THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872
Ho! A Carolinian Speaks
The most logical, the most patriotic, the most
sensible speech yet made in the United States
Senate cn the lease-lend measure now before
Congress, was delivered by Josiah William
Bailey at Washington yesterday, in which the
Senator said:
"The axis powers may regard this legislation
as an act of war. But—listen—they do not at
tack because of provocation.
"My judgmsnt is they will fight this country
when they think they can whip us and not before.
If we were as peaceful as lambs and as calm as
doves —if we appease them with everything we
have—they will not hesitate to attack us when
they think the time is ready."
Continuing, Senator Bailey said: "I am advoca
ting intervention with all its implicat ; ons. I am
not going to hedge."
"And", he concluded, while a great crowd pack
ed the gallaries, and he banged his desk:
"If anybody asks me what we are going to do
if Germany and Japan declare war on us, I'll tell
them WE ARE GOING TO FIGHT TO THE
LAST MAN, THE LAST DOLLAR AND THE
LAST DROP OF BLOOD. If President Roose
velt's British aid bill means war, I AM READY
TO GO."
The Danbury Reporter has never been more
proud of this* brilliant North Carolinian who
speaks the words that so many skulking cowards
and appeasers and isolationists in Congress
need to hear, and words which by nobody else
have been spoken. Words which are true to the
honor and integrity of the American nation
which will not yield or side-step to the threats of
the murderers of Europe and Asia.
'All honor to Bailey, a true descendant of
George Washington, James Monroe, Andrew
Jackson, Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Wood
row Wilson.
How nobly his sentiment and declaration con
trast with the cringing, pusillanimous, cowardly,
betraying Fifth Columnists like Bui ton K.
Wheeler, Taft, Vandenburg, Nye, Clark. Lind
bergh, etc., who would —through their policies of
knuckling to Germany and its subversive ac
tions in this country—lead the boys of America,
through a criminal and tragic unpreparedness,
to destruction, and with them the destruction of
America.
i * i .I ■ •
AMERICA WANTS NO WAR, BUT—
America will fight before it will submit to the
domination of any people in the world, or the
prevention of our right to live and do business
and prosper along the lines of trade and com
merce and business as established for us by our
forefathers.
The fall of Singapore, the fa-eat British naval
and airplane base of the Essi that has for al!
time stood for the free pasage of American
ships with our manufactured products, our cot
ton, wheat, tobacco and gasoline to the markets
of the East, would be a tragedy of the first mag
nitude for England and America.
When Japanese wars'- 'is undertake to con
quer Singapore they w '*•» met not on*y by
British warships bu i by ? American battle
fleet in all of it 3 power.
As long as liberty burns in the breasts of the
English speaking peoples, the Lion and the
p 0 ffip waves.
i. ; many, and Japan realize this,
Volume 66
Danbnry, N. C., Thursday, Feb. 20, 1941. * *
THE SIDESTEP OF NORTH CAROLINA'S
SYNTHETIC SENATOR
North Carolinians who believe in the glory and
history and noble traditions of America, and
who have always been found standing like a
stone wall by the things that have made America
great, are humiliated by the sudden about-face
on national defense of our alleged Senator Bob
Reynolds.
In this hour of the country's greatest peril, the
disappointment occasioned by desertion of a
leader might be poignant indeed.
I Dispatches from Washington today state that
; Reynolds had, as a member of the foreign
j relations committee, previously been for the
lease-lend bill, (with "reservations") he suddenly
turned tail and joined the isolationist-appeaser
; fifth column group led by Wheeler, Lindbergh,
| Nye, Vandenburgh, Clark, Earl Browder, etc.
In a three-hours speech, Reynolds—the fir&t
Southern Senator to vote against the biil —gave
; his support to the friends of the Reich, and the
; enemies of the safety of the United States.
' North Carolina does not endorse the stand of
! Reynolds, which is against the sincere and pa
triotic efforts of the President of the United
States and repugnant to the judgment of the
best minds of our civil and military leaders.
While his position is it is not sur
prising to those who recall that he was not in
| the lines when 140 thousands Americans died to
'save civilization and democracy in the last war.
iNow when the peril to our country is infinitely
• more, the fact that he is still keeping a weather
eye to the tall timber does not occasion amaze
ment.
With J. W. Bailey and Claude Pepper bearing
the flag, and all the others south of the M.-D.
marker, in serried ranks, may we be excused for
leaving behind our synthetic Senator.
WHAT MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND
AND ROUND ?
A dispatch from Singapore, apropos of the Jap
threat to that far Eastern British base, tells of
"an Australian imperial force of many thou
sands strong reaching the port," "the largest and
most powerful reinforcement of men, guns and
machines ever to arrive in a single convoy."
The dispatch goes on to say that "the calm of
this great naval base was broken by a great up
roar as gray vessels came alongside the docks,
with the bronzed tigers yelling and screaming to
the British regiment band to play "Roll Out the
Barrell," ami that the "medical corps was accom
panied by pretty nurses."
What makes the world go round and round?
"NEGOTIATED PEACES"
f establishing %0,000 troops on H
; •- e to Greece, n tif.es Greece to make peace
I witn Mussolini; on tli«? terms that Mussolini will
dictate, else the Greeks will be smashed bv the
0 mechanized divisions.
>f- course means the destruction . the
C'v ration and the hopeless enslavement of
thei ?ks.
The Greats cam-. : ? sil to comply, notwith
standing cheir sacrifice their total '"feat
of the Italian invaders of Greece and Albania.
And this is the kind of "negotiated peace" that.
Lindbergh and Wheeler would have Britain and
America make with Hitler—a Hitler peace which i
■may be spelt with six letters—CHAlNS. ,
(Editorials)
* Published Thursdays
PRESERVE YOUR PESETAS
Professor in a western university stresses
thrift and saving" as an essential qualification
for successful youth.
Andrew Carnegie—a Scot —was an outstand
ingl apostle of parsimony. His theme for young
men was "Save—save —save."
What for, specially, Andy never did say. It Is
a historical fact that his enormous accumula
tions dissipated when the flowers had faded.
We have sometimes wondered if the Steel
Baron didn't have a hankering suspicion that
asbestos —an affinity of his product—might nor,
somehow be used to protect the hoardings at last.
He couldn't conscientiously desert the interests
he was leaving. The pain of it was too poignant.
But we are quite sure that the habit of intense
saving has a much more spiritual value. A tight
iwad should go to Heaven when he dies because
lof his unselfishness. One who knows by com
, monsense logic how frail and uncertain is his
[tenure on life, to deny himself the pleasures of
—the comforts, the luxuries, and all
| that sort of thing—in order that his successors —
,and their lawyers—may enjoy the fruits of his
| self-denial, should be handsomely rewarded in
some way.
- NOT QUITE SO BAD A3 TH AT.
;
We heard a radio divine in a morning "devo
tional" express himself about the conditions of
this tragic day. He said:
"This is one of the most darkest and most
saddest periods in the history of the world."
We had an idea things were gloomy and dis
couraging, but we never believed it was so bad
'as that.
TOBACCO MAY BE HIGH THIS FALL
In the lend-lease bill, as sponsored by President
Roosevelt, which bill is now before congress and
certain to pass by a huge majority—there is a
provision that means big things for tobacco.
In this bill which pledges all-out help for Eng
land, is a requirement that the British must help
the farmers of America by buying their needed
foodstuffs and commodities, as far as practicable,
from us. This the English have gladly promised
to do.
Thus with our exports coming back, with re
stricted production as voted by our farmers and
the natural curtailment of production by so
many men going to camps and going to the va
rious public works, the future of tobacco looks
bright.
| FILE YOUR REPORTS! S
.
The early history of Stokes as bein& delved out
by Thomas S. Petree and publish 1 in the Re
porter, is very valuable to those who care for
their country's history. Every issue of the Re-
I poster, if saved, will be valuable in the years to
come.
[ A country without a pedigv™.. i o it a back
ground, is a nondescript desert c ' where no
one is proud to live except those l mdescripto
who cannot afford ore and nineteen-hundreths
of a cent Der week for their county paper.
ly-Go-Round says there
~ " cracking axib.
Number 3,577