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Two THE EMPORIA WEEKLY GAZETTE Tburwiayi te. Editor w. A White BCO L. White ind through Subscription Hatei the tb of your paper site jour the change: TWO TYPES OF PACIFISTS "Pacifists." wrote the late George P'at ton, "would do well to study the Siegfried and Maginot lines, remembering that these defenses were fcrcKl, Trjy fell, that the walls of Hadrian succumbed, that the great wall of China was futile. In war, the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of offense depends on the warlike souls of those conductina; it." General Patton thus Justly defends his own warlike No one, looking back, can say other than that the fiery old cavairyman'whb whipped across western Europe like the wind, breaching the German defense, hastened the coming of peace, saved American lives, and was vital in determining the American victory.

At the same these posthumous words of the general add to the increasing scorn being heaped UP'ori American pacifists in this, the third year of the atomic age. Webster defines a pacifisj. as "one who advocates a policy of peace. V-J day, there were 140 American pacifists. The the wkr could agreed, to pr had really pufcha Yet in the past year, the thinking of the American people has changed far more than it did in ail the time between Munich and Pearl Harbor.

There has been a change of objectives, wiiere once Americans set their sights on the, target of world peace, now their p.b"jectiv is victory in World War ill. And as we move toward war. the pacifists, who ironically contain a large of the -warriors of 1941-45, are becoming the objects of scorn and derision. Always Jore war. this mutt h'apperi.

The Athenian, Thucydides, issued an blast at the peace ioverg more than 20 centuries ago. Said he: you who call yourselves men SMALL TOWN' STUFF From several former Kmribrlans, The Gazette and the Chamber of Commerce office have received clippings of an editorial that is going EMPQRjA TEEKLY GAZETTE the rounds of Colorado papers about in the book Emporia. The latest copy comes Itury." from Evalena formerly of RECALLS EARLY DAYS Mrs. Louisa Belle Howard; whose earthly life ended this week at the age of 90, many years ago was honored by the appearance of her name 01 Cen- Emporia, and it appeared in the Colorado Springs News. The editor ong ago we drove what finally amounted to a hundred miles put of our way just to see Ernppria, Kan.

Why Empbrigv Most everybody knows why. Because EwpprJa is the hpme town of the late William Allen White, who, in many respects, was the outstanding newspaperman of this generation or, some would insist, any generation. We were at once agreeably surprised and then disappointed with Emporia, and with the business residence of the newspaper Edlror hite made The Emporia Gazette. Allen. to believe that Emporia was just a country town in the Sunflower state.

And that's what we had to expect. We hadn't iookfd at the census figures or the Chamber of CornmeK.e statistics. So we were surprised to find Emporia anything but a small town. It's thrlv- I ing. it's bright, it's prosnerous, it's representative Kansas woman who had contributed to the educational, musical, cultural and moral service of her country.

Her biography. with the names of 1,400 pther American women, was contained in this book, w.hlch was endorsed by Frances E. WWard, leader for many years of Christian women's work. Mrs, Howard, In later Hfe, Soved to recall her happy childhood, one of her memories that of being a pupil of Miss Ellen Plumb Jn the children's department of the old State Normal school, Later Miss Plumb, who had established a bookstore in Emporia needed help In her store, and went all to expect gives Uutsfi Belle Gill, 12 yVars old. The.

offer of work was eagerly accepted, and Miss Gill liked to recall some of the Emporta people to whom she sold books, among fre- having been W. T. of the Soden an important Emporia HE CifOOSES TO RUN The Senator has chosen to run again, Kis announcement came as a surprise to no one; yet it confirmed the fears of owhy. The Senator's choice was over protest? df isanr of the loters of the state, which in 1941 permitted him to carry 95 per ce-ir of counties, 80,009. him a majority of opposition.

in the main Is not opposition to Arthur Capper. It is plea rather against longevity in office which has always gbn- gainst the American If? plea that room be made fnr l( VQ of the a plea that the Seha- tpr step sslde and (he election ci someone who more neer- the generations 0 the 20th particularly that generation ivhich vcn the war and so wants peace. In this column the day after election day pits of jarge state majority. had lost county by scant 16 votes. His good friend." the late editor of The Gazette, down and wrote the Senator an open letter: I of which we had a rignt in dU5tT; Judge Robert M.

Ruggles, it's sizeable, too. firm of Rnsr.a!'^ "Dear Arthur: might as well say hope mis win the last time you of being Nellie Storrs, who be- will run. You can when, the town, not small carpe Mrs. George W. 'Newman, quitting is had always left us with shall world.

ail the other little guys of the and later wss as along in 'jur ne Most of oui- oid friends who" could' enjoy your triumph then will be in 194S. The next victory year would be dust and W. A. his opinion l2 hl of the five, it VOTE IN MISSISSIPPI Regardless of the outcome today of the Mississippi election, one rav of hope an eventual end to bigotry has been seen in this campaign to fill the vacated Senate seat of the late, largely unlamented Theodore C. Kilbo.

Bilbo's demagogue-counterpart In the House, Congressman John Rankin has campaigned relentlessly against two slightly more liberal opponents for the.honor of filling tne seat of the white supremacy champion who last summer. He may win, but he, ha? had a tough fight. Rankin went out across Mississippi and spewb'd the supremacy doctrine and race hatred in the loud, obscene, Bilbo manner, But there WHS a difference. Outside his own congressional district, whe-e only 10 per cent of the voters have wen able to consistently him Uankin found tough going. He just dldy'tL have.

Uie EEtshis tochni-'-j-s of "O.le fted disappointed white su- --C BJibo Old Bilbo could make you tingle right down to the pants." 8o there is hope. Hope that oigotry, hate, suspicion are not deeply roote in Indivlduats-not even in individuals whose cultural growth has embraced those aoc- trmes. The emotjons need stimulation, need and Ranklns to arouse them and keep them bura- "8- If John Rankin fails ol qlec- Hon it will not be because he thinks any differently than Bilbo did. or the southern voter has changed Bubo. seat of yore of Negro rights one of peace.

I say, you are not safe. unless you have among you men of iction." It is time theti to make sprne In so bdth and Thucydides c.an be proved right and wise. For thejre are various kinds of pacifists. There is the kind who talk fervently of peace. convince themselves that wish- Ing will bring it about.

They are the ones content to sit behind" their lines V7a.l!s arid Jet disaster come to them. To them is due all the scorn to which even the yitrioUc. Patton was capable. them, warned, there is no safety except that of the action of fighting men. there can be another kind of PZcMst-.

The kind wtjo knoi- that peace, like war, cannot be won oTfensive tactics. That group should include all who have any c.onQeptjorj of the cost and horror of World War II, and are imaginative enough to foresee the utter disaster for mankind that can come from World War in. the militant pacifists, "men qf action." This old Whitley iiotel passed, there is no need failed to ijiiiji a imajj town paoer. And then wf began to realize that i Later she taught in El. Do: ti of a voice in the in the.

body means simply that Rankin BORROW IT MacParlane. tha' of Scotland and' id ent of Emporta. Teachers col- retafri the simple virtues and neieh- she was active in musical ii'er- borhness of the small town, it? ary grouns during mar-v years sL IAI S. That. what William Allen White riad in mind whfn he lovingly painted the.

picture of Emporia not too big to be human. Editor White just a Spencer, who with a ghterH and a son, were Pioneers, and whose large family added to the school enroll- small ment and were among the which is ponder the steps America will take toward or away from world can come from. a victory ti jB would be "dust and town newspaperman? Yes, of course. of the middle His greatness as an editor lay mostly in the simple stvle he utilized to write only as he could I SERVICE write about the simple FREVCH FEAR FEAR 1 nce 's Paul RamRcJi.er ilr do.wn a challenge to all the, lesser powers and small nations of the world when asked the French assembly: -Will France be divided into an American or a Russian camp In January the Bell Telephone the other countries 6f Europe heeds best which courageously serves the welfare of the average man; because the average man. in a democracy economic cycle uch as is the strength and dQwnw ard.

produced SSe to nelp her oack to the ishe once the greatness ef America, cioesn't hgve.jo re- todials demanding general cut in utility rates. main population or FojJowlng this exact logic £Dove else, freedorri from As the Norman rum corps the school If he, needs an. extra bag he can set at the he Aggies are always left ho'-dirg Topcki Capital: Tuuv Uained r.urses of Kansas bancing together for the PU r- and apparently thev pon will gain, their objective. There Is cerramjy nothing revolutionary' their wjijeh a substantial part of this country's workers al- Waay What has been Sohceded many cannot be denied consistently to so few the nurses', problem, however, creates patients" problem in Not so Jong ago a "dav" 1 "night" nqrse provided a.l thst wa? required bv the most sengusly. stricken.

Not so long nerjce, staff of four wji.l be nsces- tfiejr corj- the friendly agree that Kansas utilities to yirtues of the smail And the i eral are ertitled greatness.of a newspaperman can of these the better measured by h.oV well i flutters o-er he serves thun by haw many. JHjt are Slad we went a hundred If, repairs gSf must listen to the 11v wuj oe- lUiurv beyond tne power gf of the afflicted to nf- 1 hir Jts of the 95. percent which CT greatest Powers, the? ford. out oJ our way to visit Em- hl greatest powers, they cannot our prairies. Pr the utilities" Jt not be 'denied that Ameri- sverj-prie else, an eat for Prance, ai well as costing them bein a humanitarian effort, Is also I like the building industry, Pacing of.

the field. The pnlv re correcti LOTS AGAIN i more, their employes are entitled a bi for acceptance by France of to more wa the group who Hill believe that late to retTTTT- original objective, was p'eace. are the people, whq vrfil not yet believe that it is time to assume ing and whethe: comin and thus had best abandon ail talk of peace and begin to prepare for atomic war. To group them with ths defense- minded isolationists and dismiss all with the sneering term, win be to do a grave cause for whicii World II was fought. have and their stockhold- American ideais.

But it is to -nie qpenlng ol six puslness dis- I er are entitled to more profits. hoped that it will not "be olf parking areas in However; in the ease of Emporia i necessary to time the Kansas City, is being hailed 2nd in the specific Instance of the as a major accomplishment by a tel ephone company another factor municipality in easing the traffic en lead on busy clotvntown streets in Emporia you found next shipments with election dates, or to use them to impress upon Frenchman Kansas City. has been work- I aucet comes out; you snap a switch, the a necessizy for getting ih the Aaierl- turn a i can camp. ng on this plan for 13 vears en you sna the tight nd in another year should know: comes instantly on; but when you the large investment In I alse you may'be Ln "for planning and money was worth- or 3 wait, and this is not Empori City tha fault of the overa-orked tele- ia could reassure Kansas i one operators, but of the obsolete it is. In a smaller way 1 61 Provided by the, company.

this tpwTi has proved that off-street i parking low are the first, necessity In any satisfactory- Man towns of our size at present. tion. Our parktag meters help much without the downtown traffic" solu-! re Ior than neters would nos i 1 sy tem nd et rlm DftllSr tJiaO Sn- had months in which to try to meet the world's problems with a policy of peace. Today we find their accom- falling, far enough short tnat.mpre and more Americans are becoming disposed turn the job back to the militarists, when we do That TSB acknowledge that World War has been lost. But here 35 stjil to prove that, the age" of the pacifists has the offeree of peace can be mounted and.

driven as dramatically as George Patton's alrniored pf- swept across France. There time ta save the. peace by filling empty bellies in Europe. There is U.me to secure the peace by coming forward with par sing areas. All Emporia needs 0 to make the plan ever better, is the i poria's service.

the present creation of one.or more park- ing areas one to two blocks north of the present locations. New off-street parking lots would cost some money, but as pointed out by the Hutchkison News-Kersld in Kansas cost would be rep over through are fpr the.service the town Is now getting, and the answer is not for the telephone, company tb start bailgering and hectoring the overburdened operators, but to get this badly-needed and long-overdue As it is today, any Frenchman premonition of what the future sees the necessity of may hold choosing the side to which rie must veil as the unoused Dr. Butcher Is Elected By Knife and Fork Club Officers Chosen for man at St. Episcopal church. v' -i? Season; Program For fvlew Year Attractive for the new year cf thc is serving thc Chamber of Commerce through which he a member, and as a member of the 15 studying Durban relations.

Kansas, Thursday, November 13, 1947 Friendship Train Is Due In Emporia Nov. 21 Lyon County Citizens to 16 "Wheat For Relief" Campaign Wheri tjie Southwestern Frte'jjcJ- slip Train rolls into JSmporis Friday, November 21; Ii Js hoped that coimty ifa at least jin entire carload of "Wheat for Relief" the train moves on to Chicago. Thf grain is destined for the people cf Europe, its distribution under the World Council of Churches. Frank Eckdall, at the request Of Gov, Frank Carlson, Sam P. Wallingfqrd, state chairman of the "Wheat for arJve, and the EmpprJa Council pf churches, formed an executive committee to supervise the.

JjTrai for the train. The members are W. Richards, W. Teichgraeber, Dr. L.

MacFHrlane, County Agent Warren Rhodes, arid the Rev, LeRoy Hay, pastor of the First Christian phurcrj arid President of the Ministerial association, Ferris. Hill, and the Rev, H. yntoa Longberry, pastor of the First odist church. Contact with the city and cpim.ty I is being mad? through the p'rptei- tant churches, the home demonstration units, 4-H clubs, the service clubs, veterans' organizations, women's clubs, and public schools. Be Loaded Here The wheat is to be delivered r.fc Places in tiie picked up il mills and hauled to the Teichgraeber Milling company where it will be stored and loaded in cars.

It will be milled and sent to hungry children In bags marked "Grain products from American citizens to Europe and Asia for hunpry people, given In the name of Christ." Mr. Teichgraeber has repohed that four carloads of wheat rbr Belgium relief were given from thii county. at the close of the first war. Mr, Eckdall has learned from governor Carlson that tiie sinta Fe will, transport; the grain free of. charge in carload lots originating either on their lines or moved to their lines.

Already the campaign has begun in the city churches wriere persons are contributing units one or more bushels of wheat at S3 a bushel the e.xtja over and above the current market price of wheat to be used for mlUJne costs. in addition the executive cofn- mlttee the. fpjlpwing persons have been narned to the general cpmmit- tee fc-r the county: rriinisters Of all Protestant churches In the and county, and one layman to be. named for each church; County Superintendent Evelyn Jones' Miss Aivna Grace Caughroii, horn? demonstration agent; Floyd LowcJer, Allen; E. Mayes £nd £.

W. Van John Phllbrlck. Cobb Qunlap; Charles Capp. Lii- Cil e. Davis.

George Slo- Uahm, Reading; A. A. Wright. Admire, A. Stefjes.

pipe; Phil Lord itejyin Johnson. Wilfofd Rlczle Virgil Ce otis Couryiej, Harry Murphy, and Helen Kramm. Emporia. Treasurer Ferris Rill said that contributions of cash shpuld be maae though, local churches, clubs or; direct to, him, or arshaMU Ran-' He is par ocil owner of "thc Fin- kinS mPan3r a RQtarbn and a the-pim ChVfcUan dal Last Sunday several hundred dollars waa received at the opening rtf Knife and Fork club were 1 ally himself for the next 5 today. uo'on at the first! That kind Frenchman, the "one" Cf direc whrv 1 to i5 cringing an American C3Lmp while his neighbor has throi-n Ills Jot with the is not thc kind who will build the new Frahce capable of helping faring; world Dr, Thomas P.

Butcher naiiied mi 43 Marbuii nt st and i Dr. j. p. Dinhler, second vice dent. Rev.

K. Hilton LongberVv peace. And so Paul Ramadier hits at the great barrier blocking the progress of ions out of the nitris at the fear of ahpthe'r war, th-j fear daily accentuated by th'e armed rnight arid Increasing stubbornness the Big M. JUST PtN MONEY NOW In contrast to the hustle and and guidance of retail de- velopment for all me to Emporia's payments, checks for production reductions, ever-normal granaries and lCi ur anlm subsidies, the places todav of one or two speakers next fall rs ere di re as quiet as a church mouse" i "IF" ITEM 53 Dorado those was reelected sgcrecary-treasure'- I New board members chosen "at i the last meet-Ing are Mr. Dr.

Dinkier and Fred O'Brien. tiring officers ara Dr. Clvde Meri- detb president; Orviiie first, vice president and M. A Lim- I cocker, vice president, Re- tiring, members of the board Dr. Merideth.

James Putnam and; McCoy. The board voted that! Dr. serve as ev- oJfsdo member for the coming year new and Fork year will open with the dinner meeiin- i and talk. December 3. by Capt.

John i 5 EteueL His subject will be I of Mystery." The program, with thc exception I at the Plrst Presbyterian church the leadership ol I Mr. Eckaall and the Rev. William J. Se as begun in other churches and substantial amounts received. The Student Council of I the Junior and Senior Klgh schoofi (Wiu report action this week.

Younsc I people at Allen already have be- jn collection of wheat and moiiey and nave a considerable amount Tp Start from Wichita. According to the.Associated Press VVichita.is the assembly point for the Southwestern Friendship train Details were disclosed Wednesday alter, a meeting attended by some 3Q representatives of relief collecting units a tri-state area and several of the Santa Fe rauroad. managing editor of the WJchita Evening Eagle and co-chairman of the oro- ject. presided. hard fighting de- ttrmbied plan (c-r.

Uiternatlonal ai- iion to World Waj m. This ca for in aririy tre M. A LIVING FLA3rE The Qazetle. received from ina. where Dictator Is stamping out freeuom of a review published in ta of.

Buenos Aires White." of William Xnen now undergoing censorship by its dictator. reader could miss the sig- fnce of the fact that the reprinted, along with his on trie booi, the areas near Sixth, and we have park- appeared one day jWhere corps of young women were! Robert January- 30. "Ad- a i rtf rt i ira 0 0ffi pa 5S a Th an or T. L. 3 rx-; ciift.

cd i o- Th. )and formal applications of farmers fcr federal only a clerk or There GIVE IT A CHANCE I HoUv-s-cod to isle: 1 two is on hand now to do the Luckman food sa.ving plan is practical or that 5.t will accomplish its end. Its.every American's inalienable right to think his government Is cockeyed and to say so loud and long. But no one. has yet pro- p'osed until one Chicago, am -Kef Vcri it situation TI country to-irn.

routine job for making incentive payments. Ten years ago the AAA check was a big thing in Kansas farmers' lives. The check paid the taxes. bought the Christmas presents and was a pass at the loans and dis- counts cage window al the banks. the.incentive,checks, no i cause farmers to stand in long comes aiotig: Emporia food com- too mittee says to the dissenters in suppose Comdade in the AAA offices to wn: roive a hand to us who want He have the mU er i are merc mone fn he this Incident, income.

Admiral Ellis Zacharais, February I 23. rjn "InitnJnier.M cf Peace." J. R. B. Branch.

March 15 i on tl American'I Businessman's Point. View" i Gerald Wendt. April 7, "On i the Horizon In Science." i And. WiUard Mayberry. former! Emporian, ar.d a veteran Knife and speaker.

Ma-- io. on -What Farming Means to the Citv Dwell- print to The Farm Credit administration An Anxious Frigid." which editor wrote back Ln there was a similar fr-e fight in Kansas. how pleased he would be to that his little editoriaj on of utterance was a flame not out. but which rises, quarter of century and right of printing like neither has anybody i several ceks ago reported that all as. well off America has undertaken a plan in tnc icl(C its slow, unwieldy, democratic to provide relief.

They know that should the Soviet Union decide to supply 500 raUlion bushels of wheat way Western Europe, it oe de- as as am? able to timated with this reflection. Still, if his prices for income. Tne Percentage probably has sagged were few undredths of a point since prkes conservation plan. Here is a chance the communism of wheat in their interest In cff- told that scads of this high- a vociferous opponents of commodity kicfevw about 2 intere il" Ui to show Jl Europeans he C0un tr7 and can be purchased- Rouler of U4 inc ere the that America, can voNntarfly at 8 Price Bu price! This farm storage.the far hi program for o. i.

strag-jand democratically, match the ac- what makes rne payments on conservation 114. ir. L. W. Jcompltehirierits' of the oolice itatiL 0 3 And what does i practices is not (he noittidaj hay- the police state.

th i practices is not the pplfficaj hay- I maker it used to M. R. TSTER Wh iv ldel known Emporia (ors. Other civic work pprformrd by Mr thc Empori club. Demand for Workers In a Decline Here The demand for construction workers and seasonal laborers is easing off with several construction completion, according New Men's Club to vp r.

O. K.dfcii<H,r. manager the iw Emporia state employment office. Have Quarters in In October the employment office here placed 106 workers which In-i Crn or a a bui of lie shower facilities, pool or plngpons from ailli Oklahoma will arrive Wichita November 20 and Is scheduled to Jeavp the next morning. There every likelihood the tram will be longer than 120 cars the original goal, when it rolls Into Chicago November 22.

Thirty carloads of wheat already is the milling process from Kansas Mcn- and another 15 cars of wheat are said to be ready at Amai rillo, Texas. Railroad officials ask that be in carload lots. They suggest communities una.blo.to provide fun loaos consolidate their gifts with neighboring towns. Planning Survey Nov. 17 Work on the Emporia city planning, project, under a contract with Bartholomew and associates of St Louis, will start Monday, November 1 1.

City Manager Walter Johnson was notified today that a representatives of the company will arrive on that day to start the first phase of the project. ters for planning engineer individual game cquipmem P- obab be set up in the office furniture. The pur- fonnerl assigned to the utility commissioner at the Civic auditorium. carried 63 of them over ox-err. er.

Job referals totaled 220 in October. Tlxe offiqe had 1.384 visits of. which 666 were by veterans A tew veterans sire back on the $20 per week unemployment adjustment rolls. Mrs. Roscoe Mend.enhaU.

West, spent Wednesday Jn Hum- boloX voting her sister, Mrs Ger- a2d Talley. Mr. and Mrs Ta'lley and s.on, Jem', leaving today fo'r Lenoir, N. where they will live finance nance. features for the business Fees will be charged tp equipment and malnte'- quarters in thc room formcrlv i "Such to be hall Olpe next week.

Topeka and Wichita. While the Emporia club cannot have facilities A bS be completely renovated including towns, we will have something that a detailed plans will meet Emporia needs." are not completed and will not be known for another month, A. R. general secretary' icdav MARRIAGE tICF.VSES THREE BONDS FORFEITED Three 510 bonds were forfeited in poljce court Thursday night by Judge Oron Samuel when the men posting them did not appear tn court. They were Bernard L.

Margason, of Madison, charged with and Howard Lambeth. and Paul A. Johnson, charged with drunkenness. GRANTS DIVORCE Jean Viles has been granted a divorce from CJaude Vile? by District auii, secreiarv lodav i oy i a that the club, equipmem wouM 27 and her individual exercise C. DririrrT.

Virginia L. JI 23 en name of Jean Taylor was restored oy the court..