THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872
Interpreting Timely Topics
Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot?
The Hon. Cameron Morrison, con
gressman from Nocth Carolina, got
tired of the continual lambasting of
Roosevelt and the New Deal by north
ern Republicans.
At last he rose and lifted his voice,
clear and unafraid, in the gilded halls
of the House at Washington.
It rang like cymbals in a band. The
devil and all his sycophants are defied
when Cam Morrison becomes aroused.
They had ranted about the administra
tion's spendings, and its bureaucracies,
and its wastefulness.
The gentleman from North Carolina
said:
"You stole more money from the gov
ernment under Harding's administra
tion than the Democrats have wasted in
ten years of war preparation."
We don't know nothing about all this,
b 11 *" we are confident that Congressman
Cam Morrison will be elected the n ex t
United States Senator from North Car
olina.
The people of North Carolina will
stand by Cam Morrison, the man of good
faith, of matchless integrity, and the
courage to speak out in defense of his
State and the Democratic party.
This newspaper was for Morrison
when he was defeated by the champion
of the unthinking mob of the Thirties,
who crazed by national disaster, discour
aged by the hungry and despairing
times, desperate from the universal
chaos that threatened, voted by an
enormous majority for a parody on
statesmanship, a joke, a clown, against
a dignified tried representative.
You can fool all North Carolinians
part of the time, you can fool a few
North Carolinians all the time, but you
can't fool all North Carolinians all the
time. Burlesque has had its day.
The Hon. Clyde Hoey is an able, highly
cultured Christian gentleman, a fine
Sunday School teacher, a suave and pa
lavering politician. He was the speak
ingest governor we ever had. But the
people are tired of so much speaking
and palavering and suavity. They want
more guts and steel. They are certainly
fed up on hereditary ownership of State
honors and the roar of the Shelby dyn
asty. The Gardner - Hoey monotony
should be allowed a rest
f.tokes county has her memories.
Szokes county went down the line for
Clyde Hoey as probably no other county
in North Carolina did. The Governor
himself acknowledged that Stokes coun
ts incidents killed Dr. Mac Donald.
But when Stokes county panted
*' she didn't got it. Instead the stood off
Volume 72
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, Nov. 25, 1943 __ ..
Seasonal Warning
She was very beautiful.
She was of the svelte type, that species
which makes the world go round and
round, and the heart go pound and
pound and pound.
He loved her, he adored her, he idolized
her, in fact the people said, we quote:
"He was a damned fool about her."
She resembled Sappho, he said, being
blithe and lithe and lissome, and also
light.
She had an undulating sinuosity about
her which drives many people to a sad
end in an insane asylum.
When she walked she swayed swan
like and swank-like, and shank-like.
She seemed to be hunching something
with her shoulders.
She had lovely talons whose varnish
harmonized with the color of the nail on
her great toe, which peeped so cutely
from an aperture in her sandal.
The affair went on this way till fall.
There were parties. She never got quite
as drunk as some of the others. He was
very proud of this. It showed poise.
She cussed beautifully. This made her,
he purred, so interesting. While she
may have been what you call rapid, she
was never vapid. She was at these times
very full—of verve and sugared virility.
His love deepened and widened until it
threatened to surge out of the levees of
his ideological system, until late one
evening at a dinner he watched her eat
ing her possum, and saw the grease run
ning out the corners of her mouth.
After that he seemed to lose zest. Glam
our, enchantment, allure and charm
went off somewhere and sat down to
gether on a log, gazing up into the No
vember night with a faraway look in
their eyes.
like a poor relation. We asked
i'ox'a lish but we got a stone. Stokes
cuuiity never had a chance like other
counties in the battle for roads. We saw
a chance to get a showing in roads, we
wuiiced a road from Meadows to Ger
manton, from King via Capella to Dan
bury, fiuiii Danbury v;. Sandy Ridge to
Madison, to give u, a ~~unty-seat, by
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EDITORIALS
PUBLISHED THURSDAYS
Thanksgiving
A hog: eating acorns under a large oak,
never looked up to see where the food
was coming from.
It is a mighty low order of human be
ing who does not look up with thanks to
day to see and be profoundly grateful
for the blessings that are ours in th i s
terrible time of blood and tears, when
nearly all countries of the earth are the
scenes of battle, except America.
Never before possibly in our fair
Southland have crops been more abund
ant or prices for them higher. As th-3
. farmer basks in the sunshine of this
wondrous prosperity, he may look
around him and see a people who are
able to buy. Labor is enjoying remark
able success, too, and good fortune. Ev
eryone whether the small or large busi
ness man is reaping line returns on his
efforts and investments. While taxes
are of course unprecedentedly high, on
account of the war expenses, yet the net
profit is great, and helps to make up the
150-billion income of the nation.
But above all things, we should be
thankful that we are citizens of so great
and glorious a country that is able to
stand the shock of war and to defeat—
as we certainly shall defeat —our ene
mies. That we are in the enjoyment of
life, health, the pursuit of happiness,
and that the principles of freedom and
the right to live in our own way stand
firm as the rock of Gibralter. Freedom
of the Press, Freedom of Worship, Free
dom of Speech, and the unshakable
rights of the poor man as well as the
rich, shining examples of our liberty
which shall never be overthrown.
Unfortunate Affair
The report about Gen. Patton striking
and cursing a wounded soldier in a Sici
lian hospital, is distressing, and greatly
to be regretted. One report is that the
General apologized after being severely
called down by the general in chief,
Eisenhower. Another version is that he
has never been reprimanded, and has
not apologized.
If the story is time that the General
compoiiod himself in such a disgraceful
way, he is possibly crazy, or suffering
mental dislocation from shell shock or
from the strain incident to the terrific
experiences through which he and the
armies have been passing. However, if
he just went off his balance through un
governable temper and irritable temp
erament, he should certainly be suspend
ed from the honorable position which he
is holding.
T: is h.->r£ President lrmsplf and
O *-«]] have proper investigation
made o-f this exceedingly regrettable
episode
* * * Number 3,729.