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Tin Joiriil’Mriot mDEPKNDENT IN POUTICS PoUidbad Mondays and Himday» at North Wilkeshmo, North Carolina D. J. CARTER and JULIUS C. HUBBARD Pabliabers . SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Oae Year $1.60 Six Montha 76 Out of the State .... $2.00 per Year Bnt«r«d at the post eiffice at Nerth Wilkee- bore, Nerth Carolina, as secend-class matter tmd(7 Act ef March 4, 187t. THURSDAY, APR. 20, 1944 Red CroBB Work Reports given in the annual meeting of the Wilkes chapter of the American Red Cross Thursday showed that the chapter has been very active. The Red Cross is something more than an organization to administer to service men at the front. Every chapter must have many volunteer workers on the home front to provide the necessary materials for use on the fighting front. There must be kit bags, surgical dressings and various items of comfortable clothing. These must be made at home. And the Red Cross is the go-between, the liasion, between the family at home and the man at the front. It is the Red Cross that provides for emergency furlough. It is the Red Cross which helps families get in touch with service men. The Wilkes chapter of the Red Cross rendered different types of service to more than 1,500 families of service men during the past year. Keep these facts in mind the next time you arc asked to support the Red Cross with vour dollars. V Where Is Inflation? Elvery time the farmer has an oppor tunity to get some increased income in the form of prices high enough to be in line with what he has to buy, beaureaucrats paint the dangers of inflation. It is then, and often not until then, that price control is brought into effect and made a reality— for the products the farmer has to sell. The owner of a large agricultural enter prise told us that his labor cost this year will be $40,000 as compared to $10,000 in 1942. His feed cost, an enormous figure, will be up one-third over 1942. And he said further that the prices he would receive would not be greater than the prices he received in 1942. The cost of his products has increased greatly, but the prices he receives are held under the iron heel of one-sided control. A congressman in Washington a few days ago began an inquiry on the right track when he was petitioned to do some thing about the low price of eggs. Farmer groups had told him they w'ere receiving 24 cents per dozen for eggs. Eggs were re tailing in the city of Washington for ex actly 48 cents per dozen the same day. Yes, price control is very much a neces sity, and we must have price control, but when we say control we mean both ends of whatever transaction is involved in the controlling process. If a farmer receives three cents per gal lon more for his milk it brings about in flation which would ruin the country. But it doesn’t hurt a thing—there’s nothing v^rrong—if his labor cost jumps 400 per cent, or if the cost of the feed he must buy goes up one-third. That is the interpreta tion one gets from the price control system now in so-called effect. It is inflation if a farmer gets five cents per dozen more for eggs, but it is o. k. for a laborer to jump from $18 to $100 per week. Gardening Time— A national survey shows that only 18 million people plan victory gardens this year, which is four million less than was anticipated. There are several factors which contri bute to this disappointing showing. One is that more men have gone into service, and another is that more housewives are work ing in war industries. But perhaps the' principal reason is that some new garden ers failed to have big success last year and don’t want to try it again. Chances are, if you have any reasonable success with your garden, it will show a financial profit®- But that is not the The main thing is that what you will be that much' added to the o#rall food supply, and the nation needs/ood as well as ships and guns and planes. It is time to get busy In 'the garden. ^ Church is where indifferent Christians go each Sunday to get bawled out—Win ston-Salem Journal. Borrowed CopwPi«nt OUT OF OTHER CHEEKS (Greensboro Daily News) If Rev. Emerson S. Schwenk, of Bridge port, Conn., cannot preach or otherwise help to conduct religious services in a church decorated with service flags, he does well to resign as pastor, and we think his congregation is to be felicitated. It is easy to understand and even to sym pathize with Mr. Schwenk’s distate for war, and we concede that he should not be asked to drab himself in a service or other sort of flag while in the pulpit. But his congregation also has its rights. If it wishes, as a group believing in and contributing to the promotion of human brotherhood, to extend recognition on the premises to fellow Christians it conceives to be doing more, it is well within its rights. We wonder if Pastor Schwenk also ask ed the choirmaster to refrain from singing “Onward Christian Soldiers’, or if he would have walked out on The Son of Man goes forth to war A kingly crown to gain; His’ blood-red banner streams afar— Who follows in His train? We have heard that the Christ Him.self, though He rebuked Peter for resorting to the sword to remove an ear from the serv ant of the high priest, notwithstanding founded His church on the most militant of His disciples. Civilization turned the other cheek to Hitler at Munich—and look what happened! There comes a time when the most devout of Christians run out of cheeks. LAMBAST8 US— With regret we note that we hare misplaced a lambasting let ter from T. Sgt. Robert O. Jolnes, who ls,(ln serrlcfcwlth the ma rines In the South^aclfic. But we oan teU the snluttance of the-letter. First of all we wl*h to conv^ ilia thanko as expressed in the letter to the home 4mnon- stratlon club at P'ores Knob for the box of good eats, etc., which he received at Christmas time. He stated that the box arrived some what late, but that he appreciated it very much. i Among other things, T. Sgt. Joines asked whom we thought we were, Walter Wlnchell? He said our efforts at writing must make Shakespeare and Kipling turn over in the graves. Probably they are calling Shakespeare “Whirling William” by now. And be called attention to our boast of having 12 readers, and offers to bet ten to one we can't find 12' people who will admit reading our stuff. Our boast at having t2 readers does not by any means mean that 12, or any of the 12, would publicly admit reading this column. That would be asking too much. And he said further that the main thing about this column is that It makes the paper shortage more acute. Far be it from ns to argue with a marine. We’ll agree with any thing he says. Anyway, we’re glad to make room for him among our 12 readers. He’s practically ad mitted reading this column. If not, how could he size it up so well? • LIFE’S BETTER WAY • WALTER E. ISENHOUR Hiddenite, N. C. AHAB, THE TROUBLE MAKER Ahab, king of Israel, was one cf the most wicked kings that ever sat upon a throne. His kingship followed that of a number of other wicked kings, but we read in I Kings 16:30: “And Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him”. At this time the prophet Elijah was sought by king Ahab as the trouble maker of Israel. Elijah had prayed for God to stop the rain on account of Ahab’s awful wickedness, along with that of Jezebel, his wicked wife, who was one of the most un godly queens the world has ever known perhaps. However, Elijah had revealed the fact that there would not be dew nor rain for “these years”, and naturally that brought on a tremendous drouth, followed by a famine. In the meantime God took care of Ellijah, although Ahab had sought for him throughout all his kingdom, or kingdoms. He blamed Elijah, God’s holy prophet, with the drought and the sore famine. One day God told Elijah to go and show himself to Ahab. “And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said un to him. Art thou he that troubleth Israel?” Elijah answered, “I have not troubled Is rael, but thou, and thy father’s house in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baa lim.” The fact I want to impress upon your mind, dear reader, is that wicked men of tentimes blame God’s people with the judgments that God sends upon the earth on account of their wickedness. Oh, the a-wful wickedness of Ahab and Jezebel! On account of their sins God sent the drought and famine, but they blamed Eli jah for it. God’s people are never to blame for the outpourings of His wrath upon sinful rulers, sinful men and sinful nations. The Wickedness of the wicked is the cause of it all. Sometimes God’s people see the woeful consequences of sin and then pray for God to do something about it, and He answers their prayers by sending dreadful judgments upon the wicked. But realize this: the wicked are always the trouble makers, just as Ahab and Jezebel were in their day. ’They both went down to defeat and despair, while old Elijah went to Heaven and to eternal glory. Millions hon or EHijah, and many name their children after him, but nobody honors Ahab and Jezebel, neither do they name their child ren after them. They are dreadful trouble makers. DWIGHT NICHOLS •t «1 ^1*9 raYMRie lii third*, sida tb* litifo ctr)[ h.M. rai It i#'- hidTW. fh*BrT- «vi iudT*f tod .threw • • R IM bem said that some veopW Win b^eve anything It yon whl«^ It to them. . , , Wttla B*Id he hnow the datll wto.ABd.j^ ^”4 hecaose a Sion passed'the house hi* •eid, "The peer devil i# . . . Poor people often don't vranf others to know they are poor, and rich people don't want others to know they are rich. ... A Wilkes man with a large family went to a city not so Ua away and a po liceman ashed him as he walked along whai he had been doing. "Nothing'', replied the head of the large family. “Then what’s the crtwd following you for?”- the cop --vanted te know. . . . Men, they say, are similar to kerosene lamps—not very bright, usually tamed down, smoke all the time and generally go out at night. V WAS CX>MTNG aACK— A drunk on a train was making a nuisance of himself In more ways than one. He was using profanity and vulgarity to such an extent that a minister in the same car decided to try to reprove the drunk. "Do you know where you are going?”, the preacher asked. “Don’t know and don’t care,” was the drank^ ^different reply. The nilnufeNln a fh m and S6l- Scouters Training Courte Progresses The second session of the Scooters ’Training Course was held Friday evening, April 14, at Reins-Sturdirant Chapel with a splendid increase in attendance. There are now more than 26 men enrolled In the course. The class is being conducted as a Scout troop with four patrols which ere named as follows: Bull dog Patrol, Crow Patrol, Jackass Patrol, and Bob White Patrol. Each patrol Is conducting and carrying On such work as would be done in a regular Scout Pa trol. Knot tying, bandaging, . .91 It' xotoi' TOP* Wlte )g ooiirf* 1* wgod to he tot thlt tiUrd iaaioii.' k auinher of omar men in the ppsunttBlty who ahoitld be teklag Yshere I sit... Jpf Marsh A do9 story with a happy ending be saw bbatqrjt out of ft d on a M four bow pretty mad. bewasgo- and blow .’sd^gwben L^ s^, "Let ' ,e blazes t to keep his up, anyhow." Bat Md sad Lem are really mighty feasible feUowa. And the whoje thing waa settled when Lera invited Ed over for a glass of beer, and they sat around chatting over the quarrel as If It were a kind of Joke. "Shucks,” says Ed, "them hens didn’t amount to mudi no how.” And Lem says: “Just the same I’m bringin’ you a barrel o’ apples to pay for ’em.” From where I sit. It wonM be s lot better for the worid if folks wonld settle their argameata peacefnl-like—sitting around over a friendly glass od b«)er— instead of gob^ oS balfQ&ed, and making moaatains oat e molehills. n WILLIAMS e MOTOR CO. • T. H. Williams, Manager BEAR Frame Service GOOD USED CARS. TRUCKS AND TRACTORS Easy Terms • Complete • Body Rebuilding Electric and Acetylene Welding Will Pay Cash for Late Model Wrecked Cars and Trucks ’Phone 334-J O 1944, SKEWING INDUSTRV FOL’NOATiON, North CoroUtM Coni Edgar H. loin. SHrio Dirodor, 606-d07 Imuraaco Bldg., Woigh, N. C Improve Your Land ... Use Dependable^ PULVERIZED • (MASCOT • LIMESTONE AN AMERICAN LIMESTONE COMPANY PRODUCT • $3-65 Per Ton, Cash Delivered Anywhere In Wilkes County Bring or Mail Orders To DICK’S SERVICE STATION North Wilkesboro, N. C. IS VITAL WAR MATERIAL The production soldier on the form is stepping up quotas in eggs, milk, meat, and produce of all kinds. Quotas MUST be stepped up to the limit. And as the HIRED HAND leaves for the wars the WIRED HAND must do double duty. In the dairy this means water pumping—ten gallons a day for every cow! It means proper refrigeration. It means feed grinding for economy and in creased milk production. This year the Corolinos must exceed last year's milk output by over 110,000,000 pounds! The poultry farmer will meet the challenge of 10% more eggs and 15% more poultry by forced production methods — lighting in laying houses, ultra violet rodioton, water warmers, and electrft indoor and outdoor brooders, many of them home-made to recommend ed specifications. Potato curing houses, heating cable in seed beds, tnd other equipment for milling, churning, sawing, grinding, lighting, and heetlng will further ener gize the whole farm program and help us to win! Sm Your County Agonl^r Writo To Our Rural Sorrkt Doporfmont
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