THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872
Funny Side Of the Social Upheaval
• When the fickle goddess of Prosper ity
said to hell with caste, kicked the bottom
rail loose and let the lower strata spew
up, Jack became a gentleman. To acute
-observers of human nature he affords
some rare amusement as he tries to
adapt himself to his new role. While
there is no change in his tastes, which
are always the product of culture, strik
ing metamorphoses have occurred in his
habits, his dress and his temperament.
Where once he was quiet, unobtrusive
and very inconspicuous, now he is blat
ant, has very distinct views which he ex
presses boldly, and cusses loud. He once
walloped a quid in his jaw, now he
smokes cigars and blows smoke high in
to the ether. He is very superciliously
condescending to those who were his
former pals and associates but who he
calculates are now below him in finan
cial status. He constantly slaps the left
hand pocket of his breeches and winks,
indicating there is something important
there
In other words, it may be repeated that
Jack has become a gentleman.
Fourth War Loan
A great insurance company whose pa
triotism can't be questioned, stresses
the appeal in a new light.
It says the people have the opportunity
to make the most attractive investment
on today's money markets, the Ameri
can dollar being the pr.'me security of
the world.
Before long the war drums will stop
beating, and we shall nestle under the
wings of peace as citizens of the most
powerful and richest nation on the globe
—whose yearly income will be large
enough to pay the national debt.
With the vast properties and the integ
rity of Americans standing behind, the
war bond become a super-safe buy.
Danbury Reporter Overseas
A Stokes county man on a warship in
the middle of the Atlantic was delighted
to find a copy of the Danbury Reporter
lying on the center table in the saloon.
Many Reporters are now being sent to
the boys in the European armies and the
islands of the far Pacific. The boys
write home and thank those who sent
'them the home paper. They devour ev
ery line and every word.
The Reporter may still Jbe had at one
dollar for six months, or $2 for a year.
Send it to your boy, sweetheart, broth
er, friend.
He will certainly appreciate it, and will
thank you.
Volume 72
Watching The World Go By
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, January 13, 1944 *
The high-bracket Roosevelt Haters are
mighty poor strategists.
They think they can beat the President
by elaborating on his huge spending
record.
But that line of argument does not ap
peal to the fellow with the full dinner
pail and who would have three cars in
his garage if he could find them for sale,
The average citizen who has been call
ed "the forgotten man" believes heart
ily in a good spender. He does not ad
mire a chief executive, like the ideal of
Governor Bricker or Senator Byrd,
whose chief business would be to sit on
the barrel head and let out the dough in
specious and sparse quantities, and then
chiefly only to the favored rich.
And by his niggardliness let a panic
ride, or lose a war.
When FDR unloosed the floodgates he
made millions smile where before there
had been wry faces.
Who is going to beat Roosevelt on the
platform of Governor Bricker and Sen
ator Byrd?
Surely to God not the farmers whose
products are bringing more money than
the country ever heard of before, whose
plantations were salvaged in the days
they couldn't pay taxes, who are now
gas burners and bond buyers?
Not the laborer who is everywhere ar
work, except when he is poor sport
enough to strike for still stiffer sti
pends—
Not the small home owner who still en
joys his domicile that was about to be
taken away from him—
Not the small manufacturer, store
keeper or trader, who got capital to do
business on when the springs had run
dry—
Not the real estate owner whose values
had evanesced until ample loans were
provided, and the money changers who
had held the strings to the cash bags*
w:re chased from the temple.
And so forth and so on.
Nor is the common man, though he has
been a wayfarer, a fool. He is often fis
cally facile, and can count.
He admits the spending volume is so
huge that its only comparison can be
found in the billions lost in the super-de
pression years.
But he asks, with a half smile, "who
got all this money, anyhow ? Did it
gravitate into the iron vaults of Wall
Street?"
No, that's where the shoe pinches so
hard. It went into the pockets of farm
ers, laborers, clerks, truck drivers, little
business men, traders, employes of all
kinds both men and women.
Its effect may be seen today in splen-
EDITORIALS
How Not to Beat Roosevelt
PUBLISHED THURSDAYS
The first reaction to the President's
recommendation of the universal draft
was protests from Senator Bob Reyn
olds, Senator Burton K. Wheeler and
Senator Hiram Johnson.
Of course nobody was surprised. This
trio of saboteurs were only running true
to form. They were entirely consistent
with their past record which shows an
unbroken series of acts to the detriment
of the nation's safety.
The American people know that Wheel
er, Reynolds and Johnson voted against
arming for our protection against the
pirates of Europe and Asia, voted
against the increase of the army when
it numbered only about 300,000, voted
against building more planes when we
had only 2 or 3 thousand, to guard our
far-reaching shorelines, voted against
selling or giving help to England, voted
against every effort of the administrp tf
tion to safeguard the property and lives
of our vast country.
All intelligent people of the world are
convinced that Japan would never have
attacked the United States if we had
been prepared to defend ourselves.
Wherefore, those who sabotaged our
defense must accept the judgment of
history—that they have been virtual
enemies to their country, and are en
titled to the same contempt and desecra
tion as Benedict Arnold.
Many a mother's son lies sleeping his
last sleep because those in power dis
honored the power in their hands to save
him.
did plantations, fine roads, beautiful
school houses, handsome homes,
churches, new and improved public
buildings, electric lights, automobiles,
better furniture, radios, etc., etc. •«
And in the faces of prospering and
happy people.
The forgotten man remembers back
a little more than a decade since, when
the whole national income of the Ameri
can people was 30 billions a year. Now
when conservative estimates place the
194'> income at more than 140 billions,
V flqures that we could pay off the na
tional debt in one year and then not live
so hard as we lived in 19.'>0-81-.''2.
Ah, the vicissitudes of a who
came into the two biggest p'-obloms fn
the history of governments:
The Super-Depression and t u o Super-
War.
There have been no more stupendous
debacles in the annals of the govt n
ments of the world.
And the record: : *'
The one has been banished into tlie
opaque mists of forgotten mi tries;
The other—the foe is or. the run on all
fi-Qnts, ' >,
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The Saboteurs
Number 3,735