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See in a magazine that somebody got a dollar for
sending in the one The Journal had months ago about
Hitler fighting for the "Freedom of the Seize".
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It makes little difference who won the first battle
of the war. The only important thing about it now
is who will win the last one.
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Transports, supply ships, and battle craft of the
Mikado have been sent to the bottom. "Excuse
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December 7, is a day that all Americans will remember
forever, for December 7 was the day upon
which all our silly differences were dissipated, and
we became a united people; the day upon which German
and Japanese treachery undid all the work that
the propagandists had been accomplishing in America
for two decades.
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Where now are the people, who a short time ago,
so blandly echoed the pacifist phrase, born in Berlin
and nurtured in this country by ignorance of the true I
situation, and said: "If we have to fight, let them
come over here. Let's never again send our boys across
the seas to war"? It would be funny,wouldn't it, if it
were not so tragic, how such silly sayings can take
hond on the mouths of so many people?
THE BASIS OF FALSE THINKING
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All false and faulty thinking comes from a false
premise. The false premise upon which all the faulty
thinking of the past two decades was based, which
6ame so near to being our complete undoing and
which has brought us into another war not so well
prepared as we should have been, was the proposition
that was accepted by so -many people, that America
could have remained aloof from the last war, that we
were either tricked into it by British statesmanship
(supposedly superior to our own superb statesmanship
of that era), or that we went in for the ulterior
motive of salvaging somebody's dollars.
That premise was, after all the foundation stone
of the structure of un-Americanism that was erected
by the pacifists, the isolationists, the "America First
Committee", the "American Mothers" and all the rest
of the subversive elements that so nearly undermined
American morale with the war coming on
apace and threatening to engulf us.
It was the theme song of Lindbergh, of Bob Reynolds,
of Burton Wheeler, and all the rest. It was the
bas.'s upon which our so-called "Neutrality Act" w&>
passed by our Congress. It made the work of the Berlin
propagandists easier, so easy in fact, that they almost
deceived the elect of American patriots. Thousands
of well-meaning men and women echoed the
sentiments of that proposition, in one form and anohter,
until it was almost impossible for our government
to perform its proper function of preparing to
defend its people and its institutions.
We are now paying for our folly, in thfe Phili
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Guam, in Wake, in Midway. It took a Pearl Harbor attack
to bring the American people back to straight
thinking and straight acting. 4
In 1918 we stood at Kadesh-Barnea, and didn't
have the grace and guts to go in and possess the Land
of Promised peace. The cycle has now beenencom- 1
passed. We stand today where we were in 1917. This
time we will have the good sense to consolidate our
victory.
% NOT A HYMN OF HATE
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would not sing a hymn of hate on Christmas
Day. But rather would we look forward to a real peace
in the world. However, there are certain nations that
seem utterly unable to understand any language except
the language of force. They are dedicated to the
proposition that might makes right; that deception
H| j is highly commendable, if it accomplishes the purpose
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of bringing about the defeat of enemies; that it is
weak and effeminate to have regard for the rights and
lives of other peoples. They have been schooled in
those thoughts, until thejr can not understand the
milk of human kindness.
Those nations are Germany and Japan. By their
actions they have been building up mountans of hate
that will become mighty avalanches, that will one
day sweep Germany and Japan and everything German
and Japanese before it. If America and Britain
should try to stay the avalanche, they would probably
be unable to do so.
This is a war in which no quarter will be given.
It is the final reckoning of the score that has been
kept through the years. Either the democratic
nations and their ideals must perish, or Germany
and Japan will be utterly defeated. There will be no
strong Germany. The Japanese empire will be found
only in the musty pages of the history books. Hitler
spoke one truth to his people when he told them that
the fate of the German people for the next thousand
years will be fixed in the war then beginning.
This time, before we quit, we will make sure that
this thing can not occur again by German and Japanese
instigation. Those men and those nations that
have brought all this misery to the race throughout
the world will be brought before the judgment bar of
outraged humanity where they will receive a terrible
punishment, too terrible to contemplate in any other
light than that of the deeds they have committed.
THEY SHALL NOT GO OUT!
When Prussian bigqtry plunged the nations into
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world war JNumoer i, m iyi% sir ^awarci urray spuisr
from a sad and wise heart, when he said: "The lights
are going out all over Europe".
Most people believed that the golden age would
continue indefinitely; that the civilization that our
ancestors had builded so tortuously through the centuries
would continue on down through the ages; that
the darkness of paganism and oppression would never
again challenge the light that was lighted in Bethlehem
and that had flickered dimly, until the rennaisance
had fanned it into a brilliant flame that
bode fair to cast its beams into all the dark places of
the world. Then this hideous thing reared its head in
central Europe. The urge of men to enslave their fellow
men and to rob them of their good things brought
the deluge of blood. As men fell by the thousands,
they tossed the torch to other hands, and thus the
light survived.
The plan to blow out the lights with one blast
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irom me mounin 01 ivi<trs lcuieu, uecause iiiimuiis ui
freemen died that they might continue to burn.
Then came the two decades in which subtler
means to extinguish the lights were adopted. The
Propaganda, spread by paid agents and their foolish
dupes, sought to put out the lights by cutting off
the supply of spiritual oil that keeps them burning;
and those of us who watched upon the ramparts of
civilization, could see the great darkness engulfing
mind after mind, country after country, and even
within our own nation, we could see the lights going
out. There were those who cried out in the encompassing
darkness, warning the race of the terrible
fate that threatened us and those who shall come
after us.
But, just as propaganda cut off the supplies of
spiritual oil, the assault upon Pearl Harbor blasted
the dam that held back the flow, and the lights glow
anew in the hearts of all Americans.
Struggling and oppressed humanity in the occupied
countries of Europe struggle mightily to keep
the lights aflame.
America, the last stand of the golden age, has
girded her loins and gone forth to spend her blood and
her treasure, to defend the lights of civilization at
home, and to fan into glowing flames those that shine
so dimly across the seas.
That, after all, is what this war is about. The
lights shall continue to burn. The civilzation that has
cost the race so much in suffering shall not be discarded.
The liberties that have been won so dearly,
shall not be taken from us. Nothing else matters
right now. All else shrinks into insignificance.
They shall not put out the lights!
MORALE COUNTS AS MUCH AS ARMIES
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If the world has learned any lesson from all the
wars that have passed, it is that the morale of the
people is the most important factor of all in winning
a victory. The hope for a short war lies in the belief,
which may be wishful thinking, that the morale of
the German people may break down beneath the
heavy load of care that is imposed upon them; and
that the morale of the people in the occupied
uuun tries may remain urm regardless of the hardships
and dangers through which the German have
forced them to pass.
All thinking men will now admit that the morale
of the people of America had been dangerously assaulted
by the propaganda of Berlin prior to the war.
But, the greatest possible victory that could have
come to us in the first days of our position as a belligerent,
was handed to us by the Japanese at Pearl
Harbor. That secretive, dastardly attack, undid in a
few minutes all that had been accomplished by the
propaganda agencies of the Axis in two decades.
That moral victory was one of no mean proportion,
and will stand us in good stead during the days,
and perhaps years that lie before us.
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FOR CHR/STMAS BUY THEM DEFENSE BONDS.^ ^
A NO GET SOME MORE YOURSELF^ TAKE THE ADVICE OF MEN
WHOSE ADVICE HAS BEEN GOOD IN THE PAST..INSURANCE
AGENTS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY ARE NOW PROMOTING
THE SALE OF DEFENSe BONDS.
DEFENSE BONDS PAY*,,. DEFENSE BONDS PROTECT.
HARDWOOD FOREST j 'Good management of farm
1VT Airrc daad PAQTTTRl? wo?dland looks to a steady timj
IVIAKIliO rilUK rAMUKti ber income," Graeber said, "as
well as to fuel, fence posts, and
j A thrifty farm forest of hard- other rough timber for home
I wood trees makes a poor pas- use and for sale. A farm tim,
ture, and, if pastured,'it soon ber crop offers fall and winter |
becomes a poor woods, says R. work for labor, teams and equip- i
W. Graeber, Extension forester ment when field operations are !
of N. C. State College, He rec- over."
ommends fencing of woodlands
for highest yields and quality MILK
of hardwood timber. *?
"The forage value of a farm The sale of whole milk has
forest is negligible," Graeber de- brought an income of $40,120.10
I clared. "A thin sod of grass in to Mitchell County farmers dur
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dense wooas yjeias less man i j "***? - ?
half as much livestock feed as Woodard, farm agent of the N. C.
a good pasture of half the size. State College Extension Service.
Some woodland plants are pois- mZGimm
onous to livestock." |
The forester said that good |
hardwood timber comes from & V/
protected woods in which soil |j ""JaJ"
and growing conditions are un- w ik
disturbed. Cattle damage tree 1 IX
roots and trample the soil, com- S ,j rjfiW
pacting it so that rainfall does s
not soak in and supply moisture ?
for the trees. This may also pre- sx
vent desirable young trees from j|
becoming established, and on |
lopes, may start erosion. ?
"Grazing injures hardwood ? ^
stands," the Extension specialist g Wi
declared. "Cattle browse the ? ?Eft$OI1
bark of young trees and the |j
foliage of many valuable hard- |> ^
wood species?white ash, sugar ?
maple, yellow poplar, eim, oass- $
wood, white and red oak,, and g a
shellbark hickory. At times they g V.
will eat the bark or foliage of ?
honey locust, butternut, black ?
gum, black oak, shagbark hick- |
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NERVOUS TENSION |
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are Tense, Nervous, "Keyed-up". |j / 1 ^ M l
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good times. The next time over- SB M nfl II I I
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SYSTEMS Bp*
Following a visit of h. m. Ellis B '
extension agricultural engineer B
;>f N. C. State College, several
Warren County farm families B
indicated they would be inter- Bt
ested in installing home water
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smile. Many Hollywood stan rely j
on Calox Tooth Pouder to keep their I
teeth really clean-really sparkling.
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relieve misery of
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Mother?Give YOUR Child
This Same Expert Care!
At the first sign of a chest cold th#
Quintuplets' throats and chests art
rubbed with Children's Mild Musterole
?a product made to promptly relieve
the distress of children's colds and reculting
bronchial' and croupy coughs.
Musterole gives such wonderful results
because it's MORE than an ordinary
"salve." It helps break up local
congestion. Since Musterole is used on
the Quints you may be sure you're using
just about the BE ST product made!
IN 3 STRENGTHS: Children's Mild
Musterole. Also Regular and Extra
Strength for grown-ups who prefer a
stronger product. All drugstores.
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