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THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1939
Americans Don’t
Believe It
Visitors to the New York World’s
Fair cannot help but see the Soviet
Russian exhibit there. The statue
which towers over it, that of a worker
holding the red star high over his
head, 1s one of the tallest things any¬
where on the grounds.
But if the propagandists for Com¬
munism took a little time off from
their subversive activities and circu
lated among the Americans who daily
and nightly pass the Soviet exhibit,
their faces would probably be pretty
glum after they heard the comments,
For your average American is a pret
ty clear-headed person about matters
like this, and he isn’t taken in long
by surface appearances.
Here, as least, is how the New
York Enquirer summarizes its
ings on the matter:
“There could have been no objection
to a Bolshevist exhibit at thc New
York World’s Fair if it told the truth
about Soviet Russia. Indeed such an
exhibit would have been extremely
welcome.
“The Soviet exhibit at the New
York World’s Fair is a colossal lie.
It reveals nothing of the bloody purg¬
es, the deliberate slaying of millions
by the torture of starvation, the
wholesale destruction of churches and
synagogues, the unremitting war
on religion, the tyrannic
exercised by a mere fraction in
over the lives of the Russian
and the untiring efforts of the
Nero of the Kremlin to spread revolu¬
tion throughout the globe,
all mankind to the level of the
mentality which actuates the
nistic cultus,”
The followers of Genghis Khan and
the other mass murders who once
overran Europe and Asia used to erect
piles of human skulls to celebrate ;
their triumphs. But Americans do not
believe in monuments such as these.
They like much better the Statue of
Liherty, celebrating internal peace and
peace with all nations.
That’s why Americans don't take
too kindly to the huge statue at the
World's Fair holding the blood-colored
star. They have too clear a knowl¬
edge of what really lies behind it in
terms of human suffering and the loss
of human liberties.
A merica n Women \s
Freedom
The recent ninety-first anniversary
of the first women’s rights convention
in the United States was observed as
Woman’s Independence Day.”
The average American woman, how¬
ever, probably passed it by without
any special recognition or observance •
The woman of today—regardless
of whether she lives on a farm, keeps
house, or works in an office—will find
it hard to envisage a day in which
women did not have the freedom to
permit their full participation in the
world in which we live. The progress
of independence for women har kept
pace with the material and industrial
growth of the nation and they have
shared in the nation’s progress and
wealth.
Now that women in other parts of
the world are losing their freedom
and find their rights abrogated by
dictatorial edicts and collectivism, the
America’s 44 Woman’s Independence
Day” should be observed every day.
And it should take the form of a
greater interest in those things which
safeguard that independence.
Only as women help to preserve and
strengthen the foundations upon which
the freedom of all our people rests,
only as they become more deeply
terested in finding a solution to the
problems which face the private en
terprise system today will they be
able to retain their independence.
In other countries, where these
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., THURSDAY. AUGUST 21, 1939
The Religion of Sidney
Lanier
Was Sidney Lanier Religious? To
most of his readers, we dare say, and
to Georgians brought, up among peo
pie who had known him intimately or
well, the question may seem hardly
worth asking. They are sure that the
poet of the “Marsh Hymns, M ‘The
Crystal” and “A Ballad of Trees and
the Master,” to name only three
among many shining evidences, was
nothing if not religious. They will
tell you further, those who have
learned of the man himself from first
hand witnesses, that the life he lived,
even more than the words he wrote,
revealed the vital and heroic quality
of his Christian faith. The question
is well worth asking, however, if it
serves to send more of us on a pil
grimage to the work of Lanier to find
out what he really thought and felt
about the One whom he called “ t ^ e
only blue sky of our life.
In a recent issue of the Southern
Library Messenger Clement Wood had
an article, The Influence of Poe
Lanier ori Modern Literature in the
course of which he said It Neither of
them, it should be pointed out, found
the solution of life in that romantic
balm, religion, This raised ari issue
which has provoked lively discussion.
; In the August number of the Messen
’ger, just out, some of its readers co
gently challenge Mr. Wood's assertion
in so far as it concerns Lanier. For
one citation, Dr. E. P. Dandridge,
Bish °P Coadjutor of Diocese of Ten¬
nessee, himself a distinguished man of
letters, writes that Mr. Wood “Begs
the question by describing religion as
‘that romantic balm.' Those who know
most about religion would deny the
accuracy of that description. . . .
Surely, Lanier’s attributes and Poe’s
were wholly different, though f admit
a « rf >at admiration and affection for
both. Lanier’s son, Sidney, was tutor
in uncle’s family, and perhaps this
has increased ray sense of the great
debt - spiritual ns well as literary, that
we HWe to the heroic spirit as well as
t0 thc S p nius of Sidney Lanier Sr.”
Doubtless, there are cults of re¬
ligion, so-called, which could be de
as a “romantic balm, as there
are others which might be termed
dogmatic brimstone, But there was
nothing of these in the religion of the
poet who sang
Tolerant plains, that suffer the
sea and the rains and the sun,
Ye spread and span, like the
Catholic man who hath might¬
ily won
God out of knowledge and good
out of infinite pain,
And sight out of blindness, and
purity out of a stain.
Atlanta Journal.
MEMORIAL TRIBUTE
MRS. L. P. SMITH
In the passing of Mrs. L. P. Smith
the Philathea Class of the Baptist
Sunday School feels a distinct loss.
Mrs. Smith was one of the most
faithful members, and unless provi¬
dentially hindered was always in her
[place and on time at the Sunday
• School hour.
| She was a trusting and cheerful
(Christian, radiating a wholesome in
It'luence. She loved the Word of God
and read her Bible with constant in¬
terest. and joy. Many times she gave
expression to the fact that she loved
and enjoyed the study of the Sunday
School lessons.
Her presence with the group is sad¬
ly missed, but the members of the
class and other co-workers are as¬
sured that she has entered into the
Heavenly Father’s Home where there
will be no more suffering or sadness
but joy forever.
It was as if
“So softly death succeeded life in
She did but dream of Heaven and she
was There. • ■
MRS. W. J. BRASWELL,
MRS. CARRIE MATHEWS,
MRS. FRANK TITUS,
8-24-lt. Memorial Committee.
i ADDITIONAL
SOCIETY
miss McDaniel will sing for
BARACA CLASS
Misses Nell Snow and Nell Culpep¬
per have arranged a program from the
intermediate department of the Bap¬
tist Sunday school for the Baraca
class Sunday morning, a feature of
which will be a solo by Miss Ouida
McDaniel.
Mrs. Drayton Earle and Mr. Ches¬
ter Earle, of Dallas. Texas, and Miss
Barbara Posey, of Central, S. C., were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Louis L. Brown
two days this week.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Holcomb, Mi:
f'cs Mary and Jo Holcomb aand J. C.
Holcomb returned Saturday from a
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' rights were not guarded vigilantly,
women are now relegated to the kit
Jchen, fodder. the field and the raising of can
non
War Resources
Board Will Add
Several Experts
No Representatives of
or Fuel Now on Vital Committee.
WASHINGTON-, Aug. 21.—Several
more industrialists nfiay be added soon
to the board advising the army and
navy on their master plan for wartime
mobilization of the nation’s economic
resources, officials said Monday.
new ^ ar Resources Board,
headed by Edward ^ R. Settinius, Jr.,
{United man does States nob Steel include Corporation among its chair
i ' mem
jhership 'portation a representative and other industries of fuel, vital trans¬ in
war -
,
Serving without even the $l-a-year
stipend paid civilian volunteer advis¬
ers and executives of the World War,
the businessmen took home masses of
da ^ a f ,,r study over the week-end after
their initial session here Friday. Four
arranffed to meet a £ ain Tuesday with
arm y and navy officials. Ninety-two
officers in Washington and key manu
( ^during cities devoting their full
are
n,e to industrial blueprints.
20,000 Plants Surveyed
More than 20,000 plants have been
surveyed since Congress, in the 1920
t^ut-ional Defense Act, ordered precau¬
tionary preparations to prevent the
eon f us *°n that attended the entry into
the World War. Some 10,000 of these
tentatively have been allotted defi¬
nite tasks for “M-Day”—the army’s
designation for the start of mobiliza¬
tion.
The accumulated data fills huge
filing cases at the War Department
and decentralized branches.
Louis Johnson, assistant secretary
of war, invited the civilian advisers to
seek flaws and omissions in the plans
and asked them to study also the rec¬
ords of the 1918 War Industries
Board headed by Bernard
They were urged specifically to look
for possible “bottlenecks” in the sup¬
ply of arms, food and fuel and
transportation, in the light of their |
in peacetime industry.
The advisory group, in the event of i
would form a War Resources Ad
Stettinius or a success
as chairman would become a vir- 1
industrial czar with the power I
life or death over an industry by I
means of “priority.” In the World
a recalcitrant plant found itself
raw materials or unable to
orders when denied a priority or-j
by Baruch.
One of the new group, Gen, Robert
Wood, Sears, Roebuck and Com¬
chairman, had intimate experi¬
with World War problems of
supply as acting army quartermaster.
Walter S. Gifford, president of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company, also had World War execu¬
tive experience with the War Indus¬
tries Board.
John Lee Pratt was a General Mo¬
tors vice president representing the
du Pont interests and is now a direc
tor. Dr. Karl T. Compton, president
of Massachusetts Institute of Tech¬
nology, has advised the army and navy
previously on technical matters, and
Dr. Harold G. Moulton, president of
Brookings Institution, has been super¬
vising a study on which Congress
might base measures for war-time
control of wages, prices and fiscal
policies.
The new board was assigned offices
and a staff at the War Department.
Members will work with slight, gray¬
haired Col. Harry K. Rutherford, ord¬
nance officer in charge of industrial
mobiliztion plans.
three weeks motor trip to California
where they visited Mr. and Mrs. Carl
* * •
Mrs. John H. Jones has returned
home after spending several weeks
in Rockmart on account of the illness
and death of her father.
• * •
Miss Lotia Barfield, after spending
several weeks at Yatesville with her
sister, Mrs. McCarty, has returned
home.
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Peach Next Week
“Veni, Vidi, Vici”—this famous re¬
mark made 2,000 years ago with re¬
gard to Gaul, can apply today to Jane
—you know, Jane Withers, and she is
getting more popular every day. She
will captivate the audience as never
before in Monday’s bargain show
her troubles come in “Boy
Friend,
Tuesday—a great cast and a great
romance, featuring Dorothy
Lamour and George Raft in “Spawn
0 f the North,” comes for one day only.
Wednesday only, the college show,
the bare facts about the college ro
of the year—“Million Dollar
This is ight, enjoyable
Legs”. This is light, enjoyable
When the experts sit down next De
to name the best ten motion
of the year, they will hardly
“Jaurez (War-ezz), featur
Bette Davis, Paul Muni and Bid¬
Aherne, This is a costly film,
forcefully written and enacted by a
of seasoned actors well versed in
the thespian art.
It is an adult picture, rather than
for children, but it is a picture which
will do credit to the film industry.
Few outside the students of history
remember the historical chapter on
which “Jaurez” is based. For the pur¬
pose of brushing back the cobwebs:
While the United States was engaged
in the War between the States, Na
poleon Hi, emperor of France, saw
an opportunity to avoid the Monroe
doctrine and set up a French domi¬
nated government in Mexico.
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Abraham Lincoln, successfully resist
ed the European invasion.
The east is perfect, the acting won
derful. The script, at places, can be
read into the present international
crisis, especially where democratic
propaganda is introduced as Jaurez
speaks of liberty, democracy and the
right of man to rule himself
help from dictators.
A number tbe cast ale Academy
award winners and for those who ap
Prelate good acting and a stoiy not
to ° far rem oved from actual history
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