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. • *•„ \ ." ...a"fel^.-. " - ' r#,^rf-5 ' .'"""'J A'-f. J, May 20, 1943 \ c- r i- *<***• *5^ •* /*•*.% * | * TH* MoHmSY PLAIWDEALKR * >•»• * •» s»V- C ,,111* ^ • *"* (' i f (a plknt • -'fl ." **•1 \* Kathleen Norris Sayst® Don't Be Afraid to Ask F&vors of God Bell SyoStcate--WNU Pt^nm, CHAUNCEY •. REED «• t> « * # •PEACE I LEAVE--* If you he >en't done so lately, take out your family Bible and turn to St. John 14:27. Read those stirring words, "Peace I leave with you." Read on a little . . . "For the Prince of this world cometh." Even in the hour of His own sorrow Christ pre• pared His disciples for the fact of His revelation, just as we must now prepare to make the most of the peace for which we are so fiercely fighting. And we must prepare for peace, not in a militant spirit of spiteful revenge, but with the calm knowledge that with the help of God we can make our world a little more like his Kingdom. # * <&• wartime m step our cart and smilingly invite the uniformed lad* to jump dm/to them." " • |B y KATHLEEN NORRt* • ' V' : -- *HE longer I live the more firmly do I believe in the nearness of God and the power of prayer. The rule that -was given us by an obscure carpenter, who never wrote a line or had an influential friend, and who died the death of a common •criminal, is still the only true rule by which we humans may live in security and peace. When anyone says to me that he Would like to have seen a miracle, ;J think of THIS miracle, that we hold too name in all our history worthy to be mentioned in the same breath With that of Chiist. Poor and unknown, yet his words still ring about the world, and his law, so utterly opposed to all natural human law, Is the <me thing that Can save us yet. When this war is over, and the monstrous evil that darkens the world Is suppressed, let us hope 4hat those in power will remember that unless the law of Christ influences their councils, there will be no peace, and that before today's babies are out of tiigh school the whole horror will be- £in all over again. No matter how they dress their treaties in magnificent phrases, no matter how many Willing and unwilling signatories they |obtain for them, unless forgiveness . auod brotherhood become the universal law, there will be no peace. The secret lies there, in the Sermon on the Mount, and it lies nowhere else. When peace comes let's try to feed cur workers as well as they are being fed in war. Let's not forget, and •i islip back into the selfish old ways. Xet's not ever tolerate poverty and idleness, slums and squalor again. Let's hold fast in peace to the generosity, the intelligence, the self-sacrifice and co-operation that we exhibit so eagerly in war. Constant International Visits. ..... We shall have to keep up an Immense army for a long, long time. Even a peace-loving woman like my- ..self, who has suffered a great deal for her championship of the nonintervention cause, can see that. We shall have to have half-a-million men •ready to take to the air; why not ..have them visit foreign countries to bring friendship and help, steadily, as a regular thing, so that the flag that these countries have come to know through war shall become to them a symbol of everything that is forgiving and helpful. In war there is a demand for limitless labor, to rush the work of defense and destruction. We pay for it gladly, readily, and what we buy is blown to bits and sunk into the oceans by the hundreds of millions. Why can't we keep up this magnificent plentitude of employment in peace times, paying for roads, schools, bridges, libraries, until there is no hamlet in all America where learning and usefulness cannot be found by the humblest comer? In wartime we women knit thousands-- millions--of warm garments; -we gather little coats and boots; we ship them to the far corners of the earth to comfort cold little creatures who, in wartime only, seem so akin to our own. Why can't we keep that up in days of peace? There is no tiny, shivering Chinese child, buttoning a generous wool-lined coat about her, who cannot be told that America has sent her that because America believes in a shining God who said that all men are brothers. ROUTING THE RADICALS: I Next week the House will resort to! a rather unusual procedure. Officers j and employes in the executive de- j partments maunder civil service, re- j ceive their apopintments at the hands j of the President and usually hold of-! fice during his pleasure. Neither the j House nor the Senate has jurisdiction j or authority to dismiss or oust any of them except through impeachment. Impeachment proceedings are long and cumbersome. Charges (must be preferred by the House and a committee from that body must prosecute the accused persons before the Senate wn» ; sits as judge and jury. Such proceed- ; ings usually consume several months : aud the legislative machinery of Congress consequently suffers because the Senate is seldom able to transact its ordinary business while acting in a judicial capacity. For many months , charges have frequently been made by various committees of the House and Senate and by individual Congressmen and Senators that high ranking public officials are members of . a subversive organizations (usually com- • munistic) designed to destroy our, form of government. To date, most of these charges and accusations have gone Tiijheeded and there seemed to be no adequate remedy. Recently the House authorized its appropriation committee to make Sn investigation of the charges against several of these officials. The committee in which Democratic members preponderate will make its report on three of these cases next week. It was stated on the floor a few days ago by by one of the committee members that its report was unanimous and that it would recommend the adoption of an amendment to a pending appropriation bill. If adopted by the House and Senate it will have the same practical effect as if charges were made and sustained. " Under the Constitution, Congress may limit the uses for which funds are appropriated and in the three cases above referred to, the proposed amendnlent will read substantially as follows, "Provided, however, that no part of this or any other appropriation shall be used to pay any salary or emolument to John Doe, Richard Roe or Henry Moe.'" (Substituting of course, the names of the three ac Twice T o l d «f lnlirsst Taken FBss «f tfcs «f T«n Age now looks as if the nlace will be ready for occupancy early this sum-, mer. ' Excavation for the gym at the site of the new community high school building has been completed and the forms for the cement walls are about all in. „ Subscribe for The Plair dealer! War Coincidence Three brothers--triplets--left Toledo to go ^o war, enlisted in the navy, were all assigned to the Pacific fleet, all suffered wounds and werte all honorably discharged. The j three, Leonard, Danny and Frank Syzmanski, are working together now on a jeep assembly line in a Toledo auto plant. -v SIXTY TEARS AfiO llrs. l^rank Schnorr, nee Miss Mary L. Owen, started on Monday morning to join her husband, at Athol, Dakota. Wm. McDonald, of Nunda, has rented Mrs. Schreiner's saloon, in this village for the coming year. It is said that the coming season FIFTY YEARS AGO. , _. . . . r. promises to be the liveliest ever known ' cused officials.) If the amendment at Fox Lake i passes and becomes part of the law,, Jo8eph N.'Freund had a fine two none of the three persons named can year old colt killed by lightning last participate in the funds appropriated, wagkt - i They may still work for the govern-j » - " . * : j ment, but must do so without pay. Of j course the President can veto the measure, but if so, he must veto it in The drouth was broken on Monday its entirety and he^ce no funds would 'night by a good soaking rain, and ! be provided for that particular execu-: facers are happy. tive department. Obviously this meth- The entertainment by the scholars? od of procedure is a subterfuge that of the West side school, on Friday* ought not to *>e resorted to except in evening last, was well attended. j extreme cases, but it results from a The Wauconda creamery, owned and determination on the part of Congress (0perate(j by George F. Bumstead toto rid the payrolls of undesirable per- gather with nearly all the contents sons of questionable patriotism whom . was recently destroyed by fire, the Administration should have dis- j if yOU w&nt a nice dish of ice cream, missed. After all that branch of the the first of the season, call at the government ,entrusted with control of Home Bakery of C. R. Huber on Sunand Repair Shop OTTO ADAMS, Prop; Day and Night Towing Service \ -v \ Alto and Farm Implement Repairing . ;; j.. T- Welding, Blacksmithing and Lawn Mower Sharpening : Sinclair Gas and Oili >» f ; Day Phone: 640-Night Phone: 640-W-2 • ' • ' ' - • - ' . . ' the purse strings does have the right to determine to whom moneys shall or shall not be paid. It also calls to mind the ancient adage that there is more than one method by which the epidermis of a feline may be removed. day next. 70RTY YEARS AGO Latin American Ties Strengthened by Visit Of Bolivian President By the Pan American Union ITashington In wartime we take to food restrictions joyfully, and the markets are filled with philosophic women *ho are quite ready to face any privation if it is demanded by "the boys." In wartime we stop our cars and smilingly invite the uniformed lads to jump into them. Clubsare formed for them, so that theii evenings shall be safe, sandwiches are piled up by the thousand, cardsand games are collected. They must be protected from dangerous amusements, they must be filled with good beef and coffee, warmly clad; there must be music, and girls with whom to dance. But in peace times, more shame to us, hungry and idle and shabby lads roam the streets at night and fall into all the mischief that idleness-and poverty and cold and hunger and shabbiness encourage. And we punish them for it. Love Is Power Behind Good. It is hard to see the light of God'slaw through our stupidity arid the darkness of our vision. But it lives on; it inspires us in every bandage that we roll, every cookie that we bake, every sweater we knit. Love is the power behind them all, and it is to that love that we must trust. When a sense of helplessness and hopelessness overwhelms you, then remember that stronger than all the leaders put together is the miraculous force of prayer. Remember that no woman, her heart sick with anxiety over the absent sons, her brain bewildered and tired by the problems that loom vaster and vaster above us--no woman ever interrupted her dishwashing or her ironing to kneel down and say the old prayer that begins, "Our Father," without arising from her knees stronger in courage and refreshed in spirit. Every prayer that goes to God is a spark of light in the dark. It filjds some bitter need somewhere, on the cold mountains of China, in the crowded huts of India; it eases some suffering, it softens some blow. Send your gift of prayer, if you like, to today's most heartbroken mother; send it, if you like, to the boy who is lying ha If-conscious in some base hospital, and have his nurses wonder why he is suddenly better, why he has fallen at last into a healing sleep? Fantastic to think that we can send prayer abroad, to spread peace and blessing among those whom we never will know, and whose thanks never will reach us? Well, there 'are many fantastic delusions in this world, such as that money ^brings happiness, or that a beautiful girl is always a happy girl. We fool ourselves about half the things we know, or think we know. But r.ot about prayer. Peace and infinite good &re as plentiful as the air we breathe, as close as the air lire breathe. In every spare moment enter into the empire of God's peace, spread this union of prayer all over the world and perhaps, when the war is won, and the days of readjustment come, we will find it stronger than we have ever dreamed, we will find ourselves worthy to formulate the plan that shall bring us a littlf nearer to the Kingdom. Strong ties of friendship already existing between the United States and Latin American Republics, which are contributing heavily in strategic materials to the war effort, will be strengthened by the visit of the Bolivian president, General Enrique Penaranda, to this nation's capital oh May 5. With the recent declaration of war by Bolivia against the Axis forces, and the great volume of critical supplies which the South American country is furnishing from its natural resources, Bolivia stands as a loyal "Good Neighbor" in its wholehearted support of hemisphere solidarity. More than a century ago, Bolivia's same love of liberty and justice gave rise to the struggle which freed its people from the system of the "encomienda" and the "mita," amounting virtually to slavery and servitude. And the illustrious record of President Penaranda shares achievements with other Bolivian patriots who have made the country's history -- Simon Bolivr, General Antonio Jose de Sucre, Pedro Domingo Murillo, and others. The Bolivian president was inaugurated in his present high office on April 15. 1940, but his public career was long distinguished before that event. He has been a soldier of long and honorable standing since the age of eighteen, when he was graduated from the 'Colegio Mi'itar" in Bolivia as a second lieutenant . j Mining has been the traditional 'foundation of Bolivia's economy, and > today the great tin producing mines ! of this country, some two or three | miles above sea level, are sending ! quantities of the strategic metal to the United States smelters to be made principally into tin cans and containers for shipment of life-sustaining foods to our fighting men and aMies. As a whole, Bolivia is one of the most interesting and colorful countries in all South America, with unique characterizations and features. Historically, it's the seat of an ancient civilization antedating by centur- M. Engeln & Son have contracted ; to fit the windows on the north side i ^^^ j 0f bank building with iron shut- j ies the arrival of the Spaniards in the ; ters, thus making the structure fir* , country. Ruins near Lake Titicaca at I proof from that direction, at least. j Tiahuanacu, indicate a race o'der thai.! C. D. Schoonmaker, has moved into j the Incas, who dominated the region ; the new house recently built by N. J. j at the time of the Spanish conquest. Justen. It is a modern, structure in ! TTien known as "Alto Peru" the coun- every way, being equipped with both j try took the name of Bolivia in honor hot and cold Water, etc. | of the great South American libera- j J. D. Lodtz, tailor is offering some | tor, Bolivar, when it was freed from ! great bargains in $17.50 suits and j $4.00 pants. Last week the price of butter as decided by the Elgin board of trade was 20 cents. THIRTY YEARS AGO Spanish domination in 1825. Bolivia is a land-locked country, without ports of its Own. In order to send its important mine products to seaports on the Pacific coast, tftte country has been forced to use great ingenuity in overcoming the difficulties of transportation. For many J. W. Smith has been pairfting and j ears, picturesque processions of stur- getting his air drome in readiness for dy, sure-footed llamas carried heavy j t^e opening, which takes place soon, ore over the Andes in true caravan j -- • ... . .. .• « style but todav modern railwav fac- ! Ex<,avat,on for the erection of a ilities connect Bolivian mines with | newJ}°"ie to *>e built by F. Karges coastal ,s.h i.p pin. g po.in ,t s. . ii Mr.* K»atergr e8s trwe*ill 18o cwcuecl1y ut^hee r p*laayc"e •Hie distinction of having two cap-; himself and wiU the house that itals also belongs to Bolivia. The administrative capital, La Pa*, is the most important city in Bolivia, as well he now occupies. McHer.ry .was quite well represented as thre rhigrhe sft ca!p•i ta"lU 1c ity in the sI a.t. .W aucon, d,a la. st, Saturday when tha^ world, situated at an altitude of 12.000 village celebrated the openipg of the feet at the foot of majestic, snowcovered Illimani. To reach La Paz, village i new railroad. Work on the new Bowman bottling one must usually travel by Lake Titi-1 plant at Ringwood is progressing caca, 12,513 feet high--The largest Very favorably. The two large boilers lake^n South America and also the have already been placed, while th beautiful Long HOME $3,250 * highest steam-navigated lake in the world. Sucre is Bolivia's legal capital and the seat of the National Supreme Court. Its early inaccessibility led to the gradual acceptance of La Paz as the administrative center of the government. work on the 80 foot chimney and well is progressing nicely. , TWENTY YEARS AGO Modern conveniences . . . including electricity, running water, etc. Across road from talc* shore Notice: Week of May 21, free tube with every tire purchased from However, Sucre is one of j Walter Freund, West McHenry. the most attractive and historically interesting dities in the republic. Because of its pleasant and temperate , climate, it has become the private ; residence of many government officials and wea'thy Bolivian families. Noise Test .Noise tests made in one city showed that 40 pet- cent of the auto> mobile horns we're noisier than # lion's roar Amphibian Jegps American factories are turning out for the army a new type of truck that looks like a boat and is actually , amphibian. On highways it runs oil wheels, with the rudder and prope ler trailing in the air. They are being made in all the si-»*s iroro jeeps to the heaviest trucks. Very satisfactory progress is being made on the new homes now under construction ^within and near our city. The new bungalow, now undgr construction for N. J. Justen on Waukegan street, is now under cover and it 0. E. JOHNSON P. O. Address: RFD, McHenry, III., Tel. Pist 655-J-l or, in Chicago, call Avenue 9500 V. S. 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