THE DANBURY REPORTER
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In- Timely Topics
I -i\e The FSA
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A representative of the Reporter was
much pleased this week to look in on the
t local branch of the Farm Security Ad .
ministration, whose executive commit
tee was in session at the courthouse, and
to get some insight into the workings
and the usefulness of this most impor
tant agency for the benefit of farmers.
The FSA is an agency for the assist
ance of cannot get help
elsewhere, loanin£■ them money to make
their crops on, to buy fertilizer, food and
stock feed, and to insure them hospitali
zation when they get sick.
Edgar H. Anderson, formerly of Guil -
ford county, and Miss Lucy Booe of For
syth county, assisted by Miss Kathryn
Lewis of Walnut Cove, are in charge of
,s the office.
Miss Booe tells us 132 farmers in
• Stokes have been assisted with loans to
the amount of $40,000, and that these
farmers are paying back this money
faithfully after having been benefited
by itsi«3. . •
There has been an effort made in Con
gress to discontinue the FSA, or incor
porate it into some other agency? a
dispatch from Washington Congress
man John H. Folger recounts the great
benefits of the agency and strongly op
poses it discontinuance.
We believe the people of Stokes co x lty
who are fully informed as to the ?reat
usefulness and benefits of the FSA will
heartily endorse it.
The executive committee of the FSA in
> Stokes is composed of H. G. Johnson,
chairman; J. Van Tuttle and G. F. Stone.
These gentlemen" meet regularly once a
( month to supervise the loans made to
the farmers by the FSA.
Miss Anderson
It will be a satisfaction to the people of
the county to know Miss Christine An
derson, who has for several years been
superintendent of the Stokes county
welfare department, has been re-elect
ed for another year to this most respon
sible position.
Miss Anderson is highly equipped both
by education, training and temperament
'to perform the exacting duties required
in welfare work. We are glad she is re
tained.
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Skyrockets
F Here is a trio who sold last week and
this at 70:
Yancey Yates, Hooker & Flinchum,
i Ernest Nelson. Scores of others got 45,
50, 55, 60, 65, 70.
It takes more than hard 1 work to pro
duce tobacco that sells so high: You
must have good land, good fertilizer,
good judgment.
Volume 72
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, Nov. 1' *943 * * *
Reynolds Comes Down
When the Senator from Western
North Carolina decided not to run again
he evinced that fine tact and discreet di
plomacy which he failed to show when
he attacked Roosevelt and the New Deal.
Bob Reynolds was once a very popular
man in North Carolina. He had before
him a lifetime of opportunity for bril
liant usefulness to the people who sent
him to Washington.
But his goose was cooked after he went
off with the isolationist group that,
you might say, sinister gang led by
Wheeler and Nye and their ilk who al
most brought disaster to the nation.
By their senseless hate for Roosevelt
and his administration as exemplified in
obstruction and defeatism to the pro
gram of preparation for a war which all
intelligent persons knew was inevitable,
they seriously retarded and dangerous
ly compromised the government of the
United States.
There was not the ghost of a chance
for Bob ever to go back when his term
had expired. He had not only failed to
represent, but had misrepresented his
constituents.
However, we daresay the rollicking,
clown-like Senator, much married and
rich, is happy in his reckless outlook for
a good easy time ahead.
The Ex-Governors To The fiat
Ex-Governor Cameron Morrison, now
a member of congress, announces him
self a candidate for the U. S. Senate in
next year's primary.
Ex-Governor Clyde Hoey has for some
time been an avowed applicant for the
same exalted position in the affairs of
government.
There are two other candidates for
Bob Reynolds' seat, to be vacated by
resignation, but the real fight will be be
tween the two dignified and courteous
gentlemen who have been chief ex
ecutives of North Carolina.
• Hon. Cameron Morrison is a Democrat
of the old school. He is of that species
who don't mean maybe, and who mean
what they say. His friends are legion.
He will run strong in the counties of the
State where sportmanship and good
faith and gratitude are still cardinal vir
tues.
How To Wilt Willkie
It is noticed that some of the G.O.P.
bVb-uDs are perturbed over how to stop
Wendell Willkie. The problem should be
simple. Try the formula of Nov., 1940.
EDITORIALS
PUBLISHED THURSDAYS
Incidental Setbacks
You have stood on the rim of the vast
ocean as the tide was sweeping in.
The waves advance, hesitate, retro
grade. You think, receding. Not
so, the next surge comes farther toward
the goal. The waters lap back, then
reach still further onward.
On one small sector of the Russian
front the Huns concentrate their forces
and drive the Muscovites smartly back.
This is the revived fury of a useless des
peration.
Only a local incident in the grand
scheme, a slight retardation of the leth
al tide that will soon be tearing at the
foundations of the German capital.
On to Berlin, inescapable, lv-entWss,
hieyoi a 1 le.
The Everlasting Hills
I will look unto the hills from whence
cometh my help.
They are there—the great everlasting
hills, silent, somber, dreaming, drab,
stripped of their beauty, their nude
inhabitants shivering in the north wind.
Are they mourning for the days that
are gone, the glories that have passed?
Do they lament the lovely foliage that
has faded, the flowers that are dead, the
trailing, scented vines that are dried, or
the music of the plash of laughing
waters in the dells?
But the great hills are there. Explore
them, clamber them, commune with
them.
Thou shalt find thy help— rest,
strength and forgetfulness.
News For the Boys
As has been remarked before, second
to a letter from home is the old home
paper.
The boy far from home and loved ones,
sits off on his bunk, lonesome and home
sick, and opens with care and eagerness,
the old Danbury Reporter that dad has
sent him.
More and more Stokes county boys,
faraway and overseas are receiving the
Reporter which may be had as far up
1946, at SI.OO a year, if paid before De
cember 1, 1943.
Festivity
The season is here of oysters, turkey
anil cranberries, of pumpkin pie, yams,
a/;,! die ham what am, with a sprig of
holly stuck in it.
Bring in the wood and kick up the
crackling fire. Next Thursday is Thanks
giving and Christmas just around the
corner.
* * * Number 3,728.