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Evening star., 1940-06-22
Jopon's Successes

German military victories in Eu-
rope have had resounding repercus-
sions in the Far East, where Japan,
benef1ting from the anxiety of both
Britain and France to avoid contro-
versies not directly connected with
the European war, has scored two
signal successes.
Most important Of these was
French acquiescence in Tokio's de-
mand that 1ndo-China be closed as
route for war supplies going to Gen.
eral Chang Kai-shek, who continues
to resist Japan's aggression. The
French ban on shipments to Nation
alist China was ordered amid pres
sure from powerful political groups
in Japan for protective occupation of
the French possession.
French readiness to yield to reali-
ties in the Far East may do much to
moderate for the present official
japanese intentions toward Indo-
China, but 1t is not likely that long
range japanese aspirations in this
direction have been permanently
altered
Settlement Of the fate of the
French Empire at the hands of Adolf
Hitler and Benito Mussolini is yet to
come, and Japan already has ex-
pressed to Berlin and Rome her con-
Germ over the status quo in Indo-
China. What its destiny may be is
difficult to foresee, but if the territory
is to change hands, Japan certainly
would never consent to its acquisition
by any other power.
A more defnitive settlement with
Japan has been reached by Britain
and France with respect to Tientsin,
where both the Allies and Japan have
receded from their positions in order
to put an end to the year-old block
ade. Neither side has succeeded in
carrying all its points.
The British and French have had
to acquiesce in Japans insistence
upon share-if only as an observer
in the policing and control of
criminal activities in the British
concession at Tientsin, and they
must do nothing to hamper the cir
culation of Japanese currency in the
concession.
Japan, however, did not get all of
the $12,000,000 in Chinese silver held
In Tientsin concession banks, and
somewhat more than a million dol
lars of this amount is, by mutual
agreement, to be used now for relief
OF the orely-stricken Chinese flood
victims.
On the whole, Japan's position for
consolidation Of her conquest In
North China and for suppression of
the resistance of Chang Kai-shek Is
much improved by the developments
In TientSin and IndO-China
Evening star., 1940-06-22
Oh, Mony-Sided Death

Oh, many-sided Death, you well may be
The welcome hand that sets the prisoner
free
From pain he has endured beyond his
strength;
Or some sad ancient one for whom
the length
OF years has stretched too long. Or you
may call
Too soon the babe who has not lived
at all;
The gallant youth with years Of life
ahead;
The strong man wrestling for his daily
bread
Who leaves his wife and children desc.
late;
Or some great leader in affairs Of state
Whose passing echoes in the mufIied
drum.
But best of all, is when your summons
come
TO one whose heart and life have been
SO filled
With perfect love all base desires were
stilled;
Who gladly enters through the opened
door.
Continuing there the life he lived before.
BESSIE sCHENCK BUNTEN.
Evening star., 1940-06-22

lively, have indicated that they are
In sympathy with the purpose of the
measure, and have said that their
committees would begin hearings on
1t within few days.
The United States is the only great
nation that does not require selective
military training in time.
Britain was the last of the other
major powers to adopt it, Prime Min
lister Chamberlain promising the
House of Commons as late as October
6, 1888, that he would not propose
CONSUMPTION unless Britain should be
at war. Eight months later the
British put into effect a system of
compulsory military. training, but by
that time the war was close at hand
and there was no time in which to
raise, train and equip an effective
army.
The grievous consequences of that
blunder are all too clear today, and
1t is simply inconceivable that this
country should make the same mis-
take.
Evening star., 1940-06-22
Twelfth Juror

1t is commonly thought that IN
our fortunate country there is a
nicely balanced budget of work and
play-that the average citizen has
enough Of each and not too much.
The theory takes a stiff jolt when the
court bailiff comes around with his
billets doux, cordially inviting Mr..
Citizen to jury duty, or else. Then
1t is that Mr.. c., in his efforts to
escape the net, paints a black picture
OF his forlorn estate. According to
him, he is buster than a one armed
slave with a time job of re-
constructing the pyramids, and has
barely enough time to eat, let alone
serve on a jury. Later, on the panel,
he somehow manages to find time to
think up dozens OF other excuses,
which he is convinced would have
worked If he had thought of them
sooner.
Judge Sease of Spartanburg, 8. c.
to be known henceforth as the jurors
friend-last week established a prec-
edent in kind treatment of this
underprivileged class. Just as he vas
about to appoint the twelfth and last
juryman on panel, he received some
inside information, which he decided
to impart to the rest. The twelfth
Juror, he. said, was good honest
American citizen with many out
standing virtues, but did have one
slight defect. If the others voted no,
he would be excused. They did, and
he was let off-in the custody of a
doctor, who promised to return him
as soon as he had pulled him through
the mumps.
Evening star., 1940-06-22

fail in some of the minor aspects Of the
educative process. Some children, who
know their symphonies, put their feet
on the overstuffed furniture, or do not
reveal good table manners.
Well, such lacks will be rubbed out
over the years, If the growing boys and
girls are given chance to come In con-
tact with persons who do know how to
eat, and how to sit. and in other ways
to display really good manners.
**,*
Often the boy who throws stones at
cats and birds grows up to be the man
who likes them and cares for them.
This is the encouraging aspect Of
education. A little cruelty, while it may
mean disaster for few creatures, is
small, after all, in comparison with the
gigantic cruelty Of war
Most cruelty to the animals witnessed
In this country is the result Of thought
lessness, rather than sheer nastiness.
Especially Is this true when children are
concerned. Children have no way of
realizing what pain and death mean.
No doubt 1t is just as we'll for them that
they do not. Time, alas, will reveal it
all to them.
Let us insist, therefore, to our corre-
spondent and all other kind hearted per-
sons, whose heartstrings are sometimes
tugged by thoughtless acts of cruelty,
that fortunately for the birds these acts
are really few and far between, al
though the individual case may loom
large at the time.
The schools and the parents do, in
deed, work hard to bring up the children
to be straightforward, good Americans
with decent respect for the rights of
others, including the creatures.
They succeed so we'll, in the main,
that cases such as reported by our cor
respondent are relatively few and far
between.
There can be no doubt that once the
average boy becomes interested in birds
as birds, he delights in watching them,
and especially in finding new species.
He soon sees that he cannot find new
species in his neighborhood if some one
Is frightening them.
The remedy remains in the hands of
the teachers. The parents are too busy
to bother about birds Their main con-
Germ, after all, must be the physical and
moral aspects of their children's lives in
the larger aspects.
The teacher alone has the right to try
to do what the parent does not.
Outsiders have no such right.
Teachers, no more than any one else,
can score 100 per cent success.
That they do as we'll as they do in
this as in other respects, is cause for
congratulation.
All in all, bird life has the greatest
appreciation and protection today that
1t ever has had through the centuries.
Let us not be too upset over such in
fractions as We sometimes must witness.
Evening star., 1940-06-22
sole remaining champions, except Our.

sole remaining champions, except our
selves, stand at bay.
Were the dangers of the times not
so obvious, one would smile that the
committee has to pat itself on the back
regarding the record for Integrity.
patriotism, intelligence and sagacity" of
its members. Perhaps modesty is not
virtue in legislative circles? Did they
by any chance feel that their readers
might need reinsurance?
One wonders how much of this headv
talk about the Allies as the world S worst
imperialists and the isolationists as
Americas true "pro-Americans" the
American people really swallow. Many
Of us are unwilling to think things
through; others, more than willing to
think, have not the international back
ground to discount great deal of the
stuff they read or hear today. Yet, our
instinct is at work, and American in
stinct warns us that we are in real
danger. 1t is sad that, along with that
Nationwide intuition, We cannot find
more vision among our leaders. We are
going to need all we can find, and a great
deal more than is at present visible,
lest We, too, awaken too late to dis
cover what we have lost.
June l9. GLADYS PAVLAT.
Evening star., 1940-06-22
Elaborates on Thought
OF Star Editorial.

To the Editor of The Star:
Your editorial in yesterdays Star,
"Hitler No Accident?" states that the
treaty of Versailles was responsible for
Hitler's rise to power. That's true, but
there's more to 1t than that.
Hitler came into power with the aid
of British and German capital and when
he marched into the demilitarized
Rhineland, England and France did
nothing. Hitler, with Mussolini, started
the Fascist rebellion in Spain, and Eng
land and France strangled the Spanish
republic with their "Non- intervention
Committee"
When Hitler marched into Austria,
England and France still remained
silent.
Finally in September, 1898, Chamber
lain and Daladier met at Munich and
handed Czecho-S -Slovakia to Hitler. BY
this time the Allies had created a mon
ster so powerful that it was inevitable
that war should follow on world scale.
France and England are as much re-
sponsible for the present war as Ger
many is and 1t would be sheer stupidity
on our part If we were to become in
volved in this war Ito make the world
safe for democracy" all over again.
June 10. Nv.
Evening star., 1940-06-22
THIS AND THAT
BY Charles z. Trace,pell.

"Dear Sir:
During the month Of May . robin
came to q tree outside the window Of
the apartment occupy and made a nest.
In due course Of time four robins ap-
peared and was SO happy about the
whole thing.
Unfortunately, there are many boys
in and about this building, and they
worried the poor mother all the time by
climbing the tree and throwing stones.
Il appealed in every way 70 the boys,
and also to the mothers, but nothing
was ever done.
''The day the birds left the nest, a
neighbor told me Of the way the little
birds were chased and caught. have
since heard that catching birds causes
them to die.
Il have a feeling Of sadness in nv
heart about the outcome Cannot
something be done to help prevent such
cruelty to small, helpless creatures?
sincerely, L. p"
This is sad day, the world over. for
small, helpless creatures.
In the light of the terrible things hap-
pening across the seas, the death Of a
few birds does not seem much.
Yet to the kind heart such small per-
secutions will loom large.
Everybody has known the remedy for
many years.
It Is education.
Despite all that education has done,
much yet remains to be done.
Small boys must be interested in birds
by some one, else they will not under
stand them, and hence will tend to per-
secute them.
Usually 1t is just some one boy who
leads the rest on to cruelty to animals,
The remainder are thoughtless, rather
than cruel. The ringleader In this sort
OF business Is sometimes one Of these
children who enjoys pulling wings off
flies.
The school teachers are the real lights
OF kindness, in almost all such cases. It
Is by them, rather than the parents that
this sort of education must be put into
effect.
And this cannot be done by lecturing,
but rather by interesting the pupils in
bird life. playing it up so that it becomes
subject of some Importance
The Boy Scouts succeed admirably in
this. 1t is impossible for boy to study
birds. and identify so species, as one
Scout requirement has it, without re-
specting birds
The remedy, we believe, must lie with
the educators, including, of course, all
persons engaged in educative work.
This list includes the parents, but we
believe that parents have their hands
full OF so many aspects of education that
often they simply cannot find time to
cover them ALL
In this way they may at times seem to
Evening star., 1940-06-22
Differing Views on Hitler
And Communism,
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Shoot him In the pants, the coat be-
longs to me-"
Divided loyalty has taken new dress
In divided animosity.
Up here in New York some hope that
Hitler be crushed that Communism may
survive; others that he may win to later
destroy it.
Paradox. thou art . jewel"
June 10. q. B, PHILLIBERT
Evening star., 1940-06-22
Pleads for Defense
OF Home Front Only.
To the Editor Of The Star:

40 the Eoltor OF ne Star:
AS one who served with the Recon.
struction Service Of the United States
Army in the first World War and who
has fresh, horrible memories of thous-
ands Of shattered bodies, faces and
minds sent back from France for us
to try to repair, plead with each legis-
lator to weigh deeply the futility of even
considering sending American soldiers
overseas again. Every American is need
ed for service in fortifying and i'm
proving conditions in our own country
America, consisting of composite of
all nations of the world, has vast prob
lens to work out. To what avail would
1t be to scatter our boys abroad when
their most important duty is to strength
en- and defend American unity?
Should q definite decision ever come
to pass, may suggest that those who
have the responsibility of representing
and interpreting the American pulse 60
to Arlington Cemetery some clear, sum-
mer dawn and watch the rising sun
cast Its soft, mellow light over the rows
OF thousands of silent, white crosses.
Then and there you may clear your
vision, mediate in the ghastly stiffness
and listen for the conclusiveness of your
decision.
MARTHA MoFFEIT BACHE.
June 10.
Evening star., 1940-06-22

When it is officially announced
that Juneau, Alaska, soon will be but
seven hours by commercial Clipper
plane from the main United States,
one shudderingly thinks Of another
sort Of aircraft lust q speedy.
Evening star., 1940-06-22

1t might be well for the United
States either to call back the foreign
vessels carrying arms and munitions
to France, or wireless them change
of destination.
Evening star., 1940-06-22
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the ,ortter although the use OF
q pseudonyn1 for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters 1rith
q Uiel0 to condensation.
Evening star., 1940-06-22

~. Ine Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
credited to It or not otherwise creded in tbis
paper p and also the local news published herein
herein also .re reserved '"'sAAe'
Evening star., 1940-06-22
C1ticizes "Pay Debts" Group
For Reflections on Allies.
To the Editor Of The Star.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Some recent releases by the Make
Europe Pay War Debts Committee,
headed. understand, by Senator Lun-
deen, make one wonder if Hitler could
nnd any better candidates for his fifth
column than some of the members Of
Congress. Nothing is easier than to call
those with whom we disagree pro- Hitler,
but careful reading of some of this
committees recent releases leaves me
honestly puzzled.
Representative Martin Sweeney of
Ohio, about the day the Nazis marched
into Holland, gave an address entitled,
I believe. BE Pro-American: Make
Europe Pay Its War Debts Now" This
gem, entered in the Congressional
Record, should be read by anybody who
is alarmed about the German menace to
this country in case Great Britain, like
France, is conquered. For the stirring
up OF hatred toward the Allies and all
they stand for nothing could be better
calculated. Anybody who wonders
whether the committee "openly attacks
0AAVoAAA o1Ao EAdl1CC (WHICH Oc0leS)
should obtain a copy of this address
by a committee member and see for
himself. am personally convinced that
1t was given for no other purpose.
In a recent newspaper release by the
committee, David Lawrence. who recent
ly called attention to some of its pub
lcity, was charged with "evidencing q
marked bias to the Allied cause" evi-
IDENTIFY misdemeanor, if not a crime of
some sort. Mr. Lawrence found it strange
that this committee should be operating
just at this time; the committee is, it
says, six months old-formed after the
war was well under way. It's slogan is
that old one of President Coolidge's-
'They hired the money, didn't they?"
That, the committee says, is the es-
sence Of the matter-not where the
money was spent, whether value was
given, the timing of the demand for
payment or any Of the other matters
which might well be taken into con.
sideration ct . moment when freedoms
Evening star., 1940-06-22
Member Of the Associated Press.

Entered ~ second-class matter post Office.
washington. D. C.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-11-08
BSTC GRADS GET JOBS

- Fr. = - !
Miss Sheila King, graduate of
the 1888 Class, has been appoint
ed "a superintendent of Girls at
the West Virginia Deaf ant
Blind School, located at Institu
tie. Miss Thelma Topson, gradu-
ate of the 1910 June Glass, who
maJored in Home Economics,
has been appointed as Cafeteria
manager of the Washington
high school, London, w. Va,
Mr.. Eugene w. Jones Jr. of the
1888 graduating class has been
appointed a teacher of Music
end Social Studies at Beecher-
est high schoo, Morgantown.
of the five model one-rom school
cited in Monroe county one of
these is being taught by Mr..
Sanford Williams a graduate
OF Bluefield State Teachers COL
lege and vice-president of the
Alumni Association.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-11-08
AMERICAN EDUCATION
WEEK TO BE CELEBRATED

American Nducation week will
be celebrated the week of Nov.
10 to 10Th at Bluefleld State
Teachers college. At IL 100 p. m.
Armistice Day, Attorney Brown
w. Payne will be the guest
speaker in AFTER gymnasium on
the general theme Strength
and Civic Loyalty" Special
music will be rendered on the
program by the music club We'd
nesday, November 13, at the
regular chapel exercises group
of students will conduct a panel
'scussion, on youth and his
Place in Developing Human Re-
sources 80,
This will be a rather interest.
ing program and the genera
public is invited to attend both
of these occasions. This week al
so marks Achievement Week
under the leadership of the
Omega Psi fraternity. Speakers
will appear in the various high
schools of the city from the
local chapter. =,
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-11-08
Some Drunks Drive Better

San Frarcisco.-Scientific re-
search evidence that some peo-
pc can toss of five or six drinks
in Is minutes and still handle
an automobile better than GER
tain others who are cold sober
was reported today by two
California researchers.
Drinking they said, undoubt-
edly lowers driving efficiency.
But they found that while a
given amount of alcohol in the
blood, for instance enough to
make the average person I'M
steady, might make some unfit
to sit behind the wheel, it had
no significant effect on the driv-
ing efficiency of many others.
They concluded there were no
scientific grounds for setting
definite figure on alcohol in the
blood as a yardstick for intoxi-
cation: That one might as we'll
use a persons height rather
than a pair of scales to deter
his weight.
The report was made by DR..
Henry Newman, neurophyschia-
rist at Stanford university medi-
cal school, and Edwin Fletcher
of the State motor vehicle de
partmert, to the Journal of the
American Medical association.
They tested a group of ply
sicians, medical students and
high school graduates as repres-
entative of intelligent drivers,
by a series of trials Stimulating
actual traffic conditions, The
trials were made on a driving
test machine, not on the high
way. ........
Each subject was required to
drink five or six ounces, some
times more, of whiskey in Is
minutes. /
The researchers agreed that
motor vehicle operations general
ly would be safer if drinking
two days oYerleave which l do |
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-11-08
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NEKlSsNQlEs
ELkH0RN-CRozER


MIR. and Mrs. Stanley Satter-
field were called to Rocky Mt,
Virginia, to the bedside of Mrs.
Satterfield's mother, Mrs. Lula
Kirby last week.
Mrs. Sylvester Tucker has re-
turned from the hospital where
she has been a patient, and is
doing nicely. ..
Mr.. Saunders Callahan is i'm
proving nicely after an injury
sustained in them ines at Up
land. He received painful burns
about the face and neck when a
shot was put off too close to him
by his buddy
Mr.. Joe Oheatham of Kimball
who Is a patient in Providence
hospital in Bluefeld, is improv-
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-11-08

There were many activities
over the week end celebrating
the homecoming classic between
Bluefield State Teachers college
and West Virginia State college
One of the most outstanding
was the party given by Miss
Lena Board and Miss Lena Wat
kins on the eve before the game.
Many old grads returned to
root for their favorite team.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Howard,
Mr.. and Mrs. John l.. Shelhorse
of Washington were among
those who returned for the
classic They also visited their
mother and brother, Mrs. Angie
Howard and A. V. Howard at
Worth. West Virginia.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-11-08
PRACTICALLY EVERY
THING HAPPENED TO HIM

lie lOllOWlllS copy VI d leIIel
written by r. E. Wilson, Second
Class Seaman, U.S.N., was re-
ceived recently by Capt. A. T.
Mann, Jr., vice-president Inter
type Corporation and is reproduc
ed here for any readers who
may think that everything hap
pens to them: Z -.
From: R. E. Wilson SIC, USN.
Via Commanding Officer
Subject: Overleave, reason for
On September 7 l left the
ship for ten days leave at my
brothers farm in CobbleStCn",
Arkansas. =.
On September 10 my brothel 5
barn was burned down, all but
the brick silo, which was
damaged at the top by the bolt
of lightning which started the
fire. -. go. 49,.
On September II I decided to
repair the silo right away, be-
cause he had to get his corn in
it. / was going to help him.
/ rugged barrel hoist to the
top of the silo, so that the ne
cessary bricks could be hoisted
to where the repair work was
going on. Then we hauled up
several hundred bricks. This
later turned out to be too many.
After my brother got all the
brick work repaired, there was
still a lot of brick at the top of
the silo on the working platform
we had built. / said l would
take it all down below. SO l
climbed down the ladder and
hauled the barrel all the way up.
Then l secured the line with a
slip knot, so / could undo it
easier later. :. ......
Then / climbed back up the
ladder and piled tricks into the
barrel until it was full.
] climbed back down the ladder
Then united theI line to get the
brick down. However, / found
the barrel of brick heavier than
/ was and when the barrel of
brick started down started up.
4 thought of letting go, but by
that time I was so far up l
thought it would be much safer
to hang on. .
2 Halfway up, the barrel hit me
on the shoulder but l still hung
on. 80, .....-....
I I was going pretty fast at
the top and bumped my head.
My fingers also got pinched in
the pulley block. However, at the
same time the barrel hit the
ground and the bottom fell out
of it, letting all the brick out.
; I was then heavier than the
barrel and started down again.
u got burned on the leg by the
other rope as ] went down, UNI
ell ] met the barrel again, which
went by faster than before and
took the skin off my shins.
] ] guess / landed pretty hard on
che pile of bricks, because at
that time 4 lost my presence of
mind and let 90 of the line and
the barrel came down a hit me
bquarely on the mead.
The doctor wouldn' ne
start bac. to the shil ntil
September 6. which made roa