The Dan bury Reporter
N. E. PEPPER, Editor and Publisher
luued Wednesdays at Danbury, N. C., and entered «t thfe Danbury
postoffioe as second class matter, under *ct of Oongresa.
Danbury, N. C.. Thursday, March 16, 1939
BANK FOR DANBURY
The people of Danbury and surrounding com
munities need a bank, want a bank and mean
to have a bank.
The business, the importance and the needs oi
the county seat of Stokes deserve banking* facil
ities which are enjoyed by other communities.
Being the only county-seat in North Carolina
without banking facilities, we feel justified in
asking the State Banking Department to permit
a bank to be operated at Danbury—PROVIDED
the State banking law is complied with.
To be denied this privilege would be a contra
vention of our rights, and to submit to such dis -
crimination would be a blot on the honor, the
dignity, the rights, and the independence of
the people of the county-seat of Stokes county.
The people of Danbury will tolerate no inter
ference by outside interests to prevent a bank
at Danbury.
LIFE ON THE LAKE
North Carolina is celebrated in the annals of
States for its firsts.
We trust that among the distinguished coun
ties of the State, Stokes may also come in for its
honors due for firsts.
We unequivocally claim to be first in roosters
and cats.
Frank Martin, care-keeper of Lake Stedman,
owns a rooster and a cat that deserve universal
recognition. Mr. Martin's rooster has no female
companionship, and has taken up with the house
hold felis which reciprocates the attachment.
When the rooster scratches up food, before par
taking himself he invariably calls the cat, which
quickly comes and if the viand is tasteful it in -
dulges.
Neither has the cat congenial sex or race re
lationships, but finds a certain kind of solace in
association with the chanticleer.
Often the cat swims on the lake in the search
for subsistence, and when it captures a bass, re
turns to the shore and there is a convivial feast.
The cat and the rooster sleep together in a con
venient dog-house close to the water.
Mr. Martin has never read Baron Munchausen
or Gulliver's Travels, and is unacquainted with
Ripley's miracles. Therefore, until evidence to
the contrary is introduced, we must at least en
tertain his remarkable disclosures.
REPTILES
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A rattler is a gentleman snake. He warns you
by his lethal horn. You are put on notice to de
fend yourself.
But a moccasin or a scorpion or a tarantula
strikes from the dark.
A toad that feeds on the vapors of an under
ground hole, catches his prey unawares. He is
afraid to disclose his identity. He is a sneak
thief.
The writer of an anonymous letter mav be
likened unto the reptiles that lie in wait, too cow
ardly to come into the open, but too malicious to
defer an opportunity to vent venom.
CHARMING VISITOR EXPECTED
The jonquil is wide open, and early peach trees
are blooming.
Frogs are singing in the meadow, the robins
are in the holly berries, and soon you will hear
the first whipporwill warble in the hedge.
In spite of the every-other-day cold whipping
rains, the enchantress—Miss Spring—is expect
ed daily. Next Tuesday is the date of the debut.
THE DANBURY REPORTER
WHAT ARE THE LADIES LAUGHING AT?
The parade of beauty, in the society pages of
the Sunday papers—what on earth are the sen
oritas tickled about?
Soon to be wed—nearly everyone of them is
'laughing at something.
Is it just because the picture-taker said: "Look
pleasant, please."
Or is it for the reason that they grasp this op
portunity to show a contrast with that sedate
state of tomorrow?
It is a sad thing to think that these smiles of
the face come the years of disillusion may turn
to ashes of roses in the heart.
The divorce dockets everywhere are congest
ed.
In an old advertisement of "Perry's Pain Kill
er" there were pictures of "before and after
taking."
Would it be inapposite to print this ad on the
modern society page?
PROPOSED "SPECIAL LAW DISTRICT"
FOR KING
The bill introduced in the legislature to create
a "special law-enforcement district" for the
community of King, will bear study.
The bill t implies by its "purpose to promote
more thorough and diligent enforcement of the
law," etc., that there is lax enforcement. As
King already has a special officer to enforce the
law in that section, it would be interesting to
visualize how the situation could well be im
proved, as the special officer already has the
support and co-operation of the authorities in
general in the county as well as the State high
way patrol service. No one could imagine the
quiet and conservative King Comunity as
needing so much law.
But the feature of the bill that attracts most
attention is that powers of taxation are to be
conferred on the suggested board of three.
The power of taxation is ~a vital and serious
grant which even the federal and State constitu
tions are religiously careful about bestowing.
And who would think Yadkin township needed
a jail?
The Reporter predicts that this bill will not
make the grade through the hard-headed legis
lature.
AUTO ACCIDENT BILL
Before the legislature is a bill which would add
50 cents to the annual auto plate fee. To fur
furnish funds for car accident victims.
Fifty-five per cent, of all automobile wreck
victims are unable to pay for their hospital
treatments So the cost must be borne by the
county or the hospital as a charity case.
It seems to us that this is a good bill and ought
to be passed, and that it would be to the interest
of our county if our commissioners would favor
it. A fee extra of 50 cents for each annual li
cense plate would not be missed by anybody, but
would build up a fund of 3 or 4 hundred thou
sand dollars to take care of the unfortunate vic
tims of car smashes, by setting up the proposed
N. C. Highway Accident Hospitalization fund,
provided for under Senate Bill 185.
THE PASSING OF DR. TOM
The untimely death of Dr. J. Thomas of
Westfield marks the passing of one of the most
outstanding citizens of this section of the State.
He lived on the border of Stokes and Surry, and
each county loved him so that both claimed him
This man's good deeds shine among the most
lovable traits of the many lovable traits of old
Big Creek township, Stokes county. He was a
Baptist minister, and a medical doctor. Thus he
became both spiritual and physical advisor to
throngs of people. He was ever at the call of
suffering. His smile and his ever-ready jokes
made affliction easier for countless numbers of
sick and discouraged persons. He was useful
progressive, sympathetic, charming. He al
ways could see the "r+ars shining above the
cypress trees," and his faith that saw the break
ing day across the mournful mp**v»ies play was
a quiet benediction to the dying. -
HITLER RAMPANT AGAIN
It's becoming- to be a dull month when the mad
dog of Europe is quiet.
Hitler now absorbs Slovakia. Recently he took
over Austria, followed by Sudeten land.
Many statesmen believe that he has ambitions
in South America where his propaganda is
steadily at work and where he is establishing: g
great radio stations. "Peaceful penetration"
may be followed soon by more substantial intru
sion into western hemisphere affairs.
General William Fanpel, former Nazi ambas
sador to nationalist Spain, in a Berlin speech
the other night, bitterly attacked the Monroe
doctrine. He intimated that Germany would
sink it.
President Roosevelt may be wrong- in some of ■
his policies, but the American people believe he
is right on defense. Congress is backing- him to
the limit.
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THE HIGH PRICE OF CONCENTRATED
OBSTRUCTION J
What would the du Ponts, the Morgan inter
ests, the power trusts, the great corporations of
Wall Street, pay for a bloc in the United States
senate secretly sworn to obstruct or defeat every
move made to help the masses.
There is a strong effort being made to heavily «
curtail or discontinue relief, by putting- a dead
line to further taxation of the rich and to large
ly shift the embarg-oes on wealth to the shoul- -
ders of the poor.
Seven or eight senators able to thwart the
President in his every move to help the help
less, could command pay-checks that would
make Croesus rustle uneasily in his tomb.
The move is for "economy". Suppose we start
by reducing the salary of Senators from $16,-
000 to $5,000. . i
THE OLD FASHIONED LAW OF SUPPLY
AND DEMAND.
P. O. Fry, J. L. Mitchell and Moir Hawkins
were here Saturday sitting- as a county com
mittee on applications of farmers to the federal
crop loaning- agency for loans to buy seeds and
fertilizers.
One of the committee informed the Reporter
that practically every applicant stated he plan
ned an increase of 1 to 3 acres in his 1939 crop
over 1938.
Eggs a few weeks ago were 35 cents and
scarce. Now they may be bought at 15c to 18«.
Why this hundred per cent, fall in the price
of an indispensable commodity?
Maybe those farmers who voted for uncon
trolled production of tobacco had their breeches
on hind part before.
SHERIFF JONES
The many friends of ex-Sheriff Charlie Jones
will be pained to know that he is quite seriouslv
ill at his home in Walnut Cove, and that he bears
his trouble like a stoic philosopher and a dead
game sport. But this regret of his friends is
lightened by the pleasant hope that he may yet
recover and be restored to his former good
health. He is not old and has a strong spirij;,
find this means so much on the road to recovery.
Life is a serious thing, and few of us will get
out of it alive. We are all under a sentence of
death, with short time respites.
Here's good wishes to Mr. Jones. May he
come' back, and we think he will.
A DOUBTFUL FUSE
The Union Republican is advocating the union
of the Baptists of North Carolina, Primitive
Baptists, Freewill Baptists, and so-called Mis
sionary Baptists. The Republican says there is
no good and sufficient reason why these denom
inations should not "seek to reconcile their pres
ent differences and again be one communion."
The Reporter would like to hear what Watt
Tuttle, Tom Tilley. John Priddv and Will Lewi*
would say about this. , * . ' :
THURSDAY. MARCH 16. lAM