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MONDAY, JULY 28, 1941
The commandments of God are the bread
of life for the nations.
—Roswell D. Hitchcock
The true grandeur of nations is in those
Qualities which constitute the true great
ness of the individuah —Charles Sumner
of the moral
—Blackstonc
Law is the embodiment
sentiment of the people.
I believe in obeying the laws of the land.
T nractice and teach this obedience, since
L?S??Ts the moral signification of law.
& denote law.
A law is valuable not because it is law,
but because there Jsri^hti^it.^ Beecher.
Borrowed Cominrat'
The Aluminum Drive
Last week thn ighout America people
rallied to the call for aluminum to be used
in defense work and the response was
great.
The old aluminum pots or pans you had
about your premises and gave during the
campaign last week were insignificant as
far as the quantity of the metal w*as con
cerned. But like little drops of water and
little grains of sand, those little pieces ac
cumulated throughout the nation will
make it possible for industries to put out
many additional airplanes.
The drive means that several hundred
planes can be made and put into use with
out delay. When the aluminum factories
now planned are completed there will be
no shortage, but the planes are needed
now and the scrap aluminum will speed up
plane production.
/ Terrible Yadkin
In the editorial columns of the Greens
boro Daily News we found the following
enlightening information about the Yadkin
river:
Away back about the time the federal
government decided the \adkin river w'as
navigable, problems in seamanship assert
ed themselves to the common sense of
. those who lived on its banks such as how
to ride out the shoals and dams which it
seemed might impede normal traffic. But
not until last week were we apprised ol
the monsters which we now understand of
fer some impediment to the river as a pub
lic used watercourse.
Z. B. Martin, of Jonesville, according to
the Elkin Tribune, smote one of these
dragons, a proteoid amphibian, hip and
thigh and came out with victory on one
end of his fishing line. His description of
the beast is not reassuring; “The critter
was about 18 inches long, had a wide
head, and a wide mouth like a catfish, a
long oval body, a tail flat and shaped like
the rudder of an airplane, four short legs
with four toes on the front and five on the
rear feet, looking altogether ver>^ much
like a gila monster. A fellow wouldn’t
wish to meet one of those things in the D.
T.’s let alone on the peaceful Yadkin.
But J. S. Steelman, a citizen of Dur
ham, brings an even darker picture for the
outlook of life on the Yadkin in a letter
which he wrote to the Davie Recor-^ and
published therein:
“Crossing the Yadkin river bridge,”
said Mr. Steelman, “between Winston-
Saiem and Advance we saw a sea ani
mal which was about as large as a man.
We were rfot close enough to decide
what it was but from the way it was cut
ting the water we imagined it to be a
shark. Since we understand people use
this river for bathing we thought this
might interest them.”
Interest them is right. Who wishes to go
bathing with a proteoid amphiban or a
vicious shark, even if it is a long way from
its salt water haunts- And just to think
about our worrying over the power trust
messing with this river when such critters
as this are there to frighten the daylights
out of us.
PEACE AIMS-
(Statesville Daily)
Those who have been clamoring for a
statement of peace aims of this and other
governments should welcome Sumner
Welles, pronouncement this week which
has been described as “constituting the
most specific outline yet given by any high
administration official.”
Wells declared that a post-war associa
tion of nations, strong enough, to guarantee
disarmament tand equal economic oppor
tunities, is the ideal for which peoples of
good will should strive as a foundation of
permanent peace, and the things that free
governments and peace-loving people
should now be prepared “for the better
day that would come with the crushing de
feat of those who are sacrificing mankind
to their own lust for power and loot.”
Wells took on a big order when he said
that such an association should and will in
clude the United States which, contrary to
former contentions, has so much at stake
at the next peace-table. It is a big order
because the same reactionary forces are at
work now that were at work when Wood-
rom Wilson sacrificed his health and final
ly his life for the self-same cause. The
Tafts, the Wheelers, the Nyes who have
been demanding a declaration of our peace
aims are waiting to chew then\ to pieces.
We are now called on to spend and
spend and sacrifice and be taxed, because
back yonder the Lodges, the Johnsons and
others considered it politically expedient
to thwart the ambitions of Wilson: w'e are
bearing this present burden because we re
fuse the responsibility, and the opportuni
ty that w’ent with it, of our full part in the
League of Nations, which if it had been
made to function as Bryan and Wilson in
tended, would have made Mussolini’s rape
of Ethiopia impossible, would have stopp
ed Hitler before he entered the Rhineland,
and prevented the hell he has let lose on
world.
New voices will take up the chant
again.st Sumner Welles’ proposal, but the
words and the rea.soning will be those of
Lodge and his buddies who blocked this
responsibility before.
PHONETIC SPELLING
(Mount Airy Times)
Phonetic spelling, which means spelling
according to how’ a word sounds, has beer,
under consideration by various educational
groups in the United States ever since
1857. But so far it has made little progres.-
in this country.
It seems strange, when even the most
learned people have difficulty with Eng
lish spelling because so many words are
not spelled as they sound, that more hasn’t
been, done to simplify it.
In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt
supported an effort for changes in spelling
and Andrew Carnegie gave the movement
considerable financial support, but when
Mr. Carnegie died in 1919 the plan dropp
ed out of public attention. There is still a
Simplified Spelling board, with headquar
ters at Lake Placid, N. Y., but little seems
to be heard about its activities.
The change to simplified spelling would
be an easy one. All we would have to do
would be to consider the old and new
types of spelling as equally correct until
everyone had been educated to the new
system.
But there are a lot of people who would
probably object to changes, even though
the school children of the nation would be
delighted with it. To some of us who
have learned to like the appearance of
English words, the word “though,” for ex
ample, would look almost indecent without
that ugh on the end. Most of the romance
and mystery of darkness would seem to
disappear if we spelled “night” as il;
sounds—nite. And most of us would feel
positely uneducated, if we had to change
the letters “ed” to phonetic spelling and
write such words as helpt, fixt, followd
robd.
It will probably be a long time before
English teachers will agree to use phonetic
spelling, but when they do begin, the first
thing to do would be to spell the word
“phonetic” the way it sounds, which is fo-
netic.
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By DWIGHT NICHOLS, «t *L
ON D.4TLIGRT TLMJE
Difficult; in explaining t o
some people what daylight sav
ings time is is "amoozlng but con-
fooslng.” One colored man insist
ed after a hour of explaining by
another party that daylight sav
ing was- impossible and that the
only man who ever stopped the
sun was Joshua.
The better way to explain it is
to say that clocks and watches
have been moved,up one hour. It
gets too complicated to try to ex
plain that twelve o’clock is now
one o’clock, or that one o’clock
was twelve o’clock.
WHOSE TIME?
One workman said he got up
this morning at five o’clock by
God's time and six o’clock by
Roosevelt’s.
PICNICS AND PICNICS
If there la anything we like
better than Wilkes picnics it is
more Wilkes picnics. We have
heretofore said that the fruit
growers could spread the best din
ner of anybody when annual pic
nic time came, but the annual
farmers picnic at Millers Creek
Friday noon almost convinces us
that they have an eoaal in that
art. However, there were several
fruit growers with baskets at the
farmers’ picnic.
JETER AND CACDWEDD
F. H. Jeter, State College man
whose only drawback is that he
also writes for papers and is a
member of the fourth estate,
made one good speech and Harry
B. Coldwell another. It would be
fortunate for any gathering
^ A# totpt' of tlfdfr oi^eea
»aeh *o-«*Ued:' 'expert* (d—
fool*). In compirlsOU with prices
of manufactured" products, which
have skyrocketed mainly because
of increased labor costs, farm
prices have not yet reached the
floor, much less the ceiling.
Thinking It Over
have one of those speakers and
having both is really something.
Jeter as usual told some very fun
ny yarns.
Unnamed heroes, but among
them some of England’s most
famous men, are the vigilant
guardians of St. Paul’s in London.
This magnificent cathedral, so
revered in England history, has
suffered terrific damage in two
successive bombings by Nazi raid
ers.
The majestic gilded dome, sur.
mounted Its Impressive cross,
stands as a tiiumphant symbol of
British courage and determina
tion and defiance. It is a massive
mark of the indomitable spirit of
Great Britain.
These eighty men work in tire
less shifts night and day. They
are constantly on guard against
incendiary bombs. Stationed at
strategic points, they are alert
every minute. Sand buckets, shov
els. rakes and water hose are in
stantly available. From a central
cohtrol room In the crypt a code
alarm system is directed. Watch- |
era are quickly and quietly sum-1
moned to whatever spots they
may be needed. Between watches
these weary men catch “cat naps’’
on improvised cots in the crypt.
Not for a minute day or night is
the sacred edifice left unguarded.
To the English historic St.
Paul’s is a sacred symbol of
to I England’s highest ideals. It em-
'’QnesUoa; Wlwt.jtbpal9 be doae
when crop*' eoiRetit je too much
moisture *t the time they must
be placed In the silo? /.f
Answer: One hundred pounds
of dry hay, stover or straw Intro
duced into the cutter along with
each ton of the green crop will
raise the dry matter cemtent of
the mixture by approximately
3 1-2 per cent, says John A. Arey,
Ebctenslon dairyman of N. C.
State College. Three hundred
pounds of such material, added
in this way, would convert a crop
of 16 to 18 per cent dry matter
into a mixture having nearly 30
per cent, a very desirable level.
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bodies the spiritual and moral
values of Great Britain’s heroic
stand against those evil forces
which seek to ravish and wreck.
Caldwell more or less intimat- As long as the man walking the
ed that labor organizations are j streets of Ix>n(lon can see sil-
so well taking care of themselve.s houetted against the sky the fa-
that it is up to the farmer to or-! miliar dome of St. Paul’s, some-
ganize and do likewise. Although jhow or other he will be inspired
he said the farmers did not care to carry on. whatever the cost.
to be dominant, but only want I That is why these eighty brave
equality. jmen are sternly determined that
Farmers are pinched like no-;this beloved shrine shall not he
body’s busin&'s with prices of j destroyed.
everything he has to buy going |
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What we seek is the rei^ of law, based
upon the consent of the governed and sus-
tr'.ned by the organized opinion of man
kind. —Woodrow Wilson
Charles Fox said that restorations were
the most bloody of all revolutions; and he
might have added that reformations are
the best mode of preventing the necessity
of either. —Colton
There is but one law for all, namely,
that law which governs all law, the law of
humanity, justice, equity—^the law of na
ture and of nations. ^^dmund Burke
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