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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Truman, MacArthur Would Accept Presidency “if the People Call”; Great Powers Confer on Palestine Released by WNTJ Feature (EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) The United States is experiencing a steady increase in popula tion. From a range of 2.1 million to 2.3 million in the 1930s, the births rose to 2.9 million in 1943. They totaled 2.7 million in 1945 and then sharply rose again to about 3.9 million in 1947. This sharp rise in births has had the effect of increasing the population some 4.4 million persons since 1945 and 13 million since 1939. PRESIDENCY: Announcements As far as grabbing the spotlight was concerned. President Truman and Gen. Douglas MacArthur stum bled all over each other with their coy and almost simultaneous an nouncements that they would accept a presidential nomination if the peo ple called them. The declarations by the two men, coming within just a few hours of each other, were perhaps a symbolic prelude to a similar but greater clash of personalities and political forces which it is now possible might develop later this year. Mr. Truman said he would run for a full term as chief executive if the Democrats would nominate him; and MacArthur opined that he would accept the presidency “if called by the American people” but would not actually seek it. Taking note of the fact that peti tions have been filed in Wisconsin putting his name in the primary there on April 6, MacArthur issued this sonorous statement; “While it seems unnecessary for me to repeat that I do not actively seek or covet any office and have no plans for leaving my post in Japan, I can say, and with due humility, that I would be recreant to all my concepts of good citizenship were I to shrink because of the hazards and responsibilities involved from ac cepting any public "duty to which I might be called by the American public.” Republicans, however, were going easy in their comments on the gen eral’s willingness to accept presi dential nomination, confining them, for the most part, to peripatetic re marks about What a highly regarded figure MacArthur is. Sen. Ralph Flanders (Rep., Vt.) said, “I think General MacArthur would be doing the country a dis service if he left the job he is in until he has put it in such shape he can leave. That’s the place the Lord put him.” Other politicians were wondering about the spot that the Lord and Harry Truman was putting them on. Southern Democrats, despite Mr. Truman’s announcement of his can didacy, were not budging an inch from their stand opposing him and his civil rights program. Some of the southern states, notably Missis sippi, went right ahead with their plans to prevent their electoral votes from going to him. NEW ATOM: Thorium Already well beyond the awesome threshhold of the atomic age, nu clear scientists are continuing to step deeper into the contradictory wilderness of creation and destruc tion that appeared when the first atomic blast burned up the night and the sands at Los Alamos, N. M. Latest step is the manufacture of the first small pieces of a new kind of atomic bomb and fuel metal, ac cording to an announcement by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, atomic scientist. Where formerly the extremely rare metal uranium 235 was the only practicable substance through which atomic energy could be pro duced, there now is a new metal, | known as uranium 233, made by changing the heavy metal thorium into uranium. This new form of uranium does not exist naturally on earth, nor is it known to exist in the stars. Dr. Seaborg reported that a small fraction of an ounce—actually only a few hundred milligrams—of the thorium metal has been made in the Hanford, Wash., uranium-graphite, chain-reacting atomic piles. PANIC PITCH CONSULTATION: Holy Land Leading experts on global anat omy were getting together in a con sultation to determine whether there was any conceivable way in which they could perform a painless bisec tion of Palestine. , Russia, France, China and the U. S. had been requested by the United Nations security council to hold one of their famous conferences to study how partition of the Holy Land into independent Arab and Jewish states might be effected. Britain, too, had been asked to par ticipate but declined the invitation, although consenting to sit in in the role of advisor. As the consultation got under way, the United States was report ed ready to seek big power agree ment on a new conciliation effort in Palestine. Warren R. Austin, chief U. S. delegate, said he felt the talks should deal primarily with the ques tion of “peaceful settlement.” But while U. N. delegates might talk in New York about a peaceful settlement, Arab military forces on the spot in Palestine had vastly different ideas. Arab Commander-in-Chief Fawzi el Kawkji publicly issued a vow to free Palestine from “the Zionist menace whether it takes one month, one year or a generation.” Red-haired El Kawkji, the Arab chieftain who had led anti-British and anti-Jewish revolts in 1936 and 1939, had just returned to Palestine after an absence of nine years. He came back, he said, to fight “parti tion, intrigue and Zionism.” “We came here to fight anyone who stands for partition, be they British, Jewish or an international force.” What the United Nations con ferees, none of them eager to apply international power in the Holy Land, could do against this kind of gun-waving local zeal was a prob lem which so far had them com pletely baffled. RUHR: Solution One of the major problems of the uneasy peace—what to do with the Ruhr, Germany’s prime industrial section—was solved when the U. S., Great Britain and France agreed in a series of conferences at London that they would place the Ruhr un der international control. It was decided also that the eco nomic and industrial assets of west ern Germany, perennial breeding ground for German war machines, would be enlisted in the Marshall plan for European recovery. Moreover, the western powers agreed that western Germany should have a federal form of gov ernment, providing adequate central authority but protecting the rights of the various states. Indicative of the manner in which statesmen of the western powers are thinking now was the fact that Ger many will be represented in the in ternational control of the Ruhr but that Russia very probably will not. Recognizing the importance of the Ruhr to the recurring surges of German aggression, the conference communique pointed out that “the purpose of this international control would be to ensure that the eco nomic resources of this area should not again be used for the purposes of aggression and that there should be adequate access to the coal, coke and steel of the Ruhr for the benefit of extensive parts of the European community including Germany.” The communique urged the “ne cessity of insuring the economic re construction of western Europe, in cluding Germany”. EDUCATION: And Religion In a ruling that, for good or III, could stand to affect the moral stature of this and succeeding gen erations of Americans, the U. S. supreme court declared unconstitu tional the use of public school sys tems to help any religious group spread its faith. Religion and government, the de cision said, “can best work to achieve their lofty aims if each is left free from the other within its respective sphere." The ruling upheld a protest by a self-professed atheist mother, Mrs. Vashti McCollum, that a system of religious teaching in Champaign, 111., schools breaks down the wall between church and state. She con tended that her son was “embarras sed” by the religious instruction. Delivering the main opinion, Jus tice Black held that under the facts shown the compulsory education system in Illinois “assists and is integrated with the program of re ligious instruction carried on by separate religious sects.” He said pupils legally required to go to school for secular education are re leased from some of that legal duty on condition that they attend re ligious classes. “This is beyond all question a utilization of the tax-established and tax-supported public school system to aid religious groups to spread their faith.” It was an issue that parents as well as all other U. S. citizens would do well to consider. There were two facets which would bear reflection: The supreme court’s decision con firmed a long-standing and honora ble theory in the U. S. that there should be no interference between church and state and no influence exerted by one on the other. The ruling would seem to safeguard the nation against the two extremes of a state-controlled church or a church-controlled state. But at the same time, the broad language of the decision failed to recognize the historical importance of religion in creating civilizations and forming and molding nations. Western civilization grew out of the Christian church. Divorcement of the cause and effect now could be dangerous. FINNISH: Aid to Russia It was with no clapping of hands that the government of Finland de cided to accept the proposal of Prime Minister Josef Stalin of Rus sia to discuss a treaty of mutual military aid. Russia, which needs military help from Finland about as much as the U. S. needs a five-year plan, put the proposal of a discussion to Finland’s President Jugo K. Paasikivi within a week after it had swept Czecho slovakia into the Soviet orbit. Having no alternative, Paasikivi accepted the “invitation” and ap pointed a negotiating delegation of seven members, including one mili tary expert, government officials and parliament members. Soviets say they want a binding treaty of mutual military assistance against future German aggression. Talks presumably were being held cn that basis, but it was the task of the Finnish negotiators to do all they could to prevent Finland from being chained to Russia in a mili tary treaty. There was little doubt in the Pack of Seed Nets Million Dollar Crop Plant Immigrant Has Typical Success Story One package of seed sent home by a missionary less than 30 years ago has developed into a crop now valued at more than 200 tnillion dollars year. That is the success story of a plant immigrant — Korean lespe- deza. Only three decades ago Dr. Ralph Mills, a medical missionary, sent a package of lespedeza seed from Korea to the U. S. department of agriculture. Department specialists planted the seed at the experimental farm across the Potomac river from Washington. In a few years there was enough seed to plant lespedeza at several state experiment stations. The imported crop fitted well on the poor, slightly acid soils unfit for such crops as alfalfa and soon was being grown widely in the East Cen tral states as a'seed and pasture crop. Now its use is becoming more widespread, particularly in areas of low fertility land. The U. S. crop of Korean lespe deza. developed directly from the single package, now is valued at more than 200 million dollars a year. Value of the seed crop amounts to 20 million dollars. The hay crop makes up another 100 million dollars of value. Although value of the pas ture crop is difficult to estimate, spe^ cialists contend that it amounts to at least 100 million dollars. These figures do not take into account the profitable use of millions of acres of low fertility land made possible by introduction of the new legume crop. He's a Rat What is the most destructive ani mal in the world? No—it’s not a puppy or a small boy! The common Norway or brown rat has absolutely no competition when it comes to the ability to destroy. Annually, rats alone destroy about 4 per cent of the total grain and cereal crop in the United States, fig ures compiled by extension service entomologists indicate. As if its de structive abilities were not enough, the rat is host to carriers or is it self a carrier of bubonic plague, typhus and other diseases which are deadly to man. Few farms are entirely free of minds of Finnish leaders that this | rats, although rat populations can be reduced quickly. Cleaning up the premises, rat proofing, cutting off food supply, poisoning and trapping are major points in an effective rat control program. But, once the con trol measures begin to show results, there can be no relaxing. Rat con trol is a permanent, year-around program. A few days of poisoning will have only a temporary effect on the rat population. was Russia’s first step in a campaign to gain as complete control over that little northern nation as it now holds over the Balkans. And in the final analysis the Finns probably would capitulate in the stark inter ests of self-preservation. Military Insurance Kathleen Norris Says: Fiances Fears Are Unjustified Bell Syndicate.—WNTJ Features UNWILLING FIANCE “He made himself so adorable to my father, sister and old Sophy that all resistance on my part seemed ridiculous." By KATHLEEN NORRIS L INDA has been engaged for four years. That is a long time for an American girl to wait for her wedding. In Europe it is different. A six or seven years engagement doesn’t disturb a girl there, be cause just so much social and financial adjusting must go on, and engagements are family matters, considered and ac cepted as solemn contracts; breaking an engagement is al most as serious as a divorce. Linda said “Yes” to Charles in 1944, while the great war was on. Charles went off to the South seas, Linda stayed home with her mother and her blind father. Before Charles came back Linda’s mother died, leaving a 17-year-old sister ■ to Linda’s care, as well as their father. The sister Betsey, is evidently a popular and busy girl, away at college most of the time. The home is a roomy old-fash ioned one and the family has a good servant. Inasmuch as no small apartments are available and Lin da’s father is dependent upon her for comfort and care, although finan cially responsible for the home and its upkeep, it seems natural to Linda, who is 28, to get married and keep husband, father, sister and herself in one family group. Fiance Is Afraid But Charles is afraid to try it. His mother’s life was blighted by a mother-in-law who for 20 years usurped her place in her home and in her husband’s affection and she has warned him against any such arrangement. He loves Linda, he will do anything for her, but not that. He likes her father, he thinks Betsey is a swell kid, but he has decided that he and Linda must wait until “something happens.” After an engagement of four years Linda and Charles still haven’t mar ried. Although Linda is will ing, Charles is reluctant be cause he fears family com plications. Several years ago Linda’s mother died and Lin da feels obligated to care for her blind father and her 17 - year - old sister. She would like to marry anyway. Charles, on the other hand, contends that Linda’s affection for him will be split if they live with her family. Miss Norris is of the opin ion that a marriage between Charles and Linda would in volve no unusual risk. She urges Linda to inform Charles that they are going to get married and make him think that the idea is his. Once he has taken the step he will be extremely happy, Miss Norris says. Modem Dairy Buildings Will Boost Efficiency Increased efficiency has entered the dairy industry with more wide spread use of milking rooms and milk houses. The ideal location for a milk house is attached to the milking room or barn. In most areas, sanitary re- Lieut* Gen. Albert C. Wede- meyer, director of plans and operations for the army and author of top-secret report on China, told house foreign affairs committee that U. S. must back up economic aid abroad with military support if communism is to be stopped in China and elsewhere. He said, “I don’t think I would recommend 500 million dollars in aid to China unless there were military aid to protect that 500 million dol lars.” Americans Ready to Go Off Deep End People of the U. S. are conduct ing their day-by-day activities in a state of mind that is separated from a condition of acute panic by only the merest veil of self-restraint, says Dr. Frank Fremont-Smith of the International Committee for Mental Hygiene. Any day now a phony rumor of sudden war or even of sea mon sters invading New York harbor might produce wholesale panic. Many Americans are ripe to go off the deep end from just such a scare, no matter how fantastic it may be, Dr. Fremon-Smith contends. The reason people might be easily panicked is the widespread worry, anxiety or fear over the possibilities of atomic war or of depression. Perennial Blooms Two Paterson, N. J., brothers, Dr. Philip and Sidney Joffe, have re ported the discovery of a chemical solution that will preserve freshly cut flowers forever. They claim their secret process fixes the cell structure of the flower and preserves its color, form and texture. Only drawback is that the bloom loses its fragrance. The brothers have worked on the solution for the last eight years. Miles of walking are saved an nually when the milk house is adjacent to the milking room or barn, figures compiled by Cornell university show. quirements permit construction un der the same roof. Adjacent construction permits the dairyman to coordinate feeding, car ing for the cows, milking them and handling the milk into an efficient system. Rabbit and Chicken Raising Is Profitable To offset high meat prices, home production of rabbits and chickens can be carried on very economi- | cally, making the family at least I partially independent of commer cial sources. Raising of rabbits and chickens at home has a big advantage in the economical use of feeds, because such animals mature more quickly and at a lower feed cost per pound of gain in weight. Now, this waiting until “some thing happens” is a favorite de lusion of us all when what we really hope is that someone will die. Linda’s father is a strong and cheerful 60, he may easily live 15 years more. Her sister probably will marry but not for • some time. “I’ve tried the trick of telling Charles that we had much better end the engagement than go on with any such expectation as this,” says Linda’s letter. “But that didn’t work.” In a day or two Charles telephoned, came out to tell me that we simply couldn’t be parted. He made himself so adorable to my father and sister, and even to old Sophy, that all resistance on my part seemed ridiculous and things went back to their old status. “Frankly, he is afraid. He says he would not be jealous, that he loves to have me read to my father, that our home is the most harmon ious he has ever known. His war record shows that he never shrinks back from anything he undertakes. But still he hesitates to marry. And of course that makes me hesi tant, too. Will you tell me if you think he is right, or might we go ahead and take a chance?” • « • My dear Linda, you would be taking no chance and neither would he. This delay is a nervous strain on you both, and you have worked yourself up into quite unneccessary distress over it. You are a fine sensitive, loving woman, you have a comfortable home in which to be gin your married life, and your do ing your full duty to your father will only enhance Charles’ apprecia tion of you. Most Anxieties Needless Most of these engagement anx ieties are unwarranted. A man who never will show jealousy again may make his sweetheart’s life a burden while they are engaged. A girl who throw's her money about recklessly, is smartly dressed and is always on the go before marriage, may make the thriftiest and most economical of wives. Men who state boldly that they love night life and dining! down to wm turn into maddeningly 1 domestic husbands, unwilling ever to leave the family fireside; men who are sure they despise babies become fatuous fathers; Robert, who as serts that he’ll never *ive in the country and hates dogs, presently is telling you of early radishes and the fidelity of old Binky, and girls who despise the kitchen go in for cookies and curried eggs on a big scale. Love is the alchemy that works these miracles and since you and Charles truly love each other, you need have no fear. Forget his mother’s gloomy pro phesies as you prove to her that she is wrong. Your own good sense will teach you to develop a friendship between your two men, how to delegate some of your daughterly duties to Betsey, how to refer everything first to Charles and seem to act on his ad vice even when you don’t. All lov ing wives learn this trick. Make that home of yours the hap piest in town. Carry things from this moment with a high hand. Tell Charles when you are going to be married and make it soon. Put it in the paper. Plan straight ahead for your honeymoon, your home ar rangements; be completely happy yourself about it, and you’ll find that he not only falls into line, but that he’s happier than you are, and when presently he convinces himself that the whole thing was his idea, and that he had to talk you over to it, be sure you leave him in this fond delusion. SPEAKS — HTlniemltKWtal Undorra**^BH MJiUPI Sunday School Lwssom pij By IQHH D. NEWTON, 0. fl. SCRIPTURE: John 21:1-14; Colossianj 3:1-4. 12-17: I John 5:11-12. DEVOTIONAL READING: John 14 2-6. Eternal Life Lesson for March 28, 1948 Dr. Newton ^0^0 O 4-©-y /■ - ... r \j His mother’s life was blighted Talking Turkey’ The expression “talking turkey” generally is attributed to an Indian who roamed through a patch of woods in New Hampshire in 1850. It seems the Indian and a white man went hunting and agreed to split the spoils. They bagged a fat wild turkey and an old black crow. The fast-talking white man said: | “I’ll take the turxey and you take **' | 'HE Lord has risen indeed. -*• and because he lives, we too shall live. Easter is the day that re minds us of this blessed truth—the truth of eternal life. Well has Henry Burton expressed it in these lines "There’s a light upon the mountains, And the day is at the spring, When our eyes shall see the beauty And the glory of the King; Weary was our heart with waiting, And the night watch seemed so long, But his triumph day is breaking, And we hail it with a song. "He is breaking down the barriers; He is casting up the way; He is calling for his angels To build up the gates of day; But his angels here are human, Not the shining hosts above; And the drumbeats of his army Are the heartbeats of our love." TYEikD John 21:1-14 for the ex- quisite account of Jesus appear ing to his disciples in the early morning at the sea of Tiberias. They had been toiling all night, and had taken nothing. Bringing their boat near to the shore, they saw one stand ing there, “but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.” Jesus told them to cast their net on the right side of the ship, which they did, and they caught 153 ‘‘great fishes.” Jesus then summoned them to breakfast. He had prepared the bread and fish on coals of fire. And they did eat. * • • BLESSED ASSURANCE B EFORE his death, Jesus had said to his disciples, ‘‘Because I live, you will live also.” John 14:19, but they did not fully grasp the meaning of the great words. But that morning on the sea shore, they understood. They remembered that he had died on the cross, and now they were assured that he was real ly alive, for this was the third time he had appeared unto the disciples after the resurrection. How happy they must have been! How happy we should be on this recurring Easter season, assured that he is alive evermore. And because he lives, we too shall live. • • • WHAT IS ETERNAL LIFE? S UNDAY’S lesson leads us on to the answer to the question. What is eternal life? In Colossians 3:1-4 and 12-17, we have the declaration, “Your life is hid with Christ in God. . . ” If we have believed on him — cast ourselves in implicit trust into his keeping — we have eternal life, which is his gift to ev ery believing heart. Paul goes on to admonish those who have “entered into life eter nal,” through faith in the riven, risen, reigning Saviour, to put on the garments of his presence and power and peace — kindness, hu mility, meekness, long-suffering, forbearance, forgiveness. The evidence of eternal life is to be found in the fruits of the Spirit in our daily lives. • • • CERTAINTY OF ETERNAL LIFE W E READ in John 17:3 this word of further assurance, “This is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.” And in I John 5:11-12, we read, “And this is the record, that God hath giv^n to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” In another passage John tells that we know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren. Easter is the day of eternal hope. It lifts above the fog of earth iness the glory of the blessed hope that fadeth not away. We have God’s own testimony that we shall live with him forever, through Jesus Christ, our risen, reigning, return ing Lord. • • • (Copyright by. the International Council of Religious Education on behalt of 40 Protestant denominations. Released hr WNU Features.) Our Richest Treasure the crow; or you take the crow and I’ll take the turkey." “Ugh,” the Indian grunted. “You no talk turkey.” The Bible walks the ways of all the world with familiar feet and enters land after land to find its own everywhere. Children listen to its stories with wonder and delight, and wise men ponder them as par ables of life. The wicked and the proud tremble at its warnings, but to the wounded and the penitent it has a mother’s voice. It has woven itself into our dearest dreams; so that love, friendship, sympathy, de votion, memory, hope, put on the beautiful garments of its treasured speech. 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