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THE DADE COUNTY TIMES
Trenton, Georgia
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THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1944.
BREAKING UP INVASIONS
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
reveals that a German attempt to in¬
vade Great Britain in 1940 was smash¬
ed in continental ports before a “very
heavy concentration of troops and
ships” could put to sea.
The British Lader confirms an earli
er statement about about “the enemy’s
preparation for invasion in 1940“ and
that the Germans were “frustrated by
the Royal Air Force.” He made it clear
that enemy ships did not emerge from
ports but that many of them were sunk
and that the Nazis “changed their
minds.”
WHERE IS HITLER?
We see where some newspaper men
are wondering what happened to Adolf
Hitler who for many months has not
appeared in public or issued a state¬
ment on the course of the war.
From this fact some imaginative
brethren have concluded that Der
Fuehrer has lost his appeal to the peo¬
ple of Germany and that the German
army, a very realistic organization, is
gradually acquiring control of the
Reich.
A year or so ago there were similar
speculations based on the failure of
Hitler to appear on certain important
Nazi anniversaries. The report was
widely circulated that he had been kill¬
ed on the Russian front but, as
quent events prove, the stories were
erroneous.
The probability ,is that the present
speculation is equally erroneous.
MAY SHORTEN THE WAR
The British Ministry of Economic
Warfare says that five years of eco¬
nomic warfare and bombing may crip
pie the operational mobility of the
man armies this summer and
quently shorten the war.
The shortage of oil is said to
alrcadv affected traffic in Germany and
* *
recent military developments.
German-occupied areas are
ing less than half of the Reich’s oil re
quirements and the recent bombing
tacks upon oil plants have intensified
the shortage. While the Germans
expected to make strenuous efforts
repair refineries, Allied bombers will
continue to bomb the plants as fast as
they are put back into operation.
THE RUSSIANS KEEP FAITH
Some months ago we read the opin
ion of some “experts” that the Russians
would wait for the opening of the
ern front and then sit down and let
whip the Germans.
This idea, basically along the line
familiar German propaganda, seems
have had had no basis of fact, even
it did fool some Americans whose
red for Russia overbalances their
dinary judgement.
Now that the Russians have
ed their offensive moves against
Hitlerites the suspicion ought to
but it won’t. In a few weeks you
hear other suggestions that all is
well between the British and the
ericans, on one hand, and the
on the other.
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY,
FRENCH HELP ALLIES
While the news available from the
battle front in Normandy is confined
to the barest outlines, with an occasion¬
al dispatch describing the exploit of a
particular group, there are indications
that the French people have rendered
considerable assistance to the Anglo-!
American soldiers.
A special Allied communique
1y reported that German armored di¬
visions had been “seriously delayed”,
and that French resistance and sabo¬
tage in the rear of the German forces
reached such proportions in many re¬
gions that the enemv has been forced
to send “considerable forces against
the French who have risked their lives
to aid the invasion.
GOEBBELS FOOLS THE NAZIS
Dr. Joseph Goebbels, German Propa¬
ganda Minister, is using all his inge¬
nuity’ to persuade the people of the
Reich that the pilotless bomber has de¬
vastated much of England and the com¬
plete annihilation of the British Isles
awaits the use of neyv weapons which
Hitler has in his armory.
The German people have been skill¬
fully prepared to believe this nonsense.
For a long time the Nazi propagandists
have buoyed the hopes of their people
by boasting of secret weapons. Natural¬
ly, in the present period of adversity,
the German people are anxious to dis-
covr a miracle that will avert their final
defeat. Herr Goebbels is telling them
that the robot bomber is such a miracle.
Obviously, if Dr. Goebbels can per¬
suade his people to believe his exag¬
gerations, he will not have to explain
the retreats in Italy and Finland, or the
dangerous situation that is developing
in Normandy. Moreover, he will not be
bothered by Russian offensive in the
East.
BLOOD, BONDS AND FREEDOM
The nation that celebrated the Dec¬
laration of Independence Tuesday
should not forget that it is worth only
what our fighting men make it mean
as they battle the enemies of this re¬
public.
No words, written by eminent men
of the past, give us liberty or guarantee
us against becoming the serfs of bar¬
baric foes. Neither pious proclamation
of principles nor patriotic enunciation
of loyalty and devotion maintain Am¬
erican independence in the year of 1944.
Once again the nation is in a period
of stress and strfe, exerting its full
strength to ay r ert defeat. In times like
these the only thing that counts is the
number, valor and service of brave men,
willing to risk their lives that the na¬
tion may survive.
The purchase of bonds represents the
loan of a part of your money to the
government in order that it may com¬
pel other men to protect what you pos¬
sess. The return that a home-front pa¬
triot receives is measured in per cent
interest but there is no monetary value
placed upon the risks that fighting men
take.
Certainly, a nation of people have no
right to enjoy the fruits of a great revo¬
lution if in the present era here is delay
and confusion in support of those on
the battlefront, whose efforts alone
make the famous declaration a reality.
The nation asks a loan from those at
home; it asks and, often receives, the
lives of its fighting sons. We do not
honor our soldiers and sailors and air¬
men by purchasing war bonds; we
merelv give a token to signify
that we are not traitors and ingrates.
Dade County boys, now overseas,
enjoy reading The Dade County Times
and we consider it a privilege to send
it to them.
There are any number of persons
who have elected themselves to be
spokesmen for the men in the armed
forces; our boys will speak for them¬
selves when they come home.
Buy More Bonds Than Before!
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CURRENT PICTURE OF
CAMPAIGN STRATEGIES
WASHINGTON — The average
curbstone opinion around here
seems to be that Mr. Roosevelt can
beat Governor Dewey, but anyone
who would wager more than a
nickel before September would be
far from a wise man.
No one who seeks truth pays much
attention to the polls any more, in
view of their record of straying far
off until the eve of election, then
hastily getting as right as possible.
Nor is the prospect that Mr. Roose¬
velt may campaign from the midst
of world peace dealings a conclusive
expectation, politically.
The facts of the matter to date
are that the Republicans are
holding back their campaign,
building up their file cases,
while the Democrats are having
inner difficulties getting their
campaign started, or even de¬
ciding its definite lines.
For instance, the Republicans said
not a revealing wor*’ when Demo¬
cratic National Chairman Hannegan
blamed Dewey for having held in
1940 that Mr. Roosevelt could not
produce 50,000 planes.
♦ * *
NO DENTAL OFFERED
No denial was offered, but the rec¬
ord will show that Dewey (Dallas,
Texas, May 27, 1940) charged the
government then did not have a plan
for such production, that the initial
Morgenthau conference with the in¬
dustry had been a fiasco, that if
50,000 planes were to be produced
the government would have to let
industry take the leadership in pro¬
duction, appropriate $7,000,000,000 as
a starter, raise 750,000 men for the
air corps.
In short he told exactly how the
production could be reached and
indeed government policy later fol¬
lowed that line, so Dewey, far
from being in the position to which
Hannegan assigned him, can claim
credit for having helped in the
achievement. (Look it up, if you
doubt me.)
This, no doubt, has been put in the
file cabinet for use when the Repub¬
licans open up.
♦ • *
ASKED FOR STATEMENTS
Recently, likewise, a press syndi¬
cate (not this one) and a broadcast¬
ing-movie campaign asked advance
statements from Republican Chair¬
man Spangler and Democratic
Chairman Hannegan outlining the is¬
sues of the campaign from their re¬
spective viewpoints, Spangler ac¬
cepted and prepared his outlines,
but Hannegan, after first accepting,
then delaying, finally declined both
invitations.
Both Hannegan and Senator Bark¬
ley have been offering outlines
which are supposed to be official,
but which are at variance, and per¬
haps this accounts for the declina¬
tion of a statement now for future
newspaper and radio use.
Hannegan did not mention the
new deal in his New York outline,
but presented the theory of Mr.
Roosevelt only as the indispensable
man internationally.
* • *
SOME BELATED MENTIONS
In later talks Hannegan be¬
latedly mentioned the new deal
(with which he is presumably
not well acquainted, being ac¬
counted a conservative St.
Louis politician without intense
ideological views), but Bark¬
ley has been running on the
straight new deal platform al¬
most entirely, saying Mr. Roose¬
velt is indispensable because of
social gains domestically accom¬
plished. This is the same new
deal tha.t Mr. Roosevelt an¬
nounced dead, in favor of “Dr.
Win - the - War” some months
back.
The CIO political action favors
the Barkley technique even if it re¬
quires some resurrection from the
dead, and is trying to enflame the
old new deal reform interest, telling
workers Mr. R. is indispensable to
their security (see their magazine
May 19 issue), wholly ignoring the
conservative coterie with which Mr.
Roosevelt is surrounded—the jaunty
anti-CIO-ers Jesse Jones, James
Byrnes, Judges Fred Vlnscn, Mar¬
vin Jones, Patterson, Forrestal,
Stimson, Hull and who not—in fact
all the men who are running the
war government.
To make it even more embar¬
rassing to these men or to the com¬
munists who are in the same camp
with them, Earl Browder is sharing
with the CIO's Hillman the leader¬
ship of the fourth term campaign.
♦ • •
HANNEGAN NEEDS TIME
A convincing outline for a
paign satisfactory to all
gentlemen will have to run the
gamut of the imagination from
most extreme radical to the
extreme conservative, or continue
be conducted on opposite planes,
with conflicting campaigns at
and at bottom, opposite stories
ing circulated by the
classes of men involved. A
meleon could not do it. Two
be required. Mr. Hannegan
tainly needs more time.
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SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON
TAKING POSSESSION OF CANAAN
Internationai Sunday School Lesson for July 9, 1944
GOLDEN TEXT: “Thou hast wholly followed the
Lord.”—Joshua 14:9.
Lesson Text: Joshua 14:6-14; J udges 1:20, 21.
Caleb, the son of Jephunneh,
belonged to the tribe of Judah,
which was also David’s tribe, and
Christ’s tribe. As the representa¬
tive of his tribe, he went with
the eleven representatives of the
other tribes to spy out the land
of Canaan and report on both
its resources and its facilities for
'resisting conquest.
After a forty-day investigation
the twelve returned, all bringing
enthusiastic reports of the pro¬
ductivity of the land, but an¬
nounced dhat the cities were
walled, the natives were physicial
giants, so towering and so strong
that, by comparison, the Israel¬
ites looked like grasshoppers.
Only two of the twelve, however,
believed that they could go over
an possess the land. They insist¬
ed that God warded to give
Canaan to Israel and would help
them, if they would not rebel
against him. The ringing chai-
enge of Caleb’s words, should
have been sufficient to persuade
the people, but, instead, to the
advice of the ten who were a-
fraid to go into Canaan and
thus condemned themselves to
destruction and their children to
another generation of wandering-
before entering the promised
and.
For their valiant and courage¬
ous stand before before the ang¬
er of the frenzied mob, God
promised Joshua and Caleb that
they should inherit certain por¬
tions of the land of Canaan.
During the rest of his days,
Caleb served his assistaant to
Joshua, Moses’ successor. He ac¬
cepted Joshua’s leadership and
served him faithfully and loyal¬
ly. Caleb was a great joy to
Joshua and to God because he
“wholly followed the Lord.”
After the additional forty
years of wandering and the five
years of conquest, Caleb, now
eighty-five years of age, makes
a request of Joshua for the land
which God and Moses had prom¬
ised him. To reinforce his re¬
quest, he recalls the promise that
God made through Moses to
Joshua and to him that day forty
five years before, that the land
on which his feet had trodden
should be his inheritance and
his children’s forever; he re¬
views the evidence of God’s con¬
tinued favor upon him as wit¬
nessed by his advanced age but
very vigorous years, even be¬
ing strong enough for a war of
conquest to defeat the inhabi¬
tants of the land promised him
—the strongest and fiercest in
the land. He did not shirk the
hard tasks, he rather courted
them. He believed that God. who
had been with him all through
the years would not forsake him
now, but would help him.
The Lesson
•SUCCESSES AND
We read that when Caleb fin¬
ished his speech, Johua blessed
him. He, too, remembered t? j
experiences recounted by Cai^
and recalled the promises mauc
to them, by Moses, and, im¬
mediately designated Hebron as
Caleb’s inheritance. Thus do we
see that God’s best gifts come
to those who trust, and work,
and wait.
There are several outstanding
characteristics of Caleb’s which
wo would do well to consider. He
was certainly courageous, daring
to speak the truth although he
was in the minority, remaining
resolute in the time of defeat,
awaiting his opportunity, and
courageous enough to attempt a
eemingly impossible task in his
old age.
Another quality which Caleb
possessed to an extreme degree
was loyalty. He was loyal to
his people, seeking their best in¬
terests always; he was loyal to
his superiors, Moses and Joshua,
carefully and efficiently exe¬
cuting every commission given
him: he was loyal to his God,
following him faithfully through
out his long life.
Caleb was also a man of in¬
tegrity. He could be trusted;
there were no question marks
about him, no compromise; he
was an honest man—honest with
his fellowmen, honest with God
and honest with himself.
Before we close this lesson, we
want to make one more obser¬
vation. Caleb credited his longe¬
vity to the fact that he had
“wholly followed the Lord.” This
is not surprising, for, as Joseph
Parker declared, “The religious
man ought to be strong. The re¬
ligious man is bound for the
heaven of God, for immortality.
Herein I would not hesitate to
preach the religion of Jesus
Christ in what may be
termed its spiritually sanitary
aspects. Christianity keeps the
soul clean, pure and healthy.”
Or, as Alexander McLaren said:
“Christianity with its self-re¬
straint and its exhortions to^’d,
and especially o the young’, u £
chaste and temperate and to
subdue the animal passions, has
a direct tendency to conserve
physical vigor; and Christianity,
by the inspiration that it im¬
parts, the stimulus that it gives
and he hopes that it permits us
to cherish, has a direct tendency
to keep alive in old age all the
best of the characteristics of
youth. One of the greatest and
most blessed of the character¬
istics of youth is the conscious¬
ness that the most of life lies
before us; and to a Christian
man, in any stage of his earth¬
ly life, that consciousness is
possible.”
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