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Jt, PAGE FOUR THE NEWS - JOURNAL, RAEFORD, N. C THURSDAY, DEC 16th, 1943 The News-Journal Hoke County News Hoke County Journal Est. January, 1, 1929 Est. May 15, 1911 By Taul Dickson By D. Scott Poole Consolidated November 1, 1929 JiJK Published Thursdays At P Raeford, North Carolina Subscription Rates: $2.00 Per Year In Advance For Servicemen H-M PerYear DOIGALD COXE, Editor-Manager Entered as second-class mail matter at the post office at Raeford, N. C, under Act of March 3, 1870. A Southern Party That blustery politician and wardheeler, Guf fey, who machined his way into the Senate from Pennsylvania, set off some unexpected firworks last week when he attacked the Southern dele gation of the upper house. North Carolina's Bailey and Virginia's Byrd called his hand, and quickly. Mr. Bailey for got his dignified and scholarly demeanor while denouncing the Pennsylvanian and went into arm-flailing action. Then, by the way of an ef fective answer to Guffey's charges of "an un holy alliance" between the Southern Democrats and the Northern Republicans, he proposed that the Democratic party of the south cut its ties with that of the North and act entirely independently. Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina, vigorously opposed for re-election by the administration several years ago, took the floor the following day and added an argument for Bailey's proposal that "southern states organize their own Democratic party," and then nominated Senator Byrd as its presi dentir.l candidate with a plea that the South "Stand by its self respect and vote the way it should." Smith declared that the one-party southland "made possible the election of a gang (from the North) that is now disgracing the party." And concluded that the South could gain the balance of power in national elections by forming an independent party of their own and control the electoral college. Until the 1935 national convention the South controlled the convention while the by-laws of the Democratic convention required a two thirds majority fo rthe nomination of nationel candidates. Through a maneuver, the reasons for the acceptance of which have never been un derstood, this rule was changed to allow nomin ation on a majority vote. The southern folks have seadily lost ground in national matters within the party ever since. Today the southern states are taken for granted by party bosses with the dead-sure certainty that when a vote is counted they will still be on the right side of the column, even if they nominate such a de testable fellow as Henry Wallace. The South was forced to swallow him for the vice presidency when the crooked Kelly machine of Chicago tied up with Harry Hopkins to shove him down their throats at the 1940 con vention. From the present dressing-up he's getting, the next Chicago convention will be prepared to shove him into Mr. Roosevelt's place at the head of the ticket. The people of the South are Democratic be cause they have been raise to believe that they should place salvation in "God and the Democratic Party." And for many voters it would be ?s great a sacrilige to denounce aduly nominated Democratic candidate as to besmirch the Cloth from a pulpit. Yet, the same type of people .vl.o in the southland are Democratic leaders find themselves associating with a great ly different breed when they enter the precinct clubs of tl'.e party in one of the larger northern cities. There the conservative, middle class folks and the substantial farm people are members of the Republican party, while their rii. , iff neigh bors make up the Democratic ranks. Add its our southern inristence upon voting the 'V.raight De mocratic ticket" even if you know a certain can didate is a thief, crook, and a dastprd, that enables the crooked parly machines of Jersey City, of Chicago and others cities, to maintain their places in local and national affairs. Mr. Bailey has hit upon an oft-su -"cst and much discussed plan that should be vt, - ser iously considered by the citizenrv of f--- outh land. It is no idle comment that v.v have as sociated ourselves with a strange creed from the larger cities whom Senator Smitli asserts "we wouldn t recognize as being Democrats in the South. A southern Democratic party, free and independent of any affiliation beyond the boundaries of this section would give us a power of selection of candidates in national elect.ons never before enjoyed, and offer a freer selection in aligning with the strongest and most acceptable candidates of either of "the other national parties. Then in the Cores' our senators and representatives would not be bound to support legislation offered whk-h thev deamed unfavorable to the South or to the nat ion, just because it was a party measure. Mr. Bai'ey you've got something that should appeal to every conservative Democratic of the south, but won't. The City Bumpkin Time was when the city fellow felt like he had the world by the tail and his country cousin was, at best, just plodding sort of guy who didn't know how to live. But with rationing 'neverything hitting hardiest in the cities many are envying the farmer his fortunate lot. Nostalgia or the point system must have been bearing down pretty hard on the editor ial writer for the St. Louis "Post - Dispatch" who dished out the following little tribute to life on the farm: It's hog-killing time, they say, with plenty of backbone and ribs. And fresh liver. The walnuts have been gathered and spread in the open to dry. Hickory nuts are in the cel lar, and so are the potatoes. Turnips and cabbage are holed in to keep long past Christmas. Cordwood is stacked high by barn. Life goes on back where man and the soil are friends. There we would be, come this week end if only we had gasoline and tires, or maybe just a good old nag and a saddle. O OPINIONS and SENTIMENTS From Other Editors Language of Mercy (Christian Science Monitor) ". . . and on earth peace, good will toward men." In a recent article in the London Spectator, Harold Nicolson tells of a visit to Danish Jew ish refugees in Sweden, paying tribute to Swed en for that country's aid to the refugees and also paying a tribute to the English language worth remembering. "In a gallery which ran along the main build ing several Jewish families were waiting to have their names and occupations entered on a card index," he says. "As we entered the gal lery, policemen sprang to attention and a spasm flashed in the faces of the refugees. I raised my voice and said something loud in English. Immediately they grinned slyly at each other knowing that each for a horrible second had supposed that the Gestapo had come, Never until that moment had I realized the confidence, the relief a few words of the English language can inspire." Those whose mother tongue is English may well be proud that this language is coming to be known throughout the earth as the lang uage of peace, of mercy, and protection. Doubt less the opportunity will increase with the com ing years, to prove this. WhatLine? (Charlotte Observer) Somebody didn't "hold that line" when wages paid some workers in an airplane plant ran from $40 a day upward. This plant is under investigation on charges of wastefulness because after an expenditure of more than 13 million dollars- and two years' time only one plane has been produced. Forget about that, though, if your blood pressure will let you and consider inflation. The line against inflation can never be held as long as authorities look for more and bigger ratholes down which to pour money. Government economists reiterate that higher taxes must be imposed in order to siphon off increased income; that the $40 a week man must have most of it taken from him. Why? Apparently so it can be immediately put back into circulation by paying it to a $40 a day fellow. Test Flight Of The Mars (Baltimore Evening Sun) Secretary Knox yesterday announced the successful completion of the first war rr;sion of the navy's flying bent Mars. The big plane set the fo'lowing i eenrds: Longest over-water flight; Heaviest air cargo S."),000 pouMs; Heaviest load ever lifted bv a plane 143,500 pounds gross at the take-off; Longest non-stop carca fflicht 8,972 miles in 55 hours 31 minvtes' f'virg time. These ar-; imyreive statistics. Theq will be espoc'liy gratify in-, howtr, to the men who built the r.-.d nursed it through critical periods of ;hc debt a..d disaster, in its first flight test, or .hat was to have been a flight the big boat ran into hard luck. It taxied out on Dark Head creek from middle river on Dec ember 5.1911, and while high officials looked on it went out of control, caught fire and lost one engine. A -iropeller blade smashed through the hull and came close to decapitating the flight engineer. Though tittn-ly disappointed, the men who had built the Mars still had faith in the huge plane. Subsceurnt successful flights proved to their own satisfaction that they had a good craft. Thry continued to believe despite the re port of tne Truman committee in July of this year that the Mars had not befn put to anv prac tical use and it was "relatively worthVV' So the work of refitting the plane s a car .o 'car rier went on, and earlv hst month Bal r r.-n-began getting glimpses of the biggest pl;,o .SC" had ever seen as the Martin engineers guve it the final testing before turning jt over "to the navy trial board. ' The Secretary of the Davy's official announce ment of the Mai"; chifvenrnt donS murh to vindicate thp faith which the builders put in this magnifisent winged "Liberty ship." Rfhtmr' a t TOjWP'i'Jf By-PAULMALLOrCS?' Released by Western Newipaper Union. ONLY PLEASANT ANGLES DISCUSSED BY HILL WASHINGTON. Since Moscow, Mr. Hull has mentioned only the pleasant things in agreement. Sen ators had planned to call him into a closed meeting of the foreign rela tions committee to ask the impor tant questions in their minds, not in a spirit of criticism but in pure in quisitiveness. Mr. Hull adroitly smothered this inclination by getting himself invited to address the joint open session of both houses, where no questions would be in order. This blurred outline of the peace and the new world may be main tained only a short time, perhaps less than a few weeks, before some additional details are offered. But not until the agreement is applied in action in specific cases is there likely to be a determination on the questions now far from the attention of the public, but naturally agitating all insiders including the negotiators such matters are the relative in fluence of Anglo-American democ racy and socialist-collectivism in Finland, Germany, Poland, the Bal kans and even in France, Italy, in deed in China, and throughout the rest of the world in trade and po licing. Mr. Hull is not trying to be coy in avoiding these matters, and thus keeping them from the public eye. I have reason to believ he has sot himself a goal beyond the expecta tions of freer-flowing international spouters today. He wants unity on foreign policy in this country, a unity which would remove it from the fie)d of politics. It is all right for us to argue among ourselves about domestic is sues, but we should face the world as one people. If we cannot estab lish peace at home, how can we aspire to establishing world peace. Conversely if the Stalin-Churchill-Roosevelt meeting (promised by London dispatches) results in a par tisan alignment or lets Europe fall into realms of struggle between such elements as democrats, comrac' nists. church and all the familiar conflicting ideological elements, large groups in this country will start protesting the Moscow, agree ment and they may become within a short time more unpopular than the Munich agreement which was also erroneously thought at the time to mean peace. People have been cheering the Moscow agreements for one reason only. They showed a hope of democ racy, empire and socialist-collectivism to live in the world peaceably together. In that hope this nation is unanimous. The development seemed less important to some of us, because we expected nothing else. Of course the three great post war powers should live in agreement. Any other course would be stupid, is unthinkable. The question bigger than that one, is what kind of an agreement, what kind of a world? ' Mr. Hull has brought us to this cross-roads, but the deciding factor of the road we will travel, and whether we will go. in sensible unity as we should and must, is yet to be determined. WAR'S END SOONER IF IIITLES TRIES GAS Hitler said the United States was too far away but he could lay his hands on someone near and make them suffer for United Nations deeds against him. He could only have' meant England, bemuse ho has net only let go of the tail of the Russian Rear but is running for dear life with his l ands fully occupied. llns threat lent stiperflcia! ere dence to n suspic'on thil has iirromc world-wide, that Dor Fuehrer is pre paring a last gasp, do-or-die inva sion of Britain, based on the use o! gas. Mr. Churchiil, in his last speech, seemed to warn his people to be aleit for some- such attack. Everyone here hopes Hitler tries it, the sooner the better. It would bring an abrupt ternination of t; iu war. The threat of gas does not have the horrors for military mon that have been transmitted to the general public by the adventure magazines. Despite all the isolated instances discussed brfk and forth, it prob ably has not been used in this war except on one occasion by the Japs in China. Smoke shells and bombs have been used but not gas. Our enemies have not avoided it for hu mane reasons, but because the phys ical limitations on its use (bulkiriess, weather) prevent it from brinqi.'g decisive results. Thousands of planes would be necessary to wipe out a small city under perfect conditior.3. Invasion Impossible. For any invasion of England, Hit ler must have an air force capable of meeting and beating what we have there. He cannot muster such a force, so he cannot successfully invade, with or without gas. Just remember this in any talk about gas: The way it can be most effectively usrd is by spray or bomb from airplanes. We have both the : lanes and the sas to make su.h use extremely pi ecticahle it anyone opens up the subject. TI.e cl arce that it will be used is. therefore more cemote than ever before. .WHICHEVER WINS, WE All LOSEI i ruin t. tfefix POOLE'S MEDLEY By D. SCOTT POOLE William Green is distressed over the possibility of the Germans being sent into the countries they have overrun and, as slaves, be made to labor to reside the damages they have clone. That would be good for them. Fret no longer, William. Gad has placed ores in the earth, but lr.an must smelt and fashion these ores into things useful and ornnmental. There are trees in the forest, but ron must fell. cut. saw and fashion these into homes or ships. There are precious metals in the earth, but these must be mined. Labor, ye-, or we will have nothing usef''! or ornamental. I have been young, but now I am old, but I have never asked man to do anything fcr me I would not do myself. I have never sought an easy tck. leaving the heavier work for ' an hireling." Those men who feel they are better are never quite so good in fact. This fall, and so far this winter has been better weather than I have ever known in former years, I do believe. All last winter, or I should say, several times last winter, there were appearances of snow, and fcr a week, and more the sunshine and the partially-cloudy sky indicated snow. Your great grand children will be paying b:th st..to ?nd national sales taxes. Future generations will dis cuss the good eld thy, of the period before second Wo, Id ''"out 90 to 100 years fr m now. The World War II pensioners will require lot? of taxes.. Influenza is prevalent, it is said to be a virulent type of the disease, in England and other European coun tries, and in the U. S. You may re ran, the flu scourge of 1919 and 1920. It a5 said 100,000 men in mid dle life died in America, of that dis ease. During the Civil War, sickness swept numbers of children and a dults away, it was said, because there were no medicines. You have heard it sai;'.; troubles never come singly, and that is true, I believe. Anyway, numbers of children d.etl with "purid s re throat," and common icknesscs. 'Our Bob" Reynolds is election eering for president by sending out posies, feelers, to numbers of people in the state. Some people may vote for whose ever "Bob" he may be, however, 1 would advise that the of i ice be abolished, if men like Rey nolds can be elected t it. " I do not like being too much mix ed in with the titled Englishmen. It was resolved that there be no titles in America, but members of Ameri cans are craving extra titles; First thing we know, we will have lords and earls and suchlike. One such would fit Reynolds. We had a very cold winter in 1942-43, and we may have even a colder winter this year. Cold kills insects, and pulverizes soil. But sandy soils need nothing but something to kill the seed of cucklcburs, sand spurs, burmuda grass and nut grass. We think we can't stand it, but we can. We can bear more than we have yet borned, and live, most of us. You have never known hard times, but you will before the present war is history. I said soon after .the pesent war started, that famine would stop it, and I am still of that opinion. The Japs can du on less than other people, so they will all have to be knocked out before we can have peace. The Republicans believe they will sweep the country next election and they may. Troubles never come singly, Isay again. A political party always beats itself before it remains in power long. It is the opinion and of most news wi iters that labor will be as scarce next year as it was this, and I suspect they are right. People are awfully lazy, and show no signs of improvement. 8 3MU .... t 11 OUR DEMOCRACY- -byMat Ml '.MIA So shall wc Rcap. dm II, . v:-it" ,yam iw i 'WA&NMKi. if ia4m X. -A Iff i mm mm V V4 -rSfif . occes fight to win the war ; 73 heup them win it. ..citing what we reap r .iOM OUR LABOR INTO WAR BONDS, SAVINGS ACCOUNTS, LIFE INSURANCE H DO O'Jii PAST TOMAK A etiTTEK. TOMORROW FOfi THEM AND FOR OURSELVES. 1
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