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Im Ansel 5 ooth Salina Street Syracuse utoa bt G1 teraal nymilJty form tyranny our the mind maa Thanas Jefferson Sunday Oc toiler 29 1950 There Be A man to whom God hath given riches wealth and honour that he wanteth nothing for his soul of al! that ho deslreth yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity and it is an evil Eccl 6:2 a Vorl(lly wealth is the Devil bait and thoso whose minds feed upon riches1 recede in general from real happiness in proportion as their stores increase as the moon when she is fullest is farthest from the sun Burton LUTING THE CHARIOT Some years ago after it was oppuient that World War I had failed to es tablish a lasting peace and the clouds were ominously gathering for World War David Lloyd George Great famous Prime Minister gave a statement to the religious press that reads as though it' was written for today "The world today is a he said "The nations are prowling through it snarling and baring their teeth at each other At any moment mistaken ges ture a misunderstood arrangement may make them spring at aach throat "Mankind has gone into the morass of self indulgence materialism or false emotionalism It is the great preachers alone that can make an appeal that will bring theln back When the chariot of humanity gets stuck as it has done now nothing will lift it out except great preaching that goes straight to the mind and heart "it is time the Chnslian churches should act together and act promptly in the name of God and humanity If the churches fail I do not know what Is going 1o happen I am beginning to lose faith in conferences for I have seen so little emerge from them They are too often a sort of pre arranged blather "They are a justification for a full orchestra to perform from drums and trombones down to the triangle and 1 have played each of them There is noth ing in this case that will save the world but what was once called 'the foolishness of These old vrords of Lloyd George are so applicable to today that they are startling The very same conditions that existed when ha uttered them are present now The world again is a jungle and con ferences while striving mightily are not producing results any more than the conferences in his time We are relying on the same things that were tried before and failed We are in the same old rut putting our faith in devices that thus far worked and passing up the one thing thatwould work if only would give it a a return to real religion a true turning to God The hour is late perhaps later than we think Yet the world dawdles while from the past Coat these haunting words of a great statesman and visionary: the chariot 'of humanity gels stuck as it has done now nothing will lift it outs except great preaching that goes straight to the mind and NEEDS REVIVING One of the proposed laws that died in the late and unlamented special ses sion of the legislature that deserves an early resurrection when the new legis lature takes over i that dealing with a reform in the procedure whereby con yv feta receive paroles 11 This proposal advanced by Senator Bruce Henderson who be back next year would set up restrictions on the eligibility convict for release or example a prisoner with a term of ten years or more would have to serve at least one fourth of his time before being considered for parole A convict with a sentence of less than ten years but more than a year and a da would have to complete a third of his time No convict serving less than a year and a day could be considered for re lease except liquor laws violator on a first conviction and they would have to serve at least six months Such a law would prevent the Pardon and Parole Board from abusing its au thority in the manner that the present board has This board two of whose member have taken charge has paroled convicts almost as soon as they reached the penitentiary It has opened the gates to many with long sentence before they served even a respectable fraction of the time that a jury or judge had given them The result has been that justice has been circumvented thus discouraging the courts from doing their duty They have felt that it is useless to send con victs to the penitentiary when they will be coming back within a few weeks Of course a new Governor will ap point a new board That appointment if wise and we think It will be will correct the situation that now exists But the next legislature should look father ahead for the time when the wrong people may get In power again and curb the Pardon and Parole authority when personalities can not conceivably be involved After all a big cleaning up job to be done and this is part of It IRST AN AMERICAN Speaking at the funeral of Al Jolson his lifelong friend George Jessel paid him a tribute that is a tribute to all America It warrants preserving and quoting from time to time Observing that the Jewish people who came to the United States before 1910 were in his words "a sad race bewail ing their fate and hoping for a return to Jerusalem Jessel added: Then came Al Tolson his head high with the authority of a Roman emperor He told the world that the Jew In Ameri ca was not an unhappy man He was the happiest portrait of an American of the Jewish race" We like that description of Jolson we like what it means We like the truth of it and that It was spoken by another Jew Jolson had an estate of $4000000 He accumulated it in the American tradition and chose to leave it the same way Ninety per cent by terms of his will goes to 18 charitable religious and educational institutions of the Protestant Catholic and Jewish faiths No one can miss the significance of that earnings came from those of all religions and faiths and it is going back with the same lack of restrictions As Jessel said Jolson was "a great American great artist good Jew" But first and last he was "i great American" 11 REAL STOMACH ACHES You realize living in a new age when you ask a youngster if had any persimmons yet and he inquires suspiciously a You're convinced when you ask If he knows what a pomegranate is and he cautiously counters "A what?" But you get a somewhat more en couraging response and feel that every thing changed when you propose sampling cane juice At least In terested enough to try that one It seem so long ago land yet maybe it was) that persimmons pome granate and cane juice were sign that fall was here Maybe better that way There never was a stomach ache like one induced by excessive indulgence in this combina tion MILITARY AXIOM The Agriculture Department has cun firmed officially what people have been suspecting House Ches it says are getting tough er Not only have they developed re sistance to the killing action of new insecticides they have adopted new defensive tactics Where they once stayed on ceilings beams and walls inside houses and bams they now reconnoiter on the Codr or in grass and 'shrubbery That puis them out of the range of the modern and high powered insecticides This should have been expected even from flies As they say about war for'every new weapon there' a new defense orum THANKS ROM US Editor The Eagle: I want to congratulate you and your organization on the fine new Press I am sure that the additional good service made possible by this modern equip Letters rom Readers ment will benefit our Town and all of the Wiregrass A "Well to hands! Your very truly SULLIVAN REALTY COMPANY By Jerry Sullivan i EARL TUCKER Enforcing The New Snake Law Extra sessions of the Alabama State Legislature have been coming so thick and fast for the past few months that the people have lost track of which is which or awhile they numbered But so many have been held that it is difficult to remember the numbers However I have been able to work out a system that make it fairly easy Take the present session for instance I call it the rattle snake session (The Asp) Beck sponsored a bill that makes it illegal to handle poisonous snakes Right now it looks like this is the only bill that stands a chance of getting signed by the Governor According to the Asp it is patterned after a Tennessee law that was enacted to keep various religious groups from displaying snakes at meet ings Maybe a good bill not saying it is or but it does seem powerfully unnecessary I waited a long time to join the Baptist Church on account of having to get immersed in water and would have waited a considerably longer time if part of tle function involved handling a rattlesnake In fact I'm pretty sure I would be still be a sinner The law provides a stiff penalty for anyone engaging in the displaying handling or exhibiting of any poisonous snake Just how they're gong to enforce the law been thoroughly settled If they catch a deacon throwing a few snakes around his neck I suppose the law enforcement official will have to step in and confiscate the snakes got to have evidence to show in court in order to get a conviction If and when they get all the evidence ready they are going to have quite a time getting somebody t0 serve on the jury I care to be hemmed in by a table full of Exhibit A and with the ex hibits sticking their fangs out at me always been a little afraid of Judge Pel ham when he was presiding over his Circuit Court but if they ever draw me on a snake case just have to let the Judge sentence me for Contempt ofSnakes rather be in a jail cell with a bunch of John cousins than in a courtroom with a bunch of snakes However knowing Judge Pelham as I do I rather expect he would take ad vantage of the retirement system if the docket started piling up with snake cases It strikes me that this bill is a little far fetched We in Alabama already have the means to take care of people who use snakes for neck pieces A person who does such things is crazy and we send crazy people (most of 'em that is) to the state institution at Tuscaloosa At any rate going to be very in teresting to watch the proper authorities set up the machinery for the enforcement of the 14w if and when it pastes I sup pose it will come under the jurisdiction of the Department of Public Safety Rat tlesnake Division The head of the outfit will be known as the Chief Rattler and will be the big noise in that department There will be a sub division for each kind of snake I might be appointed head of the Bureau of Black Runners That is the only snake I ever saw that could run from me as rapidly as I could run from him We always cooperate beautifully Well if this law is passed I want to be the first to pledge my support to its en forcement Back during prohibition I vio lated that law a few times During the war I got over 40 inph in my car At various times I have violated the game and fish laws of my state but I promise here and now that 1 will never be guilty of violating the provisions of the Beck Act always had a hankering to vio late a law just because it was law and a pleasant relief to find something that is against the law that I aim to do the first place In The Thomas ville Ala Times He Should Ask Jk vn II I 5 i I I I I JBgaMBMw I HAL BOYLE No 1 Shimbun Alley By BILL ROSS (or Hal Boyle) TOKYO (AP) Most newsmen who covered the Korean war gave their over seas address as No 1 Shimbun Alley This is the location of the Tokyo corre club During four months th traffic that flowed in and out of the five story building at times rivaled that of a State side hotel caught in the crush of an American Legion convention It a pretentious club and definite ly was not intended to accommodate the nearly 300 correspondents who called it home while the fighting raged in Korea But in chit and club happy Tokyo where everybody has to have a chit to buy food and drinks and belong to a club to buy a chit it was the only place reporters really felt at home Rarely did newsmen have an opportu nity to spend more than a couple of days at the club They would fly in from Ko rea after two weeks or more at the front to take a quick breather and to write copy in a measure of comfort The correspondent slept dormitory style except for a dozen or so "old Japan hands" who were club resi dents As Jimmy Cannon of The New Yprk Post once put it during a trip "home" from the then raging Taegu sector: is the only chance a guy has to act as a civilized reporter should act" The tiny bar operated virtually around around the clock until weary corre spondents back from Korea for an honest to goodness rest complained to the executive committee about the post midnight noise A heavy eyed investigating commit tee of three groped down the stairs to the bar and found 43 persons all non mem ber of the club and all non reporters The midnight bar curfew was imposed th next day But correspondents who liked a late nightcap were unhappy especially at the military brass who had made all the noire Not the least of the reason that news men were pleased with the correspond ents club was the Japanese staff Chances are they see each repoitcr more than two dozen times during the Amer entire stay in Tokyo But after once hearing the names the Japanese remembered them Sometimes the Japanese had trouble understanding American accents and there was a corresponding foul up now and then in food and drink orders But generally the service was good The lounge furnished with com fortable but battered davenports and easy chairs was the scene of some get togeth ers that Shinbun Alley probably never will forget But generally it was a sur prisingly quiet place with the library al most as popular as the bar After the first few weeks of the war you could almost always see a corre spondent with an arm or leg in a cast resting in the lounge There were others battered and beaten reminders of the toll the Korean war inflicted on newsmen who covered it But perhaps the grimmest memories were stirred by the mail boxes with ever increasing stacks of letters and packages addressed to those correspondents who would never return to the club to those who lost their lives on the embattled peninsula or enroute there A tiny pump organ is the corespond ents clubs monument to its ovi Korean war dead The instrument was "lib erated" at Taegu by Charles Rosencrans international News photo cameraman' who was killed six weeks ago in a plane crash Club members and a cooperative air force flew the organ back to Tokyo It stands in the center of the lounge and has name on it A day go by that some sentimental guy finger out a tune or two The roster of active members drops day by day as the correspondents return to the States in view of the nearly over Korean war Others are heading else where toward possible new wars or where other men are fighting in "police action" But wherever they go they'll remem ber the Tokyo correspondents club Aft er all it was to most of them for a memorable period WESTBROOK PEGLER A Strange Colloquy NEW YORK Inquiring further into the murky affairs of that secretive or ganization called the Society for the Pre vention of World War III I came into possession of a strange colloquy by Prof Mark Van Doren who teaches English at Columbia University and John Shine a reporter for The New York Journal American Mr Shine is a truthful man You may form your own opinion as to whether Van Doren is truthful or just the incarnation of all the Joe Miller you ever heard about the absent minded professor His reputation for wisdom may be exaggerated but it seems safe to say that he is not as stupid as be seemed when he told Mr Shine that he the chairman of the board of the Society for the Prevention of World War HI did not even know whether the society had a constitution Nor when he indicated he quite sure whether there was in existence a list of its members Nor who had custody of that list if it did exist This is one of those arrogant characters who ever since the Second World War ended have been shoving good Ameri cans around for opposing the Morgenthau plan which is attributed by some au thorities to the late Harry Dexter White mentioned in official testimony as one of the Communist spies in our government i the sleeper in the next to last para graph It provides that "the primary re sponsibility for the policing of Germany and for civil administration in Germany should be assumed by the military forces of Continental it say should Include Russian rench Polish Czech Yugoslav Norwegian Dutch and Belgian lir other words Henry Morgenthau pro posed that the United States and Britain pull out and surrender Germany to Rus sia Then the Iron Curtain could be dropped along the Channel and the Pyrenees It is a well known fact that Isadore Lipschullz the bag man who has fi naneed the non sectarian Anti Nazi League with its private Gestapo of cheap unscrupulous spies is one of the bag men behind the Society for the Preven tion of World War HI Lipschufz fled to this country from Belgium to escape the kind of espionage which several of the gum shoe men have been prac ticing in the United States and to enjoy the right to disagree with anyone sub ject to neither physical persecution nor muzzlement by any silent "terror Mr writen report to The Journal American city desk says: "The following colloquy took place at noon yesterday Oct 16 in Prof Mark Van office in Hamilton Hall Columbia University: Prof Van Doren you are the chairman of the board of directors of the Society for the Prevention of World War A I am How did you become interested in this organization? A Rex Stout first brought it to my attention When was that? A Sometime in 1944 or 1945 I am not just sure rom whom doe this organization receive its principal financial assistance? A Money is given by people who are sympathetic ta the cause The people must be kept aware of a possible Ger man threat to the peace of the world She has been a threat twice before and she should be watched Are there any large contributors to your organizations? A I think theie questions are im pertinent and it's nobody business where we got contributions I do know however that there have been at least two generous contributors but I care to disclose their identity Do you maintain a list of th mem bership? A There must be a list of the mem bers In whose physical possession is the membership list? A I know Has the organization a constitu 25 ears Ago RAY TUCKER Questions Answers Every Sunday this veteran Washington newspaper corre spondent devotes his column to answering questions of general interest on national and international policies and person alities Questions may be sent di rect to Ray Tucker at 6308 Hill crest Place Chevy Chase Md WASHINGTON "What was Governor Dewey's idea of inject ing the irrelevant question of Gen eral presidential availability into the New State asks of Auburn "What has thei art little man at Albany up Ins foreign spending lose out then the Dewey Eisenhower views on this risup may prevail among Repub licans at the 1952 convention In proposing Eisenhower as the great hope against Presi dent Truman Mr Dewey is mak ing a political hedge and gesture If he can help to nominate "Ike two years hence it would tend to offset a victory by the in I 4 western bloc next month Ard don't forget that win or lose next month Governor Dcwev might be in line for Secretary of State or Attorney General in an Eisenhower Administration OCT 29 1925 A Dothan store today adver tised 100 pounds of sugar for $560 and "best grade" green cof fee at 30 cents a pound Southern governors and leading businessmen today met in Bir mingham to map plans to obtain more skilled farmers for tho South A federal grant will bcjo quested to finance the prograin BATCHELOR'S BUTTON Collecting any interest on Invest ments of kindness? TROLLEY SAVES SHIRIS Answer Without venturing on a remote psychoanalysis of Gover nor Dewey's political mind I mink his primary reasons are fairly obvious and so do the poli ticians with whom I have 1 cussed the subject here and elsc wl ere No candidate for office tosses off such an important pro pcsal without careful considera tion of its effect on his own for tunes Assuming that General Eisen hower is as popular as reports make him out to be Mr Dewey probably hopes to attract that support and strength to himself in what may be a close race for elec tion Moreover by making clear that he does not intend to seek a third presidential nomination Dewey apparently hopes to ap pease people and politicians who want a new face in 1952 Many party leaders still are sore at him because to use a trite phrase "he snatched defeat from the jaw of in 1948 BASIC However I think that there are more basic and important considerations behind the Dewey for Eiscnhower move It involves a behind the scencs Etrugglc for control of the Re publican Party in 1952 and even beyond that presidential year Governor Dewey and General Eisenhower represent the east ern financial and internationalist wing of the GOP despite the mili tary midwestern origin and western background In 1948 he told friends that he might be re OPPORTUNIST "What docs Washington think of Harold Stas leap into the headlines with ais letter to Stalin" inquires of Springfield Mass hit voluntary advice to Truman nni MacArthur on how to run the ar Answer: I cannot answer that question frankly because there aro Jaws against sending through tne mails the comments of both prom inent Republican and Democrat i recent bids for publicity empnasize the prevailing opin'on that he is the most flamboyant opportunist in American policies today He always has been wit: In 1940 he went to the Republi can convention as a member of the party anti Willde coalition But after he visited Wail Street and discovered that the big money was on the private utility operator he became Mr floor manager nt Phila delphia DOGHOUSE Realizing that his Minnesota background would rever get him anvwherc in poli tic he moved to Pennsylvania a Lead of the of Then the great who Was once the ixilitical hero of idealistic college boys and girls lined up with the conservative Grundy Pew faction in the recent primary He apparently thought that tf tney captured the state machine tney might make him their favor ite son in 1952 They lost and he is now in the doghouse of the GOP CHICAGO A trolley cur put Joseph Luna 18 in the hsnl tat but saved 48 shirt for Howe Howe manages the store from which Luna stole the shirts As he fled the youth st pped into the path of the oncoming street car faction that controls the Keystone State The oqly vote he will have for the 1952 nomination will be rwn assuming that he 1 chosen as a delegate to the con WEEK I innocently did an injustice to thousanxis of opeting employer of the railroad in a re cent column that discussed the critical shortage of freight cars as A of Grand Rapid Mich point out I said that Inauguration of the five day week hod aggravrtfed the situation meaning the virtual withdrawal of 175000 cars fnofti service A note that switch men brakemen conductors engi neer and firemen do not enjoy a five day week It is not the short week among railroader which cause the trouble as I should hav made clear It i the five day week in factories shipping concern and many other firm doing business with the railroads or Instance if a shipment reaches a certain plant on Saturday and it is closed for the day the car must re main idle until Monday before they can be unloaded ceptive to a Republican presi dential nomination if it appeared that the honor might go to an "iso lationist" like Senator Taft or Bricker is an enthusiastic supporter of the Truman Ache son Marshall foreign program November 7 may decide the Is sue If Mr Dewey should lose while Senators Taft of Ohio Cape La rt of Indiana ex Representative Dirksen of Illinois and Hicken looper of Iowa win it will be in terpreted as a triumph of the it is unfair to call them ove the eastern i epresented by' the New York Governor SECRETARY If Mr Dewey should be reelected while several mid western critics of excessive SIDE GLANCES by Galbraith tion? A I know Getting beck to the financial question again Professor what method or procedure does the or ganization pursue to reach prospec tive contributors? A That know What are the purpose or aims of your organization? A We are opposed to starting World War If World War 3 start ed it would be the result of Ger man trickery and propaganda Have you any other aims? A To prevent World War 3 this point the professor stood up and walked to the door of hi office indicating to me that the In terview was In view of the fact that World Wat III began last June at the insti gation of Soviet Russia this peda gog's remark about the danger of its being started by Germany answers itself and classifies him (C 1950) I A I i I'lifnlS i I II I I I if I vW 1'4 taro im rr ms Munct se ru asc a (1 II 11 Ypu got a pension ft1.