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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1938
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~ BIBLE THOUGHT "
ANGELS AND THE REST OF US
"Biecs the Lord, ye hi# angels. Bless the Lord,
O my soul" (Read Ps. 103).
# * *
Sun. moon and stars are praising God, flaming
angels worship Him,—but He waits to hear our
poor voices joining in the chorus, and He will not
be satisfied for the travail of His soul until we do
love Him as we ought. That is beyond belief but
it is true. Thank God for the gospel.—Phesby
terian Survey.
RECORD OF THE PAST IS REASON
FOR OPTIMISM
(By BRUCE CATTON)
Sinless all signs fail, America is taking
a i?ew climb out of the depression. Indus
trial production expanded in October for
the fifth consecutive month, unemployment
figures are dropping rapidly, and business
sediment as a whole is unusually opti
mistic.
»No one knows, of course, how far and
hbw fast this climb will be continued. We
shan't be able to say goodby to this depres
sion until our business indices have reached
the 1929 level: indeed, because our popu
lation is greater now than it was then, that
letel will have to be surpassed before we
ifcu truly say that nation-wide prosperity is
hjefe again.
, Past experience may not be a perfect
jqujfie, in a world so changed as the world
of today. Yet it is the only guide we have,
aiid it has a rather encouraging message.
, .filing the last half century, American
Uwiness has been hit by five full-dress de
pressions—including th6 present one. Af-j
ter eacd of the other four, industry andl
trade climbed to a higher level than the
one they had occupied before, and the gen
eral living standard of the American peo
ple went up with them. And the most en
couraging thing is the fact that although
each of these climbs took place during a
period of technological improvement—
which is supposed to mean a percentage
decline in the number of jobs—the work
ing population of the country actually in
creased faster than the total population.
This is made clear in figures contained
in a bulletin just issued by the Central Na
tional Bank of Cleveland.
For example: from 1890 to 1930, the
country's population increased 95 per cent
—from 63,000,000 to 123,000,000. Yet the
number of jobs increased by 113 per cent
in the same period—from 23,000,000 in
1890 to 49,000,000 in 1930.
To look at it from a different angle:
between 1890 and 1900, American business
created 6,000,000 new jobs: between 1900
and 1910, it created 9,000.000 new jobs;
between 1910 and 1920, it created 4,000,
000 new jobs; between 1920 and 1930 it
created 7,000,000 new jobs.
Where does that leave us? Well, the
bank's bulletin goes on to remark that our
highest standard of living heretofore came
when there were about 40 jobs for each
100 of the population. Our population to
day is 130.000,000; we need, therefore,
approximately 52,000,000 jobs. Today
about 45,000,000 people are regularly em
ployed. There is, accordingly, a lag of
some 7.000,000 jobs t,o be made up.
Past experience indicates that that is by
no means an impossible hurdle. In the or
dinary, normal course of business develop
ment we ought to get over it without
strain. When you stop to think that our
industrial and commercial plant is operat
ing far below capacity, you can see thai
one or two years of continued expansion
might do the trick very nicely.
- - , - .1.: |
The country wants the CIO, AFL and
1LGWU to get together on something and
Pt)Q.
Remember way back yonder when the
country's only class feeling was between
freshmen and sophomores?
The former ka*ser at Doom must some
times wonder if his empire wasn't lost be
cause he was chicken-hearted.
The course former President Benes oi
Czechoslovakia will teach at the Univers
ity of . Chicago should have something tc
do with Undiplomatic History.
NEWSPAPERS' OPINIONS
j
RAILROADS ON PARADE
; Iron horses of early days in American railroad
' ing will be featured at New York's World's Fair.
' Emphasis seems to be placed on the Stourbridge
Lion, The Best Friend of Charleston, the Tom
■ Thumb, the DeWitt Clinton and the John Bull. Of
■ these the Best Friend was first in regular service.
• American-built, it went into scheduled service on
| Christmas Day, 1830. It has been reproduced by j
I the Southern Railway, and so has its little train
been reproduced.
The Stourbridge Lion was purchased for the
| Delaware and Hudson company and was given a
test August 8, 1829, at Honesvale, Pa. Its driver
was Horatio Allen who later came to the Charles
ton and Hamburg railroad. Because the road was
found not suitable for steam locomotives, the j
Stourbridge Lion was run off the rails mai the |
canal dock and stood there fourteen years Its
boiler was stripped to make steam for a stationary j
engine in the Carbondale shops. It was built iii j
England.
The Tom Thumb was American-bu.'It. Old mus
ket barrels were used for its boiler flues. Charles
Frederick Carter says that it "was not intended fo': j
actual service, but only as a working model." How-1
ever, it was given trial on what is now the Balti-j
more and Ohio railroad. Peter Cooper, its builder,;
gave it the name of Tom Thumb.
August 28, 1830. the Tom Thumb was run to j
EUicott's Mills, thirteen miles from Baltimore.
Thirty-six men were in the car drawn by the little
locomotive. The run was made in an hour and
I twelve minutes. On the return trip, according to
Carter, it was met at the Relay House, half way to
' Baltimore, by a car to which was hitched the finest
horse Stockton & Stokes, stageline owners, pos
sessed. He was a fine, clean-limbed young gray.
For a time the Tom Thumb outdistanced the
horse, but the belt working the blower slipped and
steam began to go down. The horse won that race.
The performance by the Tom Thumb, however,
convinced the Baltimore and Ohio's directors that
steam would solve their problem and their first lo
comotive, the York, was delivered in the early sum
mer of 1831 (more than six months after the Best
Friend had gone into regular service at Charles
ton.)
The first of many .John Bulls made an exhibition j
trip November 12, 1831, for the Camden and Am
boy railroad (now in the Pennsylvania system.)
Among the passengers was Madame Murat, wife of
Prince Murat, Napoleon Bonaparte's nephew. Her
mother was a Virginian lady who married a Scotch
officer in the British army.
The DeWitt Clinton was built for the Mohawk
and Hudson railroad (now in the New York Cen
tral lines) and came from the foundry in which
the Best Friend of Charleston had been made al
most a year before.
Enough has Seen cited to prove that the Best
Friend of Charleston was the first locomotive in
commercial serrice in the Western hemisphere. It
was alsa the first American-built locomotive in reg
ular service. The claim that the Charleston and
Hamburg was America's first steam railroad for
passengers and freight has been substantiated.
Georgia claims an earlier railroad. Tt was near
Savannah. It was operated for McAlpin's brick
works on the Savannah river, bringing clay to the
kilns. However, when one discusses American rail
roads, he is thinking of commercial railroads, and
of these the Charleston and Hamburg was the first
which used steam for power.—Charleston News
and Courier.
REPUDIATING THE PERFECT FORMULA
After twelve days of mediation—and consulta
tion perhaps—Director Harry Hopkins of WPA has
denied that he said, "We will spend and spend, and
tax and tax, and elect and elect," words attributed
to him November 12, by Arthur Krock, chief of
The New York Times's Washington bureau, a jour
nalist distinguished for accuracy and good judg
ment long before Mr. Hopking became grand vizier
or was even heard of.
Mr. Krock does not withdraw or modify his state
ment, remarking that the Hopkins expression was
"first published elsewhere h September," and that
before he used it "he made careful verification be
cause he wanted to be certain of the language." j
Without Tfaniing the man from whom he had the
verification Mr. Krock mentions the time and place
(the Empire race track at Yonkers) where the sen
tence was uttered, describing the verifier as "a
playmate of Mr. Hopkins." Mr. Hopkins will doubt
less identify hirti, from the description.
Whether used by Mr. H. or not the language has
his flavor. He is not discreet always. It was not
proiident to refer, in a discussion of relief, to a
part of the American public as "too damned dumb
to understand." Nor was it prudent, as the event
proved, for the almoner in chief of President Roose
velt to stick his neck into the Iowa primary in an i
effort to defeat Gillette, the incumbent Democrat,
for reelection to the senate.
More than and beyond and abbve all, the public
is confronted at this moment with the fact that,
with the WPA funds running short for the time
they were appropriated, the WPA rolls were ex
panded, not reduced, before the recent elections
and that immediately after them (with winter on
the doorstep) fhey were reduced. That is proof
that defies denial that the aim of the Roosevelt ad
ministration was "to spend and spend . . . and
elect and elect."—Charleston News and Courier.
THE WORLD TAKES ORDERS
Plans for the settlement of German Jew9 in Af
rican and Central American countries seem some
what impracticable and may be abandoned. Ex
pense of transportation would be enormous and
that of establishing homes and teaching the colo
nists how to cultivate tHe "soil would be equally so.
The dangers of the new climate would have to be
reckoned with and disease nb doubt would destroy
many lives. Such colonization might be as destruc
tive, though not so cruel, as Nazi tyranny.
Yet the problem of relief for these unfortunate
Jewish people Ts one that demands oolutio 1. The
strange thing about it'all is that in this 20th cen
tury civilization a fanatical government can strip
a people of their wealth, destroy their business and
tell the remainder of the nations "Here they are,
we have taken all they possess but their lives, it l.-5
for you to feed, clothe and rehabilitate them." And
! stranger still, is the fact that the nations stand for
I such atrocities and take orders from the tyrant.—
Sp^rtanbUrg Herald.
dairying ()„j fjacjaj an(j Nationalistic Idea
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LIFE DAY BY DAY
By WICKES WAMBOLDT_
A leader of the people who £
to remain their leader, must de
termine which way the people aif?
resolved to go; then keep a jun^)
.. ahead of thety
Such a lean*
does not have i>
be a deceitfl
politician,
ean be a sincei;
statesman.
The intelliger;
leader of a peo
ple knows full
well that he cart
not go contrary
to the wishes of
his public anp
1 o n j? continue
their lead « .r.
Even though /he
be a dictator "jf
Wamboldt lie defies the
people sufficiently, he will
tually be overthrown.
Observe Hitler and Mussolini:
They go to great lengths to edu
cate their people to think what
they want them to think. They
withhold information, they put
out misleading information, and
keep up a constant stream of
shrewd propaganda to mould pub
lic thought.
The dictator has one enormous
advantage over the democratic
leader in that he can control the
information reaching the ears and
eyes of his people. The same idea
is practised, in a way, in demo
cratic nations by subsidized pub
lications and speakers.
Should any kind of leader, dic
tatorial or democratic, let his
people get away from him, he
must hustle and get in front ol
them, and go the way they arc
going until he can turn them—
like a cowboy riding at the head
of a stampeding herd of cattle
he must go with them and at the
head of them until he can swerve
them in the direction he wants
them to go. If the cowboy shoulci
say to his runaway sieers, *»«»,
then, go to the devil! I am not
going with you!" his entire herd
might plunge over a precipice and
be destroyed.
A leader who yields temporarily
to what he considers a public de
mand until he can change public
thought, is not necessarily a two
faced expedientist; he may be a
far-seeing, patriotic statesman. Of
course the public man who keeps
his ear to the ground and his eye
to the windward merely to antici
pate popular desire that he may
run with thu hare and bark with
the hounds, solely to feather his
own nest, is nothing but a self
seeking hypocrite.
BECOME to de rtnrr
Speaking of employment, if our
FedeEpl government continues to
devise*.records that must be kept
and reports that must be made by
everybody and his brother, we
shall HAVE to be an employed
people, in that respect at least.
Eventually we may become a
nation of bookkeepers, and put in
a day or two each week telling
our government all about our
lives and livers.
ONE BOY IN COOKING CLASS
MARION, 0. (UP)—Raymond
Uocke, 16-year-old negro boy, who
Ispires to be a dining car chef, is
tne only boy enrolled in a cooking
Jass of 23 girls at Central junior
•}£gh school. The deaths of his
pother and older sister made it
necessary for Raymond to cook
lpr his father and nine brothers
apd sisters.
i Flowering dogwood won out as
state flower of Virginia because
a rival, the Virginia creeper, is a
climbing plant. Voters argued
that it was not appropriate, since
the people of Virginia are not
climbers.
• JOHN T. FLYNN
BY JOHN T. FLYNN
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
■VIEW YORK.—There probably
never has been *a country
which had more problems than
this one. That is understand
able. But what is not understand
able is that there should be so
many problems, pressing prob
lems, about which the country has
no policy.
Take the railroads. A modern
American railroad might itself be
defined as a collection of prob
lems. But the government hasn't
a semblance of a policy respecting
them.
Here is one consequence of that,
The Delaware, Lackawanna &
Hudson Railroad, like many an
other, cannot make enough money
1 to pay its taxes to the state of
New Jersey or the city of Buffalo.
So it asks the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation to lend it the
money.
This sort of thing has gone on
since the R. F. C. was formed by
Hoover. Railroads have borrowed
i millions to pax taxes to states and
cities. They have borrowed mil
I lions to pay rents on real estate.
They have borrowed money to pay
the rentals of roads they were
operating. And the R. F. C. has
accommodated them apparently
whenever they have needed this
help.
They have borrowed millions
to pay interest on bonds and
notes, ofttimes to bankers.
I recall protesting against this
when the R. F. C. was first
organized. The Van Sweringens
borrowed $10,000,000 to pay a
loan to the Morgans.
I was informed that the reason
for that was a profound economic
one. It seems that then—in 1932
—we were in a depression because
the banks would not lend money.
This was the explanation given
me by the wizards in Washington.
While it seemed rather terrible
to have the government supply
money to the Vans to pay off loans
to the Morgans, the profound idea
behind it was that this would put
money in the bankers' purse; in
deed all the R. F. C. loans were
achieving that end, and then pres
ently the bankers would have so
much money it would be burning
a hole in their pockets. And they
.would start lending it.
The folly of that must be ap
p;irent by now. The banks have
'had billions poured into their
pockets, but they haven't started
ilciiding yet—the pockets remain
unturned.
)Vhen the R. F. C. paid ta&:es
{anil rentals for other roads, I was
tolfa this was helping cities and
sties in trouble. The folly of that
rnifet also be apparent riow.
"jhe whole truth is.that the gov
t rrnent not only has no policy
j&baut the roads, but it refuses to
ev£i think seriously about it.
$in:e 1931 the desperate charac
ter of this problem has been ap
par :nt.
Eut as far as the government
h3> gotten is to dole out a few
dollars every time one of these
ragied vagabonds comes around
looking for a handout, thus pro
longing the agony, while the roads
sink to new levels of distress.
H#d there been a courageous
facing of the problem in 1933
wheb that was possible the roads
would be on their way to health
now.(
(C^vrleht. 1938. NEA Service. Inc.)
Wait a Minute
By NOAH HOLLOWELL
MAIN STREET: "The Ameri
can Scene—Drama of Life Cross
es The Stage," interesting article
by Sergeant Louis E. Jaeckel of
Rhodes Park drive, appeared in
The Charlotte Observer Sunday
and described our Main street
without mentioning the green
benches. Sergeant Jaeckel makes
the feature pages of dallies no«rly
every Sunday.
HEADLINE: "Wanted: Men to I
Become Teachers; Famed Woman
Psychologist Sees Female Teach-1
ers as Developing 'Sissies' and
'tyrants'—Pleads for Male Influ
ence in Schools to Give Balance to
Youth."
Men, there's still hope to get on
the staff.
COLD SUBJECTS: Picked up
in church: "You know you just
can't turn off things as fast on a
cold morning," said Mrs. W. G.
McCall as apologies for Husband
Bill who remained home to finish
the unperformed chores. Isn't it
wonderful how the cold impedes
your progress, try as hard as you
may. Fires seem to start slower;
cooking seems slower; water is
longer heating; ears are red and |
cold and don't warm up good un-'
til the old cow, while being milk
ed, reaches them with a vigorous
switch of the tail . . . Another one
in church: "They just won't pour
it in until they are driven to it.
warn them all you may," said
Mingus Shipman on the psychol
ogy of the motorist who didn't j
take warning and install anti-1
freeze, in which there has been a |
whopping business hereabouts for
three days.
NECROMANCY AND
MESMERISM TOPIC OF
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
"Ancient and Modern Necrom
ancy, Alias Mesmerism and Hyp
notism. Denounced" was the sujb-i
ject of the lesson-sermon in all J
Christian Science^ churches and so-1
cieties on Sunday. I
The golden text was from Ro
mans 8:31, "If God be for us, :
«vho can be against us?"
Among the citations which com- !
prised the* lesson-sermon was the
following from the Bible: "Come,
ye children, hearken unto me; I
will teach you the fear of the
Lord. What man is he that desir
eth life, and loveth many days,
that he may see good? Keep thy
tongue from evil, and thy lips
from speaking guile. Depart from
evil, and do good; seek peace, and
pursuit jt. The eyes of the Lord
are upon the righteous, and his
ears are open unto their cry. The
righteous cry, and the Lord hear
eth, and delivereth them out of all
their troubles. Many are the af
flictions of the righteous: but the
Lord delivereth him out of them
all." (Ps. 34:11-15, 17,19).
The lesson-sermon also included
the following passage from the
Christian Science textbook, "Sci
ence and Health with Key to the
Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
"Evil is a negation, because it is
the absence of truth. It is noth
ing, because it is the absence of
something. It is unreal, because
it presupposes the absence of God, |
the omnipotent and omnipresent!1
Every mortal must learn that.
there is neither power nor reality,
in evil. Evil is self-assertive. It i
says: 'I am a real entity, over
mastering good.' This falsehood!
should strip evil of all pretensions,
JAPS FORMING
NEW CHINESE
GOVERNMENT
Rapidly Complete Plans
for Administration Sym
pathetic to Them
SHANGHAI, Nov. 28. (UP) —
Japan is rapidly completing- plans
for a new central Chinese govern
ment pledged to cooperation with
the Nipponese.
Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese
war minister, has agreed to amal
gamation of the "special section"
(political affairs bureau) of the
Japanese army in China with the
new board for East Asiatic affairs
being formed in Tokyo, according
to advices here and in Peking, to
day.
This development means that
Gen. Kenji Doihara, long Japan's
chief political manipulator in
China, has won a victory over Gen.
Seiichi Kita, who lately has been
.heading the Japanese army's po
litical activities, and that the Doi
hara program of "political inde
pendence for China" is to be
adopted.
Doihara long has advocated for
mation of the East Asiatic Affairs
Bureau in Tokyo as a virtual new
Japanese government ministry to
have full control of Japan's i*cla
The only power of evil is to de
stroy itself. It can never destroy
one iota of good."
tions* with China.
His program further calls U- 1
1. Creation of a new Chine
government which will be
dent of Japan but subject to .iL'
nese "tutelage" for a period *
years dunnu which Japanese J
diers will In* stationed al £
points in China to aid in pve^rv
ing order.
2. Selection of Marshal Wu V
fu, venerable Confucian schoC
and a former prominent miliurt
leader, as president of the ^
Chinese republic. Wu will h*v
large measure of authority bj,
■will rely on Japanese advisers fr,
help in foreign and domestic »{.
fairs. He is expected to be ibv
to command the confidence of 4
large section ol the (, hinose
pie because of hi< reputation
honesty and scholarship.
It was understood that Cienen!
Kito, who has advocated prolong
Japanese military control of
will bo recalled to Tokyo
QUICK START, STOP;
FIRE 10 FEET AWAY
WINCHESTER, Ky.. Nov J
(UP)—The Winchi U'v fire JJ
partment drivers almost simuhiJ
neously stepped on the pa? arc
slammed on the lnakes recenty
in making the short, -t run in ^
cal fire history. 1 he blaze was 1|
feet away from the lire house.
A curtain in the old-ape per,,
sion office on the second-floor o!
the city building burned.
GET WEDDING GIFTS
PHILADELPHIA.
six grandchildren of Mr?. Aniu
Potts Hi>bart Harthorne wore bt
queathed $100 each in her wil
the money to be "1: ,.t for a wei
ding present for each, if ,)(J
ble."
THIS CURIOUS WORLD ByWilliam
Ferguson
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ME.TCOP2JTES
ARE AT LEAST
<ZO P£R.Cervr
(RON).
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□DRMORAftfS
OPEN THEIR.
BILLS WIDE
APART, AND
the: YOUNG
REA*CH DOWN
THEIR
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FOR.
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CUBES CALLED?
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ANSWER. A die.
One of the best tests of determining a meteoric stone is by its
Weight. Since it is made up largely of iron, its heft is vastly
greater than that of a terrestrial rock, and easily noticed.
STORY WRITER
HORIZONTAL
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"Alice in
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musical note.
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chair.
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coin.
26 To leave out.
28 Roll of
tobacco.
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fastidious.
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lettuce.
36 Baseball nines.
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division.
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was
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of England
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