The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 231, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 28, 1946 Page: 2 of 6
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ENNIS PAIL'S NEWS, ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS SATURDAY EVENING, SEPT. 28, 1946
Editorials
The Ennis Daily News
In FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR
Opinions
Features
Telephon 44
213 N. Dallas St.
Published daily except Sunday by the United
Publishing Co., Inc., which also publishes The Ennia
Weekly Local and The Palmer Rustler.
Entered as second class matter at the post office
at Ennis, Texas, under the Act of Congress of
March 3, 1879.
R. W. NOWLIN.
THE WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By DREW PEARSON
No Speak Chinese
Amusements
-Editor and Manage*
and items of
. All communications Of business
news should be addressed to the company, and not
to individuals.
TERM'S OF SUBSCRIPTION
By Carrier in City
One Month _________ 75c
Three Months ________________________________ $2.2%
' Six Months ________________________________ $4.50
One Year------------------------------------- $9.00
SPECIAL FARM RATES
By Mail in Ellis County
One Year 1-----__----------------------------- $4.50
By Mail Outside County
Same rates as in city by carrier
Any erroneous reflections upon the character
standing or reputation of any person, firm or corp-
oration which may appear in the columns of the
News will be gladly and duly corrected upon being
brought to the publisher’s attention.
Washington.—The administration has de-
cided to wait out what it considers the most!
effective and subtle political squeeze playj
the republicans have pulled so far—the j
squeeze play on meat.
That was behind Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson’s radio broadcast from New
Mexico announcing that meat prices would
not be decontrolled. Anderson, a cattle
ials-er himself, knows the inside of the cat-
tle game, and he also knows its politics.
He knows, among other things, that every
big cattle rancher in the far west is either
a republican or a conservative democrat.
He also knows that the feed-lot farmers of
The News stands for and pledges to
support all things for the good of Ennis
and Ellis County.
A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Some are in a great hurry in life, but
: be sure you really want what you are
seeking. May be it will disappoint you:
Even so run that ye may attain.—I Cor.
9:24.
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COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
LAW TO BE ENFORCED
* Gus Ramage, Ellis County probation officer
and school attendance officer, announces
that the compulsory school attendance laws
will be more stringently enforced in the
future.
. School authorities and law enforcement
Officers of the county who are familiar with
the wide-spread child delinquency problem.
Will applaud this move and will, no doubt,
give' full cooperation to Mr. Ramage.
Truancy is considered the first stepping]
stone to delinquency. Compulsory school'lfl'™ V
attendance is no guarantee against delin-
quency, but the boy or girl attending school
fe certainly less apt to fall under influences
leading to delinquency.
* responsibility for school attendance
»ests upon the parents. Children between
the ages of 7 to 16 years are required by
law to attend school. P'arents who fail to
comply with the law are subject to heavy
fme, and Mr. Ramage has issued the warn-
ing that his duty impels him to see that
the law is enforced.
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THE PEOPLE PAY
ALL THE COSTS
- Despite many theories to the Contrary the
Seattle Times observes, “The government of
a nation is wholly dependent upon the
people .for financial support—Government
produces nothing. People pay the costs of
their government—all the costs.”
: The Times describes the enormous inroads
made by government into the pocketbooks
of the people. In the early days, the gov-
ernment found sufficient support in indirect
taxation—-the “duties, imports and excises”
specified by the Constitution. Then came
direct taxation in the form of the income
tax with its steadily ascending rates. After
that came the withholding tax idea—under
which a certain proportion of each worker’s
weekly or monthly pay check is paid into th^
Federal Treasury to support some service
or other. The Social Security law which, as
J?1® Times says’ is based on the premise that
all the people were too unthrifty to provide
for their own welfare and old age ” is the
prize example of this.
r the country is threatened with on^
more bite in the form of the proposed, com-
pulsory National Health Bill, generally known
qs the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill. To
quote the Times again, “The President, some
members of Congress and some government
agencies have decided that the people, as a
Whole, are unable to take care of ’ their
health, and government must do it for
them. . .
- “After the health bill, the logical succes-
sion of laws must be for more pay roll with-
holding to provide the balanced diet, the
proper apparel, and the right kind of homes
for all the people—all to be prescribed by
government.
' “What the government may try to do from
there on is anvbodv’s guess; but the safest
guess is that by that time there will be
nothing more of earned income to withhold.”
- If the American people are at last readv
to admit that they are completely incapable
of caring for themselves, and for making
their own decisions as free agents, govern-
ment will of course step
of course step in and order our
lives. And, if the American people accept
that premise, everything the country stood
for, everything that made the country great Tr^po^y a^harge™ at ’tt
—-private opportunity and personal liberty— j confflcts with RoSevelt policy
ne also knows that the feed-lot farmers of
l'owa, Illinois, Kansas ,and the middle west]
are now predominantly republican. As a ’ ~
result, Anderson and other administration
leaders are convinced the squeeze is on to
keep cattle off the markets until after the
November elections or until Washington
yells “uncle” and removes GPA ceilings on
meat.
Ordinarily this is the time of year when
cattle moves off the ranges to eastern
markets. Grass begins to get scarce now
and ranchers can’t profitably keep their
cattle much longer. In Montana, winter
temperatures fall to below freezing and the
, feeding of big herds all winter is finarieially
! hazardous.
Cattle Sit Down— (
However, word which agriculture depart-
ment experts get from the cattle country is
that big ranchers will keep just as much
stock on hand as possible—until after elec-
tions. They will have to ship some, but part
will go to midwest feed-lot farmers who
fatten cattle on grain, and who, in view of
the bumper corn crop, should be able to
hold cattle away from the packing plants
at least until after election day.
However, they will have to sell some time,
j and thq administration has decided that it
can play the same waiting game as repub-
lican cattlemen and farmers.
When it comes to pork, rather than beef,
the situation is somewhat different. Hog
raisers have found they can’t fatten hogs
much longer than six months without los-
A hog increases in weight
rapidly up to six months, after which he
hits a point of diminishing returns. So hog
farmers won’t hold back as long as the cat-
tlemen.
However, since there is a serious shortage
of pork, it will take some time to make up
the deficit and the housewife will still have
a hard time buying bacon.
All in all, the beef and pork prospect
doesn’t look too bright—at least until win-
ter. Secretary Anderson figures that if
cattlemen finally are convinced the govern-
ment will not decontrol meat, they will be-
gin shipping shortly after elections. But if
they can just hold off until after elections,
cattlemen hope they won’t have to worry
about the Truman administration’s price-
control policies much longer.
Wallace’s Next Move—
Hottest political question around Wash-
ington is: “What will Henry Wallace rdo
now?” The answer is to be found in a series
of backstage moves occurring immediately
after lie abruptly turned in his resignation
—on request.
Though unpublicized, it was President
Truman himself who sent out word last
week-end that Wallace was to make no
speeches under the auspices of the demo-
cratic national committee. That was why
Bob Hannegan, Mayor Ed Kelly of Chicago,
house majority leader John McCormick, and
Democratic Congressional Campaign Chair-
man John Sparkman read Wallace out of
the party. Immediately the fireworks
started.
Democratic bigwigs from at least .ten
states bombarded Wallace’s office with pleas
that he prop up their shaky political
chances with, personal appearances and
speeches. In each case, Wallace and his
adroit political adviser, Harold Young, re-
ferred calls to the democratic national com-
mittee. /
This in turn touched off a bonfire at the
feet of party leaders, as state committee-
men yelled for Wallace, Hannegan and
Sparkman finally appealed to the White
House. A quick calculation showed that the
states which were yelling loudest for Wal-
lace had the not-to-be-sneezed-at total of
over 474 delegates to the next democratic
convention almost enough to nominate a
candidate for president.
That was why Truman yielded. That was
also why Hannegan and Sparkman both did
neat flip-flops, issuing new statements wel-
coming Wallace back as a speaker. Result:
Wallace will make ten speeches between
Oct. 15 and Nov. 5 in Pennsylvania, Indiana,
Ohio, New York, New Jersey and Illinois.
Wallace will not discuss the peace issue
in these speeches. But once the election’s
over, he’s going to work on the foreign-
policy question with a vengeance, will write
a new book on foreign policy, plans to speak
in every one of the 48 states. In the course
of this tour, he will break down and
Jesus The Unique And Supreme
In contrast with the greatest men of earth, Jesus stands alone,
towering so much above all others that it is easier to make Him
divine than human. Since time began, all peoples have adored
the supernatural and have anticipated a future existence. There-
fore, we may well ask, “Is there a bright home skyward where
naught that blooms shall die?” If so, has God revealed it, and
by whom? By the Magi of Persia, Buddha of India, Confucius of
China, Mohammed of Arabia, or Jesus of Palestine? The candid
truth is, the one religion lifting up the race and giving hope of
future life is that Jesus, the Christ, Lord or lords, and priest of the
most high God.
There is probably more proof of His life, labors, death, and
resurrection than of the life and conquests of Alxander, Caesar, or
Hannibal. How wonderful are his teachings! Speaking “as never
man spake,” He first taught humility as the road to greatness and
fiist taught mercy to the world as a principle—“Love your enemies,”
Blessed are the pure in. heart, ’ the golden rule—there is perhaps no
institution of love and mercy which He cannot claim. Born in
poverty, He taught the widest philanthropy. Uneducated, He uttered
the wisest sayings of all time. Re never wrote but a single sentenc
in the sand, but His life and His words are recorded in, the books of
every civilized nation of earth. He changed the times and the
seasons, the laws and literature of the whole world. He blessed
little children and made them models of the coming kingdom.
The mission of His life was love. Though poor and lone, He bade
the weary come unto Him for rest. Before Jesus’ day, no word of
comfort was heard at the side of any grave. He revolutionized the.,
world in three years, revolutionized death in three days and revolu-
tionized Heaven the day He ascended, as angelic hosts cried aloud,
Lift up your heads, O ye gates . . . and the King of glory shall
come in.” He entered and “for the suffering of death was crowned.”
From his celestial throne, He now commands the ages as they roll
on. Some bright day, He shali come again to gather the redeemed
of all the ages to dwell with him on the peaceful shore where no
storms ever beat and the tenderest broken ties shall be united—by
this carpenter’s boy—this eternal God.
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CHURCH OF CHRIST
WOLF BRAND
EDITORIALS .. By James Thrasher
AWAY FROM IT ALL
One of the ironic stories of postwar America concerns
Robert Smith of Portland, Ore. Bob is 18, and a Merchant
Marine veteran. The other day he left for Tahiti in an
18-foot .sloop, all alone. He told reporters that he would
•stay on the South Sea island “until conditions change here.”
A few years ago such a departure would have gone
almost unnoticed. • A sigh of envy for lost youth and lost
daring probably would have gummed up the average re-
action. But today, somehow, it’s different.
The Japs didn’t get to Tahiti. But they got to many
islands like it—islands so remote and so little known out-
side of fiction that, before the war, they seemed more
escapist symbols than physical realities.
But they were real enough, as those Americans found
who went there in pursuit of the Japs. These South Sea!
islands weren’t quite the “paradise” we had imagined.:
There was searing heat and drenching rains, and bugs and
smells and other things more uncomfortable than pic-
turesque.
A lot of Americans died in the South Seas. They paid
a price necessary to free the islands from the threat of
war and the baleful prospect of Japanese “co-prosperity.”
In doing so, they also paid a price to free -their own coun-
try from the same threat.
BARBS
BY HAL COCHRAN
CHIU
A PUBLIC school teachers’ strike
in Norwalk, O., prevented
schools from opening on schedule.
That’s one way to become popular
with the kids.
* * =ii
Pity the butcher! Every
housewife has a bone to pick
with him.
Thq hail of the hitchhiker
makes lots of drivers storm.
* * *
A boy in Mexico shot his
teacher. In some of our large
cities he’d have to stay after
school and write “I must not
shoot my teacher” 100 times.
* sfc *
A good recipe for success: Doing
common things uncommonly well.
No. 2 can
No. 1 can
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Layton-Prestidge
But their comrades survived to come back to that
country, and to the homes they had dreamed of. They
came back in triumph to start a new life among their grate-
ful countrymen.
All that sounds a little effusive and emotional today.
But it is the sort of thing that mos of us were hinking a
year ago. But not today. Today our minds are full of
selfishness and suspicion and recrimination. We fume and
damn over strikes and shortages. We are beginning to
resign ourselves to the possibility of another war.
Contim.es 111
Fred Neal continues ill at his
home on North Preston Street.
Mr. Neal had an operation in a
I Dallas hospital and was brought
to his home here last week. He
will be glad
visit him.
to have his friends
Glover Farm Stores
Czech Town Weeds Deadwood j persons and shifter the rest into
Prague (U.P)—The Uudeteniand j “productive labor.”
town of Buchcov, with 3,500in- in- | ______
habitants, is being held up to other j
Czech cities as an example of ad- I BLOTTERS
ministrative economy. The local ! New shipment blotters reo iveb,
National Committee rdeuced the j green, red brown and blue,
town’s administrative staff to four I CPCO PRINT SHOP
“Don’t waste food—Save a life.
Q—Was the American Unknown
: oldier buried in Arlington Na-
tional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.,
soon after World War I?
A-j-No. The ceremony took
place on Armistice Day, 1921.
Q—When does summer official-
ly end?
A—This year the summer sol-
stice ends and the autumnal equi-
nox begins at 10:41 am. (EST),
Sept. 23.
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SUNDAY and MONDAY
Q—When did the Star-Spangled
Banner become our National An-
them?
A—March 3, 1931, by an act of
Congress.
The Postman Always
Rings Twice
SUN.-MON.
with
Election
Q—When is General
Day in the U. S.?
A—On the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in November.
This year, Nov. 5.
is irretrievably gone.
| WORTH REMEMBERING
The wise through excess of wisdom is made
a fool .—-Emerson.
Naturally, Wallace will encounter hundreds
of important democrats, many of them
delegates to the next democratic conven-
tion. Should his ideas catch on, there, is no
question but that he will be a candidate in
1948.
Squeezing Them In
Columbus, O., (U.P.)—They’ll be
squeezing spectators into the huge
Ohia State University stadium this
fall. To meet the unprecedented
demand for admission to the five
home football games, 2,500 addi-
tional seats have been provided in
the student section by reducting the
widths of seats from 17 to 1.3 inches.
John Garfield and Lana Turner
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