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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1936
BEGIN NATION-WIDE PEACE DRIVE
College Students Conduct Demonstrations; Nye Report Raps Muni
Uncommon
Sense
©. Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
tions Firms; Peace Plans Advocated
By WILLIAM C. UTLEY
T HE Gods of war, though they play with the fates of Europe,
Africa and the Orient, are feeling their bloody thrones shake a
little on the American side these days.
Still rumbling through the land are the thundering accusa
tions of the report of the Nye munitions committee to the United
States senate—charges that war scares are planned, started and ac
celerated by concerns in the international munitions trade, concerns
whose representatives have been known to foment wholesale slaughter
the battlefronts, that their profits might be greater.
And now in its closing days is the month-long drive of the
<e
Emergency Peace campaign. Speak- 1 ®
era and organizations have brought
home to millions of Americans the
foily of war as a result of this cam
paign, which was started April 22.
The new “war on war” got under
way in a manner fully as spectacular
aa an old-fashioned recruiting cam
paign. Leaders in the movement were
the young men and women in colleges
and universities, with 500,000 of them
atriking from classes at one time to at
tend anti-war mass meetings. Several
thousand homing pigeons were released
from the grounds of tiie Washington
monument, heralding the event and
hearing peace messages from Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt to 300 different
eities. Plans were laid for mass meet
ings to follow in other cities. In Phila
delphia the Liberty bell was rung and
iia sounds broadcast over the radio.
Sounds Campaign Keynote.
From England came an old peace
campaigner to sound the opening key-
formed a flying wedge and knocked
over the speakers’ stand. At the Uni
versity of Kansas a tear gas bomb
was set off in the midst of 300 students
who were listening to a speech by one
of their number; a free-for-all fight
ensued.
The size of some of the turnouts is in
dicated by tiie following partial list:
Cornell 2,300, University of Cincinnati
1,000 out of 4,946, Vassar 1,000, University
of Chicago 1,500 out of 5,700, University
of Michigan 3,000 out of 10,500, Dart
mouth 1J100, Brown IJiOO, Harvard 500,
Yale 200 out of 3,000, Tufts 800, Syracuse
800, Buffalo State Teachers 200 out of 400,
Lewis institute 400 out of 2J>00, North
western 400 out of 4,000, University of
Rochester 250 out of 800, University of
Minnesota 600 out of 12,000, Hamline uni
versity 200 out of 600, Lawrence college
400 out of 700, Temple university 200, Mil
waukee State Teachers 400 out of l £55,
University of New Mexico 150 out of
tacked in violation of the Pact of
Paris.
Permanent neutrality legislation is
the aim of the “keep-out-of-war” crowd.
Its platform contains the following:
"Mandatory embargo on arms and am
munition and other war materials to all
belligerents in time of war; the prohibi
tion of loans and credits to warring na
tions, and strict regulation to forbid
American vessels and American citizens
from traveling in war zones.
“All trade with belligerents shall be at
the risk of the shippers.”
These people are willing to give up
American freedom of the seas, declar
ing that the United States has nothing
to gain and everything to lose in fight
ing war in Europe or Asia. Tim Foreign
Policy association says the price of
this neutrality will be high, but evi
dently it thinks not too high.
Total Cost of War.
“Our exports to Europe in the pros
perous years from 1926 to 1930 amount
ed to more than $2,000,000,000. Our
exports to Asia came to nearly $500,-
000,000. Loss of this trade would re
sult in unemployment at home, but the
cost of war would be far greater. The
World war lias cost us $55,000,000,000."
The internationalists, likewise, are will
ing to forego the traditional freedom of
the seas, but they also propose consulta
tion by the United States with other sig
natories of the Pact of Paris in case of
violation of the jtact; support of the Pope
resolution, providing for United States
membership in the League of Nations
with the guaranty that this country shall
not be required to become party to any
action which involves armed force, and
American adherence to the World Court.
The isolationists oppose these alliances
with the League and the Court.
Another argument for peace is the
150,000-word report of the Nye com
mittee, which reveals the bribery and
corruption which exists in the inter
national munitions commerce, the re
sistance to peace efforts and the in
stigation of war scares by the muni
tions firms. It even found that It was
customary to sell American war pat
ents abroad, where they might be used
against American lives and ships in
the World war.
The charges were by no means con
fined to the United States, but also con
cerned the British arms Inquiry now
going on. It was charged that both
American and British arms firms knew
about the first German violations of
the arms ban of 1924.
How Arms Salesmen Work.
The Liberty Bell rings for Peace to open drive.
aote of the present campaign and to
begin a tour of speaking appearances
throughout the country on behalf of
peace. He was George Lansbury, M. P.,
former titular leader of the British
Labor party in the house of commons.
“Uncle George,” as he is affectionately
known on the other side of the At
lantic, pitched right in with all the
fervid enthusiasm for which his
speeches are famed.
Referring, apparently, to the war clouds
brooding over his own hemisphere, he de
clared that “civilization is at the crisis of
its fight.” He said that to realize that
Acre was no such thing as “civilized”
aw fare one need only read the accounts
of the war now going on in Africa. He
advised that nations co-operate and share
the resources of the world, so that con
quest would not be necessary for a nation
to obtain raw materials for its industries.
“The best case against war Is based
on the teachings of our Lord and his
own sayings,” Lansbury said, “and not
on what tiie theologians have put into
hia month. The law of life is not dom-
fnatinn, not selfishness, hut in people
sinking their own selfish lives and find
ing them in the community."
In the climax of his speech, tiie
white-whiskered Englishman said : “We
should call an entirely new world con
ference, Including not only the great
powers but India, r.gypt, Ceylon and
the African peoples, and carry on the
work started at the economic confer
ences of 1927 and 1933.”
Asks U. S. Aid Britain.
This was in line with the proposals
ekehed by the council of the League of
Nations after the recent remilitariza
tion of the Rhineland by Nazi Dictator
Hitler.
*7 want the United Stales to join my
gt.vrrnment in Great Britain, and any oth
ers. to say to the world: ‘Let us give up
this nonsensical will-o’-the-wisp of arma-
mrnts. and say we want to make a new
start in dealing with world problems’ . . .
“Have we learned enough to give
what we have to destroy Justice? Have
fenrned the futility of national
wealtli? Can we be partners in build
ing a real Christian civilization?”
Various student organizations were
sirlok to take up the challenge. One
mf them, the “Veterans of Future
Wars.” chiefly through the appeal ad
mittedly lying in its masterfully-chos
en name, already had converted thou-
unds of students to the cause of
peace.
But some of the collegiate peace dem-
onstrations proved to be not exactly
peaceful.
Disturbing the Peace.
When students of Lawrence college
at Appleton, Wls., tried to parade, the
police put them to rout by brandishing
•Ight sticks, and one parader was in
jured. In Philadelphia, at Temple uni
versity, students, in their enthusiasm,
1J200, Wayne university 800 out of 10,000
Washington university 300 out of 3,000,
Purdue 500 out of 4,000, Depaul 50 out of
1,400, Earlham 50 out of 400, Rockhurst
400, U. C. L. A. 350 out of 7240, Mount
Holyoke 300, Rutgers 700, University of
Washington 1,000, Tacoma high school
500 out of 2,600, University of Pittsburgh
1,000 out of 6,000, Carnegie Tech 425 out
of 2,200, University of North Carolina
1200 out of 2,900, Rollins college 140 out
of 325.
The terrible cost of war is graph
ically Illustrated by the Foreign Pol
icy association, In a booklet receiving
wide distribution at present. The asso
ciation declares that the cost of the
World war to every family in the United
States would buy every family a new
car with gasoline to run it for a year;
a complete wardrobe for mother, father
and two children; a mechanical refrig
erator; furniture for the living room;
a new radio, and a family ticket to the
movies once a week for a year.
Calls Neutrality Impossible.
The association goes on to point out
that absolute neutrality is virtually im
possible because industries employing
2,000,000 Americans depend greatly
The committee told how boat manu
facturers sold a “considerable battle
fleet” to the Chilean government after
the World war, stimulating the build
ing of war machines in other countries
of South America and causing general
unrest on that continent.
One of the most flagrant examples
of this was in Colombia and Peru at
the time of the Leticia incident, when
the munitions firms kept the two coun
tries well informed about each other’s
operations. One salesman, after sell
ing a big order to Peru, boasted that
he would sell “double the amount, and
more modern, to the Colombian govern
ment.”
One piece of evidence quoted a muni
tions manufacturer as spurring the activi
ties of representatives with the order to
get busy because “these opera bouffe rev
olutions are usually short-lived, and we
must make the most of the opportunity.”
It mattered little that the airplanes, bombs
and guns would be used to kill off a few
back country Indians in South America.
Here’s what the Nye committee has
to say about that Incident:
“All this may be little more to the
munitions people than a highly profit
able game of bridge with special at
tention on all sides to the technique of
Scene at a hearing of the Nye committee. Senator Nye is second from left.
upon foreign trade. The organization
can see three main policies toward for
eign nations which are receiving the
greatest approval of various groups:
Political isolation and economic expan
sion; international co-operation; and a
strict “keep-out-of-war” policy.
Advocates of the isolation theory
seek temporary neutrality legislation
and go no further than embargoes on
the export of arms and munitions,
while tiie internationalists would ex
tend these embargoes to all materials
used in warfare, including loans and
credits to nations engaged in fighting.
Internationalists further advocate tiie
delegation to the President of the
power of lifting any and all embargoes
against a country which has been at
the ‘squeeze’ play, but to a consid<
able part of the world’s Inhabltar
there is still something frightful
death by machinery, and the knowled
that neighboring governments have i
quired the latest and fastest engin
of destruction leads to suspicion tli
those taigines are meant to be us(
and are not simply for play and shov
It was even shown that the preside
of tiie Bath Iron Works in Maine, wh
tiie $617,000,000 naval hill was befci
congress, had written a letter to a pi
Usher of a great chain, of newspape
urging him to revive a Japanese w
scare that had been thoroughly d
credited by tiie newspaper which sta
cd It.
© Western Newspaper Union.
If you feel run down and tired, and
things aren’t going so well with your
job, try to steal •
Back to the week or so away
Woods frora town an d
make a short trek
through tiie woods.
I recommend a short trek, because
it takes a tenderfoot a little while to
get accustomed to sleeping out of
doors, and eating the sort of camp
food, that he is likely to cook for
himself.
But perseverance will help you
along.
Don’t load yourself down with a lot
of dunnage. Take some good service
able food like potatoes and bacon and
bring along a couple of blankets and a
rubber sheet to put over you when it
rains.
Three or four days of hard pelting
rain, which penetrates your clothing
to the skin and trickles dowm the back
of your neck will be likely to discour
age you.
Learn how to make a tent out of your
rubber blanket, and to pitch it on high
ground, so that you won’t wake up in
the night and think you have fallen into
a mountain torrent.
Don’t have any particular objective.
* * •
If you see a hill top that looks as
if it would provide an interesting view,
climb to the crest of It, and look
around at the landscape.
Learn how to build a cook fire—just
a little one, the kind that an IndHin
makes.
If you make a big one you will have
to stand ten or fifteen feet away from
it, and then the heat will not reach
you.
You can crouch above a little one,
and cook your bacon over it without
burning your fingers.
Take a compass along, for some
people have no sense of direction, and
you may be one of them.
• • •
Keep your eyes open all the time.
When you hear some kind of an ani
mal rustling in a tree, stop and stand
motionless. By and by his curiosity
will get the best of him, and you can
get a look at him.
There is no better fun In the late
summer or in the autumn than trekking
through a strange country, growing
more and more sure of yourself and of
your ability to live on very little food,
and still never be hungry. If you con,
choose a terrain near a mountain side
or a sizeable river, with a deep high
wood not very far away.
Before you start learn about mushrooms
and the kind that can be eaten. Bring a
bird book and an animal book along and
a good pair of field glasses.
If you ore careful you won’t need
any guide, and it will tickle you to
think how well you can get along with
out one.
Don’t go alone if you can find the
right kind of a companion. But don’t
be afraid to go alone if you can’t.
No right thinking intelligent person
will ever be afraid of a friendly forest.
• • •
I do not know what kind of news
papers the Borgia boys had, if any.
But if they had
newspapers, or even
Knowledge a poor substitute for
them, you can make
up your mind that there was no free
press In their day.
As soon as knowledge became as
much as 10 per cent universal, the kind
of tyranny that was prevalent In
medieval days disappeared.
As soon as the public—even long be
fore there was any such thing as gen
eral suffrage—began to know what was
going on, oppression was doomed.
People had learned to read long
before Louis the Fourteenth estab-
lislied his absolute monarchy.
But there was no honest newspaper
to let the public know what was going
on in Versailles. Had there been the
people of Paris would not have waited
so long for the revolution that started
them on their way to freedom.
• • •
In every country where there is free
dom of the press and freedom of
speech there Is liberty.
You may not agree with the news
papers you read. You may not fully
agree with any newspaper.
But If there were no newspapers you
w'ould never find out what Is going on,
or what was likely to happen.
Editorial comment is made of course,
but tiie news from the White House
conies to you exactly as it Is issued.
And that is as It should be.
* • •
Your newspaper is the window
through which you look out on the
nation and on the world.
If you read it every day, and from
one end to tbfe other, you will be a
well Informed man, and from the in
formation you thus receive you can
make your own opinions, and shape
your own political course.
All over the world trained and in-
teliitcent men are finding out for you
what has happened during tiie last
twenty-four hours, and are ready to
tell you about it.
Don’t skim your paper. Read it.
It gathers for you the news of the
world, it opens to you a broad avenue
to education.
Without its aid you would be powerless
to make a decision on election day, or to
understand the meaning and trend of the
events of the day.
I believe that the first hour In every
school day should be devoted to a
thorough reading of a good, honest, up
standing newspaper.
A Colorful Picture for Your Wall,
Using Simple Embroidery Stitches
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In honor of spring your house de
serves a colorful new wall-hanging
such as this, which depicts roses and
lilacs in their natural splendor.
You’ll enjoy embroidering it—it’s so
easy even a beginner will be won
over to this delightful occupation.
The lilacs are in lazy daisy—the
roses in satin and outline stitch;
and you needn’t frame it—just line
it and hang it up.
In pattern 5527 you will find a
transfer patteim of a hanging 15 by
Noble Thoughts
T HE note of the day in all its
higher and nobler trend of
thought is to include, to share, to
communicate. Emerson has re
marked that “exclusiveness ex
cludes itself.” All that we keep
out we go without. If we admit
no one we deprive ourselves
of every one, and if we admit
a few in order to lay to our souls
the flattering unction of exclusive
ness, we exclude the many. If
you have greater knowledge, finer
culture, do not exclude but share,
and find in it its divinest sweet
ness.—Lillian Whiting.
Counsel and wisdom achieve
more than sense.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the orig
inal little liver pills put up 60 years ago.
They regulate liver and bowels.—Adv.
Bluffs and Mountains
A man can make a big bluff easier
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Sewing Circle, Household Arts Dept,
259 W. 14th St., New York, N. Y.
Baby Falls Into Basement;
Dad Makes Shoestring Catch
James Stier, fourteen months old,
rocked back and forth in his high
chair in his Milwaukee home. It
toppled over and James fell through
an open trap door into the basement.
In the basement was the baby’s fa
ther, John. He heard the tot cry out
and looked up In time to make a
shoestring catch of his plunging son.
James escaped with a cut over one
eye.
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