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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 15. 1939
Sicily Faces New Development
As Result of Italian Program
Large Construction and
Irrigation Projects
Planned.
Prepared by National Geographic Society,
Washington, D. C.—WNU Service.
Next on the list of places for
intensive development by the
Italian government is Sicily. A
new program—to include the
breaking up of big estates, irri
gation projects and large-scale
construction for the future—
suggests that this big island at
the “toe” of the Italian “boot”
is to be prodded into greater
activity and productivity.
Sicily, nearly 10,000 square miles
in extent, is the largest island in
the Mediterranean sea. With a popu
lation of more than 400 persons to
each square mile, it is also one of
the most densely settled regions of
Europe. Yet, it is estimated, less
than 200 families own one-sixth of
the land.
Although on this rugged triangu
lar island more than 4,000,000 peo
ple live, because of large estates
and the old system of absentee own
ership, travelers see few farm
houses. Most Sicilians are concen
trated in villages 10 or 15 miles
apart.
Chief Farm Products.
Sicily’s chief farm products are
lemons, oranges and almonds, plus
cereals, figs, grapes and olives. Ol
ives were grown on this island 1,500
years before Christ. Sicily was also
an important ancient granary for
the Romans, who dumped slaves
there by thousands to cultivate land
for bread to feed their imperial
armies.
As a source of mineral wealth,
Sicily contains deposits generally
believed more varied than valuable,
including lead, quicksilver, iron,
copper, lignite, petroleum, asbestos,
salt. With the exception of sulphur
—a centuries-old industry which
still accounts for a large share of
the world’s demand—most of the
minerals are found in too limited
quantity to be worth extracting.
Even the sulphur industry, in re
cent years, has suffered as a re
sult of the rising competition from
new sources, especially in Texas
MASTER BUILDER. Under
the guiding hand of Benito Mus
solini, Sicily will be rebuilt. Big
estates of the island will be broken
down into small tracts, irrigation
projects and large-scale construc
tion jobs are being planned by
Mussolini’s government.
and Louisiana. This decline, togeth
er with additional foreign competi
tion in fruit-growing, wine-making,
and the tropical-products in which
Sicily specialized, has added con
siderably to the crowded island’s
economic problems.
Nature’s Odd Contrasts.
A land of striking natural con
trasts, Sicily is a spot where catas
trophe sometimes masks a blessing.
From destructive volcanic eruption,
for example, has come the fertile
soil that promotes flourishing crops.
Mount Etna—some 10,000 feet high
and described by the ancients as
an “awful yet bountiful lord’’—is
one of the world’s great volcanic
spectacles, drawing visitors from
around the world.
Sicily’s geographic location in the
heart of the “Dangerous Sea” has
brought her prosperity and bitter
struggle. Ruins of Greek temples
and palaces, scattered along the
coast, tell a fragmentary story of
the island’s “Golden Age,” when
Syracuse and other ancient cities
STRATEGIC SICILY. Map
shows the location of the island
of Sicily in relation to the impor
tant Mediterranean region. The is
land guards the sea at its narrow
est central point on the most di
rect east-west shipping lane. Dotted
line shows general route of vessels.
rose to challenge the beauty and
power of the motherland, Greece,
herself. At the height of its career,
Syracuse counted nearly a million
inhabitants. Four centuries before
Christ, thousands of Athenian slaves
following the defeat of Athens by
Syracuse, were transported to Sici
ly and forced to work in the quar
ries.
After the Greeks came the Ro
mans, who made of Sicily a huge is
land granary, manned by slave la
bor. In the centuries that followed
the decline of Rome, new blood
strains were added to the Sicilian
stream—Teutonic, with the Gothic
and Vandal invasions; Arab, with
the coming of the Saracen hordes;
Norman, German, French, and
Spanish. At the end of the Bourbon
rule, when the Italian patriot Gari
baldi came to the aid of the revolt
ing islanders in 1860, the melting
pot of races that is Sicily finally
passed to Italy.
Today, Sicily’s position in the
Mediterranean gives it strategic im
portance in international affairs. A
stepping stone from Africa to the
Italian mainland, it is only 90 miles
from French Tunisia, bone-of-con-
tention between Italy and France.
Colombia Leads
South American
Aviation Service
17 Busy Transport Lines
Form Network Over
Andes.
Prepared by National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C.—WNU Service.
A new airline has caught another
corner of Colombia up into the net
work of air transport which has giv
en that country an all-American rep
utation for progress in commercial
flying. The new service extends
eastward, serving the region of
broad jungle plain east of the An
des, draining into the Orinoco river.
In spite of three ranges of the An
des with peaks of 18,000 feet above
sea level, already Colombia has the
most complex system of airlines in
South America. In fact, the three
ranges which cut the country into
lengthwise strips are the chief rea
son for Colombia’s pre-eminence in
the air. Rail and highway trans
port over mountain barriers was so
expensive and slow that Colombia
promptly took to the air for South
America’s first commercial flight
service which has maintained con
tinuous operation.
Mexico began air mail service
south of the Rio Grande, in 1917,
with delivery between the federal
district (in which the capital is situ
ated) and several key cities; but
the service was discontinued the
same year. In Colombia, the pre-
streamline “flying crates” of the pe
riod blazed a way for air mail in
October, 1919, and by February,
1920, they had brought about for pas
sengers the amazing transformation
of mule-to-wings travel.
The Colombian commercial pilots
were just one lap behind those of
the United States. After experimen
tal air mail flights as early as 1911,
the U. S. mail started service over
the airways in May, 1918,
17 Busy Air Lines.
Colombia’s 17 busy airlines serve
a population only one-sixteenth as
large as that of the United States.
Most of them live in the high An
dean valleys, between 4,000 and 9,000
feet above sea level, which have a
temperate climate, though just north
of the equator. The concentration
of people in Colombia’s highlands
makes one of the most populous
and progressive regions in the An
des; the highlands are as thickly
settled as most of the United States.
About 30 per cent of the Colombians
are city dwellers. The densely pop
ulated highlands are the source of
most of the coffee and leather ex
ports, the gold and platinum and
emeralds that for four centuries
have given the country an assured
place in international commerce.
War Map of Europe
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The above map shows nations involved in the present European struggle, with the military, naval and air
strength of each of the contestants. England’s navy of 2,079,863 tons is considerably greater than the combined
navies of Germany and Italy, which total 541,023 tons and 717,920 tons, respectively. France’s navy totals 815,531
tons, larger than that of either of the dictator nations.
On Germany’s Famed West Wall
Pictured here is Germany’s garrison on its famed “west wall”—the former Siegfried line, which faces
France. Marksmen man an anti-aircraft gun in its above-ground emplacement on the “wall,” awaiting the
first sign of bombers or scouting planes.
French Troops on Frontier
French soldiers manning field fortifications on the German border.
They are equipped with gas masks in anticipation of Germany’s use
of gas as a weapon against its enemies. France’s army of 6,000,000 men
is looked upon as one of the g eatest armies in the world. Army officials,
in answer to President Roosevelt’s plea, guaranteed that French forces
will not bombard open cities or civilian populations as long as enemy
forces do not do so.
Evacuation of London Children
Scene at a London railroad station as many thousands of children
were being taken from the city to places of more security in the country
in anticipation of German air raids. The total population of the designated
evacuation areas is about 11,000,000, but only about 3,000,000 of the resi
dents fell into the first group that was moved. That group included school
children, their teachers, pre-school children and their mothers, the adult
blind and crippled, and invalids who were in condition to be moved.
Nazi Army Chieftain
Field Marshal Herman Wilhelm
Goering, chief lieutenant to Reichs-
fuehrer Adolph Hitler. Next to Hit
ler, Goering, former air minister,
wields the greatest power in the
Nazi army. Hitler has announced
that should anything happen to him
in the struggle his first successor
would be Goering.
Heads French Defense
Gen. Marie Gustave Camelin is in
supreme command of all French
forces in the war with Germany, in
cluding land, sea and air. Under
Gamelin’s orders, 31,000 school
children were sent to the provinces,
and further evacuation orders were
rigidly enforced.
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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 September 17
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
MICAH: A MESSENGER OF
SOCIAL JUSTICE
LESSON TEXT—Micah 3:1-12; 6:6-8.
GOLDEN TEXT—What doth the Lord re
quire of thee, but to do justly, and to love
mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
—Micah 6:8.
We demand human rights, social
justice, and economic security. Cor
rupt judges and bribe-taking offi
cials must be put out of office. Land
lords must not squeeze every penny
out of their tenants; loan sharks
must be put out of business; the
rich must not oppress the poor. The
Church must have ministers with a
real message and must share in the
solution of the problems of human
ity.
No, we did not copy that para
graph out of today’s newspaper. It
is the message that the prophet Mi
cah preached more than 2,500 years
ago. And what’s more, he not only
presented theories, but he knew how
to accomplish his purpose of real
social justice. It is time some of
those who talk about this subject
got back to the Bible and really
learned how it can be done. 1 *'
1. Social Injustice (3:1-10).
The inhumanity of man toward
man is not something that just hap
pened. There are fundamental rea
sons fog such conditions, and they
are the same in our time as in Mi-
cah’s day. The responsibility rests
squarely on the failure of our na
tional and spiritual leaders to per
form their God-given tasks.
1. Rulers without Judgment (3:1-4,
9-10).
The obligation of anyone who is
given or who seeks public office is
to know judgment. This does not
mean only that he is to have a gen
eral knowledge of the law and its
technicalities; he is to know justice
in his very heart, to love it, and to
see that it is always rightly admin
istered.
The leaders of Israel had woefully
failed, in fact had deliberately de
parted from the standards of God,
and Micah exposed them in plain,
dramatic, well-spoken words. While
verses 2 and 3 are not to be taken
literally, they do in striking figura
tive speech describe just what un
scrupulous politicians do to an un
suspecting people.
2. Prophets with a False Message
(3:5-81.
In such a day might one not ex
pect God’s messengers to have a
word of condemnation for the lead
ers and of comfort for the people?
Not only did they keep quiet about
the sin and corruption which they
saw about them, but they actually
encouraged their prominent and
wealthy “church members” in their
sin by saying, “All is well.” Such
religious leaders have not altogether
perished from the earth.
Let ministers of God be. like Mi
cah, who is described in verse 8 as
a man of judgment and justice, be
cause he was “full of power by the
Spirit of the Lord.”
II. Social Security (3:11, 12; 6:
6-8).
No, that idea was not discovered
by the politicians of the 1930’s. It
has been in the plan of God from
the beginning; in fact only in Him
is there any real national, personal,
or social security. Micah skillfully
unmasked false security and re
vealed the way of true security.
1. False Security and Divine Judg
ment (3:11, 12).
When the heads of a nation “judge
for reward” and its religious leaders
“teach for hire” and its prophets
“divine for money” (v. 11), there is
no use to» talk piously about God
being with us.
The prophecy of verse 12 was ful
filled three times—by the Chaldeans
in 586 B. C., by Titus in A. D. 70,
and under Hadrian in A. D. 135.
God always keeps His promises,
even if the promise be a promise
of judgment.
2. True Security and Divine Bless
ing (6:6-8).
God is not to be propitiated by
the offerings of material things as a
sacrifice or by any outward profes
sion of piety. He looks at the heart.
Verse 8 is a remarkable and beau
tiful epitome of God’s requirement
of man, namely, justice, kindness,
and humility; but note that this is
the requirement of the law, and
one which no man can possibly ful
fill apart from Christ. I* is evi
dent folly for men to quote this verse
as did the agnostic Thomas Hux
ley and others, to justify themselves
for not responding to the claims of
the gospel of Christ. Only Christ
can make any man capable of true
justice, constant kindness, and gen
uine humility. Only thus can we
meet the demands of the law of God.
Real social justice and security
will come only as there is a recog
nition of Jesus Christ as Saviour and
Lord by the leaders, by the prophet*
and by the people.
Self Abnegation
After you have been kind, after
love has stolen forth into the world
and done its beautiful work, go back
into the shade again and say noth
ing about it. Love hides even from
itself. Love waives even self-satis
faction.—Henry Drummond.
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Fine Ethical Taste
Displayed by Taft
When President Taft left the
White House he went into lectur
ing.
“I think he enjoyed it quite as
much as any other part of his ca
reer,” says Mark Sullivan—an old
hand at lecturing himself. “He
went into it with the wish to amass
a modest competence. Just before
Taft left the White House, Ed
ward Bok asked him to deliver
some lectures at Hill school for
which Bok would pay a fee. Taft,'
with some feeling, turned to his
wife and said: ‘You see, I told
you there would be opportunities
to make a living.’
“Taft felt reluctant to practice
law,” added Sullivan.
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Silence is one great art of con
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William Hazlitt.
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Love conquers all things; let us
yield to love.—Vergil.
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