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The Summerville News
SUMMERVILLE, GA.
Official Organ of Chattooga County
O. J. ESPY, Editor-Manager, 1911-38
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Read a book a month, even at the
risk of straining your mind.
We know that the less one knows
the easier one forms an opinion.
There are said to be 3,800,000 aliens
in this country—that’s too many.
It is much better for the United
States to be over-prepared than un
c er-prepared.
You can go to church all your life
without having much religion but go
ing to church won’t hurt you.
Add to world’s greatest betrayals?:
The surrender of King Leopold, de
serting friends who responded to his |
plea for help.
Hitler, we are told, likes the United
States; he will continue to like us as I
long as the British and French armies i
keep him busy.
Every American should be glad to
make a contribution toward the relief
of the civilian refugees in France and
the other war-stricken areas. The i
Red Cross has asked the people of
this country for $20,000,000 and Sum
merville should send its quota
promptly.
DRAFTING WEALTH FOR WAR
If the time comes that the United
States will have to go to war, there
will be little vociferous objection to
the drafting of the sons of the land
to fight its battle, but you will hear
a howl that will reach the moon if i
the government attempts to make i
wealth and property serve tlie 'lieeds
of the nation.
We understand quite thoroughly
the truth of the saying that money!
has no patriotism, in general, but!
just the same there is little equity
in making some young men risk their!
lives in a death grapple without mak-!
ing those who possess the physical'
wealth of the nation contribute to the I
defense of what they own.
We understand that there is a bill |
before congress, providing that in the'
event congress declares war, that a
wealth census be taken and that citi-!
zens be required to purchase govern
ment bonds in proportion to their
wealth. We suspect that we must!
have read something about this bill
before but, at present, we have no |
idea of the author of the measure
and consequently our comment is en
tirely addressed to the merits of the
general idea rather than any particu
lar bill. Certainly, the defense of a I
nation includes the defense of the!
wealth of its citizens. Just as own-'
ers ■of property carry fire insurance |
they should be expected to pay a
reasonable amount in the nature of I
war insurance. If the nation loses!
the war, the individual may lost val
uable property rights and if the na
tion wins a war the security of prop
erty rights is protected.
The fact that millions of young
men, in the prime of life, must offer
themselves in defense of their coun
try, taking the risk of losing their
lives, seems ample argument for re
quiring the property of the nation to
make a just contribution to the de
fense of the nation that wealth alone
cannot defend.
OUR GOLD WORTH HAVING
The konetary gold stock of the
United States has crossed the $19,-
0C’0,000,000-level and the experts are
already beginning to worry about
what will happen to this huge hoard
if the totalitarian states reform the .
savings economy of the world.
Bankers and economists in this
country have expressed the opinion
that the gold standard cannot operate
if Germany and her allies win the
wa rand dominate the future economic
set-up of the world. Their system
of trading, involving barter and con
trolled swapping, tends to eliminate
the necessity of another medium of
exchange-
While it is within the realm of!
possibility, in the event of a German
victory, that gold will lose some of
its importance in international trade,
the disability will be temporary. In
fact, we do not think that the United
States need worry very much about
having a worthless gold stock on
hand. We might worry about the pos
sibility of losing our gold stock if
this nation is ever attacked by a
coalition of powers, such as Ger
many, Italy and Japan, after the to
talitarian states have conquered Eu-
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JAP ORDERS DELAY U. S.
One of the things which is holding
up the manufacture of more mili
tary equipment for the army and
navy is the fact that so many U. S.
factories are sending machine tools
to Japan.
The war department has just fin
ished a confidential survey of the
machine tool industry and finds that
most American plants are working
on orders for the Japanese. Ma
chine tools are all-important in the
munitions business, because they
are used to equip new factories ex
panding to meet new national de
fense orders.
As far as the war department is
able to ascertain, Japan has plenty of
machine tools, and is storing many
of the new shipments now received
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A PERSHING AIDS FRANCE
Mrs. Frances Warren Pershing,
the war general's daughter-in-law,
modeling a gown in New York for
French war relief. Bids for gowns
ranged from $250 to SI,OOO.
from the United States—for emer
gencies. Japan also continues to
be a big importer of U. S. scrap
iron, and also is storing it for the
future.
These are two reasons why Pres
ident Roosevelt has asked special
powers of congress to embargo
shipments of materials which are
considered vital to the defense of the
United States. He expects, as soon
as authorized by congress, to slap
an embargo on scrap iron and ma
chine tools to Japan.
* * *
G. O. P. BLASTS
The barrage of Republican blasts
against a coalition cabinet which
has strafed the country recently was
no spontaneous meeting of minds.
Neither was it aimed entirely at the
President. It was aimed much
more against the Republican party
itself.
Inner G. O. P. master minds ad
mit that their political chances have
been almost as hard hit as the
shattered allied lines in Europe.
Prior to this catastrophic develop
ment G. O. P. election prospects
appeared very bright indeed.
It looked as if the campaign would
be fought chiefly on Republican
ground; that is, on domestic issues.
Also, it was doubtful whether Roose
velt would run. But the Hitler
blitzkrieg changed this situation
overnight.
Roosevelt’s move to bring one or
more Republicans into the cabinet
made things worse.
Something had to be done fast to
block this.
The barrage on Roosevelt was
opened by Colonel Lindbergh’s
speech pooh-poohing any invasion
danger. In inner G. O. P. circles
thig is credited io Hpover via his
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1940
close friend William Castle, former
undersecretary of state.
This was followed up with the
carefully spaced statements by
Landon, Hoover, Representative
Wadsworth, House Floor Leader
Martin and others demanding that
the President renounce a third term
as the price for G. O. P. partici
pation in the cabinet.
* ♦ ♦
ICELAND AND U. S.
There is a lot more behind the
rushing of American consuls to
Greenland and Iceland than appears
on the surface.
Boiled down to cold facts, the
Roosevelt administration is afraid
of a Nazi air base only 1,500 miles
from Maine. Bombing planes al
ready have been developed which
can fly this far—loaded.
♦ * ♦
CAPITAL CHAFF
Said Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick
Simms: “I have never seen any-!
thing like the sentiment out West for j
Tom Dewey.” But in her home
state of New Mexico, Mrs. Simms
was turned down as a Dewey dele
gate.
Interesting sidelight on how things:
are shaping for a third term: Rep.|
Gene Cox of Georgia is one of the I
bitterest anti-New Dealers in con- 1
gress. Yet the day after Georgia
leaders named a third-term delega- ,
tion, Cox announced he would sup-'
port this year Roosevelt if he is the
candidate.
♦ * ♦
SENATOR NYE ON BENITO
Quote of the week comes from
Sen. Gerald Nye of North Dakota:
“Mussolini is like Southern Repub
lican delegates—easy to buy bu'
hard to keep bought.”
I WENT AND SAW
BY THE PARSON.
I went to the graduation and saw
a lot of beautiful young women and
handsome young men. That was a
real class, thirty in all, watch them
and you will see something worth
while as the fruit of the teaching of
the faculties and the grooming of the
parents.
I also saw Mr. J. H. Cook, former
ly superintendent of schools here,
now a state school supervisor. I had
heard a lot of good
things about him,
in fact he is so
popular here that
I decided he didn’t
need nor care for
my good will. But
as som« of those
graduates would
say, I had him all
wrong.
When I saw him
I wondered why in
the world his wife
married him. Now,
we will have to
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admit with his wife that he is a very
smart fellow and most likable. His
speech was good and I would like
to reproduce it, 'however, not know
ing he was going to make a good
speech I didn’t take any notebook
paper with me.
For the benefit of those who went
that I might refresh their memory
and for the benefit of those who
didn’t go that they might know, I
will tell you some of the things he
said.
He said that a teacher asked an
examination question, “Give the defi
nition for depression, repression arid
recession.” One boy answered on his
paper, “God knows, I don’t. Merry
Christmas.” The teacher returned
the paper with this notation, “God
gets a hundred. You get a Happy
New Year ”
Mr. Cook said he heard that a re
cession wajs a condition when one
wou’d tighten up the belt. That a
repression was when the condition
got worse and you didn’t have a belt
and thot a depression was when you
had no pants to tighten up. He also
said that a dictator was one who
thinks he can take it—regardless of
who it belongs to.
He told of a physician who was
getting married and when the minis
ter told him to hold the girl’s right
hand he took hold of her pulse from
force of habit and said to her, “stick
out your tongue.” By this time the
minister was so confused he an
nounced “services will be concluded
at the errave.” I don’t remember
what point he was bringing out when
he told that story, Ido remember
that it was a good story. Another
story he told was of the bride bring
ing her failure in cooking and ex
plained to her husband that the “bis
cuit squatted on the rise and browned
on the squat.”
Then he told of the long-winded
sneaker that provoked the chairman.
The chairman rapped the gavel but
the speaker paid Uo attention, he
rapned a bit harder and still no at
tention. He hit so hard on the table
that the gavel broke and hit a hearer
on the head, knocking him uncon
scious. When he came to he raised
up on his elbows and said “hit me
again, I can still hear him.”
He told of a boy that was worried
about his future and said “Dad, I
don’t want to be a doctor and live off
the ills of people, nor be a lawyer
and live off the quarrels of people,
nor be a preacher and live off the
sins of people.” Mr. Cook suggests
that the boy be a school teacher and
live off the promises of the state leg
islature.
He said that when he first came
here eight years ago he saw a girl
driving an oxen. This trip he saw
the girl driving a tractor and sug
gests that it is a definite sign of
prosperity.
Tn his plea to the young people he
urged them to get the right attitude
of an education as someone said that
an education helps you get into trou
ble more intelligently. Mr. Cook said
“an education is to help you do the
right thing better.” In this very prac
tical speech he warned them, inform
ed them, and inspired them. He
pointed out a fact that we put more
value in feet today than in the mind
and that the body gets ahead of the
minA.
1 am enriched by knowing this per
sonality and meeting his good wife.
I want to be fortunate enough to
be with them more.
The senior class of 1940 believes
in having a good time but that is not
all, they also have a serious side of
life and that is why they were
thoughtul enough to give to the
school something that Supt. George
C. Sublette has wanted a long time
with which he might help the boys.
Well he got it and proud he was when
the senior class presented to him an
e’ectric saw with a detachable motor.
May God bless this graduating class.
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DEFENSE ILLUSIONS
The President is right when he
suggests that some people didn’t
raise hell earlier about our defense
lessness because they didn’t realize
what was going on.
It is true that he “did not share
those illusions.” But he is very
subtle in seeming to find any sup
port in the terrible events of the
last few days for his policy of our
sticking our necks into that mess.
The existing battle situation com
pletely liquidates his interventionist
leanings by proving plainly that we
had no business there and couldn’t
have done any good by doing one
thing more than we have done.
This brings up the vital question
of our defenselessness. Those who
didn’t realize the danger abroad
may be excused for going to sleep
on it.
But how can the President be ex
cused? With full information be
went to sleep on preparedness.
His comparison of the money
spent on defense during this seven
years with the preceding seven
years is purely political and unfair.
In the seven years before Roose
velt, there was no menace from
Germany and no need for vast prep
aration. There were treaty limita
tions on naval increases. The allies
held Germany helpless.
♦ * ♦
Hitler came with Roosevelt and
began the seven years of rearma
ment and preparation of the vast
force with which he is destroying
Europe. The allies could have
stopped him any time up to 1936.
They neglected to act.
Mr. Roosevelt also went to sleep.
This column constantly called atten
tion to this situation, beginning with
its very first issue early in 1935.
It is no alibi to refer to the amount
of money spent on defense. It
plainly was not enough and it wasn’t
spent to the best advantage. It was
not “wasted” or “poured down a
rat hole.” But it provides no excuse
to minimize our woeful lack of land
ward preparation to kick at critics
who insist on the truth.
The naval job has been well done
in part, but the job in aviation, army
and provision of strategic bases is
woefully inadequate.
Pollyanna statements made by
the President and over the air on
the same night by other officials do
not agree with expert testimony
before congressional committees.
Lumping our equipment as “on
hand” or “on order” is meaningless
and misleading.
All these things are bygones. Our
job is to correct these blunders. But
we can’t correct them without rec
ognizing them. These attempts to
gloss them over are of themselves
a danger and a continuing blunder.
• • •
The President is right in saying
that, for unified defense, we must
avoid hatreds. He has produced
them in mass.
Even in his fireside chat he
warned against war “millionaires,”
promised continued handouts and at
least seemed to say that in this pe
riod of sacrifice and extreme effort
by everybody none will be demand
ed from labor. And yet prices are
to remain low regardless of in
creased costs and no control.
Perhaps it was a gesture toward
"unity” that no new taxes were sug
gested and financial aid was prom
ised to industry. People who pay
taxes are far more realistic. They
are demanding increases.
No truly American industry seeks
profits due to war. No truly Amer
ican worker is unwilling to do his
part.
Nothing in the fireside chat sug
gests the stern, tough administra
-1 that this situation requires.
?~’ r ariy veteran of our greatest
American defensive effort, it cannot
fail to bring goose pimples of ap
prehension.
It did not Cace or truly tell the
facts. Jt promised speed and £f-
ficiericy and offered no''Convincing
plan for getting them.
It reeks with a kind of timid fum
bling that has carried England and
France to the brink of destruction.
It was a third term political docu
ment rather than a formula for im
mediate and effective defense.
* • •
NO TIME TO LOSE
The rearmament problem is the
deadliest this country has to face.
It is purely a time problem.
So we talk of Harry Hopkins—the
greatest waster of billions in our
history. He is a man whose life
and training have been such that,
through complete ignorance of it,
he distrusts our industrial system
only a little more than it distrusts
him. Moreover it is a 20-hour-a
--day job—and Hopkins’ health is
none too robust.
He is physically unable to give
sufficient time to his present job.
If it isn’t done promptly there is
not much use in doing it at all. We
shall not merely have to fight but
to fight under such conditions as
we now see destroying civilization
in Europe hopelessly, pitifully,
disastrously.
That happened in Europe because
England and France delayed and
f’jmbled too long with Chamberlain
and Daladier. It will happen here
if we can’t learn to stop fooling and
fumbling with incompetents in vital
places.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for representative to the
Georgia legislature from Chattooga
county. Subject to the Georgia dem
ocratic primary Sept. 11, 1940. Your
vote and influence will be appreciated.
R. L. (BOB) SMITH
CITATION
GEORGIA —Chattooga County:
Whereas, Miss Ruby Lee, adminis
"tratrix of the estate of Mary Lee,
represents to the court in her peti
tion, duly filed and entered on record,
that she has fully administered said
estate: This is, therefore, to cite all
persons concerned, kindred and credi
tors, to show cause, if any they can,
why said administratrix should not be
discharged from her administration
and receive letters of dismission on
the first Monday in July, 1940.
H. A. ROSS
Ordinary. •
CARD OF THANKS
We wish 4o acknowledge with deep
est appreciation the many kindnesses
shown us during the brief illness and
death of our beloved husband and
father.—Mrs. C. N. Wilson, Warner
Wilson, Louise Wilson.
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SPRING REVUE IN ROME
Little Misses Rose Nelle Weems
Martha Tutton, Jean Cordle and
Meredith Tutton took part in a Rob
Rounsaville production, “Spring Re
vue,” in Rome May 30.
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