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■y—r~ «n)B NEWBERRY SUN mn 1218 College Street OtJTH CAROLINA NEWBERRY. SO O. P. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher Published Every Friday In The Year Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at tht postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879, </> <0 <0 </> UJ ll. </> SPECTATOR Men may dream of conquering the world; and may be fired by an am bition to hold in subjection all men and all lands; they may even set out to accomplish all this. The impend ing collapse of Hitler’s empire is just another colossal wreckage on the road to arrogant imperialism. History repeats itself; and human vanity and lust for power appear throughout the centuries. Who were the great'empire-build ers? Napoleon said "Alexander, Charlemagne and myself built great empires”. He did not include any of the Caesars, and, of course, the British imperialists grew bolder after his time; and Hitler had not been, thought of If we accept Napoleon’s judge ment we may look at Alexander, Charlemagne and Napoleon, adding Hitler, as the modern type. As Victor Hugo wrote of Napo leon, th< God of Battles seems to let these bold adventurers go a long way; He may even use them in some measure; but He finally rebukes their presumtion and lets them crash under the weight of opposition they have provoked. , Who was Alexander, the first of the three Empire founders? The illustrious son of the renouned Phil lip of Macedonia. A great father and a great son. Phillip, whose ex ploits made him famous, was Jthe chieftain at whom the Greek orator, Demosthenis hurled his most en venomed epithets. Even today, a bitter denunciation of a man is re ferred to as a Philippic, because of the world’s most celebrated orator. Alexander, of whom it is said “that his achievements on the field of battle stand unsurpassed in the world's history', . came to the throne of Macedonia at the age of twenty and died at thirty two. Within nine months of becoming King Alexander waged so many successful campaigns that it was said that “no equal mill' tary genius had appeared on the earth”. During his reign of twelve years he marched to the confines of the earth, as then known, and never suffered defeat. Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, became King of the Franks more than a thousand years after the era of Alexander. In the meantime Hanni bal, Scipio and Caesar flourished and passed away. Napoleon didn’t men tion them. Charlemagne united all the Teutonic tribes and governed what is today France, Germany and Austria, parts of Spain and Italy, Belgium and Holland. He was the the great champion of Christianity and protector of the church Let us, take up Napoleon, the poor military cadet from Corsica who made himself Emperor of the French and is yet the idol of Frenchmen. Na poleon first came to public notice' in emergencies. Whatever flavor he enjoyed was based on proved mili tary ability. He justified the con fidence of his sponsors and far ex ceeded • all their expectations. When with 6000 men he mowed down the ranks of the forty thousand who stormed the center of government, he merely coped with a problem which daunted others. At twenty- six he was given command of the campaign in Italy. If this was a sign of partiality it was the sort which would delight the heart of one who had great confidence in his own pow ers and knew nothing of fear. It was apparently an impossible task which was given him. Napoleon was one of the trans cendent geniuses of war. In ten years he rose from an inferior com mission in the army to be Emperor of the French, and successor to Charlemagne as King of Italy, wear ing Lombardy’s iron crown, which Charlemagne had worn. He made himself supreme over Holland, Ger many, Italy, Spain, France; he was master in Sweden and a great part of Russia. Napoleon was not only a great military leader, an unrivalled strate gist in planning, a resourceful tacti tian on the field, but he was a law giver, the Code Napoleon still does him honor. Ho was a great civil re former and an efficient ruler. His armies had swept and swarmed over Italy, Austria, Spain, Germany and on to Moscow. What stopped him? Victor Hugo is credited with the ob servation that the God of Battles in. tervened. A well-known historian says of Napoleon, “The fall of Napoleon taught some awful and impressive lessons to humanity. . . .It taught the utter vanity of military glory; that peace with neighbors is the greatest of national blessings; and war the greatest of evils; that no success on the battlefield can com pensate for the miseries of an un just and unnecessary war; and that avenging justice will sooner or la ter overtake the wickedness of a heartless egotism. It taught the folly of worshipping mere outward strength,” disconnected from right eous aims. What can we say of Hitler? Hitier found Germany still com posed of small kingdoms, principali ties and other units. Although Na poleon did something to unify Ger many; and Bismark went further, bringing the units into an empire, there was yet something to be done Continued on back page . ■ YOU'RE ALWAYS WELCOME AT SMITH'S FRIDAY. 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