THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872
YOU CAN'T DO BUSINESS WITH THE WOLF,
THE HYENA AND THE JACKAL
A lovely gesture it was by President Roosevelt
when he designated Friday, January 1 as an oc
casion in which divine guidance should be asked
for America and her allies, with special prayers
for the boys making the supreme sacrifice.
Surprise if not poignant chagrin was felt when
in some churches prayers were sent up for bless
ings on Japan, Germany and Italy.
Such sentiment, spirit and policy if inculcated
widely in the nation and through the armies
would LOSE THE WAR FOR AMERICA AN!)
HER ALLIES.
So much more appropriate would have been a
petition to the Almighty to destroy Hitler and
all his works, and to sink the treacherous and
murderous Jap nation in the middle of the yel
low seas.
There is the Biblical injunction that we love
our enemies, and turn the left check to them
when they smack us on the right—this may be
true. But is not this figurative command over
shadowed by the broader interpretation that we
shall hate sin and evil in all their despicable
manifestations ?
Is tne'i'6 sin and evil in tne world today so
great, so horrifying as Germany, Italy and Ja
pan ? Are not these pirate nations the embodi
ment of evil in its most repulsive aspect, and the
very essence of sin ?
ERGO, SHALL WE NOT HATE GERMANY,
ITALY AND JAPAN—hate them with a de
stroying hatred that burns like the consuming
sweep of a great fire, a hate that blasts and
shrivels, bearing all before it ?
Then why should we ask divine blessing; on
evil and sin ?
Rather than ask Providence to bless the Axis —
xhe symbol of sin and evil —let us rather invoke
His mercy and pity for the gallant men who died
at Pearl Harbor, and for the broken hearted
widows and orphans created by the inhuman
treacherous devils who struck them without
warning on December 7, 1941.
Rather than invoke the benediction of Heaven
on Hitler and Mussolini in Europe, let us make
a plea for protection of the convoys of food and
medicines we are sending to the starving people
of Greece, Poland, Belgium, etc., whose bread
was confiscated by Germany, and who die by
thousands daily.
Shall we pray God to consecrate the heartless
invaders of the conquered nations of Europe
whose people have been enslaved, whose women
violated, whose churches destroyed, whose relig
ion banned, whose property confiscated ?
Let us rather pray that the buccaneers may
taste the sharp edge of the sword of vengeance
for their unspeakable crimes.
Those who disseminate the doctrine of ap
peasement to, and benevolence for the greatest
criminals of earth, are only helping to forge
chains that will fasten them and their country if
the American armies fail in their mission.
No battle was ever won with love. Compassion
has no place in the fury of onrushing armies.
War means steel and fire, tanks, planes, blood
and death. It is an overwhelming pity this is so.
But it is so. Sin and evil make it so.
To pray for blessing on the triumvirate of un
exampled cruelty and iniquity becomes a strange
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Editorial Glances
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, January 7, 1943.
'paradox while the choirs sing "Onward Christ
ian Soldier."
The Good Book tells of the old time when the
saints and patriarchs went forth in the battles
! of the Lord, and smote the enemy hip and thigh,
| and the Lord blessed them with victory. Our
forefathers in America carved places in the wil
derness for their worship, went to church with
jtheir squirrel rifles on their shoulders. They
I fought for their church, their religion, their God
Shall the Christians and patriots of modern
times fight the super-menace confronting democ
racy, freed >m and Christianity with c!mp;is-iur
and humiliv.and see by their supinene>s the
church Hvk centurk • to subsist in cata
comb.*, like ancient worship}) is in Rome or skull;
in caves iike I he ?:hettoed Jews of Poland and
Norway today 0
The loss of the war by England and America
would be a tragedy of such appalling conse
quence that the soul shivers in the contemplation
iof it. The victory of Hitler and Hirohito would be
jsu. h a stupendous wrong to liberty and Christ
ianity that the imagination shrinks to even en
visage it.
AND THE WAR WILL BE LOST UNLESS
OUR ARMIES ARE ANIMATED WITH THE
TOUGHNESS AND RUTHLESSNESS OF WAR.
Do you think you can propitiate the wolf, ap
pease the hyena or coddle the jackal?
You may, if you don't mind being disentrailed.
As you kneel in compassion and loving-kind
jness the noose will be slipped over your neck.
|and your iron collar will be fastened.
Beware the Gestapo and the Order of the Black
Dragon, that know no pity or mercy or sympa
thy.
God bless America and the splendid and noble
and sacred things our boys are fighting for,
and may He blast and destroy the sin and evil
—symbolized by Germany, Italy and Japan
that stand in the way.
FORBES SAYS THE GOOD VICTORY IS
COMING THIS YEAR
B. C. Forbes, one of the highest financial
authorities arid business analysts in the United
States—and who by the way is almost exactly
like Lawrence Macßae of Walnut Cove—says
we will win over Hitler this year.
Mr. Forbes in his new year forecast, says the
United States will decisively gain the upperhand
on all fronts soon, probably in the first half of
the year.
He says Japan will hold on longer but will be
pulverized* next year when America, England,
Russia and China swing into full action all to
gether on the Pacific.
And, adds Mr. Forbes, when the victory is won,
Stalin will insist on the most thorough annihila
tion of the military and naval might of Germany
and Japan. And the Reporter is sure that all the
allies will see that this is absolutely and unequi
vocally done, as there will never be peace in the
world until these two tigers are chained and
their teeth pulled out for all time to come.
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THE UNION REPUBLICAN "ANSWERS" ,
The last issue of the Reporter had an editorial
'entitled the "Bubble Bursts" in which the Wins
;ton-Salem Union Republican's late activities
with reference to late election results were men
tioned. n|l
Following* is the Republican's "answer" to our
editorial:  .Uf'SH
"The Danbury Reporter, having* spewed out its
venom on T. G. New, Sr., one of the most respect
able citizens of Stoke- or any oilier county, am!
then followed that with filing some s««rt of
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of l : . ■ ! - not
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list is so small that wry few were ab'o t-> ;••ad
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friend. But, in truth, friends, you should read it.
It is not worth your time to do so, but just get an
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The Republican being* "anxious" that its read
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'should desire.it.
We are sorry our "tin barn edition" is exhaust
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office, we sincerely invite the Republican to re
print our editorial for the edification of it
leaders?
TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP,
THE BOYS ARE MARCHIMi
I Another large contingent of Stokes boys leave
I next Monday for training camps.
Steadily the stream of reinforcements flows on,
swelling* the already gigantic army of the Unit
ed States now approaching five millions.
The handsomest, strongest, best fed, best equip
ped soldiers in the world—so it is said.
And the nation is proud of them, and will back
them to the uttermost limit.
Buy bonds, buy more and more. Every dollar
put in bonds makes the army stronger, healthier
| and more efficient. x
OLD CHRISTMAS
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The sixth of January is believe*• by n -y peo
ple the correct date of the aaniverse ••>• ► * (*!■ -j.- (
In Stokes co-nty, and in ;»• In j •■ou:U '•
juku'ly of Nor.'i Carolina ana Y . rini •. t • • i;.
yet a good m: rv people who ,• • p » ■•'('• vict -
im as.
! Among its observers tin re al et > . o be
lieve that on the night ot the occa.- : ' . tilings
happen that are moving* and strange an-1 . light
ly lugubrious, such a* that the cattle at Lie raid
night hour go down on their knens and moan
dismally, the bees in the gum that have lain dor
mant arouse themselves and work restlessly,
screech owls screech and dogs howl, while graves
yawn and the sheeted dead come out of their
'tombs to walk about the earth.
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And so on, goes the strange belief.
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