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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C- FRIDAY. AUGUST 4, 1939 U. S.-Argentina Trade Revived With New Automobile Shipments Twins—Five Sets of ’Em-i—Amaze New Yorkers South American Republic Orders Vehicles Valued at $3,000,000. Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.—WNU Service. Recently restricted trade relations between the United States and Ar gentina have taken another turn, ac cording to dispatches from Buenos Aires, indicating that Uncle Sam is about to sell more pleasure cars and trucks to the South American coun try. Under a new agreement with the Argentine government, U. S. auto and truck concerns are report ed to have signed up for more than $3,000,000 worth of Argentine treas ury notes in return for permission to export cars and trucks to Argen tina in an equivalent amount. Argentina is usually one of Uncle Sam’s best customers in the auto motive field. In the first three months of this year, however, a sharply curtailed quota on United States cars, together with other trade restrictions, resulted in a drop of nearly 50 per cent in all U. S. exports to the Argentine. Trade Balance Upset. In the first quarter of 1938, the United States sold Argentina a bill of goods amounting to more than $24,000,000; but in the correspond ing period of 1939 U. S. exports amounted to less than 12% million dollars. Imports of Argentine prod ucts to the United States, on the other hand, went up from about 12% million dollars for the first quarter of 1938 to something over $18,000,000 this year. These figures show a reversal of the previous trade situation between the United States and 'Argentina. For in 1938 Argentina bought from the United States more than twice as much as she sold here—a con dition attributed then to heavy Ar gentine purchases of machinery and vehicles. In addition to automobiles, trucks, and farm implements, Argentina normally takes from Uncle Sam im portant shipments of American mo tion picture films, steel, chemicals, office equipment, and building ma terials. In return she sells chiefly linseed, wool, casein, hides, corn, quebracho logs, and preserved meats. Competitors in World Markets. A constant and important feature of economic relations between the United States and Argentina is the fact that they both raise for ex port many of the same products— for example, wheat and corn, beef and mutton, hides and wool. The United States itself provided much of Argentina’s tools and fa cilities for the large-scale production that was to make her in time a serious competitor in world mar kets. From the industrial plants of the north came plows, seeders, har vesters and tractors, together with forests of windmills that now rise from one end of the Argentine plains to the other, pumping up life-giving wa.er for the herds, for small towns, for plantation crops, gardens, and shrubbery. American packing com panies moved down to fatten cattle on their own ranches. Seed wheat from Kansas was even exported, to be turned later into still more com petition in the world grain markets. Foreign Capital Built Railroads. Foreign capital, also exported to Argentina, brought the railways, over which the products of the vast, flat and fertile fields are now raced to port and thence to market over seas. With millions of yards of imported wire, the great feudal-like estates of the Argentine pampas were fenced in. Settlers came, mostly Italians, Spaniards, Englishmen and Irish men, with a sprinkling of Poles, Germans, Syrians, and others. Prize bulls and blooded stock replaced the wild herds that once roamed these Texaslike plains that stretch for more than a million square miles east of the southern Andes. A live stock census gave Argentina in 1937 a cattle population of 33,000,000 head; some 44,000,000 sheep. Packing plants, grain elevators, and huge refrigeration systems came into being. Today Argentina has the world’s largest refrigerating plant. She exports more beef than any other country, most of it going to Great Britain. She supplies over two-thirds of the world’s linseed and more than half of its corn. In wheat export, she ranks after Canada; in shipments of lamb and mutton, aft er New Zealand and Australia. The commercial heart of the na- IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for August 6 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. HEADED SOUTH. Pictured here is a shipment of passenger automobiles awaiting shipment for _ Argentina Recent trade neivs in- Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fifield of East Thompson, Conn., shown with 11 of their 13 children, including five dicates tha/the South American f eis t T ins ’^ ^edin* New York restaurant. New Yorkers were as much amazed at the sheer num- . , w ber of the children as the children were of the city’s skyscrapers. The youngest set of twins, branklin Del- re pub tic is prepared to pure a . ano an(J jr] eallor Roosevelt, are only two years old, The oldest child, Marguerite, 13, is seated next to her U. b. cars valued at more than mother at the head of the table. Two of the children including an infant son, are not shown. three million dollars. tion and most important port of South America, Buenos Aires has some 60 banking institutions, includ ing foreign branch-banks of the United States, Great Britain, Ger many, Italy, Spain, Canada, and the Netherlands. With its wide avenues, parks, and swimming pools, its packing plants, smart shops, tall buildings, slums and show places, it has been variously called the “Chi cago,” “Los Angeles,” and “Paris” of South America. ‘Heaven’ Can Wait—If Newport Has Its Way New Hungary Strives for World Power Prepared by National Ge of raphlc VNU Sen Society, Washington. D. C.—WNU "Service. Hungary’s first secret ballot in nearly 20 years—resulting in a strong government majority as well as increased Nazi representation in parliament—calls attenti ,.i to a na tion which has seen three opposing forms of government in little more than two decades. Revolution immediately after the World war changed Hungary from a monarchy into a republic. This was followed soon after, in 1919, by the establishment of a Soviet state, which gave way, in 1920, before counter-revolution which brought back the status of monarchy. In the absence of a king, Hun gary since then has been ruled by a regent. An admiral without a fleet. REGENT. Nicholas Horthy, ad miral without a fleet, runs a king dom without a king. Since 1920 Hungary has been ruled by this type of government. this regent, Nicholas Horthy, runs a country without a seacoast and a kingdom without a king. He also is the head of a nation which is without a large section oi its previous territory and popula tion. Dislike Peace Terms. Rebellious at the terms of peace which, lopping off both mountair borders and fertile plrins, cut hex to roughly ore-third of her former area and population, Hungary has since refused to accept the boun daries as final. Hungarian flags fly at half-mast in mourning for the lost territories; window designs, street car posters, restaurant signs, and children’s games show maps ol former Hungary compared with her present reduced state. School exer cises keep the question continually before the young. There have even been stamps, postcards and buttons issued with the Hungarian national slogan, “Will we remain as we are?” answered by the words, “No, No, Never!” With an economy balanced before the World war between timber, min eral, stock, and farm production, Hungary after her reduction becamf almost entirely agricultural. Mrs. Angela C. Kaufman, widow of the multi-millionaire Joseph Kaufman, was recently refused a liquor license by Newport, R. I., officials when she planned on converting her mansion into an exclusive dinner and cocktail place. Then the fireworks started. Mrs. Kaufman created a furore in the ultra-fashionable resort by offering the mansion to “Father” Divine, Negro cult leader, as a “heaven” for his followers. The Negro evangelist accepted the offer, and is completing plans for establishing the new “he?" en.” Left: The Kaufman mansion which will house the Divine flock. Right:, The bar for which Mrs. Kaufman was refused a liquor license. One-Man Submarine Tested in Hudson ..i Barney Connett of Chicago, master and crew of an 11-foot submarine, previous to making a successful test dive in the salt water of the Hudson river in Yonkers, N. Y. Connett, in his homemade sub, has made ap proximately 400 dives, once crossing Lake Michigan under water from Chicago to Michigan City, Ind., a distance of 37 miles. The sub is pow ered by two sets of batteries and has all the usual submarine equipment. Police Close ‘Human Slave Market’ Photographers had to be alert to get this view of America’s most novel matchmaking establishment, “The Human Slave Market,” for immediately after bids got under way. Palisades, N. J., police stepped in and sent six people to jail on the charge of maintaining a nuisance. Here the auctioneer is asking for bids on a young man, an elderly gentleman and a young girl. The idea of the “market” was to offer marriageable subjects on the block. Masquerade Revealed ELIJAH: A LIFE OF COURAGE LESSON TEXT—I Kings 18:30-39. GOLDEN TEXT—The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.—Proverbs 15:29. Involved in a minor traffic mixup, James W. Phipps was taken to a Pasadena, Calif., police station. There a sergeant penetrated the dis guise and revealed “him” as a woman. Twice married, Phipps is the present “husband” of Mrs. Ma bel Phipps, 50. For 23 years Miner va Phipps masqueraded as a man. “His” first wife died in 1928. Caribbean War Chief “Let courage rise with danger.” Such is the plea of Webb’s great hymn, “Stand Up for Jesus.” Chris tianity in our day calls fer cou rageous men and women. Courage should be distinguished from such related things as bravery, valor, or bravado. Bravado is an affectation of a reckless bravery which surely has no place in Chris tian life and activity. Valor is associated with daring and vigorous action, for example, in battle. To be brave means to meet a challenge with confidence and resolution. To be courageous means to steadily meet perils of which one is deeply conscious, doing so because of the call of duty. Courage holds a deep er and nobler meaning than the other words, carrying with it the idea of moral strength and, in the case of the Christian, faith in God as one devoted to His cause. Elijah was courageous, and he stands before our Christian youth to- dry as an example of that godly courage which I. Works in the Open (v. 30). Men whose deeds are evil love the darkness rather than the light. God does not work in the dark. All of His workings are in the open sun light. Every one is welcome to “come near” and see yrhat is done. Elijah knew God and he acted like God’s man. What a tragedy it is that not all of God’s servants have foLowed his example. If we had the open and above-board dealings of Elijah in the affairs of our churches, we might see more of the fire and power of his ministry. Certain it is that the administra tion of church affairs which has to be carried out in hidden comers by whispered conversations and by secret manipulations behind the scenes, is not God’s work at all, it is the work of man. II. Asks No Favors (w. 33-35). Elijah rebuilt^ the altar himself. He asked no help of the unbelieving prophets of Baal or of apostate Is rael. How old-fashioned he seems in this day when so much stress is laid on a false unity of the faiths, and there is so much solicitation and acceptance by the Church of the help of unbelievers in financing the supposed work of God. Note also that Elijah invited his enemies to make the answer to his prayer more difficult by pouring water on the sacrifice. This was not an act of bravado, it was for the purpose of demonstrating that there was no fraud. He was willing that the enemies of the truth should make the derm iStration more dif- , fioult if that would be to God’s glory. There is a delightful old-fashioned flavor about that act, too, in these days when men are frequently will ing to compromise with unbelief and even with sin in order that the work of the Church may be carried on without too much difficulty. Here again we have an explanation of the lack of spiritual power in our times. III. Honors God, Not Man (w. 30-32, 36-37). A man of bravery wants recogni- ; tion for himself, while the coura geous man asks only that the cause for which he fights shall be success- ; ful. Elijah had long since demon- 1 strated that he was absolutely fear less, and sought no favor or glory (read the entire story). Now in the tenseness of this moment, he care fully rebuilds the altar of the true God (v. 30), makes it a testimony of unity to a divided Israel (v. 31), and he does it aH in the name of the Lord (v. 32). His prayer (vv. 36, 37) is a pro foundly simple expression of a com plete faith in the true God and His power on the part of a man who recognized himself as being only the divine servant. He made no plea that God would vindicate him or his ministry, but he did plead that the name of the Lord should be honored in the midst of an unbelieving people. IV. Brings Eternal Results (w. 38 39). “The fire of the Lord fell.” The lying prophets of heathendom were routed. Many recognized Jehovah as the true God. While Israel did not long remember the lesson learned here, the story has contin ued as a testimony that will strengthen the people of God as long as time continues. In God’s Treasury Treat the weakest and the worst with reverence, for, like yourself, they are the temples of the living God. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, Brig. Gen. Edmund L. Daley steps from the amphibian plane provided him by the war department to cover his vast insular territory. Daley is com manding officer of the recently cre ated department of the Caribbean, which includes Puerto Rico, the Vir gin islands and all intervening keys. Abides Forever The world passes away and the lust of it, but he that doeth the will of God abides forever.—I John 2, 17. By burning 25% slower than the average of the 15 other of the largest-selling brands tested—slower than any of them—CAMELS give smok ers the equivalent of Attractive Holiness The holiness of Christ did not awe men away from Him, nor repel them. It inspired them with hope. 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