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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY,.OCTOBER 11, ’940 GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON Jays: Untied Feature* WNU Service Kathleen Norris Says: England Sends Us Her Children (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) WAR DEPARTMENT ‘HARRYS’ WASHINGTON.—There is some thing smelly in the war department. Part of it is too many Harrys. Be cause Harry Woocfring wouldn’t agree with Harry Morgenthau on a restrictive tax policy that paralyzed airplane and other pro duction for about eight months, he had to walk the plank. In his place came another Harry— Wrong-Horse Harry Stimson. He came apparently because he had just made an all-out interventionist speech proposing something per ilously close to a war alliance with England. At least, he proposed the joint use of naval and air bases which would, for all practical pur poses, make us a belligerent in this war. Certainly he didn’t come to speed defeme on the real front of the Bat tle of America—which is. at the mo ment, the industrial front. Nobody can argue that because that would require a dynamic figure—a man who knows something about that job. Wrong-Horse Harry not only doesn’t know anything about it, but he is about as dynamic as a shelled oyster. When he came, the assistant sec retary of war was, by law, charged, under the secretary’s direction, with making plans and preparations for our present two great tasks—indus trial and man power mobilization. A system for this had been under study and discussion for many years. The assistant secretary, Mr. Louis Johnson, after many false starts and a good deal of galloping in place had at last got his stride. He had learned his job. He had finally captured the confidence not only of the army, but also of industry and the public. Things were beginning to hum. The appointment of Mr. Stimson was a direct violation of a promise to him of that portfolio. The promise was not kept and the default proved to be even more than that for Louis Johnson. • • • Mr. Stimson’s first official act was to demand Mr. Johnson’s official head on a silver salver. He wanted his own man. That fratricidal re quest was granted and, regardless of its disconcerting—not to say paralyzing—effect on the Battle of America. Mr. Stimson brought in his own man, Judge Patterson. Bad as this helter-skelter playing of ducks and drakes with national defense might have beer, in 99 out of 100 cases, it turned out that Judge Patterson was just the kind of guy who could overcome the handicap of such reckless monkey- business. He was a soldier himself and a common sense administrator. In record time, he corralled the con fidence of everybody involved, army, industry, public. Then something happened. The President wisely de cided to appoint Judge Advocate General Gullion—a natural—to con duct the selective service draft. Wrong-Horse Harry boiled over. Gullion would be appointed “over his dead body." He wanted Colonel Hershey, whom Gullion Intended to use as his deputy. There is nothing the matter with Hershey. Together, he and Gullion would have been the most perfect team in America. Alone, and next to Gullion, Hershey would be the best selection. That isn’t the point. The point is the testy, crochetty petulance of one, stubborn, feeble old man and his selection of secretary of war in this crisis. In the meantime, the selection of a draft administrator is deferred, “pending agreements,” when such direction is needed—tragically. Also, all these matters are to be taken away from Mr. Stimson’s own hand picked Assistant Secretary Patter son—who was going to town. * • * DRAFT TROUBLE This column recently criticized the appointment of Elliott Roosevelt, aged 30, as captain in the air corps and his assignment to some desk job in procurement. Elliott is with in the selective draft age limits. Al though gazetted as a “specialist,” there is no information that he has any special training or experience either as a soldier or as a purchas ing agent. Now, according to a press dis patch, Elliott says I am a “disgust ing old man,” who went through the last war as a soldier, but served only at a desk. I don’t know what that has to do with the merits of this case. In 1917 I had been a sol dier in the regular army for 18 years. I served in the places I was ordered to serve. Among those places, I was in command of com bat troops—an infantry brigade of the Eighth division. It and I were aboard a convoy destined for France when the Armistice was signed. Elliott is reported as protesting that he didn’t ask for any special assignment and that he wouldn’t have been drafted anyway, because he has a wife and two children. Maybe the boy didn’t ask for any special assignment, but men can be commissioned in the officers Re serve corps only on their own ap plication and request. Such is the taw. The actual draft regulations are not yet published. I don’t know what they will say about married men with children, but this I know from the law itself—there is no such absolute exemption. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL 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 October 13 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. R ATTER.N |\ i, _ r 1T UtPARTM ENT AAAAAAAAAAAAA±A1 THE BOYHOOD OF JESUS taSSON TEXT—Luke 2:40-52. GOLDEN TEXT—And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.—Luke 2:52. CHILD REFUGEES Child refugees sent from England to America for safety offer this coun try the greatest opportunity in history to promote international friendship. Kathleen Norris warns that it is ter ribly important that these children re ceive unusually kind and considerate treatment. They are living in a foreign land among total strangers with differ ent customs. After all, she points out, they are only children with children’s temperament, ill manners and home sickness. That they are trusting us with their children at this time is sure proof of the con fidence and affection that naturally exists between the two great countries. By KATHLEEN NORRIS I T IS a real joy and satisfac tion to the hearts of Ameri can women to know that we are to have as our guests this year several thousand little refugees from war-torn Eng land. I That they are trusting us with their children at this time is sure proof of the confidence and af fection that naturally exists be tween the two great countries. Even those of us who have been most positive against any plan of intervention in this or any other foreign combat, are eager to extend a welcome to the small girls and boys who are to be sent away for awhile to safety. i So they will come trooping over; they will file down from the ships a little scared and more than a little homesick; they will be absorbed into thousands of homes. And for a few days all will be harmony, interest, eagerness to make them feel com fortable and happy. | For a few days. Then the real test will come for both visitors and visited. And we must all hope that when this test comes we will not fail. Again America Sets Example. This is perhaps the first time in the history of the world that one nation has thus extended hospitality to the children of anotlwr. America is often first in setting some exam ple that the whole world presently follows. And surely she has never originated a more important one than this. If it succeeds we will have knitted our hearts to those of England forever. Trade treaties, franchises, taxes, these are cold blooded necessities between nations, and misunderstandings and bitter ness may easily upset them. But when we say to their children: “Come to us for safety and kindness awl good times and friendship,” we do something that goes far higher than any business agreement goes; we begin a new type of international exchange that may be the opening of a better day. If it had been the fashion in Eu rope, during the past 600 or 800 years, to exchange children when children were in danger, how dif ferent might be the history of the world! For we have to remember that the alignment of warring forces has been different in all the wars. For example, 20 years ago French children might well have been sent into Italy or Spain, for France and Italy were on the same side then. Russia might well have welcomed English children, for Russia was one of England’s allies. So that this is a very solemn and significant thing that we are doing. We are saying to England: “we be of one blood, thou and I." We are saving her the keenest pang that her danger knows, the fear for her children, and we are proving that, even though we are not with her in war, what we can do for her with out war we are eager to do. Creates Domestic Problem. But the taking of a strange child into any home is a serious thing. If that child is a small baby it means that one woman’s time is given com pletely over to the baby. If the child is older—and the ages of these chil dren supposedly will range from 6 to 16, then the problem is infinitely complicated. Instead of straight ahead nursery service with bottles and cribs and vegetable soups, the foster mother may in some cases have to deal with temperament, with lack of training, with perhaps a total ignorance of politeness and manners, with homesickness and strangeness and unhappiness. All these children won’t come from the better homes. We have many of those fortunate babies already; the ones who could come over with a good nurse in charge, and are rapturously absorbed by rich grand mothers and friends. Most of the children who are coming will be have much as our own American children would if they were suddenly transplanted from New York or Bos ton or any other American city and suddenly transported to England. Ernest Thompson-Seton once gave in one of his books the jungle’s rule: “if it’s strange, it’s hostile,” and children still retain many of the in stincts of the jungle. In handling these guests we must use infinite patience and tact, and an entirely unreasonable amount of kindness. They mustn’t be disci plined, or subjected to rules, even as much as our own children are. No woman who wants to shelter one should undertake it unless she is willing to regard the experiment with the utmost seriousness, and ex pects no surety of personal pleasure or return from it whatsoever. Keep Arrivals Together. My own hope is that America, rather than scattering the small English arrivals, will keep many of them together in something as like a great boarding-school as possible; will find good-hearted Englishwomen who will understand them, and act as nurses, cooks, guardians, teach ers for them. That would seem to me a far truer hospitality than the seemingly-kindlier one of giving them to individual foster-mothers in scattered homes. There must be in our various cit ies many empty buildings that could easily be fitted with cots and lock ers and refectory tables, and equipped very simply to meet the needs of small children. There are certainly, in all our communities, experienced mothers, doctors, diet specialists to keep an eye on the visitors, and be sure that they have plenty of outside pleasures and ex cursions. Handle With Mass Efficiency. We should make this an under taking entirely separate from the ordinary line of our charities and sympathies, and handle it with mass efficiency, and with the proper pub licity to prevent the difficulties that will be inevitable if the Smiths and the Bakers and the Johnsons all are permitted to stretch out welcoming hands to small Londoners who, with in three weeks will have every member of the household in a state of complete bewilderment and dis comfort. These little war-scared folk are a sacred responsibility; we want them always to remember their American visit as a time of happi ness and affection; we want them to go back as so many separate am bassadors of friendship between one great country and another. One brief but revealing glimpse into the earthly life of our Lord is all we have from His birth to the time when he entered upon His public ministry at His baptism in the Jordan. How appropriate it is | that he was permitted to live those ! years of His life behind the curtain of divine silence. The incident in our lesson shows 1 Jesus at the age of responsibility, and in His Father’s house. This is preceded by one verse which reveals Him as the growing child, and is followed by another verse which tells of his advancement from boy hood into manhood. Luke, who is the only one who presents this sto ry, thus fills out the picture of the divine-human personality of the One Whom he purposes to reveal as the perfect and universal Saviour. I. The Child Grows (v. 40). Like every other child in the world (apart, of course, from any sin or blemish), Jesus grew during the first 12 years of His life on earth. One rightly regards that growth as the normal, happy development of ev ery child, a time of physical devel opment, or carefree play, of learn ing obedience in the household at Nazareth. A child should not bear the burdens of life nor be required to make its weighty decisions. Jesus came into the world to die as the Saviour of sinful men, but for these childhood years we are glad that He just grew, waxed strong in body as well as in spirit, developing mentally, and that in it all “the grace of God was upon him.” May our children have a sim ilar opportunity and privilege! II. The Boy Meets Life’s Re sponsibilities (vv. 41-51). Soon enough came the day when as a “son of the law” Jesus reached the age of accountability and went with His parents to keep the feast of the Passover. He entered the temple, and there took over the re sponsibility for his own religious life, which until then had been borne by His parents. Such a day is of vital importance in the life of every boy and girl, and in the case of Jesus was of special significance. Acting for Himself, He tarried in the temple. As a good learner. He asked and answered questions, at the same time amazing those who heard by His understanding. There His mother (who had shown her con fidence that He was to be trusted to be where He ought to be) found Him after she had looked in vain for Him at eventide in their company on the road. To Him it was the natural and expected thing that He would be in His Father’s house, going about the business of God. He recognized the special relationship between Him self and the Father—His very own Father—and He began to assume the responsibility of His divine mission on earth. He was about to turn the corner from boyhood and start toward man hood, but there were yet 18 years that He was to show His perfect sub mission to the will of God by His obedience to His parents. There is a real lesson there for every grow ing boy and girl. ^ III. The Youth Goes On to Man hood (v. 52). j The curtain is drawn again, and the boy Jesus develops into the man; yes, the man who was to bear on Calvary’s tree your sins and mine. What do we know about these years when a boy with the con sciousness that He must be about His Father’s business went forward to manhood under the loving and i watchful eye of the mother who “kept all these savings in her heart” (v. 51)? Only what Luke tells us, but that is a great deal. Jesus “advanced,” the word be ing entirely different in meaning from the “grew” of verse 40. The child grows without any thought or purpose of doing so, but the boy pressing on to manhood has to beat his way forward, cutting a path through life to his goal. | The fact that Jesus did that should encourage every young man and woman who is doing the same in a difficult and hostile world, and cause them to seek the daily companion- { ship and help of the Son of God and Son of Man who has passed that way before them. The development here puts the mental first, then the physical. The latter is important, but must be un der control of the former. Crown ing them both is His growth in grace, fellowship with God and fel lowship with men, the latter glori fied and made useful by the former, j Here again we may learn of Him who, though the Son of God with power, was obedient to the limita tions of the humanity He had taken, 1 and yet advanced “in wisdom and ! stature, and in favor with God and j man” (v. 52). 1 DICTURE yourself in this suave, lovely afternoon frock with fluid, sculptured lines which make every step a poem! Your figure will look slim at the waist and hips and prettily rounded above the nice flat diaphragm! You can brighten the high neckline with a blazing gold necklace, or snowy pearls, or pin one of the extrava gant new chatelaines at the point of the shoulder yoke! This need not be just a pleasant imagining, because if you write at once for pattern No. 1209-B, you can have the dress easily fin ished before a week is up. In rayon jersey, flat crepe or thin wool, it will give a definite feeling of fall chic. 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