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LA GRANGE JOURNAL
AUGUST 19, 1943
LA GRANGE JOURNAL
ESTABLISHED 1880
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Published Every Thursday Morning at
La Grange, Texas
B. F. HARIGEL-PROPRIETOR-
GEMS OF THOUGHT
QUOTATIONS
To select well among old things is al-
A fellow in Denver wrote me. He must j most *<lual to Renting new ones
be a pretty nice hombre—he was not mad iruolet
at anybody, or about any- Selected thoughts depend for their flavor
thing. Also, he was not upon the terseness of their expression, for
trying to be sweet to any thoughts are grains of sugar or salt, that
certain group because there | must be melted in a drop of water.—Senn
happened to be lots of peo-1 .... . ■ . ,
pie in that group, of voting I A thing is never too often repeated
age. He is not running for whlch 13 never sufficiently learned,
office. Folks in Denver are, Seneca
nice people, he says, but The poet’s line, “Order is heaven’s first
they are allergic to politi- law,’’ is so eternally true, so axiomatic,
cians. To arouse them soi that jt has become a truism; and its wis-
. ,, they will vote with wisdom, ] dom js as obvious in religion and scholar-
he ,says, is the problem—and your essays 8hip as in astronomy or mathematics.
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THINGS IN GENERAL
REMARKS BY THE EDITOR
Caused Comment But What Amount
Of Good Was Accomplished.
Headlines in the papers during the lat-
ter part of last week gave the readers the
itch; President Roosevelt and Prime Min-
ister Churchill were to meet at Quebec,
Canada, for a conference. Just why there
should have been so much publicity to the
matter is not for the Journal to diagnose;
what made the item, a part of it, interest-
ing, was the announcement that Stalin
would not be present. This was followed
by more comment until, over the radio,
broadcasts created another thought.
Conferences between the two—Roosevelt
and Churchill, who have become real chum-
my—was to be expected. The situation
over in the war sectors must be discussed,
it is like managing a large manufacturing
institution, requires continual vigilance,
Which they told us centuries ago (and left
the telling to be repeated) is the price of
liberty. Unless the error be charged to the
Journal, liberty is what we are fighting for,
and endeavoring to teach those who seek
to destroy, that we propose to maintain
that virtue.
Stalin—we are making this comment
prior to the arrival in Canada of President
Roosevelt—was not invited; according to
what the news dispatches stated, he was
not in the mood to attend. And, whatever
be our conciliatory feelings toward the dic-
tator of the Soviet Union, has his hands
occupied; it may do well to study his posi-
tion in his endeavor to drive the Nazis out
of Russia; he is fighting the real battle. It
may occur to him that it is better to be
where he can keep tab than to discuss pro-
positions he is the better informed on.
What the two chiefs may discuss at their
meeting in Canada will not effect our opin-
ion in the least; generous in comment we
add that it would matter little if it did.
The two have the situation well in hand,
through their army captains, and for the
sake of comparing notes, a liberal discus-
sion can follow. And it has; however, the
situations remains the same, and'the public
will continue to be given the cheerful news
as it develops. The final drive is certain.
Stalin, to the Journal, remains the enig-
ma he has been since his name scratched
the cable wires of the ocean; it may be in
good form to mention that he is not of the
ignorant bunch that he was dubbed prior
to the invasion of Hitler’s army. He may
have been surprised at the invasion, as
special writers would have you believe, but
even that is questioned. Stalin saw what
many European diplomats and war manag-
ers have failed to see. He determined first,
to establish the fact that his men can and
will fight; next, he is giving his men be-
cause he has them, by the thousands. The
stand he has made with them is the best
proof.
The Journal labors under the impression
that Stalin is merely playing a waiting
game, with the allies. You may jot that
down for a future reference, when events
develop that will want that reference. Rus-
sia is a large country, it is a powerful coun-
try, rich in natural resources, and borders,
as does Germany, on some of the smaller,
and rich in resources, countries. Friend-
ship among those nations with the Russian
bear isn’t a dream, it will grow to be a
reality. Germany will be subdued, if pres-
ent indications are to be regarded seriously.
Russia and Germany, despite the present
trend, may become great friends, suddenly.
Stranger things than that have hap-
pened, ,they can happen again. Wise men—
generously so dubbed—also live in Russia,
and they are neither scientists, nor are
they great diplomats; what those men, and
they are close to Stalin can see, remains a
picture for the rest of the world later to
gaze upon. And what a picture it will be!
England and the United States, with the
’wo chiefs at present holding a conference,
have incurred the displeasure of many
smaller countries. Germany and Russia,
aligned—in all things after the either capi-
tulates, which they may—would be strong.
It would mean a difficult problem for the
other nations to handle.
Predictions are not paramount at this
time with the Journal; the conference in
Canada is what is attracting attention, the
fact that Stalin was not invited but would
be welcomed and could listen in, if he de-
sired, has a protruding ledge off the hill-
aide of common sense. That ledge may
serve as a good resting place, especially by
the one who has borne the brunt while the
other enemies were “sicked” on to the
are helping out. He got me with that one.
I answered pronto. Nice people, who are
busy, don’t seem to savvy, I told him, that
the U.S.A. could ever be anything except
what it always has been since Washington
—the Land of the Free. It don’t enter
their oggin that anybody would dare to try
making this country over into anything
else. They don’t see that socialism already
has one foot in the door. It is the other
guy’s door, not theirs—that is why they
slumber—it is not their baby.
Nice folks can be a sucker like anybody
else—and lean back and listen to the wills-
o-the-wisp. What we need in our U.S.A. is
to teach more AEsop—from the cradle to
the grave.
—Mary Baker Eddy
The wisdom of the wise and the experi-
ence of ages may be preserved by quota-
tion.—Disraeli
Every quotation contributes something
to the stability or enlargement of the lan-
guage.—Samuel Johnson
“isolation countries” in order to awaken a
spirit of hatred. We still have the Japs to
contend with, and, according to the mili-
tary authorities, Hitler also.
Even From The Least of These
There Springs Hope
The anxious public—that part of it which
is aligned with the political area—has
heard from Wendell Wilkie again. The
Journal is not so strong on that politician,
he is altogether too much on the windwave
to suit, and his diagnosis never gets him
anywhere except in the papeijp who know
that there are many waiting to hear what
the republicans propose to do next year.
His latest prediction is a republican vic-
tory for next year. He tells his friends
that the republican party “should and
can” win the next presidential and congres-
sional elections.
Rather odd way he has of placing his
message before the party; he says the re-
publicans “should and can”—making both
a command and appeal. Occurs to us that
there are many millions of voters ready
and willing to vote against the present in-
cumbent, in the event the other party puts
up the right man, but “the right man” is
what jams the works. Can’t be Wilkie, it
may be Dewey, New York's present gover-
nor. In the latter event of nomination the
clouds of doubt are apt to be floated aside.
“We must have the imagination to pre-
sent a realistic foreign policy, based on ex-
clusive recognition of the democratic for-
ces in enemy and occupied countries, re-
organizing the wisdom of America’s effec-
tive and active co-operation in world coun-
preservation of the peace and for the es-
tablishment of stable mediums of interna-
tional exchange and with the elimination
of unnecessary trade barriers to the end
that there may be an enlargement of com-
merce among the peoples of the. world.
America must give encouragement to the
advancing forces of liberty throughout the
world.”
Nice bunch of rhetoric, with about as
much new idea as is to be found is a curb-
stone philosopher’s ridicule. We were la-
boring under the impression that all Wilkie
has said in the above paragraph has been
belched forth by some of our congressmen,
and only recently at that. If the reader
takes Wilkie as serious as he seeks to be
in this statement, he must be either at
loggerheads with his own. reasoning, or
has misunderstood what the present ad-
ministration has been seeking to do, while
fighting.
Accepted as a matter of conclusion that,
with the war at an end, the mending of
rents will be in order; as would a merchant
in his business house take carefuL inven-
tory, so will the wise men to be seated at
the conference table, when peace will be
the subject to discuss, take careful inven-
tory of the problems they will have to
face. America may be the land of freedom,
and it is, but since the war has been in-
vading the privacy of opinions, and so
many nations have proclaimed to be demo-
cratic, even unto England, it must certain-
ly have escaped Wilkie’s notice.
Wendel Wilkie has written a good book
on conditions abroad, what has been done
Among other things Wilkie, in his re-
cent interview said: “Republicans must
repudiate narrow nationalists, economically
selfish people who think that government
exists merely for their own self-interest,
the people who are afraid to fight or are
unwilling to sacrifice unnecessary luxuries
and who refuse to endure in war time with-
out complaint the restrictions necessary for
the common good; and the religious and
racial bigots.” Probably the republicans
have already done that; “Wilkie isn’t a bad
politician at all.”
THE POWER TO TAX
U. S. Treasury spending at the rate of
$3,516.00 per second during the year has
been envisioned.
In previous articles, which emphasized
the urgency of a revamped peace-time eco-
nomy to liquidate the stupendous financial
burdens of war, it was pointed out that a
predicted national debt of $210 billion
would place Texas’ share of the debt at $8
bullion; that the State’s part of the possible
$300 billion total war cost would be $14
billion. Now, it is stated that of the
$338,500,000,000 federal appropriations or
executive requests during the 1940-43 per-
iod, the per capita share of this stupendu-
ous sum would be something less than
$3,000, or a little less than $12,000 per av-
erage Texas family of four.
The enormous war-time expenditures,
made on top of previous national deficits,
must be repaid in one of three ways,
namely:
(1) .Direct repudiation.
(2) Run-away inflation.
(3) The old American way of knuckling
down and paying our bills.
The latter practice will be hard, but it
is far better in the long run, not only for
this generation but also for other genera-
tions to come.
Formulation of post-war economies
.. , . ,. ,, . should be considered immediately. The
ci 3 and treaties with other nations for the .hysterical and unbridled fanatical spend-
ing orgies of the past ten years must be
promptly brought under control and an im-
mediate return to sane, economical govern-
ment established if this country is to pro-
gress or, it might be said, if the nation is
to hold its gains of the past 150 years.
Under the President’s $109 billion bud-
get, every man, woman and child on a per
capita basis would have to put up $819.00
In spending this money, the Treasury would
distribute an average of $3,516.00 a sec-
ond every day, Sundays and holidays in-
cluded. Considered from the over-all as-
pect, it would require 75% or 80% of the
total national income for 1943 to meet the
budget for the year.
Staggering though this expenditure
might be, it represents, of course, only a
part of the ultimate cost of victory. Relia-
ble figures show that for the period of 150
years, 1789-1940, total federal appropria-
tions amounted to $167 billion. Unbeliev-
able though the figures are in comparison,
the 1940-1943 federal appropriations, or ex-
ecutive requests, total $338,500,000,000.
Of this amount, it was estimated recently
something over $100 billion had been spent
and the.remaining billions were going at
an enormous rate. This is the cost of vic-
tory and the perpetuation of our democra-
tic principles. We cannot take a chance
upon tardiness of production or on quality
or quantity of supplies.
-o- ’
O’Daniel Charges “Dynasty” Seeking
To Make U. S. Communist
“Fort Worth * * Senator O’Daniel of
■■ ------ Texas charged in an address prepared for
during the war and how progress has been i radio broadcast Thursday night, Aug. 5,
made, he has visited with some of the | that there is a‘dynasty’at Washington at-
flgnting generals and has brought back his tempting to transform the nation into a
opinion. He would do well to mention, as a Communistic or Socialistic state,
part ot his program—and it may as well! believe that the most dangerous enemy
>e understood that it is his program hei the people of this nation have today, so far
i-1 ei*l 7 w** ca*1 d°ne, platform it as domestic affairs are concerned, is the
tor that matter, when a country like the j dynasty at Washington which is using the
nited States becomes the one to outline; war emergency to transform our nation
or olhei nations a program of peace and a Communistic or Socialistic state’, he said,
prosperity, not hampered by war. But, a
mere program, to be put into effect in so
short a time, cannot insure an election.
Some time is required to execute the pro-
gram; promises have been made in the
past, by other candidates, but they have
left, with the voters, a gall bladder flavor.
speaking from his ranch home near Aledo.
Says Sugar Shortage Created
He charged that the federal government,
for example, has paid sugar-beet and sugar-
cane farmers to curtail plantings in order
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