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makes
of cars in the U.S.A. for the model year of 1939 shows
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| DANGEROUS PRECEDENT
A GALLUP Poll at the present time to discover the most unpopular-and, let it be said the least envied-insti- tution in Hongkong would al- most assuredly give first place to the Evacuation Advisory Committee. Its original task of issuing evacuation orders has been invidious; its second job of turning down appeals dis- tasteful.
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October 23, 1940.
Open
Lord
LORD, People
have
MY been saying Harcastic
things about your speeches, and have dubbed them "platitudin- ous sermons." I am not going to join in that criticism.
I am glad that you have had the courage at least to try to lift this conflict on to the plane of ideals,
Letter to Halifax
By the Rev. W.
Rowland Jones (Vicar of Denton, Man- chester).
"You have said that this struggle is between Chris- tianity and Nazism. Will you tell us what you mean by Christianity?"
In the midst of wor, we must not try to Tob people off with vacuous words. Omci»l Christianity nus tried to do that, and has turned a blind eye to the social demands of Jesus,
America Registers
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (UP).-Major provisions of the Conscription Bill passed by the Senate are:
Who Must Register And How
With few exceptions, all men who have passed their 21st birthday and have not renched their 31st birthday, must regis-
He once went to dinner with scmeter. This applies to citizens people, my Lord, of your class. He and aliens alike; but allens will could not endure it when He saw them scrambling for the best seats, they have declared their inten- not. be subject to draft unless
tion to become U.S. citizens. The fact that a person has de- pendents does not exempt him from registration.
and ignoring the hungry crowds.
He turned on them with luming words of anger,
JUSTICE & FREEDOM
of
the
Nation after nation has gone down because its people have had no vision, and where there
One
well-to-do spoke is no vision the people perish.
uncluously about leaves, and of the You are one of the few states- There were nearly two million un- glory above the sky. Jesus would men who have tried to give the employed. Was int Christianity? have none of it. people of this country an ideal Are we fighting to get that back?
His concern was with humanity worth fighting. for. If there is When I wns a curate in Durham criticism in this letter,
there were hundreds of my people here and now. my whose homes were one room. They Tell the people that, when you say Lord, I mean it to be construc- were miners, mostly out of work. we are fighting for Christianity, you tive, not carping.
Rearing their heads above these are not thinking so much of the mak You have said that this strug- slums were the sumptuous houses of log of prayers and the making of gle is between Christianity and the deans and dignitaries of the creeds, but of the making of a New
Britain. Nazism. Will you tell us what Cathedral.
Burned upon my mind is a picture Tell them that by Christianity you you mean by Christianity?
of u little
little child asleep in a bed with mean first Justice for all, so that u corpse, and in the same room a nune of God's children shall ever mon with four other children eating again be exploited or treated as a I know that you, like your father a frugal meal. before you, are on Anglo-Catholic,
My Lord is this Christianity? Is mere tool for another man's gain.
Tell them that Christianity stands You cannot, of course, mean that we this what we are fighting to pre- for freedom-freedom not only from are fighting for Anglo-Catholicism, serve?
foreign tyrants but frem anxiety and or, indeed, for any kind of "ism." Do you remember, my Lord, that worry and poverty and unemploy-
oranges from Spain ment. which, Just before the war, was
PAGAN HORROR
of
If so, the sooner we capitulate the shiploud better.
ete must mean by Christianity, a emptied into the sea off Liverpool for true human brotherhood, in fami- Tell them that Christianity stands
our
xury.
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were
Your
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Election officials throughout the land will conduct the regis- tration, probably 14 days after final enactment of the bill, It is estimated that 12,000,000 men must register.
Exemptions. From Registration
Specifically exempt from re- gistration.. are active, resurve and cadet members of the Army, National Guard, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard; members of the Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service; of- ficials, but not employees, of the Federal and State Governments.
Who Will Be Drafted The bill permits 900,000 con- scripts to be in training at any ably will be drafted this autumn. one time. About 400,000 prob- way of life, and when you oppose It to keep up prices? to Nazism you mean we are fighting On that sultry summer day there ly, In group, in nation, and finally
A lottery will determine the for a particular method of organising were children in Lancashire to whom among the whole body of nations.
order in which men will be national life, and you call it oranges
unattainable lu
Those are the demands which are Christianity.
implied in Christianity, and they called before local draft boards Nazism is a way of ergantsing: My Lord-is this Christianity? Is have not been conspicuous in the throughout the country for de- national life; it is a brutal way, a this what tee are fighting to pre- 'Britain of the last twenty years. termination whether they should slave way. a
way: Over serve? PREIN against that you set our metho
Lordship may say that is be inducted into the army. Do you remember, my Lord, Sir the way of love, of freedom, John Orr's report, just before the not the time for such talk. We are
The bill gives the, President fellowship, justice and brotherliness, war, on "Food, Health and Income? loo busy winning the war to think broad powers to lay down re- You call it Christianity.
That report proved by irrefutable of what sort of world shall emerge gulations for the boards to, fol- my Lord, will you answer" ligures that millions of British
you think that children were seriously underfed.
There will be no winning of the low in deciding whom to select. question? Do
past has been
The Army says it does not in- Country in the
My Lord-1s this Christianity? war, my Lord,, unless the people who organised on Christian principles? In this what we are fighting to pre- are fighting this war know exactly tend to take any men who have
Before this pagan horror called serve?
what they are fighting for. Nazism prose, was Brilain the em- if we are fighting for Christianity. Men with ideals make the best sui- dependents or who are employed in essential industrial or agricul- bodiment of Christian principles? let us tell the people exactly what diers. Cromwell proclaimed that.
Take
tural pursuits. College students your mind back to 1927, we mean by Christianity.
"NEVER AGAIN"
probably will not be drafted. People of this generation have The bill exempts divinity stu- been "sold a pup" unce before like dents for service. Physical fit- that. They were told to win the ness of course will be con- Great War first, and talk of aims sidered. afterwards.
this
our
ROOSEVELT
AND WILLKIE
By Julius C. Edelstein
United Press Staff Correspondent
after the war,
They were hypnotised by vague
The Army estimates that
talk of "homes for heroes," while after deferments for these the time their rulers were making reasons there will be about {secret treatles which pinned Whe
able-bodied, single
people down for another decade to 4,500,000
the old evils of the old bad pre-war men from whom to select. Each. world.
state and locality will be given We want to know that that shall a quota in proportion to the never happen again.
vile poor, we are fighting for Chris-
Penaltion
The National presidential campaign, suffering somewhat from lack of attention because of the and will you tell your listeners that brief, those to be drafted will Will you broadcast again, my Lord, totul manpower it registers. In By and large the committee crashing of bombs in Europe, has gotten under- over against the Fascist and Nazi be mostly single men with has tackled, its work well and
systern which is trying to drive the unimportant joba or no jobs. has clearly attempted to remain way, with President Roosevelt given a slightly world backs to barbarism by verthe better chance to win than Wendell Willkie, his
tuating the class slavery of the ser-
Appeals consistent to the principle
tianity?
Bourds will be set up to hear -of---"exceptional-circumstances colourful-Republican-opponent.
"Then tell them what Christianity appeals from men who wish to merit exceptional treatment."
Wagera made by professional despite billions of dollars which the means; no more unemployment, no contest their selection by the That it has not, perhaps, entire- betters listed Roosevelt as an 8 Roosevelt Administration has spent longer the motive of private gain, local draft boards.
"prime the pump" of Industry. but service for the good of the com- ly succeeded in this aim can be to 5 favourite, as the September Big business and a considerable munity. set down as regrettable but not campaign opened. The heavy portion of little business is complete- Tell them it means pity, merey, damning. Chief difficulty, con-
odds are explained as discount y antagonistic to that portion of the kindness, love and the Interpretatlon
that all the appellants, ipso fucto, are convinced that their cases are exceptional, but it has been made abundantly clear from the testimonies given that very few indeed really come un- der this heading, providing, of course the, evacuation itself is not considered as exceptional, Close reading of the appeals heard to date convinces that in the main the decisions have been fair and reasonable, A somewhat too strict interpreta- tion of the terms of reference might have been made in one or two cases, notably where an appeal has been made for the temporary return of people for the purpose of re-embarking for Australia.
fronting the committee has been enthusiasm which greeted Will-have placed new burdens and res-of public in a word, that Christ-imprisonment and $10,000 fine,
ing the initial burst of popular New Deal's social reforms which of these glad virtues in every detalle to do
life.
To evade the draft, and assist no, would be punishable by up to five years' trictions on
Tell their particular enter- kie's entrance into the political prises
them, in prises.
Janity means loving God with all our or both. The cases would be arena.
The war has sino caused a split 'heart-and that means loving the Political observers generally agree, among many of Roosevelt's ilberal, good within humanity-and the set-heard in the Federal courts however, that there is more uncer and independent followers. Some of ting forth of that Divine Love, by rather than by military courts,
in the forthcoming than in any political race of the last thus, formerly among his most en-loving man with all our heart and which decided world war draft
thusiastic advocates, have turned soul and mind and strength. decade, and that the baille on the cool, because of its pro-British for- That is an ideal worth fighting for. Thames may well decide the outcome cign polley which they assert Is but even as we fight we want to of the United States presidential leading the United States toward know that It is guaranteed, and our
war. election in November.
fight will be short, sharp, impassioned Political ut Britain's vigorous resistance
experts believe, however, Jolin L Lewis, Congress of Indus- and victorious.
trial Organisation leader and A
You understund, I am sure, what I imenn. the German follow single "Provals is repeatedly rele
months following the French labour, has
We within the Churches have at- Roosevelt's election prospects, or at and especially the policy of comply to do with worship and hymn-sing collapse have measurably improved many of Roosevelt's defence policies, towed people to Imagine, when we talk of Christianity, that it is wholly feast, have eliminated some of the sory military training. It is highly ing, and some sort of perpetual harp-
uncertain factors.
doubtful whether Lewis would bc
bound to
the
because
cases.
The
Length Of Service one year period could be extended indefinitely if the country became engaged in war or Congress declared the national interest
WUS Imperilled. Conscripts would become, members of the reserves after com-
taken into the army: the navy may pleting their year of active duty. Almost all the conscripts will be
take a few later.
Many observers
rvers believed that if able to swing any considerable or accompanied worship in heaven. We
Conscientious Objectors Britain collapsed, or negotiated an gnised labour support to Willkie, know that that is wrong.
Exempted from military service, if unfavourable peace with Germany but
disaffection is the
THE GREAT IDEAL before the curly Autumn, a reaction weaken Roosevelt's
they can prove to the Department of suppert,
Justice that their objections are basod would set in throughout the United
Christianity stands for social jus-on legitimate religious scruples. The Some Ilberat intellectuals States which might help to unseat
have tee. Hier knows that. For, that President could assign such objectors, the present administration.
swung over to Wilkic on the grounds very reason he persecutes the Church, however, to non-combatant service. The British resistance has given that the preservation of the two- and the Jews, who gave us the Bible. no opportunity for the growth of term tradition was more important
Pay what the President has called the than either the continuation of the and he has enough sense to know He is fighting against Christianity,
For the first four months of their "appeasement spirit" in the United New Deal, or the guid
org guidance
ex-that Christianity rightly appiled, year's training, draftees would receive We do confess, however, to States.
perience in the present world crisis.
For the next eight. means. the end of all the beustly hur- $21 month. Wilkie has, in the preliminary rors for which he stands. The Republican candidate, how.
they would receive, $30, unless they feeling a strong twinge of doubt
ever, hos rebuked every suggestion stages, waged an intelligent campaign
Church won promotion to higher grades at concerning the precedent or intimation that he represents the ucc
to the most impartial Germany persecutes the
Is or might be the slightly higher pay, The original created yesterday when permis- philosophy of appeasement. He has judgments. He has made the most of
ground
of equality and bill provided, pay of $5 a month. pledged himself to wage an economie his advantages, and has jabbed In- therhood..
Use of Conscripts sion was given for a woman to battle against Hitler, and to defeat cessantly at weak points in
But there is another danger, the return to the Colony for the hin "on our own terms," It
Permitted only in the Western elected. Roosevelt armour.
danger of trying to turn Christianity Hemisphere, the United States, Ita He has stood unequivocally for aid into other-worldliness. purpose of conducting her hus-
Despite the optimism of Democra- to Britain, and support of all men- band's business. The circuit te lenders, there is no concealment rures for national defence, both of cause the Churches of Russia had the Philippine Islands. The provi- Russia has persecuted religion be- territories and possessions, including stances appear 10 be more of the fact that a vast unrest pre- which he believes are widely popu-set forth a Christianity which was patch of a conscript army to Europe. sion was inserted to prevent the dis- unfortunate than exceptional, vails throughout the nation, which lar. He has almed his chief appeal not brotherly enough, which was a and the danger of the commit will undoubtedly be translated into at independent and middle-of-the-drug, an oplate.
Job Protection tee's decision is in the implica-muny more votes for Wilikle than read volers, counting as already won Let the people see, my Lord, that Conscripts on the Federal Govern- tion that while personal in- Republican candidate Alf. M. Landon the extremely conservative votes. we are out for the genuine article ment's payroll would be. guaranteed
::ot In 1036.
He has been pleasantly informal when we speak of Christianity. the return of their jobs without loss terests must go to the wall,
A large unemployment persists, in his contacts with the press, and We want to see the type of Chris- of seniority. Congress expresses its business considerations are to
friendly and amiable In exists here. There are literallyitions with politiclan his associa- tianity which Hitler hates frmly es-desire that stalo und local govern- be pandered.
tablished in this land.
imentol subdivisions follow mult The necessity of Hongkong dozens of well educated, intelli- By spending most of his time in When the clergy, of whom I am Private employers would be required doing Its utmost to carry on its gent, and eager young Chinese the interior of the country he has one, set forth the pure, ille-trons to rehire conscripts, unless it is commerce and industry during in the Colony who would jump he is a Wall Street lawyer, and n the ruling classes, whom you re-to do so. Prattees denied re-employ sought to shake the accusation that forming religion of Jesus, and when inpossible or unreasonable for them these trying times cannot be at the opportunity of filling New York corporation spokesman. present, make it clear that they are ment could appeal to Federal Court over-emphasised; but, we have these vacancies. This is the
not going to rest until that pure Iden! for a judicial ruling, yet to be convinced that it is time to offer them the chance of Despite all these political moves, is established here, our people will necessary to recall evacuated proving, their hbilities, and it Roosevelt appears at present to have fight not merely with the weapons of a decided advantage. He still has the flesh, bul with those mightler women for this purposo, especi- would make some contribution, the loyally of the large bulk of weapons of the Spirit, which are ally in view of the overloaded however small, to alleviating youths, Jewish groups, Negroes, anti-Invincible. unemployment - market which our unemployment problem. Nazis, and tenant farmers.
And the victory will be won.
-Debt Protection
The bill provides a moratorium on," tax and insurance charges for which draftees are liable until after their training period.