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PAGE TWO ( *Uli£ Countij 'ZJimzi TRENTON, GEORGIA Entered at the Postoffice at Trenton, Ga., as second class mail. ELBERT FORESTER .................................. Editor CLYDE PATTERSON ...................... Associate Editor MEMBER GEORGIA PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 National Advertising Representative A > v .... P MERICAN RESS ssociATior: New York • Chicago • Detroit • Philadelphia SUBSCRIPTION RATES: IN ADVANCE: 12 Months, SI.50; 6 Months, 75c; 3 Months, 50c.____ Advertising rates furnished upon application. Legal Advertis- ments payable in advance. Parties writing to the paper for publication are reguested to fur¬ nish their names, otherwise the communication will not be pub¬ lished. It will be withheld on reguest, but the name must be given. All communication and news items are received for pub¬ lication 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, NOVEMBER 2, 1S44. How Would You Do It? The vital question of the present political campaign in which Governor Dewey and his spokesmen are pointing out how much better they would administer the government than the incumbency is: HOW WOULD YOU DO IT? The Republican candidate for the Presidency and the Vice Presidential candidate, Bricker, both took a shot on the same day at the system of taxation now employed. Governor Dewey went into some detail. He told of his purpose of abolishing taxes on small incomes. (He neglects to mention that the G. O. P.- led group in Congress overrode the Administration's effort to do this very thing). He elaborated some statistics to show how he would cut the taxes on mdidle-bracket income. Finally, he promised, by implication at least, that he would change and lower "income tax on incorporated business companies." This would, of course, include all the stupendous trusts and other aggregations of great wealth to use Theodore Roosevelt's phrase. Mr. Dewey spoke of the tax problem as if he had discovered it. Actually, the Administration has indicated a very clear post war program. Inevitably when a war is over, the tax structure takes note that when the current war expenditures cease, the taxes imposed by the combat necessities are reconsidered. In fact, a week before Dewey's talk, Vice President Wallace, speaking in Philadelphia, announced in connection with the projects of full employment that "it will be necessary to have considerable modification of the excess profit tax. The big job must be done by industry and we must give industry all the incentive we can." Every practical person realizes that the war has enormous¬ ly increased the necessary expenditures of the government. Just where the Republican candidate would go to find the income requisite to take care of the government's obligations, even omitting the huge debt incurred in the prosecution of the war, the Republican candidates fail to tell us. Governor Bricker, echoing a previous thought of his chief, figures that the result of the continuation of the tax polciy would "be the loss of representative government and free enterprise." Back in the pre-Pearl Harbor days, Governor Dewey decided that the same disaster would result from the enactment of the Lend-Lease Bill. Discounting the usual course of Republican candidates to promise the electorate the moon, with a galaxy of stars thrown in for good measure, in the event of their aspirations being ful filled, there is generally an effort to recognize popssibility or at least plausbility in their pledges. The present Republican aspirants for the high offices fee) no such limitation. They quote figures such as Mr. Dewey's statistics on unemployment without regard to the very definite estimates of such factual agencies as the Census Bureau. Mr Dewey boldly makes the statement that President Roosevelt ut terly failed to make preparation for the emeregency of wai when everybody in the United States is familiar with all the legislation achieved by the President, calculated to make us ready for the impending ordeal in the face of persistent and consistent Republican opposition. He assailed the administra¬ tion for having no plan for demobilizing the Army and getting the soldiers into civilian jobs in the face of the public announce ment of the Administration's program for carrying out those very’ objectives. By and large the two governors with the lofty ambitions give us merely spangled generalities and are discreetly and completely dumb when the $64 question is propounded: HOW WOULD YOU DO IT? Delinquency Exaggerated Juvenile delinquency is a matter of considerable concern to thinking Americans who have been disturbed by frequent reports of a decline in the behavior of young people under the stress of war. While we presume that there has been some increases in juvenile delinquency, largely due to disturbed conditions and the sudden increase of populations with resulting congestion, we doubt if there has been as great an increase as some people believe. Consequently, we are glad to report the observation of Judge Anna V. Levy, of New Orleans, who says that court rec¬ ords there show no increase in juvenile delinquency in New Orleans since the war began." The Judge reports conversations with judges in other states and says that she is convinced that "the estimated increase of 500 per cent in juvenile delinquency in the United States since the outbreak of war is exaggerated, except in certain thickly- populated centers." Victory Gardens for 1945 are desired, just in case something happens. THE DADE COUNTY TIMES: TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVE MBER 2, 1944. By PaU1.MaI.LON Released by Western Newspaper Union. NOVEL CAMPAIGN STARTED BY DEWEY WASHINGTON.—Governor is going about his campaign in novel way. His tactics seem to be to quiet and organize before he go. He has gone about it with er pains than any candidate in time. Apparently, he has spent ery minute since his nomination the task. Mr. Roosevelt's campaign been indirect and, on the wholly involved with war and developments. His role is mander-in-chief. When the cratic convention was directions, he was inspecting an ation plant on the West coast. It is impossible to contend war events, which he is leading, have no campaign effect, be¬ cause they may be a control¬ ling factor in whether he wins or loses. For instance, next logical jump from our recently achieved island strongholds in the Pacific is the Philippines. In fact, this is the only place to go except Japan itself. If General MacArthur should hap¬ pen to lead an invasion force back into Manila within the next three months, the reaction here would be favorable to Mr. Roosevelt’s chances. Victory in Europe, unless it hap¬ pened to be entirely a Russian break¬ through, also might have a profound campaign effect. On the international political side, the Bretton Woods conference has developed the controversial financial bank measure, which Mr. Roosevelt apparently is going to keep out the campaign by refraining from presenting it to congress until the January session after election. Mr. Hull is arranging a pre¬ liminary peace conference here the big powers, and my guess always has been that this will pre¬ pare the way for the President to go to Europe for a big peace confer¬ ence before November. Awaiting Developments. These developments alone may constitute his campaign, except that designate^ spokesmen like Senator Wagner and others may make speeches carrying the purely polit¬ ical campaign promises, outlining what the President is doing, saying what he proposes to do if elected. Dewey’s preparations, on the other hand, so far have been a methodical organization of his party as it has never been organized before while out of the White House. By every move, he has offered the contrast to one-man government. The moment the convention was over, he started on the ground in Chicago with roundups of national committeemen and women in groups of five or six. He not only conferred with, but he listened to every state chair¬ man as well. To them he said this campaign was a joint venture. Indeed, he gave Bricker more consideration then and later than a vice presidential can¬ didate usually gets. Returning to Albany, he started receiving state delegations of con¬ gressmen (without their state chair¬ men). He has heard Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu¬ setts, Connecticut separately so far. Those who attended these meet¬ ings said they were like lodge meet¬ ings. Dewey did not make a speech, but simply devoted the meeting to understanding and organization. His friends always have given him credit for exceptional skill in or¬ ganization. On his trip west, he called in the Pennsylvania state delegation at Pittsburgh, the Illinois delegation at Springfield, and is getting the 26 Re¬ publican governors into his organi¬ zational ring with his planned two- day meeting at St. Louis. After that, the Missouri delegation was brought in. This year with the war likely to break before election, with the peace unsettled, it is probable people may take the election more as a matter of course. Extremely light votes have appeared already in the pri¬ maries. In Idaho, at the height of the European invasion, candidates got no crowds and the voters could not be induced to come from farms and war factories and register. In North Dakota, the vote was light de¬ spite the warm senatorial contest. In Maryland, Democratic Senator Tyd- ings found unusually little applause given to a Roosevelt speaker at a Roosevelt pep rally. * • • Obviously, Dewey's game is to concentrate through his organization upon those 26 states which will give him the election hands down, if he can get them. During all this time, the usual campaign comments that daily emanate from a candidate have been avoided. When he went west, he had not even appointed a publicity mana¬ ger, the job being temporarily left to Harold Keller, deputy commis¬ sioner of commerce on leave from his state job, who also handled Dewey publicity at the convention. The Time*, $1.50! Notes and Comments When farms are mechanized what will become of farm labor? When the political bug bites a man he will do some unusual things. Americanism: Moving the bar room, drinks and jokes in¬ to the parlor. It takes brains, vision and perspiration to make any busi¬ ness grow. Frankly, we are prepared to consider a light job with a big salary. Useless Advice: When in ig¬ norance, or in doubt, keep your mouth shut. Few people turn down an in¬ vitation to a good meal, any¬ where, anytime. Civilians can win battles at home, by buying bonds and producing for war. A minority, it seems, is an organized group that tells the majority what it can do. You might as well begin to think up the things you have to be thankful about. Where one man injuries his health by overwork, a thousand injure it by underwork. There has been much talk a- bout the white-collar group but few increases in pay. Who remembers when mil¬ lions of people were interested in the wrestling champion? Nations are defended by men, not fortifications, and wars are won by men, not weapons. Anybody can have a good idea but it takes work and per¬ severance to make the idea click. This country has two tasks: to abolish war, if possible, and to abolish depressions, if pos¬ sible. Advice to workers: Few em- polyers fire a workers whose time shows a profit for the em¬ ployer. The trouble with politics is that the end of one campaign is followed by the beginning of the next. There are people who believe in fortune-telling—just to make a complete human race, we suppose. Fanners work hard and move to the city and city people work hard hoping some day to move to the country. Maybe, after all, the paper shortage is a good thing; think of the propaganda leaflets that have not been issued. Most of the complaints that we hear come from people who are much better off than you would suspect from their talk. We know perfectly well how the election is going to come out but, if we told it now, no¬ body would listen t othe elec¬ tion returns. The idea that there are no political shifts between elections takes a wallop when one com¬ pares results in 1928 with those of 1932. Germany's desperate resist¬ ance will be more costly to Ger¬ many than to anybody else. If that is what the Nazis want, let 'em have it! When the soldiers, bailors and marines come home, after our wars have been won, they will deserve much from the peo¬ ple at home. The mythical visitor from Mars, if he could read the cam¬ paign speeches, would not be¬ lieve that the speakers were living in the same country. In two are three more months the Japanese may be willing to concede that we have a fleet, in the air and on the sea, not to mention under the waves. Next week the political prog¬ nosticators will be reminding you of how they forecast the result of the election but few of them will be very specific this week. v? SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON • . mmmm . THE CHRISTIAN AND THE RACE PROBLEM International Sunday School Lesson For November 5. 1944 TEXT: "Of a truth I perceive that God is no of persons; but in every nation he that feareth him, worketh righteousness, is acceptable to him."—Acts 35. Lesson Text: Acts 10:9-16; 34:35; 17:24-29. In considering the scripture passages given for our week, it is well lor us to remember that the first were all Jews, very exclusive people and full of They believed that it was with the Jews alone that covenanted and that the only way the Gentiles could privileges and enter Jewish into their covenant This relationship was by becoming proselytes. is perhaps, when we consider how few years these been followers of Jesus and how little they, even the real mission of the Son of God. Peter, while at Joifa, thirty miles from Jerusalem, was in the house of Simon, the tanner. This fact, itself Peter had lost something of Jewish exclusiveness, for Jews regarded a tanner's occupation as unclean, Jewis law forbade contact with death in any shape lest should be contracted. Evidently, while awaiting supper, Peter went up on for a season of prayer. Fie became drowsy and off into a kind of light sleep, or trance, during which a of a receptacle let aown from heaven, having in it all of four-footed beasts and creeping things, came to him. a voice saying, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat." Horrified thought, Peter exclaimed that he had never eaten or unclean—he had always kept the ceremonial prescribed what animals should and should not be for food. "What God hath cleansed, make not thou common," astonishing words that Peter heard. While Peter was on the meaning of the vision, messengers sent by arrieved at the gate and Peter saw immediately the of the lesson from God. The messengers had been sent a Jew, by Cornelius, a Gentile, asking Peter to come house to share the Bread of Life. Peter realized that it opportunity to put into practice the lesson taught by the and, quickly putting aside his prejudices of tong went with the messengers and the results proved to him mission was God-approved. Paul, a Jew also, had similar problems to meet and He declared on his second missionary journey, when that God created all men and that, therefore, all Sens of God. In Acts 17:26, he declared, "He (God) made every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the determined their appointed seasons' and the bounds habitation; that they should seek God, if haply they after him and find him, though, he is not far from each us; for in him we live, and move, and have our being; even of your own poets have said, For we are also it is hard for some Christians to accept the fact that is alike to God, no matter what his race or creed and "man looketh on the outward appearance, God the heart." Jesus declared that the first and foremost is, "Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with strength," and the companion commandment to it is, love thy neighbor as thyself." We do not have to wonder who our neighbor is—Jesus that anyone who had need of us—our love, our care, influence, our money, our time, anything—those are our neighbors. Jesus also commanded, "Love one For a definition of Christian love, let us study the of I Corinthians. Let us remember that, in the words of a Persian poet, in of judgement: "God will not seek thy race, Nor will He ask thy birth; Alone he will demand of thee, 'What hast thou done on earth'?" The Lesson For Next Week _"THE CHURCH AND PATRIOTISM" Selective Service Boards To Render in The of Colonel Keelin has informed local board members and committeemen to each board through the state that under the Se¬ Training and Service there are provided two dis¬ responsibilities (1) the se¬ and induction of men the armed forces, and (2) rendering of aid in the em¬ of returning veterans. Keelin stated further it seemed particularly ap¬ and wise that Cong¬ placed upon the Selective System the aqency selected men for service responsibility of reinstating men to civilian employ¬ Up to the present time, accord¬ to Colonel Keelin, the in¬ of men into the armed has been the major ef¬ of Selective Service; how¬ the tremendous task of employment and re¬ rights to returing promises to be an ev¬ larger responsibility. Colonel Keelin hastened to that the selection and in¬ of men into the armed will continue to be an im¬ part inthe Selective Ser¬ program, but in view of the requirements of the arm¬ forces for men and the pros¬ of even partial demobili¬ the Selective Service must now shift its maj¬ effort to the reinstatement or of veterans in jobs. this end State Headquarters Selective Service has been for several months this task by completing its and by throughout the shift of facilities, and personnel at State to meet the de¬ of employment and re¬ employment of veterans. Such action is in line the directions of Major Lewis B. Hershey, Director Selective Service, that quate facilities be available Georgia and in other states handle the Re-employment gram. The Director of Service has placed the sibility of this program on Stae Director and at the level, the responsibility is ed in the local board and re-employment men in line with the zation policy of Selective vice. Colonel Keelin ed the responsibility of the board to discharge this and in so doing that the board shall use every able facility at its command. There are 188 Selective vice local boards the state with personnel in of 1,200 people to proper administration of There is one board county in the State, and counties two or more. Colonel Keelin praised the of local board and re-employmen attached to local to handle this tremen¬ assignment. As he ex¬ it, the task will be a one and will require the efforts of all concern¬ The public likewise is keen¬ interested in the re-employ¬ program, and in most in¬ are quite anxious to be assistance whenever called Colonel Keelin stressed importance of encouraging voluntary assistance of citi¬ groups, and that such as¬ should be utilized to fullest extent possible by boards.
