OUR POINT OF VIEW
EDITORIALS
The Danbury Reporter
N. E. PEPPER, Editor and Publisher.
Issued Thursuays at Danbury, N. C., and entered
it the Danbury postofflce as second class matter,
under act of Congress.
DANBtJRY, N. C., FGBRUARY 15, 1840
THE DANBURY SCHOOL
In response to an appeal several
months ago made to the State school
authorities by the citizens and patrons
of the Danbury school district, a repre
sentative from the State school authori
ties spent a few hours in town Wednes
day, purporting- to consider the needs of
the county seat for a high school.
The school official talked with one or
two citizens in regard, then left town.
The citizens in mass meeting had
made a request for a survey of this dis
trict to see if this community was justi
fied in its desire for a high school.
It is not generally understood here
why the county and the State have not
given some consideration to the request
for our school needs.
If it has been said that the movement
here for a high school is unjustified, and
that the people of Danbury desire to in
fringe on the rights of any other school
district in Stokes county to the end that
we piay have a high school—such
statement is in error and intended to
arouse prejudice against the people of
the Danbury school district.
If it has been thought that the people
of this school district will not demand
their educational rights for their child
ren—this is also an error. The people of
the Danbury school district will not de
mand more, nor accept less, than the
school laws of the State of North Caro
lina vouchsafe to its citizens and tax
payers, and will pot recognize any un
fair impediment that stands in the way
of their privileges and rights.
Because Danbury may have slept on
its rights is no sign that Danbury will
continue to sleep or that it is not now
awake.
POLITICS IN THE OFFING
The primary comes on in May. Had
you thought it is only 90 days till we
nominate candidates again?
This is presidential year again, also
governor year. Then the congressional,
legislative and county tickets.
Also had you thought how interesting
—if not nice—it would be for candidates
to tell us what they want us to vote for
them for.
Is this a cryptic era —when that people
ask you to put them in office and don't
say why? Is it because of their personal
ities, or do they stand for something?
Give us platforms.
Fertilizer probe is now on in the Fed
eral court at Winston. The people are
asking why every company always asks
you the same price for guano, when the
Sherman antitrust law prohibits price
fixing. It really is quite a co-incident- •
why?
THE DANBURY REPORTER
STOKES IS ROOSEVELT
4 11 1 I
The Democrats of Stokes county are
still 95 per cent, pro-Roosevelt, as indi
cated unmistakably by the straw vote
recently conducted by the Danbury Re
porter.
Nowhere in the South or in the United
States is the President proportionately
stronger than in this county. Stokes is
preponderantly agricultural, and many
of those who are not farmers are de
pendent on the farmers for their sup
port and subsistence. When the farmer
prospers everybody prospers. When
the tobacco grower gets below-cost re
ceipts for his product, the effect is uni
versally bad for all classes of our popu
lation.
The farmors believe that Roosevelt is
about the only President in the nation's
history who has shown a consistent and
conscientious concern for their welfare,
and has braved the adverse criticism
and bitter antagonism of big interests
while he was battling in their behalf.
They realize fully that some of his poli -
cies may have been ill-suited or ill
timed, but they hold to the belief that
they were sincerely directed by the head
of the government and his advisers for
the relief of farmers. Hundreds of peo
ple love the President for the mistakes
he has made, believing them honest
mistakes made in an effort to serve
them.
A high regard is felt, by some of our
folk for Hull, Garner, Farley and other
aspirants for the President's chair, but
nobody can take the place of the man
who has the brains, the vision, the cou
rage and the all-embracing sympathy
and heart of Roosevelt.
HELP THE FINNS
The news today is that the Finns have
killed 20,000 Russians the last few days.
Now this is getting along fine, but
listen.
If the Finns kill 10,000 Russians every
day, it will take 10 years to bump off the
man power of tfye Bolsheviks.
Finland is making a fight transcendant
in history for its bravery, its fortitude,
its hopelessness.
It is believed by many of the world's
best posted statesmen that England,
France, Germany, Scandinavia and the
Balkans will not let the brave little peo
ple go down.
It is too heart-breaking to think about.
Fighting for liberty and lancl, for home
and fireside and loved ones.
In the meantime the hard-pressed
Finns are desperately in need of food,
clothing, medicines and hospital sup
plies, and this is the cause you are asked
to help in Stokes.
The pennies of the school children will
be thankfully received in the country
where the brave natives and the Ice
King are battling to stem the tide of
brutal invaders.
Help with your mite. The heart of
Stokes is right—we wi'l help.
TOBACCO COMING BACK
The inside dope is that the British em
bargo on our North Carolina and Vir
ginia tobacco will not last long.
This is the opinion of Secretary of
Commerce Harry L. Hopkins.
You see the British cannot do without
the golden leaf which we grow. There
is nothing else can be substituted for it-
It has that delightful flavor and quality
to be found nowhere except on the sun
clad hills of Stokes county and other
places in the world-famed Piedmont
belt.
The fact is now known that the British
ers have some two years' supply on
hand—but they usually keep three or
four years' supply. They like for the
product to age and grow sweeter and
milder in the processes that make for
fine cigarettes. The Turkish tobacco will
not fill the bill, but in order to cement
their military alliance with the Turks,
the English have agreed to take Tur
key's production.
We believe that before fall everything
will be nicely worked out, and that our
exports of tobacco to our cousins across
the sea will be really of larger volume
than ever before.
THE DEADLY SPOTLIGHT
No person, candidate, business, corpor
ation or system can stand the concen
trated calcium ray.
Unless like Caesar's wife, you are
above suspicion.
The spotlight—that means everybody
is looking at you.
A Stokes county business man hand
ling a national product, when approach
ed by a newspaper man, said:
"I am not interested in advertising. I
don't think it pays."
This dealer was an honest man and
was sincere in his opinion.
But his was a one-track mind. He
should have been digging potatoes.
What saved him was the big-way pub
licity never ceasing that the manufac
turers of his product sponsored in a
thousand newspapers.
Camels, Chevrolets, Dutch Cleanser,
Lux soap—these survive because they
are kept in the public's mind.
Let the biggest product cease adver
tising.
Then what? ' "• ~ j
It atrophies and dies.
' Watch for the deadly spotlight.
NOT GONE WITH THE WIND
After a hurricane that destroyed 28
city blocks the people of Albany, Ga.,
are going ahead with plans to build a
greater, better and more beautiful city.
This town is not "gone with the wind."
This is the true Southern spirit, born af
ter Appomattox.
THURSDAY, FEB. 15, ltM.
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