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Tuesday. 4 lift nut 26. 1941.
Frame. The Pii/>/??*
Tin' world's second mass slaughter has been
accompanied by many revelatoins which the fu
ture student of history will find difficult to un
derstand. Russia, considered an ally of Hitlers,
turned to fight Hitler. Declarations of war one
day were meaningless the next as far as the
Slavs were concerned. Confusion has been gen
eral, and only the strong determination of Brit
ain's Prime Minister Churchill has kept the eyes
of the people on an ultimate goal.
In all the confusion growing out of the sec
ond World War, the part played by France is
the most puzzling Historians will find it diffi
cut to explain away her actions, to tell how one
of the greatest armies in the world folded up
and flopped over night Activities in Paris and
Vichy are the world's big nightmare
Old Petain's close collaboration with the Hit
ler mob is excused to some extent by the fact
\hat he is prompted along that course by fear
and threats. There are others who believe Pet
ain. Darlan and many others have been hypno
tized by Hitler's new order, that the leaders and
many of the pehple have lent an ear to Hitler's
new order gospel and that they are now inten
tionally turning their backs on Democracy and
its main standardbearers. Britain and Amer
ica.
?-iWfulcJhosidenL Roosevelt and Prime-Minis^
ter Churchill may have discussed more signi
ficant problems in their recent meeting, the
declaration of policy advanced by the meeting
carries much significance within itself. In
granting nations their own choice of govern
ment, the policy recognizes needed changes 111
the world's economic system, and unless tin'
democracies can convince the people of many
nations that those changes will come in due
time, tlii' people of those nations arc almost
sure to listen to Hitler's new order plans. Many
know Hitler is planning to enslave the world,
but the true facts are withheld from many peo
ples and naturally they arc being lured to Hit
ler's side.
franc.,' rmRie.nj t.? a puppet state not, by
the German armed forces altogether. Internal
conditions were inviting, and the world, before
it can right itself, must consider and correct
those conditions not only as they existed in
France but also as they exist in other lands,
including our own. A nation half fed and ill
clothed and poorly housed will not stand under
any system for time immemorial, and the same
applies to the world. Whatever the causes may
be for our troubles, the conditions must be al
tered to head off Hitlerism and restore "peace
to the world. May be that even Hitler's propos
ed new order, despite its inhumanity and other
damnable faults, has some points worth con
sidering. Even Joe Stalin's government has one
or two points worth considering May be that
our way of life can be improved and offered to
the world as its way of life and as a means to
world peace. At least we can look to conquered
France today and know that she was crushed
before German force was applied, that even had
she successfully resisted the Hitler hordes peace
and progress would not have been hers to en
joy ?
Hour About The Crime?
Greatly disturbed, and possibly rightly so,
over the recent mob action in a.North Carolina
town, a state paper suggests, "After all,, there
could have been no 'march' against the mob
had there been no mob." The paper could easily
have added that there would have been no mob
had there been no heinous crime.
Living in a fast-moving world, the people ap
parently do not like delayed action. The very
fact that men act when an atrocious crime is
committed in their midst is encouraging. It
must be admitted, however, that mob action of
fers the wrong course of procedure. It would
be a great world if all people would bind them
selves together to stamp out through designat
ed and orderly channels all kinds of crime. The
courts are partly responsible for mob action in
some cases, but a greater portion of the blame
rests upon the shoulders of those who remain
indifferent to the call of the ballot box and who
are reluctant in performing their duty imposed
upon them as citizens.
Far removed from the little North Carolina
city and while handling a subject of world-wide
moment, the Christian Science Monitor has the
following to say which indirectly, of course, can
be found to parallel the case in this State:
"In the early days of the American West,
towns sometimes fell into the temporary con
trol of outlaws When conditions became intol
erable decent citizens organized vigilante com
mittees. Sometimes there were so few God
fearing folk that they had to enlist the less dis
honest gamblers, merchants of unorthodox re
ligious views and ranchers whose waterholes
had once been acquired by gun law. Some of
their most effective posse members were quick
triggered cow-punchers who hadn't been able
to make cattle-rustling pay.
"Today the world community is being rob
bed and terrorized by the Axis bandits. It
would be splendid if we could send out Sheriff
Geneva and hale them into the Hague court.
Wo can't We've not really armed a police force,
or given our support to the court. John Bull has
been standing the desperadoes off and Uncle
Sam has been loading rifles behind the barri
cade ....
"Until we can practice Christian brother
hood so fully that justice, liberty and love re
move the causes of war, we shall have to deal
with the anarchy of aggression. Until we can
enlarge our concepts of citizenship to a world
scope ibid maintain real law, we shall have to
deal with gangsters by the vigilante system.
Until we can prove the adequacy of weapons
which are not carnal to hold crime in check in
local and world communities, we shall have to
arm our posse Until we can find enough re
spectable citizens we shall have to enlist good
fighters."
It is good to urge men to act with discretion,
to refrain from rash acts, but it is better to ex
emplify the ways of justice. Politics will have
to be cast out of our judicial system, and the
judiciary, or some of its members, at least, must
change their ways, and justice must be meted
out for justice's sake if we would strike home
the appeal to reason and against mob action^
A Question To He An uttered First
A follower of Robert Rice Reynolds is anx
ious to know what the so-called Senator has
done against the American people?
Reynolds is not paid to do things against the
American people! He is paid to do tilings for the
American people And before the first question
is answered, another one should be propounded
and answered in detail. What has Reynolds
done for the American people' Playing the role
of a first rate jackass. Bob Reynolds has all but
disgraced the people of North Carolina. He has
been their false prophet, a four-flusher and a
bitter disappointment to those who value things
decent and respectable.
It certainly would be good to learn one thing
?just one thing?that Bob Reynolds has done
for the people.
A Real Revenue
By Ruth Taylor.
Revenge is a two edged sword, cutting us
as well as our enemy when we use it to hurt
someone else? but there is another revenge
that is not only safe, but far more effective.
Quiller Couch described it thus: "The greatest
revenge we can have on our enemy is not to
be. like him."
This is a real revenge, for through it the orig
mal hurt is removed.. Through it we concen
trate on the good, not on the evil.
We say that the enemy of our country, the
enemy that threatens us, is the force of evil
unleashed by the Gejnian dictator, and that the
blood of thousands of helpless victims calls for
revenge. But revenge for defeat was Hitler's
rallying call to the German people, and like
the Philistines of old. of whom Ezekiel wrote,
they "have dealt by revenge and have taken
vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy
it for the old hatred."
By all means let us take revenge?-but not
the revenge of slavish imitation, of new ha
treds. l,et us rather be dissimilar, let us set an
example.
What do we hate most in the totalitarian set
up? First, the cruelty. Let us seek revenge by
being kind?by doing unto others as we would
have them do unto us. Second, the appression.
Let us seek revenge by being scrupulously fair
irr'all of our dealings with others, no matter how
insignificant the act. Third, the domination of
the many by the few. Let us seek revenge by
treating those with whom we come in contact
not as groups, or in derogatory generalities, but
as individuals like unto ourselves, with the
same principles, the same rights and the same
obligations. Fourth, the suppression of freedom.
Let us seek revenge by using our freedom of
speech, and thought and assembly for the build
ing of our country and our fellow citizens, for
the practical application of democracy. And
last, the armed attack on religion and freedom
of worship. Let us seek our revenge by making
our religion the living force in our lives, by put
ting into practice the ethics in which we be
lieve, no matter by what name we call our
faith. Let us prove the worth of our faith by our
own actions.
Paul preached this to the Romans nearly two
thousand years ago when he wrote "Dearly be
loved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give
place unto wrath; for it is written, Vengeance
is mine; 1 will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore,
if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst,
give him drink, for in so doing thou shalt heap
coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of
evil, but overcome evil with good." This is the
only lasting revenge.
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