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THE MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER FOUR MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1951 To The Cleaners i -Reg Manning Here's Henry t)t iUontgomcrg Sltotrfocr Established III Publlabsd Every Wk Day by THE ADVERTISER COMPANY Katarcd at th Poatofflca at Moctgoroery. aa Sacootf Claaa Wall Mitttr Cnder Act of CooKress of March Ird 17 R. r. HUOION Publisher R. F.

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A Higher Most i. Editor, The Advertiser: I see they are coming out on the front porch to discuss the poll tax issue, they will come out i from behind trie house to do the voting now, I think we can raise the flag on a higher mast. As to the poll tax and voting problems, I have had the following in mind for several years. I don't think a man who was born without choice in a certain free state should have to pay tax to speak his mind on political (I can't see freedom of speech In paying to speak.) But, I think i one should qualify to use this freedom of speech. After all, qualification is the most vital thing to do anything.

I am in favor of abolishing the poll tax, reaching back and bringing up all who have gotten behind with paying their poll tax, and making it a law for every person reaching a certain age to go before an appointed local board once every four years and seek to qualify to vote. Also Impose a fixed fine on any qualified voter who fails to vote In any general or state elections. It is true, there are some who should be disqualified to vote. That would be the duty of the local board to view and examine each individual. If he is qualified, fill out a qualification card which he'ean present at the polls before voting.

The idea of disqualifying a person from voting because he has no high school education is a very undernourished idea. I think if ti man Is found mentally fit to govern his judgment, he could qualify to jvote. 'I consider the 1 elections to be a very Important matter and unless the reins are tightened on it, it is going to get in a worse mess than it is. J. W.

CULLIFER. East Tallassee, Ala. For A Sack Of Cats, Thanks i Editor, The Advertiser: Please print this and sign my name. To the people who drove down Happiness Avenue Monday p.m., Feb. -26, with jtheir car lights off and left a sack full of cats, thanks.

I I saw you and if I had thought, I would have gotten into my car, followed you and taken your tag number. I can't 'understand why anyone would do that. I don't like cats myself, but I wouldn't dump them out to starve. I Now the reason I say thanks is this: One of the neighbors here took a few of them to a grocery store and sold them. You see, a grocery I store will make a wonderful home for cat.

With all the cats you left here you could have taken them to a grocery store and profited by it. I do hope it bothered you an awful By Henry McLemore ATHENS I JJOTES written on Grecian You'd be safe in making a bet that when Hollywood releases film It is making of the life of General Rommel It won't pack any theatres la Athens. The Athenians have a word for the Desert Fox and It Isn't "Halleltjjah!" The water shortage In Athen.ls many, many times as acute jus It. ever was in New York, and it's all thd fault of Rommel. The great Maratfion Dam, built near the scene of on of history's most decisive battles, is Athcn't ole water supply and it was drained the bot tom by Rommel to keep the canteens of his Afrlka Corps filled Big tank ships hauled the water from Greece to Africa.

As a result, water flows through the pipes of Athens only on alternate days, and then only from 8 a.m. to 9 am. With Greece's scanty rainfall it is doubti ful If the Marathon Dam ever gets back anywhere close to normal." General Rommel may be a hero at Hollywood and Vine but he's a bum In Athens' Constitution Square. yiTH water so short, Athenians are drinking more and more of their favorite wine and they're welcome to It. I say this because their favorite wine Is one that is heavily resinated and, to th uninitiated, tastes like a soothing, swig of turpentine.

The bouquet is the same as the one you get In a naval store warehouse, but the Greeks consider It nectar lit for the gods and goddesses. QF ALL the peoples we have aided since the finish of World War II, the Greeks undoubtedly like us the most and are most grateful for American aid. They say flatly we saved the country In the "early months of 1947 when, with the country starving and ready to be taken over by the Commies, the U. S. diverted grain ships at sea and sent them here.

Too. Greece has a tremendous blood tie with America. The some 8,000.000 Greeks have over a million relations in the U. S. and Canada.

That's a lot of relatives, as you well know if you have ever had as many as two visiting you at one time. Notwithstanding their love for Americans, and their willingness to fight on our side at the drop of a drop of olive oil, the Greeks haven't let these feelings blind their admiration for the negotiable green rug called the dollar bill. The tourist wallet Is still a skin they love to touch, be It alligator, pin seal, ostrich, or pigskin. Unless you know well enough to eat In the little places, and stay in the hotels around the corner, you'll find yourself going broke at a Man O' War clip. This despite the fact that for about $66 you can be a millionaire in drachmas.

The exchange is 15,000 to 17,000 drachmas to a buck, but the prices they tag on in drachma all but break your bachma. "yE HAD a lucky break here inasmuch as an old friend from the States, Socrates Chakales, Is hrad of the Associated Press. Soc has been hr-re since 1943 and knows Athens as well as Pericles ever did. Soc, a North Carolinian from Ashevllle, speaks American with a Southern accent as thick as hominy grits. He rattles away in Greek, too, and I can't help but wonder if he throws In a few "you-alls" and "honey chiles'" in that lanRuage.

Having; given up Geek after my first two years in kindergarten, nil I havp been able to say to Greek acquaintances is "Hello, Sigma Nu," and "How are you this morning. Delta Delta and "I hope you are feeling very Sigma Alpha Epsilon today." i I 1I I iliitli-il tiv MrNHupht tnll s( s. lnr) i i Li.ot" i iiL 1 tjJ A V. A- 'McNinjfht Syndkat. inc.

eLI By JUDGE WALTER B. JONES Off The Bench Child L(dtor Amendment Pending "yyiTH the recent adoption of the so-called Presidential Tenure Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, now Amendment XXII (proposed March 24, 1947), there remains but one amendment pending to the United States It is the so-called Child Labor Amendment (proposed June 3, talents to government or the army which often mean the same thing. They find good pickings in such matters as concessions In oil and copper and control of customs revenues: "The granting of concessions to the alien and the maintenance of 'order' for the landowner becomes one of the few practicable careers which can result in wealth and power." Since the stakes are high and other opportunities meager, a great many are prepared to risk even life itself in a revolt to get ahead. No wonder so many Latin American lands are unstable, with revolution in the nature of a career or profession. Taking Stock Of Winter Writing in Gulf Breeze on the severe winter from which we are emerging, Jesse B.

Hearin notes features on both the favorable and unsatisfactory sides from the agricultural standpoint. "The tilth of the soil has been im-proved and the land should be friable and easy to work," he writes. "Insects and pests have been reduced to a minimum, but unfortunately grasses and clovers have also been reduced to a minimum and cattle have suffered and will suffer much more in March unless feed and care are given in full measure." A recent visit to a livestock area in this county amply confirmed the above. Ordinarily, cattle would have been leisurely cropping succulent grasses and clovers, unharmed by a normal winter. But on this occasion hungry animals crowded around the visitor, as though hoping he would turn out to be the feed man.

As Mr. Hearin observes, "Iribur zeal and enthusiasm to improve soils and build winter pastures, too many of us overlooked the necessity of having plenty of hay and forage crops and some concentrates to take the place of the frozen, pastures." As for the insect angle, Mr. Hearin declares that the recent winter killed millions of boll weevils and other insects, but did not exterminate them. "Only last week we found 'screw worms' in South Alabama and boll weevils in North Alabama," he writes. "This means we must not take too much for granted." The present day emphasis on control measures for insects and other pests brings to mind the fact that if man has Improved varieties of plants and animals, and better methods of raising them, he also has more enemies to contend with.

This is easily illustrated by the fact: that numerous Alabamlans now living: can remember when the boll weevil had not been heard of. The screw worm we believe, a still more recent pest; cer-. tainly we did not begin to hear about it until recently. Fruit trees also have new enemies. A relatively new arrival is the Oriental peach moth, which penetrates the tips of new growth on peach trees and in case of heavy infestation transforms the tree into a mass of switches.

It is a good thing man has developed improved methods of fighting bugs and plant diseases. By so doing we seem to be holding our own and maybe a mite better; there is no telling where we would be without them. Gambling Outlav The senate crime Investigating committee announces that organized gambling is taking in $20 billion annually in this country. An enterprising AP staff member compared this with some expenditures on the laudable side. He found that the gambling bill is more than the American people put into clothing and shoes, more than total national retail expenditures for automobiles and parts plus gas and oil, and nearly one-third as much as the total retail spending for food and drink.

That certainly sounds deplorable. And it does not tell the whole story. Gambling is an obsession; the man who is bitten by the gambling bug is likely to show diminished efficiency at the job he is supposed to be working at. During the football season, for example, sundry Montgomery addicts move about in sL sort of dream, or coma, so far as all other matters are concerned. i 19241 to the effect that 1 Congress "shall have power to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under' 18 years of The proposal declares that "the power of the several States Is unimpaired lot.

i MRS. BARBARA CROCKER by this article that the operation of State laws shall be sus- fi npnriprl tn thp rxtrnt Montgomery. We Are Grateful Editor, The Advertiser: necessary to give effect Korran (Casualties The war in Korea, which some assumed at the start would be a mere police action, has resulted In slaughter on a scale surpassing some more pretentious affairs. The UP recently quoted an Eighth Army spokesman on casualties, showing 'incidentally that South Korean losses have been more than three times those of all others fighting on our side. The 'South Korean casualties were placed at American, 50.675; other United Nations contingents, 2,805.

This made a total for our side of 222,000. Casualties inflicted on communist armies North Korean and Chinese were estimated at 600,000 to 700,000. It adds up to a grand total approaching a million. Civilian casualties are not included. This is pretty Impressive for a sideshow.

No wonder we hear fears expressed that another general war, regardless of the outcome, would wreck Europe beyond recovery and jeopardize the fabric of civilization in all the rest of the world. Causes Of Instability Some interesting sidelights on "Why Latin Americans Revolt" were presented recently by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in an article by Merle Kling, instructor in political science at Washington University. South American revolutions are of course of interest and concern to us. Even before Uncle Sam decided the world was his parish, he was especially interested in the Latin lands to the south of us.

Kling reports that "at least I 17" chief executives In Latin America have been violently removed since V-J day. He notes that "No area In the world can match the Latin American record for political instability, for shifts 'in government personnel by coup d'etat, for frequent adoptions of new i constitutions (18 in Haiti)." One reason is the Spanish heritage; "thef Spanish tradition has not been conducive to the stimulation of a revcr-' entlal attitude toward constitutionalism." Another cause is the poverty of the people; still another, the ease with which I a revolution can be put across. An even more potent reason, however, is the combination of political sovereignty with a colonial economy. This makes control of-the government a "singularly lucrative" prize in Latin America. It explains the "peculiar and irresistible at- 'r traction" of political power for ambitious I ones down there.

Explaining why this is, Kling points out that "Wealth and the power which accompanies it are rarely available in business to the ambitious mestizo, mulatto or Indian." Ownership of cultivable land is con-; eentrated in the hands of a few; bar-'. ring a major social unheaval, an ambi-l tlous outsider has little or no chance of achieving agricultural wealth. Industry offers little opportunity to native groups; I foreign capital dominates the mineral resources. So ambitious ones tend to devote their Our hearts are overflowing with thanks to our many, many friends, including The Advertiser-Journal and the Opti-Mrs. Club, for the sympathy and lnyal-uable assistance given us during the trying period since our little girl, Jo Ann, was burned Just before Christmas until she was buried last; Tuesday.

Since we cannot personally thank every one, we wish to convey our appreciation through your column and say that we wish it were possible for us to repay the many kind things done for us, doubtedly, these deeds were prompted Living Today By Arlie B. Davidson The Will To Do rpHERE is a vast difference between the will to do and the wish to do. Wishes have been a part of the history of every man, wishes which have never been realized in actual living. "If wishes were as. 'mi horses, beggars could by sincere Christian spirit.

May God bless and keep you all. MR. MRS. C. L.

CRYSEL! Montgomery. the State whose vote made ratification, that is the 36th State. If Child Labor Amendment, pending for ratification since 1924, is finally ratified by 36 States, then a very interesting question will come before the 'United States Supreme Court. It is this: Has; the ratification been made within a reasonable time after the proposal? Twenty-seven years have already passed since th amendment was proposed and perhaps it will take a year or two to get the 8 votes of States needed. Article Federal Constitution, which contains the only provision prescribing how it may be amended, is silent on the time during which the States have the power to ratify a proposed amendment.

However, the federal Supreme Court has definitely stated that Article fairly implies that ratification must be "within some reasonable time after the proposal." The court arrived at this inference from the facts (at that proposal and ratification are steps in a single process; bi that since amendments may be proposed by Congress when it "shall deem it necessary," it is implied that an amendment is to be presently disposed of; and ci since ratification Is but the expression of the people's assent. It would be reasonable to infer that ratification must be sufficiently contemporaneous In the required number of States to reflect the will of the people In all sections at relatively the same period. Now the federal Supreme Court has never attempted to define what would constitute a reasonable time during which ratification must occur. No one can know what the court would hold. But.

If we give careful consideration to the rulings which the membership of the present Supreme Court has made and study (carefully the political, legal and economic philosophies of the federal Supreme Court justices now on the bench, it would not bo unreasonable to assume that though 27 years have elapsed since the amendment was pro posed and that durliig this period there have been many changes, among them, stronger State laws against child labor and federal wage and hour laws, yet the. U. S. Supreme Court would probably sustain the amendment, if ratified, against the contention that an unreasonable time had elasped since the proposal (1924) and the conditions then existing. REGRETTABLY, the tendency is today and has been for many years to expand the power of the federal government at the expense of the State governments.

Year by year the powers of the sovereign States of the Union diminish and year by year the government on the Potomac gets bigger and stronger and takes on more and additional powers. There are many States in the Union. Alabama among them, which have much better laws against child labor and all of Its attendant evils, than Congress could ever enact. These wise laws should not be stricken down by any power given to Washington. It will not be a happy day for those citizens of, the United States who love freedom and liberty, who believe in home rule and local self government, when the States are left the weak and servile dependencies of the federal government.

I The Lyons Den By Leonard Lyons SJ-CV i hM lts truth. ff uul DcgRar mav a 'v 1. 1 I lha rtrwi eir frt rlrt rntYl PRANK COSTELLO was in a downtown win. p.J mini. Xtf thing about his plight.

I Only he may never cafe where he saw Pat OBrien and the manager of the cafe toasting each other at the bar. "Pat's a good friend of mine," the manager told Costello. "Im the best friend he has in the nightclub take the next move necessary. A couple starts out in marriage with the wish to "make a go" of the marital venture.nl- Judge Jones to legislation enacted by the Congress." Unlike many of the amendments proposed to the federal constitution there is no time limit on the period during which ratification must occur in the case of the Child Labor Amendment. 4 seven year period was fixed for the ratification of the XV11I Amendment but the only amendment now pending to the constitution of the United States is silent as to any limit on the time within which the legislatures of 36 states (the necessary number) must ratify.

Nearly 27 years have elasped since Congress proposed the Child Labor Amendment and so far only 28 States have ratified the proposal. My good Lister Hill, has kindly furnished me with a list of the States which have taken affirmative action and thi year thereof. They are; Arizona. 1925; Arkansas. 1924; California, 1925: Colorado, 1931; Idaho, 1935: Illinois, 1933: Indiana, 1935; Iowa, 1933; Kansas, 1937: Kentucky, 1937; Maine.

1933; Michigan. 1933; 1933; Montana. 1927; Nevada, 1937; New Hampshire, 1933; New Jersey, 1933; New Mexico, 1937; North Dakota, 1933; Ohio, 1933: Oklahoma, 1933; Oregon, 1933; Pennsylvania, 1933: Utah, 1935; Washington, 1933; West Virginia, 1933; Wisconsin, 1925, and Wyoming, 1935. LOOKING over the names of the States which have ratified the proposed Child Labor Amendment the writer finds that only one of the eleven Southern States which seceded from the Union upon the election of Abraham Lincoln, and which might be thought to be citadels of the( rights of the States, has ratified the amendment: Arkansas. In order to make the Child Labor Amendment a part of the U.

S. Constitution it is only necessary for eight more States to ratify. The supporters of the amendment have 20 States from which to get the 8 votes needed for ratification. And it is not unlikely that within the next few years the believers in a strong centralized government at Washington will be able to whip 8 States into If they can get five or six States out of the 20 which have not acted to ratify, it is almost certain there will be two or three other States which will rush action and try to claim the dubious honor of being Mi business" "Oh, no," Costello paid. "Pat O'Brien is a dear friend of Sherman Billingsley's." When the manager doubted that O'Brien even knew the Stork Club proprietor, Costello said: "I think they're such good friends IT.

bet you $1,500 that right now O'Brien is wearing red Stork Club suspenders" The man went back, to O'Brien, opened his jacket and saw the red suspenders. "I saw O'Brien an hour ago, explained to a friend, "in the bershop." i MORTON DOWNEY and the late Eddy Vaviason ways living happily after the public ceremony. The wish may be possible of realization in actual companionship, but the will to do the necessary things may be sadly missing with them, or at least one of them. Hence, the eventual failure. For a successful partnernership cannot live on mere wishes.

A student wishes to do well, make good marks in school or college. It will give him good standing in the group, bring some degree of inner satisfaction, and other rewards. But he will never arrive at his wlshed-for-goals unless his comes into action. When this happens there is a rearrangement of life's schedule, habits, sense of values. Otherwise, there Is no progress toward the objective in view.

You may wish for anything of worth. (This is easy. It is also commendable. But it Is Ineffective unless something more is done. If the wish is stronger than the will, stagnation results.

"When a man puts a limit on what he will said Theodore Roosevelt, "he has put a limit on what he can do." Duchin were close friends for many years. They were working at the Wedgwood Room when Duchin was stricken with the leukemia which ended his life a year later. They had arranged for Duchin to work 'on Downey's Coca-jCola program When. Duchin entered the hospital he had faith that he'd be cured. Downey assured him that the hospitalization was only temporary, and that when he was cured Duchin would work on the program.

For more than a year, therefore, because he knew Ducnin was listening, Downey never engaged a per manent orchestra Now he's getting one. Wallace D. Malone Mack Brown Across Thje Sahara And Down To The Sea He Washes His Feet In Indian Ocean- Feels Like Johnni Port Elizabth, I At Johannesburg (which is called still going. "We passed a French! car I Dutch. The Boers were Dutch and fought I Jan Christian Smuts, who died last year.

I Maybe I will get wa By warm when the legis lature meets in May! Smuts was one of the big men of tnls century. Though a Boer, he helped England very much In the two wars with South Africa February yjE ARRIVED here yesterday at 3 p.m. after driving non-stop from Johannesburg, 750 miles in 20 hours. Germany. 'PHIS is, of a seaport town and which had turned over three times when, the driver went to sleep night before last.

However, no one was hurt and It was put! back on the road and arrived here Just after we did yesterday. pORT ELIZABETH is a city of about 40,000 population, from the looks of it. It reminds one very much ofj say, Panama City. All the buildings seem to be new and of modern design and I very clean. Wide paved streets, stop lights and everything else you would find In the United Statejs.

I In South Africa you find the following agricultural products: corn, wheat, pineapples, grapes, citrus fruits, -cattle, and The people of South Africa are much interested in this tour and the papers are full of it. Every where we have been most; hospitably I stuck my foot In the Indian Ocean this morning. Some of our party took a swim. The Indian I and the South Atlantic Oceans Join at Cape of Good Hope, which wllf be the tnd of our tour and where we will arrive day after tomorrow, 9 Jo'burg for short) we were given an early supper at the Country Club before taking off at 7 p.m. Of course the mayor of the city was on hand and made a short address.

A very sensible talk. He objected to the use of the words "Dark Continent" when referring to Africa. And as far as South Africa is concerned, he is right. We. are back in civilization now, with a capital Jo'burg is the largest city south of the Equator in Africa.

Over 100.000 whites live there. It Is sometimes referred to as "Little New York" skyscrapers and everything. We only had time to drive through the city to the club. We are' always escorted by motorcycle copa right through stpp lights, with sirens wide bpen. There are 38 cars left in the Ralljye out of more than 50 original entries.

But they make quite a procession when strung out In a line. Some look a bit battered but all are the English around the first of this century. After a terrible time and at much expense the English won the Boer War. 'Winston Churchill was a young newspaper reporter and was taken prisoner by the Boers. He was confined In a school house, but escaped one night.

I took a photo of the school. By reason of the two races having different languages, all signs and public notices are written in two languages, English and which latter Is kin to Dutch. Both languages are taught in the schools, All this is quite Inconvenient and rather expensive, but the Boers absolutely refuse to speak or write j. South "Africa lias three heroes all (U Paul Knieger, who was president of the Boer Republic at the time of the Boer War, (2) Louis Botha, the first president of South Africa after that war; and (3) of course, former Premier CAN see now that there is going to be a big argument as to who wins what prize, when we get to Captetown. It seems the French Army at the last minute decided to send three army ambulance-type cars on the Rallye.

Some think It Is not fair to have to compete with the Army- The French Government also owns the auto factory and this company also put three cars in the race as well as special truck loaded with spare parts. There will be. some sore people hen the matter of tha prizes comes up at Capetown! We have a good but not quit perfect as are some. We have not gone to any extra trouble to make a record and will not 1 be among the first ones. Out of a possible 2,700 points, for a perfect score, we have about night drive of 500 after' another miles ff entertained, large crowds greet us wherever we stop.

In my last The climate at these places In South truck As to minerals! they 4' Vf Africa Is most delightful. Most of them are far above sea level. This Is the last of their summer here and one would think would be hot down on the sea-coast where we now are. However, they have coal, It Is diamonds, gold, chrome, platinum, iron, copper and several oihers. article from Prae-toria I said I felt like Clark Gable, but now, I guess it's more like Johnnie Mack horse in the Pea- really a land of tor a young MALONE 'Brown riding a white man.

seem to have had a cool spell Just for us and a coat still feels good at night. 1 see what we will see. We wi: points. nut Festival at Dothan. sh and The white people are Engl:.