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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. FRIDAY. AUGUST 16, 1940 Kathleen Norris Saysr Better Days Are Ahead (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) This war will end. Humiliations will be swallowed; prices will be paid; hearts broken; children starved or destroyed by malnutrition; the dead will be buried; and m great many loud voices will be silenced by death. By KATHLEEN NORRIS WO pamphlets came to my desk this morning, from the Writers Anti-War bu reau for Anti-War Mobilization. If your interior economy, like mine, has been in something of a quiver of irrepressible terror over the war news of late, over the horrors that pour in upon us from the telephone, radio, movie news, press, the two treatises together forms a fine tonic for today’s excitement and hyste ria; the “frantic boast and fool ish word’’ of Germany and Italy are affecting us all, and we are already looking skyward to see the parachute troops darkening our free skies. A victorious Germany, this ar ticle reminds us, won’t be much better off than a defeated France and England. Famine is staring all Europe in the face «ow, victors and vanquished alike. Policing Task Tremendous. The complete picture of Hitler’s policing job would look like this, ac cording to the pamphlet. Forty-two million Frenchmen, forty-six million British; seventeen million Belgians and Dutch; plus Norwegians, Poles, Danes, Czechs, Austrians and Lux- embourgers will bring the total to over one hundred fifty million per sons. “Most of these,” the essay states, “are more bitterly opposed to Hit ler than we are—they have more reason to be. Furthermore, inside Germany itself all is not well . . . With this threatening mass of hatred around him, Hitler would probably think more than twice before he looked around for more enemies.” Friends Now, Foes Later. The article goes on to sketch the situation of a completely triumphant Germany, holding a very shaky truce with Russia, it is true, for Stalin is none too comfortable a neighbor, and holding with Italy one of those compacts which, as we’ve all seen in the last disgraceful weeks, is all ready to be transferred to any new winner, as soon as that winner is declared. But suppose all that settled, and the European peoples, one hundred and fifty million strong, meekly herded into line; then we are to imagine Hitler turning toward us. His dead buried, the crippled activi ties of a dozen nations mended and shakily busy once more, the inev itable famine of the awful winter of 1940-41 somehow survived, and the dictators themselves still alive— which is always a big assumption— then they’re ready for us. The plan would be to establish a great mili tary base in one of the Central American countries. But hundreds of thousands of men must be landed there before a gun can be fired, lines of communication opened, and guns, tanks, ammunition, hospitals, com missary, the tremendous staffs of engineers and mechanics made available. Raw country must be opened, and the complete co-opera tion of the entire invaded country as sured. And what would we be do ing? Odds in Our Favor. Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood, chief of staff, line of communications, A. E. F., says that we have only five ports in the United States ^t which enemy forces could disembark. All the while he was getting ashore his lighters, barges, piers, cranes, spe cial equipment, we would be right in our own country, with inexhausti ble supplies at our backs. Military experts maintain, says this author ity. that our navy and airplanes could stop Hitler long before he got anywhere near our shores. Obviously, an invading army, especially across one of the great oceans, is at a disadvantage. That’s DON’T BE AFRAID America is as free from danger of invasion as she ever was, Kathleen Nor ris believes. She points out that many years will pass before Hitler can be ready to attack us, and a lot of things can happen in that time. If he does try to come over here, his invading fleets would be stopped long before they reached our shores. Miss Norris points out. why we are as nearly invincible at home as any country can be. That’s why it seems, to many women at least, a foolish thing to carry naval threats too far away from home. Taking care of ourselves, maintain ing a dignified attitude to national troubles overseas that are neither understood by us nor of our mak ing, would seem the wiser policy. It would seem the characteristic Amer ican policy. For while we are will ing to help in every other possible way, and have so helped and while we are willing to give political rec ognition to totalitarian governments everywhere, and have so given it, it is too much to expect a normally peaceful and friendly nation that she be scared into sharing in wars shf did nothing to create. Life Will Go On. This war will end. Humiliations will be swallowed; prices will be paid; hearts broken; children starved or destroyed by malnutri tion; the dead will be buried; and a great many loud voices will be silenced by death. And when we’ll all emerge, adjusted to the new con ditions, recognizing a little less pow er and pride in this nation, a little more power and pride in that, a tag of territory clipped off here and at tached there. And for the great mass of Euro pean women the day’s problem will be what it always was: a job for the man, a welcome for the new baby, a little less butter perhaps and fewer exchanges of old cars for new; pleasures that can’t be kept away where there is health and work and love; reconciliation to new ideas—ideas which will be fading and blending and changing into the old ideas before they are fairly ao cepted. It Has Happened Before. For the face of Europe has been war-riddled and the boundaries of Europe changed incessantly for .one thousand years. Spain ruled The Netherlands by inherited right; Po land has been anybody’s and every body’s; Calais was Queen Mary’s; Alsace and Lorraine have to look in the glass every morning to see whether they’re French or German; autocracy starved and shot down the people of Russia within the memory of man; nothing that can happen there today can surprise them after what they knew in 1905, and all the long centuries before 1905. Spain has had a dozen insurrections in a hundred years; her kings dis appear, reappear, fly again. Napo leon thought he owned Holland and Italy, and sallied gallantly into Rus sia across what wasn’t yet Belgium, in 1800. In a generation or two all the countries lapsed back to their original positions, if indeed Euro pean countries may be said to have such things. So “sursum corda.” Which is one way of saying: “Lift up your hearts.” Our own history is a gal lant one—unafraid, friendly, content ed within its own borders. Our northern neighbors are united to us by more than one hundred years of friendship. Our two great oceans give us a protection that any Euro pean nation well may envy. We are not thieves; we buy what we want and keep the friendship of the purchaser. The world laughed at us when we bought Alaska, at the Gads den Purchase, the Louisiana Pur chase, when we made compensation for the Philippines. But that wm wise dealing. France, Spain, RdF' sia aren’t trying to steal anything back Lorn us, as a result. Let the other nations learn that lesson and we’ll have a better world. Don’t be afraid. Radio Policing As U. S. Defense FCC to Add Hundreds of Air Inspectors to Its Field Force. WASHINGTON. — The Federal Communications commission has announced that it is augmenting its field force with additional monitor ing stations as well as new bases of operation for mobile units to ac complish more effective policing of communications under the co-ordi nated national defense program. Several hundred inspectors and other radio experts will be employed for this program, it was announced. Since the commission is under civil service the additional personnel will come from these rolls. The additional force is needed, it was announced, to maintain a com prehensive 24-hour surveillance of all communication channels, includ ing broadcast and other radio trans mission. Present radio monitoring facilities will be supplemented with 10 primary long-range direction finder stations. These stations de termine the bearings of unauthor ized or otherwise suspicious com munications. The mobile equip ment, which includes direction find ing apparatus, traces the origin of such transmissions. Watch All Circuits. In addition to increased monitor ing duties, the field division will be required to watch radiotelegraph and radiotelephone circuits for su perfluous signals, to record these, and translate foreign language broadcast material. It must also make certain of the citizenship of several hundred thousand persons now charged with the responsibility of communications, as well as of their immediate families. This figure covers about 100,000 licensed radio operators, including amateurs; a like number of cable and wire operators, and other em ployees such as those of broadcast and other radio stations. Keep Tab on Electricity., Another emergency task will be to guard against the possible misuse of electrical apparatus, including diathermy devices (now employed in many thousand offices of physi cians), as transmitters in a manner which might jeopardize the nation’s security. Still another undertaking will be to keep tab on possible use of transmitters which have been manufactured but not sold or li censed for authorized communica tion purposes. The commission now operates seven monitoring stations, in various parts of the country, which are largely devoted to making routine measurements of frequencies and determining the quality of emis sions, as well as spotting interfer ence. In the course of such work, they observe unlicensed operation incidentally. However, these moni toring stations as now manned and equipped could not cope with the additional work contemplated. Congress recently authorized a new monitoring station for Massa chusetts, but this is to relocate and improve the existing one. The new bases for mobile operation are be ing established at strategic points throughout the United States and its possessions. Refugee British Kids Find Safe IW-ri m . ="i mua-Z&lrfmmri, A group of refugee British children are shown after their arrival in more fortunate than thousands more in England who, because of a she brought over immediately. The refugee children will be cared for bj The United States Committee for the Care of European Children is in cF youngsters in American homes. ress : vjU FARMER BROWN’S BOY SETTLES MATTERS F armer brown’s boy came into the Old Orchard whistling. It was good to hear someone who seemed happy and wanted every body else to feel happy. The truth is there had been very little happi ness in the Old Orchard since Bully, the English Sparrow, had moved there. Perhaps he and Mrs. Bully were happy. Probably they were. But if they were they had a funny way of showing it, for it seemed as if they quarrelled with each other "Hello!” he exclaimed. "What are you doing there?” laughed to see Mrs. Drummer come rushing out, as if she thought the world was coming to an end. "Didn’t all the time when they had no one else to quarrel with. All the other birds were unhappy, because of the noisy ways and quarrelsome dispo sitions of Bully and Mrs. Bully. So it was good to hear the whistle of Farmer Brown’s boy, for there had been no song or whistle for days and days. He thumped on Out Again, In Again on New Railroad Twelve tunnels, as well as eight major bridges, are included in the 30 miles of hew railroad being constructed around the site of Shasta reservoir between Redding and Delta Station, Calif. The view is looking out of the south portal of tunnel No. 2 across a completed fill toward the north portal of tunnel No. I. Each of these concrete-lined bores is about a naif mile long. the tree in which Drummer the! Woodpecker had his home and mean to scare you to death; jusl wanted to know if you were a4 home,” said he. “I wonder if Skiml mer the Swallow has babies by this time. He ought to have. I believe I’ll pay him a call.” Straight across die Old Orchard he walked to the tree in which Skiml mer had built his nest in the sum| mer. Just imagine how surprise he was when, as he drew near] Mrs. Bully and not Mrs. Skimmea appeared in the doorway to see whal was going on. The whistle of Farm! er Brown’s boy stopped akruptlyl “Hellol” he exclaimed. “What ard you doing there? I must have a loolJ into this. I certainly must. The last time I was here Skimmer was liv] ing in that house. I wonder if yoif stole it from him the way you stea grain from my chickens. It would be just like your impudence, too] You may be all right in the count: you came from, but you’re a nui] sance here in America.” He walked straight over to th] tree where the nest was. Such fuss as Bully and Mrs. Bully di<j make! Once all the other little peo pie in the Old Orchard would havl felt, oh, so sorry for anyone whos] nest Farmer Brown’s boy had found but now there wasn’t so much as single peep of sympathy, although Farmer Brown’s boy didn’t knov it, many eyes were watching hir and for the first time there was hop] and not fear in them. Fear, grea fear, and sorrow and anger wer] all mixed up together in the voice] of Bully and Mrs. Bully as they flev about frantically, but Farme] Brown’s boy paid no attention t] them. He slipped a hand into th] hole in the tree where the nest was and when it came out it brought th] nest with it. "One, two, three, four, five, six, counted he as he spread the nes, open and looked at the specklei eggs, while Bully and Mrs. Bull; cried as if their hearts would break “If these belonged to anybody bd you I wouldn’t touch them,” he de dared. “As it is. I’m obliged t take them. I’m sorry, but it is so If I didn’t 1 would prove myself poor friend of all the other birds i the Old Orchard. The Old Orchan needs them and it doesn’t need you You don’t do any good yourself, o if you do it is so little that it doesn’ count, and you drive away the bird who do do good. I suppose I ough to get my gun and shoot you, but can’t do that. You are dirty, noisy useless nuisances, but you are n cowards, and I just can’t hurt you I suppose you can’t help being wha you are. But I can’t have you driv ing out my other friends, so yo can’t nest here.” With this he tore up the nest ani walked off with the six eggs. Jenn; Wren sighed with relief. “Now the; certainly will go away,” said she. • T. W. Burse**.—WNU Service. Accident Is on Him! LOS ANGELES. — Ambulano Driver Hal W. De Groot brough 20,000 accident victims to the re ceiving hospital without a mishap As he started on his 20,001st tri] he slipped and fell, suffering a badl; sprained back. TO MAKE TURKISH WOMEN BEST DRESSED ANKARA.—Future dressmakers of Turkey practice what they learn at the Ismet Inou institute on no less a wardrobe than that of the country’s first lady. The wife of President Ismet Inou is a leader in the movement to make Turkish women among the best dressed in the world. The Inou institute is a super vocational school with an enrollment of 720. Its goal is to make Turkey self-sufficient in the production of women’s clothes. In this school girls are trained to become teachers in the arts of em broidery, cookery, sewing, fashion design, millinery and pattern mak ing. When they are graduated from the normal courses they are sent throughout the country to spread their learning by way of the people’s houses. It is all part of the Turkish re public’s plan to make the country as modern and up to date as any Amer ican or Continental country. So fa: the institute has succeeded in gain ing a reputation of being the Pari: of Turkey. No Paris couturiei boasts more magnificent atelier: and probably not as highly educatec seamstresses. These students ar< forced to intermingle their study of the arts with history and geography^ and even some military science ini event war beomes more important]