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Evening star., 1944-03-26

than there are for success, adds Zest
and thrill to his experience 1t is in
the very face of the impossibilities,
the difficulties that his hopes are
highest, his ambitions determined,
his zeal unbounded and his faith
and courage at their best. In its
simplest and most commonplace
aspects, we must, we can face life like
that, developing strength just be-
cause of difficulties and opposition,
developing courage just because there
are dangers, increasing and re-creat-
ing faith right at the very point of
failure.
Right here is where we can decide
what we want to become, where we
can. show of what stuff God has
made us-each one-by nature and
potentially, or we can submerge this
best within us, as we give rule and
power to the worst. There is hope
and use for each one of us, because
we have life to live. Are we going
to quit when it is only part over? Or,
are we going to trust God, see ALL"
and not be afraid? "If God is for
s"-and He very definitely and
eternally is-"who or what can be
against us?" Do you realize that the
discoveries, the achievements in
every field of human endeavor have
been made because some one kept 60
ing where another stopped? Because
some one took up a task where a less
courageous soul laid it down? Be-
cause some one with faith in the liv-
ing God started right at the very
point where another without faith
allowed himself to be defeated? The
issues and the ends of life are in your
hands. Does it make any difference
to you how you live it, how you leave
it for others to view? Certainly it
makes difference! But, even if you
feel that there's no use, then why not
live it the best way you know how,
the noblest, the most heroic! You
have nothing to lose, and everything
to gain that way-Gods way!
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Token In

DR.. Carl Becker of Cornell Univer-
sity, a veteran historian specializing
in the study of ideas rather than
merely the events which are their
more obvious fruit, contributes to
the current Yale Review a discussion
of what We Didn't Know" and
how it hurt u.s.
The generality of his contem-
poraries in America, he finds, were
romantic in their thinking. 1t
suited them to consider themselves
"hard-boiled." They were satisfied
to lack certainty and conviction"-
that is, to be agnostics and skeptics.
In essentials, they agreed:
Since the universe is devoid of
purpose and the world is a tough
place and the life of man precarious
and unpredictable, our best bet is to
be hard and play the game close to
our chests. We will endeavor -
not to be taken in by anything
''unrealistic." q " Above all, we .**
will not be taken in by the notion
that 1t can be to our national interest
to pull Europe out of a mess or 60
on another crusade to make the
world safe for democracy.
Such was the prevailing doctrine
OF the years between 1919 and 1899
and it was shared by some very i'm
portant persons to whom the masses
justiflably had looked for leadership
and guidance. DR.. Becker explains
what occurred in these words:
But we were taken in, and on a
grand scale. We were taken in by
our fear of being taken in We were
taken in by our provincialism-our
ignorance of the past history and
present state of the world, and of our
own history and our present position
and interests in that world. 4" = We
were taken in by our failure to appre-
ciate the substantial merits, and our
disposition to exaggerate the super
f1cial defects, of our democratic
institutions.
Most particularly, DR.. Becker in
sists that: 1--WE were taken in by our
failure to understand that Naziism,
In theory and practice, is a revolu-
ton of Nihilism-a profound trans
valuation of all the accepted values
of Western civilization which, if
successful, would destroy the insti-
tutions and freedoms that are essen
tial not only to the democratic way
Of life but to any way of life that
rightly can be called civilized"
The misapprehension, however,
was neither complete nor final
Perhaps in ages to come, DR.. Becker's
successors in the classrooms at Cor
nell will tell their boys and girls that
the best thing that could have hap
pened to their ancestors in the cir
cumstances did happen-"we were
forced, against our will, at late
hour when we were still unprepared
TO become Involved in a second
Evening star., 1944-03-26

world war far more costly and
desperate than the first" and thus
learned that "a hard boiled realism
which fails to penetrate to the
essential realities is the worst species
OF romanticism any people can
indulge in"
An alternative to such an awaken
ing almost surely would have been
the slow but complete and absolute
triumph of the Hitlerian perversity.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Sour Note
From the New York Post.

from the New York Post.
II Russia wants to serve notice that
she proposes to occupy a preponderant
place in the peace councils comparable
with her preponderant place in the
lighting, we do not think the way to do
1t is to announce that henceforth Russia
must be regarded as 16 nations with,
presumably, 16 votes to our one. That
is not the only Interpretation of Russia's
latest political move Undoubtedly it
means a great deal more. But it is the
Interpretation which sticks in the minds
OF most Americans, including those who
are perfectly willing to have Russia
occupy the place in the world to which
her great accomplishments entitle her.
With the best Of good will for Russia,
they nevertheless resent the introduce
ton Of that sour note into our relations.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
PeniciIIin for All

From the Topeka Capital.
BY the middle of this year, it is an
nounced, the wonder drug penicillin will
be available in sufficient quantities to
meet all civilian as we'll as military
needs. UP to now, civilian scarcity
has ben due to inability to put the drug
up in containers which will retain its
hfe-giving properties.
Penicillin, it is explained, is product
Of common mold like that which ap-
pears on bread and oranges. It must
be dehydrated nearly 100 per cent and
sealed as bronze -colored powder in
glass vials from which air Is evacuated.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Surrenderinq Now
From the Coffeyville Journal.

SR01f 1H1C NU1AtJ
War correspondents in the Pacific are
agreed that with the change in tide of
battle has come decided reversal in
the Nip complex; that whereas in the
early months of the war fatalism was
widely manifest, now discretion seems
to have gotten the better of valor. At
Kiska, Attu and in numerous other
battles few japanese prisoners wers
taken. Now, as the odds against Japa.
nese success mount, the Jap hesitates
to go out to meet a superior force and
when cornered surrenders as readily as
Heinie and more and more the disparity
is narrowed between the number OF
Japs who surrender and the number
killed.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Mr.. Hoover on Finland

Ip the growing uncertainty over
the war aims and policies of the
Allied great powers, former Presi-
dent Herbert Hoover has just uttered
a constructive note. His text is the
problem Of Finland and the part
which the United States Govern
ment should play in it's solution, but
his thesis is applicable to other prob
lens which are still in suspense.
Mr.. Hoover begins by emphasizing
the profound Importance" of the
Finnish question and it's proper So
luton in "the future of freedom. !"
because "for 800 years Finland has
been the symbol of the struggle for
liberty" 1t is against that historic
background, high lighted by the in
contestable achievements of the
finnish people in creating and
maintaining progressive democratic
institutions, that its foreign policy
IN recent years should be consid-
cred. Regrettable and ill-advised
as her action may have been in
entering the war on the side of
Germany three years ago, "the pur-
pose of the Finnish people was not
to spread Nazism, but to preserve
their liberty and democracy" as
well as to recover the vital portions
OF her territory which she had been
compelled to cede to Russia in con-
sequence of war waged against her
by the Soviet Union only the year
before. Furthermore, the military
situation in the summer of l941 was
such that if Finland had not en-
tered the war against Russia she
would have been raped by the Ger
mans, like Belgium" Therefore, Mr..
Hoover contends that, despite all
that has happened, we cannot class
her with the other allies of Ger
many. We cannot forget that her
whole aspiration is democracy and
freedom"
This leads up to Finland's present
dilemma. She wants to cease fight
Ing and get out of the war. But
she cannot defy Germany without
throwing herself on the mercy of
Soviet Russia, and this she is un-
willing to do without some definite
assurances from the Western DOW
ers. Is it not time, asks MIR. Hoover.
Tor our Government to use its good
offices to insure "the application of
those ideals to which Russia, as
well as the United States and Brit
ain, have formally proclaimed?
Does not our Government have an
obligation to the future which must
oe exerted noW?" Mr.. Hoover ends
by pointing out that "in the long
view there can be no lasting peace
in the world unless such peoples as
the Firms are to have their indie
pendence and lands restored. Nor
are the American people likely to
accept any peace which does not
extend the independence of nations,
much less diminish them"
At an hour when many voices are
urging the subordination of every
thing to military expediency it is
timely that one who has ACQUIRED
the reputation of an elder statesman
should emphasize the necessity of
adherence to basic principles, aban-
donment of which may lose us the
peace even though the war be won.
Evening star., 1944-03-26

A japanese propaganda broadcast
to American soldiers in the Far East
describes the Jap soldier as mot a
bad fellow at ALL" Which kind do
they mean, live or dead?
Evening star., 1944-03-26

Planners for postwar world
should be careful to arrange it so
that Uncle Sam will not be left at
the post.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Fifty Years Ago

Fifty years ago the great march of
the unemployed, Coxey's army, had be-
gun. Predictions that
Coxey on the general" would have
Evening star., 1944-09-27

Good players listen to their op-
ponents' bidding, and, despite all
the talk they hear about psychics,
believe most of what the opponents
say. On today's hand West bid
hearts at the three level and South
apparently paid no attention.
The diamond king was opened.
Dummy's ace won, and the spade
king was led, revealing the bad
trump break. South then tried to
cash the ace and king of hearts,
preparatory to ruff1ng his last heart
in dummy, but East trumped the
second heart and South was down.
There were at least two ways to
make the hand. One was to run
four rounds of clubs, discarding one
of dummy's hearts; then cash the
ace of hearts, ruff heart high and
draw trumps.
A still safer way was to trump
two OF dummy's diamonds in South's
hand, use dummy's trumps to draw
East's, and then cash four club and
two heatr tricks in the South hand
X X X
Yesterday you were Theodore
Evening star., 1944-09-27

Lightner's partner. You were vul-
nerable and you dealt and held:
a A K 63
872
. ASS
A972
The bidding:
You Jacoby Lightner Schenken
Pass Pass ~ Pass
90
Answer-One spade. Though you
have more strength in top cards
than partner can possibly expect,
you are so weak in playing values
that there is no game unless part
ner can rebid
Score 100 per cent for one spade,
80 per cent for two spades or two
no-trump.
Question No. 1873.
Today you hold the same hand
and the bidding continues:
You Jacoby Lightner Schenken
Pass Pass - Pass
IA Pass, 20 Pass
CD
What do you bid? (Answer to-
morrow
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Evening star., 1944-09-27

times reach The Star too late for correction that day
Evening star., 1944-09-27
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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-08-24
FLEMINGTOWN NEWS

Mrs. Truman Fleming has
been seriously i'll at her home
here for the past week.
Edith Mullins, who has been
employed in Richmond for sew
eral months, is home on account
of illness.
Catherine Branham spent last
weekend with her mother in
Grundy.
Mary Lou Meade spent We'd
nesday night with her sister, Mrs
Holland Fleming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Fleming
and family attended memorial
meeting for Mr.. Fleming's broth
er, Leonard last Sunday.
Mrs. Ernest Bowman spent
few days of last week with rel
atives at Stratton.
Pvt. Pal mer Fleming is spend
ing a 15-day furlough with
homefollxs.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-08-24

Pictures of trainer flights, bomb
ing flights and flights by fighters are
all part of the routine for our stu
dent pilots and must be drilled into
them just as it is necessary for us
to remind ourselves daily Of the ne
cessity to buy an extra $1OO Bond
In September.
U. S. Treasury Department
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-08-24
PLEASE READ

We should appreciate it great
ly if correspondents who send in
the news would not coinfine
themselves strictly to the news
Of one family alone but would
instead spread it over the COM
munity so as to get as many PEG
pie as possible in the news. Those
who are away read the Herald
and want to know what EVERY
BODY is doing.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-08-24

rain that broke the worst drought
that it has suffered in AZ years,
SO says J. R. Stanley, and he has
been living here ever since the
year 1897.
We notice that moonshine is
again shining very plain. We
wonder it it is because our Of
ficers are on salary. How can
we better it? Die and leave it, 1
guess.
Crops are the shortest in this
section that they have been for
years.
Squirrel hunting was getting
underway on Brushy Ridge Sat-
urday as the preacher passed
through.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-08-24
BnLFOLDS FOR SALE

Several patients at Catawba
Sanatorium help pay their ex-
penses by making billfolds and
other leather articles. These are
handmade Of genuine calfskin,
and are far superior to any on
the market today. Any three in
itials at no extra cost. Billfolds
retail for $500 each. II interest
ed contact me, and I will for
ward your remittance at no pro-
tit to myself. JAMES NJ. SKEEN,
Clintwood, Va.
(Space for this advertisement
donated by The Herald).
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-08-24
RAMSEY RIDGE NEWS

The weekend is past and Ed.
j. R. Stanley has returned home
from church on Caney Ridge.
He was accompanied by brother
David Huffman, a United Bap-'
fist preacher from West Virginia,
who has been preaching in our
section for several days.
Elder J. R. Stanley is thankful
for his many blessings. He mas
passed his 72nd mile stone in
life, has preached 80 years and
has 81 6 grandchildren, % great
grandchildren, 9 living children
and is still able to attend church
and is proud of his blessings and
generation. He now has twelve
grandsons in service, some over
seas.
Milton Fletcher's daughter,
Virgie, who has just returned
from a hospital, is some better.
Ramsey Ridge has had a grand
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-08-24
CHURCH NOTICE

Memorial services will be held
for the late Pvt. Edward Reedy,
who was killed in action on June
18th, at the Spraddle bridge the
fourth Sunday in September.
His sister,
Mrs. Fannie Oquinn.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-08-24
BIG BRANCH BREEZES

Greed Dorton and family and
others from Pound visited Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Short Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burl Short ex-
pect to move to their new home
on Georges Fork Soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther McFall
and two grandaughters were Sun
day dinner guests at the home of
Earl Short.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Hibbitts
were baptised Sunday by Elder
Joe Carson SWindall in the old
swimming hole near the home of
Bee McFall.
H. w. Vanover and family will
move to the house vacated by
Burl Short.
Jane Mullins and small daugh-
ter, Nina June, visited Myrtle
Mullins and Burl Short Tuesday
Mrs. Henry Short and Mrs.
Lydia Short were visitors in
Clintwood Wednesday.
w. B. Trivitt, Burl Short and
Everett Short, big cattle men of
this section were trading on live
stock Wednesday in the Mcclure
section.
Pvt. Jasper L. Rose, who for
some time has been in England
and, is now in France. ANY one
who cares to write him may feel
sure their letters will be welcom
ed. His Address: Pvt. Jasper
Rose, 1896 MP. Co., AVN, APO
149 New York, N Y.
The farmers of this section are
now starting to cut their tobacco.
Everyone reports fine crop.
The small baby of Silas Kelly
has been seriously i'll, but is i'm
proving some now.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-08-24
4 X
MhotHo~4~1WiM
WAR BONDS
School Days

When our fighters fly at 400 miles
an hour with a Jap Zero or Mes
serschmidt on their tails there isn't
much time for cogitation SO the
Army and the Navy show as many
motion pictures of actual dog fights
and air battles as possible to our
student fiers.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-08-24
FOR ATHLETES FOOT
Here's A Different Treatment

The germ grows deeply. To
kill it, you must reach it. Te-ol
solution is the only treatment we
know Of made with 80 per cent
alcohol. Has more penetrating
power. REACHES NJ O r E
GERMS FASTER. Feel it take
hold. 35c at any drug store. To-
day at Skeen's Drug.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-08-24
FARM FOR SALE

I4-acre farm, three-room dwell
ing and good out buildings. Four
miles from Nora, Va, on oCe-
burn road. Good location for
future coal mining on Open Fork.
Priced low. See CLINTON ROSE,
Mcclure, Va. (2t-pd)
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-08-24

MANY folks don't. They're
as far from the real facts as
this photo in an amusement
park mirror!
Proof? Tn nationwide sur
vey, 1870 OF the people sharply
oyeresfimated the amount Of
their last electric bill. 1920
didn't realize that rates had
l. reduced in the last fifteen
ycA-s-and $3.50 didn't realize
how much!
actually, the average Amer
;can family gets about twice as
much electricity today as it did
fifteen years ago for the same
money.
DON'T WASTE ELECTRICITY JUST BEG
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-08-24

A. B. Hanover, good citizen of
Ramey Flats, was in Tuesday to
renew his subscription to The
Herald.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-08-24

ssFor the same money!
That's the clue. You don't re-
alize that rates are down, be-
cause your bill may be as much
as it was fifteen years ago-or
perhaps even more. But yow
have more electric appliances
7.ow. You're using more cleo
tricity-and you get about twice
as much for what you pay.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-08-24

Miss Mary Armstrong of the
SCI, was the Tuesday night
guest of Mrs. Fallie Sutherland.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-08-24

, Back the attack by upping
Z your payroll savings your
very next payday. Measure
your savings by your new
higher income.
Evening star., 1944-08-20
Big-Power Aims
Major Motions to Chart
New Formula for Peuce
BY the Associated r:rss

~ the Associated F:tsB.
These are the main points In plans
for establishment of q world security
organization on which the United
States, Britain and Russia appear
to agree as, they prepare to 60 into
the conference at Dumbarton Oaks
tomorrow:
l. An executive council, including
the big four-Russia, Britain, China
and the United States.
2. A United Nations Assembly.
8. A world court.
4. Machinery for mediation and
conciliation Of disputes not subject
to legal decisions.
5. Provision for maintenance 0f
adequate force to restrain aggression
and speedy use of force when such
q decision is taken.
6. A measure of regional RESPONSE
bility for keeping peace under the
world organization.
Z. Separation of war-end problems,
such rs definition of boundaries,
from the establishment Of the peace
agency.
8. Primary responsibility for en-
forcing peace to rest upon the large
powers which have the force avail
able. Britain and the United States
also are anxious that the small
powers play an appropriate role and
have their say. Russia's view on
this point is not yet clear.
Evening star., 1944-08-20
Dulles
Continued From First Page J

'ConIlnued from First Page)
1zation should await the solution
OF the immediate problem of con-
trolling Germany and Japan, Mr..
Dulles replied: II don't see any rea-
son why one should wait on the
other"
He had started out to explain
that he thought the constructive
suggestions in Gov. Dewey's foreign
policy statement last Wednesday
had been overlooked by some. To
illustrate, he pointed to the Gov
ernor's declaration that the problem
of future peace has two distinct
aspects-one, the controlling of Ger
many and Japan, the other estab-
lishment of world peace organ
ization.
Mr.. Dulles said that is "funda-
mental and constructive proposition
that goes to the heart of the prob
lem" If the control of Germany
and Japan is placed In the hands
OF the general world organization,
then the four big powers would have
to control that world organization.
ne argued, because they could not
afford to take a chance.
In response to question, he said
Evening star., 1944-08-20

of difference. he said, would be left
for later discussion.
A reporter inquired If he would
speak for the Republican party on
his visit to the State Department.
Il certainly am not going to say
I am speaking in any sense for the
Republican party" he replied. Il
am there as the Governors repre-
sentative. There are certain basic
views he stated the other day. My
job is to be an Intermediary, to find
out whether things are moving
along the lines of those basic prin-
ciples."
1t. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, retired,
now commander of the New York
State Guard, joined Mr.. Dulles and
Gov. Dewey tonight in q discussion
of the military aspects of the post
war period.
Gov. Dewey pointed out that "a
good many of the problem" he was
going over with Mr.. Dulles had q
military phase, such as the. occupa-
ton Of Germany and Japan when
hostilities are over. Gen. Drum was
expected to leave tonight, but Mr..
Dulles will remain at the executive
mansion through tomorrow.