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T-W-T Congressmen

IN WASHINGTON, some of the congress men have been dubbed "T-W-T" mem bers. Come in T-uesday, spend \\ -ednes day and go back home T-hursda.v — T-W-T. The habit has become so prevalent that the "party whips” have become concerned and we understand are exerting some pressure to assure regular attendance at congression al sessions. The business of congress is moving rapidly. Changes are being made at a fast pace. The domestic situation will require strict attention and the combined wisdom of the entire membership. The foreign relations are moving from the status of defense to that of offense, which also will require the best judgment of the entire membership Furthermore, the balance of power is so slim between the Republican and Demo cratic parties that the policies of t it her party may he seriously affected by the absence of even a single member. There is no doubt that the absence of congressmen does cause the leaders some concern. We, the people, elected our congressmen

to represent us in the national legislative body. We should expect them, and we have a right to expect them, to be present at all sessions, unless detained on other official business, such as committee meetings etc. lint we can not expect them to be present in nit* halls 01 congress, if we insist upon , them being present at community functions back home. It is always pleasant to have congressmen visit the folks back home, and a certan amount of it is desirable, to main tain contact with the general public. HovveVer, there is a limit to the number of visits a congressman can make home and still do an effective job in Washington. It is not our purpose to be critical of the congressman, but rather to point out the inability of the congressmen to be in two places at one time. We, the people, should recognize the 1 unusual demands upon our representatives at this session of congress especially, and not expect them to do the impossible. We need all the brains in Washington available and exhort the people to be considerate of the congressmen.

Down to Business

SECRETARY OF STATE J..1 m Foster Dulles, in a recent speech, warned Euro pean nations it' they did not unite the Tint ed States would have to reconsider its policy toward Europe. Mr. Dulles was re ferring to the attitude of several members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, who have stalemated final agreement on a European Army by refusals to go along with the tentatively approved plan. In recent months, the attitude of both France and Germany lias discouraged America The French arc apparent l\ hesi tating to approve the Arnu plan because of a fear of a rearmed Germany, which would furnish units for the European Army, and the Germans are also showing a measure of dissatisfaction with the plan. The reaction to the Dulles speech in Paris was said to have been swift. Many French officials and many of the news papers thought Dulles' speech brutal and many T. S. reporters wrote that the speech was something of a shock in that country. Perhaps that is what is needed al this stage

of European defense. While the French have a heavy burden - in Imlo-China and while one must consider the sacrifices they have made both during World War II and afterwards, they—as well as other European nations—must real ize that the present NATO army in Europe is nowhere near capable of stopping- a de termined Communist effort to overrun Wes tern Europe. Cntil such aggression can be checked by a NATO army, Europe will re main in serious peril. Cndoubtedly the Secretary of State cleared his speech with the President, be fore its delivery. Certainly, that has been the custom in the past. One of the new ad ministration's chief foreign problems is that <d the stalemated defense situation in Western Europe and we consider Dulles re marks quite timely. We see no reason for anyone to be shocked by C. S. insistence that progress continue to be made toward adequate deiVnse of Western Europe if C. S. dollars are to be continued to be provided toward that end.

British Taxes

r|''IIE Inland Revenue Commission in (treat ■* Britain recently reported that only s;xty persons in England had net incomes of more than $10,800, after paying income taxes last year. The report showed that many Englishmen earned more than this, though taxes took practically all of their income ; hove a certain level. It is interesting to note that the sixty earning more than $16,800. earned a total of $27.72i).000. After the income taxes were paid on this amount, it was reduced to something over $1,000,000. Some of the hig money-earners paid at a rate of $2.7b taxes out of every $2.80 earned. Thus out of almost $.>.00, they were allowed a nickel

} > 1 < > t i t. While things are far better than this in tin' I'nitcd States, where thousands of citi zens earn more than $15,000 or $16,000 a year, it is well to keep the present situation in Britain in mind when we think of our tax laws. The new Administration must reduce tax rates if the trend toward higher and higher levels is to be checked. In the I'nitcd States, we do not take the attitude that larjre incomes are necessarily evil, if a fair rate of tax assessment has been made. I'nder the English tax program, larjre incomes are almost impossible and the end result will be a standardized scale of living for all professions and workers.

j\loiv Deadly Weapons

'■piIK At omic Knergv ('ommission recently 1 announced that the new atomic te-d. will lie held near Las Vegas, Nevada, in March. The announcement revealed that the new series of tests is designed “to ad vance development of new improved nu clear dev ices." Tin1 announcement was not more . p( citie hut it. is assumed that the new tests will concern the hydrogen bomb, which was first tested in, November. 1 tid'd. Former President Harry Truman hits said that the November tests signalled the arrival of a

weapon which could wipe out the civiliza tion built up over the centuries. W hile we do not claim to know, we would asumc that the March tests will in clude a hydrogen bomb detonation, with a careful check of results on both human and physical structures. Since Mr. Truman has estimated that hydrogen bombs will be able to devastate between three hundred and twelve hundred square miles, the new tests should prove more valuable than any since the first atomic tests in the Pacific.

The growth of a municipaliu depend e upon individual.' who do not seeh personal credit.. Attorneys-at-law delight in people who are always ready to tight for their right'. With inventories at new highs, there will be grief aplenty if the public stops buying.

Mist"ix1, may be rx|>faiiw«J as ||m pre view of what mijrht have happened.1 • bi--i listen to a man talk about himself ami bo ''til either tool you or you will fool: him. I lie aeiii test of friendship is applied m ben a man seeks to borrow a hundred dol lars without security.

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When Life Is Done 1 hope that when my life is done And my course on earth is run. That here and there some friend may say 1 did some good along the way. That all through life, up to its end, To everyone 1 was a friend. That as I journeyed my life through, By service, 1 had helped a few

1 would not want when my life ends To jro front here without some friends, i hope that those 1 leave behind Will in my life some goodness find. Not say that I. through all my days Spent all my life in selfish ways, And never tried to now and then (live survive to my fellow men.

I’d like to think, when 1 am gone. Some verse 1 wrote may still live on In the hearts of some who live. And to these hearts, some pleasure give. That to some fare they brought a smile, Or cheered some heart a little while. That I'd not lived my life in vain Or spent it all for selfish gain. T. I). Whitaker

I— .—I SCKIPTl'HK: M ft» r . ?1 1—22 14 DEVOTIONAL HEADING: Psalm 118:19-29. No Favorites I.esson for February 13. 1933 XJ OBODY loves a "teacher's ^ ’ pet. No teacher should have one; just as no father or mother should have a "pet" child. We all feel that everybody should be treat ed alike. And yet. strange to say. when it comes to religion, many a person who wouldn't be a teacher's pet for anything will believe and hope that lie is one of God's pets. All of us have this wish at tiroes. We like to feel that God wen t deal with us strictly, that he will let down the rule; for us a little. We like to think of ourselves as spe cial cases, we like to feel we have the ins le track, or the "pipeline to God. ' But it won't do. God has no special favorites. * * * Fatal Mistake II is a fatal mistake to think that God is hound to look out for ME. no matter what In the time of Jesus, the leaders of his people

thought God was just bound 1o give them the front seats in his kingdom. For one thing, those Jew ish loaders were proud of their an cestors On their family tree were men like Abra ham, Samuel.

Moses, David and «>r. foreman countless other good and noble people. The aristocrats of Jesus' time thought: Since \vc belong to the same family as those who have served God so well, surely God will show US special favors! But God docs not grant special priv ileges merely on account of a fam ily tree. There are people today who will tell you: “Yes, my peo ple for three generations have be longed to this church. My great grandfather helped to build it. My good old mother just about wore her Bible out I could show voir if I could find it around somewhere.'' But Jesus did not hold out any hope that you can secure a scat by the Throne on Abraham's ticket, or your deal old grandmother's. 01

any one else who happens to be high on yniu family tree. Then for another tiling, those stuffed-shirt Pharisees th -ughl Ged owed them something because of the positions they held. They had the front seats in the synagogues; every one get up when they came in. They seem to have got the idea that ev en God w< uld g< t up when they arrived in heaven But Jesus gave no encour agement to that notion either.

Promises "If—" Another reason why these prom inent men thought they had a sort of fit st mortgage on the Kingdom of Hi avrii was that they misunder stood the promises of G< d. Many prop isos uf blessings, wonderful blessings, had been made to the people of I rael by prophet after prophet. Those promises arc still to be read in the Old Testament. Where tl che f priests and all that crowd made their mistake was at two peuits. One: they supposed that these a ere promises "no mat ter what. ' pi onuses without condi tion;. without any strings attached. God would give Israel all these laic, sings, they icasimed: they be longed to I rael. therefore they would share the blessings Not at all; Jesus tolls them straight "lit that the kingdom is to be taken away from them and giv en to a nation producing the fruits of it." What nation'.’ That promise is still .' od. but no nation, group or people- or race or church can claim it absolutely and finally. The "kingdom.' with Clod's highest blessings, can belong to England or Japan or the United States or Ethi opia -IE They are offered and promised to any nation that will produce the fruits. Does ours?

Christ or Chaos Again these na n were mistaken in supposing they could claim God's blessings and yet reject God s Son. The basic trouble with those big men of Jerusalem, and the people they influenced, was that they did not want Jesus. They did not want him. his ideas, his leadership; they had no notion at all of his sacrifice. Lis ins or dying thrv had no use for him . . . and so they perished Those who reject the living Grace of God have to suffer the consequences. Christ is still the to.-t of community and na tion. The people who welcome him. live by him, have enduring life The kind of people who turn him iway and try to destroy what he gave his life for. will themselves be destroyed The epitaph of all wrecked nations could well be the same. Here lie the wretched re mains of a people that had no use for God To reject Christ is to choose chaos pn AijOlfif* r p p \ rlrhtfd be thr «• < brt«tl«n t durntlnp Vt* Hont I | nil nr 11 th* (h|lfe hr* < hrUI • n (hr I * \ Ft 11 f P«. * H H\ t ririrnuntt* »*rr«s Servlet.)

DO( TOK HONOKl I* Taylor. Texas—Dr. James Lee Dickey. 59-year-oki Negro physi cian. was recently named the out standing citizen of 19N2 by resi dents of tins town. He was honor ed for "watching over the health of his people for 31 years.”

<11 IS MTLOMA AT 83 Pasadena. Calil.—Proving that one never gets "too old to learn." John B. Ely began his education at llardin-Siminons m Abilene, Tex . 45 years ago, but after one semester he set out to sec the world.

By Ted Resting There are four basic tvoes of bass fishing — surface, shallow, deep and bottom Judging by the huge tackle chests you see some anglers carting, you need a lot of plugs to catch bass. Or do you Just what is the minimum num ber of plugs vou need 1 Mould you get along with just one'1 We asked Jason Lucas, who has ‘he biggest tackle box I've ever •pen. and he reluctantly admitted i guv who knows, his fishing mi • lit he able to do so by clever manipu lation of that one plug Now. I d^n't expect any has-' fishermen will actually believe 1 mean for him to get along on on0 or two or even three plugs But what follows should give you a hint of how to assemble a well balanced select)' n of plugs, /v huge majority of tackle boxes that we see are emiinned for surface and shallow fishing only If you were limited to just one r>lnc, Lucas suggests a floatin' shallow runner, perhaps of nat ural scale or an orange color. His type rf surface lure on which lie gets the most bass, isn't a sur face lure at all but a floater w hich he retrives very, very slowiv with occasional jerks of the rod tip Vou could convert this into a deen plug by adding split shot or lead but you'd have to be very care ful not to wreck the action. If you were to be a two-plug angler, the other plug would be a sinker. One that sinks ouite , slowly does very well to depths ' of six or eight, feet- and a slow sinker hovering in midwater look, most natural when worked slowly with little ierks and dead pause This means that a man fishing ■"here the water is rarely over 10 reet deer> or so will generally do best with a slow sinker: but where 't’s over that, unless you have the patience of Job. you'll want something that goes down faster. erhaps a metal lure. For really deep water my favorite is a small, heavy metal pork-rind lure A thin, flatfish one will weave and wobble too much to go rlou-p ■ erv rapidly, and the smaller, heavv one won't have much action of i's own at reasonable speed so it needs the action of the rind A single spinner blade at its head not onlv gives it a flash but set up a slight jiggle that gives the rind a good action.

Movie Guide Bv the Motion Picture com mittee of the Farmville Wom an's Club. STATE THEATRE IKON MISTRESS — Period piece centering about, the inven tion of the Bowie Knife. Eight men lose their lives In an assort ment of duels motivated by Alan Ladd's yen for the ' high-born " Virginia Mayo. Imaginative tech nicolor scenes of Nt w Orleans. Adults and young pc opie. STARS AND STRIFES FOR EVER—This is a ga>. Victorian film in technicolor, featuring Clifton Webb as John Philip Sousa and Ruth Husse\ as the charming Mrs. Souca. Splendid band music. Family. CALIFORNIA CONQUEST — Cornel Wilde and Teresa Wright

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Taking the wrap off Famosa arid the ceiling over US may wind up with taking a little skin al-o But let er rip. it ain't going to work out to no good nohow. They build us up and then let us d wn —its the American way oi life Use to make cakes and raise crops w ithout any recitie . al ways come out right . . if'n it didn't 'lwas just bad luck. Now you have u recipe for everything ai 1 don'" nofh'n’ come out s ight Lurk nn't. even mentioned in it I .'u' feller that hasn't got troubles of his cwn r- miserable and he keep- going til he cet-s some from somebody else Just got to have trouble to live. About the closest anybody ever gets to success is about the same distance Moses was from the Pr tmised land . Unit gel in sight of it. that's all. We got so many new drugs for diseases and all are sure cures 'gin the time a feller gets around to try 'em all he dies with old age ain't nobody found no cure for that vet Had the greatest honor of 'S3 when your C nm essinan and mine Honorable Wattkins M Abbitt took time off to visit with me. and then Mr. Robert Agee on the i.ime day. Oh! boy magme little | ole me associating with such i people . socially uplifting I calls ; it. ] Thanks for reading. Yours, J. Marvin Brown are poorly cast in this technicolor western, in which historical ac curacy is sacrificed to plot de mands. Adults and young people. - I KK THEATRE THE SAVAGE Good study of conflicting loyalties portrayed by Charlton Heston, a white man t raised by a Sioux thief Adults and young people. AL JENNINGS UF OKLA HOMA Law offiicals are pre sented as villians and outlaws as heroes in tins technicolor western. Adults and young people TEA FOR TWO — Diverting musical comedy with Doris Day and Gordon MacR.u Adults and young people.

Korean Change A good many Americans arc guessing about what the change of command in Korea may mean* We are inclined to let the Com mies do the guessing. If they want to speculate as to whether the coming of Lieut. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor in place of lieut. Gen. James A. Van Fleet signals a new United Nation# offensive, let them worry. For~ Americans there is more point in satisfaction that tlie shift from one able commander to another is being made harmoniously. It has been known for several months that General Van Fleet's retirement was coming up. But it was postponed by Washington for a few months—for two reasons. • One was fro avoid any appeal? ance of reprisal for tne campaign use made of the general's letter disclosing that he had run into official resistance in his efforts to shape up more South Korean divisions. The other was to leave the new administration free t« choose the new’ Korean com mander. President Eisenhower once said that he sent General Taylor on the riskiest mission he had ever given one individual — . secret journey into Rome while the Nazis were still there. Other epi sodes from the Taylor career such as landing in France with the paratroops—might easily per suade the Reds that the Korean i command will be in the hands of a daredevil. But there are othet facets. The same man is known also as a student of languages—including Japanese—as a teacher, diplomat and administrator. The Reds may lead into this a plan for a daring attack—or for rebuilding Korea. We read it as fresh evidence that the Army has commanders of \aried talent, and experience ready when a job is to be done (Christian Science Monitor) U. S. President John Tyler had i4 children, seven each by two wives.

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