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Can the Stokes County voter afford to
fail to vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt
and hi.- administration next Tuesday?
For the following- reasons, we do not
think he can:
Farming 1 is the chief occupation of 90
percent, of the Stokes county people,
and on the farmer's prosperity depends
the prosperity of 100 percent, of Stokes
county's citizenship.
Frankiin D. Roosevelt has done more
j"or the fanner than any President since
Georgo V'ashington and every fair
minded person, if he thinks seriously,
must admit this.
The farmer's position today is strong
er, and his buying 1 power larger than at
any time in the history of the nation.
The very first thing Roosevelt did
when he came into power was in the di
rect interest of the farmer, as well as of
every other citizen. He closed every
bank in the United States. More than
10,(TOO bank? had failed under the ad
ministration of Hoover, and uncounted
millions of dollars had been lost by the
because the banks could not col
f ,'t n>t"s and mortgages, as the condi
on of the times were so serious that
business houses were falling every day
and the price of land and the products
of the farms were so low that farmers
could not meet their obligations.
They could not even pay taxes.
Tobacco was bringing* far below the
cost of production. Hundreds of thou
sands of farms and homesteads were on
the block, and men were losing their
savings of a lifetime because they could
not raise money to rescue them.
After a short while the safe banks
were reopened and the new President,
Roosevelt, demanded and received
from congress a law to guarantee up
to $5,000 every deposit in the banks.
Thus was the country restored to confi
dence, and people began anew to take
heart.
This was followed by laws to establish
giant pools of cash by which farmers
and business men could get loans to save
their property and to revive their para
lyzed business.
At this time uncounted thousands of
men and women were walking the
streets and highways of the country
barefooted and hungry, out of work, out
of a means of earning the very necessa
ries of life.
Under the demand of the President
the WPA and other agencies were
established, not to give the people free
doles like in spme of the European coun
tries, but to give them honest work, and
'low them to honestly earn the means
4 livin?-, to take new heart, to get a
AV view on life. It was the NEW
DEAL that the Republican campaign
orator?, abuse and cuss to this day.
The New Deal resurrected the nation
from the most stupendous financial ca
tastrophe of history in which more
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money was lo?; by tiic fanners. busi'ies.'
men, the railway companies, the insur
ance companies, the industrial factories,
etc., than i-; now owed by the great
war debt of the United States.
Roosevelt didn't stop at this. He de
manded and received from the Demo
cratic congress legislation which has
furnished and is furnished today under
our great social security, regular checks
to the old aged, the helpless, the crip
pled. the blind, and other unfortunates.
The President had said at the outset
that no person of America should starve
under his administration.
He ha» kept his word to the people.
At the start of the New Deal the na
tional income was only about 30 billions
of dollars. Within two or three years it
had increased to 80 billions. Today it is
more than 200 billions of dollars.
When Hoover went out many million
of people were unemployed. During the
reign of Roosevelt unemployment has
been reduced more than TEN MILLION.
In giving employment to the idle am.
the despairing, to lead them back t;>
prosperity, the WPA spent many mil
lions of dollars for public buildings,
roads, school buildings, parks, and a
thousand needed improvements and
new constructions. In our own county
of Stokes the greatly enlarged and mod
ernized court house, equal in its conven
iences and comforts to almost any coun
ty's public buildings, stands as a resu r
of the New Deal's giant saving program.
Tobacco Is the Measure of Stokes
Prosperity
Like all the other counties of the great
tobacco belts, the price of their great
money crop is the measure of prosperi
ty. Tobacco is today selling at higher
averages than at any time in the history
of the country except the one year of
1919. Almost immediately after Roose
velt took the driver's seat, the price of
tobacco began climbing.
Why? Because the New Deal ha '
taken the control of the money of the na
tion from the hands of the great money
interests in New York, and brought it
to Washington where Hoover had let it
escape from. Consequently, the govern
ment was behind the great financial pol
icy of the nation —establishing a NE V '
POLICY. Farmers and business men
could now fret the cash to do business 
The result of the NEW DEAL for the
small man can be seen today as the great
interests who are backing Mr. Dewey
are moving Heaven and earth to beat
Roosevelt, and here in North Carolina
WP have the "America First" or the
"Constitutional "Democrats" or some
such crooked political organizations as
that, calling themselves Democrats—-
thev are only little henchmen at work
order* from tv»p big- ifvferests in New
York and Wall Street to fool the com
mon man, tryinjfto get control again of
(. % n E&t.jrial)
the government, so that they may again
put the halter on ouFl'armers, laborers
and little business men.
Would the Stokes county farmers be
wise next Tuesday to vote to turn out
their best friend, the man who had done
so much for the country and the common
people*'
The Vicfovs Attack On Roosevelt
1 ae.. are using money, misrepresenta
tion, slander, lying, ar.l deception to
beat the President no v.. Thev tell i.t .-no
rant and uninformed women that Roose
velt put their boys in the war after
promising them he would not. This
statement is false. Roosevelt said he
would not be in favor of sending' any
mother's boy to fight in a foreign war
UNLESS WE WERE ATTACKED.
They sre telling the ignorant and un
informed that Roosevelt said he wanted
to keep the boys in the war because it
was cheaper than feeding them or hav
ing to provide them a job when they
came back. This is a dastardly lie with no
semblance or the truth. The President
has long since induced Congress to pass
a law to muster out the boys at the
quickest possible moment after the war.
and to provide jobs for them when they
come out. .w
The Fresident himself has four sons in
the armed services, and has just a- much
feeling for his boys as any father or
mother ha' for theirs.
They are telling it on the President
that he made no preparations for the
war and that he is responsible for the
loss of life it Pearl Harbor. This is so
i'a'se it smells to Heaven. The facts are
the Republicans in Congress who voted
almost solidiv against fortifying' the is
land of Guam, against lend - lease,
against arming our merchantmen,
a'rm-Ht increasing our army, against
building a great air force, against en
larging the navy—against nearly every
measure which Roosevelt advocated to
l*'epare the country against war long
before Pearl Harbor—these are the per
sons who are responsible for the blood
of thousands of boys.
Don't Swap Horses Xow
It would be atragedy of vast degree to
elect Dewey President now and defeat
Roosevelt in the midst of tin's most ter
ri"! ! e w >.' in history, and put in a new
man at the nolm without either experi
on, \ knowledge or ability to hold this
po ition of war President. Such an act
on toe nart of tiie voters would certainly
be construed by Germany and Japan as
the refusal of the United States to back
up its government in the war. These
desperate nations, who are now beaten
to their knees, would certainly take new
heart, and increase their efforts, and the
war would be greatly prolonged, mean
ing the death of many thousands of our
boys.
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