THE ROANOKE RAPIDS ADVERTISING - PRINTING - KM Boss OH U P EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES THE IjAJttiESi N EWSFAl'EK IN HAUfAX COUNT* t>\ Mali — 1 early — In Advance ROA *.s »?vE RAPIDS, NORTH CAROLINA CAKKOLL WILSON, Owner and Editor ICntered as Ijecond Class matter AprU 3rd, 1914, at the post office at Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, under Act of March 8rd, 1879 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AFTERNOON THINK OK DIE We Americans are good fighters all right. By winning a war we have proven that we can fight our way out of a difficulty. But now, with the atom bomb and other marvels of science, we are confronted with another and even greater dif ficulty: how to prevent another war which, if and when it comes, will probably blow most of us to kingdom come. We can’t fight our way out of this difficulty; we have to think our way out, and the next few years will show whether we are as good thinkers as we are fighters. A group of eminent citizens recently met in New Hampshire and issued a dec laration that the only way out is world govern ment — a world government with the power to make laws and force obedience to them by every one everywhere. They made out a good case, cue most iimcu cans are unwilling to admit the necessity of such a world government, first, because we are quite nationally attached emotionally to our own nat ional sovereign state above all others, and second, because to think ourselves into the idea of a world government represents probably the most difficult mental advance the human race has ever had to make. • It is no belittlement of the heroes of the bat tlefields to say that in a way it is harder to think than it is to fight. Most of them would understand that and agree to it. They had to fight or die. Now all of us, the heroes included, must either think or die. __ . FOOD AND PEACE It is time for us to get straight on a few facts. Congress, bumbling along in debate over its $550, 000,000 appropriation for the United Nations Re lief and Rehabilitation Administration, gives the impression that this is a big-hearted, gracious act of charity. It is nothing of the sort. The United States is already committed to that sum — for the current year, not next. We have promised it to the starving millions of the old world. The big debate will be over the additional sum of $1,350,000,000 for 1946. UNRRA has been - far from perfect, but that is beside the point. To organize a new agency now would be like fixing up a new fire department while a city is burning. General Eisenhower and all the other Americans who know the true situation have testified on the desperate need for food in the liberated countries. America’s lead in world affairs is vanishing rapid ly. It will vanish utterly ^unless we keep our word. * __4_ Here They Are! II