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>*** * THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ APRIL 3, 1942 Washington, D. C. SENIORITY War and Navy Secretaries Stim- son and Knox let the senate foreign relations committee in on a number of military secrets, which cannot be disclosed, when they testified be hind closed doors on the $500,000,000 loan to China. In return, the cabinet officers were vouchsafed a political secret by Senator Tom Connally, committee chairman, which can be told. The courtly Texan was confronted with a problem in protocol in trying to decide whether Stimson or Knox should be the first witness. Final ly, he turned to the 74-year-old war secretary and said: “Mr. Stimson, we will hear you first. I believe you have seniority.’’ “I won’t stand on my seniority if you prefer hearing Mr. Knox,’’ smiled Stimson. "Oh, we insist,” said Connally. "We are great believers in seniority here in the senate. If that weren’t so, some of us com mittee chairmen wouldn’t have our jobs.” Note: Though not named by Con nally, Senator Reynolds of North Carolina, chairman of military af fairs, is definitely in this category. Able Senator Austin, though a Re publican, does the real work of the senate military affairs committee. • • • ARMY GOES TO SEA A hot, backstage fight between the army, navy and maritime com mission has developed over Brig. Gen. Charles P. Gross and his am bitious plan for the army to take over all war shipping. The row has even gone up to Harry Hopkins and to Transportation Czar Joe East man, so far without settlement. Crux of the battle is that General Gross, an infantry officer recently placed in charge of army transpor tation, is eager to take over docks, ships, rails and inland transporta tion, operate all of the supply ships which now sail under the maritime commission and the navy. The maritime commission and the navy, however, claim that the job of the army is to remain on the land, and they will handle water transportation. Before the sea-dogs realized what was happening, however. General Gross had quietly written out an or der and taken it to Joe Eastman, who was on the verge of signing it. Gross is under General Somerville, the quartermaster general, who was New York WPA administrator under Harry Hopkins, and Somerville has pushed the plan with his old friend in the White House. However, ex-Budget Director Lew-, is Douglas, newest addition to the maritime commission, so far has blocked the army grab. He claims the army has enough to do fight ing, without sailing ships. * * • BRITISH RED TAPE “There’ll always be an England" but 17. S. fliers now trying to save India are wondering why. British officials in India don’t want them to enter India until 31 days after they have taken yellow fever shots. By that time the Japanese, who don’t have to observe the 31-day rule, may obviate the need of V. S. fliers going to India at all. • • • Stopping Inflation Inside fact about the current quar rel over inflation and the farm bill is that sage old Bernie Baruch long ago warned the President, Leon Henderson and the inner circle that they could not stop inflation if they put the brake only on prices. “Price-fixing is like a four-legged chair,” Baruch warned them. “It won’t stand on two legs or even three.” There is no use regulating con sumer prices, he said, unless you also regulate profits, also wages, also farm prices. If one of them gets out of hand, the others will too. Baruch, who was head of the War Industries board in the last war, has been harping on this point for months. He urged congress more than a year ago to adopt a very high excess profits tax to take away all the war profits from industry; and at the same time he urged the President to clamp down on wages as well as prices. The President actually got a little irritated at Baruch’s pounding away on this theme. Today, however, chief resentment of the farm belt is not so much against Roosevelt’s urging that farm prices be kept down, but over the fact that labor’s income has skyrocketed while the farmer’s hasn’t. Furthermore, the farmer complains that he has to pay a lot more for his labor—when he can get it at all—but he can’t in crease his farm prices proportion ately. • • • MERRY-GO-ROUND C. Army, navy and civil defense au thorities rate tall Mayor Ed Kelly of Chicago as the most co-operative and efficient municipal executive on war problems in the country. C Having taught himself Spanish, Good Neighbor-conscious Vice Pres ident Wallace h? ' taken up the study of Portuguese. C. Among agriculture department ir- reverents, the high handed bureau crats of the AAA are known as “clusterheads.” —Buy Defense Bonds— THE STUDY OF A MINUTE MAN The Minute Man came into being at Concord and Lexington. He was so called because the ques tion of hours didn’t bother him when trying to win a war. With him a minute was 60 sec onds and even if it ran into 62 he didn’t demand overtime. When his country wanted him, a minute’s notice was plenty. He was so loyal he would even take your version of what time it was. * • • The Minute Man was a Minute Man and never a Four-Minute Egg. He realized that a minute is a long time when somebody’s life is at stake. He knew a minute was 60 seconds and not subject to change without notice. He knew there were 60 minutes in an hour but he acted as diligently as if he were afraid there might be only 59. He stood ready to fight at a min ute’s notice but didn’t squawk if he got only 30 seconds. He never put off till the mor row the bull’s-eye he could make to day. He never heard of the word com placency, but if it had been ex plained to him he would have thought himself guilty if he had stopped to look around between shots. His slogan was, “Don’t shoot till you see the whites of their eyes!” but he gets ’em now when he senses the black of their hearts. When life and liberty were in volved he knew no form of compro mise that didn’t depend on marks manship. The Minute Man hadn’t even a half second for an appeaser. He was no luxury hound even when the going was good, and when the going was tough he thought he was well fixed if he had a fair sup ply of dry powder and bullets. He never left to any commit tee, agency or board anything he could do himself. He never confused an attack with an appropriation. • * • To a Minute Man every minute counted in the job of licking the foe and he never argued over hours. He didn’t worry about the peace until he had won the fight. It never entered his head that he could do his duty in a free-for-all fight by buying some stamps, ap pearing at a benefit or offering to spend two hours on a roof every other week, unless he was over 60. Nothing would have disturbed him less than a reduction in luxury transportation, less rubber in his suspenders and a room in which the temperature got below 70. • • • He knew all the Indians were in the woods and not in his legislative bodies. He was brave and rugged but he thought one war at a time was enough. He never called his fight a “defense” effort and was always out to lick the fellow who start ed the trouble. He didn’t need long and frequent speeches to make him understand he was in a battle. In his most desperate minutes the Minute Man never gave any part of a minute to worrying about his morale. It would have taken too many hours. The Minute Man was an all-year- round man every second. • » • NO DETOURS I cannot buy a radio, I’ve got to scrimp on gas, My tires they are going fast, I’rn low on oil, alas!” I’m running low on beer (canned)— Of sugar I am short; If I should get a new sedan I’d finish in a court. No longer can I buy a gun— There is a ban on rope; The more I think of it I know That Sherman had the dope! • • • “Washington Has Blackout.”— Headline. « * • How does a congressman know when he is in a blackout and when he is not? • * * And We Do Card Tricks, Too, Mister “WANTED — Secretary-stenogra pher; alert, ambitious, aggressive, attractive, refined, helpful, dependa ble, resourceful, excellent English correspondent, capable writing own letters; accurate in detail, good at figures, capable assume full respon sibility, religion, education, experi ence, references; phone number S 968 Times.”—N. Y. Times. • • • “U. S. to Delay in Collecting Lease-Lend Debt.”—Headline. Nov- «r was a truer word spoken. Everybody Lends'Hand to Defense of Australia There is no city in Australia that can quietly sit back with the assurance that it will not be bombed by Japs. In the picture at the left, Melbourne, city employees are doing their Austraiia-day task, erecting an ARP sandbag barricade outside of their working premises. Right: Members of the anti-aircraft battery man a height and range-finder at an action station in Darwin, Australia. The men work stripped to their waists. Mississippi Digs Out of Tornado’s Wreckage Homes were leveled and roUed together as so much paper by a tornado which swept tbrongh Missis sippi and laid low farm buildings and towns in its wake. In the upper picture convicts from a nearby prison remove a great store of hay which fell upon livestock when the wind played havoc with it, at Ber- clair, Miss. Lower picture was taken at Grenada, Miss. The wind that caused this damage just missed a hospital which stood near by. Note the spectators, standing about in dazed wonder. As Convoy Plowed Through S. W. Pacific Another Sea Fighter This photo was mada during the Australian convoy, and shows men of the anti-aircraft battery putting a gun into condition aboard a troop transport. Much of their spare time was used in cleaning and condi tioning their equipment. The 1,700-ton destroyer Frazier, shown as it was launched at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding company yards in San Francisco. It is the fifth of the present series, and was christened by Mrs. R. P. McCul lough, wife of a naval intelligence officer. Cuarding Great Britain’s Coastline MacArthur Trophy To guard against the possibility of a Nazi invasion of England this spring, this “sea fort,” somewhere in the “Northern Command,” stands ready. The fort is heavily manned. Its big guns point out over the nar row sea towards Europe. The picture shows men of the garrison during gun drill. Francis B. Sayre, commissioner of the Philippines, shown on arrival in San Francisco with sword which General MacArthur picked from body of a Jap general—a gift to the President. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson BY HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicafo, (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for April 5 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. CHRIST AND LIFE AFTER DEATH (EASTER) LESSON TEXT—Mark 12:24-27; 1 Corin thians 15:50-58. GOLDEN TEXT—But thanks be to God. which glveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.—I Corinthians 15:57. V for Victory! By that sign have many peoples indicated their con fidence in a victory to come. It is well to have a victorious outlook, but it is even better to be able to look back to victory already at tained. That is just what we are able to do as we consider man’s great and final enemy—death. That victory has been won on behalf of all who believe, by the risen Christ of whom we think in a special way on this Easter day. He is the Lord of the living, not of the dead; those who, even though they may have left this world, have only laid aside the corruptible body for the incorruptible. They are vic torious, even as we are, over death. I. living. Not Dead (Mark 12:24- 27). The Sadducees, a rationalistic sect of Christ’s day, denied the resur rection, and so they were much distressed by His plain teaching of that truth. They therefore devised an intricate hypothetical case (see Mark 12:18-23) and sought to set a trap for Him. But they only caught themselves, for He pointed out to them and to the people that what was wrong with them was that they did not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God. That is precisely what is wrong with the modernists of our day— they misinterpret God’s Word, and they deny His pow.r. Then Jesus turned to them and in place of their fantastic “suppos ing” story He spoke of three real characters from the books of Moses which they taught. He said that God still calls Himself the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, because though they had long been in their graves, they were still alive. God’s fellowship with His people is not merely for the brief life span of this earth, but for eternity. That fact, of course, carries with it the truth of the resurrection. n. Incorruptible, Not Corruptible (I Cor. 15:50-54). Man knows that his earthly body is marked for decay and death. That fact is written in its very members. He also knows that such a body would be entirely, inappropriate for heaven—for eternity. Is he then barred from God’s eternal kingdom? No, indeed, for there is to be a glorious change — the corruptible shall put on incorruptibility. Whether we shall tarry until Je sus comes and be transformed with out dying, or whether we shall await His coming for a time among those who sleep, there will come that trumpet sound, and in the twinkling of an eye we shall be clothed upon with incorruptible bodies like unto His glorious resurrection body (PhiL 3:21). There we have an assurance of victory already won on our be half, which can and does strengthen our souls against the trials and sor rows of life. in. Victorious, Not Defeated (I Cor. 15:55-58). When Satan after a long struggle finally had Christ’s body laid away in the tomb, he thought he had the victory, but just then came his great hour of defeat. “Up from the grave He arose, With a mighty triumph o’er His foes.” “Death could not hold its prey,” for it sought to hold one stronger than itself—the Lord of Life Him self. He had broken the bonds of sin by His sacrifice on Calvary; and since it was sin (the violation of the law) which brought death in the first place (Gen. 2:17; 3:17-19), there was now a complete victory over both sin and death. The one who knows Christ need no longer fear death. For him it is not a leap into the dark, or go ing as a trembling wayfarer into an unknown land. President John Quincy Adams was right when, aged and frail, he replied to a question as to his welfare: “Quite well, thank you. The house in which I live is tottering and trembling, and I may soon have to move out, but I am quite well.” He was ready for the departure into a better land and a better body. Such a hope has fi splendid practi cal application, which Paul stresses in verse 58. With victorious assur ance the believei stands steadfast and unmovable at the center of life, while always abounding in the joys and duties which come at its cir cumference. Likt- the wheel which can be useful only as its center is established and steady, so man can serve the Lord and enjoy a satisfy ing life only as he has the stead fastness of which Paul here speaks. We trust that it is your posses sion by faith in Christ. If not, make it so on this resurrection Sun- This Pattern Will Be Talk of Quilting Bee CPEND your leisure moments ^ with worthwhile handiwork. And what could be better than this lovely quilt, Flower of Spring?, • • •, Pattern 7181 contains the Block Chart; sarefully drawn pattern pieces; color (chemes; directions for quilt; yardage Shart: illustration of quilt. 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