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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1945)
PAGE TWO THE DADE COUNTY TIMES TRENTON, GEORGIA Entered at the Postoffice at Trenton, Ga., as second class mail. _ ELBERT FORESTER .................. Editor CLYDE PATTERSON........Associate Editor Member: Georgia Press Association - American Press Association. T7. SCRIPTION RATES—IN ADVANCE: 12 on hr. SI.50; 6 Months, 75c; 3 Months, 50c A ert.e ng rates furnished upon application. Legal Advertisements payable in advance. Parties writing to the paper for publication are the requested to furnish their names, otherwise communication will not be published. It will be withheld on request, but the name must be giv¬ en. All communication and news items are re¬ ceived for publication subject to being re-edit¬ ed, re-written and changed. Such are printed as a matter of news, and do not necessarily reflect the views or ideas of The Tmies. 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. -*- 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. -*- 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. -★- 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. -- 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. -★- 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. 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POSTOFFICE............. Join tlie March of Dimes Fight Infcnfile / 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
