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JO] fii POLITICS ' Thimdayt at Nor& Carolina D. J. CABTER and JULIUS C. HUBBARD PaUiahen SUBSCRlPtlOl^ RATES: One Year f 1.60 Sl? Months 75 Four Months 60 Out of the State .... $2.00 per Year Entered at the post office at North ’WIOdM' boro. North Carounaj as second-class matter under Act of Mardi 4, 1879. MONDAY, FEB. 28th, 1944 ^arm Ownership The Farhi-Security Administration’s ac tivities in making farm owners of tenants is one of the brightest spots in the New Deal category of government agencies. According to a news article carried by this newspaper Thursday, there are 24 farmers in Wilkes county who have be come farm owners through low cost loans from tha FSA. And the report indicates that they are doing well as farm owners. Not every_ farm tenant can be a farm owner. Not all of them are capable of farm ownership. Many of them would lose their farms in a short while if they were given farms, to say nothing of having to pay for them. But among farm tenants are many capa ble families handicapped by financial dif ficulties. It takes capital to go into farm ing. To buy everything necessary to go into farming, including land, houses and equipment, would take more capital than would be required to establish a modest mercantile business. There are few farm tenants who can start from the bottom without some financial advances from some source. The FSA plan of loans for farm pur chases is sound for several reasons. One big reason is that the persons helped are not given anything. They are loaned money ' with which to buy the necessities to start with. . When you go into boondoogling, giving right and left, you only create a class of people perpetually looking for handouts. They lose their initiative and everything else of character value. But when you advance to a sound per son a sum of money to enter farming, and you make it clear that it is up to him to make good and pay the money back, you challenge the best that is in him, provided that he is going into what he wants to do. Like- other government activities, the cost of administration of the FSA is far too high. But here we are discussing the subject of loans for purchase of farmsj for farm o-wnership. It is the people’s money. But it must be paid back to the govern ment, with interest, and the loans are se cured. Farm owners feel that they are a more integral part of their respective communi ties than farm tenants. They have an in terest in public affairs which they did not have as tenants. They pay more county taxes and as a general rule are more inter ested in county affairs. Farm owners have a capital investment they want to protect. They strive to see that conditions are as good as possible in their communities for their children. They take more interest in their churches and schools and the social and civic life of the community. Farm tenancy has never been a major problem in Wilkes county, where thev^er- centage of farm ownership is very high. But in the so-called cash crop sections of the south you can find counties where less than half the farmers owm the land on which they toil. They are tenants, share croppers, working all the year with a part of crop going to an owner who cannot assure them that they will be on the same farm six months ahead. Such people cannot be expected to have pride in their temporary places of abode which are owned by some capitalist in a nearby or distant town. They do not care much for the church or school, because they do not know whether they will be in thft same comraimity the next year. 'Bttt the farmer whd owns his land, who own house, can be a real factor ia t)iraino>(&g the upbuilding of his com- to higher standards (tf a more abundant lifa. , printing Ihe fbUon comment from the Bttin^I^^una j ^ ^ “A new kind of coin, be put into use by the Office of ministration to be used in making chhhgh iter ration stamps. ' v It* seems probable thait these which are scheduled for use within a ter otydays, will make the handling Of ra tioning easier for both store keepers and consumers. The paper coupons wntinue . _ ^ to be confusing to many people, what with takB TC® — ' * daee'Sms p. asked tice abMt the serrabifc. '-ef'dii... 4 booxB ' WrI ..i^gRli-oea e..ao- „ m^glediafdly after their different values, and are a great nuisance to store keepers, being difficult ^ to handle, easy to lose, and present a tim^ pal. tniiUater. consuming recording job for all 'stores. “Chester Bowles, head of the OPA, pre diets that the token plan will save the re tailers of the country $36,000,000 worth of ^ man hours annually in time now spent in counting and sorting stamps. • he annooneed: “AB'-iL—~ “As we understand it, with the use of hav« eUldiwn they wiah baptized tokens, all coupons in the ration books, re- %i^^ii.”who wm gardless of the number they bear, will be soppoaii^ dw deik wai worth 10 points each. Thus if a purchase ink wt the"^i» i, made which require, .be pomta, token, in the value of four points -will be returned those wbo'baRrfefi’t any, fiiat they to the purchaser as change. These tokens ^ «« .«v may be spent by the customer in buying rationed goods. “Let’s hope the plan doesn’t backfire and cause the stores greater confusion than the paper stamp plan by having to hand out token change as well as change for money, You’ll be behind barbed wire with a ma chine gun every 50 yards and if you so much as stick a finger through that wire you won’t get it back!—^Pvt. Odie Reed to captured German in Italy who had idea.s about prisoner life in America. ^V. Japan does not mind if America’s inva sion forces move farther, because in that MORE OF THE SAME— One man said be was fsoing to talk to the doctor because he didn’t like the looks of his wife. Uis friend said he would go along too because hf didn’t like the looks of his, eithdr . . . Another yam involving a doctor was the ga rage man telling an attendant how to handle a flat on the doctor’s car. “Diagnose the case as fla- tuency of the perimiter and charge on each side of case it can severely trounce them at one stroke at the right moment.—Adml. Tanet- sugu Soso on Tokyo radio. You’ve got to teach youngsters the dif ference between right and wrong, but you shouldn’t try to poke it down their throats. Let them ask questions and then give them tAe answers.—Henry Ford. ^V- ' THE COUNTRY CHURCH It’s of the country church today Of every land and clime, Where saintly people meet to pray I write this truth sublime; ■^And may our hearts be stirred and thrilled To know what God has -wrought Among the people whom He filled By truth that’s soundly taught. The utter destruction produced by mod em war is so obvious to every people that the determination to keep the peace will be overwhelming if it can be properly or ganized.—Sen. Robt. A. Taft of Ohio. 9 UFE’S BETTER WAY • WALTER E. ISENHOUR Hiddenite, N. C. The writers of our sacred songs And poets, not a few, Can well be' classed among the throngs That worshipped in her pew; And presidents have worshipped there. And statesmen by the score; Yes, mighty men have knelt in prayer God’s mercies to imploje. Vast multitudes of preachers great. And teachers of the truth, Whose lives have blessed both church and state From early days of youth. Were saved from sin and all its blight At some dear country church, And then went forth to' be a J^t And for lost sinners search. Mankind of every class and clime. Of every race and creed, Who’ve blessed the world through years of time, And helped supply her need Of love and courage^ peace and grace. Have been among the band. Who in some country churah and place Found God’s salvation grand. Oh, how we love the country church, . And saints who woxtdiip there; Who would not stoop .tiieir souls to smirol Nor do the things unfair; Who love to walk with God each day And hold communion sweet, And for,each ot^ and pray That none from ^od retreat! . > ,r. may be obtain^ frwn me ssy day between three and four d’dock: the ordinary Httle ones at fifteen cents, and qiecial ones -with red backs at twenty-five cents each”. For the benefit of any Who think the above yam is too risque, we -musb say we borrowed it from the Biblical Recorder. him aeeofdiai^r ThM^ tpi he does nie” , . . H tolM Qlif' ^fraction of • itbaad to wtoh eye^and. boors to exskain tV.. ;etr(m|Mtiippdt~sra not ’whSSh'weBi'^ir«Q»:thi' (nur iam mre piicea Could ^para , *. str It fo It' Mf es -wMdlr we-.«nr. ^ ;j»d-eiti « W'lef' en —— —:■ oar model T. Oac:bi«tli«r .li»d a model T and ^ aay it wwrt haydH'W >w>del ti Umee. The field eoB,iSc'j«we yott know wAat we nipmw, ems^ri^in. The field coil itf« Tyma tiw mmy shaped hphiiCiiune ^eleetnc sjpark foie the ylogs and Ughte. Now, cm hive generstors. Changing the field coil imeant “polling the ihotor”, and paHing the nrotor meang taking the motor out in order to instMl the little piece -which they called a field coQ, It took two men aboot aH day to do the job. We went to tto garage to help the mechanic install a new field coU, and when the job was completed w& had the car on our haiida, two milee from home, md hsM never tried to Wve anything biggw than a home-made coaster wagon. Ashamed to admit that (there was anything we could not do, we told the mechanic we would take the car home rather than wait for our brother to walk the two miles srd come after it. We started the contraption o. k. land drove down the highway. Gee, it was fun. It wag even easier to steer than our coaster wagon. But there is always bitter with the sweet. There was the narrow road We had to turn off into from the highway. It wag easy to drive along the old crooked highway, bt>t it took a long time to make up our head that we could hit that little side road in leaving the highway. So up and down the highway we drove that model T. About ft mile the little road to -P* mUi^yat T dm:» MB your lall' yon f/mat/im »-wm m and doim toiit hlgfamw tto got nfervo Mongh to try famiag iufto -ttat jIuBhad viih^ hittii^ :d& aMtcnnd XBsi^ that, deni;' tn thooght mg a major neeompi^ mtnt' , - •' ■ Van^ Cwriton vUtod in Hull Walah,^ i A. F- ,Wa -ddfl IdApir, vhdted Mr.'aad 3b. imi hoahoiesa'.fiaiton hoTM, l«iiUy,>® . Mr. and Mra.^ Walliir „ ^tad lir.'^aiid Kn. B. A $mday evening. . 0, Sup lOsB Ottier Budinr, of LtoOlb I. Hm Paraima viMted liik 41 IbiKOf Bbom the Past lyta, Sunday. Though shmday was an ungiMir^ ant day so far as the weather gtog yat won a gooAy BuadMr.at- church and Sunday schooL Did yea goT -V (Intended,For Thursday’s Issue) R«v.» IS. L -Watts filled his reg ular appointment at Uledown and Lebanon Sunday. Hra. W, D. Watts ia a patient at the Wilkes Hospital. We smxious- ly hope she will soon be better. TURNIP GREENS An average serving of tunrip greens gives about one-fifth ot the calcium needed by a growing child for day. Milk and milk products are other excelleiit sourc es of calcium. WANTED! Broilers aod Heavy Hens, Top Prices For Top Quality Joe Darlington POULTRY COMPANY Forester Ave. North Wilkesboro,N.C. • PLACED ON THE MARKET FOR We are offering the public 21 Used Cars and Trucks. Many of these are late models ^but if you want a good Used Car in a lower price bracket we have these, too. Come in today arid see what we have before somebody else takes advantage of the values we are offering, as follows; 1-1941 Buick Roadmaster 5-pa^senger Convertible 1-1941 Buick 5-passengcr Club Coupe 1-1941 Oldsmobile Six 4-door Hydromatic 1-1940 Oldsmobile Club Coupe 5-passenger, (8 cylinders) 1-1942 Ford Tudor Coach 2^1940 Model Ford Coaches 1-1941 Ford Fordor Sedan 1-1941 Ford Club Coupe 5-passenger 2-1941 Ford Tudor Sedans 1-1940 Chevrolet Convertible 5-passenger Plenty of *36, *37, *38 and *39 Chevrolets stnd Fords Several 3^ Ton Pickups, and 1 1-2 Ton Trueb ' —1940 Ford Coupe (maroon) PRACTICALLY EVERY ONE OF THE ABOVE CARS AND TRUCKS ARE IN GOOD MECHANICAL CONDITION... AND HAVE GOOD TIRES " 1
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