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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY HENRY W. PORTER
New Crisis Looms as Germany
And Poland Mobilize Troops;
Chamberlain Summons Aides
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World attention was focused early this week on the little town ot
Zilina (shown above), strategic railway center of Slovakia where 50,040
German troops were reported to be concentrated after the Reich had
taken military possession of the Slovak republic which was already under
German “protection.” From Zilina more than a quarter of a million were
deploying along a 100-mile front facing the Polish border.
EUROPE:
Week of Crisis
Peace or war?
Renewed activity, both military
and diplomatic, indicated that this
question may be answered one way
or the other before ttiis week of
crisis ends.
Concentration of more than a
quarter of million German troops,
fully equipped for war, along Slo
vakia’s border with Poland followed
closely upon a conference between
Hitler and Count Stephen Csaky,
Hungarian foreign minister, after
which it was announced that Hun
gary and the Reich had become
firmly allied. Both of these moves
were regarded as a part of the Ger
man plan to “encircle” Poland and
as a buildup for Hitler’s making a
“final offer” to Poland on his de
mands for Danzig and a link with
East Prussia through Pomorze (the
Polish Corridor).
To meet this armed threat, Poland
began sending troop reinforcements
toward her frontiers facing Germany
and Slovakia as a “precautionary
measure against any eventuality.”
However, there were indications
that Poland, feeling this military
pressure, might advance some plan
for settlement of the Danzig ques
tion by negotiation.
There were equally strong indica
tions that she would resist armed
force with armed force and count
upon Great Britain to back her up.
Whether or not her confidence in
that backing is well-placed will be
come apparent if Prime Minister
Chamberlain, who interrupted a va
cation in Scotland to return to Lon
don, issues a statement after his
conference with Foreign Secretary
Lord Halifax, War Minister Leslie
Hore-Belisha, Sir John Simon, chan
cellor of the exchequer, Sir Samuel
Hoare, home secretary, and Mal
colm MacDonald, colonial secre
tary. Significant was an editorial
in the London Times, which often
reflects the views of the British gov
ernment. It said that Great Britain
had given Poland “a specific pledge
from which it will not and can not
recede. It had given no such
pledge to Czecho-Slovakia.”
Meanwhile, if negotiation, rather
than armed force, is used to solve
the Danzig
question, the
impetus for it
may come
from Rome.
After his con
ference with
Hitler, Count
Csaky fl?w to
the Italian
capital for
conversations
with Mussolini
and his foreign
minister.
Count Ciano,
COUNT CSAKY
A go-between?
after which he returned to Budapest.
No official announcement of the re
sult of this conference was forthcom
ing but it is considered likely that the
axis powers hope to make Csaky a
go-between for negotiations between
Berlin and Warsaw. Since Hun
gary has been on friendly terms
with Poland and with the axis pow
ers, especially Italy, the Hungarian
foreign minister would fit well into
this role.
What effect the recently pro
claimed trade agreement between
Germany and Russia will have upon
the resumption of negotiations for a
three-power mutual asistance
agreement between Great Britain,
France and the Soviet is still un
determined. This agreement, which
will probably give Germany access
to much-needed raw materials, may
so strengthen her hand in Europe’s
power politics that it may have a
very decisive effect upon negotia
tions over Danzig, if that problem
is to be settled by negotiation.
The latest move toward maintain
ing peace by negotiation was made
by Belgium. King Leopold’s gov-
ernment has invited the ministers
of six small powers to rush to Brus
sels by airplane and join with Bel
gium in a peace plea to the larger
nations. Those who were invited
and who are said to have accepted
the invitation were the Netherlands,
Luxemburg, Sweden, Norway, Den
mark and Finland.
LABOR:
‘Gag’ on Ford?
The Ford Motor company has no
tified the National Labor Relations
board that it would not comply with
an order which the board had is
sued against it reaffirming its earli
er ruling that the company was
guilty of violating the Wagner act
by refusing to reinstate 24 men, said
to have been discharged for union
activity.
The new labor board decision re
tained the disputed section of the
earlier ruling which required the
firm to “cease and desist from . . .
interfering with ... its employees
in the exercise of rights guaranteed
in Section 7 of the act by circulat
ing, distributing, or otherwise dis
seminating among its employees
statement of propaganda which dis-
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HENRY FORD
Denied “free speech"?
parages or criticizes labor organiza
tion ...”
The board referred mainly to the
famous “Fordisms” as written by
Henry Ford. The quotations con
tained anti-union sentiments.
In replying to the labor board, P.
E. Martin, Ford vice president, de
nied that the company had dis
charged members of the United Au
tomobile Workers of America or oth
erwise intimidated them and
charged that the right of free speech
was being denied Ford.
AGRICULTURE:
Milk Parley
As the result of renewed violence
in upstate New York, marked by
more milk-dumping and some skull
cracking when police and state
troopers clashed with milk plant
pickets, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia
of New York city this week called
farmer and distributor representa
tives into a conference to seek a
peaceful solution of their dispute.
The mayor’s action came after the
dairymen’s strike had cut the usual
supply available to the metropolitan
area from 4,400,000 quarts to 2,300,-
000 quarts, although both sides had
given assurance that hospitals, pub
lic institutions and other needy cus
tomers would receive an adequate
supply.
The Farmers’ Dairy union, which
claims a membership of 15,000 dairy
farmers and which is supported by
the C. I. 0., called the strike in an
effort to force distributors to pay
them $2.35 a hundredweight (or 47
quarts) for all classes of milk. The
present price for such “blended”
milk, which is used for manufactur
ing as well as drinking purposes—
is $1.60 a hundredweight.
Hearings in Syracuse and New
York city to discuss the price struc
ture have been ordered for this
week by the United States depart
ment of agriculture.
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By HAROLD L LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Dean oi The Moody Bible Institute
„ , .. of Chicago.
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Lesson for September 3
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ISAIAH: A LIFE DEDICATED
TO GOD
i
LESSON TEXT—lsaiah 6:1-13.
GOLDEN TEXT—Here am I; send me.—
Isaiah 6:8.
Crisis! We have had so many of
them that they have almost become
commonplace. There has been one
war crisis after another. There have
been world crisis and domestic cri
sis until the word has almost lost
its meaning.
In the life of the individual, how
ever, the times of crisis are very
real and important. In a critical
illness one knows when the crisis
comes, and he who safely passes
that hour is on the road to recov
ery- More vital than a physical
crisis Is a spiritual crisis, when a
man meets God face to face and his
future destiny is determined by the
response which he makes to God’s
call. Isaiah had such an experience
when he came to realize God’s glo
ry, confessed his own unworthiness,
and sought cleansing of life as a
preparation for commission to serv
ice.
I. “I Saw the Lord” (w. 1-4).
King Uzziah, who had begun well
but had forgotten God, was at the
end of his life, a leper because of
his sin, and dying in disgrace. Is
rael which had known unprecedent
ed prosperity under God’s blessing
now hardened its heart nationally
against God and was also about to
go into eclipse. God needed a man
to speak for Him in such an hour,
to bring to His people a message
of judgment and also of blessed in
vitation. To prepare that man, the
great Isaiah, God gave a remarka
ble manifestation of His glory and
power.
It is essential that the man who
speaks for God should first see the
Lord high and lifted up and to hear
of His holiness and glory. The neg
ative tone of the present-day mes
sage, the lack of enthusiasm and
interest in holy things, the low
standards of personal holiness, the
failure to preach boldly the truth
regarding God’s holy standards are
to be explained by the fact that
there has been no vision of the
eternal holiness and glory of God.
The need of the people today is the
same as it was in the time of Isaiah.
Where are the men and women who
are ready for a vision like his and
for the commission which will fol
low?
11. “Woe Is Me! for I Am Un
done” (v. 5).
To see the holiness of God is to
be immediately conscious of one’s
own sin and unworthiness. The ob
vious conclusion which one draws
from that fact is that anyone who
is proud, who is not concerned about
his own sins and the sins of his peo
ple, is living far from God and has
either never known or has forgot
ten about His divine holiness.
Isaiah spoke of the pollution of
his lips, thereby confessing that his
heart was not right. Whereof the
heart is full, thereof speaketh the
mouth, for we read in Matthew 12:
34 that out of the abundance of the
heart the mouth speaketh. Re
member that even though Isaiah
was a believer he recognized the
need of cleansing.
111. “Then ... He Touched My
Mouth” (vv. 6,7, R. V.).
“Then” — what an important
word! When Isaiah called out in
humble confession, “then” he was
cleansed. The turning point is right
at that place for any life. Only
when we come to the place of con
fession and contrition which Isaiah
knew, can we expect the Lord tor
send the cleansing fire and the en
abling power.
None but God can give this cleans
ing. Man is unable to wash him
self clean. “For though thou wash
thee with nitre, and take thee much
soap, yet thine iniquity is marked
before me, saith the Lord” (Jer.
2:22. See also Jer. 13:23). Reforma
tion, turning over a new leaf, char
acter development, all commenda
ble in their place, are not sufficient.
There must be divine cleansing of
the life if there is to be a commis
sion to service.
IV. “Here Am I; Send Me” (w.
8-13).
God had a difficult and unpopu
lar message to be deliveied but now
He had a man who was ready to
carry it. Isaiah had to proclaim
to Israel that because they had
turned from the sunshine of God’s
love, which would have melted their
hard hearts, it had for them be
come the sunshine of His wrath,
which could only progressively hard
en them and turn them from Him.
The same sunshine that melts the
wax hardens the mud.
The work of God in our day awaits
the man or the woman of vision—
the one who has been prepared by
confession and cleansing and who
has then received the divine com
mission.
Faith
Os all the forces at the disposal
of humanity, faith has always been
one of the most tremendous, and the
gospel rightly attributes to it the
power of moving mountains.
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HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
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“Two Kinds of Death”
Hello everybody:
This is the story of a man who had a choice to make—
—a choice between two kinds of death. *
One of those deaths was certain—and unpleasant. If he chose
the other, he’d at least have a chance.
But he chose the death that was unpleasant—and certain!
Anthony A. Hensler is his name, and he lives in New York
City. Tony is an aviator, and one day in the latter part of July,
1927, he had a call from Andy Andrews, who was then senior
pilot at Curtis field out in Mineola.
Andy wanted to get hold of somebody who could take a
blimp up in the air and put it through test flights. There
were few men available in the East, at that time, who knew
enough to test fly a blimp, and Tony Hensler was one of
them. Andy asked him if he would do the job.
Tony said it was all right with him, and Andy took him
to meet a fellow named Hamza who owned the blimp. The ar
rangements were made and Tony went to work. He did a little
tinkering with the machinery and finally had the big gas bag
whipped into shape for a first hop.
The department of commerce lays down certain rules by which va
rious types of aircraft are tested, and the rule in regard to blimps was
that the first hop had to be a fixed flight. That means that the blimp is
sent aloft with a line attached to the ground, so that if anything goes
wrong it can’t get away, float over the city and kill somebody or damage
property in coming down.
Tony Decides on a Second Fixed Flight.
Tony made that fixed flight. He adjusted the controls and centered
the stabilization. But just to make sure everything was in good shape
he decided to make a second fixed flight a few days later while he
checked those controls over again. And three days later, on the third of
August, he did make that fixed flight. And it nearly fixed Tony for good,
Tony climbed into the blimp all set for what he thought was
going to be just another routine test in a captive balloon firmly
anchored to the ground by a land line. But the trouble wasn’t long
in starting. No sooner was the blimp in the air than the land line
snapped and the big gas bag started shooting upward.
"She went up to 6,000 feet before I got the motor started,” Tony
says, “but the motor, a two-cylinder, high-speed motorcycle engine, finally
began to turn over, and for a while everything went swell. But not for
long. I was just over Manhattan, with my spirits as high as my ship,
.
O’
They were creating a wind of their own that was slowly turning the
blimp’s nose around.
when things began to happen. And what I mean, everything happened
at once. My controls began to go sour. The big bag began to hog badly.
And to make matters worse, a large hole appeared in the nose of the
ship.
“I shut off the motor for fear of an explosion. I had carried 15,000
cubic feet of hydrogen when I left the airport, and if a motor spark ever
got into any of that leaking gas it would blow me and the blimp to bits.”
The ship was losing altitude fast. The city seemed a long way
down, but it was getting closer with alarming speed. And then
Tony took a desperate chance—did the only thing he could
to save himself and avoid crashing on a tall building or in a
crowded New York street. He climbed out on the narrow cat
walk and pulled on the foremost suspension cords, doubling the
cloth over the hole in the bag’s nose to prevent any more hydrogen
leaking out of the balloon.
The Blimp Wallowed Helplessly in Mid-air.
“After securing those ropes,” he says, “I felt a little better, for I
then knew that the ship wouldn’t crash in the crowded city. But I still
didn’t dare start the motor, and the blimp was wallowing helplessly in
mid air. And what was worse still, the wind was carrying me out to sea.”
And right there was where Tony had to make his choice—his choice
between two kinds of death. There was a slim chance that he might
bring that big bag down safely in crowded New York. On the other side
of the picture was the prospect of blowing far out to sea and drowning
in the Atlantic. Drowning wasn’t a pleasant thought. It would be much
better to try and make a landing in New York—for Tony. But what
about those other people down there—those scurrying humans that looked
like ants as they crawled along the crowded streets? If Tony landed
among them there was a pretty good chance that a lot of them would
be killed.
So Tony made his choice, and he chose the sure, unpleasant
death rather than taking a fighting chance and perhaps killing
someone else. He sat still and did nothing while the wind carried
him out to sea!
" Tony Recognizes a Woman Pilot.
Out across New York harbor he floated—out toward Sandy Hook
and the ocean—and his doom! And then, from over toward the Jersey
shore Tony saw two planes coming in his direction. As they neared him,
he recognized one. It was the plane of Thea Rasch the famous German
woman pilot.
The two planes came closer and closer. They couldn’t take
Tony off that blimp in mid-air. in fact, it didn’t look as though
there was much they could do but stand by, or return to the air
port from which they had come, and send help. But Tony wasn’t
counting on the ingenuity ot Thea Rasch. She headed straight for
the blimp until Tony thought she was going to crash into it—until
he could feel the wind of the plane as it dived under him. The
other plane followed suit. They were creating a wind of their own
that was slowly turning the blimp’s nose around—pointing it
back to land.
About that time, too, the wind that was blowing him out to sea
shifted to another quarter. Aided by that, and by the two planes, Tony
finally landed at College Point, L. I- and there he was met by a crowd
that would pack the Yankee stadium, including the College Point police
reserves.
“Nope, I wasn’t locked up,” says Tony. “But if it hadn’t been for
the backwash of those two planes I’d have blown out to sea and never
found again.”
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Earth’s Motion Interferes With the Law of Gravity
If you make a deep hole in the
earth you can't drop anything to the
bottom, because the earth moves on
and the side of the hole stops the
falling object. This has been proved
by experiments in the deep shafts
of the American copper mines. Tools
dropped from the mouth of a shaft
were not found at the bottom but
wedged against the side of the shaft,
and this led the Michigan college of
rr>in«>a to make experiments. The
object being to discover how far the
earth’s motion interfered with the
usual effect of the laws of gravity.
The tests employed included sus
pending marbles by threads just be
low the mouth of the shaft, the
threads were then burnt by the
flame of a candle and the marbles
allowed to fall. Investigations
showed that after dropping some 500
feet the marbles in all cases came
to rest on the east wall of the mine.
Jlsk Me Another
£ A General Quiz
The Questions
1. Why was the site of Washing
ton, D. C-, chosen for the national
capital?
2. What was the heaviest one
day rainfall in history?
3. What approximate portion of
the earth’s surface is covered with
trees?
4. Can fish hear?
5. What does pantheon mean?
6. What character of Greek
mythology fell in love with his own
reflection and was metamorphosed
into a flower?
7. Can you translate the follow
ing into a familiar proverb: Too
great a number of culinary assist
ants may impair the flavor of the
consomme?
8. Where and what is the Acrop
olis?
9. What country bears the fol
lowing sobriquet: Marianne?
i 10. Why is a year divided into 1?
months?
The Answers
1. It was at that time the center
of population.
2. The heaviest one-day rainfall
occurred in Baguio, Philippine is
lands, on July 14-15, 1911, when 46
inches of water fell in 24 hours.
3. About one-fifth, an area
roughly 8,000,000 square miles.
4. Scientists report fish cannot
hear and are affected only by
sounds that cause vibrations in the
water.
5. A temple of all the gods.
6. Narcissus.
7. Too many cooks spoil the
broth.
8. A famous group of buildings
in Athens.
9. France.
10. From the cycle of the moon’s
phases, of which there are ap
proximately 12.
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vation and delay, falsehood by
haste and uncertainty.—Tacitus.
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