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Jft Jnml-Pitmt« INDSPEKdltiT IN POLITICS UJ PvyUMd «>Mi T1wr«4«7««l N^ WHkMbor*. Novtii CuvUm \ - ' D. J. CARTER and JULIUS C. HUBBARD PubUshera. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Onfe Year ’• $2.00 (In Wilkes and Adjoining Counties) One Year — $8.00 (Outside Wilkes and Adjoining Counties.' Rates To Thoso In Serrico; One Year (anywhere) $2.00 Entered at the postoffice at North Wilkes- . boro, North Carolina, as Second-claos matter under Act of March 4, 1879- THURSDAY, JUNE 22,1944 Pulpwood In Invasion Every man who cut pulpwood in 1943 and early this year can feel justly proud of the initial success of the invasion. For h^e had a part in making thal first assault on Hitler’s European Fortress possible. Behind that landing on the western coast of France were months of preparation in which thousands upon thousands of tons of equipment and supplies were moved from this country to our base in England. Th^ shipment of goods overseas prior to June 6 was the most gigantic movement of fight ing equipment over undertaken. This machine age requires more than double the amount of material needed for each man in the last war. It requires, for example, 700,000 separate items, ranging from tanks to watch springs to equip a modern army, and many of these must be provided in millions. Counting everything such as trucks, clothes, and weapons, it takes ten tons of organic equipment to get one man into the European theatre of operations, and it takes sixty pounds of supplies to keep him there. In this magnificent undertaking of sup plying our men in England, pulpwood played a vital role. It#iot only provided the material for packaging and jprotecting many of the weapons and supplies; it was used in the manufacture of many of the items as well. For instance, U. S. invasion forces used 125,000,000 maps alone. But the job has not been finished. The military need for pulpwood still exists and will continue until our boys march into Berlin and Tokio. Prayer—F aith—Works In these trying days the good people of the earth are once again turning to prayer, once more the Christian world is rightful ly beginning to rely upon contact with di vine power to find the right way to live, and to solve the problems of the human race. And as people turn to prayer, prayer for victory, prayer for a lasting peace, let them not forget that there are two requisites which must accompany prayer. The Bttble teaches very plainly that prayer without faith is vain, and that faith without works is dead. To accomplish results the person who prays must believe in what he prays for, and must believe in the power of the God to whom he is praying. And more than that, works must ac company prayer. It is inconsistent to pray for victory and do nothing to bring it about. “Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity”. This means that a person who prays for God to do something for him before he does all in his power to accomplish the answer to his prayer, fails to grasp the meaning of prayer. The person who prays for a divine pow er to care for and comfort the wounded, and is too lazy or indifferent to go to the Red Cross and make surgical dressings, has not reached the extremity where the pow er of prayer is accessible. The .same might be said of those who would pray for allied victory and who fail to buy bonds when they are financially able to do so, who fail to salvage scrap to help the allied cause, who fail to cut pulp wood, who fail to produce food, or who fail to do whatever they have opportunity to do. , , , A group of airmen were forced down m the Pacific a long way from the shore of Australia. Without food and water they drifted in a rubber raft until they faced an early death from thirst and starvation. But in the crew was one who had supreme h. He prayed, and the others, prayed. and they tried to ring hymns when their throats were parched. *• ^4isWhen it seemed the end was new they were approached by Australian native m fishing boats and were taken to The natives told the airmen that on the preceding day they felt an inward urge to go off their course in that direction. Those airmen had reached their ex tremity. They had inflated their rubber raft and had done their utmost to kwp alive and reach a port. They had done their utmost. „ ^ , And this brings to mind the story of an air pilot whose controls froze at a ^h altitude and while his plane was in a dive toward the earth at a speed estimated at 600 miles per hour he was helpless to do anything except pray. » The controls loosened in time for him to get the plane out of the dive before it plunged into the earth. Then he Mid: “Thank you. Lord, I’ll take over now . ■ ^V- Borrowed Comment HOLD YOUR WAR BONDS (Morganton News-Herald) The nation-wide campaign to secure subscriptions to the Fifth War ^an em phasizes the importance of retaining the bonds, when purchased, unless an im perative demand for cash compels redemp tion. In May there were $280,000,000 worth of bonds cashed by holders of Series E, or about 28 per cent of the $713,907,929 sold. The record of Series E bonds, however, reveals $32,000,000,000 sold and only $2,- 800,000,000,or about nine per cent, cashed in. Every time a holder of a war bond cashes it he cancels the sale of a bond of equal amount. Of course, every sensible person knows that there will arise occasions when the individual, regardless of patriotic impulses, is faced with the necessity of getting some cash from bonds. This is caused, very of ten, by over-enthusiasm in buying and by emergencies that arise after the investment has been made. 9 LIFE’S BETTER WAY 4 WALTER E. ISENHOUR Hiddenite, N. C. THE UNFRUITFUL WORKS OF DARKNE.SS Over in Ephesians 5:11 Paul tells us to “have no fellowship with the unfruitful work of darkness, but rather reprove them” . This advice is to the Christian. It should be taken seriously and heeded hon estly. Not only are we to have no fellowship with the powers and unfruitful works of darkness, but we are to reprove them. The workers of iniquity should know posi tively that we stand against all their wickedness. They should regard us as an avowed enemy to evil of all kinds, and yet come to know us as one that loves their souls and desires their salvation. Not an enemy to them. There is a vast difference in being an enemy to a man’s sins and an enemy to him. Jesus was no man’s enemy, and yet He was an enemy to the sins of all men. It was thus with all the apostles and disciples of our Lord, also with the patriarchs and phophets. The unfruitful works of darkness are all about us. Wherever sinful men are found, there we find the works of darkness. However, it is true that some sinners wield a far greater power than others; and of tentimes they enter into some dirty kind of business, or set up some sort of attrac tion in order to make money, regardless of the great damage they may do to their fel- lowmen physically, mentally, morally and spiritually. Indeed we are to have no fel lowship with such evil, iniquity and wickedness, but rather reprove it. If every professed Christian throughout the earth would do this, the cursed vice of the world could be put down in a wdiiderful way. Drunkenness, adultry, crime, hatred and warfare certainly would not flourish on such a mighty scale as it does, thus de stroying millions of lives and souls. We are to watch the unfruitful works of darkness, stand guard against them, have absolutely no fellowship with them, then rebuke all such in the spirit and love of God, and by His sustaining grace. It is true that some men will hate us, speak against us, and have a desire to stop us, but as long as we are true and faithful to God they can’t get it done—^not until God permits it. Praise His holy name. 'The un fruitful works of darkness are absolutely dangerous. They endanger the lives and damn the souls of humanity. May God give us holy boldness and mighty grace to stand against them, rebuke them, and keep pure in our hearts and souls. Amen. THE WEATHER— If everybody eah talk about the weather, we can write about it Sunday was the hottest day! (Tried to write that like Minnie Pearl would say it, it yon get what we mean). We took refuge in Mulberry Creek, and the creek was hot too. and got progreesiyely hotter through the afternoon. It was BO hot that the big rock on the side of tbe old swimming hole would barbecue your feet If you stood on it ten seconds. Be fore crawling up on the rock out of the water we would splash water on the rock to cool It off, and steam would rise and the rock heated the water. The water got BO hot that it cooked the fish, and people down below were picking up cooked fish and eating them. You people in the country know how hot water is used to remove hair from slaughtered hogs. Well, one fellow dived In after we had splashed water on the rock to cool the rock, and he came up bald headed. If you men don’t believe It was hot ’nuff to bring up the blisters on a person’s back just ask us and we’ll take off our shirt and show you. (NOTE—Women must take our word for It). And Sunday was the hottest night you ever did see! It was so hot we couldn’t sleep. Nest morn Ing one person took a look at us and exclaimed: "If I had your looks and my feelings I could drive the devil out of hell”. We at the newspaper office have been told we were frozen on our jobs. After the past week-end we’d rather say we are welded on ’em. ON .SUMMER fTXXTHES— And speaking of the weather, it has been reported to us that the hot weather cut church atten dance, mainly because men can’t stand to wear wool clothes i weather like that, and coats are terribly hot. We think that men should be properly dressed for church In whatever is comfortable, whether it be wool suits or shark skin sport suits. Not every man has a light palm beach suit he can wear to church. Of course, there is another way to look at it. A man who wears a wool suit to church on a day like last Bunday must be reminded of hades, and he would decide that if hell is any hotter, he don’t want to go there. POETIC ENDING— Spring has sprung. Fall has fell. Summer’s here. It’s hot as fire. lioTlCE North Carolina,'Yadkin County. Under and by virtue of an order of the Superi^ Court of Yadkin X)unty, made fin the special pro- ceeiting entitttd Walter Cheek and wife, Dessie^heek, Russell Cheek and wife, H^ie Cheek, vs. .^thur Chfek and/wife, Mildred Cneek, Lester Cheek and wife,»: Nora Cheek, Ethel Ch (single) sioner July, ! at the villa, sale to that being ties, fstly Cheek and wife ■k, and Colonel Cheek, le undersigned Commis- , on the 24th day of at 12:00 o’clot^ Noot, lurthouse door in Yadkin- irth Carolina, offer for e highest bidder for cash ^in tract of land taing and Yadkin and Wiljfes coun- . C., more particijiarly de as follows: . ’Tract: Beginning maple at the branch, comer dower of Jans Segraves. idow of Williatg Segraves, >d, and running north 7 deg., chains to d(jnble chest- Cheek’s line; th^^e west 10; ; to a rock setfiip; thenc 6 chains to a iWk set up / Jrest one chain find 25 link rtak set up; thejee south 1 ea|| lOMs chains fe) a rock s' ■ e a hickota former ■nee west 10 *■4 chains ining, conlai (ess. Tracu: Be QSl W. Brow . rung in G. 19% ^’S COL rods to the 11 acres, mo; Fourth 1 Yadl^in coun _ running west and pointera i thence south and down, ne containing on rock on the nortl thence east 80 rods to a bunch rock; thence aboi conditional line 4 wood near a hire said birch east as a rock in the Coun north to the begini- 45 acres, more or lesi This 17lh day of J PAUBKS G. 7-18-4t|T)
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