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UONT DRIVE ON THE FOURTH
We Aiaci leans nave a uau iiauit ui ceieurauug Indepen
ce uay l>y tunning up a record number of accidents. It used
>e that tbe casualties xrom luewoiks headlined in newspapers
Hie nation on tne nith or July. Ill recent years with wre
ckers out ol the picture, our accident record has been kept
n imough autoinobile accidents.
But this year is ditterent. 1 his year, with the war with
lapan going at a lull tilt, it is of vital importance that ev
eryone of us he on the job, and not in a hospital ea the
filth of July, ivone of us feel personal danger about trav
eling on a busy road, but statistics year atter year make
it clear that the busy 4th is the most dangerous day ef the
eviing on a busy road, but the statistics year after year
ng on a busy road, but the statistics year after year, make
year for motorists.
That’s why i30 organizations have joined with the Na
mai Safety Council to urge us to stay home on the Fourth of
As the Council points out, "A Fourth of July holiday that
juld pile up a big accident toll and thus slow down our war
ort would be a belter holiday for the Japs.”
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BIBLE IN THE SCHOOLS
The move to place the Bible in the public schools of Gas
n county should have the backing of the citizenship of the
>unty. We believe that it will.
It is the belief of a strong committee of men in Gaston
>unty that the absence of the Bible from the public schools is
le main reason for juvenile delinquency.
As we all know, juvenile delinquency is growing fast ail
ver America. The FBI attributes this to the breakdown of
ome restraints and the neglect of child training by parents,
arallel to the breakdown of the home are divorces, uecline of
unday School attendance, which in some cases appears to
fch 30 pel cent compared to 20 years ago. And down at the
join of all lies the neglect of moral and religious instruction
i the schools. We have raised two or three generations who
now not the Lord, and the accumulative effects are being felt
ii a marked way.
America was not always thus. The pioneers of the Uniteu
Hates were religious people, who believed in the Bible and
aught it in their homes, their churches and in their schools,
■ven after the adoption ol" the Bill of Rights, which provided
hat Congress should make no law respecting the establishment
ir the free exercise of religion. It is only in the last 75 years
hat the Bible has disappeared from the curriculum of the pub
ic school and college. The churches have offset this by their
>wn colleges, which have given training in the Bible, but the
lublic school has gradually departed from its old custom of
eaching the Bible.
The above facts were presented on the church page of The
Charlotte Observer a few weeks ago by Rev. J. G. Garth,
:hurch editor of that paper. He goes on to quote some figures
from Or. J. Elwin Wright, managing editor of United Evangel
ical Action of Boston, from an investigation he had made with
respect to the past and present conditions of one state with ref
erence to the Bible in the public schools. Dr. Wright selected
:he State of Vermont as an example. He investigated the text
books of the state schools as in vogue in the 19th century, and
the books of the present curricula. Let us note his observa
tions:
Dr. Wright secured copies of reading books used in Ver
mont from 1800 to 1850. He found that without exception the
religious material of these books ran from 23 per cent to 100
per cent. A New England Primer, published in 1822, wa» 02
per cent religious. Scripture passages were freely quoted, as,
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God;
Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God; Now is the accepted time,
now is the day of salvation.
In another book published in 1816, the book was 100 per
cent religious matter, quoting the Lord’s Prayer, the Apostles
Creed, Watts' Hymns, the Shorter Catechism. Emerson’s read
er of 1834 was 48 per cent religious material. Borne of its chap
ters were, “The Pleasures of Religion,” “Christian Benevolen
ces.” A Goodrich reader with 307 pages had 67 per cent religi
ous matter.
Dr. Wright then turned to books used in Vermont senouia
today, and found a striking contrast. We quote his findings: In
the primer, no reference to God. In the First Reader, 70 pages
of mythology, fairy tales, and other fanciful stories. Not a ref
erence to God or Christ. Fifth reader, 485 pages, nearly three
pages of selections from Psalms and Proverbs, 20 pages of
mythology, two and a half about Buddha. Sixth reader, 460
pages. God mentioned six times, 42 pages of mythology.
Dr. Wright quotes a passage from a history textbook in
first year of high school: "If we go back far enough in the his
tory of man, we reach a time when he must have been without
sneech, and unable to build even a fire. There was no one to
tach him anything.” From another history, “The «r*t then were
ore helpless and brute-like than the lowest savages in the
world today. Their only covering was the coarse hair that cov
ered their bodies.” “The stone age man lived more than 100,000
years ago.
What Dr. Wright found in Vermont could be repeated in
every state in the Union, for they all get their textbooks from
the same sources. As our informant says, “It is very apparent
that in the opinion of educators today it is highly dangerous to
give our children any information about God, Christ, or the
Bible, although information about Buddha, Mohammed, Confu
cius, Jupiter, Mars and other heathen deities is considered de
niable and essential.”—-Gastonia Gazette. ***„
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WASHINGTON, April 23. —
The Allies tonight sternly warned
ed the Nazis against mistreatment
of prisoners, and the United
States took Germany up on an of
fer to leave American prisoners
of war in camps as Allied forces
overseas areas where they are
held.
Prime Minister Churchill and
Premier Stalin joined with Presi
dent Truman in the warning that
any person guilty of maltreating
any Allied prisoner of war, inter
nee or deported citizen will be
"ruthlessly pursued and brought
to punishment."
The stiffly worded statement
was an obvious < ingrowth of
mounting indignation over horri
ble conditions found ,n a number
of German prison equips as Amer
ican armies drive me Nazis be
hind them.
This anger also reflected itself
this way here:
A demand was voiced in the
of Pennsylvania, that the captur
House by Rep. flood, Democrat
ed German diplomat Franz von
Papen be tried “as one of ttie
chief agents of the Nazi hierar
chy" behind atrocities.
Another Congressman, Rep.
Gossett, Democrat of Texas, said
every German prisoner of war
held in this country should be
compelled to see movies of the
murder camps uncovered by the
Allies in Europe.
Elmer Davis of the office of
war information promised that
the Germans would be told plenty
about the wholesale horrors as a
part of their reeducation.
Creation of an official Ameri
can agency to investigate and to
record war crimes was proposed
in v^viigxeso.
The Truman - Churchill- Stalin
warning was addressed to any
German who has charge of pris
oners anywhere. It was made
carefully explicit that there can
be no reliance on the excuse of
orders from higher authorities or
on alibis that the acts were carri
ed out by subordinates without
actual authorization.
Every available means of com
munication including broadcasts
from Washington, London and
Moscow, was beingutilized to con
vey the message to all command
ants, guards, Gestapo agents and
other perosns regardless of ser
vice or rank, who might have the
charge of Allied nationals. Allied
planes were dropping ijhcounted
copies of the warning over the
part of Germany still held by the
Nazis.
“Any person guilty of maltreat
ing or allowing anyAUied prisoner
of war, internee or deported citi
zen to be maltreated, whether in
the battle zone, on lines of com
munication, in a camp, hospital,
prison or elsewhere, will be ruth
lessly pursued and brought to
punishment,” the statement says.
It adds that responsibility will
be "binding in all circumstances
and one which cannot be transfer
red to any other authorities or in
dividuals whatsoever.”
Those specifically addressed, it
says, “no less than the German
High Command and the competent
German military, naval and air
authorities, will be held individu
ally responsible.” -
The German offer to leave pris
oners of war where they may be
liberated by advancing Allied ar
mies was transmitted through the
Swiss governments as protecting
power, a joint announcement by
War aod State departments
The statement said it applied to
‘all prisoners of war" hut this
government’s acceptance was for
itself alone and only as applied to
American prisoners.
“The government of the United
States,” the State-War announce
ment said, “informed the Swiss
government that unless word to
the contrary was received from
Germany by midnight Sunday
April 22, 1945 (Bern, Switzer
land time—-7 P. M. Eastern war
time), the government of the Uni
ted States would consider this ar
rangement as being in ett'ect as
between itself and the German
government as it relates to Amer
ican prisoners of war, and as be
ing operative as of that time and
“As of the time specified no
word to the contrary had been
received from the German govern
One factor behind the German
offer obviously was the lessening
capacity of the hard-hannnered |
Nazis to handle prisoner move
ments or find new places for.them
Allied armies so far have over
run 47 of the » camps and hos
pitals where American soldiers
are known to have been held, the
War and State departments said,
but at last reports the Nazis still
held some 60,000 to 65,000 Amti
ican war prisoners.
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CARE IN ANSWERING QUESTIONS
I hecently walked up to the information bureau in
the hugest railroad station in the world—the Grand Cen
tral in New York City—and inquired: “Where will 1 find
the 3:15 train for Boston?”
The man behind the counter replied: “Track 18.”
Where was track 18? Naturally, I didn’t know
whether it was on that level or the lower level, so I had to
ask a second question: “Does it leave from this floor or
tht floor below?” 1 was informed that it was on that floor.
But on what part of that floor was track 18? It might
have been almost half a block to my left or half a block
to my right. So. ! had to ask a third question.
This man who makes his living year in and year out
doing nothing but answering questions for hurried, nerv
ous patrons of the New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad, does his job about as inerticiently as it is possible
for him to do it.
Now, what should he have done? First, he should
have repeated the time and destination ot my train to
make sure that he had understood me and that I had said
precisely what I meant. Second, he should have given me
immediately, ami with a little more graciousness, all the
information that I had to draw out ol him with a series of
three questions.
In other words, when asked, “Where does the 3:15
train for Boston leave from,’’ he should have replied:
“The 8:15 train for Boston leaves on track 18. this level,
over there to your right,” pointing in the direction.
Why didn’t he answer like that? Because he was not
trained to do it that way. And why wassn’t he trained? I
wonder. Some of the best transportation executives in
America are operating this railroad; and why they permit
such conditions to exist is difficult to understand.
If the glneral manager of the railroad wants to finu
our how questions .should be answred, all he has to do is
stroll over lb the RCA building in Radio City and ask the
man behind the information counter where to find Mr. A.
L. Blank Then what will happen? In order to be sure ne
understood you correctly, the information man wili repeat
the name “Mr. A. B. Blank. Then he will pause and say
“18th floor.” He will then pause again and say, “Room
181(1.” He will then tell you what elevator to take and
whorl it is located.
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