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The Danbury Reporter
N. E. PEPPER, Editor and Publisher
Issued Wednesdays at Danbury, N. C., and entered »t thte Danbury
postoffioe as second class matter, under set of Congress.
Danbury, N. C., Sept. 21,1939
REFERENDUM COMING
The government of the United States in this
"land of the free and the home of the brave"
does not want to impose on the rights of any of
its citizens, nor deprive them of one iota of their
blood-bought liberties.
Instead the government is doing everything in
its power to guard the liberties and to improve
the condition of its citizens.
Especially is this so in the case of the farmers
and the tobacco growers, who never before in
the history of this government have been shown
so much consideration, and who have enjoyed
more protection, than the New Deal at Washing
ton has accorded them.
The government through its agricultural ad
ministration so fixed the law that the farmers if
they chose could themselves curtail their crops
to produce keener demand and consequent high
er prices, and offered its services to enforce the
law, if the farmers themselves chose to exercise
their power. So careful was the government of
the farmer's rights that it even required a TWO
THIRDS vote of the farmers before it would ac
cept their decision.
Now that the farmers by taking the advice of
false and misleading prophets, have brought
disaster again to themselves, the government
again offers its services, and gives the tobacco
growers again the right to say whether they will
have control of production and higher prices, or
unlimited production and lower prices.
The referendum will be held in a couple of
weeks, we are promised, and the farmers are
again offered the opportunity for their own
betterment.
Will they accent it, or will they listen' again to
the false prophets?
WHO KILLED TOBACCO ?
There wore intelligent and honest people who
voted against the control of tobacco production
in the last referendum. No question about that.
But the bulk of those who voted against it were
ignorant people whose fears were preyed upon
oy false leaders who made them believe that to
bacco control was an agent of government to de
prive them of their rights and their liberty.
These false leaders did not tell the
ignorant voters that their privilege in the
production of tobacco was a thing absolute
ly of their own wishes and their own discretion,
and that only they themselves could impose any
restrictions on their acreage or pounds in the
production of their staple crop.
The result was that enough growers who did
not know the truth, killed the goose that had
been laying the golden eggs, and brought dis
aster upon themselves and their brother farmers.
Know the truth, and the truth will make you
free.
SUPPLY AND DEMAND VINDICATED
»■ * ONCE MORE -
A dispatch from Martinsville, Va., says Pat
rick, Henry and Franklin counties, Va., met
Monday to discuss plans for referendum to be
held shortly on tobacco control.
John R. Hutchinson of the V. P. I. extension
department, addressing 1 the meeting said gov
ernment figures now show that Virginia farm
ers paid 4 million dollars this year for the privi
lege of doing extra work to produce 40 per cent,
more tobacco.
Virginia farmers like North Carolina tobacco
growers, while voting in the majority, were in -
fected with enough false prophesy in the name
of "liberteeto kill the goose that had been lay
ing the golden eggs for them.
THE DANBURY REPORTER
COSTLY ERROR
Stokes county farmers stand to lose probably
a million dollars because wild production swept
all the tobacco belts this year.
Probably those false prophets whose specious
argument led to this disaster, experience now a
twinge of conscience because they misled their
brethren.
The majority of Stokes county farmers are in
nocent of this wrong done to their country.
They voted a good majority for the control of
production, but thanks to a fair and liberal ad
ministration, even a majority of the growers
didn't count. The limit was put at two-thirds, so
that if the tail would wag the dog it could wag
it. It wagged it, to the sad undoing of the dog.
HIGH SCHOOL FOR DANBURY
The citizens of Danbury are asking the Stokes
County Board of Education for a standard high
school, alleging that the central location of the
county seat deserves equal educational advan
tages to other communities of the county.
Danbury has for years been only a second or
third rate entity in the county's fine educational
system. Under the plan of consolidation of
smaller schools and bringing their students to
the larger units, thus creating first class institu
tions at a number of points in the county, some of
the largest and most efficient schools in the
State have been established. The Danbury
school advocates claim that the students of sev
eral outlying districts adjacent to Danbury
could be transferred to a central unit at the
county seat to enlarge this school to one of the
largest and most efficient institutions of the
county. A meeting of the local school committee
is called to convene at the court house Friday
night to make plans for further activities in as-
sociation with John H. Folger, member of the
State educational commission.
Corporation to Buy
and Store Surplus To
bacco is Proposed
Raleigh, Sept. IS.—Proposed
r!an= for a corporation to buy to
bacco and store it until a profit
able maiket can be found were
revealed here tonight a3 officials
continued their search for a solu
tion to problems created by low
prices and withdrawal of British
markets from the flue-cured belt.
E. Y. Floyd, executive AAA of
ficer at N. C. State College, said
this was only one of several plans
to be considered by a group which
will meet in Washington tomor
row with agricultural officials to
seek mean 3 of reopening Caro
lines' markets closed fthia week
by a self-imposed "selling holi
day."
Included in the group will be
growers, warehousemen and bank-
Floyd emphasized that thbugh
the proposed corporation has nier
with favor by the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, it and other
proposals cannot be adopted un
less quotas are approved for the
1940 crop.
He quoted Secretary of Agri
culture Wallace as having said
"it is realized that it would not
be sound to undertake to sustain
prices unless fanners decided to
support the "agricultural adjust
ment program by regulating mar
ketings in 1940." Also, the ex
ecutive officer said, J. B. Hutson,
chief of the AAA tobacco sec
tion, has asserted that "farmers
cannot expect help in pegging
prices unless they agree to re
strict their 1940 crop."
It is definitely known, Floyd
said, that a referendum on mar
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keting quotas for the 1940 crop
j will be held between September
CO and October 7. "Any assist
ance in the form of government
i loans," he added, "will be cen
i
tingent upon approval of quotas
for next year."
| Floyd explained that the pro
i
posed corporation would operate
in this manner:
I
j It would be financed with
$1,000,000 worth of stock to be
sold to bankers, business men,
farmerg und others, and $39,000,-
000 in stock to be underwritten
by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation.
The Imperial Tobacco Company,
which withdrew its buyers Sep
tember 8. hag agreed to turn over
its personnel and facilities to the
corporation to buy "Imperial
grades" of tobacco the remainder
of the Season, Floyd said. The
British company would handle
the tobacco on a "cost - plus'
basis, and the prices for the "Im
perial grades" would be at an
average paid by Imperial before
the markets closed.
Leaf bought in this manner
would be stored until a profitable
market could be found.
Floyd also revealed that a
series of conferences would be
held in 60 counties to arrange for
educational meetings to acquaint
tobacco growers with plan 3 to re
lieve the situation. Plans for the
gatherings were made by agricul
tural leaders here today.
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King News Item
| J. C. Burge of High Point was
a week-end visitor to his sister,
jfclrs. Alvin White on Meadowview
Drive.