Washington, Dec. 23 Official
Washington during the Christ
mas holidays is practically de
serted, but the echoes of the last
few weeks are still reverberating
through empty corridors. A grow
ing tension has developed since
the post election relaxing, and
war is again the major topic of
thought and plans.
President Roosevelt touched it
off by his Warm Springs utter
ance: "I hope to be down here
next March without any question
if the world survives—for the
usual two weeks next Spring."
This statement recalled the
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May this Holiday bring you the
utmost of joy and may the New
Year bring with it success as a re
ward for your every effort. You
have been very considerate of this
institution and have made possible
our continued growth. For your
kindness we wish to express our ap
preciation and to pledge anew our
policy of even greater service to
the community which we serve.
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Elkin, N. C.
speech with which he took leave
of Warm Springs in early 1939.
Then, the President promised to
be back in the Pall "if we don't
have a war."
It seems ever more likely that
credits will be offered to Britain.
Men close to the Treasury De
partment are pointing out that
Secretary Morgenthau said noth-
ing about the Government re
fusing credits to Britain, but only
promised to uphold the spirit of
the Johnson Act which specifical-
ly exempts the Government from
its provisions. It is expected,
however, that the issue of Gov
ernment credit will be taken to
the floor of Congress.
Repeal Will Be Asked
A determined effort to repeal
the Johnson Act, itself, will be
started on the first day of the
new Congress, January 3rd, when
Andrew J. May, Democrat of
Kentucky, and chairman of the
House Military Affairs Commit
tee, will introduce a bill for re
peal.
Renewed official discussions of
the proposed military and com-
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mercial highway from Alaska to
Argentina began in mid-Decem
ber and will be continued in the
coming year. This highway, ex
tending from Fairbanks, Alaska,
to Buenos Aires in the Argentine,
would afford facilities for rapid
transport of troops and supplies
to any threatened point on the
Pacific Coast.
The question of priorities is
continuing to be a paramount is
sue. All manner of plans from
price fixing to outright govern
mental control have been discuss
ed, but the general consensus of
opinion is that industry will con
tinue, at least for the next four
monj,hs, on a so-called "volun
tary basis."
Strikes will be discouraged by
the government, but mediation of
disputes will probably be enforced
upon industry and labor alike.
The whole keynote in Washing
ton is: "Sacrifice and service."
Resistance to the British veto
of ex-President Hoover's plan to
feed the peoples of Prance, Bel
gium, Holland and other Nazi
conquered countries has develop
ed. This is a difficult problem
that the government is handling
with kid gloves. No nation has
ever made an appeal of hunger to
the United States and been re
fused, and proponents of the
plan point to the successful feed
ing of the Belgians during World
War I. The British, however, feel
that the sending of foodstuffs to
Europe would give Hitler another
ace in the hole and are flatly op
posed to amy shipments.
French Reorganization
The overthrow of Laval has
aroused much speculation here.
There have been rumors that
Hitler demanded a French declar
ation of war before he would sup
port Laval, but there have also
been opinions that Hitler wished
someone in power at Vichy who
was pro-German, and at the same
time was more acceptable to the
French people than Laval.
Jt seems unlikely that Prance
will enter the struggle against her
former ally, or that Hitler will
press them over-much. General
Weygand is the big question mark
in any such plans. If his army in
Syria would declare for the forces
of General DeGaulle, the whole
German plan of action would suf
fer a serious setback.
It is admitted here that De
fense building has been lagging,
and frantic efforts are being
made to speed up production.
More power will shortly be given
the Defense Commisslos, with
Knudsen continuing to play the
most important part.
Bottlenecks in airplane produc
tion havp cropped up and caused
alarm that the manufacture of
airplanes might be frozen at
somewhat under 1,000 planes a
month. This, even with Britain's
capacity, would not be enough to
overcome the lead of Germany.
Pressure has been brought to
bear on various supplying indus
tries, and the bottlenecks are
gradually growing less serious.
More Pilots Needed
The lag in the acceptance of
pilots for our own air corps will
probably cause a relaxing of the
education requirements for flying
cadets. At present, a minimum
of two years of college is required
to gain an exemption from a
strenuous mental examination
which, to date, only 10 per cent,
of the-applicants have passed. At
present, the nine corps of the
Army are counted upon to pro
vide altogether a minimum of
2,180 students a month, yet in
November only 1,337 were ac
cepted.
The argument about the bases
which we recently secured on a
99-year lease from the British in
exchange for 50 destroyers is still
being arbitrated. The authorities
at Trinidad have argued that the
base should be established on the
East Coast, but our own Army
and Navy officials have pointed
out that a base on the west coast
is essential for proper defense of
the Panama Canal.
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"OVEIt THERE"
Are we Americans so gullible as
to believe that if we get into the
war in Europe, or into the one in
Asia, or into both —we will do our
fighting entirely with our navy
and air force? If so—we need
mental attention.
Why should we go to war with
Germany unless we intend to
whip that nation? And how do
we expect to whip Germany un
less we use troops? Britain hasn't
the manpower to do it. The white
population of the entire British
Empire does not equal in number
that of Germany.
Neither Britain nor her col
onies can afford to denude them
selves of fighting men to attempt
an invasion of the Continent. At
the present time any such inva
sion would be out of the question
even if Britain had an army twice
the size of Germany's, and equal
ly well equipped. Armies just
can't be landed at will upon a de
fended shore. But the time may
come when it WILL be possible
to get a foothold somewhere on
the Continent, for a flank attack.
For example, if Italy collapsed it
might be feasible to attack the
Germans from the south.
It would be a mighty under
taking to cross the mountains of
northern Italy in the face of Ger
many's experienced mountain
troops and then defeat probably
the most powerful army the
world has ever known on its
own grounds. It is improbable
that Britain could perform this
task unaided. The German army
is not the Italian army. And if
Britain were to weaken her home
defense by sending away an army
of two million men to attack
Germany's flank, the Germans
would certainly attempt an inva
sion of England with some hope
of success.
We could, of course, replace
ihese two million British soldiers
with our own men and prevent
an invasion; but does anyone be
lieve that two million men could
march into Germany and defeat
her vast army?
It would take many more than
two million to perform this feat
even if the German army wasn't
"half what it is cracked up to
be." And there is just one place
from which these millions can
come—America.
When we declared war in 1917,
it was intended that we should
send only our navy to help the
Allies. We aid send the Navy—
and two million men. And we
spent a great many billions of
dollars. And it all ended up about
ten years later in a financial
crash followed! by a business de
pression so deep that we htiven't
come out of it yet.
When and if we declare war we
will do so with the intention of
winning it—because Americans
don't do this sort of thing half
way. But to win it we will doubt
less have to use millions of our
own fighting men—and that is
just exactly what we will do.
The people of America have a
right to know the whole truth be
fore their country is engineered
into this war. And they are not
being given the whole truth. Al
ready we are being told that we
must patrol the sea lanes with
our warships if Britain is to sur
vive; but we are not being told
that this means America goes to
war.
We are being told that Britain
doesn't want our men*; but we
are not being told that she must
have them to defeat Germany.
We are being told that it will cost
a great deal of money to finance
us if we get into the war; but we
are not being told that it will
probably impoverish every one of
us—rich man, middle class and
the masses.
A person of lesser brain than
Einstein knows that if we send
our ships to England they are go
ing to be attacked and many of
them sunk. The same person
knows that Americans will de
mand war instantly. And after
that it. doesn't need much imag
ination to visualize a great army
of American boys on their way to
those same fields in Europe which
the scheming politicians of that
perpetual battleground have been
irrigating with the blood of their
people for century after century.
May heaven help us if we slip
again! We struggled through
the results of the last war, but
then there wasn't a great red
bird of prey waiting for the ban
quet which Europe is preparing
for it. The Communist vulture
was only a squab in those days.
What Cause for Braggin?
Little David: Say, Dad, what
kind of things are ancestors?
Dad: Well, son, that means
your relations that have gone be
fore you. I'm one, and your
granddad is another.
David: Then why do people go
around bragging about them so
much?
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Druggist: How's your wife to
day?
Customer: Oh, she can't com
plain.
Druggist: I didn't know she'
was sick as that.
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Doctor: Sambo, how is it your
family keeps so healthy?
Sambo: Well, suh, we's done
bought one o' dem sanitary
drinking cups and we all drinks
outen it.
Father (at top of stairs): It's
time for that young man to go
home!
Young Man (angrily): Betty,
your father's a crank!
Father (overhearing): Well,
when you don't have a self-start
er, a crank comes in mighty
handy.
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EXPORTS
Whatever the outcome of the
European war, the prospect Is for
small exports in the years ahead,
according to the U. S. Bureau of
Agricultural Economics.
"McTavish's daughter was mar
ried in the poultry yard."
"Why?"
"So the rice wouldn't go to
waste."
Old Batda
Couldn't
If we could turn old Santa loose, 'with in
structions to be particularly good to each
of those who have been so thoughtful of
us, we believe the jolly old gentleman
would have a difficult time in getting
around this year.
That's why we are so anxious to extend
our sincere good wishes to all, and to
wish for you and yours all the joys and
happiness that you so richly deserve.
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ELK PHARMACY
Phone 310 Elkin, N. C.
Thursday, December 26. 1940 i
INCREASE 1
Low prices and limited export
outlets for coffee and oranges has
led to increased cotton planting
in Southern Brazil, the increase
expected to run between 10 and
15 per cent.
When patronizing local stores,
tell them you saw their ad. in The
Tribune. We will appreciate it,
and so will the merchants.