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The Charlotte Labor Journal AND DIXIE FARM NEWS KsUrtd u wfnnd-diu matter September IK, 1931, at Ilia Paat Office at Charlotte. N. C. the Act ef March I. 1879. 302 South College Street—(Second Floor) PHONE 3-3094 The Labor Journal is true to the American ideals of WAGE EARNERS; Men and women spend your wages in the city where you live, always remem bering that “The Dollar That Goes the Farthest is the Dollar That Stays at Home.** The Labor Journal will not be respon sible for opinions of correspondents. If you do not get your paper drop a postal to the Editor and he will see that you do. We believe in American business and American Workers. We believe that a lust share of the profits which the workers help produce should be given the worker, for without this benefit, lasting prosperity cannot be assured. 11<*i fc-'n 'S.-7S.' OUR POLICY Work - Fight - Save To create a better under* standing between Labor, Industry and the Public. r OUR AIM - -- Work - Fight - Save To influence Public Opinion in favor of the Organized Labor Movement. W. M. Witter____" —--Editor and Publisher Claude L. Albea-Associate Editor CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1943 f BIBLE THOUGHT “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his com mandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.”— Revelation. THE SHIP OF STATE By RUTH TAYLOR Many centuries ago a Chinese philosopher wrote of government- “The king is the boat; the common people are the water. The water can support the boat, or capsize it.” \\ hat was said then of ancient China is true today of our modern democracy. Our government requires the support of all the people—or it sinks. “Government” does not mean particular leaders—but it does mean the republican form of rule and the democratic way of life. We elected our own leaders after free and open discussion. We, through them, have made our own laws. We, through them, have delegated boat of our own building—to abide willingly and cheerfully by the laws we had a part in making, and to carry our full share of the load. Organized Labor alone is not the common people. But Organized Labor plus the unorganized workers, plus the farmers, plus the bankers, the lawyers, the doctors, the preachers, the housewives—all taken together are the common people. The party in power, those who hold public office, are not alone the king or the boat. They are but a part of the whole and they sail or sink as they are supported by the people. There is no privileged group in this country—no one who has a right to shirk his duty of citizenship. Neither workers nor employer is beyond it. Neither rich nor poor can avoid its tasks. Neither youth nor age deserves special consideration. Neither Black nor White can shrink from its com mands. Protestant, Catholic and Jew are alike bound by the call of duty. We are entering upon a period of even greater strain than that of the past two years. How we come through it will depend upon ourselves. There must be no tidal wave of demands by any one group to swamp our Ship of State.. There must be no eddying whirlpool of internal conflict to suck it down into the depths of the Sea. There must be no hidden sandbars of resistance on which it might founder. We have seen what has happened when the ships of other countries have disintegrated. We must support the boat of our way of life for, if it cap sizes, the argosy of the hopes and dreams of common people the world over will go down with it. VOTE FOR CLAUDE ALBEA Candidate For Re-Election CITY COUNCIL Your Vote and Support Would Be Appreciated (Subject To Primary, April 26) i id i~~*' * ----i-|-|-t->ruuu^W-U PATRONIZE JOURNAL ADVERTISERS F & R COAL fir OIL CO. COAL, GASOLINE, KEROSENE, FUEL and MOTOR OIL 624 S. Cedar St. and P. & N. Ry Phone 3-6177 PERTINENT COMMENT Thomas Jefferson’s Monument By Charlotte Labor Journal Staff Writer It is not too late to write an editorial about Thomas Jeffer son^ Jefferson is not the man who is given a huge memorial—a few speeches of dedication made, and then forgotten. It will never be too late to write about Jefferson and to keep writing about him and talking about him and thinking about him as long as there is an America, which is eternity itself. But in studying Jefferson, you cannot help but get an empty feeling—-as far as your own power to do him justice. In that respect Thomas Jefferson has dealt very kindly with editorial writers, because the best editorial on Jefferson can be any random quo tations from the words and the thoughts of this great man, so permit us to put down a few, please: _ “I *m n‘Jt.*n.*d™cat* frequent changes in laws and constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilised society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.” “It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. "•.. there is not a Quaker or Baptist, a Presbyterian or an Episcopalian, a Catholic of a Protestant in heaven; on entering the gate, we leave these badges of schism behind and find ourselves united in those principles only in which God has united all. Let us not be uneasy then about the different roads we may pursue, as believing them the shortest, to that our last abode; but following the guidance of a good conscience, let us be happy in the hope that by these different paths we shall all meet in the end.’’ “. . . most gratifying on my grave place a plain die or cube of three Political AdT.rtta.BMit Vote For H. H. BAXTER For Mayor -V IF ELECTED MY PROGRAM WILL BE AS FOLLOWS: FIRST, actively to support the war effort 100 per cent. SECOND, to let the world know that Charlotte is on the map, and to use our talents and not hide them under a bushel. THIRD, to have a more progressive non-partisan Govern ment without factions or cliques, striving for close co operation and prompt decisions of our taxpayers’ prob lems. FOURTH, actively to promote large industrial firms to locate in Charlotte, creating larger payrolls. FIFTH, to take better care of our physical properties; such as streets, sewers, and sidewalks. SIXTH, to further extend and improve playground facilities for our white and colored children. SEVENTH, to promote an adequate system of retirement, so that our faithful and aged public servants may be prop erly protected. EIGHTH, to start a post-war planning program. NINTH, to make an effort to reduce taxes. TENTH, to insure an economical, sensible administration on a business basis. 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Tryon St. Liquor and Ga* Will Not Mia. feet without any mouldings, surmounted by an obelisk the following in scription and not a word more: Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And the Father of -the University of Virginia” “Because by these testimonials that I hare lived, I wish most to b« remembered.” VOTE FOR W. N. (“Bub”) HOVIS For Re-Election CITY COUNCIL Your Vote and Support Will Be Appreciated POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT & VOTE FOR C. B. ROSS FOR CITY COUNCIL Your Vote Will Be Appreciaed (Subject to Primary, April 26) VOTE FOR A. Z. PRICE For Re-Election CITY COUNCIL Your Vote and Support Will Be Appreciated (Subject to Primary, April 26) POLITICAL ADVERTISING VOTE FOR J. A. BAKER FOR CITY COUNCIL Candidate for Re-election. Your Vote and Support Solicited (Subject To Primary, April 26) POLITICAL ADVERTISING VOTE FOR J. I. (Jimmy) CAMPBELL FOR CITY COUNCIL Your Vote Will Be Appreciated (Subject To Primary, April 26) POLITICAL ADVERTISING VOTE FOR LEON LAWRENCE FOR CITY COUNCIL Your Vote and Support Appreciated (Subject To Primary, April 26) POLITICAL ADVERTISING VOTE FOR L H. PAINTER Candidate For Re-Election CITY COUNCIL Your Vote and Support Would Be Appreciated (Subject To Primary, April 26)
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