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9f March ,4, 1879.
MONDAY, JULY 7, 1941
Independence
One hundred and .sixty-five years ago on
Friday, July 4, a group of men represent
ing the American colonies met in Phila
delphia and proclaimed their indepen
dence and the right to govern themselves.
In the declaration, which was written by
a committee headed by Thomas Jefferson
and adopted unanimously, it was admitted
that peoples should not be hasty in break
ing away from' established governments at
slight provocation and went on to enumer
ate a long and imposing list of grievances
again.st the King of England.
It took men of great stamina and cour
age, w'ho pledged their lives, fortunes and
sacred honor together, to make that mo-
menteous step 165 years ago.
On Friday the American people cele
brated the fourth of July.
And because of the loss of liberty to
about half the people in the world, the hol
iday for us took on added significance.
It will prove beneficial to the American
citizenship in that they were sufficiently
aw'akened to learn something about why
July fourth is a holiday.
We hestitate to make this assertion, but
we believe that half the inhabitants of
America today cannot tell in any intelli
gent manner why we celebrate July fourth
as a holiday. That half thinks about July
fourth as a day to shoot firecrackers, get
drunk and otherw^^ate a disturbance.
For the benefit OTt^Se who did not lis
ten in, we wish to publish in this column
the following news account of the nation
wide observance of the Fourth Friday as
led by President Roosevelt:
Hyde Park. N. Y.—In an unprece
dented Independence Day ceremony.
President Roosevelt told his fellow
Americans ye.sterday that they mu.st
pledge lives as w'ell as allegiance to
country and flag because the funda-
tal principles for which their forefath
ers fought in 1776 were “being struck
doivn abroad and definitely they are
threatened here.”
Millions of Americans, commemorat
ing the holiday as they pleased—at
beaches, ball parks, picnic groves and
home.s—pau.sed solemnly at 4 p. m. (e.
s.t.) and heard the admonition of their
Chief Executive.
Then, led by Chief Ju.stice Harlan
Fisk Stone, people and President spoke
as one—
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the re
public for which it .stands, one nation in
divisible, with liberty and justice for
all.”
But the liberty of that nation indivi
sible, Mr. Roosevelt warned, cannot sur
vive here alone if freedom is lo.st in all
other nations.
“This is why,” he said, speaking by
radio from the Franklin D. Roo.sevelt
Librar>% “we are engaged in a serious,
in a mighty, in a unified action in the
cause of the defense of the hemi.sphere
and the freedom of the seas. We need
not the loyalty and unity alone, but we
need speed and efficiencv and toil—and
an end to back biting and an end to thie
sabotage which runs far deeper than the
blowing up. of munitions plants.
“I tell the American people .solemnly
that the United States will never survive
as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty
surrounded by a cruel desert of dictator-
^^^“And so it is that when we repeat the
CTeat pledge to our country and to our
flag it must be our deep conviction that
we pledge as well our work, our will,
and if it be necessary our very lives.’
Labor’s Chance
\ccording to Attorney General Jackson,
tain labor leaders responsible for recent
ikes in defense industries have definite-
communist sympathies. They are follow-
long-established Soviet “wrecking”
ics
now remains to be seen whether the
c and file of labor will continue to ac-
this kind of alien-inspired leadership,
does, the government will have no
choice but to use the sternest measurea—
and the public mil back the government
up. Labor can clean bouse now, adjust its
grievances through meditation, and buckle
down to the vital defense job. To continue
to strike against the nation’s safety will
prove the most suicidal thing labor can do.
IRQ. N;
MONDAY, JULY i: l|tti
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By DWIGHT NICHOLS, et sL
Borrowed Comment
TAXPAYERS PAYING
(Skyland Post)
One of the favorite arguments of those
who see any justification in defense strikes
is this: “If a company is increasing its pro
fits because of defense orders there is no
reason why labor shouldn’t share in that
increased profit.”
That is certainly the best reason offered
for rapid wage increases, but it doesn I
hold much water under the present defense
contract set-up. For when wages are in
creased above what they were when a de
fense contract was made, the government,
not the employer, is billed.
The contracts aren’t as simple as that,
but that is what they amount to. Take the
North American Aviation company, for in
stance: in its contract with the govern
ment that company has a clause which
provides that the government will reim
burse it for wage increases which are not
above average wage increase for the air
plane industry as a whole. If the wages
for the airplane industry go up to 20 per
c6nt and North America s increases up
25 per cent, the company loses 5 per cent,
if their wages go up 15 per cent, the com
pany gains 5 per cent and if their wages
go up the average amount of 20 per cent
the government takes care of that in
crease.
The reason for such clauses in contracts
is based on the fact that such contracts are
made to cover co.st plus what the govern
ment considers a fair profit. If the com
pany had to stand the loss due to wage in
creases, it would not, in the government’.^
opinion, make a fair profit and would pro
bably suffer lo.sses.
When wages are rai.sed in defense in-
du.stries, it is the taxpayer and not the em
ployer who has to foot the bill.
CONVENIENTLY LOCATED
On Friday, July fourth, a younfr
man who had imbihed far too
much aplrlte, considering the
weather, and everything, rtagge’’
ed along the street until he got
to the door of Call Hotel. There
he slumped’ to the sidewalk and
lay still. Probebly he (was feeling
so badly that he thought he was
going to die and he did not want
to inconvenience the coroner—T.
M. Myers, who Is also manager
of the hotel. Police came alnog
and carried the man to a cell cot,
which is prcfbably not as hard as
the sidewalk.
Liquidate the d!rinklsg driver!
That w'ss the advice of almMt all
of the 15.o6> motorists who an-
-wered f nation-wide survey con
ducted ■by “NOT OVER 60” Club,
nation-wide highway safety or
ganization, to determine what the
average driver thinks should be
htidsf at ttie mo-
traffle shoaM he regv-
Jwd ^drtKatrletly, Blao.
Ov«r 60” Ch»h. which
mido^ the eurvey, *waa„ organised
in 1936 III an effort to reduce
aeeldeBts,"and, in particularfa
talities and serious Injnriee as the
result of a tendency toward high
or speeds oh the open highway.
Today**over 300,000 motorists be
long to the Club. All of them are
pledged to drive carefully end tr
^ Hinf Mule AmotHidon
AesoctatieiL 61 J’ood Cl
be tM MUof-eUrt
OB the MMrtlBf. prograa. E. 1.
Norton of the tJ. 8. Soil
vatioh Service, Washington,- 0.^^
C., will speak before the Xgron- ^
omy section.
All other discusaiona will be
led by North Carolina farmers
and agiicultuTcl leaders of the
lone to reduce the highways’ an-,*^^ ® ,, .
nual toll of dead and Injure^. ««««! fifty miles an hour a
any time.
To help remind them, memhen
receive a little red arrow sticker
to place on the speedometers of
i their cars at the flfty-mile-an-
, hour mark. Membership Is free.
"This survey gives law en
forcement egehcles a mandate
strong enough to drive the drink-
Ir^g driver off the roads,” declar
ed James S. Kemper, president of
the Lumbermens Mutual Carnal.
ty Company, which sponsors the I _ , * ,
Club. “Over 98 per cent of thelSpCEKCrS AnnOUnCCu
16,000 who answered the Not! Farm Hniru* Ww»lc
Over 60’ rinh’o mipaHnni nlra TOr F arm,nOme W CCK
WE PASS THIS ON
Who is a certain girl who say.?
“tor goodness sake’’, and a cer
tain man who frequently says
“ye gods,’’ who are expected to
“middle aisle It” next spring?
Looks like a happy family.
Or does it?
OFT’ICERS ARE DCMB
SOMETIMES
A moiorcycle cop pulled
beside of a car parked on a coun
try road in the wee small hours
of the morning. He yelled: “Hey,
what business have you got to
be out here at this time of the
night?” A voice from within the
car replied: “This ain’t business;
It's a pleasure.”
WHITE HOUSE BOTTLE NECK
(Richmond (Va.) News Leader)
Because the nation may, for these rea-
.sons, be enjoying the last full freedom of
utterance that will be^ryi^le for a
long time, we should make the most of the
light. While still we are informed, we
must learn. There should be deliberate
discussion now and a ruthless expose dur
ing the next few weeks of all perceptible
weakne.sses of the national defen.se. Every
where the question should be, how fares
that defen.se? What may we correct now
in full understanding of the defects?
Many informed men in Washington will
say privately, in answer, the mo.st imme
diate single need is that of clearing the
worst bottleneck—the bottleneck of the
White House, the bottleneck of the desk of
President Roo.sevelt. He has resolved that
the direction of the national defense shall
not be in the hands of any faction, politi
cal or economic. Especially in the work of
the 0PM, he has tried so to divide respon
sibility between Mr. Hillman and Mr.
Knudson that the one will balance the
other. Into nearly all Spheres of defense
work, this policy has been extended.
The motive is to be commended; the
administrative wisdom may be questioned.
An engineer of experience in world war in-
du.stry, who recently spent a month trying
to straighten out one tangle in Washing
ton, .said the other day: “I have felt ver>-
blue over the situation for the last 60 days.
.No one can get up any enthusiasm about a
program that is as balled up as this one.
The most serioua defect is that there is ab
solutely no subdivision of authority. Every
thing, even a minor detail, must be ap
proved by the President before it is execut-
-'d. Even an item of 30 houses for some
small towns with a defense factory has to
go to the President before it can be au
thorized. When you consider for a mo
ment that the President of the United
States is looking after the Japanese situa
tion, the British situation, the Atlantic
Ocean and the Pacific, it is inconceivable
that he would also hav’e the time to deter
mine whether or not 30 houses are needed
at Podunk, but that is what is going on.”
OPTIJIISTIC SONG
Song writers always go the ex
treme one way or another. The
one who wrote the current hill
billy hit entitled “I’ll be back in
a year” was decidedly optimistic.
FROM WHICH SOURCE?
The Poipe would have us be
lieve that God sent this war to
punish the world. We’d rather say
the devil sent the war through
one Adolf Hitler, who seems to
be his commander in chief.
LIGHT STUFF FOR HE.AVY
•>U^DS
Domestic hint: Help your wife.
When she washes the dishes,
wash the dishes with her; when
she mops the floor, mop up the
floor with her.
Ju.‘t remember the next time a
fellow tries to get a dime off of
you for a cup of coffee that he
may hf.ve a date. Don’t tell him
that you thought coffee was on
ly five cents.
Letter from College Student:
“Dear Dad: Oue$$ when I neer
mo3t of all. That’3 right. Jend
it along? Bejt wi$he3. Your Son
Frank.” Letter from Dad to Son
“Dear Frank; Nothing ever hap
pens here. We kNOw you lik
your school. Write us aNOthe:
letter aNOn. NOw we have t(
say goodbye.”
Club’s Questlont.aire
asked for stricter enforcemejt of
laws prohibiting driving while in
toxicated.”
"For a long time, safety ex
perts have agreed that If drunken
driving was ever stopped many of
the most serious highway acci
dents would he prevented and
now for the first time we have
important proof that the persou
who does the driving agrees with
ithe experts wholeheartedly. It
up {only remains for the law to re
new Its efforts and to keep on
renewing them until drunken
driving is a thing of the past.”
The majority of other answers
to the questionnaire indicated
that re.-(pon8ible motorists also
favor stricter enforcement of oth
er regulations aimed at reducing
traffic accidents. Reckless driv
ing was ranked as the Number
One cause of automobile acci
dents and 87 per cent were of the
opinion that driver’s license laws
should be more strictly enforced
Excessive .?peed was ranked as
the second most important cause
of accidents, and 77.per cent fav
ored stricter enforcement o f
speed laws. Both of these reac
tions show the influence of the
“Not Over 50” Club creed, which
asks all members to limit their
top speed to fifty mile? an hour
at all times. The majority of the
motorists contributing to the siir
vey felt that state-wide speed
limits should be established, the
percentage in f.-vor of .such mens
ures being 81 per cent. Of thi'-
nnm.ber, 88 per cent favor a speed
limit of ffity mile,- per hour or
the open road, and 90 per cen'
want a top speed of thirty mile'
per hour in the city.
The compulsory Inspec'ion of
ail motor vehicles at regular in
tervals in order to bar from the
road those that are unfit, was
favored by 94 per cent. Likewise.
93 per cent thought the same
thing should happen to drivers—
that they should all be examined
and only those who are a! le to
drive well, be allowed to con.
tinue.
Not all of the favored safety
NEUTR.AL FOR NAZI.S
That old errek about heinp
neutral but “neutral which way’'
finds its counterpart in the be
havior of France: giving up In
do China tp the Japs without i
tight while bravely fighting a-
gaiivt the British to hold Syria
tor the Nazis to use.
First Baptists In
Lead Softball Play
A slogan for gasless Sundays: See your
own backyard first.—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
What the smart recruit does not know,
on his first furlough home, he can cover up
as a “defense secret.”—Los Angeles Times
France used to stand behind the Magi
not line. Now it dittos behind Berlin.—
Greensboro Daily News.
First Baptist softball team took
a commanding lead in the fir
half scliediile of the softball
league here by defeating North
Wilkesboro Methodists on Wed
nesday afternoon.
On Thursday afternoon Presby
terian te.-m, which has shown
much improvement, defeated V.’ii-
kesl'oro Methodists. The standing
is a.s follows:
L. Pet.
1 800
3 40(!
3 40t
3 40(
TEA.M W
First Raiptist 4
N. W. Methodist 2
W. Methodist 2
Presbyternan 2
Games Tuesday and Thursdaj
of this week will complete th
first half schedule. However, the
victory by the Baptist Wednes
day clinched the first place in the
league for the first half.
Breathes there a man with soul
so dead, who nj^er hath turned
his he.-d and said, “Hmmmmm,
not bad!”
State.
Featured speakers for the eve
ning programs during Farm and
Home Week, to be held at N. C.
SteUe College August 4.8, are rn-
nounced by Dan M. Paul, secre
tary of the Farmers’ Convention.
Major General Jacob L. Devers.
commanding officer o f Fort
Bragg, will report on the welfare
of farm youths at training ormps
in an addres.? on the Tuesday
evening program, August 5. Dr.
Helen Mitchell, director of nutrl-
tion for the Federal Securitv
Agency, Washington, D. C., will j
discuss the relation of health to '
National Defense. Governor J. M. |
Broughton will speak on the
Tuesday night proer-m.
John A. Arey, chairman of the
Men’s Programs, has completed
arrangements for snecial forestry,
poultry, agronomy, inarketing,
livestock and horticulture confer-
ence.5.
The only speech at the forestry
meeting on Tuesday morning will
be ’ty E. N. Munns, chief of the
Division of Forest Influences, T’.
S. Forest S’ervice. Likewise, the
poultry conference on Tuesday
will include only one address—
by H. A. Rittenhender, director of
the Nutrition.'l Service for the |
Borden Company. i
Appearing on the Animal Hus- j
bandry program will be: R. L. j
Lush of the National Fertilizer !
Association, Dr. R. E. McArdle of |
the U. S. Fore.'t Service, Dr. R. j
B. Becker of the University of ,
Florida, and Wayne Dinsmore of!
HOW TATTOOING MAY SAVE
LIVES. Medlcel science urges
warning code marks on the body,
so doctors can quickly diagnose
people suffering from diabetic
shock or epilepsy, or know what
type of blood to give unconscious
accident victims in need of imme
diate transfusions. And for sensi
tive ladies there’s a new type of
tattooing that only shows up
under x-rays. Read It In The
American Weekly with Sunday’s
Washington Times-Herald, now
on sale.
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arriving Ncrlh Wilkesboro
abcut noon. Leaving Charlotte
8 p. m.. arriving here for 7
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