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Published Mondays and Thursdays at
North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
JULIUS C. HUBBARD—MRS. D. J. CARTER
Publishers
1932—DANIEL J. CARTER-1945
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under Act «f March 4, 1897.,
Monday, May 15, 1950
Cdst Of Living
And Taxation
Did you know that three dollars, or onethird,
of the price of a nine-dollar pair of
shoes goes for taxes?
Politicians like to tell people that only
the rich, or those making a substantial
amount of money, pay taxes. Nothing
could be father from the truth.
Taxes are paid by production, sales and
profits. It is the consumer who ultimately
pays the taxes which are sent to the various
governmental treasury departments.
If you jbuy a pair of ladies' hose for
$1.50, one-third, or fifty cents, of that price
represents the costs of taxes.
Statisticians have estimated that onethird
of the price of rent untimately ends
up in the tax departments, local, county,
state and national.
Anyone who spends a dollar pays taxes.
A loaf of bread is considered one of the
inexpensive necessities. If it costs 15 cents,
five cents of that amount goes for taxes.
An eight-cent cake of soap would only
cost five cents without hidden taxes.
Millions smoke cigarettes. If the pack
costs you eighteen cents you "can figure
at least 11 cents of that amount go into
taxes. > „ , „ ,
• 1 *** } President,Truman
in his message to congress
advocated increasing corporation
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* In that event, who would pay the increased
taxes?
The corporations do not coin money.
To get the increase they would boost the
price of products manufactured and sold.
You, you and all of us would pay the increase.
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If the average citizen would consider
that he is a taxpayer and that one-third of
what he makes goes for taxes, there would
be more interest in cutting costs of government^
and we would get away from the
Washington hand-out stampede.
You may not own a foot of real estate,
you may live in a rented apartment, you
may not have a car, but you will pay tax
just the same everytime you spend a penny
for anything.
There has been an alarming tendency
to let Washington solve our problems, and
when government handles anything you
can figure that a large percentage of the
cost will be red tape and inefficiency. Thus
we have a mounting tax burden which, if
not checked, can destroy America more
rapidly than a foreign foe could tear us
down.' i •
When you relinquish control of yout in-come
to government, you also give up your
liberty. It is a natural law of existence that
you take orders from the place .which supports
you. : •
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Discovering The Universe
Because the Southern Hemisphere offers
an opportunity to study more accurate^
the most brilliant and important
region of the heavens, the Milky Way,
Sagitarius and Scorpius, a number of
collets maintain observations in South
Africa* They also have a better opportunity
to study the South Pole of the heavens.
It is amazing to read the revelations of
the astronomers. They tell us' that the
center of the Milky Way is a galaxy 30,000
ears away, or some two hundred
million miles from our siin, which
»f the hundred billion stars that
the galaxy
Man has come a long way in his effort
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to understand the Universe since the eai
ly belief that the earth was the center o
it all, with sun, moon and stars revolvinj
aroun<J the tiny globe. The clash betweei
religious leaders and early scientific ob
. servers of the stars has largely dissipat
ed with the years, but thefe are other area
in which the ignorance of man surpasse
his information.
"I didn't think of Chat," says a man h
Detroit when asked why he did not tun
off the gas instead of calling the fire de
partment when a roast in the kitchen stov<
became ignited. Maybe as a taxpayer h<
wanted to get his money's worth in fir*
department service. — South Bend Tri
bune.
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: LIFE'S BETTER WAY J
WALTER E. ISENHOUR
High Point* N. C., Route 4
SWEET MAY
It is the month of May, sweet May;
The dogwoods now are bright and gay,
Clothed in their robes of pretty white,
Kissed by the silv'ry moon at night,
While flowers bloom so sweet and fair
And waft their fragrance on the air,
All telling us that Spring is her$,
Most cheerful time of all the year.
It is the month of May, sweet May;
The birds are singing ev'ry day;
The bees are humming here and there;
Gay butterflies flit through the air;
While sheep and cattle now are seen
Out in the fields and pastures green,
Where high above, and toward the sky,
We see the crow and vulture fly.
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It is the month of May, sweet May;
The hills by winter's blasi made gray
Are putting on their robes of green,
Also the valleys in between;
While up the mountain's steep inclines
The sun is waking trees and yines,
And making all the landscape seem
Like fairylands of which we dream.
It is the month of May, sweet May;
The meadows soon will yield their hay;
The fields are green with rye and wheat,
With oats and barley rich and sweet;
The farmers turn and till the soil
To earn their bread by honest toil;
The fishers go to lake and brook
To catch the fish with bait and hook.
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It is the month of May,sweet May;
Barefooted children romp and play;
For Mother's Day the roses bloom,
And wreaths are made for bride and
groom; i
The honeysuckle, sweet and fair,
With pleasant odors fill the air; ,
It seems that God looks down this way
And sends His blessings rich in May.
AN EDUCATED NATION
We are becoming, more and more, an
educated nation, but along with our education
we are certainly doing some very
foolish, unwise things. It looks like our
education would show us the evil of liquor,
nicotine, dope, beer and wine. However, it
doesn't seem to. Never has the United
States spend such vast sums of money for
these evils, which are poisoning and killing
our people by multitudes. As these evils
increase we have to build more and larger
hospitals, prepare more doctors and nurses
to care for the sick, arid pay more undertakers
to bury the dead. Common sense
ought to enable- us to know better than
turn such curses loose upon our country,
even without education, and certainly both
together should lead us differently. It looks
like we are "ever {earning, but never able
to come to the knowledge of the truth,'1
justt as Paul expressed it. (II Tim. 3:7). .
However, men- kriow better, but they
let money overrule their better judgmenl
, .and education and.common sense, therefor*
curse their fellowmen for what they gel
out of it financially. Then there, are the
millions who use such .evils because it. is
popular to do- so, or becouse they give loost
reign to an abnormal appetite, regardless
of the consequences. Along with the pois
oning and doping of the bodies of our fel
lowmen we realize that there, follow? im.
morality, crime, lawlessness and a deplorable
lack of spirituality. Wh$n vfe-sum al
things up, we are made to realize, mor«
and more, that it simply takes ^bd ltt.'th<
lives and souls Of men to direct them right
Education can't do it, and neither, can com
mon sense, apart f romGodand His grace
Educated nations without-Cod always g<
down, sooner or later. Look at Germany
which used to be the highest educated na
tion on earth. Let America take warning.
. stration Club held its regular
monthly meeting at the lunchroom
on Thursday afternoon, April
3 27, having 13 members present,
j The meeting was opened by Mrs.
Harry Green, who presided as
president. The business session
was held and a good report was
given by the paint committee
concerning the painting of our
lunchroom, which was painted rel
cently. It was also decided to make
. some more improvements to our
( lunchroom.
Our home agent, Mrs. Green,
■ gave a very interesting demoni
stratlon on "Planning and Remodeling
Your Home." She emphasized
the Importance of the
family getting together and planning
the home to fit their needs.
She also gave several helpful ideas
which are useful In home planning.
Everyone was urged to be present
for our next meeting as Miss
Addle Malone will be present to
freeze foods for us.
During the social hour delicious
refreshments were served by hostesses,
Mrs. Dewey Ridding and
•mriw&vpm.- y.v "^^wjirgggTj^w^ylfl
Mr, and Mm. Raasie Calloway
(moved from this community Monday
to Bristol, Tenn., where he
has taken a position. Their son,
Wayne, Is staying with his grandmother
until school is ont.
Mrs. Clyde Hendreson and daughter,
Lena Rath, are sick at
this writing. Daniel Henderson
who has been sick Is improving.
Mrs. Rick Quan and son, Kerry,
of Saint Louis, Mo., are visiting
Mrs. Quan's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. D. Lunsford.
Mrs. W. W. Calloway went to
see her daughter and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Bader Mclntlre, in Old
Fort last week after receiving
the news that their home was
completely destroyed by fire. Mr.
McUntire was asleep when the
fire broke out and nartowly escaped,
having received minor
facial burns. Mrs. Mclntlre and
children were away from home at
the time of the fire.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Henderson
and daughter visited relatives of
Mrs. Henderson in Mooresville,
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Davis and
Mrs. Turner Redding. — Reported
by Alene Redding, club reporter.
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on, Gary, Mr. and Mrs.
Sprinkle and family and
lenderson and children
nd Mrs. P. S. Hendi
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8HOUNS,
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Polio Treatment Costs A Great Deal
Bat
Polio Insurance Costs Very Little
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A policy paying all expense# up to (5,600 cost only $$.00 a
year for one child and $10.00 a year for two or more children,
rhe policy also covers accidental death and eight other common
children's diseases.
See or Call
MRS. NEWTON BUMGARNER or T. W. CHURCH
Phone 946 Over Rexall Drag Store
NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C.
Representing the Worlds Largest Exehufcre
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OF NORTH WILKESBORO, INC
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Are present Car payments
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that load. By Refinancing, with"1
us, you can obtain a payment
schedule far more easily
handled. Stop in; talk with o|
today!
President Roosevelt's Board said
President Truman's Board said
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Still the leaders of the Railroad
Firemen's
Union say
This ridiculous strike is an affront to every
citizen of the nation. It's not for more money.
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It's not because df hours. It's only for soft
feather-bedding spots for additional unneces•i
sary firemen to go along in diesel locomotives just
for the ride. A leading liberal newspaper calls the
demands of the union leaders horse-feathers"!
• The reckless leaders of the firemen's
union want to force down the throats
of the railroads and the public a ridiculous
"make-work", proposal which has
been twice ruled out by Presidential
Fact Finding Boards duly appointed
under the provisions of the Railway
Labor Act.
This demand of union leaders for
additional and unnecessary firemen to
"feather-bedding" by leading the members
of their union out on stride and
threatening paralysis to large areas of
the nation, they are defying the spirit
and intent of the very law which they
helped to create. £ *
This strike is hot for Jpgher wages. .
It is a strike to force the railroads to
employ many more thousands of firemen
who are hot heeded! It would be
This strike is one of the _
silliest strikes in history I |<
What are these reckless union leader,
trying to do? They seek to cause thou-,
sands of their members to strike, and
throw hundreds of thousands of other
employes on and off the railroads out of
employment, with loss of pay to them
and their families, plus a severe blow to
industry and the citizens of the nation.
What's tha strike all aboutf If the
union has its way—what happens? Hie
present members of the union won't
get one cent mora pay. They will merely
have been assessed for a costly and indefensible
drive in an attempt to provide
more dues-paying members for the union
by creating "feather-bedding" jobs far
additional and unnecessary firemen.
... This is certainly one of the silliest
strikes in history!
nation for their own selfish purposes.
There is no other possible answer to.
such a defnand but Not" ;
ride in diesel locomQtives was rejected
uth8^hearingS~bya^oard' refused to place this
1943. Present Rooeevelt in unnecessary bidden on
more important than any other
consideration, is the action of these
( The railroads in making such a reply
indefensible waste. The*railroads have .believe they have the whole-hearted
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It was again rejected in 1949 by a
Board appointed by President Truman.
Recent meetings with the National
Mediation Board have brought- no'
yhange in the attitude of the union
dictators. ' • . vV - ' ..3
Union
The union
Railway Lai
to jam thro
few irresponsible. union leaders in seeking
to force a crippling strike upon the
support of the people in whose interest
they are willing to fight thfe out, tie-'
spite the loss and inconvenience that
all will suffer.
It ib time to put an end to such unAmerican
demands.
of Law
write the
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of pure
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