THE DANBURY REPORTER.
Established 1872
EDITORIAL POINT OF VIEW ON THE PASSING SHOW
CRUMBLING MONUMENTS
On the walls of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York City hangs a dark and gloomy
picture.
It shows Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon
riding slowly side by side through a sea of stiff
ened corpses.
Tamerlaine erected for himself a monument
almost mountain high. It was built entirely of
human skulls. The centuries have levelled it
with the dust. The brute who built it is forgot
ten in the world.
Out in the dread silences of the Somewhere
drift 10 million souls sent by the vaulting ambi
tion of Kaiser Wilhelm. More than a hundred
thousand of them once lived and loved and work
ed in America.
The last heard of their murderer, he was a
wood chopper, not a king. Hip back was bent,
his whiskers white. Day and night when he
waked and when he slept, consuming remorse
was his companion.
Alexander died of a loathsome disease at the
age of 33. His friendly co-assassins deserted
him, and his "world" soon disentegrated and was
divided between other conquerers.
Caesar was stilettoed under the fifth rib by
his pals. They wanted his job. Now the "glory
that was Greece and the grandeur that was
Rome" consists largely of broken stones.
Napoleon spent his last days a prisoner on the
lonely isle, St. Helena. While his slswly eating
cancer was killing him he had leisure to reflect
on the measureless suffering he had brought to
the world.
On the banks of the River Styx a boat is moor
ed waiting for its next distinguished passengers.
The stream which glows in the darkness with a
lurid glamour, is of blood and tears. The names
cf the expected inscribed on the prow of the
launch are; •' • ' -
1 Hitler. * ' ' T "
Stalin.
Mussolini.
Retribution is sometimes slow, but it always
arrives. "The mills of the gods grind slowly, but
they grind exceeding fine."
A MISFIT FROM MONTANA
Senator Wheeler says the idea of Germany at
tacking the United States is pure nonsense.
Consequently, with his pals like Vandenburg,
Holt, LaFollette, etc., he is making quite a vigo
rous fight to defeat the conscription bill.
This belly-aching group that opposes, delays
and obstructs every thing the administration
backs is responsible as no others are for the na
tion's shameful condition of criminal unpre
paredness. *if
In the face of what Hitler has done to unsus
pecting and credulous states of Europe, and
with the predatory trail of Germany, Japan,
Italj* and Russia dragging across the civiliza
tion of the world in fire and blood; to say it is
nonsense to think Hitler would not attack this
country with its food and wealth so sorely need
ed over there, is too innocent a thought for a sen
ator to have. *
He should be gently catapulted back to the
sagebrush and cactus, to make war on grass
hoppers and field mice, and leave it to states
men of vision and intestinal ballast to prepare
the nation's defenses.
His concept of an army of 750,000 raw volun
teers by 1943, armed with pitchforks, mattocks
and grubbing hoes would hardly be effective
against a blitzkrieg.
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Danbury, N. C., Thurs ay, August 15, 1940.
ARMAGEDDON WITHOUT ENGLAND
CAN AMERICA WIN ?
This nation must not, cannot see England fall j
The future of our Christian civilization hinges
on the fate of the British empire.
But without the quick and full support of !
America, England, that has stood for 10 centu
ries the impregnable bulwark of free states
against the rampant hordes of Europe and for i
hundreds of years the outstanding seawall of j
America's safety—will fall and fall to RISE NO
MORE.
Can America afford to stand by while the last i
democracy of the eastern hemisphere crumbles
under the onslaught of force and conquest?
The United States has colossal resources which
if coupled with the power of the British empire
can stop Hitler.
But if Britain is to defeat Hitler, Britain must
have help NOW. With America's aid in time,
Britain will blast the cataclysm now beating
at the doors of all civilized people, and with the
defeat of Germany crucified Poland and France
and Holland and Belgium will rise from their
chains to help crush the monster of all the ages
whose ambition and purpose are to inflict slav
ery and death on ALL who oppose his will.
Without America's most urgent and complete
aid in WARSHIPS, WARPLANES AND MEN,
England will unquestionably fall.
Hitler's strategy is to break down the will to
resist of the English people, to destroy their
morale, by ceaseless bombings of his over
whelmingly superior air forces. His plan is to
crush the spirit and soul of the men and women
of England until they will cry in their despair
and suffering for peace—even a Hitler peace
which means subjugation, disarmament, disso
lution and hopeless bondage.
General Pershing, the highest military author
ity of America, advises the sending of 50 U. S
destroyers to the help of fighting, dying Eng
land. Other patriotic and sincere army strate
gists—up in the KNOW—endorse his plea.
But even these experts possibly do not yet vis
ualize the extreme peril of England, whose peril
is ours.
America should send NOW a hundred destroy
ers and battleships to the aid of England, and
should blacken the skies with a continuous
stream of bombing planes to help the little
island nation cope with the TERROR that en
compasses it. If we have a bomb-sight of effec
tive power and precision, LET ENGLAND
HAVE IT.
Congress should waken to the sinister menace
of the struggle, and should cease to listen to
those who do not know or do not care—the
Clarks, the Holts, the Vandenbergs, the LaFol
letts, the Wheelers.
Those who are blinded by ignorance or preju
dice so that they cannot, see, should be swept aside
and ignored and swamped by the real men of
Congress.
Only the blind fail to see that Hitler cannot be
stopped without the shedding of American blood.
Our forefathers died that we might live in
peace and security. Have we so far degenerated
from that lofty and sacred ideal, that we would
live in a false peace and security that may lead
to the slavery of our children and their children's
slavery to an alien conquerer?
A great majority of the American people be
lieve in immediate conscription of great armies
for the protection of this nation,
A great majority of the American people will
approve of immediate help on a gigantic scale
for England—help in warplanes, warships and
men—if and when the people understand fully
MR. WILKIE STARTS HIS CAMPAIGN
In the traditions of high-up political decorum,
:t has been rather unusual for candidates for
President of the United States to start their
campaigns with mud-slinging.
But Mr. Willkie evidently has little regard for
the honored proprieties in his race to be Presi
dent, and thinks it will take something rougher
than dignity and courtesy to beat Roosevelt.
In the Associated Press interview at Colorado
Springs yesterday he is reported as charging the
administration is trying to re-elect the President
''by fraudulent votes cast by municipal political
machines."
As the candidate's indictment includes Tam
many Hall, if there is later an investigation he
probably intends to qualify as an expert witness
to political machines' fraud methods, since he
was so recently a member of that organization
| himself, and is evidently in on the "know."
' Mr. Willkie went on to say further that a great
many corporation officials have advised him
that they "were under pressure to make contri
butions" to the President's campaign fund.
As the people generally understand that prac
tically all corporations are fighting Roosevelt,
this intelligence does not quite make sense.
Possibly in some later interview he will make
this clearer, and some inquisitive reporter will
I ask him the embarassing question, why he quit
the Democrats a year or two ago, as in his inter
|views and public statements he has yet to say
jthat he is in favor of repealing one single meas
ure passed by the New Deal, and what salary
the corporate interests paid him, and that if the
promised stipened wasn't so attractive that he
accepted it feeling therefore under obligations
to make a change in his political affiliations.
HITLER TO PURGE FRANCE
In a few days a large number of French pa -
triots will go on trial for "treason", will be quick
ly found guilty and quickly executed.
Among the accused are former premier Dela
dier and former Generalissimo Gamelin. Their
accusers are Petain and other French puppets of
Hitler, acting on orders from the Feuhrer.
Stalin in Russia and Hitler in Germany
promptly remove any prominent leaders who do
not "approve." ... 1
THE FIRST PLEASING GESTURE OF
CROP CONTROL
Down in Georgia where the farmers are mar
keting their 1940 tobacco crop, prices took a
{.wing upward which made the growers smile.
Eighteen and nineteen cents are the averages
being paid. Last year the same starting aver
ages were not more than 14 cents.
This beginning of higher prices even in the
teeth of the disastrous export situation, must in
the understanding of most people, be the direct
result of the crop control recently voted over
whelmingly by the farmers.
The good Lord helps those who help them
selves, and the blessing is frequently participa
ted in by those who will not help themselves.
the appalling threat which this country is now
facing.
Americans of vision and plain horse sense
know that with England crushed, the war lords
of Berlin and Rome will seize the British fleet
and all other naval and air powers of Europe to
be used against America.
Then must come the battle of battles.
And in that Armageddon, can we win?
God knows we cannot.
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