Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 42, Ligonier, Noble County, 20 October 1949 — Page 2

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This is our view: : Fairness Is A Virtue We generally leave to our friend B. R. Matteson of the Albion American the job of answering the editorials appearing in the New Era, but last week our sense of fairness was offended and we briefly state our position. The New Era became very disturbed over the appointment of Judge Minton to the Supreme Court bench, primarily because he is a democrat. The fact that he is admittedly highly qualified for the job, that he is a native son of Indiana (a great honor to Hoosierdom) and praised in legal circles was not enough. He had been a New Deal Senator (elected by the people of Indiana, incidentally) and that according to the New Era, is bad.

To us, fairness is a virtue, and people cannot expect it from others if they use it not themselves. Frankly, we could no more feel qualified to criticize the legal ability of Judge Minton than to attack the sincerity of Senator Taft. The_ fact that we have eaten dinner with a man of greatness does not qualify us to comment authoritatively on the subject that particular man spent a lifetime developing. @ Fairness works both ways in any controversy. It’s a virtue worth acquiring. e

A Newspaper Is Vital

- National Newspaper Week has just passed, but we feel the need, particularly at this time, to reaffirm our beliefs in the vital part a newspaper plays and can play in the life of a community. A newspaper is even more vital to the routine of a small community than a city for it normally is the only medium whereby news can/ be interchanged. We have he people in the various organizations in Ligonier complain because events were not sufficiently publicized when we know the two papers gave ample space, not only once but twice and three times in a row. In faect, I know of no town within a radius of a hundred miles where the papers are as free with their columns for civic events and organizational promotion as are the papers in Ligonier. \ The only answer we can find for these

complaints rest on the shoulders of the people themselves. They don’t read - them. They haven't yet decided in their minds what a vital instrument their newspapers are in the routine ot ~ daily living. : It would appear to this writer that each organization should have a publicity chairman, whose duty ‘it is to get the material for publicity into the hands of the editors, and further, should impress upon their membership the necessity of being alert to stories concerning the business of their group. We can hardly conceive a community, without a newspaper, flourishing to any degree, and although we in the field do not ask for pats on the back, we feel that once a year we are not overstepping the bounds of propriety when we ~tell our readers their newspapers are playing a vital part in the life of the community, and deserve their support.

Highways A Growing Problem

The highways of Indiana took a beating during the late war, and after hostilities ceased, there was a shortage of materials, engineers, other manpower. That condition exists in every state in the union, but is particularly acute in Indiana, the center of population of the United States —the “Crossroads ot America.” The greatly increased truck traffic, which Chairman Hadden of the Indiana Highway Commission says is destroying our highways, is a vital problem. There is widespread disregard of the weight law. : :

We have no cliff dwellers today—but still plenty of bluffers.

igonier Banuer | Established in 1867 Published every Thursday by the Banner Printing : Company at 124 South Cavin St. v Telephone: one-three CALHOUN CARTWRIGHT, Editor and Publisher Entered as second class matter at the pedolﬁoo at Ligonier, Indiana under the act of March 3, 1879.

MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR Calhoun Cartwright

The story on Page One concéerning the new project at the Library sponsored by The Ligonier Players prompts me to reminisce statistically about the organization, which may or may not be of any particular interest, although it was to me.

1t is no secret that I have been particularly interested in this organizauion. First, 1 like the theatre and the opportumnity of creative expression. Second, 1 like to see kids given every break possible and the summer programs have been a real break to those who have taken advantage of them. But my part has been small to the collective etiort, and that enthuses -me more than anything else.

One hundred and fourteen people have participated actively in the eight productions given in the past three years. Four directors, three scenic designers and two orchestras have been used. One play was home written, both book and music. The figures above do not inciude the twenty-some peopie who have worked on costumes, nor the group who sell and take tickets and act as ushers, , ,

Nine people have been émployed on the recreation program, the school gymnasium was resurfaced, lights at the ball park were partially financed, several hundred dollars worth of equipment has been purchased and sundry other items have been' bought through funds derived by the group. - ~

In addition to the people working on productions, an additional forty-eight persons have actively worked on committees of one descriftion or another. Over four thousand eight hundred admissions have been collected at the door, and what audience has been lost has been gained each succeeding time two fold. :

The organization has been publicized in over fifteen papers in northern Indiana, and people in Auburn, South Bend, Angola and Fort Wayne have written to the group about its activities and il.ave seen one or more of the producions. :

Ligonier is the smallest city in Ameriia (according to the director of dramatics at Northwestern University) having its own Little Theatre movement, and the first group in the middle west to write and compose its own musical production. (A Life Magazine official said to his knowledge, it was the first in the country.) ,

All of these statistics add to one worthwhile discovery, ie.,, cooperative effort moves mountains.

Now comes the new plan of forming the workshop division of the group to perform monthly in the Library theatre. Here should come the dramatic development to make even greater strides, and here also coms the opportunity of entertainment for a great many more people:

If the leaders of the group can keep their wits about them, overcome the discouragments and rebuffs, The Ligonier ‘Players can continue their trek upward making each year a sizeable contribution to the welfare of the community. .

Again I reprint a thought by Arthur Olsen, whose’ideas I respect. Speaking of creative power, he writes: cree

“Life is full of problems to be met and ordeals to be endured. But man can come through to spiritual victory if, recognizing that he-lives amidst potential spiritual power, he channels that power into creative living. Consider this potential in two techniques for arriving at a solution.

“A problem is to be aired. A time and place is set for the meeting of different points of view. Everyone comes determined that his view ought to win. Everyone is determined that he is going to do evex'ythinig to assert his opinion. They go at it in just that spirit, and when all the arguments are in, the vote is taken. One side wins, yes; but the other side loses, And because the decision is in favor of the majority, we call that ‘democracy.’ L “Now campare. L £ Continued on Page 7

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CAPITOL: One of the best children’s albums ever made, in our opinion is Capitol's latest, ‘““Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz” . . . There are three 12-inch records with Rosemary Rice doing a superlative job in the title role and Nathaniel Shilkret furnishing the musical background . . . Another good album for the small fry is Walt Disney’s “Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad” with Basil Rathbone, Erio Blore and all the original cast . . . Good Christmas singles in Capitol are Gordon MacRae’s ‘‘Merry Christmas Waltz” backed by ‘‘Adeste Fidelis” and Clark Dennis’ ‘“‘Cantique de Noel.”

VICTOR: Another album of the late Glenn Miller’s best selections are released In ‘‘Starlight Serenades” . . . Songs include “Stairway to the Stars,” “When You Wish Upon a Star,” “Starlight Hour,” etc. An excellent job, a fine memento . . . In singles, Tony Martin’s “You Call It Madness,” with “Toot, Toot, Tootsle Goodby”’ on the flip, is about the hottest thing on the market . . . Look for it to go places. =

TOLUMBIA: Columbia’s latest album is another *‘Must”’ for a collector’'s library—a group of Sousa-Goldman marches as played by Edwin Franks# Goldman . . . The marches include “On Guard,” *“The Gladiator,” *“Our Flirtations” and ‘“The Golden Rule.”

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L EASY 2o o . ==DOE L 'n ”L\l ( I - Ny HAELEN BALE i A REFRESHINGLY DIFFER-. ENT salad consists of grated cabbage and carrot with sliced, pPimiento-stuffed green olives folded into_slightly thickened ‘lemon-fia-vored gelatin, Serve this with soured eream dressing, - An easy luncheon salad uses small halves of eantaloupe filled with creamy cottage cheese and glistening pieces of canned ' fruit cocktail. Serve this with a thin, slightly sweetened French dressing to which is added a few chopped mint leaves. Make a salad base of cream cheese folded into whipped cream

, RECIPE OF THE WEEK Chesapeake Shrimp Pie (Serves 6) 1 cup cooked shrimp 7 - 1 cup corn kernels, ‘cooked 2 eggs ; 12 cup evaporated milk 2 egg whites, stiffly beaten 2 tablespoons minced parsley 1 tablespoon melted butter Salt and cayenne to taste . Cut shrimp in thirds, Beat the two eggs until fluffy and add ‘milk, parsley, butter and seasonings. Add to shrimp and corn. Fold in the beaten egg 'whites and pour into a-greased baking dish, Set in & pan of hot water. Bake for one hour in a moderate (350°) even, or until a_ knife inserted comes out clean,

and add to this a combination of fresh or canned fruit pieces and slivered roasted almonds. Chill in refrigerator trays until firm. Serve as salad or dessert. :

Cooked cauliflower pieces molded in herb flavored tomato aspic make such a pretty salad that you'll have to be ready for seconds, Arrange peach halves hollow side up in refrigerator tray. Pour -over the following - ingredients blended together: one cup cream - cheese, with the same amount of ‘mayonnaise, whipped cream and chopped pecans. Freeze for three to four hours and serve on crisp “lettuce. ¢ ;

Leftover roast chicken makes a salad fit for royalty when comined with seeded green grapes, ineapple pieces and toasted alonds. Use mayonnaise into which hps been folded whipped cream as ssing. : » :

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CURRENT DEBATE in the nn-1 ~te on the Anderson farm bill is expected to take up most of the time in the upper house during the next ten days or two weeks. l In the meantime, with the house ‘back in session, committee activity took on added significance at this session, they were being set up for action at the second session of the congress which starts in January, 1950, One measure imporfant to veterans was approved by the senate finance committe with-" out amendment from the housepassed version and would in- - crease disability and death compensation rates listing total disability at $l5O instead of $l3B a month with partial disability rates at s corresponding raise. Payments to dependents ‘of wartime casualties would be raised from $lOO a month for a widow with one child to $lO5 plus $25 for each additional child instead of the present $l5, The government would pay 100 per cent compensation to World War I veterans for service-con-nected disabilities instead of -75 per cent, would make extra compensation benefits available to dependents of veterans with 50 per cent disability instead of the present 60 per cent, would extend time for compensation for arrested cases of tuberculosis and would liberalize requirements for disability incurred during confinement where felony or dishonorable discharge were not involved. : A senate judiciary sub-committee heard testimony on a house-passed measure to plug a loophole in the Clayton anti-trust act."The measure provides that one corporation may not acquire the assets of another corporation if the move lessens competition or tends to create monopoly. Sen. Joseph C. O’'Mahoney of Wyoming told the committee that the bill would close a loophole *“which is driving the country toward monopoly and 4tota,litarian-‘ ism.” .

‘“‘What has happened in Europe,” Senator O’Mahoney said, “is proof that monopolies and cartels create unemployment and accelerate the drive toward a totalitarian state. Monopolies and cartels are the foe of free enterprise.” : “Benator O’Mahoney said the bili would not hurt small busi-

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ness as wording of the measure would pul meegers of small business outside the prohibitions of the Clayton aet. “Ob< vioualy,” he sald, “these mergers which enable small companies to compete miore effectively with giant corporations ~ generally do nos reduce competition but rather intensify "8 The measure is opposed generally by groups allled with " the National Association eof Manmufacturers. Two other measures affecting rural areas were considered by the senate agriculture committee during the week. One would remove the price support from dried eggs. - Following a statement however by Ralph-S. Trigg, president of commodity credit corporation, that the bill would break faith' with the farmers who produced eggs this | year in accordance with: the sup- { port price, the committee an-: nounced no more hearings would be heard.

The other was a resolution to investigate the spread between prices paid for food by housewives and the prices paid farmers for the same food. Sen. Guy Gillette of lowa, chairman of the sub-commit-tee, said extensive hearings would be held within the next few weeks to find the reason for the stable prices to the consumer and the dropping income- of the farmer. -« Another- measure with political repercussions was one introduced by Congressman' Jesse P. Wolcott of Michigan, a *Repuiolican.‘ to increase the borrowing capacity of the commodity credit corporation by a billion dollars. Wolcott said the CCC would soon be scraping the bottom of the barrel for money available for farm price supports.

The Republicans do not intend to watch a ‘“planned” surplus of farm products pile up this fall and then have Democrats go to the country on behalf of the Brannan plan during the campaign. Congressman Wolcott remarked that ‘*additional funds must be made available at this session if the government is to keep its promises and commitments to the American farmer.’”’ He also said he would ask the house banking committee, of which he is a member, to investigate the operation of CCC.- Congressman Brent Spence of Kentucky, Democrat, committee chairman, however said there would be no investigation or action soon.

REV. ROBERT H. HARPER

God end the Nations - Lesson for October 23: lsaiah 1: 21:28; 19:19-25 : : Memory Selection: Isaiah 45:22

THERE IS A ‘*philosophy of history.” In the present lesson we learn that God is in history to make it carry out his will for the nations. In the text we read first of a city turned from God into all wickedness, but the redemption of it through the power of Jehovah was promised, And there is hope of any city of the present if its rulers and its people will exalt the Lord.

The prediction concerning Egypt and Assyria was remarkable. The two nations that had trampled upon the Israelites would be joined under the Lord. The prophecy was fulfilled when many Jews settled in Egypt and a temple was built in that country.

. Later Alexandria became a center of Christian culture, while at the present many Christians are found in Egypt and also in the former habitat of the Assyrians. Let us hope that these three countries named in the prophecy—Assyria, gypt and Palestine—may one day be united in the Christian faith. Note the place of the highway in Jprophecy. The highway has ever been a link of union between peoples. Think of its importance in our modern life, with all the means of travel and transportation of the present—by land, on the sea. and in the air. :

But ease of travel alone cannot bring nations together. Only spiritual forces can do that.

Let governments, as well as individuals, turn to God if civilization is to be saved and the atom bomb cast into the discard, with all the things that have soparated men and nations.

;) . | REMEMBER... : By THR OLD-TIMERS - From Mrs, Charles F. Hirst of Scottdale, Pa.: “I remember when women wore hat pins with a spring on the end, parents threw sulphur on the coal stove to immune the youngsters from diseases.” : From Fred W. Joritz of Chicago: “l remember when newsboys used to walk through the street cars to sell the evening papers.” vy eereu Il T Coavad PORSY ¢ }b‘,‘,' ol tyg A /’%" SNV oL . . (A ’//! a " AV . LAY, @‘ l S «é”*f"ig*x o From Mrs. Mary Stewart to Mrs. Amelia Ward: ‘“Yes, I do remember the hay on. the street car floors. It smelled nice. Also the little heater in the middle of the car where: the handlebar-mus- - tached conductor would slide in a fire-shovel of coal every hour. We lived on 47th near Halsted.” From Mrs. Sarah M. Weader of McClure, Pa.: “I remember when no one in the country where I lived burned coal. Folks then had only a large cook stove in a large kitchen with a wood box beside it or behind . When we kids came , home from school, about the first i thing we did was fill up the box so Mother wouldn’t have to go to the wood shed.” = : From.A. B. Chapin’ of Galway, -

N. Y.: “I remember when we boys played such he-boy games as ‘Pum-pum-pullaway,” ‘stink base,’ ‘hats,” ‘jump-for-down,’ ‘Spanish fly,’ ‘two-o-cat,’ " ‘run-sheep-run’ and thought we were having a whale of a good time. Do presentday boys have such good times in their ‘managed sports with. €Xpensive equipment? I wonder . , .”

(How about your memories of days gone by, folks? Why not translate your nostalgia into a coptribution to this cdlumn? Send yours today in care of Mr. Friendly, Box 30, Frankfort, Ky.

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