Mr atauga Democrat
Independent Weekly Newspaper
published in 1888 and Published
for 45 years by the late
Robert C. Rivers, Sr.
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basis of our government being the
?Ota Ion ot the people, the very first ob
ject should be to keep that
right, and were It left to
me to decide whether we
should have a government
without newspapers. or
newspapers without gov
ernment. I should not hesi
tate a moment to choose the
latter. But I should mean
that every mai should re
ceive these papers end be
capable of reading them."
1 ?Thomas Jefferson.
THURSDAY, NOV. 22, 1945
To Hw People
of thii Community
Ttka a tip from your favorite re
tail merchant. His Chrttmaa count
Ma art stocked for tba first ttroa
IMS with commodities yoa
dreamed about
in the darkness
of war. And
yet ha and his
employees will
go the limit to
day in telling
you for your
own good to
buy "something
else" first.
A a a war
win thrifty American you need not
be told that the name of this prod
uct ti Victory Bond, that It can
never be worth less than Jou pay for
it, that It will return 14 for every 13
Invested When held to maturity 10
years Tieooe, that it is your personal
servant at the same time It is serv
ing your country's current needs,
that it will assure you not only a
merry Christmas this year but help
to make Christmas merry In the
rears to come. Tour merchant
knows a great product. That's why
ha Is putting every effort to stuff
the Christmas stockings of this com
munity with extra Victory Bonds.
THE EDITOR
ACKNOWLEDGING A
LETTER
Once a year the Watauga Tuber
culosis Association appeals to resi
Iejktl i of this community to help fi
ance its work through the purchase
(ft Christmas Seals, its sole means of
gupport,
j Buying these Seals is a painless
ttiethod of assisting a worthy cause.
Most of us welcome the letter which
arrives in November with sheets of
the seals and we are proud to use
these seals on our holiday mail. *
But some of us are careless We
mean well ? but we forget to ack
nowledge receipt of the seals by
sending a check in payment for
them. Good intentions are not
enough to keep the organized fight
against tuberculosis going. If the
association is to continue its work,
it must have funds. And if it is to
have funds, then we must answer
that letter and answer it with a
check.
THE CLOUDS HAVE LIFTED
During the war we were able to
find a lot of things to be thankful
for on Thanksgiving Day. We were
(hankful that our country was not
Suffering as were other countries of
{he world.
s In most homes our thankfulness
pver such physical comforts was
Overshadowed by our fear for loved
Ones overseas, our extreme consci
ousness of the empty chair at the
Thanksgiving dinner table, and our
{iread of what the future might
bring.
J Thin year we can celebrate
^Thanksgiving with real sincerity.
Even those families who still have
Bons and daughters in faraway
places can thank God that the shoot
ing is over ? that their loved ones,
if hot already home, will be home
poon.
The clouds that have darkened
our Thanksgiving celebrations have
disappeared. This is the Thanks
giving we've been waiting for.
GMC EMPLOYEES GO ON
STRIKE WEDNESDAY
Detroit, Nov. 20 ? Authoritative
sources close to high ranking offi
cers of the United Auto Workers
said tonight that a general strike of
325,000 General Motors corporation
employees is to begin at 11 a. m.
Wednesday.
The strategy of the union, it was
I learned, presumably would be ' to
make no announcement in advance
of the actual walkouts but an offi
cial statement would be issued once
the strike was "in effect."
The most abundant foods in De
cember will be turkeys, chickens,
carrots, cabbage and wnite potatoes.
"We Have a Solemn Duty..."
TO OUR WOUNDED. ? The Victory Loan affords the people of a (ritcfu
Ballon an opportunity to show by action their thankfulness to oar disabled
soldiers. It is this Victory Loan which shall help to make it possible to hospt
talixe and rehabilitate them, so that they may take again their rightful placet
In society. We cannot fail? ?a must not (ail ibess heroes of out.
THE EVERYDAY
COUASELLOR
Rev. HERBERT SPAUGH, D. D.
"Wherefore they are no more
twain but one flesh. What therefore
God hath joined together, let not
man put asunder." Thus the Bible
describes a true marriage, made and
blessed of God. Sadly, we must ad
mit that not all marriages are bless
ed of God. It is difficult to believe
that a hasty marriage performed by
some civil official under the sudden
impulse of emotion has the blessing
of God. Such marriages are not
often enduring.
In a true marriage which results
in the birth of a child, the two be
come one flesh in the new life of
the child, but there is more than
that. There is the death of two
selfish attitudes. The one seeks the
desire of the other. Instead of two
desires there becomes mutual de
sire.
There is no place for selfishness in
a happy marriage. I come back to
an old theme of mine ? there can be
no truly happy marriage without
God in the center.
Looking over the many cases of
domestic unhappiness which have
come to my study, I can recall none
in which selfish desires of one or
both have not been predominant.
Even where there are children in
the home, their welfare is forgotten
in the clashing of selfish personali
ties.
A man and a woman who are uni
ted in holy wedlock, "for better or
worse," can live together in hap
piness and without friction if they
have a will to do so. A man or
woman who wants to continue to
live his own life without due re
gard for the other, should remain
single.
Marriage is a serious business. If
it is entered into with the blessing
of God and the church, it is a holy
contract, "not to be entered into
lightly or unadvisedly." The hope
of a peaceful world depends upon
peaceful homes.
A marriage promotes the merging
of two physical beings, it must pro
mote the merging of two personali
ties, so that the twain become one
in body, mind and spirit Only in
this way can true happiness be found
in marriage.
My "Ten Commandments for a
Happy Marriage" will be sent upon
request and a self-addressed stamp
ed envelope. These rules in form
suitable for framing will be sent
upon receipt of ten cents and post
age.
CHERRY URGES CITIZENS
TO BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS
Governor Cherry has called upon
the citizens of this state to buy and
use Christmas seals during the
weeks between Nov. 19 and Christ
mas, "to help make possible the
complete eradication of tuberculosis
in North Carolina."
The North Carolina Tuberculosis
Association, which is conducting its
annual seal sale between Nov. 19
and Dec. 25, uses 95 percent of the
seal funds for a North Carolina
health program. Cherry said.
Tuberculosis as a communicable
disease took 57,000 lives in America
last year, the governor 3aid, and
may possibly increase in North
Carolina as it has already in Eu
rope. He added that the people of
North Carolina can help to prevent
such a situation by supporting this
39th annual Christmas seal sale,
which, he said, makes possible a
health program designed to protect
North Carolina from the spread of
this public enemy.
The GI soon learned to use ele
phants as skillfully as natives in the
China-Burma-India area.
Soldiers May Reinlist
Within 20 Days and
Retain Their Benefits
Lt. John L. Lindsay, commanding
officer of the U. S. army recruiting
sub-station, Lenoir, calls special at
tention to the fact that veterans be
ing discharged have but 20 days aft
er their discharge to enlist in the
regular army and retain their bene
fits due them. He urged strongly
that all veterans think seriously of
the offered advantages before too
late to complete enlistment.
After 20 days, he pointeu out, a
veterans loses full benefits of the
opportunities offered.
For the benefit of those when just
discharged, and who must make an
immediate decision, Lt Lindsay re
viewed the main provisions of recent
regulations:
1. Enlistments for one and a half,
two or three years are now autho
rized!
2. Men re-enlisting retain their
present grades, if they re-enlist
within 20 days.
3. Up to 90 days' furlough, de
pending on length of service, with
furlough paid to home and return.
4. An increase in the re-enlistment
bonus to $50 for each year of active
service since bonus was last paid,
or since last entry into service.
5. Option to retire at half pay
after 20 years' service ? or three
quarters' service. All previous ac
tive federal military ervice counts
toward retirement.
6. Family allowance for the term
of enlistment for dependents of men
who enlist or re-enlist before Julv
1. 1946.
7. Choice of branch of service and
overseas theatre in the air, ground
or service forces on three year en
listments. *
The recruiting sub-station in Le
noir is located in the postoffice
building, open from 8 a. m. until 5
p. m. every day except Sunday, and
has a staff of trained personnel to
answer any questions you have.
MORE FRUITS
FOR CHRISTMAS
An examination of prospects for
fruit for the Christmas holidays was
made recently by workers in the
federal-state crop reporting service
of the N. C. department of agricul
ture, and they came up with the as
sertion that raisins will be more
plentiful than last year, and so will
oranges, tangerines, grapes and
pears. However, apples will be
short.
The apple crop this years is only
about half of the 1944 harvest, and
is considerably less than the 1934-43
average.
In North Carolina, the commercial
apple crop was 1,782,000 bushels last
season, but is only 252.000 this year.
The state of Washington, leader in
apple production, has a crop only a
little smaller than in 1944, but in
New York production is only 2,160,
000 bushels as contrasted with 17,
010,000 bushels last season.
The early orange crop is seven per
cent larger than last year, and the
grape crop is somewhat larger. Al
though North Carolina leads all
Southern states except Arkansas in
the production of grapes, it depends
almost wholly on California for its
Christmas supply.
The army has built stills to re
claim cleaning fluid with only a 10
| percent loss.
In China, more than 500 years
ago, a treatise on carbon black
manufacture was published.
PIE SUPPEH
A pie supper and food sale will
be held at the Valle Crucis public
school on Saturday night, Nov. 24
at 7 o'clock.
TODAY and
TOMORROW
I By DON ROBINSON
CABS 254,000.000
Approximately 8,000,000 automo
biles, or about 20 percent of our 1941
automobile population, died during
the war.
The other 23,000,000 to 24,000,
000 cars which we now have have
practically all passed their prime,
since there are very few of them
that are less than four years old.
In general, the life of an automo
bile is about one-tenth the life of a
person. A car is in its prime for
the first three years, just as a man
is until he is thirty. It begins to get
creaky at the joints when it is four
to five years old and by the time
it is eight or nine it has so rrtany
complaints that it spends most of its
time in the hands of car doctors.
On the oasu- ot ten years being
the average life span of an auto
mobile, it will be necessary, in or
der to return to normal, to replace
all of the cars in existence today,
plus those which have become cas
ualties, within the next six years.
That calls for production of at
least 5,000,000 cars a year for six
years ? which is more cars than have
ever been produced in a year be
fore.
This brief picture of the automo
bile situation should make it clear
that it is going to be a long time
before our automobile population
reaches the almost 30,000,000 popula
tion of 1941.
NECESSITY workan
It took a war to make us realize
how dependent we have become up
on automobiles ? although data on
the subject should have made it evi
dent before the war that our econo
my would fall to pieces if we didn't
keep 20,000,000 automobiles in work
ing order.
Spurred by the war problem,
however, the data was all gathered
together and these facts were un
earthed: seven out of ten people
who work use a car to get to their
places of employment; 13,000,000
people living in suburbs have no
means of transportation available
to them other than their automo
biles; about 75 percent of factory
worjters depend on automobiles to
get to work; practically all farmers
would be severely handicapped if
they didn't have an automobile; and
millions of women are entirely de
pendent on automobiles for shop
ping.
OWNERSHIP poor
That the people themselves con
sider an automobile a necessity of
almost as much importance as hav
ing a roof over their heads, is borne
out by figures on car ownership by
income groups.
A study by the department of ag
riculture showed that in the $2,500
to $3,000 income group the money
spent on automobiles was the sec
ond biggest expense in the family
budget. First came food, for which
a family in that income bracket
spends an average of $571, and sec
ond was the cost of purchase and
upkeep of the family car ? an aver
age cost of $334 per year These
same families spent only $194 for
housing.
We might argue that the family
The Right Spirit Black
of small income shouldn't purchase
a car ? that it uses up money that
should be used for better living.
But it's too late for that argument
now. Installment sales before the
war, plus low prices on used cars,
made us a nation on wheels and
?
we can't change that without gi
gantic revisions in our whole pat
tern of living. The only answer
now is to make it possible for all
of the people who owned cars be
fore to be able to get them replaced
in the shortest possible time.
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