THE DANBURY REPORTER.
Established 1872
The Wild Winds Are Sayinu Roosevelt
SHALL WE KILL TOBACCO ?
If the farmers at the election of July 20 vote
down tobacco control, they with their friends,
the business men, newspapers, doctors and
preachers, will separately, collectively and indis
criminately go straight to HELL.
We speak in an economic sense, therefore you
will pardon us.
Very seriously, let us consider the serious sit
uation:
FOUR HUNDRED MILLION POUNDS OF
TOBACCO left over from 1939, are stored in
this country.
Our 1939 crop, which was 34 per cent, above
previous record, w?.s only ELE VEN HUNDRED
AND SIXTY MILLION POUNDS.
SO YOU SEE STOCKS ON HAND NOW OF
400 MILLION, ARE MORE THAN ONE-THIRD
OF A BIG CROP.
And see further, that since the last crop, the
European markets which annually took one
half of our production, are now cut off by the
European war.
Suppose we disregard our huge surplus left
over from last crop, disregard dead European
markets, and vote for unrestricted production,
where will we be?
Will not you and I, and all appurtenances
thereto, be on the dismal toboggan that gravi
tates to that embarassing bourne mentioned in
the first paragraph of this editorial?
Did you know that the United States govern
ment, now working frantically to help the farm
er, WILL NOT LOAN A DOLLAR ON A 1940
CROP OF TOBACCO RAISED UNDER UNRE
STRICTED PRODUCTION? v
It CAN'T. r .T"
_Would you loan your money on a burning
home, or a horse that was dying with glanders?
You know if you did, when the debt became
due you would not be able to recover even your
interest.
The law of supply and demand is as immutable,
as inexorable as the tide that beats back and
forth on the sands.
A vote for 1-year control will do only a little
good.
A vote for a 3-year restriction on the produc
tion of tobacco would undoubtedly give a mark
ed impetus to prices on this fall's markets, be
cause the manufacturers would sense future
shortness and thus begin to recoup their supplies.
A vote for unrestricted production would in
jure the manufacturer he could buy his neads for
the future at a price that would give him a profit;
but would be a tragedy for the grower.
The Federal government, the State govern
ment, your own county government say vote
control.
These are not your enemies and they would not
mislead you to disaster.
Vote a 3-year control, raise a small crop of to
bacco, make your home supplies at home, and
you will not regret it.
This is the honest opinion of this newspaper,
whose 95 per cent, patrons are farmers, and for
whose interest we stand 100 per cent, steadfast.
No startling developments in war zones this
week. England continues to smash French units.
Daily and nightly raids of airplanes over Eng
land and Germany. England evacuates whole
eafitooast in expectation of great German Blitz
krieg any hour.
Volume 66
Danbury, N. C., Thurs ay, July 11, 1940.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt will be the nominee
for President at the Chicago convention which
meets next Monday, continuing through the
week.
He will ACCEPT.
And Franklin Delano Roosevelt will be the
next President of the United States.
Set your radios to listen to the rising swell and
the grand crescendo of the storm that names
Roosevelt
The American people will not be swerved from
their purpose in this serious hour of the fate of
democracies in the world.
The foreign policy of Roosevelt, to get ready
with a 2-ocean navy and a hundred thousand
planes to keep out any possible invasion of
America, at the same time NOT to send our boys
to fight on a foreign strand, will WIN.
And then there's Roosevelt's background of
the only President who has helped the common
man, the farmer and the laborer, who has saved
the banks with the people's money, who has
made it possible that the small home owner
could obtain help, who has fed the hungry and
clothed the naked from funds commandered
from those who have enjoyed Privilege and
Immunity—this platform will WIN.
Listen on the air for ROOSEVELT.
WILLLVM M'KENZIE CHISMAN
William McKenzie Chisman was laid to rest in
the family burial plot at Pine Hall, July 5. Min
isters in charge of the rites were Revs. Houck,
Grose and McLardie.
In this passing Stokes county sustains a dis
tinct loss. Mr. Chisman was one of nature's noble
men.
Descended from a line of distinguished ances
try in Virginia, he came to Stokes county and
settled with Maj. Len Anderson of Confederate
fame at one of the finest estates in the county,
overlooking the Dan amid hundreds of wide
acres. Later he married Miss Margaret Ander
son in 1876. She was the daughter of Maj. An
derson and Mrs. Anderson.
Mr. Chisman's father was Thomas Pescud
Chisman, his mother Eliza Booker. The Chis
man home, "Sherwood," at Hampton, Va., was
burned during the Civil War. Now the site of
this home is Lamrley Field, one of the govern
. ment's large military training centers.
W. M. Chisman was a gentleman of the old
school, with a background of that classic culture
and aristocracy that made the old South great.
During his long life in Stokes county he was an
exponent of the highest ideal* of progressive
and Christian citizenship and living.
His home, "Pine Hall," was always the home
of hospitality and welcome to his friends whose
circle extended far and wide.
Surviving are his daughters, Mrs. Dr. J. Louis
Hanes, Mrs. Geo. A. Hanes, Sr., and Mrs. Harry
Williamson, all of Pine Hall; 16 grandchildren
and five great-grandchildren.
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I \ PROBLEM IN LOGIC
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Republican spellbinders at the Philadelphia
convention expressed their ardent wishes that
Rooaevett be nominated again. He would be so
easily licked. Then they went on record as
vehemently opposing for President
Somehow this sum don't add up right > _
WANTED-HYSTERICS
There is a group of citizens in this country who
counsel calmness ard caution in our defense
preparations, and who complacently warn the
people against the folly and the danger of hys
terics, lest we become entangled in "somebody
else's war."
Thus we should proceed slowly, increasing the
army by diminutive degrees and enlarging our
air forces only as the occasion and opportunity
present themselves.
This group is two-fold.
The one consists of fifth column emissaries in
the pay of Hitler.
The other is made up of innocent persons who
have allowed themselves to become unconscious
victims of German propaganda.
Preceding Hitler's conquests always are his
propagandists. They assure the people of the
honest intentions cf the Fehurer, and his entire
disinterestedness. This is the grin of the tiger
before he springs.
Poland and Czechoslovakia, Denmark and
Norway believed their neutralities would be re
spected, and that their territories would not be
violated.
Let the United States be not deceived. Let the
American people turn a deaf ear to fifth colum
nists while reporting them to the police.
The lack of "hysterics" is the cause of our pres
ent tragic position of unreadiness.
HOW MUCH DOES ENGLAND OWE US ?
Many people contemn England for its selfish
ness, it stubbornness and for the vast sum of 5
or 6 billion dollars owing to us from the World
War.
How many of us have calculated what we owe
England? Has the British fleet that has domina
ted the seas against the depredations of preda
tory powers all these years, been worth anything
io America?
If not, why do we become jittery and appropri
ate 14 billion dollars for a 2-ocean navy and a
ileet of airplanes, when we visualize the early
disappearance of the British navy from the con
trol of Britain?
; FINE WORK OF THE HIGHWAY PATROL
State highway patrol reports 36 persons killed
Jon the North Carolina highways in June.
The report also shows that property valued at
>17,593.50 was recovered by the patrol boys, and
, 326 accidents investigated during the month,
while 2,900 arrests were made, resulting in tines
totaling $24,563.59 and in jail and prison sen
tences totaling 72 years, 9 months and 10 days.
This looks like the boys of the silver cars are
on the job.
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GREAT IS TRANSPORTATION
Years ago the people of the country waited un
til their own crops of vegetables and fruits came
m before enjoying these luscious and healthful
things.
Now thanks to good roads and automobiles and
fast trucks we eat watermelons, peaches, canta
loupes, etc., about as soon as Florida and eastern
Carolina and Georgia.
Great is transportation which haa brought the
world closer together, distributing its blessings
far and wide.
Number 3,549