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But it is humiliating that this mighty nation of ours, just five years after the greatest war in its history, was unable .to win the war at the start: It is more mystifying and more humiliating that it is still a long, drawn-out, inconclusive affair, up hill and down hill, and around and around. It is an astonishing war in that we don’t “get anywhere.” We lose young men, rich young blood, precious bodies are mutilated; precious lives are lost—for what? We send men across this vast country and then across the Pacific; and in all this time there has been an army of Chinese highly desirous of taking part on our side. Our side! How ridiculous! But we stand in their way. Our Government is playing some sort of hide and seek, a sort of cat and mouse strategy, that seems like the inspired plan of some type of idiocy which neither military men nor laymen can understand. In The State recently I ready an Associated Press mes sage from the island of Formosa. Here it is! “Topmost official sources today disclosed that U.S. military authorities on Formosa have urged Washington to free two Chinese Nationalist divisions for action in Korea. Moreover, these sources expressed the opinion that the request will be approved after the November U.S. presidential election, regardless of which party wins. The authorities, who cannot be named, argue that the use of Chinese Nationalist troops with the United Na tions forces in Korea would serve these important pur poses: i _ 1. It would give the Nationalists combat experience nec essary if they are to sustain any hope of regaining main land China from the Reds. 2. It would provide a ‘shot-in-the-arm’ to other Nation alist troops camped on Formosa for the past three years, to Chinese civilians here and to fence-straddling Chinese elsewhere in the world outside of mainland China. The debate over using Nationalist troops in Korea gen erally has lain dormant since the United Nations rejected President Chiang Kai-shek’s offer in 1950. Recently, the Nationalist Central News Agency in a dispatch from New York quoted Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican presi dential candidate, as saying that the limited Nationalist forces were needed to defend Formosa against a possible Communist invasion. The sources said that U.S. military authorities here have told Washington they disagree. They reportedly gave these reasons: 1. When Chiang made his 1950 offer, Communist China had not entered the Korean War and Allied Powers did not want ta run the risk of drawing her in by using Na tionalist troops. With Red China now in the war, that factor no longer exists. 2. It is the U.S. Seventh Fleet and the proximity of the U.S. 13th Air Force on Okinawa and the Philippines that has forestalled a Communist invasion of Formosa.” Marvellous how quickly some men’s minds work, isn’t it? Just two years of maiming and killing our boys in defense of Korea and we plan to use some Chinese—but after the election! After the election! Now wouldn’t that make the angels weep? It seems, then, that we shall expose and sacrifice our boys until after the election! And what shall we say to the mourning fathers, mothers, wive? and children of those who are maimed and shocked and killed between now and the election? Did you ever hear of such heartless, callous foolish- nes8? a ..i , Here is what the American Legion says: “The American Legion charged today there was no hope of winning the Korean War so long as the Truman administration continues its policy of ‘political appease ment/ ' . • * & ‘It is time that we abandon political control and place the conduct of this war in the hands of the military, who should proceed, considering military problems alone, to a victory/ the Legion said in a resolution. It did not say whether the Legion supported Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur’s recommendations to strike back at Communist China. The national administration has con tended that such action might bring about World War III. The Legion passed the resolution at the final session of its 34th convention after hearing the chiefs of the Army, Navy and Air Force say the nation’s military machine is strong enough now to severly punish any aggressor who attacks the United States.” Here is what the Senate Committee says: “The United States, the senators said, ‘is behind in the weapon in which we should have unchallenged supremacy.’ They said the Air Force had fewer fighting planes three , - V months ago than it had before the outbreak of the Ko rean war. In July, they added, this country had ‘only one-half of the combat wings with modern equipment that were deemed necessary’ to stand off an enemy attack ana undertake reprisals. The Air Force now has about 91 Win « s - ^ The subcommittee, headed by Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.) issued a report asserting that government ef forts have produced ‘considerable wind but insufficient airpower.’ It summed up its views this way: ‘The history of our air buildup is a saga of bad pro gramming, neglected warnings, lack of coordination, abuse, misuse, and disuse of power, bad advice to the executive and a general refusal on the part of our governmentai agencies to pull together or work together in a dedicateu way to strengthen our air arsenal/ ft The Easley Progress has this to say: “A prominent news analyst gives four reasons Harry Truman is helping Adlai with his fingers crossed. (1) Har ry’s Internal Revenue says taxes are being paid on 24 mil lion dollars gambling in Illinois, where Adlai says he has cleaned up gambling; (2) Harry’s -Bureau of Labor says times are so rotten that the average American family is going in the hole $400.00 a year; (3) Harry’s desk-generai Hershey says he is going to grab papas: (4) Harry’s O. P.S. says grocers have to mark ceiling prices on every article. Does Harry love Adlai, and the election jusf 60 days away?” Uncle Sam is our biggest land-owner. In a short time the Washington planners hope he may own or control all the power business; then he can take over the hospitals and the doctors; and by the time the old Uncle digests that, he may operate all the schools and colleges. Of course the doctors may not agree with Uncle Sam, but the bureaucrats stand together while the doctors usually stand in dig nified aloofness, the last word in individual service. How about Uncle Sam as a great land-owner? The old Uncle owns 465,146,726 acres out of the total 1,905,361,920 acres. Of this the Interior Department owns 262,000,000 acres; Agriculture 168,000,000; Air Force 11, 700,000; Navy 2,300,000; Army 9,000,000; Atomic Energy 1,800,- 000. The Air Force has plenty of ground to rise from and land on as you see: The Navy has the 2,300,000 acres for the service. Our Government owns 9% of Arkansas; 36.5% of Mon tana; 45.6% of New Mexico; 52.7% of Oregon; 71.3% of Utah; and so on. ; Diary of a Family Bible “Jan. 15 quietly for - Have been resting a week. The first few nights of the new year my owner read me often, but I guess he has since forgotten all about me. Another new year’s resolu tion gone wrong! Feb. 2—Cleaning day. I was dusted, along with other things, and put back in my place. Feb. 3—Owner quietly picked me up and rushed off to Sunday School but did not open me. I really wondered why he took me! Feb. 23—Cleaning day again. I was dusted and put back in my place. I have been down in the lower hall since my trip to Sun day school. April 2—Busy day for all of us. My owner had to present the les son at a church society meeting and quickly looked up a lot of references. May 5—In Grandma’s lap. She let a tear fall on John 14: 1-3. May 7, 8, 9—In Grandma’s lap every day now. I am being ap preciated, it seems. May 10—Grandma’s gone. She kissed me goodbye before the last moments. They put me back in my old resting place. I guess I won’t be disturbed often 'now. May 20—A baby was born here today. They wrote its name on one of my pages. June 19 — Four leaf clovers. What do they mean? Some one dropped by and left a couple of them with me. Said he would see them later. July 1—I was packed in a trunk along with a lot of other things and we started off on a vacation. July 7—Still in the trunk. No body noticed me. July 20—I am still in the trunk. Almost everything else taken out. July 25—Horpe again! Quite a journey, although I do not see why I went. Nobody noticed me. I am back in my old resting place. August 2—Rather stuffy and hot here. Two old magazines and a hat were dropped on top of me. I wish somebody would take them off. August 9—Cleaning day. I was dusted and put back to rest. August lO-^Cleaning day again. I was dusted and put on a special place on the library table. Heard them say the minister was com ing. August 20—Owner wrote day of grandma’s death in my record pages. He left his glasses there, between my pages. Dec. 31—Owner has just found his glasses. Wonder if he will make any resolutions about me for the new year. This is a queer old world, isn’t it?” ‘The President, who has de graded a once exalted position to that of the chief clown in Bar- num’s circus tent, flies around like a pesky little gnat getting into everybody’s eyes and making even Democrats mad.”—Asheville (N. Cj) News . On what is the prosperity of our nation founded? Princi pally on the character of our people, of course; but there are some principles of our business that should be kept in mind. “There is a nefarious doctrine that labor would benefit from the destruction of free enterprise and the substitu tion of the Socialist state. The terrible experience of labor behind the Iron Curtain should have demonstrated long ago that this is an unmitigated fraud, and that both free enterprise and free trade unionism are then swallow ed up by the state and the power-hungry clique which runs it. The wide distribution of wealth in America shows that the free enterprise system actually has provided here what Marxist thorists have promised their deluded followers, but could never deliver. It would be highly desirable if the direct ownership^of shares in our great enterprises could become as widespread as ownership of insurance, savings accounts and homes in this country. This would mean that more families would regard corporate enterprise not only as a source of jobs and of attractively priced goods and services but also as a source of dividend income. The Brooklings study showed there is a long-term trend in that direction. The number of stockholders in 45 lead ing corporate enterprises increased by 72 per cent between 1930 and 1950. There is every reason to believe that this trend toward wider stock ownership, fostered by corporate management and by the investment banking profession, will continue, perhaps at an accelerated rate.” Bible Comment: Intolerance Should Find No Advocate In Bible Dispute TN the King James version of the Bible the Epistle to the Hebrews is attributed to Paul, but from early days in the church there has been much questioning regarding its authorship. But one fact concerning the Pauline Epistles, those by James, Peter and John, which Paul cer tainly did not write, and the Epis tle to the Hebrews, is that they are all agreed in a common faith in Jesus as the Messiah, in belief in his saving power, and in their conception of the Christian life. James, for instance, emphasizes works as evidence of faith, where Paul puts more emphasis on faith, but in Paul’s more extensive writ ings one would find many passages that, as strongly as James, stress the practical nature of Christian life. So, also, though John is the apostle of brotherly love, all that he says only strengthens what Paul wrote of love in I Corinthians 13. And when Peter writes of be lievers as “partakers of the divine nature,” it is precisely what Paul has written in Ephesians 3:19. This unity is emphasized in the conception of God’s better revela tion in Jesus, as presented by the writer of Hebrews, and as pre sented by Paul. Both are intense in their conviction that Jesus is the fulfillment of the Messianic hope. But Paul is chiefly con cerned with doctrine, while the writer of Hebrews emphasizes the priestly character of Jesus, and the fulfillment of the ritualistic side of the Old Testament heritage. Belief in Jesus as the Messiah is dominant in the Christian church; and it is here that the de vout Christian and the devout Jew differ. The devout Jew may re gard Jesus as a great teacher, a view now more widely held than formerly, but he looks still for the coming of the Messiah and the fulfillment of the prophecies. It is a difference of belief that is not uhimportant, but it should not in any sense occasion intoler ance or v unbrotherliness. If the Jew lives up to all that is good in the Old Testament and the Chris tian to all that is best in the New, the spirit of both would make in tolerance and prejudice impossible. It is in ideals of peace and good will that Judaism and Christianity both find their highest expression. ”1 REMEMBER" BY TKS OLD TIMERS From Mias Pearl Minear, Har wood, Texas: I remember the hack my father used to drive. He burnt candles for lights. They were enclosed in glass to protect the flame from the wind. They were used on buggies. From Mrs. Roae Ramser, Griffith, Ind.: I remember when my brother swallowed a two-cent piece. So we fed him mashed potatoes every time he was hungry. From Amelia Doctor, Denver: I remember when women wore long, heavy black veils at the funer als of close relatives, and the men wore a black crepe band on their hats and coat sleeves. Black clothes were worn for a whole year after the death of a member of the family. From Mary Karch, Lake view, Ohio: I remember when father used to get the auger and some hollowed-out spiggots. He would tap the maple or sugar trees, and we boiled the sap down into a de licious maple syrup. We used the sweetened water to make delicious sassafras tea. From Sam WHliama, Fairmont, W. Va.: I remember when palm leaf fans were used to keep the air stirring in churches and at public gatherings. . , From Mrs. Fannie Lester, Ring- gold, La.: I remember when peo ple wanted to paint their faces they went to the woods and got a bud off of a red oak bush, mashed it Mid used it for face rouge. There were no beauty parlors. When mother wished to dye some cloth, she boiled red oak bark and put coppers in it to set it It made a dull blue. _ From Ad Zachary Martinsville, 111.: I remember when we broke a hamestring or a trace chain, we made one out of hickory bark— also we spliced trace chain with same. From S. I. McGinnis, Colloden, W. Va.: I remember when my parents stored 00-gallon barrels of pickle beans, saur kraut *nd sor ghum molasses in our smoke house every fall. From B. B. Meredith, Fairmont W. Va.: I remember when young men showed off by jumping off the streetcar before it came to a stop. DaueCarnegie ★ AUTHOR OM HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVIN6T ^ j. » t 3 ’ ■ s* „ . • - • - 1 w Carnegie Ways to Conquqor Worry JESS WILKES, New Brockton, Alabama, says that he has found that plenty of wholesome exercise, reading habits, and relig- i°us worship will help to conquer fear and worry. In 1943 his i j 7^ ed ’ l eav i n £ his mother, a small baby sister, a 19 year old brother named Jack, and himself, and he was in the armed forces. His brother Jack was left to operate a 560-acre farm. In January of 1944 he visited the draft board to see about a de ferment, but in February of 1944, he was drafted into the armed forces, leaving his broken-hearted mother to operate the farm. She had no knowl edge of running a big farm since all she had ever done was to take care of her home and rear her family. In 1944 he and his brother were on the high seas at the same time for an overseas assign ment. On top of all this, he was leaving his wife expecting their first child. In China he was so worried over the condi tions existing back home that he lost a great deal of weight. Finally his commanding officer asked why he was not getting the work out of his men. He hesitated to tell his troubles at first, but finally he brbke* down. Then he learned his commanding officer knew fear and worry. He told Jess of his divorce and of losing a son whom he had loved so much. Then he said he would help Jess iron out his problems. That evening, he came by for Jess. They went to the largest library in downtown Shanghai They sat at the same table and studied the life of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, which was most interesting. After three hours, they went to an indoors swimming pool for an hour. After this they had dinner and re turned to their home base. This was the first night’s rest Jess had had since being in the far east. On the following Sunday they went to a pagoda and worshipped with the Buddhists. 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