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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?
• * *
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• • •
“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.
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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-
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