tMBiraNDWT Of POLITICS
jfwbHalwMt Moadajrt and Thurfdaya at
Nortk WakadMro» N. C.
O. i, CA1TB& nrf JULIUS C. HOBBABD
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$1.50
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76
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60
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bore, N. as secoad class nutter tmder Act
aJ March 4, 1879.
MONDAY, MAY 22, 19S9
Optimism In The South
. E>ver since the war between the states,
the economic problems of the South have
been the subject of much discussion, but,
until lately, very little action.
The late Henry W. Grady, fifty years
ago, began to preach the doctrine that
what the South needed was outside capital
to develop industries that would consume
its vast wealth of raw materials, instead
of depending upon agriculture alone.
Now the South is beginning to lose its
role of “America's most dificult problem.’’
One after another, great industries are
finding the South measuring up to their re
quirements of transportation, climate, stra
tegic location near markets, raw materials,
loT?: living costs and all the other requi
sites for soundly based manufacturing en
terprises.
Among the nationally known industries
which have expanded their production ro-
fiources by establishing new plants in the
South in the past few years are DuPont,
Eastman Kodak, Johnson & Johnson,
American Sugar, International Paper and
Pulp, B. F. Goodrich Company, and scores
of others.
Users of cotton find it more economical
|o locate their plants where the cotton
grows, which is the reason for the model
community of Silverton at Thomaston, Ga.,
where the Goodrich Company consumes
50,000 bales of cotton a year in tire manu
facturing, and is adding to that a mechan
ical rubber goods factory at Clarksville,
Tenn.
International Paper, Continental Con
tainer and other producers of wrapping
paper and corrugated board have built a
dozen mills throughout the South to make
paper from slash pine, the South's most
prolific natural crop. One of the largest
chemical industries in America, the New-
port-Armstrong Industries, makes artifi
cial camphor from pine stumps at Pensa
cola.
As a result of this recent industial ex
pansion. Southern banking facilitie. have
tripled, manufactures have doubled and
instlalled horsepower has quadrupled with
the past few years. The South is at last
entering upon the industrial era which
Grady foresaw fifty years ago.
New Road Problems
With the network of highways in the
state reaching a point where practically all
principal points are served by hardsurfac
ed highways, a new problem now con
fronts the highway commission.
In the state are many miles of narrow
pavement. A great part of the narrow
pavement is concrete only 16 feet in width
and much of that type of road is crooked.
To illustrate this we point out Highwa'-
421 from this city to Millers Creek as one
example.
Some vehicles a 'e half as wide as the
road and when two of that type meet it
necessarily means that a collision is nar
rowly averted. The difference between
safety and death is only inches and that is
too close for comfort.
This means that the utmost vigilance
must be exercised, even by drivers of stan
dard width automobiles, in order to avoid
collision. To say the least such vigilance
produces a strain upon the driver.
And if vigilance is ,k)nce relaxed, or if
something about the vehicle goes only
slightly wrong, the morgue may have a
' new occupant and the junk yard some ad
ditional wrecks.
Thus the state highway commission
finds a new problem, one of widening and
.i^vkion existing {routes ;as well as con-
_ Atruction of new highways.
It is a big problem. The Millers Creek
, highway, while being one of the worst in
.Ihe category of dangerous highways, is
1 mly,one of many such sections of high-
''’"■wmyit in the atete in desperate need of
-iridaiiBg or revision.
T\ibercul«r Clinic
puhis hai^ai$|n>ida,i8 rendering
valuahlt '^i^^rv^e ^ ;bpwati|^a^|^
clinic in Wiflw* eac)^ year.J^
vThis means that we services of a
trained and capable specialist,
with the most modem equipment, are
ed,at the dlspowTof the puhiic with^'
any few being charged. ...
Several clinics have been conducted and
while We do not have any statistics at'
hand, we can state positively that many
new cases have been found in the various
clinics. Some of the patients, although af
flicted with the disease in advanced form,
did not know they had the malady until
they were examined in the clinic. Others
were found to have the disease in its first
stage and were able to begin treatment] in
time to arrest the disease.
And in addition to these benefits, the
clinics have served as a reminder to the
people that they should be examined in or
der tio get hold of diseases before they
make too much headway and the cause is
hopeless. The clinics have helped to edu
cate the public to the fact that it is no
disgrace to have tuberculosis but that it is
tragic tio neglect it or be a principal in ifc-
spread.
The clinics have also been very helpful
in tuberculosis prevention. Those who
are found to have the disease are isolated
and great care is taken that they do not
give it to others. Members of the families,
nurses and other who must necessarily
come in contact with the patients, are
made to realize the importance of precau-|
tions to be exercises in order that they may
not contract the disease.
The clinics deserve to be supported.
Every person who has cause to believe that
he or she may have contracted tubercu
losis should make an appointment at once
and be examined before the clinic closes
this week.
Borrowed Comment
“COULD THEY MAKE THEIR
VOICES HEARD ...”
(Reidsville Review)
Nobody knows how many men lie buri-
i,d near the spot in Verdun where the
Duke of Windsor made his appeal for
peace.
It is certainly not less than 600,000. It
may be nearly a million.
These are the men to whom Windsor re
ferred when he said “ am deeply consci
ous of this great company of dead, and I
am convinced that could they make their
voices heard they would be with me ... ”
Their voices are heard no longer. Some
became silent in February of 1916, when
the German attack began. Each day, as
tihe attack swelled to its crescendo, more
and more men became silent, frequently as
many as 10.000 between sun and sun.
The supreme German assault did not
come until July, when the gray-green
waves swept down from the Douamount
ridge, across the ruins of what had been
the village of Fleury, to pile up in horrid
windrows against the inner girdle of forts.
The mud swallowed up the living and th°
the dead—“puree de cadavres,” or corpse
soup, the grim French called it.
In October, it was done all over again,
the French re-taking the captured fort of
Douamount. Longer and longer rows of
men become silent.
The great Fi-ench ossuary at Verdun
now commemorates 400,000 French and
Allied dead. The German loss must have
been almost as great.
And, as we generally believe, they are
silent, they do not speak any longer. Great
stretches of the hills about Verdun lie bare
and naked even today, and not even weeds
will grow amid the 20-year-old scars of ^
one of the most monumental battles of his- „,any
tory.
We say they do not speak any longer,
these nameless dead whose strong young
bodies were alive one day and food for
quicklime the next. And Yet—
Windsor was well-advised in his choice
of words, as always. He said “. . . could
they make their voices heard ...”
They do speak, these dead. They speak
with eloquence beyond words and beyond
speech.
It is we who will not hear. Coarsened
by the years of brutalization that followed
the World War, our ears are not attun
ed to the message from tJie ossuary at Ver
dun.
Behind the peace appeal of the exiled
British prince, once himself as circum
stances permitted, a soldier, there is a vast
unearthly murmuring, a soundless sound
of men calling from another time and
place.
It is not that these dead do not speal^.
We will not listen. That ifl the'worid'l
tragedj.
j) It is jiist alioiat twelve years ago
'tow that ■ tall, alender yimng nuus
flew out of the West to.» plaM
named "The Spirit of
end landed '* at Roosevdt :
Long Island, where half a^mt^
other airmen ^ had gathmM^ all
bent on trying to make ths lint
non-stop flight from NeW York t»
Paris, for which a
had l^n offered by Ofr
teig, a Nev York hotel toaltj ; j
Nobody ‘>liad . ever heatj
Charles A- Lindherg, airf he didn’t
say much about himsetf. Air eX'
perts were expecting that a Navy I
flyer named Dick Qyrd, or a chap
named Clarence , Chamberlain,
would win the prise- “Lindy'
started off alone at 8 o'clock in
•the moniir.g of May 20, and arriv
ed in Paris at 6:20 the following
afternoon.
The young flyer’s feat gave
American aviation an imp^s
which has put this country into
first place in air travel. Iti also
brought him world-wide fame,
which he never expected and did
not welcome, and which was re
sponsible for one of t’le most
tragic events which could occur
to any man, the kidnapping and
murder of his baby son.
hero criticism
“Lindy” never wanted to be a
hero, disliked and still dislikes
public acclaim.
But when public atention had
been atracted by his famous
flight, he could not keep out of the
limelight. Government aviation
authorities and commercial flying
interests, who asked who this
young man was, discovered that
he was probably the best-trained
flyer in America, a graduate of
the hard Army flying school at
Kelly Field, a Lieutenant-Colonel
in the Ai-my Air Reserve and an
airmail pilot with a remarkable
record.
It was inevitable that he should
be called into consultation by_ the
Army and by commercial airlines,
when they found that he was not
merely la 'reckless ‘‘stunt’’ flyer
but a highly-educated aviation en
gineer, with a background that
commanded respect.
He has been a member of the
National Advisory Committees tor
Aeronautics since it was organiz
ed, technical adviser to important
air lines and a confidental adviser
to the Government on military
aviation for years.
Because he is not a talkative
person, and resents intrusions on
his private, personal life, Lindy
has been made bitterly criticized
by tittle-minded and envious peo
ple than any other man in recent
times.
PRIVACY ...... fear
I have always found myself in
complete sympathy with Col. Lind
bergh’s desire to keep his personal
and family affairs to himself.
After the brutal kidnapping and
murder of his first-bom son the
Colonel and his life lived in terror
of strangers intruding on their
privacy. When news photograph
ers tried to shove their camera
through the car window to photo
graph their second son, Jon, they
could not stand it any longer
Col. Lindbergh told a friend
that he was afraid of what he
might do to some intruder, so ho
took his wife and child to Elngland
to live in a country where private
rights are still respected.
After their third son was born
in England, and the Colonel had
found a new outlet for his en-
g'*"“ring genius in helping the
great French - American scientist,
Dr. Alexis Carrel, in developing
the “.artifical heart” for the study
of cell growth in animals, they
moved to an island' off the French
Coast, close to the home of Dr.
Carrel.
The newspapers reported that
Lindy had been in Russia and Ger-
inspecting miKtoary air
! equipment. What they did not
know was that he was on an offi
cial mission for the United Stotes
Army, and many printed articles
accusing him of having become a
traitor to his country.
ADVISER valuaH*
Now Col. Charles Augustus
Lindbergh has been called back to
this country, to active service in
the Army Air Corps, as adviser to
to War Department on how to
buiid up the fighting strength of
our air force. Already he has giv
en the sound advice that it is more
important to build the best planes
^ build a lli^7mn>W ofj
Mtferior planes.
•Ilf a^tima like tltia, when
,problem of nathmal difeaue
ahadodnre mrytaiag .Mi* to offi
cial diretosi Ihto aerintsf to nie jOpib
.a wise move di the ipati
'G®vemmeBt,j, ' ^
The lAuiy’i
to Me
tod^ con-
to padia^ of gcitter
vahie^ Ike natlcn taAP enyBiilyL
whie^iwW:h4 t
other pneB^-'
I ABUlrics^'
edae to be .bwnid^ fii
xKptter aiiat happens to tiiir^pe.
I^ heilt way to assure our i/Koi-
to to pr^re our-de-
fefilB';-.iito«iiyt^he'- most dangerous
'which to from the
baekgroend
must
SOtoim^.to/^H.' Lindbergh like re-
'vMtbig the scene sof his child
hood. ; :r. i
Few people remember that he
was brought up in the Nation’s
ciq)ital.‘' When he was five years
old his father was elected to Con
gress from Minnesota and served
for ten years. The boy Lindbergh
'went to the Washington schools
played with Washington boys, and
learned the city as only a boy
could- leara the town he lives in.
After his father left Congp-ess.
in 1917, Lin.ty finished his school
ing at the Little Falls, Minnesota,
high school, then took the me
chanical engineering course in the
University of Wisconsin and ■went
from there to the Army flying
school.
'■
New Gearshift On
Chevrolet Popular
A
as possible, on their reaction aft-; period behind the wheel. The ex-
er having driven the car tor some
time. Comment received under
this latter head shows that the
public has found in the vacuum
planation seems to be that the
driver can sit in a relaxed posi
tion. since the shifting operation
which once required movement
of the arm and the body Is ;io«
gearshift advantages beyond, accomplished with the flick of
Detroit. — The new vacuum
gearshift with steering column
control has been the determining
factor in the sale of more 1939
Chevrolets than has any other
single advance embodied in the
current models.
This fact is revealed by reports
from Chevrolet’s nation - wide
dealer organization. Almost with
out exception, dealers cited the
gearshift as the outstanding im
provement for 1939, their opin
ion being based on customers’ re
action rather than on their own.
Since the introduction of the
1939 models last October, the
public has bought Chevrolets in
such numbers as to give that com
pany the largest percentage of
the total business in the low-
priced group that it has enjoyel
'since 1936. Registration figures,*
now complete for states'
through the month of March,
show Chevrolet leading the sec
ond-place car in all but two states
and the District of Columbia. Thejl
latter’s lead for those states to-1
tals 886 units, a f'gure more than
offset by Chevrolet’s lead in any
one of 10 different states. The
third-place car also has a lead,
year to date. In two states and
the District of Columbia, but its
total lead is less than Chevrolet’s
lead in any one of 28 different
states
Dealers were asked not only to
report on buyers’ reasons for
choosing Chevrolet, but, insofar
those of safety and convenience,
which were two of the primary
points advanced by Chevrolet.
Many o-wners report that this fea
ture enables them to make long
trips without the fatigue srhich
would ordinarily follow such a
ftoger, without removing the
hand from the wheel.
Other major new features
which have figured In buyers'
choice are the ucw kne€-ac*'.on,
shockproof steering, and better
visibility, dealers report.
EXTRA PENALTY
ON 1938
County Taxes
If not paid on or before June
1st, 1939. Payment now will
save you money.
C. T. Doughton,
SHERIFF AND TAX COLLECTOR OF
WILKES COUNTY
DEPENDABLE POWER
Modem Mill Serrice
Entire Satisfaction
BRIER CREEK BURR
AND ROLLER MILLS
' ea 0. S.'fliiil«W
J is
Chevrelat Is lirst In
volwme because
Chevrolet to first in
value . . . the only
lew-priced cor com
bining ''oil thnt'e
best atloweat coetl”
.= vr'*v7.T*^
... Owners soy It—
snles prove It.
You don’t havo to look long—or drlvs
far—to know why Chevrolet it leadint
oil other makes ^ can in talet in 1939,
fer tba eighth time in the laet nine years!
One quick, iqtprectotive look at the
trim, fleet, Aero-Stream lines of Itefamoue
Body by Fisher, and you'll know that
Chevrolet to the moet beauttful of all
low-priced cars.
One thrilHag tu» at the wheel, and
you’ll know tlutt ft out-aec^aratat, out-
elimbt and nut-ifatfoeme all other cars
In ita price range—her none.
Better see and drive tlM nadon’e biggest
eeUing motor car—today!
Every 40 Seconds
of Every Day,
Somebody Buys a
Now Chevrolet!