THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872 Volume 71
DIVIDE. THEN CONQUER
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' If Hitler coulcl a bitter campaign
between the two parties of the
.United States, it water his wheel.
* The Hitler strategy for the conquest of Europe
worked well. His policy as expressed by the lead
ers of the Nazi party was, tirst divide, then con
- quer.
France fell easily after German sympathizers,
•traitors, spies, Fifth Columnists, disseminated
Hitler lies among the armies and the people of
France. When old Petain had been bribed with
German gold and with promises of power, and
many of his generals had swallowed the lies, the
Hun armies had a walk-over. There was a stym
ied resistance for a while, then surrender.
The plan worked in Belgium, Norway and oth
* er countries of Europe. Their subjugation was a
* cinch for the panzer divisions.
A dangerous fend in the ranks of the Ameri
can people over bitter issues in would
seriously weaken the war effort. A half hearted
nation might succumb in a conflict of the dimen
sions of this, where every ounce of energy is
needed from every citizen if we would be suc
cessful in the battle for our freedom.
One of Hitler's most recent and damaging lies
* 5s that Roosevelt, "who manoeveredl us into this
war, who is a warmonger himself, wants to get
the 18-19 year toys into the army. But he is wait
* ing until after the November election to show
his hand, fearing an uprising of the people at
the polls to destroy his Dictatorship."
This Hitler lie is now being widely circulated
to induce the fathers and mothers of the teen
age boys to rebel against the "Dictator Ro&se
yelt," and to stay home on election day.
. Many of the more ignorant will swallow this
- lie. The more intelligent know it is a lie— a
choice Hitler lie. It is malicious and foul. It
smells of the Hitter technique. It ree"ks with the
Hitler rottenness and poison.
Intelligent peopfle know that the ißreadent can
not draft boys, and that only Congress can pass
a law to eialst the 18-19 hoys, and that Congress
men and Senators almost without an exceptions
oppose such a law except cm a demand from the
army that it needs the boys in defense tsf their
f country.
And in defense of our country if they are need
ed these boys will spring from a million homes.
2 And no true American would oppose the law to
defend the American firesides.
. This has been the mildest political campaign
in the nation's history. With roost of the leaders
of both parties, polities has been adjourned.
•rtie best minds of the nation believe that in the
most crueial hour of the country's existence a
sOlid front should be offered the enemy, and that
the Democratic and Republican parties both had
better be effaced as political organizations and
forgotten, rather than the people of America
should be governed by the Nazi party of Berlin
i or the Black Dragon Society of Japan.
DO LEOPARDS CHANGE THEIR SPOTS?
* On August 28, 1940, Congressman Fish, over
whelmingly re-nominated lately in New York,
said:
"I believe Germany's claims are just. I favor
liquidation of the Versailles treaty."
* tyonier Willkie and Dewey want this fish
harpooned. , ... , r
Timely Editorials
—Danbury, N. C., Thursday, September 24, 1942 Published Thursdays
THE LAST POSE OF SUMMER
"Tears. idle lea:s. I know not whist t'icy mean,
' TVais from the Jcp:li if some •!' i;.e despair
Rise in the heart and gather to the eyes
y In looking o'er the hapj>> uu'.ur ,1 fields
Ar.d thinking ol" the days that .•!• no more."
Dallying on the threshhold of autumn with the
'saffron pallor of death on her cheek, beautiful,
| pensive Summer kissed her rose-scented finger
tips and officially disappeared over the moun
tain.
Disappeared just as a swish of north wind
whipped in, scattering poplar leaves.
The Dan moved away disconsolate through the
'willows, murmuring a dirge.
Crows cawed from the tops of tall trees in the
woods where a somber stillness brooded through
dim aisles.
The sunflower drooped, its sad eyes on the
ground. The morning glory smiled through its
tears left by the early dew.
Evening came on and doves ccoed from the
hill. Rabbits scampered through the thicket on
velvet feet.
The big harvest moon rose and looked down
solemnly on the landscape.
Good - bye lovely, blithe, lissome Summer,
charming as Sappho, fresh as the rainbow, grac
ious as the smile of the perfect dawn, now gone
with the robins and the whipporwills, the honey
suckle and the bumble bees, the bluebirds and
the watermelons.
INDISCREET TALKING
lieut. Gen. Ben Lear is entirely too smart to
belong to the American military regime and
ought to be kicked downstairs by President
Roosevelt.
At the American Legion's national convention
at Kansas City .Saturday jLear said in his ad
dress that U. S. losses in the present war will be
many times as great as those "you legionnaires
experienced in World War 1, and conceivably
will he between two and three million men be
fore this conflict ends."
In the first place this loqaacious general does
not know whether our bases will be heavy or
not, as no one knows what turn the war will take
in the next few months.
In the second place, even if he were in posses
sion of vital information, he fthould not he so in
discreet as to divulge it in a gratuitous disclosure
so calculated to discourage and alarm the fight
ing forces.
General Mitchell, the most brilliant and know
ing chief of the air forces, a few years ago was
dismissed in disgrace for uttering woHs far
damaging to morale than Lear has put out.
And Mitchell knew what he was talking about
and his predictions have come true.
The Hitler subtile poison sometimes induces
people occupying high places, especially mili
tary personages, to utter sentiments that may
not be exactly treasonable or even seditious, but
which contain insidious suggestions that damp
en the war spirit of the soldiers or the people
back home.
It appears quite possible that Lear has become
infected with the virus. He certainly talks like
a saboteur. It would not hurt to take his red
American blood count
AVOID MOTH AND RUST AND RI STLERK
The Good Book says lay up you- • - i;i
tl.at place where neither iv Ji n -
rupt.
1 nose treasures are etli' ■ • •
uiv> ''t the heart unci s>u 1, wuri'i i• • •}• i.. .1 1
tntr jewels known.
But it' you have as much as (5 ( » substantia!
bucks of the Federal Reserve system in your
jeans, you had better put it in government boml.-
or stamps or in a good bank where the govern
ment (thanks to F D R) assures you it will be
safe.
This advice we feel sure will be OK'd by our
good friend Reid Flinchum, who thought his
pants were safer than the bank or the Federal
treasury, and so lost his cash to rustlers last Sad
day evening.
Now the gold tide is rushing in and many peo
ple will have money to burn. If you will burn it,
burn it up in powder..
THE TERRIBLE ACCIDENTS OF THE MR
It is becoming nothing short of a national
scandal —these frequent and appalling crashes
of training planes in the United States air fields.
Every few days a plane comes down with / tick
ing loss of life, and this serious condition lias
been going on for a long time.
| These distressing accidents evidently reveal a
criminal lack of knowledge or precaution in the
dangerous field of aeronautics, and should be in
vestigated by a committee of congress.
' We know that the percentage of these disasters
! ir small if compared with the vast and constant
ly growing personnel now learning to fly. But
even so, they are far too numerous to be treated
with complacency.
TOLD YOU SO
If any one thing in the world pleases us more
than another it is to be able to say: I told you so.
The Reporter said last spring that this crop of
tobacco would bring more money than any since
WW 7 No. 1.
And now it's here. Ah, the delight of saying:
We told you so. ,
Averages are skyrocketing, and farmers
bless their hearts—are happy.
They deserve to be happy, having worked hard
in the hot and in the cold, and in many cases the
women and children have helped faithfully.
And in cases where the women and children do
not share equally in the happiness, the farmer
man is not a true farmer.
THE CEILING IS ON r
The ceiling on tobacco prices was put on Wed
nesday at Washington. It is very complicated to
a layman's mind, and difficult to understand
clearly.
But the fact is sure that the Old Belt averages
will continue to be higher than any year since
the big year—l9l9.
HOLDING HITLER AT STALINGRAD
The heart of the liberty-loving world is with
the Russians holding back Hitler at Stalingrad.
It is probably the greatest, bloodiest battle of
history. The courage and heroism of the Rus
sians is an epic for all time.
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