1 THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872 Volume 71
Not Defense, But Victory
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!l * STOKES DRAFT BOARD CRACKS DOWN
ON SUBVERSIVE TALKERS
* To talk against the government in time of war
is a serious thing. It is considered as giving aid
and comfort to the enemy.
* Disloyal and incendiary utterance is sedition.
Sedition is half brother to treason. Only the overt
act is lacking to put the offense in that category
of crimes punishable by the firing squad.
Words spoken in derogation or disparagement
of the efforts of the government are damaging to
the morale of the army, or of the boys entering
the service. Civilian morale is also discouraged.
The war cannot be won unless backed by the
p whole people, including those in the army and
I 1 those at home.
Sedition is largely the result of enemy propa
ganda. Many lies and misunderstandings and
rumors repeated innocently by the people come
from the secret system which Hitler keeps
constantly at work in the nations he means to
conquer.
The local draft board of Stokes county recently
summoned before it a number of citizens who
have been talking too much.
I investigations usually follow the re
;ports t*> government headquarters sent in by the
I kcal draft boards.
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I PLEASING ANTICIPATIONS ABOUT OUR
STAPLE CROP
The Reporter has been predicting for some
time back that tobacco would be high this fall.
I We notice that our view is supported by W. P.
Hedrick, tobacco marketing specialist of the
jjstate Department of Agriculture.
Mr. Hedrick says:
"The price paid this year will be better than the
$29.31 per hundred pounds average paid in
North Carolina during 1941.
"Reasons for the unexpected price increase
are:
"1. An increase in domestic consumption of 18
per cent, last year and an expected increase of
10 per cent, this year due to better economic
■ and war tension.
fl "2. American cigarette manufacturers are
producing larger quantities of cigarettes for
England.
I "3. Leaf growers have been guaranteed 100
per cent, of parity—or $27 a hundred pounds—
I for 1942, compared with 87 per cent, of parity in
§ 1941.
f "Growers have been allowed alO per cent, av-
I erage increase over last year's allotment.
I "Not all the farmers will be able to take ad-
I vantage of it, however, because of the labor
■J^hortage."
BETTER WAR NEWS
The war news is much better today. What the
I American, British and Dutch flyers are doing for
5 I the yellow Nips is too bad.
American bombers are leading the day.
m In Russia the Germans are being overwhelmed
I everywhere along the whole vast front. Latest,
I 100 thousand Huns in a trap with the Russians
|«flmashing them by the thousands. _ ,
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, Feb. 26, 1942 * * * *
FIGHTING AT THE FOX HOLES
"Then conquer we must, when our cause
it is just;
And this be our motto: "In God
is our trust."
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And the star-spangled banner
in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and
the home of the brave."
Standing out on the dark horizon of the Pacific,
brilliant as the morning- star, is the record of
Douglas McArthur and his men.
Leonidas and his Spartans at the Pass of Ther
mopylae; the last stand of Napoleon's old guard
at Waterloo; Washington at Valley Forge;
Stonewall Jackson at Harper's Ferry; Custer at
the Little Big Horn—
These are incidents of the sublime courage and
devotion of the world's brave and unselfish men.
None can eclipse the valor, the dogged tenaci
ty, the sacrifice, the unparalleled steadfastness
of the defenders of Luzon —a small army of less
than 20,000 Americans and Filipinos holding
back and smashing consistently and continuous
ly the invasion of 200,000 bloodthirsty and fanat
ical Japanese.
Such is the spirit of America. Such is the
answer of America to the Axis in its efforts to
enslave free peoples.
America cannot be enslaved. Americans can
die but they will not be enslaved.
Conquer we must and conquer we will.
The stand of McArthur and his men at the fox
holes of Luzon is the call to the power and justice
of this free nation.
The call is heard. It will be answered in kind.
THE GOAL WILL BE REACHED
Jn his address two months ago to the people
of America, President Roosevelt proclaimed cer
tain goals of preparedness—goals that amazed
and electrified the nation.
Many of us wondered if such a colossal pro
gram could be in the realm of possibility.
It was very gratifying to hear the President in
his Monday night's talk reiterate the program,
and to assure the nation that the GOALS WILL
BE REACHED.
Such a program almost takes one's breath—
the production of planes, tanks and ships. Sixty
thousand planes, for instance, this year: next
year; 125,000.
That means that off the assembly lines of out
vast plants, 400 planes will roll out every day—
and planes are what, above everything else, we
need.
Haste the day when the elements may be black
with the machines to give us control of the air
on every battle front.
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THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW
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The biggest snowfall of the winter came Tues
day and Tuesday night. About 3 inches here.
In other sections of the State, much heavier.
It was a beautiful snow, fully up to specifica
tions of beautiful snows. It was also a very
white snow, making the holly trees in their dark
green gowns and plenty of red, look like oomph
girls.
But snow is not always beautiful. In its
pristine state it is, and is emblematic of chastity
and purity. Sometimes it is red, as on the vast
fields of Russia. Then it is a symbol of man's
Inhumanity to man.
In America the snows are white and beautiful.
God grant that they may ever be.
POLITICS AIN'T DEAD YET
A Danbury F. C. after listening to the Presi
dent's address, said:
"Now just wait till Wheeler replies to him.
Wheeler will fix him."
This is the same fellow who says:
"Roosevelt got us into this war. Now let him
get out of it the best way he can."
The F. C. forgot that only Congress can get the
country into war, and did by a vote of 100 per
jent. in both branches.
As to Wheeler, the Senator has kept his neak
in close here of late. Nobody endorses his former
disloyal attitude except our alien Japs and those
synthetic Americans who would out-yellow the
Japs.
HOT DAWGS
Reports of maddogs and their depredations are
coming in. Biting people and cattle, and causing
Pasteur expense and pain.
It is said that dawgs go mad worst in the early
spring months. Makes no differencce whether he
has been bitten by another dawg or not. He just
goes mad on general principles and wants to
bite something. , >
In communities where the dawg population
outnumbers the folks, dawg news is very inter
esting.
Dawgs should be treated not later than the
first of March. The most efficacious remedy is
Bitamin B, 38 c (calibre).
MIRACLE OF RESURRECTION
In spite of the snap back of the grouchy ground
; hog, Senorita Springtime approaches through
the waking woods.
Lingering, dallying somewhere near, this al
luring, elusive sprite will be welcomed by every
body. Pausing by the vine-clad rock she plays
with the clinging arbutus, flirts with the fleur
de-lis and whispers soothing words to the peep
ing violets.
Soon we may listen for the first chatter of the
whipporwill in the hedgerow. Soon we will hear
the opening note of the bullfrog in the meadow.
Soon the beauteous sleeping things all 'about
us will awake, and we will revel again in the new
reign of sunshine and roses.
It is the miracle of resurrection.
Number 3,643