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SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Yaar 11.60
Moatha — 76
f^oor Months 60
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Out of the State $2.00 per Year
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THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1940
Co-Operation Urged
The organization for the 50th anniver
sary celebration to be held here June 30
through July 4 has been announced and it
included more than 160 residents of the
city on the various committees.
That appears to be a lot of comm.ttees
tut the anniversary celebration as plann
ed will be a big event and one which will
require the combined and cooperative ef
forts of, not only the committees, but the
populace of the city and surroundings.
It is highly important that each com
mittee function well in order that arrange
ments for all phases of the celebration may
be carried out. The celebration is an
event too big for only a few to carry out
and cooperation from all public spirited
citizens is not only desired but is essen
tial to success as we want it.
Every member of every committee
should make a special effort to attend the
meeting Friday^ evening, 7:30, at the city
hall, at which time the duties of each
group will be outlined.
Mid btfi
thing that wU beitt plenty of repeating I
Borrowed Cominent
BEWARE OF NATIONAL FRIGHT
(Oxford Ledger)
A wave of fright is sweeping America
It has resulted from the “big splash” that
Nazi forces have made in the European
war.
This wave of fright is not sometaing to
be regarded today with hysteria and for
gotten with the arrival of tomonrow's
newspaper with a new headline.
Out of this hysteria should come new
realizations of the strength of American
democracy. It should enable us to con
solidate the gains of a national patriotism
and direct us in throwing new safeguards
about our national unity.
This is no time to recoil in fear of
things that are happening, or things that
might happen. It is time to survey the
future and make the best plans possible
to deal with all eventualities.
Leopold’s Surrender
SHIRLEY TEMPLE RETIRES
(Mount Airy News)
Shirley Temple, film star veteran at the
age of eleven, has terminated her contract
and, for the next five years, will lead a
normal life with other girls and boys of her
own age in school and during recreation
hours.
The diminutive screen actress burst up
on public favor in 1934 and for years le
all other Hollywood favorites in box of
fice appeal. She earned around $5,000 a
week and is said to have a trust fund es
tablished for her benefit that totals more
than $3,000,000. She earned $20,000,000
for her studio company.
Her parents feel that Shirley should not
be deprived “of the normal, natural bene
fits that may be derived from mingling
and competing with a large number ot
other children.” In addition, it is said,
the studio does not consider Shirley the
No. 1 star of the screen. Her mother ex-
pre.sses the opinion that this may have
been due to the selection of unfortunate
story material for the young actress.
When King Leopold, of Belgium, on
Tuesday morning-ordered khc surrender
~of the Belgium army to Germany the
world was shocked arid disappointed.
We wonder if the act on the part of the
young king did not cause his deceased
father, who led the Belgium army through
four years of the World War in defense of
his country, to turn over in his grave.
It is true that thousands of Bolg'ar.
troops and civilians have lost their lives i::
the path of Hitler’s invading legions i>'
the pre.sent war and that many others
may be killed.
But the fate of the Belgian people at
the hands of Hitler could not be much
better than death if the plight of Czecln
and Poles is any indication. Perhaps the
k ng thought he could get a bettor dea
from Hitler, we cannot know, but h-j
should have thought of how the Czech
and Poles have been enslaved and their
property confiscated to the German state.
At the time of the King’s surrender, the
Belgian troops were fighting in a nanner
which was upholding the tradition of that
splendid nationality of people and wei’o
holding the Germans from further inva
sion.
Old Philosopher Speaks
Americans have the cnertunity oi
picking up good ideas, sound arguments,
or useful information from a great many
sources. We read more books than the
people of other lands. We see more news
papers, and they provide us with more and
better information. With over 40 million
radios in our homes and cars, a turn of the
dial brings us thought-provoking ideas
from still another source.
These thoughts are occasioned after lis
tening to the ‘‘Old Philosopher” on a nati
onally known radio program recently. The
old fellow advanced a point concerning the
much-bruited subject of machines, indus
try, and unemployment that is worth re
cording. Here’s what he has to say:
“Maybe I’m all wrong. But it seems
like all this talk about business bein’ to
blame for unemployment might be barkin’
up the wring tree. There’s a gas station
on almost every corner o' the old home
town today, and I can onlji remember one
blacksmith shop wJreiTl was a boy. Busi
ness has done pretty well!
It’s only an example, of course, brought
up put of one man’s experience. But it’s
typical of the whole course of ma-
pro^Peae. wherein there is something
.'^porary displacement but where in the
naany more jobs
GERMANY’S ADVANTAGE
(Reid.sville Review)
No matter how most of us may condemn
nazi Germany for its cold-blooded, heart
less invasion of small neutral nations for
military and economic purposes, its now
admitted that Hitler’.s seizure of Denmark
and the .southern half of Norway was a
master stroke.
Eventually the Germans may be driven
out of Norway. But th
happen next week, or r.f'xt month either.
It is certain to be an all summer’s job for
the allies, and even then it may not be
succe.ssful. For the German military ma
chine i-. superior in every way to anything
ci'posing it so far.
Predictions that the pre.sent European
conflict will be a short one are diminish
ing every day. Incrci'.sing signs point to a
long-drawn out war, with the rival forcer
both having their ups and downs. Ger
man organization and German might are
bound to pay dividends in siicces.scs early
in the struggle, judt as they did in the
World War. But if this settles into a war
of attrition, as did the conflict a quarter of
a century ago, then England and France
will have the advantage. But there is ?
long, tortuous, co.stly road ahead for both
sides.
,wilkksb^;n. c.
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THURSDAY, 80,
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Maybe UtA lUplies who llaclajr?
ed there irae JWwar. liMt
a second World War^ are wnTlnc-
ed at last. •
UnfortunaU^]^ tbim Is" too
much “meUiMl in tbiSi;«iadBes8'’
of the demonllMijH^lerJ^
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The RerolutUm and .the War
of 1812, notvttiuKiaM^ag, 11 Eng
land ceasee to. seem
to most AmeidetiSi tluiit half the
world Is gone.
The S-weeks-ohdbaihy in Wilkes
this spring with teeth calls to
mind king Richard 'lH, who is
supposed to have bad all his
teeth at birth. .
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Doubtless the Wilkes ibaby will
grow up to -be a cood Rotarlan
and totally unlike the monster
whose murders gave him an ap
petite for fresh strawtaerrles, and
who offered to sell his kingdom
for a horse.
We don’t recall that. Hitler has
been compared with Richard III.
Hitler isn’t deformed ex.cept In
mind and spirit. (Aohmed Abdul
lah says he’s handsome except
for his clown’s mustache.)
Though more successful, he Is
not unlike in cruelty to inhuman
Richard III, who made wholesale
carnage of all who stood In his
way, yet managed to marry the
princesses over the coffins of the
husbands and fathers he had mur
dered, and who fattened on blood.
Hitler’s pretended concessions to
Chamberlain and hia breaking his
word at Munich and everywhere
else, recalls what Scott said of
Richard Ill’s prototype, Rash-
leigh Oshaldlstone. “If hell has
one countenance more hideous
than another, it is where villiany
is masked hy hypocrisy.’’
Very apt tor some of us who
have not been too much enamour
ed of the Now Deal and may not
be of the deal that follows. Is
this quotation from Goldsmith’s
"She Stoops to Conquer’’:
"Hastings—You have no turn
fur politics, I find.
“Mr. Hardcastle-—Not in the
takes of goveruineut, like other
people: but, finding myself every
day grow more angry, and the
government growing no better, I
left it to amend Itself.’’
Since World War II be.gan
King Carol T1 of th.’ .gam-'io.".
cnnntry of Roiimania ha.s bp.-n
called a canny, crafty mona-.-'-'i.
Maybe ho alwaj’S was. In 1!)2S,
denying that the much-maligned
is not going to .Va.gda I.upnscn made him an ex
ile. “That Royal Lover’’ ashed
“tV'-at man would renounce a
throne because of a woman?’’
Evidently he cotildn’t toresee
11)27 and King Edward VIII.
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Establishment of a school Innch
room in a community where aoae
Is in operation wonld not affect
the tax rate of the parttealar
community bnt instead would
bring more Federal money to the
locality through*- the employment
of WPA personnel to handle the
operation, A. B. Langston, SUte
director of commodity distribu
tion for the State Board of Char
ities and Public Welfare, said this
week.
"Snrphis commodities made a-
vailahle to the various' lunch
rooms are purchased by the Fed
eral Surplus Commodltlee Cor
poration as an agency of the U. S.
Department of AgMculture In an
effort to stabilize farm prices,
Langston said.
“The quantity of food so pur
chased is determined by the need
for price stabilization and not by
any demand for food from lunch
rooms or any other relief require
ment.
A number of lunch rooms have
obtained the assignment of WPA
to assist in the operation, but the
nunaber of people employed by
the WPA in North Carolina Is
governed by the estimated need-
for employment. Such persona, n^
doubt, would he employed by the
Federal agency on some other
project whether a school lunch
room were in existence or not.
“It appears to me that the citi
zens of any community need not
worry about the cost of operation
of a lunch room in a community
school because any funds deter
mined necessary for its operation
can be controlled by the commun
ity so that expense does not get
beyond the point where the peo
ple of the locality feel^hey are
getting their money’s worth.
So many North Carolina chil
dren are undernourished and-
needy that mere proper nourish
ment of these children will en
able them better to assimilate
education and be less liable to
develop behavior problems.
“The community having a
lunch room does not have to pay
salaries to any WPA operatives,
surplus commodities cannot be
bought but must be given to the
school, and any operation expense,
Is determined entirely by what-1
^ Bumgarner, of Tay-
flUoA bis reculof uiF-
tiolntment here Sunday and as
usnal preached a fine sennoo.
Rey. S. 1. Watts filled hti ragn-
lar* appointments at Dover and
titeda^, Sunday. >
•Mr., ami Mra. Roy Eller, of
McAdenyille, Tidted Mr. Eller’s
gtandindher. Mrs. Julia Phillips,
Sunday.
Hr. Jamee Isbell, of Lenoir,
was a Tiaitor with friends here
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Rogers,
.of Taylorsville, visited relativee
and friends, here, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ore|r visited
Mrs. Greer's sister, Mrs. Elmer
Berrier and family, of Lexington,
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Carlton, of
Anawalt, W. Va., visited in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn
Carlton, this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Carlton
arrived at their home here Sun
day after a few days visit witlP
friends In Anawalt, W. Vo.
Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette Critch-
bt BwMh vialUd
lff*.vViek iWaU, he^onir^i
^efk-e®4;- ■’!
Tke sloflng: sebool at the:
bate chMOd
ni|^ after two weeks, tegglif PT
^aul CoUins, of. LincobUo*.
^M^'"waa a very good intattMd
with reasonably good attendsMO
thrMghout the two week* d»4i :
we hope many ’ w^e henefittod
thereby.
Mr. Mark Earp, of Taylon-
rille, visited his sister, Mrs. T. G.
Davis, Saturday night.,
Rev. and Mrs. Finley Watts,
of Purlear, visited in the home
of Rev. and Mrs. S. I. Watts, last
week.
Many people were In attend-^_
ance at church Sunday through
out the county, we are glad ^ to
note.
Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Williams,
of Charlotte, spent Monday with
Mrs. G. M. Earp.
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GLUE ON TEETH
Funk: Why was Geefuzs
tight-lipped all evening?
Wiggins: He cleaned his teeth
In the dark, and used glue by
mistake.
Reeding the ads, gets yon more
for less money. Try it
least. There was a tlma.,-tadeed, ., ..
I-fretted mysJfeibWU
room demanded by the people of'
the locality,” Langston said.
Discount
On 1940 County Taxes
During Month Oi June
Be sure to take advantage of this saving
on your county taxes. Make payment
at my office.
G. G. Peindexter,
WILKES COUNTY ACCOUNTANT
NOW
(Wholesale and Retail)
Rut, after all, the romance
laiuis ai-e probably so only in
name, .^nd the last strongiiold of
inmaiice, sentiment, and democ
racy may be among the unemo
tional Anglo-Saxons, whether by
tlie “Chalky cliffs of Dover”, or
ill needle-pointed American bilis.
roceries
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LINDBERGH’S DUE
(Washington Times-Herald)
In March of 1938, Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh sailed from the United States with
his family. He did not .say why or where
he was going. He merely went.
•STRONGER
By using cotton in a new piy-
board, a Seattle firm has devel
oped ;i board four to thirty times
stronger than ordinary wall-
board.s, a.s well as 'being more
fire-resistant.
LAG
Britain has moved less than
one million pounds of the 175
million pounds of flue-cured to
bacco bought for her \ud held
under the purchase and loan ar
rangements for the British trade.
And Weaver Brand
FERTILIZERS
Mr. Farmer and
Poultryman:
are created than
curb market, says Assistant Farm
Agent O. R. Freeman.
Tip burn has developed to an
alarming extent in New Hanover
lettuce fields this season, reports
J P. Herring, county agent at
large.
f:gg.s
Grading and packing eggs in
dozen-size cartons is- paying divi
dends to Lenoir county farm
First he rented a farm house in England. {women who sell on the Kinston
Then he moved >10 an island off the coast
of France. Then he took off, in midsum
mer, for a leisurely air tour of the Contin
ent. He visited Russia, Poland, Czechoslo
vakia, Rumania, and Germany. He ac
cepted honors and inspected aviation in all
these countries.
Somehow it leaked out that he had ad
vised the British not to tie in with Russia
against Germany. The Reds were failures
and the Nazis were deadly able. You re
member what followed.
Lindbergh came home. He testified to
congresional committees. He broke hj.s
public silence and began both to speak
and write. And the abuse shook the na
tional windowpanes.
Well, what do you think on looking
back over the record? Did Lindbergh lie
or not? Compare Stalin’s winter in F’in-
land with Hitler’s blitzkrig of Norway and
cast your own estimate of Lindbergh’s val
ue to the U.S.A. Let’s put him to use.
If you haven’t yet paid me a visit for your needs in Gro
ceries, Feeds and Fertilizers, we are both losing money. I
am losing through not selling . . . you are losing through
not buy ng here. So come In soon and look over my line,
.get prices, and you, too, will know why so many are now
coming here for these lines.
My low rent and low operating expenses make it possible
to SELL on a closer margin of pr'fit, and to PAY MORE for
country produce. Won’t do any harm to come around and
get the facts, and you’ll be most welcome roiy time.
Produce Wanted!
Bicycle fatalities tor the first
four months of this year in North
Carolina were somewhat behind
those for the same period last
year.
MOTOR
^ CO. '
T. H. WiUIuai^ Owaer
Oldamobile S«lM-S«nrfce
Bear Fra«e Secvlee and
Wheel AUgnpMat
General Ante Repairing.
Wrecker
Again I say: “Better come see me before
selling your produce, chickens and eggs,”
that is, if you want “tops” for what you have
to sell.
See Me, Sure, Before Selling
Located In Old Cranbury Produ e Building, Next To Dodge Place
Pearson
NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C.
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