Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 36, Ligonier, Noble County, 8 September 1949 — Page 2

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This is our view: ' A Fund Drive Wednesday evening, The Ligonier Players conducted their type of fund drive, which is somewhat unique as fund drives go. At this writing, we know not the outcome, but we trust it was good, for it deserves support. - The group set out selling season tickets to four shows they will give this year. These tickets, purchased in a group, saves the buyer twenty percent and should give them a feeling of helping a good cause. Many cities, of our size and larger, conduct a donation campaign each year to provide a recreation program for the children during the pleasant summer months. They generally raise the money, for today we realize the need of providing organized fun for the youth of, our communities. But the Ligonier Players raise this money in a unique way. They give the_ donors full value for the money they spend by providing entertainment at a minimum admission cost. ~ In our humble opinion, this type of activity is deserving of support. . This past summer the recreation cans were told last week they would Mr. and Mrs. Bill Abbs of Cromwell, successfully aided a large group of our younger children. Attendance records were kept daily to prove to even the most skeptical the good that was being done. And these records prove the worth of the program as attendance will only remain constant and high if the work being done interests and intrigues those who participate. Now comes the drive to provide-for next year’s activities, and each and ‘every person in our community is given an opportunity to do their share by buying tickets to shows, which should of themselves be worth the cost. -

If you didn’t get your tickets, may we humbly suggest that some member of the committee be contacted, and be--fore it is too late, add your bit to the over-all job?

396 Americans Three hundred and ninety-six Ameriprogram, under the able direction of lose their lives over the Labor Day week end, but they heeded not the warning. - Three hundred and ninety-six people failed to return to their normal duties Tuesday morning because of fatal accidents that undoubtedly could have been avoided. Their families, grief stricken, must follow new courses in the pursuit of living, and all because someone was careless . . . didn’t take time to think . . . took chances. When are we going to learn that fighting the crowded highway demands care, good sense and caution? When are we going to learn that this machine age we think miraculous needs brains in addition to pistons to make it work for us? ThiS writer senses keenly the feeling those people left behind are experienceing, and knows the “if,” which is now in their minds is a futile thought with baseless meaning. We can’t undo today the wrongs of yesterday, but we definitely can prevent the wrongs of tomorrow. If ever there was a need of reselution, it is now needed in the minds and hearts of men. We shall drive with caution. We shall observe the rules of courtesy. We shall prevent that which is preventable. It is sad to write after each and every holiday, the story of death. Death from carelessness and hon-thinking.

A Newspapers Duty to the Public | To acquaint the people of the community with conditions as they exist. To acquaint them with what other communities are doing in the field of civic planning. ' To awaken them to the possibilities of their city. /. ' _ To create within the people the civic pride which will eventually turn these possibilities into realities. —Pittsburg Post-Gazette

» & 7 Jigonier Banner Established in 1867 Published every Thursday by -the Banner Printing Company at 124 South Cavin St. Telephone: one-three CALHOUN CARTWRIGHT, Editor and Publisher Entered as aeclm&clas matter at the postoffice at Ligonier, Indiana under the’act of March 3, 1879. =l : Adverhuag Federation of America

MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR by Calhoun Cartwright

As age gains momentum in our lifely course, we more and more live in retrospect. Nostalgia takes the place of burning ambition, and varied seasons of the year bring back memories that are pleasant indeed. With the advent of autumn I have, for years, felt the pangs of school preparations, a feeling I apparently shall never lose. But I shall never know whether my desire for its return was to further my education or to enjoy the spirit of comradery so prevalent among my fellow sufferers. As 1 see these young people heading off for college today, I frankly admit I wish I were one of them. How rosy the world looks at such a time. How important is the role we feel we must play when we start our academic preparations for the future. How keenly we feel all the problems surrounding us and how weighty are the problems of the world upon our shoulders as first we see them face to face. We wonder how the “fuddy-duddies” running the world ever attained their position, and in the enthusiasm of our first awakening tour old truths now made new, we make the trek toward solving them an impatient course indeed. But why should anyone scoff at these young people, or “tell them. every man, who thinks, had much the same emotions? Why should we beéat their new born spirit with the knowledge we have gained thru' much the same process? Was not the pursuit of such retention more thrilling than the accomplishing reality? Why should we foretell the thrill of reading Homer’s “Illiad,” when to the discoverer comes a greater thrill? Oh youth, how pleasant are those formative years, which you are launching into!

I never think of school days that I do not think of reunions, and reaffirming my resolve to never attend one of these functions again. There was a time when the thought of reunion with old schoolmates and cronies of yesteryear intrigued me no end, but I have outgrown that particular feeling, and before you label me a callous old so and so, let me explain. It is not that I am displeased seeing them, but I have learned through bitter experience how the widened path eventually stilts the conversation. Such meetings have unfortunately followed much the same pattern, ie., after the glad hello, and the wvaried inquiries concerning the whereabouts of Bill Smithers and Liza Cranafrance, there seems no common ground upon which we can enjoy ourselves. I have been caught asking two and three times about Kruger Coopershultz, and then shyly remarking, “I guess I asked you about him before.” What an experience! Even the meeting of the 88th division would be a most boring event if it were not for the fact that a man named John Barlycorn lustily keeps the group occupied and desencitized. '

Of course, aside from the possibility of boredom comes the possibility of disappointment, for reunions never measure up to the standard people generally set. . Would it not be better to remain content with our memories than to burst the bubble of a dream?

I particularly find family rednions distasteful for much the same reasons, and I swear the same statements are repeated year in and year out. In the first place, I come away confused for there always seems to be a great division in the group as to which parent I most resemble. First, one tells me I look like my Mother and then I'm reminded I look like my Father. This generally goes on for over an hour, and leaves me groggy. Too, Kkeep wondering at the paradox of the pot-luck dinner, which finds the city dwellers bringing the fried chicken and the farm relatives serving meat loaf. Egad, why must this be? '

Well, all in all, I find myself unhappy at reunions, and I have resolved to keep my cherished memories happy by doing just that, keeping them memories.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame.—Longfellow. '

- ABOVE THE ﬁ “\’2 oy LYTLE HULL oS (3 =R 4 O 2 *_/"‘S&;Q\\ \é‘ ¥ ‘:‘Q% . BUSINESS & THE PUBLIC DIGNITY IS A wonderful asset, but there are times when it can be overdone. We have in mind the rather “‘elevated attitude of the management of the big industries as opposed to the less dignified—but far more effective—publicity of the labor union bosses. “A broadcast for instance by Walter Reuther in a stirring radio manner, holds the interest, and often the sympathy, of the listener; while the drab voice of some industry official asserting actual facts and figures fis turned off for some jazz band. So gradually owners and managers of industry, the majority of whom were formerly laboring men or white collar workers, have lost favor with the public. iy Why doesn’t industry go into the propaganda business in a more exciting and enticing way? Why, just as an illustration, doesn’t it tell the romantic stories of the lives of Rockefeller, Ford, Harriman, Chrysler gnd many others dead and alive, who rose from the ranks before the dictators took over the unions and made that sort of thing virtually impossible? v Why doesn’t it tell the public, through real radio speakers, that the millions of people who advanced the money to finance the industries get about 4% cents out of every dollar taken in while labor gets from 25 cents fo 30 cents? Why doesn’t it dramatize it’s position instead of spending ‘‘big money” on dull recitals? Then the public would listen and learn. : “But just so long as the public is uninformed, and therefore apathetic, the union bosses are going to have their way; and if the ‘‘since the war’” tempo of their inequitable demands continues, they are fairly certain to destroy our free-enter-prise system and force upon this *““last of the democracies’ the same sort of incompetence which is gutting the British empire. There is a move already underway by the economic adolescents who have misnamed themselves “liberals,”” to take over the economy of this nation and mismanage it. Industry knows this! Why won’t it meet the threat? Forget the dignity! .

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By LYN CONNELLY NWNS Radio-Sereen Editor DENNIS DAY, who recently finished a sensational personal appearance tour of the country, undoubtedly has one of the finest voices on radio today, but we couldn’t help feel while talking to him in Chicago | that RCA Victor’s | “Golden Throat” S could be just as k 3 much a success i%l «a B E Wwithout his voice (. " NI at all .. . He's v probably got more XE talent in his little gX v x%@% finger than a good RO many would - be - comedians clutterDENNIS DAY ing up the air these days put together. His various dialects leave you limp and his breathless, dumb characterization of the radio Dennis Day does likewise . . . All this, besides having a voite that would melt the largest iceberg in the Viking area . . . Incidentally Dennis is back on NBC in his own show. PLATTER CHATTER

VICTOR: Speaking of Dennis Day, his latest record is a novelty number that he handles beautifully, ‘“Pancho Is a Fool” . . . The reverse is ““That I Do,” a ballad that suits his lilting Irish voice . . . The Three Suns have a cute little ditty called *“The Windmill’s Turning.” Larry Green’s rendition of the new favorite, *‘Give Me a Song With a Beautiful Melody,” is outstanding and he has that honey, *“Nowl! Now! Now!’ on the reverse . . .

Spike Jones goes all out in a completely zany, but very bright, number “Dance of the Hours,” a sequel to “William Tell Overture” . . . The flip, ‘“None But the Lonely Heart,”” loses out somewhere.

HEKURY:Y Frankie Laine has another winner in “That Lucky Old Sun” with “I Get Sentimental Over Nothing” on the back . . . Kitty Kallen’s “The Fellow in Yeljlowstone Park” is cute and light and the flip, *“Milwaukee” gives more of Kitty’s vocalizing.

COLUMBIA: Sinatra .comes up with a couple of oldies and gives them a nice polish—*lt All Depends on You” and ‘I Only Have Eyes for You” . . . Dinah Shore should hit the jackpot with the very hauntingly beautiful *“Thru a Long and Sleepless Night.”

ROBERT GONDON EDWARDS “ambassador” for'ltalian newsroel company, Incom Inc., is establishing N. Y. branch. Incom produces historical, musical and other cultural shorts aimed to increase cultural exchange betwecn U. S, and Italy.

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RA‘!’HEB THAN SEE his farm program *“‘so hamstrung that it would not work,’* Secretary Charles F. Brannan has asked the senate agricultural committee to eliminate all reference to his controversial farm .plan from the senate farm bill. As a result the bill which came from the committee resembles in the main the house-passed bill which also had kicked overboard both the Brannan proposals and the Aiken farm law, “The senate bill picked up a few of the features now in the Aiken act, and no doubt the measure will wind up in a conference committee before final - passage. As now constituted, the measure bears the imprint of former Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson, senator from New Mexico. The senate farm version calls for support of basic crops—corn, cotton, peanuts, rice, tobacco and wheat at 90 per cent of parity this year and reduction to as low as 75 per cent after 1950, if supplies become surplus. Milk and butterfat would be supported at 75 to 90 per cent. Wool, mohair, tung nuts and Irish potatoes will be supported at 60 to 90 per cent. All other farm products could be supported up to 90 per cent, while products which can be stored—oats, barley, rye and meats—would be supported at 90 to 75 per cent. ; In the meantime the house continued to move ahead somewhat faster than the senate on the administration - supported measures, passed the minimum ‘wage -bill somewhat watered down and sent it along to the bogged-down senate. Final passage was on a roll call of 361 to 35. The bill would raise the ~ national iminimum wage from 40 to 75 cents and extend some other benefits to approximately 20 -million workers. - For instance some of the amendments passed would exempt rural home workers who are unsupervised and make all the produce they sell; employees of newspapers with circulation below 5,000; workers in small telephone companies serving up to 500 clients; -sawmill operators who hire fewer than 12 persons. The term *“workday” is defined to mean whatever a collective bargaining agreement says it does. The house grew tired of wait-

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_ing committee action en a Joint house-senate lobby probe measure and passed its own bill providing for a house committee to investigate lobbying of both private organizations and governmental agencies. The senate finally passed the big foreign aid appropriations bill with $5,647,724,000, or about 10 per cent less than originally requested for use in fiscal year 1950. The first thing the house did was to knock out $344,000 which the senate had set up for use of an ECA watchdog committee, . Hearings on the military aid program, the B-36 probe and the investigation of ‘five percenters” continued to highlight the committee sessions, After the committee continually gibed at him for about a week, the president’s military aid, Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan came through with a statement asserting that he personally had given deecp freeze units as presents to the little White House -at In‘dependence, Mo., one to the White ‘House staff here and others to various others of his friends. Observers here however, while deploring the embarrassment and the so-called officiousness of General Vaughan in behalf of his friends, point out that there has ‘been no indication that any favors have been granted to General Vaughan in return for his efforts. One observer said, *““There is certainly nothing here to suggest a scandal on the proportions of Teapot Dome.” : The Washington Post says editorially concerning the deep freeze gifis, *“After all, the sending of gifts of one kind or another to important public personages is an old American custom, and hardly a day gocs by that gifts are not delivercd ~ at the While House. What teo *do with these gifts is one of the perennial problems.” - The senate banking committee heard witnesses on the three-day. work-week now in progress by the miners, heard witnesses for the National Association of Manufacturers declare that industry-wide bargaining will ‘‘destroy collective bargaining and inevitably result in the control and direction by the government of production, prices, profits and the conduct of business operations and labor unions themselves.”

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"In a tense and bazardous descent 2,300 feet imto she Pacific oceam in a five-foos steel ball, Otis Barton, e Bosfen engincer, set a record for deep-sea diving by em individual” —Nows item. ‘ Some people will sink to any depths to establish some kind of a record. This was an altitude record in reverse. Mr. Barton evidently is a person who likes to get below the surface of things. - ' The steel ball was equipped with its own air supply, lights, cameras, two observation windows and telephone. If it’s in a rent-control @rea, we’ll take it. That is, if the landlord will promise to send A man out to mow the fish, Mr. Barton was in constant communication with the surface — didn't want to miss any of the ‘tive-percenters’” investigation. . The steel ball was lowered by a winch. He isn’t the first man to be let down by » wom- = : Mr. Barton was getting his oxygen from bottles within the ball. He may not have thought of it at the time, but if he established extended residence down there, his home would be a darned difficult stop for the milk man to make. " On the way down and back, he reported a continuous parade of small luminous marine creatures, variously resembling jellyfish, eels, squids, shrimp and worms. Well, we generally meet the craziest people too, when we travel We’ve yet to meet a squid, but one time there was a couple of octopuses in the seat behind us. One part of his report said: *“There’'s a luminous worm dancing a jig, outside the window.” Probably some drunk waiting for the elevator. Did he tap on the window and say, “Roof garden, please?” Mr. Barton said all signs of surface light vanished at the 1,000-foot level and it became so cold he was afraid of getting a cramp. Somebody should have warned him: he could be investigated for receiving a ‘“‘deep freeze.” .

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By REV. ROBERT H, HARPER Josus and she Psalms (‘ Lesson for September 11: Psalms 8:12; Masthew 21:15-18; Psalms 110; 1; Matthew 22:41-48; Psalms 118:2223; Matthew 21:38-39, 42; Luke 22: “ g Memory Selection: Psalms 118:22 IN THE LESSON text it will be observed the passage from the Psalms is first given, then the New Testament verses that show our Lord’s use of the Psalms quoted. This ready use of the Psalms, while he was in controversy with the Pharisees and Sadducees, shows how the Lord’'s mind was stored with the language of the Scriptures. And it illustrates how the Scriptures are an aid to those who are defending their faith. In the first instance Jesus - swered the chief priests and th scribes who took offence at the children’s song in the temple. In the second our Lord silenced his enemies when they had declared that Christ i's,the son of David. In the third instance Jesys con- | demned the leaders of the people - who rejected him as the Messiah. Christ is found in the Old Testament as well as the New. While we usually think of the New Testament as concerned with Jesus the Christ, let us see and appreciate the large place he has in the Old. Today’'s lesson emphasizes that the coming of Jesus is forshadowed in the Psalms. Of the several instances dealt with in the lesson, let us think of the discarded stone as becoming the head of the corner. The Lord who was rejected of his own people has found the preeminent place in the hearts of men the world around. May he be the cornerstone in your own temple of lifel

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