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TWOj in»»pb;wpbnt in politics ‘ IPvlilidHNl Mondasrs and Thursdays at North Wiftesboro, N. C. J. CARTER snd JULIUS C. HUBBARD PuUishen I SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Year $1.50 to Months : .76 Pour Months 50 t)ut of the State $2.00 per Year Iteter«d at the ■poA office at North Wilkes- bcuro, N. C., as second class matter unuer Act »f March 4, 1B79. THURSDAY, OCT. 23, 1941 Worth Working For “This is your country and my country. All of us belong to it; all of us own it; all of us help run it. “You have a home here and I have a home here. We want to keep our homes. We want to keep on living in them—pret ty much the same way we always have. With all our faults it’s a pretty good way of living.” In those words William S. Knudsen sum med up the things that America is prepar ing to defend. Today our industry is turn ing out growing mountains of defense ma terials and we are girding ourselves for sacrifices so that w'e can preser\’e this “pretty good way of living.” If that is “not w’orth working for,” Mr. Knudsen cays, “then nothing is worth working for. Suppose we do have to work harder than we like to; suppose our mus cles do get tired; suppose we get some I callouses on our hands; suppose we lose some sleep. Suppose w'e haven’t got time to play—even on Saturday afternoons. Suppose W'e never get another vacation un til this war is over. Suppose w'e can’t get a new car for a few years! or w'e have to put off building a house; or have to go back to brooms instead of vacuum clean- j ers. i Suppose we do? Mr. Knudsen says he I^ihinks our way of living is still worth de fending. So does every other American who know’s the value of freedom. Green Light All over the country prices are going up. In August the cost of living was 7 per cent higher than tn August, 1939, just before the war. Over half of this increase has oc curred since March of this year. Facts like these show that the fires of inflation are already being kindled. If America is to come through this emergen cy without serious economic dislocations— if the money w’e earn, the savings we have are to keep their full value—those fires must be controlled. I In Germany after the last war inflation brought the value of paper money down so low' that the average man carried his wages home in a suitcase. Prices were so • high that he could often get more for his pay by trading it to the junkman as waste- paper than he could be spending it for the things he needed. We must make sure that nothing like this happens in America. At the present time Washington is for mulating price control legislation. Wages and farm prices both influence indu-strial prices, and if price control is to put th( brakes on inflation, all thes factors mu.st be considered. • Unemployment Survey ( Although many men and w'omen have found work because of the current defense production boom, thousands of others have lost their jobs and many thousands more may do so in the near future. All over the country many non-defense plants may have to close because they can’t do defense jobs and can’t get raw materials to con tinue normal civilian operations. Effective action to help avert such a sit uation can be’ taken only when all the facts are known. The National Association of Manufacturers recently took the initiative in uncovering such facts when it launched a survey of non-defense manufacturing centers to determine the effects of this priorities unemployment.” Results .of the survey will doubtless throw considerable li^ht on the problems involved and furnish Materials to aid in solving them. i Profits based upon service are justified id those based upon monopoly or mani- sUltion are unjustified. Comment j CAN WE HOPE ITS TRUE? (Reidsville Review) ^ Not all reports from the governments^ in-exile which are the only free represen-,* tatives of millions of conquered Europeans' are completely to be trusted. First, their sources of information cannot always be accurate; second, they naturally have a tendency to over-optimism toward their cause. Forgivable but inevitable. However, here’s one report which w’e earnestly hope is true. Vrij Nederland, Free Netherland newspaper in London, re ports that certain Dutch papers, on days when there were big meetings between Hitler, Mussolini, and other “New Order ’ big shots, or when Hitler announces an other big success in Russia, simply filled their main news pages with pictures of dogs. If that’s true, we’ll bet that even the Germans found it doggone annoying. Absurdities By DWIGHT NICHOLS, et al. A. C. dipth, Wlio- tuHhiMHat m operation at a Choriotto Boopi- tal teye^dayi.ago, waa riq^orted rather ieriqnalf' ill, bat rec^t re-, porta say he is much improved, Rerguson, Oct. 20.—Hrs Aman da Ferguson, widow of the | late his many friends will be glad to , Billy Ferguson, visited her ’ son, know. {Mr. Carl Ferguson at Bluefield, W. !Va., for several days and return- HEaiE AND THERE As the heading of this column gj home last week. Mrs. Ferguson implies,' we do not write all the possibly one of the most aged material found in this column.' residents of this community, but Here is a mixture of original and she enjoys fairly good health and otherwise: is quite active about her The owl gained his reputation! She resides with her son. CHECK National leaders have formed a permanent committee to study ways of checking speculation in home, farm lands, should It start, and T. C. exchange ideas regarding the AMERICA’S RELATIONSHIP for wisdom by looking profound Fer^son, and is a sister of thej*®*"™ mortgage business, all the time and hooting only late W. J. St. Clair, occasionally j The revival services in progress Many people can argue over re-1 at the Baptist church and which 1 ligion that they do not have 'are being conducted by Rev. A. J.I This nation cannot endure half (Foster, of the community, and Rev.’ drivers and half dodgers « j Dwight Edminsten of Newland, The absent minded professor will extend into this week and may ] looking around in a store walked continue until Sunday. Quite a up to a jar turned upside down bit of interest is being manifested | on the counter. “The jar has no and the attendance is good, es-. mouth”, he said. Then after pecially at the night services. : turning it over he exclaimed?! The Baptist church near Gran- “How absurd, it does not have a i in, which has recently been con- bottom either”. .structed mostly through the un tiring efforts of Rev. A. J. Foster, Add to inconsistencies: -'nieri-■ dedicated Sunday with an ap-- cans are told to sit tight just j p^opriate program and the sermon when prices of liquor and Bquor delivered by Rev. Mr. Foster. I taxes go up. | jyjyg pi-ank Hartley (Oxford Public Ledger) One question refuses tc down in the ar guments that are growing out of America’s relationship to the war. That question is whether this is another war to save the British Empire for the British or whether it is a war in which vital American inter ests have a part. The fact of the matter appears to be this: the United States to date is getting far more out of its bargain than the Brit ish are getting out of theirs. There is grow ing evidence that President Roosevelt has been and is a shrewd and hard bargainer, who has placed American intere.sts first in his dealings with the British. American officers are and have been on British battleships as observers learning all there i.s to learn of modern combat, so the daily press tells us. And we are told that American airmen are flying as obser vers in British combat planes, again learn ing what there is to learn of present day fighting. British purchases of American aircraft plants makes possible the production that is now being realized. The American ar my and navy are further along in airplane design and production than they woulc have been had they depended on their own efforts and designs. It is best that the.\ know what the other fellow is using, and President Roosevelt has seen to this by planting observers in every branch of the British armed forces. The British turned over to us a score of dominant positions in the Atlantic when they leased Atlantic bases to this country. The Br.tish Isles themselves are America’s most advanced base in dealing with Europe. But if those Isles should happen to fall, and they may yet, the United States would be vastly more secure for the bases it is holding all up and down the sea lanes of the United State.s. And too, the British are doing the fighting and have done the fighting that provides security for the United States. As a result of tha fighting this country is in a position a whole lot stronger than it was a year ago. The value to the United States of wh.at the Briish have already done probably could not be measured in millions. The British heretofore have always tried to maintain a navy on par or above that of the United States. Now, however, the United States is in process of building the greatest naval pow'er in the world. When that Navy is complete, if the British Isles should fall this navy would be able to patrol the Atlantic shores with a vessel to every mile. The United States is fast preparing it self to be the world’s greate.st sea power. Power is tending to gravitate toward this country and this hemi.sphere, in which the United States is the dominant nation. I Our relationship to the struggle in Eu rope is so much that we can’t begin to realize the hazards that will come from a victory on the part of tfie Axis powers. THE DEVILS RECIPE “Reripe from the Devil’.s Cook ook” is the title to the following: “Take one natural born fool, one bottle of state stamped liq uor or moonshine equivalent and one high powered automobile; soak the fool in the liquor, place him in the car and let him go; after a short time remove him from the wreckage, place him in a .satin-lin’ed box and garnish with flowers.’’ Speaking of the public good, that recipe would not he bad at all. But there are variations to the recipe. It none except the nat ural horn fools soaked in liquor found their way to the satin-lined box garnished with flowers, we could pass it oft as good riddance. But often the recipe is changed and some innocent companion of the natural born fool soaked in liquor or some other party ' I'ten winds up as victims. r,.\LL ICKEYS. PLEASE North W'ilkeshoro needs a short age of rats. Often we wonder if every town is as badly infested with ro dents as ours. We need more rat control—we need rat eradication. W’e think it wmuld be a Rood idea to call in Harold Ickes. the shortage manufacturer, and have him make a shortage of rats in North Wilkesboro. I have recently moved into their new | I residence, which is located near | his mother’s, Mrs. Ida Walker Hartley. , Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Ferguson and Mrs. S. F. Miller will leave Tuesday morning to attend the! State Grange Convention at Golds-' boro, which will be in session/Wed-. nesday, Thursday and Friday. Mrs. Robert Lee Foster had as her guests recently some students; from the A. S. T. C. at Boone. Miss Blanche Ferguson returned i last week from Richmond where [ she. had been visiting relatives for i some weeks. | School was adjourned Friday so. that the teachers could attend the teachers convention in Greensbor”-' Master John Andrew Shepherd, .son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Shepherd visited his grandparents, Mr. and M rs. Andrew Jennings, for several days last week. Syco Hartley left for Ft. Bragg several days ago, where he will ? In addition to the base pay re ceived by enlisted men in the U. S. Navy and Naval Reserve, men j receive additional pay for certain types of work or honors received. For example, a seaman awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. Distinguished Flying Cross or Navy Cross, receives $2 extra a month; gun captains receive $2 to $5 a month extra; mail clerks, $10 to $30 a month extra; expert riflemen or expert pistol shots. $3 more a month; sharp-shooters. $1 extra per month; divers, $10 to $20 extra each month, et cetera. Ads. get attennon—and resulta HIGH SCHO9L AND COLLEGE G^'ADUATES Prepare to earn a good s®l- ary. A comideta btasiness course at Jones Busteeis College will give you the jMiest way , em- p'oyment anq Olf earning mon- ey. Join our fall -||nd #inter classes nmy forming^ Wi have one of the. largest^^anQ best equipped bdsiness ciHkjfcos in North Carolina. CoMpe and university trained luchers. 'FVee employment servlt^ More calls for iHell trained offi^help than we *can supply. Sei» for information. A few girl^can work for room and board. cglis is CUlAP fif so easy to fake ^ goof ir of eyes for grante® easy, als6, to be ceived by i poor bs Actually, it requires light-metei' to tell ai ately whether a lai; adequate, for rertm.g. ^ Don’t tfke a chqriy on I'tyour children’s ■yhen an 1. E. S. ^Study limp will guarant|h Be'- te|^. Li|ht for Bett^ Sigh; do so mueft to im- les^ns an^marks. m ANiE.S'STllMllA# NOW Joiies Bdsine$ College i hIgH POINT, N. C. P. Jo P. P. Jones, M. A., Preside Fully Accredited by Amej Association of Commerg Colleges itowCR. COM PAN V I«)URS 9/rO 5 NINTH STREET The Chinese and the Russians may not be too well civilized but they are carrying the ball for civilization. Most men of the housq know that this is the time of the year when their better halves require new outfits. Frankly, the emergency of the nation must not be used as a means of perpetua ting penalties upon agriculture. The individual who attempts to reform the entire human race has an exaggerat ed opinion of his, or her, ability. 'h P OISED b the is the Bui^ Fresh in as a CO plane, it models tb: you try! For the Very ^linJKlbat made some people ready ^ couldn’t be anything i^w in^||| 1942 cars made Biliek ei^neers^®K)lve that there were '^y they wfculd be bUjter automobi^s. Now they Ve hen|.iEvery one a B Firi^ALL valv?«in-head straight-'^* Bike Ridg 311-313 Tenth pjrny nL^H Wikofb oro, N. C. •a iiUytAsx,
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