The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965, April 13, 1944, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
PAGE TWO Dade County Times Trenton, Georgia Entered at the Postoffice at Trenton Georgia, as sec¬ ond class mail matter. ELBERT FORESTER Editor and Publisher MEMBER GEORGIA PRESS association SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) 12 Months $1.50 6 Months 75c 3 Months 50c Advertising rates furnished up¬ on application. Legal advertise¬ ments payable in advance. Parties writing to the paper for publication are requested to fur¬ nish their names, otherwise the communication will not be pub¬ lished. It will be withheld on re¬ quest, but the name must be given. __ All communications and news items are received for re-edited, publica¬ tion subject to being Such re-written and changed. are printed as a matter of news and do not necessarily reflect the views or ideas of The Times. THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1944. hum ............................................. mm ........... 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. - 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- AT FIRST SIGN OF A use 666 666 TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS ATTENTION FARMERS Paints - Roofing - Bridles - Check Lines - Cement - Farm Tools * * * * Chattanooga Hardware Company 2615 South Broad Street Chattanooga, Tennessee Ttiur graham GRAHAM HN. ~1~ SupQ/t, _ .004 Of A*» Thin, DOUBLE EDGE SEE GRAHAM BLADE YOUR CO. LOCAL 1275 MARKET STREET DEALER CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE This is all I have to tell— So hang up your phone and hat And meet me here in HELL! The Times, $1.50! Service Complete In Every Detail We honor Mutual Savings, Family Reserve, Emergency Aid Burial Policies and ALL insurance policies in Geor¬ gia. 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