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GASTKR and JULtUS & HUBBA&D
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
,One Ye«r
mt Mmth8 76
Fbw Montbfl 60
of the State ^2.00 per Year
Batered at the poet office at North WQkea*
. a boio. N. C., a* necosd elaii oiatter under Art
1 of EuA 4, 1871.
MONDAY, OCT. 23, 1039
Forgery
-A news item in our favorite family news
paper tells about two young men being
charged with forging checks in various
amounts.
Forgery is one crime that it is almost im
possible to get by with.
Li the first place, it is almost invariably
discovered; and in the second place, the
guilty parties do not have a chance of es
caping apprehension once in 100 tries.
Forgery is just about as dificult as coun
terfeiting. Ever since money has been
made by the government there have been
hairbrained individuals who sought an
easy way of possessing money by printing
imitations. They look at a $10 piece of
currency, think of its value and then de
vise a scheme to print some.
The average length ' of time that the
most shrewd counterfeiters get by with
their trade is only a few months. They may
think that they are getting rich easy and
fast but the disaster at the end of the road
is inevitable.
“Be sure your sins will find you out” is
more strinkingly evidenced in production
of imitations than in anything else. There
is no getting by with anything wrong be
cause the day of reckoning is ju.st as sure
to arrive as sunrise in the morning.
Prettier Homes
Drive over any highway in North Caro
lina and you can see pretty homes.
There has been a very noticeable im
provement in the appearance of homes
during the past ten years.
New houses are more handsomely con
structed, landscaping is neater, lawns are
well kept and paint almost invariably
touches up the good appearance.
People in North Carolina are showing
deep respect for their own places of abode,
a fact that speaks well for the citizenship.
The home is the underlying basis for all
endeavor. Before we can have good com
munities, villages, counties and states we
must first have good homes occupied by
home loving people.
The next requisite is a community spirit.
Our interest should go farther than the
boundary of the lawn. This means co
operation on the part of the people in the
homes toward building community institu
tions.
It means that home owners must stick
together to hold up the moral standards of
their respective comimunities.
The person who winks at places of ill
repute because they do not bother him is
badly mistaken.
You may have an extraordinarily good
house and it may be pretty as the prettiest
picture but its value falls disastrously if
the environment is not good. A good house
in a good community will bring what it is
worth when sold, but a good home in a
bad community lacks much of having the
same cash value.
Thus it is seen that a person must sup
port community interests in order to pro
tect his own.
Good churches and good schools work
ing with a close community spirit are of
great value. Even an infidel does not v*ant
to live in a community where there is no
church.
AMHHCA% ; '
(Orphins’Jottmal) ^
People'young enough to jresei^Deing
called old well remember the inHiR»ation
with wWch the first WFion doHaiM3on®?B8B
was ushered in. The ides of - adjusting
taxes to raise half a million in taxes each
year of a biennium was borrifsring to the
voting public and to them was the last lap
in the direction of bankrupcy. The in-
comie tax was yet to be bom and luxury
taxes had not been discussed. Those now
seem to have been piker days.
The announcement was made the other
day that the British Government has ap
propriated $8,000,000,000 for the first
year's conduct of the war with Germany
which on the per capita basis is $1.40 out
ctf each $4.00 earned by the people of the
United Kingdom. This is compared with
the $2,400,000,000 spent by the British in
the first year of the World War.
The sums that all the nations are spend
ing on the business of killing is appalling
and is skyrocketing indebtedness. The
germs of the present troubles were cultur
ed long ago in the past and the people of
the world are being checked up by Ne
mesis. There is an old saying that when
Love flies out of the window. Hate flies
in. With a little juggling of words anoth
er truism can be built up to stress the fact
that when Peave abdicates, War takes
charge and Liberty and normal living go
into eclipse,
But the economic, financial and socialo-
gical set-ups are of the toughest kind.
Those who think that they have the keys
of their solution would not be very good
hands into which to leave them. The truth
is- that every world citizen great or small
is baffled. Who knows exactly where to
stop spending and where to “call a halt?”
Who can mark the line of demarcation be
tween the imbecility of failing to take pro
tective measures to meet situations all and
sundry and the necessity for defense of life
and liberty?
:EVery;^Qi£^
(By brirLE HirUi)
«Bd tell the wwd j/tollt «>^aMsrar,U»at «
A. A _ t A. — ■ ' «tt
The ComAunlst is never consis
tent and the Socialist foUows
closely In his footsteps..' The Com
munist sonalls his head off about
the dreadful albases visited upon
the heads of the people by those
'sricked propagators of evil—the
Government, the Capitalist and
the Church.
He maintains that this combi
nation of villains is attempting to
stop tree e3H>re8slen of thought;
to enslave the worker and to de
stroy the spirit of enterprise.
While he breathes anathema
out of one side- of his mouth, the |
other side is singing praises of
that most successful of aUl expert-1
ments in the stoppage of free ex-,
presslon; the enslavement of the
worker and the destruction of in
dividual enterprise—the blood-
red government of Russia.
Ask tho next pink-tinted dis
ciple of Lenin whom you meet to
explain this inconsistency, and if
you know any more about it aft
er he explains than you did be
fore, then you must be gifted
with so.ne sixth sense which oth
er humans don’t enjoy.
The Socialist is equally clear.
He will rant by the hour upon the
beauties of his Utopian theory as
opposed to our insipid form of
Democratic government, but if
you advance the suggestion that
Socialism, as practiced in Italy
and Germany, illustrates the ap
plication of that political theory ,
—he will inform you that you are |
“all wet.” I
It may be granted that the t
Horror in Russia is not that ideal j
form of Communism which the
theorist contemplates, hut if you
can find a Pink who is broad-1
minded enough, he will admit [
that it is the only kind of Com-1
munism which the human being |
Jut iriuit kw^tlifiikt ai^t every.
Iml^in or- la. Itll
BtetA ABd i^ty govern
ment, Jt the eeu'^Bt run
him in for drutits » tNKttiHbMice
or hlooUitt trafflr—be ejul. get
-■way with It.
-He can write a letter»to hla
newspaper bawling out ’‘hnyohe
who displease* him, and ho one
man can arrest‘him for It^ But
above all, he can cues tberPresir
dent of the United State^^H hia
sense of patrtotiam doesn’t dic
ta's to him eome reepecjH foy^that
great office. Jluet hi|W iUn]r mln-
ntes by the kitchen clock would a
citlsen of Communist Russia or
of SocialM Italy and Germany
lut, if.he did say one of the a-
bove things? It won’t Uke a Con
go, after aU, puhapa thtaga .
ean.be wone than they igre here
•u4St. and one will find that they
been worae, if Ke will read
^ orer the eeowaple and ik>-
lttj«U^,hfetory of eonntry.
Ttm hare bnre worid &nd at fn-
tnre tlmee they will be' worae a-
grin; bnt- tf we are able to cling
to onr ihtteh hbnnd fora of tree-
man’s govanunent, we. wUIj as
we have tp. often done .beforerr*
be able to drag ovraelvee hack lli-
to “the good old daysf* of pros
perity, good will and abundance.
the aBn get Tre pi
lor Ipi momni A
The Federal Crop Insurance
Corporation has > forecast that
during the second year >of its
operation more than 300,000 In-
— - , surance contract* on the 1940,i
centrated thinker more than four wheat crop.will be in force.
omae It 0oa ligbt to Ite
tnnHetOiacnpfinnlML
asassffigi-ife—
ed hroodilal atococia tatabamm,
how many naedlBlnae '
,teu
&e tried dnigppjto;
you a botSe of OreomflUcD wtth m
nndmPaiidlnn that yon an to BU
tba way ItoiBckly a&oya the c
or yoa ata to have your money U
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If, by any conceivable chance,
the advocate of Communism or
Socialism should run out of argu
ments, his last defense is always
—“Well, anything is -better than .
that which we have here now; |
ten million unemployed,’’ etc. etc. i
Let us dissect that statement j
and see how much truth it con-1
tains. I
Under ouf present form of gov- j
ernment an American citizen lives
In the conscious pride that he is
a tree man; that he can quit his |
job if and when he likes, and tell |
his boss where to go for good i
measure. He can vote for whom j
he lives and no man dares perse- ^
cute him for so doing. He can ,
get a soap box and go out in the
Autumn For Accidents
October, November and December
brings the highest number of fatalities on
American highways, the National Conser
vation Bureau, accident prevention divi
sion of the Association of Casualty and
Surety Elxecutives, points out in offering
hints to motorists for avoiding hazards
during those months.
With the amount of travel during the
last quarter of the year no greater than
during March, April and May, the auto
mobile death total |for the last three
months of the year is about 25 per cent
higher, averages for the last tlhree years
show. January, too, shows a higher ac
cident rate per mile driven than the Spring
months.
The major reason for this is the increase
in hours of darkness, the Bureau’s safety
specialists point out. Drivers who during
the Spring and Summer go from office to
home in daylight often fail to realize that
f+ -''ts dark earlier with the approach of
Winter, and that with more night driving
the danger from lessened visibility in-
To make thngs worse, the Bureau says,
most of the additional night driving during
the Autumn and Winter months is done
between & to 7 R M., when ?
peak and motorists are impatient to reach
, , , a * -u ij A munism which the human oeing
While the people of America should not capable of putting into practice
''try to parade their virtues and advantages modern day and time. He
after the Pharisaical manner, they should j^in admit that there is no man
consider them carefully and see that they.living (except himself) who is
are never lost. Yet ther should not bend capable of using the powers nec-
backward with undue modesty. They are essary properly to conduct that
indeed the most fortunate of people and form of government in a purely
enjoy liberty in far greater measure than unselfish, self-effacing manner,
it is enjoyed in other countries. Most of and that regardless of a leader s
the other countries are reacting to emer-iorieina' 5°°^ intentions he must
gencies and “musts”. America is free and j assume yranmea
sovereign in the conduct of its affairs and, X.ratTa
it IS the soundness of its institutions that
permits this advantage to remain with us.
LEAVE US OUR INITIATIVE
(Shelby Star)
We believe the federal government au
thorities who have placed tobacco quotas
on an acreage basis rather than on the old
paundage standard have taken a step in
the right direction.
Some will doubt the wisdom of quotas
at all, but if they are to continue with us,
acreage quotas seem far more advisable
than poundage quotas. One factor alone,
strongly supports Iftiis theory, and it is the
element of farmers’ initiative.
One of the things we have disliked
about crop quotas has been the factor that
seemed to destroy initiative and farming
skill rather than build them up. Down in
Eastern North Carolina, for instance, it
has been a fairly common, experience for
good farmers to raise without much trou
ble the amounts of tobacco they could sell
under their existing quotas.
With this situation prevailing, with the
knowledge that a farmer doing a little
better job than the average grower and
turning his efforts into better yields
couldn’t sell the extra yield anywhere,
where was the incentive to be a good far
mer? Where was the wisdom of paying a
great deal of attention to “per-acre yields?
Where was the urge to improve farming
skill or of improving the land? In many
cases, the urges simply failed to exist.
Tobacco autjhorities of the AAA believe
now, according to the 1940 quotas outlin
ed for tobacco farmers, that production
can be kept in line with demand* by per
mitting a farmer to plant a certain num
ber of acres, but then allowing him to
grow just as much tobacco on that acreage
as his skill will permit. We hope this
marks the beginning of a new trend in
crop control that wilj^ spread rapidly.
PETTICOAT RULE
(Asheville Citizen)
The little town of Dover, North Caro
lina, evidently does not agree with Kip
ling’s famous estimate of the female of the
species. According to an article in the
Southern Municipal News eight of the
eleven town offices are held by women.
That includes a woman mayor, clerk,
treasurer, tax collector and health officer.
However there is a male chief of police
and one lone man councilman.
Apparently the majority of these ladies
are married for tihey mostly have the title
“Mrs.” before their names though the oc
cupations of their husbands was nob listed
in the dry outlines of the 1939-40 Roster
of North Carolina Municipal officials.
Which sets us to wondering. What do the
warriors’ husbands do with themselve.s
while Ijheir spouses sit aroud the council
table and debate affairs of state?
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A federal survey just completed of the
great stiate of Ohio reveals’S,ODO,000 acres
of timber, hot counting pr^del^l,—
trottNeiro.
Drink
So refreshing
at lunch time
With something good to eat, you want something
good to drinic. Make it ice-cold Coca-Cola and
you’ll add a taste-surprisc to lunch. It’s the
drinlf fhut makes lunch time refreshment .time*
Delicious iind
Refresh in