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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1935
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If the next war is to be fought by radioi
imagine listening to a shell-by-shell description.
—Birmingham News.
We have come to the conclusion that not mon
ey but theories about it are the root of all evil.—
Cincinnati Times-Star.
Everybody is bom free and equal, but some
are more fortunate in getting on the relief rolls.
—Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
In the last analysis federal aid is just taking
money from the people and giving it back to
them.—^Duluth News-Tribune.
Maybe, one of these days, the citizen who
doesn’t get a pension will be a curiosity.—St.
Joseph News-Press.
A Good Record
Congratulations to the Brushy Moun
tain Baptist Association B. Y. P. U. upon
making the standard of excellence.
Those who are acquainted with require
ments of reaching this standard in a single
union realize the work and study involved
in making an associational organization
attain the high mark.
Such a record on the part of the young
people in a church should encourage them
to leadership and service and deals a
telling blow to some who insist that the
coming generation is less interested in
religion and morals than the young i>eo-
ple of what is referred to as "the good old
days.”
Tax Somebody Else
One of the biggest fights in the legisla
ture in many years is in the offing at Ra
leigh, and the figdit will be over the tax
question.
Opponents of the sales tax, who insist
that the state’s revenues can be raised
some other way, have proposed a substi
tute plan to gain the tax from where they
say “the money is.”
The state administration, and what ap
pears to be a majority bloc in the legisla
ture, is advocating re-enactment of the
sales levy and declare that money cannot
be raised otherwise.
The observation we are making is that
people want a tax law that will get the
money from somebody else. When a tax is
proposed on any particular business or
type opponents of that measure crowd
into Raleigh to see what steps can be
taken to kill the measure. It has always
been that way and we are not looking for
the time when it will be othei*wise.
Renting Textbooks
According to state press reports there is
a growing sentiment in the North Caro
lina general assembly in favor of a rental
textbook plan for the schools of the state.
Many who favor the plan state that it is
more than probable that such a measure
will be passed before the legislature ad
journs.
Proponents of the Cherrj’-Bowie bill
for renting textbooks claim that such a
plan would save the people of the state
around $4,500,000 annually, which is quite
^ sizeable figure to the people of the com
monwealth.
Renting textbooks is not entirely a new
plan. It has been tried out in other
states and found to be moc'erately succe-ss-
fuL It has its many ple;ising features,
particularly the savings its effects for the
people.
However, as we see it, there would be
a great responsibility devolving upon
teachers and local school authorities in
regulating the use of the rented books
and maintaining strict discipline to pre
vent misuse and destruction of the state’s
property.
All of us know how school children are
apt to fail to take the proper care of pub
lic property. The difficulty in keeping
p^Tvp.s in windows will attest to that fact.
If a system of renting textbooks is placed
ig placed in the schools the child and the
child’s parents should be held strictly re-
^nsible for treatment to the textbooks
oaed.
Penticm And I^mors
Hon.' R. L:’Doughtonf"ch8irman "’^of
the Ways and Means Committee in the
iiational congresa, is nationally known
as quite a level-headed man and he has
branded the originator of the Town
send pension plan as ‘'public enemy
number one.”
Townsend, a California man, started
the talk for old age pensions of $200
per month. This talk has gained nation
wide attention and has created a feel
ing among the. people that no good
will come out of.
It has created among the minds of
the people the impression that the gov
ernment is all powerful in that it can
hand out money in vast suras to every
body when as a matter of fact the gov
ernment can spend only what the peo
ple can pay in taxes.
Paying every person over 55 $200
per month would mean doubling the
present taxes. Doubling the present
taxes would mean the downfall of mil
lions and would result in chaos and
revolution. It is an impossibility in every
sense of the word.
Old age pensions will come. They
are on the present program but about
one eighth of the proposed Townsend
plan benefits will be paid, is our opin
ion. Of course this" money will have to
be raised from the people.
When the people of this nation rea
lize that what the government pays out
must be paid to the government by the
people it will be easier for the govern
ment to operate. Such men as townsend
poison the minds of the people and
make it difficult for the government to
actually present something workable.
lino of wUch rwds,
I KAAK ^ir Bible,’’
a HRe a#Wga oontstaM. four groat tresBures.
giwt tresBurOB.
By BRUCE BARTON
DAVID
As long as the nature of boys remains what it
always has been. David will have a fresh army
of admirers with each new generation, for he is
the original of all Jack-the-giant-killer stories
and has been the hero of boyhood for three
thousand years.
With the exception of St. Paul no human
character occupies so large a place in the Bible;
of none are we given so vivid and compelling a
picture. The most minute traits and character
istics are set forth in such a way as to make cer
tain that the portrait was drawn from life.
What a portrait and what a life! A red-headed
shepherd boy, tending his flocks and playing his
tunes in the lonesome fields, he is sent up to
the army at the critical moment when its forces
are paralyzed by the menace of the giant
Goliath. What the swords of the stoutest war
riors have been powerless to accomplish, he
achieves by a well directed shot from his shep
herd’s sling and becomes immediately a national
idol. Triumphantly he is carried to the court
while the bands play and the pretty girls sing
and dance.
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And the women answered one another as
they played, and said, Saul hath slain his
thousands, and David his ten thousands.
Small wonder that Michal. the king’s daughter,
loved him and became his wif’; small wonder
that Jonathan, the king’s son, formed a friend
ship with him which is one of the most beautiful
in all history. Small wonder either that the
king himself was jealous and resentful.
-4nd Saul wa.s very wroth, and the saying
displeased him: and he said, They have as
cribed unto David ten thousands, and to me
they have ascribed but thousands; and what
can he have more but the kingdom?
And Saul eyed David from that day and
forward.
The jealous eyes of Saul, who was in a place
too big for him and finally went mad trying to
fill it, drove David out of the court and into the
wilderness where soldiers of fortune rallied to
him from various motives, and built up a lusty
young army which, to his credit, he kept well
disciplined and free from the grosser -crimes of
guerrilla warfare. Neither the king’s forces nor
his plots could prevail against the young man’s
destiny.
In a previous chapter we have referred to his
conquests, his qualities as an administrator, the
sin which forms the one black spot upon his
reputation, a sin, by the way, which was not so
extraordinary in a king of that period and would
perhaps have been forgotten but for the magmi-
ficent humility of his repentance, and the Psalms
that are his eternal claim to remembrance.
‘’PHBSIDENTIAL HVBDliBS
Washington. Feb. 18. (Aut^
caster).—^There ■ three major
differences between the Free!-
dent and influential groups p In
both Tiouses of Congress, without
counting the Bonus legislation
which has not yet come to a
head.
Those major matters which
are going to call for all the tact,
political skill and firmness
which the President possesses
do not include the numerous
minor and unorganized expres
sions of discontent. Those may
all be swept'astde and forgotten
it the outcome of the major
items discloses that Mr. Roose
velt still retains control of the
Federal Government in most of
its branches. If his program and
his policies in respect to any
one of the disputed matters
should be overthrown, his prest
ige would be somewhat impaired.
That is why the President has
called upon the most vigorous
and respected Democrat in eith
er bouse. Senator Carter Glass of
Virginia, to come to his aid in
this crisis. Senator Gla.ss .has
been more open in criticism of
the New Deal than any other
Democrat, almost as vigorous as
any Republican.
Senator Glass scoffe.i at NRA
when it was instituted, refused
to sign the Newspaper Code on
behalf of his two Lynchburg pap
ers, or to fly the Blue Eagle.
That was after he had refused
Mr. Roosevelt’s request to be
come Secretary of the Treasury,
the post he held in the latter
years of the Wilson Administra
tion, because he could not see
eye to eye with the President on
financial policies. He has been
outspoken in opposition to num
erous dministration projects, in
the last Congress as well as in
this one.
.Appeal To Glas.s
It came as a surprise to Wash
ington, therefore, when news
leaked out that the President
had personally telephqped to
Senator Glass for aid in getting
the “work relief’ out of com
mittee in the precise form in
which it went in. That is the |4.-
880,000,000 bill to take all em
ployable persons off the dole and
put them on public works at an
average wage of $50 a month.
Harry Hopkins reports that a-
bout 2 1-4 millions of men have
already been so shifted. A fairly
complete program to do the same
for another 6 million is said to
be ready to start on whenever
Congreas acts.
The opposition on Capitol Hill
is to the $50 wage. 'The Preei
dent’s view is that the whole
scheme would be scuttled if the
demand for the "prevailing rate
of wages” were complied with.
Arrayed against him are the in
fluences of organized labor and
of the business organizations
who are opposed to any exten
sion of public works, but think
the straight dole Is preferable.
The appeal to Senator Glass was
an appeal to save the entire pro
ject.
Pensions and Banking
’Next in immediate importance,
in the President’s mind, is the
complicated Old - Age - Pension
Unemployment - Insurance mea
sure. It is hardly expected that
he can count on Senator Glass’
help in this. The whole thing is
conceded to be a muddle. The
plan as presented to Congress is
regarded as half-baked and
the PmMent cun’ bring to bear
will* not get It throngb CottgMia
In anything like its present
If at all. -
Nobody on Capitol Hill n^^
stands the pension bill yet, and
leu^at the other,end of Penn
sylvania Ayenne. ’The reason.- for
its hasty introduction, it now'
becomes clear,, was to bead off
what seemed like even wilder
proposals, such as the Townsend
Plan; but Congress has refused
to be stampeded Into hasty ac
tion On this measure.
Ofeven heater consequence is
the nW Banking Bill, drawn np
by Secretary Hergenthan, Gov
ernor Eccles of the Federal Re
serve Board, and the President
himself. It is another and vigor
ous attempt to place all banking
and credit control in the hands
of a single Federal agency, the
Federal Reserve system, with the
Secretary of the Treasury direct
ly in command. The purpose is
to enable the central bank thus
formed to issue orders to all
banks as to what they may lend
and On what security, thus mak
ing credit inflation possible on
an almost unlimited scale. In
stead of the liquidity, which has
been the aim of all bankers since
the crash of 1929, when their
“frozen loans*' got them into
trouble, this bill would permit
and encourage commercial banks
to lend on long-term mortgages,
to industries and businesses for
long-term working capital—pre
cisely the opposite practice that
has been urged on them the past
three years. •
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Former Emperor William was a world fi
gure at one time, but now he doesn’t seem to
amount to a Doom.—Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch.
A generation now growing up in this cc’un-
try is just learning to pick a thin dime off a
wet bar.—Detroit News.
There is some satisfaction in the fact that
when every man’s a king, Huey won’t be a sen
ator.—Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
In China when a man doesn’t pay his debts,
they remove his door. If such a policy was
pursued in this country we would be famous
for our open door policy.—Greensboro (Ga.)
Herald-Journal.
looks now as if all the influence
Senator Glass, who as the
principal author of the Federal!
Reserve Act and as former Sec-;
retary of the Treasury, is held j
by many Democrats to be the J
best authority in America on
banking matters, has already
come out outspokenly against
the new banking bill. He is pre
pared to wage the fight of his
career against the Administra
tion’s plan, and the betting is at
least even, if not slightly better,
that he will win out. The fight
will be between a veteran Sena
tor of proved fighting qualities
and a President of whose stamina
in pitched battle neither Con
gress or the nation has bad any
experience as yet.
There isn't any question that
a great many Congressmen and
a larger proportion of Senators
have been stung by the criticisms
directed against Capitol Hill as
a whole, and are ready to seize
any substantial pretext for dis
playing their independence.
There is no special signifi
cance in the removal’ of Jerome
Frank and his followers from
the AAA. Secretary Wallace has
learned how to run his own de
partment and he and Chester
Davis, AAA administrator, are
pulling together as never before.
Mr. Wallace, moreover, has
learned a lot about Congression
al politics and how to play them.
An old gentleman, rather il
literate, had written a letter to
Sears and Roebuck.
Looking at the letter his son
said, “Pop you can’t read your
own letter: how do you 'apect
Sears and Roebuck to read it?”
“I know I can't read it, but
dem folks up there baa got more
education than me.”
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