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e m e m b e r
Always remember to forgret
The thinj?s that made you sad.
But never forgret to remember
The things that made you glad.
Always remember to forget
The friends that proved untrue,
But never forget to remember
Those that have stuck by you.
Always remember to forget
The troubles that passed away,
But never forget to remember
The blessings that come each day.
-Levi Furbush in ‘‘Cheerful Letter.’
MARION, N. C., FEB. 8, 1940 i
VOICE OF THE CLOCKS
A GREAT AMERICAN
ANNIVERSARY |
This week all America is celebrat-i
American
' j People often complain of sleepless i
1 mroi N THF prp«;frvfr nights and say that they heard thej
Lincoln’s birthday offers to the' strike many times. The voice > anniversary of the es-^
1 • j? of the clock mav not be a nleasant ^ t^Wishment of the Boy Scout Move-;
people e..ery year opportumty £01- '/mM i" America. The movement has'
consideration of the qualities which ■ wnen one wants zo oe ooiivi , i
as man and statesman made him! to it in sleep. Still, those '
such a towering figure in American ;«^ay start thoughts which will help,''^re. Indeed decades^
history. His unique quality as a man,, restless minds. "^arly Americans have
the admixture of the virile and the i There used to be grandfathers | Jfen Scouts, cubs and leaders. Toda> |
tender in his makeup, the greatness i that tall and dignified fl H
of soul revealed in the utterances'^ ^he stairway, which ticked out,™en actively emoiled,
which have gained immortality, have the minutes on its unhurried way. I as never before ^
..m t»it Tf**! ^low a. tlist ^16 ^ivin^ ^ii6ix €H©r^i0S j
inspired a reverence which has al- striKe was a suggestion tnax ? i 4. 4. i. ^ j I
most withheld due appreciation from should not be taken too impa-ijnd financial support to time-tested;
the qualities of his statesmanship Gently, that there is plenty oftimeibo>s guls organizations thatj
which might profitably reward study everything and that man should | help mold their children into types |
; live out his life with less hurry and i citizens that will giiaiantee the;
, J. , ^ scurrv .'continued existence of the United j
Lincoln was not a radical, not a e*. t i
revoiutionary in any sense. He had' opposite point of view ,vas ! States along the pattern set by the,
„o desire to tinker with the consti-!S“E8«ted by tht old kitchen dock nation s. founders^who gave America:
... « 1^ • in manv homes which had a ouick • demociatic form of government |
tution, or to make any alterations in many nomes., v*nicn nao a quicK &
the American nlan of government to: tingling ^rike. As a denizen of and its precious hentege, the Consti-|
cope with the evils of his day. He the working kitchen, its fast strike tution and its Bill of Rights. ,
hated slaverv but he called his ar- seemed to suggest that there is a. Supplementing existing organiza-,
• ...I. c i. .Li. TT • lot of work to be done and it were “ons such as the home, church and
mies into the field to save the Union woik tu ue uoue, tuu ii, i. i xu t> o i. ^ * I
J i X J X 1 1171. better to be ud and at it ^ school, the Boy Scouts of America
and not to destrov slavery. When du lu , , , . .
secession was beaten in the field he i Then there is the light and silvery engages boys le.sure-t.me energ.es I
had, no thought but to restore theit""' ='»'>=s. wh.ch seem to outdoor life and act.vit.es of cul-
Union as it had existed before the ‘l>at life is full of pleasant t-ral and pract.cal values wh.ch lead ■
break. There was no thought in his, Ix^auty, full of charm and music, for; boys to become dependable men. ;
- J J? - ...1- ... J- those who look for that side of ex-' Every President of the United:
mind of utilizing the extraordinary ^«ose wno iook lor tnai siae oi ex . , a,
, iqtenees ' States since William Howai'd Taft;
circumstances that reduced so large• 'u u 1.1. • x- x
a portion of the original Union to* Then there is the deep toned bell has been an enthusiastic supporter|
impotency before the presence of which suggests the richness of Scouting and every American who,
armed might, to force through chan- experience, and how folk can find knows anything about Scouting s|
ges in the original Federal structure, the deeper happiness by seeking the beneficial program acknowledges itj
Reunion in fact and reunion in;higher values of life. jas w-orthy of continued confidence,
soul and sentiment would have been' Some clocks, like some people, are and trust. ,
accomplished much more speedily if always ahead of time. No lagging by j
murder had not cut his life short, the way for these fast and active!
He was tolerant of opposition, “slow tickers. And there are those that lag
HITLER PROMISES WAR
Heri- Hitler promises Great Brit- i
to^mlteTnr^^ifi The behind, and are always hurrying in ain and France the war they havej
product of an American environ- to keep up with the rest.
ment, in the absence of which he So clocks seem to be like people,, He still pose, as a seeker of peace,
would not have been the Lincoln the ^rave and gay, fast and slow,
world knows, his public career was haps those who reflect how
made possible by the free institu- they seem like human beings ^ u 1 i i u
tions of a Federal structure to pre- how they keep ticking away with a thousands of helpless people have,
serve which unimpaired was the con- tireless energy for a century, may, been impressed into labor service:
trolling policy of his statesmanship, forget their troubles and go to sleep.!and a number are reported to have.
Per- This pose is repeated after the rec-
much ' ent revelation of the outrages in Po-'
, and land and Czechoslovakia, where [
been slain.
I Hitler’s public attitudes seem so
1 unreasonable on the basis of his bru-
WORK A LITTLE HARDER
In former days the idea of how
to bring about prosperity was for ., , , ^ .
everybody to work a little harder. *«>■ celebration .n occ.dental coun-: accept the concliis.on
BETTER BIOGRAPHIES
This year of 1940 is being marked, tality to other peoples that one must;
that nobody j
This gave people more purchasing
power so they could buy more goods,
and thus started idle factories hum
ming.
tries as the five hundredth anniver-i counts in his thinking except Ger-
sary of Gutenberg, who introduced . mans, or that he is a hopeless luna-
printing. 1 tic. In either event, he is a dangerous
Possibly Gutenberg did not invent man to be running at large with a
NO “FRONT” NEEDED
America does not Avant
the
The theory that has prevailed of *>•»'" ’"'>™‘''e types _ the war machine as formidable as that of-
late seems to have gone in the „p. i Chinese claim to have had .t centu- Germans-^
posite direction. The working week ® ^ ^ the' —
was generally reduced, with the idea IH i
^ . , , , 1 .. map in the western part of the world
that this change would make it nec- ^ , , . , , • ' r j.-l. n j
, , rpv,- Among other things he made pos?i- i Christian Front” of the alleged con-
essary to put on more help. Ihis *
theory raised the labor cost of goods
and increased prices to consumers.; literature accessible, the ,Jewish Front, or a Communist Front. |
The gam made by putting morepeo-, , , , i a • j ^ j
1 * . .1- 1 biography of the obscure., America does not need any “front |
pie o woi ' a y ^ Nearly everybody today in Amer-i behind which intolerant and subver-|
e res o e somewhere a printed record |sive forces may hide! America wish-1
of himself, birth notice, wedding no-j es for no “front” whose cohesive I
map in the western part of the world
ig other things he made pos?i-
ble, quite apart from the benefac-; spirator Cassidy I America does not
It would seem there still is merit
' tice, funeral notice. Thus Gutenberg 1 power is the bond of bigotry, the j
through printing provided the means! pooling of prejudice, or the huddling'
of knowing in the future something | of hate. |
, about everybody. I But America does need a sense of!
Before printing was utilized with j spintual unity between all of its re-;
America does need i
in the idea of harder work to bring
about prosperity. It certainly applies
in the function of selling goods. In
times when orders come easy, there j
ig a temptation to let up a little on' . u i- •
i. ,c ^ ^ its present universality a man could ligious groups,
the part of the salesman. He feels he , j ' j j- x- i. ii. • • • 1 i
,. , , u ui be great and still go on unrecorded, i a rededication to the basic principles
IS making a good record, probably, , ^ n , 1- • ^ '
, . 10 i The biographical meagerness of; of all real religion; reverence for ^
beating his former marks. Somepeo-^ , . ji »
that Christopher Columbus is proof of Almighty God and love for one s j
I that; and of Shalcespeare; and of | neighbor.—From a radio address by j
Gutenberg, of whom actually little I the Rev. Walton E. Cole, minister of
is known. I the Fii’st Unitarian Church, Toledo,
^ I Ohio.
pie say why worry about this or
sale, which possibly could have been
had.
Perhaps there is a man in the lit
tle village off the main road who
used to buy, but who hasn’t for a
year or two. If the traveling sales
man is doing better than he expec
ted to do, .-he may feel disposed to
call it a day and let that little cus
tomer go. If orders are slack, the
thing to do is to hunt up that for
mer customer, and see where hie got
-off, and whether he cannot be got
on again.
The merchant in his store can fol
low a like course to advantage.
Probably he has a list of former
customers from whom he has not
heard of late. A newspaper adver
tisement directed to them might
produce results.
If every employe would try a lit-
lle harder to do good work and push
133,096 APPLY FOR 7,000 LOANS!
The Farm Security Adniiftistra-
A Massachusetts boy told the
teacher that his sister had the meas-1
tion reports that it has received 133,- ;
096 applications for the less than 7,-'. , , . • . ^ !
000 loans it can make to enable ten
ants to buy farms.
This seems to indicate an oppor-, ‘^Teacher, Dolan’s i
I told him to stay there until his sis-
iter got well. After he skipped joy-1
i fully away another boy held up his
tunity for private capital to find
sister, what’s got the measles, lives I
work. The capitalist, of course, ^n-'. California.”—Exchange.
swers that he can’t compete with the
government, which will sustain enor-j
mous losses, etc and etc. |
The same sound was abroad in thej
land when the RFC began to buy |
bonds of the PWA. It was asserted;
that the government would lose mil-i
lions. It was re-emphasized that the I
government was unfit to attend to:
any important business. What hap-j
£ales and every business man would | pened is on record. The bright capi-l
look for new chances to sell, a lot of talists who derided the RFC loans i
new business might be turned up.
Advertising is good for business.
later bought many of the bonds from I
the RFC, which made millions of dol
lars out of the transactions.
THE
CHARLOTTE
OBSERVER
“The Foremost Newspaper
of The Carolinas”
Jas. M. Milter, Agent
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Thejnodel illustrated is the Buick Super model 51 four-door touring sedan $1109 deli-'oered at Flinty Mich,
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ONE of these days the itch is going
to hit you to get out and get in on
the fun a Buick can be in the spring
time.
You’re going to feel an irrepressible
yen to touch off that husky, sweet-sing
ing Dynaflash power plant and swing
out in gentle coil-spring comfort to take
in the fresh spring landscape.
Maybe, like others we know of, you’ve
even got the model picked out, and are
just “waiting a few weeks” to do some
thing definite about it.
But may we emphasize, in purely
friendly interest, that a lot of other
people probably have the same idea.
And that when they start buying in
droves—as they do every year about
the ides of March—even Buick’s big
factory has trouble keeping up with
them.
Of course, we’re doing all we can to be
ready for everyone.
But you can get only so many cars in
a warehouse.
And a full warehouse can empty aw
fully fast.
And what with everybody wanting
Buicks this season, we can’t say how
long we can promise the delivery we
can give now.
So why not play the early bird this
year? Why not get the jump on your
neighbor and be driving your Buick
while he’s still talking about getting
his?
You*ve nothing to
lose, a lot of fun to
gain — and you’ll find
the address of your
Buick dealer in the
phone book.
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