Have Vou Bought An EXTRA War Bond?
THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872
What's the Matter With Stokes? —She's
Alright
Somebody said it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle replied,
"Maybe it couldn't, but he would be one
Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried."
So he buckled right in wifh the trace of a grin
On his face— if he worried he hid it —
He started to sir.g as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done—and he did it.
It is reasonably certain that Stokes has
led the counties of North Carolina in the
war bond campaign.
The exact figures are not yet available
and there are yet several days to go, and
many more bonds will yet be sold, but
even at this time it looks like a 300 per
cent, killing.
The response was enthusiastic in every
neighborhood of the county.
The Danbury Reporter offers congrat
ulations to the bond buyers, first for
their magnificient patriotism and, sec
ond, for their correct judgment in select
ing the world's best and safest security
for their investment.
In the days to come when the war is
over the Stokes bond buyers will reflect
happily that they so loyally came to their
country's help in the hour of greatest
need. And at the same time they will
feel a pride in the material competence
which they established for themselves.
But we would not for a moment forget
to extend felicitations to the personnel
that made the campaign such a success,
Chairman C. E. Davis, the school princi
pals, the postmasters, the bankers, and
all other people and agencies which put
the thing across so gorgeously.
Charming- Visitor Coming
To everybody except people who love
cold weather and those perverse folks
who feel better when they are wet, the
coming- of Miss Springtime will be a
happy event.
And it is not so long now. February,
generally regarded as the most villian
ous month of the year, is one-third g-one.
Frogs have croaked in the meadow,
hyacinths are ready to spring- out of
sunny places, and bluebirds are on the
wing.
And when she comes around the moun
tain she will be welcomed with the music
of the laughing- waters in the dells, the
incense of the wild flowers waking* in
the woods, and smiles from all who have
known her before.
Volume 72
Editorial Comment
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, Feb. 10, 1944
Walter Mabe and the"Artful Dodgers
The story is .told by a fellow named
Charles Dickens of a scamp who was so
slick in his tricks they never could catch
him, but when he died they put this on
his tombstone:
"Here lies old Dodge, who dodged all
good and dodged a sight of evil, but aft
er dodging all he could, he couldn't
dodge the devil."
The F. 8.1, has been compared to the
devil. It always gets its man though the
trail may perambulate to the earth's
end.
But what we started out to write
was about a sensation in northern Stokes
this week when Walter Mabe, a substan
tial and aged farmer was carried off to
Greensboro and put under a $5,000 bond
charged with throwing monkey wrenches
in the machine of war by harboring
two draft dodgers and a deserter.
It appears that Jeoffrey Mabe, a son of
old man Walter, and two sons of George
Smith of Lawsonville, are draftees who
have deserted their duties in the army.
They have been on the scout for a good
long time, during which old man Walter
has given them quarter at his place,
shielding them and aiding and abetting
them in their refusal to obey their war
duties.
Suddenly four F. 8.1, men, accompan
ied by four deputy U. S. marshalls and
three State officers of Stokes county, to
wit Deputy Sheriffs Burke Smith and
Carl Ray and Highway Patrolman John
Dellinger, swooped down like wolves on
the fold.
The dodgers fled but John Dellinger
got one, Arthur D. Smith, who is now in
jail at Danbury.
The other two escaped.
The officers had procured a warrant
for old man Mabe who was arrested. He
appeared to be in the money and at
Greensboro slapped down a cash bond of
$5,000 for his appearance at Federal
Court in Winston Friday.
It is generally talked that Mr. Mabe,
the father who planked down the 5,000
bucks, is in a No. 1 fix, and some even go
so far as to say that it would be' easier)
for a citizen of Campbell to go through'
the eye of a needle than for him to even
contact that roll again. It is a well
known fact that federal jurisdictions
dearly love hot rolls.
PUBLISHED THLRSTUYS
Inflation means the rise in prices.
In the American Civil War of the 60's
it took $500.00 to pay for shoeing a horse.
All commodities became so high that the
people suffered for food and clothing.
That was inflation.
In the World War No. 1 the German
mark became absolutely worthless,
while every commodity soared to impos
sible prices. The inflation that took
place was appalling. That was one main
reason why Germany lost.
Suppose that now nobody bought
bonds—nobody loaned his government
the money to win.
There would only be two other ways to
get the cash for armaments, planes and
food-
Taxes and the printing presses.
But if the government laid on sufficient
taxes to crush the people, that wouldn't
be nearly enough.
Then the printing presses would hum
and money by the billions would soon be
rolled out, only to be so cheap that you
couldn't buy a pair of shoes for SIOO.OO
or a pound of sugar for $25.00.
There would be your inflation.
And worst of all, we would probably be
defeated in the war.
If you have bought no bonds when you
were well able to do so, you are guilty of
an appalling inflation.
If everybody were like you we would
suffer consequences which make the
imagination shiver.
The Bog In Italy
There is nobody who questions for one
moment the bravery, the heroism, the
efficiency of our American soldiers now
fighting the Germans in Italy.
But there is beginning to be serious
criticism of the high command in charge
of the destinies of our boys.
diive to take Rome seems to have
bogged. We have absolute control oi
the air, absolute control of the ocean
and ample equipment.
Recently a second army was thrown in
behind the enemy, but even this acquis
ition of power appears to have small e +- -
tect. Ihe progress is very slow, r.nd
danger is expressed of our forces boinsr
hurled back into the sea.
Is the high command faulty ir its strat
egy? What is the matter?
Is the generalship inferior to the Ger
man staff?
Number 3,738.
Inflation