[Sackcloth A ndAshes Clothes
And Guests Who Eat Dead Sea
Fruit Marks Feast Of Nations
Lr To End War Fail* And A* 19th Year
I Begin*, Heavier Armament* And Al
most Certain War Are Seen
By MILTON BRONNER
LONDON, Nov. 13.—“Guests will come dressed in sack
loth and ashes and come prepared to eat Dead Sea fruit”—
t.fS th? wav ironic angels, contemplating this earth could
Le invitations to a world banquet as the 19th year after
L war is begun.
ry war to rnd wars and to make ■
sor;d safe for democracy ended
(dIy m the past 100 years there
la5 teen no time when Democracy
[W more endangered. That form of
-emment has been slugged to
leath in Russia. Germany, Italy,
Austria Greece and Portugal where
Uetators rule.
It has been chloroformed In Hun
-jj. Bulgaria. Yugoslavia, and the
ittlt Baltic states of Esthonia, Lat
j, and Lithuania. It has been
ltd white In Spain.
The world War has not ended
|ars gn(j huge armaments. The
wgue of Nations has prevented
either the one nor the other.
In 1914. before the storm burst,
It was the Germany of Kaiser
Wilhelm upon which all eyes were
turned It was the kaiser’s speech
,5 which statesmen weighed for
their meaning and their threat. To
day. it is a new German leader—
Adolf Hitler -who Is watched.
Italy's Mussolini is watched, too,
lor he has openly discarded ideals
of disarmament, the League of Na
tions and collective security, for
upon hostility to any nation stand
ing in the "new Italy’s” way.
Infectious fear has spurred the
imrnmeni race among smaller na
tions a? well Belgium's army num
ber* 65.000: Poland's, 325,000; Ru
mania's. :tno 000; Yugoslavia’s 145,
000: Chechoslovakia's, 150,000.
All are hoping for peace. But
ill are preparing for war—a greater
war than the one which ended 18
years ago on Nov. 11.
Under Adolf Hitler, GERMANY is
jrmlng to the teeth. Already it has
more than 350,000 soldiers fully
equipped with tanks and heavy ar
tillery.
In its labor camps and semi-mi
litary organizations, Germany has
a reserve of probably 5,000,000 men.
Its air force Is leaping to tremen
dous proportions.
Basing his actions on alleged fear
of Soviet Russia, Hitler has alarm
ed Europe with several swift moves.
March 11, 1935, he proclaimed his
intention of building a vast' air
force. March 18, he rent the Ver
railles treaty by declaring he
could disregard its military clauses
fettering Germany.
FRANCE, once more frightened
by * heavily armed Germany, an
xiously looks for places to tighten
It* defenses. It has about 565,000
men In its armies, and could draw
from a reserve of probably 6,000,000
men who have had military train
ing
Faemg the Germany frontier,
France has a belt of steel and con
crete fortifications — the Maginot
fine But if and when Germany
strikes, more than likely it will be
through the air. So France now Is
hurriedly overhauling Its air army.
BRTTain suddenly has become
tear conscious. Even the sluggish
Baldwin government has aroused
IWf to Investigate what many re
Urd as real dangers to the empire.
The government is prenarincr to
w mor* than half a billion
Mars for enlargement of its navy
wd creation of a mighty air force.
Owning the power that has been
wveloped in continental air forces,
Britain at last realizes it can not
rfmain jn “solitary grandeur,’’
Protected only by its navy.
Proposed as a goal by the cabi
ft is an air force with plenty of
"''chines for defense purposes, but
®lso with bombers of such long
j^nge, terrific speed, and huge
mb capacity that they could ln
ict severe punishment on any
ttemy.
On paper. RUSSIA is the strong
military poWer In the world,
fa. mg an attack by Japan In the
* anci hv Germany in the
'he Soviets have built an
•fmy or about 1.300.000 men. The
jwinninist chiefs have placed their
l8n7latr muniticn» ^rks far in
na cut of easy reach of hostile
tomoers
.rT;''f R^d B'r force, one of the
ln ,hp world, has astounded
'kn military observers by car
machine gun and light ar
' v ' squadrons behind the lines
Chun mv,hifal enemy and para
ch«>n* them to the ground.
ih_, * Russians claim a reserve of
th “ 15 00°.00o mr/i, but many of
lnT,P arp onl>’ half-trained. The
to?, far better clothed, provl
*rm° ant* arm®d than Russian
ie.s ever were under the czars,
‘^spon lines also have ben ini
ITALV. under
the dictatorship
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of Mussolini, already has proved
Itself a formidable military nation.
Its navy is new and powerful, ts
army is completely mechanized. Its
air force is one of the best In Eu
rope.
Recently, Mussolini announced
another huge war program. It calls
for 1200 munitions factories to
work 60 hours a week; new air
dromes In northern Italy, on the
Adriatic and west coasts of Italy,
and in Sardinia and Sicily; more
airplanes, and more ships.
Mussolini boasts he can mobilize
8,000.000 men. But many of these
are not trained and many could
not be armed at present. One thing
is certain: Italy is far more power
ful now than in 1914. Bidding for
Italy’s services will be high when
the next war breaks.
Sundown Stories
For The Kiddies
Sweet Face's Return
By MARY GRAHAM BONNER
Sweet face, the lamb, could not
understand why he had been so
foolish as to follow a flock of lambs
going—he did not know where.
And now he had gone along such
a distance that he wondered how
he would ever be able to find his
way home.
"I want to go back to Puddle
Muddle,” bleated Sweet Face mis
erably.
“Baa, baa. we're following the
leader,” said some of the lambs.
Now a man was coming along to
make sure that the lambs were all
keeping together, and Sweet Face
said to himself:
“I have to get away when he
isn’t noticing me.”
But the man had already notic
ed Sweet Face.
“You don’t belong to us,” he said,
“but if you want to come along I
don’t object."
“Baa, baa. I don't want to go any
further with you. I want to go to
Puddle Muddle.” But the man did
not understand what Sweet F%ce
said.
The man walked on ahead, and
Sweet Face waited for the right
moment when he could disappear
from the others. He was not sure
at all that they would mind but he
learned they might bleat so noisily
that the man would come back.
And—if he did that—Sweet Face
thought, he might decide that he
needed an extra lamb for is flock.
Soon the leader of the flock be
gan to run and the others run,
too. They did not notice they were
leaving Sweet Face behind.
“Now 111 go back to Puddle
Muddle,” he said, but then a dread
ful thought came to him.
“How am I going to find my way
back?” he wondered. “I dontknow
in which direction to go.”
Westerners Seek
Land In Carolina
RALEIGH. Nov. 16.—A group of
practical corn-belt farmers and ex
perienced livestock men plan t o
“reverse the historic order of
things” and come to North Caro
lina, in contrast with those who
migrated west from this State, Ca
pus M. Waynick, chairman of the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission, has been informed by •
a Chicago citizen.
They have their eyes on a sec
tion of Columbus county and in
tend to go there, en masse, if satis
factory highways can be built.
That is why they took the matter
up with Chairman Waynick, who
said he "favors the movement.”
In his statement to Mr. Way
nick, the .Chicagoan said, concern
ing the proposed migration of this
farm colony to North Carolina.
“Such a community will consti
tute a most desirable and valuable
contribution to North Carolina’s
present system of agriculture, for
the reason that these western
farmers, experienced in the pro
duction of food, grain and forage
crops, ar.d also in the breeding and
handling of all types of livestock,
will open up and occupy these rich,
undeveloped della lands which na
tive tobacco and cotton growers do
not know how to utlllie to the
maximum extent.
NEGRO KILLt’H WHILE
IN FARMER’S HEN HOUSE
LEXINGTON. Nov. Id.—<4*,—Har
old Hairston. 28 year old negro,
was near death today of gunshot
wounds. Officers quoted Sam Lan
ier. Tyro farmer, as saying he shot
Hairston in his henhouse at 8 o’
clock in the morning.
Sunday School Lesson
Paul Seeks Roman Justice
International Uniform Sunday
School Lemon for Nor. 22.
Devotional Reading: Isaiah
2:2-4
• • •
PAUL’S failure to receivo an
immediate hearing and jus
tice by appealing unto Caesar
greatly shook his pride in being
a free-born Roman citizen.
The Intrigues against him to
Palestine, he realized, might bias
the mind of a Roman governor
anxious to conciliate the people,
so Paul stood upon his rights as
a citizen and appealed to Rome.
The trip there was sufficiently
exciting, for it was characterized
by the shipwreck of which we
have such a thrilling story. But
Paul, eventually safe to Rome,
was disappointed that his case
did not come up quickly for
trial. Though he had the priv
ilege of living in his own house,
he was guarded constantly and
was literally an ambassador to
chains.
The strange contrasts that
play to Roman life and history
are emphasized in this story of
Paul’s Imprisonment there. It
seems remarkable that the iron
hand of Rome, characterized
often by so much violence,
should, nevertheless, rest easily
enough on Paul, to allow him
even more liberty than is al
lowed most prisoners today.
Paul’s failure to get justice
was traceable to conditions sim
ilar to those which fetter justice
today. There were hidden and
intense Influences at work, and
theee influences, so strong in
Palestine, might easily have fol
lowed him to Rome.
• • •
XjX)R two years, however, Paul
lived in his own house, re
ceiving all who came to see him.
The man who had traveled near
and far preaching the Gospel,
now turned this different oppor
tunity to new account, preach
ing as others came to him.
There is a tradition that there
was a body of Roman soldiers
known as the Thundering Le
gion, members of which had
come in contact with Paul while
they had been chained to him
to guard him, and had, under
such influence, developed a high
strain of seriousness and cour
age.
Most of Paul’s Epistles were
written to Christians in various
cities that he had visited during
his missionary Journeys and in
the churches that he had estab
lished. The Epistle to the Ro
mans, in contrast, was written
relatively early in his ministry,
and he had spoken with great
urgency of his desire to visit the
capital city of the empire.
In a famous passage he de
clared that he was not ashamed
to preach the Gospel in Rome,
strong in the assurance that it
was the power of God unto sal
vation. In a sense. Paul was
measuring his strength of the
Gospel against the strength of
Rome, and the imperialism of
Christ Jesus against the Impe
rialism of a city that had con
quered and controlled the world.
One cannot get the full sweep
of Paul’s faith, courage, and out
look, without sensing this mag
nificence of his world vision, and
the fact that the greatness of his
Roman citizenship was caught
up in the larger glory of being
a citizen of the household of
faith and of the kingdom of God.
How different was Paul’s ac
tual coming to Rome! Not the
free entry of an earnest mission
ary, but the coming of a citizen
in chains.
Yet Paul was undaunted. He
was a preacher and ambassador
of Christ, and, as we have sug
gested in comment on an earlier
lesson, the sense of his depend
ence upon God’s power and his
appreciation of spiritual values
increased as he sensed the weak
ness, the futility, and the wick
edness that often prevail in high
places of government
Paul’s disappointment in the
Roman world threw him back,
with a large measure of faith, on
a world of spiritual realities.
‘EVERLASTING FLOWERS’
GIVE FARMERS A LIFT
MONTARA, Cal.—Farmers of
of this little coastal area have
round a unique answer to agricul
tural problems in tXe raising of
“everlasting flowers.”
Every night trucks lumber out of
the peat lands here, once devoted
almost exclusively to artichokes,
bearing cargoes of a small chrysan
themum that never wilts.
There is only a brief three month
season in the fall but during that
period about 20,000,000 flowers are
exported. Most of the sales are in
the east.
Drewry Dobbins
News Of The Week
(Special to The Star)
DREWRY DOBBINS. Nov. 16 —
There will be a birthday dinner at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willie
Butler Sunday Nov. IS In honor of
Mrs. Butler's mother. Mrs. Hessle
Doty. She Is celebrating her 67th
birthday. Everybody la Invited to
come and bring well tilled baskets.
Several from this community at
tended the funeral of George Haw
kins. who was burled at Union.
Mrs. E. O. Lall who makes her
home with the Rev. and Mrs. Edd
McDaniel Is very sick at this writ
ing.
The W. M. U. met at the home
of Mrs. Joe Vandyke Saturday aft
ernoon, Nov. 7. Twelve were present
and a very Interesting program was
rendered. Those taking part on the
program were Mrs. Tlllle Butler,
Mrs. Paris Jones, Miss Ruby Van
dyke and Made Brooks. At the
close of the program Mrs. Vandyke
gave a stork shower for Mrs. Yan
Jenkins. Mrs. Jenkins received
many gifts and after the gifts were
passed around for each one to see
the hostess Miss Ruby Vandyke
and Miss Edna Black served le
monade and cocoanut cake.
Mrs. Burg Vandyke is slightly 111.
Mrs. Minnie Terry and son. Ju
lius of Dallas, spent part of last
week with Mr. and Mrs. Fouze
White. Mr. and Mrs. White accom
panied them home over the week
end.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Powell of Clif
ton, S. c. spent the week end with
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Vandyke. Those
calling Sunday were Mr. and Mrs.
Frances Holland and children of
Morgant6n.
Harland McDaniel of thl/ com
munity killed a large hawk one day
last week, measuring from tip to
Up—36 inches.
FINGERPRINTS TO BE
TAKEN IN CHARLOTTE
CHARLOTTE, Nov. 16.—<*>)—'The
Charlotte city school board author
ized the fingerprinting of 18,000
school children In a cltywlde, non
compulsory fingerprinting cam
paign sponsored by a civic organiz
ation.
BAILEY HOME ROBBER
FACES STIFF TERM
RALEIGH, Nov. 16.—«■)—Ray
mond Matthews, 30, who robbed
the home of Senator J. W. Bailey
this summer of a collection of fire
arms, faced six to twelve years In
prison today for robbing the Sena
tor and for box car robbery.
New Buicks Shown By Lackey
Buick’a new 1987 models are now on display at the J. L.
Lackey show rooms on West Warren street and include four
lines, the Special, Century, Roadmnster and Limited, all
handsome in design embracing many refinements that draw
favorable comment.
NASH MAN LOSE HIS
LICENSE TO DRIVE CAR
WlIflON, Nov. lfl.—(/P)—Arthur
Parker, Nosh county man charged
with drunken driving after an au
to collision In which Rep. John H.
Kerr of Warrenton was Injured
several weeks ago, pleaded guilty In
county court and was fined $50,
given a suspended road sentence,
and had his driver’s license revok
ed.
ONIONS ESCAPE DROUGHT
—GOOD ’EVEN FOR PIE’
WASHINGTON.—(IP)—Rejoicing
that the drought did not hurt the
onion crop, home economics experts
say the tearful vegetable could be
used "in every course up to des
sert” and even served as pie hi an
emergency.
Estimating the late crop would
yield about 12,000,000 sacks of 100
pounds each, the experts predicted
the large production probably would
keep prices from getting high
throughout the early winter.
Six Pound Spud
CHARLESTON, S. C.—</P)—Karl
Williams, 4, grows big things on
his farm. Exhibit A: A six pound
potato.
HOLD MAN FOR HURTS
OF IS YEAR OLD GIRL
-i- -yyr ?
CHAKLOTTB. Not. lfl.-rflDjrWtl
Itam Blalock, 31, wu held for •in
vest iga tton in connection with the
fMf of 15 year old Mr% Ettaabeth
Pressley who waa critically hurt
whan she jumped from a feeding
truck near here Monday.
The girl, who with two children
of eight and nine years jumped
from a truck when she said the
driver refused to let them off, was
reported still In a serious condi
tion. The chlldrerj were not seri
ously hurt.
OFFER MRS. DAVIS AS
NEW D. A. R. REGENT
BTATE8VILLE, Nov. 16—Chi.p
terg in the second district an
nounced formally they would ofI?r
Mrs. Eugene Davis of Wilson lor
i the state Regency of the Daughters
| of the American Revolution, to
■ succeed Mrs. W. H. Belk of Char
| lotte whose term will expire next
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