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Page Two THE DANBURY REPORTER. N. E. PEPPER, Editor and Publisher Issued Wednesdays at Danbury, N. C., and entered at the Danbury postoffice as second class matter, under act of Congress. Wednesday, August 8, 1934. Government Versus Citizen. The government through its great Tennessee Valley hydro-electric power development, will soon furnish power and lights to the public in competition with private companies and at much cheaper rates. It is not doubted that everybody will welcome cheaper power and lights. But when the gov ernment enters into a private business field, it is invading the rights of its citizens and giving a serious check to business incentive. It is a wrong principle, as we see it, and one out of line with our constitution and repugnant to our free institutions. The newspaper and job offices of the country have long experienced this aggressive tendency on the part of Uncle Sam in a small wayj when they have had to compete with the govern ment printing office on envelop printing. The merchants, the lumber dealers, the tobac co manufacturers, the shoemakers, the black smiths, the lawyers, the doctors, the butchers — none of these would relish competition in their respective lines of business or profession with the boundless resources and equipment of their government. They would naturally feel a slight disadvantage, an inferiority complex, or something like that. Neither does the S. P. U. Company, the Caro lina Light and Power Co., or the print shops L-mile over their situation. We have a great and noble President. His agencies of the New Deal are saving and have saved the republic from chaos and we have an abiding faith that the ffght against the depress ion will be won. We are consoled with the belief that the government's methods in the TV A pro gram is only an emergency expedient, and not a permanent policy. The government will not embark on a socialistic program. Use A Seasoned Maul. You are telling a good story to a party of friends who stand around you, and you are about to reach the funny climax, when up comes a Mutt and butts in with a loud voice on another subject, and the crowd turning from you listens to the new idiot, and you rapidly look over your audience to see if there is anybody still listening to your joke and you see one fellow with his reluctant gaze yet on you and you direct the rest of your story to him, and lie laughs kind of sad-like at your point, as he turns to the fresh attraction of the new idiot. Now, you ask, whom to hit first in this embar assing situation, and we would advise, kill the new idiot first, and then follow with the audience until you come to the final-listener, the consider ate friend. Give him a good stiff kick, but don't kill him. We need a few friends in the world. - , The Court House Square. The county commissioners are making it a i violation of law to depredate on the court house ; square, which is a piece of public property en- titled to be respected and protected. No longer , will children be allowed to make it a playground, to break up glass on its green lawn and haul dirt and brick to mar its beauty. No more will 1 the tired loafer be permitted to sprawl inert on j its carpet of tender grass with his half bare legs 1 crossed in the air, to the amazement of visitors ] passing through. The court house green of any county seat town should be a place of beauty and made to form a pleasing foreground to the temple of justice. The Medicine Needed. It is said that since the government began in suring deposits, there has been only one bank I 1 failure. Your deposit in the bank now is guar anteed by Uncle Sam up to $5,000. This ouerht to bring out of old tin cans, socks and bed ticks many millions of idle dollars, re- ( turning them to circulation and stimulating the , return of business to normalcy. i'HE DANBURY REPORTER Stokes County's Rare Mineral. I The following- item is from the last issue of - the Literary Digest: "Rock usually is rigid, but there is a speci _ men of sandstone at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, which can be bent ~i ea^ib. Known as itacolumite, it is composed of many unccmented interlocking" grains, and ; is found only in Brazil and North i Itacolumite is called flexible sandstone back i It exists plenteously on the Saura moun- I Danbury. If found anywhere else in -\orth Carolina, we don't know about it. I bo thus with the South American State of • , brazil. Stokes enjoys the honor of being the exclusive home of this rare mineral. , Some time ago W. R. Young mailed samples of itacolumite to Hoover, F. D. Roosevelt and A 1 ? Smith, respectively. From the then President, f-! Mr. Hoover, a nice letter of acknowledgment was received. Later, President Roosevelt also nt a gracious epistle of thanks. No reply was : received from the Happy Warrior. It is conceivable that a close examination and study of the component parts of the steel-like itacolumite influenced Hoover in his hard-boiled . financial policy, as this mineral has never yet . been cut by any instrument. And it is possible - that Roosevelt got an idea from it in manufac • hiring his flexible currency, which is also rare i to many people. > ->.*- it not known what use A 1 made of the speci-! . men mailed him by the Danbury man, unless he' sent it to the Pope to use in hammering his bull over the head occasionally. • j Excuse Me, Oklahoma. , i : . a dismal but fascinating picture; in the Baltimore News a few days ago showing some of the drouth scenes in Oklahoma. Dotted over a vast field of sun-baked sward could be noted the prostrate bodies of cattle that 1 had died with thirst. I The poor animals had given up the fruitless' eearch for a drink of water—cool water with which we are surfeited now in North Carolina.! •Just a drink to relieve their agony before dis solution. But the brassy skies, the clouds of dust borne on burning winds, the relentless hot sun, offered 110 pity to the beasts walling their eyes in death. And then there was a view of the dry bed of the great Arkansas river the stream now! dwindled to where you could in places almost jump across it. In the days of the past many Stokes county citizens have migrated to Oklahoma in search I of their fortunes. But when we consider the disadvantages of that country as compared with North Carolina —its arid scourge, its dust storms, its cyclones and tarantulas, we bg to say, Excuse me, Okla homa. i I How to Pay Relief Funds Back. The vast postal service has converted deficits ?Lo milli °n dollars in 1932 and 50 millions in; 1 1933 to a surplus of five millions over expendi- 1 tures for the year ending June 30, 1934. It is ' the first time the world's largest business oper- ' ation has been self-sustaining since 1919, the seventh time in 50 years, and is a notable example of what can be accomplished by efficient, pains taking public service. At this rate of earning money, if the rest of ' the Republican postmasters can be lifted out of 1 their berths, we ought to pay a good portion of " the federal relief expense back to the tax-payers by the end of Roosevelt's first term. i Colossal Enterprise. i The government, with PWA funds, will plant ! u belt of trees 100 miles wide and reaching from 'he Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico. s Ther* has been no bigger federal undertakir- i 41 'nc° the war agencies of 1917-1919 functioned v possibly. | The idea is to erect a bulwark against the t devastating drouths of the west, to conserve the J moisture and induce more regular distribution J of rainfall. ! a And the enterprise will £ive employment to i hundreds of thousands of workmen. ! i Winston-Salem to Stuart — i f There is talk of a bus-line from Winston-Salem to Stuart, Va., since the completion of the Law sonville link of hardsurfaee. Now you can run from the Twin-City to the capital of Patrick on a paved road. I There is no reason why it would not pay to put on a jitney schedule over this turnpike. It is 50 miles from Winston-Salem to Stuart. Towns en route would include Walkertown, Wal v nut Cove, Danbury, Lawsonville, etc. •j A great deal of intercommunication is needed t between this Virginia region and North Car olina towns and cities, fj A new direct mail line could be established, ? which would add tremendously to the conven ience of the territory, as well as afford addition . al income to the bus line. I We will be delighted to see direct and quick communication through this territory, and have £no doubt it would be a paying proposition. >1 HARRY LEAKE 5 1 LANDS FINE JOB J' APPOINTED GOVERNMENI , j TITLE ABSTRACTOR —GONE j TO TROY TO GET TRAINING [- 1 KING TIGERS DEFEAT J WALNUT COVE'S CRACK [ I NINE—BIRTHS RECORDED 5 1 —OTHER NEWS OF KING. "i I King, Aug. B. Attorney H. H. • I 5 1 Leake has received notice from j Washington of his immediate ap j pointment as government title j abstractor. He left Monday for ; Troy, where he will spend several ! days acquainting himself with the work. I : - J O. L. Rains and family, Mes i dames C. S. Newsum, C. O. Boyles, Sr., Addie Lewis and Misses Thelma and Dorothy New sum, Newel Newsum and Edgar and Robert Johnson left Mondav i i morning for Carolina Beach where i they will spend a week, j Grover Stone is treating his ■ home to a coat of new paint this I week. ! H. D. Pulliam, who holds a position at Kernersville, spent the week-end with his family here. John Rierson celebrated his 83rd birthday at his home three j miles west of town Sunday. Quite a number of relatives and friends were present for the occasion. Anthony Gordy has purchase ! the P. J. Gunter residence on Pulliam street and will move his family there as soon as some needed repairs on the building can be made. I Dr. G. E. Stone and family and i Billy Helsabeck and Everette and Frank Stone are spending ten days at the Century of Prog ress fair at Chicago. A. S. Boles, retired mail clerk of Washington, D. C., is spending a few days with relatives here. Mr. Boles was reared near here. The Fidelis clas3 of the first Baptist church went on a weiner roast to Boiling Spring in For syth county Friday. It was a pleasant occasion for all who made the trip. Julius Alridge and Troy Spain hower have returned from an extended trip to Idaho. The King Tigers defeated Wal nut Cove's crack nine on the Pin nacle diamond Saturday by a score of 8 and 6. Herman Snider of the United States Army, stationed a't Fort Bragg, is spending a furlough with relatives and friends here. | The following births were regis tered here last week: To Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Marshall, a son; to Mr. and Mrs. Willie Butner, son; to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar, Payne, a son; to Mr. and Mrs. I Roacoe Vaughn, a son, and to WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1984 JEFFRESS SAYS 5 ESCAPES MUST STOP i r CHAIRMAN OF THE HIGHWAY G AND PUBLIC WORKS COM -3 MISSION SAYS "SHOOT ir r NECESSARY" 872 PRISON £ ERS GET AWAY, BUT 700 ) ARE RECAPTURED. ' Eight hundred and seventy-two [ prisoners, or nine-tenths of 1 per ~ cent, of the average prison popu lation of the State, escaped from e various North Carolina penal in ., stitutions during the fiscal year ! 1933-34. e ' E. B. Jefifress, chairman of the highway and public works com mission, reiterates his statement that "escapes must stop." The .j chairman has visiting meet ings of prison ;)er°onnel and in r structing guari3 nr. i officials t.> j shoot if necessary lo stop prison , ers who are trying to get away. Mr. Jeffress also revealed that , L. G. Whitely, second assistant , superintendent of the prison li vision, has been investigating j cases involving escapes and has t warned prison camp superintend r ents and guards by letter that in general the guarding of prisoners . must be tightened up. While the 872 prisoners were , getting away, the prison received , 700 escaped convicts who had been recaptured. Some of these I escaped in years prior to 1933-34. Mr. Jeffress pointed out that ; less than 1 per cent, of the aver , age prison population escaped though more than 7,000 prison ers are now worked almost every week day in "open" conditions on highways and farms, and that three-fourths of all escapes arc recaptured. The average prison population in 1933-34, first year of the new consolidation of prisons and high ways, was 7,657. Teachers For the Danbury School A. A. Dofflemyer, of Virginia, principal. Graduated last year from Davidson college. Has had 4 years experience teaching in J Stokes county, at Dillard and I King. | ! Other teachers: jj l Mrs. J. W. Hall, Mrs. W. E. j Joyce, Mrs. Mattie Sue Taylor I Miss Janie Mar tin. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kirby, a son. ! Mrs. Worth Vest and Miss Vick Talley of Elizabeth City, N. J,, are spending some time near here. Mrs. Vest is the guest of i Mr. and Mrs. John W. Spain , hower and Miss Talley is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Noah Talley.
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