THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872 .
NEWSPAPERS AND THE WAR
The outstanding editorial page in North Caro
lina is the Winston-Salem Journal's.
The editorials of 'Mr. Sane ford Martin cr*-' ,
conservative, always to the point, frequently bi i>-
liant., ever entertaining*.
We speak with special reference t • the war
its unprecedented seriousness and sadness. \\ e
greatly admire the cordial and loyal support of
President Roosevelt and hi s administration
which has always been the policy of the Journal.
The President so much needs the unswerving
support of the newspapers which mould the
thought of the masses.
So many newspapers have no serious editorial
policy. So many of them none at all. Many are in
different, a few hostile, others critical.
One alleged large daily of the state, we have in
mind, with a stale affectation of independence
publishes a page of dull, erudite jaundice which
goes over the head of the average layman and is
seldom read except by those who enjoy its cyni
cal criticisms, being of the same mind them
selves. We always thought this paper would be
fry calomel. _
• Some weekly newspapers use canned editorials
which look well in type but are inane and decid
edly boresome, but are useful to build fires.
The Winston-Salem Journal has more than any
•Other paper that comes under our observation
been friendly to the great friend of the people,
Franklin Roosevelt.-It is unquestionably the sin
'cerest as well as the'most accomplished exponent
of Democratic principles among the State's
newspapers. Its viewpoint is of our Southland
and-our beloved North Carolina.- • • //
i ilie Journal is a great credit to the State and
to the city that so liberally supports it.
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MEANNESS BEYOND COMPARE
' The Germali high command Benses the tragic
specter of an appalling winter approaching when
food and coal will be pitiably scarce in Europe.
Adds that the occupied countries —already
starving—must give up their slim allowances so
that the German armies and the German people
may have plenty, and that they mean to have it.
The selfishness and brutality of the Prussian is
beyond compare. The world will rejoice when he is
at last corralled and chained, and when his super
cilious and arrogant spirit is made to suffer the
consequences of his crimes.
GIVE THE RIGHT OF WAY TO DEATH
Every day and all through the night long lithe
steel tanks rush through Danbury. Speeding to
northern points, filled with the dangerous gas
oline. They are death on wheels. Each contains
enough inflammable stuff to burn .towns and
cities. \
, .£>ast week down in Robeson county one of them
collided with a bus loaded with passengers. The
result was an explosion and the death of 12 peo
ple, besides taaijy injured. ' ;
way, give thcygas tankg an ffpen
Volume 71
Timely Editorials
~ - N. C., Thursday, October 8, 1942
STALIN SPEAKS t
1 ~ - !
Mysterious, im]>>nderable, unconquerable iJus- :
si a.
George IN riv;' • :*h*.i'v sai  when Gev n • • •
tacked tho Soviet Germany • >nld be d strove *.
Shaw is avi i.'i in. ire • ;t T-:i l•' ii it
a lover oi Enuland, one oi the most eyni I, t'
meanest, darinoxvt, most oi iginal,
citizen of Europe.
Stalingrad holds, despite never-ending fresh
reserves of Hitler coming in. The Russians hav-.
ing burned their bridges behind them, fight, die, j
but hold.
Stalin the Sphinx—who allows no foreign mili
tary inspection of his fronts or plans, whether
enemy or ally—speaks. He says no power or com
bination of powers—having specially in mind
Germany and Japan—can defeat Russia.
He intimates that it is high time England and
America were keeping their obligations to open
a second front to relieve Russia.
But Stalin shows no signs of weakening or con
ciliation with anybody. He is the unknown quan
tity of the unknown, imponderable, unconquer
able Russia.
And the F>ost King of the frozen imponder
able, unconquerable North crouches for his,
spring.
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* OCTOBER
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Beautiful, silent, pensive October has come.
The woods so sprightly in their freshness and
blossoming a few weeks ago have taken the kiss
of death.
The sweetgum and the poplar, the sourwood
and the beech, the maple and the ash, stand
somber in the declining sun. Their leaves slow
ly flutter to the ground.
. October is the month of memories. And who
would forget his memories. Memories that bless
and burn. Memories of days that can never come
again, and friends who are gone. The laughter
that is heard no more.
They linger, dallying in the heart. We stroll by
the pools of dark clear water where the vines are
drying and dying. The enchanting paths lead on
through the quiet woods where the stream
croons its lullaby. The lure of the everlasting
bills, and the great rocks of the ages.
October ever poignantly brings back thoughts
of the loved and lost, the place vacant at the
table, the echo of the Greyhound bus tha/t roar
ed down the road full of cigarette smoke that
curled through tears.
Ah, October, beautiful, brilliant, sad October
—month of memories, memories that bless and
burn.
SWEETEST STORY EVER TOLD
The sweetest story a Stokes county farmer 1
over heard is "high tobacco."
Read the list of sales in Taylor's Warehouse
advertisement this week and say it doesn't
sound sweet.
The 1942.cr0p of tobacco is bringing the hand
somest figures seen since 1919, figures that mean
debt paying, surpluses to buy bonds and. a
beautiful bajik .balance. , ; .. w
/Jrt' ihe meantime, "praise tfre Lord-and pass
the ammunition." •
Published Thursdays
I THE FLYING FORTRESS WILL
WIN THE W Ml
It \ rend wih . ; • '
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that the U. S. was building ne v fo ;• j -
taat could strike J una: l . 1: -in 3 i:»I • ti
Aleutians.
| This Jap broadcaster has the correct idea. The
I Flying Fortresses are coming l to pay Japan for
'Pearl Harbor with compound interest. Coming'
in lethal fleets armed with bottled vengeance.
The rats may well watch for the great silver
ladies silhouetted in the sky, bristling with guns
and able to drop 4-ton bombs from incredible
heights with uncanny accuracy.
The Zeros may swarm out to meet the Fort
resses, but it will be a sad day for them. The last
fight showed 47 to 0 in favor of the Flying Fort
resses.
We do not know when the all-out offensive will
begin in the Pacific. But when it does begin the
U. S. queens of the skies will be there in over
whelming and invincible power.
, With enough of them —and, don't worry, we'll
r have enough—Japan will rue the day when she
i started the war which means her doom.
THE SERIOUS FOOD OUTLOOK
Manpower on the farms of Stokes county
will be seriously depleted another year and the
result will mean greatly less tobacco and still
higher prices, but—
Look you, Mr. Farmer, don't neglect food pro
duction. Dean Schaub in his address at Vade
Mecum recently sounded an ominous note. He
. v aid there will possibly be hunger in places
where there has been ample eats, before this
war is over.
Let every Stokes county farm not fail to pro
duce enough food for its own uses, and if pos
sible a surplus to help feed our great armies and
our allies. .
You can't eat tobacco.
BUILDING THE GIANT ARMY
, Last week 62 men went from Stokes to the war
training centers.
If in the same proportion to population other
counties of the United States were assessed for
manpower, the same day 432,000 Americans
joined the military assembly.
The fighting forces now possiblv number at
least 5,000,000 men.
This swells the giant army, slowly, systematic
ally, inexorably—swells to create the most
powerful military force on the globe, and which
when fully trained and armed will be able to
bmash the unholy designs of Germany and Japan
I to enslave the free peoples of Europe' and Ameri
ca.
The Stokes boys who left Danbury for camp
were 100 per cent. Americans of pure Anglo
on blood right from the soil of free Carolina.
WATCH FOR EASTER, 43 %f '
news is good from all the war fronts. The
Axis power, now at its peak, is reeling. The al
jed power grows stronger every day. Will the
War be won by Easter 1943 for the allies ? We
think 80. V
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