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80I9CRIPTI0N RATES: Year $1.50 SiK KqhAa 75 Pom- MmOu 60 Oat of the State $2.00 per Year •t the peat iMce at Nortli Wilkea- aa M ' ' 18T*. haro^^I^i^ aa Meoad daaa matter aader Act MONDAY, JAN. 23, 1939 Democracy The principles of Democracy — Ameri can Democracy—have been demonstrated in the clearest terms within the past few days in Washin^on dn committee (hear ings on presidential appointment.-i to his Cabinet. Felix Frankfurter, the Harvard law professor wl^o was appointed to the United States supreme couirt by the Pres ident, declared the fundamentals of de mocracy, which should be sounded into every comer of this nation. In genuinely satisfying answers to questions Frankfurter declared: “Civil liberty means civil liberty for those we do not like as well as for thjose whom we do like.” That principle, he said, applies to all whether Ku Klux Klan, Communists, Nazis, anti-Nazis, or any thing else. “All,,’ he added, ‘‘must ,be protected whther we believe in their prin ciples or not”. That 'declaration contains the jfessence of democracy. Upon th? adherence to that doctrine democracy must rise or must fall. There is no middle ground. It is either all the way or none of the way. Demjocracy includes the faith that a people intelligent enough to chart their government through their representatives is intelligent enough to select those doc trines which protect their own rights and the rights of their fellow men and reject any doctriHe which would threaten such rights. That is a primarj- assumption of democracy. If it is false, democracy can not endure. If it is true a democratic peo ple must adhere to that doctrine closely or else lose it. We must be consistent if we are to preserve democracy. We can not preach it without practicing it if we would preserve it. Democracy is for intelligent people. For only intelligent people can hear the wild doctrines of the world proclaimed and out oif the maze of (onflicting claims choose tho.se which are right and apply them to all alike. It was that high intellect of Voltaire which summed up the whole of democra cy by that gem: “I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it". Freedom of The Press The Secretarj' of the Interior, Mr. Har old Ickes, took occa.sion in a public de bate the other day bo denounce the new.s- papers of the nation. He charged that the press is not free, but is controlled by adverti.sers and finan cial intere.sts. His allegations were refut ed by Mr. Frank Gannett, publisher of a number of daily newspapers, but Mr. Ickes’ charges, because of his official po sition, made th^ greater impre.ssion upon his hearers. Mr. Ickes ought to know better than to indulge in .such Ioo.se talk. He wa.s a newspaper man hini.self in his younger days. He should know, as everj- newspa per man knows, that the constitutional right of freedom of the press means that the press of the United States cannot le gally be prevented by giovernment from criticizing government. It is no concern of government whether a newspaper sells out to an advertiser or not. Thas has nothing to do with the principles of a free press. The publisher is free to do whatever he pleases. But every newspaper man knows that the freest newspapers are those which have the largest number of advertisers and so are under special obligations to none of them. The newspapers of the United States are not only freer but more truthful and 'courageous than those of any other nation in the world. : the King and Qoeem of l^D^ahid the United States, it is be hoped that they may be induced to extend their trip to include the Pacific Coast and the great International Exposition to be held in San Francisco, as well as the New York World’s Fair. Traveling from Atlantic to Pacific would show King George and Queen Eliz abeth, as nothing else could, the tremend ous sweep lof the country, the resources and the friendlinefs of the people of the United States. Commenting on their proposed visit. New York Times says editorially: “Their visit would symbolize in an unprecedent ed manner the friendship of the great EnglishispeaJcing peoples land (a century and a quarter of peace between them. To increase still further the good-will be tween this nation and the British com monwealth would limply no sort otf an al liance, but merely greater cooperation on the‘part of both countries in striving to build a world that may be dedicated to the ways of peace rather than the ways of war”. The Beneficiary Pays The fact that government is not a mys terious SaiAa Claus with things to give out without first collecting the money is best revealed by the proposal of W. Ken Scott, commissioner of agriculture, to in crease taxes on fertilizer and feeds to raise revenue to pay for a marketing pro gram. It is interesting and refreshing to note that’ no effort was made to try to tell the farmers that they will get something for nothing. The increase in feed and fertiliz er tax will mean a small increase in the amount the farmer pays for these necessi ties and he will be paying the bill. It wi’i be a good thing for the American people to learn that all government serv ices, from the most essential down to the relief handout, must be paid for. The cost o(f the services represents a part of the tax bill. A great amount of tax money is also spent for distribution and administration. Silence is often better than speech, but very often, a little talking clears the air. Borrowe«l Coannant pat ior in Europp^almoet -4iBjr numtii this ytifc The Religion Of Democracy (Shelby Daily Star) In his annual message to Qongress President Roosevelt took occasion to call the attention of the American people, and of the world which was listen'ng to him, to the essential and unchangeable differ ence between democracy and the totalita rian forms of government, whether those are called Communism, Faf?cism or Na.z- ism. That difference, reduced to the simplest terms in which the President expressed it, is that democracy alone of all of them is founded upon religion. If that is not in stantly clear, :onsider it for a moment. We who believe in religion believe that all men are equal in the sight of God and that every human soul is capable of rea son, of choice, of developing and perfect ing himself in the image of the Divine ideal. On that belief was our democracy founded, and in that belief it must persist, or it will perish. The philosophy of Communism is that man is the product of eq(onomic forces. The Nazi doctrine is that the only people enftled to exi.st in the state are those of a particular blood strain. Totally different is the democratic phil- o.sophy that every human being partakes in some measure of Divinity and that the goal of his life is rtot to live and labor and d’e under the lash of authority, but to .strive for self-perfection. In a society so organized on the demo cratic philosophy, the final authority is the moral principles based upon the Ten Com- '■mdments of Judaism and the Golden Rule in which Jesus summarized the law and the teaching of the prophets. As William Penn said, men must be governed by God or they will be governed by ty rants. Those are some of the implications of Mr. Roosevelt’s first message to the new Congress. It is no wonder that in nations such as Germany, Japan, Italy and Rus sia, where the exactly lopposite view rules, official spokesmen denounced his speech as significant of hostility to themselves. America', is not hostile to the people of any nation in the world. It is definitely hostile to the ideas and principles upon which many, nations are beii^ govenied t^ay; a&4the false prophets who have led j^ppla into eabea^nce. ; ' FIGVRB» sdcnce When I -was' a schoolboy we used to sing-song a bit of dogger el which expressed the average pupil’s feeling about arithmetic:. Multiplication is vexation, Division is as bad. The Rule of Three perplexes me And Fractions drive me mad. One has to have a natural tal ent for figures to be able to grasp their meaning and to undarstand their applications to the hundreds of fields of knowledge in which mathematical calculations are of first importance. All science in every field of knowledge is based upon mathe matics, “the mother of science.” From the astronomer who meas ures space in units so large that it takes a row of hundreds of figures to express them, to the physical chemist who measures a film of oil on the surface of the water in terms of a millionth of a millionth of an inch, everyone who seeks to learn the unreveal ed secrets of the universe must be a master of figures. BlTSIhTESS bookkec.iiing The most important thing in American life is Business, and the most important thing in bus iness is figures. The bigger the ibuslnees, the more essential are accurate figures. Business concerns not only have to keep accounts for their own information, hut the require ments of the Government for ac curate reports for all sorts of pur poses are constantly increasing. Tlie income tax laws have made America, as a witty commentator remarked, a nation of bookkeep ers. Now every corporation and operator of any sort of ibusiness enterprise has to keep and report to Uncle Sam accurate records of payrolls and the taxes paid on them under the Social Security Act. One of the largest industries in America is the manufacture of bookkeeping and accounting ma chines to put down on paper the countless millions of mathemati cal calculations required every day in the ordinary course of business. OPPOR'n'NITi' I demand For the boy or girl to whom arithmetic came easy in school, who has a real liking for figures, I know of no greater opportunity, or one which is growing larger all the time, than that offoicd in the field of business accounting. There Is more demand for peo ple to fill well-paid Joihs in the accounting department of busi ness than there are peoiple quali fied to fill them. At the bottom, where every body must begin, are the opera tors of bookkeeping machines, who get higher pay than the gen eral run of stenographers. At the top are the Certified Public Ac countants. It lakes years of hard work, and real love of rt, to reach the top in accountancy, but that is true of every occupation. One of my friends, who started life aa bookkeeper in an Iowa country store, worked twenty years before he reached the top. Now he earns forty or fifty thousand a year as a partner in a firm of certified public accountants. PROPESSJOX G-men Possibly the best-paid and the least crowded profession in the world is that of Certified Public .'Accountant. As the name implies, those who hold that title are the ones who have gained such proficiency that they are capable of examin ing and reporting on the financ es of any business or corporation, however large, and their services are available to whomever is w'illing to pay for them. A report by a Certified Public Accountant Is required by invest ors, Government bureaus, and in many other cases before author ity is granted to offer securities for sale, or banks will extend ma terial credit. No one can practice as a C.P.A. ■without a state certificate of ex perience, competence, character and responsibility. More than once in recent years Certified Public Accountants have disclosed irregularities in the ac counts and pracitces of business institutions which even, the com pany’s directorsi had not suspect ed. They are in a real sense pi^b- lic servants, a sort of “G-men’’ in the world of figures. EDI.’CATION work It does not take a college or university ducation to qualify anyone to practice as a Certified Puiblic Accountant. Most of those engaged in this honorable and lucrative profes sion began working at account-; Ing when they were quite young, and mastered their art by steady, hard work, sometimes sopple- mented by special evmilng sohopl classes or oorrespondenee conrsas. First' rats^aiMi ypara m tore thsr are abU to papa Oie School Ti of Steel About half of hind by Sm Ood taSMlnr to mur had MgS adwol or col- loo* balaloa. at tsalttf «*>r o«i fttrSi la HB. Steel for HoueehoU Goo^ Hit Peak ia 1937 Mora ftool wtol »*> I Be#atre frtim commoa ThatHcii^^ Tin Pbae Once a Secret Prodoet H* Mcral dt STdOKioc ia stali trat to' -d~- -X - J L MB Sol a* Omn «t Inaw tool a ipt Is ad oat Iwv R «oi Mdi. When Blast Furnaces v Were Feminioe Old*9ifne blost forooees ofUn ■and olter the wh^s or childran o^ Mm iron oioken. Thor* woro o«e« mn« loTMces in this country noMod Groce. noBied Fonoy, and fovr eoch colled Efn«o, E!(Zobcfh. Rebecco ond lecy. No matter bow maBy >mediflipai you have tried for youf cough. cold, (MT farondilai irrltatiOQryotf get rdlef now with Ci Serious trouble may be b: you cannot afford to take a with any remedy less poteol .ttiaa Creomulsion. which goes right to- the seat of the trouble and alila.mb-^ ture to soothe and heal the tnflaffled. mucous membranes and to looMti and expel the germ-laden pi' Even if otoer remedies have dont be duoouraged, try Cta Sion. Your druggist is authorised to refund your money if you are oob thoroughly satisfied with the bnio- flts obtained from the very,tat bottle. Creomulsion is one •mr6r-oet two, and It has no hyphen hi It. Ask for it plainly, see that the name on the bottle Is Oreomiilskm, and you’ll get the genuine product and the rmief you want. (AdvJ required for the C. P. A. certifi cate. I am told that in some states, notably Ohio and Pennsylvania and perhaps in others, there is a movement on foot to require every applicant for a -public ac countant’s certificate to have a full-time university degree. I can’t quite see the point of that. The young man who has a natural genius for figures cannot gain from any college course as much as he can by .spending the same time in actual work with figures in business) affairs. I think, too, such a require ment would be a handicap to many able accAuntants who have neither the time nor money in their early earning years to take a full college course. I believe in the value of all the education one can get, hut I be lieve even more strongly in the ancient American principle of placing no artificial barriers be tween youth end its opportuni ties. Any law which limits the right of the able and talented to do what they can do best seems un-American to me. With the proper key the heavi est door will swing wide open on its hinges. 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MftC: Sale Price ^ 0*J 1937 Chevrolet Town Sedan — One of the most beaut ful jobs Chevrolet ever built. Spick and span. WAS $585. Sale Price 1931 Chevrolet Coach—This car is in good condition every way. WAS $165. *125 1935 Chevrolet I'/z-Ton Truck- This job don’t look so hot, but pulls like an Ox. Awfully low at the price! WAS $195. $ 145 ‘545 Sale Price Sale Price 1936 Chevrolet To>vn Sedan — Black paint, good tires. An 0. K. used car. WAS $465. M9K Sale Price 1931 Chevrolet Coach — New li cense plate. Hole in one rear fender, otherwise fairly good. Priced too cheap! WAS $145. $ Sale Price 1937 Chevrolet I'/j-Ton Truck- Good tires, reconditioned, and ready to pay for itself—hauling. WAS $445. Sale Price 1936 Ford V-8 Coupe—An aw fully nke job for two. WAS 1395. *360 95 Sale Price
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