The* Da lib 11 ry Reporter
N. E. PEPPER, Editor and Publisher
Issued Wednesdays at Danbury, N. C., and entered at the Danbury
postoffiee as second class matter, under act of Congress.
Danbury, V C., June 27, 1940.
MR. HANKS SAYS HE WAS MISQUOTED—
STANDS FOR SUPPORT OF DEFENSE
PROGRAM
Mr. R. M. Hanes, president of the Wachovia
Bank and of the American Bankers Association,
has returned to his home in Winston-Salem after
a tour of the west, where he made several
speeches before assembled bankers.
The following letter just received from Mr.
Hanes is self-explanatory.
Winston-Salem, N. C.
June 26, 1940.
Mr- N. E. Pepper, Editor and Publisher,
Danbury Reporter,
Danbury, North Carolina.
Dear Mr. Pepper:
I have read the editorial in your issue of Thursday, June 13,
which is written on me and my undesirable qualities.
Of course, you have a right to any opinion of me you may
choose, but I am taking the liberty of enclosing herewith a full copy
of the speech which I made before the Idaho Bankers Association,
together with the press release thereon.
You will find that I never used the expression, "someone else's
war," either in this speech or in any other I have ever made. Having
served in the last war overseas, I know full well that this is not
tomeone else's war, and I realize as fully as do you that if the allies
». re defeated, we shall probably be the next plum which Hitler and
his maniacs will try to pluck- I think probably I was the first in
North Carolina who stated, at Pinehurst before the North Carolina
Fankers Association on May 10, that the United States ought to
make available every material aid to the allies.
The quotation you got from my Idaho speech I believe you will
agree is altogether incorrect and misleading.
I am simply giving you this information to keep history straight
i and tap whatever use you see fit, in a spyrit of fairness, to make of it.
Very truly yours,
f "" R. M. HANES-
In the issue of the Danbury Reporter of June
13, was printed excerpts from a speech which
?vlr. Hanes made before a Hayden Lake, Idaho,
bankers meeting-, in which the report of the
speech rendered by the Associated Press quoted
hijn as saying: ,
"Every citizen of America should guard care
fully his personal liberty in 'this time of stress.'
Once your personal liberties are taken away
they will never be returned. There is too much
talk of war. The United States needs to work
solidly and calmly. Let us not confuse defense
of our nation with a hysteria which will sweep
us needlessly into "SOME ONE ELSE'S WAR."
In commenting editorially on this statement of
Mr. Hanes, the Reporter asked Mr. Hanes "if
this thrust was aimed at Washington or Berlin — |
the President of the United States or the Ger
man Feuhrer."
The Reporter felt justified in being thus inquis
itive in view of Mr. Hanes' well known unfriend
liness to the New Deal, and further owing to the
fact that the leading military opinion of the
United States believed that the life-line of dying
European democracy was America's frontier;
that the struggles of France and England were
OUR WAR and not SOME ONE ELSE'S WAR.
The Reporter commented further as follows:
"Such propaganda launched by a person in the
high position of the President of he Wachovia
Pank and the American Bankers Association —
propaganda launched by the implication that
this war is not OURS but is SOME ONE ELSE'S
-was discouraging to American defense prep
arations, damaging to the morale of the people,
and therefore indirectly dangerous to the lib
erties of the American people."
We are under obligations to Mr. Hanes for a
mimeographed copy of the speech which he says
be made at Hayden Lake, Idaho, June 10, 1940,
and in which there is no such expression as that
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which the Associated Press quoted him as
making at Hayden Lake.
On the contrary we read this fine statement:
"As bankers we heartily support the Presi
dent's defense program. It will be worth what
ever it costs and the cost will be infinitely less
than the people of Europe are paying now for
lack of modern defense."
WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN ?
(Continued From Page One.)
ever platform the committee builds for them.
We refer particularly to Mr. Hoover, recalling
his tour of Europe two years ago, his visit and
pleasant chat with Herr Hitler.
At London later Mr. Hoover gave out that:
'I do not believe a European war is at all probable
in the near future."
And on his return to New York he said emphat -
ically: "There is no prospect of war in Europe."
0f course such an opinion expressed by the ex-
President had a most sedative effect on Con
gress and the country in general, especially in
fluential Senators like Borah, Johnson and
others who had always opposed any particular
preparedness, and fought for isolation. Prac
tically all Republicans in the Senate and house
opposed every effort of the President to increase
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the navy and airfieets, saying he was trying to
get the country into war.
The same policy has always been support
ed by the Socialist La Follette and the pro-Ger
man Bennett Clark and the hair-brained Holt of
West Virginia, Roosevelt haters, as well as
other recalcitrant Democrats.
The platform committee at Philadelphia in its
exuberance over an issue found possibly also
forgot the little sinking affair of Harding's ad
ministration when a billion dollars worth of ves
sels and war materials were destroyed under
the world-peace delusion.
Cock Robin is surely dead. Who killed him?
Buck Island News
Allie Long has gone to Martina,
ville, Va., where he holds a posi
tion-
People are very busy plowing
and chopping grass-
Claud Calhoun picked up a big
moccasin in some shucks Wed
nesday, but didn't get bitten.
Junior Nelson motored to Mar
tinsville Sunday evening.
James B. Joyce was here today
from Winston-Salem.
THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1940-
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified aa administra
tor of the estate of Mrs. B. F.
Pulliam, deceased, late of Stokes
county, North Carolina, this is to
notify all persona having claims
against the estate of said de
ceased to exhibit them to, the un
dersigned at 1406 N. Hawthorne
Road, Winston-Salem, North Car
olina, on or before the 28th day
of June, 1941, or this notice will
be pleaded in bar of their recov
ery. All persons indebted to said
estate will please make imme
diate payment
This the 21st day of June, 1940.
0. L. PULLIAM,
Administrator of Mrs. B- P.
Pulliam.