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October 23, 1940.

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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 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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the main the decisions have A been fair and reasonable. somewhat too strict interpreta- tion of the terms of reference might have been made in one

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Open Letter

Lord Halifax

have LORD, People been saying sarcastic 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.

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?"

mere

In the midst of war, we must not try to fob people off with vacuous has Christianity words. Omelal tried to do that, and has turded a blind eye to the social demands of Jesus.

He once went to dinner with sone people, my Lord, of your class. He could not endure it when He Baw them scrambling for the best seats, and ignoring the hungry crowds.

lle turned on them with flaming

words of anger.

Ils concern

Nation after nation has gone

JUSTICE & FREEDOM down because its people have hnd no vision, and where there

One of the well-to-do spoke is no vision the people perish.

unctuously about heaven, 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 that Christianity? have none of it.

was with humanity people of this country an ideal Are we fighting to get that back?

When I was a curate in Durham here and now. worth fighting for. If there is there were hundreds of my peoplo criticism in this letter,, my whose homes were one room.

They

Tell the people that, when you say we are fighting for Christianity, you Lord, I mean it to be construc-were, miners, mostly out of work. Live, 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 ing of prayers and the making of the creeds, but of the making of a New

Britain. gle is between Christianity and the deans and dignitaries of

Cathedral. Nazism. Will you tell us what

Burned upon my mind is a picture Tell them that by Christianity you you mean by Christianity?

of a little child asleep in a bed with mean first justice for all, so that a corpse, and in the same room a none of God's children shall ever man with four other children eating again be exploited or treated as a

mere tool for another man's gain, a frugal meni.

PAGAN HORROR

I khow that you, like your father before you are an Anglo-Catholic. You cannot, of course, mean that we are fighting for Anglo-Catholicism, serve? or, indeed, for any kind of "Ism."

better.

of

oranges

If so, the sooner we capitulate the shiplond

just before which, You must mean by Christianity, a emptied into the sea off Liverpool way of life, and when you oppose it to keep up prices?

On that sultry summer day there y., in group, in to Nazism you mean we are fighting for a particular method of organising were children in Lanicashire to whom among the whole body of nations..

oranges were an unattainable lu- Those are the demands which are our national life, and you call.

xury.

Implied in Christianity, and they Christianity,

My Lord--is this Christianity? Is have not been conspicuous in the of organising way it is a brutal way, a this what we are fighting to pre- 'Britain of the last twenty years.

Your Lordship muy say that is pagan way. Over serve? against that you set up our method

Nazis rational life; sinte way, se

--the

Do you remember, my Lord, Sir

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 reached their 31st birthday, must regis- ter. This applies to citizens and aftens alike; but aliens vill not be subject to draft unless they have declared the inten- tion to become U.S. citizens. The fact that a person has de- pendents does not: exempt him from registration.

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, reserve 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.

My Lords this Christianity? Is Tell them that Christianity stands this what we are Aghting to pre- for freedom-freedom not only from

Who Will Be Drafted foreign tyrants but from anxiety and and unemploy- Do you remember, my Lord, that worry and poverty

The bill permits 900,000 con- from Spain ment.

scripts to be in training at any the war, Wax

Tell them that Christianity stands one time. About 400,000 prob- for true human brotherhood, In fumably will be drafted this autumn. nation, and Anally A lottery will determine the order in which men will be called before local draft boards throughout the country for de- termination whether they should be inducted into the army.

The bill gives the President broad powers to lay down re- gulations for the boards to fol- low in deciding whom to select. The Army says it does not in- tend to take any men who have dependents or who are employed in essential industrial or agricul- tural pursuits. College students probably will not be drafted. The bill exempts divinity stu-- dents for service. Physical fit- neas of course will be con-

that these

of

way of love, of freeders, John Orr's report, just before the not the time for such talk. We are fellowship, Justice and brotherliness. war, on "Food, Health and Income"? 100 busy winning the war to think You call it Christianity.

That report proved by irrefutable of what sort of world shail emerge

that millions British after the war. answer figures Now, my Lord, will you

There will be no winning of the this question? Do you think that children were seriously underfed.

My Lords this Christianity?. War, my Lord, unless the people who Dur country in the past has been organised on Christian principles? Is this what we are fighting to pre- are fighting this war know exactly

what they are fighting for. Before this pagan horror called serve?

Men with ideals make the best sol- If we are fighting for Christianity, Nazism arose, was Britain the em-

Cromwell proclaimed that, bodiment of Christian principles? let us tell the people exactly what diers.

"NEVER AGAIN" Take your mind back to 1927, we mean by Christianity.

ROOSEVELT

AND WILLKIE

By Julius C. Edelstein United Press Staff Correspondent · The National presidential campaign, suffering somewhat from lack of attention because of the crashing of bombs in Europe, has gotten under- way, with President Roosevelt given a slightly better chance to win, than-Wendell Willkie, his colourful Republican opponent.

certlove, however,

People

of this generation have been "sold a pup" once before like that. They were told to win the Great War first, and talk of alms sidered. afterwards.

world.

the

catimates The Army

for deferments

They were hypnotised by vague talk of "homes for heroes," while ali | after the time their rulera were making reasons there will be about secret treaties which, pinned

4,500,000 able-bodied; single people down for another decede to the old evils of the old bad pre-war men from whom to select. Each state and locality will be given We want to know that that shall a quota in proportion to the never happen again.

Will you broadcast again, my Lord, total manpower it registers. In and will you tell your listeners that brief, those to be drafted will over against the Fascist and Nazl be mostly single men with system which is trying to drive the unimportant jobs or no jobs. win the dass slavery of the ser-

world back to barbarism” by perpe-

vi poor, we are fighting for Chris- tianity?

tonity me

THE GREAT IDEAL

codes.

Appeals

Length Of Service

The one year period could be extended indefinitely if the country. became engaged in war or Congress declared the national interest was imperilled. Conscripts would become members of the reserves after com- pleting their year of activo taken into the army: the navy may Almost all the conscripts will

take a few later.

duty.

be

By and large the committee hum tackled its work well and has-clearly attempted to remain

-Boards-will-be-set-up-to hear. consistent to the principle

Then tell them what Christianity appeals from men who wish to of "exceptional circumstances merit exceptional treatment." Wagers made by professional despite billions of dollars which the means; no more unemployment, no contest their selection by the

Roosevelt Administration has spent lunger the motive of private gain, local draft boards.

but service for the good of the com-

Penaltics That it has not, perhaps, entire- betters listed Roosevelt as an ly succeeded in this aim can be to 5 favourite, as the September u "prime the pump" of industry.

Bg business and a considerable munity.

Tell them means pity, mercy, To evade the draft, and assist The heavy portion of little business is complete- campaign opened. set down as regrettable but not odds are explained as discount- y antagonistic to that portion of the kindness, love and the interpretation anyone to do so, would be damning. Chief difficulty con- ing the initial burst of popular New Deal's social reforms which of these glad virtues in every detail punishable by up to five years" fronting the committee has been enthusiasm which greeted Will have placed new burdens and res-of pubile life.

trictions on their particular enter- Tell them, in a word, that Christ-imprisonment and $10,000 fine, means loving God with all our or both. The cases would be that all the appellants, ipso kie's entrance into the political

prises.

The war has slso caused a split heart and that means loving the heard in the Federal courts facto, are convinced that their arena.

Political observers generally agree, among many of Roosevelt's liberal good within humanity and the set- cases are exceptional, but it has

however, that there is more uncer and Independent followers. Some of ting forth of that Divine Love, by rather than by military courts, been made abundantly clear tainty in the forthcoming campaign them, formerly among his most en-loving man with all our heart and which decided world war draft

have turned soul and mind and strength.

That is an ideal worth fighting for, from the testimonies given that than in any political race of the last thusiastic advocates,

and that the battle on se cool because of his pro-British for-

assert is but even as we fight we want to very few indeed really come un-

Thanes muy well deelde the outcome cign policy which they der this heading, providing, of of the United States presidential tending the United States toward know that it is guaranteed, and our fight will be short, sharp, impassioned course the evacuation itself is

Political exp

John L. Lewis, Congress of Indus- and victorious.

You understand, I am sure, what I Organlantion leader and a resistance to trial not considered as exceptional. that

We Close reading of the appeals the German air onsinught through figure in the ranks of organised mean.

within the Churches have al- 139 repeatedly criticised

towed people to imagine, when we heard to date convinces that in the months following the French labour,

have measurably improved many of Roosevelt's defence polletes,

training. It is highly to do with worship and hymn-sing- Roosevelt's election prospects, or at and especially the policy of comput- title of Christianity, that it is wholly least, have eliminated some of the sory

doubtful uncertain

whether Lewis would be ing. and some sort of perpetual harp- factors,

Conscientious Objectors able to swing any considerable or accompanied worship in heaven. We Many observers' belleved that

Exempted from milltary service, if Britain collapsed, or negotiated an gantsed labour support to Wilkie, know that that is wrong. unfavourable

the disaffection is bound to with Germany but peuce

they can prove to the Department of Justice that their objections are based before the carly. Autumn, a reaction weaken Roosevelt's support,

Christianity stands for social jus-on legitimate religious scruples, The in throughout the United or two cases, notably where an would set light help to unseat Some liberal intellectuals have tice. Hitler knows that. For that President could assign such objectors, swung over to Willkie on the grounds very reason he persecutes the Church. however, to non-combatant service. appeal has been made for the Stutes whic

present administration. The British resistance has given that the preservation of the two- and the Jews, who gave us the Bible.

Pay temporary return of people for

He is fighting against Christianity, opportunity for the growth of term tradition was more important

For the first four months of their the purpose of re-embarking for the President has called the than either the continuation of the and he has enough sense to know

Christianity rightly applied, year's training, draftees would receiva perience In the present world crisis,

als means the end of all the beastly hor-$2 a month. For the next eight, they would receive $30, unless they Willkie has, in the preliminary rors for which he stands.

won promotion to higher grades at feeling a strong twinge of doubt

has rebuked every suggestion stages, waged an intelligent campaign Germany persecutes the

to concerning the precedent or

the most impartial because it is or might be the slightly higher pay. The original

bill provided pay of $5 a month. created yesterday when permis- philosophy of appeasement. He has judgments. He has made the most of breeding ground of quality

Use of Conscripte pledged himself to wage an economic his advantages, and has jabbed in-brotherhood.

But there is another danger, the

Permitted only in the sion was given for a woman, to battle against Hitler, and to defeat cessantly at weak points in the

danger of trying to turn Christianity Hemisphere, the United States, its return to the Colony for the hin "on our

own

terms," if elected. Roosevelt armour.

has stood unequivocally for aid into other-worldliness.

territories and possessions, including purpose of conducting her hus-

Despite the optimism of Democra- to Britain, and support of all nien- Russin has persecuted religion be-

the Philippine Islands. The provi- band's business. The, circum-

the leaders, there is no concealment aures for national defence, both of cause the Churches of Russia had

sion was inserted to prevent the dis- be more

patch of a conscript army to Europe. stances appear to unfortunate than exceptional. of the fact that a vast' unrest pre- which he believes are widely popu-set forth a Christianity which was

Job Protoction valls throughout the nation, which lar. He has aimed 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.

Let the people see, my Lord, that

Conscripts on the Federal Govern- tee's decision is in the implica- many more votes for Willkie. than road voters, counting as already won

we are out for the genuine article ment's payroll would be guaranteed He has been pleasantly informal when we speak of Christianity. tion that while personal in- Republican candidate Alf, M. Landon the extremely conservative votes.

the return of their jobs without loss We want to see the type of Chris- of seniority. Congress expresses its terests must go to the wall, not in 1930.

A large unemployment persists, in his contacts with the press, and

friendly and ariable in his associa- tianity which filler hates firmly ca- desire that state and local govern- business considerations are to

tablished in this land,

mental

follow suit. subdivisions exists here. There are literally tons with politicians.

When the clergy, of whom I am Privale employers I would be required be pandered.

By Apending most of his time in

the

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Lo rehire conscripts, unless it The necessity of Hongkong dozens of "well educated, intelli-

set forth the pure, Ilfe-trans- doing its utmost, to carry on its gent, and eager young Chinese the interior of

to do so. Draftees denied re-employ commerce and Industry during in the Colony who would jump sought to shake the accusation that forming religion of Jesus, and when Impossible or unreasonable for them

ho is a Wall Street lawyer, and a the ruling classes, whom you re- present, make I clear that they are

ment could appeal to Federal Court: these trying times cannot be at the opportunity of filling New York corporation spokesman.

not going to rest until that pure idea! for a judicial ruling,.. over-emphasised; but we have these vacancies. This is the

Dobt Protection 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 n decided advantage. He still has the flesh, but with those mightier necessary to recall ovacuated proving their abilities, and it Roosevelt appears at present to have fight not merely with the weapons of women for this purpose, especi- would make some contribution, the loyalty 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,

And the victory will be won." Nazis, and tenant farmers, unemployment market which our unemployment problem.

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We do confess, however, to Stement spirit" in the United New Deal, or the guidance of ex-that

The Republican candidate, how- ever, or Intimation that he represents the

Church

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Western

The bill provides a moratorium on tax and insurance charges for which draftees are flable until after their training period.