THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872 Volume 66
Highway Commissioner Hackett, Hoey's pet
appointee for this road district, in Winston Wed-
nesday, wanting to be re-appointed by Gov.
*Broughton, congratulates himself and his fav
ored counties in his 4-year term as a highway
Commissioner. "During my administration,'
the commissioner says, "I have done so and so.
He then enumerates the underpass at Kerners
ville, approved, coming soon; widening of the
Winston-Lexington road; schedule for widening
the Mt. Airy-Rural Hall highway l to eliminate
the "bad curves" on 421 N. W T . of W. S. : new
bridge across Yadkin leading to W. S.; construc
tion of new road to Low Gap, crossing the Blue
Ridge; the $500,000 job in Caldwell rebuilding
321; improvement of secondary roads in Ashe,
now best system in the State; highway through
•'Warrensville and Creston to Tennessee line to
be hardsurfaced; highway from Warrensville to
Halton to be finished; new bridge over New Riv
er; road from Glendale Springs to Orion to be
straightened; concrete bridge at Crutchfield
across the river, and so on ad infinitum, ad
nauseam, ad infernus. At the close of his sum
mary, Mr. Hackett, as an afterthought, says: "The
fly unpaved federal road in the eighth district
a 10-mile stretch in Stokes county." There is
one thing that can be said in Hackett's favor.
He is honest enough to tacitly admit that he al-
Vowed himself to become a part of the program
of unfairness and discrimination against one of
the counties of his district —a program which
has marked the actions of all road administra
tions of this district. If the commissioner had
gone a little farther in his candor and told the
people the good things his "administration" has
for his own county of Wilkes, then he would
have proved himself to be up to the standard of
Seventh district road commissioners.
Among the Sunday evening visitors were Dr.
W. J. McAnally and W. H. Gibson of High Point
—both citizens of ours other days. Dr. McAnally
is much interested in our farmers developing
the lime deposits of Stokes county and using it
on their land at far less trouble and expense
than they pay for importing this commodity
from other States. Dr. McAnally is enthusiastic
over farming possibilities. He is a brother of
the late R. P. McAnally, who was possibly the
junost scientific farmer ever reared in the county,
and who removed to a farm near Richmond, Va.,
years ago where he died. The McAnally clan, one
of the oldest Stokes families, were noted for their
sense and their wonderful energies. Mrs.
Dr. J. W. Neal Of Walnut Cove is one of them. Mr.
Gibson, who is a brother of our county commis
sioner M. L. Gibson, is a successful business man
of High Point.
A North Carolina clothing company evidently
his employed a ad manager. E . v day
Jtb radio announcraient opens with tie ans
*n scream of an ambulance siren. Thij lugu
brious clamor, instead of producing chser for
suits, is a pale bkixant screech suggesting flow
§ "*■ '-raves, shrouds and the great wMn cravat
uit on when we take off. New?; ativer
i g is suggestive of life and haw t -ess and
perity. The merchant who would get in on
•p stuff, shoi'-a stucfy psychology.
, In the crucial months ahead of us, iood is like
ly to be very dear and very sweet. The cue is to
the farmer whose lands for tobacco have bet
curtailed, a*nd whose restricted acreage in tobae
to may bring skyrocket prices yet.
Editorial fccJdiss
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, March 20, 1941 * * *
One of the pet sayings of the late W. G. Dodson,
| Walnut Cove business man, was that you may
fool the other fellow, but don't fool yourself.
The United States has been in a state of war
with Germany and the axis powers for many
■months. All intelligent people knew this. Then
why not be honest and make a declaration of
war. The effect of this stand would not material
ly differ with now. The result would be a stif
fening of the backbone of neutral countries who
are on the verge of surrender to Hitler, like
i Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey, and might
ibring in Russia on the side of England. It would
'enormously enhearten England herself who is
in deadliest peril now. But the greatest advan
tage would be to enable the American govern
ment to stop its strikes and shoot those who bv
word and act are now doing their best to ham
string defense and are aiding and abetting those
who would enslave the Ameiican people. With
thirty big plants new tied up with strikes encour
a2v\'l by John L. Lewis, Wheeler, Nye, etc., it is
high time something were being done about it.
Banquo's ghost was nailed down to steel gird
ers with the Alps mountains sitting* on top of it.
We are speaking, of course, figuratively and
compatively l . But the medieval spook never
could boast of the resilency, the inflorescence,
the imperturbability, the irrepressibility or the
Fleischmann yeast qualities of Marshall Kur
fees. This young Winston-Salem political aspir
ant who has missed the bus so many times dur
ing the last decade, now announces himself
again—this time again for mayor of the Twin
City. It is hard to down a Stokes county boy
whose motto is "He who seeks one thing in life
and but one, may hope to achieve it before life
be done."
Listen to Byron: "The Assyrian came down
like a wolf on the fold; his cohorts were gleam
ing' in purple and gold; the sheen of his spear
men was like stars on the sea, where the blue
wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee." The Hun
armies descend like this on peoples who are
afraid to defend themselves.
How would you like for your grandchildren to
read in their story books that America let slip
the freedom which our grandfathers died for,
for us ? Freedom of speech and press, freedom
to live and work and love in our own way of life,
freedom to worship God according to the dictates
of our consciences?
I War is not quite life's supreme horror. That is
| left for those who are willing to surrender all
| that they hold most dear to save their skins, and
then find they have not saved them, but have be
come gyved slaves, like France, Poland, Nor
way, Denmark, etc.
"I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs."
This line is from one of the world's greatest
poets. That sigh of the 18th century is nothing
to the groan now.
Italy is now just as much : m.ar of Ger
many as France and the others, ill the Da?oe>
except Mussolini know it. That is probably the
reason they are no better fighters.
?*: "Deutschland über alles."'
vou like it?
Published Thursdays
1 A sensible and business-like measure was pass
ed by the late legislature with reference to
Stokes county. We refer to the bill to pay the
members of the Stok.-:s county board of commis
sioners $lO a day each for actual services. The
county commissioners fill probably the mo.-t im
portant position in the county. They have in
charge the interests of 23,000 people, and some
10 to 15 million dollars of property. They should
in all cases be men who are distinguished for
their high moral character, their consciousness
of the serious nature of their duties, and their
business ability. Our board, we believe, can
qualify to the posession of these exalted public
and private virtues. They meet just a few days
in the year, operate their cars, buy their board
and locking, leaving their own duties at home to
wait till they come back. Ten dollars for a day
of this responsible work should be worth as much
as many officials get every day with lighter re
sponsibilities. The tax-payers of the county will
not complain to pay a reasonable wage to* their
most trusted servants.
i Help for England bids fair to be "too little and
too late" unless the government of the United
States can find some method of checking- the
.strikes now slowing 1 down defense in many parts
:of the nation. The effect of the sabotage of Jno.
jL. Lewis, Wheeler, Nye, Vandenburg, Taft, etc.,
is bearing its fruit. France was destroyed nor
!by the Germans but by the enemies within, who
by their disloyal utterances and activities under
mined the morale of the people. We have many
| citizens who put their love of party above their
i love of country. Many had rather see Hitler
! "dictator" than Roosevelt.
The World War slogan—"focd will win the
war"—was revived yesterday at Washington
with administration plans to use American farm
surpluses to fill Britan's larder. But getting'
this food across is the thing*. It' American indus
trial plants under the sinister sway of John J..
Lewis are allowed to continue their strikes and
sabotage, the English people will not only starve
but will not be enabled to get the planes and
tanks that it will take to stop Hitler in time.
Somebody said it couldn't be done, but he with
a chuckle replied: Maybe it couldn't, but ho
would be one who wouldn't say so till he'd tried.
So he buckled rig*ht in ivith the trace of a igiln,
on his face, if he worried he hid it. He started
to sing as he tackled the thing that couldn't be
done, and he didnt. Moral: I)on't sing, whistlo
"Coming Around the Mountain."
I Senator Bob Reynolds who chased off after
lj wheeler and Nye and that recalcitrant groro
jimtii ho v.ieijated his constituency, now is a 1
ent r: for the 7-Villion bill. "Wher
icle- v;]J, the devil , c saint was he,
| „ -- gets sicl: ;h ? devil a saint would
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Si 'W tissd 67 times. If the uie
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ithem "yo\vs'\ t0 US '' for a while **«
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I In the papers today it is stated that thp Tt~i
! J.ij'g have r?in f°reed their troops with
1 Ahn>f i? avoy Pliers rushed from Addi*
n i° t,Ce aH th , e used
, J wi- •i-.w v siw» wxadi' Uuups.
Number 3,578.