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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 24,
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“The words of the wise are
goads, and as nails fastened
the masters of assemblies, which
are given from one
Ecclesiastics 12:11.
This softening up of German
defenses by the Allied
might be referred to as the spring
thaw.
According tu the Christian
Science Monitor, The Lady
Door wants to know if the Uni¬
versal Service Act will
the drafting of capable men for
public office.
According to one of our ex¬
changes income tax is paid on
what one gets, sales tax on what
one spends and property tax on
what one keeps.
A local girl had a new, heavy
date the other evening. Asked
by a friend what she thought
of her new date, said: “Not
much, he is too cozy.”
According to Senator
wages as a whole have increased
20 per cent since September.
1942, while food prices have in¬
creased but six per cent. From
this it appears the inflation line
is being held in part only.
--*--
Evidence that the st^blization
program and the effort to
prices in line is working to some
extent at least may be found in
the fact that fifty-one
living costs have gone up 25.9
per cent. In a like period
the last war the increase
59.7 per cent.
Texas, according to one of
exchanges, figures that the war
will last five years longer. They
figure that it will take a year
to whip the Nazis, another year
to polish off he Japs and three
years to get the Yankees out of
Texas.
Talk of simplification of the
tax form reminds us of the com¬
ment made by Mark Twain re¬
garding the weather: “There
a lot of talk,” Twain said, “a-
bout the weather, but
is being done about it.”
When representatives of
committee approached
Roosevelt on the matter of run¬
ning for a fourth term he said.
“Oh.” This only half
the question—the “K" will prob¬
ably be added when the national
convention meets.
A recent survey by
Magazine on post-war
plans reveals that most
can people are planning on buy¬
ing a new car and a home
their own after the war.
will, perhaps, compromise on
new' car. With a new car
family won't have much use
a home for a year at least.
The announcement that
food shortage is possible
year will result in an
number of Victory gardens
spring. Everyone who has
available plot of ground and
time will put out a garden
year. The food produced in
gardens of the country last
amounted to an amazing
You have perhaps noticed
few people worry any more
bout the national debt. It
gotten so big that the
mean nothing to the average
dividual. It reminds us of a
game in which we played in
high school days. As long as
score was tied we worried a
about the outcome of the
but after our opponents got
scores ahead of us we quit
ing. There wasn’t anything
could be done about it, so,
worry? seemed to be the atti-
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THE DADE COUNTY TIMES: THURSDAY FEBRUARY 2 4, 1944
The conquest of Kwajalein was
most brilliantly executed. The
lesson learned on Tarwa was a
valuable one. On Kwajalein the
island was thoroughly milva-
ircd with bombs before tne sol-
iers were sent ashore. All that
emained was a little mopping
ip. It looks like a good pattern to
ontinue on the march of our
nines across the South Pacific
0 Japan.
The best war bond story we
save seen appeared in the Cali-
irnia Legionnarie. It goes like
his: A soldier had been pian-
ng to cash in his bonds and
make a trip back to civilization,
le changed his mind because of
1 dream he had one night. It
:eems he was in a fox hole, pick-
ng off Japs In large and satis¬
fying numbers. Suddenly a ser¬
geant tapped him on the should- ;
Jer and asked for his rifle.
What’s the idea, Sarg?” he ask¬
'd. “The guy who lent us the
money for this rifle wants it
oack,” was the reply. |
We have often heard the ex¬ j
pression: "A substitute is nev-
;r as good as the article for
which it substitutes.” Nothing
impresses us more with this fact
han the erasers with which
ead pencils are now being e-
iuipped. They won’t erase. In-
;tead, they create an ugly blur
1
hat is more unsightly than the
rror they would remove. We
Jill have the stub of one of our
jre-duration pencils which has
n it one of the pre-duration
ireasers. We are hold on to it
ike a miser. It is the only thing j
ibout the office that will do a j
complete job of erasing. I
!
The following incident related
:
by the editor of one of our ex-
hanges, represents, he says, two
heories of government and the j
spending of public money. Ac¬ has j
cording to this editor he
been debating for some time the
installation of more efficient e-
quipment. He was held up be¬
cause of the cost, believing that
it would be better for the dur¬
ation to put the money in War
Bonds and get along on what he
has. The other day the office
devil” approached him for a
month’s salary in advance. He
had found a used car which he
could buy with a month’s salary
and the help of two small war
bonds which he had planned on
cashing in.
The matter of the soldier vote
till has Congress in a snarl. The
question isn’t whether or not the
soldiers should or not be allowed
to vote, but rather how it shall
be done One theory is that it
shall be handled by a single fed¬
eral ballot bearing the names of
presidential candidates. The oth¬
er is that it shall be handled by
several states with ballots that
give, in addition to the President,
the governor and other officers.
The proponents of the latter
olan are resisting what they feel
is in infringement against state
rights by the national govern-
men. Owing to the time ele¬
ment, the distance involved, the
getting of the ballots to the
soldiers and back in time to get
them counted, the matter pre¬
sents a real problem, however it
is handled.
In our opinion not the least
>f the post-war problems is the
matter of immigrants coming to
‘his country following the u r ar.
This is a thing we should watch.
Already over a half million have
been admitted since the begin¬
ning of the war. Most of them
are Jews. There is vast reaches
of country in Canada and Afri¬
ca and South America that can
support a population greatly in
“xcess of what they now have.
Let’s give these people a chance
to build their own civilization
under new surroundings and
orove their worth, if need be, but
let’s be careful about letting
down bars and permitting our
sympathies to upset our good
judgement. America is great be¬
cause her people have made it
great. Let’s keep it great with
fhat kind of people. We have
worked too long and too hard to
build our civilization to hand
over ready made to any people.
The drys point out that while
the government received a bil¬
lion dollars in taxes from the
liquor industry last year a total
of $4. 750.000.000 was spent for
liquor by the people of the Unit¬
'd States last year. Since it has
become the custom to translate
'verything into guns and planes
and ships it might be interest¬
ing to see what this immense
sum would do in the matter of
the purchase of war equipment.
It would build and equip 47
battleships the size of the new
super sea fighter Missouri—the
chief weapons depended upon to
defeat Japan. It could pay for
19,000 giant bombers—the chief
weapon now employed against
Germany. Besides these'things
the billion dollars deceived by
the government in taxes doesn’t
measure up. While we are talk¬
ing about the necessity of win¬
ning the war and the urgent
need for money, here is some¬
thing to think about. It looks
News BfhindIII f lx
THETteVSI DLUlIN^p^l
By PaUI.Mau.on
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
SUBSIDY PROBLEM
IS A TOUGH ONE
WASHINGTON - The ser.cte prob¬
ably next will pass the ban on
subsidies—and what will Mr. Roose¬
velt do then, with the fourth term
vote campaign underway, with
labor campaign manager, Phil Mur¬
ray, pleading for steel wage
creases, and the consumers
ing audibly about prices?
The generally published supposi¬
tion has been that he will
the ban and continue to pay the mid¬
dlemen free treasury money to hold
wholesale prices down while slip¬
ping an increase to the farmers. The
congressional and farm leaders nat¬
urally heard about this, and have
made private plans to squeeze him
around to their way.
His OPA authority expires July 1
shortly before his renomination. If
he vetoes this ban, they intend
slip another into the OPA bill which
he cannot veto without losing his
whole price regulation program.
Certainly all the newly generated
administration heat hereabouts there¬
fore, already is being turned on the
senate to get a compromise which
will extricate the White House from
its worst political predicament,
Lately, reports have come in from
the Farm Belt indicating the men in
the fields were not so strong against
Roosevelt, but all evidence locally
suggests the contrary. The farm or¬
ganization leaders here have been
off the front pages lately, but their
ire has not diminished, nor has their
intention to circumvent FDR.
FARM PAYMENTS UP
True, nearly all farm prices
now above official parity. Also, the
administration has been quietly inch¬
ing up its subsidy payments. Flour,
most important farm food product,
has been slipped into the subsidy list,
as has grapefruit juice.
Moreover, his Commodity
corporation has been functioning
along in a quieter subsidy way
with price stabilization loans and
buying.
Conspicuously, Agriculture Secre¬
tary Wickard has come out with
new postwar farm program,
sounds big — postwar
greater even than now. But
these efforts have a moldy
side, which the farm
say will guarantee a heavy
jority against FDR in farm states.
The Wickard program can be
cepted as the Democratic plank
the platform to be adopted in
cago, but an analysis will show
contemplates consolidation of
farm units into larger operations
abandonment of acreage on
crops which can be produced
cheaply offshore, presumably
(Canada, Argentina, Mexico)
oils from around the world—this
be done to strengthen friendly
tions with foreign peoples and
mote world peace.
Also, the politics of the food
sidy program appeals only to
class of farmers who do not
taxes or buy bonds, apparently
smallest of the small. To them
is it gravy. The others realize
are paying part of their own
dies in taxation.
Obviously, as smart a
manipulator as Mr. Roosevelt is
going to let this adverse
go into the campaign. What will
do?
If he gives Phil Murray the
wage increase, he will have to
the farmers some more price
creases, and, in either event,
will alienate the consumers who
the biggest bloc of voters.
Ordinarily, you would think
would just let farm prices
rise until election day (the
ary way), but this too will
difficulties with labor and
er. Usually, his technique is to
all claimants a little bit, but
would be difficult in the present
wage-price condition, and
would please no one.
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A lady recently came to me
the rumor that “they are not
to pay off on Series E bonds,
only on the others.” There are
million American citizens now
ing war bonds, nearly half the cen¬
sus of men, women and children.
Do you think this government is
going against the invested wishes
half its people? All bonds will
paid off. They will have to be.
whole future of this country is
bound with the sound
of the war debts in bonds. No
ernment in the future will ever per¬
mit the slightest impairment
those investments unless it wants
revolution.
Jap barbarities have
bond sales, the news stories
Any reason for buying bonds is
good one, but the best one is not
tional hate, but plain common
A bond is the best place for
today for any citizen. It is the
place to put money for the
education of your young
and the best place to provide
your old age. But best of all,
can there deposit your money for
automobiles, refrigerators, radios,
house painting, vacuum
and what you will need when
war is over.
Dreams never come true
Now More Vital r han Ever
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Lesson for Sunday, February 27
JESUS PRESENTS HIMSELF AS
MESSIAH
Scripture Lesson: Mark 11:1-12;
44.
The present lesson marks the
formal beginning of what is re¬
garded as the last public minis¬
try of Jesus n Jerusalem. It was
on Friday afternoon (six days
before the Passover) that he ar¬
rived in Bethany, the home town
of Lazarus, whom He had raised
from the dead. Upon hearing of
His arrival, the multitudes be¬
gan to gather, as usual, about
Him. Moreover, John says (12:9)
that when the common people
learned of His presence they
came not for His sake only, “but
that they might see Lazarus al¬
so, whom He raised from the
dead.” To see Him and Lazarus,
together, would be a rare treat
for them indeed. But for the
chief of priests, the popularity
of Jesus and Lazarus was too
much. Consequently they began
to plot for the death of both.
In an atmosphere that is tense
with excitement and sinister
forebodings, Friday and Satur¬
day pass, and Sunday dawns.
THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY
Mark 11:1-10.
That is a good way to describe
the occasion set forth in the a-
bove Scripture. It was a “Tri¬
umphal Entry” in every sense
of the word. To quote Dr. A. T.
Robertson, “Jesus now makes a
formal challenge to the Jerus¬
alem leaders who have so long
opposed His claims. This was a
r.ay of T>i,umph that seemed to
the excited crowds to mean the
establishment of a political Mes¬
sianic kingdom.” They had
looked forward to such a king¬
dom for a long time. If He would
but proceed at once, now, to
take His stand in opposition to
that of Caesar, and free Pales¬
tine of her Roman masters, there
would be no bound to their joys.
Why, even the whole world
might soon be subject to the
Jews!
It was an exciting moment. In
preparation for the entry, Jesus
had taken care to see that every¬
thing was in keeping with “the
lowly state of the Son of Man.”
Even the “colt” was borrowed
and their own garments were
used for the saddling of the
foal. Others carpeted the way
with their garments, and with
“the feathery fronds forming
the tufted crown of the tree”
(Vincent). Suddenly, as the
procession moved forward, some¬
one cried out, “Hosanna, Blessed
is He that cometh in the name
of the Lord . . . Hosanna in the
highest;” and with that the
whole group—those before and
behind — took up the cry. No
matter what might happen now',
at Jerusalem, His day was one
of triumph. Those w'ho boldly
opposed His claims were just as
boldly challenged. His Messianic
kingdom, though misunderstood,
was on its way!
NOTHING BUT LEAVES
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On Monday, when Jesus
coming from Bethany, where the
night had been spent with the
twelve, Mark tells us that
felt hunger. No explanation
given for the fact which seems
unusual inasmuch as He had
been among hospitable
who might easily have
Him with food. Was it possible
that His mind had been so oc¬
cupied with other things
He had felt no desire for food
before? It could easily have been
so. There are times in the life of
a Christian when mere “food” is
a matter of smallest moment!
How'ever, Jesus, seeing a fig tree,
approached it, as if in the hope
of finding fruit trereon; but up¬
on finding “nothing but leaves”,
pronounced a curse upon it and
left it to wither. When question¬
ed by Peter as to the meaning of
the incident, He replied that if
our faith is great enough, we
can do greater things than with¬
er a fig tree! (“The cursing of
the fig tree,” it may be added,
“has always been regarded as of
symbolic import, the tree being
in Christ’s mind an emblem of
the Jewish people, with a great
show of religion and no fruit
of godliness”—Bruce. With this
in mind, it is not at all difficult
to see how applicable the para-
able is to many of the so-called
followers of Christ today).
THE CLEANSING OF THE
TEMPLE
Mark 11.T5-18.
In Mark’s vivid account of the
cleansing of the temple, we are
made to see how sensitive the
soul of Jesus was to the desecra¬
tion of the house of God. He
simply could not bear to see the
temple exposed to the irreverent
traffic of the mercenary abomi¬
nations of the money-changers.
He therefore overthrew their
tables and cast them out. Hav¬
ing done this, Mark tells us that
He “taught” them the real sig¬
nificance and purpose of the
temple. It might be well for
churches today to read especial¬
ly verse 17 and ponder its mean¬
ing. Who is there to say that
there are not instances in which
we may be almost as far away
from the real mission of the
church as were the thoughtless
money-changers of the temple!
ANSWERING HIS CRITICS
Mark 11:27-33; 12:1-40.
In the above passage, we have
some of the most interesting dis¬
cussions that ever took place be¬
tween Jesus and the Jews at Jer¬
usalem. The chief point of the
issue was the matter of the au¬
thority of Jesus as an accredited
teacher—along with their burn-
ing desire to find some excuse
whereby they might put him to
death. As Dr. Robertson has
pointed out, “The Sanhedrin
were within their rights in chal¬
lenging the ecclesiastical and
scholastic (scribal) standing of
Jesus.” but they were not with¬
in their rights in their
attempt to do away with Him.
Nevertheless, the resourcefulness
of Jesus is readily seen in his
answers. Basing His human au-
v-* a t, _ • i ,
forerunner, John the Baptist,
He follows with counter ques¬
tions that completely silence His
critics. They were tense mo¬
ments both for the Jews and for
Jesus. In rapid succession He
disposed of the question con¬
cerning the paying of tribute to
Caesar, and the matter of the
resurrection (the pet question of
the Sadducees), together .with
the legal question asked "by a
Pharisaic iaywer; and then, aft¬
er putting to them the signi¬
ficant question concerning the
Messiah’s descent from David
and lordship over David, He
solemnly denounced both the
scribes and the Pharisees in fi¬
nal, stinging, public discourse:
“And in His teaching He said,
Beware of the scribes, which de¬
sire to walk in long robes, and
to have salutations in the mark-
I etplaces, and chief seats in the
synagogues, and chief places at
feasts: they which devour wid¬
ows’ houses, and for a pretense
make long prayers; these shall
receive greater condemnation.”
HIS VIEWS ON GIVING
Mark 12:41-44.
In the closing passage of our
lesson, Jesus sets forth for us
His views on giving. He reminds
us that the mite of the widow
can easily amount to more in
God’s sight than the gift of the
j gainst rich: “And the treasury, He sat down and over behold a-
; how the multitude cast money
i into the treasury: and many
j that were rich cast in much.
And there came a poor widow,
and she cast in two mites, which
j make a farthing. And He called
unto Him His disciples, and said
unto them, Verily I say unto you,
This poor widow cast in more
than all they which are cast¬
ing into the treasury: for they
all did cast in of their super¬
fluity; but she of her want did
cast in all that she had, even
all her living.”
Good make up, a local girl
suggests, is what makes a girl
look so good that the men don’t
think she needs it.
A neighboring editor pertinent¬
ly suggests that what this coun¬
try needs today is the author of
the Gettysburg Address to write
an income tax bill for the na¬
tion.
As we understand it, renegotia¬
tion of war contracts simply
means that after a war contract
has been let and the plants gets
into production the matter of
costs can be gone into, and if
the records show that a lower
price should be given the gov¬
ernment, the contract price is
: reduced until it is in line with
production costs. We do not
understand the objection to re¬
negotiation of war contracts. In
all fairness, it seems to us that
they should be renegotiated. No
one wants to see a private in¬
dustry destroyed because it has
taken a contract at too low a
figure, and no one is willing that
private industry makes long pro
