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Dade County Times
Trenton, Georgia
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THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1944
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Production Above
Price
Government price fixing poli¬
cies are blamed for wide fluc¬
tuations in farm income, both
as between products and dif¬
ferent regions of the country.
Income from some products has
soared, while income from
others has risen only slightly.
Costs of producing all farm pro¬
ducts have shown large in¬
creases.
But the farmer has worked
long hours and kept up produc¬
tion under handicaps and in¬
equalities which would have
been considered ruinous to far
less essential war activity. The
American farmer does not plan
his total productive effort on a
wage and hour basis—he still
produces as an independent
citizen who is trying to save his
independent way of living even
if he has to work longer and
make less than those who pro¬
duce only for “price.”
Up In Front
No industry is more alive
to the need for progressive post¬
war policies than is railroading,
judged by the advertising the
nation’s railroads are running
which pictures the many con¬
veniences planned for passen¬
gers after the war.
It is easy to see that the rail¬
roads intend to do everything in
their power to make transpor¬
tation by rail as efficient and
pleasurable as possible.
They intend to develop their
particular field of transporta¬
tion to the maximum in order
to render the greates public
service. Main line trains will
move faster and more frequent¬
ly. More comforts and luxuries
will be provided in sleeping car
accomodations. Express and
freight traffic will undoubtedly
be speeded up, and constantly
increasing attention will be
given to the special needs of
shippers and travelers.
Railways have done a magni¬
ficent war job. In fact, they
have done what the pessimists
at the outsent of the present
hostilities said could not be
done. They are facing the chal¬
lenge of the future with the
same determination to render
superlative service with which
they faced the challenge of the
war.
There is no reason to suppose
or assume that the railroads
will not be in the front line of
progress in any matters relat¬
ing to efficiency and conven¬
iences for the traveling and
shipping public in the trans¬
portation field.
Big Dog Eats
Little Dog
One of the prominent papers
of the nation wffiich has always
believed in municipal owner¬
ship of electric power, now
comes out “flat footed” in op¬
position to a program for one
of the greatest Federal power
projects to take over a local
private electric company. It
bses its objective on wo grounds:
(1) That thousands of local
stock and bond holders would
not be adequately protected;
and (2) that it does not want to
see the Federal government get
a further grip on the affairs of
the state.
A lot of good people in sanc¬
tioning a city going into the
electric business and putting
private citizens out of that line
COUNTY TIMES: TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, THURSDAY, APRIL 2 7, 1944.
THE DADE
of industry, have overlooked the
principle involved, namely, that
you cannot have free industry
and socialized industry at the
same time. The socialized in¬
dustry, with all the taxing pow¬
er and authority of government
behind it, once it is given a
foothold, is bound to absorb the
free industry.
So those who favored local
communities driving private
citizens out of the electric in¬
dustry (which is simply social¬
ism on a small scale) are now
seeing the logical result of that
experiment, namely, the exten¬
sion of the socialistic idea to
larger and larger segments of
the electric industry. Finally,
the same political philosophy
that would destroy the private
electric business will reach out
to eliminate other fields of pri¬
vate endeavor.
From municipal socialism
which destroys local private en¬
terprise, it is but a step to na¬
tional socialism which destroys
municipal independence.
The People
Understand
Information recently released
on the people’s attitude toward
political medicine, by the Na¬
tional Physicians Committee
for the Extension of Medical
Service, based on data compiled
by the Opinion Research Cor¬
poration of Princeton, New
Jersey, is the most comprehen¬
sive survey of opinion on medi¬
cal care ever made in the Unit¬
ed States.
The answers given to the
questions asked as to Federal
control of medicine and hospi¬
talization, indicate a remarkable
understanding of the issue by a
majority of citizens, and their
opposition to plans which would
establish compulsory rules and
taxes relating to medical care,
which the individual would have
tocomply with whether or not
he so desired.
On the other hand, the great
majority of persons thought
that something could be done
to make it easier for people to
pay doctor and hospital bills,
and favored pre-payment plans
to provide such service.
It is evident from the answers
that the American people do
not want the national govern¬
ment meddling in the vital field
of medical service, and that
they believe in our effective
system of personalized medical
care. Also, it is evident that
they know about and desire a
method for the pre-payment of
medical care costs. This demand
must be met.
The need is for movement
forward on all fronts by all
forces to extend to all the peo¬
ple who so desire the benefits
that are accruing to approxi¬
mately 25,000,000 through vol¬
untary plans and methods now
In operation for pre-payment
of medical and hospital ser¬
vice.
Coal Mining
Up To Date
Most people think of coal
mining as a pick and shovel
operation. As a matter of fact,
modern methods and devices
have revolutionized coal min¬
ing. Air conditioning, mechani¬
cal loading and hauling, and
the safety of battery-stored
electricity for power head a list
of many beneficial changes.
In a modern bituminous coal
mine, raw coal becomes a fac¬
tory product, tailor made to
meet today’s numerous, strict
customer requirements.
“ELEANOR FLIES AGAIN”
(Composed by an American flier risking his life daily in the
South Pacific and published in the February 23, 1944 issue of The
Jackson (Miss.) Daily News).
Call off the bombing for today
Wheel out any Army ship
Hold up the war, so Eleanor
Can take another trip.
Immobilize a fighting plane
Fetch oil and gas galore
For this old gal is off again
To some enchanted shore.
For twenty thousand miles she goes
To have her weekly fling
And rub her nose against the nose
Of some damned Zulu King.
Tw’as by design and not by luck
She chose this distant shore
The only place she hadn’t stuck
Her darned old nose before.
Now having rubbed the royal nose
She crossed another sea
To scare the natives, I suppose
Or w r atch them plant a tree.
This happy thought occurred to me
As homeward bound she sped
Why couldn’t they have shipped the tree
And planted her instead?
Menace to Unions
Recognized
When the United Mine Work¬
ers struck last year, not a few
people thought that one of their
objectives was eventual govern¬
ment ownership and national¬
ization of the coal mines. Either
that was not their desire, or
their experience with wartime
government control of the
mines has caused a change of
heart, if one is to go by the
comment in the United Mine
Workers’ Journal of January 15,
which says:
“The period of governmental
operation of the coal mines
through which we are now
passing, should be a lesson to
American coal miners, as well
as all American workmen, that
the best interest of the Ameri¬
can worker does not lie in gov¬
ernment operation of industry.
It has been demonstrated over
and over again in every coun¬
try in the world where govern¬
mental operation has super¬
seded private enterprise, or
through outright ownership or
complete supervision, that gov¬
ernmental methods invariably
constitute an onslaught against
established shop practices and
the breaking down of customs
established by long years of col¬
lective bargaining.”
It is fortunate for labor and
our country that editors of the
labor press are at last voicing
the danger to liberty that faces
not only the union worker, but
every American citizen in every
encroachment of government
into the field of business ac¬
tivity.
After the coal is blasted and
loaded it goes by train up a
slope to a rotary dump which
automatically empties the cars.
It then goes to the “tipple” or
processing plant which is really
a modern coal factory where
coal is sorted, blended, and
laundered. Impurities are dis¬
posed of and the clean, washed
coal is oil treated to eliminate
dust. Various sizes are blended to
make possible delivery of any
required mixture to home or
industry.
From its fifty-million-year
resting place to the railroad car,
coal is hardly touched by hand
in the modern bituminous mine.
Machinery has done most of the
work and taken the ancient,
back-breaking toil out of min¬
ing. This is how American
mines, with fewer men, have
produced record-breaking quan¬
tities of coal to meet every war
need.
Help Bell Aircraft
Corporation Build
Georgia Super-
Bombers
WANTED—
IMMEDIATELY
Men and Women with
Drafting experience or
training. Knowledge of de¬
scriptive geometry (3- di¬
mensional drawing) to
train for aircraft lofting.
Persons now employed in
essential industry need not
apply. Company has hous¬
ing department to assist
workers in suitable living
quarters.
Apply to UNITED STATES
EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
of War Manpower Com¬
mission in ROSSVTLLE,
GA., 105 Chickamauga Ave.
And You’re Only Asked lo Buy War Bonds
What Other Editors Are Saying
IN THE SPRING
Some call it spring fever . . .
few admit it’s just plain laziness
. . . whatever it is we have it in
its most acute form . . . ex¬
hausted from yawning before 8
a. m. . . . get mail from P. O.
and manage to get through same
. . . too much free publicity ma¬
terial as usual . . . effort of
reaching for wastebasket so
many times not help . . . should
go out and check up on several
news items . . . books need at¬
tention . . . countless changes of
addresses . . . can’t decide which
to do first ... do nothing . . .
put paper in typewriter . . . note
new ribbon needed . . . consider
merits of ribbon-putting-in . . .
unable to cope with situation so
read papers ... go home where
midday meal is passed up in fav¬
or of sleeping . . . manage to re¬
turn to office where practically
same scenes are enacted until
mercifully released by clock.
You name it—we have it.—
Fort Valley Leader Tribune.
TO ERR IS HUMAN
American Troop carrier planes
are shot down off the Sicilian
coast by our own naval gunners.
An American destroyer is shell¬
ed by mistake off a Marshalls
atoll. Infantrymen at Cassino
suffer when their own artillery
bombard that town. Ernie Pyle
tells how an American “Long
Tom” (155 mm. cannon) shot
from the sky one of our own
Cub observation planes.
Tragic mistakes, yes, but in
the larger sense, unavoidable
ones.
A business man in the quiet
of his office is apt to err, and
often does. At least, editors do.
How easy it is to understand
how, in the heat of battle when
it’s safter to shoot first and ask
questions later, men can err—
tragic though those errors may
be.
It has long ben an axiom of
warfare that the infantry fear
only two things—God and their
own artillery.— Cobb County
Times.
“You had better pay off all
private debts during this period
of w r ar prosperity. By the time
the war is over, your share of
the nation debt will be as much
as or more than you can afford
to owe.”—Olin Miller in The
Atlanta Journal.
JAP cheerleader Tojo held a
pep rally at his house in Tokyo
the other day. He and the Ger¬
man and Italian ambassadors
got together and issued a state¬
ment declaring that everything
still was hunky-dorey with the
Japs and Germans. The Italians
were conveniently forgotten. —
The Dalton News.
A news story with a London
dateline states that arrange¬
ments have been completed for
the military occupation of Ger¬
many. Great Britain and the
United States will control in the
area occupied by their armies
and Russia will govern the ter¬
ritory occupied by Red armies.
The complete defeat of Ger¬
many is all that stands in the
way of putting these plans in¬
to operation— The DeKalb Coun¬
ty (Ala.) Times.
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ingredients are already dis¬
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easing the pain. It also
soothes nerve tension due
to the pain. Use only as
directed. lCc, 30c, t>Cc.
PASS THE HAT!
A friend from a city in an ad¬
joining state, with several spare
A Book tickets and a longing to
spend a w r orkless Saturday in the
country, told this amazing
story today:
On his way through his home
towm about 8:30 A. M., he saw
two young women, two men and
an attractive little girl of about
six getting into a nice auto.
They passed him out about the
city limits.
On rriving at the next town
some 15 miles away he heard
open-air singing. It proved to
be this little girl, one of the
men and the two women. After
a whirlwind of singing and a
fiery sermonette, all of which
took no more than ten or twelve
minutes, the little girl passed
the hat to a large group of list¬
eners. One of the women an¬
nounced the collection as
$19.90. A small boy, wanting to
make it even money, chipped
in with another dime.
It was then that the other
man of the group pushed for¬
ward from the outer rim of the
crowd to announce that he had
already donated a quarter, but
that he would give another dol¬
lar bill if ten other people
would match it. It worked.
Next the winsome little girl
thrilled the crowd with a vocal
solo. This same man begged
pardon for butting in, but sug¬
gested that one of the “ladies”
pass the hat for the Little Miss.
Coin and dollar bills again met
the challenge, and the little
girl’s “take” must have equaled
the first two collections.
The street evangelists then
bowed out quickly. My friend,
just for curiosity, trailed them
to eight other town, and the
procedure and net cash results
were similar. Or around 500 for
the day.
Back home, it took him about
a week to find out that i
the
mother of the winsome little
girl was a grass widow and liv¬
ed out of wedlock with one of
the men, while the other couple
lived together under the same
roof but were not married
Gullible cusses, aren’t they?
—From The Oiler.
Beware of any man who ad¬
vocates peace merely to bring
the war to a close. That is simp¬
ly postponing the fighting for a
rest period and to manufacture
even more deadly weapons for
unborn children to wage still a
more horrible war than the pres¬
ent one. Remember the familiar
asying following the other war:
"We should have finished the
job.”— The Fort Payne {Ala.)
Journal.
Speak the truth by all means;
be bold and fearless in your re¬
buke of error, and in your keen¬
er rebuke of wrong doing; but
be human, and loving, and gen¬
tle, and brotherly the while.”_
W. M. Punshon.
When Johnny or Mary comes
home with a sensational story
about being mistreated at school
you had better check up with
the teacher the truthfulness of
the yarn before you burn up
the atmosphere with your lan-
guage or assign the whole school
system to the bow-wows. Teach¬
ers do sometimes make mistakes
and punish the wrong youngs¬
ter (parents of more than one
child do the same thing) but
I ninety-nine times out of a
hundred they get the right
youngster any they deserve
more than they received_
North Georgia Tribune.
TOMORROW’S SUN
By J. C. WILSON
Newspaper Features, Inc
Georgia’s historic document,
known as the State Constitu¬
tion, will hardly be recognizable
when Governor Arnall’s Con¬
stitutional CommisslWi gets
through revising the 67-year old
instrument and eliminating
some of its out-moded provis¬
ions. The State Constitution was
first adopted in 1777 and under¬
went a more or less complete
revision 100 years later in 1877.
Since that time the document
has been amended so many
times that the best constitution¬
al lawyers in the state admit
that they are confused by its
complexities and ambiguities.
All last week leading state and
national constitutional authori¬
ties sat in conference at the
State Capitol and adjourned to
an indefinite date after recom¬
mending various important
changes in the present docu¬
ment. Chief changes advocated
were: Elimination of the pro¬
vision allocating all revenue
from taxes on alcoholic bever¬
ages to the common schools,
abolition of present state school
districts, provision for partial
“home rule” by counties, revis¬
ion of state primary election
laws, elimination of a 110-year
old clause relieving the Georgia
Railroad from payment of ad
valorem taxes and revision of
the statutes governing proced¬
ure of all courts. Several other
Governors have tried to redraft
the Constitution but none have
ever quite succeeded, perhaps
due to the fact that they did not
give it the thought and energy
of Governor Arnall and were
not as fortunate in their selec¬
tion of a Constitutional Com¬
mission. In addition to the best
state authorities available, the
Governor called on such nation¬
ally known figures as Congress¬
man Hatton Sumners, of Texas,
chairman of the House Judici¬
ary Committee; Frank Bane, of
Chicago, director of the Council
of State *
Government; vV.
Brooke Graves, Philadelphia,
and Walter F. Dood, Chicago.
* *
NOTES: Don’t-‘-lie surprised
if Governor Arnall reconvenes
the Legislature to deal with the
school situation . . . The Georgia
Education Association adopted
a resolution 'l ist week asking
him to do that and the Gover¬
nor is vitally interested in the
welfare of the schools ... So
many many school teachers are
leaving for better paying jobs
that the situation is said to be
critical . . . Governor Arnall has
great confidence in the present
General Assembly and believes
that it would do something to
solve the situation . . . Prac¬
tically the entire Georgia dele¬
gation in Congress that visited
home folks during the Easter
recess expressed the opinoin
that Governor Dewey, of New
York, will be the Republican
nominee for President, and that
FDR will be nominated for a
fourth term and overwhelm¬
ingly re-elected . . . Commiss¬
ioner of Agriculture Tom Linder
is going ahead with postwar
plans to move Georgia’s perish¬
able fruits and vegetable pro¬
ducts to Eastern markets by air,
thus eliminating much loss and
spoilage . . . Senator Russell’s
insistence that the Government
provide hot lunches for school
children is greatly appreciated
by the stat P.-T. A. . . . Several
hot Congressional races will en¬
liven an otherwise dull politi¬
cal year . . . Senator George’s
opponent, a Wilkes County elec¬
trical appliance salesman, is
expected to withdraw from the
race at an early date . . . Get¬
ting no encouragement from
any quarter.
* *
It is always touching to see a
sweet young thing come into
the Tribune office to subscribe
for the Tribune to be sent to
her husband who is fight) • )
overseas, or for that matter is
on his way. Here is such a case:
Mrs. Claude Barnes knows her
husband enjoyed thp home pa¬
per while he was in the states,
and she knows he will enjoy it
more overseas, so she is send¬
ing it to him in care of the
postmaster, New York.
Naturally, a paper from home
gives news that the boys’ par¬
ents don’t write. These boys
want to read about who is mov¬
ing, who purchased what, land
sales at the court house, and
want ads—who has a stove for
sale and who lost a fox dog. No
doubt, the soldier when he re¬
ceives his home paper devours
every line, ads and all.
