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FDR’s Confidence in Policies Vital 4
To U. S. Welfare. A JW
By BAUKHAGE
National Farm and Home Hour Commentator.
(WNU Service, 1343 H. Street N. W.,
Washington, D. C.)
WASHINGTON. America faces
its second crisis under Roosevelt.
Whether America knows it or not—
and by the time this reaches print
the last doubt may be removed —the
[President knows it now. The first
(crisis was the peak of the economic
panic. The present one is the valley
of allied fortunes.
The WPA and the NRA were two
of the institutions which the Presi
dent created to meet our economic
problems in 1933. Since then many
an outstanding member of the New
Deal palace guard has had his hour
to strut and fret upon the stage and
then be heard no more. General
Johnson and his blue eagle—now a
mere columnist; Donald Richberg,
his successor, back with his law
books; the professors, Raymond Mo
ley, once in the state department, to
day behind an editorial desk in the
seat of the scorner, and Rexford
Guy Tugwell, still loyal, but silent,
a partner of industry. We might
go on.
But two men, one a veteran of
NRA, another of WPA, have been
chosen to sit at the right and left
hands of the Chief in crisis II:
Harry Hopkins, head of the program
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HARRY HOPKINS
under the lend-lease law, and Leon
Henderson, officer of price adminis
tration and civilian supply.
The two men are alike in few
characteristics except that both
were poor farm boys, both have a
New Deal slant on life, and neither
has much interest in the art of a
Fifth avenue tailor.
There is no doubt that the defense
program, if we must still use that
euphemistic label for this anything
but negative undertaking, has passed
out of the joint power of the dollar
a-year men and into control of these
two staunch supporters of the
Roosevelt administration.
The rise of Harry Hopkins’ influ
ence has been steady, interrupted
only by periods of ill-health. His
relationship with the President start
ed from a sympathy of viewpoint
concerning the duty of government
toward its underprivileged. It has
grown into an intimate friendship,
bastioned by propinquity that comes
from sharing the same rooftree and
many leisure hours, before nine in
the morning and after six at night,
since May of last year.
That was when Hitler’s blitz
across the low countries showed the
President that the possibility of
peaceful intervention in the cause
of democracy in Europe was over.
In his despair, he called his friend
to the White House for a week-end
of comfort and counsel. Hopkins
has been there ever since.
Perhaps the barefoot boy driving
a neighbor’s cows up a dusty lane
some four decades ago dreamed of
the White House—every boy has a
chance to be President we know.
But how many boys dream of being
a President’s chief advisor and boss
ing seven billion dollars’ worth of
supplies for democracy?
Harry’s father was a harness
maker. He had a harness shop in
Grinnell, lowa, and it was in lowa
because Mrs. Hopkins was am
bitious for her children and there
was a college there. Harry earned
some nickels and dimes herding
cows, and then worked in the shop.
Later he worked his way through
college. Money never meant much
to him. He never handled much of
his own. But he has bossed millions
for other people—in the Red Cross
BRIEFS • • . By Baukhage
<L One of the most important sac- <L The emergency has brought so ;
tors in settling a strike, according many extra workers to Washington
to William H. Davis, vice chairman that office space is at a premium,
of the National Defense Mediation In spite of new buildings in the Dis
board, is public opinion. Both sides trict of Columbia two federal build
know that the people are back of ings are being erected in adjoining
the board. Maryland and Virginia. These
<L City symphony: The squeak of buildings provide a million addition
a brake, a bird and a baby, all in the al square feet of office space to meet
aajne key. r thejncreased demand.
during the World war, with the Asso
ciation for the Improvement of the |
Poor in New York, where he got to 1
know Governor Roosevelt, and then
with the relief organization of the ’
federal government.
Hopkins, lean, slight, amiable, I
grew up with the New Deal.
So did Leon Henderson but he
reached the inner circle by a more
roundabout way. He is thick-set
and dynamic and he blustered into ;
the confidence of General Johnson in j
the NRA, as an economist who could i
punctuate his theories with the salty I
expletives that appealed to Old Iron
Pants.
When the blue eagle folded its
wings, Henderson plowed his own
furrow and got out of the way when
he was not needed but always man
aged to bob up when he had a
chance to say something important.
He predicted the “bust” as he
called it—the slump of 1937. In 1938 ;
he warned against price rises. He |
kept warning. Prices went up. Now
he is czar over prices.
Like Hopkins, Henderson worked
his way through college. Like him,
too, the jobs he has held since his '
maturity were all outside the marts
of trade and commerce.
These two self-made rural boys
see the same dreams of America |
when they look out of the White
House windows side by side with the
Hyde Park Squire.
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Early Morning
In a Nation’s Capital
Six o’clock in the morning.
From a Saturday to a Monday
spring changed to summer in Wash
ington, buds turned to blooms and
bare branches burst out into full
leaved green.
In a city, the first walk under
this newly spread canopy of green
is a strange delight. There is
nothing quite like it. Leafy curtains
shut out the harsh, cold stone and
steel about you as a drawn shade
shuts out the night from a lamp-lit
room.
Washington does not wake early.
At six in the morning there are so
few people on the streets that the
folks you pass seem as friendly as
a neighbor you meet on a lonely
lane. The red and green traffic
lights still have their eyes closes
and only the yellow bulbs blink sleep
ily at you as they have all night. But
these days the sun is well up and
as you walk west to east the light
strikes you square in the eyes. It
always reminds me of a prairie
town and that always reminds me
of how I was reminded of my prairie
town when we used to be marching
eastward in the dawn of a murky
French morning when the sun sud
denly burst on us and made us long
for the old, wide-brimmed cam
paign hat instead of the little cloth
rag of an overseas cap. You don’t
see many campaign hats any more.
As I came down the avenue this
morning almost-empty buses passed
me. I saw a colored man watering
a pathetic little patch of lawn in
front of his two-story cottage. The
rest of the family were still asleep,
the bedroom windows were open. I
saw an old-fashioned ornate oil
lamp in one.
All rooms seem to be bedrooms in
Washington. The fine old resi
dences are turned into rooming
houses—many of them—and early in
the morning the windows are open.
In an hour thousands of govern
ment workers will be hurriedly
dressing behind carelessly drawn
shades, thefi jamming the now
empty buses w r ith all the roomy
comfort of steers in a cattlecar.
Between old, transmogrified resi- |
dences rise the new apartments.
Here and there are a few that
sprang into being when 1917 filled
the city with war workers.
They are frequently impressive
looking on the outside, built to sug- i
gest a French chateau. Inside, tiny
little boxes of rooms with low ceil
ings that the third floor windows can I
hardly see over the stills of the sec
ond floor of the residences next
door.
But the modern apartments that
are springing up like dandelions
these days do not go in for French fa
cades. They are the same boxes in- 1
side. Outside, there are ugly flat
walls with plenty of glass, the whole
entrance is glass. They look too
much like modern Moscow to please
my old-fashioned eyes.
THE STTMMRRVLLE NEWS. THURSDAY, JULY! 3. 1941
1
Holland News
Mrs. G. S. Holland and her sis
i ter, Mrs. Beulah Davis, left Mon-
I day for a six-weeks trip to the
west coast where they will visit
their sisters of Los Angeles and Seat
tle.
Miss Jo Hardwick, Mrs. Mary
Cloud and Margaret Cloud are vis-
I iting friends in Holland this week.
There will be a community picnic
on the fourth of July at Brlson’s
I Spring.
The W. M. U. will meet Thursday
afternoon with Miss Mamie Smith.
Miss Miriam Holland will arrive
j home today after a six weeks east-
I ern tour.
Miss Annie Davis of Rome is vis
j iting relatives here this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Duncan and
daughters spent Sunday with Mr.
j and Mrs. Clyde Stephenson.
Mrs. E. W. Moon and Mrs. Inez
Greer spent Saturday night in Hol
land.
Frank Worsham spent last week
: end in Chattanooga.
Mrs. Dan Smith spent several days
i m Rome last week.
Mrs. Virgil Medlock visited her
laughter, Mrs. Hill Clark, Sunday
and Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Andrews spent
Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Claud Ratliff.
Harold White of Lindale spent
Sunday night with his mother, Mrs.
C. H. White.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Alderhold of
j Birmingham spent the week-end
; with her mother.
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Strawn and
Sara Holland were in Rome shop
ping Monday.
Good Tidings
By Thomas Lynn)
Topic: Deception: Part 3.
Leading thought: How many
■hurches does the Bible recognize?
For previous Parts 1 and 2 read
.he News of the following dates:
day 22 and May 29.
The seventy disciples that Jesus
sent out returned, rejoicing that
she devils were subject to them.
3ut Jesus told them to rejoice not
because the spirits were subject to
.hem, but rather rejoice because
their names were written in heaven I
(See Luke 10:20. To continue this
übject, I will call your attention
to the word WHOSOEVER. I will
mote Rev. 3:5. He that overcom
2th, the same shall be clothed in
white raiment; and I will not blot
out his name out of the Book of.
Life, but will I will confess his name
before my Father, and before His
angels. Whosoever (the word who
soever, signifies that the plan of
salvation is open to all people of all
nations that will accept the gospel
through faith) therefore, shall con
fess me before men, him will I con
fess also before my Father which
is in heaven. Matt. 10:32.
Since Jesus is the first born from
the dead, (signifying the first to
rise from the dead. Matt. 27:53. 1
Cor. 15:20). and the head of the
church. Col. 1:18. He is the Son
of God. Luke 1:35. You and I bear
our father’s name. (For example:
A man’s name is Smith, he has a
son; he bears his father’s name,
Smith; this son marries a wife; she
must also bear the name, Smith.
For we are members of his body, of
his flesh, and of his bones. For
this cause shall a man leave his
father and mother and shall be
joined unto his wife, and they two
shall be one flesh. This is a great
mystery: but I speak concerning
Christ and the church. Eph. 5: SO
-32. We find the churches of Christ.
Rom. 16:16. But the wofd churches
refers to local bodies of the church
such as: the Church of God at
Corinth. 1 Cor.2. The church at
Babylon. 1 Peter 5:13. he church
of the Thessalonians. 1 Thess. 1:1.
As the wife bears the name of the
j husband, which bears the name of
his father, even so the church being
i the body of Christ, must bear ‘ his
j Father’s name, which is God. Jesus
prayed that the church might be
one, even as he and the Father are
one. (See St. John. 17:20-23.) You
■ can not separate God and Christ,
i therefore, the church of God is the
' only church that the Bible recog
nizes. But I want to make myself
* clear. There are several religious
bodies of people that call themselves
“The Church of God.” And yet
there is no two of them that preach
the same doctrine. They all claim
to be the Church of God, but their
doctrines don’t correspond with the
' Bible. It takes more than a name
to be the Church of God. Jesus
said, “Upon this rock (See Eph. 2:
19-20) I will build my church. (The
rock is the word of God.) Matt.
16:18. Any church teaching things
they can not establish by the Bible
could not possibly be the Church of
God. Read Gal. 1:8-9. 2 John 9.
The Church of God of the Union
Assembly invites anyone to analyze
its doctrine, invites all preachers to
I come and show where it is wrong
;on any point of doctrine that it
' teaches.
We claim to be the Church of
j God. and we are able to establish
the doctrine we teach by the Word
of God.
Lynn, Bennie and Shirley Gossett
] spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J.
; A. Evans and family.
I ™’’I MPROVED ~
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Dean of The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for July 6
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se«
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
THE GOSPEL IS TAKEN INTO
EUROPE
LESSON TEXT—Acts 16:6-15.
GOLDEN TEXT—Come over into Macedo
nia and help us.—Acts 16:9.
America is coming to the fore in
the thinking of a confused world as
the final hope of democracy and
religious freedom. Europe, or at
least most of Europe, represents in
our thinking dictatorship, a totali
tarian disregard for the personal
rights of man, including his freedom
to worship God according to the dic
tates of his own conscience.
It is therefore very appropriate
that on this “Fourth of July” Sun
day, when patriotism has been much
in our thoughts, that we remind our
selves in the study of our Sunday
school lesson that the roots of Amer
ican life, both cultural and religious,
reach back into the European soil
on which our forefathers dwelt.
Much of that which we as Chris
tians count precious has come to us
because Paul, the missionary, was
responsive to the leading of the Holy
Spirit and carried the gospel into
the heathendom of Europe, from
whence, in due time, it came to our
own land.
It was a crucial point in the his
tory of Christianity; yes, and of the
world, when the gospel came to
Europe.
I. By Providential Hindrance (vv.
6-8).
Not only are “the steps of a good
man ordered by the Lord” (Ps. 37:-
23), but his stops as well. That is
not an easy lesson to learn. Let us
remember that we may be as much
in the will of the Lord when all our
efforts are thwarted as when they
prosper.
Paul had set out on a second jour
ney to carry out a follow-up cam
paign in the cities where he had
already preached. This was a good
plan and had God’s blessing (see
v. 5). But soon we find that word
“forbidden” (v. 6) and then “suf
fered not” (v. 7). The Holy Spirit
began to close doors to the gospel
preacher. Now what? Shall he go
on in determined self-will? Or shall
he become discouraged and embit
tered in his soul? No, let him wait,
for God is guiding him by providen
tial hindrance, which is soon to be
followed
11. By Divine Guidance (vv. 9,
10).
The Spirit spoke to Paul in a
vision, revealing the divine purpose
that the gospel should go over into
Macedonia. ' The Spirit leads in our
day, poS?ibly not by visions, but by
impelling inward prompting com
plemented and checked by the teach
ing of Scripture and by providential
circumstances, and thus a man may
know what is the will of God for
him.
A word of caution is needed at this
point. Some earnest Christian peo
ple go astray by projecting their own
desires and purposes into the place
where they seem to be the will of
God, and thus do themselves and
others, and Christianity itself, much
harm. The three things should
agree—(l) the inner prompting of
the Spirit, (2) the teaching of God’s
Word, and (3)- God’s hand in our
outward circumstances.
If these three do not agree, the
Christian does well to wait, prayer
fully, expectantly, for the Lord’s
further guidance.
111. Through a Faithful Witness
(vv. 11-14a).
The gospel came to Europe be
cause Paul and his fellow workers
were faithful to their calling. When
God led, they went to Macedonia
(vv. 11, 12), where they sought out
those who were in th’e place of
prayer (v. 13). Paul spoke to them
about Christ (v. 14). There he met
the man of Macedonia who turned
out to be a woman. For some reason
the men were absent from the place
of prayer on that all-important Sab
bath morning. They were undoubt
edly the ancient counterpart of our
present day men who are “brothers
in-law” to the church, these foolish
men who seem to assume that a bit
of “religion” second hand through
the wife or children will suffice.
IV. Through a Receptive Heart
(vv. 14b-15).
God sent an obedient messenger
to the place where He had a pre
pared heart. Lydia was a woman
of distinction, business ability, and
high moral character. But she
knew, and Paul knew, that even
good people need to be saved. We
do well to keep that fact before us.
Paul spoke the truth of God, who
opened Lydia’s heart. Observe that
she pot only received the Word of
God into her own heart, but at once
gave herself to the task of passing
it on. The first thing she could do
was to give aid and comfort to the
messenger of the truth, and she did
that at once. Be assured that from
that day on she did all she could to
prosper the gospel on its way
through Europe and to the ends of
the earth. Have we done likewise?
DEFENSE CORPS
DRILLS RECENTLY
ROME, Ga., July 2.—The Rome
Unit, State Defense Corps, drilled
at the new filter plant last night.
In addition to the unit of twenty
-1 five men, ten reserves were pres
ent, making a total of thirty-five
men.
j Due to the new uniforms, and the
' arms, the unit presented an ex
cellent appearance, and their drill,
under Lieutenant Grant, was the
best seen so far in the 27th District.
After the drill, a problem in In
terior Guard Duty was worked out:
Guards being posted, and relieved.
Special orders passed on and the
usual routine of Army Guard Duty
1 performed.
1 Mr. Geller, a member of the New
1 York organization which corre
' sponds to the Georgia Defense
1 Corps, told of the splendid equip
j ment issued by the State of New
York. Each man is furnished a
1 uniform, raincoat, rifle, bayonet
and equipment, and they drill two
and a half hours, twice a week.
This, in New York City.
In the Rome Unit, and other units
of the Georgia State Defense Corps,
each man has to furnish his own!
uniform, and arms; and also his
iwn ammunition for target prac
tice.
State headquarters has sent]
Fourth Corps Area Headquarters a’
check for packing and freight!
charges on rifles, which should!
soon arrive.
The extremely effective work of i
Beulah Shropshire
Summerville, Ga.
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1 GORDON COHEN, MANAGER PHONE 144 SUMMERVILLE, GA
Captain Holt Brown and Lieutenant
Wallace Grant in building a unit
as effective as the Rome Unit, un
der these difficult conditions, is an
unusual and outstanding example
■ of the work of the State Defense
Corps as a whole.
MARK A. COOPER
In Georgia it is estimated that
, there are canning facilities availa
ble to care for four times the
amount of green beans, turnip
greens, tomatoes, and field peas
that have been canned in the past
, year.
Every pound of food moved by
the Food Stamp Plan is handled
I through the normal channels of
. trade.
The need today is for more pro
tective foods and for getting more
of these to the large maSses of the
population.
The prospective wheat supply in
the United States this year, includ
ing harvest and carry-over, is 1,-
20,000.000 bushels.
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