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THE NEWS AND OBSERVER RALEIGH SUNDAY MORNING JULY 12 1942 Odd Facts In Carolina By Carl Spencer For Your Sunday Quiet Hour INCIDENTALLY By NELL BATTLE LEWIS PRAYER IN ADVERSITY Thou self-same God to whom our chieftain prayed Amid the wintry valley of despair Be with us now lest we our faith forswear And let this nation's heart on Thee be stayed A ragged throng became a mighty host Upbuilt by his indomitable will Who kept the flag of freedom flying still When victory seemed a patriot's foolish boast How to Find the Meaning of Life By ANNA McKAUGHAN ABRAM at Meredith College For the sake of our country and the better world for which we hope we must look for the meaning of life less in things outside of us and more within our own spirits no matter bow trying and heart-breaking our difficulties We must try to see in them an opportunity for growth and greater understanding now more than ever we must believe with Sherwood Anderson that "life not death is the great adventure" and use our intelligence and imagination to get from each experience its lull meaning and Joy If we do these knowing Just how or when it may find that we too have become the real thing We may never inspire the work of an artist but like old Martin in Joyce Kilmer's poem we may be a living work of art Do you know old Martin? Dispel our doubt today make sharp our sword Reveal how drooping hearts may be restored In the hour when liberty was young And heroes deeds were yet unmarked unsung 0 make us worthy of our country's sire Who knelt before Thee at the bivouac fire I NEWMAN A DESERVED MEDAL Americans are always griping about their government on one score or often with very goodreason But there is one governmcntal agency about which one hears no complaint only praise With extraordinary efficiency it goes about its business in the maelstrom that is Washington: and partly because secrecy is necessary for its effective working the public hears nothing of its activities until it has secured results Usually these are very important The last were of the greatest significance in national defense Of course you have guessed the agency: the Federal Bureau of Investigation under Edgar Hoover For the apprehension of theeight German saboteurs by his department it is proposed to award Mr Hoover a Congressional medal equivalent to the Congressional Medal of Honor which can be awarded only to men in the armed forces for conspicuous gallantry under fire He certainly should get it not only for this particular contribution to the war effort but to show the nation's grateful recognition of at least one official in Washington who quietly and efficiently attends to his business of serving his country ALL IN THE FAMILY I have in Incidentally suffered great many amusing errors in the printing of a paper but the funniest I ever saw (if it really was an error!) appeared recently in a New York newspaper A highly placed female foreigner had just arrived in this country by boat and the paper carried a two-column picture of her She was shown with three large dogs on leash The caption of this picture read: The Countess Blank and her three sisters" LEAVE HIM LAY LADY Frnm a friend in Boston who read my two recent stories of the heroic efforts of new First Aiders to use their knowledge regardless cf the appropriateness of the occasion come the following verses which were read over Boston's radio station WABC The author's name is not given 'Lady if you see me lying On the ground and (maybe) dying Let my gore run bright and free Don't attempt to bandage me 110' Aee4147y Ao0cle--c? 15 AIM AtR RAID WARDEN! 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Why he exhaled romance And wore an overcoat of glory A fleck of sunlight in the street A horse a book a girl who Such visions made each moment sweet To this receptive ancient child Because it was old Martin's lot To be not make a decoration Shall we then scorn him having not His genius for appreciation? Rich joy and love he got and gave His heart was merry as his dress Pile laurel wreaths upon his grave Who did not gain but was success Northern commander John Pope in another battle near Bull Run CAT ATTRACTS FI SI-I 'TO SLIRFAC OP SMALL POND E3Y WIGGLING ITS TAIL It4 TI-IE WATER -11-1EN t'itsKE'S ITS CATCH WEW 70A4 CAT ATTRACTS FI51-1 TO SURFAC Or SMALL POND BY WIGGLING ITS TAIL tp4 -114E WATER-114EN MtsKES ITS CATCH t9012- man who from malignant motives destroys the life of another Out of the first in of disobedience which excluded Adam and Eve from Paradise sprang this second sin of murder: for sin is a linked chain The sorrow of our first parents over the crime that robbed them of their two first-born one by murder and the other by punishment which sent him afar as a wanderer on the face of the earth not mentioned in the narrative but it is in the background How many mothers and fathers have gone heart-broken to the grave because of the misdeeds of jheir children! The Heavenly Father surely has deep sympathy for all such for He has shared their sorrow We think of Cain and Abel sons of the same mother playing together in innocent childhood They had a shared life But somehow different traits developed in them The elder developed a dark streak in his character of suspicion jealousy and morbid self-consciousness The other was open ingenuous and reverent One became a farmer and the other a shepherd Like David with the sheep long centuries later Abel learned to worship God in the loneliness of his pastoral duties There is no greater blessing that can come to youth than a spirit of reverence and a questing after the spiritual What Is True Worship? Not because of any difference in the value between a slain lamb and an offering of the fruits of the earth was Abel's sacrifice more acceptable than that of Cain The difference lay wholly in the hearts of the worshippers Abel's gift was more acceptable because he was more ac ceptable His motives and spirit were true worship The gifts offered in sacrifice may be as varied as the givers Cain's fruits of the earth might have been as welcome to God as Abers slain lamb but there was that in his heart which prevented true worship God cares more for a true heart of devotion than for any form of ritual Cain was really wroth with God but he took his anger out on Abel He brooded over what he believed to be an affront Like many a person since he nursed his grievance until it boiled up into action Rivalry became revenge His black mood blotted out his reason Cairi was the first instance of the consequence of cherishing evil thoughts As 'Young's Night Thoughts" say: ''Guard well your thoughts for thoughts are heard in We may fairly let our imaginations run over the scene as the two brothers strolled afield On what pretext did the guileful Cain lure his trustful unsuspecting brother away to the scene of the crime? What hot and hate-filled words poured from his lips ere he struck the fatal blow? Nowadays we read murder stories for entertainment but this first murder holds only horror May not the best of us beholding and recalling our own dark passions say with Newman as he looked upon a hanged criminal at Newgate "There but for the grace of God hangs John Newman" There is a potential Cain as well as a potential Christ within levery human breast 1 Above the Noise Of Guns First of all the questions in the Bible was Gods word to Adam "Where art That was the challenge to the individual studied last week Second of Gods questions was addressed to Cain "Where is Abel thy brother?" Thus was posed the persisting "social question" One man has a responsibility for another Today the question's form is the same though vastly expanded Of nations God is asking "What of of thy brother in Africa in India in China in South America in the islands of the sear This war is being fought to assert our responsibility for all men and for the neediest first of all Above the thunder of the guns sensitive spirits hear the challenging voice of God "Where is thy brother?" Out of the affrighted Cain's lip tumbled first a lie: "I know not' Lying is mixed up with every sin and he who avoids lying avoids most of the others Then followed quickly the sullen defensive words "Am I my brother's keeper?" The first man to deny social responsibility was a liar and a murderer An affirmative answer to Cain's question is taught ir all Scripture and is written large across the thinking of our own day Another voice louder clear and truer than Cain's is recorded in the story: The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto Me from the ground" No wrong goes unheeded by God His love does not blind His justice The peoples of conquered Europe have suffered degradation and exile and imprisonment and torture and death crying ever "How long 0 Lord how long!" ButGod hears and will as surely punish their oppressors as He punished Cain the murderer sending him forth a marked man to wander alone over the earth with his Notes and Half-Notes Ministry of Doubt By THE REV I A McCALLUM When Tennyson declared that there is more faith in honest doubt that in half the creeds he not only was psychologically correct but was anticipating with singular precision the modern attitude toward this quality of mind Traditionally doubt has been regarded as the antonym of faith Even yet there are many people of simple mind who look upon belief as a matter of choice like the color of one's coat and the doubter as guilty of contumacy Yet if Copernicus and Galileo never had doubted how little we should know of the universe! Had it not been for those who questioned the current Biblical interpretations three or more centuries ago we still would be burning heretics and trying to expel demons from maniacs Doubt is the antiseptic of faith It clears the mind of superstition and gives truth the right of way There is no virtue in the credulity which accepts tradition without question The brave and honest mind will face the issues raised by doubt and meet them if it can This was the secret of Tennyson's hero who "fought his doubts and gathered strength" When faith recoils from the corrosive tides of new knowledge that threaten its dissolution should we give up in despair? Not if we are made of real stuff Always there are inner defenses upon which we can fall back with calm and steadfast mind Though many an inherited opinion no longer is tenable in the light of advancing knowledge there is no doubt that the truth is superior to falsehood justice to injustice honor to dishonor and good to evil Upon such foundations there surely will rise the superstructure of faith that Will reach to heaven The Bible Lesson By WILLIAM ELLIS Crowded into a newspaper replete with news of war's wholesale killings we have this ancient tale of the first murder Daily we read of myriads of battle dead and the sense of the sanctity of human life becomes dulled To those who do any real thinking it is the appalling loss of life that is wars worst horror War is murder It is society functioning as a policeman for the sake of ultimate higher values War is evidence that there are some ends more important than the physical prolongation of personal existence Some grant it may be shall learn a better way of settling great political and social issues To that end there should be keen heart-searching upon the part of every one of us as to our readiness for a world of reason and' of obedience to Gods law Murder is personal and born of base passions The true translation of the Sixth Commandment is not "Thou shalt not kill" but "Thou shalt do no murder" Almost simultaneously with his delivery of the Ten Commandments Moses issued laws providing for the death penalty for various offenses This execution of justice is not to be confused with the foul deed of the Five dead Confederate generals Stahl Cranbury John Adams laid out after the battle of Franklin Tenn on November 30 1864 A sixth Confederate general died of wounds a seventh was captured and five received lesser wounds At Franklin the Confederate Army of Tennessee which had retreated most of the time for three years and had just escaped from Sherman after the fall of Atlanta turned on its foes with suicidal bravery The Northerners were strongly entrenched in the village the Confederates had to charge through two miles of open field to get at them They charged again and again until they were stumbling over heaps of their own dead in the darkness More than 6000 men went down in a few hours Franklin came toward the close of the war in which the South was worn down by Northern superiority in men money and machines But in that twilight hour the South fought on 'While there's life there's hope so pet Don't 'apply a tourniquet' Do not give for my salvation Artificial respiration 'Do not stretch my bones and joints Do not press my 'pressure points If queer symptoms you should see Don't experiment on me 'If I'm suffering from 'shock' Take a walk around the block If you must be busy pray Help to 'keep the crowds away' (Though not at 'So whatever my condition 'Phone at once for a physician' Let me lie I'll take a chance Waiting for the ambulance 'From 'First Aid' give me release Lady let me die in peace!" A SHORT-SIGHTED POLICY From Francis Hayes of Chapel Hill (not to be confused with Francis Hays of Oxford) President of the Spanish Teachers I learn that next year in the high schools of North Carolina no foreign hanguages will be required of any student Mr Hayes calls attention tr) the fact that President Roosevelt Vice-President Wallace Secretary State Cordell Hull and many other people in this country urge tne study of Spanish in America of course mainly for the greater development of our "Good Neighbor" policy with South America with which the destiny of this country is now bound up more closely than ever before Mr Hayes very heartily disapproves of any attempt our schools to lessen interest in this language as well as the minimizing of French German and Latin I agree with um entirely This is the time when our contact with nther nations is about to expand as never before We are on the point of entering world affairs as we have never done in our history As a matter of fact this nation is going into an entirely new stage world leadership It is impossible to imagine a worse time than this at which to curtail the study of foreign languages Instead of cutung ourselves off from other nations by our ignorance of their language we should be fostering all the means whereby we can nders ta people of different nationality Even at best we are notoriously bad linguists It is nothing for an educated person in Europe to know two or three languages beside hs own whereas if we have even a stumbling acquaintance with Lne we think we're good I shouldn't be surprised if our indifference to the languag of other peoples isn't part of our national superiority complex in whicn we think that it isn't any use for us to learn how ether people talk since we are so much better than they are As for their learning our language why that's different of course By all means they should To drop the requirement of foreign languages from the North Carolina high schools is an extremely short-sighted policy entirely out lnc not only with the broadest education but perhaps even more important with the role which this country must play from now frirward As for letting Latin slide against which I have been protesting since before I began to teach that is another indication of the soft escapist attitude toward life which our educational system has increasingly festered in which it is assumed that instead of trying to surmount the more difficult educational hurdles the thing to do is to slide around them DO YOU KNOW YOUR FRIENDS? There are twenty-seven United Nations How many can you name in eve minutes? I've been asking some of my acquaintances this onestion and the average number named is ten What's your score? The names are printed at the end of this column But play fair don't 1Nrit at them until you've given it a real try I'll give you one tip: tre members of the British Commonwealth of Nations are listed separately By AGNES COOPER certo in Jesus Maria Sanroma at the piano with the Boston Pops Orchestra Melody of Gershwin Hit Tunes Jane Froman Felix Knight and Sonny Schuyler with the Victor Salon Group and Chorus Preludes No 1 and No 3 with Oscar Levant at the piano Porgy and Bess with Todd Duncan Anne Brown Edward Matthews Helen Dowdy William Wool-folk Avon Long and the Eva Jessye Choir orchestra under Alexander Smallens National Anthem Friday On Friday evening at 8:30 o'clock in Pullen Hall the State College Summer School Orchestra Men's Glee Club Girls' Glee Club and Mixed Chorus all directed by Christian Kutschinski will combine to offer an interesting concert They will be assisted by the following soloists: Seymour Olano If of New York violinist Gloria Downing of Raleigh contralto and Robert Newson of Winston-Salem baritone The program is open to the public The concerted numbers will be: Tannhauser March Wagner Serenade Espagnole Bizet Dance Orientale Lubomirsky All Through the Night arr Ringwald Shadow March Protheroe A Fatuous Tragedy Burleigh May Night Brahms Tomorrow Strauss Spring Heralds Daniels Gay Young Jack Davis Recessional DeKoven Song of the Marching Men Hadley America a tone poem by Ernest Williams Sunday George Gershwin noted American composer will be honored on the program of the Starlight Concert of recordings at the Raleigh Little Theatre this evening at 8:30 o'clock The entire program will be given over to his compositions George Gershwin was born in 'Brooklyn New York two years before the turn of the century He studied music with Goldman and Schillinger played the piano and composed His songs were first used in 1919 His Rhapsody in Blue was introduced by Paul Whiteman's orchestra in 1924 His piano concerto he played himself with the New York Symphony Orchestra In 1935 his famous opera Porgy and Vess was produced and performed more than 300 times and recently was revived on Broadway He was awarded the David Bispham medal and elected an honorary member of the Saint Cecilia Academy of Music in Rome He was one of the first composers to experiment in Symphonic-Jazz and so far the most successful His successes in musical comedies in-chided George White's Scandals Oh Kay Strike Up the Band Of Thee I Sing Let Them Eat Cake etc His brilliant career was cut short by death at 38 from brain tumor He died July 11 1937 in Hollywood Calif The program for this evening will include: Middle movement from Rhapsody in Blue played by the Victor Salon Group under Nathaniel Shilkret The Man I Love by Jane Froman with the Victor Salon Group Final movement from the Con Dr Harry Cooper will play a dedicatory organ recital on the new organ in the Apex Baptist Church this evening at 8 o'clock The organ was built by Sheehan and has just been completed Monday The hour for the WPTIP Symphony Hall concert is called to your attention again it has been changed to 8 o'clock on Monday evenings Featured for Monday evening are to be selections from Mendelssohn's Midsummernight's Dream played by the Cleveland Symphony conducted by Arturo Rodzinski and Beethoven's Emperor Concerto No 5 in flat with Rudolf Serkin at the piano and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter Douglas MacArthur was literally born and raised among the fighting men of the Army His birthplace on January 26 1880 was in the officers quarters of the old Federal Arsenal at Little Rock Ark He heard his first battle at the age of 4 when Indians attacked his father's post in New Mexico He went to school with wild young Southerners at the West Texas Military Academy near Fort Sam Houston He was No I man in his class at West Point In World War I he was a fighting he went on trench raids with his men and once attacked a German machine-gun nest with only a bayonet He was wounded and gassed and decorated Unlike most generals he lived to become an eveli greater hero in a later and war That war is still undecided but Douglas MacArthur is living the words he spoke to Australia and to the world on March 21 1942: "In any event I shall do my best I shall keep the soldier's faith" Summer music events at Wake Forest College include an organ recital by Thane McDonald this evening at 8 o'clock in the Wake Forest Baptist Church A concert is scheduled for next Thursday evening presenting the summer chorus orchestra and newly formed girls' sextet the first such group ever formed in the history of Wake Forest College Daily evening programs of recordings at 7:30 each Sunday are broadcast from the tower of Walt Hall for the students and Thursday The summer entertainment series at State College will present Paquita Rabe II in sings and dances of Spain and South America in Pullen Hall on Thursday evening at 8:30 o'clock The concert is open to the public The Story of the Fighting South JAMES HILTON EXPLAINS ORIGIN OF 'SHANGRI-LA' Memphis that Tibetan mountain paradise in the middle of nowhere recently turned secret air-base for bombing attacks on Tokyo according to President a little something and mostly nothing "The Shangre doesn't mean a thing but 'la' is the Tibetan term for mountain fastness" said James Hilton author of "Lost Horizon" Hilton while on a visit here said it was no great trick to find the name for his mythical place "I wanted something that would sound authentic and yet not exist anywhere in reality" he said -I just made up the Shangri part because it sounds like a Tibetan name" gentleman can follow (Many) have embarked on that career at The Citadel South Carolina's great military college which is just a century old this year The Citadel was organized at a time when Charleston was aroused by a threatened slave uprising Its first cadets went to class in an armory The first shots of the Civil War were fired by Citadel cadets who on January 9 1861 drove away the Star of the West as that steamer was trying to relieve Fort Sumter After the war authorities kept The Citadel closed until 1881 Today The Citadel has a new set of buildings near Charleston's Hampton Park It still proudly carries on its colors the gray battle streamer of the Confederacy There were a dozen Citadel graduates on Corregidor when it fell Most of this year's class is going directly into the armed forces SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support The place where Andrew Jackson's hero spirit felt most at home was the white-pillared Hermitage near Nashville Tenn which he built in 1819 and where he died in 1845 He would rather have stayed there watching over his cotton fields and race horses than to have served two terms as President Today any American can see at the Hermitage the furniture and paintings and books among which Jackson lived the weapons he carried to war the priceless scenic papers he imported for his front hall But more Americans of today should know by heart the words which Jackson once addressed to a despondent governor of Tennessee who had written to advise a retreat when the going was hard: "Arouse from yr fawning smiles or snarling frowns energy exercise yr campaign must rapidly progress or yr country ruined under these circumstances? I will perish first" Middle-aged farmer and mountain storekeeper is Alvin York of Pall Malt Tenn the most celebrated American soldier of World War I On October 8 1918 while leading a patrol of eight men in the Argonne Forest Sergeant York killed 20 German soldiers captured 132 others and put 35 German machine-guns out of action Sergeant York is a plain serious man who has worn well as a hero He has helped build schools and roads for his neighbors in the mountains He likes to drop in at Army camps these days and make short pointed talks to the soldiers Recently he turned down an offer to return to the Army as a prefers to remain Sergeant York On Saturdays he gets his numerous sons and nephews together for an informal target shoot beside his store "All of the Yorks" he remarked recently "are pretty good shots" Captain Cohn Kelly Jr first American hero of World War II came from a house almost hidden in sweet-scented shrubbery near the town of Madison in northern Florida Inside the house leaning against the living-room mantel is a family musket on which a tag reads: "This gun was used against the British in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 and was a menace to deserters and robbers in the Civil War" Both of Colin's parents are from distinguished Southern families Colin Sr taught his son to shoot when he was 10 His mother flew with him in an Army plane From the Philippines last November Colin sent his mother (a) shawl A few days December and his Flying Fortress crew bombed a Japanese invasion fleet On the way back their plane was shot down and Colin Kelly was killed The last thing his co-pilot remembers was Captain Kelly shouting to his gunners to do their stuff Continued From Page One is an enemy to his country to America and the rights of man" The records of this Declaration were destroyed by fire in 1800 but its wording was set down later by men who signed it The war with Mexico was begun directed commanded and largely fought by Southerners On March 9 1847 an American army under the Virginian Winfield Scott landed at Vera Cruz In six months it hacked a way through more than 300 miles of hostile jungle and mountain country winning live pitched battles against superior enemy forces On the morning of September 13 it stood before the fortress of Chapultepec crowning a hill of prophyritic rock Two miles away across the Be len aqueduct was the gate to Mexico City On the morning of March 13 General Gideon Pillow of Tennessee assaulted the western face of Chapultepec General John A Quitman of Mississippi sent his men against the southern side of the hill and swept the approaches to the aqueduct Behind their respective State flags regiments from South Carolina New York and Pennsylvania headed) for a breach in Chapultepec's outer wall The South Carolinians got there first Soon afterward the fortress fell TAR HEEL IN NEW JERSEY Thomas A Hood of Fort Bragg was disappointed because in writing lof North Carolinians now in New Jersey I didn't mention Colonel nickinson a native of Cove Creek near Beaufort who now lives in Putherford and has made what Mr Hood describes as a "tremens contribution in the surgical supply field" My list of Jersey Tar Heels made no pretense to being exhaustive I just mentioned the cries I 11ppened to know Mr Hood says that he understands that Colonel Dickinson was rA'Crl the honorary title of Colonel either during or after the last ar because of his invention of surgical instruments and supplies He is the president of a firm manufacturing these Colonel Dickinson loves North Carolina and he loves the place where he was born" says Mr Hood He frequently visits Beaufort and has built a church and community house at his birthplace Cove Creek CANDIDATE FOR AN OSCAR the motion picture "Mrs Miniver" comes anywhere near you you should see it for it's my candidate for the year's best picture It was playing at Radio City Music Hall when I was in New York Greer Garson plays the lead with faultless support by Walter Pidgeon Let me say at the start that it has practically no connection with Jan Struthers' collection of informal essays by the same title Only cne incident in the book is included in the picture although the bock gave the sketch for the central character which the movie arrrLECS and ennobles The movie puts iron into Mrs Miniver Greer Garson is a charming and talented actress whose most memorable screen performance before her Miniver triumph was as the wife of Mr Chips Naturally the Miniver picture depends more Pn her than on any other member of the cast and she carries it Inng with charm and emotional power the greater for its restraint Ore reviewer says of her that she is "exactly right" She is You may do some weeping at "Mrs Miniver" I did We have had rn rIcture which has shown so well the British spirit at its most heroc during this war And that's a pretty moving thing I tell you NOW YOU TELL ONE! (Continued) Back again to my prize correspondent Mrs Mayhew Paul -of Washington who writes: Once a young relative of mine was so very ill with typhoid fever in my mother's home that his life was despaired of and it was thought necessary to summon his parents and other members of the family to his bedside as the doctor stated he had only a few hours to live Nrw as this young man who was about nineteen years old was lying at death's door in an upstairs room with his mother in devoted itteridance one of the aunts had occasion to go to the front door on sorne errand and passing the parlour she happened to glance in and saw to her amazement the dying boy standing within! She turned and ran to the kitchen where my mother was working and said Mary Harry has slipped away from Ann and is downstairs In the parlour! Hurry and come help me get him back to bed' They both rushed there as quickly as possible thinking that in his delirium he had eluded his mother but upon reaching the front room he was nowhere to be seen: Running upstairs they were much surprised to find him still in a comatose condition and were assured that neither he rier his mother had left the sick room" One ef the first things discovered by the British Society for Psychical 'Research in its study of apparitions was the close connection between their Prpearance and the stage immediately preceding death in which the bry described above was hovering before he began -to mend THE UNITED NATIONS The names of the United Nations are: The United States of America the Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics China Australia Belgium Canada Costa Rica Cuba Czechoslovakia the Dominican Republic El Salvador Greece Guatemala Haiti Honduras India Luxembourg Mexico the Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Norway Panama Poland the 17nhia al south Africa Yugoslavia Dare tn count your highest moments your truest Brooks Not in the clamor of the crowded street Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng But in ourselves are triumph and defeat They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin ell HOSPITAL FOR INSANE PROTESTS SUGAR RATION Pueblo Colorado State Hospital for Insane has issued a formal protest against sugar rationing Superintendent Zimmerman informed the Colorado rationing board that he had found It "almost impossible to provide our patients with a proper diet" under the small allotment granted the hospital Zimmerman says his patients need a diet with high sugar content and have no access to candy sugar in restaurants and other auxiliary supplies of sweets Out of red earth flaming sunset skies and a log house in the Waxhaw Creek country where the Carolinas meet came Andrew Jackson the greatest fighting American of all A British army swept through the Waxhaws in 1781 and 14-year-old Andy Jackson became a prisoner of war He refused an order to stoop down and clean a British officer's boots and the officer struck him with a sword cutting his arm to the bone and gashing his forehead That blow made Jackson a soldier for life The hot Celtic blood of the Scotch-Irish highlanders pounded in Jackson's arteries As a general be knew only one definition of war: attack and hold your ground His own soldiers nicknamed him Old Hickory after the toughest thing they knew He harried the Spanish out of Florid smashed hostile Indians in Alabama won his greatest victory atl New Orleans in 1815 'when his army of 5000 riflemen and Gulf pirates annihilated an invading British force of 12000 Bull Run is a shallow meandering musky-smelling creek which in summertime is choked with mint and other watery plants But in the books of history Bull Run is a shining symbol of superior Southern fighting skill On July 21 1861 the raw young armies of the North and South met beside Bull Run in the first pitched battle of the Civil War Storm center of the battle was the Stone Bridge on the road to Washington and nearby Henry Hill to the south The North had the larger army and the advantage of attacking first But the South had the best generals Jackson Beauregard) and the hardest fighting men Both sides crossed and recrossed Bull Run at many places but that night saw the beaten Northern volunteers fleeing toward Washington On August 24 1862 General Robert Lee outsmarted and defeated the His Lord said unto him Well done thou good and faithful servant thou hast been faithful over a few things I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of the Lord 25:21 One who never turned his back but marched breast forward Never doubted clouds would break Never dreamed though right were worsted wrong would triumph Held we fail to rise are baffled to fight better sleep to wake Browning I would rather be beaten in the right than succeed in the wrong At Antietam Creek Md on September 16-17 1862 40000 Southern troops under General Lee fought 70000 Northerners under General McClelland to a bloody standstill Federal cannon controlled a stone bridge over the creek giving McClellan additional advantage At Gettysburg Pa the singing courage of the South pitted against the dogged bravery of men in Federal blue in great climax of the War Between the States July 1-3 1863 instance 61 volunteers have been accepted for the Army and Navy D'Io's peacetime population was about 400 If the rest of the country had done as well as that the would have 20000000 men in uniform right new There are not many men of lighting age left in D'Lo Some of The older folks and the barefoot boys gather around ncon each day at the post office to pick up their mail and talk about the war The only important news so far is that one man from D'Lo was killed in the bombing of Hawaii December 7 The boys of D'Lo are hoping that the war lasts a few years longer because they want to fight toe In many a Southern town today the streets are empty of young men In many a Southern county it is considered almost a disgrace to be drafted There is a war on and the country is in danger When that happens the young men of the South drop what they are doing and go off to fight From the Deer Southern hamlet of DLo Miss for A career at arms is the most honorable one that a young Southern.