THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872 Volume 66
STOKES MICA
4 MAY BE MINED
Former Manufacturer Says Gov
ernment Is Short On This Com
1 modlty The Inexhaustable
Supplies In Stokes And Rock-
Ingham Counties
J. W. Pepper of Christiansburg
|Va., former resident of Stokes,
writes the Reporter that it is no
ticed the government is short nn
fcpica, and calls attention to the
fact that there is enough mica in
Stokes and Rockingham counties
to supply the government's needs
for years to come.
Mr. Pepper speaks from know
ledge as he was manager oc (he
Pepper Mining Company which
mined hundreds of tons of mica
| fifty years ago here of a quality
which, he says "would be suit
able for the government's use at
present but was not largo enough
* for commercial purposes."
Mr. Pepper says that if his
health permitted he would be
glad to come over and show inte
rested parties, if necessary, the
different deposits, but adds that
it would be no trouble to find
them.
Mica of an excellent quality
and of probably inexaustible sup
ply exists in the Hawkins and
other mines in Peter's Creek and
Creek to'i-nrhipa.
County-Wide Library
Service For Stokes
(Reported)
Since 1037, when the General
0 Assembly passed legislation for
State-aid for public libraries in
North Carolina, many groups in
cluding the Cftizens' Library
r Movement, the North Carolina
Library Association and the
North Carolina Library Commis
sion have been working for an
appropriation. This appropriation
was made by the 1940-41 General
Assembly. During this time our
representatives from Stokes have
worked very hard toward th i «
outcome. Stokes now has an op
portunity to obtain a S9OO alloca
* tion from this State-wide fund by
appropriating an equal amount.
This would mean that we would
have a county-wide library serv
ice which weUave never had with
the exception of a two month's
demonstration of the WPA book
mobile. When we realize the tre
mendous need for such a service
for the people as a whole, for the
schools, for the vocational pro
jects, for the pre-school children,
and especially for Those finishing
\igh school who will not go to
college and only chance to
further their education, it makes
us feel it is only fair that as a
citizen and tax payer of this
county that we be given this ad
vantage.
Let us repeat from Aldous Hux
ley: "Every man who knows how
to read ft as it in his power to
Magnify himself, to multiply the
ways in which he exists, to make
his life full, significant and inter
esting."
To be without this service
; Sandy Ridge News
i
! Sandy Ridge.—The farmers of
this section are getting along fine
with their farming
I
I Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kington and
son, Paul, visited relatives of East
! Bend this week-end.
j Wilson Dunlap of Newport
News visited his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. G. Dunlap the week-end.
| Misses Belle and Aline Dunlap
and Max and John Alley visited
Misses Mable and Ruby Bingham
Saturday night.
Miss Aline Dunlap returnei
home Friday night after spend
nig a week with her sister, Mrs.
B. F. Sharp, of Madison.
A large crowd attended the ice
. cream supper at Richard far
ter's Saturday night
Bill Ward and ' daughters of
High Point visited relatives here
Sunday.
Miss Ethel Kington has return
ed to her work at Madison. She
is employed at the Jim-Dandy
Garter factory.
Miss Dollle Oakley spent the
| day with Miss Naomi Dunlap Sun
-1 day.
| Those who visited Mr. and Mrs.
Jetter Oakley Saturday night
were Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kington,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson and
| family, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Mabe,
I Mr. and Mr*. J. G. Dunlap, and
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. James.
| Misses Senoby and Loir Terrell
and Harvey Lemons and Wilson
! Dunlap visited Misses Belle and
Aline Dunlap Sunday evening.
1 Many friends and relatives at
tended the funeral and burial of
Percy G. Wilkins of High Point
land Thomasville, and a former
Stokes county man, at Wilson
Primitive Baptist Church Wed
nesday afternoon. Funeral serv
ices were conducted by Elders J.
Watt Tuttle and Watt Priddy.
Annual Moser Reunion
To Be Held June 15th
(Contributed)
The annual Moser reunion will
be held at Poplar Springs Church,
3 miles north of Rural Hall on
Moores Spring road, on the third
Sunday (15th) in June,
i All Mosers, relatives and friends
are urged to be present with well
filled baskets.
All singers are especially asked
to be present, whether we see you
personally or not, come.
«j James B. Joyce of Winston-Sa
lem was here Tuesday.
means we are included with 39
counties in North Carolina with
out public libraries. Sixty-one
J
counties have such a service or
! public libraries.
Let's all think about this oppor
tunity, talk about it and ask our
County Commissioners to help
our need by cooperating with the
| North Carolina Library Commis
sion in obtaining this allocation
from the State-aid fund which
was appropriated for auch a need
as ours.
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, June 12, 1941 * * *
(Editorial),
TIME TO PUT THE LID ON
A Stokes county young man has been a WPA
worker for several years, has been very out
spoken in favor of American aid to England, and
a bitter hater of Hitler and his axis pals.
That was before this young Stokes county man
recently left the WPA here and took a position
with a big Kannapolis factory.
On a recent week-end visit to Stokes, it was
found that quite a change had taken place in his
views on the war. Instead of hating Germany
he now excoriates England and says before the
Britons call on America to send its men over
there to fight- let them use some of their own
3,000,000 soldiers standing iJle and doing noth
ing and waiting for America to ship her boys
across, and that he had rather "take a crack" at
one of the English than Hitlfer.
German propaganda is doing its work every
where in the country. Preying upon the unin
telligent, the ignorant and the prejudiced, it un
dermines, it poisons, it destroys the morale. The
big manufactories, especially those under the
control of the C.1.0., are rotten with the doctrine
sent out from Berlin and relayed by its agents in
America.
Evidently the former WPA worker has had his
contacts.
At Meadows recently a man stated that he
"hoped the Germans would sink every G
d —d ship America puts on the ocean." He add
ed that he had rather live under Hitler than
Roosevelt anyway.
This fellow spoke from pure ignorance, not
knowing what it would mean to live under Hitler.
Hitler does not allow free speech, which the
Meadows man now so copiously enjoys; nor
right of worshipping God according to the dic
tates of your conscience; nor right of keeping
or bearing arms; nor right of redress at court in
case you are wronged by any person; if you
should not happen to like the kind of life you
live under Hitler, you must not say anything
about it, if you do the Gestapo will come and take
you away from your family, you are quietly shot
without even a hearing, and you are quietly
thrown in a well, and none of your family or
friends had better not say or try to do anything
about it. Of course, you are allowed to make a
crop, if you are a farmer, but you will have to
give up all of it to the Reich except just enough
to keep body and soul together. If you are a
workman you can get a job—in fact, you will
have to take one—and the pay will be less than
25 cents a day. That's just a taste of life under
Hitler.
Of course the reason this Meadows man gave
expression to such a foolish sentiment is because
he is a victim of the rampant poison—the Hun
propaganda.
And then in Danbury the other day, seeing a
boy come back from the service dressed in a
handsome uniform, a man who is also a victim of
the wide-spreading disease, said:
"I had rather see one of my boys on a chain
gang than in either the army or navy."
It would be hard to analyze the mental or moral
cosmos of a parson who so little appreciates the
liberty and prosperity he now enjoys that he
would prefer to see his boys wearing the badge
of dishonor and disgrace than the emblems of
American freedom and defense.
The country is now proclaimed to be in a state
of full national emergency in which the courts
may construe too much incendiary utterance as
sedition. The fever of American patriotism is
rapidly rising.
. The constitution guarantees free speech, but
the constitution nor the bill of rights can be so
elastic as to permit acts, either by word or mouth,
encouraging the enemies of this country and aid-
Published Thursdays
ELECTRICITY BEST
FOR BROODERS
Its Cost Is Also Less—Poultry
Farming On Increase In Stokes
| —Brooding Demonstration By
S. C'. Covington
L. F. BRUM FIELD,
County Agent
Poultry farming for Stokes
county has reached an important
height by becoming one of tbn
main sources of farm income.
Modern hen bouses and brr cder
houses may be found in all sec
tions of the county. Approxi
mately 150 farmers are engaged
in supplying at a premium eggs
for county hatcheries and other
nearby hatcheries. During the j
winter and spring months this
money helps tide the tobacco
farmer over a lean season between !
tobacco crops. More thought and
consideration is being given by
farmers to the profits derived
from year-round poultry farming.
Farmers are fast learning that '
climatic and other natural condi- 1
tior.s are very adaptable to poul
try raising on the hills and plains
of the county. Various phases of
poultry production are being
studied on different farms located
in different sections of the coun
ty. Tests in brooding chicks have
jbeen given much study this
| spring. S. C. Covington, Quaker
Gap community, gives the follow
ing report on his brooding dem
onstration.
"I am more than pleased with
results I had in brooding chicks
| with my homemade electric
brooder. In February I hatched
936 chicks and put 500 of them
under the electric brooder and 436
under a wood burning brooder. I
lost 35 the first week—l 4 under
the electric brooder and 31 under
the wood-burning brooder. All
the chicks were put under the
brooder when hatched without
culling and those raised under
the electric brooder grew faster
and consumed less feed than those
raised under the
brooder.
"1 have been brooding chicks
for 9 years using different meth
ods of brooding, but I like brood
ing with ..ectricity better than
any other method. I have the
finest flock of pullets this year 1
have ever raised."
Mr. Covington's report shows a
J cost of $2.96 for brooding with
electricity against .$3.75 for wood
, burned during the brooding sea
son for the 4.16 chicks. Feed
cost on the 500 chicks up to
time cockerels were sold was
553.00, whereas the feed cost for
the 436 chicks brooded under th?
wood stove cost $45.51 up t® the
time the cockerels were sold. As
pointed out in Mr. Covington's re-
ing and abetting them in their nefarious purpose
to subvert the liberties of the American people.
It is getting high time to put the lid on the
cauldron which has been set boiling by the
Fifth Columnists—Lindbergh, Wheeler, Nye-
Clark, Taft, Vandenburg, Landon, JO'T Lewis,
etc.
Number #,s**
Mrs. K. \V. Boles Im
proving— Garner
111 With Heart Trouble
—Other News Of King;
Kinn> -In the land of the sky-
June 12.—Mrs. R. W. Boles, who
I recently underwent an operation
in a Winston-Salem hospital, hau
1 returned to her home on east
Eroad street and is convalescing.
Omnie O. Grabs and his son,
Junior, left Saturday for Cali
fornia. Mr. Grabs will visit hid
brother-in-law, Nat Slate, in Los
Angeles on the trip which is be
ing made by automobile.
Cling Garner, who is suffering
from a heart ailment, is quite ill
at his home just east of town.
Mrs, W. G: Tuttle has return
ed to her home in Rural Hall aft
er a several day's stay with rela
. tives here.
Bill Boles is visiting relatives
and friends in Monroe, Va.
j Frank Stone, who is attending
I dental college at Richmond, Va.,
is spending his vacation with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Stone, on west Main street.
, Porter McGee of Winston-Sal
em, formerly of King, was a busi
ness visitor here Saturday,
j William Wright of Radford,
Va., is spending a few days here
the guest of his sister, Mrs. Anni
Kirby, in Walnut Hills.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Holyfield oZ
t Cameron visited friends here Sat
urday.
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Bole*
of Strasburg, Va., are visiting
relatives here and at Salisbury.
Mr. Boles, who is a retired rail-
I
way roadmaster, was reared
here.
Thomas A. Dalton has returned
from Charlotte where he was the
guest of his brother, Charles Dal
ton for a few days.
i
| Mrs. Annie Walker, who under
went an operation in the Citjr
Memorial Hospital, Winston-Sal
em, two weeks since, has been
removed to her home here and La
i
' recovering nicely.
I • '
port, more favorable results wero
j obtained by brooding with elec
i tricity. In addition the electri2
brooder was operated with great
er ease and convenience.
Other poultrymen carrying out
demonstrations on the use of elec
tricity for brooding purposes
were R. 5. Redding. L. .1. yow
lor, R. C. Martin, O. G. White.
Mrs. R. J. Seott and Burke Smiti.
Excellent growth of broilers ob
tained by all these parties using
electricity as a means of (urnish
ing heat for brooding chicks. The
demonstration showed the brooder
cost of less than one cent per
chick for the brooding period.
Meters placed in the brooder
houses gave a definite rust check
|on the amount of olecMicity used.