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Hh 1 gate a an a di erent haicht Tha a et 6 ee Napofeon moved at best with the horses’ gallop or the speed of wind | forces of Hannibal, Drake, and on sail. Now, aviation brings anew concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adapta- bility to change, places a premium j on quickness of thought and speed wo of action. Military strength has become } more dynamic and less tangible. A new alignment of power has taken | place, and there is no adequate peacetime measure for its effect on the influence of nations. There seems no way to agree on the rights it brings to some and takes from oth- ers. The rights of men within a na- tion are readjusted in each genera- tion by laws of inheritance — land | changes hands as decades pass, for- tunes ate taxed from one genera- tion to the next, ownership is no -,more permanent than fife, But among nations themselves there is no similar provision to reward vi- nity and penalize decay, no way to reapportion the world’s wealth as tides of human character ebb and \flow — except by the strength of armies. In the fast analysis, mili- tary strength is measurable only by its own expenditure, by the pros- r tration of one contender while the other can still stagger on the field — and all about the wolves of lesser stature abide their time to spring on both the warriors. We, the heirs of European cul- ture, are on the verge of a disas- — Ee THE READER'S DIGEST Novembge trons war sabe. (rOus War, &@ War Within our own family of nations, a war which will reduce the strength and destroy the treasures of the a war which may even lead to the end of our civilization, And while we stand ‘poised for battle, Oriental guns are turning westward, Asia presses to wards us on the Russian border, alt foreign races stir restlessly. Ft 4s’ time to turn from our quarrels and to build our White PAM parts again, This alliance with foreign races means nothing buc death to us. It is our turn to guard our heritage from Mongol and Persian and Moor, before we become engulfed in a limitless foreign sea. Our civitiza- tion depends on a united strength among ourselves; on a strength toa great for foreign armigs to challenge; on a Western Wall of race and arms which can hold back either a Genghis r . Khan or the dnfileration of inferior of inferior blood: on an 1 English fleet, a Gere fleet, a_Ger- man air force, a French army, an_ American nation standing together as guardians of our common_heri- tage, sharing strength, divic dividi ae me _fluence. ~~ Our civilization depends on peace among Western nations, and there- fore on united strength, for Peace is a virgin who dare nut show her face without Strength, her father, for protection. We can have peace and security only so long as we band together co preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European bleod, only so long as we guard ourselves against attack AVIATION, GEOGRAPHY, AND RACE 7 fnmsien aemise and dilution hy ficiency. to find meane of combinin gee SP BRRTe EN WERE SOEs Fe EE RE Ee Tk RARER OE freedom, spirit, and beauty with industrial life — a peace which will bring character, strength, and se- curity back to Western peoples. With all the world around our boarders, fet us not commit racial suicide by internal conflict. We must learn from Athens and Sparta before all of Greece is lost. BW need peace to lec our bese en live to work out thase more gubtic, but equally dangerous, prob- brought by this new environ- ment in which we dwell, to give us “me to turn this materialistic trend, to stop prostrating ourselves before i: this modern Ido! of mechanical ef- Be + emis e Chat’ 8 Hollywood mii By Peggy McEvoy r b @Eesaine Jonsson reports in the Los | Angeles Exam $" movie mother who led her gangling daughter into a producer's x” office. The youngster was obviously too big for the part. The dating mother apologetically explained: “Of course she és a little large, we just haven't been able to keep her from growing. But," she added proudly, “we have been able to keep her mind back.” om aner on the we po ae @Fo.towine a stight quake the other night, Bere Lahr, comedian, complained: “My house is so shaky fram earthquakes that every ke fees no ogne rolle lo tele oh te ha tn hald hance os timie a Cat Tous OF Gutsiae Te Cermifles Gave to noid hanGs to actp the building from falling down!” > Q James Tuunger, the New Yorker cartoonist, attended one of the town’s super-colussal premitres. When they were leaving the theater Thurber asked a writer friend what he thought of the picture. “T thought it stank,” replied the friend in no uncertain terms, “What did you think of it?” “Tcan't say I lked it that weil,” drawled Che Golduyn Cos igue @ Ar a producers’ meeting in Hollywood, Samuel Galdwya inter- rupted proceedings to say, “Gentlemen, for your iaformation I would like to ask a question.” — Cureleds T 1 1 nur Otr, PS PS ry SP ase a PE mene arn A ana Te a = re aol @ Goring one day, Goldwyn stepped up to the tec, took one sw ing at the ball, and made a hole-in-one. He turned to the caddie and in- quired earnestly, “What did Ido that wasright?” = — J. P. Mel'voy a me ee OW emi ig ee Peer ONE Ep SUSRRARRNO: oun, | A