THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872 Volume 66
Sidelights On The Passing Show
Editorial
THE ONWARD SWEEP OF WILLKIE
The latest enlistment under the banner of
Willkie is Mr. Marshall C. Kurfees of Winston-
Salem.
Mr. Kurfees in his resignation from the Wil
sonian Democratic club in order "to follow the
dictates of his conscience," evidently aspires to
a real Democratic atmosphere and affiliation,
since the influence and the prestige of the Wil
sonians has failed to furnish him with desired
emoluments.
He reveals to a waiting world that he is now a
Willkiecrat full-fledged.
It may be recalled that Mr. Kurfees was
nurtured in the cradle of a sterling and sturdy
Stokes county Republican family. Leaving
home early he became a political adventurer of
Winston-Salem discarding the ancestral faiths.
He seems to have had a consuming ambition
for office. The Winston-Salem Journal in its
issue of August 29 says he "was several times a
candidate for the North Carolina General As
sembly from Forsyth county and once for mayor
on Democratic tickets." If we mistake not he
ran in the 1938 primary against Hon. A. D. Fol
ger for congress in the Fifth district.
In each of these brilliant flights the Kurfees
bomber dived to the earth with "some casual
ties."
He evidently became shocked and bruised by
his falls.
But there is no discounting the courage and
intrepidity of professional aspirants for a placo
in the political sun a place of some kind or an
other. Marshall, equipped with a new air boat,
now heads upward toward the stratosphere in
chase of the John W Hanes Kite whose tertiary
tail is trailed by moths undaunted by the eclipse
dated for November 5.
In our attempted analysis of the disgruntled
ness of our friend Marshall we are led to believe
that he has been inspired by an editorial in the
Union Republican of this week, excerpts from
which read:
"Willkie is the nominee who stands for the
Jeffersonian principles of States' rights and the
rights of the individual."
As Jefferson is the ideal of Democrats and
democracies, and as Roosevelt is the embodiment
o>f Jeffersonian political philosophy, Mr. Kur
fees may yet decide that he has missed the bus
again.
WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK
A secret type of varnish invented by the Brit
ish and used to make their bombers over Berlin
invisible even in the most powerful searchlight,
awakened Hitler to the fact that he is not fight
ing Latins and Slavs now.
He is meeting Tentonic courage and brain,
minus Hun atrocity, of course, but rapable of
conquering his self-appointed "superid-ity."
WHAT PRICE TRUTH ?
Senator Byrd, always unfriendly to the New
Deal, makes the statement that defense prepa
rations have bogged down, having ordered only
343 combat planes during the past 100 days.
Now comes forward President Roosevelt who
says that 10,016 planes are actually on order for
the Army and Navy, and that NOW the nation's
air force is EQUAL TO THAT OF GERMANY
IN OPERATING EFFICIENCY.
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, August 29, 1940.
WHEN THE TOBACCO MERRY-GO-HOUND
BROKE DOWN—MILK COMES INTO THE
PICTURE SPONSORED BY BROWN,
BRUMFIELD AND PEARCE.
County Agent J. F. Brown, County-Agent-at-
Ijarge L. F. Brumfield, and Home Demonstra
tion Agent Mrs. Lila T. Pearce emerge out of
the economic fogs to bring relief to Stokes farm
ers who have freen "chewing" too much tobacco,
and become sick.
We speak of the milk-receiving station estab
lished through the energy, perseverence and
iaith of this trio—who are sold on the idea that
there are .more things in heaven and earth,
Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy
—of a one-crop system.
Last Thursday there was the fourth annual
Stokes county farm tour, which, including many
farmers and business citizens of the county,
visited outstanding and progressive farms of
the county including those of Paul T. Taylor, W.
S. Hart, Sam Moran, J. H. Robertson, Jake Ful
ton and B. B. Walker.
Here modern farm innovations were inspected,
including pastures, the use of lime and super -
phosphates, diversified livestock farming, dairy
and beef cattle interests, alfalfa and lespedeza
culture, improved lands, water systems and
! modernized homes
i
After the tour the delegation met at the Pal
metto theatre in Walnut Cove to listen to in
structive and inspiring addresses by Dean I. O.
Schaub, John A. Arey, George Coble, 0. F. Mc-
Creary and other experts and educationists in
farming from Raleigh and Washington, D. C.
Two hundred and fifty persons crammed the
theater, then adjourned to the milk receiving
station where they were served with ice cream
and felicitations from one of the most modern
dairy product manufactories of the State, the
pride of Walnut Cove as well as of the whole
county, where 8,600 pounds of milk from Stokes
and adjoining counties arrive daily, and the
volume increases as the news of its advantages
is spread.
LET THERE BE NO DISCRIMINATION
IN CONSCRIPTION
If our BOYS must be conscripted, should not
; WEALTH also do its part?
j There are vast steel manufactories in the
United States equipped to produce the material
that can STOP HTTLER when he tries to invade
America.
These plants which have been built to won
drous prosperity under the protection and nour
ishment of our freedom and democracy, want
PROFITS, and because they have not been as
sured attractive dividends, are stalling national
defense by dilly-dallying and refusing to sign
contracts.
The people believe that if OUR BOYS are to be
conscripted, then wealth should also bare its
breasts.
The crisis is greatest in the history of our re
public. Is the need urgent?
Mr. Willkie the Candidate appears to be op
posed to the fair division of our defense re
sources—he is willing'for the boys t» go, but
hesitates on wealth conscription, no doubt re
flecting on the INTERESTS he has been serving
at a salary of $75,000 a year, and feels an obliga
tion due his friends.
In his speech at Rushville, Ind., today the can
didate took a strong stand against the sugges
tion that the government should take over pri-
THE BRITISH FLEET—WHITHER BOUND ?
On this deadly question hangs possibly the
late of the western hemisphere.
"What of the British fleet?"
If England falls, whither will it sail—this vaafc
armada that controls the oceans of the world*
( that met and sank the Spanish galleons, that de
feated Napoleon, that has stood an invincible
barrier for Christian civilization?
Will it be sunk by its commanders, will it be
surrendered to Hitler, or will it set sail for the
friendly waters of the United States to help
| America defend the last democracy?
What of the great English navy if the English
| people are conquered?
j Every military authority, every intelli
gent citizen knows Hitler will attack the Amer
icas if he obtains control of the water.
Will the British sea captains surrender their
! ships to save the women and children of London,
Liverpool, Manchester, from the deadly bombs
| of Hitler?
! Will it be wise to refrain f: - om help for the
hard-pressed English now while our help may
'save them, or shall we wait to fight the tiger
ALONE?
! The predatory powers of Germany, Italy and
'Japan can conquer us if they win the British fleet.
This sinister fact is well known to those who
'are informed. It may a? ( well be digested now
by the average person of America.
Why not send the English 50 or 100 destroyers
to assist them in the "Blitz"?
In Washington congressmen and senators play
their fiddles while "Rome" burns—talking, op
posing, delaying, hindering every move for the
nation's defense.
■ Why not send England destroyers, battleships,
bombing planes, unceasing and unstinted —now
while the British people are fighting the fight
that will be ours when England falls?
I The most dangerous enemies of America today
tire Senators and congressmen who fiddle while
the "Blitz" is heading west.
What can prevent the "Blitz" from invading
our peaceful shores?
I Only the British and American fleets.
| As long as these ride the waves, America is free.
WILL HITLER INVADE ENGLAND ?
i .
i It looks less and less like it. Constant German
I bombings over London day and night are caus
ing tremendous destruction in life and property,
ibut the British hold steadily and are returning
iihe German attacks with constant blasting of
Berlin and military objectives in Germany.
The aerial Battle of Britain is obviously in too
early a stage to be decisive, but what is known of
the results thus far suggests that the defenders
are at least holding their own.
Although the immediate Nazi objective is still
open to conjecture, if the intent of the day and?
night attacks early this month was to
soften the British*m short order, there are no
signs of its early realization.
On the contrary, a careful reading of official
claims and of reports that profess objectively
bolsters the conclusion that primary military ob
(jectives thus far have escaped vital damage.
vate plants to manufacture war material in the
nation's defense.
What is worth more—the blood and life of our
BOYS, or the PROFITS of multimillionaires on
their investments.
Number 3,554