THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872
Waiting
The story is told that the late Senator
Hoar disliked profanity very much, and
that frequently he had to confer with
Speaker Canncn who was very profane.
One day when Cannon came to Hoar's
committee room on a subject of consid
erable importance. Hoar, impatient, in
dicated a seat to Cannon and remarked:
"Now, sir, before we enter on a discus
sion of this"question we shall assume
that everybody and everything- is damn
ed. Then we can talk it over amicably.''
In his Lincoln Day speech Gov. Brick
er, following the precedent of Candi
dates Willkie, Taft, Dewey, etc., excori
ated the New Deal, but did not offer any
thing palliative except that the Repub
lican party can do it so much better.
Are all speeches by would-be-Republi
can Presicfcate* destructive? Are none
constructive?
We have been told over and over again
of the evils of the New Deal.
What shall we the people expect from
a recrudescence of the Old Deal?
Let us assume that Roosevelt and all
his works are damned.
Now tell us the salvation that we may
anticipate with the advent of either one
of the Big Four trying to seize the helm.
On the particulars of such happy re
juvenation all the Candidates are silent
as Lincoln's tomb.
The Great Success of the War Loan
Campaign
A letter from Chairman C. E. Davis
says Stokes county sold up to February
12 $201,000 in war bonds of all series.
The county's quota was SIOO,OOO.
Up to February 15 Stokes was the first
county in the State to exceed its quota.
Only seven of the 100 counties in the
State have as yet gone over their E bond
allotment.
All E bonds purchased up to February
29 will be counted in the drive.
If you ; being financially able, bought
no bonds you will refrain from the ela
tion which is now being felt by those
who not only demonstrated their patriot
ism but showed good investment judg
ment.
You are in the position of those who
are friends to Hitler and Hirohito. The
effect of your attitude is sabotage.
Your government says to you "I was
hungry and ye gave me no meat".
And what does the sick .boy a prisoner
in a Jap camp, say to you?
Volume 72
Editorial Comment
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, Feb. 17,1944
The Rat Whines
The news is leaking through that the
Japanese are beginning to sense their
doom, and are floating peace feelers.
They hope that Russia may intercede
and that some favorable peace terms
may be arranged.
The Russians may be many things else,
but they are certainly not fools. They
must remember Vladivostok, etc.
It is fine unction to outraged America
to hear the rats whine.
No peace should ever be made with
Japan until our terrible and invincible
air and sea power have had time to raze
this unspeakable country from the map
as a war power. Nor until the crime of
Pearl Harbor and the horrors of Bataan
and Corregidor and the Philippines are
avenged by the execution of the leaders
of the rat empire.
Any overtures from Japan should of
course be ignored. Any consideration
shown her would be as silly on the part
of our statesmen as was the suicide of
our billion dollar navy in 1920.
Pulverizing Hun Breastworks
• -
The beautiful Benedictine Monastery
in Italy, built in the 15th century, a land
mark in that Catholic land of charming
architecture, imposing monuments, stat
uary, paintings, rain, mud, treachery
and bad faith, is now a pile of stones and
Hun corpses.
• It was being used as a fortress behind
which Hun rifles mowed down many
United States soldiers.
Then the Flying Fortresses came roar
ing over. After them the sth army's ar
tillery finished the job.
The only criticism that can be offered
the Americans is that they should have
smashed the the thing sooner.
It was not worth the blood of one fine
boy from Stokes county.
Bricks By Bricker
Gov. Bricker in his Lincoln Day speech
of course referred to the great national
debt. He laid it cold and deadly at the
foot of Roosevelt.
Then 'long comes Dorothy Thompson,
good in figures and history. Says she:
"Governor Bricker ignores the fact
that the increase of State debt started
out of a depression. He sees the debts,
but he does not calculate the losses dur -
ing a decade from idle plants and men.
The most conservative estimate of such
losses is $250,000,000,000, which is SBO,-
000,000,000 more than the national debt
including the cost of war to date."
PUBLISHED THURSDAYS
Looks Good For Tobacco
The Virginia - Carolina Old Belt Ware
housemen's Association is urging- the
farmers of the Old Belt to take full ad
vantage of the U. S. government's per
mission for a 20 per cent, increase in to
bacco acreage for 1944.
The farmers of Stokes will need no
urging to increase their tobacco crops
this year insofar as the scarcity of labor
and other war conditions will permit.
The consumption of cigarettes and
other tobacco products by both armed
forces and civilians is at an all - time
high. And the result is that the raw ma
terial in the hands of the manufacturers
is at an all-time low.
Consequently, swayed by the immut
able law of supply and demand, tobacco
pr ;es next fall will surely be unprece
dentedly high.
The farmer should of course first en
deavor to grow ample supplies of food
for man and beast. It might come about
that money could not buy food. No one
can foretell the seasons ahead.
But after taking the precaution for
food, then go in for all the tobacco the
law will allow.
Prices will certainly soar.
Snow
The thing the farmers call good for
wheat fell Sunday night, and lay white
on the ground awhile. Then disappear
ed.
How happy for our beloved country
that our snows are white and not stained
with the blood of men.
Let us keep our snows forever white
with our devotion to the flag that we all
love and which our boys are so nobly de
fending now.
Buy bonds always.
New Bus Facilit'es
The State Utilities Commission
granted Powell Gilmer's franchise for a
line running from Mt. Airy via West
field, Francisco, Danbury. Walnut Cove,
and Stokesdale to Greensboro.
This line will be welcome to many'peo
ple through the territories to be travers
ed —from Greensboro to ML Airy a- d
back.
It should also provide better ma" serv
ice from Danbury .through Francise.)
and western Stokes, now so neglected
by the postoffice authorities that a lot::r
or newspaper takes 2 days to ! 1 s
destination 10 miles distant.
Number 3,739.