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TWO SIDES TO All QUESTIONS Points Out How Reason Is Upset by Orators and Fiery Writers NATIONS HURL ABUSE BY LYTLE HULL Americans will want to know why they have to go to war with three powerful nations—Germany, Italy and Japan. The term "Americans," ae used here, denotes that hundred mil lion apparently forgotten human beings living somewhere vaguely between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and not that Polyglot civ ilization which inhabits the city of New York and from which To The GRADUATES ELHN, JONESVILLE And Other Schools of Oar Section, We Wish to Extend Sincere Congratulations For a Job Well Done! THE BANK OF ELKIN ft. C. Lewellyn, Pres. Garland Johnson, Vice-Pre*. Franklin Folger, Cashier We're Going To GIVE AWAY FREE IN CASH AT OUR STORE FRIDAY AT 5:30 P. M. Come In Today For Details! McDaniel's Department Store Elkin, N. C. flowß most of the un-American! mouth-wash which we have to read, see, and hear; nor those di verse nationalities over which Tom Mooney and Harry Bridges reign supreme. This great and once powerful element of native Americans used to think for itself, and if the writers and orators and politi cians of the country wrote and acted in a manner not agreeable to them, they were in the habit of telling them so in no uncertain terms. But times have changed and with them the thoughts and feelings and emotions of the American. Fiery writers, who care as much for the welfare of this country as does the Sultan of Zanzibar, have hammered upon our emotions un til wc are frightened of the Men from Mars. Loud-mouthed orators have harangued us over the radio until we don't know which side of what we are on; and headline seeking politicians are working up our tempers to such a degree that we are ready to fight anything or anybody over anything or noth ing; and "nothing" is just about what we are going to fight over if warriors like Senator Pittman, Secretary Ickes, and other "na tion heroes" continue to bait and insult other people's governments. There is a certain satisfaction in reading or listening to abuse of those we dislike, and while writers and orators hurled epi thets at the Dictators, some of us found it quite amusing and it seemed to do little harm. But the persistence of this trouble breed ing propaganda finally performed like the proverbial drops of water on a stone. It roused the people —and the self-seeking politician whose ear is always to the ground —took up the cry. The abused nations were na turally angry at the private de nunciations emanating from this country but they couldn't do any thing about it except to "sass" back. However, when members of our own Administration and of our houses of Congress turned loose their fire, the matter be came official. Protests were made and answered in none too diplo matic terms. Hardly a week passed but the world was stunned by some offi cial pronouncement against the Dictators and their governments or by official spokesmen of the Dictators against the United States government. All sense of decency was cast to the winds as speakers, editorialists, commenta tors and broadcasters of Germany, | Italy. Japan and the U. S. hurled vile Invective at each other's THE EL&IN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA WIN mNTFZT D®** 4l " l Chappel, left, daugh rr iiV l/l/ii 1 LHJI ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Chap pel, of Jonesville, and James Rose, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Rose, of Arlington, were winners of the Yadkin county speaking contests held at Yadkinville Friday, April 28. Both youngsters are in the 3rd grade of the Jonesville school. Doretha won the recitation contest, and James the declamation contest.—(Tribune Photo.) BHHL - \i v g§ |I |§§ SflL %v I countries. War mongers shook the mailed fist and the official battle of words raged—and is raging. Any day now someone may overstep the boundary and the battle may be with guns. Why? That's what that hun dred million Americans, who have nothing to do with all this, and whose interests and existence seem to have been forgotten, are beginning to ask. Is it because our government thinks we need a bigger navy and stronger army and believe the people need a scare to approve the expense? Is it because our Government is attempting to convince the Dictators that we will go to war to "save Demo cracy" in the event they "mix" with England and France? These can't be the reasons. The people seem to approve al most universally of the Presi dent's plan for Increases in the army and navy, and even the monkeys in the Zoo know that we don't intend to go to war again to "haul chestnuts" from any democracy except our own. But some reason there must be—or else why the regular program of badgering and baiting. This campaign does not look haphaz ard to us. It also appears too prearranged and scheduled. The attacks are too timed and regu lar, and if there were nothing deeper to it,'would not those men who endanger the peace be made to stop their attacks? This country does not belong to the war mongers who screamed with rage when Chamberlain, at Munich, saved the world from destruction; nor to those agita tors who with voice and pen are trying to drive the American peo ple mad; nor to those of our poli ticians who care so little for our welfare that they will risk it ev ery time they get in front of a loud speaker, it belongs to the American People, and if they have to fight for it—they will; but if they are going to be driven into war for some other reason, they want to know what it is and why. WITH THE SICK WITH THE SICK The following patients have been admitted to the local hos pital during the past week: Vir gil Matthews, East Bend; Willing Andre Cox, Mooresville; Mrs. Ruby Parts, Union Grove; Prank Hennlngs, East Bend; Sol Royall, Cycle; Mrs. Mayme Carter, State Road; Clarence Collins, Elkin; Mrs. Clyde Durham, Roaring Rlv er; Mrs. Aileen Chambers, State Road; I. c. Yates, Elkin; Mrs. Ruby Lyons, Mountain Park; Mrs. John Blackburn, Elkin; Mrs. Ha zel Golden, Mt. Airy; Billy Wood ruff, Jonesville; Mrs. C. C. Poin dexter, Elkin; Mary Jo Coe, Trade, Tenn.; J. p. Cockerham, Ennis; Mrs. Wade Lineberry, Elkin; Mrs. Albert C. Glover, Jr., Elkin; Mrs. Edwin Boles, Dob son; L. H. Tucker, Gastonia. Patients dismissed during the week were: Mrs. Mandy Pruitt, Jonesville; Versie Haynes, Jones ville; Mrs. W. P. Johnson, Spar ta; Garvin H. Watlers, State Road; Mrs. Paul Baldwin, Elkin; Mrs. J. T. Threatte, Dobson; Glenn Carter, Jonesville; Lucy Gray, Elkin; Sarah Rutledge, Elkin; Addie Wall, state Road; Mrs. Jack Smoot, Elkin; Clarence Collins, Elkin; Mrs. C. C. Poin dexter, Elkin; Mary Jo Coe. Trade, Tenn. Scotch Thrift An old Scot who had never seen a train was taken to the nearest station by a friend. An express flashed past roared into a tunnel. "Well," said the friend, "what do you think of that?" "Man," said the old Scot, "it's wonderful. But I was thinking there'd be a mess if It minwi that wee hole." MORE SPEED IS POSSIBLE Airplane of Tomorrow With Speed of 500 Miles Per Hour May Soon Be Here NEW DESIGN IS FOUND Langley Field, Va„ May 2 Speeds of 500 miles an hour in the air for tomorrow's fast com mercial transports and warplanes are nearing realization because science has found a way to pre vent "shock waves" in the atmos phere. "Shock waves"—the compress ing of air until it beats like pow erful hammers against objects passing through it—cause the whine of a rifle bullet as it passes overhead. The same waves for years have threatened to prevent speeds greater than 350 and 400 miles an hour with man-made wings. By a close study of airplane design, several hundred visitors to Langley Field, site of the re search laboratories of the nation al advisory committee for aero nautics. were told today, engi neers have brought the 500-mile an hour mark almost within grasp. Extreme streamlining, the rounding off of all protuberances on the wings and fuselage of an airplane, was largely responsible for the more than 420 miles an hour record set a few days ago by a new German pursuit plane. URGE SESSION INSURE PEACE Washington, May 2—A demand that Congress stay in session to guard the nation from being "eased" or "driven" into war was made in the senate today in re ply to a move for June adjourn ment. It came from Senator Johnson, Republican. California, a veteran exponent of American isolation and a critic of administration foreign policy. He asserted that ic was to Congress that the peo ple looked for protection against war. "It is the Congress, with all its faults and shortcomings, and the senate with all its sins of omis sion and commission, that will keep us out of war, and no other person or individual, no matter who he may be, will do it," the Californian said in a tense and solemn tone. "We must be on guard every minute of the day and every minute of the night in order that we do not participate in a war in which weare not concerned—in order that we not be eased or driven into it. "For the people of the United States," he concluded as. gallery - ites burst into lively applause, "let's keep out of war." Senator Connally, Democrat, Texas, emphasized Johnson's ap peal with a statement, as soon as the ovation subsided, that he foresaw no immediate prospect of war in Europe, but: "There may be a war, and the United States has no business in that war. Nobody but the Con gress of the United States can determine whether we. will be in that war or not." Johnson argued that so long as there was a chance of war, Con gress should remain in session. "The consequences of a war to this country are such that I tremble to think of them," he shouted. "If we once embark upon this mad adventure this great government of ours will be gone, gone, gone." I WAKE UP AND LIVE By Dorthea Brande With the time and energy we spend in making failure a cer tainty we might have certain suc cess. : A nonsensical paradox? No; fortunately it is a sober, literal truth, one which holds a great deal of promise. Failure indicates that energy has been poured into the wrong channel. It takes energy to fail. Now this is something which we seldom see at once. Because we commonly think of failure as the conventional opposite of success, we continue to make false anti theses of the qualities which at tend success and failure. Success is bracing, active, alert; so the typical attitude of failure, we be lieve. must be lethargy, inertia, a supine position. True enough; but that does not mean that no energy is being used. When failure comes about through devoting precious hours to time-killing pursuits, we can all see that energy is being di verted from its proper channel. But there are ways of killing time which do not look like dissi pation. They can seem, on the contrary, like conscientious and dutiful hard "work, they often draw praise and approval from onlookers, and arouse a sense of complacency in us. It is only by looking more closely, by discovering that this work gets us nowhere, that it both tires us and leaves us unsat isfied, that we see here again en ergy is being devoted to the pur suit of failure. But why should this be so? Why, if. with the same energy we must use in any case, we might be succeeding, do we so seldom live the lives we hoped and plan ned to live? Why do we accom plish so little, and thwart our selves senselessly? We know that those who suc ceed see the same sunsets, breathe the same air, love and are loved no less than failures; and in ad dition they have something more: IIGULFSPRAY I I Is Tops I I Effectiveness I I Refinement I Among Insecticides | • QUICKER KILLING I • LEAVES NO ODOR I • WILL NOT STAIN I • WONT TAINT FOOD I • PLEASANT TO USE f • ECONOMICAL I / 4 —And Now Super Refined for Garden Use! GET IT AT YOUR FAVORITE STORE I OR GULF DEALER I Church Oil Co. I DISTRIBUTOR ELKIN, N. C. I - '^l the knowledge that they have chosen to move in the direction of life and growth instead of ac quiescing in death and decay. The why do we fail? Especial ly. why do we work hard at fail ure? Because, beside being creatures subject to the Will to Live and the Will to Power, we are driven by another will, the Will to Pail, or Die. But the idea of another will, a counter-balancing will, the Will to Pail, the Will to Death, is not so readily accepted. Yet death is as much a fact of experience as birth and growth; end if Nature prepares us for each new phase of life by closing off old desires and opening new vistas, it does not seem too diffi cult to think that we are, always, being slowly, gently reconciled to i our eventual relinquishment of I all we hold dear as living crea tures. And withdrawal from struggle, abandonment of effort, releasing of desire and ambition would be normal movements in an organ ism which was being gently woo ed away from its preoccupation with life. It is for this reason that we are entitled to look upon the Will to Pail as a reality. FREDERICK G. MANN PNEUMONIA VICTIM Frederick Gray Mann, 74, died at his home three miles east of Jonesville Wednesday night from pneumonia. He was a lifelong resident of Yadkin county and had been a member of the Fall Creek Baptist church for 35 years. He is survived by his wife, one son, Paul Mann, three grandchil dren, and two brothers, B. C. Mann, of Elk Creek, Va., and S. M. Mann, of Speedwell, Va. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon from Fall Creek church. Good Advice Athlete (boastfully): "I've had my nose broken three times in the same place." Friend: "You really should keep your nose out of that place." Thursday, May 4, 1939 J J - r Imi - 1 f \| lljL \ \ For That . \ \hong, Slender Line From Wats * to Knee . . . Choose GOSSARD'S new 18-incli Hook-around! . . . and you can slither into the slim mest of the new tubular frocks. It's made of firm peach bro cade and machine-knit elastic with twin gores of the elastic in the front panel to allow freedom of movement, and it's boned to flatten the ~ ~ back and diaphragm.#* Model 358. GOSSARD Sydnor-Spainhour Elkin, N. C.
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