Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 37, Ligonier, Noble County, 15 September 1949 — Page 2

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Word «Statism” Is Confusing They have me over a barrell and all confused.

- I mean President Truman, General Eisenhower, Former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, and Senators Bridges, Pepper and Capehart.

They have been throwing around the word ‘“statism” like it was a bad word that we don’t want any part of. ; But T looked it up in the dictionary—and their “statism” sounds like a nice word about something that ha's\always been here.

Byrnes, who once was one of the most powerful Democrats close to Mr. Truman, made«a speech June 18. He warned that “we are going down the road to statism.” He called for a cut in federal power and spending. This tickled the Republicans. They took it as an attack on Mr. Truman’s Fair Deal program. They beat the Democrats on the head with it.

“That,” said Senator Bridges, New Hampshire Republican, in a speech about the Byrnes speech, “is quite a statement. This man has taken off the blinders. He sees the trend in this country.” Senator Capehart, Indiana Republican, did- not seem sure what Byrnes had in mind. Capehart suggested that when Byrnes mentioned “statism”, he might have been warning against sliding into “socialism or communism.” But Senator Pepper, peppery Florida Democrat, blasted Democrat Byrnes for giving the Republicans ammunition. Pepper said he and his fellow Democrats deny their program “involves the awful, odious trend which someone might call statism.” This made me pretty gloomy, particularly since “statism” didn’t sound good, and I hadn’t looked it up. Then in St. Louis General Eisenhower who had been mentioned for the presidency before the last election but excused himself, teed off on “statism” in a Labor Day speech. He said: “The straight path to America’s future lies down the middle of the road between the unfettered power of concentrated wealth on one flank, and the unbridled power of statism on the other.” ’ Almost at the same time Mr. Truman was making a Labor Day speech in Pittsburg. Defending his Fair Deal program, he said many of his proposals already had progressed in the face of such “trumped up slogans” as “statism” and “collectivism.” ; % x %

Former Republican President Hoover used the word “collectivism” in a speech on his 75th birthday last month. Unlike Byrnes who said “we are going down the road to statism,” Hocver said we are “on the last mile to collectivism.” Words like “statism” and “collectivism,” Mr. Truman said, were thought up by a lot of “paid agitators, promoters and publicity experts who make a fat living frightening the people in the higher income groups.” So all of them—Mr. Truman, General Eisenhower, Byrnes, and Senators Pepper, Bridges and Capehart—seemed to dislike “statism.” That is when I ran for the dictionary. It said “statism” means, “Belief in a -government, as in a republic, in contrast with belief in communism or a Soviet government.” “Now you can see why I am confused. All these big men talking against statism and, from the dictionary, it seems that “statism” is a belief in the republi(}:lar(li form of government we have always ad. Politicians would leave guys like me a little more time for the funny papers if they would give me the dictionary definition when they start heaving words around. . —James Marlow.

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Thursday, September 15, 1949

Many of us remember when Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times” was showing thru-out the country. It would be hard to forget. One scene, in particular, would be almost impossible to forget. A mad inventor was testing a new machine on Charlie—a machine supposed to enable assembly-line men to go on with their work while they ate lunch. The inventor strapped Charlie into the machine while the foreman stood by with eager curiosity. The machine started.

Quite an engineering marvel was that machine. A revolving tray passed Charlie’s face. Electﬁca4l}larms fed him —first a bit of bread, then a spoonful of soup, then a slice of boiled potato, a sip of coffee, and finally another device delicately blotted his lips with an automatic napkin, as the process started out all over again. At first, everything went well. A rotating corncob, a bite of potato, a sip of coffee, a spoonful of soup.

Then, all of a sudden, something went wrong. Maybe a burned out condenser or a broken governor. The machine began to speed up, like a merry-go-round navigating its circle at 90 mph. The corncob spun like an automatic drill against Charlie’s teeth and the kernels flew all over the place. The automatic napkin punched his mouth like a boxing glove. The soup dish ‘threw soup all over his shirt front. The potato-gim-mick stuffed his mouth with potatoes, the napkin punched them in. Another gadget threw meat in his face,-and the coffee cup drenched him with coffee.

Meanwhile, there were shots of the baffled inventor poking into the gears and cams and flywheels, looking for the trouble, while sparks and flames shot out of the works.

But the audience—that was something to hear, or better, to be a part of—from the first snickers when Charlie was fastened into the machine to the belly-laughs when the machine began grinding and ‘clanking, to the screams when the machine went haywire and the hysterical howling that lasted for at least three solid minutes until the machine blew up. The audience was left weak and exhausted, coughing, sputtering, crying. Some of the people may have had to spend a week in bed recuperating. . It was a genuine “boffo.”

James Agee, in Life Magazine, lovingly recalls the history of silent film comedy in fine detail. Out of all the world-famous clowns—Harry ‘Langdon, Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Ben Turpin, and so many others whose audiences can never forget them—only W. C. Fields and Charlie Chaplin seemed to survive the coming of the soundtrack to motion pictures. ;

The need of dialogue, writes Agee, brought the great days of visual comedy to an end, and with it died the “buffo”—the gag that starts with a snicker and ends with an explosive, prolonged belly-laugh followed by a near nervous collapse. : s

While it is true that current comedians place a heavy stress on words, to the loss of the huge comic effect derived from purely visual action, we go on hoping that the era of the “buffo” is not gone forever. Some movie housecs may bring back the murderously funny pictures of yesteryear.

And we keep dreaming of the day when a new star will appear on the horizon—master of the “buffo”—who will give us the only pain in the stomach we really enjoy, the after-effect of a long, loud laugh.

Be thorough in all you do and remember that though ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always _despicable.—W. E. Gladstone.

Each Census taker in the U. S. Census of Business will visit an average of more than 700 stores in distributing reporting forms, with a miximum of 4,500 enumerators working out of 300 field offices in the big job of covering almost 3 million stores and service establishments. '

The U. S. Census of Business, now under way, is the fifth since 1930, when the first such census was undertaken.

MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR

by Calhoun Cartwright

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; ay LYTIE AL Ce (3 NG o g”‘ﬁ\\\i Ny @ \,ﬂ-"“@ BRN R S bras LET THE STATES DO IT! 1= OUR HOUSE OF CONGRESS seriously . wished to stop -the trend toward socialism which the administration is pushing so en--thusiastically, it could do so by delegating to the individual states —and providing the funds for—the performance of those social duties which the federal government is rapidly subsidizing. This financial assistance would have to be on a per capita basis in order to prevent politically inspired distribution. - (Imagine for example how much assistance the Dixiecrat states would receive from the incumbent administration under this plan if a per capita . basis was not obligatory). As the powers which the states once enjoyed were returned to them, the federal bureaucracy would—obstinately but surely —shrink proportionately in size. Groups of people function in much the same manner the country over. A state bureaucracy is as glutinous as is a federal bureaucracy. But a state government is more susceptible to supervision and control by the citizens than is the great unwieldy octopus in Washington which has deviated so far from the brilliantly conceived program which it’s wise founders devised. : As the varied and often conflicting interests of this vast nation increase in magnitude, they seem to lay us more and more open to the machinations of those ambitious bureaucrats who revel in the conceit that they are more capable of running the country than are the 150 million ‘‘dumb’ citizens who pay them their salaries. But until the socialist-minded groups which acquired so much power under the Roosevell regime—and still seem fo possess it—began to take advantage of this structural weakness in our political set-up, our freeenterprise system was never seriously threatened. But today Washington tells us how much we can charge for our wares; it wants to guarantee our good health and pay our doctor bills fer us with our own money; it would dictate our rents, subsidize our potatoes, tie us up in loans and mortgages, and control our labor situation. 0

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PHIL HARRIS and ALICE FAYE will be back with their same troupe in a few. weeks, headed up by Elliott Lewis in the role of *“Frankie Remley” . . . And all three will be doubling into film

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work, the Harrises at 20th Century and Lewis at Universal ~ ~ . Milton Berle reportedly will get $12,500 a week for his television shows for the next two years—a $lO.OOO boost ovr his weekly checks last season .« . Radio Theater goes TV Octo.ber 8 in New York . ~ the commercials will be tied in” with clips from current movies. PLATTER CHATTER CAPITOL: One of the first of the Telefunken series is out and it’s one of the finest pieces of art put on record . . . P. Anders, a tenor, with the German Opera House orchestra accompanying him, sings the beautiful ‘“Komm in Die Gondel” ' with the lilting ' ““Treu Sein, Das Liegt Mir Nicht” on the reverse . . . Going from the sublime to the ridiculous, Wade Ray has a cute waxing in the *‘Hilo Schottische” backed by *“Forty Years Ago” , . . For versatility and still within the realm of good musie. there’s Gordon Macßae’s *“Body and Soul” with “A Kiss in the Dark” on the flipover . , . Gordon has a wonderful combo too in his haunting arrangement of that new English favorite, *“The Wedding of Lilli Marlene,” with *24 Hours of Sunshine’”: on the reverse. Stil on Capitol, the new “Through a Long and Sleepless Night” is given a warm, if not sensational, .run-through by Peggy Lee . . . Her‘own composition, “Neon Signs.” is the coupling. |

World’s largest rose bush is located at Tombstone, Ariz. A white Banksia about 80 years old, it has grown from one trunk over 40 inches in diameter to ‘a height of oight feet and an estimated 150,000 blooms cover it in May,

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WITH THE CONGRESS in such a legislative jam that it likely will' be November before an .adjournment can be taken, one of the bitterest battles has been waged behind closed doors where the conference committee on the army civil functions bill has been considering ‘home town” projects which amount to approximately $762 millions of dollars.

This bill is the so-called “pork barrel’” bill and consists of rivers and harbors projects such as navigation and flood control. For three months now a conference committee has been deadlocked, and at the present time the embattled conferees threaten to burst out onto the house and senate floors. The house “0. K’d” 307 such projects to the tune of $593,000,000. The senate however affter hearing 271 witnesses, including 70 senators, upped the total to $762,000,000.

The house made the first offer to eompromise when Chairman Clarence Cannon of Missouri, of the house appropriations committee, said he would split the difference on many items. His offer, however, left out of consideration some pet projects of five of the Senate conferees—Hayden of Arizona, Russell, of Georgia; Thomas of Oklahoma; Chavez of New Mexico and Gurney of South Dakota. So the fur began to fly. |

- With the atmosphere tense, Congressmen John Rankin of Mississippi and Francis Case of South Dakota moved in with another compromise. Rankin is willing to take the Cannon compromise if the conferees will add a million dollars for the Tombigbee waterway in his home state of Mississippi and Tennessee in the Tennessee valley. Case, a vice president of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, wants to add a dozen projects which the senators say they must have, including a big reser- j voir project in Case’s home state.:

~ “According to observers the “pork barrel” legislation is one of those where local businessmen and local interests, ordinarily in favor of economy, are putting presure on their senators and congressmen for their own. pet projects. In other words, they want economy on the other fellow’s projects, but

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they want big appropriations for their own projects.

Tottering Sen. Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee, chairman of the senate appropriations committee, dean in the senate in point of service and an old hand on conference committee reports on the army civil functions bill, is - ~arheading those who want to rc. .in the senate projects upping the appropriations, -

A check of the senate appropriartions committee indicates that this conference is already one of the longest drawn out in the history of the U.S. congress. Neither side wants to show any sign of cracking under the pressure of the 48-state delegations to get their projects rolling. Representative Rankin said: ‘‘These projects are necessary to relieve growing unemployment. Surely if congress can give billions and billions and billions of dollars to foreign countries, we can improve our own natural resources for the benefit of the American people.”

Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois, who has one project in the pot, a $lOO,OOO appropriation for the Calumet-Sag project in Illinois, said: “When I was appearing before the committee I was trying to represent a local interest. Am I thereby stopped from criticizing the bill as a whole? If that principle is to be followed it ' means there is no one kere to defend the general interest, as we are always torn between the need for representing local interests and the need for representing the general interest.”

The administration lost another ‘ight ostensibly on its military aid rogram when the house, by a vote 2f 209 to 151, slashed in half the imount requested by President Iruman for U.S. aid for associates in the North Atlantic treaty. The olow was softened, however, when ‘he house fixed the sum at $580,95,000 for only one year to July, 1950. The president had asked $l,--60,990,000 for a two year period to July 1, 1951. The house also left in:act the amounts of $211,370,000 for areece and Turkey and $27,640,000 ‘or Iran, Korea and the Philippines. 50 total for the bill was $869,505,000 s passed by the house, Bill now joes to the senate.

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REV. ROBERT H. HARPER

Psalms for Daily Living (Temper ance)

Lesson for September 18: Psalms 15; 24:1-6; 143:8-10 :

Memory Selecsion: Psalms 143:8 THE LESSON TODAY is a temperance lesson that is unlike the usual kind. It is based on the idea that living the good life will be a great deterrent to indulgence in that which is harmful to body and soul.

What does it mean to be good? An answer is found in the 15th Psalm. One way to learn goodness is to see it exemplified in a good man. Such a man walks uprightly, slanders not, and is incorruptible in all his ways.

The 24th Psalm was evidently used on the occasion of bringing the ark to Jerusalem. It is similar to the 15th. It shows what kind of man the true worshipper is. He has clean hands and a pure heart. His life is marked by sincerity and truth. ;

In the verses from Psalm 143 we find David praying for knowledge of the way wherein he should walk, and asking to'be taught concerning God’s will. He declares he is lifting up his soul unto God. Let it be noticed that though he prayed for deliverance from his enemies, he also prayed for himself, that he might be pure in God's sight.

Knowledge of God and conformity to his will are necessary to righteousness. Let us, like David of old, lift up our souls unto God, that we “may know him in our hearts and be led every d v in ihe way of truth.

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(EDITOR’S NOTE: Contributions s 0 this column are invited from oldSimers. Today's memory gleanings were comsributed by Mrs. Mary Stewart of Chicago for use in today's colummn in the absence of Mr. Friendby, who is om vacation. All contribusions for this column should be addressed to bim in care of Box 340, Frankfort, Ky. Send yours today!)

"I REMEMBER. . . when a regular Sunday morning breakfast included beans, baked all Saturday in the pot with a big chunk of salt pork. Also, baked apples and hot biscuits with coffee.

*. « . when mothers hung their white wash in the yard on subzero days so the frost would bleach it >

*. « . when the mailman always carried a whistle. In small towns and widely-scattered communities

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he would blow it a block or two away, and the women would come out to meet him,

“. « « « when a man who went to a saloon more than once a day for a nickel can of beer was termed a ‘can rusher’ and one who liked his liquor was called a ‘slugger’. *. « . when women’s fine, wellmade house dresses of percale or calico (it took five or six yards of material for one) could be bought for $l. They were called wrappers. . *s . . "when round elastic garters (for the whole family), tortoise shell side combs, button hooks, long ‘shoe laces, Black Beauty shoe polish, a lightning rod, roller towels, oil table cloth, a longhandled feather duster and mosquito netting were part of the standard equipment of every wellordered household. Some had a ‘cat-o-nine-tails’ hanging in the kitchen for unruly children,™

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