Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, April 08, 1943, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextTRIM SHIP FOR ACTION! VMe are engaged in a war to save our American tradition of liberty and opportunity for ourselves and our cAiidren. Our leaders have commit ted us to become the arsenal of de mocracy; to furnish food for our allies; through our lend-lease to help .finance the Allied war machine and, finally, to raise and equip an army •at some 10 million men. Any one of these jobs is a tre mendous undertaking. We are thou sands of miles from the theater of jvaf, and this involves tremendous problems of transportation. All of tiae.se jobs together will tax every .resource of the United States. Al- we face rationing and priori ties in our materials and acute short :nge of manpower, and a burden of taxes which indicates our financial resources are strained to the ut- OMMt, >Of a .certainly, we must have com pSetc unity if we are to do this job, and £aoe the postwar future with btrpe and confidence. American industry, agriculture and finance must use to the maxi mum the productive power, initia tive- and intelligence latent in every •American. .No Time or Place for Drones There must be no drones hidden itway on public payrolls, engaged in pe-acctime experiments which are uae.ie.ss under the emergency of war. tlvery branch of our military serv ice ss devoted to the sole purpose of a'*irtt/)g and winning this war. Our jjKMneriiment, both local, state and irrational, should inspire and lead in support our civilian population 4gr xes to the war effort. Unnecessary civic expenditures, surplus payroll «ec*» useless economic and social ex g*?rirnenU have no place in a war *2£nergency, Tta new Congress is tackling this ,i«ab with a will and a purpose. Those Oaagrossmen are our representatives ■Mad. we, the people, should support them to the limit. Right now they Crying to bring some order and t'fTiclcncy in the prevention of exces itaws* profits in war contracts by the Army, Navy and Maritime commis atioßc The present law, passed by thw ©ld Congress, provides for a “re negotiation” of their war contracts tty •each department. JNew Bureaus Not Needed Tftnexe are over three million of rluciiti contracts. Not more than 5 cent will show any excessive after taxes have been paid. 'TIW ordinary man on the street mmo&d say that the Internal Revenue jOrefuartment can easily discover any -e.w.-.'ss profit from any war contract. Oeriiainly we can use the manpower idhuat would bo wasted to much better usdwant age in other places. SVi.. the people, want Congress to iMdofXt .the most direct, efficient and «m>!aatnical method of doing this job. ftSurae of us believes in excess profits •jut war contracts. There are ceil ;;jrices on most things we pro •Bkiie. Now let’s get at the job of KU&Zmg down unnecessary civic ex penditures and cutting unnecessary pay-rollers of! the payroll. !* T\ 'PUltai you Buy Witk WAR RIIMIS <>»« of the most essential articles otf equipment for our soldiers is his «cacn4een. In equatorial countries and m other warm climes they are par ticularly important to the welfare of oust fighting men. "Tbe canteen, now being largely I •anuomifactured of plastics, costs a*boit 43 cents. The canvas cover _ . about 41 cents or 84 cents in aHL Your purchases of War Bonds, or People’s Bonds, will buy many of tts*?:se for our men in the Solomons <*** ass Africa where they are badly sww iV-d. Buy War Bonds every pay day . . . at least fen percent of your a»ro:-ne . . . through a Payroll Springs plan. u. S. Treasury Defartm.nl Scotch Joke No. 999 Dad you hear about the Scotchman who look his girl for a ride in a tSaad'’ She was so beautiful he could hardly keep his eye on the meter. Better to Gossip With ISrs. Jones—Did you notice Mrs. B&ack is getting a double chin? Sirs. Smith—l guess there was too vouch work for one! Too Early to Tell Ulrphew— Have you lived all your .’ifie cn this town, uncle? ®Jacle—Not yet! - Throw Him an Anchor Cacnper—The boat’s sinking! Seu.nd Ditto—What do we care, nut our boat. Rationed Hoarding - Ciarage Man—Check your oil? i Driver—No thanks. I’m taking it •waUo me! . ... LETTER TO EDITOR Perrv, Georgia March 30, 1943 The Editor Houston Home Journal Perry, Ga. Dear Sir: I would like to write a short letter through our home town paper in order that it may help some of our people. A few weeks ago I went out in the country; passed by a certain school house on my way and saw several colored boys on their way to school, each one had a book. It was about 10 o’clock. They were playing in the road. About an hour later I came back and met them very near the same distance and they ran into the bushes to hide. I asked them why they were so lace going to school, but they gave me no answer. i On many occasions during the last several years, I have abused so many of our colored boys for being out of school and in the streets and hanging around the Picture Show. A large part of our colored children of school-age here in Perry and throughout the County attend school only part time. A large number of our c -lored boys have been disquali fied for Military Service for il literacy, which is a discredit to them and their parents. I would like to say to our color ed people that the County, State and Federal Governments are giving our children free schools, tree books and high salaried teachers and in many cases free lunches and clothing. It seems that we should make them go to school at least through the win ter months when there is no work for them to do. In my day, we had no free school books; we had to build and maintain our log school houses and pay ten cents a month to help pay the teacher. We also had a short school term, but we learned more, then, in a short while than j our children are learning now with all kinds of free privileges. I have heard some of our school teachers, of late, complaining that they were having too many children in their classes, that they had to stagger the periods. What would they think of my day when a teacher had to have 50 scholars before she could get assistance? Let us remember that it will soon be spring time and we can be using some of our larger children to produce food. We all ought to have kept them in school regularly throughout the winter months, when they had nothing in the world to do. Let us all quit accusing the White People for our shortcom ings. They not only keep up free schools for our children but they also keep up and help us to main tain our churches and pay our preachers. One of your subscribers, Lawrence Bannister. ★ ★ ‘lVltai you Buy WAR RUIVRS [★ *_ Down in the Solomons and on the African coasts the Crocodile Boat or tank lighter played a most impor -1 tant role in landing our invasion ar | mies. These self-propelled, light . . . 1 fast boats haul tanks, artillery and j other equipment from the big ships | oil-shore to the beach heads. ■ /D. S» - We need more and more of them, for they are essential to the success ful operation of the war. They are made in several sizes from small fifty-footers, costing about $2,400 to the big 500-tonners costing around $37,000. Your purchase of War Bonds every payday will help pay for them. U. y. Treasury Department 1 U.S.WAR BONOS i LET’S TAKE STOCK BEN WAND, EDITOR SOUTHERN LUMBER JOURNAL Last Night at a nearby table in a Jacksonville hotel grill I observed two strong-looking men in their middle thirties, each eating with gusto a $2.25 steak dinner. Like all restaurants and cafes which I have seen in recent pionths, this one was crowded by men and women enjoy ing ample supplies of fo)d. There was no evidence of con cern in this crowd of diners that men were dying by the thousands in a world-wide war. This morning came a letter from a longtime dear friend who told me that his only son had been killed with the American army in Africa. Thousands of American fath ers and mothers have already received such reports from the army and navy, and tens of thousands more will in evitably pay this most costly price of parenthood. But what is the emotional state of the majority of the people of the United States? Let’s take stock. Each daily newspaper tells of strikes in airplane plants and munitions plants. The railroad workers of America are demanding a huge wage increase without offering to sur render any of their “feather-bedding” rules which, if suspended for the war, would multiply by two perhaps the manpower of our railroads while increasing each road’s efficiency. John L. Lewis has started a campaign for the mine workers to force the Government to forsake its wage rul ing which, if successful, will destroy the nation-wide ef fort of the Government to keep inflation under control. The mighty farm block has served notice on Congress that farm prices must be greatly increased or desperately needed crops will be curtailed. In Washington, the Republican and anti-New Deal mem bers of Congress are at the President’s throat, resolved to do whatever they can to hamper him, their most driving impulse springing from the untimely resolve that Franklin D. Roosevelt shall not be reelected in 1944, no matter what happens to the prosecution of the war or the effort to establish a just world peace. In private life, there is a mad scramble to get rich out of the war and to dodge war service and to avoid any war sacrifice. All of us who made any considerable amount of money last year want Congress to adopt the Ruml Plan and save us from paying 1942 income taxes. Yet it would be a rare business that must not credit the demands of TOLLESON LUMBER COMPANY Phone 91 Ferry, Ga. Pepsi-Cola Company, Long Island City, N. Y. Franchized Bottlers: Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Macon. From where I 5it...... Joe Marsh Happened to me yesterday. I’m monkeying with my ear to get it start ed, when a soldier slops alongside. "Need some help?” he asks. And darned if that soldier wasn’t young Charlie Jenkins from Elm Street. You wouldn’t know him after six months in the Army. Fifteen pounds heavier—straight and tan and real sure of himself. The Army’s done a lot for Charlie—like it has for lots of other fellows. Now I read how some folks worry about the soldiers havin’ a — © BREWING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION . GEORGIA COMMITTEE JUDGE JOHN STEVENS WOOD. State Director. 532 HURT Bl OC_ ATI ISNTI LEGAL BLANK FORMS BLANK MORTGAGES, BILL OF SALE, PROMISSORY NOTES, RETAIN TITLE NOTES, and Various Other Forms FOR SALE AT 1 HOME JOURNAL OFFICE glass of beer occasionally. After «eein’ Charlie, I don’t think there’s sause to fret. Jiist like Charlie says—”if you can trust us with guns and ships and tanks, 1 guess you con trust us with a glass of beer once in a while," And I know the beer industry is cooperating with the Army to see that beer Is sold in good, clean, decent places. (yOC the war for its much larger profits during the past two years. The Congress is feuding with the President over whether a man’s net income during the war shall be limit ed to a net of $25,000 after all taxes and insurance prem iums are paid, a lousy cause indeed under present condi tions. There’ll be time and plenty of reason when the war is over to make the sky the limit again. In the homes of many of my friends are cases of can ned goods, next year’s underwear and shoes enough to last for ten years. Most of them have motor tires that will last for years, under handsome bodies and high-pow ered motors which will serve them beyond the duration. Trains and planes are burdened with civilian men and wo men going to business conferences which should be skip ped or going somewhere just for the hell of it. Bars and night clubs do a capacity business. The boys play poker for higher stakes and women, who should be doing war work of some kind, are playing bridge, (ft going to movies. The point lam getting to is this: There’s too much lip service and not enough individual cooperation with the war effort. There’s too much criticism of the President and the Congress and other government officials who are trying to build a bigger war machine and striving to es cape criticism while doing it. There’s too much fear of having to go without our cus tomary supply of food and clothes and pleasures. There’s too much criticism of the tax rates and of government in terference with our business. There’s too little concern about spiritual values and too much concern about mate terial values. The honest efforts of a few far-sighted leaders seeking to plan for a world wide peace that will in sure the inherent rights of man to all peoples are derided by the skeptics who think only of their own materia! gain. Washington and our government are but the reflection of the minds of the people back home. If men in authori ty fight for power for the sake of position, if they waste effort that should be spent for the nation’s welfare, if they do selfish things to promote themselves and the pres sure groups which they serve, it is because they reflect us whom they represent. No nation is more or less than the sum of its communi ties, small and large. If we are selfish and unduly criti cal, our representatives in government will be likewise. “I BELIEVE IT MY CHRISTIAN DUTY TO TELL WHAT POW-O-LIN DID FOR ME,” STATES REV. SIMS. Beloved South Carolina Baptist Minister Tells o( Happy Relief From Achy, Sluggish Let Down Feel ing That Plagued Him Day and Night. Pow-o-lin Wins Heartfelt Praise of Thousands of South Caro, lina Men and Women. . I, V , / REV. C. H. SIMS Throughout the entire state well-known men and women are praising Pow-o-lin for the bless ed relief it brings and thousands are turning to.this purely herbal medicine with the assurance that it will bring them welcome re lief or money back. Rev. C. H. Sims, well-known and beloved Baptist minister, Route 1, Spar tanburg. S. C., pastor of Baptist church Route 3 Chesnee, S. C. declares; “No one can appreciate Pow o-l.nas I do until he has suffered as I have and tried this splendid medicine. No matter w hat I ate, food would sour and cause gas and bloating that made me feel L COU u ld set my breath. My head ached something awful and stubborn constipation clogg- I ed my intestinal tract with of i fending toxic waste that made me feel achy, sluggish an| worthless. Sometimes I felt j hardly had energy left to through with a sermon. Jw sleep was so disturbed, mornijif often found me feeling so down I didn’t see how I coU , make it through the dav. I wa: discouraged and didn’t kno* where to turn for relief. , “Pow-o-lin brought me suet speedy relief I deem it my Chris* tian duty to tell others about this splendid medicine. My wife an ll sisters have taken it with equa*' ly gratifying results. It is tn J bSst medicine I ever had in home.” Pow-o-lin is a purely hen?* preparation for the relief of o' s ' tress as plagued Rev. Sims due to constipation. Thousan -I praise it. Pow-o lin may be o D 'J tained at Houston Drug Co.