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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
Washington, D. C.
RUSSIA AND ALLIES
SAN FRANCISCO. — To the aver-
age outsider, the most difficult thing
to understand about this conference
is the attitude of the Russians. Poor
press relations, plus a few inept
moves have melted down a large
mountain of goodwill built up by the
valor of the Red army. In a few
short days they have destroyed
much of the favorable sentiment in
Latin America, and through no fault
of ours, won us more friends below
the Rio Grande than we ever had
before.
One of the things Molotov did in
San Francisco was to invite two
prominent Latin - American dele
gates to dinner at the Russian con
sulate, along with a few carefully
selected Europeans. Latin guests
were Mexico’s tall, handsome For
eign Minister Padilla, and Chile’s
aristocratic Foreign Minister Jo
aquin Fernandez Y Fernandez, who
is rapidly assuming a new leader
ship in Latin America.
Molotov drank a toast to Chile
and her new establishment of diplo
matic relations with Russia.
“There are so many Chileans who
want to become Ambassador to Mos
cow,” joked Foreign Minister Fer
nandez in return, “that it is one of
my greatest problems.” Mexico’s
Padilla, apparently on excellent
terms with Molotov, said: “All Latin
America would be pleased if, our
sister republic, Argentina, was ad
mitted to the conference.”
Molotov, in mellow mood, seemed
to register no objection.
Mood Changes.
But a day later the mood was dit-
ferent. Padilla arose in secret ses
sion to propose Secretary Stettinius
as permanent chairman of the con
ference. Molotov promptly objected..
He pointed out that four countries
had invited the other nations to at
tend this conference and that the
representatives of all four host
countries should rotate as chairman.
Foreign Minister Padilla then de
livered a recitation of previous
precedents where the nation which
served as host also acted as chair
man. When he had finished, Molo
tov, who had already pointed out
that four nations were hosts, got up
and remarked:
“I am glad to be instructed in
diplomatic procedure by the
delegate of Mexico, but appar
ently he prepared his little
speech before he heard my
view.’'
Padilla, who had not read his
speech, was taken aback. He mum
bled something about always being
prepared when he attended a con
ference, and sat down. After a long,
hot debate, Molotov won his point.
But the manner in which he jumped
on the Mexican lost him friends. A
lot of Latins, jealous of Padilla’s
brilliant oratory, previously had
been opposed to him. But Molotov
veered them in the opposite direc
tion.
Next day, in secret session, For
eign Minister Jan Masaryk of
Czechoslovakia, a nation cooperat
ing with Russia, pointed to the va
cant chair of Poland and moved that
the Lublin government be admitted.
Foreign Minister Subasich of Yugo
slavia, also close to Russia, sec
onded the motion. Whereupon, An
thony Eden, white-faced and prim,
emphatically opposed. There fol
lowed more hot debate.
Finally, to break the deadlock,
Foreign Minister Spaak of Belgium
proposed a compromise resolution
expressing sympathy with Poland
and hoping that she could be ad
mitted soon. Genial, rotund Ambas
sador Caceres of Honduras, a great
friend of the U.S.A., rose to second
Belgium.
Whereupon Molotov cracked back:
“Notwithstanding the support of the
Republic of Honduras, the Soviet
Union stands by its position.”
Delegates Startled.
A note of biting sarcasm rang
through Molotov’s voice which
startled the delegates. It sounded
as if the powerful Soviet Union, rep
resenting the greatest land-mass in
the world, was trying to put the
tiniest republic in Latin America in
its place. Again, Russia lost more
friends. And later when the vote
was taken on seating Lublin Poland,
she lost that also.
These are some of the things
about the Russians that take a
lot of understanding. On the
other hand, when Molotov, after
winning his point on rotating the
chairmanship, finally sat in Stet
tinius’ plac£, he did an excellent
job. He got off a little gag about
being glad the conference would
now have an opportunity to hear
Russian, and proceeded to han
dle the session in most expert
manner.
WNliM*
PRIVATE PURKEY AT
SAN FRANCISCO
Dear Ed: Well I am out here at
the San Francisco world huddle on
“What is the Best Way for a World
to Stop Cutting Its Own Throat” , t
and, all I can say is that if the boys knows more about rookies and has
don t get together on it this time had more good beginners than any-
| one else in base
ball. Year after
"VX/’HO will be the rookie of the
’ ’ year for 1945, a year when
rookies are about as scarce as wild
turkeys that feed out of your hand?
Sam Breadon, the Irish - panned
owner of the St. Louis Cardinals,
they are crazier than was even sus
pected.
I got one piece of advice for them
which I took from a piece of sheet
music. It is “Accentuate the posi
tive, minermize the negative and
don’t mess with Mister-In-Between.”
That should be the slogan here from
start to finish.
*
A lot of people has got the idea
this is a peace conference, which is
gooney on account of you can’t
hold no peace conference until a
war is over and the only people who
think this global shindig is over are
the ones who are too busy in dark
cellars raising mushrooms at home
to know what goes on outdoors.
This is just a conference to keep the
fire from breaking out all over again
once it gets put out.
*
It is suffering from overcrowd
ing, bad ventilation, mutual suspi
cions, long speeches and difficulty
getting pants back from the suit
pressers on time. There is more
jealousies than you would find at a
party thrown for Frankie Sinatra by
a bunch of bobby-sockers, and there
have even been a couple of good
fights in the halls and out behind
the garage. But everybody here
knows just the same that they all
got to get together on an antisuicide
pact or spend the rest of their lives
trying to outguess jet bombs.
*
Don’t worry too much about the
Polish situation. This is a tough one
and it is too bad. But it can wait.
Letting it stymie this meeting is
just the same as if a lot of neigh
bors outside a burning village held
a emergency meeting to make plans
for bigger hydrants, but decided to
have a argument first over whether
one of the firemen fell off a ladder
or was pushed.
*
The one need of the world after
this war is going to be a League
of Nations with guts instead of um
brellas. And it has got to have a
headquarters without no golf links
attached.
' *
So I don’t think the pussyfooters,
rubber backbone boys, fixers and
fancy waltzers is going to get no
where at this meeting, even if I
admit some of ’em is getting a lot of
headlines.
This is a pretty screwy world but
I still think it is not 100 per cent
nuts yet.
As ever, Oscar.
fear, the Cardinals
have come up with
recruits who proved
to be better than
many well - known
veteran stars.
Breadon keeps his
eyes on the kids.
Their salaries are
never too high, but
St. Louis is far
I from being the hot-
I test baseball town
Grantland Rice
CAPITOL CHAFF
C. The post office department plans
to start a new drive to stop the pub
lic from shipping bottled liquor to
servicemen overseas. . . . Shipment
of liquor overseas is illegal, and
when the post office catches it, the
liquor is sent to veterans’ hospitals.
C. Postal authorities are also
alarmed over the big increase in the
number of soldiers’ allotment
checks being stolen from mail
boxes. . . . One postal inspector in
New York arrested 18 people in a
single day for stealing checks
CIRCUS BACK HOME
Dear Hi: ’Member when the cir
cus used to come to our town; how
you got up at 4 a.m. and was
down at the railroad yards to see
them unload; begged for a chance
to carry water to the elephants
(sometimes brought a pail along
with you to show you meant busi
ness) in exchange for an admis
sion ticket; rushed home and gob
bled up (or down) your breakfast
so as to be downtown in time for
the parade; followed it up to the
grounds so as to see the "free show”
as soon as the procession got to the
“big top?” Then gulped down two or
more glasses of "red lemonade”;
was one of the first to buy a ticket
of the fellow who always wore a silk
hat and held the bills between the
fingers of one hand while passing
out red tickets to the pushing crowd;
spent an hour in the animal tent;
looked for the octopus which the pos
ters had shown as attacking a four-
masted schooner, its arms clutching
all the topmasts while sailors with
axes were trying to slay the mon
ster, and then found the object of
your search to be dead, dried up
and fastened to a frame only about
8 feet square?
•
Then get Inside and.set through
an hour or so of thrills that gave
you the creeps up and down your
back; bought a bag of peanuts; lost
your heart to the girl in pink tights
performing on the most beautiful
black horse you ever hoped to see;
lamented the fact that you didn’t
have an extra dime so as to see
the most stupendous, extrava
ganza the world has ever seen, to
be presented immediately after the
performance”?
•
I’m in the throes of incipient nos
talgia. Even a steam calliope
couldn’t break my dream.
Well, the big league baseball
magnates, after a winter spent
shivering for fear they might
name somebody to succeed Judge
Kenesaw Mountain Landis who
would be like Judge Landis, have
named Senator “Happy” Chand
ler to the job. He reminds them
of the judge, because he is so dif
ferent.
Maybe, after all, the Landis
set-up was wrong. He should have
been called “Dimples” Landis.
in the country, so far as attend
ance figures show.
You can understand Sam Bread-
on’s enthusiasm when he figures
that he has not only the best rookie
of 1945, but one of the best of all
time.
All of the aforementioned is by
way of leading up to a recent re
mark made by Breadon as he
watched Billy Southworth ready his
Cardinals for another National
league campaign. The experts were
saying that the Cards were a cinch
and that the all-time record of four
straight 100-a-year victories was as
good as in A1 Munro Elias’s statis
tics, but Breadon wasn’t thinking
about the Cards in general but of a
freckled-faced kid playing left field,
‘Better Than MusiaV
“He’s a better prospect right now
than was Stan Musial when he re
ported to us,” remarked Breadon—
and a half dozen reporters’ pencils
dug into note pads almost before
Sam’s words were dry in the hot St.
Louis air.
“Better than Musial? Say, wasn’t
that taking in a lot of territory?”
“Well,” Breadon hastened to re
mark, “I mean he can do more
things. He’s a good infielder; he can
play the outfield as you now see.
We could use him at second, short,
third, left, center or right and stop
worrying about any position he took
over. He’s as fast as they come
and those minor league batting
averages are no flukes. Watch him.
He’s the rookie of the year.”
And who was the target of all this
tall praise? Well, you’ll hear a lot
about him this year—Albert (Red)
Schoendienst, a typesetter’s head
ache but a manager’s dream.
Here’s a player who has been
headline bait ever since he walked
into a ball park. Well, almost since
that first day. The weight of num
bers obscured his first trek to
Sportsmen’s Park for he was one
of 300 or 400 kids invited in 1942
for a tryout school. As a matter of
fact, Schoendienst just walked in
with a pal from Germantown, 111.,
and told the Cardinal scouts he
would like to be a ball player. He
was put through a series of tests—
races, throwing contests, batting
drills—and, after the scouts had pre
pared a few notes on him he was
excused and told he could stay for
the ball game that afternoon of June
18,1942. He returned home not know
ing when he would be called again.
Quickly Signed Up
He didn’t have to wait long. The
Cardinals’ Union City, Tenn. team
in the Kitty league sent an SOS to
the parent ball club and the St. Louis
board of strategy, after a hurried
meeting, decided to sign up the kid
redhead.
As I said, Schoendienst was head
line-happy from the start. He was
batting .407 when the league dis
banded and finished the season with
Albany, Ga., where he hit .269. The
spring of ’43 found him at Ports
mouth (Piedmont league) but when
he opened the season with eight
straight hits he was rushed up
to Rochester where Pepper Martin
found him as enjoyable as an old
Western “gee-tah.” Schoendienst re
sumed his blasting in his new uni
form, finished the season with an
average of .337, and was declared
the league’s most valuable player—
an unusual honor for a rookie.
After 25 games in 1944, in which
he hit .373, he was called into the
army.
An old eye injury caused him to
be discharged. In fact, his left eye
is practically blind. But this is an
era when men overcome handicaps
such as these and Schoendienst did
so by becoming a switch hitter. Now
experts will tell you he packs
more punch as a southpaw swatter
than he does as a right-handed rap
per, his original stance at the plate.
Gordon or Doerr?
One of the main arguments among
war hospital partisans is the choice
between Joe Gordon of the Yankees
and Bobby Doerr of the Red Sox.
Here’s part of the answer—Gor
don’s five-year batting average was
.284 — Doerr’s seven year average
was around .293. Gordon in his five
years belted out 125 home runs
while Doerr in his seven years hit
only 87 four-baggers. Gordon also
had a good lead in the matter of
runs-batted-in. This leaves them
pretty well matched offensively.
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UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
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chool iLesson
Bv HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for May 20
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by Internationa]
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
THE DEFEAT OF THE
SOUTHERN KINGDOM
LESSON TEXT—Jeremiah 18:1-10, ISa. 17a.
GOLDEN TEXT—Come, and let us re
turn unto the Lord.—Hosea 6:1.
History repeats itself. Men never
seem to learn from the experiences
jf others, whether they be personal
or national. Judah, the southern
part of the divided kingdom, saw the
downward path of Israel and its ul
timate captivity. The same process
went on in Judah, although hindered
now and then by good kings who
Drought about a partial return to
God.
Ultimately the day came when
Jerusalem was destroyed by
Nebuchadnezzar’s troops and the
people carried off to their long years
jf captivity in Babylon.
Jeremiah ministered as God’s
prophet during Judah’s declining
years, bringing them God’s word of
judgment for their sins and urging
them to submit. His voice was un
needed and for his faithfulness he
received only their hatred and per
secution. God gave him the strength
and grace to be true in a very diffi
cult mission.
Our lesson for today tells how God
in a graphic object lesson taught the
prophet and the people that they
were in the hands of a sympathetic
but at the same time a sovereign
God.
I. The Potter and His Work (vv.
1-4).
The maker of pottery took the
lump of clay, placed it on his wheel,
and with his hand formed it into
the kind of vessel he wanted. If it
became misshapen or showed a de
tect, he could moisten and remold
the clay into another vessel as it
suited him. The clay was in his
hand to meet his purpose and his
will.
Dr. G. Campbell Morgan fittingly
suggests that there are three things
to be borne in mind here: a prin
ciple, a purpose, and a person. And
as we apply the truth to ourselves as
God’s children, we spell the Per
son of the Potter with a capital “P,”
for He is none other than God Him
self.
The principle is that God is abso
lutely sovereign, that He does as He
wills for His own glory. Until we
recognize that principle, “life wilt be
a failure. If, however, I have dis
covered this principle alone, then my
soul will be filled with terror. I
must also see the purpose.”
The purpose is the working out of
His will for each of us. He knows
us, and He has a plan for our lives,
and is able to make that plan come
to pass if we permit Him to do so.
But, as Dr. Morgan says, “if I
know principle and purpose only, I
shall yet tremble and wonder, and
be filled with a haunting foreboding.”
But as “I press through the principle
and beyond the purpose and discov
er the Person of the Potter, then the
purpose will flame with light, and
the principle that appears so hard
and severe will become the sweetest
and tenderest thing in my life.”
God spoke to Jeremiah through the
scene in the potter’s house, and He
also wants to talk to our hearts.
II. God and Judah (vv. 5-10, 15a,
17a).
The lesson is plain. God had for
His people a high and glorious pur
pose. He wanted to bless them and
use them for His glory. But they
were a sinful and rebellious people,
stiff-necked and stubborn in their un
belief, and the vessel of honor which
God was trying to form was marred
in His hand.
God did not act in anger or in
disregard of their rights. He was
forced to bring judgment upon them
because of their own sin. That sin
is stated in verse 15—they had for
gotten God.
One trembles as he applies that
test of God’s requirement for bless
ing upon a nation to our own land.
There is a haunting fear that while
there are some who truly worship
God, and a larger number who pro
fess to worship Him, a great host of
the people of America have forgot
ten God.
Does our nation remember Him
and seek His counsel and blessing
in its national affairs? Do we in
quire after the ways of righteous
ness? Are we eager for spiritual
revival and increasing grace even
within the church?
Judah was to be scattered “as
with an east wind”—and who does
not know that it came to pass. Where
are they today?
But even in the midst of judgment
the Lord speaks of mercy. The Lord
who will “pluck up, break down and
destroy” (v. 7) the people who forget
Him, is eager and ready “to build
and to plant” the nation when it
turns to Him.
The sure promise of God’s future
blessing upon a repentant Israel and
Judah is written large in the mes
sages of all the prophets.
The same God, eternally sovereign
in His purpose, is our heavenly Fa
ther. The man or woman whose ves
sel of life has been marred by sin
and failure need only yield anew to
the Potter’s blessed hand.
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Few rings have fc<*en connected
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French foreign minister in 1871,
employed it to seal the disastrous
armistice of the Franco-Prussian
war.
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As this jelly produces a cohesive
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