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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE See Hope for League Rebirth Under New Russ-British Pact; Must Get Rid of Avenol First (EDITOR'S NOTE—When opinions sre expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) ——i i Released by Western Newspaper Union. INTERNATIONAL: Rebirth? Once the white hope of world peace, Geneva’s League of Nations buildings are today what one corre spondent calls “a stately mausole um haunted by the ghosts of braver men.” In its heyday the League stood for collective security, later watch ing Japan, Italy and Germany drift away without enforcing the cove nant’s spirit because such action might “divide Europe into ideologi cal blocs.” Chief reason for League doldrums is its management. A carbon copy of Great Britain’s current appease ment cabinet is Secretary-General Joseph A. C. Avenol, who in recent years has filed the machinery of collective security under lock and key. Black marks on the League’s rec ord include Manchuria, Ethiopia, Spain and China. Each succumbed amid ineffectual, insincere League sanctions which were enforced against aggressor nations only if in dividual signatories found it “con venient.” By this spring Mr. Ave- nol’s back-tracking generalship m LEAGUE’S AVENOL He “forgot” Albania’s plea. reached a new low. When Albania protested its seizure by Italy, the secretary “forgot” to circulate its SOS among signatories. There was no reprimand, and at its May meet ing Mr. Avenol prevented Russia’s ambassador to Great Britain, Ivan Maisky, from reading a letter of protest against Czecho-Slovakia’s seizure. At the same time he got the council to postpone any discus sion of Albania until next Septem ber. However, even as the League grows more decadent under Avenol leadership, hope rises for a rebirth of its collaboration machinery. Nev er a word-mincer, Soviet Russia hps enough dislike for powder-puff plomacy to force Britain and France —the League’s other two leaders— into rejuvenating Geneva’s halls un der the new British-French-Russian mutual aid pact. First hopeful sign is the new treaty’s goal of preserv ing European peace. Second sign: It has been communicated to the League and will possibly operate un der the League covenant. But a prerequisite to any such rebirth would be the retirement of Mr. Ave nol, whose job rests secure so long as th? Chamberlain-Halifax-Hoare- S'cmor. quartet rules Britain. BUSINESS: Middleman Favorite butt of pro-chain store and pro-co-operative movements has been the wholesaler, who in popular notion is excess baggage in the U. S. distribution system. If the middle man could be elminated, many be lieve, a bar of soap or pcund of cof fee would cost John Public substan tially less. To test this theory, New York’s Twentieth Century Fund broke down Trend How the wind is blowing ... ARMAMENT — Soviet Russia has ordered a 50 per cent in crease in her 1939 national de fense budget to keep abreast of Germany and Italy. Approximate additional cost: $8,000,000,000. RUBBER—J. M. Slattery, Fisk tire executive, predicts 50 per cent increase in world rubber consumption during next 10 years. Items: Sponge cushions and mattresses, cushions for rail road tracks, traffic markers, flooring, furniture, packaging materials, plastics and latex gar ments. GASOLINE—In 1938, U. S. gas oline consumption was 1 per cent above the previous year, although motor vehicle registrations were 1 per cent less than 1937. JEWS—A new Berlin ghetto de cree places still more drastic re strictions on areas to be inhabit ed by “non-Aryans.” the $38,500,000,000 which U. S. con sumers paid in distribution costs for their merchandise during the peak year of 1929. Individual figures and percentages of the distribution cost: Wholesalers ....(18%)$ 7,000,000,000 Retailers (33%) 12,600,000,000 Manufacturers (24%) 9,100,000,000 Transportation (23%) 8,800,000,000 Miscellaneous ( 2%) 1,000,000,000 Basic conclusions were that whole salers did not earn excessive profits in 1929 (groceries, 1.3 per cent; con fectioneries, 2.2 per cent; dry goods, 2.7 per cent), and that they remain an essential link in the distributioii machine. DOMESTIC: . Un-Americanism To freedom-loving but undemon strative U. S. patriots, the trouble with anti-Communist organizations is that they are pro-Fascist. Con versely, anti-Fascist groups (like the American League for Peace and Democracy) are more interested in promoting Communism than fight ing Fascism. When he began investigating un- Americanism last year, Texas’ sin cere Rep. Martin Dies won deserved criticism for letting his committee listen indiscriminately to anyone with an ax to grind. But thanks to Martin Dies the U. S. has become acutely aware of “isms” pounding on its doors. Biggest threat, inspired by Italo- German success and fostered by de pression-made malcontents, are the U. S. Fascists. This spring Fas cism reared its head when Mr. Dies revealed a strong anti-Jewish move ment led by Maj. Gen. George Van Horn Moseley retired anti-New Deal army officer; Dudley P. Gil bert, New York financier, and such Ku Klux Klannish groups as Knights of the White Camellias, led by George Deatherage of St. Albens, W. Va. Blandly admitting his anti- Semitic sentiments, General Mose ley has promised shocking revela tions concerning Jews in high places before the summer is over. Greatest handicap to an impartial investigation of un-Americanism is the very stumbling block Mr. Dies encountered last autumn, namely, ax-grinding. Best example, though in this case probably popular with Mr. Dies, was the arrest of Fritz Kuhn, "Fuehrer” of the violently Nazi - German - American Bund, charged with grand larceny and forgery in shortages of $15,000 from Bund funds. Overlooking the fact FUEHRER KUHN a lot of nonsense.” that Kuhn participated in Hitler’s Munich putsch in 1923, has or ganized 94 active Bund branches and has done nothing to merit con fidence of the U. S., critics looked suspiciously (though probably un fairly) at the two men responsible for his arrest. New York’s Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia might have re alized his many Jewish constituents would relish any anti-Nazi move. New York’s District Attorney Thom as E. Dewey, a potential G. O. P. presidential candidate, could expect excellent publicity from the case. Said Mr. Dewey: “The indictment shows Kuhn is just a common thief.” Answered Fuehrer Kuhn; “It’s a lot of nonsense.” SCIENCE: Probing Atlanta Long before the Revolutionary war St. James was a thriving capi tal of St. Kitts island, sometimes called Nevis, located in the Lesser Antilles southeast of Puerto Rico. In 1680 an earthquake dropped St. Kitts and its St. James 300 feet be low the sea. This summer an ex pedition led by Detroit’s Capt. Rob ert Hall plans to walk along St. James’ submerged streets in one of science’s most unusual expeditions. Connected with the surface only by a small telephone wire, divers will wear new helium-equipped suits which need no lifeline to compressed air machines on deck. Last year Captain Hall made similar experi ments in the Lesser Antilles, exam ining submerged shipwrecks in crys tal-clear tropical waters THE SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C- FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1939 GERMANY: Ole Man River Prussian army men are notorious ly scrupulous about detail and lax about fundamental principles. In 1914 they made certain that every soldier’s equipment was precise, yet overlooked French stubbornness. In 1938 they built amazingly perfect fortifications along the Rhine river, yet forgot that every 10 to 15 years the stream is subject to abnormal floods. Result: Unexpectedly one night a few days after Adolf Hitler visited the Limes lines, German sol diers fled their fortifications in the GERMANY’S LIMES LINES Water did what weapons couldn’t. face of rising flood waters. A few days later news leaked out that a great stock of ammunition was lost and that the forts must be entirely rebuilt. More fbrtunate were Frenchmen on the Rhine’s other bank, who dis covered their fortress engineers had anticipated the seven-foot rise. Results of the inundation: (1) Ger many will probably be stalemated against aggression until next fall, knowing the world knows of her vi tal weakness along the Rhine; (2) France began pondering how to pro duce artificial floods in the Rhine, paralyzing the Reich’s first line of defense in case of war. CHILE: Next? It the U. S. wants solidarity among Pan-American nations, she must pay for it. Such is the view of South and Central American coun tries who could get all the trade con cessions they want from bartering Italy and Germany if Washington did not play ball. Last November, Cuba’s Dictator Fulgencio Batista visited President Roosevelt. A few days later handsome concessions were announced. This spring Bra zil’s Foreign Minister Oswaldo Arahna came a-visiting, also win ning concessions. Next came Nica ragua’s President-Dictator Anasta- sio Somoza, who went away with $2,000,000 in credits. A few days later from far-away Santiago, came the announcement that a dhilean economic commission will visit Washington in July seeking a loan and commercial credits. Far from being gifts, however, U. S. finan cial arrangements with Pan-Ameri can nations decrease American de pendency on European and Asiatic nations and often provide new out lets for domestic surpluses. NAVY: Statistics Significant and fearsome is a U. S. peacetime naval construction pro gram bigger than any in history. With a $773,000,000 building appro priation on its hands, with 74 ves sels already underway, and with 23 new contracts about to be let, the fleet’s current status is something like this: Type of In eor\- Under con- Approprf. Vessel mission straction nted lor BatUeshlpe 15 8 2 Heavy Crulieri 17 1 0 Light Cruisers .. 17 6 2 Aircraft Carriers 5 2 0 Destroyers ....218 35 8 Submarines .... 87 12 8 Auxiliary •••...107........12..........3 Primary emphasis in the new pro gram will be on capital ships, 15 such battlewagons already being in service. On the way are two more, the 35,000-ton North Carolina and Washington. About to be started are the South Dakota, Indiana, Massa chusetts and Alabama. Two more, 45,000-tonners and larger than any thing afloat, will be started under current appropriations. None of the eight battleships will be ready be fore 1945 or 1946. COMING UP JUNE 15—Justice Edgar J. Lauer of New York Supreme court, whose wife was convicted and sentenced for smuggling, to resign. JUNE 15 — Semi-annual war debt payments due. Last Decem ber 14, of 13 governments owing $2,051,707,241 (of which $1,891,- 489,906 was in arrears), only Fin land paid in full as usual, $232,- 935. Hungary made part pay ment of $9,828.16. JUNE 17—Commander Donald B. MacMillan to sail from Booth- bay Harbor, Maine, on eighteenth scientific expedition into arctic. JUNE 23—Paul V. McNutt, U. S. high commissioner to Philip pines and former Indiana gover nor, to arrive at San Francisco and open campaign for Demo cratic presidential nomination. ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI “Assassin of the Nile’ 9 H ello, everybody: You know, boys and girls, I have often said that you’ll find adventure close to home a darned sight easier than you will roaming the world. One who goes traveling in search of thrills usually doesn’t find any until he gets back into his own bailiwick again. But there are exceptions to every rule—and here’s one of them. George C. Dorste of Bardonia, Rockland county, N. Y., met his biggest thrill when he was thousands of miles away from home and in a strange exotic country. The country was Egypt, and George landed there in the course of his travels as a fireman on a tramp steamer. The steam er was carrying scrap iron, unloading it in consignments of vari ous sizes at ports along the Nile river and its many branches. The year was 1912, and the ship had traveled part way up the Nile and was anchored in the river just south of the town of Medinet El Faiyum. The ship was anchored not far from a pier. The weather is pretty hot in Egypt. In the afternoon, particularly, the sun beats down with such intensity that it is next to im possible for anybody but a native to do any work. It was at the height of the hot season, and the crew of the steamer, dripping sweat from every pore of their bodies, were just about all in. Along in the afternoon the skipper gave orders for all hands to knock off work for the rest of the day. The men didn’t argue about that. Most of them just walked to the shadiest spot they could find on that hot ship, flopped on the deck and rested. But there were a half dozen young fellows— George among them—who had a better idea. They stripped off their clothes and dived over the side into the water. The Hot Sun Beat Down on the Hull of the Vessel. Hie water was cool and refreshing. Those lads were in it, off and on, for the better part of the afternoon. They came out, now and then, for a breathing spell on the ship’s deck, but the A great reptile was between him and the ship—and not more than 20 feet from him. sun beating down on the iron hull of the vessel made it so hot that they were glad to get back in the water again. The afternoon hvore on and the sun began sinking toward the horizon. As its scorching rays withdrew little by little, the day became cooler. One by one the swimmers climbed back aboard the steamer and stayed there. Finally all of them were Out of the water except one. And that one man was George Dorste. George loved the water and he hated to leave it. He was swimming some distance away from the ship’s side, and about half-way between it and the pier. As he splashed about in the river he heard a voice calling on shore'and, looking ftp, saw a native standing on the pier. The native was shouting to George, but in a language he didn’t understand. Then suddenly he began to point toward the ship. George could figure out only one reason for that pointing. He im mediately jumped to the conclusion that someone aboard had dropped something over the side and wanted him to retrieve it. He turned and swam slowly toward the ship. The n^ive on the pier kept right on yelling, but George paid no attention. And then, suddenly, he saw it—a thing that looked like a log floating in the water, but a log that had a rough wrinkled snout and a pair of glassy eyes just showing above the surface! The Pier Was a Great Distance Away. A crocodile! The great reptile was between him and the ship—and not more than 20 feet away from him. A shudder went through George’s body when he saw it. He turned and began swimming toward the pier. But the pier was a great distance away—or at least, so it seemed to George. He knew that beast could catch up to him in less time than it takes to tell the story. He was swimming as fast as he could—exhausting himself in a spurt for the pier. And the crocodile was following along behind. It seemed to George that the great reptile never approached any closer than that original 20 feet—the distance that had separated them when he turned toward the pier. Was the beast playing with him, as a cat would with a mouse? Or was it waiting until George had exhausted himself in his swim toward shore before those cruel jaws opened and closed over him? Still swimming frantically, he reached the pier. And then another terrifying discovery greeted him. As he made frenzied efforts to climb up the poles that supported the pier, he found that he couldn’t. Those polls were covered with a slippery moss. He could make no headway up them. And all the time, now, the crocodile was coming closer, swimming slowly toward what it knew must inevitably furnish it its eventug meal. He Scraped and Clawed at the Moss-Covered Piles. By now, George was mad with terror. He was still clawing and scraping frantically at those smooth, moss-covered piles when the native on the dock came to his rescue. Suddenly, the native picked up a huge piece of scrap iron from a pile on the dock, and hurled it at the swimming crocodile. The piece missed. The native threw another—and that one found its mark. It hit the beast on the snout, and it dived beneath the surfaced By that time a boat had been launched from the ship. It came tearing across the water as George’s shipmates pulled hard on the oars. It reached George a few seconds after the crocodile had gone down. “As they pulled me out of the water,” George says, “I lost con sciousness for a minute or two. But I came back to life before the boat had reached the ship—in time to see the steely eyes of the crocodile which had reappeared once more. It was following along, not more than 10 feet behind the boat.” And George says that if he’d had a gun then, it would have given him the greatest pleasure to aim it right between those two glassy eyes and pull the trigger. Western Newspaper Union.) Wildlife Federation Works The National Wildlife federation reports a steady increase in laws protecting America’s most popular game fish, the black bass. In all but five states, there is a closed season on the small-mouth and large-mouth bass. Thirty-eight states prohibit the sale of black bass. In 1937 a federal law was enacted prohibiting the interstate shipment of black bass illegally caught. A vote in all of the states gave the bass first place as the snortsman’s choice among 1939 to Protect the Black Bass Wildlife Week stamps. It is point ed out that black bass do not spawn until water conditions are suitable, and that the male bass guards the nest until the spawn hatch. While the nest is guarded, the male fish is in poor condition, is easily caught, and his capture means the destruc tion of the eggs. Full protection until the spawn is hatched is highly necessary to the welfare of the vari ous members of the bass family, which includes bluegills, crappy, sunfish and rockbass IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Dean at The Moody Bible 7 ' Institute (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) of Chicago. - i Nei Lesson for June 11 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. PAUL SOLVES CHURCH PROBLEMS LESSON TEXT—I Corinthians 1:1-3, 10. 11; 4:14-21; I Thessalonlans 5:12-15. GOLDEN TEXT—Only let your conversa tion be as It becometh the gospel of Christ. —Phillpplans 1:27. Victory over the destructive pow ers of sickness is achieved by an orderly attack of the problem. The doctor first makes a study of the condition of his patient, observing not only the outward symptoms, but the general condition of the body. He proceeds to isolate and identify the evil forces which are causing the disease, and then he is ready to apply his curative remedies and procedures. The Church is sick today even as it was in Paul’s day. We are in need of the sound advice aqd the effective example of “Doctor Paul” and .'yerefore do well to apply to ourselves and to our churches the lesson of today. As we do this hon estly we may find in ourselves that which is making our own church VTak and ineffective. Let us apply the cure even though the process of healing may be a painful one. I. The Condition. ' What’s wrong with the Church? The excerpts from the ^letters of Paul which make up our lesson re veal three fundamental difficulties which exist in essentially the same form today. 1. False Teachers (Gal. 3). This passage is a part of our lesson al though not included in the printed portion. It tells us of Paul’s mas terly dealing with false teachers. Erroneous teaching and the substi tution of the philosophies of men for the Word of God are respon sible for much of the trouble in the Church. It is decidedly not a mat ter of indifference what your pastor teaches, what your Sunday School lesson helps teach, and what your Sunday School teachers present to their classes. 2. Divisions (I Cor. 1:10). Some times these occur over doctrine, sometimes over church procedure, but all too often over the most in significant things. Frequently they center around personal likes and dislikes. Cliques and little closed groups have no place in the Church. Man-worship in place of the worship of God will also wreck a church. 3. Contentions (I Cor. 1:11). For some unexplainable reason the peo ple who love a fight seem to want to do their fighting in the Church. II. The Cause. The internal troubles of the Church cannot be blamed on its tes timony or on its responsibility in the world, and certainly not on its Lord. The real cause of the Church’s problems will be found in men and women who are not living as they should. 1. The Contentious (I Cor. 1:11). These are the fighters. 2. The Puffed Up (I Cor. 4:18). They have an exaggerated idea of their own importance. 3. The Disorderly (I Thess. 4:14). Unruly and erratic folk trouble the Church. 4. The Faint-Hearted (I Thess. 5: 14, R. V.). Timid and uncertain in dividuals limit and hinder God’a work. 5. The Weak (I Thess. 5:14). They are feeble in spiritual insight and power. III. The Cure. Diagnosis and location of the cause of a disease is practically use less unless a course of treatment is carried out. Consider the steps in the treatment of the sickness of the Church and then apply the remedy. 1. Remember that it is a “church of God” (I Cor. 1:2). 2. Recall and follow the true teaching of God’s Word (I Cor. 4: 17). 3. Receive grace and peace from the Father and the Son (I Cor. 1:3). 4. Recognize those appointed by the Lord to be over the church as leaders and teachers (I Thess. 5:12- 16). 5. Be ashamed of ungodly mis behavior (I Cor. 4:14). 6. Deal plainly with sin and dis order (I Cor. 4:21). The knife of the surgeon ‘may cause pain but it is often the ytay to healing. 7. Warn those who are unruly (I Thess. 5:14). The word of spiritual admonition is too often lacking in the church. 8. Comfort and encourage the fainthearted (I Thess. 5:14). Un regenerate man has no patience with such folk, but God does. A note of encouragement needs to be stressed in these trying days. 9. Be patient toward all men (I Thess. 5:15). If you feel that you must be impatient, be impatient with your own faults. Patience is a Christian virtue which has almost been lost in the dizzy, high-pressure age in which we live. Let ua cultivate it both in the church am’ in the hearts of believers. WotV-P Impossible Aunt Martha went to a sports meeting for the first time. The pistol went off, and the men sprinted. Aunt Martha turned to her neph ew—And do these men really think they can catch up with that bullet? At His Post The taxi was going very slowly and the passenger was in a hurry. “I say,” he shouted, “can’t you go any faster?” “Course I can,” came the re tort; “but I ain’t allowed to leave the taxi.” SKIMMING THE SURFACE Great Fortune To be reconciled unto God, to pos sess God’s favor and triendship, to be at peace with God, is the great est fortune, bliss and happiness a human being can find on earth. “Beauty is skin deep.” “That’s enough. Nobody wants an X-ray photograph of his sweet heart’s physiognomy.” Goes Without Saying Sergeant—If anything moves, you shoot. Sentry—Yes, sir. And if any thing shoots, I move. Rejected Suitor—No, no, Joan, don’t give me back the ring. After all, what’s $6.75 to a man with a broken heart. Or Wash' Your Face? Teacher—Remember, Jimmy, a job done well never wants doing again. Jimmy—Did you ever mow a lawn? Not to Blame “Darling,” said the young hus band, “what a peculiar flavor this stewed steak has!” “I really cannot account for it,” replied his wife. “Indeed, in or der to take away the unpleasant taste of the onions I scalded them in eau-de-Cologne.” NAUBIAI If you are run-down and “nd good" due to Malaria, try Winter- smith’s Tonic! Thousands of people all over the South “swear by it’’— millions at people, for over 70 years, have said it’s the thing for Malaria. ... The small bottle costs only 50 cents—yet may convince you that it’s what you need. TRY Wintersmith’s. That’s all we ask. 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