THE DANBURY REPORTER.
Established 1872 Volume 66
ENCOURAGEMENT
FOR MILK PLANT
W. PEPPER, OF CIIRIS
TIANSBUBG. VA., DETAILS
OPERATION OF SUCCESS
' FUL VIRGINIA MII.K ESTAB
LISHMENTS NEW PLANT
AT WALNUT COVE BEING
STARTED-
The promoters of the milk
plant now being built at Walnut
Cove under the sponsorship of
County Agent J. F. Brown and
his assistant L- F. Brum fieri,
backed by public spirited citizens
of Walnut Cove, will no doubt be
interested in the following lettor
the Reporter has just received
from J. W. Pepper of Christians
burg. Va.
Mr. Pepper was a citizen of
Stokes more than 50 years ago
He now lives at Christiansburg,
Va., his native home, but still re
tains an interest and affection for
Stokes, where he spent much of
hie early manhood.
His letter follows:
"Chrirtiansburg, Va-, Apr. 27.
"Dear Gene:
"I am mailing you under sep
arate cover copy of our town
paper pving account of the open
ing of our new milk plant. You
will see from this that it is bring
ing in to the county a quarter
million d-illarr a year, and we
have another plant which is do
ing a fine business, but I have not
the .figures at hand. This busi
ness has been built up in the -last
twenty yeans, and there is jio
reason why Stokes should not -do
as well, for you .have the advan
tage in climate, and the soil will
grow better legumes than ours.
Lack to .you-
yours,
"J. W. PEPPER."
The copy of the Montgomery
News -Messenger of Christians
burg, sent us by Mr- Pepper, non
tains -the follows^:
OPENING OF NEW PRICK
DAIRY 3PLANT
"Speaking before a small
crowd which had braved an aD
day rain Saturday to attend .the
formal opening of the Southern
Dairies plant in Oiristiansburg,
Governor James Price called his
critics, wrong by pointing out
that the state would have a sur
plus of $750,000 at the end of
the fiscal year, as compared to a
$500,000 surpius which had exist
ed in the budget when he was in
augurated in 1938.
"Congressman Woodrum, on the
w
program, "paid tribute to the
Southern Dairies management for
its new plant here as an example
©f private industry.
"Prof- C. W. Holdaway of the
y. P- I. dairy husbandry depart
ment, estimated that the new
plant would pay farmers of the
territory $250,000 annually for
their milk.
"Dr John R Hutcheson, exten- j
si on director at V. P. L, declared
that the new plant was an exam
ple of the cooperation of labor,
agriculture and industry in mak
a prosperous nation.
"Elmer J. Mather, president of
Walnut Cove
Class to Hear
-Hoey at Finals
Walnut Cove—Governor Clyde
R. Hoey will deliver thfc com- j
mencement address at the grad-
uation exercises at Walnut Cove
High School to be held Saturday,
May 11. ;
Dr. Howard Rondthaler, presi- '
dent of Salem College, Winston-
Salem, will deliver the commence- ]
ment sermon Thursday night,
May 9. 
The commencement activities .
will open Wednesday night, at 8 .
o'clock v/hen the senior class pre
sents its class play, "The Man in
the Green Shirt." (
The cast for the play will in- (
elude Ardeyne Burton, Noranne -
Tuttle, Mary Vaughn Lewellyn
Jewel Vo.ss, Robert Smith, Mar

,gie Petree, Rheumefl Mitchell.
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j Leslie Neal, Edwin Hill and Ruth
I Coleman
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The annual May Day festival
| will be held Friday afternoon at 1
5 "O'clock.
The piano recital of Miss Tut
tie's class will be presented Tues
day, May 7, and the class day ex
' | ercises of the senior class will bo j
held Wednesday, May 8.
Kirby Speaks
J f '
t Dallas Q. Kirby opens his cam- .
- paign for the Senate from Stokes
t and Surry by a speech in Dan
. bury court house next Saturday
: night.
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) DON'T MSS THJiS NEW
SERIAL STORY
. "The Golden Stranger," gripping .
j
story of love and hidden treas
ure, begins an May 12th in
The American Weekly
the big magazine distributed with J
r the 1
BALTIMORE AMERICAN
On Sale At All Newsstands ]
Southern Haines, in a short
talk, described the progress and
expansion his .firm. R- A.
1 Brodesser. vice-president of the
■ concern, under whose direction
' DAIRIES NO .2 ...
I
I the new plant was Ibmilt, urged | l '
» farmers of the teratoid to makt i
• use of its facilities.
"R. T- Hopkins, manager o/ J
■ the local plant, meted a* master 1 ,
: j-cf ceremonies for the event which j
I I was held indoors because of!
■ | inclement weather.
r "Several hundred patrons of
J the plant, whose expected num- i!
! bers . has been, reduced by the ]
; | downpour, inspected the new j.
'; unit, and were guests of the torn- J
pany at a barbecue luncheon.
Music was furaished by a Rio- \
noke Legion drum and bugte 
corps- The streets of the town j
' were decorated by a committee
in honor of the occasion."
]
The Walnut Cove Dairy Plant
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jis going "'orward rapidly to com-
ipletion, and is assured of bring- -
ing dairy products from eigh*
counties of North Carolina and
Virginia, meaning the addition of
many thousands of dollars year
ly businrps to Walnut Cove and | 1
Stokes crunty. j c
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, May 2, 1940. ;
(An Editorial.)
NATURAL RIGHTS OF AMERICAN
CITIZENS CANNOT BE CONTRAVENED
There are two outstanding reasons why the
Ilateh bill should never have passed, and should
now be repealed:
First—lt was conceived solely in the iniquity of
Roosevelt hate, and i* the foul offspring of polit
ical prejudice, malice and vengeance.
Second—lt is in direct contravention of the j
natural rights of free-born American citizens !
>vho are guaranteed under our constitution and -
our immortal Bill of Rights- -FREE SPEECH,
FREE RELIGION, FREE PRESS, FREE POLIT
ICAL PREFERMENT.
The Hatch bill forbids any person who is on
the pay-roll of the federal government, to exer
cise his inalienable right of choice of candidates,
of free speech on men or issues or any activity
in behalf of any political party.
It is plainly a GAG LAW patterned after the
sinister doctrines of European dictatorships,
where men and wnmen are made dumb in the ex-1
ercise of their civil liberties.
Nobody believes that because persons may be
employed by the federal government, or even
receiving a part of their subsistence from it,
should be muzzled.
From time immemorial, since our government
was established, any Republican, Democrat or
affiliate of any other political persuasion, has en
joyed the privilege of participating in elections.
It is only since Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini
that the contagion of European or Asiatic sup
pression of people's rights has caught in the sys
tem of American Senators and Congressmen.
The divine privileges of free thought, free
press, free speech, free politics must be pre
served if the great democracy "west of the bor
der" stands
This is a free country newspaper speaking its
honest convictions. How long before we shall
be afraid to accept a check of $15.65 for
publishing the sale notice of a federal
land bank, for fear of confiscation, debarment
from the mails or banishment to one of the
South Sea Isles.?
How long before you are afraid to take your
pay for digging a ditch for the government at
30 cents an hour, because you may be taken for
a ride by the Gestapo or the Ogpu. And your of
fense: That you criticised same issue or express
ed a preference for a candidate.
The ramifications •■of the Hatch bill are far
reaching, and are a growing menace to the lib
erties of the people.
j Will the Hatch bill prevent federal employes
[from being solicited m* from contributing?
I No. Fences are made only for THOSE WHO
'CANNOT FLY.
Compress steam, and you C'eate a dangerous
force.
A great American law was passed a few years
! ago on supposedly moral grounds, and the peo-i
pte demanded its repeal because they said it in- 1
fringed on their natural rights. A few years !
later it was repealed, I
The courts allow communists to preach sedi
tion and the overthrow of the government, in
college and on the soap-box, because of the peo
ple's constitutional rights of free speech.
Will the poor federal employe be proscribed,
not because he is against the government, but
only for the reason that he wants a change in ad
ministration or a continuance of the same.
Commissioners meet
The board of county commis
tioners will be in session at the
court house next Monday, May 6.
J. L. Mitchell, Moir Hawkins
and P. O. Fry, committee on field
loans to farmers from the Seed
and Feed Loan office, were in ses
sion here Saturday.
Social SecurityAc- i
counts of Workers and j
Claims For Insurance'
Payments Checked'
Without Cost
Workers who wish to check the
accuracy of their social security
accounts for old-age nnd survi
vors insurance, or those past 05
| .vho wijti to fi!e a c!r.ir> frr ! - !
! surance payments, do not need 10 |
I pay anyone to assist them, Mr. i
|J- N. Freeman, manager of the;
Social Security Field office in
i
Winstcn-Salc-m, pointed out today.
He said that procedures estab
lished by the Social Security
Board furnish employees with
every assistance in checking ♦heir
accounts and in filing claims f->r j
insurance payments.
Recent inquiries received by thr
field office, Mr. l-'ieeman said, in
jdicete a belief on :'ie part of
isomc wo.kers that )hey need tc j
I pay for the services of an outside I
' person in order to be suro that (
! their rights are protected. He,
i
explained that the Social Secur
ity Board has the duty of keep
ing p.rcumte wn.sre records and j
I !
paying irsurance benefits to all
• eligible persons and that it has
established procedure to carry ;
out these responsibilities fully.
iHe added, however, that th *
; Board's procedures do not pro
hibit the worker from being rep
resented by an outside person ii
he so wishes-
Mr. Freeman explained that the
| "field office is prepared to give all
claimants —workers past 65 and ,
the families of workers who have |
died—all possible assistance in
' filing their claims for this insur
. ance. These services are giver.
free of charge.
! He further stated that the
Board has established procedures
, by which anyone who questions
the decision of the bureau con
, cerning his rights to insurance
payments can ask for a hearing
on his claim before a regional
referee. If he is still dissatisfied
after this review, he can appeal j
his case to the Appeals Council:
in Washington. Thereafter he, of j
course, would still have recourse
to the Federal District Court for
his district-
In explanation of procedure's
established by the Board, Mr.
Freeman stated that any worker
who wishes to check the wages ;
credited to him can get a self- |
i addressed form for this purpose j
lot the field office. If he fills thi-l
i
jin nnd mails it, he will prompt 1;. '
! receive a report from the Board's j
'central wage-record olfice at Bal ;
timore, which will show the'
wages reported by his employer!
and credited to his account. If he :
believes there is any error in the |
amount of wages credited .to him, i
the field office will make every
effort to clear up the matte".
The Winston-Salem office of th?
Social Security Board is located
at 433-438 Nissen Building.
A. E. Southern was in town
from German ton Route 1 Satur
'day.
Number 3,549
BANDIT VISITS
j DANBURY MONDAY;
YOIJNG WHITE MAN AFTER
j ROBBING IWO LADIES IN
WINSTON - SALEM, TOURS
THROUGH STOKES ANI) ES
CAPES WITH CAR AND
I MONEY.
i Mondnv afternoon at one
I
 u Kcrd coupe, U»36 model,
'bearing a New York license,
I
! stopped here inquinng the way
to Madison.
The car was driven by a bare
headed young ma n, some 22
years of age.
A number of citizens saw tho
car ar.d occupant, who left hur
-1 riecJly without explicit instruc-
I
! tions-
An hour later two highway
patrolmen and several deputy
sheriffs of Stokes were gathered
' here on the quick trail of a per
! son who had robbed two ladies
j
(near Re.vnolda, in the suburbs of
1 Winston-Salem, taking S2O and
the car.
The ladies who had inquired of
the man the route to Reynold*,
wore forced under- the paint of .i
gun to lot the man into the scat
with thorn. He then compelled
I them to drive northward into
Stokes county near L. R- Pul
liain's, Iling, where he forced
them to dismount. He took the
car and left them standing in the
road. 1
The ladies were Mrs- Adelaid
Lyon and Miss Miranda Bertram,
women tourists on their way to
'to their home at Wawarsing, N,
|Y.
L. R- Pulliam took the ladies
back six miles to Rural Hall.
Here the alarm was given and
through the Winston radio the
! description of the robbery, the
! man and the car was broadcast.
The bandit left Danbury going
in the d : rection of Walnut Cove.
No traces of him have yet been
found by the officers. '
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Big Crowd At s '
Sunday's Sing
j Nearly a thousand people at
tended the Sunday afternoon,
swinging at the Danbury school,
| coming f "om half a dozen coun
ties. The singers were in groups
from different counties, and were
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presided over by Silas Tuttle of
i
| Winston-Salem.
J SF.VI NTII GRADE
OF DANBURY SCHOOL
VISITS KALEIGK
; Principal Jack Snith of tho
I
I Danbury sr.iool treated Ihc mem
bers of tho seventh grade with a
jtrip to Raleigh Friday of last
j week. J. J. Booth assisted in
looking after the students. They
| made a thorough tour of the
Capital City, from the Governor's
Mansion to the State Peniten
tiary.
Death of J. M. Hill
News is received Tuesday of
the sudden death of J. M- Hill at
Ms home in Germanton.