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Thursday, June 27. 1940 THE gSZI GAB^g JR. WANT NO PART? Apparently the present Republican leadership wants no part in the national defense program. For when two of their best men, Col. Frank Knox and Henry L. Stimson, were selected by President Roosevelt for two important cabinet posts, the Republicans immediately turned them out of the party. Can it be the Republican party wants no part in pro tecting this nation against whatever dangers the future holds ? Of course the G.O.P. announced their reasons for disown ing their late brethren. It means the President is getting ready to go to war, they said, and is building a war cabinet. Then they let their hair dowm and fall back on that out-moded phrase that politicians have used to their own advantage since the last war: "Not one drop of Ameri can blood must be spilled on for eign soil." As far as we can see, there's no call for American boys to go to foreign lands to fight and die. For France is beyond help, and England is so filled with her own men and the men of her empire that some of them are likely to BEDROOM SUITES! I-: ; TSBEAILE OFFERS Styles - Designs - Prices TO PLEASE EVERY PDRSE AND CARRYING A DOUBLE GUARANTEE OF SATISFACTION! EVERY SUITE IS BACKED BY THE EAGLE AND THE MANUFACTURER! Bedroom Because The Eagle specializes in the sale of Bedroom Suites, we are SllltCS f FOITI better prepared to give you MORE VALUE for LESS MONEY! Our fr g\ huge stock of bedroom suites contains the style you are seeking at % 111 Mil the price you find it convenient* to pay. Our policy of large scale JI / M .|JU buying means savings that are passed on to you. If you are in the fc W market for a bedroom suite, it will pay you to visit The Eagle first. For the Eagle is always FIRST in quality, FIRST in savings! Every UP suite guaranteed, both by us and by the manufacturer! ———— ——- / ( be shoved out i|ito the ocean for lack of space in which to stand. But—and let's hope it never happens—there could come a day when foreign armies might at tempt to invade America or its possessions. Would the Republi cans—or that type of leadership that is apparently in vogue at Philadelphia—object to an at tempt to stop them? Would they still find war so distasteful that they would oppose the United States fighting in self defense? If f ■ '"••• * 'JSP'- , IBS ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA so, then they would probably be kept pretty busy reading other Republicans out of their own party, because not all the Repub licans put selfish political in terest ahead of their country's in terest. Of course the Republican argu ment is apparent. They will claim that Mr. Roosevelt's move In nominatirg two Republicans to his cabinet was a political move made solely to flabbergast the Republicans. They can't conceive of a man in the White House— especially a Democrat—being big enough to put the nation's wel fare ahead of party welfare. So, they rave.and rant in their usual futile fashion —and hope against hope that the voters in November will return this country to them so they may inaugurate another typical, do-nothing era so char acteristic of the last Republican administration. We agree with an opinion we heard expressed just a few min utes ago—that the Republicans, in taking the attitude that re sulted in ousting Knox and Stim son from their party—did their party more harm than the Dem ocrats have been able to do it in the past eight years. THIS AND THAT The Jonesville school bond election case made it look for a while like the minority ruled, but the supreme court's decision last week put the matter back into the hands of the majority. There's no doubt but that Hit ler and Mussolini will go down in history. However, we'd be plenty satisfied if they just went down. Mussolini can feel sure that when he goes down in history he'll go away down—low. We tuned in on the Republican national convention Monday ■night and heard a bit of the key note address. It reminded us so much of the last Republican con vention, held back Ub 1936. The oratory was there, and the shout ing and cheering when the speak er took a slam at Mr. Roosevelt. But as we listened, we remem bered how, despite the whooping and hollering of the last conven tion, the Republicans carried only two states in the election. We didn't hear the entire ad; dress, due to static and having a bit of work to do, but it seemed to us that the applause was a bit half hearted when the speaker spoke of domestic affairs. How ever, when he spoke of the neces sity of clearing the country of fifth columnists, there was more gusto. Despite the apparent en thusiasm, the convention is play ing second fiddle to the war. To us, politics at this day and time, seem out of place. Why can't the politicians devote their time to a full share of prepared ness effort, rather than rant and rave about how the country is go ing to the dogs, and how the other party is responsible for it and all that kind of political bunk anq hokum. In a couple of weeks from now the Democrats will have their convention. They'll rave and rant too. We'll be mighty glad when the conven tions are over. But Republican keynote ad dresses always make us mad. The Republicans point to Mr. Roose velt's record with scorn and tell how things would be done if they were in office. They criticize a great man who took over the reins of government at a time when the Republicans had had it for years—and found one of the greatest messes in the history of the nation. Mr. Roosevelt was frank to state when he took of fice, that some of the things he was going to do might not prove successful, and some of them hav en't been. But he didn't loaf on the job; he never had troops run a bonus army of world war vet erans out of Washington; no such scandal as Teapot Dome has ever disgraced his administration. The Republicans shout that the Democrats have coasted along, failing to prepare this nation dur ing the past seven and one-half years. Wasn't it under a Repub lican administration that numer ous war ships of the United States navy were scrapped following a disarmament conference? And how much cooperatior do you think the administration could have gotten out of Republican members of the Congress prior to the European war scare of recent months, had a wide scale arma ment program been planned. Some of them are. still sleep walk ing to this day. This sleeping will probably turn into a night mare come November. We couldn't help but note one statement of the keynote speaker Monday night. He said, in sum ming up the so-called evils of the New Deal, "that many men of business made pleas for help" to the Democratic administration. What he didn't say was that their pleas were not nearly so loud as in 1932 following years of Repub lican administration. He also didn't mention that no banks are failing in these days and times, as under Hoover. And when he spoke of giving the army of unemployed jobs, he didn't ex plain how that army of unem ployed happened to come into be ing during a Republican admin istration. The oldest elephant of the Phil adelphia zoo died as the Republi can convention got under way. The. elephant is the symbol of the Republican party. Coincidence or omen? LONGTOWN There will be an all day home coming at the Longtown Meth odist church Sunday, June 30, which will also be the beginning of a revival meeting. Rev. Dwight Mull is, the pastor, will be assisted by Rev. Floyd Duncan, of Lincolnton. There will be Sunday school at 10 a.m., preaching at 11, and dinner, pic nic style, at 12 o'clock. In the afternoon there will be a special song service with preaching again in the evening at 8 o'clock. All former members are urged to be present, and a special in vitation is extended to pther churches and quartettes. Those attending are asked to bring a basket dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Olin Swaim, of Winston-Salem, spent Sunday with Mr. Swaim's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ransom Swaim. Miss Esther Reinhardt had as her Wednesday night supper guests Miss Lillian Reinhardt and Mr. Beecher Shore and Mr. Bob by Palsgrave, of Frankfort, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Shore had as their Sunday dinner guests Rev. and Mrs. Dwight Mullis, of Jonesville. MOUNTAIN VIEW Rev. J. L. Powers, of East Elkin, conducted communion ser vice at Mountain View Baptist church Sunday at 11 a.m., and also delivered a fine sermon at 8 p.m. to an attentive audience. Mr. Truman Harris, Misses Eu lalia Richardson, Lois and Nancy Shore toured across the Blue Ridge mountains Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cheek and children, Alda, James and Bobbie Joe, spent Sunday in Winston- Salem, the guests of Mrs. Cheek's brother, Mr. Beecher Stokes, and Mrs. Stokes. Rev. J. L. Powers was the Sim day dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Miles King. Mrs. Vallie Shore had as her Sunday dinner guests Mr. and *> ! vSl* HOLSUM mamwvmmrnm ...he's a new m FOjRD I Yessiree—once you slip behind the wheel, ■ feel the power and getaway—Once you be .. ■ {ln to check Its superior features... its ° orms a$ .I smart design and luxurious appointments give* mor. miles p«r gallon Bj ... Your .nthusl«m g«s sky high-Mid you'll say as every Ford owner says— ■ "Get a FORD V-8 and get the MOST for your money"! f» GET THE FACTS... Ef||) || V . B and you'll get a 1.17 IIV Elkin Motor Car Company Phone 25 Elkin, N. C. 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