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MONDAY, JULY 14, 1941
Shifting Alliances
This government is making no bones
about the fact that it has little faith in So
viet Russia and holds extreme distaste for
the Communist ideology. The British gov-,
ernment has taken much the same position.
However, both of the Democratic powers
have welcomed Russia as an ally. They are
working on the basis that when your house
is in danger of burning down, you must ac
cept your neighbor’s aid, whether you
happen to like him or not. Big job now is
to lick Hitler, and all other considerations
and problems must be held in abeyance un
til that is done, in the view of Mr, Roose
velt and Mr. Churchill.
The President’s official proclamation
placing Russia under the lease-lend act is
primarily a gesture. We have little to
spare, in the light of our own nee^s plus
EJngland’s, and even if we had much tc
spare the shipping problem would prevent
delivery of goods in appreciable quanti
ties. And Russia, of course, has a far lar
ger, far better equipped military machine
than ours.
Hope of many is that Russia and Ger
many may wear each other out—that the
dictrines of both Communism and Naziism
may perish on the Russian steppes. In the
view of military authorities, there is small
chance of that happening. Most of them
think that the German army is too efficient
and too well organized for the Russians—
even though the Redi army is probably lar
ger in man power, and may be larger in
tanks, field pieces and other equipment.
At the same time, they think that Russia,
even though she eventually loses, may in
flict staggering casualties on the German.®,
Reports of the early days of the fighting
indicate that is happening.
The German-Russian war is giving Eng
land a chance to tremendously increase
her aerial raids on the Continent, while
Germany is preoccupied on the long Eas
tern front. British planes, says London
sources, are going over in waves of 250
and 400. They are big, multi-engined
planes, and they are laden with a new
type of bomb which is supposed to be ex-
tra-ordinarily potent. Great damage is be
ing done to German indu.strial and military
areas.
In the meantime, it is interesting to .spec
ulate on what the hi.storians will say about
this war. Never in the history of conflict
has there been a shift of loyalties. A few
weeks ago Russia was regarded by mo.st
as an enemy and a German ally—now it
looks as if she will sink or swim with the
Democracies. Finland used to be much
admired in this countrj'—now she is to all
purposes a German ally. So is France
which was an American friend for almost
two centuries. The small Balkan powers
have all, sided with Germany—Croatia
Slovakia, Hungary, Rumania, etc. These
little countries have no love for Germany.
But they have intense hate for Ru-ssia.
Big question, yet unanswered, is what
stand Japan will ultimately take. She is
a member of the Axis, yet shei has a peace
treaty with Russia, and she can’t keep
both agreements. Some optimists think
she will eventually desert Germany and
join hands with Britain and the United
States. Japanese statements of policy so
far have been vague in the extreme. A
good argument can be made to the effect
that Japan could secure more for herself
by “cooperating” with this country than
by keeping tied to the apron strings of na
tions which have their hands full thous
ands of miles away.
Sitill andther subject of speculation is
what influence the German-Russian em-
broglio will have on thi^ country’s possible
entry into the war. Most seem to believe
that it has postponed our becoming an ac
tual belligerent. Reason for this stand is
that America policy will be to wait and see
Labor lit Germany
A corresponjdent recently wrote' the
Portland Oregonian a letter in which he
said: “Would you please give us a scorch
ing editorial on what you would think- or
say about Hitler if you received word that
he had commanded the German army to
go out with bayonets and guns and force
working men, against their legal organiz
ed superiors, to make airplanes and guns
for a foreign nation?”
Here is what the Oregonian said in re
ply: “Comment of that nature would be
very belated. On May 2, 1933, all offices
of all unions in Germany were seized by
storm troopers, their leaders and officers
were arrested, maltreated' or sent to con
centration camps; their property was con
fiscated. The autonomous organizations
of labor were destroyed in one day.
“In 1935 a German act established
work card system which requires every
laborer to carry with him a complete rec
ord of his previous employment, enables
the government to shift workers in accor
dance with government plans. A black
mark in the work book amounts to a death
sentence.”
No man was “forced” to work when the
government used troops to open the air
plane factory in California. What the
troops did do was to protect
citizens (union or non-union) in their right
to go to work if they wished. An over
whelming majority of the workers volun
tarily returned to their jobs at once.
No thinking American likes to see troops
u.sed in labor disputes. But there is no al
ternative so long as a handful of left-wing
labor leaders succeed in tying up factories
which are vital to American defense and
security, and in intimidating men who
want to work. It is up to the rank and file
of labor now. It can keep on working, and
accept arbitration of its grievances by a
government mediation board—or it can
follow the radicals within its ranks to cer
tain ruin.
With the thermometer hovering
arbnnd the century mati and the
sweat (perspiration wouldn’t be a
fitting word), -pouring like rain
in a cloudburst, we' know that
this column, like the show, must
go on. * .
If everybody can talk about the
weather we can write about it.
Ain’t this humidity awful? In
contrast we want to think about
the good old days last winter
when wool blankets were so com
fortable. To keep from thinking
about the weather, which makes
us hotter and hotter, we read a
blanket sale ad this morning. Aft
er mopping the sweat we rbad a
description of a blanket which
yon can cuddle about your ears
without your feet getting frost,
bitten. That must have meant
that it was all wool and yards
long.
MORE WEA'rHm
We can’t see any good reason,
except the 'boss, why we should
not take off to the top of the
Blue Ridge, stretch out on the
grass and let the cool breezes do
what our -handkerchief has fail
ed to do all day—stop the flow
of -perspiration from our untrou
bled brow.
X)UliD IXX>K AT PKrrURBS
. After getting out a paper we
American.went to a restaurant tired and
hungry. The waitress offered a
menu which we waved away with
a murmur just to -bring a good
meal. It was a good meal, for
which we expressed gratitude.
“Thank you,” said the waitress,
“and if you have any other
friends- who can’t read just send
them to me.”
Adulterated Democracy
When this war is over there seems, to be
a common assumption among many so-
called “thinking” people, that the remain
ing democracies will have to live in the
future under a taint of Socialism. In other
words, the idea is prevalent that we cannot
survive the ordeal without absorbing some
of the poison that has given civilization
such a bellyache. Here in our own coun
try, many public officials and thousands of
private citizens cry in alarm against “ap-
pea.sement.” They say you cannot ap
pease the monster that is sweeping Eu
rope. They say, and rightly so, that there
can be no compromise with a philosophy
whose ultimate aim is enslavement of the
common man. But, strangely, these self
same people accept calmly the idea of
adulterated democracy. They propo.se, af
ter the war, mind you, to attempt a com
promise with the very thing that they now
claim cannot be compromised with, cannot
be appeased—authoritarian government.
A Hitler is simply the result when authori
tarian government reaches maturity.
Right now in this country as we are con
doning a compromise with the forces that
destroy freedom for the individual. We
are allowing our basis industries, the key
to the whole free enterprise system, to be
edged ever closer to government domina
tion, apparently in the belief that it can
not be helped in view of the world trend.
What feeble rationalizing! What kind
off appeasement is this! We are either go
ing to have freedom and representative
government in this country now—and after
the war—or we are not. . If we trv to ap
pease the forces of Socialism by allowing
government to gradually absorb the utili
ties, the banks, the railroads, mining and
oil, under the guise of creating a better
post war society, we are heading for trou
ble. We will find that our basic indus
tries have become mere patronage ma
chines. All remaining enterprise will be
forced to its knees in an effort to “get
along’’ in a corrupt bureaucracy. Labor
will find itself caught in a titanic struggle
between two systems—^the free enterprisr
system versus an authoritarian Socialistic
system of the same brand that has engulf
ed Europe.
We have seen that in Europe power
graspers cannot be appeased. We have
not yet found it out at home.
Biologists tell us the blonde type will
probably have passed in another century.
It is not too soon to think of stuffing the
Tommy Manville collsction for posterity.
—Charlotte News,
SIXTEEN OR SIXTY-FIVE
Before the days of old age pen
sions women folks reluctantly
passed the 20-year-old mark. In
fact, to hear them tel! it, some
of them kept having their 20th
birthday for several consecutive
years.
Now the race Is- for sixty-five
years of age but it is a long jump
f.'om 20 to 65. All of which re
minds us of the following verses
from a popular (?) song:
When that old age pension check
comes to our door
We won’t have to dread the poor-
There is some more about the
man who turned this country np-
sidd down; and if you want to
get in on the tun send your dime
to Wksblngton, etc. But yon can’t
expect ns to remember the whole
thing. Or do you?
WEAK STOMACHS BEWARE
At the outset let us say that
the following song was not com
posed by un, that it has been
heard over radio and is very
popular with some people:
I love molasses, good old country
sogbrnm,
I love them in the winter ' and
the fall.
When they get so full of flies
That they look like raisin pies
That’s the way I love them best
of all.
I went to see my girl the other
night;
She was making ’lasses pies
She likes them in the winter and
the fall.
When she eats them and they
trinkle down her chin
I lick them off and laugh again;
That’s the way I like them best
of all.
otttee, 'Pentce^
States entry Into leeUAid ^ a sta%
in the bock of a Enntp^ cotn--
munlty which it said wds'ntrng-
gllng with holshevlsin for preser
vation of western ciTlUcatlon. Its
comment was the first from com
petent German quarters on the
Iceland situation.
The Boersen Zeitung, Berlin’s
leading financial paper and the
only other publication to com
ment, called the United States ac
tion “the brutal rape of a small
Europern people.”
It also said, “Herr Roosevelt
entered the operations zone of
thisN war and consciously set foot
the battlefield where the
Have you had enough?
FOURTH ESTATE
“ Fourth Estate” is a term fre
quently associated with newspap
er men. Thoreau, noted American
philosopher, defines the three es
tates as Church, State and Peo
ple. Of course, a fourth had to
be created for newspaper men,
since they wouldn’t fit in either
of the three.
PASTURES
W. H. Blalock of Lucama ha.s
Increased the value of his pas
tures immeasureably through the
use of lime, says 0. W. Deyton,
assistant Wilson county farm a-
gent of the N. C. Extension Ser-1
vice.
sharpsbooting is going on. The
responsibility lies with him.’’
The Boersen Zeitung is known
to have excellent connections at
the Wllhelmatrasse.
In a German shortwave broad
cast by Lord Haw Haw, Berlin’s
star propaganda announcer for
the English-speaking public, he
described the move as “an act of
aggression” which in effect scraps
the Monroe doctrine. Lord Haw
Haw was quoted In part as fol
lows:
“Now President Roosevelt de
cides to strike at Europe from be
hind and to violate the sovereign,
ty of a small and defenseless peo
ple who has preferred to remain
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THE NORTHWESTERN BANK
NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C.
Statement Of Condition At Close Of Business
June 30,1941
RESOURCES
LIABILITIES
Cash and Due from Banks $1,069,491.32
Bonds, Stocks and Accrued
Interest - 1,148,888.48
Loans — - 3,323,994.68
9 Banking Houses, Furniture and I
Fixtures—Less Depreciation 83,790.45
Other Real Elstate ‘8,387.65
Other Assets 1,226.13
$5,635,778.71
Capital Stock (Common) $ 205,000.00
Surplus !. 120,000.00
Undivided Profits 156,587.97
Reserve for Contingencies 7,500.00
Reserves for Interest Due De
positors, Taxes, etc 64,915.48
Deposits of Dealers as Guarantee
for Loans - 4,792.73
,Other Liabilities 132.20
DEPOSITS - - $5,076,850.33
$5,635,778.71
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Edwin Duncan, Elxec. Vice-Pres.
Dudley S. Hill, Asst. Cashier
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