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THE MARION PROGRESS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE Mcdowell publishing co. MARION, N. C. TELEPHONE 64 S. E. WHITTEN, Editor and Proprietor Entered at the Postoffice at Marion, N. C., as second class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATE One year $2.00 Strictly in Advance THE WAY TO PREVENT A DEPRESSION Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, has doubts about the existence of a recession. The Texan says that when 58,000,000 people are employed in industry and 30,000,000 farm erg have money to buy what they need, he does not see how anybody can call it a "recession." There is something in what Mr. Rayburn says. Undoubtedly, the nation will not go back to its pre-war level but, just the same, it will not maintain its economic level close to the top of the war-time boom. While there are many economists who pre dict a serious depression for the United States, one should not overlook the difference between conditions today and those that existed after World War I. The Government continues to spend billions of dollars, and the people of the nation have managed to set aside "something for a rainy day." We do not think that a depression is impos sible but we believe, that it can be avoided. This will not be accomplished by penny-pinch ing economy or by tax reductions designed to persuade timid business men to go ahead with progressive programs. It centers around intell igent efforts to revive world trade and to create economic conditions that will boom interna tional commerce higher than ever before. LET'S MAKE IT CERTAIN Representative Carl Vinson of Georgia, chairman of the House Armed Services Com mittee, wants to amend the pending unifica tion bill to make certain that "no military dic tator will ever arise in the United States." There will be some to scoff at the danger referred to by the Georgian, but, nevertheless, the people of this country should not be will ing to take any chances. Once the armed serv ices of the nation come under the control of one man, there is the possibility that the free dom and liberty of all Americans will depend upon his decisions. For this reason, we hope that Mr. Vinson will be successful and that the Congress will promptly pass whatever legislation may be necessary to prevent the possibility of a future dictator. Free people, everywhere in the world, should be alert to future perils to liberty, re gardless of how improbable the danger ap pears. EARLY CANCER IS CURABLE! The American Cancer Society stresses the ne cessity of educating the public to the fact that early cancer is curable. It also wants the pub lic to realize the number of Americans who die from cancer every year. For some reason, relatives of those who die of the dread disease are reluctant to announce the cause of death. This feeling is so wide spread that a prominent Georgia society wo man, knowing that she would die of cancer, specified that the cause of her death be made public. The cause of cancer is not^yet thoroughly understood but medical men and scientists are working hard to discover the facts about the disease. They tell you, however, that every person should be carefully examined for pos sible cancer because, and don't forget it, "early cancer is curable." Farm residents can join in the observance of National Farm Safety Week, 1949, by re solving to do things the right way, which is the safe way. The average youngster can tell his, or her parents how life should be lived, and then some. Freedom of speech is a valuable possession of every man but it is a foolish individual who speaks too freely. Life changes; our neighbors no longer take pride in the vegetables that they grow, ^ Advertise, brother, advertise; wiser mer chants than you have done it to their own ad vantage. "GET HiM! LYNCH HIM!" "There he is—get him! Lynch him!" The cry came from an angry mob, surging around a man unable to protect himself from the ven geance of those about him. The quotation comes from a news dispatch, telling how some 200 persons in the metropoli tan city of New York fought with police to se jcure a hit-and-run driver after an accident in ! which a boy's leg was broken. Police captured the man and took him to a hospital to be treat ed for cuts and bruises. Coming out of the hospital, the police 'fought their way back" to a station-house with the man, whose shirt was torn in shreads by the mob. His face and body were covered with cuts and bruises." Only the presence of competent and cour ageous policemen saved the man. If the same incident had happened in a rural area, where police protection is sparce, the man would have probably been lynched. News dispatches do not indicate that there was any racial factor in the New York incident. CHRISTIANITY VS. FREEDOM Communism has now run afoul of a real j force. ! We are talking- about the call of Protestant ! church leaders in session in England for Chris tians to "stand squarely" for freedom. I It roust be recalled that in the vanguard of every worthwhile movement of freedom on I this earth, have been the Christians. ! "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall j make you free," spoke the Author of Christian ity. And since He spoke those words His dici ples of high and low degree have dared death I • and torture in every known form. They have borne their crosses. They have been fed to the lions. They have been burned at the stake. But the torch of freedom which they carried for !a little while is still being passed from hand to hand on this earth. | We remember back but a little while to our own American Revolution where freedom of mankind was given perhaps its greatest impet us. The great Christians of the new world were also the ones who bore the brunt of the bat tles. We think of Dr. David Caldwell, a North Carolina Presbyterian minister who was so hated by the people of his day that a price was put on his head. We think of General Nathaniel Greene, Quaker born military leader, who yielded Cornwallis such a costly victory at Guilford courthouse. We think of the heroes of Kings Mountain who came from the hills and caves of Western North Carolina with their i Kentucky rifles with but one idea in mind— to protect the freedom of their homes in the new world. They had first learned to have this freedom from Christian tradition and precept. • The beauty of this Christian support of free dom is that it works from the inside. Dr. Visser T. Hooft, of Holland, general secretary of the Central Council of Churches says there "are always many indications that in the Commun ist dominated countries of eastern Europe the spirit is moving with power in the congrega tions." j No. With Christianity on the march, com jmunism doesn't have a chance. The spirit is | what counts. And Christians have ever dared to protect their spirits above everything. —Shelby Star. UNLOADED GUNS DANGEROUS I It's a sad story that comes from a neighbor ing state, where a seven-year-old girl was kill ed by a playmate. The children had gotten hold of a shotgun and "didn't know it was loaded." Apparently, the gun had been kept around the house although the owners were under the impression that it could not be fired. The ham mer had been jammed, and, besides, it wasn't "loaded." This tragedy may serve a useful purpose jf those who read this article will take extra pre caution in regard to firearms that may be lying ; around the house. This is especially important I where children play because parents, even of | the utmost intelligence, can never foresee what J children will do or what they will get to play ! with. I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean, by humility, doubt of his own power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them but through them. And they see some thing divine in every other man, and are end lessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.—Ruskin. There aren't many workers, however effi cient, who won't take time out for a little re laxation when the boss is absent. If you think you're too busy to write letters to that loved one away from home, send The Progress. It's like a "letter from home." People who own yards that are waist-high in weeds, should be made to clean them up. You don't have to go to church, even your own, but the practice will not hurt you. NATIONAL FARM SAFETY WEEK, 1949 By the President of the United State* of America A flrarlamattfltt WHEREAS unsafe practices continue to cause needless injuries and death to farm people; and WHEREAS widespread adoption of safer ways of working and living would save thousands of people from tragic injury or accidental death: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the Nation to observe the week commencing July 24, 1949, as National Farm Safety Week, and I request all organizations and persons interested in farm life and welfare to join in a continuing drive against practices which endanger farm people in their homes, in the fields, and on the highways. I also urge each member of every farm family to study the hazards associated with rural life with a view to perform ing all tasks in the safest manner possible every day throughout the year. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this twenty-eighth day of March in the year of our By the President: cv OA Secretary of Stale & (TK. Lord nineteen hundred and lorty-mne, arid of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-third. Looking Backward From The Progress Files AUGUST 3, 1916 "W. C. Smith has returned from a trip North. "Robert Nichols is confined home on account of sickness. "Miss Agnes Phifer, of Charlotte, is visiting Miss Joyce Decker. "James Simmons, of Charlotte, is visiting his cousin, Leon Justice. "Dr. M. F. Morphew is confined to his home on account of sickness. "W. M. "Pratt and family have moved to the Morgan property on Morgan street. "Mrs. J. E. Guy has returned from a visit to Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Guy at Newland. "Attorney J. W. Pless left Tues day for Raleigh and Johnson City, Tenn., on a business trip. "H. F. Little returned last week from a business trip to New York and other points North. "Miss Martha Whitten returned Sunday after a visit of three weeks with relatives in Knoxville, Tenn. "Mrs. S. P. Daniel and phildren, of Drake's Branch, Va., are visit ing the former's mother, Mrs. J. E. Guy. "Miss Gladys Goodson has re turned home after spending the summer school at Chapel Hill and a visit to friends in Faison. "Mrs. Pescud Craig, Misses Mar- ] garet Winslow, Elsie House, and j Grace Finley, who have been at-1 tending the summer school at Chap-! el Hill, returned home during the! week. "Miss Mary Ledbetter has se cured the appointment to a position in the Treasury Department at Washington. She left for Washing ton last week and has entered upon the discharge of her duties." ! DYSARTSVILLE j "Our farmers are most through threshing wheat. They report the crop badly damaged by the heavy rains of the past few weeks. "We are glad to say that this j place has not sustained very heavy j damage from the flood. There was some damage, of course, but our loss is light compared with other sections. "Miss Ethel Cowan is home from the Asheville Normal School. "C. N. Duval spent several days with homefolks here last week. "Misses Maggie and Mamie Go forth returned last Thursday from Greensboro where they attended the summer school for teachers. "Crawford Landis has returned from Georgia. "G. D. Taylor of Nebo was a vis itor here one day last week. "L. R. Cowan and Miss Lona Go forth left Sunday for Chapel Hill where they will open school today. "J. F. Parker made a business trip to Crooked Creek last week. "Miss Maggie Goforth left Sun dap to open school at Vein Moun tain Monday. "Miss Begina Matthews and Mrs. Tobie Persley of Rock Hill, S. C., returned "home today after spend ing a month with Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Taylor. "Mr. and Mrs. James? Upton spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Miles P. Flack at Vain Mountain. "L. A. Haney of Nealsville made a business trip to Dysartsville last week." By August 10, 1916, some pro gress was being made toward re pairing damage caused by the flood the previous month. The following items appeared in the Local and Personal column: "Supt. H. H. Tate and force have made fine progress on repairing the water works line and had hoped to have water running into the reser voir by today, but owing to several blow-outs yesterday it may be two or three dp.ys yet before the town will be provided with water. How ever, work is being pushed as rap idly as possible. "A. W. Gilliam, of Crooked Creek Township, was in town Mon day, this being his first trip to Ma rion since the flood. He said his apple house was washed away; that his orchard and from six to eight acres of good bottom land was bad ly damaged, and that his corn field is completely covered up with huge rocks and other debris. He estimat es his damage at about $1,000. "The temporary wooden bridge over the Catawba at the Corpening place was completed and opened for travel last Thursday. Work is now under progress on the Greenlee bridge and Mr. Grubbs hopes to have a temporary structure com pleted there by the latter part of the weejc. In the meantime forces I are at work on the damaged spans j of the steel bridge which will be re-, placed as soon as possible." Inglis Fletcher Write# New Novel j Of Jamestown Nags Head, N. C.—Inglis Fletch er, the author of several best selling historical novels with scenes laid in the Albemarle region of North Carolina is now working on another which is scheduled for publication in 1950. i A guest at The Carolinian Hotel here for the past several days with her husband, John Fletcher, the writer said that her next book, now being written, will be built up a-! round the first permanent English settlement in America—the James-; town Colony of the early 17th Cen-: tury. Her last book, "Roanoke Hundred" which has been on the best selling list since its pubiication dealt with the Governor Lane Colon ists of Roanoke Island area during the late 1500s, was built up around unsuccessful attempts to colonize America by the English. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher returned to their home at Bandon Plantation, Eden ton, early this week. While here she had been one of the princi pal speakers on the N. C. Press As sociation convention. North Carolina laying hens pro duced an average of 17.3 eggs each during April. Total number of eggs produced was 127.. Fun In Summer Can Be spoiled j By Home Mishap i ■ Summertime is fun time—buty the , fun can be short-lived if a mem ber of your family is the victim of a summer accident, the National Safety Council says. Since much of the summer ac tivity revolves around the home, the Council offered these tips for summer safety at home: Store storm windows and other winter equipment safely. Poor stor age is one of the big reasons for accidents and fires. Repair broken outdoor furniture, broken porch floors or steps, rail ings and fences. Clean Up Debri* Clean up winter yard debris— broken glass nails and other ob jects. Be sure the children's sand pile is clean. Check the condition of window screens. Repair weak frames and wire, and be sure they are fastened securely to keep children from fall ing out. Have a place for garden and yard tools, and put them away after each use. Lock up insecticides, weed killers and the like. Have guards for all electric fans and place them out of the reach of children. Ek>n't forget that open windows increase the possibility of gas pilot lights blowing out. Be sure kitchen curtains will not blow over stove. When you can food, follow can ning directions carefully. Never use the oven canning method. The -oldest known man in the world was produced about 4,50® years ago. A clay tablet unearthed in ruins 200 miles north of Bab ylon, it is now preserved in the Semitic museum of Harvard Univer sity. GOING TO TRADE OR BUY A NEW CAR? 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