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Entered at the post office at North Wilkes-
boro, N. C-. as second class matter under Act
of Hi^ 4, 1879.
THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1941
No Contribution To Defense
The United States is in an unlimited
emergency, the serious nature of which no
one questions.
Thoughtful Americans cannot but be
puzzled and disturbed that so grave a sit
uation, calling for the maximum in united
effort, has not brought about a cessation
of the backbiting and recrimination that
have marred the domestic scene in recent
years.
A short time ago, for instance, a high
government official declared flatly that
the “recalcitrance” of one American com
pany engaged in defense production might
result in loss of the present war for the na
tions we are aiding, and hence imperilled
the security of the United States. Natural
ly, so grave an accusation was examined
carefully by the House Military Affairs
Committee.
Now the majority report of that com
mittee has been released. Signed by Dem
ocrats and Republicans alike, it declares
that all testimony heard was to the effect
that the company in question “had given
100 per cent co-operation, had used its
own money for expansion, had lowered its
price and on its own initiative took steps
to treble its production.” And the Com
mittee adds pointedly that some of the
blame for present difficulties might better
be laid at the doorstep of “some Govern
ment officials” because of their failure to
provide hydroelectric energy from “public
power” dams to aid in the enlargement of
production facilities.
The moral is plain; Problems of defense
are too complex to yield to hasty generali
zation. Any inadequacies of the defense
program should certainly be investigated,
go that their causes may be found and
cured. But name-calling is no solution,
and no ser\dce to the nation, either.
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fCkmment
Your Children’s Teeth
Because defective teeth constitute the
principal cause of draft rejections, the
findings of the Murry and Leonie Guggen
heim Dental Clinic as to the care of teeth
are of special importance at this time.
The Clinic, which has been operating for
nearly 12 years in Now York City, gives
free dental treatment to children whose
parents are unable to pay for dental work.
Last year 10,610 child patients were treat
ed at the Clinic, with, a total of 82,343 vis
its. “A disquieting feature,” the report
says, “is the finding that the average num
ber of cavities per recalled patient has
been increasing for several years,” and Dr.
John Oppie McCall, Director, points out
that the Clinic has reached the following
conclusions;
(1) Dental treatment shold begin at
not later than two years of age.
Contrary to popular notion, the cond'
tion of the first teeth of a child, is of great
importance, both for general health and
for the condition of the permanent teeth.
(2) No completely successful program
of preventive dentistry has been develop-
ed. .
The expectation that early cleaning and
repair work would prevent future caries
(dental decay) was inaccurate. The clean
ing and repairing work, nevertheless, is
very effective in preventing malocclusions
(irregularity of the teeth), gum infections
and actual loss of teeth.
(3) -Perhaps the most important factor
in preventing dental decay is dieWmore
fruits and greens, less white sugar, white
flour, and sweets generally.
“Halifax in Washington,” says the head
line—in keeping with the new swing type
nf geography.—Detroit News.
Stalin has disproved the truth that
3, old admonition. He’s gotten into plenty of
even though he kept his mouth
^aliuL—-Henderson-Dispatch.
(Nev« aiail pbwwt)
" - The experimental camp jn»t op^n^ fr.
Durham Coiin^.under the direction of
NY A for the spwiaiiziBd training of yout^
rejected by draft boards as unfit for raUi-
tary service will be watched li^h consid
erable interest .
Obviously, rejection by,, draft boards or
subsequent rejection by ariny examiners,
does not label young'men effected aSiMA:
fit for any kind or all kinps of defense ser
vice. In the last year, iriany young men
who were disqualified by reason of physi
cal defect for active service were desig
nated for limited service and assigned to
clerical or other tasks in the selective ser
vice set-up.
From post-war experience of pension.?
and disability allowances it is fairly clear
that the haste with which the earlier civi
lian army was organized, the haste wit!
which draft board officials had to make
their examinations, the haste with which
these young men were inducted* into army
involved not only an unnecessary and con
tinuing expense to the taxpayers of the
country but a grave injustice if not actual
cruelty to the young men themselves.
Here and there have come complaints
because of the large number of selectees
rejected by army doctors after they have
reached camp. This probably ineans a
more careful proceduce by army medical
examiners than a more careless procedure
by (fraft board examiners.
In any case, military service is for the
physical fit and it is as inexcusable to send
a qualified young man into battle with a
comrade upon whom, for physical reasons,
he cennot rely as it is to send him there
with inferior weapons.
The young men who enroll for the
special defense training may have the com
fort of knowing what the experience of the
war in Europe has taught. However doubt
ful that comfort may be in view of com
parative losses between civilian popula
tion.? and military forces the fact remain?
that in this all-out effort the skilled me
chanic in defense industries, the necessary
civilian personnel in transportation and all
branches of supply my justly feel the same
pride of service as hi.? brother with the
gun.
Far From Air Even
yPrtijeuor Co class i%.:Uteratnre:
“Tomorrow yn‘ shall tiflie th4 life
of Ro4>ert Lpsit. Sterenson. = ' So
cbm* prepared.” -
^e woman who said she was
^isfied.'jm one tUnm that
hhsband spenr* bla ,^nnlngs
home, "staxed at. home one OTenihg!
anA found hbh there. v; ^ I
Tfie?minister ttylrig tb' say
something nice ai a funeral ex
claimed; “We have here only the
sben; the not is gone.”
The text of an angry business :
letter read like this: “Sir:. My •
typist, 'being a lady, cannot take
down what I think of you. I, a
gentleman, cannot write It. You,
being neither, can guess what I
mean.”
When asked by her hoy friend
If she would accept a .pet monkey,
the girl said it was so sudden that
she would hare to ask her fath
er.
J^rt Bragg.-^mw he^ly h^ pasiwdiM.l'Ioaned oyer the
Usalpfled Xrd I4entoiiantr.A,nUn'( fence, pointeoi mMi
aclo T.: Chayiex of the went lip
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JUgT ANOTHER REPORT
We have had many inquiries a-
bout who are the couple to "mid
dle isle It” next spring. You
guessed it, we don’t know either.
Latest report on news items of
that type is that the ultimatum,
of the father pf a prospective
bride says there is going to he a
wedding.
On vacation here from Brltsia’a
air raids, Mrs. Pat MacLeod, left,
and Miss Wtadfred Ashford, naem-
bera of England’s women’s mecha
nised transport corps, marvel at
New Tork’s Empire State hnUding.
: yat have aaT tbek l
degr?*
races,
‘’Lick!'* he
^Whea my
tb* *11117' - T*v« had I
... TtNalk 60« nd.tl.M
r Doc^—'That’s all x^ht, smny,l a«4d - and-aasriaKW by
they expect shoot ttie ene-
fmgr; not Nte^'^! ‘ ‘
HORTON’S DRUG*STORE
North Wflkasbore, N.' C.
this
OF OTHERS’ RIGHTS
Near West Point, Miss.,
sign was recently noted;
“Positively no more baptizing
in my pasture. Twice here in the
past two months my gate has
been left often by Christian peo-
pie, and before I chase my heif
ers all over the country again, all
sinners can go where they are
supposed to go’’.
'NOTHING TO BRAG ABOUT
(Greensboro Daily News)
Wake county food stamp office makes
the headlines, and pridefully, one gathers,
with a “new record Monday when $7,532
worth of stamps were issued in a single
day.” Such a showing was hailed as going
ON CRASHING GATES
Just in case you want to arouse
a lot of curiosity in us just put up
a sign which says “Keep Out,” or
tell us so and so is going on be
hind closed doors. That just gives
us an uncanny hankering to open
those doors. Such is curiosity.
That curiosity almost embarass-
cd us one day this week. When
making the usual rounds by the
county welfare office we asked to
see the welfare officer and was in
formed that he was busy. Nat
urally we asked the nature of his
conference just out of curiosity
and in the hopes that it would fur
nish a lead to some news. |Vve
were told that it was a hearing.
Well, hearings are usually interst
ing and furnish something to write
about so we decided to go in and
were informed that the hearing
was not public.
A reporter always tries to have
some kind of excuse for getting in
Q. What happens if I suddenly
need the money I put into a De
fense Savings Bond?
A. You can cash your Bond at
any time, after 60 days, for the
full amount paid, plus any inter
est due you.
Q. Do many Bond owners cash
their Bonds?
A. No. Pedp'le want to help
arm America against all attacks.
In many cases, peo.ple are putting
every cent they can spare into
Defense Bonds and Stamps. Some
are doing this by asking employ
ers or 'banks to' withold part of
their salaries in order to buy
these Bonds or Stamps for them.
Note.— To purchase Defense
Bonds and Stamps, go to the
nearest post office or bank, or
write for information to the
Treasurer of the United States,
Washington, D. C.
Aren*t Vacations
GRAND?
‘I fainted. They brought me to.
So I fainted again.”
'"Then what?”
‘‘They brought me two more.”
Q dif-
more
You bet they are! But there’s
ferent kind^ of vocation. It’s a
wonderful kind because it never ends!
It’s the vocation you take when you
soy good-bye to housework the hard
way. Every day becomes more of a holi
day ds you odd on electric range, on
electric refrigerator, dish washer, auto
matic electric water-heater, washing
machine and ironer. When ore you
going to begin your home vocation?
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~ , XL- ~ 1 places and at this point we told
at least “30 per cent above anything else quickly that we were the
ever recorded by the office ... in a single star witness at said hearing. In
stead of just telling us to go in
she opened the door and proceed
ed to announce the presence of the
star witness for the hearing,
which was just as big news to
» , those engaged in the hearing as
relief ro]es ^r^yone
sharply reduced, employment rising every | Quickly we had to explain that
day until there is actually a shortage of >t yas just anotheygag.
day.”
Despite the plaudits which may be elicit
ed somewhere, the heralded record pro
motes largely question-marks from this
corner. How come, with
When we said facetiously that
we were the star witness at the
hearing we did not know that v'e
both skilled and unskilled labor, CCC en
rollments curtailed, the military and nava! ^
forces taking thousands of young men and .were going to be quoted, in fact,
... . 'we knew less about the hearing
all indices pointing to relative prosperity,
stamps sales, as a form of relief, should cally nothing,
reach record high levels we cannot say. As] After all, the hearing was ju.st
for surplus commodities, we thought, what,“
with British needs, better home consump
tion and stiffening prices, that they too
were nothing so enormous as they used to
be.
Really isn’t there some other record be
ing set around Raleigh to brag about in
stead of this more or less perplexing stamp
sale achievements?
NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO
OPERATE MOTOR VEHICLE
CARRIER AND DATE OF
HEARING THEREON
As required by Section 3, Chap
ter ltd, Public Laws of 1927, no-
i.ce is hereby given that applica
tion has been made by Wiixes
TransporL'ition Company, Incor
porated, for a Franchise Certifi
cate, authorizing the operation of
motor vehicie fo.“ trtnsporting
passengers over State Highway
No. 268 from North Wilkesboro, ,
North Carolina, via Roaring River, :
North Ca. ,i-.a, to lui..;aa |
Carolina, and return, and that the |
Utilities Com mission will hold a j
hearing on the said arnli ation in ,
Old Supreme Court Building at j
Raleigh, North Carolina, on Mon- i
day, 28th, July, 1941, at 2:301
o’clock P. M. I
N. C. Utilities Commission
By R. 0. Self. Chief Clerk, j
14-17-2t '
Look into the possibilities ii
the Appliance Department
of yoiir favorite dealer.
Electric kitchen
IS AN ENERGY-SAVING KITCHEN
Duke Power Oo.
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Hours 9 to 5
Ninth Street
welfare board on an old age as
sistance case and would not have
been interesting to you, us or any
one else.
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Health and beauty inquirer asks. What
do you do to get soft, white hands? The
best recipe is. Nothing.—Arkansas Gazette
“It’s rnighty easy for the owner to' raise
the rent,*’ asserts a communication. But
DIDN’T NOTICE THE.M
There was a scene in “Caught
In the Draft’’ which showed the
lower extremities of Dorothy La-
mour to advantage. As a young
coupie were on the way home
after the show the above men.
tioned scene was discussed, it be
ing a humorous one, and she men.
tioned about the aforementioned
actress’ legs being pretty. ‘ I did.
n’t notice them,’’ was the drawl
ed reply of the male member of
the couple.
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the tenant sometimes has the dickens of a‘
time doing it.—Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch.
“Do you know what good clean
fun is?”
“No—what good is it?”
Professor says man’s most serious prob
lem is choosing the right wife. Quaint idea
he has about who does the choosing.—
Montreal Star.
Ads. get attention—and reaolU
I „ J fun! Glide up to a lig^^ • • ’
It’s modern driving • • • throttle and gUde on. o
The honeymoon is over when it is dis
covered that it is cheaper to cook Sunday
dinner at home.^—Greenville Piedmont.
European 'ktatesmen no longer put their
ear to the ground for fear that some wan
dering tank might run over it.—Henderson
Dispatch.
Amid acres of opinion by war corres
pondents, editors, columnists, and oral
blasts from neighbors, friends, you may re
call the sane saying that one man’s opini
on’s as good as another’s andv^en a dami
sight better.—The Ixiuisviile Times.
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