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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1944
CHARLIE McNARY
The death of Senator Charles L. McNary, Ore
gon's, last week removed from Congress one of its
ablest members and most lovable characters. He
/ was a lifelong Republican, but in the Senate he
numbered as many friends among democrats as
of his own party associates.
Only three of the current Senate have served
longer than he. He first entered on May 20, 1917,
appointed to fill out an unexpired term. He was
elected in November. 1918, and took his seat on
December 19, 1918. His three seniors were: Cot
ton Ed Smith. South Carolina, since March 4, 1909;
Kenneth McKellar, Tennessee, March 4, 1917, and
Hiram W. Johnson, California, March 16, 1918.
His record for continuous re-election, his un
hxpired term ends in 1949, proves his ability as a
politician. His service in the upper chamber is
that of an able man, one of courage and of under
standing of the needs of his people He was that
rarity among the group of elder statesmen in the
Senate, a man of liberal trends with an under
standing of the difficulties confronting the die
hard or reactionary conservatives. He was con
siderate of the rights and sensibilities of his fel
lows but did not, on occasion, hesitate to assert
his. own. His one defeat for political office since
1917 came in 1940 when he went down as candidate
for vice-president on the ticket with Wendell Will
kie. If he felt any disappointment over this, it
was never shown in his daily contacts. To the
end he remained as he had always been—Charlie
McNary—the Senator from Oregon
His sane counsel often carried the Senate
over some rough spots. It will be missed, as he
Will be missed by his fellows.—Messen’s Weekly).
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CONGRESS AND THE TAX BILL
By almost unheard of majorities in both the
Senate and House the Congress last week over-rode
the President’s veto of the 1944 tax bill. It was
unfortunate. But itwas perhaps politically under
standable. This is our quadriennial election year.
No member of Congress, even those whose seats
are not at stake, likes to face, or see his colleagues
go before the electorat after having passed a high
tax measure. Tradition, to a large degree sup
ported by history, has it that this is a sure way
of committing political suicide. The exigencies of
political necessity rather than the economic wel
fare of the nation undoubtedly controlled the de
cision of Congress.
Of course, the amenities were all observed
Majority Leader Barkley, after having scuttled the
ship, saluted its commander in courteous, almost
loving terms. And the commander, President
Roosevelt, addressed his answer to “Deaf Alben."
: Neither the Barkley letter nor the Roosevelt reply
will find their w'ay into documents of statesman
ship of World War II.
In som quarters the rebuke to the President
| meant a blow to his chances for renomination by
!<he Democratic party. Some misguided enthu
| siasts immediately launched a Barkley for Presi
dent boom. Both were hardly justified. Many
! weeks ago the President was explicit in his de
mands for a hightax schedule this year. There
i should never have been any doubt as to his veto
j of the piddling measure enacted by Congress. His
I veto merely confirmed the honesty of his convic
j lion that the levies asked by the treasury depart
ment are needed as a vital part of the nation’s
I war effort.
And, lest it be overlooked, we should be re
i minded that if the Congressional refusal to go along
[with the President on taxation will eliminate
I Roosevelt from the Democratic presidential pic
1 ture, it must also do the same thing for Mr. Will
jkie, now leading contender for the Republican
[nomination. Because, some three weeks ago, the
latter criticised the Administration’s $10,000,000,000
|tax program and urged Congress to boost the ante
to $16,000,000,000. 7
Thus, if the politicos prefer Senator Barkley
to Mr. Roosevelt we suggest they also pick the
honorable Ham Fish as a substitute for Wendell
WiWde.—Messen’s Weekly).
LITERARY
GlIDEPOST
"THE AMERICAN HOUSE", by
Virginia Chase (Duell. Sloan &
Pearce; $2.75.)
VIRGINIA Chase says that ‘ The
American House’’ is not autobi
ographical, and that all but three
characters are pur.e imagination.
It’s too bad. for the world would
be better if her fictional figures
had been alive at one time or an
other.
Thebookis not a novel, but a
long and imaginative narrative
about things that might have hap
pened. Miss Chase iises a young
girl as narrator, and pretends that
the girl’s father was a good doc
tor who wanted to be a business
man One day father learned that
the closed hotel in his Maine vil
lage could be bought for SI 500,
and that was equivalent to saying
that he intended to buy it. He
did. He installed a manager pro
vided by an agency, and the whole
thing went to pot. Then the doc
tor, his twife and..his threee daugh
ters moved in to salvage what
they could.
Two gentlemen, in derbies ar
rived. and convulsed the natives
by paying up to. a dollar for a
cherry bed. and sometimes 15 cents
for a jelly dish of Sandwich glass.
When *he villagers discovered they
had been horngwoggled. ' they
blamed the strangers less than the
one villager who had held out
against them. The furnace was a
menace. Cousin Victoria arrived
with several volumes of her jour
nal and a sheep was stranded in
a blizzard on an island off-shore.
Cousin Victoria went home in a
huff, the furnace could be watch
ed, but the Doctor and the Hu
mane Society representative had
to rescue the sheep personally, on
Christmas Eve. The Humane So
ciety lady cussed, toasted her feet
on the office stove and smoked
cigars, by the way.
Communications
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY
Th article appearing in The
Nome Nugget on March 3, written
by Miss Alberta Schenck, seems to
me to warrant further considera
tion.
That thyre are people in the
community who feel they are be
ing treated in an undemocratic
or un-Christian manner should
be the concern of anyone inter
ested in democracy and Christian
ity.
i Democracy and Christianity
have both been in the world long
enough to have devised methods
of solving this problem. Democ
racy and Christianity both main
tain that there should be no dis
crimination because of race class
or creed.
Yet we know that holding ideals
of Democracy and Christianity
does not mean they will be auto
matically be put into practice.
It reminds one of the parable
Jesus once told. A father asked
his two sons to go work in the
vineyard. One said he would go
but later decided not to go. The
other said he would not go but
later decided to go. Which did
the will of his father?
So it may be with those who
profess to be Democratic or Chris
tian in comparison to those who
do not. We may say we believe
in democratic and Christian prin
ciples but do them not. Others
may not profess to believe in
Democracy or Christianity but
practice Christianity in this field
of race relations. Which do you
think is doing the will of our Fa
ther?
This racial problem is not a new
one. About twenty years after
Jesus’ death, the apostle, Paul,
was faced with this question. Paul
and Barnabas had been commis
sioned to go out and preach to the
Gentiles. Peter was with them in
Antioch. Christian Jews were sent
from the church of Jerusalem by
James, the brother of our Lord.
These Christians from Jerusalem
were opposed to the practice of
eating with Gentiles. So Peter,
Barnabas and others were per
suaded to withdraw themselves
from eating with Gentiles.
So said Paul, in his letter to
the Galatians: “I withstood him
• Peter), to the face, because he
was to be blamed. When I saw
that they walked not uprightly
accordingly to the truth of the
gospel, I said unto Peter before
them all: “If thou, being a Jew,
livest after the manner of Gentiles
and not as do the Jews, why com
■ peilest thou the Gentiles to live as
do the Jews? If, while we seek
to be justified by Christ, we our
selves also are round sinners, is
therefore Christ the minister of
sin? God forbid. Ye are all the
children«of G«d by faith in Christ
Jesus. For as many of you as
have been bap:«jd into Christ
have put on Christ. There is nei
ther Jew nor Greek, there is nei
ther bond nor free, there is nei
ther male nor female, for ye are all
one in Christ Jesus.”
Now the amazing thing in this
account is that Paul, who once per
secuted the church of Christ, had
m
to stand boldly against Peter, the
chief disciple of our Lord. Barna-,
bas, who had been sent out with
Paul to minister to the Gentiles,
and the leaders of the Christian
church at Jerusalem, which were
sent out by James, the brother of
our Lord. Why did Paul have to
take this stand against these peo
ple? They knew the teachings of
Jesus, but they were not big
enough to overcome their racial
prejudice.
But thanks be to God who giveth
Jesus to us. the victory through
our Lord, Jesus Christ, Paul be
ing right, won out and the Christ
ian church was carried to all the
races and classes of the world.
We have made some progress to
ward the solution of this problem
but it seems to me we could do
much more than we are doing if
we took our democracy and our
Christianity more seriously.
REV. VERNON L. BOOKER.
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