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GHANDI IN HIS DOTAGE
If it were not for the fact that the old man is
probably in his dotage, Ghandi should be summarily
shot. Indeed, were he within the authority of Germany,
and had been as guilty of subversive activity,
flagrant and dangerous, as he has shown his actions
to be within the Indian government of the British
Empire, he would have been executed, or have died
an "accidental" death long ago.
There can be no excuse and no extenuating circumstances,
except the frailities of age, in the case
of Ghandi. While many of us may in theory sympathize
with the ambition of Ghandi and other Indians
for a free India, we cannot condone the creating of
a condition that will seriously embarrass all the United
Nations, and hinder them in maintaining a free
world. Indeed, that was the evident intention of
Ghandi, when he precipitated the present Indian
crisis.
Ghandi is an intelligent man. He is conversant
with world affairs. He knows the dangers that beset
free government in the world, indeed the crisis at
which the right of men to live in freedom has arrived.
He knows that the only earthly hope that is left for
any people to be free lies in the will and the power
of Britain, America, and the other United Nations.
He knows very well that the Japanese are trying to
raise the race issue and make this a race war, between
the white man and the men of other hues. He knows
that the Japanese offer to the other colored races
nothing except slavery. He knows that the British
have brought to every country they rule the British
ideals of law and liberty. He knows that neither Japan
nor Germany would allow the blessings of individual
freedom that all men enjoy under the British
and American flags. He knows that Japan is poised
and ready to march into India, as soon as the opportunity
presents itself. He knows what Japanese rule
means in China, what it would mean in India, and
that no Indian in his right mind would for a moment
consider swapping British rule for Japanese control.
And yet, in the face of all that, Ghandi has deliberately
precipated a crisis that might easily have
far-reaching consequences upon the outcome of the
war that will materially affect the well being of America,
of China, and of the other United Nations, now
waging a life and death struggle for human liberty
and the perpetuation of civilization.
Ghandi knew full well that his move might easily
divide opinion among the peoples of the United Nations,
might tend to set nation against nation, raise
doubts in the minds of the Chinese, cause many
Americans to look askance at England, and give^the
propagandists in Tokyo and Berlin much ammunition
for their radio guns.
The British government, fearful of withdrawing
from India in the face of the present world crisis,
has given its solemn promise that India shall be as
free as Canada or Australia, as soon as the war is over,
The present is no time in which the many difficulties
that present themselves could be ironed out. Ghandi
knows that, and he also knows that the pledge oi
Britain is a thing that can be depended upon; that,
in that respect it offers from the pledged word oi
Japan or Germany. Those two countries have of recent
years considered a promise or a treaty as something
with which to blind the eyes of other nations
for the time being, and then to be thrown aside when
it has served its sinister purpose. The word of Britain
and the word of America still mean something. All
this, Ghandi fully understands. And yet, he is willing
to gamble with the fate of India, to impose greater
hardships upon the neighboring Chinese, to make
the winning of the war cost much more blood anc
treasure to be poured out by America, in order to tr>
to force the hand of sorely beset Britain, battling gallantly
for the rights of men to live as men and not a*
slaves.
It is indeed a sorry ending for the man, whorr
many considered, a few years ago to be one of th(
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THE JACKSON COUNTY JOURNA
great religious leaders of all time. He has made the
mistake that thousands of other men and women
of other religions have made, and has tried to mix
up the affairs of Caesar and of God.
A wise man and an astute historian remarked
once that more harm has been done in the world by
well-meaning good people than by all the bad people.
Whether Ghandi means good or ill, his actions
are deserving of the greatest censure. He has done
the cause of human liberty a great disservice.
"FOOLS RUSH IN"
Every time Senator Reynolds opens his mouth
he puts his foot in it. This is a habit Bob acquired soon
after he arrived in Washington, and he seems utterly
unable to break himself of it.
Bob's latest outburst was his declaration that
India should be granted immediate freedom. Now, if
this were a statement made by Bob Reynolds, an un
known private citizen, and spoken as his opinion, the
effect would amount to very little. But, such a statement,
at this juncture of the world's history, made
by the Chairman of the Military Affairs Committee
of the United States Senate, can have the effect of
being a source of embarrassment to the President
of the United States and the Secretary of State in
their very delicate and difficult task of carrying on
the foreign relations. It also has a tendency to dirve
a wedge between the peoples of the United States and
of Britain, at a time when they are fighting shoulder
to shoulder against the greatest menace in many
I centuries. In both events, the effect of the utterance j
of Senator Reynolds is to indirectly give aid and com-1
fort to the enemies of his country, the Germans and
the Japanese,, and to give them ammunition for their
propaganga guns in Berlin and Tokyo.
Many people in North Carolina knew this propensity
of Bob's and were opposed to his elevation to i
the Chairman of the Military Affairs Committee, j
Their fears are being realized, since Bob got there
through the operation of the rule of seniority. I
THE WAR AT BUNKER HILL
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"The tim^ has come, the Warlus said, to talk of
many things." The Warlus was correct in his obser- j
vation. The time has come to speak plainly about
many things.
The Washington Merry-Go-Round has charged
that the reason why Mr. Kiser can't get materials
with which to make his giant transport planes to
til
carry soldiers to the places where they are neeaea
and to carry the supplies to those soldiers is a shortage
of aluminum, and that the chief reason for the
shortage of aluminum is Mr. Arthur Bunker, chief
of the Aluminum and Magnesium Section, Office of
Production Management. Many of us here are firmly
of the opinion that the same Mr. Bunker is the main
: reason why there is not now in operation in Jackson
County a gigantic plant for the production of the
other vital commodity with which Mr. Bunker is
charged with the responsibility of seeing that the
country is supplied in ample quantities?magnesium.
The Merry-Go-Round puts it this way. The Aluminum
Company of America is now asking for a huge
loan with which to equip its plants for the production
of aluminum from the low grade bauxite ores
that occur in great abundance in the United States,
i This, the column states, is the result of the shortage of
shipping with which to import the higher grade ores
!from Dutch Guiana. The proposal was made some
I time ago to Mr. Bunker that plants for aluminum production
from the low grade North American ores be
built. To this Mr. Bunker turned the same deaf ear
i that he did to our magnesium proposal.
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me Merry-Lio-Kouna says uiai ivir. rmiiKer is
a vice-president of the Leham Corporation, and is on
| the most friendly terms with Alcoa. The Aluminum
Company did not want the native ores exploited, for
fear that it would bring competition into the field of
1 Alcoa's monopoly, after the war. Mr. Bunker turned
down the proposal. German submarines became active
in our waters, and the supply of bauxite from
South America was reduced, to a material degree,
thus limiting the supply of this metal that is so badly
needed by our government in the prosecution of
the war it is waging for it's and our right to live.
Magnesium is another metal that is vital, equally
so with aluminum. The opening of the vast source
; of magnesium that exists in North Carolina's olivine
, and dunite ores would bring another competitor into
; Alcoa's field, after the war. The same Mr. Arthur
, Bunker turned down the proposal for the establishi
ment of a magnesium plant in this county,
i Every once in a while we hear a radio commentator
insist that business be given the proper profit in,
centive to expand into the war industries; that busir
ness should not be called upon to take the risk alone,
or to run the risk of sacrificing after the war.
Tn AfVioy if 1C oil virrVif frw imimnr
All Uliltl WU1UO) 1U iU 1 A&AAU AUi l/llt JfUUIlg Allien |
; to offer their lives as sacrifices upon the altars of
i liberty?that is patriotic. They can take as many
l years out of their lives as is necessary to go through
i the horrors of war on land and sea and in the air. They
; can mortgage their futures, many of them will die.
* Many others will be invalided for life. But, the precj
ious dollars of big business must be held intact at
I all costs. Thousands of small businesses all over the
r country have already become casualties of the war
- and have disappeared. Many thousands of others will
3 follow them; but big business must be spared even
the risk of loss for patriotic reasons. The profit in1
centive must be there for them. The patriotic incenJ
tive suffices the rest of us Americans.
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* THESE HEALTH RULES KECOMK
L/rE /A/SU&ANCE AMD SUGG EON i
' OF THE UN/TED STATES PUBUC
CITY OF HELL
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By M. BUCHANAN III <
The City of Norfolk, Virginia, t
located on the Chesapeake Bay, J
is a huge, sprawling monstrosity. I
| Once East Coast Queen City of 5
the Old Dominion, it has been t
transformed into a mad hell- f
hole by the influx of defense (
workers rushing madly to the ^
highly paid government jobs *
located here at the naval bases I
and supply depots. Industries: once
calling for the employment J \
of thousands of workers now
demand hundreds of thousands.
Living facilities, built for a popi
ulation of thousands, must be ,
stretched to meet the demand j ;
of the swollen ranks of work
ers. She is truly a City of Hell. |
Obviously, with such a terrific
demand for living space, there
; is opportunity for gross exploitaI
tion of war workers by the perj
manent residents. Government
orders have placed ceilings on
room rents, but with no adequate
enforcement. One home, located
in a fashionable residential district
of former days, has been
I converted from a private home
i into a mass production "flophouse."
Four large bedrooms are
rented, each room having six
beds, with two persons to a bed.
They sleep in shifts; the night
workers occupying the room for
! eight hours during the day, and
the day worker sleeping in tfye
same beds that night. Linen, I
was informed by the none too
courteous landlady, was changed
twice monthly. "Take it or leave
| it" she said, "for if you don't
i somebody else will." There was
! one bath in this "home," serving
around forty men. This is
a common, if not a typical situation.
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QOINTOPinS
relieve misery of
CIESICOUS
Mothar?Q|v? YOUR Child
This Samo Export Carol
At the first liffn of a chest eold the
Quintuplets' throst* end nr?
rubbed with Children's Mild Mu*terol<
?a product made to promptly rclit>A
the distress of children's eoM* nn.4
suiting bronchial and croupy cougha
Musterole gives such wonderful
sults because it's MORE than an orrit*
nary "salve." It helps break up local
congestion. Since Musterole is used on
the Quints you may be sure you're usIng
just about the BEST product made!
IN 3 STRENGTHS: Children u JUild
Musterole. Also Regular and Exlra
Strength for grown-ups who prefer a
stronger product All drugstores.
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PROPER FOOD
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IT TONES YOU UP.
1ENDEO BY Or ^
SENEGAL THOMAS PA&Q.AN
HEALTH SERVICE.
There is no relief in sight. N
Droject is under way that wi
illeviate this deplorable condi
;ion. At the present time ther
ire several government housin
jrojects under way, but not o
>ufficient size to take care c
he surplus of workers and thei
amilies. Relief must come sooj
)r this poor housing conditio:
vill take its toll in lives and ef
Iciency.
, _ Wasted money is wasted
Bhfe lives. Don't waste precious
lives; Every dollar you can
mII spare should be used to buy
War Bonds. Buy your ten
rmm percent every pay day.
rYOU GIRLSh
13 to 25 Who Suffer
DYSMENORRHEA
And Need To Build
Up Red Blood! ?f3L
If pain and distress /r\
of functional
monthly disturbances make you
feel weak, dragged out, pale,
cranky, nervous at such times ?
try Lydia Pinkham's Compound
Tablets (with added iron).
Pinkham's Tablets not only
relieve monthly pain (cramps,
headache, backacne), but also
help soothe nervousness due to
sycn cause. Their iron helps
build up the haemoglobin of red
blood cells and thus aid in promoting
a more refreshed and
vigorous bloodstream ? more
Strength and energy.
Thousands of women report
remarkable benefits by taking
Lydia Pinkham's Tablets. Get a
bottl* today from your druggist.
Follow label directions. WORTH
TRYING!
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^DISTINGUISHED EX- RAILROAD
ADMIRAL ERNEST J COMMAND !:
OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY ONE
FIRST JOBS WAS THAI OF 'RIVET HE
A RAILROAD BOILER SHOP IN OHIO
railroad locomotive,
quickly parked outside a
war plant's pence and _
connected to the factorys
stiam lines. suppued power
and saved precious time f
recently when sput boiler i
tubes threatened to stop
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