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Mira 4, 1878.
MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1940
Conscription
If America should have to go to war we
sincerely hope that in all fairness the sol
dier will not be made the “Goat” as hap
pened during the first world war.
Although some atonement has been
made by bonus and other considerations,
all will agree that the soldier who receiv
ed only thirty dollars per month for fac
ing the enemy in the trenches of France
did not fare as well at the ha .ids of the
government as the draft dodgers who
worked in the shipyards or other govern
ment employment at from seven to twelve
dollars per day.
It has been suggested and planned that
in the event of another way that labor for
the government be conscripted. That
would be the only fair way of handling a
situation wherein human resources are
urgently needed at the nation’s call.
Hit-And-Run
Calling attention to the seriousness of
hit-and-run driving, Ronald Hocutt, Direc
tor of the Highway Safety Division, as
serted recently that he has authority to
suspend a driver’s linnse in hit-and-run
cases involving property damage only.
“The driver who damages another mo-
tori^’s fender and tries to get away with
out reporting the accident is a potentially
dangerous driver, so we are making sus
pensions in hit-and-run cases involving
property damage only. Revocation is
mandatory, of course, upon connection in
hit-and-run cases involving a fatahty or
personal injury'.
“Drivers must be made to realize the
importance of stopping after striking ano
ther vehicle, a bicyclist, or a pedestrian.
This is a serious offense, and the Highway
Safety Division wants to do everything
within its power to put an end to it.”
_ id it darl
toi cosiaiiY ia
4d tp »et\ud job.
i?»po^ ^ '
S^eed(Tef^iency ailid economy
,-Rentials,
i
The;
0EFENSE
Ctf Tliy
One of the latest satirical barbs direct
ed at the WPA was the suggestion thut
(WPA workers be trained and armed pro»,
vided someone would invent a rifle w
would discharge automatically. %'
A famine in Ehirope ■ while America’s
grain bins are fairly bursting with sbrplua \ hnrrr.
is going to make HJitler and* Mussolini all
the more envious of our land of plenty.
ia-CStwr of . .
ha? reeueited aitproxhnately $1
ooe.ooe.oee to baud -ap oar
Amy’ ud. Naf»T- .The Cmgrtt^
wai Mked to pon^t ^ tnoraail^
the atrenetb of oar tA^y to
200,000' and to
for..obtaiaiiic' ee^pmeii.t aottiiSt^'
ent to oirtflt an
000 men who inipU 1^'1^
4tae.'4oloiw.
At the present Whaw
a feree of 500,000
of tk# reifnlar Army,' the Ratton^
al'JGHtord.''end the Organjart Re-
aeffea, Uidop the the
new defeaii protraf;i, we will
have to proVldd ineh and tDate^■
lala to increase'our a^ed fMves
fourfold. And we hare to do It. in
Borrowed Comment
WHO WANTS WAR?
(Herald, Bellingham, Wash..)
It used to be said that the rich led the
masses—the cannon fodder—^to slaughter
on the battlefields In order to make inor
dinate profits. But those who say “war
mongers” are abroad in the land today are
having a hard time putting the finger on
“big business.”
Although Senator Burton K. Wheeler
says the “international bankers” are seek
ing to precipitate the States into the
European war, he is not particularly con
vincing. Possibly some of the “internati
onal bankers” do favor war with Hitler,
but if so, they doubtless have wit enough
to know that they would lose by such in
tervention.
Wheeler absolved everybody else, in
cluding “big business,” citing a statement
of Alfred P. Sloan, of General Motors, to
support his statement that industry is for
peace. He might have quoted others, in
cluding the United States Chamber of
Commerce and the National Association
of Manufacturers. For modern war means,
not profits, but losses. J
It is noteworthy that although 14 per
cent of the people (6,500,000) on the basis
of the latest Gallup poll, favor i»tervenr™
tion abroad, the upper income grogp is the
least warlike. Here are the divisions; up
per income group, 10 per cent; middle in
come group, 14 per cent; lower income
group, 16 per cent.
Such pro-war sentiment that
goes deeper than any consideration of pe
cuniary profits, and any attempt to imply
that such sentiment is inspired by a selfish
few does violence to the evidence.
prevails
The Innocent Suffer
The innocent often suffer most in this
world—and that is true in the case of
war. There will be a famine in Europe
this winter, says the authorities, and only
tw'O powers will be comparatively immune.
Those are the two belligerent powers—
Germany and England.
Germany has .sy.sten)atically looted the
granaries of the countries she has seized.
And the English fleet is .still adequate to
keep her merchant shipping going.
Famine means plague, disease, untold
misery. And if it come.s, it means the col
lapse of the Europe we have known. It
takes many yeai*s for a people to recover
from the effects of even one .season of
starvation and malnutrition.
Question is whether this country will
help if famine strikes. We have surplus
food aplenty. We could sell it, give it
away, or barter it abroad. Yet, looking at
the problem realistically, we would thus
be fattening up potential enemies. It is a
problem where humanitarian considera
tions, and our self-interest as a democratic
world power in a dictator-ridden world
may prove totally opposed.
HISTORIC CONFERENCE
(SkyIand_Post)
Historians of the future will
agree that the most significant conference
ever held between a group of nations was
the one that has been in se.'-.i’on in Havana,
Cuba, for the past several days.
Plans were formulated and approved at
this conference by delegates from twenty-
one nations of the Western Hemisphere,
that will make it virtually impossible for
Hitler and Mussolini to gain control of the
new world.
Under a resolution called the “Acts of
Havana”, these twenty-one American na
tions solemnly pledge to stand together
against any military or economic invasion
on the part of any foreign power or pow
ers.
Be.sides going to each others rescue in
Now that’s no simple problem.
It’s' more than lost opening the
door and announcing “We would
like to hire a million and a halt
men’’ and have them, step right
uip and become soldiers. The men
have to he trained. They have to
become familiar with the complex
Instruments of modem warfare.
In order to do that they have to
be equipped with those instru
ments, and plenty of them.
A modern army neede every
thing from safety .pins to loco
motives. It needs guns and am
munition to be sure, and those
guns and ammunition must be of
the most modern type, to be ef
fective. To put a modern army in
the field calls for clothes, food,
and mediclal supiplles. It also
calls for a means of getting to
the battle, and means of supply
when it gets there.
Modern war is total war. We
must be fully prepared.
The Job Ahead "
Accomplisbing this task In the
face of an emergency requires co
ordination of our resources of
men and materials, and above all
coordination of our huge indus
trial plant that is the backbone
of the nation In peace as well as
in war. Many of the supplies we
are going to need are turned out
every day by the nation’s Indus
tries. These can be procured by
the Government through normal
channels of Industry. But many
others are special equipment
needed only for defense. These
must be especially built .for us,
some in new plants. In making
these special instruments, we
must mlnlmlie interference with
the l»tf. nr» 9f A dettlBg mo'
called newi ^
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,^1^0 ittB atai dlatriet of MaryteAp,
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equljiment required for our forc
es.
In order to provide that equip
ment, we determine what the
Army and Navy need. In terms of
uniforms, guns, tanks, planes,
and sbhM. This is broken down
into raw materials). Provision is
made for processing these raw
materials. Plante are provided to
convert these materials Into the
weapons to put Into the hands of
the troops. The nation is like a
gigantic production line. A break
down at any point along the hun
dreds of raw materials’ lines
might stall the whole machine.
That must not happen. As fast
as the men are ready, the mater-
iaU must be ready. This series
will explain how this is being ac
complished.
■ '• ■" ‘■r-if■
now -thy art lying, iiy dear
oM, plpkeand Trlend
^Aa A hanBtftl of clay, long, long
’ ai«i at rest.
Hushed are thy gay voices, thy
spirit, awake;
For Death, he Uk^th all away,
but friendship be cannot
take.
—^Albert Mlntdn.
Second Balloon Squadron, Air
Corps, Fort Bragg, N. C.
W. R. Graham of Todd, an
Ashe county sheep grower, re
ports outstanding results from
islng a purebred ram on grade
ewes last season, says Assistant
Farm Agent H. D. Quessenberry.
rS».WJdfe«|5sciTil.j:i?'!
ByA>b .is a tHuglTisriilpf^^
Bevnai^, other yonne > women, «
was stated at Chamber of Ooafe.i^A
merce headquarters, are expected
to file their appiclatlona k-'
WILLIAMS
MOI^
- CO.
TELEPBONB 9M
T. H. WlUiaau. Ownsr
Oldamobile Salee-Sarvica
Bear Frame Scrvlee and
ViImcI Alignment
General Auto Repauing
Wrecker Service—Electric and
Acetylene WekBng
USED PARTS—For al makM
u>d models of care and tmeks
Outstanding improvements a-
bout the farm and home are be
ing reported by Watauga county
growers who joined the dembn-
stratlon farm program In 1935,
says Assistant Farm Agent G. G.
Farthing.
CALL TAXI
emr CABS
^Phone 176
Dave Lowe, Owner
Berlin ‘Play* Up*
Stimson** Vision
Of British Defeat
New York, Aug. 1.—Berlin
newspapers today gave wide
prominence to United States Sec
retary of War Stimson’s observa
tion before the House Military
Affairs Committee that Great
! Britain may be defeated in thirty
(lays, according to a C. B. S.
broadcast from Berlin.
The statement was cited by
Nazi new.spapers as proof of the
"feeling in the United States
that Great Britain cannot win.”
tlon. But we have to have them
just the same.
To see that this operation goes
ahead fast and efficiently, the
President appointed the National
Defense Advisory Commission on
May 28, 1940. This Commission
is composed of men who are par
ticularly qualified b y special
knowledge of an industry, public
utility, of some natural resource,
or are otherwise specially quali
fied. The Commission’s task is to
translate the defense program
from laws on the statute books,
from a blueprint, into actual sup-
probably^P'*«s needed by the men under
Qiiiggle—Thirty
for a woman.
is a nice age
Diudl-77Ye|, especially if she’s
40. -
extra mildness
extra COOLNESS
BCTRAn^voR
In recent laboratory
tests. Camels burn^
2596 sloaer than ^
aUgeofthelS^
of the
brands
than say of them. That
niOMi,.oo the average,
a amoking pi***
equal to
5
OtntA SMOKES
PER FACKl
GET THE “EXTRAS”
WITH SLOWER-BURNING
CAMELS.
TU CNMETTE OF COSTUER TOBACCOS
Make Democracy Work
The American people, fully awake to
the menace to our institutions, are willing
to make any conceivable economic sacri
fice in the name of liberty and security.
• But that doesn’t mean that the American
3>eople are going to be satisfied with mere
bills appropriating money and raising
taxes. They are going to make sure that
tax money spent produces results—^thal»
bureaucratic red tape is cut—waste re
duced—delay avoided.
, B is one thing to appropriate billions. It
j* aaother thing to translate those billions
•irpUnes and artillery and fighting
yfcipg Any. run-of-the-niill politician can
^ -v.i
trade with the others. Another provision
of supreme importance was the new deci
sion that the United States or any other
American nation would be given a free’
hand in taking over European possessions
if such were necessary to prevent a threat
to the peace of the new world.
This act is expected to bar Germany and
Italy from ever obtaining control of or
phaned American colonies of France, the
Netherlands and Great Britain. •
The remarkable success of this confer
ence is due, to a large measure to Secre
tary of State Cordell Hull. He.has cer
tainly carved a name for himself on the
pages of history. ‘
The man of the hour spent many days
and nights getting there.
Unemployment is blamed on the m
chine age ... as a matter of fact, the fault
lies in the age of the machine.
Most married men.tbink they would 1o
rich if they had remained singlci '
Success demands a steady flow of
ideas, ^ L-y. :,v
arms. Their problem rests upon
three vital questions.
What do we need?
Where is it?
How do we get It?
It perhap?! Is the greatest uni
fied effort ever undertaken by
the American people. It has a'
ready started.
What We Need
The outlines of the job under
way are already clear. On May
16, the President asked Congress
to provide $1,182,000,000 for de
fense. On May 31, he again sent
a message declaring that the in
credible events abroad, during
the latter part of May, necessitat
ed another $1,277,741,170 to
speed up preparation for our mil
itary and naval needs. On July
10, due to further drastic changes
the world situation, and be
cause of the united will of the
American people to defend them
selves against all enemies, for
eign and domestic, the President
.sked for further appropriation
of $4,848,171,957 for national
defense.
This would provide for;
Equipping a navy to meet any
possible combination of hostile
forces. ,
Total equipment for a land
force of 1,200,000.
Reserve stocks of tanks, guns,
and artillery ammunition for an
additional 800,000 men.
15,000 additional planes for
the the Aymy and 4,000 for the
Navy.
Manufacturing facllltlee public
and private to produce essential
0r.LS.CooRfer
3 .‘'—CHIROPRACTOR-^
Office NmI Door To
“ " Beiaa^StwdiraBt, Inc.
Offln CbBrf BMiy,
Important Notice to
DELINQUENT
TAXPAYERS
Of Wilkes County
I have been ordered by the Board of County Commissioners to adver
tise all real estate on which taxes for the year 1939 have not been paid.
This advertising will start within the next few days, and sale will take
place on . . ..
I must carry out the order of the Board of Commissicners, but I am
anxious to save every teuipaycr possible the extra cost of advertising as
well as the embarrassment of having his land adveitised. Therefore,
please pay your taxes for the year 1939 during the next few days so
that your property will not be included in the list.
Don’t forget, payment now will save you advertising costs.
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