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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C- FRIDAY. JUNE 23, 1939
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE
Zealous Czechs Plan Rebellion
Against German Domination;
Nazis Puzzle Combat Strategy
(EDITOR’S NOTE—When opinions ore expressed in these columns, they
are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
by Western Newspaper Union. '
CZECHOSLOVAKIA:
Rebellion
Last March Adolf Hitler marched
into Prague while stolid Czechs
lined the streets and booed hateful
ly. Unnoticed were thousands of
Bohemians and Moravians who
slipped silently across the, borders.
Unconsidered were 12 Czech lega
tions and some 70 consulates'which
remained open throughout the world
in defiance of German orders. For
gotten was the national assembly’s
failure to dissolve. These things
might well have remained unnoticed,
unconsidered and forgotten were it
not for the indomitable Czech will.
Symbolically, a few days after
Nazi occupation, spiteful Czechs
painted on a rock overlooking
Prague: “We don’t want Jrour pfen
nigs! We wffat Benes!” The ref
erence fcas to Eduard Benes, co-
founder of the Czech republic 25
years ago with immortalized Thom
as G. Masaryk; later the nation’s
president until he resigned after the
Munich crisis; now a lecturer at the
University of Chicago who wonders
if the Czech saga will repeat itself.
Recalled today is Czecho-Slo-
vakia’s constitution, written in Chi
cago, and its declaration of inde-
BARON VON NEURATB
The question: To slap or pat?
pendence, adopted in Philadelphia.
Bom first outside its own borders
by idealistic exiles, will Thomas
Masaryk’s land be re-born in Chi
cago?
Three months after Czecho
slovakia fell, ‘ such a development
seemed possible. At Prague, Ger
man Konstantin von Neurath lost
sleep over a maddening passive re
sistance on the part of his sub
jects. Rushing to Berlin, he con
sulted with Fuehrer Hitler over two
methods of fighting back. Germany
could either dominate Bohemia and
Moravia by force, or try to recon
cile the Czechs by encouraging
more intimate cultural and political
relations with Germany.
What he cannot reconcile, how
ever, is the patriotic fervor of
Czechs outside the Reich. In
France are a reported 30,000 exiles
waiting to enlist for The Cause.
Other thousands are in Poland,
planning a swift military seizure of
Bohemia-Moravia should Germany
become involved in war.
At her consulates and legations
the defunct Czech government main
tains a semblance of official contact
with other lands, an advantage not
possessed during the first nationalis
tic struggle. And from Chicago Dr.
Benes is directing a world-wide
mobilization of Czech moral and
financial support, carefully avoiding
open commitments which would
“add to the difficulties of the (U.
S.) President and department of
state.”
DOMESTIC:
Income
President Roosevelt’s goal for to
tal U. S. income is $80,000,000,000 a
year, which critics say would not
necessarily guarantee prosperity
since living costs might rise corre
spondingly. In 1929 the national
income was $82,000,000,000, by 1932
it had dropped to $40,000,000,000,
and returning prosperity brought it
to $72,000,000,000 in 1937. Just re
leased is the figure for 1938, showing
an 11 per cent drop to $64,000,000,-
000.
Best explanation of the drop, said
Secretary of Commerce Harry Hop
kins, was declining prices, coupled
with reduced volume of production.
More significant, however, were
1938’s results of 1937’s capital-labor
battle, during which John Lewis’ C.
I. O. squeezed out higher salaries
and expanded unionism. Net result:
Labor gained and capital lost.
One index was the fact that com
pensation to employees for 1938
was off only 7 per cent from the
previous year, while dividend pay
ments to stockholders in corpora
tions dropped approximately one-
third from the $5,400,000,000 level
of 1937. An even better index, how
ever, was that income distribution
in wages set a new high mark of
67.3 per cent in 1938.
Another significant feature:
The construction industry, which
has suffered severely since 1929,
showed very little decline in
1938, indicating that U. S. housing
requirements have reached so criti
cal a stage that not even recessioq
can stop new building.
AGRICULTURE:
New Uses
One major reason for today’s
U. S. crop surpluses was the World
war. Then, and before, both the
agriculture department and farm
ers bent their energies to establish
ing a production level that would
accommodate an export market
which annually took from 150 to 200
million bushels of wheat, eight to
nine million bales of cotton, al
most a billion pounds of pork, plus
large quantities of tobacco and fruit.
Since then three factors have con
spired to upset farm economy. First,
U. S. export requirements were cut
drastically as other nations became
self-sufficient; second, agriculture
became mechanized, cutting farm
employment and making it easier
to raise large crops; third, unscien
tifically tilled land “burned out”
from too much repetition of the
same crop.
No cure-all, but an encouraging
move in the right direction will be
underway by next summer when
four regional laboratories begin
seeking ways to make the farm a
source of raw materials for fac
tories. Authorized by congress and
operating under the department of
agriculture will be laboratories at:
Peoria, HI., researching on com,
wheat and agricultural wastes,
much of which is already used for
such purposes as industrial alcohol.
New Orleans, where new uses will
be sought for cotton, sweet pota
toes and peanuts.
Wyndmoor, Pa., centering its ac
tivities on tobacco, milk products,
apples, Irish potatoes and vege
tables.
San Francisco, studying wheat,
potatoes, alfalfa, vegetables and
fruits.
COURTS:
Offsetting Factor
Vacationing from their Washing
ton temple nowadays are the Su
preme court’s nine young and old
men, as unique a mixture of legal
talent as ever donned the traditional
black robes. Abed with a doudenal
ulcer is Chief Justice Hughes; visit
ing his old Kentucky home is Jus
tice McReynolds; still in Washing
ton, close to such friends as SEC’s
Jerome Frank and Brain Truster
Tommy Corcoran is the court’s
youngest and most un-traditional
member, 44-year-old Bill Douglas.
Gldating, meanwhile, is Solicitor
General Robert H. Jackson, whom
observers credit with winning 12 out
of 14 bouts with the high bench this
past term. Yet in retrospect the
session just ended was neither a
capitulation by the Supreme court
ROBERT JACKSON
Victorious, but not too muck.
nor a victory for the New Deal. A
better guess is that the once noto
rious poles of court conservatism
and New Deal liberalism have
grown less far apart.
Four Roosevelt appointees (Black,
Reed, Frankfurter, and Douglas)
have given the court liberalized col
or and today only two conservatives
(Butler and McReynolds) remain.
Middle-grounders are Hughes, Stone
and Roberts, and Mr. Jackson had
to convince only one of these to
assure victory in any given case.
Yet, paradoxically, the recent term
brought a new high in dissents and
divisions of opinions, a condition
which proves that New Dealish jus
tices have merely added zest to
court arguments, and that they have
not yet settled into a rut which per
mits observers to classify them in
advance.
While the court grows more lib
eral, an important offsetting factor
too often overlooked is the lesson
Mr. Roosevelt’s administration
learned through disastrous defeats
of the past. Today’s legislation is
drafted more carefully and with
greater respect for constitutional
precedent.
POLITICS:
Plan?
Whatever his reasoning, Presi
dent Roosevelt has shown political
wisdom in refusing to announce his
intentions for 1940. But campaigns
and conventions must eventually
settle the Democratic party’s polit
ical stew, and by early June cam
paign time was so near that third-
term talk was definitely in the pic
ture. Enough other Democrats had
talked to give the voting public their
choice of two probable reasons why
the White House continued to re
main silent:
Resolution. West Virginia’s Sen.
Rush D. Holt began demanding th»t
the senate vote on his resolution for
bidding a third term. Until that
vote was made, Mr. Roosevelt could
hardly be expected to declare him
self; if the resolution were passed
after he announced his candidacy,
the President would go down in
history as a villain, not a hero.
Contrariwise, if the resolution were
rejected, Mr. Roosevelt knew the
public would regard the rejection
as a vote of confidence from the sen
ate, thus paving the way for renomi
nation.
Confusion. Far more pertinent,
however, is another reason. While
Mr. Roosevelt keeps quiet, all other
Democratic hopefuls are scrambling
into the exciting political dogfight,
knifing each other in a way that can
never bring party harmony.
First (and best liked) hopeful to
speak was Vice President John N.
Garner, whose friends announced i*e
would be “available.” Within 48
hours he was pounced on by: (1)
Secretary of the Interior Harold L.
Ickes, who caUed him by inference
a “know nothing, say nothing, do
nothing”; (2) Workers Alliance,
whiqfi adopted a resolution con
demning Mr. Gamer as represent^
tag a poverty-stricken mass of peo
ple; (3) San Antonio’s Mayor Maury
Maverick, former congressman,
who objected chiefly to Mr.’ Gar
ner’s age (70).
Meanwhile Secretary of Agricul
ture Henry Wallace had his name
added to a list of second choices
already cluttered with those of Post
master General James A. Farley,
Indiana’s former Gov. Paul V. Mc
Nutt and aging Secretary of State
Cordell Hull, who has long been
mentioned as a possibility.
Immediate result was probably
just what the President wanted, a
recognition by many Democrats
that the Garner-Hull-Farley-Wal-
lace-McNutt candidacies merely pro
duced an utter confusion which
could have but one logical solution
at convention time: Junk them all
and nominate Franklin Roosevelt
again.
If this was not the case, observers
at least saw something significant
in Mr. Ickes’ article in Look maga
zine, in which he plumped for a
third term. Extremely close to the
White House, the vitriolic secretary
of the interior was not likely to
make such a statement unless he
knew the President was at least
toying with the idea of running
again.
FAIRS:
Attendance
Closer to large populations. New
York’s World’s fair would naturally
draw larger attendance than its ri
val at San Francisco. By June 1,
after running 3% months, the Gold
en Gate exposition reported attend
ance of 3,284,329. In - one month,
from April 30 to June 1. New York’s
turnstiles spun to the tune of 5,594,-
770.
More interesting to executives of
both fairs was the source of at
tendance, for local visitors add little
to the prosperity of either San Fran
cisco or New York. At the Golden
Gate, a checkup of parking lots re
vealed 85 per cent of visitors were
from California. Of out-of-state vis
itors, 55 per cent came from nearby
Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Ne
vada, etc.
Closest comparable estimate at
New York came from the Goodrich
exhibit, which offered replica auto
tags to the estimated 20 per cent
total attendance which visited the
Transportation area. Judging from
auto tag sales, 49 per cent of the
fair’s visitors were from New York.
Others: New Jersey, 15 per cent;
Pennsylvania, 6.5 per cent; Massa
chusetts, 4.5 per cent; Connecticut,
4.5 per cent. Only states not regis
tered on June 1: North and South
Dakota.
Though both surveys showed ear
ly attendance was localized, both
fairs also predicted mid-summer
vacation season would bring visi
tors from afar.
STRAWBERRY-WHIPPED-CREAM ICE
Se« Recipe Below.
Cold, Frosty and Delicious
Do you remember how, as a child,
a party just wasn’t a party unless
you had ice cream? Do such child
hood memories even now create lit
tle appetite longings for that frosty,
flavorsome dish—longings that send
you hurrying to the kitchen to make
up a batch of your own favorite
frozen dessert?
Homemade ice creams and sher
bets are more popular than ever
now that effi
cient modern ice
cream freezers
make quick work
of their prepara
tion. (You can
freeze smooth,
velvety sherbets
and ice cream in
5 to 10 minutes
flat!) And when the advent of torrid
weather calls for something special
to encourage appetites made indif
ferent by .the' onslaught of heat
waves, these delicious treats come
into their own!
Here are some simple hints on
making freezer ice creams with a
collection of brand new recipes for
cool, refreshing, frozen desserts—
recipes which I’ve tested in my own
kitchen and found to be as practical
as they are appealing:
Hints on Making lee Cream Freezer
lee Cream.
1. Follow directions in the recipe.
2. Scald freezing container, dasher
and cover before using.
3. Crush or crack the ice finely.
4. Fill freezing container only %
full of ice cream mixture, to allow
for expansion.
5. Cover tightly.
6. Adjust the dasher so that the
handle turns easily and smoothly.
7. Use three parts crushed ice to
one part rock salt, arranging in al
ternate layers.
8. Turn the crank slowly and
steadily until turning becomes dif
ficult.
9. When the mixture is frozen (5
to 10 minutes, with a modern ice
cream freezer), wipe around the top
of the container with a cloth, and
remove cover carefully, so that no
ice or salt falls into the mixture.
10. Remove the dasher, and pack
down the cream with a spoon.
11. Replace the cover, and drain
off the water from the freezer.
12. Repack with ice and salt. Cover
with burlap bag or heavy paper,
and allow to “ripen” for about an
hour before serving.
Peppermint Candy Ice Cream.
% pound peppermint stick candy
1 quart thin cream
Break the stick candy into pieces.
Pour the cream over the candy and
place in the re
frigerator over
night. Then pour
the mixture into
the freezing well
of an ice cream
freezer, pack
with three parts
crushed ice to one part rock salt,
and freeze.
Strawberry or Raspberry Preserves
Ice Cream.
(Serves 5-6)
1 pint coffee cream
V« teaspoon salt
1 cup strawberry or raspberry
preserves
Combine all the ingredients and
pour the mixture into the freezing
container of a modern ice cream
freezer. Assemble the freezer and
cover. Pack with ice and salt, using
three parts crushed ice to one part
rock salt.' Freeze.
Buttermilk Ice Cream.
(Makes about 1% quarts)
3 cups buttermilk
1 cup crushed pineapple
% cup sugar
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1 egg white (stiffly beaten)
Combine the buttermilk, pineap
ple, sugar and lemon juice. Fold
in the stiffly beaten egg white, and
pour into freezing container of ice
cream freezer. Assemble the freez
er and cover. Pack with a mixture
of three parts crushed ice and one
part rock salt. Freeze.
Cream-Less Ice Cream.
(Makes 2 quarts)
% cup sugar
4 tablespoons flour
1 quart milk (scalded)
2 eggs (beaten separately)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
V< teaspoon salt
Combine sugar and flour and
blend with scalded milk; then cook
over low flame, stirring constantly,
until mixture thickens. Remove
from flame and pour three table
spoons of the mixture over beaten
egg yolks. Blend thoroughly, then
add to custard mixture, together
with salt and vanilla extract. Chill.
Pour mixture into freezing contain
er of modem ice cream freezer.
Pour the stiffly beaten egg whites
over and then assemble the freezer
and cover. Pack with mixture of
three parts crushed ice and one part
rock salt. Freeze. Li
Strawberry Whipped Cream Ice.
(Serves 6)
1 quart strawberries
2 cups sugar
Vs cup lemon juice
1 pint cold water
1 cup whipped cream sweetened
with 1 tablespoon confectioners’
sugar
Mash the berries, add the sugar
and lemon juice, and let stand for
about an hour.
Add the water,
and pour the mix
ture into the
freezing contain
er of an ice
cream freezer.
Assemble the
freezer and cov
er. Pack with a
mixture of three parts crushed ice
and one part rock salt. Turn the
crank slowly and steadily until the
mixture thickens (about five min
utes). Carefully remove the cover
and the dasher, fill the hollow with
sweetened whipped cTeam, cover
with wax paper, replace the cover
and repack with ice and salt. Let
stand for about three hours before
serving.
Lemon Cream Sherbet.
(Makes about 2 quarts)
Vt cup lemon rind (grated)
1 cup cold water
1 cup lemon juice
4 cups sugar
2 eggs (beaten)
5 cups milk
2 cups heavy cream
Put the freshly grated lemon rind
in a saucepan with the cold water.
Bring to a boil and strata. To the
liquid add the lemon juice and the
sugar. Stir well. Beat eggs and to
them add the milk and cream. As
semble the freezer and pack with
ice and salt. When the freezer is
ready, combine the two mixtures for
the ice cream, pouring the fruit mix
ture slowly into the milk and cream.
Stir quickly, pour into the freezing
container, cover and freeze.
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PAUL REVIEWS HIS LIFE
LESSON TEXT—PhUippUns 1:12-14. 21-
*4; 3:12-14; D Timothy 4:7. 8.
GOLDEN TEXT—I have fought a food
fight. I have finished my course. I have
kept the faith.—H Timothy 4:7.
Self-examination may be a most
profitable experience if carried out
in the right spirit and for a good
purpose. It may be very hum
bling to look at one’s experiences
and accomplishments in honest ap
praisal, but the very humility which
is thus brought about may be the
first step toward better things and
may prove to be a real means of
blessing.
Paul, whose life we have been
studying together for the last three
months, made a review of his own
life and experience in various places
in his epistles. We cannot study
them all, but in the brief portions
before us we find that the apostle
had laid hold of those certainties
without which life is largely mean
ingless and useless. He had found
victory over both himself and his
circumstances. He was perfectly
clear about his eternal destiny. He
had a goal toward which his life
was directed in earnest endeavor,
and he had in view the reward
which was to be his when he met
his God. What an excellent oppor
tunity we have to bring out the truth
.as related to ourselves on this com
ing Lord’s Day.
I. Living Above Circumstances
(Phil. 1:12-14).
Paul had been imprisoned for the
gospel’s sake. Did that stop him?
No, for he made the very guards
who were assigned to catch him
at his house the objects ox his min
istry and they, in turn, became mis
sionaries of the cross. He sought
to win each one as he took his des
ignated period of guard service and
then sent him out as a testimony to
“the whole Praetorian guard and to
all the rest” (v. 13, R. V.>. What
a consistent and glowing Christian
life Paul must have lived day by
day.
Not only were some of his Chris
tian brethren encouraged by his ex
ample to preach the gospel, but we
note in verse 15 that others, taking
advantage of the fact that Paul was
in prison, went out to preach just
to show t’ _at they were as good as
be, making their very preaching
an expression of their envy of his
popularity. Paul showed victory
over circumstances by thanking
God that the gospel was preached,
even though it was done in a wrong
spirit.
H. Facing Eternity With Joy
(PhiL 1:21, 24).
To Paul, departure from this life
would mean his entering into per
fect fellowship with Christ and un
limited service lor Him. He there
fore had a strong desire to depart
and to be with the Lord. He would
not, however, turn away from his
present privilege and duty. If it
was God’s will that he should abide
in the flesh, he purposed that it
should be literally true of him that
to live is Christ. If that be true in
s man’s life, then it must neces
sarily follow that to die is gain. The
reason men fear death is that in
place of saying “to live is Christ,”
they say “to live is money,” “posi
tion,” “pleasure,” or even "sin.”
III. Pressing Toward the Goal
(Phil. 3:12-14).
These are the words of the man
who pci sibly was the greatest Chris
tian and Christian worker of all
time. Was he satisfied with him
self? No, the Spirit of Christ in
him and the vision of the goal which
he had not yet attained made hinn
press on.
The spiritually minded Christian
has no word of commendation for
past success, he gives Christ the
glory. He does not permit past
failures to hold him back, for they
have been put under the blood. He
is not content merely to hold his
own, for he knows that to stand still
is to go back. Christian friends,
let us by God’s blessing and grace
take a forward step today, and to
morrow, and the day after, that we
may, like Paul, press on toward the
goal to the prize of the high calling
of God in Christ Jesus.
Scripture speaks frequently of the
reward which shall come to the
faithful Christian at the close of a
life of holiness and service for
Christ. It is no doubt commend
able that Christians do not often
speak of their reward, for it should
be true of every servant of Christ
that the love of Christ should con
strain him. On the other hand, it
is important that we keep before us
the fact that at the end of the road
there is recognition by “the Lord,
the righteous Judge,” and that we
may properly look forward to the
receiving of the crown of righteous
ness from His hand. The life of
the Christian has glorious meaning
from beginning to end, yes, and on
through all eternity!
Christ’s Power
One of the undeniable miracles of
Christian history is the mystic pow
er of the disciples of Christ to re
main faithful to Him in spite of all
possible temptations to desert the
faith
Mexican Tea Towels
A Full Life
I fear not death; I fear only not
having lived enough.—Zoroaster.
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Clear Conscience
A good conscience is a soft pil-
ow.—German Proverb.
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Kind words are the music of the
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One’s Task
A man’s task is his life-pre
server.
Sentinels
of Health
Don’t Neglect Them l
Nature designed the kidneys to do a
marvelous job. Their teak is to keep the
flowing blood stream free of an excess of
toxic impuritiec. The act of living—lift
itself—is constantly producing waste
matter the kidneys must remove from
the blood if good health is to endure.
When the kidneye fail to function as
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waste that may cause body-wide dis
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