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BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Two March Side by Side
Once All Walked
* In 75 Years, Much Done
Another Milton Needed
Germany and Italy, meaning Hit
ler and Mussolini, are said to be
working together
closely. They are
to control Aus
tria, and Hitler’s
share in the con
trol might not
please that in
tensely Catholic
country too well.
Germany’s influ
ence will in
crease along the
Danube. Ger
many and Italy
combining make
that possible,
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chned to fight
about it.
In return for recognizing Italian
sovereignty in Ethiopia Hitler is to
have important Ethiopian con
cessions.
A million years ago, when our
ancestors went out seeking some
thing to eat, preferably some fee
ble human being easily killed, ev
erybody walked. Now nearly every
body rides. Across George Wash
ington bridge over the Hudson river,
opened five years ago, about 100,-
000,000 human beings have crossed
in 31,000,000 automobiles, while
fewer than 1,000,000 have crossed on
foot. Busses alone carried 11,638,000
over the bridge.
How rapidly progress moves once
it starts! Seventy-five years ago,
both sides of our country were con
nected by telegraph for the first
time. Now men talk around the
world by radio. Seventy-five years
ego they only talked across the con
tinent, now they fly the continent
and on beyond, across the Pacific
ocean.
Those hostile to new ideas might
remember that a little more than
seventy-five years ago men were
beaten for re-election to congress
because, as the voters put it, “they
were foolish enough to vote money
to experiment talking over wires.”
They were defeated for willing
ness to have the government try
out Morse’s electric telegraph idea.
Berlin reports that German book
sellers must sell, and Germans must
read, only books that the govern
ment thinks they ought to sell and
read. The public will be compelled
with “loving force” to read what is
good for them.
That takes Germany back to the
Seventeenth century, when the Eng
lish government decided that Eng
lishmen must read only what the
government thought was good for
them.
All books must be submitted and
wait for approval before printing.
Along came a man named John
Milton with his book the Areo
pagetica, printed by him without
anybody’s permission, denouncing
an infamous law that would control
men’s minds and freedom of
thought. That settled it; the law
died.
Somebody will kill it in Germany,
in time.
In the Spanish civil war, hostages
have been seized, on both sides,
including many women, and are
held with this threat: “If you kill
hostages taken from my side, I’ll
kill yours.”
England and other countries al
most tearfully are begging both
sides in Spain to exchange hostages
instead of murdering them; the
British government officially ex
presses the fear that women “are
in danger of wholesale massacre.”
Nice civilization, is it not?”
Dr. Bakst, young teacher of math
ematics at Columbia university,
thinks he has a sure formula for
winning on horse races; “he tried
it and won, 1,000 times, not with
money, just mentally.”
Anybody can win mentally, they
do it constantly at Monte Carlo and
elsewhere, but nobody can win
money, except accidentally never
in the long run.
A brave truck driver, name un
known, saw a lady with a difficult
name, Mrs. Anastasia Adiuszkie
wics, hanging from the ledge of a
second story in Jersey City. Rush
tag to help, he caught her in his
arms as she fell, then left, wanting
no praise.
He makes up for many that do
not give their seats to ladies in
street cars.
An eighteen-year-old girl, alone
and in agony, gave birth to a child;
and, according to police, immediate
ly killed it, dropping it from a roof.
A jury convicted her of man
slaughter, and the judge let her go
on probation; she must report once
a month to prove that she is be
having. Four jurors that helped
convict her told the judge they re
gretted. their verdict.
Every mother knows that the un
fortunate girl, after her horrible ex
perience and solitary agony, was
at least as nearly insane as any
shell-shocked soldier.
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WNU Service.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Trade Balance for Nine Months Is Unfavorable—Mrs,
“.Wally” Simpson Gets Divorce Goering
Launches Nazi Economic Plan.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
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C'XPORTS of manufactured goods
•*“' and raw materials exceeded im
ports into the United States during
September by more than four mil-
lion dollars, accord
ing to a report re
leased by Secretary
of Commerce Roper.
But the flow the
other way was so
strong during the
previous three
months that the
country suffered an
unfavorable balance
of trade during the
first nine months of
the year amounting
to $33,136,000. This
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Secretary
Roper
is in contrast with a favorable bal
ance of $66,496,000 in the correspond
ing period of 1935.
Roper minimized the situation, de
claring that heavy exports of raw
cotton, tobacco and automobiles
would probably bring the trade bal
ance more into line with previous
years. Pressed for further explana
tion Roper insisted that “our govern
ment as such does not compete with
other governments in the selling of
goods,” and this was the province
of private business. On reciprocal
trade agreements he was mum.
“We’d like to end the year with a
favorable trade balance, naturally,”
he said, “but we are going through
a period of study and readjustment
in world trade.”
In fact, Roper found the increase
in import trade to be “encourag
ing.” He said that it showed our
industries were buying raw ma
terials abroad for expansion of their
production in this country. Heavy
increases in wheat and meats re
sulted from the drouth, according
to Roper, rather than from the kill
ing of six million pigs and non
raising of grain under the AAA.
UNCLE SAM’S nephews and
nieces now number 128,429,000,
according to the estimate of Direc
tor William L. Austin of the bureau
of census. The new figure, as of
July 1, represented an increase of
908,000, or 0.71 per cent, since July
1, 1935. It was based on the num
ber of births and deaths during the
year ending June 30, 1936, and the
excess of immigration over emigra
tion.
Births exceeded deaths by 899,956
and the net immigration was 8,044,
according to the data taken by Aus
tin. The population figure on the
basis of the 1930 census was 122,775,-
046, and the biggest annual increase
since then was 1,022,000, for the year
ending July 1, 1931.
The bureau of agricultural eco
nomics also has been doing some
population estimating. It says the
back to the farm movement of the
depression years has halted and
that the farm population remained
practically stationary during 1935,
being 31,809,000 at the end of that
year. This figure, the bureau says,
was only slightly greater than in
1920 and “somewhat less” than in
1910.
D ROCEEDINGS lasting nineteen
* minutes in the court of assizes
at Ipswich, England, sufficed to
give marital freedom to Mrs.
“Wally” Simpson.
Justice Sir Anthony
Hawke heard neatly
arranged evidence
of the infidelity of
Ernest Simpson, who
was not represented,
and gruffly gave a
decree nisi to the
attractive American
woman who has
been and is the close
friend of King Ed
ward VIII. For six
months she will be on probation,
technically chaperoned at all times,
and if her behavior satisfies the
king’s proctor she will be unquali
fiedly free April 27 to marry again.
Whether or not her new husband,
if she takes one, will be King Ed
ward is a question that only time
and the two persons most directly
concerned can determine.
Mrs. Simpson returned from Ips
wich to her London residence on
Cumberland terrace, Regents park,
and there told interviewers that she
was angered and humiliated by the
international sensation her divorce
has caused. She said she might go
abroad for a time but that she would
never return to the United States
because of “all the nasty things”
said of her here.
The Week, a radical London week
ly, was the first English newspaper
to carry an open reference to Mrs.
Simpson’s friendship with King Ed
ward. The article was at the same
time a denunciation of the American
press for giving the story such prom
inence and of the British press for
suppressing it entirely. It also made
it clear that there would be wide
spread opposition to a marriage
between Edward and “Wally.” Pa
pers from Paris and elsewhere out
ride the United Kingdom have been
n great demand in London, but of
ourse the vast majority of the
iglish people know nothing about
he affair.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1936
C PURRED to quick action by the
new accord between Germany
and Italy, Leon Blum’s popular
front cabinet approved a large in
crease in France’s military air
force, already Reputed to be one of
the most powerful in the world. To
modernize and build up the aerial
squadrons the government will
spend $230,000,000 at once. It was
reported, too, that the cabinet de
cided to ask parliament to vote ex
traordinary funds for the fortifica
tion of the northern frontier because
of Belgium’s reversion to a policy
of armed neutrality.
DENITO MUSSOLINI rattled his
sword again on the occasion of
the fourteenth anniversary of the
Fascist march on Rome. “The Ital
ian people,” he proclaimed, “today
are ready and determined to defend
as never before—with all their force
right up to the last drop of blood—
victory and empire.”
As for Fascism, he said, “When it
finds obstacles in its path, it throws
itself against them and burns its
bridges behind it.”
"VT OT to be outdone in martial
gestures by other nations,
Japan trotted out her entire navy
for review by Emperor Hirohito.
It was the greatest fleet ever
brought together in Asiatic waters,
comprising 108 warships aggregat
ing nearly 700,000 tons and manned
by 40,000 men. Large numbers of
aircraft also took part in the evolu
tion in Osaka bay.
ri EN. HERMANN WILHELM
GOERING, German minister
of air and now the director of the
Nazi four-year economic scheme to
make the reich in
dependent of the
rest of the world in
raw materials,
launched his
program at a great
Nazi rally in Berlin.
“We shall hack fin
ger after finger off
the foreign hand
clutching at
throat
within the next four ~
years,” he declared. Gen ’ Goenng
Outlining his plans, Goering said
no German had starved, nor would
starve. The high seas fishing fleet
will be increased, he asserted, so
the people can eat fish when meat
is not available. Whale fishing will
be developed for the margarine it
can produce, he promised.
Goering urged all Germans to fol
low the example of Reichsfuehrer
Adolf Hitler who, he said, eats nei
ther meat nor butter. The audience
yelled with delight when the robust
Goering told them he had lost 22
pounds by eating less butter.
Germany would prefer the old sys
tem of international exchange of
wares, but this now is impossible in
a mad world, so Germany will build
her factories, produce her own syn
thetic rubber and her own sub
stitutes for cotton and other ma
terials for which she now must spend
millions of dollars yearly, the gen
eral declared.
ANY American travelers join
the English in mourning the
death of Sir Edgar Britten, com
mander of the great liner Queen
Mary and commodore of the Cunard-
White Star lines. He was stricken
with paralysis in Southampton and
died within a few hours. Sir Edgar
I was sixty-two years old and first
i went to sea as a lad of eighteen
in sailing ships. He was knighted by
King George V in 1934.
U* IGHT armored cars escorted by
■*-' armed private guards and state
police, carried a fortune of $25,000,-
000 from the estate of the late Col.
E. H. R. Green in South Dartmouth,
Mass., to the ( First National bank of
Boston.
The fortune, which consists of the
famous coin collection, valued at
5 millions; the stamp collection,
valued at 3% millions; a large
amount of cash and securities, and
a quantity of uncut diamonds, has
been under constant guard at the
Green home since his death.
DEFORE taking a recess of two
weeks the United States Su
preme court announced that it would
review and hand down a decision at
this term upon the Wagner labor
relations act. Many lawyers believe
this law will be held unconstitu
tional, for in the Guffey coal act de
cision the Supreme court held that
the relationship between employers
and employees was local and beyond
the power of congressional regula
tion.
SECRETARY OF LABOR FRAN
CES PERKINS announced that
the third national conference on la
bor legislation, designed to stimu
late the raising of work standards
through federal and state co-opera
tive efforts, will be called into ses
sion in Washington on November
9, and will last three days.
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Mrs. Simpson
JUST about everything necessary
to a general European war is
now ready. At this distance it
seems that Josef Stalin, dictator of
Soviet Russia, will be the man to
fire the starting pistol; and he is
reported to be convinced that an
other great conflict is unavoidable.
The nations of the continent are
lining up as Communist or Fascist,
either in the constitution of their
governments or in their active
sympathies. The immediate occa
sion for their disputes is the civil
war in Spain. Nearly all the conti
nental governments and that of
Great Britain joined in an agree
ment of nonintervention, but that
pact is about played out. Russia,
accusing Portugal, Germany and It
aly of aiding the Fascist Spanish
rebels, has denounced the agree
ment and declared she reserves
freedom to help the Madrid govern
•inent; the accused nations deny the
Soviet charges, and the noninter
vention committee voted that Italy
and Portugal were not guilty, the
accusations either not being proved
or referring to what happened be
fore the international agreement
went into effect. Italian counter
charges, detailing 20 alleged acts
of Russian aid to Spanish Socialists
were laid before the committee for
action.
Portugal severed diplomatic rela
tions with the Madrid government,
and the representatives of the two
countries were recalled. Dr. Ar
mindo Monteiro, Portuguese foreign
minister, followed up this action by
sending to Lord Plymouth, British
chairman of the nonintervention
committee, a long document accus
ing Russia of having planned and
brought about the Spanish civil war.
He named the Russian diplomats,
agitators and soldiers who, he
charged, were directing the opera
tions. He alleged that Moscow
sought to start a revolution in Por
tugal and thus provide a base for
attacking General Franco’s insur
gent forces in the rear.
Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy
have buried their differences for the
time being and reached an agree
ment on a united policy.. This was
outlined in a communique published
after Italian Foreign Minister Gale
azzo Ciano had conferred with
Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler. In the
first place Hitler and Mussolini in
form the world that they intend to
recognize the insurgent government
headed by General Franco as the
legitimate regime in Spain, but they
promise to respect the terms of the
nonintervention agreement.
Other important declarations of
policy by the two states are:
1. Co-operation to protect the
peace of Europe and “the holy
riches of European civilization” and
family life.
2. Endorsement of a conference to
rewrite the Locarno pact guaran
teeing European borders, but only
in the west. This implied that nei
ther would agree to Soviet Russia’s
presence at the meeting.
3. Co-operation for the rehabilita
tion of the Danubian countries.
In one clause of the agreement
Germany recognizes Italy’s sover
eignty over Ethiopia.
p OPULAIRE, the organ of Pre
*■ mier Leon Blum’s Socialist par
ty, alleges that a shipment of sub
machine guns from the United
States has been added to the secret
armaments of the Croux de Feu in
preparation for a civil war in
France. The Croix de Feu, a Fas
cist organization headed by Col.
Francois de la Rocque, was dis
solved recently by the government
and was succeeded by the new So
cial party.
Populaire, referring to the sub
machine guns, said these “terrible
weapons used by American gang
sters” arrived from America
through the port of Havre and
through Holland. The paper added
that the weapons are being planted
in caches in Normandie and else
where in the north of France. Fur
thermore, according to Populaire,
great quantities of tear gas bombs
and tear gas pistols are arriving
from Germany for the use of the
Fascists.
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PREMIER MUSSOLINI, talking
at Bologna, said that Italy’s “ol
ive branch grows out of an immense
forest of 8,000,000 bayonets”; and
next day at Imola he told 70,000
listeners that he hoped for long pe
riods of peace, but not for “eternal
peace, which is absurd and impossi
ble.”
“The Italian people, which gave
its blood for the empire, is ready
for any other trial when the crucial
hour approaches,” the Fascist chief
shouted. “In order to make peace
—just as to make love—it is neces
sary that there be two.”
E> ELGIAN Fascists, known as
Rexists and led by Leon Deg
relle, clashed with the police in
Brussels and Degrelle was jailed
for a night. He said the motive of
his demonstration was to show that
ex-soldiers were backing the Rex
ists, and he announced that he
would carry out his threatened
“march on Brussels” with 150,000
followers and overthrow the gov
ernment.
SETTING a new world’s long dis
tance train speed record, the
Burlington railway’s streamlined
steel Denver Zephyr made a non
stop run from Chicago to Denver in
12 hours 12 minutes and 27 sec
onds. The distance is 1,017 miles,
so the average speed was 83.4 miles
an hour. After crossing the Colo
rado border the train hit its top
speed of 116 miles an hour, which
was maintained for one mile.
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Lesson for November 15
THE HEROISM OF CHRISTIAN
FAITH
LESSON TEXT—Acts 21:12, 13, 27-34;
Romans 9:1-5.
GOLDEN TEXT—Greater love hath no
man than this, that a man lay down his
life for his friends. John 15:13.
PRIMARY TOPIC—On the Castle Steps.
JUNIOR TOPIC—On the Castle Steps.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
—Taking Risks for Christ.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
—Risking All for Christ.
We now come to the close of the
third missonary journey of Paul.
As he came to Jerusalem for the
last time in his eventful life he was
warned by a prophet, Agabus at
Caesarea, that if he went up to
Jerusalen he would be bound and
given over to the Gentiles.
Heroism of the highest and noblest
type has characterized the follow
ers of Christ in all times. Paul
was not one to be deterred from
what he believed to be God’s will
by the probability that he would
suffer. Like all who follow the
Lord Jesus Christ in truth he was
I. Fearless, in Practice as Well
as Theory (Acts 21:12, 13, 27-34).
■Many there are who sing, “I’ll go
where you want me to go, dear
Lord, I’ll be what you want me
to be,” or smoothly repeat consecra
tion vows, who are frightened away
at the slightest difficulty, and who
feel that they must have been mis
taken about the Lord’s will for their
life at the first indication that his
guidance would interfere with their
comfort or convenience. No such
cowardice or vacillation was found
in Paul.
In the first place, he did not intend
to have a holy purpose weakened
by disheartening talk. How many
young men and women have left
a place of sacred meeting with God
aglow with the purpose of serving
Him in the foreign mission field,
and then permitted an uninterested
friend or relative or employer to
talk them out of it.
In the second place, we find Paul
carrying through his purpose. When
he came to Jerusalem he was coun
seled to enter the temple to take
a Nazarite vow, and thus to satisfy
his enemies. Some have com
mended Paul for thus pacifying
those who withstood him, others
strongly condemn him for yielding.
His purpose was good, but his act
led to unfortunate results. An in
furiated Jewish mob saw him in
the temple and wrongfully accused
him of defiling the temple by bring
ing a Greek into this holy place.
A riot ensues, and Paul would
have been killed had not the Ro
man captain and his band rescued
him. Was Paul afraid? He im
mediately turned his arrest into an
unsurpassed opportunity to give a
testimony and to make a defense
of his ministry (See Acts 21:40-
22:22). He admonished others to
“be instant in season and out of
season” (II Tim. 4:2); he practiced
what he preached. He constantly
urged faith in God, steadfastness
in the midst of trials; he gave full
proof of these things in his own'
ministry.
In all this he did not seek his
own glory, or any honor for his
own name. The Christian hero
knows nothing of heroism for pub
licity’s sake; he does not serve
with an eye on the “grandstand.”
Paul was actuated by a deep and
a genuine
11. Concern for the Salvation of
His People (Rom 9:1-5).
The Christian worker who knows
nothing of “great sorrow and un
ceasing pain” in his heart over the
plight of the unsaved does not fol
low in the Pauline succession, nor
does he know the heart of the Man
of Sorrows.
Paul surely did not wish himself
separated from Christ, but was so
deeply moved that he said he “could
wish” it—if it were not wrong—in
order to save his brethren.
Do we need a revival of com
passion in our churches, and in our
own hearts, a yearning over the
multitudes about us who are as
sheep without a shepherd?
A Golden Link
A mother’s love is indeed the
golden link that binds youth to age,
and he is still but a child, however
time may have furrowed his cheek,
or silvered his brow, who can yet
.•ecall with a softened heart, the
fond devotion, or the gentle chid
ings, of the best friend that God
ever gives us.
Love of Our Work
It is only those who do not know
how to work that do not love it. To
those who do it is better than play—
it is religion.
Life
Life is not made up of great sac
rifices of duties, but of little things
of which smiles and kindness and
small obligations given habitually,
are what win and preserve the
heart.— Sir Humphrey Davy.
Prejudices
Prejudices may be intense, but
their lives are limited—to discover
when they are dead and to bury
them, is an important matter, and
no unseemly tears should be shed
at their funerals.
Hawaii's Memorial Stone
The memorial stone from Ha
waii which is to be placed in the
Washington monument is of coral
sandstone and will bear the fol
lowing inscription in Hawaiian:
“Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka
pono.” The translation of this is
“The life of the land is preserved
in righteousness” and it is the of
ficial motto of the island.
The stone is 4 by 2 feet and 6
inches thick. It will be placed in
the interior of the monument on
the 360-foot level.
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