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PAOE FOUR
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES
Trenton, Georgia
Entered at the Postofflce at Trenton, Georgia,
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ELBERT FORESTER
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THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1944.
THE INVASION AT HOME
Another invasion is under way.
It is going on in this country; here
in Trenton and Dade County.
However, it is our own patriotic peo¬
ple who are doing it. We are opening
our doors to those who invade our com¬
placency, our over-optimism that the
war soon will be over, to tell us that the
people at home must provide more am¬
munition. in the form of dollars, to
back up the men who are doing the
fighting. pocketbooks,
We are invading bank
accounts, safety deposit boxes, sugar
bowls and other favorite hiding places
for surplus cash. That money must go
into War Bonds!
Thee Fifth War Loan drive started
last week, and we have a long way to
go to reach our goal.
When you read this, when someone
reminds you that you should buy War
Bonds, remind yourself that the war is
not over. The actual invasion of France
means that the hardest fighting is just
beginning.
We do not know how many thous¬
ands—perhaps tens or hundreds of
thousands—of American lives will be
lost in the next three, six, nine or 12
months. Certainly, the invasion is no
picnic. the light of
The least we can do, in
what American men and women in uni¬
form are doing, is to support the war
effort by meeting our quota of War
Bonds.
Let’s do it in a hurry!
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SMALL NATIONS AND PEACE
It is easy to understand the desire of
the so-called small nations of the world
to have equal voice with larger nations
in all matters effecting world peace, de¬
spite their inability to carry an ap¬
preciable portion of the burden of
maintaining world order.
It is not so easy to understand the
necessity, however, of patiently pro¬
claiming our intention to be fair to
be fair to these smaller nations at the
present time. Their choice lies between
accepting Nazi Germany or the United
Nations and it ought not be be difficult
for them to make up their minds on the
basis of the record.
The League of Nations gave to small
nations equal voice with the large pow¬
ers. Thus Liberia cast a vote equal to
that of the United States. Regardless
of principles of liberty and freedom this
was nonsensical. It permitted smaller
nations to outvote the larger nations
upon the basis of sovereignty and
without regard to population or power.
If there is to be peace in the world,
at any time, it will exist solely because
the large nations of the world are will¬
ing to assume the responsibility of safe¬
guarding peace. No combination of
small powers will be able to provide
security and it is foolish to permit them
to occupy a position that might en¬
danger peace.
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“.4 LONG WAR”
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, World
War ace, says that ’‘this will be a long
war.” And that there is justification
for the belief held by many men over¬
seas that there isn’t enough patriotism
on the home front.
The Captain reminds Americans that
it is a privilege to buy a War Bond and
reminds the public that “it is going to
be asked to buy bonds in the Sixth,
Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth War
Loans.
TIMES: TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, THURSDAY. JUNE 22, 1944.
THE DADE COUNTY
UNITY IN THE REPUBLIC
While thousands of persons, includ¬
ing the Governors of thirty-four states
looked on. Governor Broughton, of
North Carolina, repsenting the South,
and Governor Saltonstal) of Massachus¬
etts, representing the North, shook
hands on the battlefield of Gettysburg
to symbolize the unity of forty-eight
American states.
The tableaux was appropriate, de¬
spite minor irrations which sometimes
attract unwarranted public attention.
Loyalty and unity prevade the Republic
with little trace of the bitter hatred that
prevailed less than eighty years ago.
Because the Union successfully with
stood the threat of secession and stands
stronger than ever among the nations
of the earth today does not mean, how¬
ever, that it is immune to the process
that sometime result in the dissoluion
of nations.
It is not disloyalty to suggest, even
-n f he midst of the present war, that
the future greatness of the country de¬
pends upon the wisdom and restraint of
a strong federal government which
must be willing to recognize and re¬
spect the inalienable rights of the peo¬
ple of the separate states.
To this end, it will be necessary for
the people of the United States, in the
course of the coming years, to delineate
and define the area in which Federal
authority shall be supreme. That is
necessary in order to meet the problems
of the present age is certain.
Just as apparent is the necessity for
definite restrictions upon the power ex¬
ercised by the central government.
There must be generous recognition of
the rights of the people to local self-
government through the instrumentali¬
ty of state and municipal governments.
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DIFFICULT
Two y o ut h s suffered superficial
wounds last week when unknown per¬
sons fired two shotgun blasts indis¬
criminately into a crowd leaving a soft
ball game at Nashivlle, Tennessee.
It is difficult to imagine the mental
condition of so-called human beings
who act with such indiscriminate im¬
becility.
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GENERALS
To offset the suggestion that the
American Army is top-heavy with gen-
rals. Representative Overton Brooks, of
Louisiana, points out that our Army has
more men to a general than any other
major force in the world.
Generals of the United States com¬
mand, on the average, 6,270 men. The
Italians come next with 5,100 men to
each general. The Germans have 5,000,
the British 2,528, the Japanese 2,400 and
the Chinese 1,000.
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“ZOOT SUITERS ” AGAIN
The “zoot-suiters” are reported in
Montreal, Canada, where police and
military authorities recently broke up
a score of fights which resulted from
attacks by “zoot-suiters” on soldiers
and sailors spending a week-end.
This reminds us of clashes which oc¬
curred in this country where the wear¬
ers of “zoot-suits” were manhandled.
Exactly what this fighting was about
has alwavs ' escaped us.
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BULLS ARE DANGEROUS
State troopers in New York were re¬
cently forced to kill an infuriated bull
which had gored two brothers to death
and seriously injured a neighbor who
attempted to round up their scattered
herd.
The men. owners of a dairy herd,
were found by troopers dead several
hundred yards from their dairy barn.
No one saw the unequal contest that
resulted in their deaths.
We report the tragedy as a warning
to everybody that bulls are dangerous
and liable to kill people. The bull-
criminal in the instant case had never
given any serious trouble before.
Buy a War Bond today in behalf of a
fighting man.
Post-war bargains will come to the
buyer wiio is patient.
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The truth, stuck to, would cut down
a lot of conversation.
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There are grown people who hardly
know wnat the inside of a dictionary
looks like.
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► ARE YOU A FRIEND OF THE ARMED FORCES? 4
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► By DR. W. S. HANSARD, Ider, Ala. 4
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Do you have relatives or friends
serving over seas? Then show your
patriotic colors by helping like a red-
blooded American in joining the liberal
minded, liberty loving pepole in buying
Bonds —bonds for the defense of our
great nation and the protection of the
best of our country’s youngest, most
fearless manhood. By your actions can
vou say with a clear conscience that
you are not intersted in this war and its
termination or that your contribution
will not do the job? If all were of that
sentiment we would be facing what
many nations are now suffering. Can
vou look in the face of any honest mo¬
ther or young wife and say “I’m not
interested?” If you can, there is a very
unjust and selfish motive, the truth of
which you would be embarassed to face
in a just court.
Did you ever give to the preacher ot¬
to your neighbor who lost his home by
fire or lost a mule or cow; did you ever
sympathize with other people in dis¬
tress; or did you ever need help in any
way yourself and receive assistance? If
vou have not had or observed disaster
in some form, rest assured sooner or
later you will have to face plenty to re¬
mind you of many duties you could
have performed.
I am sure no man or woman who has
the means or has reasonable intelli¬
gence would like to be looked upon as
being yellow or as being a strike sym¬
pathizer. When I refer to strikes, I
mean those who bolt or quit their jobs
of good pay as compared with the
money paid the soldiers—not mention¬
ing the disaster and death which the
service men face from home and relat-
tives as compared with the freedom of
those who walk out or sit down at the
request of a few un-American, goard-
gutted, sap-headed fools who would sit
idly by and see our boys continue to
suffer and die for the sake of gaining
YOUR STAKE IN THE FUTURE
Frxnklin Alexander —Philadelphia Bulletin
SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON
SSS1
SIMPLE LIVING
(Temperance Lesson)
International Sunday School Lesson for June 25,1944
GOLDEN TEXT: “But Daniel purposed in his heart
that he would not defile himself with the king’s
dainties, nor with the wine which he drink.
Daniel 1.8.
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The story
too familiar to be repeated here,
but the facts as related in the
first half of the book of Daniel
need to be emphasized particu¬
larly. Daniel, a young Hebrew
nobleman, had been carried cap¬
tive to Babylon along with a
group of young men of proved
intellectual ability and physical
perfection.
This company of choice youths
had been selected for service to
the king after a period of special
training. They were destined to
become scholars and teachers of
the culture and learning of Baby¬
lon and were to be attached to
the king’s court. To this end,
they were assigned to a daily
routine for three years, eating
‘the king’s meat ’ ani drinking
There were three young men
in the selected group who were
net altogether pleased with the
life confronting them. They were
Daniel, Hanamah, Ahshael and
Azariah. Daniel was evidently
the leader of the group. When
Daniel saw the unholy pagan
way of life he seemed destined
to live and that it involved giv¬
ing up the simple life which he
had been accustomed, he “pur¬
posed in his heart” that he would
refuse to defile himself with the
portion of the king’s meat to
drink the wine set before him.
The easier thing for Daniel to
have done was to do, as so many
people do today—accept the cus¬
toms of those into whose midst
one moves, and, in the words of
the aviom, “When in Rome, do
as Riome does.” However, Daniel
had convictions and he also pos¬
thing sessed about the courage to d<UY me _
these convictR Js, He
therefore requested that he be
exempt from the regimented
court life in the matter of food
and drink, appealing to the
“prince of the eunuchs.”
It required considerable per¬
suasion for Daniel to obtain per¬
mission to continue his simple
life. Only when Daniel proposed
a test of ten days to prove his
point was permission given. At
the end of the period, Daniel
and the two other Hebrew youths
who joined him in his request to
the king, were found to be
in better physical condition than
all the others and upon exami¬
nation mentally, they were con¬
sidered “ten times better than
all the magicians and enchant¬
ers that were in all his realm.”
Live simply! How quaint the
idea seems! The trend in Amer¬
ica today is definitely away from
simple living. One writer has de¬
clared, however, “Only the sim¬
ple livers are really free; the
others are more or less enslaved.
Perhaps the commonest form of
slavery caused by complicated
living is debt. Many a person,
used to a simple life, begins liv¬
ing beyond his means, borrows
money, and becomes little by
little enslaved by debt. He gave
up the simple life for — debt"
Many a person has been swept
away from the simple life into
a life more complicated by de¬
pendence upon commercialized
amusement for pleasure, upon
going somewhere for thrills, up¬
on needed luxuries which made
him “soft.” At the same time,
this trend is being increasingly
aided by business which profits
by our abandonment of the sim¬
ple life, especially the powerful
amusement, tobacco and liquor
businesses. The simple truth is
that these inerests and those
who share in their vast profits
have succeeded all too well in
luring Mr. and Mrs. America a-
way from the simple life.
Contrary to all beliefs, the
simple life is not drab and col-
rless, it is not unsocial living.
It is rather living life according
to the true naure of life as one
has come to know it. Thr Jneans
eating food which one knows to
be best for his body and drink¬
ing and eating nothing which he
knows to be valueless or hurt¬
ful. It means the cultivation of
the ability to enjoy God’s world
—the flowers, trees, birds, sky,
people and homes. It means the
committal of life to a worthy
purpose, living wholesomely,
helpfully and lovingly, using
one’s influence for the better¬
ment of those with whom one
comes in contact.
a few more unearned dollars. Indirectly
they are handing a weapon to the
worst enemies of our civilized nations,
and especially of our brave young, Am¬
erican men and boys, to help prolong
the suffering and disaster of our forces
as they risk their lives for all the allied
world. The devil himself will disinfect
his hands when he throws demons of
this class in the fire. May God have
mercy on such people!
Is it possible that we have some men
who could look unconcerned at a de¬
mon club his son while the youth tried
to defend the virtue of his innocent
mother or sister? We have, I am sorry
to say, a few who content themselves
while others do the job of financing the
most horrible war ever known to the
world. Can 1 look into the eyes of my
boys or my neighbor’s boys if they re¬
turn to tell of their hardships and hun¬
ger and tell them that I have saved a
few dollars by putting it up in order to
have something for them to spend when
1 am gone? No. If I can give them a
comfortable bed to sleep and rest on in¬
stead of a fox hole and a wholesome
meal at the table instead of food,
cans which they must eat while hiot/en
in the brush day after day, I will have
accomplished more for their future wel¬
fare than to leave them luxuries which
ihey have never learned to appreciate.
flunk of others as you would like
to be thought of and speed the day of
coming home for the boys in the armed
forces! I truly hope no American will
openly show by his not doing a man If s
part that he is not a good soldier.
you are religious and honest with all;
if you are politically inclined be a sport
and show our boys that you are doing
for them what they cannot do for them¬
selves. Don’t take time to offer excuses
when there is a duty to perform! W ill
you join me one-hundred percent in
backing our American soldiers?
