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PROSPERITY AMONG THE
FARMERS
The farmers are lousy with money.
Not since the great year of Nineteen
Hundred Nineteen have so many fifty
and hundred dollar bills been in circula
tion. But farmers like so many of the
rest of us are never satisfied. They want
their product to bring still more money,
when the average is new past 50 on some
of our markets.
Once upon a time the congregation
purchased their faithful minister a nice
gold watch. The church was full the
night they presented it. One of the aud
ience after a very appropriate speech
handed the watch to the minister. The
crowd was very still and listening close
ly to hear the preacher's words of appro
bation and thanks.
Turning over the timepiece in his
hands, and inspecting it intently he
said:
"Where's the chain?" >
Volume 72
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, Nov. 11, 1943 * * *
WHERE THE LAW OF LOVE
BREAKS DOWN
Is there not a twilight zone somewhere
betwixt love and hate?
The Good Book commands us to love
our enemies. Are we expected by an in
credible stretch of our spirituality to
adore that unspeakable Beast called
Jap?
Surely the divine injunction handed
down to humans would not apply to their
dealings with tigers, jackals or pythons.
We are also required to hate sin in all
its despicable forms. The Jap is the es
sence of sin in its most repulsive shape.
If the Jap has a soul he has failed to in
dicate it. He is the incarnation of all
that is opposite to love and pity, reason
and civility.
If there is a something called anti-
Christ, surely the Jap is it. Shall we love
it?
We hate the Tiger—but is the Jap bet
ter than the striped terror of the Bengal
( jungle in his cruelty and ruthlessness?
We abhor the Jackal—but is the Jap
less treacherous than the skulking brute
that feeds on dead bodies?
We detest the python, the tarantula,
the scorpion and the slimy lizard—is the
unspeakable Jap less odious than these
crawling things, which are the enemies
of mankind?
We have been reading and listening to
lectures about this foul excrescence of
Nippon, of his brutal ferocity, his ter
rible rapacity, his ambition, lust, con
ceit, venom. We have learned how he
sometimes treats American boys who
may have been caught in his clutches.
When future history recounts the atro
cities of the Jap, we hope never again
may American money be appropriated
to pay missionaries to civilize him.
Let us rather pay our money for in
struments with which to exterminate
him.
All red-blooded Americans pray that
the tlay may be hastened—and the sun
rise of that day is flashing in the East—
when this incredible Beast may be ex
terminated, and we mean EXTERMI
NATED, when the combined powers of
America, England, Russia and China
will turn in their wrath to efface him.
We believe the God of love and mercy
would look with approval on the Allies
as they blast him from his lair and burn
his nest with fire, until his race become?
as extinct as the DODO.
CHEER UP, THE END IS IN 0 TfT
Even the most pessimistic are begin
ning to concede that the war with Hi'. 1 :,
is racing fast to its end.
Many of the most eminent military
authorities say that Germany will crack
EDITORIALS
PUBLISHED THURSDAYS
by next spring, some even believe by
Christmas, 1943.
Winston Churchill, who with President
Roosevelt is in position to know, says
. the war with Hitler will be won in 1944.
But did you think that 1944 is only a
month and a half distant? Maybe old
"Winnie" meant by early next spring.
President Roosevelt won't predict, ex
cept to say that the inevitable, the un
mistakable, the inexorable doom of the
Axis looms and that it ain't as far off as
it used to be.
All thinking people know that Ger
many cannot stand the strain much
longer. She has lost millions of her sol
diers, her great manufacturing plants
for planes, cannon, tanks, etc., her Ü
boat bases, her cities, have been appal
ingly blasted. Uncounted hundreds of
thousands of her civil population ha ve
been driven from their homes, and food
is becoming every day scarcer and dear
er, her people are hungry, and many
without proper clothing and shoes.
It is only because Hitler and his hench
men know that their terrible doom is
poised in the air and waiting to settle
down on them, that they continue to
fight. There is nothing else these pirates
can do but fight for as long a lease on
life as destiny will let them keep, but the
armies that support them will not stand
always for the ambition and greed of
these cutthroats. Already we read of
mutiny among the German soldiers in
France.
As you noticed in the papers this week,
there has been a terrible toll taken of Ü
boats. This under - water terror has
been conquered.
In Italy the American Fifth and the
British Eighth armies are relentlessly
marching on to Rome. Soon the great
push across the channel, when millions
of allied soldiers fresh and raring to go,
will start. The Second Front will soon
be opening. The many armies composed
of the best equipped and the best trained
men in the world will take off in the trek
to Berlin.
In Russia it is too bad for the Huns.
Great Russian armies m ever increas
ing numbers, are m : .ig through the
Ukraine, soon the invader will be clear
ed from Russian territory, and then no
doubt the Soviets will continue their
sweep through Poland. Rumania and on
to capital of the proud and blood -
thirsty IVussians.
In tlv.- air, on the land, and on the sea,
the aimies of liberation and victory and
vengeance are supreme.
Let everybody cheer up, the end is cer
tainly in sight, though the way must be
long and bloody.
* * * Number 3,727.