THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872 Volume 71
The Passing Show Of Nineteen Forty =Two
SMOKE ON THE HOME FRONT
"If Hitler wins this war, it will not make much
difference. It will just mean swapping Dictator.-.
I don't believe Hitler is any worse Dictator than
Roosevelt."
If the Stokes county man reported to have re
peatedly made the above statement, a man with
a family and protected in the enjoyment of his
rights as a free citizen of this free country, is
honest in his conviction and actually believes
what he has said, it is a sad commentary on our
educational systems and on all informative med
iums of the times: The books, the magazines, the
newspapers, the radio and all of the innumer
able publicised observations and experiences of
thousands of citizens of this and other countries.
„ The President of the United States is not a Dic
tator nor indeed can be. He has no powers except
those vested in him by the constitution, and no
prerogatives save those delegated to him by the
laws of this nation, which are passed by con
gress. If he were the unscrupulous tyrant which
this Stokes county man pictures him, he would
quickly be impeached by our Senators and Con
gressmen. The President cannot make laws. He
can only execute the laws made for his guidance
by our governing body.
• On the other hand, Hitler is saturated with un
restricted powers, not only over property but
over life and death in his own nation of Germany
and in the nations which he had subjugated.
There is no law in the realms of Hitler except
Hitler law.
Hitler has caused the death of more than a mil
lion innocent men, women and children among
his enslaved peoples, merely by a nod of his head
or a wave of his hand. We do not speak of sol
diers in battle. We mean the helpless and unarm
ed citizens who haye been the victims of his sus
picion or hate.
Hitler has no morals and defies both God and
man in carrying out the decrees of his ambition
or malice.
Hitler has ordained that the young women of
Germany need not be married to engage in the
duties of family life, but are even encouraged
and enjoined to multiply and propagate indis
criminately that the armies of Germany may
have more men to feed them.
Hitler confiscates and appropriates to himself
or his henchmen at will the property of Germany
or any other nation under his control. The sub
jects of his iron rule are forced to endure this
outrage and like it. Through his Gestapo or sec
ret police system, any person who dares oppose
the will of Hitler, dies. Any person who even in
curs his dislike or suspicion is quietly removed
' by his orders, to dungeon or firing squad.
Hitler has all but destroyed every public aspect
of the Christian religion in his domain, and the
children in the schools are taught to believe only
in the God Hitler.
This man who is a real Dictator is the star
scoundrel of all time, the world's most ambitious
and ruthless tyrant, the bloodiest murderer of
all the ages.
He is the most grasping and dangerous menace
to peace and liberty that mankind has known, not
even excepting Genghis Kahn, Alexander, Cae
sar or Napoleon.
In comparing Roosevelt with Hitler, the Stokes
county man betrays the most abysmal ignorance
-on record, and can only be classed with the imbe
ciles, the nit-wits and the nincompoops—admit-*
ting that he is honest in his belief.
' If not—if he knows better, and is actuated by
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BUSINESS AFTER THE WAR
J Many people believe that we will be in for a
great depression and a long period of hard times
,after the war when million* of men from the
! armies and the idle war factories will walk the
■streets and highways with nothing to do, and
'panic and desolation will brood over the land
everywhere.
j We do not for one minute coincide with this
gloomy view.
i We believe that for many years after the bat
tles are over and peace has come that the United
iStates of America will be in for the greatest per
jiod of good times the world has ever known, and
'that future generations will read in their histor
ies of the golden age that came when the allied
armies were finally victorious over the Axis.
It will be no doubt quite a number of years af
ter the war is over before the giant armies can
be demobilized. But as fast as the men can
I be disarmed and put back into the ways of peace
Ithey will be absorbed by the economic needs of
| the nation.
| Let us remember that the great war munitions
i plants must largely be converted back to peace
time employment, and that countless thousands
of hands will be engaged.
There will then be automobiles by the mil
lions to be built, railways, traction lines, tools of
jevery conceivable kind, furniture, farm trucks,
tractors and implements of myriad sorts to be
manufactured.
The highways will be repaired and reconstruct
ed and new roads built everywhere.
Then we must furnish supplies to all of the de
stroyed and barren places of "Europe and Asia
and Africa. The starving millions must have
food, and farm prices will soar.
The needs of a shattered world must be met
in England, Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy, and
all the nations that have been depleted.
Only America will be in position for many
years to supply that need.
Those who envisage hard times after the war
are mistaken—the flush times will be such as
have not been witnessed within the memory of
map.
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CEILING
Congressman John H. Folger makes a strong
point in the tobacco ceiling proposal matter
when he says it will not be fair to the farmers of
Piedmont North Carolina Old Belt to fix a ceil
ing on their tobacco prices based on the prices
j being paid on the eastern belts.
, The farmers of the Old Belt—Mr. Folger
argues—have grown a much better crop of to
bacco than the farmers down east and a ceiling
at say 35 cents for the eastern crop will be com
paratively too low for our farmers whose crop
would naturally be worth considerably more.
Folger with leading tobacconists and farmers
of this section of the State will appear before
.the Washington authorities to enter a protest,
and the chances are good for a modification of
the OPA ruling.
malice, then he becomes of that vicious and dan
gerous type of society that needs be confined. He
is of the genus asp, and spits the same kind v of
venom you find in the fang's of the Black Widow
spider. He debases himself, and is lower than the
toad that drinks from the sewer ditch.
SKITI'KU RECOMMENDED TO
MARSHAL ROMMEL
I
| It is noticed in the paper.- that s!. •! ]', >m •
'nel, since his much heralded" blitz in North At
j lica has been hopelessly .-mashed by the Ih itMi
and Americans, is sick.
j It i> also njted that the Marshal will be replac
ed by another Hun general.
It appears to be quite a convenient time for the
Marshal to get sick. Wendell Willkie, who paid
this war front a visit after the battle, says the
Axis lost over a third of their tanks in the fight
jand uncounted masses of other material, while
British Spitfires and American flying fortresses
had complete control of the air. j
But people are naturally wondering what spec
ies of ailment afflicted the Marshal, whether he
l was taken with a coronary thrombosis, or a dry-
I ing up of his gall duct, or just a case of nerves.
j Anyway why doesen't he do like the Japs—em-
I ploy svppuku, a quick antidote for failure.
When a Jap gets licked, he finds it embarassing
to face the rats back home with his story of how
it didn't happen.
So he resorts to seppuku ,»r rs some say hara
kira, which is a disembowelment following a
disillusionment.
In this way he can show at least that he had
some.
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THE PRESIDENT IS RIGHT >
Inflation means the high cost of living.
There is great danger to the country when
commodities begin to rise exorbitantly in price,
making it difficult or impossible for poor people
to buy the necessities of life. This condition is
immediately followed by a rise in the wages of
labor. «
Thus the dangerous spiral starts, and never
ends. Soon the economical equilibrium is thrown
out of joint, money becomes almost worthless
and the country reels on the brink of disaster.
The President says Congress must apply ceil
ings to both commodities and wages before the
disaster comes, and that if it fails to do so he will
under the powers granted him to protect the
people in grave national emergencies, install
ceilings himself by presidential proclamation.
The President is right. "The people will uphold
him in his efforts to prevent the economic crisis.
UNCONQUERABLE RUSSIA
The Reporter has said ever since the Huns first
attacked Russia that they would never conquer
I Russia.
j We are glad to notice that our two valued
friends Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Church
ill have both recently given expression to the
same opinion, and we are willing to give both of
them credit for saying it after we said it.
The Germans are now thundering at the gates
of Stalingrad and may take that important city.
But they have not trapped the wily Joe Stalin's
brave armies. And they never will, and soon Joe
will get relief by the gigantic new front now
rapidly coming to his aid.
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