; THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872
The Passing Show Of '43
DESTROYING GERMANY
Old George B. Shaw was the only man in the
r world that knew the power and the fighting
ability of Russia, •
When the Germans began the attack on Russia
the opinion in Europe as well as in America was
that the Huns would get a decision in six weeks.
Old George Shaw, the 80-year-old Irish play
vight, historian, philosopher, cynic, laughed.
He said Germany would be destroyed by Russia.
The great panzer divisions composed of the
finest equipped and the most completely trained
troops in the world swept everything before
them.
Town after town, city after city, crumbled un
der the wheels of the giant German tanks, while
in the air fleets of bombers pulverized all op
position.
Then they stopped.
.Now after nearly two years the German arm
ies, short more than a million men, are flying
headlong back toward the German borders,
1 broken and bleeding.
Since the last issue of the Reporter, the two
largest bastions of the German lines have been
smashed. Rostov and Kharkov are in the hands
of the Russians.
Five Russian armies are blasting at the re
treating foe, who leaves behind his dead with
unmeasured material and supplies.
A newspaper correspondent at the front de
scribes a "dead city" he saw. It was a city of 9,000
tanks and trucks abandoned by the Huns in their
wild scramble for safety, and scattered around
on the snow were thousands of Hun corpses.
Maybe old George knew what he was talking
about. Germany is being destroyed.
ROOSEVELT AND THE CLIQUE
Since the increased Republican votes have
v come to congress out of the late election, the
anti-Roosevelt faction is in the saddle. The Presi
dent no longer has much influence in the body
because Democratic "haters" by hooking up
with the Republicans have got the dead wood on
him.
No matter what measure Roosevelt recom
mends, just so he wants it, it is beaten.
The Republicans of course vote en bloc. The
/'haters" join them.
Here's samples:
The President offered request for 100 millions
for incentive payments for farmers. Defeated
by the clique.
I The President nominated Edward J. Flynn as
minister to Australia. Had to withdraw it, under
pressure of the clique.
The President wanted top salaries limited to
$25,000 after taxes. Defeated by the clique.
The National Resources Planning Board was
put in the appropriation bill by the President,
•' Defeated by the clique. ♦
Who constitutes the clique? All the Republi
. cans, plu« Wheeler, Clark, Smith, Reynolds,
B3rrd,«tß. . .
Volume 72
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, February 18, 1942.
, THE TUNISIAN TRAGEDY
Mistakes can be forgiven everywhere except
in battle.
There can be no alibi for failure when men's
lives have to pay the bill.
Eisenhower is doubtless a great general. But
somebody erred in Tunisia, and there is nobody
that the blame can be fixed upon except the chief
commander.
We know that the American boys are as brave
as any soldiers in the world. They went where
sent, not deigning to reason why, only to do and
die.
The press reports say the Germans were able
to hurl against our lines two divisions to our
one, and panzers equipped with superior tanks.
If so, why ?
If the forces the Allies have in Africa number
500,000 men, while the Germans number only
130,000, why should our forces be overwhelmed
with a blitz twice their own power 1
If there were super-tanks hurled by the enemy,
why did we not have super-tanks to meet them .'
If our boys were swamped with a suprise rftove
ment, why should our high command have been
suprized ?
| Napoleon Bonaparte was the world's most suc
cessful tactician. If he figured 100 guns would
be needed to do the job, he would use 500.
Overplus is pardoned, but underplus never.
General N. R Forrest's slogan was: ''Get there
first with the most men."
Three Union generals converged to defeat
Stonewall Jackson, whose army numbered less
than a third of the enemy. But he defeated all
three foes at Harper's Ferry.
Lack of initiative, foresight and preparation
are fatal.
There must be no repetition of Pearl Harbor,
and Tunisia.
There is no excuse for failure.
RATIONING PAPER
And now rationing hits the newspapers.
The supply of paper is scarce and growing
scarcer every week on account of the shipping
shortage.
The government is making regulations that
will seriously affect every newspaper—great and
small.
HOW TO BEAT THE BULLETS
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In the long run, food will win over bullets.
Never in the history of this country has it been
so imperative that we grow plenty of food of all
kinds—wheat, corn, meat, potatoes, beans, peas,
tomatoes and all that sort of thing.
They are talking it around in some quarters
that if we don't raise it, we won't eat.
Manpower will be scarce in Stokes this year,
but we believe that just the same the greatest
food ever before will be gathered next fall.
The armies can't fight on empty stomachs—-re
member that . » -TV*.
EDITORIALS
Published Thursdays
THE ROCK OF ALL THE AGES
More Bibles and Testaments were printed by
the American Bible Society last year than any
year in the 127 years of its publishing* existence.
In 10 months aione it turned out 8,000,000. At
one of its plant? at Crawfordsville, Ind., for the
last seven months the presses have been print
ing 10,000 Testaments a day.
Now the Christian government of the United
States is putting a copy of the scripture in the
hands of every boy who goes into the service,
free.
Sinclair Lewis lately spoke intentionally op
probriously of the South as the "Bible Belt"
Mr. Lewis doubtless was ignorant that he was
doing the South an immeasurable honor.
What kind of "Belt" would this irresponsible
scoffer call Germany, Italy and Japan ?
Scurrilous pulp writers like Lewis are respons
ible for most of the affected materialism with
which many weak minds are infected. A weak
mind often rejects what it can't understand.
The finite intelligence cannot fathom the radio,
but it knows the enlightenment comes from
somewhere. We cannot differentiate the violet
and the rose, but we enjoy their wonderful
beauties. Out in the illimitable spaces the morn
ing stars sing together. There is harmony and
peace. Science and religion go down the world
hand in hand.
Old Voltaire, Rousseau, Tom Paine are dead,
their volumes covered with dust. Unread except
by those who are wise in their own pitiful ego.
The skeptics tried to destroy faith, with noth
ing to give in its place. Their criticisms were like
| ephemeral foam dashed at the base of the Great
Rock, and then dissipated into the sea of eternity.
Bob Ingersoll was a smart Illinois lawyer who
pitted himself against the judgment of the cen
turies. He died laughed at, as a buffoon who
goes off the stage.
The last seen of Elbert Hubbard was when he
and his co-atheist wife arm in arm staggered in
horror across the sinking deck of the Lusitania.
For twenty centuries the Bible has stood the
test. It is a safe guide for those who live and the
one consolation for those who die.
It was the ever-ready companion and helpmeet
for Gladstone, George Washington} Lincoln,
Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt.
When its detractors are forgotten in the ob
livion of the countless centuries, it will still
stand in its beauty and strength, the immutable
and immovable Rock of All the Ages.
— -14' H,
TRIBUTE PAID BY HUNS
TO THEIR MOLOCH
The supeiior race called..German, pays an ap
palling price to its moloeh—'War. ' •
In Woi Id War No. 1 the German losses were
4,259,000.
Now, according to the New York Times, the
German loss is more than 4,000,000.
The Russians are exacting a staggering tribute
from th? Huns. Every day the figure of fatalities
grows more sickening.
And the great powers of America and England
are just whetting their knives. "
The German people who backed the Kaiser and
are now backing the wild man Hitler will stran
gle on the ashes of their roses.
* * * * Number 3,694.