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THE DADE COUNTY TIMES: TRENTON. GEORGIA THURSDAY, OCTOBE R 4, 1945. THE DADE COUNTY TIMES Trenton, Georgia Entered at the Postoffice at Trenton, Ga., as second class mail. J. C. B. E. GEDDIE........................... KYZER ........................... } PUBLISHERS ELBERT FORESTER, Associate Editor - Advertising Representative MEMBER GEORGIA PRESS ASSOCIATION Advertising Representative J^MfRICAN f^RESS j^S^SSOCIATION York • Cbkago • Detroit • Philadelphia SUBSCRIPTION RATES: IN ADVANCE: 12 Months, $1.50; 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 requested to fur¬ nish their names, otherwise the communication will not be pub¬ lished. It will be withheld on request, but the name must be qiven. 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, OCTOBER 4. 1945. LET'S PROTECT THE HELPLESS For the past several months an aged and harmless citizen of Trenton has been harrassed and insulted by a group of ’teen-age boys, often creating disgraceful scenes in the residental district of the town, until conditions have become intolerable. Becoming enraged at the cruel treatment of this indigent man, the City Council met last week and enacted an ordinance, which, if enforced, will end this disgraceful treatment once and for all. The ordinance provides a fine of $5.00 to any person or persons found guilty of molesting or Insulting this aged man, and the city policeman has been instructed to keep a close surveillance on the gang engaged in this shameless and cruel “sport,” and to arrest anyone caught lditering around his premises. Parents of the boys who are engaging in this disgraceful tor¬ ment of an aged, helpless man, and the wanton destruction of his home and property, will do well to take their sons in hand and “administer the rod,” before they are arrested and fined, or thrown into the county jail, perhaps. From small crimes committed by juveniles have grown high¬ waymen and murderers, and when these boys become full-grown they may become hardened criminals. Parents and city officials should work in hearty co-operation until this unholy conduct of these boys has been stopped—once and for all. A BETTER DAY FOR DADE THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA is breaking over Dade County. Already beyond the eastern horizon a new day is climbing the heights, and the sun of progress is glimmering in the distance. Dade County is surely joining the ranks of progressive counties in north Georgia and our growth and development will be limited only by the lack of civic pride and selfish interests of our citizen¬ ship. In last week’s issue of The Times were recorded the sale of three tracts of city property upon which a furniture factory and two large garages are to be constructed in Trenton. The furniture factory will begin in a small way, employing some 30 to 60 men, but it’s success is assured, and it will, no doubt, grow by rapid strides when it once gets fully under way. The two large garages to be constructed here will also give em¬ ployment to a number of skilled workmen increasing the payrolls of the town by several hundreds of dollars weekly. In addition to these improvements, one of our progressive mer¬ chants has announced his intention to build a large super-store building, while another is planning on enlarging his store building and creating a handsome new front, with large and modern plate glass show windows. Also a dry cleaning company is very anxious to find a desirable location in Trenton for housing a modern dry cleaning plant; and a young pharmacist of Chattanooga is also desirous of establishing a modern prescription drug store here when he can find a suitable location. Add to all these proposed business concerns who are locating in Trenton, a new and modern hotel and cafe, to be constructed by another of Dade’s progressfve business men in the near future. All these additions to our town and county spell progress and prosperity. We are on the way . . . Let’s everyone put our shoulder to the wheel and really give progress a shove onward. NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK The press of the nation is observing National Newspaper Week from Oct. 1 - Oct. 8. In observance of this occasion, The Times would like to present two guest editorials: BY GOVERNOR ARNALL The Press of Georgia is the repository of the rights of all the people of our State. The editors of Georgia are fully conscious of their very great responsibility, and they have and they are living up to that responsibility every day in the year. A free press, guaranteeing unpolluted information and un¬ limited discussion of all issues of interest and importance to the citizens, stands between democracy and tyranny. It is encouraging that the United Nations arrived at the con¬ clusion that unrestricted news coverage of the San Francisco con¬ ference was essential if we were to have peace instead of armed truce. The part that a controlled press and a venal played in making Europe ripe for the tragedy of war, contrasted with the robust freedom of American newspapers, point unmistakably the way that the world must take if freedom is to endure. America has had a free press since 1733. Throughout that period, the editorn of our nation have done their duty; none can do more. On the occasion of the National Newspaper Week Oct 1-8, both as Governor of Georgia and as a Georgian proud of the record of the Georgia Press, I salute its members on behalf of the common good of all our people. BY PRESIDENT TRUMAN National Newspaper Week has a a deeper significance in this year of victory than through the war years now happily ended. In this hour of exultation we should dedicate ourselves anew to the perpetuation of one of our cherished heritages—freedom of the press. It is with a sense of genuine pride that I can emphasize to all American editors and publishers and bring to the attention of the Americans everywhere one singular triumph of our war experience. That is that the American free press through the stress of the most horrible of all wars withstood subversive and open attack and op¬ erated under a voluntary code of censorship. Ours then is the plain duty, as we face the grave days ahead, to work without ceasing to make a free press the true torch of world peace. THAT IS NOT ENOUGH Politicians are shouting on the front pages, as they did 25 years ago, about the “soldier’s prefer¬ ence” in regard to jobs, when jobs get scarce and men who viewed with alarm any attempt of the labor unions to dictate whom an employer could hire and fire, talk about passing laws to compel em¬ ployers to hir returning soldiers, sailors and marines. No edict of any labor union, nor any law of any legislature can keep any incompetent on any job for very long, it makes no difference whether he is a member of the union or a form¬ er member of the armed forces, for there will come a time when the one and all important ques¬ tion must be answered: “Can he do the job?” No other answer but "yes” is acceptable. What does it matter how many years of service and where it has been, if he doesn’t know the job? Training for the job can be made available for him, but if he hasn’t the capacity, he just will not and cannot qualify, and no union or veterans’ organization can force any employer to keep him on the payroll. It Is time that the politicians quit kidding the veteran, quit making him believe he has worn the uniform of his country that he can demand privileges no other citizen of his country is given. Many are led to believe that the wearing of the uniform is all that is needed to entitle the former soldier, sailor or marine to a government guaranteed loan, which in the minds of most men, means a loan that does not have to be paid. Many will have to learn that this talk of “un¬ secured loans for veterans,” is merely talk. A veteran who has assets or recommendations eaual to securities can borrow money as he always could, and the man who has nothing, still cannot borrow. j Service to one’s country is a basic obligation of citizenship, and the method and degree nt service depends on the date of one’s birth and his health, and since everyone is registered for service, it ill behooves anyone to say how and where one should serve, since victory depends on the everlasting teamwork of every bloomin’ soul in the coun¬ try. It makes no difference how many years he spent in Africa, Europe or in Asia, if a man wants a job as a truck driver, he must be a competent truck driver. If he wants a job as a machinist, he must be a skilled mechanic. Being an ex-service man is not enough. Worth makes the man. and want of it the fellow. The rest is all but leather or prunella.—Grant Utley in the Cass Lake (Minn.) Times. Homesick BY MRS. W. H. SMITH I dream of long, white fields and goldenrod, Where crickets sing the whole day through And misty haze ’twix field and wood Is haunted by a thrush or two I walk in mind beside a stream, Where yellow leaves twirl gent¬ ly down And muscadines hang high and free, Where chinquepins adorn the ground. I see the hills, a still and dreamy blue, With nuts and scarlet berries While everywhere— like rare jewels to my homesick heart, An humble home is nestled here and there. Lazy smoke ascends the air From chimneys of rough native stone; Crepe myrtle stands beside a gate— A farmer wends his way home. It’s there my heart will forever be With plain, tired folk, who till the sod; Whose lives are one continued They necessity— are the clsest—nearest to God. Standard Oil Products R. W. Suggs, Agt. Trenton. Ga. The Atom Bomb— Phooey! BY MRS. W. H. SMITH As usual, we’ve made a big to- over nothing—the atom bomb. it killed a “big passel” of but in comparison with death-dealers, it is a thing. The only dif¬ it offers is its instaneous its control by human its almost impossible and the scarcity of the ma¬ of which it is made. On the other hand we have devices and plagues, and earthquakes, crooked cy¬ and fruitless year, and family cars, all which are out of control of hands—and day after hour after hour, year after they have their way with us by thousands and without abatement; any let-up. Beside them the atom bomb is in comparison, and it num¬ exactly two. Untold thousands starve every on this earth. Not one of so-called wonders ever cross their path. Many more exist by a drink of and a crust of bread. Most earth’s people do not have to keep them warm or They suffer in the heat the cold—and God is the one who knows or cares. wonder He regretted creat¬ the human race, especially He watches the awful they commit, from judge to the man in the gutter. The atom bomb is a pitifully drop in the bucket.” 18 minutes our family car one of us. The majority of in this world can never affected by an atom bomb, but they will forever be beseiged the plagues God has sent on from time immemorial. Their miserable path knows no comfort—no arts, no religion. though they worship a God in the flthiest hovel—and vaguely hope for something- Ameican people like sen¬ and excitement even as children do. We want to we live in a day of impos¬ coming true and mir¬ acles happening (but not the kind). We stupidly believe the world looks up to us—but we stagger in amazement if eyes were opened to the in¬ of the millions even within our own country, simply because the homage we crave is vain thing. The vast devasta¬ of the world will never be an atom bomb, but by the age- processes set in motion when and Eve were driven from blessed Garden and Cain Abel. God controls the atom bomb. man nor nation can or will. belongs to God, it we are bright enough see or not. And God’s will ever the law as much as we to think we are the smart who make the world go If we could get a little horse into our heads and pull our out of the air so we could whether we’re stepping on innocent person or not, realize quickly that its not the atom bomb we must worry but our very present short and plenty of them, There are even “some free who deny there is a (plain infidel, I call them). wonder what they do when they divine help? Call on science the atomic force? I had the of watching a grown knees shake once upon a time at the approach of dark storm cloud. He was and said He laughed at the Bible we descended from HE did. See H. F. ALLISON For LOANS INSURANCE REAL ESTATE Times Building TRENTON, GEORGIA Si The Churches of Christ Salute You ROMANS 16:16 With Sound Doctrin: HOW DO YOU KONW YOU ARE RIGHT? How- do you know that you are right? Or what evidence do you have that you are a child of God? This is an important question; one that everyone should be con¬ cerned with. If you were to ask the average person what evi¬ dence he has for being a child God he would probably ans¬ wer: ‘I feel like I am.” Hence he bases his eternal destiny on his feelings. Or another will say, “I am following my con¬ science—I have a clear con¬ science; my conscience tells me that I am a child of God.” But it is possible for your feelings to deceive you; and it is possible for your conscience to lead you astray. Let us learn that your feelings might be deceptive. “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” (Prov. 14: 12). “Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.” (Prov. 21: 2). So if your feelings are the only evidences that you have the Bible tells you that they may be leading you unto death. Oh, yes, the wise man says, “Every way of a man is right in his owm eys, but the Lord pondereth the hearts.” You should give the above careful consideration. Your feelings may lead you to the believing of a lie which might be the means of your de¬ struction. “Even him whose com¬ ing is after the working of satan with all power and signs of lying wonders, and with all deceitful¬ ness of unrighteousness in them perish, because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” (II Thess. 2: 10-12). This scripture plainly de¬ clares that it is possible to be¬ lieve a lie and be damned be¬ cause you receive not the love of the truth. There are many who been deceived with a strong deusion, yet the delusion is a lie. It will bring condemnation. When you are led to believe that vou are a child of God just be¬ cause you feel like it, you may have been deluded. Here is another example of a man w-ho believed a lie and was condemned. He was a man of God, who was sent by God to cry out against the false worship of Bethel. He cried out against it. The altar fell apart. Jeroboam tried to lay his hand upon this man of God; but God dried up his hand. The king then entreat¬ ed the man of God to restore his hand. The man of God did. The king now wants the man of God to eat and drink with him in his home. But the man refuses be¬ cause God commanded him not to eat or drink in that place and to come back another way. He started back as God had com- maded him. He sat down under a tree to rest. While he u r as there a lying prophet came to him and told him that an angel of the Lord had appeared or spoken to him and told him to come and invite the man of God to his home which was in Bethel. “But Is Give the Wife A Day Off! I I 1 Have Sunday Dinner With Us I “Just Plain Home-Cooked Food” I I We Serve Good Coffee Trenton Drug Sundries I Square And On The Square SYRUP PAILS tarpaulins BALE TIES PAINTS : ROOFING * * * * CHATTANOOGA HARDWARE CO. 2615 South Broad Street :: Chattanooga Tennessee jj he lied unto him” (I Kings 13 - 18). Even though God had com¬ manded the man of God not to eat or drink in that place, he be¬ lieved the false prophet, he be¬ lieved a lie. He went back to Bethel and ate but the displeas¬ ure of God came upon the home. The man of God left in haste. But too late. He had been de¬ luded by believing a lie; a lion came and killed him, the dis¬ obedient prophet of God. (i 13:1-32). God will punish the prophet that lied. But in this lesson God is teaching us that it is possible for one to believe a lie and be lost. Now, notice God had spoken to the man of God and confirmed his word by the miracles which he performed through him. Now the man of God made the mistake (which is the same mistake that many make today) of disbelieving the confirmed word of God and be¬ lieving the unconfirmed word of a lying prophet. What evidences he have that the lying proph¬ et was telling the truth? None! in view of this plain lesson there are many who will place more confidence in some fellow claims he feels like he is or has seen a peculiar light heard a voice, than he will God’s word, which has been Let me admonish you believe what God says, instead what man feels. Paul lived in all good con¬ even before he bacame a yet he did many things to the name of Christ. (Acts 26:9-11). Conscience is a If you are tuaght error believe it your conscience be clear just the same, but If you are taught the and follow the truth you a clear conscience, and are If your conscience is guid¬ by the Bible, instead of your you will have a clear and be right. “And hereby we do know that know him, if we keep His He that sayeth I know him and keepeth not commandments is a liar and truth is not in him.” I John Therefore, we don’t know by the way we feel; but by his commandments. I that I am a child of God I did and am still doing commands. The Bible says, “He that be- and is baptized shall be and he that believeth not be damned.” (Mark 16:16). and be baptized, every of you in the name of Jesus for the remission of sins, ye shall receive the gift of Holy Ghost.” (Acts 2:38). the mouth, confession is unto salvation.” (Rom. 10: “Know ye not that so many us as were baptized into Christ baptized into his death.” 6:3). The reason I know I have been saved ie bscause have done the above. I have word for it. As a Christian we must pray, the Bible, meet upon the day of every week, practice and undefiled religion and' our selves unspotted from world. Do all that God com¬ us to do; then we will that we know him. SOUND DOCTRINE, P. O. Box 15, Trenton, Ga.
