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MARION, N. C., MAY 16, 1940
PUSHING FORWARD j
McDowell county has for manyj
years ranked high among the other i
counties in North Carolina in the |
number of books made available to i
What Do You Know?
I do not care a single wink *
To hear, my friend, what you may think.
I’ve heard opinions till Fm sore;
Please do not give me any more.
Your syllogisms all are weak;
You slip the track whene’er you speak.
Too many people “think’\ of late.
And not enough of them think straight.
What do you know? I wait to hear
A tale of knowledge ringing clear.
If you have anything to say
That puts a new light in the day.
That makes me feel, because of it,
The world’s improved a little bit,
Then speak. I hark with eyes aglow.
If you will tell me what you know.
—Clarence E. Flynn in “Psychology.”
MAKING SPEED SAFER | FIRST STEPS
Not many years ago the efforts of j Graduations at colleges through-
Bchool children and the general pub-j those interested in safety on the j out the nation will soon turn
lie. In 1927 McDowell ranked sixth i highways were centered around reg-j out thousands of young men and
in the state in the number of books j ulations designed to control the j women who will be faced with the
in rural school libraries per white,speed of automobiles. Human livesiPi'oblem of getting a job. Many of
child enrolled. j could be saved, it was assumed, by! these will not know which way to
Expansion of library facilities in j compelling the drivers of automo-j turn. Some, such as teachers, have
the countv has not been hindered by' biles to go slow enough to assure j prepared themselves for certain
McDowell’s high ranking in the,their safety. jwork. Of the most promising gradu-
county, however. Much constructive! With the tendency everywhere to,ates coming from colleges this
work has been accomplished here by I increase legal speed limits as motor j spring however, the greiatest num-
WPA library projects which now! manufacturers present cars design-|ber will not ^nter the teaching pro-
employ 12 people. Volumes in libra-i ed for faster speeds, the effort tojfession. It has little to offer a young
Ties under the WPA in the county i promote safety has necessarily in-1 man or a young woman,
have increased from 4,550 to 5,700 iterested itself in the construction! Four years of college work, teach-
sX the present time. The public li-j of highways designed for higher jing practice, constant study and
braries in Marion and Old Fort were, speed. Security for human beings is j supplementary college work are now
established in 1937 and have seen! being attained through the process! the minimum requirements of all
considerable growth since then. | of making speed safer. Improved | teachers in. North Carolina. Yet with
Bookmobile service has been avail-i highways, including many devices j such background, teachers have little
able to residents of the county for;designed to avoid accidents, have to look forword to in their profes-
two months in the past and the at-■ given us faster travel without a
tempt is being, made to renew this I corresponding increase in fatalities,
work. I When a citizen of McDowell coun-
This summer, as part of the libra-|ty takes to the open road, even fora
ry program, reading rooms will be j short joumey, it is necessary to pass uncei'tain, no retirement plan being
established in the Dysartsville and'other cars hundreds of times with j available to them and income being
Pleasant Gardens sections. They will i only a few feet, or a split second, j too low for the individual to pro\ide
be open to the public. : standing betw'een safety and disas-jfor his own future and old age. And
In addition to the WPA projects!ter. Consequently motorists should responsibility is heavy on members
library facilities in the schools have • understand thoroughly the stopping
^iteadily advanced. Far sighted indi-i distances for various speeds,
viduals are constantly pushing for-| Automobile drivers should under
ward these educational opportunities i stand that at fifty miles an hour, a
for adults and children. i collision with a stationary object is
; equivalent to falling off an eight-
GOOD, AS FAR AS IT GOES i.f
;that the force of impact is multi-
Illustrative of the progressive pro-! higher speeds.
compared
that re-
sion. Wages are low
to other profesgions
quire as much education and train
ing. The future of teachers is very
DEFENSE
Senator Thomas, of Oklahoma, I
who is chairman of a Senate appro-!
^priation committee which handles
all allotments of funds for our mili
tary establishment, told the country
j these uncomfortable — these incred-
• ible—^acts in an excli^sive interview
I with a Washington representative ^
jof the Hearst papers.
1 “We have pi-actically no anti-air-
craft guns. With other members of
the Senate Military Committee last
winter I traveled 10,000 miles in
specting more than 100 Army sta
tions and we saw only four anti-air
craft guns.
“Those four we saw at Los Ange
les. These guns p;"obably would do
good work provided they spotted en
emy planes overhead, but I am sat
isfied that a lot must be done to co
ordinate the Signal Corps with the
operators of the anti-aircraft guns,
j “Only at Puerto Rico did we see
(one of the machines for detecting
I the approach of airplanes from a
: distance.”
We hdve 130,000,000 persons and
thousands of miles of coast to de-l
fend—and only four anti-aircraft
guns!
Of airplane detectors we have, ac
cording to Senator Thomas, only one
—^at Puerto Rico!
Why are we undefended from the
air in these threatening days? Here
is the answer (the figures are those
of the Commerce Depai’tment):
In the fii'st quarter of this year
we exported to Europe $66,816,208
worth of airplanes.
This was an increase of 225 per
cent over exports in the first quar
ter of 1939.
That is effect and cause, to reverse
the usual procedure.
We are stripped of airplanes, and
anti-aircraft gunB and enemy air-1
plane detectors—because Europe is|
getting them. j
If we are ever suddenly threatened ■:
from the air we shall be in the same j
stripped-naked, vulnerable condi-1
tion we were in 1917,when we went:
to war likes babes to a slaughter.— j
Baltimore News-Post. j
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The annual memorial services for'
the Baptist and Methodist churches:
of Dysartsville will be held Sunday,
of the profession. May 19. Special music will be ren-
There is little reason that many j dered, and Mr. S. A. McDuffie, prin-
of the best teachers take up other jcipal of the Old Fort high school,
work at the first opportunity. But,will deliver an address on “The
there are many reasons why boys I Christian’s Philosophy of Life” at
and girls of North Carolina and oth-jthe Baptist church at 10:30 a. m.
er states should have the best teach- :• Dinner will be served on the ground,
ers available. Pi’actically no other'In the afternoon a program will be,
individuals have greater opportuni-! given at the Methodist church. Ev-|
grams being earned out at the Mar- example, as pointed out in j ties to mould the character and per-! erybody is invited. j
ion high school is the record that has | New York Times, to strike an isonality of future men and women 1 I
been made by the band. This organi-: twenty-five miles an hour; than the teachers in public schools.! Amnesia (loss of memory) is
zaition, composed of approximately | jg jikg falling from a height of 20.9 I Theirs is the great responsibility of! caused by a m(^unting tendency of
,50 students, carried away honors in : seventy miles an hour, | developing the best traits irt' the pu-' the mind to shut out disagreeable re-'
the state music contest this year and | means two cars traveling in'pil and seeking to overcome the'alities, or by mental shock resulting
.and was among the bands receiving | Qpp^gji-g directions at thirty-seven | worst. from physical injury,
one rating la^ year. ■ ^ ^ hour, the impact j Because the future welfare of the
Bernard Hirsch, music director at, force is nine times that exerted at; public depends so much upon '^the
the high school, has laid particular t^ygnty.fi^e miles an hour. | teachers, the profession should be
emphasis on instrumental group! jmade as attractive as possible to
work. As a result ensembles in the ■ JUST TEN YEARS AGO i ^•^^s^ted young men and women
*tate contest this year won. several j . ^ ^ ^ I Provisions for adequate wages and
f.rst ratings. A comparison of rec-j about ten years ago the Na-. retirement plan Le the
ords of school g^roups in the state hminion conference was conclu-|^^^ ^ program that will pay
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JUST TEN YEARS AGO
Just about ten years ago the Na-
Ival Hminion conference was conclu-
contest reveals that the Marion high; ded »n I^ndon, vnth the United ^ citizenship and
school, although in the “B” class, i states. Great Britain and Japan
has won honors over many larger | reaching an agreement in regards to
schools throughout the state. cruisers, destroyers and submarines.
Enthusiasm in the school and the ^he three nations had earlier
interest of civic clubs and Marion i in Washington, upon a bat-
residents in the band all indicate its
value to the town. But the greatest
service the band renders is in making
students in the school aware of the
beauty of music, the opportunities
it offers for self expression, for per
sonal enjoyment, and for apprecia
tion of perfection in the art.
Music study of this kind
not be confined to one or two schools
jn the county. It is an educational
advantage that every pupil should
have the opportunity to enjoy. To-
'day there are too many people who
gay, “I wish I had studied music
when I was a child.”
character.
Extra Safjety
worth tme
SIMUU.L JEXTBA COSTS**
Happiness
mind, of will, and determination.
The proof of it is that there are
many people with whom life is real
ly a hardship who are happy and who
live triumphant lives. On the other
hand there are just as many who
live miserable lives in the midst of
comfort. Instead of appreciating
BACKBONE OF SALES PROGRAM
Arthur L. Schaife, an advertising
expert of the General Electric Com
pany, says, “Newspaper advertising
is the backbone of our whole sales
program. It exceeds all other media
combined and is the only growing
medium.”
Mr. Schaife says that last year his
company stepped up advertising fif
teen per cent and gained twenty-
two per cent in business. This year,
jn the effort to educate retailers to
be better businessmen, he says, “We
are seeking to help them to advertise
more intelligently and more consist
ently.”
We call attention to the conclu
sions of Mr. Schaife because there
may be business men in McDowell
county who are interested in in
creasing their business.
tleship ratio, the famous 5-5-3, but
only after Japan had demanded and
secured agreement from the United
States not to fortify ceilain areas
in the Pacific.
It is a long cry from the disarma
ment parleys to the year 1940, when
practically every nation in the world • what they have and finding their
should i feverishly enlarging its military, | happiness in it they forget the bless-
naval and air power. The disarma- ^ iii&s that they do have and moan and
ment agreement did not prevent gmeve for trivial things that they do
Germany from surging into a pre-inot have. They make themselves mis-
paredness campaign, biased largely: ei*able and everyone about them with
uporj the development of the world’s!their whining and tlieir dissatisfac-
largest airplane fleet. ; tion. If they can’t find something in
The lesson to be learned from the' their surroundings about which to
failure of the disarmament agree- i Qomplain they will borrow trouble by
ments, as we see the matter, is that! fretting about what might happen,
it takes more than signatures to an tonight, tomorrow, or next year,
international pact to maintain peace.
There must be good will between the
nations or, where this is lacking,
there must be a power
Between 1937 and 1939 the num-
l»er of county homes in N. C., de-
4;lined from 86 to 75.
In 1936, 1,231 children under 16
years of age were jailed in North
somewhere! Carolina- The number dropped to
to uphold law and ordei* in the world.} 7g4 jjj 1933.
ACUTE DISTRESS IN POLAND j William Brearly, who celebrated
Events in the European war zone j his 100th birthday in Leicestershire,
move so fast these days that people | England, has five children wha are
forget some of the things that have! old-age pensioners.
happened and the plight of soime of j
the unfortunate victims of Adolf
Hitler’s decision to wage war.
In about a week the first ship
ment of food for distribution to war
sufferers is expected to reach War
saw, in German-occupied Poland,
where relief officials estimate that
half of the population is in*“sore
distress.” Other shipments will go
across the Atlantic but the Commis
sion for Polish Relief esjtimates that
it will require a minimum of $2,-
000,000 a month to meet the de
mands.
Evening hours are reading hours
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Phone 268-Y
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