Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 47, DeMotte, Jasper County, 12 October 1939 — Page 7

Bruckart’s Washington Digest Repeal Bill Would Extend Credit To Belligerents Buying in U. S.

Danger of Getting Into Same Mess Over War Debts That Followed World War; Added Authority Given President in Bill Carries Potential Danger.

WNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington. D. C.

WASHINGTON.—As the lull dress debate of the so-called neutrality bill continues in the senate, numerous phases and angles and incidents have cropped up and demanded attention. It is easy for ono side to say that the thing must be accepted by the senate and the housd and the country, without so mudh as a crossed “t” or a dotted “i|” and it is equally easy for the oppositionists to say that we should have! none of it at all. The truth is neither side is completely correct, and Mr. John Q. Public must remember that in forming his own conclusions. | The bill that was reported by the senate committee on foreign relations, I believe, must be as a sincere effort. Sixteen of the twenty-three members of the corrimiitee believed it, or believed it should have a chance to be discussed fully and freely. There was no division along the lines o|f Democrats or Republicans; sev4n senators voted against sending the bill to the senate because they are opposed to repeal of the embargo against; shipments of arms to any belligerent powers, while President Roosevelt and the majority members of! the senate committee want to get rid of the embargo. i Publication of the text of the bill, however, shows some provisions that have gone far to load the guns of thosO who want to keep an arms embargo in force. Some iof the members of the group opposing repeal were sufficiently wrought up to accqse the administration —Mr. Roosevelt, Secretary of Staite Hull and others—of having misled the country in telling what theiy think ought to ba done, by way of legislation, to keep the country out of war. It is a condition of bad temper and it is likely to cause damage all around. Nevertheless, until the senate committee finished writing the bill, all of the discussion was whether to repeal the arms embargo; j since publication of the bill, it is shown that not only is repeal of the embargo sought, but permission would be given for extension of credit to those belligerent natrons that want to buy here. Many Object to Giving President Extreme Power Another section of the bill that was not well advertised in advance is a section giving President Roosevelt additional authority during threats of war It allows the President to define “combat areas,’’ and to forbid American ships and American citizens from going into those zones. That provision is highly provocative. For there are many who believe no Chief Executive ought to be clothed with such extreme power. I doubt that it ever will be rqisused or abused, yet it has that possible danger within it. Haying such potential danger, the section is being vigorously opposed by men just as anxious to keep the nation out of war as those who say that only repeal of the arms embargo will keep us from being embroiled in Europe’s mess. Debate has made it appear*, thus far at lyast, that the original “cash and carry” sections constitute a strong bulwark against our entanglement. But there.surely is ground for objection to that part which was added—that part which will give buying pations 90 days in which to pay. A buying nation can come to our shores, load down many ships and go pway with the cargoes within 90 days—and say at the end: “We have not the money to pay.” Of course, it will not be as raw as that. The purchasers did that during the World war. also, and We are still waiting for those nations to pay mdre than on those debts. I am the only Correspondent to report every one qf the conferences with foreign nations when the United States tried to get some tangible basis of payment worked out, and since that time I have had little faith in any of their promises. The “cash and carry” section <bf the current bill, with its 90-day provision, therefore, strikes me as nothing more nor less than a breaking down of the law that Senator Johpson of California forced through the congress some years ago. The Californian fought until he got a statute that barred any nation from getting new credit here if it still owed on its World war debt. So-Called Neutrality Bill Shows Mistakes Can Be Made It probably is an impossibility to “legislate” a nation into being neutral. It is hke legislating people into being good. If they want to be good, or if they want to be bad, they probably will be just that way, regardless of what kind of a law the brain trusters in a legislative body put together. And. in the instance at hand—the so-called neutrality bill—there is ample evidence of mistakes that can be, and are being, made. Friends of the program of em-

By WILLIAM BRUCKART

bargo repeal mistakenly assume that substitution of the cash and carry provisions will let us rest in peace. It is perfect, they say. Opposition sentiment can see only hosts of marching men and ships carrying warriors overseas if there is repeal. Therefore, neither side is giving really serious attention to perfecting the cash and carry provision, in event it shall be accepted, eventually, and the bill become law. That is a grave mistake. That lack of consideration of details of this phase is a great mistake can be proved by the shudders of business interests when sharp eyes and analytical minds discovered what the section, as written by the committee, would do to commerce in this part of the world. Protests filed by shipping and air transport companies serve as an example. Actually, as originally presented, the cash and carry sections would have kept many businesses from dealing further with British and French possessions in the Caribbean sea. They would have halted buying and.selling in some quarters of South America, like the Guianas; air lines from the United States could not have stopped there; regular North and South American ship schedules would have been disrupted. Well, the committee made hasty changes, but it remains to be seen whether even these will work in practice. The trouble is that no one man or group of men can visualize all of the possible contingencies and consequences of a piece of far-reaching and rigid legislation. None ought to claim that it has been done, but claims to that effect are being advanced and ballyhooed. Monroe Doctrine Must Be Given Consideration Now, it might be said that these phases of the problem are matters that concern only “business interests,” and big business interests, at that. Such, unfortunately, is not the case. Since every one of those points of difficulty lie in the western hemisphere, consideration must be given to the application of the Monroe Doctrine. Our trade with nations and possessions in the western hemisphere, therefore; is considerably different than with Great Britain and France, themselves. Yet, with all of the close commercial ties with those possessions, with due recollection of the principles of the Monroe Doctrine, there remains the fact that congress, under the urge of the administration, is seeking to legislate neutrality, a neutrality that works one way with the parent nation and another way with the colonies—the children—of the belligerent nation. It is quite evident, indeed, that whatever law is finally enacted will contain many imperfections, some loopholes and some dangerous principles. It should be said to President Roosevelt’s credit that, thus far, he has not openly put the pressure on his congressional leaders for passage of the bill without changes. Membership of the two parties in congress is widely splif. Perhaps that is why White House force cannot be used effectively. True, some of the anti-administration Democrats have predicted that the President will get both feet into the situation before action is had, but that has not happened, yet. Pan-American Conference Does a Worth-While Job While all of these things have been going on in Washington, the sessions of the conference at Panama City ought not be overlooked. The representatives of our own and our neighbor republics did a good arranging for co-operative action to keep the war away from our shores and in Europe, where it started. It always is possible for hest intentions to go haywire, but surely there is credit due. to Mr. Roosevelt and the department of state for the leadership exerted in getting all of the South and Central American folks around a single table. If nothing more happened than a free discussion of the potential dangers that exist, the meeting would have been worth while. More did happen, however, and the understandings that were reached, stripped of high-sounding words, mean that active governments in the western hemisphere are going to work and act together. Further, the conferences can. be said to have produced a feeling that none of the smaller republics and so-called republics need fear any of the others. In the meantime, however, it is distressing to witness newspapers everywhere relegating important domestic hews, facts about our home folks and home problems, to inside pages. One of the Washington papers the other day had seven columns of war news on its front pages. That seems to me to be bringing the war here when we don’t want it.

THE KANKAKEE VALLEY POST

IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL Lesson

By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.

Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.)

Lesson for October 15 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se- i lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS LESSON TEXT—Matthew 4:1-11. GOLDEN TEXT—For we have not an highT priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but w'as in all points tempted like as we are. yet without sin.—Hebrew's 4:15. Temptation is the common lot of all mankind (I Cor. 10:13). The strongest and most ' noble of men are subject to it; angels were tempted, and our scripture reveals that even Jesus was tempted. We recognize that Jesus was tempted as the Messiah (vv. 3,6) and as one without sin (Heb. 4:15), but it is also true that He was tempted in all points as we are, apart from sin, and that w’e may learn from His temptation how we may meet and be the victors over temptation, i 1. What Is Temptation? “Temptation is seduction to evil, solicitation to wrong. It stands distinguished from trial thus: trial tests, seeks to discover the man’s moral qualities or character; but temptation persuades to evil, deludes, that it may ruin. God tries; Satan tempts” (A. M. Fairbairn). Temptation is not sin, but yielding to temptation is sin. Luther said, “We cannot keep the birds from flying over our heads, but we can keep them from building nests in our hair.” Temptation comes frpm within, that is, from our own lusts (James 1:13, 14). Satan also tempts us (Eph. 6:11). God may permit temptation as a means of proving our faith (James 1:2, 3). 11. How Temptation Works. It is significant that the temptations of Jesus were along the threefold line of the temptations of Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:6) and the general threefold temptation of all men, namely, the lust of the flesh, the pride of life, and the lust of the eyes (I John 2:16). These three temptations really exhaust Satan’s bag of tricks, but he can dress up these three fundamental temptations with almost endless variety. He works 1 By appealing to the flesh (vv. 2,3). He observes the normal appetites and desires of a man’s body, excites them to a high degree, and then suggests an improper method of satisfying them. Hunger is normal and a sign of good health. Jesus had fasted forty days and Satan took advantage of that fact to suggest the use of His. divine power to satisfy His hunger. This would involve a denial of His entire mission on earth, namely, the redemption of man by a divine person who had become a real man. 2. By. appealing to pride (vv. 5, 6). Satan misapplied Scripture to tempt Jesus to presumption on the assumption that He was exercising faith. God had promised to keep Him “in al! his ways” (Ps. 91:11). To cast himself down from the temple was not one of the ways in which Christ was called to walk. Satan comes to us with the same kind of temptation. If He cannot get us to forsake faith, he tempts us to become fanatic and to proudly substitute presumption for faith. 3. By appealing to the eyes (vv. 8. 9). By showing Christ the kingdoms of the world and offering them to Him by the short-cut of a brief act of worship rather than by the way of the cross, Satan tempted Him again. Here the devil showed his true desire that man should worship him rather than God. 111. How to Meet Temptation (vv. 4. 7, 10). 1. By the right use of Scripture. If Jesus needed that weapon, how can we do without it? How can we use Scripture if we do not study it and hide it in our hearts? 2. By dependence on God. Every Scripture used by Jesus honored God. We cannot fight Satan in our own strength. To attempt to do so is to fail utterly. The real victory for the Christian is to bring Satan back to the cross where Christ won a decisive victory over him. 3. By denouncing Satan. Jesus sent him on his way. We may do the same in Jesus’ name. It is always a serious error to try to argue with Satan or to engage in any discussion with him. Let us meet him with Scripture and with a “Get thee hence.” IV. The Result. Satan left and angels came to minister to Christ. The overcoming of temptation results in peace, victory, and blessing. This is ever so in the life of the believer. Temptation overcome makes us stronger to meet the next temptation, and also enables us to help our weaker brethren.

Framing Our Lives

Religion does not consist in the performance of certain ceremonial acts at specified times, outside which acts and times it has no place: but consists in framing our whole life, and all our acts, upon a distinct view of our position as created beings, charged by the fact of our creation, with duties both to our fellow creatures and to our Creator. —Edward Denison.

Butter Is Tax Payment Medium For Natives of Isolated Tibet

World's Loftiest State Has Queer Religious Ceremonies. Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington, D. C.-WNU Service “Dead Lama Causes Yak Butter Crisis” is the burden of news from faraway Tibet, And what, it may be asked, has a lama—dead or alive —got to do with the price of butter? As much as Christmas has to do with the price of fir trees, or Easter with the egg market. For Tibet, the isolated land of “Shangri-la,” is a theocracy ruled by the high priest of Lamaism, and Lamaism uses yak butter where other governments use gold braid, precious metals, and fireworks. Especially in the ceremonies and gatherings occasioned by the death of a prominent lama, butter is in such demand that the price soars and the market is panicked. The most recent economic difficulty resulted from the prolonged ceremonies over the body of the late. Panchen Lama, second in authority to the supreme Dalai Lama. On the high cold plateaus of the world’s loftiest state, the Tibetans follow the Lamaistic faith of Buddhism which discourages slaughter of either man or beast. Instead of eating meat, which is abundant in vast herds of sheep, goats, and cattle crossed with yak, they balance their meager diet of barley bread and tea by consuming quantities Qf butter. Servants Use Goat Butter. The Tibetan social scale could be measured by a butter barometer. Butter from the milk of sheep and goats is rejected by all except servants, and some of it can be slipped into the butter bags contributed to the government as taxes. Butter from yak milk, however, is a food of prestige. The wealthy and the officials in Tibet can dine sumptuously after

TIBETS (rIFT to America is a few specimens of the giant panda. A cub panda arriving in this country for placement in a i\ew York zoo is shown in the picture above. These animals are very rare and live in the most inaccessible regions of Tibet. Zoo goers have made them a favorite for the animals' antics resemble that of a huge, live "'teddy bear.'' the Chinese fashion, on varied foods imported over mountain passes two miles above sea level. Valley dwellers in fertile mountain-sheltered pockets have home-grown vegetables and even fruits. But the poorer Tibetans, especially on the unbroken grasslands of the north, subsist on butter kneaded into firmness, carried about in woolly bags of sheepskin for several years. They eat it mixed with parched barley flour. They drink it in their tea. They rub it on their bodies as a substitute for bathing in long seasons of cold and drouth. They give it as a delicacy to their wiry hard-working little horses. They include it in the tribute they pay to the government. They use it as lubrication on the single-rope bridges on which they slide in dangling slings across the gorges of their icy mountain torrents. But Tibet is the country where you eat your butter and burn it too. Butter lamps are as essential to the ritual of the Tibetan churches as candles are to other religions. In the felt-topped hut of the northern nomad, a tiny butter lamp flickers before the little family shrine blackened with greasy smoke. Of silver, copper, or humble earthenware—some stemmed like champagne glasses—the butter lamps appear beside the bowls of holy water on ev-

LJAD OF “SHANGRI-LA.” Map shows the location of lofty, mysterious Tibet. Portions of the country are practically inaccessible and as a result weird tales of life in the interior are told by adventurers. The Tibetans follow the Lamaistic faith of Buddhism, which has ceremonies and practices appearing queer to an outside world and this fact gives rise to many of the stories. ery Tibetan church altar. Yak butter and incense are the chief offering® a Tibetan carries to church. Butter is part of the payment to a lama for services or exorcisms performed in the home. This food staple is doubly valuable to the Tibetan priesthood, which comprises about one-seventh of Tibet’s population and must five on the food produced by the other sixsevenths. Made Without Churns. Wives of the yak herders make butter without churns, dayold milk in leather bags until the yellow lumps form. It is pressed into pats by hand.. Its first acquaintance with a churn may come with tea, for Tibetans churn their hqrd-boiled tea with butter and salt until the soupy mixture resepnbles hot chocolate. Crowning its year-round service for countless everyday uses, gutter becomes the center of attraction at the Tibetan whnter religious festival which combines many features of Christmas, New Year’s, and the Fourth of July. Instead of fireworks, there is an art show of butter ture, staged by the lamaseries. For four months in advance there is a rush on the butter market, as the lamas famous for their talent as molders collect materials in the cold workrooms of their respective lamaseries. The butter is mixed with powdered pigments, to give as (nany as 20 vivid colors for the sculptor to use.

Siam Changes Nation’s Name To "Thailand’

Western Political Ideas Filter Into Modern Government. Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington, D. C.—WNU Service. A modern, streamlined government in Siam has changed the name of the country to Thailand. The Siamese have long called their country Muang Thai, “the land of the Thai race,” but the name “Siam” or “Sayam” is on record for the country for more than a thousand years. Siam adopted a constitutional government June 24, 1932. With the advent of the new regime, international treaties were revoked and new treaties gave Siam full jurisdictional and fiscal autonomy. • The change from an absolute monarchy has been attributed in part to the infiltration of Western ideas following the custom offending prirtces of the blood royal and sons of prominent families to the United States and other countries for their education. The new king has been at school in Switzerland. The president of the new council and commarider of the army was a classmate of General Goering’s in Germany. The new minister of foreign affairs was educated in France. Hopes for Neutrality. The latter has expressed the hope that Siam’s international position may be neutral, and an enlarged defense program is in progress. Under new enactment, every able-bod-ied man between 18 and 30 is now liable to serve two years with the colors. The navy has been more than doubled in strength, and highspeed bombing planes were purchased in the United States. Substantial appropriations have also enabled the government to increase public utilities service, in addition to private plants, and new factories have been set up, some by the government. These produce paper, cotton cloth, petroleum, sugar, hemp, silks, vegetable oils and drugs.

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Name Changes

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