THE DANBURY REPORTEK\
Established 1572.
Don't Let North Carolina Down
The following item from our King,
Stokes c-untv. correspondent E. P. New
sum. in the issue of the Reporter,
sounds ominous:
"The doctors in this section are beincr
run to death and cannot begin to see all
the sick folks who place cnlis. Every
body should read Mr. T. M. Gordon's let
ter in last week's Reporter and try to
start some kind of a move that wiM hi ing
about some relief."
The alavming statement rec
ently in tho Renoi*ter showing that there
is great difficulty for manv of the poorer
classes to get medical treatment or hos
pitalization, even in emereencv cases,
while the county only one doctor to
each four or five thousand of our popu
lation. has caused widespread comment
and serious consideration.
A few weeks ago a lady of this county
was stricken and was carried to an ad
joining county hospital. After lying on
a cot in a cold hall for an hour or two af
ter arrival at the hospital, she was final
ly placed in a bed, but died several hours
later. Possibly if she had received
prompt and adequate attention she
would be living today.
It is now difficult to get emergency
cases into hospitals, while for chronic
sufferers there is not much relief except
the kindly stupor of death. There are
men and women dying because of the
lack of proper medicine, medical attend
ance and surgery.
Governor Cherry has the opportunity
of his career to come to the aid of the
sick and the afflicted and the suffering
unfortunates of the State.
His predecessor Governor Broughton
blazed the way for this relief by ap
pointing an able and outstanding com
mittee composed of many of the most
eminent leaders of thought and patrio
tism in the State, with Clarence Poe
chairman The committee has acted,
made recommendations, created the pro
gram for a gigantic agenda of relief.
It is now up to the Governor and the
General Assembly to carry out this pro
gram which is just as urgent as the pro
gram for education, good roads, or farm
ing.
Good roads, schools, better farming
and balanced budgets are insignificant
when compared with one's dying without
adequate medical help. Is not this so?
In times of great emergencies like wo
have in this time of war, we need he-men
at the head of public affairs, men with
foresight, broad grasp, and courage
men like Andrew Jackson, Theodore
Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt.
The people are demanding the relief.
The sick are suffering and dying. The
State's credit is good. If the budget will
not stand the expense of the Hospital
and Medical Care bill —
To hell with the budget.
Volume 72
Editorial Comment
Danbury, N. C, Thursday, March S, 1945. * *
The Watch On the Rhine
Several United States and British
armies have arrived at the Rhine, the
last great barrier before the vital cen-
of Germany.
Stupendous and invincible power pois
ed for the kill.
The crossing of this great river will
cost men, but it will be crossed. It is
some 400 yards wide, and 50. feet deep.
The Allies know how to cross it, and
General Eisenhour has said "we will
cross." One great military personage
says it will be almost like a naval under
taking, but no power on earth will keep
America, England, Canada and France
on its west side long.
The great city of Cologne has been
captured by the Americans. Cologne
lies on each side of the river. Bigger
part on the east side. But the Americans
report white flags already flying from
many buildings on the ?ast side, a token
of surrender of the civil population.
The news comes that the Russians
have begun their gigantic assault on the
front before Berlin, only 30 miles away.
Great news will come from the German
war soon.
One of the captured German generals
says it may last five months longer. Not
many people believe the end that far off.
The German said "we are fighting with
out gas."
Spring
Now has arrived the season of the as
phodels, the jonquil, the fluer-de-lis—
the sweet things that have been asleep
in the earth and have come back to make
us happy.
After the long, beastly, heinous win
ter, everybody with the heydey still in
the blood will welcome the fair lady
called Spring comin' around the moun
tain. It is like a drink of fine wine.
She brings with her softened airs and
sunshine, and her breath is of the sweet
south.
There will be a lot of rain yet, and cold
swishing winds that will whip the rose
bushes and drive us back to the fireside.
But it will not be long till we see a big
bumble bee standing still in the air above
the path, inviting us to hit him with a
stick.
And the blacksnake will crawl up on
the brushpile to thaw out his hide, while
in the meadow the bulfrogs will chant.
And then will come the bluebirds and
the humming bird with his invisible »'ilk
en wings, sucking the honeysuckle; ai d
at night the chatter of the whipnorwill
from the moonlit hedges.
Then to hie away to the mountain in
the evenings to picnic, frying chickens
and eating devilish eggs, and listening
to the croon of smiling water slipping
through the laurel.
PUBLISHED THURSDAYS
The Red Cross
Last night over the radio we heard a
boy, wounded seriously, talking- to his
mother seven thousand miles away.
He was one of the boys arriving from
the tragic scene at Iwo Jima, and was in
a hospital at Pearl Harbor. Helping
him at the microphone was a Red Cross
nurse, who tenderly consoled him and
encouraged him.
And yet we hear of men holding high
positions in business or office and in
f armi n g who will not give to
the Red Cross,or at least will give only
a pittance.
One who has two boys in the war, and
if the Japs or Germans should capture
one of them, the only way in God's worid
by which the father could communicate?
with his boy would be through the Red
Cross.
The Red Cross is the world's greatest
organization for the relief of suffering.
Its tender ministrations of mercy and
sympathy and material assistance may
be fount! wherever there is death, sick
ness or suffering.
There is shame for the man who will
not give to the Red Cross, but for the f.»-
ther who has boys in the war and is too
tight, contrary or ignorant to contribute
to this great organization, there can be
nothing but pity or contempt.
Leaving Town
Danbury will be dry as a Sahara sand
dune by July.
At least so far as Messrs. Budweiser,
Sehlitz and company are concerned.
These undignified dignitaries have
been declared personae non grata by
the citizenry signing a scroll which must
effectively siphon the sizz definitely out.
Just as was set forth in these columns
some weeks ago, those who love beer
best are always those who make it scarce
and hard to obtain.
The loud-mouthed blatherskite, the
nit-wit. the nincompoop go haywire
when the amber flows into their anato
mies. They rip, cuss, dance and shout
with one small bottle.
Their furor then of course gets the la
dies aroused.
The moral of this piece is—if you are
fattening on a nefarious traffic, don't
wake the women.
Wallace Can Take It
\\ allace accepts the Commerce secre
taryship with its lending power stripped.
I he Haters are quite satisfied now, have
vented their spite—not at Wallace, but
the President. Wallace is willing to be
fodder long as he can't be corn.
The Senate has confirmed the appoint
ment of Vinson to be the federal loan
administrator.
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