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MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1938
BIBLE THOUGHT
4. "NO ROOM FOR THEM
in the inn" (Matt. 2:7)
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There is little room for Christ in too many of
our SCHOOLS today. In several states the reading
v>f the Bible is strictly forbidden in public schools.
In the colleges the matter is even worse. Many
boys and girls from good Christian homes are hav
ing their. faith taken away by agnostic teachers.
Even in sorue of the great theological seminaries
..there is more of ethics than of religion.—Albert
Linn Lawson.
(To be continued)
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ALFRED M. LANDON, A DEMOCRATIC
SYMBOL
(By BRUCE C ATT ON)
The composition of the United States
Relegation at the Lima conference bears
eloquent testimony to the difference be
tween democracy and dictatorship — and
the lesson cannot be missed by delegates
from the other New World nations.
For if the head of the American delega
tion is Cordell Hull, the Number Two man
;is Alfred M. Landon of Kansas. Mr. Lan
don's presence on the delegation, and the
•active p#rt he has taken in furthering the
United'States program, are immensely sig
nificant/
If one of the dictatorships were sending
a full-dress delegation to an important in
ternational conference, it is a certainty
that the leader of the opposition (if any)
would not have a place in it.
Even the most active imagination can
not, for instance, picture Soviet Russia
sending out a delegation which included
• Leon Trotsky, or Germany selecting a mis
sion graced by the presence of—let. us say
—Herr Schuschnigg of Austria. Trotsky is
«*n exile and Schuschnigg is a prisoner, and
both are rather lucky to be alive at all.
So that the fundamental difference be
tween a dictatorship and a democracy is
.effectively underlined by Landon's pres
ence at Lima. And it means a great deal
more than a mere difference between the
personal magnanimity of an American
.President and a European dictator.
It means that inefficient and wasteful de
mocracy is somehow smart enough to use
the brains and energy of people who hap
pen to disagree with the party in power,
while dictatorship is not. A dictatorship
can use only those people who are 100 per
cent in agreement with the boss. They
may be gifted people—brilliatit, devoted,
deeply patriotic, immensely industrious—
vbut if they don't see things precisely as the
head man sees them, or if they have ever
%
opposed him on any important policy, then
..they are completely useless.
And when you stop to think about it,
this epitomizes the gravest of all the many
.objections to the totalitarian state.
The progress that' human society has
made to date has been a progress of co-op
eration. Men have differed violently, down
through the generations, but somehow
.they have managed to pool their efforts
•and harmonize their varying contributions
*$o as to climb slowly but surely up the lad
der o: civilizadjn. It is the only possible
way in which that difficult ascent ever can
be made.
The idea of dictatorship is a denial of
that fundamental element in progress. It
would cut mankind off from the principal
source of its strength. In order to mass
force effectively for a momentary objec:
-live, it sacrifices the only channel through
which the race's vast fund of intelligence,
brawn and good will can be utilized effi
ciently.
The presence at Lima of Mr. Landor
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symbolizes one of the great reasons whj
the free, democratic way of life is the hope
.of the world.
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Four fellows arrested in Cleveland with
'400 pair of loaded dice may be expectec
]to shoot their way out of jati.
•' We could almost feel the charm ray*
clear over here when those two personality
fyoys Eden and Roosevelt got together.
The pink glow on the new Jeffersoi
nickel may be caused by the blushing o:
the patriot in whose name so much ha:
-been recently done.
NEWSPAPERS' OPINIONS
COURT CONTROL
The recent effort of the Washington administra
f tion to prain. control of the United States supreme
5 court has suggested to some thinking men there the
desirability .*>f making the. judicial departments
; the government still further independent of the
_ j executive.
Under the present law, the supreme court is to a
certain extent dependent upon the executive for
; the funds necessary to carry on.
All federal courts must submit their budgets to
the Department of Justice, where they are passed
upon by the attorney general, a cabinet officer ap
pointed by thev President.
This may not give fhe executive any actual con
, trol over the court, but at least it is a club. The
! court can appeal to congress for more funds only
with the President's consent.
The proposition now comes out of Washington—
and it may get before congress in the coming ses
sion—to make the federal courts financially inde
pendent of the executive branch, and accountable
| only to congress, by authorizing the chief justice
to present the annual budget of all federal courts
directly to congress.
The theory under which the three arms of the
i American government is set up is that the legisla
tive, executive and judicial departments are dis
tinct, independent and equal in authority in their
separate provinces.
The recent bitter battle in Washington, io keep
the supreme court out from under the thumb of
the chief executive, suggests that it may some time
become essential to still further protect that court
; from any possible financial restriction from that
source.—Rock Hill (S. C.) Herald.
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A CHANGE IN SENTIMENT
j
Farmers of North Carolina last Saturday dis
played a change of sentiment with respect to crop
1 control.
So far as the voters of this, state were concerned,
they failed to cast a two-thirds vote in favor of con
trol of either cotton or tobacco. And yet, ten:
months ago, both of these proposals carried by an
o erwhelming majority.
We don't know what effect the abandonment of
tobacco control is going to have upon prices. Nev-J
tretheless, we are glad that Saturday's vote turned
out as it did. You've heard the old saying about
selling one's birthright for a mess of pottage.
You've also heard that it does not profit a man if
he gains the entire world and, in the process of
doing so, loses his own soul.
We feel that it is exactly the same with respect
to this business of crop control. An American citi
zen's individual rights should come first, last and
all the time. Regardless of what he may gain finan
cially, he is bound to be the loser every time he
surrenders one of these rights.
We are glad to see that the farmers are begin
ning to realize this fact, and we attribute to this
(realization the change in sentiment that was mani
I fested in last Saturday's voting.—State Magazine.
PULLING THE WOOL OVER OUR OWN EYES
| One reason it is increasingly difficult everywhere
' to keep taxes down is tfecause taxes are hidden.
The people who pay them have the wool pulled
over their eyes.
i They pay, and don't suspect it.
But they do pay!
If alt taxes had to be paid directly, and there
was no such thing as indirect tax, the government
I of this country would not,be costing anything like
the billions now being spent for public services.
And for the reason that the enormity of the tax
bill would produce a general objection to waste and
to the extension of political power into so many
fields where the individual formerly functioed on
an individual basis and under his own power.
But so long as the case is as it is now, and the
taxes which most of us pay for provernmental up
keep are hidden from us, we simply keep on fool
ishly taing it for granted that a few who pay the
, income taxes, the inheritance taxes, the business
taxes, are footing the whole political bill.
What a fallacy and delusion!
Actually whether he earns $1,000 or $100,000 a'
year, he pays the same taxes on a package of ciga-1
rettes 6r a gallon of gas, to take only two common-'
place examples.
We are all consumers and in the final analysis, i
all consumers pay taxes.
According to the National Consumers' Tax Com
mission, 63 per cent of the 14 billion dollars paid
in taxes last year were indirect taxes—hidden taxes
—hidden from the consumers who paid them.—
I Charlotte Observer.
BETTER SHOULDERS
A North Carolinian writing to The Winston-Sa
lem Journal praises South Carolina's plan of mak
tu- highway? safer by building three-foot surface
treated shoulders-on each side.
Describing a trip in a hard rain here, he said:
''In South Carolina some fool driver could have
pushed mo off the pavement and I stili would have
, been safe, but in North Carolina my wife would
! have been a widow, as in most cases there was a
i six-inch drop into red mud."
The surface-treated shoulders, comparatively in
expensive, have proved a good investment in con
venience as well as in the matter of prime impor
tance, safety, and we hope the highway department
, will continue to build them until every state road
j shall be so equipped.—Greenville Piedmont.
Tory. Any man who has made a lot of money
and lesents any effort to take it away from him.
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Why do teacher: fail? Well, you never can train
a dog till you express your ideas in terms that a
dog s mind can understand.
Five thousand years of civilization, and we 'still
despise the man who seems to possess none of the
tough qualities of a wild beast.
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Yes, you mu.*t love your neighbor. .But the only
' neighbor of the three tested was the decent Sama
itan who was' easy to love.
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It may sound cranky, but at times we can't help
wishing the little girlie, would bring back that ye!- j
low "basket.
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Free people must have freedom of speech. But
one who tries to overthrow the government by1
* force is a criminal, and words are as criminal is
any other weapon if equally effective. J
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LIFE DAY BY DAY
. Bv WICKES WAMROLDT
ARBITRATION
One morning- a wholesale gro
cer, Deacon So-and-Sq, telephon
ed me that a carload uf cornmeal
I had sold him had arrived but
there was ten
Wamboldt
i.V
dollars d e m u r
iage on it which
he would not
pay. Demurrage,
as you know, is
th* charge rail
loads make when
freight cars are
detained beyond
a reas o n a b 1 e
time for loading
or unloading. If
there were no
demurrage char
ges there would
be congestion in
every raiSroad
yard and a short
age ui LOJ|/iiva uu tvciy iiuc.
The deacon declared that he
had been needing: that meal for
two weeks; that he had been won
dering where it was; and that of
course he never, never would
have let it lie in the yards and
draw demurrage; and a lot more
claptrap familiar to cthe person
who sells in car lots and is used
to hearing arguments for getting
out of paying demurrage.
I called the freight agent of the
road that had brought in the dea
con's car. The agent turned to
his records and informed me that
not only had the deacon been ad
vised the very day the car had ar
rived but that he had signed for
it. The railroads had had so
much trouble with consignees as
serting when demurrage was
charged that they had not known
the shipment was in, that the
roads had adopted the rule of re
I quiring each consignee to sign an
| acknowledgment of the notice of
' arrival of each shipment. At my
i request the agent took his notifi
cation book to the deacon and let
him see his signature.
But the deacon insisted there
was some monkey business some
where, and declared that before
he would pay that ten dollars de
murrage he would refuse to ac
cept the carload of meal.
Then 1 suggested that we sub-1
mit the question to arbitration.
The deacon agreed. He chose a
man; I chose a man. Those two |
chose a third man. This commit
tee after hearing the evidence
agreed unanimously that the dea
con should pay the demurrage.
But the deacon after hearing the
verdict vowed that he would not
pay the demurrage, no matter
what the arbitration committee
said. In other words, the deacon
didn't care about the right or the
wrong of the matter; what he
wanted was to get out of paying
the ten dollars.
I was reminded of the forego
ing episode when I learned that
recently France and Germany had
signed an agreement to respect
each other's rights; to settle dif
ferences by consultation; and
never, never to go to war.
Unless all parties to such an
agreement are honorable, the
agreement is not worth a hoot.
That makes me think of a land
lord who refused to sign a lease
with a certain tenant. "It would
bind me, but it wouldn't bind I
him," said the landlord. "I would
not put him out during the life
of the lease, but he would move
out on me whenever he felt like |
• JOHN T. FLYNN
BY JOHN T. FLYNN
ft'EA Service Stalt CorreHi»ondent
THE years 1925 to 1929 are gen
erally regarded as years of
amazing and rising prosperity.
The years 1933 to 1938 are usually
looked upon as years of great de
^IrTspite of this the following
singular fact is worth recording.
From 1925 to 1929 inclusive bank
deposits in the United States in
creased from 20 billion to 55 bil
lion That was an increase of 35
billion dollars.
From 1933 to 193£ bank deposits
increased from 37 billion to 53 bil
lion. That was an increase of 16
billion. Both represent enormous
increases.
The question is, how did bank
deposits rise so mightP- in these
depression years? And ...iy were
we prosperous under one great
deposit rise and continuously in
depression under another?
The answer is that as bank de
posits rose in the banks of Amer
ica in 1925 to 1929 the accumula
tions of depositors were promptly
poured into business -through new
investments. But from 1933 to
1938, as deposits rose, very little
of these new deposits made their
way into new investments.
In the first group of years the
deposits of banks rose under the
influence of private borrowing at
the banks. Private borrowing at
the banks has slpwly diminished.
But government borrowing in
creased And deposits in the sec
ond group of years increased un
der the influence of government
borrowing.
The bald truth revealed by these
facts is that the failure of in
vestment is not due to the failure
of funds. Funds have steadily
risen. The first theory behind
government borrowing was that as
government credit was used to
| crcate deposits at the banks, these
deposits would begin to flow out
' into business. The first proponents
of this theory believed that a few
hundred million dollars would do
the job. That was called priming
the pump.
Since then not a few hundred
millions, but a staggering number
of billions have been poured into
the banks through government
loans. But they have failed to
flow out. Why?
The pipe line along which sav
ings flow from the savings reser
voir of the country into new in
dustry i.« called investment. What
has happened to that pipe line?
Why do savings refuse to flow
through it into industry? What
force along the way is causing the
trouble?
I have one suggestion. The old
pipe line, the financial system
once used, was a bad one. It
needed repairing. Too much of
the savings sent through it never
reached new industry, but leaked
off into the hands of promoters
and other parasites along the way.
It was necessary to rebuild that
pipe line. But it was of the most
imperious importance that it
should be rebuilt quickly.
Instead the rebuilding of it has
been going on since 1933. It has
been cluttered up with the work
men, the machinery used for re
building it. The job has been
dragged out. .
A wise administrator would have
seen the need for tackling this job
first thing in 1933 and getting it
done within a year or two and
then throwing the pipe line open
for public traffic. That pipe line
is a public highway. You cannot
expect traffic to flow along a pub
lic highway which is perpetually
under repair. That is one of the
reasons for the lack of traffic along
that line.
fConyrJj?ht_ 108B. NRA Sarvica. Inc.)
YOUR LATEST COLD CURE
Among the difficult things is
to make your friends realize how
good that new cold cure is.
Wait a Minute
By NOAH HOLLOWELL
HIS FIRST CASE: Coroner J. |
F. Brooks acted yesterday in his)
first case since his inanguratfon. \
He investigated the death of Gay |
Banks. Mr. Brooks had formerly j
held this office and was familiar i
with the technique of the inves
tigation.
DAVID MASHBURN: It is
whispered around by grapevine
telegraph that David Mashburn
has resigned church work at Mt.
Airy to become associated with
Dr. Herschel Ford again.
Mr. Mashburn was a resident
of Andrews, where he was a mem
ber of Mr. Ford's church. They
were separated a few years. He
later became director of the
young people's activities while
Mr. Ford was pastor of the First
church of Hendersonville. Mr..
Ford went to Knoxville and Mr. i
Mashburn to Mt. Aairy. It is un-1
derstood, though not officially,!
that Mr. Mashburn is to be asso-1
ciated with Dr. Ford at Broadway,
in Knoxville.
THUMBS DOWN: Western ;
Carolina farmers turned thumbs
down on tobacco marketing quo
tas in the referendum Saturday.
Ten mountain counties were for
marketing control and 10 against
but the total vote was more than
two to one against. Madison had
the largest number of voters but
about two to one against govern
mental control. Avery county
was totally against quotas. vThey
virtually say to- your Uncle Sam:
•'Hands off; let us grow all we
want and we'll take pot luck on
ihe markets." Henderson farra
rs were indifferent. Ninety-one ;
were eligible to vote. Only 49 :
voted, 17 being for control and j
32 against.
THE END SEATS: Nothing
gets a church usher's goat quick
er than the person who prefers to j
hug the bench's end seat and let
others trample over the feet. Not j
the best church etiquette!
JEFF DAVIS TELLS OF
ITINERACY CODE
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19. (UP) !
To give Chief of Police James E. i
Davis adequate technical informa
tion to enable him to perform his
duties properly, Jeff Davis, self- 1
styled emperor of the hoboes of
the world, has written him speci
fying that a hobo will work, that
a tramp won't and that a bum
can't.
He explained that the hoboes
are warring to keep the bums and
tramps out of California and
wanted to be sure that the chief
knew the propdr distinction.
TO REOPEN CHURCHES
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 19. (UP). \
Catholic worship, barred in Ta-1
basco and Ciapas for several years,
will soon be resumed to those two i
southeastern Mexican states, it j
was indicated last night.
Migratory birds of North Amer-'
ica follow four main airways.
NO FLOWERS FROM ""
P" GERMANY BUT THEY
MAY BE SENT THERE
BSRLIN, Dec. 19. (UP).—
Americans attempting to tela
graph orders for flowers to the
United States for Christmas were
told yesterday that such gifts
were impossible, because Germany
would lose in foreign exchange.
However, it was explained that
flowers might be telegraphed from
the United States to Germany be
cause Germany would gain for
eign exchange benefits.
INDIANA G.O.P. TO
HIRE INVESTIGATORS
ON VANNUY'S VOTE
INDIANAPOLIS,. Ind., Dec. 19.
(UP).—Indiana Republicans an
nounce they will hire spe
| cial investigators "from the East"
to gather evidence for a possible
U. S. senate contest of the victory
of Sen. Frederick Van Nuys, D.,
Ind., over Raymond E. Willi?, Re
publican nominee, in the Novem
i ber election.
Arch N. Bobbitt, Republican
state chairman, announced the de
cision after state party leaders
conferred lengthily with Col. Ed
win P. Thayer, Greenfield, Ind.,
former secretary of the U. S. sen-'
ate and authority on senatorial
contest:-. Thayer served as re-,
I count commissioner in the contest
which unseated Senator Smith W.!
Brookhart, Iowa Independent Re-;
! publican.
Van Nuys defeated Willis by |
less than 5,000 votes after a bit
ter contest. The state supreme
court Tuesday blocked Repub
licans from obtaining a recount of
i votes in seven Indiana counties.
MUSICA'S SISTER FOB
YEARS RESIDED A
MORGEHTHAU ESTa\
new YORK, Ik*. 19 J
One of Ph . , ^ [1
Mrs. RoIk i • <: 1
Saturday to be the wif<
dener employed : \
at the Fishkill, X. \ \
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of the treasury. *1
A housekeeper at the M.J
thau honn ' \.jl
that Mis. '■ '1
employed th< 1
with hev h T
years. ^ 1
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house but " ■ -1
interviewed. 1
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OF NEAR INCIDtj
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ternationul inc-'U-: t' hud '
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paint the price on t0p 0fl
hats so thai Imu- . ,u.
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fepp years, when Dec. 21 is shorter. j
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pictured here
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guitar.
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17 Revokes.
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20 Makes lace.
21 Tree.
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23 Insect.
25 Artist's frame
JO Indians.
J2 Ire.
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being cut.
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10 Wrath.
11 Chum
12 South Africa.
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h^idle.
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