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PttISS ASSOCIATION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1944
The Privilege Of Voting
With so many men out of this country, it
behooves every American citizens, who is
eligible to cast his vote in the coming pri
mary and elections. We have often heard
men rant about the country going to the
dogs, and when asked what they did about
it, they stare with a blank expression. Often
you will find that they did not even go to
the polls and use their privilege of citizen
ship.
d
One man's vote in the final check up is
just as good as the other fellow's. When
the government instituted the present sys
tem of balloting for officials, it was expected
that the citizens would use the right.
"The Forgotten Man"
Time changes all things, so we are told.
The envied "white-collar worker" is today
termed the forgotten man. Senator Elbert
Thomas, of Utah, recently made an appeal
for this group, which is said to number 20,
000,000.
The Senator would seek some relief for
them, for as he expresses it, they have been
squeezed between frozen incomes and rising
prices. He has recommended .that the War
Labor Board remove controls on wages up
to $200 a month for family heads and $150
for single persons.
The Senator views such a recommenda
tion as merely giving justice where it be
longs. He points out that food costs them
just as much as it does the highly paid war
worker or executive, and that they are buy
ing bonds just like other people.
Turning Them In
We realize that there are rainy days in
the lives of us all ? often coming at unexpect
ed times, but when a man or woman turns
in a bond that he may have bought three
. months ago, we are doubting if it is a neces
sity in the majority of cases.
We admit that it might be a temptation
to sell the bond and spend it on something
that may have a special appeal to us, just
because our fancy dictates. We realize that
most of the people are not doing this, other
wise the war could not be financed.
We are entering a grave and serious pe
riod in the war right now. We are all keyed
up over the results of the mighty onrush
over in Europe. We would like to see the
tthing through and ended. It is necessary
for Americans to hold on to their bonds,
thereby giving their support to the govern
ment.
, Aside from the unpardonable sin of fail
ing the government, these people who are
constantly turning in their bonds are also
cheating themselves. Bonds represent fu
ture security. Those bonds may mean a
new home ten years hence. They mean an
education for the small child playing around
your home today.
The war bonds we buy today are descend
ed from the Pre-Pearl Harbor Defense Bonds
and from these came the Baby Bonds first
put out by the government in 1935. Think
of those early investors and how time flies,
for it will bo-only another yeai^iiefQreJfeey
can come into their investment.
1 Now with the Fifth War Bond Drive next
month, let us get ready to enjoy the satis
faction of buying a future with our govern
ment and watching it grow as it feeds and
supplied our great army and navy.
A person wrapped up in himself makes
^ an unattractive package.
Measles
We see where there is a new treatment
for measles, which should be welcome news
to parents of young children and to teachers
in elementary schools, where epidemics
each year brings attendance down to low
figures.
Dr. Francis G. Blake, president of a board!
for the investigation and control of influenza!
and other epidemic diseases in the army, i
has found how the germ can de destroyed.
The material, which comes from blood
plasma is the protein known as gamma
globulin. It contains antibodies that destroy
the germs of measles for which reason it
acts as a prophylactic.
Most of the experimental work was car
ried on in the army camps, but one study
was made during an outbreak of measles in
a girls' college. Gamma globulin was given
to 67 exposed students who had not' ever
contracted measles and who were therefore
susceptible to it, but not to 38 others who
were also susceptible.
There was only one case reported of aver
age measles from the 67 students, three
cases of modified measles and eight cases
of mild measles. In the group of 38 who
had not received treatment, there were 18
c ases of average and five of mild measles. ?
What Vocation
With the closing of schools and graduates
leaving high school and college, there comes
the problem of what they will do. The deci
sion of a career has always been a major
problem both to the youth and to his par
ents. Every boy knows today that he will
have his turn of years in the service, but
most- of them knowing that are trying to
look ahead to post-war plans.
We saw the following suggestions recently
which have much good sound reason in them:
First, try to shape the child's career in line
- with his major interest in life.
Second: Estimate his natural abilities as
impartially as possible and do not encourage
him in anything for which he is poorly
qualified. Third: Do not be fooled by the
glamor of the "learned professions." Many
a young man who would have made an ex
cellent and happy mechanic is doomed to
mediocrity and defeat as a doctor, lawyer
or minister.
These same principles apply to the girl
seeking her niche, for like the boy there are
many professions now open to her. There
are few occupations that are not crowded
today, yet it seems that there has been and
o
always be plenty of room at the top. It
should also be kept in mind that merely
earning a living is not all of life, for it is
only a means to an end of successful living.
Joy Of Fatherhood
While we beg to differ with the following
editorial from the Reidsville Review, the
editor does have something, and we have
an idea he is offering a little comfort to the
fathers in the service as he paints only the
dark side of the picture:
We should like to take issue, mildly, with a
current magazine ad which goes about sell
ing hand lotion in a round-about way by
printing an imaginary, rather emotional
message from a young mother to her soldier
husband. It seems that the husband, be
cause of his military duties, had not been
able to see their infant daughter until she
was 6 months old. The mother couldn't bear
to have him miss so much of their baby.
Our dissenting opinion is that she is wast
ing sympathy on the father, especially if it
is a first child. There are few more shat
tering experiences than a man's first sight
of his first offspring. We will also make the
bold statement that any man who can call
any hour-or day-old infant beautiful (even
his own) is a hypocrite and a slave to con
vention. Any infant of that tender age looks
like the most wrinkled apple in the bottom
of the barrel.
The whole truth, of course, is that the
most hard-boiled new father i& romantic, in
addition to being conditioned by convention.
He knows that he should be a proud papa.
He thinks of all the small parcels of pink
and- white loveliness that he has casually
glanced at. That is how he imagines his own
baby ? except that, since it will be his, ^tt
will be a super de luxe model.
Well, now a 6-months-old baby looks as
he* imagined a new baby should look. In
addition, the happy soldier-father has been
spared 180 nights of insistent demands of
2 a. m. feedings, etc.
No, the soldier in the ad needs no sym
pathy. He has experienced one of the un
doubted blessings of Army life.
i^SSDaaaiffiL
HERE and THERE
By
HILDA WAY GWYN
District Number One, of the1
North Carolina Federation of
Clubs is very proud of winning i
the Albert Berry Silver Cup in
the 1944 narrative poetry contest
sponsored by the North Carolina
Federation of Women's Clubs ?
and Waynesville Woman's Club is
very proud to have the winner a
member of their club.
The poem was written by Mrs.
W. T. Crawford, widow of the late
Congressman W. T. Crawford, who
served four terms in Congress,
representing this district.
The desk, which was the inspira
tion of the poem, is owned by
Mrs. Charles R. Thomas, whose
home here is filled with lovely
things prized by many generations.
Mrs. Thomas came here to reside
several years ago from New Bern.
She is a native of Hillsboro, and
is the granddaughter of Chief Jus
tice Thomas Ruffin and the daugh
ter of his son, Judge Thomas Ruf
fin, Jr., two of North Carolina's
most distinguished jurists. Trts^
desk, of beautiful mellow mahog
any, has long been one of our
favorite pieces of furniture among
the many interesting things in the
home of Mrs. Thomas.
Incidentally, the husbands of
Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. Crawford
served in Congress together. Mrs.
Thomas likes to recall the days
when Taft was President, and the
time Mrs. Crawford brought all
her seven children to visit a ses
sion of Congress, and what a stir
of interest there was in such a
large grouped family.
The silver cup has been award
ed the winners of the contest since
1927 and is kept for one year by
the successful contestant, with the
name of the winner engraved on
the cup. Among those who have
been awarded the cup are the fol
lowing: Eddie W. Wilson, 1927;
Norma Janet Winsberg, 1928;
Martha Fairley Murray, 1931!
Travis Puke Jordan, 1929-1930;
Zoe Kincaid Brocyman, 1934; Lola
Elizabeth Stone, 1933; Zoe Kin
caid Brockman^ 1934; Augusta
Wray, 193oT^I^ttie Bell Allen,
1936; Pearl Council Hiatt, 1937
1938;; Marjorie Craig, 1939; Lucy
Portas Thompson, 1940; Augusta
Wray, 1941; ? there seemed to
have been no winners in 1942 and
1943 ? but now on the cup will be
engraved Inez Coman Crawford,
1944.
THE ANTIQUE DESK
The fine old desk at the end of the
hall
Stands stately and grim with its
back to the wa41,
And holds its dark secrets under
lock and key
Hiding deep mysteries from you
and from me
These two hundred years and
maybe lots more
It has guarded in silence its secret
store.
I arose from my chair near the
glowing fire
?.(My. inquisitiveness mounting, high
er and higher) ~
"About this old desk that you now
have here
I have questions to ask,,/? (I was
. Yisitingthere.)
"How enchantingr it hr and I know
full well
That an ancient desk must have
volumes tell
Of how ink once flowed through a
quill for a pen
About Times' many changes ? be
tween now? and Then,
Of wills, deeds, injunctions and
subpoenas galore
Of proposals of marriage and love
notes by the score."
My friend lowered her voice as if
to warn
And heavily laying her hand on
my arm,
Replied in low tones very close to
my ear,
Half looking around so no one
could hear,
"My great grandfather, a judge in
his time,
First started this desk down the
family line.
I have no idea of its age, my
dear,
But its been in the family for
many a year
Then some years ago as you doubt
less see
It was shipped to this town and
belongs to me."
"How thrilling this is, do tell me
some more,"
I said, surveying it from its top
to the floor.
"And someday I want to (if you
will let me do it)
To see the inside and go all
through it."
Then clutching my arm, again
drawing near
She really whispered and no one
could hear.
\rhe biggest secret there is gfbout,
\ it.
(I have heard it so often I cannot
? doubt it)
Is its secret drawer, it js hidden
in there
And no one can find it anywhere."
"But in that secret place hides a
breath of despair
Of the jilted lover and the lock
of her hair,
Her broken promise to forever be
his
Changed a beautiful romance from
that day to this.
Both their loves lay dead, and as
it would seem
Left only bitter fragments of a
shattered dream."
I confess my curiosity then knew
no bounds
And some rainy night I shall go
on my rounds
With a flashlight and tools in a
dim quiet hour
I'll be the first one to find that
"secret drawer."
I'll find stocks and bonds and
jewels and gold,
And everything else that my fancy
can hold.
I'll keep a tryst with the Past
whatever befall
That mysterious old desk at the
end of the hall.
It is true that women first
tempted man to partake of food
in the Garden of Eden, but he
took to drinking of his own ac
cord.
NOTICE
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT,
BEFORE THE CLERK.
NORTH .CAROLINA,
JACKSON COUNTY.
IN THE MATTER OF THE AD
MINISTRATION OF THE ES
TATE OF W. R. MOODY, DE
CEASED.
We, the undersigned having qual
ified as Executors under the Will
of the Estate of William Raleigh
Moody, deceased, late of Glenville,
Jackson County, State of North
Carolina, this is to notify all per
sons having claims against the es
tate of the late W. R. Moody, Glen
ville, N. C.. to exhibit them to the
undersigned, C. H- Moody,. Glen
ville, N. C., and Mrs. J. M. Brown,
915 East North Street, Greenville,
JS. C., on or before the 10th day
r 0? May^ig^isr ttits notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to the Estate
of W. R. Moody, Glenville, N. C-,
will please make immediate pay
ment.
This the 10th day of May, 1944.
C. H. MOODY,
MRS. J. M. BROWN,
Executors of th? Estate of W.
R. Moody, Deceased.
No. 23? May 17-24-31 June7-14-21
Paul Enc6Ufgge> the Corinthian? J
HiaHLIOHT* ~ ON 'tBxT BtTNDX^SCHDOL LESSON ^
V By NEWMAN OAMFMX^
(The XhternatlonattfK Uniform
betson on the above top! to fbr Miy
* fie n Cprlnthlaae CMJIT the
Golden Text being ZZ Corinthians
8:9, -Ye know the citoe <rf onf
Cord Jetus Christ, thaltf though'
He wai rich, yej for your eakee
He became poor, that ye through
Hie poverty might be<yrqe rlchj) |
IN THIS lesson Paul writee^to
hie friends \n Cortnth o t hie c6n
oeption of hie ministry, and what
constitutes a real minister Of the
gospel of Christ .
1 Paul testifies that' he received
etrehgth from his work. "Seeing
we have this ministry, as we have,
received mercy, we faint not," he
writes. He suffered many discour
, agements, false accusations, phy
sical harm and almost lost his life
on more than one occasion, but
his fervent feeling of love and
thankfulness that he had been
converted and accepted Christ, his
earnest desire to turn as many as
possible to the gospel, rose above
the dangers of his life And all its
discouragements.
A minister of the gospel should
have "renounced the hidden things
of dishonesty,, jiot walking in
craftiness, nor handling the word
of God deceitfully; but by mani
festation of the truth commending
themselves to every man's con?
science in the sight of God."
Strive to Follow Jesus
Of all merTon earth/those who
accept posts^in the Master's ser
vice, should strive to as nearly as
possible live like Jesus. They do
infinite harm when they forget
their missions and think more of
money, of their own selfish gain
than of the message they are
sworn to teach. "The god of this
world hath blinded the minds of
them which believe not, lest the
light ,of the glorious gospel of
Christ, who is the image of God,
should shine unto tnem.?s
"We preach not ourselves," says
Paul, "but Christ Jesus." No tru4
minister uses his pulpit to exalt
himself; 1 but . to proclaim Jesuit
Christ.
Following the Hester's extmplto
the minister "faints not," but)
"though the outward man perish*)
yet* the Inward man Is renewed
fcdi^ .by day."#How true this 1*.
f many a good pastor can testliyi
' There are times when such a man*
1s worn out physically, even die
couraged mentally and spirltuallyj
but he finds strength to carry oaJ
Ha Is "renewed day. . by day.*
WJiat he suffers from calumny;
maybe, from the indifference of
the world, in many other ways, ha
considers these but 'light afllio
tions," as Paul says.
"We look not at the things
whldh are seen, but at the thing*
which are not seen: for the thingrf
which are *een are temporal; but
the things which are not seen art
eternal/*^
At the beginning of chapter 0
of the second epistle to Corlx$
thlans. Paul writes i
"For we know that if our earths
ly house of this tabernacle werfli
dissolved, we have a building (A
God, an house not made wita
hands, eternal in the heavens."
In this earthly tabernacle wt
"groan, being burdened," Paul
writes, but in spite of all the but*
dens, and Taul himself had manyj ?
w? are reminded, "we are always
confident (for we walk by faith*1
hot by sight). Wherefore we la*
bour, that, whether present or ab*
sent, we may be accepted of Him/*
"For we must all appear before
the judgment seat of Christ; that
every one may receive the things
done in his body, according to that
he hath done, whether it be gooj
or bad."
Finally, Paul wrote, "Now thefll
we are ambassadors for Christ, as
though God did beseech you by usf
we pray you, in Christ's stead, bt
ye reconciled to God."
Onlule WASHINGTON
foresee Sudden Increase
In Pacific War's Tempo
<0
Chiefs Have Hopes for
Low Invasion Casualties
4 Special to Central Press
? WASHINGTON ? Look for a sudden and startling increase in the
tempo of the Pacific war ? with the Japanese on the receiving end.
America's naval might, from, all present signs, has been built up to
the extent that smashing simultaneous blows can be struck in the
Central Pacific, the Philippines, and even in the Bay of Bengal and
the Indian ocean.
In recent speeches by the Navy's top admirals ? those in charge of
naval strategy ? one line has reappeared many times. It's we may
strike "sooner than you think."
Smash at The Allied naval blow against Sabang, Sumatra,
g from a newly-constituted naval force based in India,
Sumatra 14 but a forerunner of many such blows to be struck
Forerupner throughout the Dutch East Indies, and in the area
of Singapore.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's audacious landings on the northern
New Ouinea coast is anpfche* straw in the wind. And air and naval
Actions in the Central Pacific^ under Admiral Chester Nimitz's com
mand, foreshadow long strides that may be taken in that are*
toward the Philippines and China. i
It all shapes up to indicate that one of F. D. R.'s less quoted pre
dictions ? that Germany and Japan would be hit simultaneous blows
? may yet eventuate.
t ? ? ?
? INVASION-MINDED WASHINGTON, like the rest of the coun
try, has been stttcken by the cross-channel jitters, and the result i*
delay on all fronts.
Congress, which has its collective miiyJ on the June and July
political conventions, is curiously slow in making decisions on Irff*
portant matters. Price control, lend-lease and the potentially ob*
structionist anti-poll tax bill are still marking time.
Government workers in vital agencies are more concerned with
the actual date of the Invasion and pools flourish while the routine of
every-day work proceeds apace.
Army-Navy officials are becoming more sanguine about Allied
chances of storming Hitler's European fortress with low casualties*
? ? ? *
? THE INTERNAL REVENUE BUREAU, which hu always taken
the brunt of ftjuawks about income taxes, really originated the in*1
come tax simplification plan which the House ways and means com
mittee has approved.
f < The IRB would welcome simplification provisions and hopes Con
gress approves them. It -would mean a lot less work for the bureau.^
In fact, work volume would be so reduced that the bureau could
readily shoulder the job of computing the income tax of about 30
million persons ? a task the bill would impose on the tax-collecting
agency. 1
? " 1 v 1 1
? THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY CONFERENCE which
President Roosevelt is expected to call probably will
not be held before June, at the earliest. pr#tt ^ ft*
I*. And, location -of the meeting in all likelihood will ^
not be Washington?not enough hotel facilities. The Welcome at
location probably will be some large resort hotel Coin Confab
within about 300 or 250 miles of the capital.
^ One thing has been made clear by treasury officials? the press
will be welcome.
0 * ? ' t ?
? BECAUSE OF LEATHER AND MANPOWER SHORTAGE^
fewer shoes will toe made this year, the total output reaching only
00ft to 410 million pairs compared to the 460-odd million pairs made
last y*ar. The reduction, however, is hot expected to result in tighter
rations because there still will be enough shoes to grant two pairs
per civilian per year ? the current rate.
YOU'RE TELLING ME!
By WILLIAM RITT
Central Press Writer
BEER was rationed in 17th
century Boston ? to the tune of
9even quarts per person per day.
_ Seven quarts* Snucks, they were
just practicing rationing!
! ! !
Electric irons may be on the
market by August, Thi trick is
to try *nd keep that crease in
your trousers until then.
! ! !
The white penny was a good
one but it must have gotten in
bad company for It continues to
turn up? in our pocket change.
! I a!
After the war, says an item,
the Japanese fleet will be turned
over to the Chinese. If the Allies
can find it. '
! ! !
Jeckwr Johns predicts th+
pennant winners in this year's':
over-age 4-F big leagues will 6t|
the clubs with the biggest sup
zj>ly of liniment*- . ....
Japan, we read, may move Its
capital from Tokyo to Htinking.]
The "H," most appropriately, bo-''
ing silent. r J
fit ? * - V.
Germany asks aid froi? Japan,
according to a dispatclL To Jowl
reeling along the ropes, must
think that Adolf has a terrific? ,
i if misplaced ? sense of humor. J|