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SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
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Six Months .76
Pour Months — 60
’ Out of the State $2.00 per Year
Bntorad at the post office' at North Wilkea.
hero, N. C., as second class matter niider Act
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MONDAY, JAN. 19, 1942
The Best Investment
Between $1,500 and $2,000 was raised
here a few days ago to promote the Boy
Scout expansion program in northwestern
' North Carolina..
That is a considerable sum of money. It
■ was called donations from many indivi
duals and business firms.
But we had rather call it an investment.
That sum of money will be used to de
velop the future manhood in North Wilkes-
boro, Wilkes county and other counties in
this part of the state.
That represents an investment in charac
ter, the kind of character which will de
termine the course of our city and com
munity in years to come.
In the Boy Scout troops to be ■ formed
and maintained may be trained the future
leaders of the next generation.
The type of character of those leaders
will determine whether our city and com
munity progress or retrograde.
Services of Scouts, are needed now in
this period of national and w'orld crisis.
But what the boys can do now cannot
be compared to what the training they re
ceive in their early youth will enable them
to accomplish w'hen they reach the age of
mature citizens.
We commend each and every person
who contributed to the Scout fund for their
interest in boys of today and citizenship of
the years to come.
,^p^You have made an investment far su
perior to those which'are made purely for
monetary reasons.
Cross Purposes
There has been mention in Washing
ton about cutting out expenditures for non-
essential government services but mention
is about as far as it has progressed.
On Thursday this newspaper carried an
item from an authoritative government
source saying that private building con
struction would be stopped soon.
Next day this newspaper received a
batch of press releases from a government
agency telling how homes should be con
structed, etc.
There are several government agencies
which served well in peacetime but are
useless now because the war economy has
placed their services where they are no
longer needed. It is silly to pay a bureau
to tell people how to construct homes and
at the same time forbid construction.
Politicians have their friends working in
agencies which the war has made useless
and such politicians do not want to sacri
fice political favor for the sake of the nat
ional welfare and security. Meanwhile,
they are not unwilling to call on the gen
eral public to sacrifice everything needed
to win the war. But the public wants the
sacrifices to include everybody and with
no exceptions to politicians.
Far be it from us to oppose anything to
aid in the war efforts, but from this angle
it does not look like any great purpose
would be carried out by .stopping con
struction of new' residences. "Various
things will reduce employment except in
defense w'ork areas and some of the work
ers could be used in private construction.
The amount of steel used in the aver
age new home in Wilkes is very small,
compared with the expenditure for wood
products used in the home. It is true that
this is an all-out war but reasonable wel-
» fare for the civilian population is essential
for maintaining proper morale on the home
-front, without which the armed forces
would be at a disadvantage.
In some cases,' of cdum'e, we^J Ibe
buy substitute pro4uctsV for ;1ndurtnl^tes.
search has been busy developing nei^jna^
terials that will come in handier now than
ever before. , In others we’ll have to do
without and get more use fronn the things
we already have.
LOCAL
tfes of 17 and;$B wix>
have, 8 fiir element^, education
and a for aerial adyentore are
adviaed contact the Saliabury
■ Navy ReCTUiters. . ,, :
The age Imit for enliatment in ... ... .
t . Y, ‘In order to efficiently man our
Claw y-2 of the Naval Reaerve, fa«t' growing, two ocean Navy,
(aviation) has been lowered from more than 10 000 enlisted men are
20 to 19 years, it was annbunced sent to'Navy trade schools each
FIRES AND FIRES J'
One of the North Wilkesboro ^
N«y Rwrulter. month whoi « lf«l»
There .re man, w.,e In whioh we eh.ll
have to adapt our standard .of living to the,because we had had so much ex-
- . n . we can he’Personally, we don’t
necessities of war. As we do it,
glad of one fact: most of the materials that
we are doing without are going into weap
ons for the men in our armed forces; our
shortages are a concrete reminder that in
dustry is bus/ with war production to
make our victory certain.
Borrowed Conunent
OUR STAKE IN PACIFIC
(Alleghany News) .
Singapore, the Philippines and other war
points in the Pacific which the Japs are
now making a great effort to conquer and
possess may look a long way off on the
map, and they are thousands of miles
away, but when we consider them in the
light of their importance to us, they over
shadow most everything here at home.
Beside.s containing about eighty-five per
cent of the world’s raw rubber supply, the
islands and peninsulas furnish us with
many other items that are used in our dally i
lives. Tin is one of the important things
we import from the Orient and will be the
harde.st for us to replace. Substitutes may
have to be used for the tin cans that line
the shelves of our grocery stores and for
the many others we now use daily that we
made from this valuable metal.
Other vital imports from the Pacific in
want any more experience, or a*
least we hope that there will not
be necessity for any more. ^
Two years ago the house where
we lived burned down, together
with practically .all our furnish
ings, and as far as they were
cemed it was a case of waiting
too long to get any ir.surance.
which we did not have.
After getting together an odd
but appreciable amount of furni
tore we moved to a house which
belonged to the man who lived
next door and we had been there
two months when the owner’s
house next door totally burned
one morning and that necessita
ted moving to let him have his
house.
After one more move we again
got half way settled down and on
January 11 the home of the
next door neighbor burned down,
during which fire our house got
to blazing and would have gone
to blazes had not the North
Wiikesboro fire department put
out and kept out the blazes.
All of which adds up to some
kind of record and gives ns some
kind of a rating as having a gol-
darned plenty of experience—
much more than we ever hanker
ed for.
FOR RlTtAL F1KE.S
An investment which would pay
for itself easily in preventing de
struction of taxable property
would be for Wilkes county to
dude chromite, manganese and tungsten *>uy one of those new tangled.
, , , j, , . rural fire trucks which have been
for hardening of steel; kapok for making „„ ,,,g market.
life preservers; graphite for lubricating| According to our information,
the machines of war; manila fibre for mak- the plan is being used in eome
ing roping; pig bristles for brushes and the IZTZJZlTeL'T:
tea we drink, ju.st to name a few.
We have a good sitockpile of most of
these materials on hand. We have been
building them up since trouble threatened
in the Pacific. We have also been busy pro
ducing synthetic products here and find
ing other sources of raw materials to re
place these products which we ordinarily
secure from the Far East.
But no matter how fast those replace
ment plans progress, every one of us will
feel the temporary fracture in our lifeline
to the Pacific. The Amevican people
and American industry depend on the Far
East and it is imperative, in this day of
herculean production, that we bring that
lifeline back to health as quickly as possi
ble.
American, British and Dutch forces
have been “holding out ’ splendidly and in
flicting much damage on the enemy, but
re-inforcements should be sent to their aid
as soon as possible.
be worked out here.
The rural fire trucks which
have been placed on the market
in recent years consist of a chas
sis with a 1,000-gallon tank,
plenty of hose, and two way
pumps— which can pump water
from wells, streams, etc., into
the truck and on to the fire.
Such a truck and equipment
could be kept by the fire depart
ment here and could be manned
by a few men. It could be used
for fires in town in isolated spots
far from water lines and when it
went out of town the other trucks
and equipment would be here for
protection. It would not he diffi
cult to work out payment from
property owners affected by the
county for inain'enance and oper
ation of such a machine, which
could not only savt property
adjoining fires in nearby rural
areas but which could be used to
salvage parts of burning build
ings.
no longer necessary to be a high pective selectees are also eligible
school graduate in order to cpi^lify
for entrance to any of the Navy’s
several aviation mechanical trade
schools. The trades taughc are
aviation mechanist, aviation metal-
sipiU), aviation ordnancemen, and
aviation radiomen. After five
training in these fine
schools and graduates are assign
ed to duty with a fighter or bom-
for enlistment in the Naval
iag^ pi^nim ^lai^iitetaSI. by'' lin.
Navy for our Aiuiuleaa
I^AtO FARMERS
l-FOUND SACI
MSINGB0-F
■While the ' lOO-ponna potatd^^'
sack has become the' moat
monly used size, thm is an.^iib>*^
creasing tendency to use 50-ponad'^*
sacks which, eventually, may be>,
come the standard size.
Eighteen destroyers and 18
submarines were launched by the
Navy during 1941.
I
MARLOW’S MEN’S SHOP
Portage Shoes—Westminister Sox
CHi
invites the millions of patriotic, for
ward-looking Chevrolet owners-and,
in fact, all motorists-fo join with;
Chevrolet dealers in a great national
CONSERVE TIRES-
ENGINE-TRANSMISSION
-EVERY VITAL PART
Chevrolet’s new "Car Con
servation Plan" is designed
to help you keep your car
serving faithfully for the
duration, and invites your
cooperation on the follow
ing points; (1) Observe the
simple, fundamental, thrifty
rules of car care, such as
keeping tires properly in
flated, checking battery,
water, oil, etc.... (2) Get a
simple service "check-up”
at your Chevrolet dealer’s
now, and ovoid major trou
bles later. ... (3) See your
Chevrolet dealer regularly.
\ 'tf
Silver Lining
■V\''e Americans must pull in our belts.
For a long time we’ve been hearing that
the time was coming when we’d have to do
that Now the time is here. Rationing of
automobiles and tires brings home the fact
ON SHARING THE BLAME
(Statesville Daily)
This paragraph lifted from the Winston-
Salem Journal has our endorsement—with
out reservation but with qualification:
“One way to relieve any possible
paper shortage: Cut out about 99 per
cent of this press release stuff that
goes directly from its source to the
office wastebaskets.’’
Every newspaper man will agree that
this tornado of printed matter sent out to
serve this purpose and that, is not only an
noying, but tragic in these days when the
conservation of almost everything is so es
sential. Surely the senders have learned
by now that little use is made of their re
leases, some of which are not even given a
glance before they are headed into the
waste basket.
But the “press release” gang is not the
only offender. If the conservation of pa
per is a worthy objective, and it is, then
' the newspapers could well take stock of
their extravagance. Filling pages with
snake-story time copy in order to make the
journal bulk with a neighbor’s output, is
not only wasting good paper, but eating
into the office till. Many of the big dailies
that come to our hand could cut their num
ber of pages to half without the least de
crease in value to the reader.
Most newspapers will admit that if they
don’t carry above sixty per cent of their
space in advertising, they’d better plan to
get on the good side of the sheriff, for in
due time he’ll be calling. *It’s our notion
that the favorite family journal will not
lose any of its prestige or interest by con
densing its reading matter to a brief but
full coverage of the news and sloughing
off the frills and furbelows. No telling
how many trees that would save, and
trefls and paper need very much to be
Fighter Squadron VE-72 is
symbolized by a blue burglar
wasp wearing boxing gloves.
CHIVtOUT DfAUK STKIAUZE
IN THEK ''COmEtVATION JERVKEJ”
for Alt Mokof el Can ond Track]
1. TIRE SERVICE (to coniorvt
rubber).
2. RADIATOR (to safeguard cool-
ing system).
1. LUBRICATION (to coniervt
motor, chossis).
4. BRAKES (to preserve lining,
•Ic.).
5. MOTOR TUNE-UP (to conserve
engine ond fuel).
6. CARBURETOR AND FUEL
PUMP (to rove fuel).
7. STEERING AND WHEEL ALIGN
MENT (makes tires last longer—
conrerves rubber).
8. BODY AND FENDER REPAIR.
9. CLUTCH, TRANSMISSION,
REAR AXLE.
10. HEADLIGHT AND ELECTRICAL
CHECK-UP.
11. SHOCK ABSORBER SERVICE.
12. PAINTING, REFINISHING,
WASHING, etc.
0 SEE YOUR'LOCAL
CHEVROLET DEALER FOR SERVICE
A MOBILE NATION IS A STRONG NATION
GADDY MOTOR CO.
Blocks West on Boone Trail
North Wiikesboro, N. C.
OftfUioHcedr ta U/im u*Uil 0
can fii MM ohU afcUte..
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Hedddf Kiiowait,
Your Electrical Servant
E FFICIENCY and safety are watch
words of a Nation at war. They are as
urgent in Home Economy as in Busi
ness Economy—
I©I9«.
RCODY KILOWATT
That’s why Reddy urges you to
check up on extension cords, loose
connections, and appliances in need of
repair.
Frayed cords may increase your
electric service bill without benefit to
you.
Unused appliances represent
lost conveniences.
conserved..
Check up regularly on the efficiency and safety of your household.
DUKE POWER COMPANY
HOUSS 9 to S
NINTH STREET