice. Psalm 49 shows how foolish that notion is. It says in almost so many words, “You can't take it with you.” : Riches do not spell happiness. Making everybody rich might mean making many people miserable. Money by itself does not cure the ills of life, it may make them worse or even create new ones. Many a family in the “upper brackets’’ has troubles that would vanish i they had less money. Psalms 72 and 82 give us more positive suggestions. Psalm T 2 sees it as the king’s main duty to judge the' people with righteousness and justice. The king was the government, in those days; he was the executive and the legislative and the judicial branch of government all rolled into one. In modern terms, the business of government is something more than furnishing police to Jock up and punish wrongs after they have been done. The welfare of the people is the “goncern of government, When pub-, He d?;lbnh”tm any other view of . their job, they are off the beam. , ;nzg'*-democrt::ty,,gh‘ei ”th is ‘the people, that 18 fo say,-oursélves. ‘lfeom things are“’badg;d‘flnhblamc ; for it; if they are going to be any better, we shall have to work for “4t. Every appesl to a king, in the Old Testament, when translated into terms of a democratic’ coun~try, means an appeal to the people, - ‘ = ' The Little People - : lUSTICE always has to be concerned with the little people. It was true in the simple little world of the ancient Hebrews, it is just .as true in our global complex world, that the strong will- always exploit the weak it there is not a “hand to stop them, LA - @od is always for the *“poor,” ~paid his workers. Nowadays the oppressor is any exploiter, any man or group of men who will use power to squeese out ~ But justice is positive, not nega- ' tive, prevention and not cure only. ‘Concern for: social justice includes ~ taking care of people laid low by _ an epidemic or made homeless by It will mean working for conditions ~ such that no one will be forced to live in unsanitary firetraps,

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Summer, Smoke and Football Mr. Tennesseqy Willilams, an eminent dramatist, some time ago dei rmessnn livered an epic g mer and Smoke.” BT o We'll make this \\‘:\ 3 epic *“S ummer, 0 % ¥& Smoke and Footi L ball” For it sudN denly ocourred to us that foot- : ball was just Grantland Rice around the corner and before any could guess what had happened, Michigan would be throwing’ passes again and beating teams 20 to 0 that were Just about as good as Michigan, Which proves that it still pays to be smart., Michigan is always smart. And as long as the forward pass is legal, Michigan will continue to throw forward passes, dating from Benny Friedman to Charley Ortmann,

Why murder running backs along the ground when you can pick up 85 yards on one pitch? Which brings to mind the thought of what an amazing combination Michigan has in Fritz Crisler, graduate manager, and Bennie Oosterbaan, head football coach. Crisler, a great coach on his own, adds 15,000 to Michigan's seating capacity—giving Wolverine followers space enough for 100,000. Also Crisler has already sold out his four big games—Army, Minnesota, ete. for a 400,000 four-game total. And in the same interim Benny Oosterbaan is starting with 22 lettermen this fall, plus a flock of promising sophomores, to keep the Maize and Blue where it has been for the last two years—at the top. Red Blaik will have a fine Army team. It will be ably -coached and directed. But it will have to be something extra to invade Ann Arbor and return with a Wolverihe hide. Look at that Michigan backfield -—Charley Ortmann and Leo Koceski—the brilliant 220 pound Dick Kempthorn — Teninga and Tom Peterson—these and many others. Will Minnesota with its powerful line finally return to the Big Ten's top? What about the reviving West Coast, determined to slip back into the big picture? California, U. S. C., Stanford, Washington, UCLA and Oregon—all stronger? What about the revival of the Ivy League, headed by Cornell and Dartmouth? This 1949 season can be the all-time peak. ®& O i Great Pliching In a season of rather shoddy pitching where the average pitcher “has only a vague idea of where the plate is located, we took a brief ‘Journey through years long under dust to see what past performances “had to offer. i In juggling around we ran across a compilation by Tex Ollver known as .*Kings of the Mound.” In this review from the present to the long ago, Oliver put together some of the most remarkable feats of the game. . For example, he gave high- - est rating for the year fo Eddle Rommel, the umpire, back im 1922. That year Rommel won 27 games and lost 13 with the Athletics, who finished seventh with one of the worst ball clubs - on record. Oliver figured that ~ any pitcher who could win 27 . games with the 1928 Athletics " should wear an Oliver wreath ' studded with laurel blossoms. - ‘He gives his next rating to Jack Chesbro in 1904, who won 41 games and lost 12, Walter Johnson runs third in 1918, when Old Barney won Washington, as remarkable a record as one can recall. " The same is true of Ed Walsh ‘White Sox. Walsh that year . Walter Johnson won 23 tors in 1911 and Urban Faber won 25 with the 7th place White AR In 1924 Brooklyn finished 2nd, “but six that year. In 1025 Brooklyn