THEDANBURY REPORTER.
Established 1872
EDITORIAL POINT OP VIEW ON THE PASSING SHOW
. AN EXPANDED NAVY MAY ARRIVE TOO
LATE—BUILD PLANES AND TANKfc
NOW, AND SEND TO ENGLAND
WITH FOOD
The density of congressional stupidity con
tinues unabated.
A good many people believe that several con
gressmen and senators should be sent back
home to take a course in plain horse sense.
Many days and millions of hot air have been
spent in wrangling over a huge navy expansion
—vitally needed—but which cannot possibly be
completed for four or five years. Within that
period the map of the western hemisphere may
be changed.
What America needs now is bombing planes
without limit. Nc other arm of the national de
fense could possibly be built so quickly, and we
have the factories, the men and the money to
create them.
And these bombing planes should be sent t»>
our eastern frontier as fast as they can be b-.iilt
—send them to England, and send also machine
jruns and tanks in all the quantity and speed
that America can afford. And send England
food, food, food, and oil, oil and oil.
If necessary, send in American ships. England
is battling for life and that life is the frontier of
this nation. Sensible, far-seeing citizens know
this.
But instead of commandeering the automobile
and steel plants to meet this most pressing need,
We notice that congress on Tuesday actually re
pealed a provision of a law passed June 28 to em
power the Secgetftry of the Navy to take over
and operate private industrial plants. * The Tea
son given was that the "language of the provi
sion was to broad for peacetime." Is this peace
time?
On the same day, Secretary of War Stimson
warned that Great Britain might fall within 30
days. And, moreover, the Secretary, from his
Information in hand, stated that a German vic
tory over England would give her a fleet vastly
superior to ours, and a shipbuilding capacity six
times that of this country.
And now the law-makers are endlessly hot-air
ing over the Administration's draft bill, which
proposed registering citizens from 21 to 65, and
out of that drafting a large army as quickly as
possible. The provisions of this bill have already
been changed to include men only between 21
and 30, estimated to furnish 400,000 men to be
gin training in October, and another 400,000
men to begin training next April.
In the Senate from the House will go this bill,
where it must run the bitter gauntlet of delay
and opposition from the pro-German Senator
from St. Louis, by the brilliant young jackass
from West Virginia and other unpatriotic and
unseeing members who are willing to jeopardize
the nation to gratify their Roosevelt hates.
A raw army of 800.000 men to be ready in pos
sibly 12 months.
A rather slow and not a very impressive force
to oppose Germany, Italy and Japan, who have
at least 20,000,000 men armed and trained, and
probably 40,000 warplanes.
As winter approaches and all Europe is starv
ing, we hope the pirates will not look this way—
where there are unlimited quantities of food,
oil and gold.
But hope appears to be the extent of our refuge.
What is needed in congress are a few Andrew
Jacksons and John Paul Joneses.
Some day the American people will wake up to
realize how they have been betrayed by stupidity
and asininity.
Let us hope again—that the awakening may
hot be too late.
Volume 66
Danbury, N. C., Thurs' ay, August 1, 1940.
5000 VOTES FOR WILLKIE ?
Five thousand Stokes county Democrats will
''ote for the latest nominee of the Republicans
for President if and when—
The Associated Press reports Willkie making
the following statement at Colorado Springs,
Col, Monday:
"The only Democrats who will not support me
for President are those either bound by parties,
or controlled by corrupt and nauseating party
machines."
As all Democrats as well as all Republicans are
"bound by parties", and as only a few of either
party are controlled by "corrupt party ma
chines", the unfair implication of the Candi
date's words is obvious.
Elbert Hubbard, America's greatest philoso
pher, once wrote*
"When we accuse another of an unholy thing,
we are guilty in our own heart of that hateful
thing, else how would we know to impute it to
another."
As Mr. Willkie quit the Democratic party a
few months ago and joined the Republican party
when the power interests he was serving put him
on the payroll at $75,000 a year so he could more
heartily take care of their interests—possibly
this episode weighs yet on his conscience, and
in his frantic search for an alibi, he is led to
slander his former fellow Democrats.
But despite his gratuitous slur, 5,000 of us
"corrupt" Stokes county Democrats will cast
our ballots for him in November if—
He will give us ONB VALID REASON WHY
WE SHOULD.
He is well known to be unfriendly to the inter
ests of the common man, and most of us are com
mon people.
In his speech at St. Louis, as reported by the
New York Times, he uttered these words: "The
curse of democracy today in the United States
as well as in Europe, is that everyone has been
trying to please the public."
If Mr. Willkie does not wish to please the pub
lic, whom does he desire to please? Is it the
SPECIAL INTERESTS that he would favor
rather than the poor, the unfortunate, the la
borers, the farmers, the small business men, the
modest home owners?
Again, as reported by Merwin H. Brown in the
Republican Buffalo News, he said:
"Government is nothing but big business and
if I am elected President, I will put the Govern
ment on a big business basis."
This promise would be much more attractive if
the American people did not still smart and burn
with memories of former reigns of Big Business
Government, when the country reeled on the
brink of revolution and chaos in 1930,1931,1932.
In the Philadelphia convention the delegates
were instructed for Dewey, Taft, Vandenberg,
etc., until they were stampeded by the thousands
of telegrams that came in pleading "vote for
Willkie/' nearly all written in the same phrase
ology that shot the works—coming from where,
oh where?
At the same time the galleries were filled with
Willkie rooters admitted on privately-printed
tickets that no one knew had been issued.
This man with his total lack of Government ex
perience, in this most critical hour of the na
tion's history, asks to be put at the helm of the
greatest government in the world.
Does he have the stamitia, the judgment, the
poise, the experience, the ability, the integrity,
to undertake so stupendous a task?
SHUN, OH, SHUN THE TINY TICK THAT
MAKES YOU. OH, SO DEADLY SICK.
BE EXAMINED, BE INSPECTED, BE
ANYTHING BUT INSECTED.
I
■
The tick that precipitates Rocky Mountain
lever, is rampant in Stokes.
i This disconcerting news comes from Dr. Roy
Hege, the Try-County Medical Overlord of
Stokes, Forsyth and Yadkin, who issues the fol
lowing warning:
"To vacationists and Forsyth county residents:
"Two cases of Rocky Mountain fever have been
reported from Stokes county."
One sufferer from this dread disease, out of
every four, dies, the doctor says, not consolingly.
"But," he . adds, encouragingly, "both Stokes
cases are recovering."
As he appears to be concerned chiefly for the
Forsyth folk and their local vacationists, the Re
porter desires to add a few words in behalf of
the inhabitants of the stricken area.
Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Dr. Hege says,
is caused by a wood tick, and it brings on high
temperature and serious illness for two to three
weeks. The word "tick" is derived from the
j Greek term "tickle." The attack of the in
sect is largely confined to young people, especial
ly those between the ages of 17 and 32, and these
should be examined regularly. The parasite
loves warm palpitating bodies. Shrivelled maids
and tough old bachelors are largely immune.
The wood tick is of the arishnids of the order
Acardia, and is of the degraded dipterous classi
fication.
You can readily see how its bite would be so
fatal.
As the disease following is transmissable,
avoid the bite of vacationists.
Dr. Hege adds that usually ticks do not attach
( themselves until they have been on the body for
about two hours "Removal should be after
careful inspection "
VIRGINIA JOINS THE HEALTH
TEST STATES
All things come to him who waits—even Reg
isters of Deeds.
Stokes county men and women matrimonially
j inclined have for years been buying license in
i Virginia, at Stuart or Martinsville, because of
the embarassment of health tests required under
the North Carolina law.
Consequently the Register of Deeds office has
' been lonesome as far as the breezy visits of mar
) iage license applicants is concerned. \
! But now Virginia joins in the sanitation drive.
The law was enacted by the 1940 Virginia gen
eral assembly, the Old Dominion being the last
|of the Atlantic seaboard states to impose pre
marital health regulations.
So we suppose it will be in order for Robah
Smith to brush the cobwebs off the old license
register, and get ready for the rush which is al
most sure to come when the boys realize that
young men to be drafted for war service are
vastly less "prospective" when they have de
pendents—a wife, for instance.
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WAR RAGES ON
Mostly bombings, British getting the best of
it. Blitzkrieg still deferred by Germany. Eng
land is taking the offensive. Extends blockade
from Arctic to north Africa. Serious food short
age begins throughout Europe. Big events to
take place soon. .
Number 3,551