xt7zcr5n9g1t_29 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7zcr5n9g1t/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7zcr5n9g1t/data/82m1.dao.xml Evans, Herndon J., 1895-1976 3.5 Cubic feet Herndon J. Evans, editor of the Pineville Sun in Bell County, Kentucky, closely followed labor unrest in the Kentucky coalfields, especially in Harlan and Bell Counties, during the early 1930s. The collection contains handbills, leaflets, pamphlets and newspaper clippings collected by Evans primarily from 1931-1933. Also included are handwritten notes, correspondence, and drafts of articles and editorials written by Evans as well as memorabilia such as Communist Party membership books and organizational charts. archival material English University of Kentucky This digital resource may be freely searched and displayed.  Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically.  Physical rights are retained by the owning repository.  Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. copyright laws.  For information about permissions to reproduce or publish, contact the Special Collections Research Center. Herndon J. Evans Collection Coal miners--Kentucky Coal mines and mining--Economic conditions. Communism--Kentucky. Editors--Kentucky. Pamphlets. Strikes and lockouts--Coal mining--Kentucky. "Who Knows What's Happening in Kentucky?"                                  The Christian Century, A Journal of Religion, March 1932 text "Who Knows What's Happening in Kentucky?"                                  The Christian Century, A Journal of Religion, March 1932 2012 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7zcr5n9g1t/data/82m1/82m1_2/82m1_2_18/123911/123911.pdf section false xt7zcr5n9g1t_29 xt7zcr5n9g1t ‘E}za·  
     
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  ITH the proclamation of the "independence” from ]apan. This is one of the most astonishing re- i
I     of the three provinces of Mauehuria and versals of military expectation in modern times! The ’
inner Mongolia, and the rechristening of repulse of the first japanese attacks on the Chapei j
, these territories as the new state as Ankuo, the last section of Shanghai, while unexpected, was explained ‘
i question is removed as to the purpose behind ]apan’s as a result of the inadequate preparations of the  
  course north of the great ]apanese admiral and the insufiiciency of the forces *
· i The Pitiful Fate Oi. wall of China. For the involved. No such explanation can be given for the Q
' Hem.}, Pu_Yi state that thus appears is failure of this latest drive. japan brought into action
, too patent a fraud to de- a fresh army of between 40,000 and 50,000 men, t
` { ceive anybody. No one seems to know as yet whether operating over a comparatively compact area, and %
  it is allegedly a republic or a monarchy. But every- supported by the guns of a formidable naval llotilla  
‘  one knows that it is actually nothing but a false front as well as by airplanes, tanks and siege artillery. g,
2 for a complete japanese occupation. It is merely a The military problem involved was exceedingly sim-   ·
 { method of confirming the japanese conquest. Among ple: that of piercing a thinly held line at its center
  all the figures that have borne their dishonorable and then rolling `the two wings back toward either `L
 L? parts in the establishment of the new state, none end, Japan has utterly failed to do this in five days .
gl evokes as much sympathy as the puppet monarch, of bitter fighting. Her loss in prestige is greater l V
  Pu-Yi. How sorry a life that lad has ledl Forced, even than her loss in men and money——and her losses
 , as a mere babe, to serve the closing months of the in both those respects must be large. She has like-
 j Manchu dynasty as the puppet emperor of China; wise succeeded, by her attack, in bringing to the
  then living as a closely guarded refugee behind the assistance of the Cantonese troops that formerly op- 4
  walls of a Tientsin compound, poor Pu-yi has now posed her at Shanghai the larger forces of the Nan-   l
 j been inveigled out to act as a puppet once more, king government. It would be hard to imagine a Y
  But this time in a drama which is likely to close, at military action gone more completely awry.
 _f”   least for him, in grim tragedy. It is a bitter fate for  
 vt' the last of a roud d nast ——to end his career as a · · Y-
  plaything in ailien hanids. Y Fasclsm Cannot WIH bY `
  Constitutional Means _, ; —
  Japarys Drive IS HITLER’S-announcement of his candidacy for    
  Held in Check the presidency of the German republic does ,
 *i not, at this distance, appear to have even the merit zi
  ON FEBRUARY 20 .l¤P¤¤ launched her Care- of being good politics. For a fascist leader to seek Y;
 Z; fully prepared major drive against the Chinese gfficc by the regular constitutional means of election   I
  nncs Stretching from thc WOOSUUS f01`€$ at the QOH- is to step out of his character. The better fascist he *4
  nnencc Of the Yangtze and Whangpoo 1‘iV€1”S to the is, the less should be his reliance upon what the little   ,
  borders of the international settlement of Shanghai, father gf all the fascists contemptuously calls “tem— ‘
  These words are being written on February 23, but porary ma_jorities.” Fascism does not flourish in an __
  after the receipt of the dispatches covering the early atmosphere of free elections. Whatever may be the Q
 ly, hours of fighting on February 24. As they are writ- merits or demerits of the system, its establishment  
  ten, the Chinese lines are still intact; in certain places is essentially a revolutionary procedure, and its dom-   —
 , the Chinese are even venturing to counter-attack; it inance means the control of a country by a minority l ,
  is reported that the Japanese drive is noticeably slow- group which assumes that it represents the spirit of  
 Y ing down as further reinforcements are summoned the nation better than the majority does and wgch
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i has the power of organization and of arms to make the bill; 18 democrats for and 21 against it. Yet no  
· itsicontrol effective. The Italian fascists never tire measure has touched more intimately the interests  2
V i of reiterating the assertion that they came into power of the helpless multitudes who have already expe- 3
3 by a revolution, and that fascisrn is nothing if not rienced ruin and are now facing starvation, and none  
revolutionary It is ridiculous to expect to try to more clearly has involved those high principles of  Y. .
, bring about revolution by a free election, and an g0Ve1‘nn1ent upon Whieh it is PoPulsrlY suPPosed that  ;
  election that is not free is not an election but a dis- Pelitieal P3-1‘tieS take their Stand- Inst what. after  
guised coup. Lacking the facilities for accomplish- ell, is the business of the federal goVernn'\entii it .  i
ing anything like that, Hitler has but a negligible would doubtless be an unprofitable expenditure of `° ‘_ " e
chance of success at the Polls, The strength Of     fL1l'l(lS—·W“l`liCl`l h€3.VCl’1 fOI'biCl·—·tO set 2. federal  
appeal has been (jg the younger and bolder Spirits in CO1TlITliSSlO[l to studying this ql1€StiOl'1, but It would   _
whom dissatisfaction with existing conditions has surelY ner be out of the WW tor snY aggregation ef l 
‘ yeaehed the pglnt Where they are   {0 junk the CitlZCI1S that wishes to call itself H. HH.tlOl'l2lI pilfty to l 
cgnstitutlgn, set up g_   new regime, and make fI`lZ.l{C SOIIIC Cl€2I1` Zllld CO1"lSidC1`Cd dCCl.3.I°2.tiOII that l
the people take it because it is good for them whether Would be suiiieientlY definite re intorm the eeunrry ii
they like it or not. Hitler as the leader of a fascist as re what it hes re eXPeet rrom rePresentstiVes of  
revolution was an ominous figure. Hitler as a con- the PiirtY on ii question like this- it the resPonsi‘ ‘
Stltutlgnal candidate for Oflilee is no figure at a_u_   for tl'1€ defeat of thC I`CliCf IHCHSUYC C3.I`1l'lOt be l
laid at the door of either of the great parties, it
Dc Valera Wins lflsh must rest, first, upon the individual senators who  
. voted against it, and second, upon the administration  
Eieerrer which threw its influences wholly on the side of the
THE VICTORY of De Valera over Cosgrave opposition. And in the light of actual conditions, i
for the presidency of the Irish Free State pre- that is no light responsibility. i
sents the curious picture of a radical coming into the .
highest office- under a constitution which he has Why Speaker —
hitherto consistently repudiated. What his triumph G P 1
at the polls appears to mean is not that the govern- miner' »_  
ment and the electorate have shifted to the left so AMERICA’S rapidly changingepplitical situation i
_ far as to occupy the position which has hitherto been has taken on 3. new aspect withithe `coming to .
  associated with the name of De Valera, but that the front of the speaker of the house of representa-
  De Valera has bowed his neck to the yoke and de- tives. ,l0hn N- Garner, 218 3 leading candidate for · ‘
eided to conform his policy to the requirements of the democratic presidential nomination. As matters i
_ constitutional procedure. Such a thing might, of Stand today, Speaker Garnefis Chances are as good ii  
` course, conceivably happen in the case of Hitler also, as ¤¤y¤¤e’s. and e great deal better than th0Se of . `
in the improbable event of his election. Or if France, most of the other aspirants. Why Should they be?  
under the new Tardieu cabinet, should do something Beenuse of the efiiee Whieh he holds? N0; he has   -
particularly foolish and truculent, it might be pos- not held it long enough to make any important record ` Q
sible for Hitler to carry his government into a vio- ef Puhlie Serviee in it» and the sPeel