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By LYTLE HULL
JAPAN’S PAST AND FUTURE
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Christ the Fulfilment of the
Law.
Lesson for December 19: He
brews 1: 1-9; Romans 10: 4-10.
Golden Text: Hebrews 1:1, 2. '
The author of the Epistle to the
Hebrews shows the superiority of
the gospel dispenation ewer that
of the law, in the supremacy of
Him through whom the gosp?l
was brought to men as compared
with the messengers God had em
ployed in ages past in the minis- Ohina through the Korean penin
try of the truth. Having spoken sula, but without success. In 1620
unto the fathers in “divers man- they declared a policy of national
ners” through the prophets, God isolation and no Japanese was al-
fi’ially spoke unto men in • his lowed to even leave the islands.
Son. • | Nationals who were in other lands
The glory of Jesus far surpasses; were not permitted to return to
A hundred years ago, and less,
the territory of Japan would have
covered the states oi New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Ohio combined. ...It-would take a
mathematician today to compute
the amount of territory she con
trols. It is mostly wet, but that
portion of it which is dry is very
vital and important in the
scheme of things* today—not only
as applied to the Far East, but in
j relation to all the rest of the
j world. Tomorrow the “rest of
the world” intends to push Japan
I back one hundred years and con-
• fine her to her own back yard.
Which is as it should be. Ex
pansion by force and at the ex
pense of other peoples is bad e-
nough any way you phrase it,
but the way the Japs do it is
horrible.
As far back as. around 40Q A.
D. the Japs attempted to expand
by way of Korea and were more
or less successful until the year
663 A. D. when they were pushed
off the continent. Again in 1593
they tried for the conquest of
that of the angels by whom God
had spoken to men, because of
his divine nature and the atone
ment he made for men (Hebrews
1:3) and because God had said
unto him, “Thou art my Son”
(Hebrews 1:5-9). Small wonder it
fs that the people who heard
Jesus gladly recogatzed that he
spoke as “one having authority.”
, And Christ, Paul writes, “is the
end of the law for righteousness,
to every one that believeth.” This
means that he is the fufillment of
the law—the _ culmination of
prophecy, the answer to all typts
of the temple, the Perfect One
who has kept the whole law, and
the Saviour and Friend of men
who can empower them to keep
the law when they have faith in
him.
As men realize that by their
•wn efforts they fail »to reach the
highest good, let them trust in
Jesus to ^ make them good and
keep them good. For the word of
faith is nigh, even as near as it
was to the Hebrews Paul address
ed. So let men receive the
apostle’s exhortation to confess
their faith in Jesus and believe
In him in their heart. “For with
Hie heart man believeth* unto
righteousness; and with the
mouth confession is made unto
salvation.” t
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ate his business as he pleases, so
does the average farmer want to
( be able to produce as much or as
little as lie wants of any com
modity and to charge whatever
price he finds necessary to as
sure himself of a fair profit. He
wants legislation to protect him
against unfair buying practices
but, in general, he is more avid
than is the modern businessman
about having his success or his
failure depend largely oil how
good a job he does and the laws
of supply and demand.
INDEPENDENT . . >. capitalist
The farmer considers himself a
capitalist. He is proud of being
the most independent buslness-
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TOMORROW
By DON ROBINSON
FARMERS . business
A group of big businessmen
were recently pleasantly surprised
to learn, as a result of a survey
among farmers, that farmers in
general don’t think industrialists
have horns.
In fact, as a result of the sur-
■vey, they found that many farm-
«rs are sympathetic with the
problems of big business—perhaps
a lot more sympathetic than busi
nessmen are with the problems
of the farmer.
Many businessmen have never
realized how closely their prob
lems are related to
farmer—but the
realized this right
farmer sympathizes with indus
try’s labor problems because he
has very similar problems.. He
may not be involved with unions
(although even that is a threat)
Japan, and the construction of
sea-going ships was forbidden.
Unhappily for our generation—
and for a couple before ours—
American Commodore Perry
“horned in” and as a result Japan
signed trade agreements with the
other maritime nations and be
came part—and a troublesome
part—of the world at large. The
world almost had a “break” in
1860 when the Isolationists of
Japan nearly dragged her back
into her old shell.
1894 witnessed Japan’s first
modern aitempt at real expan
sion, and at the termination of
her successful war with China, a
year later, she became the pos
sessor of the Pescadores Islands,
Formosa and the Liao-tung pe-
ainsula. Around about this time
:he signed treaties in which she
acknowledged the independence
of Korea, and a decade later
stepped in and gobbled that na
tion in no unoertain manner.
How she treated the peace-loving,
ancient land of Korea—is prover
bial. 11
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It took the First World war to
really put Japan on the map as
one of the “Great Nations.” When
the shooting was over and the
shouting had died down Japan i
had amassed a fortune from the
sale of munitions to the Allies
and had secured mandates over
the formerly German owned is
lands—the Marshals, Carolines, j
Mafiennes and others—from the.
League of Nations. And when she
resigned from the League in 1933-
she announced that she had no i
intention of abandoning these
mandates. Nothing very original
in that—who has? Apropos of
these mandates—Japan holds a
99 years lease on Darien and Port,
Arthur. Don’t laugh!
Well, everyone knows the rest
of the story—how she gobbled up
Manchuria (Manchukuo), and la
ter started to borrow the rest of
China from the Chinese. There
didn’t appear any way to check i
her conquest of China—after we
had asked others to help us stop
her and had been refused.
After Pearl Harbor her con
quests went by leaps and bounds,
until today she controls a large
piece of the earth’s surface. At
her recent rate of expansion she
would soon have owned this
planet and part of Mars.
Her population of 75 million or
so should be nice and co^y back
on the islands where they belong.
We can probably put them there
in the course of the next two or
three years and then hope that
no new combination of nations
drags them out to start another
war against another combination
in another generation or two.
ducing planes, tanks and guns
in spite of labor troubles and dif
ficulties in getting materials.
And the industrialists are prais
ing the production records estab
lished by the farmers in spite of
labor shortages, machinery short
ages and pricing problems.
Furthermore, both groups are
more cognizant than ever before
of their interdependency. The
farmer realizes that part of his
present prosperity is due to the in
creased activity of industry. And
the businessman realizes that
there would be chaos rather than
prosperity in our country today
if the farmer had fallen down on
the job.
If, after the war, industry can
man in America. He is in busi-J continue to keep up today’s rate
those of the
farmer has
ness for himself and wants to
run that business in his own way
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without interference from anyone.
If he makes a good profit, *one
of the first things he will do with
his surplus money is to invest it
in the industries in which he has
confidence — the company from
which he bought a good tractor
or a good truck or a good auto
mobile. If the holdings of stock
in large companies were analyzed
on a rural-urban basis, most busi
nessmen would probably be great
ly surprised to learn how large a
part of big business is owned by
the farm population.
The farmers may be suspicious
of industries they don’t know a-
bout. In the past there have been
plenty of cases where they have
been sold worthless stocks and
have been “taken in” in other
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ways by city slickers. But, on the,
other hand, many prosperous 1
farmers have for years had a
steady income coming in from
their investments in reliable in-
of production, the farmer knows
that he will continue to have a
good market for his produce and
will have little to worry about.
To achieve permanent high pro-e
duction by industry and thus a.
permanent market for farm
goods, the*'farmer will invariably
take sides with business manage
ment when production is threat
ened by labor or by government.
Dec. 6.
WANT ADV.
Pot Plants, Cut Flowers, Floral
Designs, and Sprays, Christmas
Wreaths and Baskets at reason
able prices. Mrs. G. C. Sanders,
McCormick, S. C.
LOST—My “A” and “B” gaso
line ration book for car license
No. C-18685. Reward for re
covery. Fred Lee Gilchrist, R. 1.
Plum Branch, S. C.
dustries and they have
along. The: most respect for those
and their management.
the ut-
industries
RELATIONS . respect
During the war, according to
the survey, the farmers feel that
but when wages go up in industry their relations with big business
the only possible way that a have become better than they
fanner can keep his help from weife before. This is not based on
going to the city is to raise farm any new deal between industry
^ges. j and the farmer but is probably
And the farmer is equally con
cerned with legislation which
aims at controlling his output
and production. Just as the busi
nessman wants to be free to ©per
due to a greater respect on the
part of each group for what the
other is doing. The farmers are
taking their hats off to industry
for its amazing records in pro-
FOR SALE—Giant Pansy Plants.
Mrs. F. P. Deason, McCormick, S.
C.
LOST—Two fountain pens, one
Parker and one Schaffer. Liberal
reward. R. L. Faulkner.
FOR SALE—23 jewel Waltham
gold watch, man’s size, passed
railroad inspection. F. P. Deason,
McCormick, S. C.
ADS For SALE IN
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War Effort -Here’s Your Chance! Take
A Job At J. B. Carr Biscuit Co. Packing
Field Rations For Men In The Service.
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For Detail Information
APPLY
MRS. HERBERT N. COLEMAN
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McCORMICK, S. C., PHONE 63
DECEMBER 20-21-22
J. B. CARR BISCUIT CO.
GREENWOOD, S. C.
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