The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965, September 07, 1944, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
PAGE TWO (The jpaitr Comttu Cimrs 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 communitrati'on will not be pub¬ lished It will be withheld on re¬ quest, but the name must be given. All communication and news items are recived for publica¬ tion subject to being re-edited, re-written and changed. Such are printed as a matter of news and do not necessarily reflect the views or ideas ‘of The Times. 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- THE DADE COUNTY TITLES: TRENTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 7, 194 4. 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 THE NE Paul Mal Jjr . By lon Released by Western Newspaper Union. 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.” The Times, $1.50! v W}' 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- sooooooooaco °oooe>ooGcosooooooocooo»ooaoooooacosooe An Ad in The Times Will Bring Results 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-