The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 11, 1946, Page 5

THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1946 INTERPRETIVE Malaya’s Political Awakening JACKSON, AP Newstfeatures Writer INGAPORE. S —In the footsteps of their Indian and Indonesian “ neighbors, the Malays of this tin-and-rubber rich peninsula heave entered politics since the war's end with a zeal astonish- img to most foreigners who knew them before 1941. The 1946 number of politically-minded Malays is still a mumerical minority of the.2,000,- 89 indigenous inhabitants of the British protectorate. But the con- timuing growth of two national- jet parties, the publication of party newspapers and a loud Glamor from these two groups @bout the government they’re @eing to have contrasts with an almost complete pre-war political apathy. Union Promulgated Pre-war Malaya had. been a governmental hodgepodge: the Straits Settlements of Singapore, Penang, Malacca and_ several islands; four federated states and | five unfederated states. Each ®. ! ‘He Runs Religion’s “Bulldozer” 'AP Newsfeatures . ONDON.—Albert W. T. Ors- born, militant evangelist, who recently was elected Gen- eral of the Salvation Army, considers his organization the j “bulldozer” of» religion, and plans to “put the Army on \wheels and on wings if neces- sary. This new supreme commander of many thousands of Salvation-} state had its sovereign Malay’ ists in nearly 100 lands is a fus- sultan; and each sultan had his | ion of mysticism and realism, a British resident or adviser whose hot Gospeler as the English ¢all suggestions and recommendations 'him. His favorite pastimes are were almost invariably carried| walking and old-fashioned hymn By W. G. ROGERS SUN YAT-SEN: A. portrait, by ‘Stephen Chen and Robert Payne (Asia Press-John Day: $3). Born in 1866, when China was ruled by an emperor, and dying in 1925, when she suffered from the rivalries of war lords, Sun |Yat-sen was justified in his death-bed pessimism, for — his country was still.far from realiz- ing his “Three Principles: Peo- ple’s Nationalism, People’s Sov- ereignty, People’s Livelihood.” But if China escapes dictator- ship and achieves a republican government, it will be in large part because of the Christian and democratic ideals voiced for its miliions by this child of a lowly family. He received most of his school. ing in Hawaii where an elder ! brother supported him. At the moment when the ancient empire tottered, he was in America, reading ‘the news in Denver and St. Louis. He hastened to London to halt further loans to the dow- ager‘empress, and returned home as first provisional president. Yuan Shih-hai. his successor, buttressed by a five-power loan. out Conscious of her obligations wader the United Nations char- ter to subject peoples, Britain om her return installed a new Celeny of Singapore and lumped the nine states, Penang and Malacca into a Malayan Union. This, said a British White Pa- per, was the first step toward eventual self-government. Sultans Get Balky In Singapore the administra- tion of Gov. F. C. Gimson got eff t@ a comparatively smooth etext, but up-country,. in. the Union, Sir Edward Gent found @ small-scale tempest underway in which the sultans repudiated the treaties they signed agreeing te the Union. The greatest publicity so far has gone to the fight being waged im support of the sultans by the right-wingers’ United Malay Na- tional Organization.. They want @ federation in which the rulers retain their pre-war powers. Op- posing them is the left-wing Ma-; lay Nationalist Party. At least half of Malay’s 5,000,- 00 inhabitants are Chinese, and they are united in their opposi- tion, for economic reasons, to the separation of Singapore from the Union. The Left Wingers Two left-wing groups have grewn up among the Chinese—a Malayan Democratic Union and. the Malayan Communist Party. The Communists reached a popu- ler peak just after the war's end, due to their great activity in the enti-Japanese underground move- ment f All groups have been careful to avoid open disagreements be- tween the Chinese and Malays. At least one segment is looking toward Indonesia, The _ leftist Malay Nationalists have adopt- ed for their banner the red and white Indonesian flag. They urge Malaya’s federation with Indo- nea . The sultans and ‘their right- wing Malay backers presently constitute the chief stumbling bieck to British plans, THE LOW DOWN from————__—_——— HICKORY GROVE You know, try as hard as I een, I can't get over the idea that what our U.S. A. needs is gold wampum. We gotta start some place if we are to get away from the chaos that the Big Squawks in Govt. keep saying ts around the corner, and will eonsume us if we don’t keep these present fellows in just a little longer. Why not change the Squawks, Henry—maybe that is what versus having no gold says ails us dinero. I will not get into politics too deep, I says, but maybe you got something there. If Uncle George Washington laid a solid kind of feundation for a U. S. A. and weed hard money for same, you gotta admit that gold and sil- ver didn’t hurt—and. maybe helped. Also, it didn’t breed 100 kinds of chaos. And furthermore, I says, trying to be half-way humorous and cheer Henry up, @o you think, I says, that Mr. Weshington could have thrown a dollar across the Potomac if it hed been paper? Well, says Hen- ey. throwing one silver dollar aeross the river don’t hold a candle te what they can do now, with paper. They throw a couple billion across.or into the river before breakfast. That, I says, shows why they hold back on making gold legal—it is too heavy to shove it out so easy. Yours with the low down, JO SERRA. i | singing. He starts his day with Bible reading — a lifetime habit that! he says he needs to color his! thoughts. He calls himself an! old-fashioned moralist, with old-| ‘fashioned views on the subjects of marriage, sobriety and the use of tobacco; nevertheless he} {preaches tolerance toward mod-j 3 A A ; tasks assigned to Chiang Kai- ern youth which he esteems as | chek, ani: Sunts Varttensits sen ied Cpe pies but unde- thrust republican a nkipine upon ‘ ithe recalcitrant north. A prodigious worker, hewing a| ‘The great leader’s devotion to | strict routine, he is also a writer ‘Christian principles did not. pre- fe Les GR ae of ctewar iy vent his havin two wives at } Of © rmy’s hymns, an once, nor his swearing falsely, to !reader of extraordinarily broad | gain admisison to the U. io uihay taste. the was born,in Hawaii. And his Though nearly 60 years old, he !devotion to democracy did not appears. to be not more than 40 prevent his holding, in maturity, to 45—trim, with a high color, | the conviction that “the individ- he’grows out of sheer good spir- | U#l should not have too much ‘its and reserves of energy. liberty.” But the Chinese seem Salvation Army back into the). 4 sities: nd streets, where it was born,” Belper a policy toward the born asserted. “Organizations, | Wrifen bya Chinese and.an when they get established, are Englishman, this book helps to- inclined to go indoors and preach! warq an understanding of the to the converted, instead of 80-| Far East. It is smoothly written, ing out to the street corners to; to00, perhaps too smoothly, for it fetch in the lost.” tends to lull to sleep. I do not “You can’t give religion to find Sun brought to life. This is people if you don’t know about | history rather than biography. their lives,” he said. _ A widower and father of seven children, who now lives with a married son, the General com- mented; “It’s no good people betrayed the republic, accepted Japan’s Twenty-One Demands, had himself proclaimed emperor, reverted under pressure to the presidency, and then died. From then on it is a “picture, and sometimes to the western eye a confusing one, of the founding and growth of the Kuomingtang, the increasing importance of the | Neighborliness AULT, Cal. — Walt Miller lost many valuable planting days on ; his farm during the fatal illness vinging their -hands and talking .of bis: wife and, after her death, on public platforms about the | the care of his three children evils of divorce. We've got to, put him far behind. Then, one get down into the lives of the , morning, fourteen farmer-neigh- people, into their homes, where j bors drove up with a dozen, traci the problem can really be) tors, a four-horse team and id tackled.” two-horse team and swatmed {over the 80 acres. By nightfall | his land had all been worked 'over, his corn planted and the land ready for other seeding. GREENBACKS FROM HEAVEN GARBALDI, Ore.—Greeipacks floated down from “nowhere” on- to fishing boats moored in the harbor. Nq one knows where. the More Truth Than... .sors were permitted to buy Treas- | money came from, but a short time before a plane had passed The domestic-help problem has been neatly summed up in a new version of an old nursery rhyme, overhead. One fisherman, cating | lunch on deck, threw away his,|It was recited at a recent con- sandwich and grabbed $16. | ference held by the Women’s Bu- china jreau of the Department of Labor It Takes An Amateur and goes like this: ‘ The King was in the laundry Down in Arkansas a man was Washing out his shirt tried for assault and battery with | m,, aes pa A fhe eateneh intent to kill. The state produced ‘ na the we ascd= a Sweeping ,up the dirt. as evidence the weapons used, @| the maid was in the parlor rail, a gun, saw and rifle. ‘The defendant's counsel exhibit-| pan bread and honey. ed as the other man’s weapons aj Offere stythe blade, pitchfork, pistol, ‘ered her more money. dog, razor and hoe. After being out several hours the jury gave this verdict: “We, the jury, would have give dollar to see the fight.” EXPERT HELP ; SALAMANCA, N. Y. — Some Ae rs passing motorists stopped to help 'a farmer put out a fire in his barn and did their work so well In 1773, the Rev. Dr. Stephen | that the barn was saved, as well eee : ennvor, 2s an adjoining house. Their ef- Hales, an Englishman, discover | ficiency was understood when it ed that the blood has a pressure, was explained that the helpers and was the first to measure it./ were four fire chiefs returning aay a {from a fire chiefs’ convention. Pythagoras, Greek philosopher, | eee ee was one of the first to discover} The Red Cross helped 28 vic- that the head is the center of, tims of disaster on an average consciousness. of every hour in the United ——_—_———. States in 1945. i Under early Roman law, a hus- | ————— band could execute his wife, and; A single pound of Irish flax a father his daughter, for adul- | fiber has been known to produce tery. 1,432 miles of hand-spun yarn. Civil War Correspondents’ Memorial Arch Crumbling AP Newsfeatures library, and three other buildings, APLAND, Md.—Half a cen- all partially roofless and in vari- | {ous stages of ruin. "f Sa | and three iassnesss after | On the memorial are inscribed | its dedication, a memorial arch! the by-lines of 157 Civil War| at this mountain hideaway to- | correspondents and newspaper day remains probably the only | @rtists. such monument in the world. | Townsend’s dedication above Constructed of native stohe, the names reads: | | the arch was erected in 1896 by| “To the Army correspondents George Alfred Townsend, a nov-|and artists, 1861-1865, whose elist, who also had written of, toils cheered the eamps, thrilled | Civil War battles under the name | the firesides, educated the prov- of “Gath.” jinces of rustics into a bright na- Near the now crumbling ba-| tion of readers and gave incen U. S. Faces Silver La In The Midst Of Plenty WASHINGTON! — It hasn’t;ounce. Manufacturers received. much notice in recent sought a smaller figure. weeks, but there is'a silver short- + Sh See age. Manufacturers are feeling it|/the Treasury Appropriations bill keenly. Congress is aware of the | authorizing sale of the metal at. situation and for several weeks! 71.11 cents an ounce, but so. far has been trying to find a solu- that legislation has. stayed in a: tion to the problem. But as often Senate. committee. é happens, the House and Senate) Meanwhile, the Senate Banking’ so far have come up with differ- , and Currency Committee has ent ideas about what should be come forth with a compromise | done, | plan which would set the Treas- The shortage has come about, UY Silver price at 90.3 cents an while Treasury coffers bulge , ounce for two years and then’ with 225,000,000 ounces of un-| 00st it to $1.29. i monetized silver. The catch is’ Judson C. Travis, representing | that there is no law on the books | Handy & Harman, silver * semi- | right now that says the Treas-; fabricators of New York City, ury can sell any of it. ‘told the Senate committce , dur- se * 6 jing hearings that industry would The Treasury stockpile is the! require about 125,000,000 ounces main hope of the silver manu-|f silver in i946. ; facturers. Experts estimate that! “Since the end of 1945... in since 1940 there has been a 200 “dustry has had to depend upon per cent increase in the indus-{ the relatively meager quantities trial use of the metal, while do- | °f silver available from domestic’ mestic production has dropped ™ining and _. imports from 57 per cent. Mint reports show | abroad,” h@said. ‘ that during the past five years| . “Supplies from these sources not enough silver was mined in| @mounted to about 30 per cent this country even to meet coinage | Of industrial needs in Janyary, | demands. 15 per cent in February and are i ae aa -oces. | ROW running well under 10. pe: Pirie ethe "wat eat Toot | eenth othe average rate of re- ury silver at 71.11 cents an ounce. | 1uirement.” The act authorizing this expired] 5° miners and manufacturers | last December, however, and the | 2° waiting for Congress to act. | western silver bloc in Congress 1 the meantime they keep an | so far has prevented its renewal. | #9xious eye: on that Treasury, The tug-of-war now going on, cepoees } which has kept the Treasury) J is estimated that the total | U. S. demand for epee doors firmly closed . to buyers, Wak bea i ta products in 1965 will be 5,800,- | 000 barrels daily. 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