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Jo^nuJ • Patriot
ISaXEFESfDWr IN POLITICS
^ — Moiidajrt and Tharsd«ya''at
North Wilko^horo. N. C
Ik. i. GAXTEB and JTTUUS C. HUBBASD
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Ono Y«ar 11.60
Biz Months .T6
Pour Months .60
Out of the State $2.00 per Year
Itetmd at tba poet oMca at North WilkM-
baxk N. (X, aa aactoad elaaa mattar oodar iut
of Anu 4, ItTt.
MONDAY, SEPT. 9th, 1940
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The Spoken Word
jl am the Spoken Word. I am the one
thing you cannot do without. You need
me in public life, in business, in social in
tercourse. With right treatment, I am your
best friend. Misuse me, and I become your
relentless enemy . . . Choose me with care,
and I gain your positions, make you weal
thy, secure you fast friends. I can bring
you to prominence, make you a leader in
the affairs of men. You can use me to
sway the minds of others to your views.
By my aid you can sway the minds of
others to your views. By my aid you can
strike terror into the hearts of your ene
mies, soothe the minds of the infuriated
mob, strengthen the respect and affection
of your friends. With my help you may
become the master of situations and of all
who oppose you. My power, if properly
employed, is limited only by the stars. I
am a mighty ally—I am the Spoken Word.
Entrusrt me with, messages, and I am as
faithful and swift as Mercurj,’. I will con-
vej your sympathy to those in trouble. I
will penetrate quietly into the inmost dep
ths of the broken heart, and breathe into
it new life and hope. I will carry your fin-
^estt thought, your most delicate fancy, your
noblest aspirations, your tenderest mes
sage, to the minds and soul of your friend.
Or send me to your battle-fields, and I will
restore your faltering troops and lead
them on to victorj'. I am an invaluable
courier—I am the Spoken Word. But if
you destort me, if you abuse me and mar
my beauty, I become your most dangerous
enemy. You lose the respect of your fel
low-men; you lose your power of e.xpres-
sion, the power which can lead you to hon
or and fame . . . Send me on carele.ss mis
sions, and I assist your enemies to defeat
your plans and ambitions. I give them
power to overcome you and to cause your
friends to desert you. I am a power that
can make you or break you. I am the
Spoken Word.”
The message above was written in 1919
by Edw'ard Tyron Mille~, a nephew of H.
H. Morehouse, of this county.
It is one of the finest jobs of putting
words together that we have ever seen in
our limited editorial e.xperience. Eveiy
phrase is vibrant with meaning and clad
with eternal truth. It is worth me.nio-
rizing, and more important—it is worth
living by each day.
to
—'UnderpMS Ahead,” or s^e such
ing message. ' ‘
“You just can’t continually ignta^e warn
ing signs without eventually coming
grief,” Hocutt declared., “My adyise to
drivers is to read and heed every highway
warning you see. Ninety-nine times out of
a hundred you might be able to ignore a
sign without meeting with an accident, but
you never know which time is the hun-
dreth.
The Living Suffer
The late Will Rogers, who had an as
tonishing gift for touching on the foibles
and weaknesses of us humans, once wrote
this: “If a man doesn’t believe in life in
surance let him die once without any.
That will teach him a lesson.”
All of us have observed what happens
to the families of men who have tried that.
In a tragically large number of cases, the
result is want and privation. Widows
must work when they should be enjoying
a happy old age. Children must go without
adequate education. Homes are lost—and
long-laid plans for the future are irre
parably destroyed.
Borrowed Commeat
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Warning Signs
Paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln’s fam
ous utterance, Ronald Hocutt, director of
the Highway Safety Divisionn, said this
week that “you can ignore some warning
signs all of the time, and all warning
signs some of the time, but you can t ig
nore all wam ng signs all of the time.”
The safety director made this comment-
after looking over a report which showed
that 13 North Carolinians were killed and
more than a score injured during the first
six months otf this year as smashing into
bridge-abutments, overpasses and under
passes.
“There is no conceivable excuse for ac
cidents of this nature,” said Hocutt. “It
is true that a good many highway bridges
in this state and some overpasses and un
derpasses are dangerously narrow, but
every single one of them is plainly marked.
It will take lots of time and money to wid
en all these bridges and underpasses, and
meanwhile it is up to motor vehicle opera
tors to pay attention to the sig;ns the State
has erected to call attentiton to these haz
ards.”
Hocutt stated that every one of the 60
highway bridges and underpasses into
which automobiles smashed during the
fifgt half of this year were plaihly indicat-
bv lan« waning signs- These signs
wa Bridge,” or “Slow
FRANCE, GUINEA PIG
(Reidsville Review)
Who says France under the new consti
tution will not be a requblic?
It is Marshal Petain speaking, with
plaintive defiance.
What France will be, no one knows. It
is not a republic today.
The American people have considerable
sympathy for France. That sympathy be
gan when Frenchmen and PYance helped
the struggling colonies to gain their liber
ty. True the debt of Lafayette was gen
erally regarded as paid in full in 1917-
1918. But Americans have liked the spir
it off Frenchmen and of France.
There is today and there always will be
in the United States a sympathetic inter
est in the French people. But that does
not imply a similarity sympathetic inter
est in any particular government under
■which they be forced to live at any given
moment. The American people are bound
to watch intently the development of the
the Petain-Laval experiment in France.
Certainly France is no republic today.
The whole country is now under the Ger
man heel. Nothing can be done without
the approval of the German invaders.
True, they disclaim interest in or respon
sibility for the French government. But
it is clear that it is not an independent
government. Therefore it cannot be a re
public, for a proud independence is the
first requisite of such.
As to what France may become: Petain
said “the international capitalist system
is outmoded . . . the base of our new state
must be work, the family, and the father-
land.” Well, those last three are bases of
any state. As to capitalism, it may be pos
sible to organize a state without private
property and individual initiative, and re
tain freedom—all w'e know is that it has
never been done.
No pre.sent French official holds office
by the votes of his fellow citizens. Is that
the mark of a republic? No one may hold
office in France unless born in France of
a French father. Is that a democratic re
striction? The new French constitution
provides state regulation of religion, the
family, youth, speech and the press. Is
that liberty?
France may, as the marshal suggests,
become again a republic. But it isn’t now,
and foundations have been laid for some
thing quite different. What is built
those foundations we shall see.
evMi tha
the ''‘
f^«aikni^n )«a
ban break* ^ ^
Navy la «ha ,flnrt aervlee oit-^ei ^ df aecdn^fe ibi^
Jdbi vHikht behind. In feet rUibt^
down - by the water’s edge and
backing uf, the Navy, is the Coast
Artillery. But the Coast Artillery
is not only engaged In throwing
metal at ships at sea, it is equipi>'
ed with powerful anti-aircraft
guns and is prepared to use them
few protection of civilian and pro
duction centers.
iSo the Coaet Artillery is split
into two main parts, the harbor
defense ard anti-aircraft. Some of
the harbor defense regiments are
orgranized to man the big fixed
guns in our coastal fortifications.
Others operate the railway cars,
also large callbersr, which can be
moved up and down the coaet
readily to welcome any approach
ing force. Other regiments have
guns towed by fast heavy trucks
for harbors that don’t have fixed
guns on rail lines. All these dif
ferent regiments also include an
ti-aircraft units for their own
protection.
Weapons of !H,e Coast Artillery
The Coast Artillery employs a
variety of weapons. There are
long range 12, 14, and 16-lnch
guns. These are used for fixed
harbor defense and can shoot an
armor-plercIng shell weighing ov
er a. ton for more than 20 miles.
They have 6, 8, and 10-lnch cali
ber guns and 12-lnch high-firing
mortars, for use against ships not
big enough to des6;rve the best.
There are also rapid-fire 3 to 6-
Inch guns for protecting mine
fields in the coastal waters, stopp
ing fast enemy torpedo bbats and
making things nasty if the enemy
tries to land forces.
The motor-drawn units have a
155 mm. gun, which is practical
ly the same as the field artillery
gun and can hurl a 95 pound pro
jectile some 10 miles. The rail
way units use 8-inch to 14-inch
guns and 12-inch mortars mount
ed on special railway cars.
The Coast Artillery also lays
fields of electrically controlled
.submarine mines which can be ex
ploded from shore as hostile ships
pass over them.
Coast Defense Systern.«
Our coast defenses are based
on elaborate systems for locating have to make a direct hit on an
our harbor tefenteK
servatiou station*,
searchlights, and elahofi^ com
munication eompment so that
men who man the guns know
where the ship is going to bo
when their shell arrlvM on the
scene. Nineteen harbors in conti
nental United. States have these
pennanent installations Many
mors are being huilt up, while at
the same time our mobile coast
artillery Is being readied for ac
tion along the front.
Anti-Aircraft INvlslaa of Coast
Artillery
Jn contrast to the heavy weap
ons of the harbor defense units
of the coast artillery are the light,
fast-moving guns of the anti-air
craft units. The problems are
somewhat the same, hut anti-air
craft ibatterles must attack and
smack down a target that flies
several hundred miles an hour,
anywhere from the end of the
gun’s muzzle to the height of
four miles. Anti-aircraft batteries
must also be able to move to new
firing positions In protecting the
army, and to be where the en
emy airplanes are protecting :.he
cities. ’Therefore, there are few
fixed anti-aircraft guns at vital
points; all the rest are motorized
and can move on highways—
guns, searchlights, fire director
and all, and they can move at
high speed—more than three
hundred miles in a single day,
and get there in time to fill the
air with flying explosives before
dark.
The present standard weapon
of the coast artillery anti-aircraft
is a 3-inch gun that heaves a
13-pound projectile against en
emy planes up to four miles alti
tude. This gun will be replaced
portly by the 90 mm. 13-lnch
(gun) which has a more rapid
fire and shoots nearly six miles
straight up. About that lev.ei the
enemy pilots are so busy trying
to keep warm that they have lit
tle opportunity to do much bomb-)
ing. The shells have time fuses i
which are fixed to burst when the j
shells climb to the midst of the j
enemy airplanes. They do not!
JtaMgh,'
8,000 tsfiiin.
6:-yMoro thsa
heir wives snd
oyiaro sre expected to attend the
Sfik. annual Add day at . the
Coaata) Plain station^ at Wlliard
Thursday, September 12, to bear
outstanding speakers and view
sgrlccltural research progrees on
field tripa
Bpeakerg will he J. M. Brough
ton of Raleigh, Democratic nom
inee for Governor; Lt.-Col. G.
W. OUlette of Wilmington. D. S.
Army district engineer; Col. J.
W. Harrelson, Dean of Admin
istration, State College and James
H. Clark of Elizabethtown. Com
missioner of Agriculture W. Kerr
Scott will Introduce Broughton.
State Senator Roy Rowe will
preside as chairman for the day
and D. S. Coltrane,' assistant to
the Commissioner of Agriculture,
will be chairman of the demon
stration program.
M. G. Mann of Raleigh, Man
ager of the N. C. Cotton Growers’
Cooperative Association and J^ck
Flsler of Ivanhoe, Sampson coun
ty, will he speakers on the wom
en’s program with Mrs. Estelle
T. Smith, State College district
agent, presiding.
Exhibits by State College Elx-
tension Service and U. S. and
State Departments of Agriculture
specialists will include tobacco
grading, egg grading, dairying,
poultry, horticulture, zooloib'.
small fruit and truck crop di
senses and nursery. A farm ma
chinery and railway express ex
hibit will also be included.
D. H. Boney of Teachey will ie
superintendent of contests.
Field trips will be made‘under
the supervision of Dr. Chas. De:ir-
,is spoBiprsd: thseli
i|4. C. Depsrtmdiffii «f'
furs (tad N, x C. BSzp«l.
SUtion. ,
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a
TaatthisiasPNscBlplian
phsmsey. That fact is
bamsdistdysfMsntssyea
Htp snrnsi tmr Uuaholc.
Wm tmr* no qnsvrci with
•ad cast BO diMnflCWcnt
noon aiy othar typo of
HMTCMBtUR CStAbHclUBMlta
Bat Mneo wo tpedoUM in
drags—and in the proper
oC IMOOU'ip
tiofu, we naturally onpha-
ft— tKl» point.^
Bat the prefeooioml at-
moapbere lo apparent here
doea not mean that yon
pay a higher price. Actn-
■lly, becaose of oar large
Tolame end low overheorl.
It eoeU no more—end p^
hape leea—to have us flu
yonr pnecriptlone.
Don’t play with dynamite—
(trying to treat ailment.s you
don’t Imow about) but consult
your physician and let him diag
nose your case. Then b™g us
the prescription to be filled at
money-saving prices.
ill—»
HORTON’S »
DRUG STORE
Fountain Phone 300
Prescription Dept. Phone 350
Two Registered Druggists on du- ■
ty at all times—C. C. (Charlie)
Reins and Palmer Horton.
Low Prices Eve
targets out at sea, with great ac
curacy and speed. Since it may
take a half minute for a big shell
to travel from the gun to the
enemy’s ship, and since the target
may have moved from where it
was by the time the shell gets
there, the coast artillery has to
figure out where the ship will be
when the shell gets there. That
may be a half mile ahead of
where the ship was when the
shell started. In figuring this out,
the artillery officer has to take
into account the effect of the
wind, temperature, the earth’s
airplane destroyer. These shells
follow the bad neighbor policy.
Anti-Aircraft Works >Jke
In the ad of I>erBer’8 Depart
ment store last Thursday the
price of J4.95 quoted on ladles’
coats should have read $5.95 up
to $29.95. The Journal-Patriot
regrets the error, and gladly
prints the correction.
Twenty-one persons were killed
in 12 auto-train accidents in this
state for the first six months of
this year.
Have you seen this Chart
at Gulf Stations?
on
AUTOMATIC ATROCITIES
(Thomasville Tribune)
In sending to the United States pictures
otf churches, hospitals, schools, and hum
ble homes bombed by the enemy, both
Britain and Germany try to stress the bru
tality of the other.
It .’s useless. Everybody knows by now
this nuch about aerial warfare:
1. No bomber, British or German, is
stupid enough to waste bombs on targets
like those if he can help it.
2. The plain fact is that air bombing is
not accurate enough for any bomter to be
sure what he will hit when he pulls the
lever. He may aim with clean conscience
at the munitions dump, but the worker’s
home or the First Methodist Church ge+s
the bomb.
War, and those who have resorted to
war, must bear the blame for the death of
these innocents, the destruction of these
treasurers. Atrocity propaganda, when
the ’‘atrocities” are the blind and inevi
table result of war that ia waged today, is
not'foing to get MybodUr
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TREMENDOUS
IMPROVEMENT
IN
GULF GASOLINES!
HUGE STEP UP
IH GULFGASOUHESi
T hi
gi\
IIS CHART, we hope, will
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gasolines. It is based on a scien
tific test of ga-3oline quality today
—a test that is used by many of
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selves. The chart shows the fair
comparative measure of step up
in both GCX)D GULF and GULF
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u
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