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MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1940
Fifth Column
The European war has introduced a
number of new words which are read in
practically every newspaper and heard in
almost all radio news broadcasts.
One of the new terms is “Fifth Col
umn.” Although practically every person
has some idea by now of what the phrase
means, a better understanding that can be
had from the following comment by John
B. Weatherman, A Washington columnist:
“Aside from the tremendous public re
action to the military phases of present
events in Europe, the public and official
Washington are becoming acutely aware
of other threats to this and other coun
tries which are quite apart from dangers
of aggression in the hitherto accepted
sense of the word. Up until now the lead
ers of the country have thought of threats
by foreign powers in terms of troops, na
vies, air force and other orthodox militarj"
instruments.
“In the American scheme of defense of
ficials are now coming to view the Trojan
Horse or the fifth column just as a part of
an aggressor nation’s war machine as are
their tanks, planes, and cannon and are
moving swiftly now to^warfj fr^rgjny ef--
"fcellH! dUuut a^inst this new instru
ment of modem warfare.
“Those charged with the task of draft
ing the plans of America’s vast new de
fense measures have seen the havoc
wrought by the activities of the fifth col
umn in Norway, Denmark and the Low
Countries. The swift disintegration of these
nations, which on the surface seemed fair
ly well prepared, only to collapse entirely
at the first thrust of the Nazi was ma
chine, offers a valuable lesson to American
leaders. They realize that they must act
swiftly and with as great a degree of ac
curacy and forsightedness as possible to
ward combating these well-planned and
often devastingly smooth-working phases
of international strife.
“The basic principle of the Trojan
Horse and fifth column movement is for a
nation planning an attack upon another
nation is to get as may of their soldiers
well intrenched in enemy territory before
the actual open-and-above-board invasion
starts. The soldiers are placed in a coun
try as students, tourists, and, in as many
cases as possible, as workers. They appear
innocently seeking jobs in vital industries
such as transportation, communications,
machine shops and other spots where the
least amount of sabotage may do the most
toward the complete demoralization of the
nation undergoing the attack. Their work
is concentrated upon upsetting co-ordina
tion, the bringing about of a chaotic con
dition and the utter confusion of the car
dinal industries contributing the most vi
tal elements toward the defense of a na
tion. All this is timed so as to coincide
with the actual invasion of a nation’s ter
ritory by armed force and creates a situa
tion, in such a time of stress, so as to com
pletely paralyze the defense facilities of
an invaded naltion.
“As America’s vast rearmament pro
gram gets under w-ay, plans for combating
the fifth column are being scrutinized and
formulated by Congresisonal committees
and it becomes apparent that drastic
measures will be taken to insure the United
States’ defense plans against further in
roads by fifth column activities.
“Of all the alleged subversive and prob
able Trojan Horse groups now active in
this country the Communist Party and the
German-American Bund are now being
eyed with the most suspicious and will, in
all likelihood, come in for the first shaking
up as American anti-fifth column activity
«ixtm Ha hwttal stages.
‘‘^i^ntative MairiJn Dies, of Texas,
' chsirinui of the House eomdiHtee ipyesti-
gating Un-American activities, has for the
past two years conducted exhaustive in
quiry into the activities of subversive
groups in this country* snd now stands as
one of the nation’s foremost authorities a
to conditions which might easily develop
into dangerously effective fifth column
instruments.
“Measures directed against possible fifth
column activities have had Washington of
ficial circles on the move during this week
as the full import of the Trojan Horse
threat comes into full realization. Repre
sentative Dies is leading off the Congres
sional agitation against fifth column acti
vities. He announced that he is taking a
request to Pi'esident Roosevelt, who is far
from unmindful of the existence of threats
from within, that he set up a home d
fense council to ward off the influence of
subversive groups. Mr. Dies warns that
there is trouble ahead unless some action
is taken. He further stated that “there
is a lot more to preparing for defense
than mere voting of money—as this coun
try will find out.”
During the past few years many good
American citizens have been inclined to
poke fun at the Dies committee for investi
gating what it termed un-American acti
vities and groups. Because the com
mittee happened to uncover some unholy
alliances which had among their members
persons more or less in the favor of the
national administratiin, the committee was
accused of playing politics.
The part which traitors played in the
downfall of at least three free countries in
Europe should have taught as all a les
son ; that the worst enemies can be within
our own boundaries should the nation be
threatened from without.
Whether we want to believe it or not,
we might as well admit the fact that ene
mies to our form of government are se-
cretely doing their dirt all over the coun
try and some of them have reached high
places in public life. We believe that it
would be a good idea to “purge’ ’the ad
ministration and faculties of our great uni
versities and colleges of sympathizers of
socialism, communism, nazism, fascism
and all other isms. We couldn’t back it
up with exact ffig'ures, but an assertion
that thousands of people who secretly
crop vtm&ton Ujl
the Talley. r^twivUl«, prpt|^
If per'cent to l6 per cent Smt-
M than .UM ykttr. Pfedmont sec
tion, *ener«Ily tighter than last
]re|r. .. Nelgon-AmhereC i oanty
seetioihi, a' little Ughtef than last
4)^r, doe to hevrr Windeap drop.
Rbanoke aecUdn, about the same,
:o a little heavier than last year,
iputhwest Virginia, 35 per cent
ipore than last year.  -
Peach prospects, medium to
good. Tlmberville section should
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Itare the lal^KK
Crdset and southelde Vlrglt
medium. ’ .
Jfr; VaaDemali stht«' that the ^
apple crop In .the Brurtiy
tain section ot' Wilkes and Ale*^.
ander Counties la as large or
larger t^n last year. The
bertwlg, which 1* the leading va
riety, has a full crop In the het-^
ter orchards.
Use the adverusiug eeingma of
this paper aa yonr shopphw guide.
A quartet of distinguished guests pictured during inner elrelc
dinner of city hall reporters and politleal writers in New Verk eity
Each one a presidential possibility, they are, left to rigl|l: Sea
Robert Taft of Ohio, Rep. Joe Martin at Massachusetts, Postmaster
General James A. Farley, and Wendell Willkie. Taft, Martin and
Willkie are Republicans; Farley a Democrat.
France Keeps Vigil on Western Front
Somewhere on France’s Lorraine front a French soldier keeps
eternal vigilance behind JUs-Cifle-inacliine gnn, lest a German but-
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cracy are the payroll of our own govern
ment in one way or another, would be a
statement of truth.
If they don’t like our form of govern
ment to purchase for them one-way steam
ship tickets to the dictator countries.
of Winesaps in the Piedmont.
The heavy producing Winchest
er area reports about 25 per cen'
heavier crop than last year. .4’
.varieties bloomed heavy, Th(
W. S. Campfield, secretary of j crop seems to be a little lighter
to the south, with a medium tc
Apple Crop In
Virginia Reported
Larger Than 1939
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the Virginia Horticultural Society,
reports on the apple crop in Vir
ginia in a letter to Carl E. VanDe-
man, horticulturist in charge of
the .Apple Research Laboratory.
The .season is late in Virginia
The bloom was generally medium
to heavy. This is the “on” year
for Yorks in northern Virginia.
There was little, if any, seriou
Valley: there was, however, con-
sideralle hail damage. There ap
pears to >be a rather heavy drop
Speed Very Deadly
Speed—the killer—kept its deadly work
on North Carolina highways during the
first four months of this year, according
to figures just compiled by the Highway
Safety Division in Raleigh.
Records of the Division show that five jrosrdaragTVn’thVshenrndoah
out of every six trafjfic fatalities in the
state during the four-months period occur
red in rural areas and small towns. To be
specific, only 40 of the 231 traffic deaths
for the four months occurred in cities of
10,000 population or over, while 191 of
the fatalities happened in small towns and
out on the open highway.
“It’s not where traffic is thickest that
the most traffic deaths occur,” declared
Ronald Hocutt, Director of the Safety Di
vision, “it’s where traffic is fastest.”
“When two cars collide on a congested
city street the cars usually suffer damage
only and the occupants probably suffer’
minor injuries, but when two cars breezing'
along on an open higliway collide, a fatal
ity occurs more often than not.”
Last year’s accident record for North
Carolina show that 182 fatalities occurred'
in 4,026 traffic accidents in cities and
towns, while 761 people were killed in 4,
-131 accidents in rural areas of the state.
Hocutt said speed too fast for existing
conditions was the principal factor figur
ing in the higher ratio of traffic deaths in
rural areas.
“Drivers who make a habit of going too
fast are the most deadly species of drivers
on the road,” Hocutt said. “When you
have a trip to make, leave sooner, drive!
slower, and live longer.”
NO WONDER
We read that mosquitoes were unknown
in England 500 years ago. Well, how
would you like to be a mosquito trying to
pick up a living in an age when everyone
wore suits of armor?—Grit.
If we were an earth and just had to
quake, we think we’d know of a crust we
could crack and swallow up a deadlier foe
to humanity than anything that could be
found in California.—^Statesville Daily.