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Dade County Times
Trenton, Georgia
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THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1944.
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The Spirit That Wins
“Farmers know that the great¬
est catastrophe which can be¬
fall our war-torn nation is a
shortage of food. To this end we
pledge ourselves to the utmost
of our ability to produce food.
We shall not hesitate to work 80
hours a week. Our wives and
children will help us to plant
and harvest our crops, to feed
and milk our cows. The nation
at war need fear no strike by
farmers.” — Statement of the
Northwestern Dairy Conference.
Faith Defeats
Oppression
“Faith in human nature, in the
integrity and worthwhileness of
individual men and women, is
the necessary basis for free gov¬
ernment. Where it is absent,
fear rules the hearts of those
who have become strong enough
to impose their wills on others
and fear fashions for itself in¬
struments of oppression. It seeks
to justify itself on the plea that
people cannot be trusted, that
they are stupid and incapable
of self government. Such fear,
such distrust of people, found no
entry into the hearts and minds
of our Founding Fathers.”—
Commission on American Citi¬
zenship of The Catholic Univer¬
sity.
Patriotism in Reserve
Strikers recently tied up five
big Portland, Oregon, sawmills,
while the workers went into a
special meeting to discuss wage
demands.
What irony! If union officials
or the men had any interest in
the American soldiers at the
front waiting for supplies, they
would have held their meetings
to discuss wage demands after
working hours, and they would
have stayed at their jobs pro¬
ducing lumber, just as our arm¬
ed forces are staying at the
front and losing their lives in
order that workers at home may
draw high wages, enjoy family
life and enjoy the right to
strike.
Men sanctioning such work
stoppages should be ashamed to
show their faces in public.
Why Stop Half Way?
The administrator of the
Booneville Federal power project,
on authority given him by the
Secretary of the Interior and 16
Washington state public utility
districts, has offered the Puget
Sound Power and Light Com¬
pany $90,000,000 to get out of
business.
This would cost the state of
Washington one of its best tax-
paying assets in exchange for a
largely tax-exempt power sys¬
tem run by federal and PUD
politicians.
Will the next drive be for pub¬
lic ownership of farms irrigated
by water from tax-exempt Fed¬
eral power dams? Will the ad¬
vocates of state socialism sanc¬
tion private operation of farms
for “profit,” while driving pri¬
vate citizens out of the electric
business on the theory that “gov¬
ernment” should sell power “at
cost?”
A Surprise For
Adolph and Tojo
“One hundred octane” is the
commonly accepted name for an
aviation super-fuel now avail¬
able in large quantities only to
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES: THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1944.
Letter To The Editor
Following is a letter received
from Haston (Billy) Hibbs, in
; which he says he can’t disclose
where he is now located; how T -
ever, Billy says that he has been
! to the Marshall Islands. He also
sent a poem, “Emperor Hirohito
I Calls Up The Devil,” which poem
; we are publishing herewith:
i The letter follows:
l Hello Ebb:
How is life with you back
there. I hope this finds you able
to still kick about.
I’m sending you a poem that
I happened to find; thought!
you might want it to put in the
paper. I think it is very good.
I will be expecting to hear from
you telling me what you think;
of it.
This finds me doing O. K. and j
liking just fine. I have saw but
one or two boys from there in
a long time. Guess they are
making out all right.
I received a Dade glad paper to- it? j
day and was I to get i
I can keep up with what is .go¬
ing on around dear old Dade by
getting them. I’m hoping this
war will be over before long, so
all of us boys can get back home
and our friends.
Ebb, I can tell you this, but
that is ail. I have been to the
Marshall Islands. I can’t tell
anyone where I am or what I’m
doing, but can when this is over.
I am in the Fifth Amphibious
Force and wouldn’t trade it for
anything else.
Well, I’ll sign off for this time
and hope you can make this let¬
ter out. Hoping to hear from
you soon.
A Friend,
Billy Hibbs, S 1-C.
The poem follows:
Emperor Hirohito
Calls the Devil Up
Emperor Hirohito called the devil
Up on the phone the other day,
And this is only a summary
Of the things he had to say.
My Rising Sun seems to be set¬
ting,
The place I do not know,
But it looks like any minute,
I will be forced to give up my
show.
I was taking everything I want¬
ed,
The way I need not tell;
I started concentrating on the
world
About the time the Philippines
fell;
I took nearly everything in the
West Pacific,
Including Kiska and Attu,
And then I informed India and
China,
That my men were marching
through!
I bombed Pearl Harber in De¬
cember;
It was nineteen-hundred forty-
one,
To let the United States know
That the war with her had real¬
ly begun.
And now the U. S. A. is coming
after me,
A hundred million strong;
They are taking everything right
back—
They say that it was wrong.
They are sending ships after me,
All camouflaged and in disguise;
I do not know what to call them,
But they call them L. C. I.’s!
It looks as if I am finished
And I do not know just what to
do;
I thought before it was too late,
I’d get in touch with you.
I’m getting tired and weary,
All this I’m sure you must know;
there is no opportunity, private
enterprise dies and progress
ceases.
In spite of constant attack,
opportunity still exists in this
country. If it didn’t, individuals
would not now be planning for
the future. The coal industry is
an excellent example. Although
badgered by government regu¬
lations and socialistic tinkerers
to a dangerous degree, coal men
believe that coal has a bright
future and they are fighting to
make that future a reality. They
are planning to increase the ef¬
ficiency of coal by obtaining
complete combustion in equip¬
ment ranging from cabin heat¬
ers to large industrial furnaces;
“cradle to grave” household
stokers which take coal from
a bin and put the ashes into
containers or ashpits; coal-fired
locomotives able to operate for
hundreds of miles without stops
for refuel or water because of
more complete and smokeless
combustion; heaters and ranges
that don’t smoke or go out nights
and need but one kindling a
season, and scores of other pos¬
sible developments.
Plans of this character result
from individual opportunity
which can neither be torn down
nor streamlined without destroy-
| ing the freedom of the people.
the United Nations. The produc¬
tion of “100 octane" gasoline on
the enormous scale demanded
for today’s air war, is possible
only because the scientists, engi¬
neers, construction men and
process workers of the oil in¬
dustry and the contractors serv¬
ing it have labored mightily in
the last three years.
To gain some idea of how the
American oil industry has done
the “impossible” in fueling tens
of thousands of Allied planes,
facts recently released by a sin¬
gle United States oil Company,
the Standard of Indiana, are en¬
lightening. Since Pearl Harbor,
this one company, with its
thousands of workers, has turn¬
ed blue prints into operating
units which today are bringing
its production up to a point
where its plants alone will soon
be making enough 100 octane
gasoline to fuel a thousand-plane
raid on Berlin every other day.
That is an example of how A-
merican intiative and enterprise
throughout our country have set
a speed and production record
that Adolph and Tojo will never
be able to match.
OPA Procrastination
Penalizes Consumers
A group of retailers, represent¬
ing establishments as small as a
general store in a community of
900 persons to a chain of 1,609
outlets, recently protested a-
gainst continuance of the OPA’s
highest price line limitation.
This ruling has adversely affect¬
ed the distribution of certain
low cost apparel. Many stores
have been forced to drop neces¬
sary items of clothing simply
because their prices were frozen
below replacement costs, while
other stores, due to technicali¬
ties in the rules, were free to
raise prices.
Lew Hahn, general manager
of the National Retail Dry Goods
Association, in describing the
practical working of the highest
price line limitation, says: “By
limiting so-called popular-priced
stores to the highest price line
sold by them in March, 1942,
these stores are immediately eli¬
minated from competition in
higher brackets, and since the
majority of popular-priced stores
are low mark-up stores, the ten¬
dency is not to keep prices down
because of competition, but to
permit them to rise because of
restricted competition.”
Consumers pay the bill when¬
ever OPA procrastinates in cor¬
recting its errors.
Frank Discussion
Is Needed
Until very recently, a majori¬
ty of people gave little heed to
public spending. Everybody from
chambers of commerce to soap
box orators devoted a large
share of their time figuring out
how to get a bigger cut in Fed¬
eral handouts. The trend for
years has been toward bigger
and bigger peacetime Federal
budgets and more and more
debt. As war loomed on the
horizon, prosperity spread
through the land on the wings
of borrowed money.
Today the lid is off, with
hundred-billion-dollar budgets
and 50-billion-dollar deficits.
The country has borrowed its
way into an unprecedented war
boom. As a result, taxes are now
making people realize that the
government must collect money
as w r ell as spend It, and that it
must eliminate peacetime prodi¬
gality, the same as an individual.
Politicians, Republicans and
Democrats alike, have shied a-
way from a frank discussion of
the nation’s financial problem,
either because the pay envelope
of every wage earner is involved,
or because they honestly don’t
know the answers. That is in¬
excusable when the solvency of
the country and the savings of
every individual are at stake.
It is futile to claim that we
have done our “tax” best to
meet the cost of war. We have
not. If we had, we would not now
be riding the crest of individual
prosperity.
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Opportunity Survives #
Bad Medicine
Private enterprise is often
talked and written about as if
it were a structure of bricks and
mortar that could be torn down
and rebuilt at will.
Actually, the element that
keeps the material evidence of
private enterprise going is in¬
tangible. Underlying the fac¬
tories of our Pittsburgh and De-
troits is a thing of the spirit
that is as unchanging as time
itself. That intangible thing is
individual opportunity. Where
tory,
And charged to the Rising Sun!
They will make a model out of
Hitler and your kind,
All this you know by now;
So all succeeding generations
asking for peace,
Will stick to their vow.
Those Yanks will down every
plane and sink every ship
To the last submarine;
You will think that they have
.
started
A hell in Japan, the worst you’ve
seen!
When the Amphibious Forces
start landing there
With a splash and a bang,
You might as well punch out
both of your eyes,
For you’ve seen everything!
I have no place for your kind,
But as I see, they have called
your bluff;
I’ll try to fix a place for ail of
you
As anything will be good enough.
The Boys in Blue will get you;
I want to make my peace with
you,
So I’ll have a place to go!
So answer me right back,
As I’ll be w’aiting right here in
vain;
My country seems to be weak¬
ening, day by day,
And I cannot stand the strain!
THE DEVIL TAKES THE LINE
Everything that you have told
me,
I can assure you I already know,
And when those Yanks get
through with all of you.
There will be no more TOKYO!
You have lied to the entire
world,
This I can plainly see;
Ever since your henchmen were
asking for peace
Down in Washington, D. C.
You have been the world’s worst
traitor,
And you made a big mistake;
Instead of putting Yamamoto
in Washington,
Like you said that you would,
Why not bring him along with
you Premier, Tojo,
For neither are NO GOOD?
They have your number now
And every atrocious act you’ve
done,
Will go down in the pages of his-
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