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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
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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.
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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]