THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872 Volume 71
1 THE GESTAPO GYRATES WHILE THE
OGPU OBFUSCATES
Stokes county is the victim of a big bad politi
\ eal MACHINE, owned and operated by Sheriff
John Taylor; the Democratic officers are incom
petent, inefficient, and crooked, while the big
> majority of voters who put them in are densely
ignorant or heinously corrupt.
At leagt this is the implied accusation broad
cast by the Union Republican, a newspaper pub
lished at Winston-Salem, Forsyth county.
The Republican has suddenly been struck by
• some kind of lightning. It agitates vociferously
for THE PEOPLE to smash the machine of John
Taylor, hand over the emoluments of office to the
newly-nominated Republican candidates, who
are honest and efficient, and to live happily ever
after.
Now the editor of the Republican, the
self-styled Republican orgin of the State, is an
honest man and a truthful —does anyone doubt
this?
He comes with no bill of particulars, but the
fire has evidently been handed down to him. He
is careful to make no direct charges, like a per
son who is sure of his ground, or like him who is
"thrice armed and fee his quarrel just."
* {But he carries a stineto under his belt He
Speaks indirectly, "by- uiWhuatitm or innuendo,
' that underhanded resort of those who are not in
possession of facts or proof, nor the courage to
present them.
* Passing strange it is, look you, my brethren,
that the crusader editor of North Carolina's Re
publican orgin, should come fishing in the quiet
waters of Stokes for suckers, when he has whales
swimming right under his nasal proboscis, at
his front door.
What about the immense stiff Democratic
majority in Forsyth?
We recall having seen no editorial diatribes
anent the Ogpu of Camel City. Why overlook its
lair to hunt the Gestapo of Stokes?
The motif of the editor of the Republican is
too deep for us, we submit.
We have wondered if our Stokes Republican
candidates—all nice men—have been dangling
their ducats over there?
No, then again we have speculated on whether
f or not the fat legal advertising of Winston's
Democratic lawyers, dispensed judiciously, had
anything to do with so dubious a situation. We
wonder if those smooth lawyers have choked the
\ diverticulum of a valiant Republican editor's
oesophagus with Democratic pie? No?
Then on what hypothesis shall we explain this
quixotic adventure of the editor of the State's
most militant orgin?
In the interest of a solid front, and to preserve
harmony in these parlous times, we feel that
these speculations should not proceed too far
up the creek.
We trust that our voters of Stokes county
who have been egregiously slandered will laugh I
it off.
If they have been too ignorant to know what
they've been voting for or too corrupt to care
what they have been voting for, let them forget
it-until the duration.
Let politics be adjourned until the situation
evolves seriouser.
Of course if to have a large and cohstantly in- 
creasing host of friends and supporters means a
Timely Editorials
N. C., Thursday, October 1, 1942 *
SLOW UP
Don't run your car over 35 now, on penalty of
the law.
The highway patrol and all federal and State
officers are watching.
By obeying this law, you not only save yourself
from fine or imprisonment, or both—
But you help the nation in its all-out battle for
the successful prosecution of the war.
And your hide depends on the successful prose
cution of the war.
HONORS EVEN
Two men at Pine Hall had a fight Saturday
night over: who pays the highest for tobacco,
Woodrow Wilson or Franklin Roosevelt.
The scrappers were held apart by Mack Wall
and Tom Preston.
There was no serious damage done, and after
considering carefully it was decided to issue no
warrants, as everybody seemed to be happy any
how.
machine, then John Taylor undoubtedly has one.
There is no truer type of PEOPLE'S official in
the state than John Taylor.
When he made his modesty debut into Stokes
| politics the county was in the red some 10 to 12
hundred majority. Last election the Board of
County Commissioners were elected by a majori
ty of around 1300. Roosevelt won by about 2,162
Was this the Taylor machine?
When the Republican declares that Boss
| Brown, when elected to the legislature, will not
be a party to "any illicit dealings with the liquor
interests in Raleigh" it implies that there have
been illicit dealings in Raleigh with the liquor in
terests. But the Republican fails to give the facts
of his startling inside dope. If there is any truth
in what he insinuates, let him come out with it,
so that when William F. Marshall goes to the
General Assembly in January he may bring the
serious charge to the attention of the legislature
and demand an investigation. If there are no
facts to support the Republicas's slander of the
law-making body, let the slander be resented in
the way best suited to the wishes of the slander
ed.
In all the counties of the state we daresay there
is not one that can show a cleaner or more effi
cient record than the offices of John Taylor and
Watt Tuttle, or whose business has been manag
ed more capably, honorably and efficiently than
Howard Gibson, Harvey Johnson and Rev. J. A.
Joyce have transacted the financial affairs of
Stokes county.
The same applies to the office of R. L. Smith,
Register of Deeds.
To say that the business of the coynty is trans
jacted behind closed doors —with a sinister inflec
ition—is small talk, pussilanimous. To intimate
I that any of these officers are wasting and squan
dering the people's money is slanderous and
without the support of truth. To leave the impres
sion that any of these officers are for the few and
not for the interest of the whole people is an ef
fort to stir prejudice.
In every Stokes county official's place of busi
ness a Republican is just as welcome and re
ceives quite the consideration and courtesy of
the rankest Democrat.
Published Thursdays
AMERICA'S VAST PRODUCTION SPELLS
DOOM OF THE AXIS
The vast production of war material by the
, United States unquestionably spells doom of
the Axis.
? American factories are now putting out more
planes than all the totalitarian nations combin
• ed. Germany has never claimed in all its lyingest
statistics to be able to make more than 3500
. planes per month. Italy and Japan combined
cannot manufacture more than six or 700 per
month. «
American, British and Russian plants are now
- building from eight thousand to ten thousand
, bombers and fighters per month. The United
States alone has reached a capacity of more than
i 5.000 per month. Included in this production are
many hundreds of Flying Fortresses, the dead
liest machines in the world.
, The production of tanks, anti-aircraft guns
and machine guns is in the ratio of two to Axis
one. .
When we consider too, the overwhelming turn
out of shipping, now far outstripping the de
struction of the Axis submarines, it can readily
| be seen that the tide must soon turn fearfully
against Germany and Japan when this crushing
material is fully in the hands of the Russians and
the Chinese, and w r hen England and America are
in position themselves to utilize their vast pro
duction to the limit.
| The population of the United Nations —count-
ing only Russia, England and America—is 350
! millions against 190 millions for Germany, Japan
and Italy.
I This means a man power of nearly 2 to 1 against
! the Axis, without computing the vast population
lof China, nearly 500 millions.
With its manpower fully armed, democracy
'need not fear the results.
SUNSET AND EVENING STAR
"I know not where His islands lift '
Their frondied palms in air—
-1 only knew 1 cannot drift i 1
Beyond His love and care."
The faith of our mothers in the dear sweet days
of long ago—that was the faith of Charles Car
roll.
He made a brave fight for life. He had suffer
ed. At last his tired spirit softly sank into the all
j enfolding arms of that restful, dreamless sleep
that men call death, where is surcease of sorrow
t or pain.
May his noble, gentle spirit find the peace that
passeth understanding. n
THE FLYING FORTRESSES STRAFING
THE FLYING JAPS
In the Pacific it is "too bad" how the Hying
•Fortresses of the Mac-Arthur camp are destroy
ing Jap Zeros.
In one raid 47 Jap flyers were downed while
the Americans lost not one.
Slowly, methodically, but with unmistakable
precision the power and skill of our planes forge
their way to Tokyo.
The grand offensive that will reach the nest of
the yellow rats is in the making.
May it soon be made.
Xumbel' .".(JTI