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THE DANBURY REPORTER. Volume 61. An Editorial. Should Hancock Be Returned to Congress ? In a statement to his constituents published out ot Washington May 6, Congressman Frank Hancock says that "measured by. the standard of service, his record is a good one." The Reporter believes there are thousands ot tobacco growers in' the Fifth North Carolina district who will not share with Mr. Hancock) this optimistic appraisal of a bad congressional record. Mr. Hancock is a fine young man who before his Washington ex-' perience was practicing law at his home In Granville county. It would possibly be well to encourage him to remain at his home, at until he can have a better conception of his duty to his constit- j uents in a time of great national stress, when the world—especially the tobacco farmers—are languishing in their travail. Happily the great staple oi" the farmers of the Fifth North Caro lina district last year brought millions of dollars more wealth to the firesides of the farmers than they had received in the years immediately before. All intelligent and fair minded men concede that the increased j price paid to the growers was a direct result of the powerful and sincere personal efforts of President Roosevelt. In the teeth of largely increased production, and while battling with the receding waves ct the most withering panic in history, the President remained un daunted and undeterred, and his endeavors were at last crowned with success. Did the President enjoy the support and assistance of the Con pressman from the Fifth district of N;>rth Carolina ? He did not, if history is straight. Hancock not only failed to lend his support in this hour of the tobacco farmers' greatest need, but he tried to hinder and block the President in his struggle to save the tobacco farmers. He vigorously objected to the Administration's plan to reimburse the farmer for to- 1 bacco acreage taken out of production, and in an interview at Wash- j ington intended to embarrass and discourage the President, the young! lawyer from Granville county charged that the benefit payment was; "A SOP" AND A "FLOP." If the President was successful in his efforts to help the farmers, where are the thanks due the Congressman sent to Washington by the tobacco farmers to lend a helping hand in all things intended for their relief ? Other legislation of tremendous and far-reaching importance to the farmers of the Fifth district of North Carolina is now impending in congress, and other crises in the tobacco situation may arise. I The only way in which the future may be judged is by the past. I Will Hancock again be found wanting when he is weighed in the balances of the crying human needs of his farmer constituents. Let the mighty hosts of men and women who farm, answer this question with their own intelligences and conscience. SHOE ON THE OTHER FOOT. But if Hancock lay down on Roosevelt when the President was try ing to put over the great tobacco plan, and showed himself un friendly to the vital interests of the voters who sent him to Wash ington as their ambassador, was he derelict when his own interest was at stake ? We hardly think so. The record shows that he voted for an increase in his own salary— ai'ready $8,500 and $3,000 expense money —voted an increase of SI,0(H), that he might be allowed $9,.>00 and $5,000 extras—and this IN THE FACE OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S VETO. Angels and ministers of grace—this extravagance in the teeth of the ountry's bankruptcy and starvation— When the nation was staggering under its unbearable financial, in dustrial and agricultural prostration— When men and women were walking the streets and highways of America without ANY JOB AT ALL to the number of 12,000,000 — When thousands of tobacco plantations of the Fifth North Caro lina district were under the hammer for taxes— \ i When countless thousands of men. women and children were being I fed and clothed out of the Federal treasury. Should the tobacco formers of Stokes county rush over themselves in their haste and enthusiasm to return a representative like this to j Washington ? A GOOD TRADE. W lay not send Mrs. Mebane to congre s ? This lady has every qualification to make a conscientious and true rnd able representative of the farmers of the Fifth District. She has the knowledge, the experience, tiie training, the sincere honesty and the heart. Mrs. Mebane is a farmer herself, owns a number of farms and cul-j tivatcs them, and is vitally interested in the farmers and farming. The only charge that anybody has ever brought against Mrs. i Mebane is that she is a lady. But so are our mothers and our wives, our sisters and our daughters. , The old prejudice against women in office has long since melted away under the rays of the brilliant and able service, the clean and Established 1872. BIG MEETING OF JUNIORS, MAY 26 I Councils From Three Counties To Be At Walnut Cove—Program Of Entertainment Arranged. j On Saturday, May 26th, tlio ' Juniors of the Bth District w'll I | meet with Walnut Cove Council J No. 211 for their spring meeting. , The business session will be at 2:3 0 P. M., at which time the j district degree will be conferred, | reports submitted by the districts. Oflicera for the ensuing year are to be elected and other important business transacted. District No. 8 is one of the largest in the State, being com posed of Davidson. Forsyth and j Stokes counties and has 25 coun cils with a membership of more than 4,000. Some of the largest councils in the State are in this district. C. P. Burchette, of Win ston-Salem, is District Deputy and will have charge of the meet ing. It is hoped to have everyone of the 25 councils fully rep resented, and Mr. Burchette and C. W. Snyder, Field Secretary, are working hard to that end. Supper will be served to visit . ing Juniors by Walnut Council I at G P. M. I At 8 o'clock the public session i will be held in the high school | auditorium and the main feature of this meeting will be a one-act , comedy entitled "The Quest of j the Gypsy," presented by the 1 Glee Club from the Junior Home at Lexington. i Other features will be address- 1 1 es by State Councilor B. C. Sisks. of Pleasant Garden, and State Treasurer Gurney P. Hood, of Raleigh, and State Secretary S. \ F. Vance, of Kernersville. | | ' The Davidson county farmers' Exchange has a new warehouse at Lexington 30 by 80 feet and more than 500 persons visited the building on opening day last week. i j Craven county tobacco farmers' have received $49,703.45 in rent al and equalization payments to date. l?onc.st accomplishments, the thoroughly dependable and reliable service of our womanhood. j President Roosevelt and thousands of the most intelligent men of the nation recognize the intellectual and physical equality of th* women, who are now being called to the service of their country in increasing thousands. 1 It is an open secret at Washington that the ablest member of the President's cabinet is a WOMAN. | The head of the great Federal relief in North Carolina is a woman. The judgment is President Roosevelt's. 1 Lily M. Mebane is at home in Ihe court of Saint •lames or in the | (;uiet fields of her North Carolina farms. She is an all-round voman, works in any harness. During the world war, volunteering ,in the service of her country, she spent 3 years at t':e front, and during a period of 4 months when the Hun was pressing the allied arinics In every sector, she drove a truck on the shell-swept plains ef Flanders fields. Don't you admit, here's a WOMAN. Mrs. Mebane is educated, she is world-experienced, she is posted on national and State politics, she has held a number of positions of honor and trust, and has served several terms in the North Caro lina General Assembly with distinguished ability. Finally, Mrs. Mebane is a lady of the purest Christian character, and Is filled with the ideals so dear to the hearts of the people of the Fifth North Carolina district, who will be honored by her representa tion in Congress. , Wednesday, May 16, 1934. VADE MECUM CAMP DATES ARRANGED i Activities At the Well Known Stokes Resort of tiie Episeopa j lians Are Scheduled For the Summer. Dates for the various camps a'. Vade Mecum, Episcopal recrea tional and educational center, lo cated in the mountainous section of Stokes county, 23 miles from Winston-Salem, were announced Sunday by Rev. J. A. Vache. rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal church, of Greensboro, who is general camp director. Activities of the camp were laid before the church convention in Charlotte by Mr. Vache last week and the outlook for a great er car.ip and season is good. The committee meeting which heard the report of the , activities at Vade Mecum was preside i over by Rt. Rev. Edwin A. Penick, D. D., of Raleigh, bis hop of the diocese. In attendance were Rev. Da.i Allen, of Lexi'V.'- ton; Porter Stedman, of W. ii-ton Salem; Rev. Alfred S. Lawience i of Chapel Hill; Rev Iheo. Pat rick, Jr., of Raleigh, and Rev. Q. Beckwith, of MiHsboio. I Dates of the various c»;v.ps were announced as foil -vvs. j Yojipg Peoples' Service I j. fiuc convention, June 8, 9 and 10; senior boys camp, June 10-25 un der direction of Rev. Dan Allen, Lexington; junior boys c amp, June 24-July 8, under direction of t Rev. J. Q. Beckwith, Jr., of Lex ington; senior girls camp, July 8- 22; junior girls camp, July 22- August 5; woman's auxiliary con ference, August 5-19. j The two girls camps will be un ! der the direction of Miss Edna | Henly, head of the department of physical education at the state school for the blind, Raleigh, and Mi? 3 Margaret Williams, student secretary at St. Mary's house. Woman's college. Miss Ken Tay ; !or, of Oxford, will be dietitian; Miss Kitty Houze, nurse. I I I Eighty-eight 4-H club boys of Orange county are planting yel low corn this season. LOWER INTEREST FOR FARMERS WINSTON - SALEM PRODI'C TION CREDIT ASSOCIATION IS MAKING LOANS 7 O J FARMERS IN STOKES, FOR SYTH, DAVIE AM) DAVID SON COUNTIES. L. E. Francis, secretary-treus urer of the Winston-Salem Pro duction Credit Association, hus just received word from Governor W. I. Myers of the Farm Credit Administration in Washington, D. C., that the interest rate on new loans from production credit as sociations has been reduced from 5 1-2 to 5 per cent. According to Mr. Francis, the new 5 per cent interest rate bo comes effective immediately on all new loans and advances nmdo by the associations and will L.' applicable until further notice. "The new interest rate of 5 per cent will not affect loans already advanced in full," Mr. Francis said. "These will continue to bear the rate of interest prevailing -it the time loan was closed. Th» interest charges on loans from the association are collected when the loans mature. The Winston- Salem Production Credit Associa tion is now making loans on ac ceptable crop and chattel security to farmers in Forsyth, Davie, Davidson and Stokes counties. "The reduction of the interest to 5 per cent on new loans," Mr. Francis continued, "is made pos sible by a recent sale of Fedenl intermediate credit bank deben tures to investors? at an unusually low rate of interest. The associa tion gets money to lend farmers I from the federal intermedia! i credit bank of Columbia, S. C. "The lowering of the interest rate on new loans to 5 per cent is the &2cond reduction in two months, the rate having been re duced from 6 to 5 1-2 per cent on March 1(5. ' "According to Governor My- 1 ; crs." siiJ Mr. Francis. the Fed crol intermediate credit bank passing on immediate!/ to farm er-borrowers from p: due!'..)!) credit associations the savin;; made possible by low>v cost of ! getting money. The confidence j of investor." in the ssctnpy of the 1 intermediate credit banks hn; been such that the banks are able to get money to lend at »he low j est discount rate in their history. Governor Myers says that the re sulting low rate of interest on production credit association loans is enabling farrner-borrow cvs to save thousands of dollars on the cost of their farming on eraions this yenr. If the asso ciations make sound loans, and loans that arc collectible, an ade quate supply of low cost money will continue to be available. Off For Kansas City, j Mrs. Minnie G. Doyle, federal i relief chief in Stokes, will leave 1 I Friday for Kansas City where she will attend a meeting of FERA officials from all sections of the country. Number 3,018 CAPTAIN THORE STOKES C ITIZEN ■ Candidate For Legislature Pro tests At the I'n fairness ait J i .Misrepresentation of Some of His Opponents—Legal Opinion Quoted. To my friends, voters of Stokes county: Since I have announced my candidacy for the legislature, a report has been circulated by some of my opponents that I am not a citizen of Stokes county, and am therefore not eligible to hold office in the county. I am taking this opportunity through the columns of The Dan bury Reporter to brand this re port as not only without founda tion in truth and fact, but aa maliciously misleading and un fair to me. Its spread and circu lation among the voters of the county can only have been in spired through a deliberate and cowardly attempt t> damage my candidacy in the county primary ot June 2. I hive no doubt that d:i ii underhanded tactics will re ' act on those who arc- so unfairly i.oing tiieni against me. Now since I have boon inform ed of this propaganda. I havo . consulted some of the mo.it emi nent legal talent in the State, in- I f eluding the Attorney General, and in every instance the truth of my position as a bona fide citi zen of Stokes county has been sustained. As a sample of this legal opin- I ion I wish to call the attention of my friends in both political parties to the following letter: May 12. 1934. 1 Capt. J. E. Thore. ; Hotel Eklin, Elkin. N. C. Dear Capt. Thore: • v j In connection with your quali -1 fications to vote and hold public office in Stokes county. North I Carolina, we wish to advise you as follows: It is our information that you were born and reared in Stokes county and resided there until the year 191fi. At that time you en tered the service of the United States Army and remained thero until 1019. at which time you re turned to Stokes county. Shortly thereafter you were employed by the British American Tobacco Company and served in this ca pacity in several foreign coun tries. You returned home every four years to cast your vote in Stokes county. In 1930 you re turned to Stokes county and soo.i thereafter was employed by the Atlantic Joint Stock T.md Bamc of Raleigh and have been in the employ of t his concern since that time. For business reasons your pre sent employer established your headquarters at Elkin. N. C. Dur ' ing the entire time you have been away from Stokes county 1 you have always considered it. ! your home, owning property i there. You have listed and paid all taxes, including poll taxes, :n Stokes county. You will pay poll (Continued on Second Page.)
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