. THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872
The Passing Show Of Nineteen Forty=Two
THE IRREPRESSIBLE ISM
Worthy of notice is that a religous revival re
cently closed in Danbury was participated in by
seven denominations —Danbury being noted for
the multiplicity of its denominations.
Now as we conceive it, here is an indication of
shrinking ism, of deteriorating prejudice, of
widening intelligence.
The question often arises in the minds of fed
up, blase individuals:
Why so many churches, anyhow, why so much
divided opinion on the way to go?
Why so much emphasis on ism? If we are all
sold on the destination why so much turmoil on
the route, what t'ell is it all about anyhow?
The things on which we all agree are so large,
and the things upon which we disagree are so
infinitessimal and insignificant, will the grand
total be affected in the least degree?
The discovery has long since been made that
creed is largely greed, and that theological
dogma is only an ignis fatuus, a will-'o-the-wisp
or a jack-'o-lantern generated by gases floating
across the pond and dissolving after a while in
to thin air.
A doctrinaire is always a fanatic whose convic
tions are subject to change, and are smiled at.
Sometimes we find churches holding them
selves in an absurd aloofness, unwilling to hear
other viewpoints. It is like the conceited clique
that believes in marrying only within itself to
hold the traditional property in the family.
• Such family scions often velocipede into the
State institution fcr the mentally decrepit. Such
church atrophies, dying with stagnated corpus-
In the reign of universal light there is no place
for fool isms that arrogate to themselves a mon
oply of salvation.
Even as the Duke Power Corporation chases
away the encircling gloom of countless house-
knowledge precipi-
among
baptism, free
x i fto mmun ion—what are
Ifcti SS CJf But the variegated opin
-IJ (whom still hold for the
Ran long?
' 'IE M ideas of others lest
yj'f IpT/Tt * 1 Hted opinion we are left
on. Or do we
I faith in our own doc
when all men shall be
t makes us free, and to
for only one way, one
urch?
i will inevitably bob
* t
h, whose church?"
HE CREDIT
; been patriotic in buy
, but many of our citi
l points outside the
s misses the credit for
n the state is doing its
best to raise its own quota.
When you buy, buy from a home point—so that
Stokes county will receive its due credit, and so
that the name of your home county may receive
the honor which it deserves.
Volume 71
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, September 3, 1942
■ | The American B-17 flying fortress is the ack
nowledged mistress of the skies.
On all fighting fronts this invincible air ma
chine, carrying the Norden bombsight, flies at in
credible heights, drops its bombs with eerie pre
cision and dreadful destruction, and returns to
its base.
Eight forays have been made by the B-17 over
Germany without a single loss. Maj. Paul W. Tib
bets of Miami, Fla., guiding a B-17 says:
"The Germans have got to get something bet
ter than they have got if they expect to shoot
down a single fortress."
Lieut. Frank R. Beadle of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
a 24-year-old bombardier chief of one of the
raids on Germany and France, says:
"At least 70 per cent, of the bombs dropped by
the fortresses so far have hit the target."
Tibbetts declared:
j "The B-17 is built like the Brooklyn bridge
; Sometimes the Germans shoot us full of holes,
■ but they can't shoot us down. That old baby can
take all they've got and still get home."
In the Pacific the flying fortress lets go its ter
riffic destruction on Jap ports, bases and air
fields, and comes back home almost invariably.
The war will be decided when American produc
tion fills the elements with these devils of the
skies—and that time is coming.
The B-17'is the queen of the ether. It is destin
ed to be the total despair of the Axis.
BETTER PAY FOR THE TEACHERS
Seeing such a large intelligent and attractive
body of teachers as are here today attending a
pre-school meeting called by Superintendent
Carson brings to mind the scarcity of teachers
now in the nation —reported to be more than
50,000.
In this county it is stated there is a very
troublesome shortage of instructors.
The condition is due to the war industries, gov
ernment service and the draft.
Teaching is probably the poorest paid of all
the professions when we take into consideration
its comparative value to the public.
Young men and young women can earn more
money at most any other avocation than their
own life profession df teaching.
Especially is this so now during war times i
when fabulous wages are being paid.
It is said that upwards of $20,000,000 is in the
State's surplus fund now.
A part of this gigantic fund should certainly
be diverted to the better payment of our teach
ers in order that they may the better prepare
themselves for their work, which is so vitally im
portant to the present and coming generations.
TOBACCO AVERAGES NOT HURT
The ceiling placed on tobacco by the govern
ment price administration will not seriously af
fect the prices on flue-cured tobacco o.f the Pied
mont North Carolina belt.
This is the expressed opinion of warehousemen
and tobacconists, and of the State Agriculture
Department.
The farmers of Stokes who will soon begin to
market their tobacco crop, may be assured of
high prices.
QUEEN OF THE ETHER
Published Thursdays
THE HARVEST MOON
Soon you will see the harvest moon, the gor
geous moon of September, the full moon nearest
the autumnal equinox.
It rises at dusk, a great wheel of gold that rolls
away the night's restful hours. No other moon
of the year shines so brilliantly and long.
' It sets at dawn just as the cloves begin to sing
and the partridge is whistling from the stubble
field.
Sleep with your window open to the beauteous
harvest moon and let its glamorous beams play
on your pillow. It engenders dreams—dreams of
the long ago when you sauntered with your sen
orita down the sequestered path of Lover's Lane,
when she avowed she was yours for aye and
evermore.
The harvest moon is a concession from the hap
py season spent when the last rose of summer
laments her lovely companions that are faded
and gone.
A TIP TO THE STOREKEEPERS
On account of war conditions it will be hard for
merchants to buy new stocks this fall and win
ter, and many stores that have been overloaded
with hard stocks can clean up and get the cash
for merchandise that has been stored away in
their basement or under the counters.
As the buying power of the people will be at the
highest level for many years when the crops be
!gin to move, now is the time to clean up.
Advertise in the Danbury Reporter the bar
gains you have to offer. Everything will move
this time.
A LITTLE KINDNESS
#
That boy of yours—far from home, homesick
and lonesome in a foreign land.
Write him a letter once a week and tell him the
news from home.
But a letter contains but limited space. Send
him the Danbury Reporter, the old home paper.
He will appreciate your thoughtfulness and
| kindness. -.~.T
I For one dollar the Reporter will be sent to any
address wherever the armies are located, on land
or sea, anywhere. >
Two or three pounds of tobacco will pay for it.
Will he be glad to get the news from old Stokes?
We believe he will.
HITLER'S SHORT SHRIFT
The tragic spectre of the North—the terrible
Russian winter—impends on the German front
Hitler is using his full power t> crush Russia
before the middle of October when the inexor
able Frost King moves south.
Will Hitler conquer unconquerable Russia in
time to meet the colossal power of Frgland and
America on the second front?
We do not believe he will. •' f
The German armies caught between the Rus
sian come-back and the western avalanche, must
inevitably be crushed unless the signs fail.
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