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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 7 1944
YOU CAN'T BOYCOTT
DISCUSSION BY THROWING
A SMOKE SCREEN AND
YELLING "INTOLERANT!"
We have, upon numerous
occasions, called attention to
various pressure groups, oper¬
ating for the purpose of secur¬
ing special advantages for
their members. That these
groups are active in political
campaigns is well known.
They have their leaders. They
make their plans and, upon oc¬
casions, they vote in accord¬
ance with the response that the
candidates give t otheir special
demands.
The groups include organized
labor, the formers of the nation,
Negroes, Jews, Catholics, Poles,
Italians, various other assort¬
ments of foreign born Ameri¬
cans and Protestant groups, as
well. The groups become in¬
terested in certain specific de¬
mands and do not hesitate to
mobolize political power a-
gainst candidates and those in
office who oppose what they
desire.
In view of this state of af¬
fairs, it is perfectly proper for a
candidate for office to discuss
the political affiliations of any,
or all, of the groups named. If
this ''injects a racial or relig¬
ious issue into political cam¬
found paign," the fault should be
with the groups which
demand special tratment. It is
the aggressive attitude of these
minority groups which threat¬
ens to divide the United States
into economic, racial and re¬
ligious minorities.
A few illustrations will dem¬
onstrate what we have inmind:
(1) Various Protestant groups,
as everybody knows, have at¬
tempted to exert political pres¬
sure in the interest of Prohibi¬
tion; (2) the Catholics as a
group were active in opposing
a bill to provide Federal funds
for education; (3) Negro groups
repeatedly put forward de¬
mands upon the political par¬
ties; (4) Polish-Americans are
now seeking to build up pres¬
sure in this country to persuade
the United States to oppose
Russia in connection with the
boundary between the two
countries; (5) organized labor
openly proscribes certain con
gressmen for failure to support
the program of labor; (6) farm¬
ers are rapidly organizing in
an effort to exert the same kind
of political pressure, and (7)
it is well known that big busi¬
ness interests attempt to cut
down politicians displeasing to
them.
In the light of these activities,
it will not do to set up a rule
that no candidate can discuss
or point to the organized acti¬
vity of minorities. To prohibit
such discussions, or to prevent
it on the ground that racial or
religious issues are taboo,
would be to destroy free speech
and, upon occasions, prevent
public discussions of issues
that relate to the general wel¬
fare of the people of the United
States.
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
ABOUT TO GET UNDERWAY
It is a bit too early to attempt
to size-up the approaching elec¬
tion from a national point of
view. The issues are not yet
clear, even if the possibility ex¬
ists that they will not become
any more definite.
The bid of President Roose¬
velt for a fourth term hinges up¬
on the war. Whether the strug¬
gle against Hitler ends before
the voting there seems little
chance that he will lose much
of the strength that comes to
him as a result of the intema-
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ticnal conflict.
Both President Roosevelt and
Governor Dewey will shortly
make public addresses of a
political nature. The will un¬
doubtedly tend to create differ¬
ences between their viewpoints
but, as near as we can judge,
no great head-on clash is in
the offing. the
The partisans behind
candidates will not be as court¬
eous to each- other as the prin¬
cipals. There will be name¬
calling and denunciation, with
charges and counter-charges.
It is all a part of the political
game but we have consider¬
able doubt over the net result
upon the voting.
The soldier vote is a factor to
be considered although nobody
has any idea as to the number
of ballots that will be cast over¬
seas. The general opinion, we
believe, is that the President
will have a decided edge on
his opponent in the soldier vote.
Question of foreign policy
will inevitably effect many do¬
mestic voters, especially those
who have strong ties to other
lands. So far, these minorities
have not clearly revealed any
decided drift toward either can¬
didate, but any day some de¬
termination, affecting their na¬
tive lands, may throw them one
way or the other.
There is much interest in the
effect of an early peace with
Germany. Contrasting opinions
are expressed but it is hard to
see how the outcome will be
altered by such good fortune.
The continuation of the war a-
Panaorarja of Italy
The following poem, "Panorama of Italy", wes received
here recently by Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Brandon from their son, Pfc.
Spencer "Mote" Brandon, who is serving with the 304th Ground
Crew Squadron, "Somewhere in Italy" and requested that it be
published in The Dade County Times. The poem follows;
If were an artist, with nothing to do,
I'd paint a picture, a composite view
Of historic Italy, in which I'd show
Visions of contrast, the high and the low.
There'd be towerinq mountains, a deep blue sea.
Filthy brats yelling "Caramella" at me,
High-plumed horses and colorful carts,
Two-tone tresses on hustling tarts.
I'd show Napoleonic cops, the Carabinieri,
Dejected old women with too much to carry.
A dignified old gent with a Balboa beard,
Bare-bottomed bambinees, both ends smeared.
Castle and palace, opera house too,
Hotel on a mountain—marvelous view;
Homes made of wood, bricks and mud,
People covered with scabs, scurvy and crud.
Chapels and churches, great to behold,
Each a King's ransom, in glittering gold.
Poverty and want, some raving for food,
Picking through garbage, practically nude.
Stately cathedrals, with high-toned bells.
Covered shelters, with horrible smells;
Moulding catacombs, a place for the dead,
Noisy civilians clambering for bread,
Palatial villas with palm trees tall,
A stinking hotel, mere hole in the wall,
Tree fringed lawns, swept by the breeze,
Goats wading in tilth up to their knees.
II
Revealing statutes, all detail complete,
A sensual lass with sores on her feet.
Big breasted damsels, but never a bra,
Bumping against you; there ought to be a law.
Creeping boulevards, a spangled team,
Alley that wind like a dope fiend's dream.
Flowers blooming on the side of a hill,
A side-walk latrine, with privacy nil.
Two-by four shops with shelving all bare,
Gesturing merchants, arms waving in the air.
Narrow-gage sidewalk, more like a shelf,
Butt-puffing youngster, a scratching himself.
Lumbering carts, hogging the road,
Nondescript trucks, frequently towed.
Diminutive donkeys, loaded for bear,
Horse-drawn taxis, seeking a fare.
Determined pedestrains, courting disaster
Walking in gutters where movement is faster.
Italian drivers, all accident-bound,
Weaving and twistinq to cover the ground.
Homemade brooms—weeds tied to a stick,
Used on the streets to clean off the brick.
Bicycles and pushcarts blocking your path,
Street corner politicians, needing a bath.
Barbers galore, with manners quite child, mild,
Prolific women, all heavy with
H-. DUCE'S secret weapon, kids by the score,
Caused by his bonus which is no more.
Arrogant wretches, picking up snipes,
Miniature Fiats of various types.
Young street singer, hand-organ tune,
Shoe shining boys, a sidewalk saloon.
A beauteous maiden, a smile on her face,
With a breath of garlic, fouling the place.
Listless housewife, no shoes on her feet,
Washing and cooking right out in the street,
The family wash of tattle-tale gray
Hangs from the balcony, blocking the way.
Native coffee—God! what a mixture!
Tiled bathrooms with one extra fixture.
Families dining from one common bowl
Next toa fish store, a horrible hole.
Italian zoot-suiters, all flashily dressed,
Barefooted beggars, looking depressed.
Mud-smeared children clustering about,
Filling their jugs from a community spout,
A dutiful mother, with a look of dispair, *
Picking the lice from her small daughter's hair.
Capable craftsmen skilled in the art,
Decrepit old shacks falling apart.
Intricate needlework out on display.
Surrounded by filth, rot and decay.
Elegant caskets, carried out by hand,
odorous factories, where leather is tanned.
A shoemaker's shop—a black market store,
Crawling with vermin, no screen on the door.
I've neglected the War scars, visible yet.
But those are the things I v/ant to forget.
I've tried to describe the things that'I've seen,
Panaorama of Italy, the brown and the green.
I'm glad I came, but darned anxious to go.
Give it back to the notives. I'm ready to blow.
Japan has some effect
upon the general situation.
There is much discussion of
various groups, such as the
Negro vote, the labor vote, the
farm vote, and so on. Conflict¬
ing claims naturally come from
rival camps but, in our opinion,
the most definite indication, at
this time, relates to the labor
vote, which seems to be favor¬
able to the President.
The Republican leaders ex¬
pect to secure strong backing
in agricultural sections, par¬
ticularly in the West and Mid¬
west and they assert that the
New Deal has lost much of its
appeal to Negroes. Preliminary
surveys indicate sorie basis for
G. O. P. confidence in regards
to these classes.
It is necessary, in connection
with the coming election, to
consider the great personal fol¬
lowing that Mr. Roosevelt has
amassed. He is far and above
his party in political strength.
The record since 1932 decon-
strates his unusual appeal to A-
mericans and his uncanny un¬
derstanding of popular senti¬
ment.
In the end the election may
well turn on the personal popu¬
larity of the two contenders, ra¬
ther than specific issues. This
is what the President would un¬
doubtedly prefer, feeling that
the voters know him and his
record better than Mr. Dewey
and what he has accomplished.
The Republican candidate is
aware of this and is determined
to project his personality and
principles on the public mind.
News
Behin
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UNEMPLOYED BILL LACKS
WASHINGTON.—The left wing po¬
litical aggressors (the Pepper-Tru-
man-Hillman-CIO crowd) tried to
find Mr. Roosevelt for leadership
and support when their Murray-Kil-
gore bill and its $35-a-week federal
unemployment pension for war
workers was sinking to defeat in the
senate.
He was nowhere to be located—on
that subject at that time. He was
traveling, or he was busy, or tele¬
phone connections were busy. They
never got him. At least so they now
say in private.
Their story leaves the burden for
promoting that unpopular notion of
a greater relief for high salaried war
workers than soldiers will get, upon
the drooped shoulders of Senator
Truman, the vice presidential candi¬
date. Vice presidential candidates
and vice presidents exist chiefly to
take blame (see career of Vice Pres¬
ident Wallace).
It is difficult to believe a fresh
vice presidential candidate
would take such responsibility of
fostering such legislation with¬
out orders from the top, but Tru¬
man is being quoted in the usual
off-the-record way that always
leaks out, to the effect that he
alone was responsible.
Whatever Mr. Roosevelt now says
or whatever is done, the Murray-Kil-
gore bill, accordingly, is doomed to
fate worse than death also in the
house.
The ways and means chairman,
Mr. Doughton, will not take it, and
yet he has been in no hurry about
the George substitute bill which
would make the existing social se¬
curity set-up take care of postwar
unemployment through state action
(maximum payment about $18 a
week, average $13 and $14).
Less and less publicity is attend¬
ing this major issue, probably be¬
cause it will split the administra¬
tion right down the middle, if it is
pressed.
BYRNES MAY RETIRE
War Economic Administrator Jim¬
my Byrnes may not have told the
Doughton committee in executive
session that he was quitting his right-
hand job to the President in anger,
as has been reported by one news-
paper. Other papers did not pick up
that possibly apocrypha] story be¬
cause they could not fully confirm it.
His hearers seem agreed Byrnes
at least said he would not be the
postwar demobilizer although he now
has that title by presidential award,
and he sharply opposed the Murray-
Kilgore bill.
Also, a South Carolina news¬
man, friendly to Byrnes, earlier
wrote for their native state pa¬
pers that he would quit all his
righthanding for the White
House January 1, and retire to
private law practice, an amaz¬
ing suggestion for a man who
relinquished a life term on the
Supreme bench to be of war
service to the President.
Byrnes received personal treat¬
ment at the Chicago convention
which has not yet been publicly ap¬
preciated. He went to Chicago with
more votes than anyone else had
for the vice presidential nomination,
including Wallace. Mayor Ed Kelly
was privately for him. Boss Hague
was willing, but Flynn was doubtful.
In the midst of promotion work
for him (and he would have been
nominated, in my opinion), sud¬
denly withdrew.
Observers blamed CIO’s Hillman
and his related Negro group, whose
policy was that no Southerner could
be chosen. It is hardly conceivable
to me that Byrnes would have re¬
tired without instructions from the
only man who is his boss.
Thus is the way of the new
aggressors in politics, the CIO-
Hillman leadership, meeting in¬
ner defeat within the party of its
choice. Indeed, valid question
now is arising whether Hillman
can control the CIO, or whether
his overzealous - overfinanced
leadership may demoralize his
own union.
At Salt Lake City, CIO locals 65
Bauer and 872 Toele broke from the
Hillman leadership. Their members
resigned from CIO-PAC, announc¬
ing:
“We feel that regardless of be¬
longing to any committee, church,
union or other organization, no one
has the right to demand that we
vote the straight Democratic ticket.
This action frees us to work and
vote throughout the state for the
candidates we feel will best repre¬
sent us.”
A CIO worker In East Moline,
111., has complained I have
ted an injustice to CIO members
by assuming Hillman was their lead-
-if™ “I had no more part * in having
Hillman and his committee appoint-
ed or paying them than you have
in appointing Supreme court judges, ’
and don't like them any better.”
Strong-arm John Lewis could not
control his mine workers' vote four
years ago. Wise old labor sage
Sam Gompers once said:
“No one can control the labor
vote.”
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13 SUNDAY SCHOOL |
LESSON
,, ;
DAVID ANOINTED KING
International Sunday School Lesson for September 10, 1944
GOLDEN TEXT: "Man looketh on the outward appearance bat
the Lord looketh on the heart."—I Samuel 16:7.
Lesson Te8xt: I Samuel 16:1-5, 11-18.
Our lesson today concerns Israel's great king, David. Prob¬
ably the three outstanding characters in the minds of subse¬
quent Jews were the historic figures of Moses, the liberator from
Egyptian bondage, Samuel, the great judge and prophet, and
David, the glorious king.
Shortly after the final break between the king, Samuel, the
latter received a commission from jehovah to annoint a new
ruler. This alarmed the old prophet, who feared the punishment
of Saul, but Jehovah authorized him to perform his task under
the guise of offering a sacrifice.
Samuel proceeded to the town of Bethlehem, full of historic
associations with the Jewish people. Here Jacob's beloved Rach¬
el had died and not so long before had occurred the romance of
the Moabites Ruth and Boaz. Samuel called upon Jesse to at¬
tend the sacrifice and bring his sons. Jesse had alien blood in
his ancestry, for he was descended from Ruth, the Moabitess
and Rehab, the harlot of Jerocho. However, for three generations
his people were Jewish and that prevented any question of his
ancestry.
So, the sons of Jesse were exhibited to the prophet Samuel.
The first one attracted his attention but the divine message came
rejecting him: "Look not on his countenance, or on the height of
his stature, because I have rejected him: for ejhovah seeth not
as man seeth: for man looketh on the outward appearance but
Jehovah looketh upon the heart."
Seven sons were disapproved and Samuel inquired if there
were another, to find out that the youngest, David, was out car¬
ing for his father's flocks.
Then, David, the shepherd boy, came before the prophet
who realized that he was Jehovah's choice as Saul's successor,
whereupon he appointed him. David's career from then on be¬
comes very interesting.
He is summoned to the royal palace because of his skill as
a musician to soothe the troubled king. Jonathan, the king's son,
and Michal, the king's daughter, both love him. He has his en¬
counter with the Philistine giant, Goliath, and overcomes him,
becoming a national hero.
Saul becomes jealous and plots his death, only to be foiled
on different occasions, sometimes through the instrumentality
Q | children. David flees from the palace r to escape r the wrath
of the king and is a fugitive until Saul's death.
I Eventually, he ascends the throne, recognized as the king
I j srae j ^ great military leader, he wins the hearts of his peo- r
ple and extends their boundaries. Success and prosperity come
to him and his people.
David walked closed to Jehovah, being a man after his own
J'cart, save only in one great sin, that with Bathsheba, the wife of
Uriah, his captain, whom David had treacherously killed in bat¬
tle ‘o possess the woman. Very dramatic is the story of this epi¬
sode and the condemnation of the king by Nathan, the prophet,
followed by David's repentance and grief.
The close of David's life was rather tumultuous. Absalom,
his beloved son, headstrong and impetuous, causes him trouble
and eventually leads a rebellion against his father. Adonijah,
another son, does likewise.
Once David flees for his lile from the rdyal palace, mocked
at by some of his contemptuous subjects. As death drew near
the rivalry of two sons for the throne about to be vacated brought
unrest to his last few days. Solomon, son of Bathsheba, was se¬
lected by David to succeed himself.
The Lesson For Next Week
"THE KINGDOM STRONGLY ESTABLISHED"
The Next World
By W. C. SKAGGS
A friend of mine, anent my
political blurbs, suggested that
I lay a heap of that dawn, and
give some thought to the NEXT
WORLD. I told him I wasn't a
bit worried about that, and
I tried to talk about it I wouldn't
know what I was talking about,
and the matters was in the best
of hands, anyway.
For the water-drops fell upon
the mountain. The falling had
made individuals (selves) out of
them. "Oh," they cried, "how
shall we get back to the
ocean? Who will show us the
way?" Says one bright drop,
"Follow me. This is the way."
Says another bright drop, "Nay;
that way is wrong. Follow me.
Mine is the trueway."
Yet another brighter drop
said: "But they differ one with
the other. That proves that you
can trust neither. Follow me."
j And numbers followed him as
j other he led off Still in quadrature to the
two - other multitudes
fnlln™^ ~ rt i f Q j er
^ m an '
er and , still ., different direc-
flon . ^ach
others, ' drop sighed for the
j who they believed were
I being misled,
The first group formed a riv-
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I er called Pison, and it came
j truly back to the Ocean. The
other group formed rivers call-
ed respectively, Gihon, Euph-
rates, and Hiddikel; and all
these also came safely back to
the Ocean.
Then they askedthe Ocean:
Father, how is it that we are
all come back, when we took
various ways?" He replied, I
"Ye are all my children:
could not leave your safe re¬
turn in question. I provided a
hidden guarantee, Gravity, a
special working of my love that
should not fail to return you
ALL safely to my bosom. Enter
my beloved, and rest in me
awhile ere you go forth on new
vovages. Mingle completly
with one another now, loose
your self and be one with me.
Ye shall joyfully go forth o-
gain and again, ever returning
again to me, being drawn by
mv Love, which shall never
fail."
And some of the drops ha
fallen on rouah places; some
had fallen in dunghills; some
had traversed the foul intes¬
tines of snakes. But ALL r®
turned, and ALL were purified-
