Show SLACKERS SUCKERS OLD AND NEW NEWBy By CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY of the Vigilantes The papers chronicle day by day da the steady advance o at ot the British soldiers northward through northward Palestine Their lines extend from the Jordan to the sea and they are arc slowly but surely driving the Turks before them in this latest greatest and most decisive crusade If the followers of Mahomet can make any stand against the followers of Christ it will surely be In the plain of one of the natural battlefields bat bat- of the world It Is singular how some places lend themselves inevitably inevitably inevitably in in- to conflict The plain of Jezreel Jezreel Jezreel Jez- Jez reel to give it another name is one of these It has been fought over continually continually continually con con- since there defeated the Hittites in the dawn of recorded history Jew and Gentile Canaanite Assyrian Babylonian Persian Persian Per Per- sian sinn Greek and Roman contested for Its mastery In the East English French Italian German Arabian and Turk from Godfrey and Richard and SaladIn to Napoleon drenched Its fertile fertile fertile fer fer- tile soil with blood in more modern times May the forthcoming be the thelast thelast thelast last of its many battles and Allenby the last of the long line of crusaders One of the most decisive of the con con- conflicts conflicts filets upon that plain occurred in 1290 B. B B C. C when Barak the Lightning Inspired Inspired Inspired In In- by Deborah led ten thousand men down the slopes slopes- of Mount Tabor I in a successful night and surprise surprIse surprise sur sur- prise of the army of the oppressor Jabin of Hazor Razor under the command of Sisera The were disastrously disastrously disastrously defeated driven In panic terror terror terror ter ter- down the narrow pass cut by the Kishon Lishon then in to full flood and killed or drowned in large numbers Deborah made a great song about the triumph One stanza stania runs this way Curse ye said the Angel of the Lord curse ye e bitterly the inhabitants inhabitants inhabitants tants thereof because they came not notto notto notto to the help of the Lord to the help of the Lord against the mighty No one knows where lay No ruined vestiges remain to Identify it There is no other mention of it in the pages of history There is no ground even for speculation about It Yet for over two thirty-two centuries It has been pilloried in Its infamy in that Immortal song Whatever its prosperity and Its works whatever Its hopes and achievements achievements achievements achieve achieve- ments the loves and hates the successes successes successes suc suc- or failures of its people they people they are all forgotten In the blistering blistering- ering condemnation of the singer It stands as a place accursed forever Perhaps its utter oblivion Is the result result result re re- sult of the merited condemnation Shall there be written against our city against our land the curse of Shall we apply to these and to ourselves this slackers' slackers text test Or shall we come to the help of the Lord today tomorrow and forever in the great conflict now and at all times being waged in Europe and everywhere against sin and the devil Curse ye Non nobis Domine Domino Not Not unto us Oh Lord I 1 |