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Thursday, November 16, 1939 TWO SIDES To Every Question By LYTLE HULL THIRD RATE STATESMEN There are rumors afloat that at least one man in Europe knows - what all the shooting is about— his name 1&. Stalin. Another report has it that Mr. Hitler at one time had some ideas on the subject but that these have gone with the Red wind. Mr. Daladier has apparently low ered his head, like the proverbial bull at a red flag, and the tardy Announcing Opening of ELKIN BLUE PRINTING CO. DEALERS IN Blue Prints - Black Prints And Architectural Engineers' Sup • plies and General Line of Office Supplies Let Us Know Your Needs - We'll Stock It J. M. FRANKLIN - G. R. STINSON Second Floor Telephone Building Choose first a store whose name stands ior H Wf quality and dependability. We recommend these Genuine Orange Blossom Rings for that impor- r / tant event, because of their fine quality and thrifty \1 U ■ prices. 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This sort of reasoning does not make THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA llj^ The big steam distillery, pictured above, was captured within six miles of Elkin last Friday night by Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Corder, who said it was the largest he had ever seen in nine years of raiding. No one was at the still at the time of the raid, but the furnace was warm. Deputy Corder, who may be seen in the picture standing with his back to the camera, estimated the still to have a 300 gallon capacity. He poured out 4,000 gallons of beer. No liquor was found, but 21 empty five-gallon cans were on hand together with 22 empty 100-pound sugar sacks. Water to operate the still was carried 150 yards by a trough, the end of which may be seen directly behind Deputy Corder. The other man in the photo is Jack White. The still was located on Mitchell's River about two miles from Burch.— (Tribune Photo.) • . v sense, for war would ruin Ger many financially even if she won it, and possibly destroy her po litically if she lost it. Hitler must have known, or at least suspected, that he could not depend upon the professed good ; intentions of Stalin. He» must I have been informed of the def inite attitude of England and France in the event of his at tack upon Poland. He must have known that Germany was sus ceptible, as before, to blockade, and he must have known that there was likelihood of stalemate on the Western Front, and that a blockade would strangle Ger many in a long war. So—unless he has something extraordinary up his sleeve—what is the an swer to his seemingly suicidal act of invading Poland? Third rate ; politician! The French had the least to suffer from a military conquest of Poland and an economic con quest of the Balkans by Ger many. She would have sustained a certain amount of trade loss but not sufficient to make a vital difference. She was in a weak ! financial condition and needed peace badly to restore her pros perity. Socially she has a con i siderable element which might 1 conceivably "ferment" if war lasted too long and the suffering of her people became too acute. In concert with England she act ed hastily in the "DaAzig guar antee." If Danzig had been eliminated from the "Poland guarantee" there might quite possibly have been no war. Hasty diplomacy is a weakness of third Irate statesmen. Britain stood to lose her empire if she lost a war against Ger many, particularly if Russia, with her ideas about India and the Far East, became a military part ner of Germany. Whether or not Russia is to become a military partner of Germany, probably only Stalin —and possibly Hitler —know. There was one man in the British Government who feared Russia and Russian Com munism as one does the plague. He foresaw the many opportuni ties for the advancement of this sinister ideology which war be tween the other great nations would offer. He fought a one man fight to prevent Just what is happening today. He purposely left out any men tion of Danzig in his early speeches concerning a Polish guarantee, and only after a mas terful struggle were a great man's knowledge and intuiations over ridden by the persistent pressure of lesser minds. No third rate statesman this, but a man of keen insight, who did not care how red his face got if his coun try could be spared the tragedy and the risks of such a war. Nev ille Chamberlain fought a great fight\but weakened at last under the constant pressure of the third rate politicians of Germany, France, England and Poland. Let us not take our hats off to the one outstanding statesman of them all—Joseph Stalin: the man who fooled the British and French Emissaries and then pre cipitated the war by fooling the German Fuehrer. Unscrupulous, scheming, brilliant, sinister—but a statesman of high order. The man who engineered Russia, and that horrid thing, Communism, into the commanding position which they hold at the moment. The man who can't lose no mat ter which way the dice of war fall, except by some completely unforeseen circumstance or set of Big Steam Still Is Taken in Raid DOING From the Writings of Dr. Frank Crane It is a good thing to remember that no resolution is of any ac count • unless it contains some thing that can be put into prac tice at once. People grow by doing and they learn by doing. Thinking about it is of no special value. We ought to think about it enough to know how we are going to do it, but that is all. Over the desk of many a busi ness man is the motto, "Do It Now." If you have anything to do get it done and over with. If it is disagreeable, the sooner it is done and out of the way the bet ter. There is nothing more upset ting than a lot of loose ends left undone. There is nothing so calming to the nerves, sweetening to the dis position, aiding to digestion and strengthening to the morals, as getting it done. According to the old story, when the doctor told the parents their run-down boy was over worked, they said it was impos sible because he had but one task to do. Each day he had a small woodbox to fill, that was all. When the doctor insisted that he 1 was overworked, they investigat ed and found that he put off the task as long as he could. He thought about it all day, worried about it all day, and ac tually carried the wood the last thing at night. The effect on his system was the same as if he had carried wood all day long. How about your woodbox? How about the little sticks of wood that make up the armload you have to carry every day? Do you worry about them, and say, "I must get that done to day," or do you get it done? Most people have a letter they owe, a book they are going to circumstances. An Allied vic tory; a German victory; a stale mate—he wins all ways, and to a long, devastating war he may win even more than he himself hopes for. This is what Chamberlain fear ed; this is what we must all fear; and this is what we in our coun try must fortify ourselves against, both from outside and from with in our borders—for the breath of Communism is death. Most of us In this country be lieve our leaders to be first rate statesmen. We believe they are fighting to keep the stench of war away from their people and we believe they will succeed. But it is essential that we help them and the best way to do that is to denounce war-mongering propa ganda in all its forms, whether It be by word of mouth, through the press, over the air or on the sil ver screen. Denounce it and beat it down with every means at our command and cur leaders will know how to do the rest. Mr. Chamberlain says the world won't look the same after this war has been fought to a finish. 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