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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1939
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—Weekly News Analysis
Sharp Foreign Policy Shifts
Follow Rome Parley Collapse
“By Joseph W. T La Bine—
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International
Why, they did not know, but from
every nook and cranny of the world
came statesmen bound for Geneva
where under leaden skies opened
the 104th session of the League of
Nations. Spokesmen admitted the
League was forgotten in a new era
of “power politics” in which four
nations (Britain, France, Italy and
Germany) appeared destined to
guide the world to war or peace.
Geneva’s convocation would have
been dolorous anyway, but on its
eve two great statesmen met in
Rome and found they could not
agree. Overnight, with lightning
speed, the forces of democracy vs.
dictatorship shifted to more posi-
* live, more threatening positions.
When British Prime Minister Ne
ville Chamberlain went to Rome for
consultation with Premier Benito
Mussolini, he knew his political fu
ture hung in the balance. For 18
months he had subscribed to the
unpopular course of appeasing dic
tators. Munich’s “peace” treaty had
been followed by Italian territorial
demands against Britain’s ally,
France. Invocation of the Anglo-
Italian friendship pact had been fol
lowed by an even more aggressive
Italian participation in the Spanish
war. Obviously appeasement was
a failure.
When, after two days of conver
sations, Mr. Chamberlain left for
home without an announcement, the
world knew what had happened. Ap
peasement as a peace weapon was
abandoned. Britain had straightened
up, deciding to lead with her chin
instead of the palm of her hand.
This news had hardly been flashed
before news of resultant develo;>
ments began flashing back from key
world capitals:
BUDAPEST
i Almost unnoticed the day Mr.
Chamberlain arrived in Rome was
the announcement that Hungary had
recognized Japan’s puppet state of
Manchukuo. The past few , years
have seen Hungary vainly attempt
ing to straddle the fence, keeping
peace with Germany and Italy,
meanwhile maintaining cordial re
lations with Britain. But Count Ste
phen Csaky, foreign minister, has
been squinting at new developments
with an eye to changing his position.
A week before the Rome-London
conversations, Poland — Hungary’s
unofficial ally in eastern Europe—
had abandoned her independent po
sition and tightened her bonds with
Germany. Count Csaky realized this
left Hungary uncomfortably isolat
ed. When news from Rome herald
ed a sharpened definition of policy
between democracies and dictators,
Count Csaky decided to cast his lot
with dictatorships. Thus Hungary
joined the Italian-German-Japanese
pact against communism and made
plans to leave the League of Na
tions. A safe prediction is that Po
land will follow suit.
To strengthen the Rome-Berlin
axis even more, Italian Count Gale-
azzo Ciano, Mussolini’s foreign min
ister, is making a tour of the Bal
kans with special emphasis on Jugo-
HUNGARY’S csaky
He chote to follow dictators.
slavia, Hungary and Poland. At the
same time German Foreign Min
ister Joachim von Ribbentrop left
for Warsaw to talk with Polish For
eign Minister Joseph Beck.
BARCELONA
French sympathies in the Spanish
civil war lie with Loyalists; Italy’s
sympathies—and support—lie with
Rebels. This animosity has wid
ened the Rome-Paris breach over
Italian territorial demands in Tuni
sia, Corsica, Djibouti and other
French points. Just before Mr.
Chamberlain left for Rome, Rebels
began a well-timed offensive in
northeastern Catalonia, aimed to
show the prime minister that Loyal
ist Spain was weakening and should
be sold down the river by democra
cies. But when Chamberlain re
fused to concede the point, Musso
lini’s controlled press announced it
would be “absolutely useless to
speak of arbitration and mediation”
in settling Europe’s problems until
the Insurgents won the Spanish war.
As if to hasten this outcome, the
"Chamberlain offensive” swept into
Catalonia and drew near Barcelona.
Obviously Mussolini wants to wind
up the war, release his troops from
Spain and consolidate his position
in the Mediterranean in prepara
tion for renewed demands against
France. Meanwhile, in Paris Pre
mier Edouard Daladier’s Radical
Socialist party demanded govem-
VISCOUNT HALIFAX
England will come to the rescue.
ment intervention to prevent a
Rebel victory in Spain, arguing that
such an outcome would threaten
France’s Mediterranean communi
cations.
TARIS
There no longer remains doubt
that the French-Italian argument
will supply Europe with its next cri
sis. Prior to the Chamberlain-Mus-
solini conversations it looked like
France might have to face this dic
tator threat alone, thanks to Brit
ain’s hesitancy over insulting Ger
many and Italy. But immediately
after the conference British Foreign
Secretary Viscount Halifax left for
Geneva where he met French For
eign Minister Georges Bonnet. It
was authoritatively learned that
Halifax assured Bonnet that Eng
land will go to France’s aid if she is
attacked by any other country, in
cluding Italy.
Halifax and Bonnet obviously held
their meeting in Geneva—just as the
League sessions opened—to bolster
League prestige and give some sem
blance of international support to
the Anglo-French position.
TOKYO
When London heard that Chamber-
lain had abandoned his appease
ment policy, the foreign office im
mediately emboldened itself like a
youngster with a new slingshot.
Looking around for places to drain
off a long pent-up wrath, it turned
attention first to Japan. Tokyo’s
conquest of China has been tolerat
ed by Britain simply because a stern
position would incur the anger of
Japan’s anti-communist friends, It
aly and Germany.
For some time there have been
hints of U. S.-British “parallel ac
tion” against Japan for violation of
the 1922 nine-power pact which
guaranteed China’s “open door.”
But this parallel action has hereto
fore been one-sided, as witness the
huge U. S. credit grant to China
compared with Britain’s tiny credit
allowance. But Washington’s strong
protest note to Tokyo last Decem
ber 31 was velvet smooth compared
with the protest British Ambassador
Sir Robert L. Craigie was called
upon to hand Japan after the Rome
conversations. Excerpts:
“His majesty’s government is at
a loss to understand how (former
Japanese premier) Prince Konoe’s
assurance that Japan seeks no ter
ritory and respects the sovereignty
of China can be reconciled with the
declared intention of the Japanese
government to compel the Chinese
people ... to accept conditions in
volving surrender of their political,
economic and cultural life to Japa
nese control. . . . For their part,
his majesty’s government desires
to make it clear that they are not
prepared to accept or to recognize
changes of the nature indicated
which are brought about by force.”
SIGNIFICANCE
Behind the Mussolini-Chamberlain
impasse which precipitated these
events was the unseen hand of U. S.
disgust over London’s vaccilating
foreign policy. But just as impor
tant was London’s assurance that
the U. S. planned to build up its
armed forces under President
Roosevelt’s two-year, $552,000,000
emergency defense program. Re
gardless of the cause, regardless of
the resultant consolidation moves by
totalitarian states, both France and
Britain are inclined to believe they
have seen the last of democratic
concessions to dictators. The great
est fear is that this new and sensi
ble policy has been adopted too late,
that Germany and Italy have at
tained an undisputable upper hand
in the few short months since Mu
nich.
Religion
In prosperous years church mem
bership and attendance remains
even or shows a very slight in
crease. During depressions mem
bership and attendance will rise
through, a return to religion. Fore
most among U. S. religious statisti
cians is Rev. Dr. Herman C. Weber,
whose report for 1937 has just been
released.
Salient facts and figures: Total
membership early in 1938 was 64,-
158,895, church members having in
creased 960,000 in 1937 (twice as
fast as the population). Churches
increased by 1,743. A trend to
church unity was evident, since 97.3,
of the total U. S. churcn population
belongs to the 50 larger bodies.
About 160 smaller bodies account
for the remaining 2.7 per cent.
Communication
An important weapon in the
spread of Nazi economic-political in
fluence is propaganda. So impor
tant has this weapon become that
at December’s Pan-American con
ference in Lima, Peru, delegates
adopted a resolution condemning it.
But for five years the government-
subsidized Transocean News Serv
ice has operated via wireless from
Berlin to Latin America, providing
slyly propagandized world news
coverage to newspapers at small
cost. Its purpose: To win Latin
American markets for the Reich,
meanwhile spreading political doc
trines. In answer to Pan-American
conference resolutions, Transocean
News Service is now being modern-
zed and speeded to South America.
Just opened is a new transmitter at
Buenos Aires, while another is be
ing built at Lima.
Congress
President Roosevelt won little ap
plause January 4 when his State of
the Union speech referred to the un
popular governmental reorganiza
tion bill. Congress thought it best
to leave well enough alone, but since
the session got under way two re
organization schemes, one of them
far more important than the ad
ministration’s proposals, have been
broached:
Relief. Reluctantly the average
U. S. citizen admits unemployment
and old age assistance have be
come permanent problems. Creat
ed by the New Deal, pioneering
agencies to cope with these needs
have worked too independently,
often wastefully. Social security,
WPA, PWA, CCC and NYA all have
a common denominator, but not un
til this year has anyone bothered to
suggest it. Headed by South Caro
lina’s Sen. James F. Byrnes, a spe-
SENATOR BYRNES
He found a common denominator.
cial senate committee on unemploy
ment and relief has now proposed
creation of a new department of
public works to handle all such du
ties except social security. The
three basic recommendations:
(1) Co-ordination of state unem
ployment compensation systems un
der federal law, with U. S. financial
assistance, providing 13-week pay
ments ranging from $5 to $15, de
pending on salary over the 26 weeks
before an unemployed person lost
his job; (2) increased federal par
ticipation in state-federal old age
assistance, to provide minimum of
$15 a month compensation; (3) an
anticipated, annual U. S. public
works appropriation.
Should the proposal be adopted,
relief and security would still hold
plenty of headaches for congress.
Left to be ironed out was President
Roosevelt’s proposal of “social se
curity for all,” under which old age
and unemployment insurance pro
tection would be given every U. S.
worker as soon as possible. Other
points in the administration’s social
security program: (1) increased
protection to aged and dependent
children; (2) establishment of merit
system for state social security per
sonnel; (3) advancing social securi
ty’s pension starting date from 1942
to 1940.
Defense. Far less noteworthy than
the Byrnes report but significant of
the reorganization trend is the thus-
far anonymous proposal to pool
army and navy under a single cabi
net officer. Its aim: To co-ordinate
defense. Though similar measures
have reached congress before, most
of them failed because of tradition
al, leather-necked rivalry between
the two branches of defense. This
session’s bill has a better chance be
cause the proposed special rearma
ment program needs a single guid
ing hand, not several.
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Red Herring Across Trail
“Phrase Origins,” by Alfred Holt
says: “When one politician accuses
another of attempting ‘to drag a
red herring across the trail,’ he is
referring to the traditional use of a
particularly strong-smelling smoked
fish to throw the dogs off the scent.
Red herring were sometimes used
in the training of hounds. The fig
urative use implies evading the is
sue, dragging in something irrele
vant, especially a personal insult
fired at the other man to cover
your retreat from a bad hole.”
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
S UNDAY I
chool Lesson
H ello everybody:
Here’s a yarn of two men who followed a dog—almost to
their doom. One of these men was Fred Rowan of Pelham, N.
Y. The other was his friend and hunting companion, Bat.
Fred was working down in Costa Rica in 1922, as overseer of
a banana farm. Bat was another young American who also
worked on the plantation. On New Year’s morning, the pair of
them started out on a hunting trip, taking along Bat’s dog. And
that mutt led them into the worst spot either of them had ever
been in in their lives.
The dog, Fred says, was a brainless animal, untrained and
more trouble than he was worth on a hunting trip. They had
crossed a bridge over a river, struck into the tropical jungle
along a well known trail and had been hunting for an hour when
the dog ran off into the underbrush and, a few moments later,
set up a terrific yelping.
Bat yelled: “Come on—the pigs have himl” And the two men were
off the trail, crashing through matted brush to save the dog from the
wild pigs of the region which would tear him to pieces in no time. They
plunged into low, swampy land and found the dog. To Fred’s disgust
there were no pigs. The cause of all the commotion was a little moth-
eaten swamp squirrel.
Rain Drives Them Toward Higher Ground.
At that moment it started raining, as only it can rain in the tropics.
Hastily the two men started back in what they thought was the direction
of higher ground. “But,” says Fred, “we couldn’t see more than 30 feet
ahead through the dense vegetation, and soon we were hopelessly mud
dled. All day long we tried this direction and that, but to no avail.
HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D.
.an of The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago. _ .
• Weetern Newspaper Union.
Lesson for January 29
He covered the crossing with a big automatic rifle.
Stumbling over vines and roots, we floundered helplessly in that tropic
swamp. Late in the afternoon we came out on a bit of solid ground
beside the river. We tried to head upstream, but ran into another
swamp. We made our way back to the high ground and all night we
huddled there, cold and wet, with the rain dinning in our ears. Dawn
found us wretched with hunger and thirst, for with all the water around
us, none of it was safe to drink. Across the river we could see waving
banana leaves. Over there would be trails, and a trolley line leading to
the railroad. If we could only get across.”
Bat to get Across that river meant swimming—and the river
was full of alligators. On the other hand, it would be almost
as bad to go back into the jungle. In front of Fred’s eyes was
a picture of a native he had found a month before. He had been
lost for 13 days, and when Fred found him he had gone into his
last sleep—a shrunken body covered with torn and festered skin.
Even alligators would be better than that.
It was Bat who decided Fred. Bat was just over an attack of
fever, and he was the weaker of the two. “Stay here and rot if you
want to,” he croaked. “I’m going across the river.” Fred felt the
same way about it. He told Bat to go ahead—that he’d stay on the bank
with a rifle and “cover” his crossing with his big automatic rifle. Car
rying the lighter rifle—a .22—Bat called his dog and plunged into the
water. He made steady progress, and no alligators showed their noses
above the surface of the stream. But Fred was relieved when at last
he climbed up on the other bank.
“Bat motioned to me to come along,” says Fred, “and with a sick
feeling I made a few simple preparations. My rifle was much too
heavy and awkward to hold, so I unlaced my belt half way, threaded it
through the trigger guard and refastened it around my waist. This per
mitted the barrel to swing between my legs and gave me freedom to
kick. As I entered the water it occurred to me that Bat was covering
my approach with a .22 full of water. A .22 wouldn’t even dent an alli
gator’s tough hide. But by then I was out in the current and swimming.”
Fred swam steadily. He was making it. And then, when he
was a scant 15 feet from shore, something struck him a terrific
blow in the small of the back. At that moment, Fred had visions
of a big, scaly snout poking at him before making the final grab.
An alligator! Panic seized him. He threw up his hands and
screamed “Oh my God!” And as he did so he got a glimpse of
Bat’s face above him—and horror was written all over it.
He Crawled Ashore and Fell Face Down.
“1 thrashed madly in the water,” he says, “and as I did so I
felt bottom with my knees. I crawled ashore and flopped face
down on the ground, gagging and retching with nausea. I lay
there for a while, and then Bat helped me to my feet and steadied
me while I took the rifle off my belt.”
As they started to walk away, neither man spoke. Nothing was
said about Fred’s terrifying experience. Darkness had fallen again,
when, after much stumbling they came to the troUey line that led to the
railroad. Just before midnight they came in sight of the winking lights
of their plantation camp. They took some whisky and a stiff dose of
quinine apiece—and went to bed.
The next morning Fred got up and began taking stock—and
got the surprise of his life. When he came to examine his rifle
he found that the barrel was split from the muzzle almost up to
the stock. Then he asked Bat a few questions—they hadn't spoken
of that swim across the river before—and found out all about that
“alligator” that had given him such a scare the evening before.
That alligator just didn’t exist. It was the gun that had given him
that poke. “The motion of swimming,” Fred says, “had pushed the
catch off ‘safety’ and the drag against the belt had pulled the trigger.
The cartridge, exploding under water, created a terrific recoil which
drove the stock of the gun into the small of my back. Bat had seen
what took place, and thought from my cries that I had been shot. Hence
the expression of horror on his face. And I, of course, thought it was
because something had attacked me. t. My mind had been too dazed to
realize the folly of swimming with a loaded gun.”
And another folly Fred says he’ll never repeat is going to the rescue
of a half-witted dog.
Copyright.—WNU Service.
Bittersweet in Dune Country
Bittersweet grows in various lo
calities, one of its favored habitats
being the dune country along the
shore of lower Lake Michigan. In
some places among the white sand
hills the shrub is quite abundant.
Sometimes it climbs a small tree,
its own foliage all but obliterating
from sight the leaves, twigs and
branches df the tree. In this respect
bittersweet is not unlike the wild
grape. Other times it is supported
by lower forms such as young sand
cherry shrubs.
AROUND
THE HOUSE
For Baby’s Safety—Keep the
handles of kettles on the stove
turned toward the back.
tjeeeon subject* and Scripture texte ee-
ected end cqpjrrl*hted by International
Council of Re&sioue Education; uaed be
perfbimen.
PETER DECLARES HIS LOVE
LESSON TEXT—John
GOLDEN TEXT—If ye love roe. keep my
commandments.—John 14:19.
1 'Lovest thou me?” This is the
question our Lord asked Peter. It
comes to us today. Do we love our
Lord? It is a simple question,^but
qlso a very searching one. “We
may know much, and do much, and
profess much, and talk much, and
work much, and give much, and go
Through much, and make much
show in our religion, and yet be
dead before God from want of love
. . There is no life where there
is no love . . . Knowledge, ortho
doxy, correct views ... a respect
able moral life—all these do not
make up a true Christian. There
must be some personal feeling to
ward Christ” (J. C. Ryle).
The instructive story, the center
of which is Peter’s declaration of
love for Christ, presents a picture
of a life of true devotion and service
to the Lord we love.
l. Fishing at Christ’s Command
(v. 11).
Peter had led the disciples in a
fruitless fishing expedition (w. 2,
3). There may have been some un
believing self-will in his “I go a-
fishing.” It may also have been the
need of food on the part of the
disciples who had not yet been sent
forth to preach. But in any case
they caught nothing until they went
to work at the Lord’s direction.
Useless and pathetic is the effort
of the Church to win men to Christ
except as He directs and blesses the
work. He knows when, where, and
how we ought to fish for men. Let
us seek His guidance rather than
suffer the disappointment which
goes with man-directed campaigns
and “drives.” As a matter of fact,
we need more divine directing and
less human driving.
H. Fellowship With the Lord (w.
12-14).
There are some folk who seem to
think that following Christ is a dole
ful matter, devoid of every pleasant
contact. Jesus never taught any
such thing. He attended weddings
and dinners even in the homes of
those despised by men. Remember
that He always did it for their spir
itual good, not merely for His own
enjoyment; and that He always
brought the gathering up to His own
spiritual level, rather than stooping
to any worldly or wicked standards.
Here we find Him with a glowing
fire upon which fish is broiling and
with bread ready for the hungry
fishermen. It is just like Him thus
to meet in most delightful and satis
fying fellowship those who serve
Him. Draw up to the fire, Christian
friends who are standing afar off.
You may be so timid that, like the
disciples, you will not dare to call
Him by name (v. 12), but if you
will come you will find that the
precious fellowship will soon warm
your heart.
m. Feeding His Flock (w. 15-17).
Many (perhaps most) after-dinner
speeches and conversations yield lit
tle profit. Here is an occasion when
such was not the case. One won
ders whether we would not be wise
to take the suggestion and turn our
thoughts and those of our dinner
guests to spiritual things. Surely it
should be so among Christian
friends and in a Christian home.
Three times Peter is asked to de
clare his love for Christ. Such a
public confession was quite in place,
before the man who had thrice de
nied his Lord is restored to a place
of leadership. The words “more
than these” (v. 15), indicate that
Jesus was asking of him a high
measure of devotion. It is no more
than H° has a right to expect of us.
The expression of love to Christ
means practically nothing except as
it manifests itself in service. We,
like Peter, are to be diligent about
feeding His flock, whether they be
the young and inexperienced lambs,
or the mature sheep of the fold.
Observe that we are to catch the
fish (the unconverted) and feed the
flock (the redeemed). Sometimes
it sefems that we are trying to catch
the Christians to forward some
scheme of advancement, and failing
to win the unconverted, because we
are feeding them spiritual food that
belongs to the flock of God.
IV. Following Christ to the End
(w. 18, 19).
The Christian (and surely the
Christian worker) is to glorify God
even by his death (v. 19). What a
significant reply John Wesley made
when his followers were criticized:
“At any rate, our people die well."
Peter was to go on to the end, know
ing that he faced martyrdom for
Christ.
But we are not only called to die
like Christians, we are to live for
Him. When Jesus “had spoken this,
he saith unto him, Follow me” (v.
19). Just as we said that the Church
needs more divine directing and less
human driving, so we say that the
crying need of the Church now ia
not more leaders, but a greater host
of faithful followers of Jesus. Will
you, because you love Him, follow
Him in life and death?
Use for Old Christmas Cards.—
When you are through with your
Christmas cards, the children will
enjoy cutting, pasting and redeco
rating them.
• • •
Safety Measure.—Chemical fire
extinguishers have saved many
homes from being reduced to
ashes. Even a bucket of sand or
damp sawdust is effective if used
before a fire gets too much start.
• • •
Cleaning Isinglass.—Apply vine
gar on a cloth to the stains on
isinglass on stoves. With a little
rubbing, the stains will come off.
• • •
Lowering High Ceilings One
way to help make a ceiling look
lower is to use simple valances at
high windows.
- • • •
Save Your Back.—Whether to
buy a stove with a working sur
face over a low oven or a high
oven, it may pay to remember
that bending requires four times
as much energy as standing.
• • •
Flavoring Mashed Potatoes.—
One teaspoon of onion juice or half
a sliced raw onion added to
mashed potatoes gives them a dif
ferent flavor.
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LUDEN'S
MINTHOL COUOH DROPS
Acknowledging Faults
It is a greater thing to know
how to acknowledge a fault than
to know how not to commit one.—
Cardinal de Retz.
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Place of Amusement
Let amusement fill up the chinks
of your existence, but not the
great spaces thereof.—T. Parker.
COLD
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how to relieve her
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comfort Rub with
stainless, snow-
white Penetro.
Extra • medicated
vapors tend to re
lieve congestion
of respiratory
mucous mem
brane. Penetro
eases the chest
muscle tightness.
PENETRO
Joys Concealed
He who can conceal his joys, is
greater than he who can hide his
griefs.—Lavater.
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