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THE CASS COUNTY SUN
Cheeking Up
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW
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Bv HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D
Dean of The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
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FARM MORTGAGES
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GENERAL
HUGH S.
JOHNSON
AIR POLITICS
Up to 18 months ago, the chief
beef of this column was the appall-
ing series of commercial airplane
accidents and the sloppy work and
unsatisfactory reports of the bureau
of the department of commerce in
charge. Under the former secretary
it was a political pot house and the
influence of big aviation interests
was not conspicuous by its absence.
Then, after four years' effort, Sen-
ator McCarran got his bill through
setting up the Civil Aeronautics au-
thority as an independent non-parti-
san agency. It separated executive
function from judicial and legisla-
tive ones, put the former in the
hands of an administrator, set up
an independent safety board to plug
up the ghastly gap in the departmen-
tal administration. The authority
was promptly manned with compe-
tent experts. . '
This column hasn't seen anything
to kick about for more than a year
in which about 815,000,000 passen-
ger miles were flown without a
death—an unprecedented safety rec-
ord. CAA is not entitled to all the
credit, but it rates its share. It is
now proposed, under the reorgani-
zation act, to abolish the safety
board and reduce the authority to
War Opens Up on Norway Front
As British and French Arrive;
Balkan Nations Fear Nazi Coup
(EDITOR'S NOTE—When opinions are expressed in these columns, they
are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
Ttplpflspri by Western Newspaper Union ,
YE WAR TALK:
Norway continued to hold the cen-
ter of the stage, in what has been
called the Second German war. In
the south of that unhappy land, the
German invaders extended their al-
ready extensive gains, based pri-
marily on Oslo, the Norse capital.
There was seemingly savage fight-
ing around Trondheim and Narvik,
ports on the Norse coast, but un-
certainty and mystery continued to
screen the accuracy of Norse Front
news.
French troops swung into action,
along with English and Canadians,
in the various isolated landings from
allied transports and warships, up
and down the endless, inlet-studded
coastline. The Germans flew in
more troops and equipment. Esti-
mates of the total German strength
in Norway ranged from 18,000
(Washington) to 60,000 (Paris). This
force would be merely a corporal's
guard, in terms of modern totalitari-
an warfare.
As to warships, on both sides they
continued sinking, or grounding, or
puncturing, at a truly alarmmg rate,
according to the propaganda stories
wafted to America. One German
garrison of marines, said the re-
ports, consisted of 1,300 men—but
SENATOR McCARRAN
Is His Reform Doomed?
eld status as a bureau of the de-
partment of commerce—right back
where we started from.
Many in congress, the commer-
cial air pilots and informed air trav-
elers are up in arms against this
shocking proposal, but the big avia-
tion interests are not saying a word.
They prefer King Log to King Stork
and King Sugar Papa most of all.
The dope is that the change will go
through if they do not oppose it. It
is doubtful if they will, but the air-
traveling public ought to join the
air pilots in forceful opposition.
These are the people whose hides
are endangered.
There are only two apparent rea-
sons for wrecking a unit that was
working so well to go back to a sys-
tem that wasn't. One is politics
and the other is amateur professori-
al piddling with an organization
chart in the rarefied academic at-
mosphere of the Brownlow commit-
tee. Neither is good enough. Poli-
tics is what we don't want here. The
best reorganization chart in the
world is no good without the right
men in the proper places with un-
hampered opportunity to do their
stuff.
• * •
MEDICAL ADVANCEMENT.
If the astonishing developments in
medicine continue at their recent
rate, many will have to be shot on
Judgment day.
There is a professional prejudice
against laymen discussing these de-
velopments. The most cruel decep-
tions have resulted from ignorant
ballyhoo of quack cures. The medi-
cal profession has suffered so much
on the rebound that any popular
publicity touches its most sensitive
spots.
Recent developments are marvel-
ous—the control of many types of
pneumonia and one of the most stub-
born social diseases by sulfapyri-
dine—the still experimental five-day
cure for syphillis—the checking of
the anaemia of old age—these are
but an acceleration of the improve-
ment in four decades which saw the
conquest of typhoid, typhus, yellow
fever and several tropical diseases.
Surgery does not lag. In a re-
cent minor siege with it myself, I
ran across a professional paper of
which a co-author with a navy sur-
geon is one of our most distinguished
army medicos. The service group
has lagged behind none in its con-
tribution to this revolution which is
revising the mortality tables by
amazingly extending the years of
our lives. Reed, Gorgas, Keller,
Grayson. Metcalf, Magee, Mclntyre
—they are the peers of, finy.
The thing in this papeV tljat would
astonish anybody and wMch I'tny-
self have seen and felt ia^the tre-
mendous advance in anaesthesia
(another mystic word) and battle-
field surgery since soldiers in battle
have had to have their shattered
legs cut off with no more surceaSe
than a horn of hootch. Anaesthesia
means eliminating or dulling pain
under the knife. This art has so far
advanced that, under a competent
surgeon, I would have little appre-
hension of either danger or pain un
der any ordinary operation.
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JUGOSLAVIA'S TSVETKO-
V1TCH—He nipped an uprising.
(See 'Trojan Steeds.')
then lost 1,600 men in action. An-
other report rumored that the Eng-
lish mines laid in Norse territorial
waters (which precipitated the Ger-
man invasion) were purely fictitious,
and that Winston Churchill had
bluffed the Germans with these
"verbal" deathtraps. Other "good"
rumors (Norway aside) included the
fact that Prime Minister Chamber-
lain and Heinrich Himmler, of the
Nazi Gestapo, were blood brothers
in an esoteric cult, and that Secre-
tary Sumner Welles was a Welsh-
man.
As to the English-ultra Lord Haw-
Haw, German broadcasting ace, he
was variously reported to be a rene-
gade English fascist, and the South
African grandson of a rabbi. Daily
he "sank" the British navy in Norse
waters, by word of mouth, and the
English public fairly ate up his
words, while his Canadian audience
was extraordinary. Most people
laughed at Lord Haw-Haw, but a
portion of the British proletariat
were inclined to take him seriously,
which led to hectic English counter-
blasts.
TROJAN STEEDS:
The Germans penetrated Norway
by deceit, trickery, and subversion.
They used Trojan Horse tactics:
"tourists," "peaceful" freighters,
"business" men, bribery, spying and
a general boring from within.
Other European nations took
alarm at this novel method of Nazi
invasion. Jugoslavia "isolated" her
last year's premier, Stoyadinovitch,
who had a pro-German and pro-Ital-
ian reputation.. There was talk at
NAMES...
in the news
Police Commissioner Valentine of
gang-plagued New York city urged
his bluecoat patrolmen to be "rough,
tough, and obnoxious" to hoodlums;
while Charles Laughton, of Anglo-
movie fame, compared the great Dr.
Sam Johnson to roast beef, York-
shire pudding, English bluebells, or
the Britannic woods and moors. One
bookworm added that Laughton, in
his ,way, was the greatest English ra-
tionalist since the' dear, departed
Eighteenth-century Sam.
A London triick-driver, knowing
,not what he did, hit and mortally
injured a 75-year-oldster. His name
was Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher.
He was a former M. P. But more
than that, he was one of the world's
outstanding historians, and an in-
ternational cultural figure.
There, too, died the equally fa-
mous Kid McCoy, whom the world's
"madness" apparently drove to self-
destruction. The Kid's real name
was Norman Selby: a champ mid-
dleweight who either was on the up
and'vup, or else on the down and
down^
Belgrade of a German invasion by
the Trojan Horse method; for there
are, in Jugoslavia, half a million
Germans, many of whom are Nazi-
minded. Late reports from Belgrade
indicated that Premier Dragisha
Tsvetkovitch (see cut) had succeed-
ed in stamping out the uprising
when he interned Stoyadinovitch. Ju-
goslavia, ever anti-Soviet and pro-
Czarist in policy, nevertheless has-
tened to come to terms with Unholy |
Russia, agreed to a Russian trade
treaty, and bargained for Russian-
owned weapons, manufactured by
the famous Skoda arms works in
what used to be Czechoslovakia. It
seemed, all round, that national gov-
ernments were just as effective mer-
chants-of-death as the so-condemned
private profiteers ever thought of j
being.
There were echoes of the Jugoslav
w-orriment, elsewhere. Holland went
under martial law, to prevent Nazi
boring from within, while Belgium
counted foreign noses. Sweden
stretched her blackout even to light-
houses, closed her important port of
Gothenburg; while the sturdy Swiss
planned mobilization of the entire
little country, and called up 60,000
more homespun militia. As for the
Turks, they began to throw out for-
eigners, especially tourists and vis-
itors, who might be carrying auto-
matic rifles in their golf bags, and
wearing uniform Field Gray under-
wear. No Trojan steeds for the Ot-
tomans and Osmanli!
But Trojan horsemanship aside,
England threatened dire things to
loud-speaking Mussolini, the tough
Nazi Gestapo in Poland, and the In-
dian nationalists who want their in-
dependence. None of these gentry
seemed overly perturbed by the low-
ering Lion of London. Mussolini, in
particular, was urged by an English
cabinet minister—to put up, or shut
up. Some critics ventured to sug-
gest that His Majesty's minister
might better have so addressed the
kibitzing" Yankees, safely over-
seas.
POTOMAC PEPPERPOTS:
Germany occupied Denmark, and
there was much talk of Uncle Sam
taking over Danish Greenland, in
the New world. Should Germany
occupy Holland, there was much talk
of Uncle Mikado taking over the
Remember, Chief, You Are in
the Western Hemisphere.
Dutch East Indies, in the Far East.
There was, however, one essential
difference: Greenland is plenty poor,
and East Indies is reeling rich.
Secretary Hull apparently viewed
with alarm, and got out a statement
to warn the Japanese against any
meddle-meddle with the East In-
dies' oil, rubber, tin, and strategic
location. The Japanese politely re-
garded this question as none of Mr.
Hull's business, and some Ameri-
cans were inclined to agree with
them. It seemed that the Japs were
as afraid of an English seizure, as
the state department boys were of
a Japanese seizure. Then Roosevelt
entered the word-fray on Hull's side,
lauding the status quo in the Pacific.
Meanwhile, the senate (after a
mere four-hour chat) voted a virtual
billion dollars to the admirals, to
pay for the two biggest battleships
in the world, two cruisers, an air'
plane carrier, eight destroyers, six
submarines, and five other craft.
This hasty balloting was regarded as
a gesture against the Japanese, who
were reported as also on the build-
up. So-called experts said that Ja-
pan was slapping together some
eight super-dreadnoughts, "for the
American trade." At this point, the
world's biggest warship is the 42,-
000-ton English Hood.
The admirals also renewed their
chronic demand that insular Guam
be turned into a major American
aerial and submarine base: a pis-
tol to be pointed, presumably, at the
head of Nippon's Son of Heaven.
LABOR ELECTION:
The A. F. of L. took a signal beat-
ing in the General Motors general
elections. C. I. O. won out by a
total of 90,000 to 30,000, with an-
other 15,000 workers balloting for
scattering independent unions. Chief
Green of the A. F. of L. had charged
that Chief Lewis of the C. I. O.
wanted a political revolution, to
make himself U. S. dictator. But
the Brotherhood of Consolidated Ed-
ison Employees, independent union,
beat C. I. O. as bargaining aeency
for 30.000 Edison porkers.
. . . On the National Labor Rela-
tions board is a man-sized task
judging from all the hue and cry
raised currently throughout the
country over the activities of that
agency and Howard W. Smith
(above), Democratic representative
from Virginia appears to be in line
for that job. He instituted a reso-
lution calling for a special report
on the board and will head an in-
vestigation committee of the house
ivhich will report to the next ses-
sion of congress.
OUR PRESIDENT:
Our President warned the Pan-
American Union governors to .be
tough, meeting force with force, if
that force came from overseas. No
mention was made of force coming
from abqve the Rio Grande. He also
tossed the opening pitch in the open-
ing game, between Washington and
Boston, and took Jim Farley along
with him—a gesture of reconcilia-
tion, or a common love of sport?
Farley is a ball player from way
fcack.
Our President asked congress for
close to a billion dollars, for the
worthy purpose of relief over the
fiscal year-to-be. He said he might
have to spend it all in the first eight
months.
Our President took a beating from
the house when it passed the Logan-
Walter bill, which subjects the ac-
tions of 130 federal bureaus to court
review. Our President, and the New
Dealers, were strongly against this
"vicious thing."
CENSUS:
Still ringing doorbells and ferret-
ing out information, Uncle Sam's
census enumerators counted the 100,-
000,000th American, with about 30,-
000,000 to go. Actual counting was
expected to be completed within a
week, but the bigger job of tabu-
lating and compiling the information
obtained will take months and in
some cases years. Totals for states
and the nations should be available
during the summer. Near Zanes-
ville, Ohio, one footsore enumerator
claimed he had made 11 unsuccess-
ful trips to the same house. Local
wits suggested that possibly some
of Mr. Tobey's (Rep. Charles To-
bey of New Hampshire, arch-oppo-
nent of the income question in the
census questionnaire) relatives lived
in the district.
MISCELLANY:
Barnstorming Tom—Republican-
nomination-candidate Dewey barn-
stormed Indiana and the Southwest,
raising hades about the New Deal-
ers, and their new dispensation. He
sizzled with a special vigor in Indi-
anapolis, and in Oklahoma City. The
Roosevelt Third Term motif loomed
up clearer and clearer; but Secre-
tary Hull was called, by the gover-
nor of North Carolina, the one Dem-
ocrat who could unite the party.
Birthday — Hitler celebrated his
fifty-first birthday, the controlled
Germanic press turned on the eulo-
gy-faucet, and the topmost press
agent declared the Fuehrer was a
genius living a century ahead of his
time . . . !
Greatest—A New York Town Hall
ballot for the Greatest American
rated George Washington a mere
third. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who
emancipated the trade-unionists, and
Abraham Lincoln, who freed the
slaves of another sort, were tied,
even-steven, for first.
War Planes—England and France
put in a contract bid for 1,500 Amer-
ican warplanes, at cost of a cool
$120,000,000, amid the joyful antics
of our domestic aerial stock-holders.
Smears—The SEC was charged,
by the president of the Georgia Pow-
er company, a man named Preston
Arkwright, with a hideous charge-
that of employing the fell methods
of the Russian Ogpu and the Ger-
man Gestapo. As for the New Deal
as a whole, continued the irate Geor-
gian, it was out to "smear" public
utilities in general, and J. Edgar
Hoover told the sympathetic D. A
R. that communists were out to
"smear", the G-men.
Train *>jn3s'n-Up.—Some 125 peo-
ple were killed and injured, when
a New York-Chicago express train
was derailed in central New York
state. There were approximately
300 passengers aboard. The cars
piled up for half a mile, and the
engine exploded. Identification of
many corpses, due to hideous man-
gling, was impossible.
The Missus—The basically good-
hearted Mrs. F. D. R. put herself on
the growing side of America-stay-
out, by declaring at Battle Creek,
Mich., that a neutral U. S. means
"the one torch of hope in the world."
Baldish Ed O'Neal, president of
the American Farm Bureau federa-
tion, has let the cat out of the bag |
^n the real reason for his opposition
to the hotly debated reorganization
of the farm credit administration.
It came out during a man-to-man
talk with Secretary Henry Wallace.
O'Neal is one of the loudest crit-
ics of Wallace's sweeping reforms,
which are aimed at stopping the
alarming increase of FCA foreclo-
sures. O'Neal fought the appoint-
ment of A. C. Black, strong New
[Dealer, as new head of the agency,
and explains that Wallace's policies
will result in "loose and unsound"
credit. But in his private talk with
Wallace, O'Neal gave an entirely
different reason.
"Ed," said Wallace, "you can't
get me to believe that you are sin-
cerely opposed to liberalization of
the FCA. You know as well as I
do that it was absolutely necessary.
'We simply had to do something to
ED O'NEAL
'Mr. Secretary, I was forced to
oppose you.'
stop those farm foreclosures. As
the representative of many desti-
tute farmers in the South and West,
how can you consistently protest
against this relief for them?"
"Well, Mr. Secretary," replied
O'Neal with a grin, "I was forced
to oppose you. You see, several
hundred of my members have good
jobs in the FCA, and they were
afraid they would be fired in the re-
organization. This man Black has
them scared. He's a tough guy."
Note—The New York Farm bu-
reau, strongest state unit in O'Neal's
organization, threatened to with-
draw if he didn't support the Gil-
lette bill to take the FCA out of
Wallace's control and restore the
old "pound of flesh" mortgage poli.
cies which previously prevailed.
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Passport Fingerprints.
The war in Europe has put a band-
age on the thumb of a certain state
department official in Washington.
Twenty times a day he removes
the bandage and uses that valuable
thumb in the department's official
business.
James E. McKenna, of the pass-
port division, validates every pass-
port issued for travel to Europe by
pressing his right thumb on an ink
pad, then stamping the fingerprint in
two places on the passport—one
print on the picture of the appli-
cant, and one on the facing page.
His fingerprint is on file in every
U. S. consulate abroad, and through
it U. S. consuls can establish the
validity of every passport.
The application must first be
passed upon by the division chief,
Mrs. Ruth B. Shipley, but Mrs. Ship-
ley, who is a neat and comely young
widow, prefers not to press her fin-
ger on the ink pads.
To insure a clear print on every
passport, McKenna keeps the thumb
protected with a rubber bandage.
He removes it only when there is
"imperative necessity."
This is the phrase governing is-
suance of passports to Europe. Since
the war began, Americans have
been forbidden to travel to Europe
for any ordinary purposes. Pass-
ports were called in, and are not re-
issued unless Mrs. Shipley gives the
nod of approval and Mr. McKenna
gives the stamp.
It was not a nod but a negative
shake of the head which Mrs. Ship-
ley gave to an American dowager
recently who wanted to go to
France. The woman had lived in
France, and had cabled servants to
ship her belongings to this country.
So she came to the state depart-
ment and requested a passport to
France, for the "imperative neces-
sity" of bringing back her pet dog.
The passport was not approved and
Mr. McKenna did not remove the
bandage frota his thumb.
• • •
American Royalty.
Jay Newlin is a worker on Secre-
tary Henry Wallace's Pioneer-Hi-
I Bred farm near Grimes, Iowa, and
"' when Grand Duke Otto von Haps-
burg visited the place recently,
Newlin acted as his guide. After-
wards friends asked Newlin what
he thought of the royal guest, who
had been visiting at the farm.
"Oh, I guess he's a nice young
fellow," said Newlin, "but the only
royalty that cuts any ice with me
is in cattle and corn."
Lesson for May 5
Lesson subjects nnd Scripture texts se-
iected and copyrighted by International,
:ouncil of Religious Education; used by
permission.
ISAIAH GIVES GOD'S INVITATION
LESSON TEXT—Isaiah 55:1-11.
GOLDEN TEXT—Seek ye the Lord while
he may be found, call ye upor. him while ha
1 near.—Isaiah 55:6.
Thirsty? A thousand signboards
will tell you what to drink to refresh
yourself. Most of the suggestions
are there only to get your money,
and often their proffered lift is a
push downward and their refresh-
ment is only a prelude to destruc-
tion. But they do declare that thirst
is universally present. Throughout
the Bible thirst is used to express
man's need of and longing for God.
He is a spiritual being made in the
likeness and image of God and in-
tended for fellowship with Him.
Never will he be fully satisfied until
he comes to God and meets his hun-
ger and thirst with that "which is
good."
The invitation of Isaiah is present-
ed under the figure of a purchase,
"Come ye, buy." In carrying out
that thought we suggest that there
are four steps in buying and using
anything.
I. Listen (v. 1).
"Ho, everyone that thirsteth."
This is as Spurgeon says "the cry
of a salesman at a fair." Amid the
confusing sounds and disturbing
sights surrounding his customer the
salesman must make himself known
and catch the interest of his cus-
tomer. The latter must listen to the
offer and the recommendation of the
things for sale.
This is an unusual offer. Isaiah
invites the buyer to make his pur-
chase "without money and without
price." Does that mean that the
thing for sale is cheap or worthless?
Far from it, for it is priceless. Sal-
vation is free for the sinner, but It
cost God the price of His only begot-
ten Son. It is because Jesus paid
the price of redemption that we may
have it freely without cost.
II. Compare (w. 2-5).
A good shopper compares values
lest he make a bad bargain or buy
that for which he has no real need.
What is the situation of the one who
is invited to buy what God offers?
He is a sinner who has been fool-
ishly seeking to satisfy himself with
what the world has to offer. With
money he has tried to buy happi-
ness, contentment, recognition. The
bread of this world will never satisfy
and the water of this world only in-
creases one's thirst. (See John 4:
13, 14.)
Compare what God has to offer,
"that which is good," that which
delights the soul (v. 2). Here is
life (v. 3) assured by the promise
of One who made an "everlasting
covenant" with David, assuring him
of His "sure mercies." It results in
ultimate glory (v. 5).
The one who honestly makes such
a comparison is quickly satisfied
that the time has come to
III. Buy (vv. 6-9).
Penniless, the sinner may "buy"
Without money. He may call upon
God, for God has already called him.
He may seek God, because He like
the good shepherd has been out seek-
ing the lost sheep (Matt. 18:12).
While man can certainly not save
himself, there are things which God
expects the sinner to do. First, he
is to "seek the Lord." Where?
Right at your side, sinner, for "he
is near" (v. 6). Then when the sin-
ner meets the Lord he is at once
conscious of his sin. What shall
he do with it? Forsake it in both
thought and deed (v. 7) and God
will "abundantly pardon." Observe
that men may by their sinful rejec-
tion of Him bring themselves to the
place where they not only do not
listen to God's call, but actually dc
not want to hear it. "Seek ye the
Lord while he may be found" (v. 6).
IV. Enjoy (vv. 10, 11).
Some foolish folk buy things and
put them away where neither the*
nor anyone else can enjoy them.
Some worry so much about the price
they paid or are so concerned about
the preciousness of the thing pur-
chased that they find no pleasure in
using it.
Salvation is not a thing to be
hidden or put on a shelf. In fact,
it is not a thing at all, but a life.
It is to grow, to bud, to blossom and
to bear fruit. How? By being ready
to receive God's Word which comes
down like the rain from the heavens,
refreshing, encouraging, and fructi-
fying the life of the believer.
God's Word never returns to Him
void. He prospers it to accomplish
His own purpose. But pray tell me,
if we never study it or even read
it, how can it help our lives? We
"grow in grace" only as we grow
"in the knowledge of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ" (II Pet. 3:18).
We grow in knowledge as we study
God's Word. Thus we come to enjoy
our Christian life.
Healing Powers
There came also a multitude out
of the cities round about unto Jeru-
salem, bringing sick folks, and them
which were vexed with unclean spir-
its and they were healed every one,
—Acts 5:16.
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