THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872.
(Editorials.)
Oi Trie w
Memories of '23
Dr. McDonald was so anxious Tuesday
make St' voters understand that he sccod
the Demjw-i-at'.c platfoi m, that he repeated h
declaration thrice. When a person is so P'r- 1
sistent in evplaining to you that he is your I
friend, you may usually know that he is vi» l.l
Otherwise his conscience would not goad him ?o.j
If our history serves us correctly, the good Dr.;
was also proclaiming his Democracy in 192'
when he w : th McNinch's group were working to
humiliate the Democratic party in North Caro
lina and hand it over to Hoover. Since the
Hoover he and his compatriots handed us has
proved to be such a hot brick, he now compares
his "taxation philosophy" with the New Deal
and tries to justify his punk theories here with
a comparison to the New Deal. If the New
Deal's big tax program SHOULD prove abor
tive, the New Deal has the power to issue new
money as long as printing presses run. But if
McDonald's "schemes" which he tells us he can
use to cover a 17-million dollar deficit in the N.
C. revenues, go bad, it will be too bad for the
farmers. Only acl valorem on real estate an'"
land could fill the hole made by the wild exper : -
ments of our Illinois "professor," as states are
not allowed to issue money even to cover deficits.
They Fall For McDonald
, . » »
The danger in Dr. Mac Donald's "philosophy"!
is its SPECIOUSNESS. A past master in the ar j
of argument, he comes gentle, astute, suave
with words offtimes coated with sugar. Many
a listener falls for him without reasoning why.
Only those who know that his statements are
sometimes not backed by facts and that his j
theory of taxation is fraught with a threat to'
the fiscal well being of the State, are able to re
sist his hypnosis. A highwayman who approach
es you with a fierce countenance, flourishing fire
arms and hurling abuse may be dreaded less
than the smooth stranger you take on to rid-;
with you who charms von with his rhetoric and
then slips a stilletto under your fifth rib.
Why the duPont League fights Roosevelt so
hard when he has made their industries pay
again after the destruction of 30-31-32, is as
much a mystery as why merchants are so ob
sessed against the sales tax when it shows them
good profits.
FARMERS SHOULD i
REDUCE ACREAGE
KIRBY SAYS STOKES FARM- j
ERS MAY RECEIVE MORE
TH\N 8310,000 FROM THE
GOVERNMENT THE DAN
GER OF NOT REDUCING.
The farmers who in coopera
tion with the Soil Conservation
Program reduce their tobacco '
acreage to seventy p°r cent, of;
I
their base will probably get more
per pound f m the tobacco they 1
do raise, than the men who say 1
they cannot afford to reduce. Male- '
ing this thirty per cent, reduction '
in the tobacco acreage and put- ; '
ting in soil cortferving crop?, at 1
least equal to the acreage tak?n
I
out of tobacco, qualifies the 1
grower for five cents a pound on 1
u
(Continued on pan 4.) ,
Volume 64.
Entertainment At
Dillard School
I
An by Gray Mc-
Gee's Stokes County Band was
held at Dillard School last F: i
day night. The larye crowd whica
paid to witness the performance
had many hearty bursts of
I laughter over ths tacts of Bill
Jones and Henry Man:;urn play
ing as colored comedians'. The
latter also gave an excellent im
personation of the comic cat
toon character, "Popeye." Ti;o
music, which was greatly appro
ciatecl by everyone present. W.«M
made by Gray McGee, Charli
Collins, Roy Palmer and Costas
Collins.
An added attraction was fur
nished by Laura Lee Durham,
ten year old acrobatic actress of
Westfield. The spectators were
thrilled by the almost unbeliev-
Danbury, N. C, Thursday, April 30, 1936
The Sources Of Taxes
i
The C'rea' 1 * • philosopher, who has com •
among us to run the State, s;iy> there is a nm.i
; n the State worth :'*o million dollars who draw
:>n income of a million a year, but who pays no
4 axes to thr St-ite?. This is a shocking picture
for us who have to pay our penny sales taxes
.'rem the crad-e to the grave. The only trouble
with this gho.-t story, likr most ghost stories, is
't is short c-f the truth. The truth is that the
federal government takes Mj'Ki.OOO of that
million fcr its uses, while the State also collects
its income from him. But before all this the
corporation who issued this stock to this man,
had to pay its franchise and other taxe>. This
; s not all. After putting in the bank whati
money Washington and Raleigh leave the fel
low. he must give in for county taxation.
This sou roe of "invisible wealth" which is!
held up to in flam o the nreimlice of the common I
people, is close akin to the Bowman Gray spook, j
which evaporated with the light. j
The Whoopee Of The Nude Eel
Hundreds of sons and daughters of the'
daddies of Stokes, Surry, Rockingham and!
other counties are employed in Winston-Salem,
ind it is not ail surprising that many of them
have succumbed to the siren song of the,
brilliant Chicagoan who is here to run the State.
T t is a fine thing to be on the band wagon when
-he trombones and the violins begin to play.
~>uite another thing it would be to have to git
lown rrf home t r> hoh> pay the ad valorem j
'axes which the machine took off the farm, but
which an abortive tax philosophy in its despera
tion levied back.
Auld Lang Syne.
The Winstoyj Journal is a fine newspaper, and
very ably edited, but we have never understood
vhy it usuallv balks when it comes to supporting
he regular Democratic ticket. It be tb°f
the New Jersey complex finds compatibility with
the Illinois complex, neither of which complexes
ire friendly to plain and safe North Carolina
! Democracy. Both fought shoulder to shoulder
| n 1928 to put over Hoover and succeeded. Now
| why shouldn't they renew their comradeship in
arms, while both to still the beating of their
hearts stand r-peatmg "I am for Roosevelt and
the New Deal." So thousands of others who
went Republican in 1928.
KING NEWS.
t
i Mrs. Wiley Jones underwent a
tonsil operation in the New Clinic
here Friday. She is reported to
be getting along cicely.
Mack Kirby, of Greensboro, ; s
'.pending a few days with rela
tives and friends here.
j Mr. and Mrs. Harvey D. Pull
iam, of Winston-Salem, were
among the visitors hers Satur
day.
i Justice J. Stedmr.n G;irner at
tended the state meeting of the
association of Magistrates at
Salisbury Friday. Mr. Garner
states that about one hundred
magistrates attended the melt
ing.
able feats whiah she performed
tnj contribute'! generously wheir
a hat was passed to collect
money for >* a r
Visiting- the Apple
Blossom Festival
Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Christian,
Mrs. J. W. Hall, Mrs. N. E. Pep
per and Beverly Christian left to
day for Winchester, Va., to visit
the Apple Blossom Festival, the
celebrated annual jublice at the
head of the beautiful Valley of!
I
Virginia. While there they p jr
pose to visit the great Confeder-!
ate cemetery at Winchester where'
thousands of Southern soldiers
are buried, among them Col.'
Ilufus K. Pepper who when nior-'
tally wounded at the stcond bat-'
tie of Manassas in June 1G.32.:
was in command of the 21st ". j
C. regiment. He left Danbury in
1861 with a company of Stokes
volunteers.
('h«}v.sj'.T l-.-iwctn 1 •*> '• i>
Some t'* v.v:- m'e ■ .tn \v ••••' ': "> the
.-a.'js tax whosj i; • ag • • ii 1 occnt
:• nle are »♦* i aily •. ! Ins
audiences by Dr. y ■ c.' na;d. i.v- ■• no you
buy, from the cradi to the e: iv.. t!io i »r. say-;
veil must s'lell out t.'ie pennies. When the
vicious machine w!:ich is of course oniy the
Democratic party) t«>ok >fi' every cant M' State
tax for roads and >ehools and then levied these
penny tributes on every citizen (thousands of
•vhem had never paid taxe> before), the crime of
the machine consisted in keeping the r-chooU
and roads running and saving ihe honor and
credit of the commonwealth. If the machine
had left this State tax on land and real estate,
the levies of the pennies would have been of
ccurse unnecessary.
Is It That Way All Over The State?
To many people the straw vote as affects
Stokes county, showing a large majority fo l *
Dr. Mac-Donald, is rather surprising in view of
the fact that it is common knowledge that the
overwhelming sent'ment in this county i- cither
|pro-Hoev cr pro-Graham. The my.-,Urv in
volved in the situation might be best explained
by an examination of the registration books,
which are not marked for political c nmloxion
of registrant-: a roll of  ach twelfth voter com
piled by a visiting' statistician could not help but
contain the names of many Republicans all of
whom are well known to be for Dr. McDonald
(before the primary).
Pause
Dr. McDonald's political philosophy, how
jever enticin.tr. is not yet readv to be adopted by
I the hard-headed citizens of Stokes county who
| are afraid of drastic experiments in civil
j government. The palpable danger to the
State's financial safetv and the certain heavv
, taxation on LAND and REAL ESTATE that
would inevitably follow a political misadventure
staged by even a well-meaning but inex
perienced chief executive, makes us rather bear
| the ills we may have than fly to others we know
■net of.
The rocking that many sections felt Tuesday
; was not an earthquake, hut was tlv« reverberation
:'rem Republicans laughing as Dr. McDonald
lambasted Democrats at Danburv.
N. Y. CO. BUYS
ROGERS ORE BANKj
AMIIKICAX STI;I:L COMPANY i
INM:STS IN STOKKS IKON
OKI:S—WAS I SKII IN CIVIL
W AH TIMI.S, AND IS OF FINK
QFAMTY.
| The American Steel Co., a N'.w
j York corporation, Iv.s bought the
I Rogers ore banks, near Casto-i
; i-hclton's, -1-2 miles north o."
Banbury.
j Thi- proper ly, which was own-j
I "1 by the heirs t>f the late Col. j
I J. U. Meek, is known to eont tin,
j'ieavy deposis of iron ores p:.:i-|
: ni:ig out S3 per cent, magnetic. 1
! -.1 •
j ilas ore was manufactured nr'oj
Ingots during the war bet .wen
the States in a number, of furn
,aces up and down Dan river, par-
\un?Hr 3, :?10
LawsonviHe News.
rtfv. O'Firian fil!»• I Lis resu
jlar appointment at Sur.v Creole
Sunday.
A good many of the people of
this place attended ilio moral of
Miss Lizzie Rhode!- at Smith
Chap;] Sunday.
M; - . and Mrs. Leon:';'.l Stevens
. v.vre the week-end K'-tsts oi
, thci;- parents. Mi. Watt Stevens.
Mrs. Ton Hall, of Madison,
I spent the pry-; «V-k with her
; p;::vnN, Mi. a:ul Mrs. Josh Law
j son.
tieulav'.y r.t Cknimo.v f .rd and
i Dnnbury.
11. M. .Y\?e « v iVurv.-y, who
jwas for many ;-.v U -- n;;.-.' 'or the
j' linterims 1 interims h.-.e, c incered
|'f deal !, v ;?v lu?r: Y.> :k coni
j pany, who. it is surnused. wiU
[early develop ininrn