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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 Publisher ELIZABETH WHITTEN, New. Editor Entered at the Postoffice at Marion, N. C., as second class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATE One year $2.00 Strictly in Advance PUBLISHING PICTURES Pictures properly displayed with clear im pression and local interest angle are an asset to a newspaper. We like to publish pictures of interest to Marion and McDowell county, but ioften we have to refuse them because too many people do not know the procedure necessary ifor publishing pictures. The pictures should be in The Progress of-1 tfice the Thursday before it is to appear in the; paper. There is no one in Marion who can make ! Ja newspaper cut. Many times people confuse: (the term cut print with cut. A cut print is the J type of picture a cut is to be made from. Anyj ^picture except a tinted picture will do, buti jsometimes a cut print is made especially for' publication. Somehow in having a picture made, the pho-| tographer sometimes has other rush work in j .his studio and cannot always prepare a picture; Jat a moment's notice. It is well to arrange ap-: Jpointment several days ahead and tell him or; Iher then when you want the picture. Again, the engraving company we mail the! fpicture to, cannot always begin work on the cut1 /the moment the picture is received. A picture nnailed for engraving Thursday would not be received until Friday, and if it arrived too late ;to receive attendtion that day, it will have to ■wait until the following Monday as the engrav ing office is closed Saturdays. A cut made and mailed Monday would ar rive here Tuesday if no delay in mails occurred. Hf there should be a delay, it would arrive Wed nesday—-the day of publication. Although it is sometimes possible to mail pictures Friday and Saturday and have them returned in time for the following week, there is a chance they will not be and they are of little if any value the fol-, flowing week. Sometimes misunderstandings occur because -the person submitting the picture remember /that he or she once took a picture to a newspa iper office and it appeared in the paper the fol lowing day. That is because the large daily newspapers own their own engraving plants •and the pictures or cut print does not have to be teent away. Sometimes a mat is confused with a cut. We can mrke a picture from a cardboard mat if it is placed in time. Our first mat cast each week tis on Fridays and the second on Mondays. It 5s best to bring or send in a mat by or before Monday. ; Remember a cut is made of metal or plastic. A mat is of cardboard. Any other picture must be mailed and a cut ordered, so we must have £t in time. If you will notify us ahead of time that you &re planning to have a picture made for the pa iper, we can sometimes suggest ways to obtain }a better picture. This, however, is not necessary j in the case of bridal or engagement pictures jor pictures of one person. For group pictures' Jor scenes, we will appreciate your calling us ^before the picture is made. i CHURCHILL URGES UNITY "Our dangers are great, but so is Jour strength," declared Winston Churchill, in | laddressing the people of Strasbourg, where the jcouncil of Europe was in process of beginning. The War Prime Minister of Great Britain\ tailed attention to the long religious, dynastic: land nationalistic wars that Europe has experi-l jenced and asked: "Are we to sink, after all our victories and bufferings, into final ehos, into ideological wars thrust upon us by barbarous and wicked oligar chies, whose fifth column agents are infilteringj into so many lands?" This is the question that confronts the free people of the world. It stems, not from the agi tated emotions of people, but from the machi nations of ruling regimes, possessed of the pow der to regiment their people and to collect their resources for the purpose of aggressive militar ism. It is the present epitome of the "might makes right" theory, which finds expression in totalitarian nations, where ambitious men di rect the activities of millions in accord with their ambitious, and suspected, programs. KEEP AMERICA STRONG When the House last week voted to cut the Administration's request for $1.45 billions arms aid to Europe in half, it may have had in mind the admonition of James Byrnes when he said not long ago that this country's first line of defense is not the Elbe or the Rhine, but an economically strong America. Congress seems to be tired of giving away the taxpayer's hard earned money. But economically aside, the arms aid plan as originally presented has been objectionable and controversial for other reasons. For one thing, it granted the President and his advisors too much authority. It was not only a bill to implement the Atlantic Pact, but would have given " the Administration powers to commit the United States all over the earth without check or hindrance of any kind. There is also grave doubt that arming Eu rope would add to this country's security. The weapons we are to supply to those who are friends and allies today may in time turned against us. Most of the countries are so small and weak they could be overrun by the enemy in a few days, who then add our arms to his | own. Furthermore, we can never be sure that the Atlantic pact lineup will be permanent. It is recalled that Italy during the first world war deserted her original allies, Germany and Aus tria-Hungary, and joined in the war against them. It could happen again. We agree with Byrnes that our first line of defense is a strong America. And we can't keep America strong if we continue to give away our substance.—Statesville Landmark. SUMMER'S SUMMIT j "Deep in summer" means lost—for all mere-' ly practical purposes—in the lushness of June! or July. Those months are like enchanted val-| leys, beyond which one wants never to go, nev-! er to look, whose quiet streams must take on! the responsibility of such enterprise as we care1 to dream about, must slide slowly somewhere or maybe nowhere; and if the latter, all the better. But come August—at any rate, mid-August' —and we find ourselves mounting a hillside.! An unheralded wind from some alien, cooler slime surges through a pass hung with strange-! ly^-and surely prematurely—yellowing leav es. And then of a sudden we stand on a clear, clean height and see whither we go. There are still valleys beyond, warm and reminiscent of earlier pleasures. But then again hills that descend on their farther side, we can guess, intp a more challenging environment, a land bounded by the first day of school, by the end of seashore holidays or mountain hikes—a land of industry, art, and whatsoever you try to get away from in early summer so you can come back to it twice as energetically in early fall. From here—from this interim height this sunny plateau of fading grass and tarnishing tree—you see the borderland, the September province. You can't go back now.—Christian Science Monitor. ADVERTISING SELLS Many years ago Mark Twain was editor of a small-town newspaper. A reader wrote in saying that he found a spider in his paper and wanted to know if that was an omen of good or bad luck. Mark Twain answered: "Finding a spider in your newspaper is neither good nor bad luck. The spider was merely looking over our paper to see which merchant was not ad vertising so he could go to that store, spin his webb across the door and lead a life of undis turbed peace ever afterward." Ketailing has come a long way since those days, and the art of'advertising has undergone great development. And advertising, by stores or any other kind of business, is a typical out growth of the competitive system. It is the best possible means of reaching the people who want goods and services, of urging the merits of one brand as against another, and of encour aging the consumer to go to some particular retail outlet. That it benefits the consumer goes without saying. No store-keeper could long charge an excessive price with competitors of fering in print the same or an equivalent pro duct at a lower price. And deceptive advertis-j ing always defeats its own purpose. The wise merchant advertises aggressively, but he bases his story an appeal, not fiction. Salesmanship is a driving force in keeping the American economy running. Advertising is the heart of it.—Morganton News-Herald. The time has passed when a man can makej a living off the soil; nowadays he needs expert intelligence and plenty of cash to operate a successful farming enterprise. The use of words may conceal ideas but very! often the lack of ideas explains the use of words. Every community of people, including Mar ion, needs unselfish leadership. You can sup ply some of it. OUR DEMOCRACY byM* LA.B OR DAY Through the years, the labor, day picnic has become A FAMILIAR- AND HAPPY PART OF THE AMERICAN SCENE. TOO AY, AS WITH OUR, FATHER.S, GOOD CLEAN COMPETITION !N FOOT RACES, BALL GAMES, SACK RACES, HORSESHOE PITCHING, SWIMMING MEETS ~ IS IMPORTANT TO THE FUN. In WORK AS IN PLAy, as individuals and as groups of PEOPLE, THE AMERICAN COMPETITIVE SPIRIT HAS BEEN A GREAT FACTOR IN OUR DEVELOPMENT.. WHETHER TO MEET A MEW NEED, TO MAKE A FINER PRODUCT, TO BUILD A BETTER SERVICE — THHOUGH COMPETITION WE HAVE STFAD/LY ACHIEVED HIGHER. GOALS OF PRODUCTIVITY.L Will There Be Peace And Food For All? Lake Success—What will the world be like in the year 2,000? Will there be peace, prosperity, and* food for all? Or hunger, poverty and dis ease—war and chaos? The scientists of 44 nations have been told that they have it within their grasp to plan a better world for tomorrow. According to the lead-off speak ers at the United Nations scientific conference now being held at Lake Success, the key to the world's fu ture is conservation. One after another, the speakers warned that our present resources are in danger of running out, unless we find more intelligent and effec tive ways to conserve them. War is the primary cause of the depletion of the natural resources of the world—its copper and steel, its food and its oil. In modern war, the wealth and resources of nations are squandered with reckless aban don. Stupid exploitation, based on the hope of quick and easy profits and nothing else, is another impor tant factor. Some observers profess to see still another basic cause—the steady increase in the world's population. A noted expert on conservation told the scientists at Lake Success that barring some great disaster of global extent, there will be three-billion people in the world by the year 2,000. Half the people in the world are in want today. RADIO GIVE-AWAYS Effective October 1, the Federal Communications Commission will invoke new rules under which it will refuse licenses or renewal of licenses to broadcasters "following a policy or practice" of advertising lotteries or "offering prizes de pendent in whole or in part upon lot or chance." FALSELY ACCUSED The goldenrod has been accused falsely as a hay fever source. A per would could get hay fever from .it only by burying his nose in the blos soms, since the pollen is not carried about by wind, it's pollination is carried on by insects. r Smokey Says: my! terrible « HOOPtANP MANNERS VyfiOME PEOPLE HM& Consider the folks who follow you —Leave a clean camp! Interesting Facts About Tar Heel State The land area of Currituck coun S ty is 200 square miles. North Carolina's first United Senator was Samuel Johnston, who was in congress from 1789 to 1793. There were only 32 counties in North Carolina in 1775 when Brit ish Colonial rule ended with the flight of the last Royal Governor, Josiah Martin. The two smallest counties in Nor th Carolina are Chowan, with an area of 165 square miles in the east, and Mitchell with 213 square miles in the west. North Carolina's youngest coun* ties, Hoke, in the south central sec tion, and Avery, in the mountains of the western part of the state were both established in 1911. The deepest gold mine in North Carolina in 1887 was the Gold Hill i mine, in Rowan county, which had been worked to a depth of 770 feet with a yield of over $3,000,004. i i I j At Symond's Creek, 11 miles i southeast of Elizabeth City, is the ! site of the first Quaker Meeting ) : House in North Carolina, erected by j i The Society of Friends in 1705. | | Chowman county's Courthouse, at! | Edenton, the oldest in the state,! was built by Gilbert Leigh, a Pei quimans county planter, in 1767 to; replace an earlier structure built in j 1719. I Tyrrell county, with a land area of 390 square miles, was one of the precincts of ancient Albemarle j •county, and was named for Sir John j Tyrrell, one of the Lords Proprie tors. i Dare county's Courthouse, at Manteo, on Roanoke Island, is the only one located on an island any where in the United States with the j exception of the one at Key West, j Florida. | In the first federal census of j ■North Carolina in 1790 only 12 in- \ | dividuals were listed as owning over' [100 slaves. Willie Jones, a prosper-: ous panter in Halifax county, own-' ed 120. WELCOME CHANGE Fortune Teller—You seem to fee ( in for a financial reverse, j Client—Thank heavens! If myi finances don't reverse pretty s«on ! I'll starve. LiQUOEt SALES Liquor sales in the first half of ! this year were 4 per cent larger in I volume than a year ago, according i to the Census Bureau. i . j The U. S. Constitution makes no mention of education, leaving this 1 matter to the individual statdte. NATIONAL FARM NEWS The U. S. Department of Agricul ture has announced a program, be ginning September 1, 1949, to sup port 1949-crop sweet potatoes at an average of 80 per cent of the July 1, 1949, parity price. For the first time in eight years, the peanut crop throughout the na tion is expected to fall below 2,000,000,000 pounds. Production is now forecast at 1,777,000,000 pounds, down four per cent from the year average and down 24 per cent from ast year's record crop. Persons at work on U. S. Farms at the end of July totaled 11,800,000 compared with 12,100,000 a year ago. Carrots actually build up their supply of the valued food element, carotene, during winter storage, says the U. S. Department of Agri culture. Carotene is a food factor much wanted in the diet because it is the basic- material from which vit amin A is formed. Turkeys are pretty certain to be a good deal more plentiful on the holiday markets this year than last, according to USDA estimates. HONEY t>F A MESS Gridley, 111.—While Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Benedict knew for several years that there were bees in their home they could not locate them. T-hey did, recently, however, when honey started running down from the living room ceiling. Four bushel baskets of honey and the bees were removed from the attic. MORE CATTLE All Mid-western Corn Belt States had 24 per cent more cattle to feed on August 1 than a year ago with the exception of Indiana and Kan sas, according to the Agriculture Department. C BEST BET FOR I 7TT7~Z ZP\ N FRUIT of the LOOM boys' underwear Sanforized* JQ, Gripper Shorts __ *0C I Athletic JQ Shirts 45C Belk's Boy's Dept. Balcony MARION, N. C. "Now How Did i Ever Get In This Peculiar Position?' 9m tmryhtt P*rt #/ my turn fire hutrsMc*/ We can help you get straightened out oa that pnint. In the piectii you'S saaa see why dividend paying MUTUAL policies, !*■ sued by a financially strong cttapany and serviced by as alert agency, provide better •average these day*. J. H. TATE Phone 120-X Marion, N. C.
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