, THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872 Volume 71
SHALL WE CONTINUE THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY IN POWER, OR SHALL WE DEFEAT
IT AT THE POLLS NEXT TUESDAY?
** The answer is in the consciences of the free
voters who will have the opportunity next Tues
day to express their honest and untrammeled
on what is best for the country.
Ten years ago when the Franklin D. Roosevelt
administration began, the nation at large was
in distress. Farm products were below the cost
of production. The tobacco markets of North
Carolina and Virginia were paralyzed because
of lack of money and credit to move the crops.
Ten thousand banks were on the rocks of ruin
because farmers and business men were failing
everywhere, and could not pay back their bank
loans. Millions of men'walked the streets and
highways out of a job. Widespread want and des
pair stalked on all sides. Hundreds of deaths
from starvation and suicide crowded the funeral
parlors of the cities. Businesses large and small
closed their doors. Uncounted millions worth of
valuable property were sold for a song. Farms,
homes, mercantile establishments, factories, rail
ways, insurance companies were commingled in
one stupendous debacle of ruin.
WHAT DID THE NEW PRESIDENT DO ?
Among his first acts to relieve the distress of
*the nation, he demanded the bank holiday to
give hundreds of solvent financial institutions
that were tottering, a breathing spell to mar-
Ihall their resources.
• Next Roosevelt caused the enactment of the
law to guarantee the people's money in banks,
thus providing that basic security for the coun
try's financial safety.
Next he procured laws to extend federal aid to
farmers and home owners by providing reser
voirs of cash to furnish them quick loans to save
their property and at the lowest interest rate ever
known.
Next through the establishment of the ERA,
the FERA, and later the WPA (still operating),
jobs were given those who had no means of live
lihood and no chance to keep the hungry, the
cold and the unclothed from perishing.
Many thousands of people were enabled by
Federal pay checks to again buy the necessities
of life, and again to feel in their hearts that
sweet hope which sustains the perishing.
A*. through the Agricultural Department
of the government a system of crop control was
instituted which stalled the downward plunge
of farm prices, and has steadily increased to
bacco averages which today are highest in the
government's history except the year 1919 un
der President Wilson.
WHAT DO THE OLD AGED, THE BLIND, THE
DEPENDENT CHILDREN SAY ?
The law enacted under the advice and sponsor
ship of Franklin Roosevelt, which brought im
mediate succor to the unfortunate old people,
the blind and the crippled, is one of the outstand
ing social benefits of the world.
A secret letter circulated recently by the Stokes
*\)ounty Republican executive committee, prom
ises if elected the Republicans will reduce the tax
rate in Stokes county 15 cents on the hundred
valuation.
. The cost of the Stokes County Democratic Aid
now given to the old people, the blind people and
Of Pith And Moment
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, October 29, 1942
the dependent children of Stokes county amounts
: to a tax of right around 15 cents on the hundred
'dollars of property.
Does the Republican party of Stokes county
iintend to discontinue the help that has been
p:iven to these unfortunate people?
I In no other conceivable way can they reduce
'the tax rate of Stokes county 15 cents on the hun
dred.
This help to the helpless of our county is 0-fold.
Jt has been paid by the Democratic admin:stra
tion at Washington, by the Democratic Admin
istration of the State at Raleigh, and by the Dem
ocratic administration of Stokes county.
If the Republican party should be elected in
Stokes county and should discontinue the levy
of 15 per cent, on property, then immediately the
Washington administration and the Raleigh ad
ministration will automatically stop their ap
propriations.
This would leave Stokes county to pay not alone
the proceeds of a 15 per cent, levy, but a 45 per
cent. levy.
Otherwise the aged and infirm and the blind
and the dependent children would not any longer
receive the help which they have been receiving
under a Democratic administration.
STOKES COUNTY UNDER A DEMOCRATIC
ADMINISTRATION
Stokes county can boast of one of the finest
free educational systems of any county in North
Carolina, with superb school buildings, excellent
and safe transportation of the children to and
irom school, and every child in the county in
reach of a high school.
Stokes county can point with pride to one of
ihe most modern systems oi puolic highways m
this or any other rural county, with a splendid
maintenance system. Hardsurface roads lead
through many sections of the county, with ex
cellent dirt roads everywhere.
Stokes county can also point with pride to one
of the best- managed County Homes in North
Carolina, clean and sanitary, and where the in-
mates are well cared for and receive ample and
wholesome food and the best medical attention.
A MODERN COURTHOUSE
Recently the modern courthouse has been en
larged to give more room and greater convenien
ces and facilities to the steadily growing business
of the county and to accommodate the various
State and federal agencies that have in charge
the welfare of the people, especially the farmers.
Now our county feels proud of its really mod
ern "temple of justice," in which the people from
all sections of the county any time, day or night,
may visit and meet, and find a cordial welcome
trom the officials.
The county's business is far greater and more
complicated than it was a few years ago. Stokes
county officials are only paid a small increase
over the salaries of old times. They are efficient,
honorable and faithful servants and no one of
them gets more money than he deserves. Cheap
er men may no doubt be had, but the cheapest
service sometimes means the highest in the long
run.
The county's bonded indebtedness—every dol
lar of which was incurred and every bond issued
under a Republican administration yearly
grows smaller.
I And let it be remembered by everybody that
Published Thursdays
the parity payments received by the wheat an*,!
tobacco and rye and lespedezu farmers of Stoke
county amounts to more than the whole Stoker
 ounty tax levied on the people.
Thus our people under a Democratic adminis
tration RECEIVE BACK more money than they
■ pay out for taxes.
OUR OFFICERS
The Sheriff's office under John Taylor, the
Clerk's office under Watt Tuttle, the Register's
office under Robah Smith are equipped with mod
ern facilities for the transaction of the business
cf the taxpayers.
The books of these officers are each clean
as a pin, regularly audited and open at all times
to the inspection of the people.
The board of County Commissioners, Howard
Gibson, Harvey Johnson and Rev. J. A. Joyce;
and the board of education, J. C. Carson, Supt.;
Dr. G. E. Stone, P. 0. Frye and J. van Tuttle.
meet regularly once a month. The superintendent
of schools keeps his office open every day for tho
accommodation of a vast educational system,
growing in importance and usefulness every
year.
The jail is modern and carefully maintained by
Jailor Henderson Flinchum, Deputy -Sheriff
Burke Smith and lady assistants. It is sanitary,
clean and comfortable for the care of the prison
ers.
The Democratic county regime is in every re
-pect efficient, honorable and conscientious and
well deserves the endorsement and continued
snnnort of the people.
LET FVFWV CITIZEN VOTK
SLAVES CANNOT VOTK
It is inconceivable that there should be citizens
living* in free America who do not care enough
for the sacred ballot privilege to go out and vote
on election day.
In the conquered nations under the heel of the
tyrants of Germany, Italy and Japan, the people
are not allowed the right to vote.
There are no elections where Dictators rule.
Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohoto say what the laws
shall be. There is no right to vote among slaves.
The divine right of suffrage in the United
States was won by the blood and sacrifices of our
i ancestors. '
Americans are fighting and dying today that
the free people of this nation should retain their
freedom, which includes the right to go to the
polls and vote their sentiments on election day,
to continue the right of free assemblage, to con
tinue the right to worship God according to the
dictates of their consciences.
The right of free people to vote is a Clod-given
right and should be held sacred l\v the people. It
is our privilege to give expression to our wants
and needs.
Sad and terrible would be the day for America
when our men and women were denied the right
to go to the polls on election day and exercise
the prerogative for which their ancestors fought
'and died.
Go out next Tuesday. Vote for the man or the
party of your choice.
But vote. It is the right accorded only to free
men and women.
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