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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY. AUGUST 23, 1940 J Kathleen Norris Says: Why Enemies at All, Ever? (Bell Syndicate—VfNU Service.) Anything like conferences, concessions, understandings, plans, maps never enters the heads of European leaders. Arms are still the only arguments, on the other side of the water. By KATHLEEN NORRIS EARS ago when a small brother of mine received as a birthday present what seemed to him a dazzlingly com plete set of tools, he went out to speak to the fine old Portuguese who puttered about as a general carpenter and gardener and handy man on my father’s farm. “I’ve been thinking about our tools, Joe,” said eight-year-old Fred, “and I think the best rule for us now is no more borrowing and no more lending! ” As often happens, the phrase of a child fits a much larger situation than a child’s mind can grasp. The idea of stopping all lending and bor rowing, as soon as one has reached the point where one need no longer borrow, is applicable to the state of affairs in Europe today. This principle was very evident in Europe. England and France had all the wealth they needed, end de sired to maintain the status quo; Italy and Germany were poor and wanted to change existing con ditions. The legitimate way for any na tion to enlarge its wealth and ex tend its borders has always been by violence and seizure. For 2,000 years the battle has been to the strong; churches, philosophers, ed ucators, politicians and the great mass of peoples have all agreed that if any nation COULD take a thing by force, that nation was le gally entitled to it—until a more forceful nation came along. Victo ries have been shaky things, trem bling along for a few years aitil the vanquished could gather strength enough to turn them into defeats. Age-old resentments have smouldered between countries ever since history began; the conquered country only awaiting its hour to rise and struggle again. To the Strong. One country pushes great busi ness ventures into another. The in vaded country protests; its curren cy stands at a ruinous value, the richer country, pouring its mer chants in, carrying off treasure in its ships, is draining it of its wealth, year after year. So an uprising takes place, and an “episode” oc curs, and then the richer, distant country has an excuse for sending men and guns, and smashing down an unarmed people’s pride and pow er, and holding military and manda tory rights in that country hence forth. Perhaps the ruler who gives those powers has no right to do so; perhaps there is open treachery on both sides. That doesn’t matter. The better armed country has won. It can now bleed the other country white, garrison it, take every advantage of its poverty, its demolished cur rency, its ignorance and helpless ness. A Vicious Cycle. It would be a silly waste of time to enumerate the repetition of this endless process. It has for 19 hun dred years been considered the right process. Armies of invasion have been formally blessed; pray ers have been fervently offered that they may be successful in murder ing on a larger scale than their enemies. Territories seized, in our lifetime, by successful troops, have been serenely occupied and claimed by the triumphant countries. This was the old way. Let’s not be too hasty, therefore, in condemn ing those nations that still cling to it as the right way. For the sur prising and wonderful thing is not that men still have faith in war, but that ANY nation begins to feel—and some nations are beginning so to feel—that ther^ is something wrong with it. War is the natural thing. JTHY WAR? Kathleen Norris makes a bold and revealing study of this important ques tion. In her opinion, war is natural— in Europe. Mist Norris points out that for centuries the only “legitimate” way for a nation to increase in wealth or size has been seizure. She finds that nations cry “Peace!” only when they have their arms full of booty which some other nation might try to steal back. Children are bom fighters; might rules in the nursery until some bet ter thing has been put into small hearts and minds. And war has ruled the world for a long, long time. Go ‘Moral’ to Protect Booty. But now, partly because of the modem educators of newspapers, news reel», telegraph, radio, sud denly great countries begin to be a little ashamed of their long his tories of violence and conquest. They begin to hold up shocked hands at those bad countries that try to steal what they need, instead of just po litely asking for it. They are horri fied that anyone is still so old-fash ioned and stupid as to think that guns are arguments. Having for hundreds of years forced the most brutal possible terms upon their en emies, they are pained and sur prised that any country is still talk ing of reprisals and impositions. “Why must you go on fussing about what we stole from you?” they ask plaintively. “We are rich and comfortable and satisfied, and it’s becoming extremely old-fashioned to go on fighting this way. If you haven’t enough oil wells or wheat fields or seaports—forget it! We’re using all we need, and we mean to hold several we don’t nerd, and that’s all there is to it!” Anything like conferences, conces sions, understandings, plans, maps —anything like sympathy with your neighbors, friendly talks, payments, apparently never enters the heads of European leaders. When they become frightened over the weak ness of their positions then they be gin feverishly to arm. Arms are still the only arguments, on the oth er side of the water. Cry ‘Peace’ With Pockets Full. Oh, of course they SAY ‘peace!” But they say it as robbers might, leaving your house with his arms full of your possessions. They say it. as a rich sleepy old lady might to a noisy outburst from beggar children. “Do go away and stop bothering me. If you haven’t any bread, try eclairs!” They never say it in hon est generosity; they never say, “We’ll forgive, we’ll forget, we give back this and help you buy that.” Never. Bur one great nation has done something in her short history to start a new fashion. America has always been shy about taking war spoils. After the great war she in nocently protested against the com placent partition and theft that was going on so gaily among the allies. It wasn’t her way to rob a fallen enemy, even under the dignified dis guise of a “treaty.” She would have none of it. The American Way. Earlier, she made the Louisiam purchase and paid for it, and France has never questioned her claims to it, nor hated her for having it. America, to a chorus of derisive laughter from Europe, paid for the Philippines. When she wanted Alaska, she bought it: Europe couldn’t get over the joke! A great nation, with an army, buying a place that was undefem’sd, almost unoccupied, and that could have been taken at the cost of only a tew American and Russian lives! But America made a friend and not an enemy of Russia, and that isn’t so bad an investment SOS Led Graf Spee Into Trap British Admiralty Reveals Real Facts of Battle With German Ship. LONDON.—The German pocket battleship Graf Spee was located by an SOS flashed by the British steam er Doric Star, which enabled Sir Henry Harwood, commander of the cruiser squadron, to make contact with the raider off the Plata, it has been revealed. The Doric Star, a new 10,086-ton refrigerator ship, was lost off the South African coast early in Decem ber. The Walvis bay radio station picked up the terse message “gunned” from the ship and after that nothing definitely was known of its fate until after the Graf Spee battle. The facts of the battle, brought out in a new admiralty account just pub lished, show that at the time the British cruiser squadron was below full strength. The 10,000-ton Cum berland, the most powerfully armed unit of the squadron, was not with the Achilles, Ajax and Exeter. The big cruiser, running at full speed, did not reach the River Plata until 34 hours later. Tell of Captain’s Errors. The admiralty report points out that Capt. Hans Langsdorff of the Graf Spee made the initial mistake of “splitting” his fire when attacked by the Exeter on one side and the Ajax and the Achilles on the other. The 8-inch guns of the Exeter seemed to worry the Graf Spee from the moment the battle opened, but it was not until five minutes later that the pocket battleship concentrated its main battery of 11-inch guns on this cruiser. The Graf Spee opened fire **t 6:18 a. m., the Exeter at C:20 and the other two at 6:21 and 3:23. Two of the Exeter’s 8-inch guns had been put out of action and other damage done that tempora ily put the ship out of control. Continuous action ceased at 7:40, having for the last hour virtually resolved itself into a chase of the Graf Spee, which again and again attempted to get away under cover of smoke screens. The Exeter’s second pair of 8-inch guns were knocked out and a fierce fire had developed between decks. Notwith standing this, the cruiser re-entered the action. It had a seven-degree list and was down by the bow but still steaming full power ahead and firing with the two remaining guns. ‘Seaman Boy’ Hero. In the Achilles, the main gunnery control position was momentarily put out of action by shell splinters which killed four crew men and stunned the gunnery officer but a “seaman boy behaved with great coolness and despite the carnage around him continued passing infor mation to the guns.” After a further graphic description of the progress of the battle, the Ajax and the Achilles, it is ex plained, continued to shadow the Graf Spee closely and drove it into Montevideo Roads just after mid night. Great tribute is paid in the report to the engine room and boiler per sonnel of the British warships. “In the boiler rooms” it is stated, “gun blast caused the flames to leap about a foot out of the front of the fur naces, yet the stokers, many of them youngsters, never paused in their work or moved back from the boilers.” Democratic Nominees Plan Campaign Strategy Unlike Republican presidential and vice presidential nominees Wendell L. Willkie and Sen. Charles L. Mc- Nary who had never met before their selection as the party’s 1940 standard bearers, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace, the Democratic candidates, have been closely associated in the past seven and a half years. President Roosevelt aid Secretary of Agriculture Wallace are shown above conferring on strategy for the coming campaign in which the President will seek a third term. | Au Thornton Burg*ess ; BULLY IS PERSISTENT Persist, persist, and still persist And than persist some more; And when it seems no use at all Persist Just as before. T HAT seems to be the motto that Bully the English Sparrow be lieves in and tried to live up to. It is a good motto. Yes, indeed, it is a very good motto, when it is right ly used. You know that to persist means to keep always trying and trying over and over again. So it is The next day he visited the Old Orchard to see if Bully had left. always perfectly splendid to persist in things that are right. But always be sure that you are right, before you persist, because if you don’t you may fare no better than did Bully. When Farmer Brown’s boy pulled Bully’s nest out of the hole in the apple tree in the Old Orchard and tore it to pieces and carried away the six eggs that were in it he thought that Bully and his wife would surely leave the Old Orchard. That is why he did what seemed like such a dreadful thing. He want ed them to leave the Old Orchard, because he knew that if they didn’t the other birds would, and that would be truly dreadful. He knew that other little feathered people Sino-Japanese War Goes Savagely Ahead While the war in Europe has diverted attention away from the Sino- iapanese conflicts, scenes like the one above show that hostilities are still in progress. The Japanese soldier is one of a party wiping out the streets of Ichang, one of the most important strategic points in the defending army of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. A bomb explodes in the background. simply couldn’t live with such noisy, quarrelsome neighbors as Bully and his wife, and wouldn’t live there. He knew that unless something was done, the Bullys would have the Old Orchard to themselves the next spring, and then how the worms and the insects would thrive on the trees! But he couldn’t quite make up his mind to kill or really hurt Bully and Mrs. Bully, so he thought that if he took their eggs and de stroyed their nest there couldn’t be any baby sparrows to grow up and make more trouble, and then per haps Bully and his wife would go away from the Old Orchard. But Farmer Brown’s boy didn’t know Bully. No, indeed! He didn’t know how persistent Bully can be. The next day he visited the Old Or chard to ' re if Bully had left. What do you think he found? Why, he found that Bully and his wife had a new nest half built in the very same hole that the old one had been in! He tore this to pieces only to find another on the next day. And so it was oft the following day and the day after that Farmer Brown’s boy just had to admire the spunk and per sistence, of Bully and Mrs. Bully. “You certainly deserve to be left alone,” said he, “but I can’t do it. You are a nuisance, and so you have got to go if I have to come here and break up your nest every day all summer." A day or two after that Farmer Brown’s boy found no nest when he put his hand in the hollow of the tree. “At last they’ve given up,” thought he. “I hope they have left the Old Orchard for good.” He was almost out of the Old Orchard on the other side when his sharp eyes caught sight of a little bird just disappearing in a hole in the very last tree. He walked up and pound ed on the tree. Out popped—whom do you think? Why, Mrs. Bully to be sure! She and Bully were build ing a nest there. It took Farmer Brown’s boy three days to make Bully and his wife understand that they couldn’t build there or any where else in the Old Orchard. Fi nally they g«ve up and flew away. And where do you think they went? Why, straight to Farmer Brown’s barn, and there way up under the leaves, where only the longest lad der could reach them, they built a nest, and raised their young. Farm er Brown’s boy said that such bold ness and impudence deserved a re ward and so as long as they were out of the Old Orchard and not bother ing other birds he would leave them alone. And in the Old Orchard there was great rejoicing, for now no one want ed to move away, and everyone there looked on Farmer Brown’s boy as their friend. G T. W. Burgess.—WNU Service. Woman Proves Capable As Oil Well Cre w Boss GRANDVILLE, MICH.—The skep tics said she wouldn’t last, but Mrs. May Gill had held her job as boss of an oil well casing crew four years and says she could find no more satisfactory employment. Mrs. Gill took over the job when her husband, who held it, was killed in an automobile accident. The ne cessity of supporting her two chil dren made her alert and she soon mastered tfie job, which no other woman in this country is believed to hold. Gopher Turtle Fossil 30,000 Years Old SEBRING, FLA.—The fossU of a prehistoric gcpher turtle esti mated to be 30,000 years old is on display at Highlands Hammock state park near here. The arched shell of the turtle is almost 4 feet high and about 5 feet long. It was believed the reptile weighed more than 1,000 pounds when alive. The fossil was discovered by workmen excavating a water sys tem for the state park. Guns Are Salvaged From Warship Lost 245 Years HOMESTEAD, FLA. — Deep-sea divers have salvaged 45 cannons and other valuable relics from H. M. S. Winchester, a British man of war that went down off the Florida coast 245 years ago. The Winchester sailed from Ja maica in 1695 for England and nev er was heard of until December, 1938, when Charles Brookfield of El liott’s Key and Hugh Matheson of Miami located the sunken warship off Key Largo, near here. Rust, coral and shells chipped from the first cannon salvaged from the vessel revealed the marks of the manufacturer which led to the iden tification of the warship as the Win Chester. Among other interesting articles salvaged in the last year were silver bowl in almost perfect condi tion, bits of hemp rope that were still strong after 245 years of soak ing in salt water and a number of hand grenades of primitive design. Encased in a lump of coral on the side of one of the first cannons sal vaged from the warship were frag ments of a Bible. Printing on the bits of paper was clearly legible. Minute Make-Ups:! By V.V. :: ■yOU can’t expect hair to stay up * by itself when it naturally grows down. Use combs to hold it in place at the sides and to help keep it neat. If you have thin hair, combs often make it look as though it grew luxuriantly. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Now It’s ‘Perching’ Here’s a new term for ‘hose who speak collegiate “slanguage”: If couples at Hiram, Ohio, college de cide to go to a movie, ball game, dance, swim, etc., etc., it’s “perch ing” instead of “dating.” The term had its origin in the days when the popular diversion was to sit on the rail fence at the college. U. S. NAVY MAY ADOPT DIRIGIBLES AS AIRCRAFT CARRIERS WASHINGTON. — The navy de partment has indicated a complete re-examination of lighter-than-air craft as a military weapon, includ ing the possible use of dirigibles as “flying aircraft carriers.” Commander Charles E. Rosen- dahl, who is probably the nation’s best-known lighter-than-air craft ex pert and a survivor of one of the world’s worst dirigible disasters, has been assigned to the office of the secretary of the navy to investi gate all phases of the question. Despite the series of disasters that have overtaken airships of this type in-the United States and other coun tries some experts believe the diri gible has not been given a full op portunity to prove its value. At a hearing of the senate naval affairs committee, former Secretary Charles Edison said he felt not enough work and research had been done on lighter-than-air craft “to prove anything.” In response to questions from com mitteemen, Edison said he “most emphatically” believed this country could develop dirigibles as aircraft carriers. He admitted that the big “sky liners” were vulnerable to attack, but he expressed the belief they were not more so than surface air craft carriers. The flying carrier. he pointed out, could seek protec tion behind clouds and would be considerable faster than “ship” car riers. The navy at present has no rigid lighter-than-air craft. All aircraft of this type met disastrous ends with the exception of the Los Angeles, which was decommissioned. The Shenandoah, Akron and Macon all crashed with considerable loss of life. Economy “I will have 20 candles on my birthday cake.” “Will you light them at both ends?” Not the Speed “You hammer nails like light ning.’ ’ “You mean I’m a fast worker?” “No; you never strike twice in the same place.” It is apparent that the fellow who said: “Deeds, not words, count,” never sent a telegram. Up to Him Play foot—Your face is familiar. Haven't I seen you somewhere? Sally—Perhaps; that’s where I live. Next time you get around that way drop in and see me. INJECTED He—There’s bine blood in my family. She—By transfusion? Stopped Him Tooter—I know a joke you’ll never get, dearie. Miss Tyte—Weil, who said I wanted you? A profile photograph is merely a side show. Seat of Thought Alford—I think that new girl in the office has a soft spot in her heart for me. Says she’s always thinking of me. Baitsky—A girl doesn’t think with her heart. The soft spot must be in her head. SIJOSEPHI ASPIRIN Slow Pace To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. Man in Need A man of many trades begs his bread on Sunday. Wit Predominates There are forty men of wit to one man of sense. » Watch Youk Kidneys/ Help Them Cleanse the BlooA of Harmful Body Waste Your kidneys are constantly filtering waste matter from the blood stream. But kidneys sometimes lag in their work—do not act as Nature intended—fail to ro> move impurities that* if retained* maw poison the system and upset the whole body machinery. Symptoms may be nagging backache* persistent headache* attacks of dizziness, getting up nights* swelling* puffiness under the eyes—a feeling of nervous anxiety and loss of pep and strength* Other signs of kidney or bladder dis order are sometimes burning, scanty or too frequent urination. There should be no doubt that prompt treatment is wiser than neglect. Uso Doan’9 PilU. 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