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Show EX55X5X5X5SXSSSSSX5X3 Opinions of the Press THE WAVERLY (NEW YORK) SUN-RECORDER Hitler taught us a valuable lesson-may-be. He showed us how a political fanatic could build up a following around a rallying cry of hatred. And in this country it's so easy to stir up just the kind of hatred any Hitler could want. You can hate the Catholics. You can hate the Protestants. You can hate the Negroes, You can do even better than that. You can divide Protestant Americans Ameri-cans from Catholic Americans, Gentile Americans from Jewish Americans, Negros from Whites, workers from capitalists, native born from foreign born. You can find something to fit everybody. Some cause of hatred for each, and all. And anyone can find something to fit you. You can divide and divide, until all America is in little pieces. And then the conqueror can go in and pick up the. pieces, one at a time! Hitler showed us how. That's exactly what he did, first in Germany, Ger-many, then in Austria, in Poland, in Holland, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Nor-way, Belgium and France. But in showing us the way, he also showed us how dangerous are those among us who carelessly or deliberately play the same game We know now what to look for. Maybe! Maybe we know that when we hear anyone voicing a slur upon any group in our America, he is helping to destroy America. Maybe, we know it. For remember, remem-ber, America being what it is, made up of so many different elements, ele-ments, we are the most vulnerable vulner-able nation in the world for exactly ex-actly the kind of game the Hitlers Hit-lers love to play. And, as voluminous volum-inous evidence shows, there are people right here in America playing this game. So, next time you hear anyone any-one talking viciously about any group of Americans, stop him. Tell him it's un-Christian to slander slan-der one's neighbors and to stir up hate against them that it's un-American too! THE ..NACOGDOCHES . (Texas) DAILY SENTINEL A standing army capable of defending us against any power or group of powers would, of course lead to national bankrup-tsy. bankrup-tsy. An army as woefully inadequate inade-quate as that of 1940 would cause us to lose diplomatic prestige by proclaiming that we were not ready to fight, if need, in defense of the ideals which we have so vigorously espoused. Between these two extremes stands the proposal for universal military training which General Marshal has put forward. The arguments ar-guments in its favor seem unanswerable un-answerable if a realistic view of world conditions is taken. For the sake of world peace, national security, strength of diplomatic decisions and the lives of men who might have to fight another war, such a force of modern minute min-ute men seems the only logical solution. THE ONTARIO (Oregon) EASTERN EAST-ERN OREGON OBSERVER Although our contemporary considers the power question monotonous and maintains that it is of little import whether the people, go into the power business busi-ness or not, we feel strongly that the question of public ownership and operation of business (call it socialism, communism or what you will) is an important ques- tion, and one which may well j affect the future of our country for generations to come. Government Gov-ernment operation of utilities is an entering wedge for government govern-ment operation of everything, and the time to kill a rattlesnake is when it is young. |