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MONDAY, AUG. 28th, 1944
Salvaging Paper
Tons of waste paper are being destroyed
in Wilkes county each month.
We say this to explain that paper is one
of the most critical war materials at the
present time. It has number 1 priority in
salvage.
A movement is on foot to intensify the
scrap paper salvage task in Wilkes county.
It is not a lack of patriotism on the part
of the people that they do not have a bet
ter record in paper salvage. It is just that
they have not realized the importance of
paper in the war effort. Paper and paper
pulp products are vital, and must be pro
duced.
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Nutrition—Staff Of Life
The big offensive in the battle agaimst
malnutrition will begin in September when
the Nation’s Food Fights For Freedom
»program turns its attention to good all-
American nutrition.
In this the third year of America’s par
ticipation in the war, there is a deeper ap
preciation of the vital role of food in war
time than ever before. Since May, 1943,
the nutrition programs branch of the War
Food Administration’s office of distribu
tion has assisted with nutrition clinic dem
onstrations which have shown that there is
widespread malnutrition throughout the
country. In the past this condition might
have been associated with low incomes. To
day, however, spending power is at an all-
time high and with fewer goods and ser\’-
ices available, civilians who have an in
creased income are spending much of it on
food—but not always the right food.
In line with the growing recognition of
food’s importance is the creation of the
national nutrition program, the aim of
which is to show people how to adjust the:r
eating habits to a wartime situation.
The program is dedicated to the prop
osition that total war demands total
strength, and that total strength demand.s
good nutrition. It recognizes that eating
should mean more than satisfying hunger.
It should provide the body daily with the
right kinds of food in suitable amounts to
furnish energy ... to provide material for
building and repairing the body ... to fur
nish substances to regulate body processes.
The solution then would seem to lie in
educating the food purchaser to obtain
100 per cent nutrition value from the foods
available . . . and that is the mission of the
national wartime nutrition program.
Woiking with the Federal organization
are neraly 3,000 state, county and local
nutrition committees which include in their
membership experienced nutritionists, die
titians, home economists, physicians, den
tists, and representatives of agepcies, civic
groups, and the food trade.
Cornerstone of the program is the new
and revised official wartime food guide
showing the “Basic 7” categories of food
which should be eaten every day. The pro
gram will receive major emphasis from
national advertisers and retailers and in
national magazines and over the radio
which will feature better breakfasts and
better lunches for all, but especially for
school children and war workers.
Nutrition—in every day language—
means eating three well-balanced meals a
day . . . built around the “Basic 7” , . . ap-
petizingly served and properly cooked to
preserve all the food values.
Vision.) and the Legion
Our fighters in the front lines and the
fox-holes are fired by no such futile fana
ticism a's characterizes the Japs and the
Nazis. ' Our men have a job to do—they re
doina it because they want to finish it off
and get home.
“ emperor worship nor hero wor
ship appears in their dreams of glory: they
dream,^ mpmats
the enemy, of ther'jolto tfie^n\corae^to^!|
to„ the families tW tatve or.yill
most^often of the little shop or business
they will start for themselves and be their
“own boss". 5^? ■"
' Perhaps no one knows all this better
than the men of the American Legion, for
they once were soldiers themselves and
now are the dads of the lads in the ranks.
Thus the postwar program just announced
by a Legion commission commands, as it
should, the attention of all who sincerely
have at heart the welfare not alone of the
returning servicemen but also of the coun
ty they went forth to defend.
The Legion advocates “employment fos
tered by a system of free enterprise em
bodying the greatest encouragement to in
dividual initiative and to every sort of
sound business leadership, along with an
effective implementation of a' national
program of fair knd impartial treatment
for both, management and labor”.
Of unquestioned patriotism, from a
background both military and parental,
and with a quarter-century of experience
behind it, the Legion speaks—and makes
sense!
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Borrowed Comment
WE GET FOR LEND LEASE
(Morganton News-Herald)
What we have sent Russia:
More than 8,400,000 tons of supplies,
valued at $3,243,804,000, and incdules 7,-
800 planes, 4,700 tanks and tank destroy
ers, 170,000 trucks, 33,000 jeeps and 6,-
000,000 pairs of boots.
What Russia has done to Germany, ac
cording to Stalin:
In one year the Nazis have lost 4,000,000
men, 14,000 planes, 25,000 tanks and 40,-
000 guns.
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While the army has been gaining miles,
the WACs have gained nine pounds
apiece. But the WACs are not expected to
defend their gains as the army will defend
its.—Greensboro Daily News^^ ’
I LIFE’S BETTER WAY •
WALTER E. ISENHOUR
N. C.
Becuce as aome thciti
son's carelesp talk may,
After reading fhe^'wi.
lift a few for this eotomu.
jead by most darelMB
and ft good advled tor*'
to nee In everyday 41fe.
Here they are, ao read ’em aad
THE PRODIGAL GIRL
One of the most familiar themes of the
Bible is that of the prodigal son who asked
his father for his inheritance that he might
go away from home, be his own man, do as
he pleased and have a good time. At least
this is what we gather from the parable.
The son went forth, spent his substance in
riotous living, and at last came to dire
poverty and want. He made a wreck of
himself. This is what happens when one
goes forth in life to have his own way, leav
ing God out of his life and disobeying the
teaching of father and mother. Although
this parable was given in regard to a way
ward son, showing the remorseful conse
quences of going astray, and revealing that
his only way of recovery was by returning
to his father’s house as a penitent, seek
ing mercy and pardon; but what about the
prodigal girl ? Is it not a fact that girls go
astray a.s well as boys? Perhaps the bless
ed Master meant this as a lesson and warn
ing to both boys and girls, and to all those
who go forth to have their own way in sin.
Sometime ago a very sad letter came to
me from one of my readers, telling of the
waywardness of her daughter. This girl
left home to get a job in one of our cities.
She found work, but she also found bad
company. This accounts for multitudes of
prodigal sons and daughters. The girl
had a good home, a good father and moth
er, and had been taught right; but after
leaving home she seemed to throw off all
restraint, forget her parents, with the de
sire to try the evil ways of socie^. She
sought pleasure with the gay, worldly, sen
sual, regardless of the heartaches she
brought to a precious old mother and a
good father. All we could do to'help the
parents was to write them to take it to God
in earnest prayer, promising that we would
also pray with them. I do not know any
thing further in regard to the outcome. If
the girl is still going astray it is over the
prayers of a precious mother, over the
prayers of her father, too, no doubt, and
over our prayers. How awful hell will be
to the prodigals who go down to this aw
ful place over the earnest prayers of their
loved ones, and over the prayers of minis
ters of the Gospel and Chiistian friends
and neighbors!
O prodigal girl, return I No doubt there
awaits you a hearty welcome in the home.
Return to that precious heartbroken
mother, that dear father, that good home.
Return, above all, to Jesus. You have
strayed away from Him, and this is the
most serious. Return. Return! This is
life's better way.
SHAKES— ^ •
Someone has suggeetod that
when we run out of something to
write that w© pick some subject w®
don’t like and write about it any-
Well we don’t like snakee. We
abhor them, regardless of race,
color, shape or form, poisonous or
non-polsonons.
And we have never been hurt by
any snake. It Is just that we don’t
like ’em.
Of course, there was the time
that in the space of a few minutes
we were bitten by three rattle
snakes, two copperheads and one
highland moccasin, but nothing
hapened except all the snakes died
right off.
And there’s the time we were
bitten by a dog, and the dog went
mad and died, but that’s another
subject.
First time we ever encountered
a rattlesnake was on a country
road high up in the Blue Ridge
country. Our car ran over the
huge snake as it crossed the road,
and that made the snake get into a
bad disposition.
We stopped the car, got out and
found the rattler coiled by the side
of the road. Two ’teen age boys
wpre sitting on the roadbank some
distance back, and to make sure
the snak^j didn’t get away, we
called the boys to come and help
kill the rattler, thinking that they
must be accustomed to such tasks.
With stones we finally knocked
the life out of the rattler, which
was five feet in length and big as
your thigh (if you’re slim). It
was really a treat for the boys.
'They had lived there about 13
years, in the heart of the moun
tains, and that was the first live
rattler they had ever seen.
’This fear of snakes has been
with us from way back. We were
told that blacksnakes would chase
a person, coil around said person
and choke the life out of said per-
all tbp ! \
>At'
On ^
Wiu b« a ;
the hose oC
of WUbar.,
to.attend and
Usket.—Repoi^Ij K v:' Jj'i
Failure of household appliances is often due to lack
of care. A little oil, an occasional inspection for loose
screws and nuts, and cleaning after every use would ex
tend the useful life of most electric appliances indefi
nitely.
It was with this belief that we
took off one day in a plowed field
after seeing a blacksnake nearby.
It was in the barefoot days, and •
the grbitnd was wet, and the mud
flew from our heels as we raced
through the field. And the sound
of the flying mud to our ears was
like a big snake would make as it
slid over the ground-
We didn’t take time to look back
and the faster we ran the greater
the sound behind, and the more the
sound, the faster we ran, if you get
what we mean.
After about a quarter of a mile
in ten seconds flat, we landed on
the porch,’and looked back for the
snake. Of course, it was nowhere
in sight. It was probably at the
same place where we saw it. But
all that mud wasn’t—for much of
it was just now beginning to catch
up with us, and the Iqst dabs of it
Remember, when they are knocked out today, you
may have to do without.
On the job 24 hours a day!
REODUBOX
DUKE POWER COMPANY
Have a “Coke”= Tudo Vai Bern
(EVERYTHING’S SWELL)
.., or making friends .in Rio
From the U. S. A. to Brazil is a long way, but you’ll find many famiHf tliiogS
in both places. A friendly spirit for one. Coca-Cola for another. In Rip de
Janeiro, to say Have a “Coke" is to say We’re glad to see you, just its when ^
offer Coca-Cola to a guest in your own home. In many lands around the}
globe, the pause that rejreshes with ice-cold Coca-Co’a has become a friendly
greetiog between neighbors. . - ' ' ' ' "
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