The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 206, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1946 Page: 2 of 6
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ENNIS DATjfY NEWS, ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS'
FRIDAY EVENING, AUG. 30, 1946
Editorials
The Ennis Daily News
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THE WASHINGTON
MERXY-GO-ROUND
By DREW PEARSON
How’re They Biiifi’* Joe?
R. W NOWLIN
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____Editor and Manage*
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to Individuals. . * ___.
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The News stands for and pledges to
support all tilings for the good of Ennis
aijftd Ellis County. j
l A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
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? We cannot know what is in a man s
Jieart, save as he expresses himself in
Jiis deeds: A good tree cannot bring
iforth evil fruit.—Att. 7:18.
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SAVING THE SOIL
One of the gravest problems that con-
fronts the nation is that of conserving the
soiiH The federal 'government recognizes
this fact and through the agency of j the Soil
Conservation program is making a1 belated
start to restore and prevent further waste of
tile nation’s greatest source of wealth.
In Ellis County we have a fair example of
what happens when the soil is impro’verished
through exhaustion and over-cultivation.
For more than fifty years Ellis County cot-
ton farmers engaged in the practice of im-
poverishing the soil by taking from it plant-
producing elements necessary for continued
profitable production. Year by year more
asres.Were put into cultivation until prac-
(Ed. p’pte—While Drew Pearson is on a!
brief vacation, his column will be written i
by Several distinguished guest columnists— j
T-jfjay, by Henry J. Kaiser, the fambus west]
(/bast industrialist).
By HENRY J. KAISER
San Francisco—Almost exactly a year ago
to the day, I took advantage of Drew Pear-
son’s first offer to ride free on the Merry-
Go-Round. He is vacatiohing again. Drew j
may need vacations^ but our democracy can-
not afford one.
Some people tell, me we’re not going to
recover. They say we’re headed toward in-
evitable disaster;;, that we’re well on our
way to the dogs, |und that nothing short of
a miracle can save mankind from oblivion.
I don’t believe it. I don’t think the people
of the United States believe it. Our way of
life will stand any tdst of competitive com-
parison. So, let’s think about Drew’s slogan
:—to work, fight,; give, to make democracy
live!
/ How about taking a look at the so-called
‘‘horrible” things that are happening to us.
Some say, “tomorrow we’re going to have
inflation. Tomorrow either the communists
or the fascists are going to take over. To-
morrow there will be no church because we
have turned our faces from Christianity.
And worst of all-^tomorrow there will he
war.”
I do not believe a word of it. It is like
saying we’ve suddenly decided to, become
sheep, not men.
’ If I were to believe what I hear, there
would be no people in this world any more.
There would be only labels—an endless, in-
sulting array of labels, in the last few
years, my friends, the men with whom I
work, my competitors, all the millions of our
country and the world have supposedly
sacrificed their identity and become liberals
or reactionaries, communists or fascists,
labor or management, democrats or repub-
licans, dark-skinned or white, and I do not
like it.
Confused Thinking—
I wonder if we’re not guilty of the most
confused thinking the world has ever seen.
It is high time we were realizing that we
are still men, not labels, capable of setting
goals and achieving them; willing to fight
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by peter edson
NEA Washington Correspondent
tV/ASHINGTON D. C,— (NEA)—On Sept. I, the War Shipping Ad-
ministration will begin to furl its sails for good. It will pass out
with a number of black eyes and bruises, as well as with a chorused.
VOrganizned in February, 1942, it operated the world’s largest^ tramp
stesrner service throughout the woT. Its pi incipcil
business now is hauling relief and essential cargoes
on government accounts. It has until Dec. 31 to
clean its decks and docks, turn into the Treasury
any unobligated funds, and turn over to the Maii-
time Commission all unfinished business.
At thG peak of its operations, WSA had a fleet
of over 5000 ships, owned outright by the govern-
ment or under charter from private owners. Today
nearly all the ships of this merchant marine fleet
have either been sold, returned to former owners,
chartered for operation by private shipping agents,
or placed in the reserve fleet. This reserve fleet will
Edson number several thousand vessels of all types not
needed for America’s peacetime shipping.
Before the war two-thirds of the U. S. ocean-borne commerce was
in coastwise or territorial service to Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Alaska^
All ships in this trade were privately owned.
SUBMARINES and the pressure of war business put all lines out of
operation, so after the war one of the first acts of the War Shipping
Administration was to get them going again. t . ,
WSA ran the lines at first, then gradually began turning ships back
to their former operators. There are, however, a couple of catches.
The principal one is that shjp operating costs in labor, food, and
cargo-handling went up during the war, while shipping rates have
been held at prewar levels by OPA. .
The other big factor holding up the return of ships to private
operation has been the difference between rail and ocean-bome freight
rates on coastwise traffic. During the depression the railroads were
given permission to lower their rates between Gulf and Atlantic ports.
As the depression rates remained in effect throughout the war, it is
now cheaper to handle some cargbes by rail than by watei, though
normally just the reverse would be true.
rpO remedy this situation, the War Shipping Administration last
J- March made an appeal to the Interstate Commerce Commission to
review domestic rates of competing land and water carriers.
After hesitating over this request for four months, ICC decided it
would have to hold hearings in which all interested parties could speak
their pieces. The result was an order that briefs be filed Sept. 16.
Hearings will begin Sept. 30.
It will probablv be months before there is any decision. In the
meantime, the coastwise and territorial shipping lines will have the
alternative of staying out of business or losing their shirts. Or else the
government, through the Maritime Commission, will have to keep them
in business by operating the ships under charter to the private shipping
agents.
titally every tillable acre was converted into for the things in which we believe—not
farm land. Little or no thought wpis given.....
to conservation or saving the soil that gave
wealth so generously and abundantly.
*The past ten or fifteen years. has seen
many thousands of acres of the county’s
ntost productive land abandoned. } Robbed
of its productivity, it no longer wa$ profit-
able to cultivate it. Each year has seen
rrtore farms turned back. The average per
acre crop yield which has steadily declined
another evidence what happens when the
soil is continually robbed. !
^Great as is the damage that has, already
been done by past farming practices,' Ellis
County still has thousands of acres of rich
productive land that can be saved through
proper conservation methods. The Ellis-
PTairie Soil Conservation, subsidised by the
federal government, which has set up of-
fices in Ennis and other communities in the
district, is giving valuable advice and as-
sistance to farmers in soil conservation.
L&ndowners and those engaged in tilling the
s#il will find it profitable both now and in
With treacherous weapons, but with the
vitality of our own beliefs and the strength
of our purpose.
Not long ago we contacted the steel in-
dustrialists of the east in a search for sheet
steel. In the process we got irritated and
we think they did, too. We wanted sheet
steel to build automobiles. They said they
couldn’t give it to us. We thought we knew
whjh We didn’t like the reasons. But they
didn’t call us anarchists and we didn’t call
them fascists. Mtaybe we thought they be-
lieved in princes.Mi privilege. They didn’t
give us the sheet steel we wanted; we got
it another way. Our production is con-
tinuing on its way without the world falling
about our ears.
Trouble is only opportunity in work
clothes. Take an example from our own ex-
perience. The west has always needed a
steel industry. In 1942 we built Fontana
Steel Mill, in the face of obstacles which,
in terms of tomorrow, couldn’t be overcome.
But it was built for^war; production WitlFthte
t&e long run to enlist in the campaign to J money we were . forced to borrow because
save our greatest source of wealth.
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GREEN TEA IS BACK
! Green tea is expected to be back in our
n|arkets soon. F’or this relief to a wartime
shortage, we are indebted to our .military
f|rces. They found stocks of fine quality
green tea in Japan, and arrangements are
now being made to ship some to this coun-
try. .j
t There were two reasons why green tea
Vfas not available during the war. One was
that the producing areas of China . and the
sbuth Pacific were in the hands of the
Japanese. The other reason was an effort
on our part to maintain the friendship of
l\Jbrrocco, Algeria and other north; African
countries. % j
| The people in these countries are Mo-
l^mmedans, forbidden to consume ferment-
ed. foods, so they could not drink black tea,
Which undergoes fermentation in its prep-
aration. Then too, the alkali water found
in North Africa does not mix too well with
black tea, but does with green. So, our
government bought up all stocks of green
tea in this country to ship to North Africa
under lend-lease, and we got along very
well on black tea.
“Because this is the land of the free it
doesn’t mean that the individual is free
front the responsibility of providing for his
present and future needs.
»A real lazy man is one who buys! a front
seat for a fan dance just to get the breeze.
-4~Bryan Eagle.
Shun idleness; it is the rust that attaches
itself to the most brilliant metals.—Voltaire.
no one else would build it. When the war
ended, the west needed the continued op-
eration of that mill. We were told Fontana
was hopeless—a steel industry in California
would be a “dead duck.” Competitively it
couldn’t be done. We couldn’t continue to
operate. Our fixed charges would eat us up.
West Needs Steel— ;■]
Close down? Hardly. The west had to
have steel, And it has steel. Fontana is op-
erating today, still bearing the tremendous
burden of wartime evaluation. It is pro-
ducing at as low ah operating cost as any
plant in the nation. It will continue to
produce steel, because steel should be made
in the west. I can’t tell you how all its
problems are going to be met. I only know
that they will be met as they arise, and
that the destiny of the west isn't to be
sold short because there’s trouble. Fontana
cannot make its full contribution to the
west when it is competitively throttled by
the great steel corporation buying the gov-
ernment-owned' Geneva steel plant at 20
cents on the dollar and Fontana being forced
to pay the government one hundred cents
on the dollar of its war cost. Fontana now
is a grateway releasing some of the great
potential economic strength of our western
country. It couldn’t be done . . . But it’s
being done.
I have never had-so much fun with any-
thing as I have been having with the auto-
mobile business. They said we couldn’t
do it. But show Windows all over the coun-
try are giving the answer to those who said
we couldn’t do it. The most friendly of
critics said it would take us a year to turn
our first cars Off the assembly line. We did
it in seven months. They said we couldn’t
get any steel Her^ ffidkr Hid cai^. We got
some. Not enough, it’s true. They said we
couldn’t get a staff together.
*• EDITORIALS .. By James Thrasher
UNCOMPROMISING PROSPECT
Under normal circumstances, the withdrawal from the
international scene of Russia’s Maxim Litvinov might be
of little significance. He is old enough to retire from
public life, and his past accomplishments in the Soviet
service certainly have earned him the right to spend his
declining, years , in secluded leisure.
But the current world situation by no conceivable
stretch of the imagination could be termed “normal.” The
unanimity which won a war for the Allies seems to have
dissolved with the surrender of ,the Axis. Nation battles
nation and bloc battles bloc at the UN meetings4 in New
York and at the peace conferences in Paris. The peace for
which thp= world waited through six long, bloody years has
disintegrated-into a “war of nerves” in which crisis follows
crisis with devastating • rapidity.
Nor can the conditions surrounding Litvinov’s with-
drawal from world affairs be !considered “normal.” Here,
obviously, was no voluntary retirement of an aging states-
man; here was a repudiation of an invidiual by the gov-
ernment he served. The Kremlin made no effort to dis-
guise that fact—it simply announced tersely, oyer the
Moscow radio, that the Council of Ministers had “released
Maxim Litvinov from his duties as deputy minister of
foreign affairs.”
The Litvinov announcement assumes, therefore, a sig-
nificance which in happier days and under happier cir-
cumstances it would not have possessed. No reason of any
kind was given for Moscow’s curious action. But the West-
ern world may have little doubt as to what prompted it.
Maxim Litvinov has long ; been known as perhaps the
leading advocate in high -Soviet circles of friendship be-
tween Russia and the Western Allies. He was the author
of the phrase “Peace is indivisible,” a phrase in which he
so sincerely believed that he ;devoted his entire diplomatic
career to effectuating it.
Tlie Kremlin apparently is determined to pursue its
own course in world affairs,: scornful of compromise and
impatient of criticism. That; fact has all too often been
demonstrated at the international gatherings of the past
several months. .
The world will miss Maxim Litvinov. But Soviet foreign
policy will miss him no less; It will miss not only the
friends he made for Russia, ;but also the temperate and
compromising influence he always strove to exert on his
diplomatic colleagues. The cause of peace has been in-
jured by his removal, we are rifraid—and the cause of peace
is no less the cause of Russia than it is that of the Western
world.
BARBS
BY HAL COCHRAN
AN unexpected bouquet indi-
: ^ cates real love—of late hours.
* * *
A head of cabbage raised near
Seattle weighed 32 pounds.
'■ Large enough to run for office.
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An 80-year-old resident of Vir-
■ ginia says he keeps young by tap
dancing. It might be a way to
keep from growing old if the
■ people in the flat below are irri-
table.
* *' *
A University of Illinois pro-
fessor says the average high
school youth of today is wiser
than was his father at the same
age. And some of the kids who
live next door are even smarter
than that.
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It takes a lot more than hot
air to keep, things breezing along.
Plaza Theatre
LAST TIMES TODAY
Returns Home
George Kirkpatrick, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Maurice. Kirkpatrick, who
has been in Parkland Hospital for
tieatment for polio, was brought
to his home here Thursday and is
improving splendidly. Maurice
Kirkpatrick, Jr., continues in the
•Scottish Rite Hospital for treat-
ment for polio.
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PETER LAW FORD • pss;;a ernst lubitsch
Plus Shorts
GRAND
Friday and Saturday
JIMMY WA&ELEY
‘Moon Over Montana’
Plus Who’s Guilty
used
Q—Are helicopters
transport of mail?
A—Yes. Six A.A.F. helicopters
have operated on an experimental;
schedule in the Los Angeles area
this year.
auto spark plug fire in a thousand
mije's of travel? ;:
A p prox%matcly 9000.
To! Arkansas
r. and Mi||?|a. D. Alexander,
| Mri and Mrs. fr./D. Alexander, Jr.
' of ‘-Ennis, and Ifs. Ward Guy of
Louisiana, will Heave tonight for
Mrs. \£tuy and Mrs. A.
far a
month's visit, and the others will
return Monday.
PLAZA
SATURDAY ONLY
Arkansas.
D. Alexander will remain
Q—How old is the U. S. Mili-
tary Academy at West Point?
A—144 years. It was estab-
lished March 16, 1802.
Q—Which has greatest oil re-
serves, the U. S. or Russia?
A—Professor Ivan M. Gubdin,
authority on Russian petroleum,
production, placed Soviet reserves
at approximately 46,291,938,000-
barrells in 1937. U.S. reserves ati
Brought Home '
Mrs. A. E. Dunn was brought J
home from the Waxahachie Sani- ]
tarium Thursday at noon. 1
To St. Louis
Mrs. Ray Rickert and son, Paul,
will leave tonight for St. Louis,
Mo., to be with Mr. Rickert who
has entered college there.
Congoleum Mats
New
3 ft. by G ft.
Ladies
Fall Purses
79c
$.2,98
Roller
Skates
8-Day *
Skates
For (Beginners
Alarm
Ball-Bearing
Miilti-Kwik
Clocks
$3.98
$2.59
$3.29
Watches
Just Arrived
6 Tube
Sky-Rover
Radios
Silex
(Electric)
Coffee
Maker
$1.98 up
$28.95
$6.55
New Mattress Factory
ofieri" -"hi? old Davis Courts,
jjtfJSi b late art! 2Q.827.0IMJiminhltb..an Hi.hwnv 7S m,i ™.t-
oarrells. tresses made new. New mattresses
•--- ! made to order. Phine 158—ENNIS
Q—How many times does an MATTRESS CO.
Also
‘The Man Who Dared9
with
LESLIE BROOKS
GEORGE MACREADY
Forrest Tucker
Machine-Painted Muslin
Window Shades
36x72 in.
$1.00
Priscilla
Window Curtains
Length 90 in.
$2.98 pr.k
BfN TRAN KLIN STORE
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Nowlin, R. W. The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 206, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1946, newspaper, August 30, 1946; Ennis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth782213/m1/2/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ennis Public Library.