Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, October 17, 1940, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextHO GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON Jays': United Feature* W WNU Servlet Washington, D. C. WAR BASIS FOR INDUSTRY? Some of my columnar war crying colleagues say that American indus try ought to be put on a war basis right now. Their argument is that on e reason why France fell was that, under a peace structure, she could not mobilize her industry for wa r production, had to declare war to pep up the nation and did it all leisurely and far too late. They say also that “business as usual” kept England from getting ready soon enough and, finally, they point to the snail-like slowness of our pres ent rearmament program. With all that about France, Eng land and our slow progress, I agree. Perhaps I could agree also with the conclusion about putting our indus try on a “war basis,” if I knew what the wopds mean—or if they did. Of that I am in doubt. If it means that American indus try should now be put under indus trial amateurs, I know of no more certain way to slow or even para lyze war production. If it means that we should get some dynamic and experienced leadership of the industrial war effort and give it ap propriate authority, no comment was ever more significant—or more correct. That kind of leadership and ad ministration would not, however, as some of this comment suggests, be obliged just to set all peace-time production aside in a kind of ad journment to make way for our war needs. There is plenty of industrial capacity in this country for both needs. Our industry needs an orchestra leader with a real baton who can keep it in harmony and rhythm for the new tune—but it doesn’t need to be chained to the benches of any slave galley with a sort of roman ized Simon Legree to increase the stroke with a cat-o’-nine-tails. ♦ * * Our trivial World war experience may be informing. Our speedup of shipbuilding, both of merchant and warcraft, approached the miracu lous. Charlie Schwab had charge of part of it. In a plant where al Iparts of a fabricated ship were being as sembled and the engine department was far ahead of the co-ordinated schedule for it and other depart ments, he took time out for a short picnic for the workers in the yards. There were no speeches but, when the time for them came, Charlie pulled a surprise—the complete en gine, mounted on truck wheels, gay with flags and preceded by a band came rolling out under a large transparency which read, “All dressed up and no place to go.” That plant speeded up production imme diately. Of course, we can’t do this job with ballyhoo, but ballyhoo is part of it. We need every incentive and pressure of “go-get-it,” unified, ex perienced and inspired leadership to get speed without confusion and waste. We have one of this kind of leadership, only political leadership which insists on retaining personal ized control of everything. ♦ ♦ ♦ REARMAMENT Is the rearmament program pro ceeding rapidly? Sidney Hillman of the national defense advisory commission “advises that no manu facturer who violates the labor laws can be ‘awarded’ a contract for work on the defense program and that the National Labor Relations board will decide, for this purpose, whether or not an employer is ‘vio lating.’ ” There are now only two members of NLRB, Leiserson and Smith. The term of Chairman Madden has ex pired. Due to protests based on charges of his bias and unfairness the President has not reappointed him. The vacancy has existed for weeks. Some observers guess that the President wants to wait until after the election and then reappoint Madden. Smith and Leiserson agree on very few disputed points. Smith is an extreme left-winger—like Mad den. Leiserson is middle-of-the road. What they can’t agree on is put on ice until appointment of a third member with the deciding vote. Over in the selective service draft system, although the new organiza tion is under way, no administrator has been appointed. Some myste rious inner pressures—probably the senile war-minded Stimson —pre- vented a solution of this problem which was perfection—the experi enced and judicious veteran of the World war draft, Gullion, for ad ministrator—the young, expert and vigorous Hershey as its chief execu tive. Either alone would have been satisfactory. The team couldn’t have been bettered. As in NLRB, no responsible head has been appointed. Hershey has been “detailed” to go through in an “acting” capacity. In the name of mere mediocrity, why? The big job in the draft is the beginning—setting up the selec tive service system and selling it to the people. That requires experi ence, expertness—even genius. Aft er that it is a routine mechanical job. This beginning also requires some prestige or position in the ad ministrator. It certainly requires unquestioned authority and full re sconsibility. Country Press Sways Opinion Of Its Readers By WHEELER McMILLEN Editor-in-Chief Farm Journal & Farmer’s Wife. The country newspaper is forever a human document. A man, usual ly one man, or woman, is the coun try newspaper. Human beings are its raw material. That explains the tremendous force the rural press exerts in the life of America. The editor is a human being writ ing and dealing with men, wom en and chiMren. He may be old, young, lazy, energetic, bold, timid, superficial, deep, querulous, con structive, slovenly, business-like, grasping, generous. He is certain to be human. He reacts to praise, to criticism, to the presence of good and evil. I doubt, therefore, wheth er an editor of a country newspaper ever has deliberately supported any thing he considered evil for his com munity. The editor’s recognition of the in herent decency of the countryside is WHEELER McMILLEN highly important to America. He shares the confidence of his readers that the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule have been neither repealed, improved upon, nor modi fied by modern advances. The significance of all this flashes clear in the light of a political fact —the fact that rural America de termines the choice of more state legislators, more members of the house, more and of more presidential electors than does ur ban America. The elected rulers dare not be insensitive to the rural ‘press. Country newspapers do not suc cumb to false ’isms. The editors are human enough to share the be liefs of their readers in the Consti tution and representative govern ment. The mass hysterias that sway and excite and mislead city people tend to fade into mildness before the calm common sense of the coun tryside. The great question of the 1940 s is going to be whether the United States shall steadily sink itself with the rest of the world into a swamp of international poverty, or whether free Americans shall build impreg nable and higher their plateau of liberties and living standards. The country editor and his readers will be on the American side of that question every inch of the way. The direct descendants of the pioneers are on the farms and in the small towns and cities. In their blood is the conviction that they are entitled to both economic and political in dependence. Their editors are of the same breed of clear-eyed Amer icans. Just as long as there is in Ameri ca the liberty of the press, the coun try newspaper will express the true voice of America. The country edi tor will continue to chronicle the births and weddings and deaths of the human beings around him. He will applaud their successes and thus encourage them to further ad vances. He will support their com munity efforts. He will be construc tive among them. By speaking their thoughts and hopes, he will express their aspirations in 10,000 communi ties for a finer, more American j America. A VITAL FORCE | In these days of rapid transporta tion, the radio, moving pictures, and other means of bringing people of the world closer together, there is a definite tendency for individual persons to become so absorbed in the affairs of remote cities and na tions that they overlook the impor tance of affairs which truly affect them more intimately and immedi ately. This is a natural tendency, but not one which makes for richer association with one’s neighbors— the people he meets on the streets of his home town, the man who lives across the alley, or the fellow member of the garden club commit tee. These primary and homely as sociations are a full and happy life’s 1 | first essential, j It is this feeling of unity, com mon to all who live in it, that 1 makes a community what it is rather ' than a mere localization of human ’ ity. And it is the office of the com munity newspaper to preserve that ' unity; to nurture it and to broaden | its scope. It is the country news ‘ paper that makes a community ’ more than a road with houses on it; ’ it is the country newspaper that puts " the throb in the heart of a town. HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA IMPROVED * UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAV I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for October 20 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. THE MESSAGE OF JOHN THE BAPTIST LESSON TEXT—Luke 3:3, 8-17, 21. 22. GOLDEN TEXT—Bring forth, therefore, /ruits worthy of repentence.—Luke 3:8. Four centuries of silence! God made a loving appeal to His people through Malachi, the prophet (see lesson of June 23), but they failed to respond, and for about 400 years no prophet had appeared with an authoritative message from God. But now “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the proph ets” was ready in the “last days” to speak by “his Son” (Heb. 1:12). Before the Lord should come, however, the prophet Isaiah (40:3- 5) had declared that a voice was to come out of the wilderness to cry, “Prepare ye the way of the Lord.” The great honor of that ministry did not fall upon the religious or political leaders mentioned in Luke 3:1, but “the word of God came unto John ... in the wilderness.” When God calls a preacher, something vital and interesting is about to hap pen. I. The Preacher—His Call and Character. It is significant that the call of God for this ministry passed by the mighty of Rome, which was polit ically powerful, holding sway over the world of its day. It is doubly significant that it passed by Jeru salem, the religious center of the Jewish nation. God was not looking for influence, prestige, or position. He was looking for a man, and He found him, though He had to seek him in the wilderness. Where is God’s man for our day? The character of John is revealed to us by Scripture as unique and rugged. He was a striking figure as he came suddenly out of the wilder ness, but the outstanding qualifica tion of John was that he was humble and obedient to God’s will. Upon such a man the power of God may fall in all its fullness. 11. His Message—lts Nature and the Reaction (vv. 3, 8-14). Repentance, as evidenced by bap tism, this was John’s word to his day. He did not grant them absolu tion from their sins, but in repent ance they were to look forward to the cleansing from sin by the wash ing of the blood of Christ who was to come. John was the forerunner of Christ. His message of repent ance was a preparation for the com ing message of redemption. The reaction of the people is ex pressed in the question, “What must we do?” Much more would be ac complished for Christ in our day if that were the response of people to the preaching of the truth. Instead of criticizing or commending the preacher, or the sermon, let us ask, “What shall I do about it?” and then let us do it. The answer of John was that each one should, by his works, show the reality of his repentance in the de tails of his daily work and life. Of course, the all-important thing is that a man should believe in Christ, and by faith receive Him as Saviour, but that faith must show itself in daily living or it is meaningless, and, in fact, nonexistent. The world is full of those who need to answer our Lord’s own question, “Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?” (Luke 6:46). 111. His Ministry to Jesus—the Baptism and Heavenly Response (vv. 15-17, 21, 22). The forthright honesty and the hu mility of John appeared in his im mediate correction of the people’s mistaken idea that he was the Christ. He made clear that his bap tism with water, indicating their change of mind concerning sin, would only have real meaning as the coming One—his Lord and ours —would change their natures by the baptism of fire and of the Spirit. Jesus, who knew no sin of which to repent, took the place of a peni tent sinner and was baptized by John. Thus He, the sinless One, entered upon His public ministry and His work of redemption by tak ing the place of fallen humanity. What infinite grace and condescen sion! As He prayed, after John had bap tized Him, the heavens opened and the Holy Spirit, taking the form of the gentle dove, rested upon Him. God the Father spoke forth heaven’s estimate of our Saviour; He was declared to be the “beloved Son” of God, in whom the Father was “well pleased.” This attestation of His divinity and recognition of His spotless life and character was for Him, but not for Him alone. It speaks to us, even as it has spoken to all men through the centuries, of the One who is Saviour and Lord. “He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. For such an high priest be came us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens” (Heb. 7:25, 26). | DRAFT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q.—A bugle drives me nuts. Can I get exemption on account of I am allergic to brass musical instru ments? Otto. A.—No, but it may be possible to put you in some division where you can sit up all night and not have to be called at daybreak. ♦ • • Q.—l am for an adequate defense. I believe conscription necessary. I love my country and am willing to any emergency. I ( As I am not used *■ to taking on responsibilities myself, could I send my father? J. K. K. A.—You think of the darnedest things. ♦ ♦ • Q. —I have been working nights for the last four years and sleeping days. This has completely changed my habits. I can’t keep awake any more by daylight. Unless this war is to be fought after dark what good will I be in the army? Anxious. A.—You will be assigned to scout work in dark glasses. ♦ * * Q.—l have as much courage as the next fellow and I would never fail my country in a pinch. The draft is all right, but what bothers me is that I do not look good except in a blue suit. Will there be any branch of the service where clothing colors are optional? Duke. A.—You know how the Democrats are. Away will be found to make you happy. Maybe you can wear army pants and a dinner jacket. * * • Q.—l hate Hitler. I despise dicta tors. I am a 100 per cent Ameri can. The Western ,ienus l )lier( ' must Roosevelt is my tack us. But I tried sleeping on a cot once and I can’t do it. Where does this leave me when the draft call comes? Muggsy. A.—Don’t let it get you down. Modern war is so terrific nobody can sleep anyhow anywhere. • • ♦ Q.—l am a young man 21 years old with no dependents. I am sure to be drafted. But I have been studying those pictures of army tents and I do not see any wall plugs for my radio. Must I buy one of those portables? Joe. A.—lt can be arranged to put you in a company which has a crooner for a top sergeant. » * * Q.—l reached my twenty-fifth birthday last week without ever go ing anywhere on my feet when I could do it in the old man’s auto. As I understand it, the draft army may have to walk. I talked this over with my folks and my mother persuaded dad that he should let me take his auto to camp. But he refuses to pay for the gasoline any more. Can I have him arrested for obstructing the draft? Dutiful Son. A.—You can settle this some way. How about asking mother to pay for the gas? Q. —I am 32 years old and have been married six years to a woman who never stops five children all of whom take after their mother. Her father and moth cr live with us, and an aunt who J las dropped in ' tor a two months’ visit has brought her dog with her. Isn’t there some way this draft can be speeded up? And if so, why must I first be examined to see if I come up to specifications? This is an emergen cy, both from my standpoint and the government’s. Charlie. A.—Protect yourself in the clinches and be patient. We wish you luck. * * * YOU CAN’T WIN A man will have to be this fall A creature of great craft; For women, opportunists all, Have Leap Year and the Draft! —Nan Emanuel. • * • TO RENT —Cedarhurst. Wooded surroundings, six rooms, one and one-half baths. Franklin 1194.—New York Times. Well, even the forest primeval doesn’t make it any easier to use half a bathroom, does it? * * * BLESSED IGNORANCE One sort of knowledge Good to lack Is what is said Behind your back. —Richard Armour. • * ♦ “Seven of the largest oil companies In Rumania were seized by the gov ernment. They were all operated on British or American capital. The government said it was not confis cating the properties and intended only to control them.”—News item. Wanna bet? AROUND jWthe HOUSE Apples that are to be baked should be pricked with a fork be fore being placed in the oven. If you do this you will find they will not break while cooking. • * • Any flaked ready-to-serve cereal may be used instead of bread crumbs in a recipe that calls for bread crumbs. • • • A piece of chamois that has been dampened makes an excellent duster. It makes furniture look like new. « ♦ • When making baked custard, pour boiling milk onto the beaten eggs. It will then bake very firm. • • * Do not move bread dough after It begins to rise, or it is likely to • fall. Select a spot, out of a draft, for the bowl. . Cover with a cloth and then let the dough alone. 1 \ 1 MADE BY KELLOGG'S IM BATTIE CREEK \ *Copr. 1040 by Kellogg Company Little Learning: the learning, but in the littleness. t “A little learning is a dangerous Get more! Get more! So only thing;” but the danger is not in can you be safe.—Phillips Brooks. OF BATTERY COST ANC^^ENT lII* I I % Now Philco brings you tt B Mil battery radio with the beauty, B tone famous sets. And it’syoursat sensationally low 1 cost! 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