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C. i .second class mail matter ; CHRISTIAN CONFIDENCE: This is: the confidence that we have in him, that, ii we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us.—John ^■ii 500 610 610 The Little Fellows J list a while ago we finished read ing a piece written by one of those swivel-chair Columnists who per forni in Washington. New York or elsewhere, and he devoted his day to a discussion ot the little nations and how they play the old diplo matic game in wartime. It was in-j teres ting, if not altogether new. Over here in good old America— j God bless her—we shed a lot of tears and become despondent over the sad plight of the little fellows, as they seem sometimes to oe ground between the upper and nether stones. The low countries and Scandinavians were not included in the observations, lor they have' never played for big stakes. King Carol of Rumania, for example, first was favoraole to the Alliec ause. When halt' of that j blew i and it appeared, as it still i does, that the totalitarian were go-; ing to come out on top, Carol had i no trouble in switching to the die- j tator side. All the while he was j playing the big boys for suckers in : demanding and getting loans or' other concessions from them if he j would just stay on their reserva-; tions. Great Britain some months ago i loaned a mere fifty million dollars, to Turkey to buy her friendship, j with the promise that she would ent er the war on the side of the demo cracies if Italy marched with Hitler., Well. Italy got in and Turkey has j stayed neutral — and still has Brit ain's fifty millions, and there is j nothing Britain can do about it. i\UW lilt! pUIIH Ult LUlUmmoi 111U1U was making was that the South American republics are getting all set; to take Uncle Sam for a ride. They 1 show signs ot' sympathy or of lean ings toward the dictators, and the Washington smart boys hand over some millions of bucks or so to keep them in line. It' they want' some more when that is gone, they j maneuver a story in the American! metropolitan press that they arc1 again leaning toward the Hitler! crowd, and Uncle Sam forks up an other handful of millions in the thought that he is keeping them in line, when all the while they are bleeding him for all he is worth. I The observation of the writer re ferred to is that hundreds of thous ands of Germans and Italians in the I Latin American countries have not been planted there only lately as stooges for Hitier and Mussolini, but have been going there for years. They went, he says, because when times got tight at home they sought a living elsewhere and didn't run to their governments for handouts as millions of Americans do. How un like our WPA-ers, who squat and holler starvation until vote-hunters come running with their free money and food. Pity the little nations? Why some of them seom to be the very fellows who throw the scare into the big boys and cash in on it. Jack Dempsey and Edna Wallace Hopper, we read, are staging come backs. Wonder what old ex-Kaiser Wilhelm is thinking these days? Stalin and Hitler, according to a European commentator, will continue to play ball with each other. But what kind of ball—Baltic or Balkan? Onn thin.? we could never under stand why lawn mowers are not sold ;-irs—one for you and one lor the neighbor to borrow. What Is The Point? Maybe it is our downright dumb ness, or maybe something else, but our finite mind lias thus far been | unable to see the- point in the pro- | posed Wiiikie third party movement, i it is tooted as a means for boiling | Democrats to ease their conscience.* j when they stray from their own) reservation into the G. O. P. stand- I ard-bearer's ranks. Dut how they can mount any other platform and j \ote for any candidate other than: President Roosevelt without theoreti- j cally and actually deserting the j Democratic party is too deep for lis. J That man or woman who always j hitherto has voted as a Democrat and who does not now vote that ticket but does vote for another I candidate loses party affiliation na tionally. How it can be otherwise Air. Willkie has not explained: may be he will elaborate in due time. For the lifelong Democrat who finds now within himself a rasping conscience, and who hates like smoke t:< de. ort his party but hates with equal smoke to have to swallow a third termer, is committing just as much a crime, politically, by desert ing to a third party as to a second. A new party backing Willkie is jusl as much an opponent of the Roose velt ticket as the older Republican party backing V.'illkie is. If a ryse| by any other name smells just as sweet, the converse is similarly just as true. | Whatever its name, no new party forgiven by the *• uilars. They won't be fooled, nor will ti-.ry soon forgive or forget those who kick over the traces. ; Forming a *'.ird party to capture votes for the candidate of a party [ that already exists just doesn't make sense. | Politics First Public men in official positions in ! the national capital may frustrate j the country's effort to arm itself! quickly if they persist in inclinations! already strongly in evidence of hav- ' ing their way at the old political i game. In France responsible leaders put politics first, and where is j France today. Her example should bt a lesson for us. but up to now it has not been. It is said that at the Defense Ad- 1 visory Commission, which is headed by some of the biggest business men in the land. Knudsen. Stcttinius and the others are encountering red tape and political maneuvering to the j point where their efforts arc being slowed down and the defense pro gram is moving at hardly more than : snail's pace, compared to the effi- ' ciency and mass production methods these industrialists have been ac customed to in their private busi- j ness in achieving the success that has brought them to the command- ' ing position they occupy today in j the economic structure of the na tion. business hesitates to pour mil lions of dollars into factories to j speed defense production if present tax policies are to be continued, thus preventing satisfactory amorti zation on borrowings that would be necessary for urgent expansion. At last there seems to be an indication that top-flight politicians arc see ing the light and are showing a I willingness to relax. Some headway is reported also in efforts to have army and navy chiefs eliminate red tape and rid themselves of the ancient habit of splitting hairs over technicalities. Until this i.> done there won't be a 1 great deal of efficiency or speed in the preparedness undertaking, i "Politics first" may be all right when the country is moving along in normal times, with no emergency , threatening, and when there are not more important things to be concern-, ; ed about. But when, as some con tend, the future of the nation is at; stake it is time to forget petty poli tics and work toward the desired and necessary goal of assuring our safety and security. Student pilots at Cochran. Ga.. we read, used watermelons as dummy bombs i ' ir raid practice. This proves that \ • Americans are ready to make any sacrifice for prepared | ness. The Cat's Out Sufficient progress has been made by the conscription bill in Congress to let the cat out of the bag as to the real motive and purpose of the measure. All indications point to the intention of the war crowd to fasten this scheme upon the country as a permanent part of our national lite. The public was not let m on that i it tie secret at the outset. The whole procedure was on the basis of the current emergency in world affairs. Had they shown their hand at the outset, the revulsion of public feel ing might have been too much for success of the undertaking, so the objective has been revealed bit by bit. But now it appears to be well out in the light of day. A summary of the provisions of tl 10 draft bill contains the informa tion that, "after a year's training, conscripts would be assigned to re serve units for additional annual training for ten years, or until they reach 45. They could avoid annual peace-time training by serving out two more years in the army or na tional guard.'' There is nothing about that sounds like an emergency. It is something permanent. Nobody thinks the cur rent crisis will continue for ten years. But conscripts would not know the difference. So far as they are concerned, it this measure be comes law—and the odds are all in favor of it. opposition to the con trary notwithstanding—this country will be launched upon a definite policy of militarism which will never I be overthrown until and unless there j is a revulsion of public sentiment to compel it. And the public is slow to net. Once a scheme is rammed down its throat, the dose is rather bitter j at the outset, but throats become I hardened to nearly anything of this j character, and the thing usually j sticks. The cat is out of the bag. it seems. If the country l'nvors this departure in its way of life, the minority will nave to bow to the will of the ma jority. however much that majority nay be misguided and whatever the .Mid and goal of the project at issue. At least from now on, we ought to ■i;:vc a pretty fair idea about where j ive are headed. And Zadok Dumbkopf reports the :i mazing discovery of a summer re port cottage in which the hot and •old water faucets are actually mark ed that way. "What." asks a reader, is the prop er spelling of that little Balkan' country — Estonia or Esthonia?" Judging by latest dispatches from Europe, the proper spelling is R-u-s-s-i-a." WHERE STANDS DEFENSE? (Christian Scicncc Monitor) Americans for several months nave been watching the program for American defense form, and they naturally wonder now how fast it is actually moving. On some fronts it is moving very last. One of these is the mobilization >f public opinion behind mvasures dearly necessary if the United States I is to be prepared in any adequate measure for the shock of aggression which is already rampant in the world and may at any time come nearer to Western Hemisphere shores. It seems evident from editorial comment throughout the Nation that j American sentiment overwhelming ly supports the steps now being taken ! in Congress toward enacting and putting into early operation a law for compulsory selective military i service. The draft has been accepted J by most as a democratic way of de- i fending democracy. Yet military men | [ire under no illusions that an effi- J cient. large-scale army can be pro- : chiccd overnight even by conscrip tion. There is the problem of train- j ing, which in an era of mechanized war assumes larger proportions than ever before. There must at the out set be a considerable expansion of officer-training if the expected 400, 000 men are to be brought into camps by October 1 and this number en larged by 1.000.000 more within a year. Similarly on the industrial side the job to be done is bigger than the average layman ran readily imagine. Tf it takes ten civilians behind every soldier to support a nation at war, the magnitude of the task of organiz ing military production is bound to require time. And time is one of the critical strategic commodities today as truly as tin or rubber or aluminum. In industrial defense a good be ginning has been made by the calling in of proved and practical business men such as William S. Knudsen and Edward R. Stettinius. Jr.. to head thn President's Defence Commission. H still is possible that a single adminis trative or co-ordinating head will be found necessary for these activities, as in the case of the World War. There is also some complaint by business men ready to co-operate but unable to get information as to whal is to be done. But the explanation seems to lie in the fact that first things have had to be put first. Prior ities must be established for the mosl essential war materials and most urgent types of military production In these lines, according to report not from political sources hut fron1 business observers in Washington, it mnears that gpnuin^ progress is be ing made. The production of secon THE "REBEL" YELL 100DEG PLEASE v 1 dary and incidental supplies may be expected in their turn. It is a characteristic of mass pro duction that more time must oc spent than formerly in the construction of plant and machinery before the as sembly belts can begin to roll. But when they do, the output is tremen dous. The financial problems to be solved at the outset are no slight matter. The responsibility for plants that may be left useless after two or three years of operation calls for some negotiation between business firms and the RFC. These points are not made to ex cuse slowness. They rather illustrate how much is to be done and indicate that nothing can justify a moment's slackness. The task of arming and training America and of producing meanwhile all possible aid in planes and other munitions for the British Government, whose armies stand in the breach, is a tremendous one. A good start has been made. But the task is only begun. New Workers In State UCC Raleigh, July 30.—About 70 names of workers have been placed on the payroll of the N. C. Unemoloyment Compensation Commission in its two divisions, Unemployment Compen sation and Employment Service, this year, practically all in the past six weeks, it is announced by Mrs. J. B. Spilman, vice-chairman o!" the com mission. Most of the additions have been replacements of workers who re signed during the past year or two and whose places had not been fill ed until recent increased activities made replacements necessary. All additions have come from the regis ters of those who passed the merit rating examinations previously given. One group was added to increase services to the farm owner, tenant farmer and share cropper citizens on a year-around basis, and others will take care of increased activities in various divisions. What Do You Know About North Carolina? By FRED H. MAY 1. Who whs the Confederate com-I missioner t<> Europe who was cap- j lured attempting to land at Wilming ton? 2. When was the sessions of the North Carolina general assembly changed from every year to every two years? 3. Who was the first deceased North Carolina congressman to be buried in the Congressional Ceme tery? 4. When did North Carolina place an extra tax on all bachelors? 5. Whiit amount has North Caro lina been sending out of the state annually for supplies that could be produced here? 6. What laws controlling industry did North Carolina adopt in 1758? ANSWERS. 1. James Gmdon. of Mississippi, captured in January 1865 on a return trip to America when the boat on which he was a passenger attempted to run the blockade off the Cape Fear mouth. A few diivs later he escaped ' to Canada, however, he returned to| i New York and surrendered to Union j j forces. Shortly afterwards he was j given passports to his home in Mis I sissippi. Died in 1912. 2. In 1835 when a new constitu tion was adopted. Prior to that time j annual sessions had been held. 3. James Gillespie, of Kenansville, who died in Washington January 11, 1805. after having served nearly three terms as congressman. His death came so near the end of the term that no election was called to fill the vacancy. 4. Tax schedules which required unmarried men to pay additional levies, or higher rates, were adopted bv the general assemblies of 1778, 1779 and 1781. 5. An extensive survey within the last ten years showed that North j Carolina is sending out of the statei for food stuffs and foodstuffs to the1 amount of 175 million dollars. The' SALLY'S SALLIES Rrj;i».tcred U. S Patent Office V I yoa mrqtr it. j tfoW 6AM you \ 1 UtT Amp MoT S j BE A BZTftf?) The man who bc -s is a gambler and the man who gambles is no bet ler. survey claimed 1 hat all of 1hcse pur-, chases could have been grown with-' in the state. 6. The milling industry, about the only industry in the colony, was, placed under strict control. Special, laws controlled the erection of these] mills as well as controlling their op eration. ANSWERS TO TEN QUESTIONS See Back Page 1. Eastport, Maine. 2. Yes, unless one is a salaried of ficer of his own firm. 3. David Farragut. 4. 4.840. 5. A Greek mathematician. 6. Petrol. 7. Copper and zinc. 8. Ten ccnts in addition to the re gular postage. 9. "Irene." 10. Thirty. Michigan owns more than two mil lion acres of tax-reverted rural and. NOTICE OF SERVICE, OF SUM MONS BY PUBLICATION. In The Superior Court Before The Clerk. North Carolina: Vance County: E. L. Brantley. Petitioner. vs. Jacob Bing and wife Martha Bins. Nannie Hodnit and husband Amos Hodnit, India Davis, (widow), Lucy Crawford and Jessie Crawford (if married): Benjamin Bins and wife Bing, T. S. Kittrell, guardian. ad litem, all heirs of Chatman Gra ham, all heirs of Benjamin Bean or Bing (if he is dead); and all others claiming any interest in the below described land through Eliza! Bean or Ring or William Graham. ! Tlir defendants Lucy Crawford, Jesse Crawford. Amos Hodnit, Nan nie Hodnit, Benj. Bing, or Bean, 13ing. wife of Benj. Bing. all heirs of Chatham Graham (deceased), all heirs of Benj. 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