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End Flagrant Demagoguery
A well known economist, in a forecast of 1939 busi
ness prospects, states that only highly encouraging element
is the apparent lessening of political “business baiting.”
It is true that business as a whole has been accorded
less abuse of late, due largely to the result of the Novem
ber elections, in which a number of extremists and radicals
of both parties were retired from office by their disgusted
constituents. But business’ vev real and justified fear of
political persecution remains a dominant factor in current
domestic affairs. There is still a sizable school of small
bore polticians—most of whom never operated a produc
tive business in their lives, and whose livelihood for years
has been contributed by the taxpayers—whose principal
delights to attack those private industries which provide
the nation’s jobs, taxes and opportunities, and keep the
country a going concern. The banks, the utilities, the
large retail systems, outstanding manufacturers—these
are but a few of the great industries, the cornerstone of
our national economy, which have been the butt of vicious
and unfounded attacks by vote-seekes.
Business isn't perfect. If business breaks the law, it
should be punished. If there are abuses in business, legis
lation can be framed to correct and prevent them. But to
seize upon the occasional industry or businessman, who is
justly subject to criticism, and claim that this is represen
tntive of all business, is the most flagrant kind of dema
goguery. It is the kind of demagoguery which drives
money int ohiding, which creates unemployment and lack
of confidence, and which prolongs depression. It is be
coming evident that the public is getting fed up on this
kind of cheap ‘ statesmanship. ,,
It remains to be seen what attitude the current con
gress will take toward business, If it is a fair and co
operative attitude, the country will go forward, If it is
“flagrant demagoguery” the country will go back.
A Law On Trial
in th7w«kraiea'd " boVt a tL a Nat”oMiu n bor Relation"
Act. II will be the subject of major debate in Congress.
The question will he: Should the Act be amended, re
pealed or simply left as is?
Judging from public opinion, it certainly should not
be left on the books in its present form. Everyone—with
the exception of the C. I. O. and a few officials in Wash
ington—seem to agree that in its present form it is not
in the best interest of the pubic. something about the
That public opinion favors doing
Act is undoubtedly due to the industrial strife the public
has seen created by the hurriedly drafted law. Sucn strife,
(strikes, violence, etc.) is not to the public taste, nor is it
for the public good. In fact it is a public nuisance.
Whv say the Act is responsible for industrial strife?
some may ask. The answer is that although it rightfully
guarantees the privileges of employes, it fails to protect
them or their employers from outside coercion-profes
sional labor agitators, to be specific, and Communists who
use labor as a vehicle for creating national bitterness.
There are other inequalities in the Act, but that is one of
the major ones in the eyes of the public, for at the bottom
of almost every major industrial strike since enactment of
the labor law, there have been professional labor agitators.
This congress, therefore, can establish itself high in
public esteem if it does something to make this law work
able and deal equal justice to all sides. In equal justice
there is peace.
Let's AH Work Together
A healthy state of economic affairs in America can
be one of the .strongest barriers against an infiltration of
foreign isms into this country. As the nation swings into
the new year a prosperous state of business does not seem
out of the question if there can be a national recognition
of the fact that the route to progress lies in teamwork and
pulling together by all groups.
The growing recognition that petty bickering , . , . and
finger-pointing will get us nowhere is one of the healthy
signs on the horizon today. working to
Through the united effort of all groups
ward our Number One goal—that of putting men back to
useful pursuits in private industry—sound recovery can
be achieved. and political . .
Foreign isms, which destroy religious
liberties, have all had ther root in economic distress and
human misery. We should never forget that if all groups
in the nation will work together toward the common ob
jective of sound economic recovery the door will be shut
abrupt y in the face of ism-mongers who would undermine
our institutions.
A slogan that is today echoing the length and breadth
; of the land is—“Let’s All Work Together.” And if such
a slogan can be translated into action the threat to re
ligious, political and economic liberties will be materially
lessened.
A Test Tube Teaser
A news item says that a mid-western botanist, after
much experimenting, has finally developed a new type of
okra. This new vegetable is described as spineless okra.
The story doesn’t say just what scientific significance
Htafchht attached to this agricultural discovery, nor does it say
HB it is tremendously important.
Whatever its importance, it is had psychology, for it
BRi^iable to give some Washington spenders an idea. The
result might be that they will soon be trying to develop a
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Sunday School Lesson
Peter Denies His Lord
Golden Text: Let him that think
eth he standeth take heed lest he
fall. I Corinthians 10:12.
From the glory of the Mount of
Transfiguration to the shame of
denial was for Peter like falling
over a precipice. It had been his
high privilege to look on the face
and figure of Jesus transformed bv
supernatural power, to hear the
voice from heaven declaring him
ihe divine Son of God, and to see
Moses and Elijah talking with .Je
sus about his coming sacrifice and
death at Jerusalem. Yet, in spite of
^ priyilege pp ^ was soon t0 fa! ,
int0 compro mise, cowardice, false
hood, and profanity. “Let, him that
thinteth he standeth take heed lest
he fall.
Our lesson opens with Jesus say
mg, “Simon, Simon, behold Satan
asked to have you. . . The fact
that our Lord called his chief dis
I ciple Simon instead of Peter should
j have been a warning. The word
: Peter meant rock, and Jesus saw
| the forthcoming denial his chief so apostle clearly
j that to have called
Peter would have been to misuse a
s » , “ h " 1 ’* k "> ,or s, "°"
he might sift him ax wheat. Jesus
was pictured bv John the Baptist as
one who with a fan separated the
wheat from the chaff that he might
save the wheat. But Satan’s sift
ing was a different variety. He
wanted to sift Peter that he might
obtain the wheat and destroy it.
The statement that Satan asked for
Peter is arresting, but it indicates
that the power of evil can operate
only with the permission of God.
But before the throne of grace
Jesus was asking for him also. In
particular he was asking that Si
mon’s faith would not fail, and. in
spite of all that happened tha f trag
ie night. Peter's faith did not fail.
He sank into abject cowardice, but
it was not because his faith failed
It was because a great sense of ter
ror over which he seemed to have
no control laid its heavy hand upon ■
Mm and swept him to shame. j
What a wonderful thing, to have
I Ihe Son of man praying for him!
We shall never know until we pass
into the unseen world how much we
have been helped by the prayers of
others. More boys have been re
deemed from lives of sin because of
the prayers of their parents, par
ticularly their mothers, than
through any other factor. Husband
and wife, friend and friend, praying
for each other, demonstrate the
beautiful power of prayer.
We should remember that Jesus
Christ prays for us every day. We
are told that before the throne of
grace he constantly makes inter
cession for us.
Peter declared that he was ready
to go with his Lord both to prison
and death. But Jesus knew his
friend better than this friend knew
himself, and the Master’s answer
was, “I tell thee, Peter, the cock
shall not crow this day, until thou
shalt thrice deny that thou know
est me.”
Peter was often unwise in his
statements, but never so rash as
on this occasion. It seems almost
inconceivable that within a few
hours he w r ould be cursing and
swearing about this Master to whom
he now declared unwavering loyal
ty.
But after Jesus’ arrest, Peter
seems to have lost whatever >al
courage he ever had Perhaps the
fierce spirit of the mob. or the
weapons of the Roman soldiers,
caused him to lose courage. At any
rate, he began with measured step
to descend from his state of abso
lute confidence to one of demoraliz
ation and terror.
He took the first of these steps
when he followed Jesus “afar off.’’
1 The rest of the disciples, except
to- appear to have fled so that
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the temptations Peter was later to
encounter.
Peter took his second step of de
cline when he sat down among
Christ's enemies. His Master was
hurried indoors ro he examined by
the High Priest. Peter remained in
the courtyard. Mark G4:l5) tells
that Peter warmed himself at the
fire. While his Master was going
through the agony of inquisition,
Peter was looking out for his own
comfort.
When we associate with the peo
pie of the world, share their pur
poses and seek with them the same
ends, we are doing the same thing
Peter did in the court of the high
priest's palace, when he sat, down
before a nice warm fire with the
enemies of his Lord.
The third step occurred when
Peter let a little maid frighten him.
How much it must have humiliated
him later to recall how recklessly he
had boasted and how ridiculously
he had lost his head when a little
maid looked at him intently and
declared he wax one of Jesus' discl
pies.
A little while later, another saw
him and said, ‘Thou also art one of
them,’’ and P?ter’s indignant de
nial was, ' Man, I am not.’’ He tried
to make it appear ridiculous that
anyone should classify him with
this prisoner whose arrest had
caused such a stor. Undoubtedly
he was moving about so uneasily
among the servants, trying to hide
his identity, that he soon was un
der general suspicion.
He had lagged behind Christ
when he should have bravely stood
at his side at the time of arrest
He had been where he had no bus
iness to be—with the enemies of
his Lord. Denial was the next step,
and his terror drove him to take
it.
True to Jesus prophecy that be
fore the cock crowed Peter would
thrice deny that he knew him. the
crestfallen apostle heard, with In
describable emotion, the cock crow
ing that morning. He realized now
that Jesus knew him better than he
knew himself. Looking into his
own heart, he saw the folly which
had led him to denial.
It took the crowing of the cock
to bring Peter back to his senses,
and it brought him back to his
senses by bringing him back to Je
sus. Up to that time he had been
trying to forget about Jesus. When
the cock crowed, his mind was in
undated with a great flood of re
morseful memories. He was back
to Jesus at last—back to his ’ love.
his high counsel, his sound judg
ment—and because he was back to
Jesus, a new day was dawring
Peter.
Let us not misjudge Peter. He
was not a bad man following the
impulses of an evil heart; he was a
good man who had been suddenly
overwhelmed with temptation. Je
sus had prayed that Peter’s
fail not, and Peter’s faith had in
deed held like a strong anchor
through the storm. We are unjust
to him unless we regard him as a
man who loved his Master and be
lieved in him, but who, in an un
guarded moment, had allowed fear
to lead him first into compromise,
and at last into shamelessness and
cursing.
The trouble was that he had not
yet fully given his heart to h's
Master. In verse 32 of our lesson
text, Jesns tells Peter that when
once he hag turned again he is to
establish his brethren. The Autta
orized Version has it, when tho t
art converted, strengthen thy;
brethren.” Peter still needed to be
converted.
Now that summer pastures are :
playing out, some succulent feed for
dairy cows is needed to stimulate
milk flow. Silage, root crops, beet
pulp, and win1$r pasture are all
Assured of Results') Thursday, January 19 T1
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SIDESHOW
BY .JAMES MYRON
Interest in the new Congress,
where attention is centered upon
the grave problem of national de
fense, should not cause Georgians
to forget that there is a session
of the General Assembly of this
State. It is true that the Nation
al Government spends—and col
lects—a good bit more money
than the State Administration,
but State government is beginning
to touch every aspect of ever;
Georgian’s life.
The Georgia program requires
considerable financing. Naturally
the early estimates will be a trifle
more generous than the final ap
propriations bill, but the State
will need to raise not less than
ten million dollars, if anything at
all is to be done toward solving
the fiscal problem of the coun
ties. If every item of salary and
administrative expense,
the salaries of the governor and
the members of the Assembly,
only a fraction of this amount
would be realized, so the path of
the advocates of “balancing the
budget by economy” will be a
thorny one.
The counties will face a real
problem in this Assembly. County
authorities are somewhat divided
in their counsels as to a measure
to advocate. The Assembly will
be reluctant to leave the field of
ad valorem taxation altogether to
the counties, since this would nul
^ y homestead exemption plan
j e ff ec tively. Many county chiefs,
however, do not seem to desire
e ;ther of the two practical plans
advocated: (1) assumption of the
burden of running the courts, a
p i an that would save the taxpay
e rs possibly $800,000
(2) direct appropriations by the
State for the counties
would require submission of an
Amendment at the June election,
The death of Hon. C. A. Mat
thews, president of the commts
sioners, will prove a severe loss
to the group in working out a
legislative program. An aggres
sive fighter and a great
he had the confidence of all
groups and no doubt would have
worked out some acceptible corn
promise. the
All now is harmony within
State Administration. The ambi
tious boys who held the quaint
belief that enough talk, an ade
quate supply of rumors and a ve
hement belligerency would com
pel W. L. Miller to quit the high
way chairmanship have been si
lenced and put to flight, The
highway head plans no reprisals,
although he could inflict plenty
of chastisement on these van
quished political playboys if he
wished. From now on, they will
leave his department alone, how
ever, if they are wise.
The fight over the road board
may make some important
c hanges in the political lineup in
| 19 4 0| however. Whether a man
h as political ambitions or not, the
receipt of a hundred letters every
morning from all over Georgia is
likely to give him ideas, and
shrewd political observers, who
believe that there is a trend to
ward a businessman in the Capi
tol, are urging Mr. Miller to con
sider getting in the 1940 govern
or’s race. That might cause some
realignments, since everyone has
supposed for some weeks that
there would be but four candi
dates: Roy Harris, Hugh Howell,
Columbus Roberts and Eugene
Talmadge.
1940 will have plenty of excite
ment for those who like their pol
itics in big doses. It will open
with the struggle in the State Ex
ecutive Committee over fixing a
fee in the presidential primary.
| Then will come that primary, un
! less a too-large entrance fee is re
quired. Then comes the National
: Convention, one of the most cruc
ial in party history. Almost as an
an ti_ c ij max comes the Georgia
campaign, to be followed in No
vem ij er by {be general election.
Rumors that Mr. Roosevelt will
seeic a third term continue, de
spite t he inference to be drawn
j rom his letter to his retiring at
torney-general. It is not really
likely that Mr. Roosevelt will seek
to run again. Only three presi
dents have tried to get third
terms: Washington, who
the Federalist nomination five
c l a y s before his sudden death.
Grant, who lost in the
convention; Roosevelt, meaning
Theodore, of course, who organ
ized the Bull Moose party in 1912
Not one of these three, however,
sought a third consecutive term.
Only two presidents ever rejected
a third term, however: Jefferson,
who almost had Jo risk breaking
his party to avoid accepting the
insistive demand that he continue
as head of the nation; and Jack
son) who was a w . ea ry old gentle
man bent on retiring to a place
w here he could be rid of bankers
and party insurgents,
Only Gossip, here and
Expect a lively fight over a meas
ure to put taxicabs under the pub
ij c Service Commission ... To
pay a thirty dollar pension to all
eligible old persons in Georgia
would require a State expenditure
]y Watch for a real passage at
. . .
arms in the House between “Hell
Bent” Edwards of Lowndes and
Bnb Elliott of Muscogee . . . One
political biggie, who outgrew his
hat pretty quickly, is skidding to
ward an early transfer from the
Highway Department to some post
more In keeping with his temper
ament and abilities . . . Place your
bets on Joe Mitchell in the row
in the Department of Natural Re
sources . . . John Lewis, whose
worries with the same group that
were harrying the Wild Life boss
and the highway head drew little
public attention, has things back
in hand again; he was included in
the general truce . . . Bets are
even that, not matter what tax
measure is adopted by the Assem
bly, the revenue bill will have a
fine sounding title; if it’s a gross
income tax, will be labeled “Bus-
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* PORK CHOPS 23c 24 58 Lbs. c $ 48 1 Lbs. .09
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PIG LIVER 15c 60° ’1 .15
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HAMS HALF OR 20c 24 Lbs. 48 Lbs
WHOLE, LB— 68 c $ 1 .29
RONF.D AND ROLLED DIAMOND l SHOW BOAT
Beef Roast, 23c Bacon, lb. 23c Lbs.
24 Lbs. 48
SMALL Hams, GEORGIA lb.___22c END Ham, CUT lb.____25c CURED 75 c $ 1 .45
(HALF OR WHOLE) .
FRESH GROUND HOLLY HOCK
PORK SHOULDER Beef, lb.____18c
Steak, lb. 20c 24 Lbs. 48 Lb*
LARGE FAT 90 c $ 1 .75
ROBERSON’S Sausage, PURE lb. POFK 20c Hens, lb.____20c
FAT WHITE LILY or
BEEF C HUCK Friers, lb. 25c
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iness Privilege Tax”; if it’s a sales
tax, it will be a “Tax on Luxury
Purchases” . . One of the oil
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paintings in the rotunda of the
Capitol b.ears no name plate; may
be he’s the Unterrified Voter . . .
or something!
The University of Georgia’s
famed Saddle and Sirloin club
will be headed in 1939 by Ernest
Pace, of Eastman, an honor stu
dent who walked off with the
grand championship in last
spring’s annual Little Internation
al Livestock Show. Pace ranks
as a senior scholastically despite
the fact that he did not enter the
College of Agriculture until the
fall of 1936. He is scheduled to
graduate in animal husbandry
next June. The Saddle and Sir
loin Club annually sponsors the
Little International Livestock
Show, major which event for 19 the years colle^H ht^*.
a on
endar. of Other the Saddle newly e] ec ^H
ficers and J mmmm
Club are Lennicks Slap
Andersonville, vice n J
Tom Breedlove, of MonroiSA 1
retary - , frank Williaims, nixes t
treasurer; and Otis Parker, |Mr
Marys, reporter. 'ami!
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NOTICE Vlrs.
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A. R. Shirley, of Tifton.Paul
erative naval stores agent, day
that he has received a nunil Di
requests from dealers ot Atla
kinds of pine seed. Geofjv I
with pine seed to sell can M
from Shirley the names n!f a m:
pective buyers. The seed \jr.
Georgia was small this seasofiies
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