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THE DADE COUNTY TIMES
TRENTON, GEORGIA
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1945.
A Chance for The Church
There are many church leaders who believe
that religion and the chu.ches have a great
chance to help create a peace based on fair¬
ness and goodwill which will make certain a
more lasting peace.
This is undoubtedly the truth, but when the
individuals get down to specifications and at¬
tempt to outline how the churches can make
their contribution, they usually go off in a fog,
demanding representation at the peace con¬
ference or advocating an impractical and ab¬
surd application of what they conceive to be
Christian principles.
Organized religion has existed in the world
since the advent of the human race and,
through the ages, it has made modest pro¬
gress toward the reformation of human beings.
Despite divine revelation and much preaching,
there are some, including religious leaders,
who seem to think that the human race has
moved backward.
We cannot accept this conclusion. Average
mentality, bodily vigor and spiritualiay has
probably increased steadily, if slowly, through
the centuries, and, as we see the matter, is
still continuing. The business of the churches
and of all religious leaders is to encourage
and foster individual improvement which will
lift the average.
We doubt if anything would be gained if
the statesmen of the world happened to be
foolish enough to invite representatives of the
world's leading religious organizations into the
peace conference. Nothing in past history in¬
dicates that religious leaders would reach a-
greement any quicker than the hard-headed
leaders of the various nations of the world. In
fact, the, probability is that an addition to po¬
litical problems, the world would be confronted
with religious problems as well.
The assumption that religious principles can
be applied in the woild only through the inter¬
cession of church leaders and preachers may
be soothing to the ecclesiastics, but there are
many individuals, of many faiths, who attempt
daily to apply religious principles to the prob¬
lems and difficulties of life.
This, after all, provides effective opportunity
for various religions to exercise influence upon
the course of mankind- In the long run, it is the
only method that will be effective, even in con¬
nection with the solving of problems concern¬
ing war or peace.
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Officers Dismissed
The Army announces that two officers have
been dismissed from service for violating the
low-flying regulation and one of them will
serve at hard labor for six months because his
low flying resulted in an accident and the
death of an enlisted man.
While occasionally one hears reports of low-
flying, dangerous to civilians as well as to
pilots, there have been much less complaints
on this score recently.
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A Blessing to Business
The soldiers and sailors, coming home when
the war is over, will not like to read stories
about the huge profits that some contractors
made out of the war.
It will be a good thing for the American way
if the heads of business throughout the nation
arrange it so that the service men will not
read of millionaires created by war contracts.
If business men haven't sense enough to see
that, it may be possible for proper renegotiation
of contracts to arrange matter for them. If this
occurs, recogniion will be the greatest blessing
that has come to business during the war.
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A Single Week
In summarizing the food supply outlook for
1945, Chester Bowles, OP A Administrator, pays
some attention to a charge recently made in
food trade circles that the government is
COUNTY TIMES: TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUA R Y 18, 1945.
THE DADE
Time for Courage and Loyalty
The German offensive may have amazed
and stupefied some Americans and our people
may be disappointed and distressed, humiliat¬
ed and chagrined, alarmed and afarid, as
some people assert. mental of
If such is the truth as to the state
the people of this country, it reflects upon their
courage even while it displays an unjustified
egotism. with
The officials leaders of this nation, some
few exceptions, have warned us for many
months of the hard struggle ahead. Few of
them encouraged the easy optimism that surg¬
ed through through the public mind after the
spectacular victory in the Battle of France..
While it is natural for us to regret the suc¬
cess of the German Army, even if it proves iO
be temporary, there is no occasion for stupe-
fication, humiliation and fear. Regardless of
the outcome of the present offensive, instigated
by Marshal von Rundstedt, the Germans will
be whipped and the Americans will do their
share of the job.
If the myth of invincibility, which mysteri¬
ously seems to surround Americans, has been
shattered and we have learned, as a people,
that ordinary rules of warfare and of nature
operate against Americans as well as other
people, the net result may be beneficial. The
search for a ''goat'' to excuse our reverse indi¬
cates, .however, the eagerness of a people to
hold firm to their myth rather than face the
hard facts of life.
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Insulting cur Heroic Dead
There is a lesson for every American on
the home front in the dispatch from a fight¬
ing front, stating that the soldiers realize that
their hardships are as nothing to those of A-
mericans who are enemy prisoners.
Here we have men who are facing death
daily, suffering hardships in daily lives and
yet conscious that their perilous plight does
not compare with the fate of their comrades
who have been captured by the enemy.
This attitude should shame grumbling civil¬
ians, who make life a long complaint against
regulations necessary to the prosecution of the
war. After all, the American civilian, during a
period of great world peril, has continued to
live at home, unmenaced by bombs or invad¬
ers. Life on the home front has been safe and,
except in a few minor matters, comfortable and
convenient.
Thousands of Americans have laid down
their lives and thousands of families have been
saddened by personal loss that cannot be re¬
placed. Every person who grumbles, complains
and grouches on the home front displays la¬
mentable disloyalty to the nation and, in our
opinion, insults the heroic dead and their grief-
stricken families.
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Millions to Leave the South
An estimated 1,500,000 persons have mov¬
ed out of the South to secure jobs in war in¬
dustry and Nat Caldwell, of the Nashville
Tennessean, predicts that as many as 2,500,-
000 person will leave the South in the first six
years after the war.
The journalist believes that cotton growtrs
will have to adopt the mechanical cotton pick¬
er if the great staple is to regain its markets
and retain something like priority in Southern
agriculture. He quotes growers who believes
that it will reduce cotton picking costs to seven
dollars a bale and that this will make cotton
growing profitable at twelve cents a pound.
The correctness of the writer's conclusions
may be challenged but the evidence supports
them. Such a migration will have profound ef¬
fect upon the nation's social structure. It will
mean the distribution of about two million
Negroes into other states, where there will a-
rise new problems in adjustments.
The Southern states have steadily lost pro¬
portion of each generation, since the War Be¬
tween the States, through the efforts of indi¬
viduals to find economic opportunity. While
we have no figures as to what part of this mir-
gration has been white, there is little doub tthat
white people made up a substantial part of
the flow.
The mechanical cotton picker will cause
changes in the South as profound as those
that followed the invention of the cotton gin.
It is the responsibility of southern leaders to
make sure that the development will work to
the improvement and prosperity of their sec¬
tion. This is a job that will require intelligent
work.
hoarding huge quantities of food-
A OPA statement dnies that the Army is
hoarding vast stores of food and quotes mili¬
tary authorities to the effect that if on the day
Japan is defeated "all Army foodstuffs through¬
out the world were brought back to the United
States, the total amount would not be enough
to feed the civilian population for a single
week,"
Sctel Lesson
STANDARDS OF THE KINGDOM
International Sunday School Lesson for Jan. 21
GOLDEN TEXT: "Blessed are they which are
persecuted for righteousness sake; for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven.''-- Matt
theirs is the kingdom of heaven "—Matt.
5:10.
Lesson Text: 5:3-10; 44-48.
Three chapters in Matthew's gospel, in the
form oi a sermon by Jesus, make up what we
know as the Sermon on theMoun t. Our lesson
for this and next week are based upon these
three chapters.
While it is possible that this address may
have been delivered at one time, the probabili¬
ty is that the author of Matthew's gospel col¬
lected extracts from numerous disv:ourses, using
them to make more complete the sermon de¬
livered by Jesus to the Twelve immediately
after they had been selected by him.
Luke, in the sixih chapter of his gospel, re-
orts a sermon of about thirty verses, against:
the one hundred and seven of Matthew. How¬
ever, in other parts of Luke's gospel there are
about thirty-four other verses corresponding
very closely to utterances placed by Matthew
in the Sermon on the Mount.
Matthew gives this sermon prominence at
the beginning of his account of the Galilean
ministry and it faithfully summarizes the teach¬
ings of the Master at this time.
The impression of the sermon lias been pro¬
found and has greatly influenced the conduct
of men. In it are to be found the principles of
much wise legislation and the foundation for
the rights of man.
St. Augustine, in the fourth century, gave it
its name. Other writers have called it the Mag¬
na Charta of the Kingdom of God, Certainly,
it is a beautiful statement, in simple language,
of the principles which were being actually
lived and advocated by Jesus, We are not sur¬
prised that, according to Luke, Jesus spent the
preceding night in prayer before he delivered
this great address.
The sermon opens with a statement of those
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e. .Lti 1 principles so difficulty understood by
a material and practical world. If verses 10, It
a d 12 are counted as three, there are ten beau-
.e in his gospel only has four. The
imu, fourth, second and eighth in order, follow-
. u by fou woes to those who seek to receive
their consolation in this earthly life.
The s, iirual truths behind the beatitudes
v ere entirely in opposition to the ruling philoso¬
phies o, the day. Even yet the spiritual develop¬
ment of man has not yet reached the state
wxie re they are generally accepted by the ma¬
jority of the people.
In all ages man has sought his happiness.
ie have mistaken transient blessedness for
pc nr orient happiness and contentment. Natur¬
al! , each man's idea of happiness depends
upon his desires and ambitions.
Jesus is sc“:ng forth in these strange verses
a formula for eternal contentment and happi¬
ness. lie teaches that happiness is not depend¬
ent upon circumstances but upon the individu-
clationship with God; it is an inward call
unaffected by exterior surroundings.
T hc Ita’iar Papini in his life of Christ says
there are three races. "The first was that of the
animal without law, and its name was War;
11 ■ second was Barbarians tamed bv Law
whose higher:* perfection was Justice. This is
the race now living, and Justice has not yet
concur md War, and Lav/ has not yet supplant¬
ed animaltv. The third is to be th^ race of real
men, not only upright but holy, not like beasts
but like God."
We urge our readers to turn to Matthew's
go'oe! and go through the fifth chapter. After
the beatitudes Jesus discusses the influence of
his discip’es in the world. Then, he shows the
relationship between his doctrines and those
of We Mosaic Law, illustrating the advances
made in the matter of anger impurity, profani¬
ty and the treatment of enemies. In this last
ion occurs his injunction to "love your ene-
rries.” Human nature still has much of the
primitive and imperfect to overcome-
The Lesson for Next Week
LOYALTY TO THE KINGDOM
