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THURSDAY. AUG. 19,1937
When 111)000 Americans Died
A generation has passed since the
sinking of the Titanic, yet that great
disaster is still well remembered. Fif
teen hundred persons died.
The Johnstown flood will never be
forgotten—the world war aghast when
the death total of 2,209 was tabulated.
The World War was the most sanguin
ary conflict in histjory. In it, 50,000
Americans lost their lives, and they are
still mourned.
The recent Texas school explosion,
which killed 294 children, brought uni
versal sympathy and horror.
Yet last year 111,000 Americans met
accidental death—more than twice as
many as were killed in the great war—
and it caused hardly a ripple in the flow
of news. We read of some of those ac
cidents in our paper—“John Jones, aged
45, died in an emergency hospital after
being struck by an automobile””—turned
the page, and forgot them. This as
tounding callousness—this attitude of
“Accidents always happen to the other
fellow, not to me or mine”—is death’s
greatest ally.
Among men, heart disease is the only
thing which kills more than accidents.
Such plagues as cancer, tuberculosis,
pneumonia—plagues which are being
fought by all the resources of science—^
are down the list. Recklessly driven au
tomobiles, bums, falls, drownings, and
so on—these are the great killers.
Practically every accident is prevent
able—and this is especially true of the
motor car, greatest of all the great kill
ers. Care, competence, courtesy—these
make up the accident prevention trium
virate. It's up to you—to all of us.
Farm Legislation
Congress in the next se.ss on is expect
ed to pass another crop cpntrol bill to
aid the farmers.
Those who would thus aid the farm
ers are of the opinion that farm.ers, col
lectively speaking, are not able or are
not willing to produce according to de
mand. The re.sult, they sa'". has been
great surpluses of crops that drive prices
down below the point where the farmer
can realize a profit sufficient to main
tain his home.
However, it is our firm conviction that
surpluses t^ould be unknown w^ere it
not for faults in an economic .system and
a system of distribution that allows for
burning wheat for fuel while thousands
go hungry for ack of bread.
If the people |Of this nation could buy
according to the wants and actual needs
and the export market hold up, farmers
would be up against a difficulty in pro
ducing enough.
It is a complicated problem which
we do not attempt to solve. While su
gar grow'ers clamor for higher prices and
government aid, farmers in a greater
area must buy sugar. The same applies
to other crops, particularly cotton and
tobacco, which g^ow only in certain
parts of the country.
And if crop control goes too far the
export market is ruined. Without an
export market American farmers would
be in bad shape, especially true relative
to growers of tobacco, c'otton and wheat.
As prices of American farm products
go up, foreigners begin to make arrange
ments for growing these crops them
selves and often when tariff protection
s inadequate they compete in our own
markets for American consumers.
Thus the situation presents a picture
where moderation seems to be the better
course. If we as a nation go radical to
ward one group we hurt another. If
we go too far in socially raising pric
es we destroy the export market and in
vite competition.
There are two ways of looking at the
rising cost of living. One is the opti
mistic approach, which points out that
the necessaries of life still cost less zhan
'they did at the peak o!f the boom, in
1929. The pessimistic angle is that costs
have been climbing steadily since the
bottom of the depression, in 1938.
The important fact, however, is that
we have to pay out of our 1987 incomes,
and the drain on this year’s pocketbook
is greater than it was a year ago. The
The latest report by the U. S. Depart
ment of Labor shows that it costs 13 per
cent more to pay the rent, keep the pan
try stocked and buy the usual clothes
than it did four years ago, and that a
quarter of that increase has come about
in the past year.
Rents have gone up faster than food,
and food faster than clothing.
The question whether incomes have
gone up at an equal or faster rate is
something else again. There is no ques
tion that more people are on payrolls or
otherwise earning a living than there
were a short time ago. But otherwi.cr
these incomes are as much higher than
the incomes people received who earned
anything at all in the years of low prices
is not so certain.
That is what really counts. It is not
so important whether pork chops cost 25
cents a pound or a dollar a pound, a.s
whether we are getting enough dollars
to pay whatever they cost. If some kind,
of a dollar could be invented which
would always have the same purchasing
power, and everybody could be assured
of having enough of those dollars, -shat
a nice place this world would be for
everybody.
Seeing America
We read the other day of a railroad
conductor who has just retired on a pen
sion after forty years on one run of a
hundred miles or so, back and forth be
tween two cities. He said he was going
to spend the rest of his life riding on
trains, to see all the places he had heard
his passengers talk about.
The average American of today has a
better opportunity of seeing the real Am
erica than anyone ever had before, and
more millions are taking advantage of
that opportunity this year than ever be
fore. With good, reliable automobiles
within everybody’s reach, and g;ood
roads running everywhere and even to
the very edge of nowhere, there is no
reason except lack of energy or curiosi
ty why anybody should grow up in Am
erica without becoming familiar with
the whole of his own country by the
time he is thirty or so.
To know one’s country is to love it.
There is no better lesson in patrioti.sm
and no pleasanter way to teach it than
to put the children into the car and take
them touring around the United States,
for as much of the summer vacation pe
riod as the family’s time and pocketbook
will stand.
Sunday School Lesson
By REV. CHi»JtLES E. DUNN
There is a close analogy between hearing a
si.iipleton “lambast” a real man, and seeing a
mouse try to drag an elephant by the tail.
RELIGION’S PLACE IN A NATION’S LIFE
Lesson for Augu.st 22nd. Exodus 25:1-40
GOLDEN TEXT: PSALM 33:12
Our lesson topic could hardly be more timely
in view of what is happening to the organized
forces of Christ today. Not long agi) Martin
Niemoller, staunch champion of an uncomptomis-
ing Christianity, was arrested by the Gestapo,
the Nazi secret police, and thrown into prison.
Again and again this heroic Lutheran pastor has
openly defied the authorities, insisting that rath
er than subscribe to Nazi paganism he would
burn down his influential church.
This dramatic incarceration, of a preacher of
the gospel is one illustration, among many, of
the bitter warfare between church and state in
contemporary Germany. One the one side .stand
all of the churches, both Catholic and Protestant,
united, despite former differences, by a common
peril and a common platform stressing the fun
damental teachings of Christ and proclaiming
liberty of conscience. On the other side stand.s
the totalitarian man’s highest ideal, and its doc
trine of race as a divine revelation.
For a parallel to this clash between hostile sys
tems of thought one must go back to the days
prior to the Emperor Constantine. Once again
the Christian movement finds itself in sharp con
flict with the prevailing culture of its day, and
once again Christian folk are called upon to her
ald the eternal sovereignty of Christian values.
The foes of religion are too powerful and well
organized to be deterred by a complacent church.
Christianity is now facing quite as severe a
test as in past crisis. Many feel it has po real
chance of survival. But as we look over his
tory’s pages we observe that our Christian faith
an amazing power rf recuperation. God of iny
has
give it grace, in its present oi^eal of fire, “to
strive, to seek, td find, and not to yield.”
Housed pitrpoee.
Pedet^ goveru^eut to fo^
Ing into' hpmc-haildtng in a
way. Undar Use II new .Wagner
Housing Act It propoeee pro
vide 1700,000,000 in the._di^t
three years to finance Jthe build
ing of better homes for the poor,
and $20,000,000 a year more for
twenty years. The work irill be
done under Federal snperrlsioit
and the rents charged 1 vtlll be
regulated by the Ghwernment.
The cost of these boases to
ed by law to $1,0001 a room or
$4,000 for ,eacfa home of four
rooms, whether In an apartment
or In a separate houee, exclusive
of the value of the land.
The humanltardan purpose be
hind this project Is based upon
the assumption that one-third of
the people of the United ftates
are inadequately housed. Tbat
may be true enough, but I won
der how many of that lower third
can Or ever will 'be able to pay
rent which will yield even 1 per
cent net on such costs.
I haven’t any statistics—there
aren’t any—ibut I’ll venture that
most of the other two-thirds of
Americans, the comfortable ones,
IdVe in houses which cost far lees
than $1,000 a room.
• • •
COSTS ........ variance
I have had quHe a bit ol ex
perience, in the past 40 years, in
house-building, both in city and
country. I am not talking
through my hat when I sdy that
in New York City, where build
ing costs are as high as they are
anywhere, a good modern apart
ment house can be built for lees
than $750 a room. I have done
4t, at a time wihien building ma
terials and labor costs much
more than they do today.
In small towns the cost of
building is far lower. I have re
cently been getting estimates ol
the cost of building two live-
room houses on lots my daught
er owns, one in a Florida city,
one in a Pennsylvania village.
For $2,500 in Florida, $3,500 in
Pennsylvania, where cellar and
heating equipment have to be fi
gured in, fhe can build a live-
room house which nobody would
be ashamed to live in.
It is easy to say that the hous-
ee for the poor which Govern
ment proposes to build under the
Wa^er Act need not oo4t as
mdeb ai tfit maximum allowance.
I never heard of. any Govern
ment bureau spending less than
the law allows.
• • •
RENTS tenants
If the new Housing Act actual
ly does, as its friends say it will,
stimulate the building industiy
ail over the country, then per
haps it will be worth what it
cost!. But I have my doubts that
it wiji benefit the people whom
it is designed to benefit—at
least, not directly. The low-in
come people; the ones who are
now inadequately housed live
that way, because they don’t
earn enougli to pay the rent
which it would take to provide
better accommodations, even
with no profit at all to the land
lord.
Tibey are talking about rent
ing these new Government fi
nanced houses at around $20 a
month. That would be a bargain
rate in the cities, for families
with incomes of $25 a week or
so. It would be a high rental
most small towns. I think the
people who earn good pay would
goibble up these new homes and
leave only the old and less de
sirable places for the very poor
to live in.
That is tb© way every better
housing plan I know anything
about has worked.
* * •
NEGROES .... accommodations
A'bout twelve per cent of the
people of the United States are
negroes. The great majority of
them belong in the “underprivi
leged third’’ of the population.
Few negroes have steady jobs at
good enouigh wages to enable
them to nay rents based on what
new, modern housing would re
quire.
I inspected, a few weeks ago,
tib© largest Federal Housing pro
ject for negroes so far romplet
ed, at Miami, Florida. It is a
beautiful group of brick apart
ment buildings, forming a quad'
rangle around a park and play
ground which covers two acres
ort more. The buildinlgs are fire
proof, the rooms large, light and
airy and equipped with every
modern convenience. The (enants
have the use of big commun
ity house, with a recreation hall,
commodious kitchens and rooms
for classes in sewing, domestic
science, and other subjects.
I have many white friends
wiiD are not nearly so comfort
ably boused. I would ’think 4t
no hardship myself to ’ live la
such pleasant narrotuidiugs a-
f$;S0 to$6 a *eek'"ara'fortan^
gtn among tkelr kind’la
,able to pay such reolah,"^ :i:?|fe
.The nation as a wttoto »iitjU
jtiuing i t^fle Murtart. of
'homes. We Xavn oMy iljut
to take npn|he alMk cassnd^lur
the almost Complete snspenatoa’
of new house Bni1dlng^ijor~Bir«
years. 'lie
In'my home village there are
six or seven real estate agents,
^ery one of th^ra gets inqnlrton
every from persons loc^clng
To aS aM fer an whmn it Imay
cdboi^ I- sriHiiit a few
cpnci^mn>g tito-meattnflr^l)^ "tA
for hottto.to rant, and thera a#{Sr«aSXn'*'?S^
no vacancies. Several laree fac- /m wlnda atont ShologlinlB fanMa
no vacoQciea. Several large fae-
in nMrhy^ltira have been
ta^idg on more worken, and
these newcomers can’t find piac-
ea to live. Every carpenter, brick-
Inyv. plumber and electrician in
to^n ihas more work than he can
do on new bnildings' going up all
around us. TQae lumber yards
can’s get building materials as
fast as the contractors demand
them.
I am all for better bousing for
everybody, but I’d rather see the
Government lend its money to
help people build and own their
own homes first.
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jyites'Able To See
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PULSE
Thin to «. cofanu even to thn
top tne expreaaion. Tke
doe* not m-'
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senr^lng, beattngv
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■plotting to potobn the Stty'e ,%st-
er snppiy, «4tile .tbounade - of
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food' al 4hn' hadTlcj^edl ^
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bitter battle betwuwi'OMiinne and ^
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Anniston, Ala., Aug. 17.—Ma
jor Barron, 37-year-old negro
beggar, blind Mnce birth, paused
in his celebration of seeing “a
beautiful white world” today to
credit the ‘“miracle” to divine
aid.
Major said he prayed, and was
blessed with sight.
Other negroes said Major ac-
comipanled H. C. Kidd to the par
sonage of the West Anniston
negro Church of God, where Rev.
S. D. Brown led in prayer.
Tho slender negro shouted
with joy, and ran from the par
sonage into th© street,
around him, a policeman ap-
As curious negroes gathered
proached Major. Assured by the
throng that Major was “cured”
of blindness, the officer allowed
him to continue his celebration.
Barron said he was “learning
to tell colors” today and would
spend the “rest of my days” in
religious work.
"I was iborn blind,” Major
told all comers, “but 1 prayer
» » and now, Bless God, I can
see.’’
on the Lord’s dsy;
A very luge congrqpition of
folks wef« After
iness transactions Were ov^ the
singing choirs were called m to
perform tiieir parts. So they
which was enongh to fill and thrill
everyone's heart with exstacy that
is a lover of vocal music. After
intermission, refreshments were
served.
Judge Johnson J. Hayes occu
pied the stand in the open and de
livered one of the most appropri
ate, heart thrilling and soul cheer
ing speeches—well, I might say
one of the bekt sermons, not ex
celled by the Apostle Paul, for he
delivered the truth, and the truth
can’t be bad. It sure was edify-
' ing and alarming to both saint
and sinner. I am sure that every
Christian should be on the alert,
using their influence over the lost
of our country, to help them turn
from their sins and seek the Lord
while He may be found. For Jesus
has said His spirit would not al
ways strive with man. Therefore
we should live in words and action
praying sincerely to Him for grace
to sustain us through this unfriend
ly world, that we might win souls
to Christ, making our livee use
ful while we sojourn here in this
sin-stricken world.
May the Lord bless every read
er of this article to become a lover
of the Lord if they have not and
join in with the little few to work |
for the Heavenly 'Master and j
make life worth living and rejoice,
in the same. |
MRS. LYDIA C. BLACKBURN
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