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PAGE TWO mm MONDAY DM g2nd, 194f -j ■ -.T Tm Jonnial ■ Patriot TNVEPBm)ENT IN POLITICS PublUhed Mondays and Thursdays at r North Wilkesboro, N. C. - D. J. CARTER and JULIUS C. HUBBARD Publishers SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ^ne Year — - $1.50 Six Months - .75 Four Months 50 Out of the State $2.00 per Year Entered at the post office at North Wilkea- boro, N. C., as second class matter under Act jf March 4, 1879. . MONDAY, DEC. 22nd, 1941 Work For Victory Often we find some genius has written somefthing with which we heartily agree and because his powers of expression are more forceful than ours, we quote him di rectly. This time the following parts of an article written by Roger W. Babson are quoted and endorsed without reservation; “Sleeping Sunday mornings will not win the war with Japan. Our World War ef forts will be of little avail until W'C all think less about having a good time and more about doing a good job. * From the Southwest, there comes an editorial which has the right idea. A Texas newspaper editor in San Augustine writes that there is not so much wrong with the country as there is wrong \. ith the people in it. Too many hav'e gone “good-time” crazy and are working just to get money for playing. Too few are playing with the purpose of building up energy for work. These crazies and manias go in cy cles just like everything else. Since World War II this “goodtime” bug has spread like an epidemic. “We adults talk and act as if we were going to live forever. We forget that in a few years we must turn our government, banks, and businesses over to these young sters who we are now neglecting. “Subsidies and doles never yet v/on a war. A dole is nothing more than dope. like oil of cloves for aching teeth. The worst dole cases, however, are not among the poor, but among some of the self-styled upper classes. I refer to the recklessness and wastefulness of young people who live on doles supplied by foolish parents. This spectacle gives more encouragement to communism thaai to patriotism. It also greatly handicaps law enforcement when criminals see the lawnessness of children of ostensibly be.st families. This profliga cy, according to one analysis, is creating “more economic waste than all the sup posed inefficiency of government and all the alleged corruption of politics.” “The present generation of young peo ple may be just as sound fundamentally as my own generation; but if so, surely they have worse parents! Today’s parents have invented and are giving to their children most dangerous doles in the form of auto mobiles, radios, taxis, speedboats, movies, roadhouses, dinner dances, and clothes that would have made Croesus and Midas feel like village school teachers working on part time. This would not be so bad if we increased character training to counter balance these temptations; but most fath ers are too busy making money to spend their time training children. “I don’t blame John and Mary so much as I do their “Santa Claus.” Perhaps the only reason why, as a young man, I didn’t drive my father’s horse six+y miles an hour was because he couldn’t go that fast even I stepped on him! But if I had attempted such feats, I surely would have been made to throw my work into high gear likewise so as to earn the money to pay the piper. “The greatest difficulty confronting young people today is that they have the spending pow'er of giants and the earning power of babies. Their costly whoopees, as mendicants existing on the charity of their families at a time of world-wide cal amity, seem outrageous to those who know that World War II can be won only by intelligent budgets and worthwhile work. Anyone w'ho is mature enough to be out all night is mature enough to work all day. We have had wars before; but when the history of World War II is writ ten, economists will record our unexampl ed wastefulness of money, time, and health among the boys and girls who have not yet been drafted for war service. “The chief crime of families who are now indulging their children’s mania for having a good time is not that the world is deprived of their children’s services; the services of young folks of the jive type are not likely to be especially valuable. The damage they do is in the bad example they set and the unrest they develop within the '■ Memorial Find , • j Oi. i. A Wake Foerst, Dec. 13.— Con- great army camps of the United States and tributions began pouring in today Canada Furthermore, dissipation does not from the Wake Forest College “make jobs for men.” Employmeni^in|«‘“;i«“tj,ody ‘J*® ' “ •• 1. 1 j u -I- ^ $1,000 defense savings bond the long run—cannot be helped by patro- presented a* matu- nizing dance halls or brewers. The need rity to the college administration today is not for more fool jobs, but for bet- » memorial to wake Pores- ^ students who serve in the war. '/.|ili'' ter men to handle real jobs. The solution student body unanimously of our employment problem awaits the approved a resolution at a college raising—not the lowering—of our charac- convocation yesterday which ° pledged themselves to the coun ter. “When young and old alike give their thoughts and energies, not to having a good time but, to doing a good job; then, and only then, will we bring the Japanese to their senses and help win World War II.” Borrowed Comment TOUGH GOING FOR A WHILE (Wa.shington News-Herald, Dec. 12) It looks to us like a long war and a tough one, but with an Allied victory waiting at the end of the rocky road. We think it is going to get worse before it gets better, and that all of us would be wise to steel our minds to that probability. The Pearl Harbor raid gave us, it is now'veil.” known, a severe setback, but not a fatal one. Tokyo’s claims to have just about de-^ nCnTY A. Cjlll try’s war efforts, and concluded: "We pray God that our sacrifices shall not be made in vain.’ They went on record as being “Wholeheartedly behind our gov ernment and our country in this its hour of greatest crisis. We re alize that the great blessings of liberty and happiness which have been ours were bought at the price of sacrifice and blood by those who have gone before. Strengthened by our realization of the value of these blessings and keenly aware that an hour of the greatest trial is at hand, we are willing and anxious now to pay our share of the price of liberty. “To that end.” the .students declared,, "we hereby pledge our time, our money, and our lives to the service of our country and its great leader, our comjnander- in-chiet, Franklin Delano Roose- / I ppRECiATiNC to the fuDest extent the cordial relations existing between us in the past, we take this opportunity to cordially wish you an old fashioned Mtny Christmas i May the Happiness and Good Cheer which we hope is yours this Christmas never cease in the days to come, and may the New Year bring each of you the Prosperity, Health and Real Happiness you so much deserve. 8SST stroyed America Pacific tea power are highly exaggerated. Our Government at this writing is still withholding details, on the principle that to tell the story pi’ema- Passes At 71 Statesville, Dec. 15.—Henry tur'eiy would give the enemy information {HaU A^^Giil, which he badly wants. WISHSS The sinking well-knov/n Ii-jdell county farmer of the British battleships and cotton gin operator, died sud- „ . .p Tir I 1 1 TV/T dcnly today at his home on the Prince of Wales and Repul.se off Malaya Xurnersburg road, after a heart day before yesterday did us no good, eith- attack. pr. t Mr. Gill was born at Olin, a son j. ■ i u 1 of the late Henry L. Gill and Car- Because of our somewnat shrunken na- „„ ^^e val strength in the Pacific, W’e must recon- farm at Olin for many years, mov- cile ourselves to the likelihood of further iug to h'® present home near , , ., I Statesville on the Turnersburg setbacks there. ^93,, several years But if the Japs landed one puinful ^^e has been manager of the States- purch on our national nose last Sundayj''iiie cotton gin. morning, the Russians have been handing Surviving Mr. Gill are his wife. punch after punch to Hitler for almo.st six months now. It still looks as if Hitler made the mistake of hiis life when he tore into Russia last June—^the mistake which should at last send him to some fate like that of Nap-oleon Bonaparte. Current news from the Russian front, in case you’ve been skimming over it in the excitement of oqr own war, is that Hitler is pulling in his claws all along that front, and at least claims to be digging in for the winter. The Russians, however, are not letting him settle down for the winter in' peace, but are harrying him with local of fensives and air jabs all along the line. Our boys in the Philippines continue to make a superb showing, under Lieutenant General MacArthur, their most notable achievement to date being the sinking by air action of the 29,000-ton Japanese battleship Haruna. The Wake Lsland gar rison at this writing is also doing itself proud. However, our sea shield hag lost some of its shielding quality, because of the Pearl Harbor stab. Therefore, for the time being, we’ll have to put added reliance on our Army and Air Force. There are al ready in very fair shape, and can be built to strength sooner than can a Navy. As a reminder for a time which seem.s sure to be a sad one for Americans for quite a while to come, we reprint 'some statistics: The United States produces 70 per cent of all the oil that is produced in the world, 60 per cent of all the wheat and cotton. 50 per cent of all the copper and pigiron. Be cause of these basic resources and our long determination to make them work for us, we have 53 per cent of all the railroads in the world, 81 per cent of its motor cars, and 60 per cent of its telephones and tele graphs. We also have 130,000,000 people who habitually wrangle with one another in peacetime, but who close ranks practically to the last man and woman when other na tions make gestures at taking our national heritage from us. It looks like a long war. But in the end, on account of our superior resources and human assets, we will win. the former Miss Myrtle Holland; a son, John Tatum Gill, and a broth er, Dr. W. H. Gill of Lander, M^yo- ming. . J Inc. Ads get attentbion—and result) Every business, regardless of size or type; every individual, is dependent upon someone else for support and existence. Our business is dependent upon our many loyal friends who hove favored us in scores of ways during the post year. It may hove been through your potron- oge ... it may hove been o kind word of cheer... or it may hove been an expression In our behalf to some friend of yours... but, in whatever way you may hove favored us, we ore thankful. It is our hope that each of you may receive the blessings of a joyous Yuletide Season. A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He sus pects himself to be slighted, things every thing that is said meant at him; if the com- Insurance Service & Credit tiorporalion pan Happens to laugh, he is persuaded they laugh at him; he grows angry and testy, says something very impertinent, and draws homself into a scrap, by show ing what he calls a proper spirit, and as serting himself.— (Chesterfield) INSURANCE BONDING FINANCING J. B. Williams, Executive Vice-President W. J. Caroon, Treasurer Jas. M. Andierson, Secretary
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