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T THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1940 Washington, O. C. JAPAN’S RAMPAGE U. S. intelligence reports from the Far East stated late in July that Japan would join the Axis officially and actively just as soon as Hitler launches his big blitzkrieg on Brit ain. Meanwhile, the Japanese military have adopted the policy of causing as many incidents as possible to annoy the United States and to fan them up in the Japanese press. There is no question in the minds of U. S. officials that this strategy is being worked out in co-operation with Hitler and has two ends in view: First, to keep the American pub lic worried about the Far East, sc that the White House cannot be come too absorbed with the plight of England during Hitler’s blitz krieg. Second, to convince the Japanese public that there is nothing to fear from the United States. The more the Japanese press attacks this coun try, and the more American citi zens are beaten up in Shanghai, the more the Japanese public will be led to believe that the United States is powerless to send armed forces across the Pacific. Then when this conviction is thor oughly embedded, the military will make their long contemplated drive into the Dutch East Indies. Note—Looking further ahead, U. S. observers in the Orient also are convinced that when Hitler gets ready for his drive into South Amer ica, Japan will strike toward the Pacific coast of South America si multaneously. Russia-U. S. Allies? All of this demonstrates the fact that the United States, if it is not to be left entirely alone in the Pacific, must move quickly and must secure friends. To date, there are only two potential friends worth worry ing about. No. 1 is Great Britain, which in fact is America’s first line of de fense, and which might be saved if the United States gave major aid. No. 2 is Russia, the natural ene my of Japan, whom Japan fears more than she fears the United States. A hook-up between Russia and the United States could ham string Japan, keep her powerless in the North Pacific. That is why the Roosevelt-Bullitt statement denouncing. Russia is so J important. Bullitt was the man who persuaded Roosevelt • • • G. O. P. MUTTERS Privately, some of the G. O. P. farm leaders in congress are most enthusiastic about the prominence of Iowa’s Gov. George Wilson in Wendell Willkie’s agricultural cam paign. The Capitol Hill group, who have devoted a lot of time and effort to preaching Republican doctrine in the grain belt, and who carried the ball on the farm plank, don’t consider Governor Wilson to be any farm spokesman. However, it is possible that the real cause of the politicos’ mutter ing is the fact that Wilson stole a march on them, by climbing aboard the Willkie bandwagon while they were still pooh-poohing Willkie as a serious contender. • * • NAZI REVOLUTION When Nazi troops marched into Poland, September 1, 1939, Adolf Berle, assistant secretary of state and Roosevelt brain truster, re marked: “This is the beginning of the world revolution.” The war—or revolution—has now been in progress for 11 months and every report coming back from Ger many indicates the truth of Berle’s words. For what most people do not real ize about Germany is that the Nazis are fighting with a crusading revo lutionary fervor. They are staging a social revolution. Their redistri bution of wealth in Germany makes Stalin’s look sick. Today in Germany the free busi ness man has almost vanished. He is working for the government. All his raw materials come from the government. His credit is arranged by the government. Exchange is regulated by the government, and prices are manipulated almost daily by the government. Today in Germany also, the in dustrialist who owns an automobile does not dare to drive it to work. It would be takep away from him, and he would be hissed off the streets. Only Nazi officials ride in cars. Others ride bicycles. Real fact is that Germany has borrowed Karl Marx back from Rus sia and made it work. MAIL BAG H. G. Washington—The job of as sistant translator, for which civil service is now offering an exam, pays only $2,000. J. L. C., Salem, Ohio—The U. S. makes no charge for carrying great quantities of Argentine mail to Chile and other South American countries on U. S. ships. Supposed to be a reciprocal arrangement, actually the U. S. gives extensive service free and gets practically nothing in re turn. It is a part of the good-wil program Willkie’s Home Town Prepares for Big Gala Day Citizens of Elwood, Ind., are sprucing up the town in preparation for an invasion of 300,000 visitors when Wendell L. Willkie formally accepts the Republican nomination for President, on August 17. Willkie will make two speeches, one from the steps of the Elwood high school and the other at the park. Above, left, is shown the house in which Willkie was born, below, Mr. and Mrs. Willkie and right, the high school. Tiquorless Night Club’ at W.C.T.U. Convention Members of Youth’s Temperance council will attend a “liquorless night club” as one of the attractions of the annual convention of the National Women’s Christian Temperance Union which opened at Chicago, Au gust 7, to continue for the rest of the week. Milk and soft drinks will be served as evidence of the increasing trend among young people toward temperance. In inset at left is shown Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, national pres ident of the W. C. T. U. and at right is pictured Frances Willard, its founder. Trotters Get Ready for Race Classic 66th Milestone Outstanding harness horses of America will run in the historic Ham- bletonian Stake at Goshen, N. Y., on August 14. Biggest race of its kind in the United States, the event annually attracts thousands of lovers of trotting races. Above is pictured a typical scene at the famous track. Scores of champions have been crowned here. Congratulations on his sixty-sixth birthday will be in order for former Pesident Herbert Hoover on August 10. Mr. Hoover will observe the milestone at his home at Palo Alto, Calif. He was born at Long Branch, Iowa. Hot Competition in Soap Box Derby Piloting homemade cars costing not more than $10, hundreds of boys from the ages of 11 to K will compete for prizes at the All American and International Soap Box Derby at Akron, Ohio, August 11. The grand prize is a four-year college scholarship to one of America’s leading universi ties for the lad who comes in first at the finals. Eagles’ Conclave Charles McCann of Newark, N. J., is expected to be elected Grand Worthy President of the Fraternal Order of Eagles at its three-day convention at Chicago, which open*' August 15. GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON! Jays': United Features WNU ServW* Washington, D. C. JEFFERSON AND HAMILTON WASHINGTON. — The President Should not be displeased at the de parture of Democrats. The whole political scene has changed to a sort of game of “prisoner’s base.” The Republicans have nominated a Democrat of such characteristic col or that Thomas Jefferson would rec ognize him as a kindred spirit long before he could ever distinguish Mr. Roosevelt from Alexander Hamilton. Mr. Roosevelt has held up to the yeomen, as Prince of Wales, Mr. Wallace, a Republican by heredity and long conviction, who says that he turned his political coat only be cause the Republicans hadn’t done enough for agriculture. There is more in both Democratic and Republican principle than is dreamt of in that philosophy. In the President’s cabinet there are only two indubitable Democrats —Hull and Farley. There are now four Republicans—Stimson, Knox, Wallace and Ickes—two Socialists or something—Hopkins and Perkins— and a couple of no pronounced po litical parentage, Jackson and Mor- genthau. As for Jeffersonian policy—decen tralization of government — states rights — government by laws, not men—no personalized power—rota tion in office—federal economy—as little government as is consistent with keeping men from injuring each other—Mr. Roosevelt opposes every one. Whether Mr. Willkie will be re garded as a reborn Republican or Democrat nominated on the Repub lican ticket, his whole philosophy is as faithfully Jeffersonian as Mr. Roosevelt’s is the reverse of that. In the traditional American politi cal sense it is far more difficult to see how a Democrat could sup port Mr. Roosevelt, than to wonder how he could fail to support Mr. Willkie. Alexander Hamilton didn’t think men could be trusted to govern themselves except through a self- perpetuating beneficent despotism. Mr. Jefferson asked, if man couldn’t govern himself had he found angels to govern him? Plainly Mr. Roose velt concurs with Hamilton and has practically uttered and surely acted the belief that both the annointed governor and his successor have been found. Many sincerely believe and faith fully follow the President on this old Federalist theory, which is their right. But that hardly justifies the President in castigating as “party renegades” all those Democrats who don’t. If it were not for the bondage of the South to bitter memories of the Civil war, no southern Democrat could possibly follow Mr. Roosevelt. He has taken away from them protection of the two-thirds conven tion rule, ruined the export market for their principal crop, cotton, neg lected to recognize the discrimina tion against them in freight rates and their competitive necessity for differentials in wage rates. No greai. political power since Thaddeus Stevens has been more unsympa thetic toward their problems. Southern Democratic leaders who have opposed this have been con demned as “feudalists.” Great southern congressmen such as Gar ner, Robinson, Barkley, Byrnes, Clark, both Bankheads, Rayburn, Doughton and Marvin Jones have simply had to swallow it in the name of party loyalty, but it was so brutally inconsiderate that it could have left little room for love and loyalty. These great political shifts take time to reveal themselves but it be comes clearer daily that Mr. Roose velt heads a new party which Harry Hopkins once described as the “have-nots against the haves.” • • • TWADDLE This campaign will be no pillow fight. Ex-Senator Reed was pun ished by the President for taking a walk by being called a sweat-shop. The President paddled Johnny Hane and Lew Douglas by saying they think more of dollars than humanity. I can’t get excited about any of this. Jim Reed isn’t a sweat-shop. An attractive lady in Kansas City named Nellie Donnelly got the idea of applying automobile quantity production methods to the manufac ture of women’s dresses. This made them at low cost and high excel lence. Accordingly, she began to make so much money that a gang kidnaped her. Jim was her lawyer. This made him so mad that he swore to rescue her without a ran som and to jail her abductors. This he duly did and his righteous wrath carried him over into romance. He married the gal. But that doesn’t make Jim a sweat-shop. I studied that case per sonally in NR A. Wages and work ing conditions in Nellie’s factories were by so far the best in that in dustry that her code competitors’ principal complaint was that she was setting standards too high for them to equal. Lew Douglas and Johnny Hane may care something about dollars, and who doesn’t. But neither of them has been nearly as successful in corralling dollars as the Presi dent’s own family—after, but never before, his election in 1932. ; Kathleen Norris Says: Lift Up Your Hearts (BeU Syndicate—WNU Service.) Imagine the odds against the ragged, unarmed, unfed, untrained armies of Wash ington, whose men enlisted only for a term of weeks, all know how strangely that war ended, with victory for the side against which the odds seemed incredibly heavy. By KATHLEEN NORRIS T IS a great consolation, in these trying times, to real ize that according to all his torical precedents, two and two do not make four. For no matter what mathe maticians can do with chalk and a blackboard, the events that touch our human lives, and are controlled by our faulty and irrational human actions, almost always seem to come out in an unexpected way. The student of every great crisis in world affairs is completely puzzled by the apparent independ ence of results from their causes. Take our beginnings, in 1775. Im agine the odds against the ragged, unarmed, unfed, untrained armies of Washington, whose men enlisted only for a term of weeks, and when that term was up walked quietly off to their farms again! Washington’s congress was against him, the per sonnel of the army was constantly changing, and, with Canada as a base, the great armies of England, supplemented by Prussian merce naries, French settlers, and thou sands of Indians, were prepared for long attack. Victorious Against Great Odds. We all know how strangely that war ended, with victory for the side against which the odds seemed in credibly heavy. Agincourt, Waterloo, Sedan, the British conquest of India are all similar. In the last mentioned war, less than a hundred years ago, the case was that the Sepoy troops re belled, in numbers something better than a thousand to one. There were few British troops in India, most of that army was composed of East Indians, officered by British. So the simple job of the rebels was merely to shoot the officers, wipe out the few missionaries and women and children, and possess their own land once more. We all know how that came out, too. The passionate courage of a Roberts, a Campbell, a Havelock, overcame infinite superiority in numbers, and the rebellion was sup pressed. Lincoln’s Predicament. Then take Lincoln’s situation, in 1864, actually within the memory of living men, for a child whose won dering eyes looked on at the Civil war would only be something more than 80 now. The South was fighting the North, and with gallant success, at the mo ment. In Mexico, Austria and France had set up an emperor whose plan was to befriend the South, take all Central America un der his protection, for Austria, and maintain a strong European hold upon the Americas. And just at this moment, when our President was cruelly pressed for men and munitions, an unfortunate episode occurred which angered England, and threatened for awhile to involve the North in a war with the British. British troops were even dispatched to Canada before the af fair was settled. How many women, worrying themselves half-insane this hot sum mer morning over unexpressed and undefined terrors, remember that that was our situation 75 years ago? Suppose that were the case now; suppose hostile foreign troops were actually on American soil bombing our cities—then we MIGHT have something over which to lose sleep! We Prefer Peace. As it is, remember that no na tion has a grievance against us, and that we are not going out of our way to injure any nation, or to impose unfair terms upon any nation, or to make an enemy of any nation. We are by national temper peace able, absorbed in our own problems, and incapable of really understand- HAVE HOPE “Don’t let the foreign situation worry you,” Kathleen Norris advises. She peers through the black clouds of war which hang over the world and finds that things are not as bad as they seem. Wars of conquest have been fought and nations conquered many times in the past. The world has always recovered before, and there is no reason to believe that it won’t do so now. ing the nature of matters abroad. We don’t maintain blockades against neighboring countries, nor oppress them, nor hold to mandatory powers that cruelly handicap them. All the nations of Europe HAVE been do ing these things, snatching the spoils of war, profiting by the sufferings of sister nations, for more than 20 long years; or rather for more than 10 long centuries. To live in continual war with your neighbors is possible to any govern ment. To live in continual peace is also possible. The Americas, by some fortunate combination of cir cumstances, prefer the latter course. It is nonsense to say that you have to fight if other persons fight, for they have some reason for fighting, and it is your job, in peace times, to discover that reason, and to find other ways of curing the situation than the wholesale slaughter of in nocent boys. When a nation meets war with war it is tacitly admit ting that might is right; a theory that we should have left behind us 2,000 years ago. A theory, in short, that we said we DID leave behind us, when a certain Voice spoke on a certain mountain 2,000 years ago. War Breeds on War. Twenty years ago Germany was crushed to the complete satisfaction of all the war makers. She was split in two, her wealth, her colo nies were shorn away, she never could rise again or fight again. But somehow two and two didn’t make four. War, instead of breed ing peace, bred more war. The victorious nations, supposedly strong in policing and block ding and man dating and defense couldn’t some how watch that one central Euro pean state closely enough to see what she was doing, or police her sternly enough to stop her from what shp actually did. That was Germany’s hour of dark ness. She emerged still Germany and more nationalistic than ever. This hour is dark for France. But she has been conquered before; de spite all that any enemy can do in her heart she will still be untouched, and within another turn of the tide she will be France again. England Still England. The Danes, the Saxons, the Ro mans, the Normans all conquered old England in turn. The Hanovari- ans and the Dutch came over to rule, with the Georges and Wil liam of Orange. But England isn’t Danish nor Saxon nor Roman nor Norman nor Dutch; she’s herself. England overpowered the Transvaal only 40 years ago, but anyone who visits it visits a strong Boer na tion, still itself. All the blackboards of the world, and all the chalk, and all the statis ticians couldn’t work out for us to day what the world is going to be 20 years from today. Dictators fall, peoples rebel against despotism, the great flood of human reason, the hu man need of love and home and chil dren and gardens will go on. That need exists in the hearts of gal lant bewildered German boys fight ing like tigers because they are told to fight; bewildered French lads who knew neither why they fought nor why they stopped; English boys who only ask for home and a job and an occasional movie. They’re all ex actly alike, and when the war-mak ers are sated, and the dictators’ hands lose their power, things will begin to slip back into their old places.