THE DANBURY REPORTER.
Established 1872
Tobacco Control
Goes Over Top
Six States Vote Four to One For Three=
Year Curtailment Of Flue Cured Acre*
age«-Stokes County Carries Proposal
By Overwhelming Majority.
Six Southeastern States last
Saturday voted for 3-year tobac
co control by a majority of four
to 1.
Farmers of Stokes county voted
8,066 for 3-year control, 32 for
one-year control, and 822 against
any curtailment.
The baUot the county by
townships follows:
3-yr. 1-yr. vs-
Big Creek 1084 2 37
Beaver Island 557 0 9
Danbury 343 3 79
Meadows 304 5 134
Peter's Creek 267 5 201
Quaker Gap 532 6 60
Sauratown 761 1 17
Snow Creek 449 1 50
Yadkin 769 9 235
Sam Tilley,
Westfield, Dies
Sam J- Tilley, 53, died sudden
ly Monday night at his home at
Westfleld. He was ill only about
ten minutes.
Mr. Tilley was born near West
field March 17, 1887, a son of
William and Sarah Frances Jes
sup ' Tilley. He maintained a
home at Westfleld all his life.
For the past 20 yean he was con
nected with the Export Leaf To
bacco Company- He was a World
War veteran.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Nina Hunter Tilley; one son,
Aaron Tilley of Westfleld; four
brothers, A. J. Tilley of West
fleld, R. E- Tilley of Max Mead-
OWB, Va., J. W- Tilley of Sanford,
and M. M- Tilley of Hoffman; and
seven sisters, Mrs. L. P. Pell of
Pilot Mountain, Mrs. A- C. Hill
and Mrs. Laura Hall of Winston-
Salem, Mrs. Betty Hall of South
ern Pines, Mrs. J. D- Simmons, of
Charlotte, Mrs. A. G- Smith of
Spencer and Mrs. Owen McDaniel
of Asheboro.
"Blind Boys Program"
At Sandy Ridge Aug. 1
A "Blind Boys Program" will
be played at Sandy Ridge High
School Thursday night, August 1.
at 8 o'clock-
The program, as rendered by
seven young men from the State
Blind School at Raleigh, consists
of string music, mandolin, banjo,
guitar and violin, accompanying
songs both popular and sacred,
and a comedy act in which there
are imitations of President Roose
velt, Lowell Thomas, Joe Lewis,
Edwin C. Hill and other national
celebrities.
' The public Is cordially invited.
Volume 66
Hartman News
Miss Jean and Lena Priddy are
spending this week with their Bis
ter, Mrs- Harold Sknith, in Thom
as ville.
Mrs. H- J. Dillon visited Mrs.
Snider Priddy Saturday after
noon.
Claude Priddy of Francisco
spent Sunday with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. N- D. Priddy.
Misses Stacy and Maude Wood
spent the week-end with Miss
Pauline Doss of Lawsonville
Mrs. Clyde Priddy spent sev
eral days of last week with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs- Hunter
Kallam, in Lawsonville.
Oakley and Larry Hammock
have returned to their home at
Ogburn Station after spending i
week here with Elwood Priddy.
Miss Frances Alley spent Tues
day night with Miss Helen Stevens
of Francisco.
Mr- and Mrs. N. D. Priddy visi
ted Mr. and Mrs. Snider Priddy
Sunday afternoon.
Joe Alley of King, spent Sun
day here with his brother, Gilbert
Alley.
Miss Ellen Oakley returned
home Sunday after spending the
past week with relatives in
Belews creek-
Misses Maude and Stacy WootV
visited Miss Frances Alley Sun
day night I
Lester Young of Fort Bratg
spent the week-end here with |is
parents, Mr. and Mrs. D.
Young.
Miss Lottie Wood spent the
week-end with relatives in Dan
bury-
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Wood spent
I Sunday afternoon wth Mr- and
Mrs. S. H. Wood.
Home Demonstration j'
Stokes county home
tion club women have been put
ting into practice the things they
have been studying in their home
|
demonstration club work during
the last two months, according to
the reports the club secretaries
have been sending in to the home
agent's office. During June and
July the clubs have studied bet
ter methods of food preservation.
Sandy Ridge club report leads the
clubs in the county in the amount
[of food canned. Fifteen families
reported having canned quantities
of fruits and vegetables amount
ing to 1,035 quarts. According to
their statement they are now just
| beginning to get sufficient quant
ities of vegetables to can.
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, July 25, 1940.
(An Editorial.)
SAVING AMERICA
The shibboleth down Wall Street way has al
ways been: "To hell with the people."
Mr. John W. Hanes has doubtless absorbed
much of that sinister political philosophy during
his long" stay in the region of the shaded canon
of lower Gotham—the haunts of the princes of
privilege prior to 1933.
There he grew rich and earned the soubriquet
of a smart man in money matters. He became a
director in large corporations and sat around
the green baize table when big deals were pulled.
Mr. Hanes has called himself a Democrat.
Thus we are often more useful to ourselves and
to the interests of our friends when the world
believes it knows our trends.
Morgenthau took notice of the distinguished
North Carolinian who was born with a gold
spoon in his mouth, with patrician tastes and a
hankering for fe-Nance and politics.
And so, obedient to the call of patriotism, Mr
Hanes came to Washington. The times were dis
turbing. He was a valuable addition. He was
an able authority, thanks to his experience and
judgment.
But he was never satisfied in Washington. The
liberal policies of the New Deal did not accord
with his colder conceptions. There was too much
scrutinizing of income tax returns, too much
searching for sources of more taxation to pay
the costs of relief, too much catering to labor,
and too much concern expressed for the tragic
position of the farmer.
Neither did the place of undersecretary of the
treasury sit well on the pride and dignity of one
who had been trained in the creed and greed of
organized wealth. He did not relish the role of
i underdog. He had accepted it under the convic
jtion that he was the man to set the country's fi
nancial house in order.
So he got out. He disappeared from the pic
ture, but to emerge on the aftermath of the
Chicago convention, when he gave to the world
an amazing interpretation of the signs of the
times.
His communique announced that the real
danger to America was not the national emerg
'ency, was not the menace of invasion from
'Europe, and that the frenzied efforts being made
for national defense were secondary, and that
the gravest danger to America was a third term
of Roosevelt.
\ Mr. Hanes was quickly joined by Edward R.
Burke, who had been defeated in the Nebraska
primary; by Lewis W. Douglas, a disappointed
Democrat who has been a Republican for two
years longer than Willkie, and by ex-Senator
James A. Reed, who like Bennett Clark, is a flot
sam of the pro-German Gestapo of St. Louis.
' And so this discordant quartette of Roosevelt
haters sent a telegram to Willkie pledging hini
their support for President.
In taking his position against a third term for
Roosevelt, Mr. Hanes was no doubt entirely con
sistent with his record and action in the affairs
of the big corporations in many of which he is
director and stockholder. Where the chairman
of the board or the president of the board of di
rectors of a big financial concern fails to make
money for the stockholders he is invariably kick
ed out, and an official put in his place who can
make good.
President Roosevelt is well known to be
repugnant to the idea of big combinations
making too much money, and of capital
exploiting the rights of the helpless and the un
fortunate minor stockholders. Since his inception
in office in 1933 he has consistently labored for
the repeal of the laws that had under ior»:er ad
(Continued OB Second Page.)
Big Yields On
Wheat And Oats
Stokes Farmers Try New Varieties With
Very Pleasing Resu!ts-==Crops of Ce=
reals Are Reported the Best For
Several Years.
Mrs. Dalton Explains |
Workings of the NYA
While we believe our county as 1
a whole is familiar with the local'
work being done by NYA, we arc 1
not so sure that they know of 1
the related activities and training'
which it is possible to get through'
our resident centers.
A resident center is something
. like a boarding school or sna'l
college, where boys and girls arj
I sent to receive training and prac
j tice in Vocational work, which 1
will fit them for work in a sps-'
! cialized field, while a member of i
'one of these centers the youth re-!
' ceives S3OOO per month for *.:i£
i , i
time —time which is actually
spent in his own improvement—
slß.oo of this is necessarily apt at
for robm and board in the rente - ,
which leaves the youth $l:).0C .'cr
|
his own expenditure-
The requirements to enter one
of these centers is some educa
tion, according to the training de
fired, a health certificate, ani a
| willingness to abide by regula
tions and remain at the center at
least six months.
! We have centers for white boys
at Graham, Ansonville, Aberdeen
I Grove, Lumberton, Ral
eigh and Piedmont. For white
girls at Ellerbe, Greensboro, and
Sardis. There are also center?
i
for colored girls and boys-
These centers offer training in
a number of different fields
i
carpentry, brick and cement
J work, landscaping and tret- trail
ing, advertising and card wn.'ng,
sheet metal work, machine shop
work, auto mechanics, agricuUu
ral drafting, mill work and cabi
net construction, body and fender
work, electricity, welding, avia
tion, pilot and mechanics, photo
graphy, radio repair and trans
mitting, auto machinest, printing,
j plumbing, interior decorating,
home making, nursing, dress de
signing, cooking, salesmanship,
waitress, child care.
General office training includ-'
ing typing, shorthand, filing,'
keeping of records, etc.
Stokes county has five boys n
training, one at Graham, nui
four at the Raleigh center.
There is room for others and we
will be most happy to have a ny
youth or parent interested call ut
our office in the county coui 11
house, Danbury, and discuss in
detail the possibilities and beno-!
fits to be received from enroll- 1
in one of these resident cen
ter projects.
MRS. WILLIE S. DALTON,
NYA Supervisor, Stokes Co.
Number 3,550
| Stokes county farmers have
just about completed harvesting
| and threshing onr. ot the finest
crops of small g aiu grown ,'u
recent years- Yields of octh
wheat and oats throughout the
county generally have been good.
jThe increased acreage of wheat
and other small grain an
nually seeded by fanners
for mere desire on their furl tc
diversify by producing more £c«»d
and seed on the farm. Espe-.iilly
is this true with the increased
l
I acreage seeded annually to oat?
and seed on the farm. Around
j 11,000 acres of wheat and sev
eral thousand acres of oats were
[grown in the county this year. In
I connection with oats the tendency
| now is towards more acreage
j seeded in the fall. With develop
: ments of new winter resistant va
rieties, farmers are finding fall
seeded oats more satisfactory.
! Farmers throughout the county
are becoming more interested in
the few better varieties of small
grain. List fall registered certi
fied Leaps Strain No. 157 wheat
was distributed to the following
farmers: W. C. White, J. L.
1 Christian, J. R. Tilley, P O. Frye,
'A. S. Dalton, J. Ed Mitchell, U
C. White, O. O. Grabs, W. H.
! Newsum, E. L. Conrad, 3. IV
' and Z. D. Covington, A- C. Payne
and A. R. Phillips. S- C. and
Z. D. Covington, John Kirby, \ T .
1 F Keiger. J. S. Dalton, O. O.
Grabs and A. R. Phillips secured
t registered certified Lee Strain No.
5 oats. All of this seed was se
cured from the Piedmont Experi
ment Station at Statesville- Re
sults from tlk.se two varieties
have been excellent. Most of this
grain was seeded on land general
ly not considered best It r sm:ul
grain and received about an aver
age application of fertilizer. J.
L. Christian of Pinnacle, made j
yield of 33 4 bushels per aero on
4.5 acres with the Leaps 157.
Two acres of this averaged 37
bushels per acre. R. C White of
I King averaged 38.3 bushels per
acre on 11 acres. J. Ed Mitchell
of Flat Shoals and P. O. Frye of
Pinnacle averaged more than 20
bushels per acre with the same
variety. S- C. and Z. D. Coving
ton of Capella averaged .70
bushels per acre on 7 acres with
the Lee Strain No. 5 oata.
| Wherever theie new varieties
were compared with other varie
• ties, the difference was outstand
ing.
'
Jim Rumley, popular young
business man of King, w