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-,more permanent 3 : on from a different height. The forces of Hannibal, Drake, and Napoleon moved at best with the horses’ gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adapta- bility to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed ) 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 are taxed from one genera- tion to the next, ownership is no than fife, But among nations themselves there is no similar provision to reward vi- rility 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 last analysis, mili- tary strength is measurable only by its own expenditure, by the pros- 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- THE READER'S DIGEST November trous war, a war within our own family of nations, a war which will reduce the strength and destroy the treasures of the Whi co, 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, all foreign races stir restlessly, It ts time to turn from our quarrels and to build our White ramparts again, This alliance with foreign races means nothing but death to us. Ir is our turn to guard our heritage from Mongol and Persian and Moor, before we become engulfed in a limitless foreign sea. Our civiliza- tion depends on a united strength among ourselves; on a strength tun great for foreign armigs to challenge; on a Western Wall of race and arms which can hold back either a Genghis Khan or the intileration of inferior bloods on an English feet, a Gere _ man air force, a French army, an Ameri ton, standing togeth of our_common_h ngth, dividing ine Our civiization depends on peace among Western nations, and there- fore on united strength, for Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection. We can have peace and security only so long as we band together ¢o preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood, only so long as we guard ourselves against attack TR a eens A REET EN At gE RRS gn races. s,We need peace to let our best gen live to work out those more HW subtic, but equally dangerous, prob- P Jems brought by this new environ- ‘ment in which we dwell, to give us 4" time to turn this materialistic trend, Beto stop prostrating ourselves before oats modern Idol of mechanical ef- EC ° Hollywood Pf curity back to Western peoples. before all of Greece is lost. + By Peggy McEvoy @Exsxine Jounson reports in the Los Angeles Examiner on the movie mother who led her gangling daughter into a producer's office. The youngster was obviously too big for the part, The doting 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.” @Fo.towina a stight quake the other night, Bere Lahr, comedian, complained: “My house is so shaky from earthquakes that every time a car rolls by outside the termites have to hold hands to keep the building from falling down!” QJames Tounner, the New Yorker cartoonist, attended one of the town's super-colossal 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. “Whar did you think of it?” “Tcan't say I liked it that well,” drawled Thurber. The Golduyn Congue @ Ar A producers’ meeting in Hollywood, Samuel Goldwyn inter- rupted proceedings to say, “Gentlemen, for your imformation I would like to ask a question.’ — Cureleads 4 Gorsinc one day, Goldwyn stepped up to the tee, took one swing at the ball, and made a hole-in-one. He turned to the caddie and in- quired earnestly, “What did I do that was right?” = — J. P. Mel'voy a ficiency, to find means cfcombining freedom, spirit, and beauty wit industrial life — a peace which will bring character, strength, and se- With all the world around our borders, fet us not commit_racial_ | suicide by internal conflict. We must learn from Athens and Sparta POUERIIAREMOY