THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872 Volume 71
Editorial
A HE-MAN IS FOUND—GIVE HIM
THE WORKS
"Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
Eut he with a chuckle replied:
Maybe it couldn't but he would be one
That wouldn't say so till he'd tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
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 DID IT."
In this the nation's most crucial hour we must
have he-men at the head of affairs —men who
laugh at difficulties and eat 'em alive, men who
bite off more than they can chew and then chew
it.
There is no time to listen to excuses, no time to
hear how it didn't happen.
The people want RESULTS and have the unlim
ited money to pay for them, and will pay for
them.
Emory S. Land, czar of American ships and
shipping, has demonstrated that he CAN'T. Hen
ry J. Kaiser has shown that he CAN.
Let President Roosevelt displace Land, and
give his job to Kaiser.
, Land has been tried. He is conscientious, ener
getic, patriotic and experienced. These qualities
are not enough to defeat the Asris.
America needs ships—ships—ships, and more
ships. In this the only prong of production that
has fallen down, Land has not measured up to
the vital needs.
> Kaiser can do it. He built the Boulder Dam, the
world's greatest pile of masonry and steel, com
pleting the job two years ahead of schedule.
. Kaiser fumed his talent to ships. Boasted he
could build them twice as fast as the old exper
ienced shipbuilders, who were themselves break
ing records. •
They laughed at him. Kaiser cut the time for
finishing a Liberty ship from 105 to 46 days, and
said he could beat that.
The laugh dried up.
Without sufficient shipping America cannot
furnish lend-lease material to her allies in time
and quantity to insure success, nor transport her
own man power and material to the fighting
fronts.
Kaiser says he can build 5,000 giant super car
go planes with which armies and material may
be flown seas beyond the reach of Ü
boats and will deliver them on time. He is in
Washington now before congressional commit
tees, who believe in him.
Give Kaiser the green light. Give him the mon
ey. Give him the authority.
Give him Land's place as head of all ships and
shipping.
Here at long last we have the man with ideals,
the man with enthusiasm, the man with the guts.
Nothing great was ever accomplished without
this trio of essentials.
Kaiser works at a feverish tempo. When other
men faint he is in stride. No obstacles are recog
nized by him when he races toward his goal. No
difficulties are too discouraging for Kaiser to
cope with.
When Rome was "threatened by Hannibal, the'
plains were guarded by great Roman armies on
every side except the Alps, whose icy peaks pre
sented an insurmountable obstacle.
But Hannibal crossed the Alps with his legions
Slant On
BLUE RIBBON PSYCHOLOGY
W. P. Hedrick, tobacco marketing specialist of
lhe State Department of Agriculture, is evident
ly anticipating the high price era about to dawn
when he says it is imperative that the farmers
exercise the greatest care in housing, curing,
sorting and grading their 1942 crop of tobacco.
Hedrick reminds that the Tobacco Association
of the United States has ruled that the speed of
sales on the warehouse floors will be limited
strictly to 360 piles of leaf per hour during a five
hour sales day.
Hence, with the slowing up of the tempo of
sales naturally buyers will be given greater op
portunity to evaluate the quality of their pur-
I chases.
| And so they will scrutinize more closely your
joffering and if the signs look good you will get
| more money for your pile.
The Reporter has always wanted some of our
fine tobacco growers like Jim Young or Ernest
Nelson or Ringo White or Jack Brown to try an
experiment. Take a hundred pounds of the
choicest leaf, every bundle of the same length,
every leaf of uniform size, and tie every bundle
with blue ribbon.
The psychological effect of this de luxe ar
rangement would be sure to captivate the imagi
nation of the buyers and there would follow
some astronomical bids.
We believe it would even be more efficacious
than a sly wink from the farmer and a nod of
his head back in the direction of the truck's side
compartment as possibly signifying he had been
to Patrick or Yadkin before starting for market
and had a surprise waiting for thirsty buyers
who had been generous in their bidding.
Psychology in salesmanship pays. It is the spice
to entice dallying ducats.
WE ARE AT WAR
Fighting is going on in the Pacific now, and we
must realize soon that we are really at war. The
martial music must soon blend into minor
chords, as we read the casualty lists.
The soldiers, the marines, the sailors, the air
men—as brave and efficient as any of the world's
heroes—are doing their duty in glory and honor
to themselves and their country.
May the God of battles be on the side of those
who are fighting for the greatest ideal of life
human freedom.
And may we shrink from no sacrifice at home
as our part.
and laid siege to Rome.
Three Federal armies under Hooker, Burnside
and McClellan threatened the destruction of the
army of northern Virginia.
Stonewall Jackson, the greatest military gen
ius America has produced, had less men than
either of his opponents, yet he defeated all three
around Harper's Ferry. He had the vision, the
energy, the enthusiasm to separate and smash.
Genius is the concentration of powers under a
super-will. • Just like with a glass you focus the
pleasant sun's rays into a point that sets a-fire.
Kaiser is the world's greatest building genius.
He is a wizard of construction. He is the smasher
of precedents. He is a creator where others are
imitators.
President Roosevelt must recognize his quali
ties and use him now where he is supremely need
ed—in the shipping crisis.
Published Thursdays _
the News
! PEACH CULTURE IN STOKES, IS IT
FEASIBLE?— WHY YES
; Nothing: is more delicious than peaches.
! We mean of course the kind that grows on
trees, and not that variety with dimples who jit -
; terbug Sunday afternoons to the tune of juke
I boxes, chew gum hysterically and flash their
'chiffon.
When we see truck load after truck load, bent
down with Albertas, etc., coming; through
from Moore, Montgomery and Richmond coun
j ties, we wonder why this fruit cannot be produc
ed in this county, saving the good money wj
spend for it.
Especially the northern section radiating out
from Lawsonville, Francisco and Sandy Ridge,
is adapted to the fine fruit.
Peaches make splendid pies and preserves and
can well. „
(W'e mean again the variety that grows on
trees. Please do not misunderstand us).
PARADOXICAL ALTITUDES OF
STUNT FLIERS
When a plane is heard coming the average
Danbury citizen ducks.
The machines roar over every day, but stunt
flying is generally done specially on Sundays
when the pilot has left his hangar or hangover
for a holiday demonsti ation. - * -
It is doubtless funny to a young new driver to
| .see how close he can come without hitting some
thing. On more than two occasions recently the
'court house was saved from pulverization by a
twist of the steering wheel in quick time.
The public does not share the stunt flyer's en
joyment of his grandstand exhibitions.
Paradoxically we would say, though, that
He flies, high, low
Or low, high. ' ' ; ;
AHA AND OHO!
The tobacco crop of the Old Belt which in
cludes Stokes county, may bring 50 cent, aver
age.
Throughout the 16 Border Belt markets it is
averaging now 42 cents, and slowly climbing up
wards. ,
This sounds like 1919, believe me, when choice
Stokes wrappers reached for the 7 stars.
J. J. Morgan, State Department of Agriculture
statistician, estimates the Old Belt yield at more
than 187 million pounds, or 17 per cent, increase
over last year.
When the skyrockets begin careening in the
;ether, let's pull a party—what says you. *
i John M. Taylor will be deputized to lead the
dance, but it is a condition that nobody is to be—
jwell, out of the way. *
Be reasonable.
THE GREAT CORN CROPS
Farmers will tell you that hardly ever before
have we had such a fine corn crop, or one s> large.
It is beautiful, the great fields of dark green,
the tassels giving the effect of a mightv host of
plumed knights.
With a full corn crib the farmer may feel inde
pendent as he has the wherewithal that keeps
jrhe mules fat, produces food for the swine and
insures the "ham what am."
When old Dan Tucker had corn to buy, he'd
moan and wipe his weeping eye; but when old
Dan had corn to sell, he was sassy as all hell.
At least that's what the old folks say.
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