THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872
SPANGLER SPANKS THE "FOURTH TERM"
Mr. Spangler's reaction to Mr. Walker's sug
gestion is not only the silliest incident of the day,
but it is clearly a species of political blackmail
unprecedented in American politics.
Spangler, as you know, is the national chair
man of the G. O. P., while Walker occupies the
same position in the Democratic party.
The other day Walker in an interview suggest
ed that in these terrible and moving times of
war, that a long campaign between the two par
ties for a presidential candidate would engen
der partisan bitterness and hurt the war ef
fort. Whereupon he proposed to Spangler that
the campaign be a short one.
Spangler came back with the statement that
he would accept Walker's proposition only on
condition that he be furnished a guarantee by
Walker that Roosevelt should not be nominated
by the Democrats for a fourth term.
Otherwise, we infer, let the situation ride—to
hell with the war times.
Since when has the Republican national com
mittee or the Democratic national committee be
come invested with the authority to prevent
the people from nominating whom they wish
for President.
Since when has any small group of men be
come so powerful that they can thwart the will
of the people, and prevent them from selecting
a President of their own choosing.
The politicians, the great vested interests who
hate Roosevelt, the isolationists, and the great
newspapers whose stock is owned by million
aires, tried to prevent the third term, but failed.
They will fail to prevent a Fourth Term as long
as the great masses want the man who is un
questionably the outstanding figure of America
today and the only man the people will trust to
guide us through the greatest crisis in the his
tory of the Republic.
Spangler and his backers are trying to create
the very danger that they have professed to
fear—a Dictatorship.
The right of free elections and free political
selection still attains in America, and will stand
against Hitler, Hirohito and those Americans
who would deprive the sovereign people of that
sacred right.
There is no tradition in America against the
constitutional rights of the PEOPLE.
DEATH LOVES A SHINING MARK
What a strange and unhappy coincident, and
what an apparent gesture of irony in the great
Scheme of Things that we are unable to under
stand, has been the recent removal by death of
two of Stokes county's finest young men, young
men who were exceptionally successful in their
kindred spheres and of so great use in the af
fairs of the world.
We refer to the passing of young Dr. Robert
Reeves Jones, which occurred in Winston-Salem
Tuesday, and to the death of young Dr. Paul
Neal in Raleigh some weeks ago.
Both were born and reared in Stokes county,
each was a most efficient and conscientious mem
ber of his profession.
Winston-Salem and Raleigh respectively have
sustained serious losses. Both were men hard
to replace.
Volume 72
Current Comment
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, April 15, 1943 * * *
WILL STOKES DO ITS PART?—YES
The greatest money drive in the history of
America or any other country is now on—a cam
paign to raise 13 billion dollars to pay our sol
dier boys, to feed them and furnish them ad
equately with planes, tanks and guns, so that
they may win victory for us.
The meaning of 13 billions is colossal, a sum
beyond the range of the human imagination.
Will America meet it? It will.
Stokes county's quota in this drive is $44,200.
Does Stokes county accept the challenge? It
|does, and will raise its quota, which means only
;about $2.00 for every man, woman and child of
| ..he county.
What is our money for, what do our lives and
iour sacred honor mean but to accept this chal
lenge and conquer it?
Our boys are pledging their lives —our boys
are GIVING THEIR LIVES.
Can we not LEND our money?
\ We can. The nation is stripped for action in
every state, county, city and town.
The American way of life, our property, our
free institutions, our free speech, our right to
worship God according to the dictates of our
conscience—all these will be forfeited if we lose
the war.
Our freedom will be gone.
Will we lose? We will not.
Let every man and woman who have bought
bonds, buy more. Let those who have not bought,
buy now. It is the safest and best security in the
world—these United States of America bonds.
The great campaign is on. Miss Grace Taylor,
who is charged by the government with the duty
of leading in the battle, pleads with every citi
zen of Stokes county to do his or her duty.
Stokes county will not fail.
In behalf of the people of Stokes county we sa
iute Mrs. J. Wilson Mitchell of King who has
just received notice of the death of her son in
China; and to the parents of young Dodson of
Sandy Ridge, whose boy is among the missing
in Africa.
At such a time we feel like paraphrasing the
words of Abraham Lincoln, whose letter to Mrs.
Bixby on the death of her five sons in battle in
1864, is among the most beautiful passages of
the English language:
"We feel how weak and fruitless must be any
words of ours which should attempt to beguile
you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
But we cannot refrain from tendering to you the
consolation that may be found in the thanks of
the nation they died to save.
"We pray that our Heavenly Father may as
suage the anguish of your bereavement, and
leave you only the cherished memory of the lov
ed and lost, and the solemn pride that must be
yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice on the
altar of freedom."
No, after distinguishing himself so brilliantly
at the Cuban town in 1898. a western Rough Ri
der of national celebrity nicknamed San Diego,
Ca!., "Santiago."
HDITORIALS
GREETING
Published Thursdays
MISSISSIPPI POLITICS
A primary comes off in Mississippi next
ust, and already 320 candidates have filed foi'
the legislature.
One of the candidates is P. W. Bell, farmer, of
Europa, whose candor and sincerity is so beau
tiful and striking that we recommend it to all
our North Carolina candidates some of whom
are sometimes too modest to state their plat
forms.
Mr. Bell wrote to the editor of the newspaper
Progress, as follows:
"... I am thinking very strongly of entet ; 'vr
the race for Representative but am worred U>
know just what nice things you could say for
me like you have all the good fellows that have
allready announced as I have no political or pub
lic record and I have not done any thing big . . .
1 could hold up as a lure to the people ....
"Will giv yeou the low down on my self. I am
a Dimocrat and have allweys advocated the
SSales tax old peoples pension and a hospittle in
every Co.. Some of this we allreddy have but it
is not what it should be. Of course you couldn't
, expect every thing to be what it should be ... .
"But back to my self. Everybody knows that I
havent sold any whiskey in 8 years and on turn
ing the first page of the 1943 calendar me & my
wife went into a huddle and I made my self som
very solom promises. She didn't take veiy much
stock in these new year reselutions but I prom
ased my self that I would quit lying and stealing
and I have kept that promas. I also promased to
quit drinking, while I reserve the right to take
a social drink with a friend that promas too I
% ave kept inviolate and I will farther promise
that if I am elected that I will discharge the
'liitvs ppvfaining- to that office to the very best
of my ability & draw my pay.
"P. W. BELL."
AN INJUSTICE TO FARMERS
A generally stated proposition that the farm
ers are opposed to a 9-months school, is untrue
and is a slander on one of the finest units of
American citizenry.
There may be a few farmers who are willing'
to sacrifice the educational opportunities of
their children for the sake of making- more
moeny by working them longer weeks on the
farm, but this is not the rule among real farmers.
Many of the best farmers that we know in
Stokes and other counties were denied the priv
ilege of our modern educationel privileges and
facilities when they were young, but they are
citizens of intelligence, character and common
sense who are even willing to deny themselves
of many comforts and luxuries that they may
uive their children the best education within
their power.
The late General Assembly made it possible fo»*
every county in North Carolina that wishes it,
to have a 9-months school. There will not be
many who will miss this change, as the State
pays for it, and it costs the counties nothing.
If we do not take advantage of this great op
portunity now offered we are doing our children
irreparable wrong, especially in this day when
trained minds have such tremendous advantage
over those who have neglected the chance to
equip themselves for the serious battles of life.
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