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We note where a train of twen¬
ty-eight cars was loaded with
Russian girls and taken to Ger¬
many to an unknown fate. When
the Russian army reaches Ger¬
many and begins to even the
score, as it no doubt will, let’s
remember this and keep our
mouths shut and our shirts on.
Let’s remember that if it hadn’t
been for Russia it might have
oeen English and American girls.
Let’s let Germany pay in full
for this and other similar ar-
trocities.
Congress is to be commended
for freezing the Social Security
oax at one per cent. No one
mows as yet just what the tax
;hould be. If too much is col-
ected some way will be found to
fritter away the surplus. If just
•nough is collected those in
;harge of administering the tax
will be more careful of how it is
dandled. The pressure of a large
balance in any fund is too much
>f a temptation to starry-eyed
uplifters and devotees to the full¬
er life theory. We believe that
f there is any surplus in the
fund the employers and the em¬
ployees should be the ones to
spend it, not some bureau.
The move to take the control
jf the unemployment tax from
he states and put it in one fund
under the federal government
must be watched. This is but an-
)ther scheme to take more of
the states rights from them and
destroy a little bit more of our
lemocracy. Once control of the
fund leaves the states it will
lever come back. From then on
he bureaucrats of Washington
vill control it. There is not as
much concern over the country
egardin this as ther should be.
Lets not be found in the posi¬
tion of locking the empty barn
ifter its equine occupant has
been smoothly spirited away.
We read an article the other
lay by a commentator on things
to come. In his opinion, we of
this country are in for an in¬
creasing amount of federal regi¬
mentation. This commentator
seems to think we have reached
a point where we cannot escape
it. Regimentation, he says, will
continue to take over gradually,
moving in a little at a time. Fifty
years from now, he says, we will
look back to today as the care¬
free and easy days when most
government controls were lack¬
ing. Living under regimentation,
he says, is all a matter of be¬
ing used to it. New generations
that will know nothing else will
think nothing of it, he says. In
other words, whether or not we
are regimented is all in the way
one looks at it.
Not enough complaint is be-
ng made against the unnecess¬
ary complicated income tax law,
a local man said yesterday. The
time has come when people if
they want anything from Con¬
gress have got to make them¬
selves heard and felt. Personally,
I will not vote for any candidate
who will not agree to work for a
simplified income tax, if he is
elected. There ought to more
people who feel as strongly about
this as I do. If there were, we
would get something done. You
can’t get much action from a
congressman by merely scolding
because of his dumb acts, but
you can scare him into action
if he thinks any considerable
number of votes are at stake.
Members of Congress can’t pass
the buck on this tax law. If they
had been awake they could have
secured for us a simpler law. We
have got to find some way of
getting them awake long enough
to get their feet off the desk
when matters like this come be¬
fore them. They can help us if
they are made to.”
The release of the story of the
treatment of American war pris¬
oners taken on Bataan by the
Japs has filled every American
with the thought and conviction
that Japan must be destroyed.
The inclination of the Jap sav¬
age not to surrender will furnish
an opportunity to do a most ef¬
fective job. There is no place in
a civilized world for a people of
this kind. A local man calls our
attention to the fact that in all
the thousands of years of their
history the Japs have not made
a single contribution to civiliza¬
tion. There has never come out
of Japan a great invention, a
great medical discovery, a con¬
tribution to literature, art or
music. Rather, she has been an
imitator of other nations. She
has appropriated inventions and
methods of industry originated
and used by other nations. She
has been a leech upon civiliza¬
tion drawing from her life blood
from the genius of others and
giving nothing in return.
The administration recently
presented Congress with a re¬
quest for a tax blli calling for
$10,500,000,000 in new taxes. This
amount it was felt by the ad¬
ministration experts would be
necessary to finance govern¬
ment operations and to hold
down inflation. Congress has
compromised with a tax bill of
$2, 275,000,000, over 8,000,000,000
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1944
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“Charge them that are rich in
this world, that they be not high
minded, nor trust in uncertain
riches, but in the living God,
who giveth us richly all things
to enjoy.”—I Timothy 6:17.
It’s a sign of superconceit
when a man past sixty says he
is just as good a man as he ever
was.
We pride ourselves on our in¬
dustry, but the easiest thing in
the world to sell is a labor saving
device.
The editor of one of our ex¬
changes puts it this way: When
It comes to keeping one straight,
one sneering enemy will get
more done than a half dozen
friends.
These are the times, a neigh¬
boring editor notes, that the
smart shopper approaches the
clerk with, “I want to get fifty
cents worth of what you’ve got.’’
A political convention in many
respects resembles a high school
athletic eve»t. It has a big crowd
of cheering boosters who are
plugging for the home team and
are apparently without inhibi¬
tions of any sort.
When the Romans destroyed
Carthage, all the buildings were
leveled, the ground plowed and
oats was sown on the city cite,
few more trips by the bomb¬
ers and Berlin will be ready for
plows and the seeders.
While experts are figuring out
how many man hours have been
lost in strikes and absenteeism,
why not have some one figure
out the number of man hours
that have been wasted in figur¬
ing out an unnecessarily obtruse
and indefensible income tax law.
The story goes that the ration
board in a neighboring state
turned down a request for a sup¬
plemented supply of gasoline
made by a man who desired to
take his mother-in-law home.
The refusal by the board was for
the reason that they regarded
it a pleasure trip. (True, brother,
true).
There is a feeling that the
inflation brakes were applied too
late. There w T as a disposition on
the part of the administration
to permit a little inflation with
the idea hat it could be headed
off before it got out of hand.
Controlling inflation is like con¬
trolling flood waters. Once flood
waters break over the dike there
is little that can be done. Once
inflation gets under way it is
next to impossible to stop it.
Nature favored the Japs in this
w r ar. That section of the Pacific
is dotted with thousands of is¬
lands, many of them covered
with jungles, mountains and
swamps affording the easiest
type of country to defend, and
the most difficult to clear of de¬
fenders. Our troops there are
learning the jungle tactis and
the island by island campaign
is picking up. It is a matter of
cleaning the rats out of one hole
at a time.
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Its a rare individual who can
spend public money with the
same care and wisdom that he
spends his own. There is some¬
thing about being entrusted with
a large sum of money that they
did not earn that seems to upset
the balance wheel with many
people, and the first thing they |
know they are spending it right
and left without much thought;
of what it is being spent for, or;
whether it should be spent.
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1944
LEAP YEAR STYLE NOTE—1944
TOMORROW’S SUN
By J. C. WILSON
Newspaper Features, Inc.
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As this is written it is still im¬
possible for the men who are
fighting and dying for their
:ountry, to vote in 47 of the 48
states. The other 47 states are
still in a quandry over arrange¬
ments for the men and women
n the armed forces to vote.
Georgia alone of the 48 states
las set up the necessary struc¬
ture for this purpose, thanks to
Governor Arnall and Senator
George.
Age alone will prevent upward
of 2,000,000 men who are fight¬
ing and dying for their country,
rom voting and thereby having
\ voice in their government. Al¬
though a man of 18 is old enough
to be drafted by his country, on¬
ly one state (Georgia), again
thanks to Ellis Arnall and Walt¬
er George, has made it possible
for them to vote. A majority of
’he Marines who died at Tarawa
were too young to vote in any
>f the 48 states, with the excep¬
tion of Georgia. A majority of
the Sailors who died when the
muiser Atlanta was sunk by the
Japanese and who have died so
far in our naval battles were too
young to vote unless they lived
in Georgia. A majority of the
soldiers who have died in Italy
were too young to vote except
in Georgia. A majority of the
men now fighting in actual com¬
bat duty are too young to vote
in any other state except Geor¬
gia. Approximately 50 per cent
of Waves, Wacs and Spars are
neligible to vote except in Geor¬
gia (United States government
figures).
The British have an ancient
tradition that no man ineligible
to vote could be compelled to
serve over-seas, and reduced the
voting age to 19 many years ago.
Declaring “Congres as silent as
an oyster in doing something for
our young heroes,” Governor Ar¬
nall also last week called for
presidential and congressional
action on a proposed constitu¬
tional amendment to lower the
national age from 21 to 18 years.
“I think the President ought to
go to bat for the young people”,
the Governor said. The amend¬
ment by Congressman Jennings
Randolph of West Virginia, is
now before a congressional com¬
mittee.
The Governor said that unless
Congress does .something about
lowering the voting age, “it
would disqualify and perpetuate
a fraud on the hundreds of
thousands of young people who
are giving their lives for this
country.”
He said that some congress¬
men should “have the courage to
speak up for these young people.”
Georgia lowered its voting age
to 18 last August. Shortly aftter
that, Governor Arnall went to
Washington and appeared be¬
fore a committee to urge a fed¬
eral statute.
Governor Arnall said in ad¬
dress the General Assembly
when he called them in an extra
session to provide the ballot for
our armed forces, “I hope I shall
never see the day when the uni¬
form of our country is made a
badge of disfranchisement” and
Georgia still remains the only
state with a governor who ap¬
parently is sufficiently interested
in their fighting men to provide
them with a means of having a
voice in the government they
are fighting, sacrificing and fore-
ging the pleasure and happiness
of home and loved ones for.
T«AOC-MAIK
less than
deemed necessary to properly
curb inflation. We do not pre¬
sume to say that the amount
asked for by the administration
was scientifically and eco¬
nomically the exact amount that j
should be levied if inflation is to
be prevented. that Congress We do is feel, assuming how- |
ever,
a most serious responsibility in
arbitrarily making such a radical
reduction from administration
estimates. From the standipoint
of politics the administration
would be expected to reduce the
levy to the lowest possible point.
Instead of this, it has asked for
nearly four times the amount;
Congress appears willing to \
grant. Let us all hope that the
study made by Congress has been
thorough, accurate and unpreju¬
diced, since a great deal depends
upon such matters as to whether
or not inflation can be controll¬
ed from her# on out.
i SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Lesson for Sunday, February 20
Topic:
JESUS TEACHES TRUE
GREATNESS
Scripture Lesson: Mark 9:30-10;
45.
In speaking of greatness, Will¬
iam Makepeace Thackeray said,
“To endure is greater than to
dare; to tire out hostile fortune;
to be dauntted by no difficulty;
to keep heart when all have lost
it; to go through intrigue spot¬
less; to forego even ambition
when the end is gained—who can
say this is not greatness?”
In our lesson for today, we
hear Jesus speak concerning true
Greatness. Wholly uninfluenced
by the traditional and popular
claims of the world with refer¬
ence to the character of great¬
ness, Jesus asserts that true
greatness can be realized only
in genuine service to needy man¬
kind.
THE QUESTION OF RANK
Mark 9:33-41.
After the experience on the
mountain top, where he was
transfigured before the three di¬
sciples, and following the heal¬
ing of the epileptic boy, Jesus
came, with the disciples, through
Galilee to Capernaum. Upon
reaching the privacy of the
house, Jesus questioned them
concerning a discussion that had
evidently taken place some¬
where along the journey, and
which he had overheard. The
controversy had to do with the
matter of the “rank” of the
twelve. Which one of them might
be considered to be the greater
(than the rest) ? Jesus comes
to the point quickly with them,
in a stinging rebuke. Says he,
“If any man would be first, he
shall be last of all and servant
of all.” In these terse words,
Jesus reminds the twelve that
“The spirit of service is the pass¬
port to eminence in the kingdom
of God” (H. B. Sweete). Jesus
then took a little child and said
unto them, “Whosoever shall re¬
ceive one of such little children
in my name, receiveth me: and
whosoever receiveth me, receiv¬
eth not me. but him that sent
me.” And Matthew adds, “Who¬
soever therefore shall humble
himself as this little child, the
same is greatest in the kingdom
of heaven” (Matthew 18:4.)
Greatness, then, under the Mes¬
siah’s reign, can be achieved on¬
ly as his subjects become child¬
like. They must be humble and
giv^themselves over to the spirit
of service, in the name of their
Master. If this grand fact could
be, somehow, realized in the lives
of the followers of Christ, today,
there would be some mighty
transformation going on within
our churches. Love, brotherhood,
and understanding would pre¬
vail, where now there Is jealousy
and stiff#.
THE NECESSITY OF CHILD¬
LIKE TRUST
Mark 10:13-16.
In the above passage, Jesus
further emphasized the necessity
of simple childlike trust, as we
relate ourselves to the Messiah’s
kingdom. It is merely “another
lesson for the still spiritually
crude disciples’-’ (M. Dods). In
the words of Dr. A. T. Robert¬
son, “Jesus here presents the
little child with trusting and
simple and loving obedience as
the model for adults in coming
into the kingdom.”
It is at this point that we find
the head and front of our chief
difficulty in soul-winning. It is so
hard to get people to exercise
the spirit of childlike faith in
the matter of religious experi¬
ence. They are, for some reason
or other, so often unwilling to
venture out, by faith, in their
quest for God. They lack the
true spirit of scientific inquiry.
They back off from the miracu¬
lous element in the spiritual
realm, despite the fact that they
live constantly in the midst of
the miraculous element in the
natural realm. Why, every breath
that one draws is a miracle; ev¬
ery heartbeat, every thought! It
still remains, as from the be¬
ginning, that if one is to enter
into the joys of Christ’s king¬
dom, and lay hold of the great¬
ness that comes through service,
he must do so by simple, child¬
like faith. There is no other roy¬
al road to salvation.
GUARDING AGAINST STUMB¬
LING
Mark 9:42-50.
Here we have the words that
stab us wide awake: “And if thy
hand cause thee to stumble, cut
it off . . . And if thy foot cause
thee to stumble, cut it off
. . .
And if thine eye cause thee to
stumble, cast it out . . . rather
than ... to be cast into hell.”
Jesus could not have spoken
more terrible words than these;
and yet humanity needs them.
We need to be reminded of the
tragedy of stumbling, and of the
necessity of erecting safeguards
to keep us from stumbling. Those
who mar their lives by known
sin and who permit conditions
that make for sin to continue to
exist in their lives will never
know true greatness. They may
succeed for awhile, in the eyes
of the world, but not in the sight
of Jesus. He looks upon us as we
are. His all-seeing eyes pene¬
trate the superficial veneer of
outward things that so often be¬
guiles the gullible ■world.
THE PERIL OF RICHES
Mark 10:17-31.
Someone has said that when
the American people learned to
make money, they lost their re¬
ligion. Whether or not this be
true we do know that there is
altogether too much emphasis
on material things, in the world
: today. We know that “th« love
of money is the root of all kinds
of evil: which some reaching aft¬
er have been led astray from the
faith, and have pierced them¬
selves through with many sor¬
rows” (I Tim. 6:10.) In the light
of this solemn truth, it is easy
to understand why Jesus warned
his'followers about the peril of
riches: “children”, he said, “how
hard it is for them that trust
in riches to enter into the king¬
dom of God.” This statement
followed the woeful example of
the rich young ruler (Cf. also
Luke 18:18ff.), who, when chal¬
lenged by Jesus to turn loose of
his possessions (“If thou wouldst
be perfect”—Mat. 19:21) for the
sake of the richer life in the
realm of the spirit, went away
with a fallen and sorrowful
countenance, “for he was one
that had great possessions.” Said
Jesus, “It is easier for a camel
to go through a needle’s eye,
than for a rich man to enter in¬
to the kingdom of God.” In other
words, man cannot lay hold of
| instrument the kingdom through the mere
of wealth. The king¬
dom of God is not something
that can be bought with ma-
| teriai things. It is not a pawn.
Men, to enter the kingdom, must
trust in something far greater
than riches. They must have
childlike faith, even as the poor¬
est disciple on the earth. Thus,
“With men it is impossible, but
not with God; for all things are
possible with God.” Praise the
Lord!
THE TRULY GREAT
Mark 10:32-45.
Again, we come back to our
original promise. The truly great
are those who serve—those who
serve in the name of Jesus. Oth¬
erwise, our service would profit
us nothing (I Cor. 13:3). For,
“the Son of man also came not
to be ministered unto, but to
minister, and to give his life a
i ransom for many.” Let us ponder
these words long and well. They,
as few others, furnish us a
challenge adequate to the needs
of our war-torn world. Let them
become for us as a sort of watch¬
word, as we prepare to bind and
heal the wounds of global war!
APPLICATION FOR TWELVE
MONTHS’ SUPPORT
GEORGIA, DADE COUNTY:
To all Whom it May Concerns
Mrs. Myrtle Gerald, having
made application for twelve
months’ support out of the estate
of G. A. Gerald, and appraisers
duly appointed to set apart the
same having filed their returns,
all persons concerned are here¬
by required to show cause be¬
fore the Court of Ordinary of
said county on the first Monday
in March, 1944, why said ap¬
plication should not be granted.
This 7th day of February, 1944.
J. M. CARROLL,
Ordinal
