THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872 Volume 66
The Passing Show Of 1941
LAWRENCE IVTRAE FOR DIRECTOR
CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT.
It gives the Reporter a distinct pleasure to en
dorse and recommend the appointment of
Honorable Lawrence Mcßae of Walnut Cove,
Stokes county, to the position of director of the
State department of conservation and develop
ment.
We believe Mr. Mcßae to be eminently and
peculiarly fitted for this position, while Stokes
county deserves the honor.
We see no reason why this capable Stokes coun
ty gentleman should not be appointed. He was
among the original supporters of Gov. Brough
ton here, and was a tireless worker in this sec
tion of the State for the present governor. This
is said in a political sense. Beyond this is his
qualifications and the county's need and merit
for the position.
Below we reprint an article taken from the
Winston-Salem Journal:
"Taking thJe stand that it is time a man from
the western part of the state is again appointed
f li*«oH;or of the state department of conservation
a., i development, friends of Lawrence Mcßae,
Walnut Cove real estate man, have launched an
active campaign in interest of his appointment
to the post
"According t'. "* John J. Taylor, of
Stokes, «rho is working for 'Mcßae's appoint
ment, Stokes' representatives in the General
Assembly are taking a leading part in the cam
paign on Mcßae's behalf.
"William F. Marshall is Stokes' senator, and
Ed Taylor is the county's representative in the
legislature. Active in the campaign also is R. J.
Scott, of Danbury, district solicitor and chair
man of the Stokes county Democratic executive
•ommittee, Sheriff Taylor said.
"Governor Broughton has said the appoint
ment will not be made until after adjournment
•f the General Assembly.
"For the past eight years, R. Bruce Etheridge,
•f Manteo, who was appointed by Governor
Ehringhaus and re-appointed by Governor Hoey,
has been director of the department.
"The board was created in 1925 when Governor
McLean was in office. He appointed Major
Wade H. Phillips, of Lexington, who served
during the McLean administration. Governor 0.
Max Gardner appointed Colonel John W. Harrel
son, of Cleveland county. Harrelson was suc
ceeded by Etheridge.
"Thus, the east has furnished one director for
two four-year terms, and the west has provided
two directors for a four-year term each.
"Friends of Mcßae point out that the western
part of the state contains the minerals, mines,
parks and the like which come directly under su
pervision of the conservation board.
-v7 cite Governor Broughton's declaration
t is administration is going to concentrate
on tne development of mineral resources as a
part of the national defense program, and point
to the feldspar mine just being opened near
7- own Mountain, the large deposits of phos
»• .ate rock, iron and mica in Stokes.
"Mcßae's friends say that his wide xt flint
ance with business people would aid v* ,'t
ly in attracting their attention to m u o *
*>e state.
"He has enjoyed a successful business life,
they declare, and for several years served as
secretary '* .-ice committee of
the Unitv-i . *1 the late Senator
FurnL\/Au . " 'man."
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Danbury, N. C., Thursd ay, Feb. 27, 1941 * * * Published Thursdays
WHAT PRICE PATRIOTISM ?
It may be that the German Bund would bid on
Bob Reynolds stock. No doubt it is above par
on the financial marts of Berlin, Rome or Tokyo.
It has but little value in America. It is scorned
in North Carolina.
Many copies of the "American Vindicator"
came by mail this week to citizens of Danbury
and Stokes county. The "Vindicator" is Senator
Reynolds' own newspaper, published monthly
in Washington. Its sole theme is "immigration."
Tt is a mouthpiece for a "crusade" to keep out of
America the immigrants of Europe, the laborers,
the discouraged, the hopeless populations.
Since he has been in Washington the Senator's
passionate interests have not been in the
farmer, the laborer, the forgotten man, cotton,
i tobacco or peanuts. As far as the public has
seen his concern has been only "immigration."
Sometimes he has attracted public notice by
: kissing beautiful women, or by adventures
abroad to get more inspiration about immigra
i tion.
It is possibly unwitting on the Senator's part
that his preachments on "immigration" should
become so significantly apropos at this time.
But the immigration which the American people
are so apprehensive of at this time is not Bob's
kind of immigration. What America is alarmed
about now is that military IMMIGRATION
which will be the portion of the western hemis
phere if England falls and her fleet is taker,
over by the axis powers. Bob sees no danger in
this at all —sees no danger in an influx of
European and Asiatic hordes if and when the
British are unable longer to hold back the ram
pant Huns, Dagoes and Japs, who would certain
ly overwhelm America if they were not checked
by England. Ellis Island could not control them
as any cutthroat could land here whose passport
was vised by the Fuehrer, if he would only swear
himself to be an enemy to the freedom and
democracy of the United States.
In that case the synthetic Senator from Bun
combe county, North Carolina, whose fame has
folded up in this State, might along with Wheel
er, Lindbergh, Vandenburg, Taft, Nye, Clark
and Browder again attain notoriety by taking a
role in the new order—
Something like Laval in France.
ANYTHING WRONG WITH OUR SCHOOLS ?
Recently Dr. Mortimer Adler, author and Uni
versity of Chicago faculty member, said that
American schools and colleges are a "dismal
failure." He also said that "not one in 10,000
high school or college graduates would be grad -
uated if he were examined on his competence in
reading, writing, arithmetic, listening and cal
culating."
.
"The New Yor* ioard of Regents recently dis -
covered that ) > "age high school graduate
has the competeof a sixth grader in read
ing," he charged. "Textbooks of our schools
and colleges aro .. . invention cf pedagogues
who know stud, > .not read a 'hard' book."
These are serif , nd alarming charges. Can
they be substance. ' ?
Is it a tact thai m,,h school fjT° iates cannot
tell how many pounds of coffee a\ 11-2 cents a
pound, a basket of chickens will bnr. t aL 16 2-8
cents a pound?
If so, a prospective job in the corner grocerv
store might be forfeited.
But most of the boys and girl.: v/ho L&ve majox -
UfctttoiMa)
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH
PRODUCTION?
A high industrial authority of New York, hav
ing the official data at hand, says the combined
auto manufacturers of the United Slates are
now producing 1500 automobiles and trucks
I every hour.
This being so, why is it that United States in
dustrv is only able to turn out 1030 planes a
month. *:
England is begging for our help in planes, bin
! wants no men. Says she will complete the job of
stopping- Hitler if America will furnish the fight
, ing material. ' • i
I Why is it, then, realizing the menace to Amer
ica from Germany, our output is so ridiculously
but alarmingly small?
Listen and we will tell you why:
It is because Congress, which alone has the
power to pass laws that would be adequate t>
k peed-up production, is impeded and retarded by
|the isolationist:?, appetisers, Fifth Columnists,
nro-Germans and traitors—men of the tvne of
Wheeler of Montana, Nye of North Dakota,
|Tnft, Vandenburg. Fish, Reynolds, Lindbergh.
| We do not say whom of this unpatriotic grouu
! are traitors.
i We do say that all of them are potential
|enemies of America, uho stand against every
i thing that the President and the army and navy
! leaders say is necessary to the defense of thu
'country, and whose efforts to hinder and delay
jand defeat American defense, may be fatal to
;the liberties of the people of America.
We say further that the German Bund of New
York—the organization of the Nazi party in the
United States —is furnished with money from
Berlin to sabotage American defense prepara
tions or to corrupt American men.
The Congress is sadly in need of more patriots
like J. W. Bailey, Claud Pepper, Lon Folger,
Barkley of Kentucky, Auston of Vermont, etc.
COMIN' AROUND THE MOUNTAIN
A beautiful gal is coming around the mountain,
and we'll all very gladly go out to meet her when
she comes.
| Her name is Senorita Springtime and she is
due in about 21 days.
| Her car is laden with the sweet-smelling things
of the woods like white hyacinths, jonquils, and
daffodils, the blushing gladiola and the modest
violet.
The swish of the wind stirred by her approach
is of the soft south where bluebirds flash in the
sunlight and mockingbirds sing from the dog
woods, . silver brooklets babble over the
pebl; l sp" long.
ENV 'i? POSITION BECOMES MORE
SERIOUS ON SHIPPING
It:" 'rs now that the real Axis blitzkrieg
wil: . xvsive effort to destroy the shipping of
the Irtish empire before American aid—v
riously delayed—can be of effective sctv?"c°.
to debate the leaso-lend bill.
edi.b.skctbaH and who have studied botanv
and biology, may for tho lack of
the three r. t, - '• ~
modern branc . V*t«rhiio
"lesy and • J-ctaibugr-
Numbei 3,577.
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