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This is our view: .~ The New Liberalism Thomas L. Stokes, one of our more -astute columnists, was recently elected -president of the Washington Press Club, a distinct honor to those working in the fourth estate. 2 A column of his the other day pre‘sented more clearly than ever the new philosophy of our present government, which . should be of interest to every reader. It said, “News dispatches from Key West reveal that President Truman is preparing more of the same for Congress when it reassembles in January. That is, the same broad, all-inclusive social and economic program which he has regularly presented every year. “Nobody here expected- him to do anything else. It is the attack along the whole front which now has become fixed Truman technique. “By repeating the list year after year, the President finally aroused various groups affected by his proposals, which probably was quite a factor 1n his re-election. Finally, with his reelection, the impact of these aroused groups finally made a dent on Congress. The President is keeping all of them stirred up, both for the coming session of Congress and for the congressional elections next Fall. S “While this tends to solidify behind him various groups whose special and particular interests are often in conflict, it also solidifies the opposition, which likewise is composed of-diverse groups. This has raised up two warring camps which will clash headon in Congress next session as in the congressional elections thereafter, a sort of battle oi giants. - Significant in this whole picture on the Administration side, and a new factor, is the missionary work with business by Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer which is regarded as directed chiefly at small business in the effort to enlist it, along with labor and the farmers, on the Administration’s’ side. In a recent New York speech in which he deplored the battle of giants—giant business, giant labor and giant agriculture—who ‘stand and watch each other, sometimes with a baleful eye,” Mr. Sawyer asked: : “‘Will they whip themselves into a frenzy of emotion and charge in to a death struggle to destroy each other, or will they pool their strength to make America even greater? ” “He offered what he called ‘the new liberalism,” as distinguished from the older liberalism of the Nineteenth Century. The idea of the ‘new liberalism’ is that of balance, he said, of ‘a middle - ground which is best for all in the long run’ and which discards ‘all preconceptions concerning the class struggle.’ “ ‘What we want—and what is the essence of the ‘new liberalism’—is a balanced social and economic system in which the individual plays a large pait but with full regard for the group and community interests and for the necessary and constructive functions of the state as an agent of the people’s will and the embodiment of our democratic ideals.’ . : “You will hear more emphasis on this definition to meet the ‘statism’ cry. “It may or may not tame the giants.” it Yo He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a .man ot “cheerful yesterdays and confident tomorrows.”—J. F. Clarke. _— ~ Faith is a gift of God which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menaces of torture.— Thomas Hobbes. _ No man has power to let another prescribe his faith. Faith is not faith without believing.—Thomas Jefferson. _— Nothing in life is more wondertul than faith—the one great moving force - which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible.—Harvey Cushing. , .

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Thursday, December 15, 1949

The tragedy of last week stunned the community. Ray Loy was one o 1 Ligonier’s more active citizens and enjoyed a host of friends. He was a trustee of his church, the Elk’s, the Tall Cedars and was active in both the American Legion and the Scottish Rite. No one can successfully explain tragedy. It comes unseen and manifests itself in curious ways. That it is part of the general scheme of this maze we call life is a certainty. That we have faith is the justness of that force directing this earthly order is our only consolation. : et (et ——— " The Christmas spirit seems to be gaining momentum as we approach the festive day. Lights typifying the occasion are now brightening the streets of Ligonier, and it is hoped that soon the homes will take on a brilliance In keeping with the season. While we are buying presents, thinking of the fun of the holiday and whetting our appetites for the Christmas feast, I hope all may pause in the quiet of their own thinking and remember that the key note of the day is, “Peace on earth—goodwill toward men.” It is & powerful challenge ifi a chaotic world. : e i - Santa Claus comes to Ligonier Saturday and will be stationed in the American Legion home from one to tive p.m. Every child in the area has been invited to visit him and take away a treat. The biggest treat of course will be the friendly grip of Santa himself. I never wanted to take away the few brief moments allotted in a person’s life the etheral belief of something apart from reality, but the Santa story - hag its heartaches. The good little boy or girl, whose parents cannot afford the luxury ot gifts in relationship to the naughty _ child next door whose parents can afford great gifts must cause great consternation in their minds, and cause them to wonder what they did to prevent “their Christmas from being as luxurious as the child who wasn’t so good. Find the answer if you will, but if 1 could afford a reasonable Christmas for my child, I would not allow the myth to exist in his mind. To me it would be unfair. : : _'__~o____ A neighboring minister tells what he termed “his funniest Christmas experience.” ; | It seems that duringhe presentation of the traditional story of the Nativity by the children of the church, the little boy, age 7, who was playing the part of innkeeper forgot his lines when he came to the part where he welcomed Mary and Joseph into the inn. He paused for what seemed hours and then said, “Come in! Come in and have a cocktail.” i : ; —_——— : Arnold Schaap lamented the other day that Christmas was beginning to be a time when all that mattered was the present. : Len Koon was showing a prospective tenant a house last week when the man : !Zélg'néd and said, “It’s ‘a” bit damp isn’t it?” s - ; “Of course it’s damp,” retorted Len, “think what an enormous advantage that would be in case of fire.” i - d . A " —_—— 8: = y g It pays getting around and talking with people to see the humorous side of the news. Last week when :Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Schutt returned from Wash- - ington, they commented, “Washington, that which had its face on all our money, but now its hands are on it!” . Durbin Mier takes credit for this one. A Jew and a Christian were havng an argument about the ways of their respective religions, . . ,“Yo&%oplex’ declared the Jew, “have been n%en things. from us all your lives—the Ten-Commandments, for in--stance.” e o - “We took them from you, all right,”. admitted the Christian, “butybunggnt : - say we've kgptthm” Bl s ~days you can sure lay up a scent, Who

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Meanwhile, Roy Rogers plans to cut down on the number of his personal appearances in order to spend more time with his lovely wife, Dale Evans, and their three children . . . Dennis Day will be on television very shortly. PLATTER CHATTER CAPITOL: Maggie Wi iing has left Jimmy Wakely to pair voices with Bob Hope in a new release called ‘‘Ain’t We Got Fun” with “Lucky Us’ on the flip . . . Cute for those light moments . . . Jo Stafford also tends toward the light with her latest, ‘‘Happy Times’ and *‘‘Scarlet Ribbons” ... Peggy Lee does a nice job with a new number that will cause much comment, “A Man Wrote a Song’ ¢« + » “Run for the Roundhouse. Nellie’”’ couples it . ~ . Skitch Henderson tickles the ivories in delightful fashion through twmoki’i‘es. “My Blue Heaven” and *)The Music Goes Round and Round.” VICTOR: Eddy Arncld fans will be pleased with his new album called simply, ‘“Eddie Arncld Sings” . . . All songs he does seo well, they include ‘‘The Cattle Call,” ‘“The .Nearest Thing to Heaven,”” “You Know How Talk Gets - Around,” “I'm Throwing Rice,” etc. Yow’'ll enjoy this one ¢ + « Going from the range to the romantic Pacific islands, you’l find beauty in Sammy Kaye’s latest album, “The Heart of the Islands in Song” . . . The inimitable Kaye plays in smooth, lilting style such beautiful numbers as “My Isle of Golden Dreams,” ““Sweet Leilani,” ‘“My Little Grass Shack,” ‘‘Hawaiian Sunset’’ and ‘“Hawaiian War Chant.”

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Bananas in Early Years Bananas were not known outside the tropics, except by reputation before the 10th century. ’ e () et : By HELEN HALR WHAT'S TO BE DONE with tre last of the leftover ham? Grind it fine and mix with chopped hardcooked eggs and a bit of condensed mushroom soup. This makes fine sandwich filling. Here’s what you can do with slices of turkey: spread rye bread slices with salted butter, top with turkey or chicken, then with Thousand island dressing and a couple strips of bacomn. . When you get tired of serving lemon ahd tartar sauce with fish, try some cranberry sauce. It's good and colorful, too. o Ever try serving creamed dried beet over poached eggs on toast

RESIPE OF THE WEEK Sausage-Sweet Potato Loaf (Serves 6) 2 pounds bulk pork sausage 2 cups soft bread crumbs Segks ... of® % cup milk : ; 4 cups mashed sweet potatoes or yams - % teaspoon nutimeg . % teaspoon cinhamon .. % 1 teaspoon salt ==~ = ‘Mix the firsti four ingredients, . Bake in a nine-inch Toaf pan-in” a moderate (350°) oven for one hour. Remove from oven; let stand five minutes. Pour off fat. Place on a cookie sheet. “Frost” loatf with mashed sweet potatoes which have been mixed with ‘spices and salt. Brush with a beaten egg and brown in a very hot (450°) ovem.

for a nice, hearty breakfast? The folks will love it! : ' Chicken hash the second time around will get votes if you wrap it in thin griddle cakes and serve with mushroom or cream sauce. Youwll like this special kind of cheeseburger: on ‘a toasted English muffin place a piece of ® broiled cubed steak which has been well seasoned with salt fand pepper. Top with a slice of soft American cheese and broil long enough for the cheese to bubble. . Next time you make an omelet, fold in some ‘choppéd, pitted ripe ' olives. They give the dish a tex- . ture and flavor very.much like mushroomsg, - = . 1Y ‘Pumpkin pie gets a lift every time you garnish it with whipped cream flavored with maple sugar, then sprinkle with toasted pecans, .

ring with a comic book publisher for a monthly comic book 'to combat juvenile- delinquency. . . Eddie Cantor is opening a new personal appearance circuit « . . He'll tour 15 eastern universities to lecture on his 40 years in show business ...

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TKI NAVY STILL has a chip on (Its shoulder. An almost brazen mockery was seen in the round of parties for Adm. Louis E, Denfeld, fired from his post as naval chief of staff by Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews.

Opinion in Waghington is that Admiral Denfeld and his cronies, whether they are right or wrong in their stand on national defense, certainly did not have a leg to stand on in refusing to obey orders from their civilian superior or obeying with thumb in cheek and spreading their refusal on record before congress.

The Constitution provides for civilian control of military forces, with the President as the comman-der-in-chief, And it was, in effect, the President giving orders, when his second in command, Secretary Matthews, gave Admiral Denfeld his orders—orders which the admiral protested before congress. -No military organization can command respect without discipline. An analagous situation would be this: If Admiral Denfeld ordered the' captain of the battleship Massachusetts to report to Pearl Harbor for maneuvers and the captain demurred and declared that strategically he should report to Guam, not Pearl Harbor, that the good of the country demanded the presence of the Massachusetts at Guam. And he demurred and protested until the admiral, a little red faced, would demand he obey his orders. And the captain, still protesting, would complainingly obey, but would carry his grievance to a congressional committee. { : - Admiral Denfeld would be the first to demand court martial of the captain for such® tactics. : : ' NG one has questioned Admiral Denteld's patriotism nor his sincerity, but observers here now are questioning his attitude, even for the new post‘which he has been offered, and which at this writing he has not accepted. A The question of national defense is determined by the top men in all branches of the . service. Al problems. are worked out in the war college, and close to 200 technicians and experts in the military establishment take part in these decisions. :

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If they de mnot, as Admiral Denfeld refused to do, then the civillan heads of the military establishment have mo alternative but to oust the admiral from his post. That should be the last of it. But appareatly

the Navy is still aggrieved. - Despite the faet that the new Anderson-Gore farm bill boosts farm support prices some 6 per cent, farm income will be off, as compared with other -years, in 1950; Some experts figure that farm purchasing power will be down-as much as 15 per cent next year, and that the loss of purchasing power will be felt in purchase of farm machinery and other durable goods. Farmers have caught up on farm machinery needs the past few years of high income, as well as on reductions of farm debts, So-if there is a drop in farm income, the farmer is in better shape than ever before to absorb the cut. Some insist that because of the continued demand and increased consumption, the farmer will fare about as well next vear as this, in spite of surpluses which appear in the offing.

For many years some members ‘of congress have taken the posiLtion that the large appropriations 'made. for self-liquidating projects ‘in the fields of reclamation, hydro‘electric power dams, irrigation and for loan purposes, for which the government is repaid at interest, should not be classed in the budget as government expense. These members maintain that these funds, all of which are repaid to the federal treasury, should be put into ‘a revolving _The point fs, it thiése appropriations were taken out of the federal budget, :it would not take much figuring . for . the “"congress next. year to balance the budget without a tax increase and end the socalled deficit spending.

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By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER

We Are Always in the Presence of God.

Lesson for December 18: Isaiah 714; Jeremiah 29, 31; Luke 1. Memory Selection: Jéremiab 29: 11-13,

THE TROUBLED mind of man “ has been tormented endlessly, throughout every age of hi; civilization, with the immense question —ls God with us? Is God with me? But the answer has always been there. God is with us, He is at hand for all men who seek Him, That is often the difficulty—the necessity for seeking. A man who denies the existence.of that necessity might never find God, or at the best, approach only part of the way to His grace.

Jeremiah points the way to a full realization that God is ever available,

‘““Then shall ye eall upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.”

God is eternally with us, and God’s promised blessings always have been fulfiled. To his confused and spiritually downtrodden people Isaiah prophesied: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The = everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”

The prophets of Israel never doubted God nor His sublime Lresence in the affairs of all peoples. The presence of Christ on earth bore out that supreme belief and continues now to sustain us in our knowledge that God IS with us.

gl__Br THE OLD-TIMERS. __ |From Fred A. Burnham of Ball- | otom Spa, N. Y.: *I remember .when men and boys wore leather |boots. The boys had copper toes and a red front at the top of the |boots, They used to grease them with mutton tallow and place by ;the fire. By morning they’d be .nice and soft. To pull 'em off, they used a bootjack with a notch in the elevated end.”

From Mrs. Agnes Hoyle of Los Angeles: I remember when my sisters and I wore our hair in ibraids that we tucked inside our ‘belts. It was a great occasion when a girl could put up her hair, for the first time. One of my

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sisters won a diamond ring at a state fair for having the longest hair—B67 inches! Then came the bobbed hair craze. I guess I was the first coed at the University of California to bob my hair. I remember you always took a girl friend along for moral support when you went to get your bob trimmed.’”

‘¥From Edward Votruba of Omaha, .| Neb.; “I remember the frequent jovernight camping trips of my -childhood in Michigan. My father - would pile Mother, the five chil‘dren and usually a couple of friends into a three-seated spring wagon drawn by a pair of beautiful white horses.” ?

From Mrs. C, H, Ohlson of Colorado Springs, Colo.: ‘I remember when we used to have white calico window shades (in Yorkshire, England). They were tacked onto a tape that was nailed to the roller. The roller had a wooden pulley at one end with a cord attached. A small knob was nailed to the win-dow-side at bottom. We had to give the cord a twist onto the small knob at bottom to hold it in place.” :

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