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Monday* and Thnrsdaya at
Kotitfi Wilkecboro, N. C.
A J. CAKTiat’and JULIUS C. HUBBARD
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $1.50
3k Months 75
Four Months 50
Out of the State $2.00 per Year
EIntered at the post office at North Wilkea-
boro, N. C., as second class matter under Act
jf March 4, 1879.
MONDAY,, JUNE 9th, 1941
Younts’ Indictment
The federal government has ordered in
dictment of Pail Younts, Charlotte post
master and prominent politician, on
charges of violation of the Corrupt Prac
tices Act.
Just what the exact charges are, we do
not know, nor do we know whether or not
he is guilty. That is a matter for the U
S. court to determine and we trust that the
court will do its full duty.
But is is a healthy sign when the law
reaches out to say to the prominent and in
fluential that you cannot do corrupt things,
not even in politics, and get by with it.
Corruption in high as well as low places
is one of the worst enemies any nation Can
have. It is no use to spend billions, and
sacrifice lives to save democracy from at
tacks from without and let it crumble from
within.
The case in Charlotte is only one of
thousands. Every intelligent person can
cite instances of political corruption, of
coercion, of vote buying, bribery, and oth
er associated evils in his own circle of ac-
quaintance.s.
But let it be distinctly understood that
the prevalence of political corruption does
not justify it and does not lessen the evil.
What has happened in Charlotte in the
way of legal action to punish offenders
can and should happen in many other
places.
Coercion, extortion, threats and other
evils which come under the heading of po
litical corruption, regardle.ss of what jrar-
ty or individuals are concerned, are more
potent enemies of democracy than powers
bevond the seas.
(Skyland Post)
So far, this “great sacrifice" which the
government says we are going to be called
upon to make has been about as much of a
hardship as it is for a woman to give up
her winter hat for Lent.
-* The farmers, who thought they would
be called upon to “give until it hurts,” are
now slated to be on the receiving end of
more government aid than they ever have
had before.
Labor, which feared it might have tr
postpone its ambitions for pay increases,
has been left free to use defense produc
tion as a lever for forcing such increases.
The white collar employees, who thought
they might have to begin wearing hair
shirts, are finding that defense means more
opportunities and better pay.
The industrial leaders, who feel they are
the ones who are going to be called upon
to do the real dollar sacrificing, are a
lea.st having a “respite before taxes” which
is giving them an opportunity^ to store up a
reserve for a rainy day.
We know heavy taxes are coming, cut
ting of government expenditures is com
ing, scarcity of some products is coming,
price increases are coming and other sacri
fices are due soon.
But when you go to a good movie there
is no sense in not enjoying it thoroughly
because the previews of Coming Attrac
tions don’t sound too hot.
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Clippings are thinge we put away in
drawers, there to remain unseen until the
heirs clean up.—Richmond News-Leader.
Home: Place the youngsters come to
from school to get the car. — Greensboro
Daily News.
And a lot of the war dogs that bark so
loudly are only puppets.—Greensboro
Daily News.
Backward races are ones that still have
to kill people by hand.—Portland Express.
These gasless Sundays won’t be so bad
if Madam Perkins is given her walking
papers too.—Greensboro Daily News.
If Senator Carter Glass must stutter
w'hen he tries to say what he thinks of
Senator Reynolds, he might ask the Greek.-
for a word that will fit.—Statesville Daily
Two Jobs For Farmers
In a recent address, Fred R. Sexauer.
president of the Dairymen’s League Co
operative Association, said that farmers
have two jobs before them now; First,
they must produce this nation's food, and
food for export as well; second, they must
insi.st upon i)rices sufficient to keep fooci
production at the nece.ssary level, and to
maintain the farm population’s standai'd
of living.
This doesn’t mean that the farmer is out
to profiteer and to cash in on the nation’s
emergency. It does mean, however, that
the farmer can't be expected to pay higher
wages to labor, higher taxes to govern
ment. and higher prices for supplies of all
kinds without receiving a proportionately
higher return for what he sells. The
farmer is not a magician; he can’t pro
duce money out of the air.
The big job of the farmers now is to es
tablish an equitable relation between op
erating cost and selling cost. Agriculture
remains the backbone of the nation. If it
starves, we’ll all starve with it.
LIFE’S BETTER WAY
WALTER E. ISENHOUR,
Hiddenite, N. C.
ON AWX*®XINQ PEOPLE 'f
the famed hyp
notist, wu waking np the pretty
young lady who had been aalMp
24 hoars in Rhodas-Day com-
pnry's window someone was
heard to jremark that Kirma
should stay around here' awhile
and wake up several people he
knew. And he further said as one
instance that the town should he
awakened to the tact that It wlU
lose the national guard com
pany unless an armory is built
and that the town hrd lost
enough >by circumstances beyond
local control, to say nothing of
what It can lose by neglect.
NOT HOME ANY MORE
A lady here in town said her
residence was not, a home any
more. In day time it is just a fill
ing station and at night a parking
place.
Home used to xe the center of
activltiee, social and otherwise.
Now it is very much like the good
lady said. The children park at
home for intervals of varying
length at night. In the daytime
they are ft home long enough to
fill up two or three times with
eats.
TR.APPir .SUBJECT AGAI.N
It has '>een a custom for us to
write about the traffic situation
in North Wilkesboro wihgn we
could think of nothing better;
and it surely is getting into the
middle of a bad fix when we can
think of nothing better.
However, we are shocked our
selves because we must admit
that the traffic conglameration
here has cleared up to a great ex
tent since police clamped down a
few days ago.
The trouble here hf' aiwavs
been that every individual figures
he or she owned the streets and
had a clear title to same. The
streets are public property and
belong to Phe people wh i pay,
taxes, et cetera, hut trouhie must I
crop out when every person ti ke; ■
the attitude that the street.s are '
his and that others who don’t like I
it can take a long running jump|
into nevermindwhere. I
Traffic jams frequently origi- j
nate becau.^e some motorist de
cides to stop right in the street in
the traffic lane and have a nicej
long chat with some .sequaint-{
ance.
To him it does not matter if
there are dozens of cars behind
him with their horns sending
screaming honks to the heavens
and it doesn't matter if some of
those many people he U holding
np really want to go some plaee.
He. or she, as is often the case,
must finish the leisnrely chat a-
boul what they are going to do
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fast. If the proposed 20 per cent Defense Tax
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; ■ —
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The motor industry offers us an oppor
tunity to make sacrifices in the intere.st of
national defense. We shall be asked to get
along a while with those funny old 1942
models.—The New Yorker.
People ha^'e more interest in you than
you think. Just wait till something hap
pens thai, you don’t want known.—Bran
don Sun.
In the case of Hugh Johnson the Presi
dent evidently takes the view that it is not
necessary to be a general to conduct a col
umn.—Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch.
Oh, for the good old days when we fill
ed our front pages with stories about tree-
gitters.—Statesville Daily.
I mart who has no theories at all about
Hess case was taken into custody late
;erday. He is suspected of being a fifth
titmist.—Batlimore Evening Sun.
STAND STRAIGHT
Lile s better way is to stand ,straight.
This means much indeed. Just here is
where many are falling short, hence mak
ing a failure of life. As they stand crook
ed they live, act, speak and go crooked. To
be straight is natural; to bo crooked is un
natural. Cod’s way is a straight way; the
devil s way is a crooked way. God would
have ns .stand .straight; the devil would
have us stand crooked. God would have
us walk straight; the devil would have us
walk crooked. Unto whom are you yield
ed—God or the devil. How are you stand
ing’.'
To .stand straight before God and man
means that we are honest in every particu
lar; that we are absolutely truthful, hence
men can depend upon what we say; that
we are thoroughly sober, abstaining from
all dopes and intoxicants; that we love
Cod supremely, then love our fellows out
of tender hearts fervently; that we have a
pure heart, a clean mind and a .sanctified
soul; that we are yielded to God’s will and
walk accordingly; that we delight in all
that is good, noble and religiously beauti
ful and genuine; that we hate every evil
and false way; that we have a good char
acter; that we are upright in our manhood
and womanhood; that we have good plans,
high aims and sublime purposes in life;
that we do all the good we can and no
harm to mankind; that we pray continual
ly, obey God faithfully, and walk in the
footprints of Jesus daily, which lead al
ways upward and heavenward. Therefore
is it not wonderful to stand .straight?
To stand straight means, absolutely, that
we make the best of life. We accept and
utilize our golden opportunities to the best
advantage. We waste not our time in idle-
ne.ss. We use it to the best advantage as
life goes on. Mfe make the best of our tal
ents instead of hiding them away, or lett
ing them lie idle. We read and study the
Word of God in order to know what is
right and wrong, then accept the right.and
reject, hate and shun the wrong. It means
that we love, mix and mingle with the peo
pie of God; that we likewise love the sin
ner and help win him to Christ; that we
love the church, the Sabbath school, and
cherish the means of grace. It means that
we are unselfish, and that we give liberal-
Iv of our earthlv substance to God’s cause.
To stand upright, morally and spiritually
means that life shall ;ome to a beautiful
and successful close, with a wonderful in
fluence left behind to live after us and
bless the world.
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