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THE ROAKIOKE RAPIDS Al” f) CAROLINA’S FIRST^S^ IV TAB/oic/^^NEWSW^ ' By Mail — $2. Yearly — In Advance ROANOKE RAPIDS, NORTH CAROLINA THE LARGEST NEWSPAPER IN HALIFAX COUNTY CARROLL WILSON, Owner and Editor ■ Entered as Second Class matter April 3rd, 1914, at the post office at Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, under Act of March 3rd, 1879. OFFICE EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES ADVERTISING - PRINTING - EMBOSSING THE HOUR HAS COME I @ • The hour has come when this nation must face the facts. We can no longer evade the full demands imposed upon us by Hitler’s threat to our Liberties. Step by step over the past twelve months the meaning of the world conflict to our existence has become clear to the American people. We know that free institutions cannot be se cure on this continent if annihilated on every other continent. Even if we could maintain our physical security, life would be a nightmare of industrial regimentation, conscription, taxation and eventu ally war. To permit Britain to go down, China to be sub jugated and the blackout of civilization to occur everywhere but in the Western Hemisphere would be not only stupid but indicative of a complete loss of moral values. We cannot allow the defense of Great Britain and her allies to be overwhelmed. To assure its success, we have enacted the Lease Lend Law to convert our nation into the arsenal of democracy. But recent events have brought home to us one further realization: our civilization can be made secure only by engaging the full strength and pow er of the United States in the common cause. With all of our resources the threat to our way of life and our liberty can and will be halted. This ultimate issue can no longer be avoided. Each week of delay aggravates our peril, brings the war closer to our shores and will take its toll'of American life and property. The issue should be met now, without evasion or reservation and with prompt action. We must assume our share of bur den and sacrifice in the united defense of civiliza tion. II To this end the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies now urges that the American people call upon their President and Congress for the immediate enactment of the following measures: 1. The declaration of a full state of national emergency. 2. Employment of the naval and air forces of the nation to safeguard the lifeline between the Western Hemisphere and the British Isles. Spe cifically we support use of American armed forces for police, convoy or in whatever way is most effec tive to insure delivery of our goods to those nations resisting aggression. 3. Cooperation with Great Britain and her allies for the employment of our united military re sources to safeguard the North Atlantic, the South Atlantic and the Pacific against further Axis ag gression. <"EVERYBODY HAS TO MAKE SACRIFICES" 4. Effective aid to China. Rigid embargo a gainst Japan. Clear indication to Japan of our determination to prevent a conquest of Singapore and the Dutch East Indies. 5. Freezing of Axis assets. Control of sub versive propaganda and sabotage emanating from Axis consulates by whatever measures may be nec essary, including severence of diplomatic relations. 6. Declaration of the intention of the United States to take its full responsibility in organizing enduring peace on the basis of political, social and economic justice. The American people must now prepare themselves to face this responsibility. Ill This course may lead to armed conflict. From Hitler’s point of view we are already enlisted v/ith his enemies. If it does not suit his purpose he will not attack us, no matter what the provocation. If it promises to advance his cause, he will attack us whenever and however he chooses. To those who stand in the path of his designs, the choice is never war or peace. It is submission to his will or resistance to the death. This course may bring to us, as it has brought to other peoples who are enlisted in the cause of freedom, blood, toil, tears and sweat. It will unify the will and mobilize the resources of our own peo ple. It will demand of us and win from us sacrifice md resolution. It will make possible control of sabotage and subversive conspiracies in our midst, t will hearten our Latin American neighbors in the common defense of our American heritage. It will have a demoralizing effect upon Axis morale. It will bring unmeasured strength to the heroic de fenders in the first lines of our common cause at this hour of their supreme trial. In the souls of men enduring subjugation under tyranny, it will kindle new hope and resistance. JL,et no one deceive us into believing that the hour is too late, that the cause is hopeless, that vic tory is already lost. The full strength of this nation joined to those already committed in the common defense embraces the human and material re sources of three-quarters of the peoples of the world, controls the oceans of the world, commands three continents and the large part of Asia and Africa. That strength can be invincible. United in common purpose, steeled in the knowledge of the right, made strong by the inescapable claims of duty, fired by the cries of millions now suffering under the Iron Heel, assured that we work not a lone for our own safety but for the great essentials for all humanity, this cause which is our cause will triumph. Our Patriotic Songs • Much is being said, and a good deal is being done, to improve civilian morale in the United States as an integral part of the national de fense program, but little attention has been given to one of the most ob vious and simplest ways in which the will to resist un-Americanism could be strengthened. We refer to the learning and sing ing of patriotic songs. If American patriotism were to be measured by the enthusiasm with which we sing songs like “Star Spangled Banner,” “God Bless America,” “My Country ’Tis of Thee,” etc., then we are ripe for conquest. Every one can recall dozens of gatherings in which an attempt has been made to sing these songs, but it would be difficult for the average person to name an instance in wmcn any song nas oeen carried through with vigor from end to end. Usually only the “first and last” or “first and second” stanzas are sung, and these only half-heartedly, with part of the crowd not co-op erating and others slur ring over some of the words. Such depressing exhibitions are due mainly to the fact that a large part of the Amer ican public has not learn ed the words of our pa triotic songs, even in the verses not omitted, and also, to the tendency of many people to become bashful, to run out, or just to clamp their mouths shut, when a proposal to sing is made. Almost every country on earth has a patriotic song which it sings earn estly and fervently-that is, all but the United States. “God Save the King” is sung with deep emotion in churches and other public places throughout England and the British empire. The Germans have the “Watch on the Rhine” and whatever fanatical songs Nazism has taught them. The French have “The Marsellaise” and all other important peoples their national anthems. And they sing them! Nothing could improve morale more in this country than for Ameri cans to begin studying our patriotic songs in their homes, churches and schools, becoming familiar with the words, and then to learn to sing them. (Sanford Herald)
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