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fNNIS DAILY NEWS, ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS
Editorials
THURSDAY EVENING, NOV. 14, 1946
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The Ennis Daily News
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March" 3. 1879.
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THE WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Rf DREW PEARSON
Washington. Most important question to
be decided at the repub^^an organization
meetings to be held on papitol hill today will
be the time-honored 'matter of “seniority ”
In other words, doy* the ablest man sit as
chairman. 01 a committee or the party hack
with the “moste^t” service?
lihs was . 0’>e thing which handicapped
congress uny r the democrats. The old-
timeis usir^iy were southern conservatives
w-ho, becf^fise of seniority, were given charge
©1 impcjr^ant, committees. ,
The republicans have a real chance to!
chai this. In the first place, a new broom I
casv always sweep clean. Secondly, there!
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1ganization act was passed about abolishing!
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support all things for the good.of Ennis
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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
It is manly to confess our failures and
sins. No one is perfect, but a sneak can’t
even fool himself: He that covereth his
transgression shall not prosper, but
whose confesseth and forsaketh them
shall obtain mercy.—Prov. 28:13.
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If committee chairman were picked on the j
basis of brains, not seniority, hard-working, I
trigger-brained Albert J. Engel of Muskegon,'
Mich., would be chairman of the important1
appropriations committee, instead of mess-
baqk Congressman John Taber of Auburn,
N, Y. Engel’s watchful eye on war depart-
ment-‘spending was described by Gen. George
Marshall as' one of the healthiest influences
on the army.
Again, if brains rather than age prevailed, |
able Representative Daniel Reed of Dun-1
nirk, Nr Y., would become chairman of the j
way.^ Amd means committee, instead of bab- j
bitrig, bumptious Harold Knutsen of Min-
nesota.
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! first test of seniority may come if Senator
j Ball of Minnesota attempts to leap-frog
I over Vermont’s George Aiken as chairman
So the landlords and owners of amrtments ■ Y.?16 s!?*teu education,and labOT com-
M . . , . ^ aments j mittee. This happens to be one case where
ARE LANDLORDS JUSTIFIED?
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and rental houses in the larger cities are
* g°mg on strike because they don’t like the
rent control.
It is reported that in the big Texas cities
: When an apartment becomes vacant the
- owner will not rent it again, but let it re-
» main vacant rather than let some needy
’ family have it.
The people who are needing apartments
worse than any others are the veterans who
fought and won the war and protected the
- property of these selfish landlords. If these
veterans had not won the war, then the ones
- now on strike would more than likely not
I even have their property—it might have
* fallen under the heavy barrage of bombs
r from Cferman and Jap planes. The houses
“ might now be occupied by the Nazis and the
* owners might be serving as janitors.
Even though rent is higher how than ever
I before the property owners are not satisfied
" —they want to gig the boys who made it
■I possible for them to still be property owners.
! That is not what we fought the war for nor
- is it right.
One Ennis rentor was recently heard to
say that he was glad there was a housing
- shortage because he could demand and get
any price he wanted. It might be a different
- story now that Ennis has been put under
rent control. The News heartily favors rent
control because our people must have a place
to live. They can do without bacon, butter
and other items of food when the pTices go
too high, but they must have a place for
their families to live.
the man with the seniority— Aiken—is I
thoroughly qualified for the job.
Ball, on the other hand, is branded by
both AFL and CIO as the “friend of U. S.i
Steel.” Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon,!
who had a fine record on the War Labor!
Board, might also be picked as chairman of!
the. labor*committee should seniority be cast
aside.
If seniority prevails, chairmanship of the
highly important new national defense com-
mittee (merging the military affairs and
naval affairs committees) will go to Senator
Chan Gurney of South Dakota, a brass-hat
bellboy. Senators Charles Tobey of New
Hampshire or Owen Brewster of Maine, both
abler men, would be logical choices over
Gurney if brains were considered important.
But, according to many solons in both
parties, they aren’t. The republicans have a
real chance to break with hidebound pre-
cedent, but the betting odds are they won’t
take it.
Will Rogers on Bench
Last spring, California’s popular demo-
cratic attorney general, Bob Kenny, was de-
feated in. the state’s gubernatorial primary
by Governor Earl Warren. This week, Kenny
received the following wire from defeated
democratic senatorial candidate, Will Rogers
Jr.:
“Dear Bob, please move oveb.”
Replied Kenny: “Dear Will, frankly
there’s no more room on the mourners”
bench.”
Capital Chaff
Harold ,lakes, stalwart of the Roosevelt
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BY PE'i'jUiti EDSON
, NEA Washington Correspondent'
WASHINGTON, D. C.—(NEA)— Arkansas Sen. J. William Fill-
bright s startling suggestion that President Truman resign—after
appointing Republican Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg Secretary of State
—may be worth kicking around a little, before kicking out.
Fulbright’s dodge would, of course, permit Van-
denberg to succeed to the Presidency. That would
give the Republicans control over both executive
t and legislative ends of the government, in sweet
unity. The purpose would be to avoid the two
years ot contusion which most prophets of doom
see ahead, with both Houses of the new Congress
Republican and the President a Democrat.
Senator Fulbright is planning to introduce in the
next Congress a bill which would seek to ac-:
complish this same result by different means. His-:
idea is a constitutional amendment which would
Edson permit the election of the Congress and the Presi- '
dent at the same time. All would serve six-year
terms concurrently, instead of, as now, congressmen two years, the
President four years, and senators six years.
CUCH proposals as these are, of course, modifications of the European
parliamentary system of government. Under this system an ad-
ministration can be forced to resign if it fails to win a majority vote
of confidence in the parliament, or the head of the state may dissolve
the parliament and call for new elections.
Senator Fulbright’s idea, therefore, isn’t exactly new. But, strange
enough, no proposal of this kind was presented when,Congress we|
through its reorganization pains last year.
As a matter of American history, it is nothing unusual for a Presi]
dent to have one or both Houses of Congress controlled by the opposi-
tion party. Of the 79 sessions of Congress held thus far, 29 have had1
this jpolitical split. Somehow the country has survived.
In opposition to the Fulbright and other similar schemes, it can be
argued that this kind of political division isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
It is part of the American constitutional system of checks and balances!
^HEN the country is going through a pid-term swing from Demo-
cratic to Republican or vice versa, it may be a good thing to,
have one branch of the government slowing up the transition. When
one party or the other sweeps into control of both the Capitol and
the White House at the same time, it is apt to go too far, too fast.
It is, of course, too early to tell how much of a deadlock President
Truman and the newly-elected Republican Congress will get into.
Where Truman will have to make his first test will be on his
appointments. With a Republican majority in The Senate, he may
encounter strong opposition on any Democratic appointment. The
trouble will go on from there.
But as a matter of practical politics, there isn’t much chance of
Truman’s resigning, just to please the Republicans or to please
Senator Fulbright. The men around the President won’t lei him.
It’s their jobs that are important—not his.
EDITORIALS.. By James Thrasher Movie Flashes
HIGH PRICES NO FRIEND
OF RETAILERS
^Retail distributors, ‘through no fault of
their own, have fallen into an unenviable
position. Price controls have been largely
abandoned. Dammed up rises in costs are
now battering through the channels,of pro-
duction. Retailers have no choice but to
let the flood move on to consumers. They
are in the position of “personally’' introduc-
ing the public to the tragic reality of infla-
tion. -
There are a few things in these tumultu-
ous days that retailers hope the consumers
will keep in sight. Probably moist important
is the fact that progressive retailers are
opposed to rising prices as wholeheartedly
as any one.
Another thing to remember is that in the
long run competition in the free market is
the only sure road back to; stability and
plenty. The United States has a highly com-
petitive retail distribution system. Chairis,
supermarkets, independents and others are
working to get their share of the business.
Under these circumstances resistance by re-
tailers to unjustified price increases is auto-
matic and relentless.
These favorable factors cannot control in-
flation. But they mean that consumers will
get as fair a break as possible—far better
than ever before under like conditions in the
history of this or any other country.
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The efforts of the League of Nations on
political objectives failed through causes
both spiritual and mechanical. It is not
always possible to divorce the two; indeed,
the best of mechanicism will fail without
good will and honest effort.—Hrigh R. Wil-
son, former ambassador to Germany.
CHARTERED BIGOTRY
r The police of Atlanta, Ga., did an alert and com-
bi enable job in stopping an organization called the Colum-
bians at a moment when its members seemed about to start
a Grade A race riot. Four of the members have been ar-
rested on a charge of inciting to riot, which is about as far
as Atlanta can go now.'
For the Columbians, having presented a statement of
their objectives, were granted a charter by a state court
last August. Until that charter i& revoked, it appears that
the group has a right to hold meetings and continue its
planning. It is unlikeljt that its impulsive ringleaders will
make the mistake of hot-headed daylight activity again—
at least in Atlanta.
The Columbians didn’t obtain their charter through
deception or falsehood. Their application stated that it
was among the organization’s purposes “to encourage our
people to think in terms of race, nation and faith” and “to
build a progressive white community.”
A more specific list ‘ of the Columbians’ aims has
thoughtfully been supplied, since his arrest and release on
bail, by Homer Loomis, Jr., the group’s secretary and a
transplanted New Yorker.
A United Press correspondent who interviewed Loomis
said that the latter proclaimed his objectives as follows:
To control the United States by making the Colombians
politically dominant in all 48 states; to make the United
States into an “American nationalist state”; to deport all
Negroes to Africa; to make America a “one-race nation.”
It would be a mistake simply to dismiss such talk as
crack-pot ravings. ■ Hitler was a crack-pot, too, who started
.. , . , ^ , J with a handful of crack-pot followers. The Klan had. a
cabinet, strongly opposed the appointment of j similar beginning. But both Nazism and the Klan in-
Elliott Rocsevelt to the committee of pro- - ■ - - 1 •
Warner Bros.’ newest film dra-
ma, “Nobody Lives Forever,”
which opens at the Plaza Theater
Thursday, co-stars John Garfield
and Geraldine Fitzgerald and fea-
tuies a topnotch cast including
Walter Brennan, Faye Emerson, !
George Coulouris and George To- I
bias. The film traces the exciting j
saga of an honorably discharged !
veteran faced with the task of re- j
establishing himself as a “biggie” |
in the rackets.
“Nobody Lives, Forever” is an !
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| ed.ful storji of romance and adven-
ture, the film also features Robert
i A’da and serves to introduce to
! the American screen Lilli Palmer,
talented Eritish actress, who is
j seen in the top feminine role.
Directed by Fritz Lang and pro-
duced by Milton Sperling, the
screen play for “Cloak and Dagger”
was written by Albert Maltz and
Ring Lardner, Jr. from an original
story by Boris Tngster and Johr
Larkin. Max Steiner contribiw
the musical score.
Printed Personal Stationery, the
ideal gift for any occasion^ -4ijw50
to $5.95 per box. Upco Print Strop.
WORTH REMEMBERING
The blessings we are used to, become so
much the habits of our. lives that we are apt
to take them for granted.—E. C. Martin.
pressives to carry out Roosevelt ideals. In
the end, Ickes was overruled . . . friends of
Senator Bilbo say he is suffering from cancer
of the mouth. Some believe this is only a
smokescreen to arouse sympathy during the
investigation of Bilbo’s war-contract scan-
dals which smell to high heaven . . . Secre-
tary of War Patterson requires a top aide to,
be on. the job in the war department when
he leaves town; therefore Under Secretary
Royall, Assistant Secretaries Symington and
Peterson drew straws to see who would stay
home during the Army-Notre Dame game,
Symington lost. However ,it will now be
his turn to see the Army-Navy game . ,
Something strange is going on inside the
Federal Communications Commission. It re-
cently awarded a radio station to J. Harold
Smith, whose radio programs were such that
the Scripps-Howard station in Knoxville
dropped him from the air. Now, thanks to
the FCC, Mr. Smith can go to town on his
own station . . . GOP Chairman Carroll
Reece was greatly surprised last week when
Bob Hannegan called him on the phone and
offered his congratulations. “You fellows
fought a good fight,” Hannegan said, “and ,as
long as you had to win, I’m glad you won
by a big majority. Congratulations.”
War Secretary Entertains
Three <x. I.’s from Walter Reed hospital
are still talking about the big week-end they
spent with the secretary of war at the
Army-Notre Dame game.
Mrs. Robert Patterson, wife of the secre-
tary of war, works among wounded G. I.’s
at the army’s Walter Reed hospital, and
selected three of them to go with her hus-
band to the game. The lucky veterans w^re
PFC James O. Wilson, Winston Salem, N. C'.;
Sgt. Gerald R. Groves, Meadville, Pr.; and
Cpl. John English, Pittsburg, Pa.
Not only did they ride in Secretary Patter-
son’s private plane to New York and see the
game as his guests, but afterwards, Wall
Street Floyd Odium and wife invited them
to lunch at their Ornate Park Avenue home.
creased tremendously in an atmosphere of complacency and
disbelief. ' • ,' ' . I j
Responsible Georgians already beat the shame of a
brutal, lynching which remains unsolved because of their
lfiss responsible neighbors’ conspiracy of silence. Purely
those who cherish their state’s good same will insist that
this organization , of Columbians be disbanded.
But that, of course, will not kill the spirit ' pf ‘Hitlerism
and Klaliism. The bigots will continue to flourish until
the rest of us become more fully conscious that eternal
vigilance—against the radicalism, of the extreme right as
well as . the extreme left—is still the price of liberty.
Garrett News
,Cpl. James received his discharge
from the U. S. Army Wednesday
at Ft. Earn Houston, San Antonio.
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Merritt and
children of Weatherford spent the
week end with Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Merritt.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Gaultney
and Steven of Vernon spent two
weeks here with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Tillison
and children, Ben Edd and Eulp.
E-eth and Bobby Lee Cox attended
the A. a*nd M.-S. M. U. game in
Dallas Saturday.
Eva Sue Merritt of Corsicana
spent the weeke end with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Mer-
ritt. j
Mr, and Mrs. Howard Jackson
spent the week end in Vernon
with their daughter and family,
3Vfr. and Mrs. Gene Gaultney.
Mr. and Mrs. Dusty Rhodes of
Ehreveport, La., Spent Armistice
Day with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Claude Ramsey.
Mrs. Bernice Earnest of San
Antonio visited relatives here this
week end.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Jackson
have returned from Houston where
they visited relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Bun Cox of Waco
visited Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Cox
Sunday.
J. C. Jackson has, returned from
Pointer, Texas, where he visited
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Jackson.
Mr. and Mrs. Wes Shirley of
Shreveport, La., have returned to
their home after a visit here with
Mrs. J. L. Hart.
BRIDES’ BOOKS—An ideal gift
for the bride. Leather binding—a
gift she will cherish. $3.75 at News
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original screen’ play by W. R.
Burnett, scrivener of such past j
hits as ‘Little Caesar” and “Scar-
face,” and was directed by Jean ■
Negulesco. Produced by Robert'!
Buckner, the picture features orig- I
music by Adolph Deutsch.
Columbia Pictures’ tuneful new
comedy, “It’s Great to Be Young,”
is coming to the Plaza Theatre on
Saturday. Intended as a showcase
for the studio’s brightest young
conti act players and a talented
group of newcomers, the film top-
casts Leslie Brooks, Jimmy Lloyd,
R' ber.t Stanton and Jeff Donnell,
while the neophytes are Jack Wil-
liams, Pat Yankee,: Jack Fina and
Milton DeLugg and his Swing
Wing. Jack' Henley wrote the
screenplay; Del Lord directed.
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THURSDAY - FRIDAY
“Cloak, And Dagger,” initial pro-
duction of the newly formed Unit-
ed States Pictured, Inc., starring
Gary Cooper, arrives Sunday at
the Plaza Theatre. The film is
released by Warner Bros.
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