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CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1942
WEEKLY BIBLE QUOTATION
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in
trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be re
moved, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of
the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though
the mountains shake . . . ”—Psalmist.
YOU CAN DEPEND ON THE GERMANS
AT THE FINISH
They win victories—many of them—because while the na
tions of the world usually spin and toil and keep making changes
—and try to do something about their economy—the Germans
have been forever training—marching—building machines of
war..
They deserve no credit—anyone could have done it. A crim
inal who for months sits around watching, thinking only of one
thing—planning every move—in many instances has baffled an
entire police department of brilliant men. Why? Because the
policemen did not concentrate only on this one criminal. They
had traffic to take care—they had to patrol the highways, enforce
a thousand ordinances, watch the children come and go from
school houses—on top of which the policemen also have their own
homes and families and churches and sundry affairs of civilized
men—but one man occasionally succeeds in outwitting them all
—Why? Because he had NOTHING ELSE ON HIS MIND BUT
HIS CRIME—
And so, like the Germans he wins his early victory, but they
catch up with him—Always—because there is one thing you can
always depend on him to do—that will give him away. The Ger
mans have been like that—they plan—think, scheme—only along
one line—WAR—and they win—yes, they have always won th§
early victories—in every war they embarked upon—from Fred
erick |o Hitler—but in the end they catch up with them—and they
have always used a trick—they hold a meeting—when they are
finally defeated and they make a speech and they say—“World,
we have just cleansed ourselves of the cancer that has been feed
ing on our system (and here they mention the name of the super
man who may have been leading them at the moment—it is either
Bismark—Willhelm, Hitler)” and now that we have got rid of
this horrible man who has again led us astray, we promise to be
good—and we are ready to do business again”—and so the world
has always patted them on the back and said “O. K., as long as
you got rid of your boy wonder, we guess you are all right”and
the whole thing starts all over again—and in about 25 years they
get themselves a new super-man.
Coming back to criminals, though, no matter how thorough
they have been in planning and carrying out their scheme, you
can depend on them for some piece of stupidity always.
For example, take the Germans again—They found a wom
an in Belgium by the name of EDITH CAVELL who had been
helping prisoners escape — so they wanted to get rid of Edith
Cavell and make her an example for others—so they shot her—
and what happened—Three statues exist of EDITH CAVELL
and thousands of Belgiumand French patriots who though the
cause was hopeless pitched in from that day on—they have a
peculiar mind—those Germans—Now, they wanted to wipe a lit
tle city off the map—a place with 500 people by the name of
Lidice—so they killed every male inhabitant and carted off all
the women and children and completely obliterated the little town
from the map. Poor fools, they understand nothing higher than
something that shoots—Don’t they know that they have im
mortalized that town—that for a thousand years, school children
up and down Europe will be able to rattle off the name of Lidice
—almost quicker than they could name the capital of their coun
try-nothing anyone has written or said about this war—has had
the strength of a few words Prime Minister Church spoke before
Congress last December—I guess it impressed so many because
it was typical American talk—Said Mr. Churchill—“Who do they
think we are. Don't they know that we will persevere against them
until they have been called to account for what they have done.”
We are certain of ultimate Victory—but it is never too soon
to begin to steel yourself against that periodical plea—about
having cleansed themselves” and that they are now ready for
business. The world must not listen to them again for a healthy
period, &t least.
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“ALL THE MEN WERE SHOT”
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Imagine readme the following government announcement in our two
great dailies.
“All men of Newell. N. C„ have bedi shot. The women have been
deported to a concentration camp and the children sent to appropriate centers
of education. All building* of the village were leveled to the ground and
the name of the village was immediately abolished.”
Those are the words of an official Nazi statement issued a few days
ago exceot that the town was named Lidice—a. quiet little community of
Czechoslovakia near Prague. »
In Lidice (pronounced Leed-eet-say) men and women lived where their
ancestors had lived for more their got years. A Lidice son brought his bride
to his parents’ home; his children Were bom in the same room where his
grandfather first saw light. Above the roofs of the town rose the soire of
St. Margaret’s Church, a symbol of community faith since the church’s
building Tn 1736.
In Lidice, a farmer with earth sticking to his boots greeted the coal
dusty miner who as a boy sat beside him in school. On a wami dav the tan
ning of the shoe repairman sounded through an open door like a faint echo
of the blacksmith s hammering. A storekeeper going to the tailor shoo
paused on Wilson Street—named for the American president_to gossin
with a man carving wood before his front doqr. Children lauvhed and
olaved or were drawn to kitchens by the sweet scents of the cakes their
mothers bskpd.
Life, was not *® easy after the German conquerors came. The men had
to do what the rulers ordered. Limits were set on worship in the church
and on schooling for the children. The women didn’t have such good things
or so much to fix for meals. But the people lived on, they worked, they
,0 ~ey —oppression had .been upon them in the past hut “Wil
son Street seemed a reminder that to a people, of pnconquered spirit free
dom at last rturns. ’
Then two men fatally wounded Reinhard Hevdrich who, as Nazi “pro
tector’’ of Czecho-Slovakia. earned the title of “Hangman.” That happened
on a highway which doesn’t even go through Lidice. The Lidice peopirtold
the Nazi secret police that they didn’t know anything about the two men.
But the Gestapo agents learned that Lidice folk still dreamed of free
dom. They claimed they found a radio, forbidden by German conquerors
arms and munitions. Several of the Lidice young men had escaped to join
United Nations forces fighting the Germans. And the Nazis follow their
policy of bloody vengeance—a policy which has meant the murder, in
retaliation for the death of Heydrich. of more than 700 innocent men and
women. ■
So when you read or hear the name of Lidice imagine what it would
mean if Newell, N. C., were crushed to the earth, its name scratched from
all records, the bodies of all its men dumped into a common grave, their
widows imprisoned, and the doubly-orphaned children in the hands of venge
ful and merciless foreigners. |
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