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TWO 1%' §teioi # I n \' I’ I , ; , ToiidiiiyV ABd Tlranday* at , Katl^^WaMdMro, N. C. D. J. CASTES mad JULIUS C. HUBBASD y .'• PttUiaben SUBSCRiPTION RATES: One Year $1.60 Six Months .76 Four Months 50 Out of the State $2.00 per Year Entered at the post office at North Wilkes- , boro, N. C., as second class matter under Act jf March 4, 187? MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1941 \e. Little Matter Important We call attention this time to a.little matter here which we consider important., North Wilkesboro needs to pay more at tention to its proximity to the Blue Ridge Parkway and Bluff Park, now that the park aeras are really being used. We need bigger and more attractive signs at intersections here directing the travelers to the Parkway and telling the distance. No other city has three good highways leading directly into the Parkway. This is the logical gateway from the south and part of the communities down east to the Parkway and we should make the most of that fact. We can direct travelers in three direc tions to the parkway, all within 25 miles. Our proximity to the great scenic boule vard is an asset which we are not using to proper advantage. Probably some good signs could be erected in sight of the parkway giving di rections to North Wilkesboro. The signs there say Wilkesboro, so many miles, but the cross country traveler gains little, knowledge from that. If we could tell the tourists that North Wilkesboro is a good town with good ho tels, etc., we would be getting somewhere. Of course we know that commercial signs on the Parkway are forbidden. We would be the last to advocate cluttering it up wdth commercial signs. But we do be lieve that on intersecting highways which lead to this city some kind of .signs in sight of the parkwa.v could tell ju.st a little more about North Wilkesboro than the number of miles distance from the parkway. Appeasers? Described as a move to prevent subver- eive teaching, trustees of the Univer.sity of North Carolina, at their meeting last Sat urday, provided that members of the fac ulty should take an oath to support he Federal Constitution. A member of the board declared in the meeting that there was “considerable un rest” in the .state about the activities of “not more than 10 or 12 profes.sors,” and declared that the taking of an oath to sup port the Constitution of the United States would quiet that unrest. There could be no objection to having members of the faculty of any state-sup ported educational institution take an oath to support the Federal Constitution, but it is preposterous to expect, or even to be lieve, that the taking of such an oath would change the color or conviction of any teacher. To an hone.st man, sincere in his patriotism, an oath is a bond; but to one of subversive purpose, an oath to sup port the Federal Con.stitution is nothing more than a veil behind which he might conceal his true intentions. If there are subversive influences at the University, let’s forret them out, put them '■hp onen and determine, if possible, their purpose, and then give them the feel oj >n “educated toe.” From the manner in which the trustees approached and disposed of the question of radicalism at the University, we would judge tliat each member of the board must have carried a copy of the Chamberlain umbrella.—Oxford Ledger. Our idea of a national defender would be somebody who could discover that it’s contrary to national defense to blow auto mobile horns needlessly.—Norfolk Virgini an-Pilot. Now that Charlotte has repealed its blue laws, the other side sees only red—Greens boro Daily News. Add metal shortage: Iron in the nation’s craw.—Greensboro Daily News. ROOSEVELT WILL NOT BE THE ‘ FIRST TO CRACK (Kemersville Review) It has been said the outcome of the pres ent war may turn on the wits, courage and physical stamina of three key fig;ures— Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. About the physical condition of Hitler and Churchill we know little, but that about the third of these men of incalculable energy there is authorita tive knowledge which should dispel any idea that he will be the first to crack. President Roosevelt, despite the strain to which he has been subjected, is healthy today as any man of 69 can be. This is the reassuring word of Admiral Ross T. McIntyre, the President’s personal ph.vsician, has passed on to the people of the nation. Close to ideal for a man of Mr. Roosevelt’s years are his blood pre.°- sure, heart action and metabolism, his or ganic condition generaMy, says Admiral McIntyre. In the eight years he has been in the White House the President has nev er required a sedative to sleep. His only ill ness has been slight colds and a touch of flu a year ago. Mr. Roosevelt’s weight has not fluctuat ed more than nine pounds since 1933, Di. McIntyre adds. At this heaviest he weigh ed 191 pounds and at his lightest 182 1-2 pounds. Ordinarily the President can eat what he likes and as much as he please.s. However, Dr. McIntosh strives to keep his patient’s weight around 185, and when it goes too much beyond that he puts a ban on second helpings and orders a stepping up on the President’s program. Exercise is gained chiefly by the Presi dent in swimming in the White House pool, now reduced to three times a week instead of daily, and in daily stretching4 ex ercises followed with massage. Lack of sunshine is the one serious deficiency in the President’s health-guarding program. Dr. McIntyre used to overcome this by sending his charge off on a sea voyage or to Hyde Park occasionally, but the press of defense problems has curtailed the op portunities for these beneficial outings. So far, however, the President is standing up well under this deficiency and also under his greatly lengthened routine, according to Dr. McIntyre. THE DEMANDING SPIRIT ‘WILKESBORO, N* 16, Br DW1GBT ^CB0LS.^«L, lilGHTKR REIADING The student who was- so far be hind In hia studies said that he was in a better position to pursue them. Mountain Guide; "Be careful not to fall here. Itr is dan-serous. But if you do fall remember to look to the left, rs you «et a most wonderful view.” 1 ' The reason some people -are unemployed is because they hare never found a job suitable. There was the fellow who wanted' to be chief linesman for the wireless tel^hone service and there has always been the one looking for a Job where he could go to work at 12 noon, quit at one p. m., and have one. hour for lunch with two good looking helpers. The student who was asked to give sentences containing four words—defeat, deduct, defense and detail, gave the following: "De feet of de duck goes over de fence before de tail." That one old that Mark Anthony only grinned when it was told him by Cleopatra but he hope you en joyed it anyway. t The young man about town goes steady with a certain girl and when asked why he did not j occasionally date others he gave a good reason—said no other girl would date him. Some yohng brides treat their husbands like Grecian Gods. They place burnt offerings before them three times a day. That comment about reading a- cros.i the two parallel signs and making a sentence of “Go to church and dance” was of course incidental. But at a religiou; service in a little church not sr many miles from North Wilkes boro we once saw a 'teen age girl dance for .SO minutes. Part oi her dancing had rhythm. Hell is so hot, said the prover bial colored preacher, that they use molten metal out of furnaces for ice cream. mbdel* 'w6re' •eh«d ytmcrdiv by Leon Henderson, price f|mfnts.i. tMtor, to withdraw the increasee immediately to aid in residing in- Gation. . Henderson announced elso that hie office would watch' used car prices closely next eeason when the “pressure comes from the curtaiUpent of new models.’’ Man ufacturers have a^eed to cut pro- dnetion of next season’s models by 20 per cent. "Recent price advances are in consistent with favorable eern- ings position of the industry as a whole during recent period.3,” Henderson said in a telegram to the manufacturers. He added that “maintenance of stable prices and prevention of inflftlonary price tendencies make imperative sound leader ship by the automo.bile industrj- at this time.’’ Henderson told the companies that in “event of specific hardship prompt adjustment of this re quest will be made.’’ ^ The request was ‘ sent to the Ford Motor Company, the Chrys ler Corporation, the Nash-Kelvi- nator Corporation, the Studebak- er Corporaiton and the Hudson aileffTthW tlOBf:,piyjBr^es. , latertol' S^etary Ickes, >rho also' i p^bleum co-ordinator, proposed this slogan tor the At lantic coast:' “Don’t -waste oil and gasoline.” Vice-President WalMice,. in an address to the national commit tee on the housing emergency, urged that every citizen figure out for himself "a personal stand ard of priorities.’’ By cutting down on purcha.tes of things “we can do without,” he srld, “we shall be able to out produce the aggressor nations and tak^ the heart out of the dictators.” Ickes declared th?t restrictions on use of automobiles In the East appeared ’’inevitable.’’ but said “there is no cause for excite ment or hy.5terip.’* » » — - TO'- Autborltias lot' him out of tha^ Ic to put connty jail • 18 mjautes for, ' restrlc- wedding. He’s senring for. robbery. A4%\set REVISED The U. S. Department of Agri culture now recommends a .:pray containing only half rs much tar tar emetic and one-fourth a- much brown sugar as previonsly reco-mmended for thrlps injury to gladiolus blooms. Ads. get attention—and result.- FAST MOTOR EXPRESS SERVICE BEHWBKN North Wilkesboro and Charlotte Two schedules operated each way every day. SCHEDULE Leaving Charlotte, 9 a. m. arriving North Wilkesboro about noon. Leaving Charlotte 8 p. m., arriving here for 7 a. m. deliveries. Leaving here for Charlotte daily 7 a. m.— '2:30 p. m. M. and M. MOTOR EXPRESS Headquarters Dick's Service Station TELEPHONE .371 North Wilkesboro, N. C. II is now estiioatod that the world cotton crop for the^ 1940- 41 season will be approximately 29.700.000 bales produced or 75.600.000 acres. Market supplies of truck crops vailable and in prospect for ear ly suimmer continue smaller than a year earlier, but supplies of new potatoes are larger, says the U. S. Department of Agriculture. "umtmwySf TVM7AC Vejm TmiPtlW ■ 1 Available as a six or an eight in any model and featuring scores of new beauty, comfort, and performance features that make it, more than ever, the VALUE LEADER OF THE LOW-PRICE FIELD. McNEILL PONTIAC COMPANY Boone Trail Highway North Wi»^»'boro. N. C. (Statesville Record) Petain, thinly-incarnate ghost of thi France that held the line before Verdun, speaks to Frenchmen these days as a sad dened father might speak to an erring child. “We are arranging everything with the Great White Father in Berlin. Don’t wor ry. Don’t think. Papa Petain will tell yoi what Hitler wants, and arrange to do i‘ Ju.st stop thinking—obey!” That is the tenor of Petain’s little homilies, verbal soothing-syrup for the most part, to keep France from rattling her prison door. But the other day a phrase of Petain clanged like the closing of an iron gate. A committee of “workers, em ployers and technicians” was thus instruct ed: "Your task is to put an end to the de manding spirit . . To do this aging symbol justice, what he meant was the sort of uncompromising, zealotic struggle in the social and political fields which helped tear France into rib bons; zealots of the extreme right and ex treme left, each with a grin, intransigeanl spirit that “if it cannot be exactly as I wish it, then let it perish.” How this demand for the end of the de manding spirit will set with FVenchmen who once demanded an end of autocratic monarchy, and got it, we do not know. But Heaven help the world when the demand ing spirit is itself extinguished. It is only because our forefathers demanded liberty and then demanded that it be respected, that we have it today. Right now the nation is doing some de manding also. An overwhelming majority of its people demand that military strength be built; that a swelling and uninterrupt ed stream of military supplies and equip ment be created. No. We do not want to extinguish the demanding spirit. Every good thing (along with a lot of bad things) which man has achieved on earth is due to the demanding spirit. Now is the time, however, when lesser, personal, individual demands of organiz ed labor or those of management. Above the bickering of these individuals, groups, classes, rises the united demand of the whole American people that the job we have set ourselves must be triumphant ly .accomplished. &ainli5S Steel CoUlhii Sbse-Cem&l Crisfer MerntmlSatC^ ^ THESE EXTRAS AND OTHERS, TOO! Kelvinotor brings you completely reliable — amazingly economical refrigeration. But it also brings you something more ... the extras that mean so much convenience every day in the week. 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