THE DADE COUNTY TIMES: TRENTON. GEORGIA THURSDAY, OCTOBE R 4, 1945.
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES
Trenton, Georgia
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
